The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-07-27, Page 1Muttj al Fire aid
#ollows truck?
- A mutual aid plan for e
ficient, co-operative fire pr
tection throughout the Sout
Huron district may result frei
the purchase of the new fit
truck by Exeter and Usborn
Stephen and Hay :townships,
was revealed Thursday nigi
during the "christening" cere
Atony for the machine.
Ontario Fire Marshall F, C
Anderson, Guelph, announce
that lie will prepare •shortly
plan under which the numerou
fire departments in the are
dill co-ordinate their service
tp provide for organized an
connplete fire protection fo
the :entire district.
The plan must be approve
by all the municipalities and
fire department which will be
involved before it will tat
effect.
The mutual aid program ha
Seen discussed in Huron be
fore but never seriously con.
sidered in this area becaus
of the Tact: of equipment. Th
new machine. however, reme
dies this condition,
' Under the plan, the area o
Service for each brigade wit
be accurately defined, as wel
as the manner in which extra
1„^ehines can be. called int
rytce in the event of major
f es. A chain of assistance is
c tkblished ander which each
• e"mrunity is protected even
when its.own machine is called
to another district,
Asks "master plan"
Reeve Glenn Webb, Stephen,
galled for the development of
seme type of "master plan”
Wider which the services of the
various machines could. be co-
ordinated. His proposal wa s
supported. by Fire .Chief Irwin
Ford, who noted that it was
important from the standpoint
of the new emergency measure,
or civil. defence, organization.
Fire Marshall Anderson said
he hoped to submit such. a plan
to' the community in the near
future.
Officials of the four partici-
pating municipalities met on
Thursday night to inspect the
new machine and. to attend. a
r^ception. sponsored by Exeter
at the Legion hall,
Exeter firemen, assisted by
a representative ' of the manu-
facturer, C. E. Rickey and
Sons Ltd.. demonstrated the
truck's ability to pump water
at the high school, grounds.
Five. hoses were spewing out
asoroximately 625 gallons a
m'nute through the machine.
Afterwards at the Legion hall.
Fire Marshall. Anderson said
he was "suite impressed with
the truck" • and stressed the
importance of the protection. it
would provide to the area. He
landed the municipal represent -
glees for. the..*'good job...you
, h e done in providing your
ei3,zens with. adequate• fire
".
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,1' ui ment .
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Chief Irwin Ford expressed
the appreciation of himself arid
Ks the members. of the fire brig-
ade to the municipalities ,for.
the purchase of the machine.
"We have been .fighting for
this for a long time because
we felt it was needed."
Lauds co-operation
f- has been well spent".
o- Reeve Glenn Webb, Stephen,
h stated "this is the first ' time
n something like this has been
e tried in our area—Pin sure it
e, will be successful
It Reeve V. L. Becker, flay,
it was; impressed with the equip-,
• ment. lie hoped it would never
have to be used but, if it was,
he felt confident it would do a
d good job.
a Dan Dailey, the Hickey rep-
s resentative, noted that the
a district.has not experienced
s the tragedy of loss of life
d through fire in recent years.
✓ He hoped the machine would
help maintain that record in
d the future..
The new truck will feed
water through six lines --three
21/2 -inch hoses; two 1l/xinch,
e and one one -inch high pressure
hose,
s The one -inch high pressure
hose, which can be fed from
' the 500 -gallon storage tank im-
e mediately on. arrival at the
e scene, is,broken up into small
' sections to prevent current
flow through the hose in the
f event of an electrical blaze.
1 Specifications of the machine
I include a gross vehicle weight
of 25,000 pounds; a 245 h,p,
o engine which gives it :a top
cruising speed of from 65 to
75 mph, Equipped, the truck,
will weighabout five tons,
Mayor Pooley lauded the co-
operative spirit shown by all.
the municipalities involved .in
providing for mutual protection.
He also stressedappreciation
to the fire brigade for its faith-
ful services throughout .the
years.
Usborne's reeve, C 1 a y ton
Smith, noted that, the purchase
has increased his township's
tax rate this year by two mills.
However, "I. think the money
New officer
OAC grad
.
9
John T, "Terry" McCauley,
28, Bowmanvi]le, a graduate of
OAC, succeeds H. G. "Hal"
Hooke as field officer of the
tpsable authority here., The
r a n s f er becomes effective
August 1.
Mr. McCauley has been field
officer for three conservation
authorities in the Peterborough
district since 1959, when he was
appointed to permanent staff
:g 1of the Dept. of Commerce and
Development,
Mr, Hooke takes over as ec e' field
i
officer for the three authorities
which Mr. (McCauley served --
Central
Central. Lake Ontario, Ganar-
asks and Otonabee Region—
plus a new one just formed, the
Crowe River.
The transfer appears to cater
to the interests of both officers.
Mr. Hooke; a .graduate in for -
entry, wilt be in charge of the
conservation program in the
forest areas around Peterbor-
ough. Mr, McCauley's OAC
background, specializing in field
crops, will assist hien in pro-
moting conservation farm prac-
tices in the Ausable watershed.
A native of Brantford, Mr.
McCauley attended schools in
Montreal and Toronto before
entering OAC. He graduated
with his BScA clegree in '59,
He worked with the Ausable au-
thority during the summer of
'59 And that fall spent several
months with the Grand Valley
authority in Guelph,
'His wife, Marilyn, a native
of New Liskeard,is a graduate
Of. Macdonald 'Hall, Guelph,
and has accepted a home eco-
nomics teaching position with
Seaforth District High School
for the coming year..
The McCauleys have two
children, Norman, 19 months,
and .Alisha, now 10 weeks old.
They: have moved into the,
Wein Nouse on the corner of
Main and Simeoe, recently va-
cated by John Burke.
At Bowmanville, Mr, McCall -
ley served rag secretary' and'
ulletin , editer. of the newly'=
�orfned "� trams club ere
r h there, firs
Bobbies incltrtle tennis, chess
*b4 photography.
Seek funds
for new flag
Donations are being received
toward the purchase of a new
161st Battalion flag for pre-
servation in Trivitt Memorial
Anglican Church, • according to
Mayor R. E. Pooley.
The mayor, Max Harness
and Kenneth McLaughlin at
the Bank of Nova Scotia are
accepting contributions toward.
the flag which must be custom-
made since there are none
available.
The 161st Battalion is the
unit. under which many district
veterans served during the
first world war.
Wally Wein
sports figure
Wallace G. Wein, 46, Dash-
wood, prominent sports figure,
died. Tuesday night in Victoria
Hospital. He has been in fail-
ing health for the past two
years. •
Closely connected with Dash -
wood's' ball and hockey • teams'
for • man
y years, Mr. Wein
served as a member of :the On-
taria Baseball Association for
several years. He also was
president of the Huron -Perth
Baseball League and president
of the Cyclone Hockey League.
A farmer, he operated a sub-
stantial acreage in the Dash-
wood area, He also served' as
a cattle buyer and was em-
ployed for a number of years
by district hatcheries.
Funeralservice will be held
Friday at 2.30 p.m. in the T.
Harry Hoffman Funeral Home,
Dashwood, with. Rev. M. .James
officiating. Interment will be
in Dashwood Evangelical UB
cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Milford
Merner, Mervyn Tiernan, Sid
Baker, Elgin Kipfer, Ralph
Weber and Harold. Stire.
He was the son of the late
John and. Ann Wein. Dashwood.
Surviving besides his wife, the
former Ninia Smith, Parkhill,
are one son, William; two sis-
ters, Mrs. Gordon (Maida)
Ba nh: Exeter,
y am, and Mrs.
Harry (Margaret) Parsons,
Detroit; three brothers, Ken-
neth, Grand Bend; Floyd,
Dashwood, and Sheldon, Strat-
ford.
Tribute is -,.aidto the former
sports figure by Derry Boyle
in his column, "Boyle's Ban-
ter," this week on page six.
Eighty -Eighth Year
pccrgR, ONTARIO, JULY 21, 1941
'Emergency 1
measure
rder dreci
Pince .For Copy 10 Oen
ing of harbor
SHE'LL THROW LOTS OF WATER'.—Exeter firemen
put the new fire truck to the test. Thursday night to show
district officials how well she could perform. Through
its six lines, the truck can pour 625 gallons a minute at.
150 pounds pressure. She carries three 21/2 -inch lines,
two 11/2 -inch lines and one one -inch high pressure hose
which can be put into play immediately on arrival.
Streams will go as high as 130 feet and as far as 210 feet.
The truck, with a 245 h.p. motor, has a cruisingspeed of
from 65 to 75 m.p.h. and will weigh about ie tons
equipped. Equipment includes a portable pump to allow
firemen to use rivers, creeks or farm ponds—T-A photo
Grand Bend council was informed by wire:
Wednesday that an emergency contract hi:d been
let by the federal dept of public works to dredge
the dangerous shoal in its ,harbor,
Clerk Murray Des .Jardins said the contract.
has been let to Lee Jennison, Grand Bend, to dredge
1,600 cubic yards from the shoal.
Thetelegram described the
work as an "emergency
measure."
It's expected Jennison will.
start the work Monday. A
dragline will be employed to
remove the fill,
over 200 yachts during the
summer season,
Recently, a large American
cruiser ran .aground on, the
shoal and suffered further
damage because of the difficult
Earlier this week, Grand entrance.
Bend' Chamber of Commerce
sent a wire to Public Works
Minister F. C, Walker pointing
out the "critical situation" in -
the harbor. _ _ _
The chamber said the re- clays coming
y�'
sort's commercial fishing fleet
was almost unable to get in i
and out and several operators
were considering moving else There's more sticky weather
where. The industry represents and thunderstorms on the way,
a gross revenue of about 1150,- according to the met section
000, plus an investment of at RCAF Station Centralia.
over $250,000, Forecast indicates thunder.
The chamber also noted. that storms probably Thursday
American yacht publications night, followed by warmer and
have carried notices warning stickier weather on Friday,
of the shallow depth, at Grand
Bend. The resort plays host to It should cool off toward
late Sunday, however.
Although the weather has
been abnormal, for July, it
asn't set any records.
Rainfall far the , month to
ate has been 4,49 inches. This
amount has been exceeded by
ny! Ellinar. Pure our Julys during the past 14
years, the greatest, 7.73 inches,
failing in July, 1950.
So far, there have been '10
days with thunderstorms this
month. In. 1948, there were 14.
during July.
Rainfall hasbeen recorded
five of the past seven days
when the heaviest fall of 1.26
inches on. Thursday, July 20..
Showers Monday totalled near-
ly an rich.
Humidity, high 'most of the
Van Camp's famous
SIGN COMPOSITE. SCHOOL CONTRACTS -Meeting in
the Clinton District Collegiate Institute Thursday, July
20;chairmen ''and' secretaries of four secondary- school
boards signed contracts regarding the sharing of costs
in' operating the proposed new vocational school to be
built in Clinton., Seated, from the left; with pens in hand
(each one signed five copies) are chairmen William Craig,
Auburn, Goderich Collegiate; Irvine Tebbutt, Clinton;
Larry Snider, South Huron District High School, and
•
Frank Sills, Seaforth High School. Standing, fromthe
left,,f.)onald M. Scott, inspector, secondary schools;, John.
;Laois -ince-chairman, Clinton, who witnessed in signa-
tures;.. Harold C. Lawson, secretary, Clinton; Eugene
Howey, secretary, Exeter; W. E.. Southgate, secretary,
Seaforth,, and D. John Cochrane, principal of CDCI and
of the proposed new school. The secretaries applied the
official seal of their own school districts.
—News -Record photo
'Four HS boards sign contact
to operate composite school
The co-operation of four high
school districts in. Huron County
toward erection of a composite
vocational school was made of-
ficial Thursday night, when
chairmen and secretaries of
each board met
e in Clinton Dis-
trict Collegiate Institute to
sign the contract agreements.
Each signed five copies and
affixed the official seal of his
board.
Attending were: from Exeter,
Larry Snider, chairman, and
Eugene Howey, secretary from
Seaforth, Frank Sills, chairman,
and. W. E. Southgate, secre-
tary; Goderich,
y, William
Craig, Auburn, chairman, (sec-
retary Ed. Jessop was absent),
and from Clinton, Irvine Teb-
butt, RR 2, Clinton, chairman,
and Harold C. Lawson, secre-
tary; John Levis, vice-chair-
man, witnessed the signatures.
This
moves the initialplan-
ning for the new vocational
school one more step along the
way. The signing followed the
receipt of tentative approval
from the dept. of education for
the addition as planned,
Form advisory board
From now on the next step
is for each of the co-operating
boards to name two'representa-
tives to the vocationaladvisory
committee (C l.i, n t on names
Retiring ARCA officer
receives f�ssiltribufes
H. G. Hal Hooke, retiring
field officer of the Ausable
Authority, received unique gifts
in tribute to his six years of
conservationservice to the
watershed during an informal
farewell picnic,.in Riverview
Park Friday night.
He was presented with a pen
holder and book ends made
out ot petrified fossils from
famous Rock Glenn, near Ar -
NEW FiER
iL�b OPFlUE
a , ,, Y Niceituiey
kona, where the Authority has
established one of its popular
parks.
The presentation was Made
by Chairman. Freeman Hodgins
following tributes from a num-
ber of the authority officers.
Mrs. Hooke received a silver
candy dish from Mrs. Carl
Hume, the authority's new
secretary - treasurer and Mr.
Itooke's stenographer during
his tenure .here.
Almost all of the authority
members and their wives from
the 24 municipalities in the
watershed attended the fare-
well fete.
In a prepared address, Chair-
nian .Hodgins said lllr. Hooke
had progressed "fioni one dam
development to another" dur-
ing this service with ARCA,
• "When you came to tis, the
Exeter (Morrison) dans had
been proposed and was t.bout
to be built, As you leave its,
the Parkhill dam has been
proposed and is 'about to be
built."
The chairman cited some of
the highlights of the authority's
progresssince Mr. Hooke was
appointed its first permanent
field officer'" in 1955.
"We have worked together
to the field of conservation and
have watched the Ausable
authority d e el o ; the
farm
ponds from abaft
a hundred
to over 800; one Ausable forest
from about :500 acres to about
13,000 acres; our recreation
areas from: one at Arkona and
one at Port Franks to the six
we now have. We have to-
gether seen the Ausable mouth
at. Port Franks change from
the new to the old, to the new
and back to the old."
Former ARCA Chairman
John Morrison praised the field.
officer for the co-operation he
had given to authority officials
,over the years, "For diligence,
hard work and staying -with -ft,
Hal Hooke has it".
Vice-chairman W e 11 i n gton
Brock lauded the contribution
both Mr., and Mrs, Hooke have
made to connmunity life in
Exeter and area. "They took
part in many worthwhile ac-
tivities and have been good
citizens",
C. E, "Zeb" Janes, Lambto►
East: MPP and a member of
the ' Authority: "We're sorry to
see Hal go --he has done an
excellent job"
Other tributes were paid to
the field officer by AndreW
Dixon and Larry Scales, the
zone forester at, Stratford who
was a classmateo of Mr.
Hooke's,
The 'picnic was arranged by'
the public relations advisory
board under Chairman Lorne
Hay,
Mr, Rooke leaves August 1
to assumefield i
ekl o ff set duties""
for four conservation author'.
ties in the Peterborough (iat.
rice.
...w..%`.w.w[ °�Y,.Wn,laritiA.',•'^',6 r+ 4v.Y..ntw,M.nu.
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I three) making up a nine•mem
ber committee. In each case, a
board member is to be named,
plus another member from in-
dustry (either an employer or
an employee).
Thell the e Clinton meets
ton board m ets
and officially appoints those
recommended to act on the ad-
visorycommittee. commit ee. So far Exeter
is the only board to make its
recommendations: A, Garnet
Hicks, Usborne Township farm
er, and James Taylor, Hensall,
resident sales manager of Gen-
eral Coach Works of Canada,
Ltd.
Though Mx. Hicks is secre-
tary of Usborne Public School
area board and Mr. Taylor 'has
been a member of Hensall pub-
lic school board for five years,
it i
expected,
norintended
s not ex a
that connection.with public
school boards should be a requi-
site of membership on the vo-
cational advisory committee.
Duties of the advisory con•
mittee through the next year,
are expected to include plan-
ning for the various courses to
be offered in the new school.
The Clinton, District Collegiate
Institute board will be essen-
tially responsible for the con-
struction: of the new building,.
and later on for the operation
of it, hut on recommendation
of the advisory committee.
Neither Seaforth: Clinton or
Goderich boards have made
their appointments yet.
To hire architects
Among first; tasks of the
new advisory committee and
the Clinton board will be to
hire an architect. Then blue-
prints can be prepared; they
must he approved by the On-
tario dent, of education and
then tenders can be called
• It is essential that the new
building be finished by opening
day of school in the fall of 1962.
This is -the first composite
school which will be governed
by more than one school board
to gain approval of the Ontario
dept. of education. Until now,
each vocational school has
been erected
by one board,
and then it has (if the situa-
tion warranted it), opened the
- school to pupils in other dis-
tricts. This applies to H. B,
Beal. Technical School and to
Clarke Sideroad school, both in
London. Students from :Huron
v
n
Cou nt have been'
enrolled in
Y
each of these schools. In these
cases, the school district from
which the pupil comes pays for
tuition at the London school.
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POLICE CHIEF IMPROVES
Chief C. H. MacKenzie, who
is ill in Victoria Hospital, Lon-
don, is improving favorably.
Be will be in. hospital at
least another three weeks,
week, hit 100% Tuesday night.
It held. from about 11 p.m.
daTuyesday until daylight Wednes-
.
The high for the week was
1 88 degrees on -.Sunday. Low of
46 was recorded lake Wednes-
vi Pi day -night, July 19.
chic �rancl Sweet
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pan
s
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res. e
d
to
tour
Genera -i
plant
nt
Although newspaper and
radio reports last week were
exaggerated, the Nigerian
gov't is definitely interested in
the purchase of mobile units
from General Coach Works of
Canada Ltd., Hensall, it was
confirmed Wednesday by Wil-
liam C. Smith, general man-
ager.
Mr. Smith said. Nigerian rep-
resentatives are expected to
visit the Hensall plant within
the next 30 days to see how
the units are constructed,
They will also visit other
Canadian industries during
their tour of Canada.
The delegation will be ac-
companied by a multi -linguist
manufacturer's agent, Steve Z.
Laufer, Montreal, who is Gen-
eral Coach's African represen-
tative.
Mr. Smith indicated that
earlier reports of a $500,000
contract being negotiated were
not correct. "All we know at
the moment is that they are
showing definite interest. No
value has been established for
a contract; no delivery date,
no startingi
or' ending dates
s
have beearranged,"
g
He confirmed, however, that
the negotiations may lead to
"a big thing for Hensall."
No mobile homes ones are in-
volved in the negotiations, he
clarified, "We are talking
about mobile health clinics,
schools libraries and similar
units - it's more along our
industrial line."
Mr. Smith revealed the Ni-
ANQTHER CAMERA WINNE :
10 R Cpl, Herman 1-ieufeld,
s Natoli Palk,. tries out the movie camera he won this
12 Week in The 'T -AAs "Houle of the Week" feature. He's
by,. the fourth luckyperson. 'to capture Father
,,,• . 3 Y e the prize, at
of four Boys And two tris the '
. w .... -�..Y . g ,f_. corporal has plenty of
z , . ,z ..z , subjedS fdz his movie -making, '1'-A photo
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gerian discussions are one of
a number of developments
which have resulted from Gen-
eral's interest in export trade,
which began about three years
ago. "We feel there is a lot
of potential' in the export •
market," he stated.
'Earlier this year, Mr. Smith
and other company representa-
tives took part in the export
sales conference at Ottawa.
arranged . by Hon, George
Hees, federal minister of trade
and commerce. "At that time
we talked to representatives
from 28 foreign countries," the
general, manager revealed.
Complete govt' contract
Eight units manufactured by
General under a contract front
the justice dept' have been
delivered and are being set up
now 'at Petawawa. The units
include bunkhouse, kitchen,
dining unit and washrooms for
penitentiary inmates,
Lad
dmit
s
area
a assault
ult°
A 19 -year-old Zurich youth,
Lynn. Barry Doerr, pleaded
guilty in magistrate's court
here Tuesday to indecent
assault involving small boys.
He was remanded in custody
in 'count jail
at Goderich until
itJ
Thursday hen he will appear•
for sentence.
Magistrate Glenn Hays, QC,
requested examination of the
youth by two doctors for a re-
port at Thursday's sitting,
Doerr Was not represented
by counsel,
The youthwas charged Mon-
day and arrested Tuesday by
PC George Mitchell, Exeter
detachment:
The alleged offences took
place in Zurich and Hay town-
ship.
Big crows.
despite rain
Despite the rainy weather of
the past two , weeks, good. •
crowds have been attending
the Sunday evening gospel.
services at the Starlite Drive-
Ie Theatre, Shipka.
The showers have prompted: f
the committee to enlarge its
W
slogan, hich n o w reads.,
"Corrie as you are and hear
from your car—and if it rains,
still the .sante".
Over 100 cars, with an esti-
mated 450 to 500 people attend-
ed Sunday night's service to
hear ,Dr. ,Harry is aught of the
Danforth .,,Gospel Tabernacle,
Toronto, Ile 'spoke onthe sec-
ond d conuItf C
n o Christ,
Dr. Fattght attd Paul Miller.,
the outstanding trurripet' solo,
ist, supplied special Inhale,
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