The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-04-09, Page 14•-•
IN HURON
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Page 14 Times-Advocate, April 9, 1964 Native of Hay
dies in Toronto Villa es i'n Ste rhen Request permit' HS addition.
for another .pool at $231,000 plan for .centennial
Three pelice villages in $ter
phen township discussed ceri
tenpial plans with the township
council TneSday afternoon.
Crediton is planning a 11-
brary, Dashwood a playgrOtInd,
picnic area and ,gatep at its
community centre and Centralia
hopes to renovate its public hall.
Preliminary clisOussions, on
the projects and distribution of
grants available were held with
council.
Representing the villages
were Lorne Preszcator and
Gerald Schenk, Crediton; Ervin
Rader, Cliff Salinee and Harold
Schroeder, Dashwood; Kenneth
Hodgins, Centralia.
Final plans will be made at
the May meeting.
Mrs. J. Gallienne, Toronto,
the fOriner Mrs. Charles (,1”"'
sie) Brown of the Bronson Line,
Hay Township, died Tuesday,
April 7,
Mr, Brown predeceased her
in 1945 and her son, Charles
Jr.
'
a noted athlete, died in
1945.
The :Liberal will be conducted
Friday April 10, at 1 PM at
the Exeter cemetery with Rev.
M. James of Dashwood officiat-
ing. T. Harry Hoffman funeral
service is in charge of arrange-!
ments.
leger and boards revealed only
one deficit, a minor loss of
$142 on the community centre
at Crediton,, Snrpinses of eth-
ers were reported at; Centralia
$590; Crediton,, $200; EashWPed
$600; school area board, $52;
Mt. Carmel SS, $7,700; SS. 11,
$739; Dashwood hydp, Moog.
JOINS AREA
Last holdout from the town-
ship school area, SS 11 Black-
bush, submitted its application
Tuesday to provide for incor-
poration Jan. 1, 1965.
The move is in line with cur-
rent provincial legislation
creating municipal school
operations.
This is also expected to ex-
pedite centralization of school
facilities in Stephen.
PURCHASES
Council purchased tile for the
Schwartz extension municipal
drain from Martin Tile Yard,
Parkhill, for $1171; 1964 supply
of weed and brush kill from
Braid's General Store, Dash-
wood, at $4.79 for weed spray
and $8.80 for brush kill, and
awarded liquid calcium con-
tract to Lee Jennisen, Grand
Bend, fel' $47.50 per flaked
ton applied to roads; all the
result of tender comparisons.
Council did not have time to
consider an appeal from Ted
Pooley and Melvin Gaiser, Ex-
eter, for a grant to the Exeter
and district swimming pool
campaign. This will be con-
sidered at a special meeting
planned for the near future.
BOARD HS
Continne4 from :root Page
Granted use of the gymnasium
without charge to the recreation.
committee for the gxeter
square dancing club on condi-
tion that the committee makes
PatiSfaotqry arranKPMents for
janitorial services,;
Learned of a $100 bequest
for library purposes item Sara.
Evelyn Howard, Toronto,
daughter of the late G. S. How-,
ard, (a similar bequest of $100
was made to the public school
library);
Heard. Inspector D. W. Scott's
annual report which described
last year's grade 13 results as
excellent,?; organization
"very good", last year's grade
9-12 promotions uhigher than
one would expect",noted the
continuing high ratio of pupils
to teachers despite the sending
of vocational students to Clin-
ton, and recommended secre-
tarial help for the library;
Heard brief comments from
Garnet Hicks regarding the
smoking and absentee problem
at Clinton (he said absenteeism
among South Huron students was
much lower than among those
from Goderich, which have a
"terrible" record);
cnnnOil reenive4 application
for a, SeCend swimming p991
Monday night.
This one's, a private pool,
indoors,
A building permit application
from. Yeri, owner of Exeter
Produce and Storage Ltd., calls
for a $55,600 hemp, including
the pool, in Dow subdivision,
Plans for Veri"s home and
that of Dobson Roofing, also
in the pow subdivision, and
another from Bruce Tuckey fer
John St. east, were referred to
the PUP for service connec,
tionS.
Permits were granted to Can-
adian Canners Ltd, for aweigh
scale; Ron Caldwell, for an auto
repair shop on the west side of
Main, north of No. 83; A. 0.
Elliot, garage and st orage
building behind his store on
Main; Ned Armstrong,Sanders,
garage.
Clinton cook to perform at hobby show
Sergeant Gordon Dawkins, a cook-instructor from School of Food Services, RCAF Station Clinton,
will be one of the exhibitors at Caven Circle's Hobby Horse Fair, April 1'7 and 18 in the Legion
Hall here. But do not expect "Gerd" to put on a show of his culinary powers, for although he is
an excellent cook, he will be displaying his hobby, needle point and petit point. Television fans
may remember his appearance on the CTV network Show "To Tell the Truth". He has also ap-
peared on London, Kitchener and Wingham TV Stations. His artistic endeavours have won I f ir st
at the Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa. His needlepoint reproduction of Warner Sallman's "Head
of Christ" was chosen by the Honourable Roland Mitchener for the "Quiet Room" of the Parliament
building, Ottawa. Sgt. Dawkins will give exhibitions of his technique at the Exeter Hobby Show. He is
proud of the fact that he has become an expert in a field that is generally dominated by the fair sex.
The ladies of the town are welcome to compare notes.
ADOPT REPORT
Auditor's report, adopted by
council, showed a $3,000 deficit
on 1963 operations but this will
scarcely dent the townSIIIP'sfi-
nancial reserves. Stephen has a
comfortable accumulated sur-
plus of $70,000.
The report showed an in-
crease in total education cost
of from $75,500 to $81,000.
Results of operations of vil-
Town cleaner
self-employed
Seniors hear
area talent
'60 VAUXHALL SEDAN
Snow tires, good condition
'58 FORD FAIRLANE DELUXE
SEDAN, like' new, fully
equipped.
Lively se
debates
,At a Special meeting Thurs-
day night, HSDHS board author-
ized architects to prepare
working drawings for a modi-
fied addition POIro?tect. at
$231,000.
The boerd chopped storage
space and furnishing costs froin
the original proposal to reduce
estimates from $270,000, which
was ,well above the $225,060
figure approved by municipali-
ties for the debenture.
Also cut were plans for pur-
chasing new kitchen equipment
fer the cafeteria.
Marvin Boyce, represeated
arch! t'e c t s page and Steele,
tabled sketch plans for an a.d.
ditto:mai three classrooms.
The plans call for four class-
rooms, a second shop and a
cafeteria addition. Sketches
presented to the board showed
how future shops, could be add-
ed to provide for a limited "VQ-
oati.onal school.
Three clasprooms and a
science room will be erected
on the second floor at the east
end, requiring a new stairwell.
Position of the shop on the
north side was changed from an
earlier plan to permit enlarge-
ment of the existing manual
training room.
Cafeteria will be extended on
the north side so that it can
serve also as a team teaching
room. Additions will be made
to the boiler house and the
kitchen.
The plans presented to the
board by Page and Steele pro-
vided for more storage space
at the east end but this was de-
leted because of cost.
Revised estimates were:
"Building, $200,000; archi-
tects' fees, $12,500; furnish-
ings (cut in half), $13,000; ca-
feteria kitchen area, $5,500, for
a total of $231,000.
Charge local man
over hit and run
A charge of failing to report
an accident has been laid
against James M. Elliott, 21,
John St., following a $900 rear-
end collision on No. 84 highway
Saturday.
David Ingram, 30, RR 2 Hen-
sall, was struck in the rear as
he was travelling west of Hen-
sail. OPP here say the other car
was owned by Elliott.
Nelson Schenk, '74, Crediton,
faces a failing to yield charge
resulting from an accident Fri-
day at the intersection of the
second concession, Stephen, and
the 15th sideroad.
Police said a car driven by
Charles J. Wallace, 34, Zurich,
suffered $150 when it took tone
ditch to avoid collision at the
intersection.
Balk at account ssion at Bend
DST, recreation
'56 PLYMOUTH, Station Wagon
tudor
'56 STUDEBAKER SEDAN V-8
'56 FORD SEDAN
'55 BUICK SEDAN, excellent
over drain woe
South End
Service
Viscount group
debuts in Arkona
"The Viscounts" comprising
five youth, who trained under
James Ford, London, in the
Junior Band, made their debut
Saturday night at a teen town
evening in Arkona.
The quintet includes Douglas
and Philip Huntley, clarinet and
saxophone; Alfred Aquiline., ac-
cordion; Roman Orenc h u k,
drums and accordion, and Bob
Forrest, Hensall, trumpet.
PHONE 235-2322
EXETER
Town council considers its
local street cleaner, Edgar
Mawhinney, "self - employed".
Officials learned no one has
given his permission to start
sweeping the streets, nor does
he operate under the super-
vision of either council or works
dept,
Council nevertheless paid his
$130 time sheet for wages, not
without complaints, but insisted
he'd "have to be put straight".
Wooden objected to the con-
dition of main street, suggest-
ing it should be given a thorough
cleaning several times a year.
"It's a filthy, filthy street".
In other business:
Discussed with E. D. Bell,
QC, and Gilbert Dow, the pos-
sibility of granting permits in
the new subdivision before of-
ficial approval is received from
the province;
Learned from Works Sup't
Paisley that the horticultural
society has 109 members and
has been officially recognized
by the dep't of agriculture, Torl.
onto;
'60 RENAULT, sedan
The committee again ex-
pressed its intention to go on
with the work with softball and
hockey teams for the young
people of Grand Bend and area.
Both Reeve Webb, and Coun-
cillors Wassmann and Coles
commented favorably upon the
sports awards night banquet
which the committee held re-
cently.
The committee had come
under some criticism from the
council at a previous meeting.
In explanation, C ouncillo r
Wassmann pointed out that after
Mr. Mathers presented a pro-
posed budget to council inJanu-
ary asking for more money,
they expected the group to come
back again at a later meeting,
and were surprised when they
had not come.
Wassmann noted that he would
like the committee to carry on
with the lifeguard work, since
he had no complaint with how
this job was done.
Councillor Coles stated that
the work of the committee is
needed in the village. He felt
that the type of personnel was
important and that they had to
be prepared to act as both po-
By MRS. I.. PRESZCATOR
FINISHING BLOUSES
Thursday afternoon April 2,
the Crediton Fashionettes held
their sixth meeting with an at-
tendance of six.
Miss Damude, Huron home
economist, attended. Notes
were taken on finishing the
blouse and setting in the
sleeves.
The next meeting will be held
Saturday, April 18, at 1:15 pm.
Council meetings usually end
with accounts. Monday night's
opened with one, and it shook
the town fathers,
Robert Luxton, William St.,
submitted bills for drain and
furnace repairs totalling
$140.50.
He claimed his outlet had
been severed during sewer in-
stallations,
Council referred it to works
sup't for study.
Council accepted another bill,
resulting from sewer work, for
car towing. One vehicle was
stranded in a sunken section
and had to be towed out. The
charge will be relayed to Gaff-
ney Construction Co., the con-
tractors.
Another complaint about
damage was more quickly dis-
posed of. It came from George
Rether Jr., Pryde Boulevard,
who insisted his basement was
deluged by water from the snow-
pile at community park.
Council insists the r u no f f
went to the river at the north.
A varied program f e atur e d
the meeting of Senior Citizens
Club Tuesday evening in the Le-
gion Hall.
Included were duets by Cathy
Rowe and Gail Shipman accom-
panied by Mrs. Andrew Dougall;
Mrs. Roy Dykeman and Judy
Lamport, both of Crediton, ac-
companied by Mrs. Frank King;
mandolin selections by Tom
Walker and Hilton Ford; read-
ings by Dianne Miller and Mrs.
Flossie Stade; solos by Judy
Lampert; piano solos by Mrs.
Dykeman and Dianne Miller;
A quartet of Jim Neil, Judy
Lampert, Steve Brierly and
Mrs. Dykeman accompanied by
the latter; tap dancing by Vicky
Miller and Ricky Hayter; duets
by Jim Neil and Steve Brierly
accompanied by accordion and
guitar with interludes of comic
dialogue. Hilton Ford was
chairman.
Caven Congregational Circle
served lunch. Music was pro-
vided for the dance by Mr. and
Mrs. William Marshall and Don
McCurdy.
Committee to arrange the
May program will be Walter
Cutbush, Mrs. Laura Harvey,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Scott, Mr.
and Mrs. William Wright, Mrs.
Verda Taylor and Mrs. Frank.
King.
GB WATER PROBLEM
licemen and diplomats. He said
he did not think the council had
given the committee e nough
support, and was remiss in not
giving the committee the bud-
get asked for.
Mathers had presented a bud-
get asking for $3,500 to operate
the beach program. Though no
refusal as such was given, a
proposed budget for the village
now under consideration, at
present only allows $2,000 for
the beach program.
Councillor Webb pointed out
that in 1962 the beach program
had been operated at a cost of
$1,500, They had increased this
to $2,000 for the committee in
1963, and he recalled that Mr.
Coles had promised to get more
money to help.
Coles stated he had put in$25
of his own money, "We could
have gotten more for this pro-
gram if we'd had the support
of council."
An amicable discussion be-
tween the recreation committee
and council failed to persuade
the committee to continue with
the life guard supervision and
beach program.
The committee reported that
there had been complaints and
requests for another lifeguard
stand at the north end of the
beach area. Councillor E. Des-
jardine asked if they could not
reduce the area which was pa-
trolled, and thus do the job
adequately with the same size
of lifeguard force as before.
Clayt Mathers suggested the
need for one man, a recreation
director of some sort, who was
mature, and able to supervise
the work on a full time basis.
He said, "Let's make recrea-
tion another attraction at Grand
Bend."
PERSONALS
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Short of
Collingwood visited on the
weekend with Mrs. M. Havi-
land.
David Eaton of Burlington
called Sunday on Mr. & Mrs.
Sam King.
Ricky Gaiser of Dashwood
spent a few days last week with
his grandparents, Mr. & Mrs.
Lloyd Gaiser.
Dr. Carl Morlock of Rochest-
er, Minnesota, is spending a
few days with Ed. Morlock and
Ella and also with Mrs. Mor-
lock, who is a patient at Vic-
toria Hospital.
Mrs. Mary Feist returned
home after spending a week
with Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Feist
and family in Kitchener.
Miss Marlene King is prac-
tise teaching this week with
Mrs. Ada MacDonald at Khiva.
Mrs. Harry Beaver is a pa-
tient at South Huron Hospital.
Mr. Wm. Gaiser is again con-
fined to his bed.
Scott and Lynn Morlock of
Waterloo spent a few days last
week with their grandparents,
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Morlock.
Bright's Grove, and Ben Bald-
win, London, 'for their offer in
writing concerning a supply of
water to the village through a
privately owned system. In this
case the village would be saved
the installation of the $200,000
lake intake pipe, and the capital
cost of the work would be re-
duced considerably. A reply
from Mr. Baldwin for Stirrat
and Associates was read to
council Monday night.
The offer is for up to 750,000
gallons a day at 30 cents per
thousand gallons, with the vil-
lage offered ownership of the
supply system at any time they
wished for $40,000 less three
cents per thousand gallons used
up at the time of purchase.
To get complete details of
the system in a form to sub-
mit to the Ontario Water Re-
sources Commission, would,
said Baldwin's letter, cost in the
neighbourhood of $1,500, which
they would expect the village to
pay if it did not sign a contract
for this system.
YP SEE FILM
The meeting of the Crediton
EUB Young People was held
April 6 with Marina Conghtrey
in charge of the worship.
Catol Hendrick conducted the
business and a film strip call-
ed uGotoci NeWs in India" con-
cluded the meeting.
Hensall April 27
GRAND BEND
It was a free-wheeling ses-
sion of Grand Bend village coun-
cil Monday night which lasted
four and one-half hours, and
dealt with recreation, health,
police, a centennial project,
water, daylight saving time,
another rest room on the beach
and some other problems as
well.
A letter from the senior room
of the Grand BendPublic School
was the only one received in
answer to requests for sug-
gestions for a centennial pro-
ject. Principal W. McNaughton
suggested, on behalf of his
class, some kind of recreation
area with picnic tables avail-
able to the public.
Daylight saving time will ex-
tend from April 26 to October
25. These times coincide with
Exeter and Forest, where Grand
Bend students attend high
schools.
In favor of remaining on stan-
dard time,Councillor Ian Coles
said a goo many people coming
to the village for the weekend
from London would have time
for the evening meal and shop-
ping.
He estimated the extra hour
over nine weeks could mean
about 63 hours more revenue
to business men in the village.
At an estimated revenue of
$25 an hour, this would mean
$1,500. "Of course" said Mr.
Coles "these are just figures
based on a guess, and maybe
$25 an hour is not anywhere
close to the right figure. But in
any case the result is impres-
sive."
He also noted the convenience
to American tourists, who now
leave Michigan on standard time
to arrive on DST and thus lose
an hour.
Reeve Stewart Webb said the
village tried this idea for about
ten days seven years ago. The
confusion persuaded the village
to return to DST almost im-
mediately.
Councillor 0. Wassmann felt
he would like to see standard
time tried again. Both Coun-
cillors Howard Green and E.
Desjardine voted in favour of
going to DST and Reeve Webb
declared the motion passed.
At this point an exchange
broke out between Coles and the
reeve. When Coles tried to say
something more on the subject,
Reeve Webb told him he blabbed
all the time !Or nothing.
Coles said that he didn't blab
for nothing.
Webb said, "You do blab for
nothing. And when it's all over
there's nothing to it."
Coles said, "That's because
we talk to deal ears. You won't
listen. And you, Mr. Reeve,
have a lot to learn,"
SAME OPP COST
Arrangements were complet-
ed for the contract with the On-
tario Provincial Police for the
policing of the village during the
summer, at the same cost as
last year.
A comparison of costs pre-
sented by Clerk DesJardins on
the cost of propane, compared
with coal and wood used inpre-
vious years to heat the village
hall, showed a saving of about
$,40 this year.
RECREATION
Clayton Mothers headed the
recreation committee apProach
to council to consider further
the move to turn operation Of
the life-guard force and beach
superVision back to council's
hands, HS students view NYC
— Continued from front page
obtained prices for the system.
He said, "Last fall the Bet Con-
struction Ltd. had a trench dug
the length of the village. It would
not have been expensive to lay
the water mains at that time."
Delays in planning for the
water system have been notice-
able in many ways. To date
'three engineering firms have
been employed (one of them on
two different occasions) to draw
up plans for the system.
Graham Reid and Associates,
Toronto, prepared the first plan
about six years ago. They ad-
vocated a water supply from the
lake by a system of wells lo-
cated on the beach about 2 miles
south of the river mouth. Cost
was about $300,000.
Last year, prices presented
by the second engineer, M. M.
Dillon and Company Ltd. Lon-
don, were increased to $600,000
and included a lake intake supply
system.
Feeling these prices were too
high, and at the advice of the
citizens' water committee,
council thcn dismissed Dillon
and re-hired the Graham Reid
firm at the cost of $500 to do
a preliminary survey in order
to get the work done under
Highways 81 and 21 before the
paving was done this spring.
Agair. Reid suggested a sup-
ply system from two miles south
along the lakeshore, and pre-
sented four typed sheets of sug-
gestions, which more or leas
paralleled his earlier propo-
sals. Early in March no repre-
sentative of Reid had been in the
Village, so the council advised
him that he was no longer re-
quired, and proceeded to hire
engineering firm number three;
William Ayearst, London.
On receipt of this advice,
Reid wrote to Council advising
that he had taken senior men off
other work to do the village sur-,
vey, and that his requirement
of pay would be on the approved
scale for engineers. In other
words 70% of '7,5% of $40,060,
or $2,100, plus the $500 the
council felt they had arranged
to pay. (The $40,000 figure is
the estimated cost of laying
mains and laterals.)
There haS been some cenfus-
ion at offices of the department
of highways over which engineer
actually had the authority to
speak for the village.
At the same time council had
I nqUired of Grant Stirrat, see page 9)
By MRS. ARCHIE DEWAR
Mr. & Mrs. Fred Parkinson
and family were Monday guests
of Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Hero of
West Zion.
Mrs. Rose Lemiux of Capreol
has returned home after spend-
ing the week with her sister,
Mrs. Fred Parkinson and fa-
mily.
Mr. & Mrs. Denzil Facy and
Walter were guests of their
daughter, Mr. & Mrs. Austin
Timms Sunday when they cele-
brated their 45th wedding an-
niver sary.
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Spence, Da-
vid and Susan were guests of
her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Nor-
man Brock and Bill of West
Z ion.
Mrs. Scriven Ross and Blair
of Rochester, N.Y. spent the
week with her sister, Mrs. Nel-
son Baker and family.
Mr. & Mrs. Art Thompson of
Parkhill were guests with Mr.
& Mrs. D. Holland and Ed
Thursday,
Mrs. Oliver Baker visited
with her father, Herb Beer of
Munro, who has returned from
Stratford Hospital after spend-
ing several weeks there.
Mr, & Mrs. S. Marriott, Ron
and Maryanne, St, Marys, were
guests with their parents, Mr.
& Mrs. Archie Dewar, Sunday.
SEE PICS OF HOLYLAND
Cooper's UCW held a pot
luck supper for the members
and their families when 60, in
all, sat down to the meal.
After a short service was
held and a solo by Mrs. Wm.
Spence, Dr. H. H. Cowen of
Exeter showed his pictures of
the Holyland which were lovely
and much enjoyed by
PERSONALS
Janice and Laurie Elston of
London spent a couple of days
With their grandparents, Mr. &
Mrs, Robert Elston and family
last week.
MY, & Mrs. Alfred Baker at-
tended the funeral of the late
Charles Miller of Elora Mon-
day.
FOOD INSPECTION
Coles reported on a "health"
meeting he had held in the vil-
lage hall Sunday night, with nine
people attending who were in-
volved in food preparation and
sale in the village. Dr. Fred
Boyes, Parkhill, the medical
health officer of Grand Bend,
read the public health act to
those assembled.
"perhaps the most we ac-
complished," said Mr. Coles,
"was to get across the fact that
we were not responsible for
the terms of the Public Health
Act, but that we had the re-
sponsibility to enforce it."
He said he expected full co-
operation by all food outlets.
He noted that some investiga-
tion of an electrical device to
control flies Was to be made,
and that dishwashing inspection
would be stricter. He noted that
any establishment with 15 seats
or more must have toilet fa-
cilities and this would be en-
forded in 1964.
William Rendle, the building
and health inSpector, had asked
to be furnished with a letter
giving his authoritY in asking
for changes to be made.
Councillor E. Desjardine
asked that serious thought be
given to putting some sort of
restroom on the south beach.
Councillor Ian Coles aSked
for a meeting to go over the
proposed budget with the clerk,
and also a review of the by-
laws which could affect the bud=
get,
He also expressed hope for a
ange in building by-laws so
that control oVer major inside
structural changek could be had,
and suggested the setting Up Of
Sinking finida for big projects,
such as water, sewerage, eta,
HURON UNIT
Canadian. Cancer Society.