The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-08-20, Page 3RECEIVE BIBLE SCHOOL AWARDS — Three of the four children who were presented
with Bibles for outstanding assistance at the vacation school at Exeter Pentecostal
Church are shown here with the pastor and school director, Mrs, L, Butler, left. The
children are Lorraine Bradley, John Richards and Larry Stire, David Parker also re-
ceived a Bible. The school presented a program for adults Friday night. — T -A Photo
Teacher visits area
Firsthand look at Springhill
brings surprises, chagrin
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worked so bard to aid.
The :next morning we travel-
led on to the. Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick border. Springhill is
about 16 .miles south of this
border, so we decided to go over
there before taking the ferry to
Prince Edward 'Island, At this
border we. learned. that a con-
ducted tour of the mine was pos-
sible :for tourists. However when
we arrived there we were told
that this tour had been stopped
some weeks prior, because all
the mining machinery and equip-
ment. was being moved to the
Glace Bay mine in Cape Breton
Island.
Due to the fact that we have
• been educated through press and
television, that Springhill is a
ghost town, our biggest surprise
came, when we found it so well
built-up. We consider it one of
the better built-up "mining"
towns of i•ts size, that. we have
ever visited, either going south
through the Applachian /u,loun-
tains, or the Rockies, (Canadian
or American). I might say that
Springhill people wonder why
television pictures were taken of
the worst shacks in the town,
Entering the Mining Field
Gate, we could see no activity
at all, except for a couple of
trucks loaded with mining equip-
ment ready to leave for Glace
Bay and on one of the small
shacks there. a sign saying "In-
formation Bureau", A. school
teacher operates this bureau,
whose husband was booked to
be on that fatal afternoon shift,
but had decided to take that day
off instead of the next day. He
was among the fortunate ones,
and being a member of the Lions
Club, he has set up this bureau
Under that club, and the money
realized, goes to help the un-
fortunate .families.
This bureau has nothing elab-
orate. Women have done `fancy
work and sewing. and donated it
to be sold there to tourists. Sim-
ple souvenirs pertaining to the
mine, can be bought. I was able
to purchase miniature coal cars,
similar to those used in the
Building boom
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the arca. On Marlboro street,
it has been purchased by Lloyd
Hoffman. Keller has also com-
pleted a home for Fred Hatter
on Victoria and has several
others planned.
Three new residences are going
up in Mayor Pooley's subdivision
on Huron street. C. A. McDowell
Co. is erecting a large home for
Harvey Pollen; Lorne Ford is
putting up a pre -fab unit and
Larry Taylor is constructing one
for himself.
Just. south of Exeter, photog-
rapher Jack Doerr is construct-
ing a large bungalow which will
house his studio in the base-
ment, 11 has a unique white
marble chip roof and BC cedar
Aiding.
Other homes cempleted, or
under construction, include those
*of Charles Norton, Sanders east;
Glen McKnight, Main street;
Kenneth Ottewell, John street;
Hilton Laing, Victoria street;
Ken Lampman, William street;
wellingion Hern, Sanders street;
Bud Waller, Nelson street; Irvine
Armstrong, Sanders street; and
I -Tarry Walpee, Carling street
north.
In addition In new construction
there have been considerable
renovations and additions, some
ef extensive size, in the town.
Among these Was the remodel-
ling of one belonging to Cecil
Jones by Mill Keller and a large
addition to the home of Andrew
Snelgrove, bY A. J. Sweitzer,
mine, as well as fossils etc,
found in a coal mine. I intend to
use these in the teaching of coal
mining in Grade VII. The walls
of the shack were eovered with
large photos and diagrams taken
after the bump. These she ex-
plained so thoroughly.
We saw one of the old type
lanterns used in the coal mine
many years ago, but she told
us that coal mines today are so
gaseous that they could never
use that type of • lantern. Now
they use a type of light on their
caps and connected to a battery
banging to their side. This equip-
ment has a number on it and it
was by this number that they
were able to tell. when all the
dead had been reached.
Since the tour had been can-
celled, we were told to just look
around. This we started, but
fortunately, a mining official hap -
End school
'adventure'
• Close to 200 children demon-
strated to parents Friday night
how they had been "Adventuring
With Christ" at the two-week va-
cation Bible school at Exeter
Pentecostal Church.
Despite the hot nigh t, the
church was filled for the pro-
gram of songs, recitations, pray-
ers and exercises by the chil-
dren.
Chairman for the evening, and
director of the school, was Mks.
L. Butler, church pastor, who
also Jed in the singing. She des-
cribed the "adventures" which
the boys and girls had enjoyed
studying the Bible.
Four children were .presented
with Bibles for bringing others to
the school. Lorraine Bradley and
John Richards brought the most,
while David Parker and Lary
Stire were rewarded for outstand-
ing efforts, •
Attendance this year was much
higher than last.. Registrations
totalled 179; highest daily attend-
ance 135; average daily attend-
ance, 116.5.
Forty-nine students posted per-
fect attendance. Twenty - three
missed only one day,
Through collections, the school
raised $45.55 for mission Work
among the Indians and Eskimos
in Manitoba.
Teachers included: beginners,
Marilyn Hamilton, assisted ba'
Diane Swartzentruber and Mrs.
Verne Postill ; prim a ry, Mrs,
Gary Triebner assisted by Mrs.
Will Parker and Geraldine Par-
ker; junior girls, Mrs. Milford
Prouty, assisted by Mrs. Fink-
beiner; junior boys, Mrs. Gar-
field Thomson. Rev. Ronald Hall,
Lu.can, supervised t h e craft
work,
Pianist was Miss Della Peart
and the. reporter was Mrs. X,
McLaren.
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''$he demonstrates for peopita
with teen-age datighters.'"
pened to arrive back and seeing.
us at a distance, came across
and asked if we would appreciate
being guided, For this, we were
really happy, as we would have
..done a lot of guessing, no doubt,
had. 'he not been there to ex-
plain it all to us.
This man had witnessed the
1956 and the 1958 disasters. In
the 1956 explosion which took
place thousands of feet below
the surface, he showed us a
huge, thick steel structure, the
size of a large barn that had
been blown to hits on the sur-
face. (This of course has been'
rebuilt since then.) At that ex-
plosion he said that 24 of his
men were instantly killed at the
surface. Be received severe back
burns.
He also showed us the sealing
of the mines. They use cement
two feet thick, and then two
feet of sand and then two feet
of cement again. We were able
to see the 1956 mine's sealing,
but No, 2 mine of. last fall's
disaster, we couldn't see be-
cause it was too dark. No. 2
mine, as you know, was the
world's deepest mine operating
at that time. Only one mine has
ever been deeper, he said, and
that was in England, but it has
been sealed up for some years.
Space would not permit me to
tell you how the mine was oper-
ated and the many interesting
things he told us there. while
standing in No. 2 mine, at the
30 -degree slope, where the disas-
ter victims were brought up and
the draegermen went down.
Every victim Was eventually
brought out of the mine. The
governor had ordered the mine
closed because of gas, but by
February the gas had subsided
and they were able to again go
down to get the bodies. These
bodies were so decomposed be-
cause of gas that they put them
in plastic bags and then into
steel caskets and locked th.em,
before bringing them up out of
the mine for burial.
By the end of August, every-
thing will have been moved
away from there, buildings will
he flattened, and on .this area
the government of Nova Scotia
will start to erect a Provincial
Penitentiary. This will give work
to afew men, but not to all by
any means
He told its that the widows
were really better oft "financial-
ly" now, than those, who had
been among the fortunate, but
have no jobs. Some of these men
can be seen sitting on the steps
of the Town Hall, Not linen like
you see at skid -row, but clean
appearing men, who really know
how to work, but have no work
to do. They have their homes
there, but can't get sale for them,
as real estate of that type, isn't
moving there now.
Some of, the younger miners
with their families, have bravely
left all and started out anew in
other places. He said it is very
sad that this idea of not hiring
men over forty has ever swept
the country, as at has. His ex-
perience in hiring men, is that
they are more reliable many
times, at that age, and then
again a miner has known noth-
ing but hard work, and is equal
to men many years younger
than himself, because of that.
One thing he knew, that if the
mine would ever he Opened
(which of course it won't) that
these brave souls would go back
to work in it again. As yet they
are waiting. The GOv't has made
promises that it will get an in-
dustry set up in Springhill, batt
nothing has come so far.
Let us trust and pray that
this promise will be fulfilled and
that these noble people will
again be able to obtain their por-
tion of this world's goods.
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Eight traffic accidents — three
of them occurring •within •a half-
hour of each other Sunday night
— caused total darnage of over
$4,000 this past week.
One of the drivers involved was
Elston Cardiff, Huron M.P. whose
car suffered $400 damage when
it was struck at the intersection"
Of Nos, 4 and 83 Friday after-
noon, MrsCardiff suffered
minor injuries to her nose.
Driver of the other car, who
has been charged with careless
driving, was Hilton Donoghue,
27, Montreal, whose car was
damaged to the extent of $550.
He was travelling east on 83
while the Cardiff car was north-
bound on 4.
Gravel spilling from a truck
was alleged to have caused Alex
Voison, 67, of RR 3. Ailsa Craig,
to lose control of his car on 21.
near Grand Bend Tuesday morn-
ing, He told police gravel, from
a passing truck bit his wind-
shield, sending him into the ditch
where he broke off four guard
rails.
PC Hank Reid was called to
three accidents within half an
hour Sunday night when rain -
covered highways affected heavy
weekend traffic. Ail three were
rear -end collisions, and two of
them occurred in the same spot.
A car driven by Ralph Hol-
land, 17, Clinton, struck the
rear of another driven by Mrs.
John Caldwell, 31, Huron Park,
while the latter was stopped
waiting to make a left hand turn
off No. 4 Highway onto the ,south
Centralia road.
Twenty minutes later, with the
Holland car still on the road. two
other. northbound cars collided.
Milton Taylor, 40, Exeter, slowed
down almost lo a stop as be
passed the damaged car when
he was struck in the rear by
Clifford Acheson, 16, Lucan.
Five minutes later, just south
of Exeter, two southbound Vaux-
hall cars collided. Darlene Les-
lie, 19, RCAF Aylmer, had
stopped along with other traffic,
waiting for a car to turn into an
ice cream booth, when she was
struck by Alexander Kneeshaw,
34, London.
Travelling in heavy rain Sat-
urday night, Ronald Bern, Tt, R. 1,
Woodham, lost control of his ear
on the Kirkton road, just east of
Elimville, and broke a pole off
in the ditch.
A London man, Beverly N.
Rills, 31, has been charged with
careless driving following his
rear -end collision with Joseph G.
Regier, 25, R.R. 2, Zurich, Wed-
nesday night. Both cars were
travelling north and had crossed
a temporary bridge just before
the crash.
In still another rear - end
smash, a ear driven by Kenneth
C. Barrett, 29, London, suffered
$250 damage when it hit another
driven by Cyril Blommaert, 18,
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It's a fake.
The "statue" is Ernest Harvey, retired Exeter insur-
ance salesman, striking a (lassie pose on a monument in
Hampton Court, England. in 1917.
He was convalescing at the V. A. D. Hosiiitai estab-
lished in the court during the first world war. He's wearing
a hospital uniform of blue flannel with white collar.
"There were many monuments in 'this beautiful court,"
recalls Mr. Harvey. "This one, however, didn't have any
figure on it and 1 didn'ttthink it looked right."
lie climbed up on the stone to pose for the picture,
taken by a friend. Then he took a photo of his friend on
the same base.
Mr. Harvey was hos,pitalized for two mont4 with
treneh fever after the famous battle of VirnY Ridge in 1917.
Hampton court, he reealls, was a "beautiful, place",
used at that time for aecommodation for pensioned war
widows.
During his convalescence, be had tea in the home of
a Mr. Lamplue, in a room where Sir .Christopher Wren died
in 1723. He played billiards with a cue used by Napoleon,
inspected numerous tapestries from France, which took one
person 12 months to make one yard.
In Hampton Court palace was a clock given to Henry
VIII in 2540, Cardinal Wolsey's tirne. The clock was said to
have slopped when a death occurred in the palace.
' Mr. Harvey also sampled grapes from a vine on the
palace grounds which was planted in 1763, had grown 110
feet long and yielded some 3,000 hunches.
The court is about 35 miles from London.
An avid .amateur photographer, Mr. Harvey has thou-
sands of pictures taken during the war, on numerous trips,
and at ninny local events.
The Times-Advecate, August XI, 1959 Par $
Festival BO tops '58 sale
At the halfway point of the
season. the Stratford Shakespea-
rean Festival box office conti-
nues ahead of last season, Victor',
C. Polley, assistant general;
manager, reported today.
The average attendance for the
season to date has been 78 per
rent of capacity as against 15
per cent at the same tim ja.1
1958, he said.
The sixth week, just concluded,!
showed 77 per cent of capacity,
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Ry J, REYNOLDS lhree7e. That they are alive to- E
District Forester day, having been picked up by a
passing boat that happened to no-
Once again a life has been lost lice the
, b tt t
through drowning in one of our more to good luck than to wis-
accounting for a .box office gm"
of $47,670, paid by 13,490 :patrons..
The total .tiumber of patrons who
have seen "M YOU. Like ft" and
"Othello" in the Festival t.heatrfs
since the. June -940, openings i.
now in emscessof 82,000,
Weekend bookings. :continue to
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accident occurred outside our ' safety who have floated out be -
boundaries when we realize that; yond their depth.
ethviesrycoculakyl happen just as readily
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So far this summer, we are can have a good deal of fun
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very pleased to he able to slate, floating about on various kinds
there has not been a single of devices, some of them made
in the eleven for the purpose, but we would
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a number of
those who visit the beaches of
end nearly
all of our provincial parks leave such
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parks of the district,
have certainly been
close calls,
these have
drifted out
rubber inner tubes,
ses, or some other
vice.
In one case a mother and her
two children were picked up
from an inner tube, well out in
Lake Huron. They were com-
pletely helpless to propel them-
selves to shore against the light.
at
too far from shore on firm belief that there is no more
air-mattres-
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floating de-
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Exeter. Blommaert had stopped,
behind a car waiting to make a
left hand turn at the corner of
Main and Sanders streets, town.
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September
Session
The Huron County Council
will convene in the Court
House, Goderich, on Tues,,
September 8, 1959, at 10:00
a.m, D.S.T. for the Septem-
ber session (one day).
All communications and ac-
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the Clerk not later than Fri-
day, August 28th, 1959.
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