The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-07-12, Page 1Eighty-Eighth Year- EXETER, ONTARIO, JULY 12, 1942
INSPECT DRAIN OUTLET Ausable Authority arranged this demonstration of a.
tile outlet for .the drainage clay program Wednesday on the farm of William L. Allen,
Usborne Township, The outlet, from tile system to municipal ditch, makes use of
a gabion basket, a wire cage that holds stones in place at the mouth of the tile to
prevent erosion, Shown from left, are Reeve Earl Dick, Hibbert; Raymond Hart-
man, RR 3, Zurich; Victor Hartman, RR 3, Dashwood,
"At last!" sighs Road Chairman Bailey
Councillor Ralph Bailey watches in relief as paving firm applies asphalt emulsion and
chips to town roads after long series of delays which have subjected town officials to
considerable harassment from the public. Firm arrived Saturday to do job but delays,
including confliction with magistrate's court here, prevented start on paving until
Tuesday afternoon. • photo
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en fire
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Work on No, 4 highway at, Clanciehoyo and Centralia,
which has been progressing slowly, was suspended in.
•definitely this week when the Langton Contracting Co.
Ltd. went bankrupt.
A Toronto official said the department of highways
is "exploring ways in which to have the work continued".
but no decision has been reached,
As of June 30, the company had completed only one-
quarter of the work in the contract which was awarded
in September last year.
The Tillsonburg firm won the award with its bid of
$172,457, The work was divided into two parts: the
Ciandeboye road revision amounting to about seven-
tenths of a mile, and a 1,78-mile section of No. 4 near
Centralia.
The contract., called for reconstruction of the road,
including new culverts, granular base and hot mix pav-
ing.
it included a penalty clause for failure to meet a
completion deadline.
President of the firm is M. C. Degroote, Tillsonburg,.
It was not known exactly when the firm went into re
ceivership. Wednesday, there was no answer to a tele-
phone call to the head office in Tillsonburg.
Biddulph OK s
central school
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Four small children were kitchen and received a had
led to safety by a 14-year-old shock, reporting later it "felt
baby sitter and several mern• like my hands were knocked
hers of the Grand Bend Value. off".
leer Fire Brigade narrowly es- The firemen then got out of
coped electrocution when fire the building and Mason and Bill
gutted the home of Mr. and Rath, an electrical contractor
Mrs. Floyd Wilds, Tuesday, who is a member of the bri.
gade, lead a search for the
Source of the hydro.
They finally found it in a He explained that the under-
house located over 200 yards ground wiring was merely old
behind the Wilds' home and telephone wiring and the house Machines display
they were told that the wires was wired in much the same In the morning over ISO
stretched underground over to manner, with several applian- people, including tile drainage
The otlickethinking young girl the burning building. ces . plugged into a tone outlet, machine operators, tile suppb-
grabbed siktrionth old Carl and They came back and found Although firemen could not Ors, contractors and. farmers,
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two-year•old Carlene and three-
year-old Vaughan.
"When Floyd said he saw Dislike state insurance plan
smoke, I grabbed the baby and
ran", she. reported lo Fire Chief
Lawrence Mason,
"You did very well to get
them out", he told her, report•
lag that the upstairs was filled
with smoke when he and his Majority of people in this the country into it, I am not in p i e going to t ale. doctors yoteil be paid so much, whether they
rrew arrived On the scene short- comintteity who have been fol- favoitr Of the strike, though," never be able to have a private see a paititb1 once Or a dozen
ty after, lowing the inedicel Care be: J, W. Corbett, Gidley SI. physician. It will he jest like times. t don't think it's right".
ante plan etisis in Saskatche- "I think the plan should be all assembly line, it's like this De, M. C. Fletcher; Victoria wan side with the doctors in the suspended until some agree- Ontario hospital plan; if pro- St. .7- "There haven't been
argument, a limited TeA survey merit is reached. The doctors, pie had to pay for the first $2,5 enough facts ptesented for both
this week indicates, t think feel once they begin a there would be less people in sides and I wouldn't like to
O 15 people who expressed service of this kind it will be the hospitals. Sonic of these Venture an opinion right now",
an opinion supported the doe• very hard to change, I believe specialists put in le years of
medicine, Five, however, to Observe the best interests Arend And tette them they will
eet's R 4 Jermyn, River. tors' stand against socialized that a scheme should be set tip schooling, then the gov't turns
sated they did not approvo of all",
the doctors' strike.Mee, Hector Murray, Huron
Two said they were In favor se alt.'s too h a d that the
of government medical rare in, people Will be without proper
suttilme, medical rare for se long.
At least es many more con- haven't made up my mind as
(:acted by The T'A did not wish 10 which ,side is right but
to comment Ott the coetreversY think the doctors could have
Which has lino raging since carried on with their medical
July 1, the day the plan came care",
into effect. Since that day, Robert Mcboriald, Carling St, doetors have refused to n o e r e' --- "I think it's a farce Of. a vide any services except in thing. feet the doctors ate emergency cases. No settlement doing the tignt thing. If lire of ,Ihe dispute is in sight, gnv't is going to pay fot every. Heed are the comments: thing, there'll be so Many pen-
Most here back doctors' stand
ee
A crowd of 600 attended the and a back filler in operation.
provincial drainage day at I•he Drainage contractors from all
farm of William L, Hs. over Ontario and as far west
borne, to see a demonstration as Quebec were in attendance.
installation of some 10,000 feet Comments were made on each
of tile, of the machines, followed by an
The program was opened by actual digging demonstration.
program co-ordinator D. H. Manufecturees represen
Miles, Huron ag rep, who wet- ,were Parsons, Cleveland,
corned the crowd, consisting of Speicher's Tandem Trencher
farmers, drainage equipment and Buckeye.
operators and contraetors, A quantity of tile was supplied
William Allen, outlining his for the demonstration by Bow-
operation, said teat one-half of man Tile Manufacturing Co.,-
his 100-acre farm was drained Wallenstein; Martin Tile Manu-
with about 35,000 tile. When the lecturing Co., tVailenstein, and
w 01 e farm is completely Rydall Tile and Brick Ltd„ El-
drained, between 60,000 and &field.
70,000 tile will be, used, He ex- Ausable River Conservation
peels to increase the carrying Authority had a demonstration
capacity of his land and, feels or proper outlet fittings at the
good drainage will help to con- outlet for the Allen drainage
trot weeds and increase we- system,
Lion. Mercury Blue Printing Co.,
Toni Brown, extension engi- London, showed the various
.neer specialist from Huron and "drainage levels",
Perth, outlined the services pro. Bob ,-Rowchffe, Heosall,
vic;ed by his department in the drainage operator in charge
planning tile drains. He noted of the work on the Allen farm.
the importance of good outlets
to control erosion and empha•
sized that the main tile must
he large enough, to carry all the
water from the laterals.
The drainage act, he said,
provides for loans to ,farmers
equal to 75 percent. of the con-
struction cost at 4ee interest.
He estimated cost at about $100
per acre.
to backfilling, he said, it was
important to get the. topsoil
next to the tile because its .por•
ous quality speeds up drain-
age.
Rolling land
Soils specialist jack Murray
noted Lhat. the farm was of the
rolling type for which farmers
sometimes underestimate the
value of drainage, Drainage in•
creases the water available 'to
plants becaule roots are able to
grow deeper in the subsoil if it
.is well drained, thus euabling
the plants to draw on larger
moisture reserves in drought
periods. He also noted the im-
portance of letting air into the
soil, since dry soil will warm
tip faster than moist land.
Dr. Stan Young, OAC field
husbandry dep't, said good
drainage was another link in
the chain of good management
required for superior crop pro-
clttction.
.Huron dairy fieldmen, Russell.
Bradford, noted the dairy facil-
ities at the Allen farm as suit-
able for production of nigh qual-
ity milk, Skim milk was pro-
vided for the crowd by Michell
a itch Ontaro producers' associa-
tione as well as Stacey Bros.
Mitchell.
Other speakers included Free-
man }lodging, Ausable authority
chairman, and Prof. Robert Ir-
vin, of OAC engineering dep't,
A coupl e or close calls were the school area hoard's plans
o erect a 5200,000 central reported at the swimming area • t
at Riverview Park over the school.
weekend, The approval means council
Lifeguard Gen r g e Godholt will sell debentures for the
pulled out a three-year-old boy project when a site has been
who stepped off the raft into purchased and plans are ready
water over his head, A little for construction.
girl went under while, she was No vote will be required
trying' to swim on the, pond side among the propeety owners.
of the raft, The school board plans •th
.Neither incident was serious, erect an eight-classroom school
side Drive, — "I am in
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Two close
at swim pond Biddulph Township Council
has given tentative approval to
calls
supply of 600 rods of road fence
for the northern end of con, 10
and the north boundary, where
road improvements are being
made. Farmers in that area
have agreed to put up the
fence,
A grant of $25 was awarded
in Kiekton Agricultural Society.
Tres competed it A AUttOSSitit HoweVer., the way the govern., Condo Events e., Ii , . -
&Oleg leilimainonl, htre soon• moil is pushing it through is Editorials .,4 BOO LAND OI4 Plikt • Close to 150 acres of the bog . . sordit by the Exeter Lawn towl• stupid and I think the doctors Forth flews ., . ........ s - 11 lane oh tlio ilaig farm is burning out of tontrol, and ing Club, Wednesday' afternoon, are eorrot, in, standing up for H'retititritire F 441t „....,, ....... — 14,, has been 'since early spring 'when 'the dry peat ilt(igg Entries e imp from Ceder- Welt -rights". '14' caught fire 'from a rubbish pile. being burned by work. id, Clinton, AMA Craig, Len, Robert Fletcher,. Pryde Pad. :Cl',.V , ----- ...... • . - ,,-. • , • of - ' •. ,- ' ', •-., -6, 7 31101 at talc( farm south Grand tend, Manager Bill 40n, Stretford and SI.. MArYe, -- "I think they -shduld tight Ufer,,15 ,e ---- ------ . . . tie 13 SchlogOl reports that A. tiC611 ittlieb. priCirCia the fire 7:..hout sl.t, lealitS Of IOW boWl- it Ott among theinstiVes rather - °"' MC1.5 ' " • •
"04 teropeled, than dragging evayotie flail iii ...:. ::•,,.•,'., 41.:,,, , ;,:,-,..,,,ii,... ., And it CAR itibt ,gpread farther, Smoke was So &M.O.
B. 0. Perry, Senior St,—"I
don't, like secielisin, Therefore!
don't go Tor this type of stale
Cara.
or. W
R. , Read, Main Si. — here to Area rinks am in disagreement with
eocialized medicine, Abselute
le,", find it at tourney Dr. M. bans, Main St "11,
is such an enormous problem AnnoOncetrients .. 17
About 25 rinks front sires ctn. that you can't five an opinion, church eloticee .... • .„ 17
Can't stop bog blaze;
smoking since spring
Area Shrines
in huge parade
Area members of the Blue.
water Shrine Club took part in
the 'gargantuan" Shriteet'S' par- ade Toronto Thursday,
The Bluenater club's antique
fire mete was one of the hun-
dreds of units in the ten.mile
parade which attracted a crowd
estimated as high as 300,000.
Toronto's main streets Were
jeeetwed for the, huge procession
staged by the 55,f100 Shriners
from all over North Ariterie -A.
'the fire truck was taken to
Toronto on a float owned by
Lee Jefinisee, Grand Bend, and
was manned by Bence StettilAke ;
Bill Cochrane, Barry jlamilton;
Harold Mod< and Mr. ,tonni-
son, all Of Greed, Bend.
TeAnIsszoill thtile Shrine.'t)rs ral',"Idew‘aVrt71PliWnkti
Al lan Robert ri.v'idalo, Menthers Tuesday That persons in the area thought the Pinery
park Wag -on fire And one such report was phoned tei A a the provost •-e0115-s o f the
London radio station. rims in 'the bog have been known Moth§ 'Temple, tendon. 'Mr.
to burn tohtihuously for three years, even through ribk is eaptaiti of the 'corps.
winter, despite efforts. of ftWriftrg to extinguish them. Others from ar,ea,,:who,tita
Gerry Morrison and Arnold 1,ruax, inspectors for the MLA,`III).1`21to`tVeriehnl.ligi. Avid Al
tiera of Agriculture, warm their 'hands over the fire,. Scholl, Rensall,
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Drainage day show
attracts large crowd
Even court
hits paving
The town's asphalt emulsion
and chips paving program, be-
set by many delays, is expected
to be completed Thursday,
Caswe ll pa vi ng, co. lee, ar-
rived here. Saturday to do the
work but didn't get started until
Tuesday afternoon.
First there was motor diffi-
culty with the mechanical brush
used to clean the surfaces to he
treated. Then the axle on the
many-wheeled packer broke.
Finally, the crew was, all set
to roll about 10:30 Tuesday
=mg but had to wait for
court. Magistrate Glenn 'Hays,
QC, who was presiding in the
council chamber, ordered a stop
to the loading of Chine behind
the town hall because of the
noise. TN., work wasn't re-
aimed until court adjourned in
the afternoon.
300 attend
first service
The third annual summer
gospel services el, the Starlite
drive-in theatre commenced
Sunday, when close to 300 peo-
ple attended to hear the mes-
sage presented by Rev. A. ;I.,
Baughey, a well-known radio
speaker from Pontiac, Michi-
gan.
It was the third summer that
the radio minister had ad'
dressed the congregation at the
popular summer feature.
Terming the service some-
thing 'unique, spectacular and
a little different", he said it '
was an exceptionally good way
to keep the gospel going m the
community,
Speaking on a theme of sal-.
vation, Rev, Baughey chose
Jesus' word, "you must, be born
again" as his text.
Chairman Harry Hoffman
welcomed the congregation and
conducted the mass volunteer
service, Sharon Strong, Sea-
forth, was guest soloist,
Rev. Chas. E. Hegerize, Berk ,
ley, Michigan, another radit,
minister, will speak at the sec,
nod service this Sunday, Spe-
cial music will be provided bY
Bill Beither and his wife,
Elaine, also from Michigan.
Tee couple play the trumpet and
piano.
The motto of the local serv-
ices is "Come as you are, and
hear from your ear — and if
there's rain, come just the.
same",
Janice George, was just fin-
ishing dinner when she smelled
smoke and Floyd jr,, 5, raced
out to see smoke pouring out of
the house situated three miles
south of Grand Bend.
and pulled it up and chopped
it. in half with an axe to en-
able the firemen to continue
their fght without fear of get•
ting electrocuted.
Very lucky
"It's a wonder some of us
didn't get killed", Mason re-
ported.
The flames were just break-
ing through the roof when the
fire department arrived and
they soaked the, outside of the
roof and then played their
hosts into the, upstairs windows
Mid of the small frame
building, „ Ditto ace wire's
Because they hadn't spotted
any electrical wires leading into
the house, the firemen Wine-
diatclY Started pouring on water
and working Mb the house to
clear Mit sonic Of the belong.,
roes downstairs.
However, Ev Desjardine, who
was chopping a hole in the roof
With an -axe, reported he had
received several ;01U that ap.
peared to be electrical shocks.
Trig Thompson, one of the
Mon in the house, touched the
et-OVe pipes leading up from the
Swimming classes began this hmated on the basis of 820,000
week in connection w i th the p 'per classroom, which is the
Exeter Kinsmen summer plaNs maximum amount on which the
ground program. Over 200 have province will provide grants.
registered far Arc classes v:rnat eekh T chairman irman7110 ist'l
R. board,
R
whose
Cedziearc being r,
adequate water supply.
S teph en and Heather Strom, must now select a site with an
according to the lifeguard, with a gymtoritn. Cost is es•
Clerk Austin Hodgins report-
ed council's decision on the pro-
posal was unanimous.
Council also assented to by-
laws from Usborne and Blan-
sharq 'Townships E,stabtishing
the lines of public school areas
along the municipal boundaries.
In other business,. Biddulph
council received a notice from
the Ontario Water Resources
Commissioty noting that a pub-
lic hearing on the proposed
sewage works for Lucan will
be held July 17. Part of the
system extends into Biddulph
TOwnship,
Council is calling tenders for
Jimmy Parsons , is coming fine
Still in hospital but "coming
along fine" is 14-year.old Jim-
my Parsons, Edward St., who
was struck by a car while rid-
ing his bicycle on No, 4 last
week.
His mother reported Wednes-
day he is doing some walking
at Si. Joseph's. t,ondon, And
that the scabs have peril taken
off the wounds on his face.
His knee is still badly scabbed
stud iney required some skin
grafting, A splint has been
placed on his wrist where he
received severe pavemeet burns
and he has marked swelling on Persohe not 'knowing the situ
the side of his body where he ation will probably come up
was struck, with the rather sensible -son-
The lad, who a year ago was lion that all lie has to do is
injured by the accidental firing soak the land with water to ex•
of a .rifle, was riding Name tingeish the blaze.
from Exeter Golf -Com-se when But, Bill has already tried
the club bag be had on his that mid 11 doesn't, work.
hack cAught ill the back wheel Concerned parties might even
of his bicycle, throwing him in• suggest he gel some bulldozer's
to an oncoming car on the high- into the field and rover the
way. hinting areas with wet earth
"Your field's on fire!" . to smother the blaze.
This alarm would probably But, Bill has already tried
send most farmers scurrying that and it doesn't work either,
for the telephone to call area In fact, Bill has tried just
firefighters and neighbors, brit about everything he can ima
it would bring about a rather gine and has reached the point
different approach at the Haig where he is just letting the fire
Bfaernridi,. six miles south of Grand hurn to its heart's content, al.
though he is keeping close
In f act , persons spot ti ng th e watch to make sure it doesn't
billowing clouds of smoke les. spread to any areas where it
ing off some 150 acres at the might endanger buildings or
farm
th the rather er mourneconcr et rili°erlrest
ceiv
ee• tirt7
,
good stuff
will , "I know" from manager Persons not knowing the area Bill Schlegel, should perhaps be told that
While this would appear to be what makes the blaze so hard
a rather foolish altitude for any to control is that the land is
farmer who has 150 acres of actually peat moss, the, same
valuable land on fire, it may substance that is burned by
tnioot l is e x ned appear r after the situa• many homes in Ireland as their
sole means of heat.
You see, Bill knows his land The area, which Was once ttli
is
fire
sion ee fire. etartrify this
spring
s been a nn der der water, being the bottom of
Lake Smith, was drained seve•
though it hasn't broken out as ral years ago, end was just re
large as it did this week when cently broken up and the top
passersby thought the Pinery four or five inches of soil as
park was on fire. pure peat moss.
Bill also knows that it is In some spots on the field,
causing sonic damage to his this material has even been
valuable land, hut he isn't quite measured to a depth of up to
sure exactly how much dam. 1.0 feet.
age will be caused. The fire slaved early thus
He also knows that the fire spring when workmen nn the
is not posing any serious Haig farm were bunting rub.
threat in any further areas he. Kish and the fire spread into
cause the large field is bor• the field. And, "u lust hasn't
dared by a deep ditch on all milt since", ecrordine in Still?.
four sides. gel.
However, what Bill doesn't He reported that his own
know is -- how to gel the fire have horn Attempting,. to e'en.
trot the blaze ever since, "hut
Any
out: trot
' new suggestions? They have used bulldozers and
we can't do anything with it".
rotators in an effort. to cover
the blaze with wet earth but
this method has failed-
"Two caterpillars worked for
five days in a row in the hold,
hint they failed to control it",
he.. stated.
The farm manager staled that
a good rain would probably put-
out most of the fire, but env.
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