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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-06-24, Page 1• "•-,m44, ARW•Xi:1 ".':•;#:<M1 • .::•• ••: M;•,.&•: " • Ninety-second Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 24, 1965 Price Per Copy 10 Cents NIve.i.,.g:?.4.44': • .•aaag.' ' -A4 . Ah.14,4 Many crashes, but little variety Members of the Exeter OPP detachment were kept bopping investigating another rash of accidents this week, and adding further to their troubles is the fact they're not getting much "variety", Similar to recent weeks they were called to an accident at the bridge construction site on Highway 83 west of E xeter, they had another case of a dog caus- ing a mishap, another crash between a large gravel truck and a Volkswagen, and numer- ous incidents of drivers corn- ing to grief by making improper turns. The most serious of the ac- cidents occurred at the bridge man Ambulance. OP? Cpl. C. J. Mitchell es- timated damage to the small car at $1,200 and only $50 to the large gravel carrier, Cpl. Mitchell investigated his second mishap of the day when he was called to the scene of a one-car crash on No. 2 C ounty Road near Crediton. Allan R. Youngash, 208 Col- umbia Drive, RCAF Centralia, had ,been proceeding south on the County road when he lost con- trol of his Ford Econoline and landed up in the east ditch, where he struck a pole. He es- caped injury but damage was estimaed at $250. construction site yesterday at 6:45 a.m. when a small Volks- wagen 1500 collided with a.large gravel truck owned by Earl LiPpert, Crediton. It was the second time this month vehicles of the same description have been involved in a crash. Driver of the car was Johann Minderlein, RR 3 Zurich, and driver of the truck was John A. McDermott, Crediton. Minderlein was proceeding east and collided with the truck in the eastbound lane when the truck failed to stop for the oncoming car. Minderlein sustained a frac- tured left leg and was taken to South Huron Hospital by Hoff- Jury says speed led to traffic death Exeter's Lutheran church turns first sod After their regular service at Caven Presbyterian Church, Exeter Peace Luth- Gatz turned the sad, each member of the church was given a chance to dig in. eras congregation gathered at their plot at Andrew and George streets Sunday Church members will help the contractor in the construction. for tile turning of the first sod of their new church building. After Rev. William --T-A photo to his head and the dog, owned by Jake llovius, RR 2 llensall, was killed, On Saturday at 5;05 p.m., Constable Glassford investigat- ed a two-car crash on Highway 4 at the road leading intoRCAF Centralia. Involved were cars driven by Rev. A. 13. Ferrier, London, and Lloyd L. Scott, RR 2 Moore- field. The minister was pro- ceeding south on Highway 4 when the northbound Scott pulled a- cross in front of him in making a left hand turn. The latter car was damaged to an amount estimated at $400 and $100 to the Ferrier vehicle. Two cars collided in Dash- wood on Sunday at 11:50 a.m. with total damage reaching $300, as estimated by Constable Wright. Involved were Dr. V. Gulens, Dashwood, and Carl Wayne Cor- nelissen, London. Both were eastbound and the Gulens car slowed down as a car backed out in front of it. However, Cornelissen failed to stop in time and a rear-end collision occurred. HIT WHILE TURNING The other two crashes of the week involved persons making turns, with the first taking place at the intersection of Highway 4 and the Crediton Road, Thurs- day. Involved were cars driven by Shirley Ann Hutchison, Cre- diton, and Walter F. Curtin, RCAF Centralia. Both were northbound and Curtin hit the lady's car as she was in the process of turning onto the Crediton Road. Dam- age was estimated at $150 to each car by Constable Glass- ford. The officer also investigat- ed another crash in Kirkton Tuesday at 8:25 a.m. when ve- hicles driven by Joan McCor- mick, Kirkton, and John V. Web- ster, Exeter, collided at — Please turn to back page DOG AGAIN Area dogs continued to plague drivers, this time the driver being Howard M. Scane, King Street, Hensall. He had been proceeding east on Highway 84 east of Zurich on Saturday at 12;20 a.m. when a large St. Bernard dog crossed onto the road. The Hensall man swerved in an attempt to miss the large animal, but he struck it and also lost control of his car. The vehicle hit a pole in the ditch and sustained damage estimated at $500 by Constable John Wright. Scane suffered a laceration A Monday evening inquest in Crediton into the death of Dennis Tanner, Mt. Brydges, who died almost instantly of injuries sus- tained in an accident Saturday, May 8, on the Crediton Road just east of the Khiva School, dis- covered that Tanner's sports car went out of control due to excessive speed while passing another car. Two of Tanner's passengers in the car with him the night of the mishap appeared as wit- nesses. Judy Lampert, RR 2 Centralia, and Ross Keller, 871/2 Wellington St., London, told Coroner E. A. McMaster and Crown Attorney William Cochrane, QC, they remember- ed nothing of the events im- mediately preceeding the crash. Surprise 'gift' for resort, tax rate takes huge dip Pair hook pike and many perch Two Crediton fishermen proved beyond much doubt that Lake Huron still has some good sized fish in it. Emery and Everett Fahner were fishing off the north pier at Grand Bend Monday and hook- ed an eight-pound pike. The fish measured about 36 inches. The two also landed between 40 and 50 perch in their outing. Merchants neglect bidding on business the tender notice. However, the merchant did not submit a bid, nor had he visited the school to ascertain the requirements. Board members were very lenient in their reaction despite the editor's remarks, but one suggested that an article should be written chastising "the lax merchants". drops to 58 mills and com- mercial is 64. Pondered Reeve Stewart Webb: "You would have thought the auditor would have found this and told us, wouldn't you?" Auditor A. M. Harper's re- port was received at the meet- ing and read, along with his account for $1,335.00. Mr. Harper will be invited to at- tend the next meeting on July 1. to explain the increase in his rate from the $550 he has charged annually since 1955. Reeve Webb pointed out that Stephen Township pays $650 for its audit which includes three villages, two scho ol boards and various other boards. quested. In the case of Grand Bend, they have not been re- ceiving this in the past and a check showed this had accumu- lated to a little over $9,000. It had been spent by the vil- lage for other things other than school purposes and so now they find they must replace this by raising an additional six mills on the general rate. The difference between the 12.5 mills and the six mills is the reduction in tax dollars required for the 1965 levy. Tax notices will show no entry at all for public schoo I, but will carry an explanation of the situation on the reverse side. Total residential rate now New officer Constable Elgin P. McNall has begun duties on Exeter's po- lice force this week. He re- places Lloyd Hodgins who re- signed in March. McNall was a former member of the Sea- forth police department. --T-A photo GRAND BEND Taxpayers in the resort were given an unexpected gift Mon- day when council reviewed their decision on tax requirements and decided to lower the mill rate by about 6 1/2 mills, after having previously announced the rate would be about the same as last year. Reason for the change came about due to a mixup in de- termining education costs for public school purposes. Credit for the discovering of facts leading to the reduc- tion goes to Donald Flear, a member of the Stephen School Area board, of which Grand Bend became a part in January. At the time of amalgamation of the village school with the area, Flear had understood a Plan driver course if time is available reduction in tax rate could be expected, because of a level- ling of costs and no debenture payments in the area this year. But when the 1965 tax rates were announced in the paper two weeks ago, he found the reduction hadn't been made. His questioning of the mat- ter led to a thorough investi- gation which involved the school board, the village clerk and the auditors. It was discovered that when the village joined Stephen Area it had a surplus of some $29,- 000 and as this money properly belongs to village ratepayers, it was to be returned to them. To accomplish this, all of the 12.5 mills which were rais- ed for public school purposes has now been cancelled. However, another peculiarity came to light: over the past several years the school board has not been receiving the full amount to which they have been entitled. This comes about in most communities, as an increase in assessment generally oc- curs through the year and the mill rate set for various pur- poses nets more than provided in the budget. However, school boards are entitled to this extra amount as well, although it maybe over the amount they actually re- Say council action against rights code T-A editor Bill Batten had to sit through part of Tuesday's board meeting at SHDHS with a red face. After writing a column urg- ing consideration for area mer- chants in the supply of materials and services for the school, it was suggested by at least one board member that the merch- ants were lax themselves in not taking advantage of the business they were offered. This suggestion was made after Business Administrator E. D. Howey told the board he had received no tenders from any area merchants on the sup- ply of drapes for three class- rooms at the school. Notices calling for tenders had been placed in both The T-A and the Zurich paper. One member explained that an Exeter merchant had re- quested an opportunity to bid on the drapes and that the merchant had been contacted personally by the member telling him of A third occupant in the ill- fated car, Mrs. Ross Keller, is still confined to St. Joseph's Hospital, London, and was un- able to testify. An eye-witness to the ac- cident, Ray Cockwell, Exeter, driver of the car which the Tan- ner vehicle passed moments before the crash, saidboth cars were travelling west about 8:30 p.m. As the Tanner car passed, it seemed to pull in sharply too far to the right and skidded off the highway as the driver, Tan- ner, tried to turn the vehicle to the left back onto the west- bound lane, Cockwell said he was driving between 50 and 55 m.p.h. him- self. Speed limit on that stretch pf road is 50. A passenger in the Cockwell car, Sandra England, Crediton, told the hearing that she had not heard a horn blow to indicate that another car was about to pass and thought the Tanner auto had pulled "quickly" in front of the one in which she was riding. Ken McCarter, RR 1 Cen- tralia, said he had seen the Tanner car in Crediton shortly before the accident. He reported he had noticed it moving "fast- er than the thirty-mile speed limit", pass another car and sway as It pulled in front. Skid marks, measured at the scene by investigating officer, OPP Constable H. C. Reid, to- talled 381'. Constable Reid said marks on the pavement showed a 232' arc from the centre of the westbound lane to the north edge and off to the south. Other skid marks were determined along the road and into the ditch where it appeared the car had flipped as it hit a fence. The officer said a search of the car and the adjacent area had revealed three beer bottles; one open and two capped. A post mortem on the body of Tanner performed by a Strat- ford pathologist showed 2.0 parts per thousand of alcohol in the blood and 2.4 parts per thousand of alcohol in the urine. "This is high," concluded Dr. McMaster. He said the deceased would have had to consume an absolute minimum of four drinks by no later than 4 p.m. — Please turn to back page Female drivers in auto crashes A Zurich area lady, driv- ing a tractor which was pull- ing a large combine, was in- volved in an accident near the Exeter lawn bowling greens, Tuesday. Total damage from the crash was estimated at $600. Mrs. Margaret P. Gingerich, RR 3 Zurich, was proceeding north through Exeter, when the combine she was pulling behind the tractor caught the left rear side of a parked car owned by Ray Smith, Gidley Street. The side of the car was badly gashed and damage was esti- mated at $400 by Constable Harry VanBergen, while the combine sustained damage es- timated at $200. Damage was estimated at about $120 when two cars col- lided at the intersection of Gid- ley and Marlborough Streets last Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. Involved were cars driven by Miss Jane Dougherty, 145 Gidley Street, and C ar m an Douglas Cable, 321 Huron West. Miss Dougherty was proceed- ing west on Gidley and was in the process of making a left turn when she collided with Cable, who was northbound on Marlborough. Chief C. H. MacKenzie in- vestigated. Impaired, struck child, man loses permit, cash Clerics plan pulpit swap An area driver was fined $100 and was prohibited from driving anywhere in Canada for the next nine months when he pleaded guilty to a charge of impaired driving before Magis- trate Glenn Hays, Q0, in Exeter court, Tuesday. Charged was Joseph Ulric Tremblay, 119 Empress Ave., Huron Park, RCAF Centralia. Evidence given by OPP Con- stable Bill Glassford showed Tremblay was driving in the PMQ area and after making a wide sweeping turn, struck a youngster on a bicycle. The child was not injured and the bike was only slightly damaged. The policeman reported Tremblay's breath s in ell e d meeting some 45 minutes until a quorum was present. Learned that Shirley Jaques, RR 3 Exeter, had been hired as' a clerk for the office. She is graduating this year from a business course at Clinton. Approved the tender of La- verne Heywood, Exeter, for the painting of six washrooms and showers and two locker rooms. Price was $950 and Iry Arm- strong, member of the pro- perty committee, was asked to arrange the color scheme with the painter. Gave the finance committee authority to pay bills up to $5,000 per month during the summer holidays when no board meetings will be held. Agreed to fill a request from the architect to have the en- tire school grounds surveyed and test borings taken. Approved payment of $20 as part of the expenses incurred by Vic Dinnin, who attended the recent Canadian Library As- sociation convention. Approved an increase of five cents for hot and cold meals in the cafeteria at the suggestion of Beaver Foods' complete meal will now cost students 40 cents. Code, said the religious group could possibly take them to court (11 they wanted to be sticky". Councillor Cudmore recom- mended council should review the position of the town hall, pointing out it was no longer a community centre as it once had been. He said it was used primarily for offices for various town officials and possibly the up- stairs room should be elimi- nated. No action was taken on his suggestion that a committee study the matter with a view to future use of the hall, However, at the urging of Gandon, council did pass a mo- tion that there be no discrimi- nation shown in future rentals. Two members of Exeter council showed up at Monday's sessions with copies of the Ontario Human Rights Code to show fellow members that they possibly erred when they recently denied rental of the up- stairs hall to a religious group. Councillor Wooden read a portion of the Code which points out that no group or person has the right to deny accommodation or services to anyone on the basis of color, race, creed, heritage, etc., where the public is customarily admitted. suggest we may have been incorrect on the basis of this," Wooden stated, but pointed out there was certainly no evil intent in council's previous de- cision. He said a recent edi- torial in this newspaper had inferred this. Rev. Phil Gandon also had a copy of the Code and suggested the council policy should be cleared. Clerk C. V. Pickard explained that use of the hall had been refused a religious group in the past and councils had felt that this policy would have to be followed after that denial. Reeve Boyle, who had previ- ously suggested council may be contravening the Human Rights TIGHTEN SECURITY The security of the school came up for discussion again and alter lengthy debate the board recommended that Prin- cipal Douglas Palmer be made responsible for the security. This will be brought into ef- fect at the end of the school term when all members of the staff will be asked to turn in their keys for all outside doors at the building. Keys will be issued by Palmer to those requesting them. Decision was made after it was noted some teachers were showing a "lack of responsi- bility" in leaving the school without locking doors. Vice-principal Joe Wooden raised an objection to the plan of calling in all keys, noting that many of the teachers work- ed at the school during the sum- mer. "I wouldn't want to be without a key in the summer," he stated. It was following this remark that palmer explained he would issue keys to anyone requiring entry to the school. At the same time, the board voted to withhold changing the present locking system until it can be worked in with the locking system that will be used in the new addition. There had been a suggestion that the locks in the present building could be changed at the present and the system to be used in the new part would con- form to this. However, members felt it would be more economical to do all the work at one time. latter started to make his turn. Total damage to the two cars was estimated at $1,800 by OPP Constable John Wright. Evidence showed that Bro- kenshire was travelling at a speed estimated by him at 60 m.p.h. and the defense lawyer stated that Stade had the right to believe that no one would be driving that fast when he started to make his turn. Magistrate Hays stated Stade should have looked before at- tempting his turn, but said there was doubt in his mind as to whether the accused was in the — Please turn to back page HOLD MEETING The group which wanted the town hail, the Baha'i World Faith, have rented the arena for a public meeting this Satur- day night. They have been holding a week-long camp at the Pinery where several leading figures in the movement have been con- ducting special lectures. The meeting at the arena will be open to the public. strongly of alcohol and his speech was slurred. A liquor offense also result- ed in a fine of $40 and costs of $7.50 for Thomas F. Scott, Hyde Park. He was charged by Con- stable Glassford on May 29 after a chase through Usborne Township. There were 19 bottles of beer in the car and Scott ad- mitted ownership. Testimony showed the ac- cused had many pr evious charges for similar offenses and the fines from those amounted to $175 the court was told. Charles Caskanette, RR 3 Woodstock, also appeared in court and pleaded guilty to a charge of having liquor in a place other than a residence. Constable Glassford report- ed he had been investigating an accident and found four pints of ale belonging to the accused in a car. Fine was $20. Need extra police aid? During the month of July, the Anglican congregations in Exe- ter and Hensall will be under the care of a priest from the United States. The Rector of Trivitt Memorial Exeter and St. Pauls Hensall, the Rev. J. Philip Gandon, has planned an exchange with the Rev. R. J. Hendricks, Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Morris Plains, New Jersey, U.S.A. Mr. Hendricks, his wife, and their two teenage children, Da- vid and Ruth, will be living in the Rectory on Andrew Street throughout the month of July. Mr. Hendricks will be taking all the services in Exeter and Hensall. Last summer he took charge of a church a t Wawa, On- tario, The Gandon family will be living inSt.Paul's Rectory, Morris Plains, which is 45 miles from New York city. Thieves get more tires The Paul Brothers (but not Shirley) will be on the coast- to-coast Tommy Hunter CBC radio show Friday at 1:15 p.m. They'll be interviewed between songs. Shirley remains at home to look after the children she's teaching, Exeter PUC this week an- nounced regulations regarding use of water for lawn sprink- ling. An advertisement appears elsewhere in the issue detail- ing the regulations. Area high school students attending the conservation school at Camp Sylvan will be seen on the CFPL show Fn tonight (Thursday) at 6:30 p.m. The camp is sponsored by the schools and the Ausabie River Conservation Authority. Public school lads attended last week. The SHDHS board agree d Tuesday night to re-open their driving training e duc at ion course in September, but it will be contingent upon finding time in the school program. If the time can be found, and that won't be known until late in August, Jack Fulcher will be hired as instructor at a salary of $3.50 per hour. Fulcher was on hand at the meeting and asked for consider- ation for the position. He said he was teaching a similar course at Clinton next year, but could handle between 24 and 30 students here. Rev. John Boyne noted the course had been approved by the board and had only been dropped due to the fact C. M. F arrow had been unable to carry on through sickness. However, Boyne asked Prin- cipal Douglas Palmer if the course could be worked in view of the chaos that appears im- minent in September due to overcrowding, split classes, etc. Palmer explained he was in favor of driving education, but stated he would not know until late August if it could be work- ed into the timetable. The board agreed to leave the decision up to Palmer and asked him to make arrange- ments with Fulcher if it is possible to provide the instruc- tion. W. F. B. MacLaren question- ed whether the $10 fee set by the board was high enough, not- ing that similar courses in other schools were costing students up to $30. Fulcher noted that the cost to the board worked out to about $30, but suggested that many students could not afford these prices, despite the fact the boys who graduate get a 10% reduction in their auto insur- ance costs. The board then set the enrol- ment fee at $15 for the Sep- tember class. For the fourth time in the past year thieves have made off with a haul of tires from Newby Tire & Battery Service at the north of Exeter. They made their biggest haul sometime early Saturday morn- ing when they broke into the building and carted off $1,274.- 50 worth of tires. The building was checked at 2:10 a.m. by Exeter's new Con- stable, E. McNall, and entry was apparently made between then and when the office was opened in the Morning. A total of 28 tires of various types were stolen, along with four chrome wheels. The investigation is being conducted by Chief C. It Mac- Kenzie and OPP Constable Harry Reid. Total loot now taken in the four entries amounts to over $2,600. --T-A photo Although it will be a few months late, Exeter will have a ceremony next week to mark the raising of Canada's new of- ficial flag. Rev. Phil Gandon opened dis- cussion when he asked if the new flag had been ordered as yet, and Clerk C. V. Pickard re- ported it was already in his office. Reeve BOyie then suggested an official ceremony should be held and noted that the upcom- ing July 1 holiday— Canada's official birthday would be an ideal time. Members agreed and planned a brief ceremony at the town hall for 10:00 a.m. on the holi- day. The public will be invited to the ceremony. There were suggestions that there may be some unpleasant demonstrations at the event, but how serious those threatening such action will be, remains to be seen. Hints that poster Carrying demenstrators may be on hand appeared to come primarily from Progressive Conservative supporters on council. NOISY DRIVER A 16-year-old Dashwood area youth, Calvin Kellerman, paid a fine of $35 and costs of $2.50 for making an unnecessary noise in Exeter on May 19. Residents in the Gidley Street area notified police of a car screeching tires and constable Harry VanBergen charged Kel- lerman after investigating the incident. The court was told the noise was kept up on the high school street for some time. In a contested case, a charge of making an improper left turn was dismissed against Richard Stade, Zurich. Stade was Charged after an accident near Zurich when he was attempting to make a left turn off Highway 841i He dial- lided with Allen Baokenshire, who was attempting to pasS another car and Stade when the Hensall Fair candy toss gathers many sweet teeth Thanks to two Hensall farm implement dealers, area children quickly gathering crowd for a short few minutes, Everyone were given an opportunity to make a quick grab at the Hensall seemed pleased especially the few that went home with bulging Fair for sweet material. A blower tossed dandies into the pockets and stomachs. STUDY APPLICATIONS Business Administrator E. D. Howey reported to the board that 13 applications had been received for the position of chief custodian. The matter of reviewing the applicants was left to the man- agement committee, headed by W. F. B. MacLaren, and they were given power to act. They tentatively arranged to meet at 1ViacLaren's in Grand Bend on July 5 to make their decisions. In other business, the board: Had to delay the start of their