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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-04-16, Page 1C ,of .urges action at GO .NnqtylecoriA Year EXETER, ,ONTARIO, APRII, 16, WO Price Per Copy 1.9. cents ip into surplus funds for ma for works. GRAND BEND Chamber of „Commerce rectors ,and executive members will attend grand peed, council. meeting Monday night 'to urge irrirnediate action teward getting municipal .water system in the 'village, President C. W, Brittaln, UC minister, told the directors" Meeting Monday night the lack of water supply was net only financial ,issue hut also amoral one. Sixteen of 18 directors and executive members gave unapt, mons approval to a statement en the lack of water for presen, tation to council. It included references to the drop in water table throughout Western Ontario and to the money already spent by council I t. - on engineering for water. The chamber officials believe an adequate water system is needed to retain and puprove the tourist business and develop potential industry, N TAX LEVY WON'T RISE First fatality for a year Police prepare charges, no inquest in fatality here The driver who died Wed., April 8, after the wheels of his truck ran over him north of Hensall, was the first fa- tality reported by OPP here in approximately a year. George A. Cole, 46, Wood- stock, driving a 3-ton Ford van for poultry farmer Sheldon Wein of RR 3 Woodstock, died instantly of a fractured spine and crushed chest cavity. The empty poultry truck, northbound, went off the side of the road about two miles north of Hensall and hit a hydro pole. The pole damaged the left side of the cab, causing the door to spring open and the driver fell out. As the vehicle came to rest against a fence, its rear wheels passed over the driver. Cole was taken to Stratford hospital by Hoffman Ambulance after he was treated by Dr. John Goddard, Hensall. PC Wil- liam Glassford investigated. SHH in the station wagon of Douglas Gould, who lives near- by. He died a few hours later the same morning. Repercussions continue from what's believed to be the town's most violent crash, a fatal one for a 23-year-old town public works employee. Donald M. MacDonald; whose body was found across the side- walk after two cars rammed each other at the intersection of William and Victoria early Sunday morning, will be buried this afternoon (Thursday) in E x- eter cemetery. Mrs. Gerald Broderick, 18, was transferred to London hos- pital Monday for skin grafting to her scalp, from which a three-Inch portion was torn. And police are preparing charges which will eliminate need for an inquest into the fa- tality, first this year in the town. Number and nature of the charges will not be determined until the weekend, when much of the investigation will be com- plete. Constable Harry V. Ber- gen, in charge of the case, in- dicated he will be questioning witnesses and gathering evi- dence at least until the end of the week. The body of MacDonald, who died from extensive head and internal injuries, was released Tuesday following a post mor- tem by a pathologist at Strat- ford. Monday, Constable Ber- gen took materials to the OPP crime lab in Toronto for analy- sis tests. Roughly $500 was cut from a number of budgets, including the community centres board (from $2,000 to $1,500), tree trimming ($2,280 to $1,500) sidewalks ($3,500 to $3,000), industrial development corporation ($1,- 000 to $500). The $18,000 accumulated fund for sewerage extensions will be almost completely wiped out by this year's projects. Future extensions will have to be fin- anced from prepayments, until another major debenture issue can be undertaken. INCREASES, TOO But council couldn't pare all the estimates. A number of increases are provided for, in- cluding: An additional $1,000 in salary and allowance for Clerk C. V. Pickard, who explained that the sewer work requires additional office help, (His salary and allowance now totals $6,900, from which he provides office space, secretarial services and other accommodation. In con- nection with his personal insur- ance and real estate office); An extra $900 for the library plus $1,000 in a special set- aside for the proposed renova- tion (library representative Joe Wooden described this amount as "rock-bottom minimum"); An increase from $1,000 to $2,000 for the cemetery board; Other hikes: $400 in street lighting, $500 for employee pen- sions, $1,600 for group insur- ance, sickness and accident;, $600 for the Ausable authority (to a total of $3,330), $500 for equipment repairs, $1,200 in public works administration (total $5,800), $800 for welfare (total $10,000), $400 for rec- reation (total $4,200), $500 for parks (total $3,000). Mayor Simmons explained the parks allotment actually rep- resented a decrease, since $1,500 of the $3,000 estimate will be set aside for the cen- tennial project. The town must supply roughly $3,000 to qualify for the maximum provincial and federal grants of $3,000 each. This lowers the parks main- tenance budget from $2,400 to $1,500. DASHWOOD, CENTRALIA FIRE BRIGADES FILL TANKS AT RIVER TO Rev. John Co Boyne of Caven Presbyterian Church. Works Sup't Jim Paisley said Wednesday the rest of the town employees will attend the ser- vice In a body. Surviving besides the vic- tim's parents, are six sisters and three brothers — Mrs. J. K. (Winona) McLeod, Greenwood, NS: Mrs. Donald (F lorenc e) Mitton, Thorndale; Mrs. M. J. (Laureen) Eagleson, Chicouti- - Please turn to back page FIGHT PINERY BLAZE ON TOWN CREW A member of the town works crew who assisted in garbage collection, MacDonald is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mac- Donald, Edward St. His funeral will be conducted Thursday in the Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home, William St., by Owners praise fighters of threatening 'wildfire' park crews tackled the blaze with shovels and brooms. After the alarm came from the Kiondyke co-op about 12:10, firefighters from Grand Bend, Dashwood, Forest, T he df o r d and RCAF Station C e n t r al i a moved into the scene. In addition, some 50 person- nel from RCAF Station Cen- tralia, another 100 from Camp Ipperwash, dep't of highway and FIRST OF MANY It was the first of a rash of blazes to which Grand Bend brigades rushed. They were called back to Grand Bend to put out a barn blaze which caused $1,000 damage to the dry clean- ing plant beside it on No. 21, north of the main intersection. They also: Put out a straw stack blaze that threatened Alex Hamilton's dairy around the same time. Referred to Thedford dep't a blaze at the 10-mile bridge which officials believe was set; Extinguished a leaf fire near the Gerald Zwicker home in Oakwood Wednesday. Fan's punch costs $115.00 Expect hike in noise fine Magistrate Glenn Hays, QC, issued a warning Tuesday that fines will be increased for un- necessary noise from cars. He referred to legislation being introduced at Queen' s Park which will stiffen penal- ties. "Very shortly", he told a driver in court Tuesday, "there will be a much higher penalty for this sort of thing". Convicted of unnecessary noise were Douglas Upshall, 18, RR 2 Kippen, who squealed his tires in a takeaway from the Hensall intersection on No. 4, and John Brock, 19, Crediton, who was picked up for a noisy muffler in Exeter. Both charges were laid by PC William Glass- ford. The magistrate fined both men $6.50 including costs. To Brock, he said: "The very reason we have mufflers on cars is to cut down on the noise. See that you get a proper muffler on that car or it will be a long walk back to the farm". Safety citations to two men here Safe driver awards were pre- sented to two Exeter employees of the Bell Telephone Co. of Canada at a banquet held in London on April 7. The awards are sponsored by the Ontario Safety League and represent one or more years of accident free driving. The recipients included C. Dalgliesh, Clinton, 10 years; D. McIver, Exeter, 8; Bo Broad- foot, Clinton, 8; R. Paterson, Clinton, '7; R. McFalls, Exeter, 7; G. Chesney, Seaforth, R. Johnston, Clinton, 1. `home , A Strathroy Rockets hockey fan paid $115.50 in magistrate's court here Tuesday for break- ing the jaw of a Hensall-Zurich Combines supporter during a Saturday night playoff game in Hensall arena. Phillip James, 23, Strathroy, first pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with injury, then changed his mind after hearing evidence. Following a Hensall goal in the third period, James slugged Gordon Smith of Hensall in the face, after molesting him pre- viously. Smith was unaware the blow was coming, although a friend nearby, Peter Bedard, saw James cock his fist and tried to warn Smith. "This is a terrible exhibi- tion," said Magistrate Glenn Hays, QC. "Is this due to liquor or some form of insanity? It's after scrapes with law no small matter that you get so dwollnclqoaveetr thha kweaV, e cent people Town council Monday night set the 1964 levy at roughly the same level as 1963. Residential levy will remain at 83.7 mills. Commercial and industrial rate is 91.8, just slightly higher than last year's. The levy, along with the cush- ' ion of last year's $32,000 sur- plus and several reserve funds set up in recent years, will permit the town to; Absorb the one mill high school hike; Raise $12,000 of the first sewerage payment out of tax funds; Pay the $12,000 town share of the $60,000 Main St. storm sewer; Install the Sanders-Andrew sanitary line and several other one-block sewer extensions; Start its after-services pav- ing program, on William St.; Make its $5,000 grant to the district swimming pool and al- low $1,500 for its operation this year; Provide an initial $1500 to- ward a $9,000 centennial park project. PROUD OF IT Mayor Simmons was happy. "We've kept our promise to the ratepayers. We said we wouldn't raise the mill rate when the first sewerage pay- ments came due this year and we haven't, despite the fact we've had to absorb increases from the high school." Councillor Wright: "I think we can be proud of ourselves." But the mayor warned: "As far as this year is concerned, council should realize we can't promise anything outside of the budget. We've cut it everyplace we can." He urged, however, that works committees make plans this year for next year's work. The drains committee he said should investigate drain and sewer programs this summer and fall to have plans ready early for next year. "We should be prepared to take advantage of winter works subsidy next year in the event of a mild winter." He also felt next year's road plans should be made in ad- vance. Members agreed, including drains chairman Wooden and roads chairman Bailey, who serve on the same committees with the intention of co- ordinating the program. "We should work hand-in- hand, as we've done this year," said Wooden, referring to the two public works committees. "And with the PUC, too," added Wright. PARE ESTIMATES To meet its promise to main- tain last year's rate, council pared in several places: The roads budget of $24,000 will be met by taking $6,000 from the reserve fund set up two years ago for paving. This cuts actual out-of-levy cost to $18,000 from $22,000 last year. Some $3,000 will be taken from the reserve fund for drains to cut the current year cost of the Main St. storm sewer from $12,000 to $9,000, for the town's share. START DOUBTFUL Although most observers felt the blaze started from the vil- lage dump near the Pinery, Fire Chief Lawrence Mason wasn't sure. "We were looking at the dump this (Wednesday) morn- ing," he said, "and there was a 150-foot strip all around it which hadn't been touched by fi2e". "I couldn't say the dump is a hazard. There's enough clear- ed area around it to protect the Pinery, although it could be made wider. But nothing would have stopped that blaze yester- day". Park Sup't Gar Myers didn't — Please turn to back page Resident s south of Grand Bend, relieved from the threat of Tuesday's wildfire in the Pinery, expressed "t er r if ic thanks" to the 200-odd men who squelched the raging ground blaze. Speaking for the Beach 0' Pines Association, Mrs. John Aselstine said summer homes in that area could have been wiped out by the fire. "The wind and those people who rushed to fight the fire saved us," she said. The ground blaze swept over 400 acres in the Pinery, flames as high as 12 feet and travelling faster than men could run. The fire reached Beach 0' Pines but didn't get down to the cottage area. But it did threaten a number of houses on the west side of the Bluewater. Firefighters stopped the blaze along the road to the Jennison gravel pit, after it had travelled from the village dump, a distance of about four miles. Six brigades soaked the underbrush before fire reached the road. That and the wide river, stopped the spread. One of top ten race drivers Dutch Count de Beaufort 'sits out' meet here THREE THROWN Three of the four people in- volved in the crash were thrown from their vehicles before the cars came to rest after the right-angle impact of front wheels. Gerald Broderick, 21, driver of the car in which his wife was riding, was found on the should- er of William St., between the car on the sidewalk and the edge of the road. He was released from South Huron Hospital after being treated for lacerations to his scalp and hand and head in- juries. Harvey Stringer, 27, RR 2 Hensall, was thrown behind bushes at the side of the resi- dence of G. A. Cann, near his Austin-Healey sports car which came to rest on the sidewalk. He was released from hospital the same day after treatment for multiple lacerations to his face, legs and back. MacDonald, who was with Stringer, was found lying across the sidewalk, southeast of the Stringer sports car and closer to the Broderick vehicle on the other street. Mrs. Broderick was trapped inside her husband's car, on the passenger side. Crow bars and axes were used to open the door to release her. Beer case goes Count de Beaufort was follow- ing close behind van Trips when the latter went into his fatal spin, Did it bother Beaufort? "You can't think about it when you're in a race. You have to concentrate so hard on your driving you have no time to think about accidents". Life insurance? Count de "If I'd gone over, well . . ." He didn't need to finish the sentence because he'd describ- ed earlier the accident in which Count Von Trips, former int"1 champion, was killed at Monza, Italy, in a battle for the world title. Pour other drivers were involved in von Trips' crash, but none of the others was hurt. European nobility—in the form of a world-renowed racing driver and the wife of an Ar- gentinian cattle rancher— visited Exeter over the week- end. They were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Fritz, who met the family while tour- ing Europe in 1955. Count de Beaufort, big blond- haired owner of a 3,000-acre estate in Holland, is one of the ten top racing drivers in the world. He came directly here from the meet atSebring, Flor- ida. His sister, Joan A. van Lim- burg Stirrn, helps her husband run a 3,000-acre Holstein ranch in "San Pedro". Their nobility is in title, cer- tainly not in aloofness. Friendly and engaging, the brother and sister were right at home in this community, visiting some local farms and other enter- prises in which they were in- terested. The count had been disap- pointed at Sebring because his new prototype Porsche didn't arrive in time for the race. He cancelled his entry in a race at Beaufort doesn't carry any be- cause, he explains, it's an all- or-nothing risk. "If you have an accident, it's either a minor in- jury or the end. Very few driv- ers receive permanent injuries froin racing", His inherited estate in Hol- land contains 3,000 acres from — Please turn to back page HIT IN CENTRE Goliges and road marks in- didated the cars hit altnest in the dead centre of the inter- section. The Broderick car, which had been travelling west on Wil- Barri, swung into, and broke, a hydro pole on the corner, snap, ped around alMOst a full turn and came to rest facing south. A 195'7 Plymouth hardtop, the BrOderldk vehicle carried the right frOnt fender Of the Str ing- er Car under its front left aide. The Stringer SPOrtSter, 'Whidh had been hOrthbetitiii, veered to the east, rode up a small red maple On the bthileVard and came to rest near the bilehes beside the Cann house. Friends indidatetheCarSMaY have been traVelling to the same house to 'Meet others with whom they had been earlier in the evening at Grand Bend. The three survivors Were taken to South Hdron Hospital by Harvey's taXia, MacDonald, Still alive, Wad transported to "You'd better tell yourself right now that you have a prob- lem," the magistrate told James. "The next time it will be a jail term." James conducted his own de- fence until testimony was given by PC William Glassforcl, who had had trouble with the Strath.= roy fan Several times the same evening. Start installation of short sewers Town works crew began in- stallation Monday of the block- long sewer extensions on Wil- liam and Carling streets, C. A. McDowell Ltd. is dig- ging the Carling trench and Sam Sweltzer is excavating the William St. project. Works Sup't Jim Paisley says both installations are "pre- gressing well". Sicily this week for his visit here. He's interested in establish, ing outdoor theatres and coin- operated laundries in Holland, having already started motels there as a result of his visits to North America. "My grandfather bought a large tract of land in 1880 for which he paid very little money. What he wanted with it, I could not imagine but it turned out he was farSighted." The Dutch government re, cently built a major highWay through the area and "1 went into the very profitable 'mete). business." He's already started on his Second Motel; hopes to establish a chain of them for Holland. There are only five in the country at the present tithe, in, chiding his. The count haS been on the in, ternational rating circuit since 1957. "When I came out Of the army; I didn't know What to start With. I tried racing and have kept at it," He'S been in all the major World races, compet ing iiEure One, Mexico and South. Africa. Of 16 major events, he placed 15 times. He's won the grand prix in Spa with an average of 112 Mph, and the. Dutch grand prixa lu North America; he was Second at .SYrodUse, first in his class at Sebring in 1961 and sixth at Watkins- Glen, New York. His close St' brush with death came when hiS car threw a wlieef ditrIng one of the COM,' petitionS, I iPortiitiately, it SIAM Out On the track,'' he StateS. A torn and battered case of beer, after serving as evidence in two court cases here, may finally reach the hands of the person for whom it allegedly was purchased. Magistrate Glenn Hays, QC, instructed police to turn the dilapidated carton over to Tho- mas Morley, Lieury, if the lat- ter drives to Exeter to pick it up. The case was confiscated by police Feb. 1 when they stopped a car driven by Norman E. Lewis, 21, RR 2 Ailsa Craig, on a sideroad near Crediton. Lewis Tuesday was acquitted of having liquor in a place other than his residence, after testifying that he had purchased the case for Morley the same day his car Was stopped. In February; 21,year-old Alan Campbell of. RCAF Min- ton was fined $50.00 and costs for stealing the same case of beer frOrd the OPP cruiser at zurich where the pc:41de had driven after taking the box froth Lewis. Whet the carton first got iii- Volved in 10 scramble with the law, it WaS Sitting on the road beside the Lewis car. Police spotted It there when they step,, Lewisped after Watching hilt gifiShtaiPi around an intersee. tion West of Crediton. it was dbtfAt DE BEAUFORT bE8e'ilitt8 SOME OF HIS RACING 'THRILLS DtIRN6 VISIT From left: Ward Fritz, Mrs. Countess stirtiia Mary LOU Fritz and the Butch count Doctors at assembly Drs. R. W. Read and D. A. E 0 k e r, Exeter, attended the four-day scientific assembly of the College of General Practice as part of a formal program of 100 hours Of postgraduate study every two Years, just outside the right rear door. Sharon Sadler, 16, Parkhill, admitted putting it there "in panic". She told the court she hadn't known the beer was in the car when she first got into the vehicle. She'd been warned by her parents not to associate with boys who had beer and she did not notice the case until the car turned the corner. When police stopped the vehicle, she wanted to get rid of it. Norman Lewis said he bought the beer in Lucan for Morley, the uncle of his girl friend, Linda MaWson, 16, Lieury. He'd been on his way home from Woodstock and, following a meal here, Went to the dance at Cre- diton With Linda. lie intended to deliver the case to Sharon's uncle on his way hoine from the dance. The Crediton dance, a.p- patently, wasn't very. exciting and they decided to move on to another at Zurich. They in- vited Lewis's brother, 19, and his girl, Sharon Sadler, to go with them. It was shortly after they were stopped by PCs George Mit dhell and John Wright, The constables reported that, at the scene, Sharon told theiri that Norman Lewis had stig- getteci she put the case of beer —Please turn to back page BRODERICK CAR CAME TO RESTONSIDEWALK AFTER SPLITTING HEAVY DUTY POWER POLE DONALD M. HARVEY MACDONALD STRINGER GERALD KATHRYN BRODERICK BRODERICK STRINGER CAR, FRONT SHORN OFF, RESTS IN BUSHES Chtuth Notices . a a- a . 12 Coming Events . 4i 4 Editoribis i • 4 i .4' 2 Farm NOS,0' 4. 4 4 4 6. Feminine Facts 'N Fancies 6,6 Hensall a a a a.aaaaaaa 4 Lucan — - Siiii i' • 4 it • 4 6,1 WaitAda..tmlice.a 10,11.