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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-08-18, Page 1Price Per Copy 15 Cents BRYAN BAYNHAM CAROLYN CAMPBELL JOHN FRANKLIN -S7SS'Y. One youth dies, several hurt in district .crashes, aft at eeme! truck were knocked out and it went out of control into a guard rail and down a steep embank- ment where it flipped onto Its side. The driver managed to climb out a window into the ditch. The truck was carrying a load of bagged feed from Woodstock and no loss of the load was re- ported, However, the $10,000 truck was almost a total wreck. A third car was involved in the mishap as a London youth hit guard rails off the highway while avoiding the car and truck. Ile escaped unhurt. An inquest is planned into the lady's death, listed on Highway 4 in the Gene Oahe area. Constable Ed Wilcox reported Jeffery suffered a slight injury and total damage was V00. About two hours later, Cone stable Wilcox was called to the scene of a one-car incident on Number 5 sideroad in Hay ToWne ship, near Highway 21. Be reported a car driven by Kathryn Ann Martin, London, went out of control and rolled over in the ditch and hit a tree, She was slightly injured and damage was $300, The final crash of the week was reported on Monday, when two cars collided on Highway 83 at Sarepta. Involved were Geo- rge H. Cook, Kitchener, and Wil- liam H. Haugh, Dashwood, Mr. Cook suffered slight in- jury and damage totalled $850. On Saturday at 1:55 a.m., three men suffered minor Injuries When their car went off Gill Road in the Grand Bend area and struck a tree, OPP Constable Dale Lamont estimated damage to the car driven by Robert D, Hickson, Lu- can, at $500, Constable Lamont Investigated an accident on Highway 4, one mile north of Exeter, on Sunday and reported one man was slightly injured. Involved were cars driven by Richard R. Faryon, London, and Jacobus Zondag, RR 2 Dashwood. Damage was estimated at $250 and the injured man was a pass- enger in the London car, At 8:00 p.m. the same day, cars driven by George Thomp- son, Hensall, and Valory R, Jef- fery, CFB Camp Borden, col- injury when the truck he was driving was rammed head on in an accident on Highway 2 near The rn esford. The car involved was driven by Mrs. Thomas Prentice, Lon- don, and she was killed when tossed from her vehicle. Reports indicate Mrs. Pren- tice was following a large trans- port and had pulled out to pass when she saw the approaching truck owned by Cann's Mill Ltd., Exeter, In attempting to brake her car and pull back in behind the trans- port, she lost control and shot back out unto the passing lane in front of Wurm. The violent collison complete- ly wrecked the car and the en, gine was tossed into, a nearby field. The front wheels of the local One man was killed and seven Others suffered a varietyof minor injuries in six accidents in the district this past week. In ad- dition, a local man luckily es- caped any Injury in a spectacular crash in which a London woman was killed in the Thamesford area, Killed in the area crash was James B. McDaniel, an 18-year- old youth from Wayne, Michigan. He died in South Huron Hospital after his motor cycle spilled on the Gill Road, about one mile southeast of Grand Bend, The youth was alone at the time and apparently lost control of his rented bike on the gravel road. OPP ConstableJohn Wright investigated the mishap which took place late Sunday afternoon. On Tuesday, Ed Wurm, Ex- eter, miraculously escaped any MANY HURT In area crashes, several driv- ers and their passengers were injured, After a struggle that has lasted for over three years, an addition is finally underway for South. Huron District High School. While the delays have been many and varied since the school board started action to erect an addition, the contractor didn't waste any time getting on the site. Approval for the $2,118,532 addition was received from the Ontario Municipal Board on Wednesday and by Friday the contractor, W. A. McDougall, Ltd., London, had machinery on the site to start digging. The addition, which will cost area taxpayers some $574,446, is expected to be completed in 65 weeks. At least that's what the con- tract calls for. In the photo below, L. D. Palmer, Principal of SHIMS, and W. D. Burton, Business Administrator, watch the work in progress. Ninety-third Year EXETER, ONTARIO, AUGUST 18, 1966 FIVE BECOME ONE' RIO SCHOLARS JOHN GRAHAM KAREN FINKBEINER Franklin, is moving from this area and plans to enter Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia on a scholarship already awarded by that University. John is the son of Major and Mrs. Elliot Franklin, CFB Cen- tralia, and he recorded a per- centage of 81.9. A former President of the Stu- dents' Council, Bryan Baynham, Exeter, rounded out the list of Ontario Scholars with an average of 80.6%. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Cord Baynham, Exeter, he plans to enroll at the University of Western Ontario next month in Honours History in prepara- tion for a law course. The two students who just fail- ed to make the 80% mark on eight -- Please turn to Page 3 • 'V ett. eaM sem— .1•MIESIMAZIE• CWARMIMIKEMil Council shows irritation over weeds and sewers Good year for coffers . . . Receive $400 scholarships for averaging over 80% on grade 13 examinations This year's graduating class at SHDHS set an all-time record for the area school when five of their members qualified as On- tario Scholars, and a $400 schol- arship. In making the announcement that five grade 13 students had attained an average of over 80% on eight papers to qualify for the honour of being Ontario Scholars, Principal L. D. Palmer reported that two other members of the class missed the elite grouping by only a fraction of one percent. Mr. Palmer indicated the re- sults this year were "really tremendous" and were the best at the school in some years. Topping this year's class was Carolyn Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Campbell, RR 1 Exeter, who scored an average of 87.8%. It is of in- terest to note that the top stu- dent in Ontario recorded a 95.77%. Carolyn plans to enter the University of .waterloo in Sep- tember and holds the added dis- tinction of being the most out- standing language student at SHOES. She averaged 92% in the three language papers of Latin, French and Spanish. In second place was John Gra- ham, son of Mrs. Mary Graham, Grand Bend, with an average of 85.6%. John was president of this year's Students' Council and is planning to enter the Univer- sity of Western Ontario. A Crediton area girl scored an average of 83.5% to place third in the class. Karen Fink- beiner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Finkbeiner, RR 1 Crediton, has made application to attend the University of Waterloo. The fourth place finisher, John On learning that connections had been made without permits, Works Superintendent Jim Pais- ley suggested "the only thing to do is to clip a couple of these guys", indicating he was in fa- vour of charging them as pro- vided under the bylaw.' A fine of not more than $25 may be levied against persons found guilty of contravening the bylaw. "People just won't comply with the law," Mayor Jack Deibridge charged. He suggested that if council complained about the way some people do things in the same manner as residents corn- Exeter residents will be given one last warning that they must have a permit before they com- mence work to hook into any of the sanitary sewers. The decision was made by council, Monday, after reports indicated at least three instal- lations had been made this week without any permits having been issued. The reason for the bylaw re- quiring the permits was to bring a halt to the improper con- nections which have been made in the past. It was intended pri- marily as a safe-guard for the property owner. Still expecting industry, just a matter of waiting Sick leave benefit provided town staff Pick MOH for County Both the federal and provincial government agencies have been working on the area's behalf. Joseph F. Derrick of the Lands and Buildings Division of the Crown Assets Disposal Corpora- tion, Ottawa, has carried out a study for the federal department of industry. This was at the per- sona] request of the Hon. C. M. Drury, minister of labour. Earlier this month, N. R. Rad- ford, Chief, Branch Plants Sec- tion. Ontario Trade and Industry Branch, toured the base with Mr. Turkey and CFB Centralia of- ficers to obtain information as to the possibility of the buildings beim; used for industrial pur- poses. Tho information gathered for the Department of Economics and -- Please turn to Page 3 munity in Kansas that faced a similar situation when a large U.S.A. Air Force base was clos- ed. The community attracted a considerable amount of industry and most of the residents were of the opinion they were better off than they had been before with the base. "It's just a matter of waiting," stated Ross Turkey this week in reporting on developments taking place in regard to attracting in- dustry into the facilities at CFB Centralia. The president of the Exeter Industrial Development Ltd. in- dicated that while no new firms had investigated the site this past week, those who had previously shown an interest "appear very serious". He said nothing could he done until the base is turned over to Crown Assets Disposal Corpora- tion, which would then call for bids from those interested. Tuckey indicated several of those may be making bids for the base and he is ''still optim- istic" that an industry will settle here. This week, he said he had been reading an article about a corn- Police speed blood on way The ideal weather conditions for the first part of the summer season have resulted in increas- ed business for Grand Bend busi- nesses this year, and has also aided the village coffers as well. In a report to council, Monday, Clerk Murra y A. DesJardins, re- ported that receipts at the bath- house and parking lot had result- ed in a higher profit by August 8 of this year than from the entire season of 1965. Receipts at the bathhouse have reached $2,794.50 with a profit from that of $1,276.59. Included in the expenses was a bill for close to $235 for repairs that had to be made as a result of vandalism at the start of the season. The village increased the fee for parking on the beach from 25 to 50C and show a profit of $1,506.87 to the August 8 date. Total receipts were $1,- 936.00. In other business, council: Learned that road expendi- tures to date have reached about $7,500 for maintenance and con- struction. The resort is allowed an expenditure of up to $16,000 on which the department of high- ways will pay a subsidy. Heard a recommendation from DesJardins that the present life- luard towers be used for the re- mainder of the year with con- sideration to be given to the erection of steel towers next season. One of the present wood- en towers was destroyed by fire this year and had to be replaced and the others are not in top Shape. Sent a letter to CFB Centralia to determine if there may be any fire equipment for sale when the base closes. plain about council, they would have enough complaints to fill a newspaper every week. Councillor Joe Wooden sug- gested a notice be placed in the T-A advising residents of the bylaw once more before action be taken. Reeve Boyle added that failure of the property owner to have a permit should be held as the responsibility of the contractor doing the job. Council did receive some com- plaints over sewer hookups. Two residents had been billed for hooking up, when in fact they were not using the sewer. However, it was noted the peo- ple had the line connected to their houses and when this was in- spected by the County inspector, it was the only point from which council could start to charge. "It's the only thing we have to go by," stated Wooden. The final check is made by Jim Pinder, who uses a ball to test whether the line is hooked up properly. This prompted May- or Deibridge to state: "When Pinder rolls the ball, that's it." Exeter council Monday night approved a bylaw to establish a plan of sick leave credits for all town employees. Each employee will be entitled to one day each month for regular attendance. These are accumu- lative to a maximum of 90 days. No credit will be given in a month if an employee is absent for more than six days for any reason other than vacation or leave of absence and no employee shall receive pay for absence caused by sickness in excess of his accumulated credit, except at the discretion of council. After three days absence caus- ed by sickness, no leave with pay shall be allowed unless a certifi- cate of a duly qualified medical practitioner is forwarded cer- tifying to the inability of the employee to attend to his or her duties. Any employee who is disabled as a result of an accident or illness incurred in the perform- ance of duties, is to be paid his full salary during such a period Huron County council has been advised by the Department of Health and Welfare that they have been successful in finding a Medi- cal Officer of Health to replace Dr. R. M. Aldis, who left Huron last month to assume a similar job in Perth County. Clerk John Berry stated that the new MOH is expected to as- sume his duties on November 1. His name is Dr. Gerard P. A. Evans, and he is presently a General Practitioner in England. A native of Scotland, he was formerly in the field of public health. Dr. N. C. Jackson, Goderiele will continue in his position as acting MOH until Dr, Evans ar. rives in Canada. WEEDS COSTLY The question of weeds cropped up again, and council indicated they were going to set down some hard lines in this regard as well. Paisley reported one field had been cleared of weeds and the property owner would be pre- sented with a bill for $100. The property was such that a bulldozer had to be used to clear the weeds, hence the hefty bill. —Please turn to Page 3 Residents cif the area cleared the highway sulekly. Monday, when ponce ..misers saved alone Highwey 4 !rem London to Wine- ham. The offwers Were transport- ing Moor.. to the Wingham Hos- pital. Local e'PP Constables Ed Wil- cox arm Dale Lamont wore in- volve,' rn the emergency run as Lamont prosel:ei escort for Wil- cox dianne his run from the Lucan detachment erea until he was relieve ,t la the Goderich detach- ment in tie Brucefield area. Cpl. harry van Bergen also escorted the ,gtrs through town. MP flies north for lengthy trip Still at odds on fire cost But, when it comes . . Hay Township and Zurich have failed to reach any settlement re- garding a fire agreement and another meeting is scheduled for Monday night. Zurich has requested a $3,000 a year retaining fee from Hay and the latter has refused to pay that amount. Last year, Zurich charged only $300 per year. The two councils met last Wed- nesday and decided to hold a meeting of all area councils in Zurich this week: The councils Of Grand Bend and the Police Village of Dashwood have been asked to attend. One up to a maximum of six months. This is to be limited to the dif- ference between the full salary and the amount of compensation awarded under the Workmen's Compensation or Group insur- ance plan. The new benefits will be retro- active toJanuary 1 of this year and present employees will also be credited with three days sick leave for each year of employ- ment, with a maximum of 30 days. In other business, council: Left in the hands of the prop- erty committee a suggestion by Councillor Wooden that the town provide the caretaker for the Exeter Library. At the suggestion of Councillor Wright, decided to order "men at work" signs for use of the works crew while they are performing duties on the streets. Wright noted that they had no such signs at the present and cited one ex- ample where an accident almost occurred as motorists were sud- denly stopped by a workman at- tempting to clear the road for a large piece of machinery. Decided to deny a request from the Exeter Gun Club to stage a trap shoot within the town limits. Councillor Wright pointed out it was hardly fair to make teenagers abide by the law and not shoot in town, and then turn around and grant permission to adults. A letter will be sent to the club informing them the present by- law can not be circumvented. Learned that Chief C. H. Mac- Kenzie had returned to part- time duties following his recent heart attack and that he expected to be on full-time duty in Sep- tember. Granted building permits to; Gerald Smith, for the erection of a house On Riverside Drive; Gord Cudmore for a porch on his house at SimCoe street; Wil- son Morley, for the erection of a garage at the property of Mrs. McIntosh On Carling Street, of the last flights over area It never rain but what it pours! That's the situation with the area weather this year as it has been very unbalanced. Early spring brought heavy rains and then a dry spell set in for June and July. However, the area has re- ceived a real dousing this month, with the met section at CFB Centralia recording a total of 4.01 inches to date in August, This compares with the 1.48 inches in July, and most of that came at the end of the Month. The heaviest rain in August came early Tuesday Morning when this area was soaked with 1,02 inches. A familiar sight, the flight Of a Chipmunk over the area will soon be missing. Above, 1,11, Ray Stead is shown making one of the Huron Ml' Robert McKinley returned this week from a 10,000 mile trip through Canada's north. The Zurich mail made the trip with 22 other members of the Commons as members of the standing committee on Northern Affairs and Natural Resources. The gr,)up covered the distance in an airplane and travelled from roast to itoast and were some 300 miles above the Arctic Circle at one time. One oddity reported by Me- Kinley was the arctic summer, in which it never got dark dur- ing the day or night. ''Canada has some tremen- dous resources up there," he stated, following his trip through the territory and some of the new mines being opened up. He said the main requisite to open up more of the resources was a transportation network of highways and railroads. The local. MP told of seeing a man haul in a 20-pound trout and said that game and fish abound and if people could get into the area inure easily, it would be a boon to the country's tourism appeal. last trips over the Town of Exeter, prior to the closing of CFB ceniralia which will be completed by early next month.—CFB photo