The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-10-22, Page 14Town of Exeter
Notice
Re Change Of Time
Citizens are requested to take notice that the Town of
Exeter will change back to Eastern Standard time at
Midnite, Saturday, Oct. 24
Signed,
C. V. PICKARD, Town Clerk
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Page 14 Tirnes-AdYocete, October 22, 1964 AT THE HIGH ,SCHOOL
By Elizabeth Gosar Seek qualified persons
to run school program Teaches.
extra class
after school well as Saturday
mornings,
The Permit which mr, 4baw
is teaching is equal to that WIlich
is taught in Grade 11, JeS as
in other subjects, there will Pe
examinations to determine how
the student is progressing,
Up to, now, there are APPrexl-
inately sixty Grade 9, 10, 11 and,
12 students taking th4 extra
subject.
There are new four foreign
languages, French, Latin, Span.,
ish and German, being taught
at our sChool.
On ThursclaY, the property
committee of the school met
with Mel IlOyce, of page 4.
Steele, architects, and learned
his firm would probably have
final plans and specifications
ready by December.
This would mean tenders
conld be called in January and
then government anprevai would
have to be given on the award-
ing of a contract.
Construction on the shops
could possibly commence as
soon as the ground is ready
after the spring thaw and the
additional classrooms to be
erected on the second floor of
the east end would probably
start as soon as school was
completed in June.
interested. These classes are
on Tuesdays and Thursdays
There is still, one teacher
left to introduce to the students.
Mr. Bruce Shaw is a native of
Montreal and received his ele-
mentary and, secondary educa-
tion in Quebec, Ontario and
Manitoba, He is a graduate of
the University of Western On,
tario.
He is now living in Exeter
with his wife and two children.
His hobbies include coin and
stamp collecting.
He is teaching Grade 11 and
12 English. However, outside
of school hours he is teaching
German to any student who is
of the building program and the
purchasing of equipment wopld
need a geod. deal of time in the
first eight months of the year.
After presenting all these
points, the board offered the ap,
pointment of a full-time busi-
ness administrator to E, D.
Hovey, present board secre-
tary-treasurer, who now teach-
es only half days at the school.
He was offered a salarY of
$6,000 per year to handle the
full,time post,
He pointed out to the board
he would have to be replaced
by another bookkeeping teacher
if he were to accept the po-
sition at the first of the new
year.
The board instructed him to
discuss with Principal H. L.
Sturgis the advertising for a
teacher of bookkeeping whose
time outside of commercial
might be used in guidance and
junior English.
It was suggested they adver-
tise in the near future, and
Howey indicated his decision
would be made if a teacher can
be hired to replace him,
If one can not be secured,
it is probable he will continue
on in his present dual roll.
Top lodge official One of features at Kin car show
Area residents certainly received full value for their money when they attended last week's Kins-
men car show. They were able to see all the latest models in one place, had top live entertain-
ment, and as this photo shows, had a chance to view closely one of the speedy cars which per-
forms regularly at the Grand Bend Dragway. --T-A photo visits local group
Willert fills rec post
ing the fine fellowship of the
Exeter lodge.
Visitors were present from
Ailsa Craig, Parkhill, Hensall,
C 1 int on, Goderich, Granton,
Wingham, Embro, Lobo, Car-
low and Kintore.
Music during the banquet was
supplied by Bro. William Fos-
ter.
Lebanon Forest Lodge AF
AM had one of their red letter
nights Monday on the occasion
of the official visit of D.D.G.M.
Rt. Wor. Bro. Gordon Short-
reed, Clinton. Space was at a
premium to accommodate the 63
visitors from other lodges.
W. Bro. Dr. J. W. Corbett
and his officers exemplified the
second degree with Cpl. John
MacLean, RCAF Centralia, as
the candidate.
Following the degree work,
the brethern adjourned to the
lodge rooms of the Eastern
Star where a banquet was serv-
ed.
Past DDGM William Cann
proposed a toast to Grand
Lodge, responded to by Rt. Wor.
Bro. Shortreed, who compli-
mented the officers on the ef-
ficiency of their work and spoke
briefly on the work of the order.
A toast to the visitors was
proposed by P. Mas. Ernest
Cerson and responded to by W.
Bro. John Rosser, of Ailsa
Craig, followed by short
speeches by Rt. Wor. Bro.
Bruce McCall, Embro; P. Grand
Chaplain, R. W. Grant, Centra-
lia; Murray Hodgins, Lucan;
Fred MacLeod, Ailsa Craigand
several others all compliment-
OPP officer
paid claims
—Continued from front page
"This is a full time job and
it's up to the manager to pro-
mote, not the board," he said.
"It's the job of this board
to present ideas and it's up to
the manager to carry them out,"
MacMillan replied.
Baynham then backed up his
argument by citing examples
of arenas where the manager
is expected to promote ven-
tures in an effort to make the
facility pay.
MacMillan pointed out Bayn-
ham appeared to be "talking
against" himself in that as
president of the Exeter Minor
Hockey Association he had talk-
ed Willert into running the
houseleague hockey this winter.
Baynham replied hp had not
talked Willert into this at all.
He said the EMHA had decided
they did not have enough sup-
port to run the program and
Willert realized he had to be-
cause the arena could not af-
ford to lose the $800 in fees
the houseleague players paid
each year.
plans for the vocational ad,
Onion at SHDHS continue to take
shape and at a special meeting,
Wednesday, action was taken in
rcgard to securing administra-
tive personnel for next year.
Area inspector D. W. Soft
met with the board to.discuss
plans for next year and the new
school program and advised
them to advertise early in the
new year for a qualified prin-
cipal and to make his appoint-
ment effective July 1,
He explained that the prin.,
oiPal of the new school must
hold both a high school Prin-
cipal's pertificate and a vo,
cational principal's certificate.
However, he added that a young-
er man who has taken the prin-
cipal's course in recent years
would be more likely to hold
what is termed a secondary
school principal's certificate.
Scott told the board a vice-
principal would also need to be
appointed, and said Joe Wooden,
a present member of the staff,
might be granted a letter of
permission as vice-principal
if he attended next summer's
course, which would be the first
of a two-year course for him.
The board has already told
Wooden they want him to take
the course and by a motion pass-
ed at the special meeting, de-
cided to hire him as vice-prin-
cipal as of September 1, 1965,
if he is accepted in the first
year of the secondary school
principal's course.
Some board members felt that
further means were necessary
to bridge the gap between the
old and new programs. The new
principal would do the time-
tabling but he would need to be
provided with estimates of class
'numbers for some student s
would no longer need to go to
Clinton, while others would not
find their courses here.
It was also noted the business
the meeting.
In his monthly report, Willert
said ice time for the coming
season was "fairly well book-
ed" and asked permission to
advertise in London for users of
some available time, particu-
larly on Sunday.
A motion was approved grant-
ing him this request.
He also reported the roof
repair was not completed and
there were leaks in some of the
areas where repair work had
been carried out.
He was given permission to
hire Ab Bowen to do some re-
pair work on the boards and
seats at the arena.
Teens want
arena fixed
NAMED HEAD
Under the new vocational or-
ganization, a shop director and
commercial director will be
needed. Scott explained neither
is very easy to get.
He said the shop director
should be sought early in the
new year.
The commercial department
already has a qualified special-
ist in the person of Mrs. An-
drew Dixon, who might be in-
terested in becoming director.
The board then passed a mo-
tion naming Mrs. Dixon head of
the department as of January 1,
at an increase of $40 per month.
This is the extra salary that
is paid to the other four de-
partment heads presently at the
school.
The board has also been able
to secure the part-time ser-
vices of Richard Harland to
assist in the organization of
the new shops at the school.
Harland is technical director
of the Clinton school, and his
services were recommended by
the two area inspectors.
OPP Constable Peter Dineen,
Woodstock, was awarded $29,-
928 Tuesday in aSupreme Court
civil action brought against a
driver who struck him while he
was investigating an accident.
Dineen served on the sum-
mer force at Grand Bend in
1962 and he suffered perman-
ent disability due to the injuries
in the mishap in 1963.
He had both legs broken.
The court ruled that the driv-
er of the car, a Woodstock
man, was negligent in operating
his car faster than was safe in
the circumstances and was not
keeping a proper lookout.
EVERY CONFIDENCE
"I have every confidence he
can do the recreation job,"
Farrow suggested of Willert.
He said there had to be some-
one to act as liaison between the
various recreation groups and
it was only natural that Willert
should do it from the arena.
He noted it was not a per-
manent appointment, but said
he hoped it would be in a year.
"Give him the opportunity to
try," he urged.
MacMillan then c all e d on
Frayne and Fisher for their
opinions, as both had remained
silent during the debate.
"Taking the situation as it
is," Frayne stated, "there's
no one else available and we
should give Alvin a try."
Fisher stated he was in
agreement and the motion was
approved.
Baynham then asked Farrow
to record the fact that he op-
posed the appointment.
Yacht group supported
In other business, the com-
mittee:
Wrote off accounts receiv-
able In the amount of $425.
The bills were for rental on the
signs hung around the ice sur-
face at the arena.
Appointed Farrow and Sim-
mons to represent them at the
Lake Huron Zonerecreation
conference in Listowel on No-
vember 7.
Learned that arena manager
Alvin Willert would be attend-
ing the Ontario Arenas As-,
sociation annual meeting in In-
gersoll on October 18.
Gave approval to the EMHA
to enter a team in the Shamrock
Junior "D" grouping. The team
will pay a $25 minimum for
ice time at the arena or on a
60%-40% split, whichever is
more. They will be given free
practice time. •
Learned the Oddfellows would
rent their hall to the art club
for $5 per night on a trial
basis until Christmas.
Decided to ask the high school
board for the use of the gym-
nasium for the badminton club.
They will also ask the public
school board for their audi-
torium for the junior square
dance group.
Charles Prout
passes at work
Charles Alvin Prout, 63, Con.
1, Usborne Township, died sud-
denly at the home of his son,
Gerald, Con. 5 Usborne, Tues-
day, October 20. He had just
been plowing and had stepped
off the tractor when he sudden-
ly collapsed.
Mr. Prout had lived most of
his years in the community
except for a few years in De-
troit.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Gretta Case, seven
sons, Charles, Detroit; Robert,
London; Glenn and Gerald, Us-
borne; Ted, Sarnia; James, Ex-
eter; Jack, Stephen Township;
and one daughter, Mrs. William
(Geraldine) Smith, Exeter.
Funeral service will be con-
ducted by Rev. S. E. Lewis,
Friday, October 23 at 2:30 pm
at the R. C. Dinney funeral
home, Exeter, with burial in
Exeter cemetery.
can be done with this old river
bed. It is looked upon as a
natural for development as a
marina.
HIKE FEE
Farrow also presented a mo-
tion calling for an additional
$200 car allowance for Willert
until the end of the year. He
said it would be best to handle
a pay increase in this manner
as it would not necessitate any
work on his part in changing the
present payroll structure.
"It's little enough," he said
in regard to the added bonus.
The motion was approved with
, no opposition.
Mayor Simmons and Lloyd
Cushman were not present at
—Continued from front page
name is Mr. Federal."
The plan would call for a
stopping up of River Road, and
the re-routing of traffic south
to Lake Road, across the old
river bed, and back north to
River Road. Within the curve
thus left, would be room for 100
pleasure craft, parking space,
ramps, washrooms, etc., and
even some thought to using a
"bubble system" to keep the
water from freezing over.
With this m etho d, plastic
pipes below the surface carry
air which is released under
water, thus preventing freez-
ing. Then it is not necessary
to remove boats from the wa-
ter.
Specifically the club asked for
permission to continue develop-
ment of the 300 feet of river-
bank now being leased by them;
for an extension of lease for 25
years; for approval in principle
of the marina development.
The village reduced the length
of lease to six years, with a
renewing clause, and granted
the other two requests.
With governmental interest
in the offing, the club will pro-
ceed to plan for a meeting with
municipal, provincial and other
officials to discover, just what
After a lengthy debate, RAP
decided at their Wednesday
meeting to let their building
committee meet with the execu-
tive of the Exeter Teen Town in
regard to suggested improve-
ments for the arena auditorium.
Chairman Tom MacMillan
said he had been approached by
members of the teen group about
improving some of the "pretty
grim" surroundings.
He noted the painting in the
hall was dull and the lighting
was far from modern.
MacMillan said the Teen
Town group would be willing
to share in the cost of im-
provements and suggested RAP
co-operate as much as pos-
sible.
He noted the teenagers were
off to a most successful year
with attendance at one dance
being over 300. They have their
activities planned right through
to the new year.
The RAP chairman said the
youths were organized on a
"terrific basis".
Alvin Willert predicted it
would cost $400 to paint the
gymnasium and Gord Baynham
said he would hate to see any
large sums spent without re-
modelling the whole place.
However, MacMillan sug-
gested it would be two years
before the committee could con-
sider a complete remodelling
job.
All members of RAP agreed
the young people should be en-
couraged and left it to the build-
ing committee to see what action
could be taken.
Mrs. Wes Cole
dies in hospital
Mrs. W. S. Cole, 82, Exeter,
died in Victoria Hospital, Lon-
don, Friday, October 16, fol-
lowing a lengthy illness.
She was the former Ida Flor-
ence Blatchford, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. F r anc i s
Blatchford, Exeter. She trained
in Grace Hospital, Detroit, and
nursed in the same hospital for
about 25 years.
In 1942 she was married to
Wesley S. Cole who survives,
also one brother, Dr. Frank
Blatchford, Fort William, and
three nieces, Miss Olive Wood,
Toronto, Mrs. Pearl Murdock,
Dundas, Mrs. Dorothy Wallace,
Goderich and one nephew, Har-
old Wood, Lambeth.
Funeral services were con-
ducted by Rev. S. E. Lewis at
the R. C. Dinney funeral home,
Exeter, Monday, October 19
with interment in Exeter ceme-
tery.
Pallbearers were Messrs
Alex Cann, Luther Penh ale,
William Desjardine, Maurice
Quance, Wellington Hern and
Clarence Smilie.
EMO still seeks action
--sewer job gets okay
and other spectacles entered in
the opening parade. C ouncil
gave support to the Club on this
program, and also on their wint-
er-long program. •
A request from five residents
of the former Highway 81 past
the new post office, was read
by council, suggesting the name
"Hidden Lane", as the official
name for this section, soon to
be a village street. Making the
reque s t were Mrs. William
Sharrow, Mrs. Virginia Vos-
sler, Mrs. Matilda Wanner and
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thompson.
There was only one supporter
of this on council: 0. wass-
mann.
Councillor Emerson Desjar-
dine suggested "81 Crescent",
and had support on this from
Councillor Ian Coles. This pro-
posal did not carry either.
Planning to attend a meeting
in Parkhill on Friday morning,
October 23 when plans for the
new Ontario water pipeline will
be made public, Councillor Ian
Coles suggested hiring John
Gillies as the village lawyer
in this matter.
The village solicitor is El-
mer Bell, QC, Exeter, and the
other members of council felt
they should stay with him. Coles
felt that Mr. Bell might be too
busy to handle the village work
on this.
When men speak ill of
thee, so live that nobody will
believe them,—,Plato
NEED EXTRA HOUR
Mrs. Henri Menard, of Mon-
etta Menard's restaurant and
tavern, appeared to ask council
for consideration of remaining
on standard time next summer.
"With only six weeks to make
a living," said Mrs. Menard,
"extra hours provided by re-
maining on standard time would
mean a lot."
Advised that standard time
had been tried in the village
back in 1955, and had caused
so much difficulty it remained
in for only a couple of weeks,
Mrs. Menard suggested a letter
from the council to the Liquor
Licensing board, supporting the
owners of hotels and taverns
in a request for permission to
remain open until one o'clock,
rather than a midnight closing.
Before the village will take
action, they asked for infor-
mation about the stand the
Chamber of Commerce took.
A meeting of that body is sche-
duled for Monday, October 26
—and the s ubject will be
brought up again at the next
meeting of council, on Novem-
ber 2.
Dr. Roger Clayton and his
wife who live in Green Acres
subdivision, requested some
action be taken on the problem
of noisy peacocks on the Sher-
wood property next to theirs.
Harry Sherwood, Exeter,
purchased an area in a curve
of the Ausable River a year ago,
and has since created what is
more a park than a vacant lot.
He plans to build a home there.
In the meantim e he has placed
two pair of peacocks on the land,
and they strut proudly and beau-
tifully there. However, in the
mornings, peacocks can be
noisy — and they wake up early,
reported Dr. Clayton.
The doctor also gave very
realistic examples of the type
of noise made by peacocks in
the morning.
Mr. Sherwood has built a
large shed on the property,
which is to be for housing tools,
lawnmowers, etc. -- but also,
according to Dr. Clayton would
be used as a "monstrous dirty
old birdhouse" for the peacocks
and their young.
"If we're going to have a zoo
in this town," commented the
retired doctor, "then let's have
a good one hire a keeper."
The clerk brought in the by-
law, and noted that it excluded
all but horses and mules from
among household animals that
could be raised in the village,
Council will write to Mr. Sher-
Wood concerning the matter.
Steven smith represented the
Winter Sports Club in a request
for a parade permit, The Club
Is staging a Winter Carnival
early in Decernber, with floats
Library starts
junior section
The Exeter Library Board is
taking its initial step toward
expansion and renovation this
week as it moves the junior
library to the basement,
The shelves, junior tables
and books are being moved,
leaving considerable more
space in the main library which
will be equipped with more mo-
dern shelving and further fa-
cilities.
The Children's Library in
the basement will be reached
by the south door for the pre-
sent but future plans call for
a new Main St. entrance to the
building which will include steps
either to the main library or
to the lower children's library.
Tentative plans are for the
children's library to be open
Monday, Thursday and Friday
afternoons from 3:30 to 5:30
pm; Friday evening, 7 to 8 o'-
clock and Saturday afternoon
2 to 5 p.m. Mrs. John Schroe-
der will perform the librarian's
duties with the juniors.
For the remainder of this
week no books will be loaned
from the children's section dur-
ing the process of moving al-
though books may be returned
to the main desk with no fines
for overdue books.
Mrs. Harold Hinton, Main St.,
has been named to the Library
Board replacing Mr. Ge orge
Wright who has moved from
town.
Dealers return
from convention
Larry and Ted Snider of Lar-
ry Snider Motors Limited have
returned from the largest
world-wide dealer conference
in the history of the farm equip-
ment industry, called by Ford
Motor Company in New York
City.
Approximately 6,000 dealers
representing more than 120
countries heard Henry Ford 11,
chairman of the board, Ford.
Motor Company, outline the key
role which the farm equipment
business occupies in the com-
pany's forward planS.
Robert. J. Hampson, company
vice president and general Man-
ager of the Ford Tractor Di-
Vision, announced a new world-
wide line of farm tractors which
will be introduced in the near
hiture.
Larry and Ted attended a
stage presentation of the new
product line at the great. Radio
City Musid Hall, and later par-
ticipated in marketing Meet.,
ings. During the three-dayeon,
ference, they had an opporhinity
to discuss aspects of the. farm
equipment business with deal,.
ers Of many hationalitieb,
"If there is a crisis, a man
would have a tremendous res-
ponsibility," Delbridge replied.
But Boyle pointed out if there
was a crisis, council would have
a tremendous responsibility in
that they had failed to name a
local co-ordinator.
"People would certainly want
to know what we had been do-
ing," he suggested.
Taylor then suggested the
three-man committee meet with
Forbes to discuss the problem
to see if he had any suggestions,
and Bailey was asked to talk to
the co-ordinator during the next
county council session.
In his letter, Forbes had
explained he was presently
training auxiliary police and
other four county towns had
become involved in the move-
ment.
Retirements
--Continued from front page
he would certainly accept the
cleric's nomination papers, as
ministers are eligible as their
names are on the voters' list
and they are in effect tenants.
Reeve Fisher thanked the
Members for their comments
and decisions 'and went on to
the next piece of business.
Later in the meeting, the
date of the nomination was set
as Friday, November 27, and
it an election is necessary for
any of the nine council seats,
two PUG- positions, or the six
public school pOstS, it will be
held Mendel,. December
Huron County'S EMO co-
ordinator, W. Stuart Forbes,
is apparently a man who doesn't
giVe up easily.
At least that's the impreSSion
town council members are re,
ceiving, and there is an indica-
tion they may return hiS efforts
with some action.
In a letter thanking council
for some maps they had recently
sent to him, Forbes questioned
if the three-man council
inittee had been able to find a
sub-co-ordinator for EMO in
Exeter.
exclaiited Deputy
Reeve Ralph Bailey, who was
chair man of the committee
named to find a man for the
position. Other members are
CoUnCillorS Taylor and Del.
bridge.
Bailey told Connell he had
approached three pereOnS and
was' told they wanted no part of
it.
Taylor said he had met the
same reaction trona a couple
Of porSohS he had talked to.
fOrget I WO on the corn
Inittee," Delbridge admitted.
"It looks ,like a big, frti,t,,
trathit Wooden stated,
and BOyle 'noted it would
ably take another world crisis
to stimulate interest
GOOD RESPONSE
Werks Superintendent J i m
Paisley told council he was
Meeting with an excellent res-
ponse on his petition among
Pryde Boulevard residents re-
garding the Construction of a
Sanitary sewer there next Year.
Council haS Suggested the
Work be undertaken As part of
the Municipal Works ASsiStance
program and Paisley was de-
tailed to see if residents would
approve it.
He said he had only three
residents remaining to contact,
and to date he has received
100% support from the others.
The residents along the street
have also been asked if they
wished to pre-pay their charges
and he has received almost
$3,000 in pre-payment pro-
miSes from them.
"It's well on its way for
1965," he told council.
In other business, council:
Learned there Were no ap-
peals to be heard at the court
of revision. However, the date
for the meeting was set for
NoVember 2.
Authorized Clerk C. V.
and to inform one of their
insurance companies that the
safety valve on the boiler 'at
the cemetery would be fixed, A
letter from the company stated
the valve was not working pi-o=,
Orly and Wright said he would
take the matter up with board
members and would have it
bedded to advertise for snow
plOWing tenders, suggesting that
Only truck Mounted plows be
considered, as graders were
too SlOW4