The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-03-26, Page 14111
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Page 14. Times-Advocate, .Morch. go, 1964 By W. K. A. STEWART
middlese4. North MLA
This problem of liquor Accidents
down 50%. Changes in
farm acts.
Can't take it for coffee,
sometimes it's liniment
Traffic accidents in this area
are down almoet 50% MP year,
according to Cpl. P. J. Mitchell.
Of the opp detachment here, He
reports there were 24 report-
able (over $100 damage or in-
jury) accidents up to March 17
this Year, compared to 4 5 in
1963.
stroy plartts or property not
pertinent to the diseased plants. side and onto the shoulder of
the road. He found three un-
opened bottles of wine on the
seat beside Curtis,
PO Harry Reid, who had as-
sisted Hodgins, said the ac-
cesed did not walk steadily nor
speak clearly.
Curtis' employer, H ar v e y
Ropel, also of Port Elgin, said
the truck, loaded with seven tons
of tobacco, could be swayed by
the wind.
Mrs, Curtis, who was with
her husband, said he did not
have a drink at any time.
Defence counsel J. M. Mur-
sometimes, it appeared in
court Tuesday, alcoholic bever-
ages can be mistaken for lini-
ment and sometimes for coffee.
The liniment case led to ac-
quittal but Magistrate Glenn
Hays, QC, didn't accept the
coffee tele,
Thomas Curtis, 31, Port El-
gin, said he had heat liniment
on his chest and neck to cure
a severe cold Feb. 10 when he
drove a truck through Exeter.
Constable Lloyd Hodgins
charged him with impaired
driving after he noticed the
Vehicle weaving from side to
Youth pays $100 fine
over hit-run crash
WELCOME DREW
A welcome visitor to the
House thie week was the Hon.
George Drew, former prime
minister of Ontario and, until
recently, Canada's ambassador
in Great Britein, When he was
introduced to the house by
Prime Minister John Robarts,
he received a ternulteoue wel-
come from the members on all
sides.
The attorney general, the
Hon. F. M. Cass, introduced a
bill to licence, investigate and
inspect used car dealers inOn-
tario. Reputable dealers who
have been requeeting such le-
gislation, should welcome this
announcement as they have
nothing to fear from the, poWePP
contained therein,
One of the most illOpOrtaPt
announcements of the session
was the prime minister's state-
ment that no .change in the pre-
sent policy of prohibiting oil or
gas drilling in Lake Huron was
eontemplated by the Govern-
ment,
Regardless of the assurances
of interested oil exploration
firms that nothing could go
wrong to create oil pollution
of the Lake, the public must be
assured that no such chance can
be taken in a source of water'
which is ,so vital to the develop-
ment of the area.
phy, Goderich, suggested it was
"a human thing" for the officer
to suspect impaired driving of
anyone who weaves a little eith-
er in driving or walking. He
contended the officer had smell-
ed liniment and that the truck
had been swayed by the wind.
Crown Attorney W. G. Coch-
rane, QC, stated this type of
driving could not be explained
by wind or medicine.
Magistrate Hays noted Cur-
tis' reguler manner of walking
was somewhat ungainly in court
but added that to have liquor
in a truck was a "very, very
poor policy".
"This case is very close to
the line and I am uneasy about
it. However my judgment is
dismissal".
Orville Ford, 49, No. 83 high-
way, charged with having liquor
in his truck, said he thought the
bag on the seat beside him con-
tained a thermos of coffee, rath-
er than the whiskey which Con-
stable Hodgins found.
Magistrate Hays fined him
$25.00 and costs.
Blanshard telephone system's officers for1964
Ross Marshall, Kirkton, seated, has been elected chairman of the Blanshard Municipal Telephone
System for 1964. Beside him is Mrs. Marion Urquhart, secretary. Standing, from left, are Fred
Slater, Manager Jack Roundell, Norman Riddell, Ray Thiel and George Frayne, the new Usborne
representative. --T-A photo
Debate redistribution • • provisions
make if
Vetsqii le Vernors
EASTER MORE LIQUOR FINES
Gerald Broderick, 21, Exe-
ter, paid $35.00 and costs after
police found him throwing emp-
ty bottles out of his car window
in Stanley township. Betty Lou
Jesney, 16, Crediton, paid $10
for consuming under age.
Vernors is always a favorite around holiday time.
And, ever basted an Easter ham with Yernors?
Delicious, tangy Vernors gives ham a finger-lickin'
flavor that's indescribable. This Easter, delight
your family with a ham basted with Vernors
then sit back and Wait for the compliments.
Take home several six-packs of Vernors so
there's sure to be enough for the holidays!
As the budget debate and de-
partmental estimates continued
through the ninth week of the
session, the routine effairs of
the department of agricelture
have kept yoer local member
very busy.
The agricultural committee
of the house met Wednesday to
discuss amendments to certain
acts administered by the de-
partment.
Amendments to section 12 of
The Farm Products Marketing
Act will now permit, providing
extension of powers can be ob-
tained from the federal depart-
ment of agriculture, an associa-
tion of producers to deduct a
levy to finance their own pro-
motional and development pro-
grams from their own com-
modity producers. Before such
a program could be inaugurated,
the farm products marketing
board would have to determine
the support for such a project
and would be responsible for the
election of the directors in-
volved.
An amendment to The Plant
Diseases Act provides that a
municipality may submit a plan
to the minister of agriculture
to provide control measures for
designated plant diseases which
the municipality wishes to con-
trol within its borders such
as Dutch Elm Disease. The pro-
gram of control would, if ap-
proved, be carried out under
the direction and approval of
the provincial entomologist in
order that proper precautions
be taken not to damage or de-
An Exeter youth, whose law-
yer said he "panicked" because
it was his first offence, was
fined $125 Tuesday on charges
of hit-and-run and illegal pos-
session of liquor.
James Jones, 20, Gidley St.,
also lost his driving licence
for six months over the con-
victions which resulted from an
accident in Exeter Saturday.
Constable Lloyd Hodgins tes-
tified the car driven by Jones
collided with another vehicle
owned by John Quinn, Centralia,
just south of the bridge on No.
4. Damage totalled $440, most
of it to the car Jones was driv-
ing.
Jones took a bottle of liquor
from his car and hid it beside
a building before driving off
to his home, without giving help
to the other party.
Grand Bend garage worker, Dan
Goodenough, who repaired the
vehicle after the accident, said
there were flares under the
seat. PC William Glassford said
the truck was parked as close
to the snowbank as possible.
Defence counsel Peter Ray-
mond said Vanaistine did the
one and only thing possible in
the situation.
The magistrate found no evi-
dence to suggest that the driver
should have turned into a lane-
way before the truck was
brought to a halt. It was a
menace to traffic on the road
and the driver should have taken
precaution to put out flares or
leave someone to guard the
stalled truck. After weighing all
the evidence, he dismissed the
case.
FINED FOR NOISE
Leroy Gould, Exete r, was
fined $10.00 and costs, and
Bruce Nairn, Cromarty, $5.00
and costs, for making unneces-
sary noise with their cars in
separate incidents. Gould had
been convicted earlier of a
similar offence.
Ross Burns, RC AF Centralia,
paid $25 and costs for careless
driving which resulted in an
accident on No. 4 just south of
Exeter Feb. 18. Evidence sug-
gested he had been drinking.
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VAVAVOOM!
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Net operating loss of Ottawa's
agricultural stabilization board
was $72 million in the year end-
ed *March 31, 1963, compared
to a loss of $22 million for the
preceding year.
increased rate in 1963.
Delegations from both the
Canadian Federation of Agri-
culture and the Farmers Union
of Canada visited Parliament
since the new session opened.
They were the largest delega-
tions from these organizations
that have come to Ottawa during
my time here.
There were 3'7 representa-
tives from all parts of Canada
in the CFA group. I didn't get
a good count of the FU group
but it was almost as large.
Each group presented its
brief to the government and to
the various party caucuses sep-
arately. The listeners got a good
cross section of farm opinion.
BY W.H.A. (BILL) THOMAS
Middlesex West MP
Tuesday, the legislation pro-
viding for redistribution of the
electoral districts all across
Canada was introduced for de-
bate.
This legislation provides for
setting up in each province a
redistribution commission.
Each of these provincial com-
missions will consist of the
chief justice of the province;
one member recommended by
the prime minister; one mem-
ber recommended by the leader
of the official opposition, and
the representation commi s-
sioner for Canada, who also
serves as chief electoral of-
ficer for Canada. He is by virtue
of his position made a member
of each provincial commission
so that the procedures adopted
by the provincial commissions
may be as uniform as possible.
After each 10-year census,
the representation commi s-
sioner calculates the number
of members of the House of
Commons to be assigned to each
of the provinces as provided by
the most recent amendment to
the British North America Act.
This report is forwarded by the
representation commis-
sioner to each provincial com-
mission. It is then the duty of
each provincial commission to
prepare a report recommend-
ing how the province shall be
divided into electoral districts.
The provincial commissions
may hold meetings in various
places in their province to hear
any objections that the popula-
tion may have to the proposed
constituency boundaries.
In preparing their report,
provincial commissions will di-
vide the population of the pro-
vince by the number of seats
allotted to the province, and
each of these constituencies
shall have the same population,
except that the commission may
allow a tolerance of 20% either
above or below the electoral
quota for that province. This
provides for variations in popu-
lation to allow for density of
population, geographical con-
venience and other considera-
tions.
There are two or three items
in this legislation that may give
rise to considerable debate.
Some people feel that one na-
tional commission could look
after this work for the whole
country to better advantage than
ten pr ov incialcommissions.
The percentage of tolerance is
felt by some to be too little and
that 33 1/3% would be more
practical than the proposed 20%.
There may be some discus-
sion also as to whether all
these consultations should be
carried out on the present basis
of 265 Members in the House,
or whether membership in the
House should be increased to
283 or 286 Members, as has
been proposed by some author-
ities on the subject of repre-
sentation.
SETS CURFEW
Magistrate Glenn Hays, QC,
set a curfew for Brian Marriage
16, Sanders St., after the boy
was convicted of breaking into
the Canada Bread warehouse in
Exeter March 7.
Marriage was one of two boys
found in the warehouse by Con-
stable Harry Bergen with do-
nuts about 2 am. The other lad,
who appeared in juvenile court,
also was given a curfew.
Defence counsel Peter Ray-
mond said the offence was not
for personal gain but was more
of a nuisance prank,
In giving a suspended sen-
tence, Magistrate Hays said
"the youth of today should not
have to be provided with en-
tertainment at 2 a.m."
Marriage was ordered to re-
port to the county probation of-
ficer every two weeks and to be
in his residence by 10 p.m.
from Monday to Thursday and
by 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday
evenings. He also was ordered
not to attend any dances or fre-
quent pool rooms for a year.
The juvenile involved in the
same case was given a similar
sentence, except that his hours
to be home were set at 9:30
for weekdays and 10 p.m. on
weekends.
TAX RETURNS
We have received several
inquiries from people who are
working on their income tax
returns as to when the rate of
Old Age Security payments was
increased from $65 to $75 per
month. The answer is October
1. The amendment to the Act
was given royal assent on Octo-
ber 16 and payments were ret-
roactive to October 1. There
were three payments at the
Mrs. H. Rowcliffe
Usborne resident
Mrs. Hector Rowcliffe, '77,
of Usborne Township, died in
South Huron Hospital Friday,
March 20.
She was the former Laura
Hewitt, born in Farquhar. Her
family moved to Exeter over
50 years ago. Her father ran a
dairy business from the pro-
perty now occupied by G. Dow.
Following her marriage to
Hector Rowcliffe they farmed
in Usborne Township.
Surviving besides her hus-
band are one son, William, Us-
borne, and one daughter, Mrs.
Murray (Audrey) Scott, Exeter;
a sister, Mrs. Charles Godbolt,
Exeter, and five grandchildren.
A brother, Austin Hewitt, died
in Detroit in January.
Funeral services were held
Mrs. S. E. Lewis, teacher
at HSDHS and wife of the James
St. UC minister, is in South
Huron Hospital with a broken
vertebrae. She slipped and fell
heavily to the floor last week
near a classroom door*.
Edward Herm Usborne town-
ship, has purchased the home
of the late R. N. Creech at the
corner of Andrew and John
streets.
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A reader who wishes to re-
main unidentified this week
lauded the action of Henry
Greene, school patrolman and
game overseer, in rescuing a
frightened young dog from traf-
fic on Exeter's main street.
The small collie, standing com-
pletely confused in the middle
of the road, was enticed to the
sidewalk by Greene, who sub-
sequently put a collar and leash
on it and attempted to find the
owner.
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Four boys, Rovers and would-
be Rovers, plan to explore the
Ausable in two canoes next week
to qualify for tests in the senior
Boy Scout group. Rovers Greg
Harness and Bob Higgins,
Squires Bob McDonald and Ro-
bert Herrington, expect to
launch their canoes near the
cemetery Monday morning to
start a two-day paddle down
the winding stream,
* * * *
The T-A erred last week in
reporting the salary of Con-
stable Harry V. Bergen at $3,-
600. The constable recently re-
ceived an automatic $100 in-
crease, based on employment
contract,which brings his salary
to $3,300,
41aMatigimi„;
DISMISS CHARGE
A charge of interfering with
traffic against Clayton Vanal-
stine, 22, William St., resulting
from an accident Dec. 23 in
which a Grand Bend woman was
hospitalized, was dismissed by
the magistrate,
Vanaistine, driving a truck
owned by Sam Sweitzer, town,
pulled the vehicle to the side
of the road near Shipka when it
stalled because of mechanical
failure. The truck, sitting with-
out lights or flares to warn on-
coming traffic, was struck from
the rear by Miss Doreen Baker
of Grand Bend, who spent se-
veral weeks in hospital.
Vanaistine said he could find
no flares in the truck but a
from the Hopper-Hockey fu-
neral home, Exeter, conducted
by Rev. S. E. Lewis Monday,
March 23, with interment in
Exeter cemetery.
Pallbearers were Edgar Cud-
more, Russell Ferguson, Er-
nest Pym, Harold Cudmore,
Jos. Kernick and William Eth-
erington.
By MRS. G. HOOPER
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. G. Jones
and family were Sunday guests
of Mr. & Mrs. Bob Gover of
Thorndale.
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas McCor-
quodale and family of Stoney
Creek were Sunday guests of
Mr. & Mrs. Grant McCorquo-
dale.
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Thomson
and Mary Lou were Sunday
guests of Mr. & Mrs. George
Waltz of Zurich.
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Lang-
ford and Walter were Saturday
evening guests at the surprise
party for Mr.' & Mrs. Jim Mill-
er in honor of their 25th wed-
ding anniversary.
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Park-
inson and family were Sunday
guests of Mr. & Mrs. Leslie
Reath of London.
Mrs. J. Morgan and Ralph of
Guelph were Sunday guests of
Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Thacker,
all visited Sunday afternoon
with Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Hart-
wick of Ebenezer.
Miss Elizabeth Thacker spent
the weekend with her friend
Miss Carol Fowler of Kitchen-
er.
Mr, & Mrs. Leonard Thack-
er and family visited Saturday
evening with Mr. Fred Patti-
son of St. Marys.
Mr. & Mrs. Claire Sisson
attended the funeral of the
latter's aunt, Mrs. Lawrence
Petch of Chatham Monday.
Mr. & Mrs. Claire Sisson
attended the 25th anniversary
of Middlesex Federation of Ag-
riculture Saturday evening at
the Nordon Restaurant, London.
Mr, & Mrs. Fred Petch of
Strathroy, Mr. & Mrs. Claire
Sisson were Sunday guests of
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Greeley
and. Debbie of. London held in
honor of Mrs. Petch's birth-
day.
Mr. & Mrs. Claire Sisson
were last Sunday guests of Mrs.
Joseph Petch of Kerwood who
celebrated her 86th birthday.
Mr. & Mrs, Claire Sisson
attended the annual euchre of
Rebekah Lodge atleerwood Fri-
day evening.
By MRS. HAROLD DAVIS
HOLD AUCTION
The Ladies Guild and WA
met Thursday evening at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Paul.
Mrs. Clayton Smith presided
for the WA meeting assisted
by Mrs. Cecil Dobson and Mrs.
Alex Irvine. Mrs. Gerald Paul
gave a chapter of the study
book.
Mrs. Bill Schaefer presided
for the Guild meeting. Follow-
ing a business discussion, an
auction sale was held.
Lunch was served by Mrs.
Lloyd Smith, Mrs. Andre w
Knox, Mrs. H. Davis and hos-
tess.
Mr. & Mrs. John Simpson,
Rosemary and Paul, Mr. &
Mrs. Fred Roger were Sun-
day guests with Mr & Mrs.
Maurice Simpson of Clande-
boye.
Mr. & Mrs. Bill W a gho r n
visited Sunday with Mr. & Mrs.
Ted Brine and family Of the
Base Line,
Mr, & Mrs. Warren Schram
and family of London, Mr. Tom
Atthill of Kitchener visited Sun-
day with Mr. & Mrs. Dan Jar-
vis.
Mrs. Reuben Switzer of Strat-
ford visited Sunday with Mrs.
R. Humphreys at her grand-
daughter's, Mr. & Mrs. Carl
Mills.
CANADA1964
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Marking a half century of service Buy
To Hon. WM. A, Stewart, minister of agriculture, fell the honor of cutting the 50th anniversary
cake which was One of the highlights of the birthday banquet Marking the founding of Junior Fanner
Clubs in Ontario. The event took place at the Ontario Agricultural College. Assisting the minister Easter
it performing the traditional ceremony are: (left to right) John Elliott, Napahee, newly elected
president of the Junior Fariners'AsSociationOf Ontario; Mr, Stewartj Allen M. McNeill, Strathroy,
a member of the first elub in Middlesee Cotirityj Russell White; Carripbellciate member of the first Seals
Club in Durham County; and Gordon 'Murrayy Woodville, past president of the Junior Fanners'
ASsoCiatiort.
WI WINNERS
Mitten WI sponsored a One
greeeiVe euchre MMiday even-
ing' in Aberdeen Hall.
Prize winners were Ladles
high, Mrs. Roy Pepper; Wee
hands, Mrs. Junior Doupe;
men's high, Harry` Webber;
hands, Jini Wilson; liteky draw,
Tore Coward,