The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-02-02, Page 3AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.
By Ann Creech
Here and
there
Saddle club votes
to reduce charges
Times-Advocate, February 2, 1967 Page 3
Members of the Exeter Saddle
club voted unanimously at their
annual meeting Friday to move
the rodeo grounds to the Exeter
Community Park if the proper
arrangements can be made.
Representatives of various or-
RECEIVES WINGS
Officer Cadet Ralph Howey re-
cently graduated from pilot train-
ing at Canadian Forces Base
Portage la prairie where he re-
ceived his RCAF Wings and pro-
motion to Flying Officer.
F/0 Howey is the son of Wing
Commander and Mrs, E. L.
Howey, formerly of Exeter, and
a grandson of Mrs. G A, Haw-
kins.
• Students visit
A student vs teacher broom-
ball game will be held Saturday,
Feb. 4, from 8-10 pm at the
arena. A dance will be held
after the game, Let's have every-
one out!
Since the weather was unco-
operative last Friday night, no
dance was held. However, a
make-up dance will be held some-
time in the future, so keep your
eyes and ears open!
We finished exams Monday,
instead of the previous Friday,
again on account of the naughty
weather.
A basketball game between the
present senior girls' team and
former members will be held
Feb. 11. More about this next
week.
The boys' gym has fallen into
the grasp of the construction
and as a result, all gym classes
will have to be held in the girls'
gym, In order to do this, boys
and girls will alternate.
A full schedule has been post-
ed on the main bulletin board,
so check it and be sure what
days you have gym!
The Grade 13 students and
twelve Grade 12 students will
partake of the activities at Uni-
versity College Day, being held
Feb. 4 at UWO. This should be
most interesting and I'm sure
all are looking forward to it.
Watch the slippery sidewalks,
and I'll see you next week! Area students informed
Grade eight students from the area's elementary students, ac-
companied by their parents, teachers and principals, spent Tuesday
evening at SHDHS to hear details of what courses they can expect to
'take next fall — if they graduate. SHDHS Principal Douglas Palmer
addressed the gathering, a portion of which is shown here. About 500
persons attended, — T-A photo
Exeter lawyer is
director of firm
COUNTY COUNCIL REPORTS
Choose committee members
— Continued from front page
of grade nine; infect, Mr. Palmer
said he and his staff would prob-
ably recommend some changes.
"We will do our utmost to make
sure you take the course you want
and can handle," he advised the
students.
Most of those starting high
school education will do so at
SHDHS. The only exceptions will
be where there are not enough
students to fill a course, or where
teaching facilities will not be
completed. In such cases the stu-
dents will attend classes in Clin-
ton.
Mr. Palmer explained that area
students would continue to attend
classes in Clinton if they wish to
take specialized courses not of-
fered at SHDHS.
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Early sessions in Huron County
Council Council January sitting
resulted in the appointment of the
following committees of council
for 1967:
Roads: Delbert Geiger, deputy-
reeve of Hay Township, chairman
with two year term to complete;
Stewart proctor, r e.e v e of Mor-
ris, one year; Joseph Kerr, reeve
of Wingham, three years; James
Hayter, reeve of Stephen, four
years; Elmer Hayter, deputy-
reeve of Stanley, five years.
Huronview: A. D. Smith, reeve
of Turnberry, chairman, one
year; Elgin Thompson, reeve of
Tuckersmith, one year; Jack Al-
exander, deputy-reeve of Wing-
ham, two years; Grant Stirling,
ganizations in town will be meet-
ing in the near future with a
committee that was recently set
up to look into the possibilities.
Of making the change from the
present Saddle club grounds
south-west of Exeter.
If the park grounds are used
for rodeo purposes, the present
grandstand facilities will likely
be used and will necessitate
changing of the present ball
diamond.
In a move that goes against
the trend of tile times, the club
lowered its membership fees by a
substantial amount. In an attempt
to attract more members, the
family membership will be re-
duced to $10 from $15 and single
memberships will cost $5 as
opposed to $7.50 last year, The
cost to junior members will be
$2.50, a drop of 50e.
Under the guidance of chair-
man John Burke and vice-chair-
man Dr. Don Ecker a more
extensive program is being plan-
ned for the junior members.
Nine names were added to the
membership list at Friday's
meeting bringing the total to 35.
The Club will be sponsoring a
quarter horse show on June 17
and their regular local horse
shows the first Sunday of each
month during the summer.
Last year's quarter show drew
entries from most parts of On-
tario and some points south of
the border and was classed as
one of the largest and best in
the province.
In addition to their special
events, the club plans a trail
ride at least once a month.
Mrs. Bill Sims is the club
treasurer and Mrs. Wilmer
preszcator handles the secre-
tarial duties.
George Wonch, one year; Roy
Westcott, two years; Herbert
Such, three years; Mervyn Cud-
more, three years.
Carries pig
to market
Boost pay
for officials
The nursery rhyme about "the
little pig that went to market" be-
came a reality in Dashwood, Mon-
day. While the pig wasn't so little,
its method of transportation was
more than a little unusual. Ask
Jack Guenther, an employee of
Merner's Meat Market in the vil-
lage.
Guenther carried a 131 pound
dressed pig from the firm's
slaughter house north of Dash-
wood to the Market, a distance of
seven-tenths of a mile without
letting it down for a rest. Part
of the trip was managed through
a snow-filled laneway.
Ron Merner, owner of the meat
market is a little lighter in the
pocket book as the result of Geen-
ther's successful trek.
Request sale
of Sunday booze
Sunday diners will have the
option of wine, beer or liquor
with their meals in some Ontario
restaurants this week.
However, it is not known
whether that will apply to persons
dining in area restaurants which
have liquor licences.
A partial survey of some es-
tablishments prior to press time
indicated that none had yet re-
ceived permission to start sel-
ling drinks with Sunday dinner,
but some hoped to have word in
time for this weekend.
A statement from the Ontario
Liquor Licence Board this week
noted that about 500 establish-
ments would have permission by
the weekend. Huron county Assessor A. A.
Alexander, Deputy Clerk-trea-
surer B, G. leanly and Clerk-
treasurer John G. Berry will have
salary increases this year, ef-
fective January 1, 1967.
Assessor Alexander receives
an increase of $900 from $6,600
to $7,500; Hanly's pay check will
include another $900 making his
annual salary $7,400 (plus $600
car allowance); Berry's salary
will be $$11,500 an increase of
$400 (plus $500 car allowance).
County Council will also recog-
nize beginning in 1967 25
years continuous employment
with the County by the presenta-
tion of a long-term service pin.
Reeve Duff Thompson, Clinton,
expressed delight at the forma-
tion of the new Tourism and In-
dustrial Committee of County
Council and proposed a project
for consideration by the mem-
bers.
Thompson said Benmiller was
being overlooked as a possible
tourist attraction in Huron, and
with the establishment of parks
and picnic facilities revitaliza-
tion of the historic Woollen Mill
and a little good management, the
spot could become a thriving area
with indirect remuneration to all
parts of the County.
entered into merger negotiations
and we did feel that the effect
of the Atlantic collapse would
not be fully felt for some time.
"Difficulties have since arisen
in other companies but not for
any reason connected with the
Atlantic or tile British. Indeed
the recent losses in other fi-
nancial companies have no con-
nection whatever with anything
involving our company or any
other trust and loan company.
One of the drawbacks is that
quite a few people do not under-
stand the difference between a
finance company discoun Ling
commercial paper — and a trust
and loan company which invests
its guaranteed funds largely in
bonds and mortgages.
"The past twelve months have
shown that with the exception of
the Atlantic and allied securities
the former British assets were
to a considerable extent well
secured, and where we classified
them as doubtful, were such that
we may expect a reasonable rate
of recovery.
"One final word about the econ-
omy might be that we should not
expect any amount of expansion
during 1967. We are going to be
engaged in consolidating the pro-
gress of the las1 few years; and
adjusting ourselves to the. sub-
stantially higher wage levels
which have been established this
year.
GUIDELINE
In establishing a guideline to
help grade eight students decide
on courses, Mr. Palmer said
that unless they are averaging
over 70 percent in their pre-
sent grade eight classes their
chances of completing a five-
year program at high school
are slight.
Those just passing grade eight
should consider a four-year pro-
gram and those on the borderline
of passing and failing should con-
sider either a four or two-year
program.
Following the address by Mr.
Palmer, the students and their
parents were invited to tour the
school and ask questions of any
teachers present.
Prior to the meeting, a dinner
was held at tle school attended
by nine members of the SHDHS
board, department heads on the
teaching staff, grade eight tea-
chers and elementary school
principals.
A total of 46 persons were in
attendance. At that time, the
elementary school teachers and
principals were given further in-
formation on the courses to be
offered their graduating students.
Ashfield, two years; Clare Vin-
cent, reeve of Hullett, two years;
Roy Pattison, reeve of East Wa-
wanosh, three years; Douglas
Miles, F. Janser, J. W. Britnell.
Warden's and personnel: Ev-
erett Mcllwain, deputy-reeve of
Goderich Township, chairman,
one year; Jack Corbett, one year;
H. Robinson, two years; G. Boyd,
two years; C. Dalton, three years;
K. Stewart, three years.
Equalization: L. Thiel, chair-
man, one year; MervynCudmore,
deputy-reeve of Exeter, one year;
Robert Lyons, reeve of West
Wawanosh, two years; R. Patti-
son, two years; Melville Allan,
deputy-reeve of Howick, three
years.
School Consultative, W. Hardy,
chairman, one year; E. Mcllwain,
two years; Roy Westcott, reeve of
Usborne, three years; J. Kinkead;
(two laymen recommended to be
appointed to sit on this commit-
tee, bringing total to six, in-
cluding Mr. Kinkead.
Criminal Audit: Judge R. S.
Hetherington; C. Boyle, one year;
Clerk J. G. Berry.
Industrial and Tourism (newly
established committee): Calvin
Kreuter, chairman, one year;
reeve of Goderich Township, two
years; Ed. Hendrick, deputy -
reeve of Stephen, three years.
Health: Borden Cook, reeve of
Blyth, chairman, one year; Clif-
ford Dunbar, reeve of Grey, two
years; W. J. Cuthill, deputy-
reeve of Seaforth, three years;
Warden Don McKenzie, reeve of
Ashfield, one year; Jack Morris-
sey, provincial representative.
Library: Duff Thompson, reeve
of Clinton, chairman, one year;
Frank McFadden, reeve of Bay-
field, two years; MPS. Minnie
Noakes, reeve of Hensall, three
years; Mrs. M. Tisdale, Exeter,
one year; Mrs. J. MeConnell, two
years; G. McCutcheon, three
years.
Finance and Executive: Ken-
neth Stewart, reeve of McKillop,
chairman, one year; Harold Rob-
inson, reeve of Howick, two
years; Leroy Thiel, reeve of
Zurich, two years; Harry Wor-
sell, deputy-reeve of Goderich,
three years; Derry Boyle, reeve
of Exeter, three years.
Agriculture and Reforestation:
Jack Corbett, reeve of Hay,
chairman, one year; Ernie Tal-
bot, reeve of Stanley, one year;
Gordon Boyd, deputy-reeve of
Twenty-five blind
among centenarians
Issue warning
about con men SCHOOL PROGRESS
At the Tuesday night meeting,
Mr. Palmer reported that com-
pletion date for the new addition
was the end of November.
He said the contractor ap-
peared to be on schedule and that
it was hoped two or three of the
shop areas and the commercial
rooms would be completed for
occupancy in September.
Stephen events
Continued from front page
man, will be looking after the
supplying and arranging of tables
and chairs.
Donald Finkbeiner heads the
sports committee with other
members being Mrs. Lorne
Kleinstiver, Mrs. Roy Ryan and
Mrs. Norman Tripp. Ross Haugh
will be in charge of publicity and
advertising.
The presidents of the Women's
Institutes in Crediton, Dashwood
and Centralia are being asked
to organize a display of antiques.
Township council has authoriz-
ed Mrs. Wilfred Mack of Crediton
to prepare a history of the muni-
cipality for publication.
Local entry
wins spiel
Celebrating a 100th birthday
is history for 25 blind Canadians.
"These people sawCanada grow-
ing. They are a living source of
information for Canada's Cen-
tennial year," said Jack Clem-
ents, Field Secretary for The
Canadian National Institute for
the Blind, in an interview for
White Cane Week sponsored by
the CNIB and The Canadian Coun-
cil of the Blind.
Four blind centenarians who
live in B.C., were in their teens
when that province joined Con-
federation in the early 1870's.
Ontario's eight and Quebec's five
were born when the two provinces
were one. Four blind residents
of the Atlantic provinces might
have been carried in their moth-
er's arms to see the Fathers of
E. D. Bell, QC, was elected a
director of the Victoria and G rey
Trust Company at the 77th annual
meeting of the shareholders in
Lindsay,
The local lawyer was one of
five new directors named.
Hon. Walter Harris was chair-
man and said he was pleased at
the number of shareholders pre-
sent and that more than 64% of
the Company's issued shares
were represented by proxy or by
attending shareholders.
The annual report of the Board
of Directors to the shareholders
was read by Mr. G. E. Phelps,
an Assistant General Manager,
and was adopted on motion pre-
sented by Hon. Leslie M. Frost
and seconded byDr. G. A. Morton,
both addressing the meeting on
making this motion.
The Chairman of the Board,
Mr. H. J, McLaughlin, Q.C. in
speaking to the meeting said:
"It is 34 years since I first
attended an annual meeting of
Victoria and Grey Trust Comp-
any as a director. They have been
years of great interest and of
great growth by the company. At
that time, The Victoria Trust
and Savings Company (as it was
then) had an office in Lindsay and
one in Cannington. Grey & Bruce
Trust Company had an office in
Owen Sound only. Eighteen years
later, Victoria and Grey & Bruce
came together, and we were then
made up of five branches in all,
by reason of the Grey & Bruce
branch in Peterborough and the
Victoria branch in Belleville.
"We continued to grow slowly,
adding five branches up to 1965,
when there came the substantial
increase in the size and number
of branches through the merger
of old Victoria and Grey Trust
with British Mortgage & Trust
Company, so that now we are 25
branches with total assets of 315
million dollars including our es-
tates, trusts and agencies,
In his address, Company pre-
sident. Hon. Walter Harris, Q.C.
said:
"The Annual Report has shown
you how the Company has fared
in the past year. In the light of
recent events it is almost ancient
history now that this Company did
intervene in the summer of 1965
for the purpose of bolstering the
confidence of the public in our
financial institutions by guaran-
teeing that no depositor or holder
of an investment certificate in
British would suffer any loss.
Experience has shown that the
first financial difficulty is not
usually the only one; we were
quite conscious of that when we
Require an addition
at popular museum
this Sunday, Wednesday afternoon
and during the evening throughout
the week,
A bronze Centennial plaque
will be erected on the new wing
at the Museum it was reported.
South End Service
Confederation on their way to
the Charlottetown Conference.
The four elderly blind settlers
of the prairie provinces prob-
ably remember herds of buffalo
roaming the wilderness. And to
two residents of the far north,
the gold rush was just yesterday.
"It is undoubtedly true," add-
ed the CNIB Field Secretary,
"that these people pioneered this
country with a simple desire to
build successful lives, regard-
less of the hardships, a philos-
ophy which gave courage when
blindness occurred,"
The CNIB representative went
on to illustrate. "One of these
blind old-timers lost his sight
when he was sixteen, in 1877,
forty years before the founding
of the CNIB. He went to the On-
tario School for the Blind, studied
piano tuning and was a member
of that school's first graduating
class. He owned what is thought
to be the first Braille watch in
Canada as early as 1882. He
joined a piano company and later
in 1925, started his own business.
He was 63 then, at an age when
most men are looking forward to
retirement. Taking an interest
in his fellow blind, he served on
CNIB boards to make sure that
the youth of today have the ser-
vices he was denied."
CLEAN-UP
For general year-long pro-
jects the committee will be ask-
ing the Federation of Agriculture
and the WI's to assist in a spring
clean-up that would i n c lude
yards, fences and lanes.
Every household is being asked
to co-operate by having at least
one flower bed of red and white
flowers.
Churches in the township will
be requested to hold special ser-
vices similar to the one at James
St. United church in Exeter.
These could be held in conjunction
with the regular anniversary ob-
servance.
Residents will be asked to hunt
out old pictures and scenes of the
community. They will also be en-
couraged to wear authentic cos-
tumes of the nineteenth century.
Local curlers made a fine
showing in the open bonspiel at
the Exeter curling club, Satur-
day, sponsored by the Exeter
Lions club.
A last minute entry, head-
ed by Alvin Pym, were winners
of the first draw, winning three
straight games. The Pym rink
that included George Busche, Bill
Dougall and Bill Lamport edged
another Exeter rink skipped by
Bill McLean in a real cliff-hang-
er that needed an extra end to
decide the winner.
Ned Burnett swept his Strat-
ford entry to victory over Dr.
Harvey Cowen's Exeter foursome
to take second draw honors,
Rinks competing in the annual
event were from Stratford, St.
Marys, Howick, Wingham, Thed-
ford and Centralia in addition to
the local entries from the Lions,
Legion and Kinsmen clubs.
OPP Cpl. C. J. Mitchell warned
this week that con artists posing
as bank inspectors have been
duping elderly people out of
money in area communities, and
advised residents to be on guard
against such persons.
The manner of operation of
these men is about the same,
wherever they go.
They telephone elderly people
saying they are attempting to un-
cover bank tellers whom they
suspect of thefts from bank funds.
They ask the person to go to the
bank and withdraw a sum of
money in an attempt to catch these
dishonest tellers.
The phoney bank inspector then
meets with the depositor and says
he will return the money to tile
bank. However, it never gets
there of course.
Sometimes the elderly persons
are promised large sums of
money if they will assist in the
scheme to trap the tellers.
In issuing the warning, Cpl.
Mitchell also asked bank employ-
ees to question a large sum of
money being taken from a dor-
mant account.
During the week the Exeter
OPP Detachment officers inves-
tigated nine occurrences, issued
30 warnings under the Highway
Traffic Act and charged four
drivers.
Three persons were charged
under the Criminal Code and one
for an offence under the Liquor
Control Act and one charge under
other provincial statutes.
A total of 2,324 miles were
covered in 59 hours on patrol.
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Year Round Rose Lore
for
Amateur Growers
by ethesr C. Hinver
Rose lovers will he planting the Centennia I Rose this
spring. Well-known rose grower, E.0 Harvey takes the
gueSs work out of proper planting and care, In simple, <,:ort-
else ranguage,you may have the benefit from Mr. Harvey's
years of study. You may purchase a copy of this handy 2,4-
page booklet at
500 each
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Centralia resident promoted
Group Captain K. R. Greenaway, Clinton's Base Commander (right) congratulates Roy Ayiesworth on
his promotion to the rank of Staff Sergeant. Staff Sgt Aylesworth is On the staff of the Canadian Porces
School of Instructional Technique and resides on Kensington C reseed in Centralia. Looking on is Lieu-
tenant Commander Irwin Stutt o Chief Instructor of "A" Division at CPSIT, (Canadian Forces Photo)
MORE, SPACE
The Property Committee is
investigating possible solutions
to problems resulting from in-
adequacies at the Huron County
library site and the court house
where used clothing for the Child-
ren's Aid has been stored in one
of the vaults.
With the changeover from a
co-operative library system to
a County library service, ad-
ditional space is required for
an increased volume of books.
As well, easily accessible ramps
fOr loading and unloading will be
needed. To date, no suitable spot
has been chosen by the property
committee who will study the
Matter further during the come
ing months.
Mombers of the property com-
mittee will also consider the
problem of relocatingused cloth-
ing now stored in a vault in the
basement of the Court House.
The report revealed that the
vault space was "desperately"
needed for storing records, the
original purpose of the vaults.
In recent years, the Utilised
vault was utilii ed as a Coe-
venient place to store clothing
donated fer redistribution to the
COUnty's needy and to complete
the necessary labor involved ih
cleaning, Mending and pressing
the wearing apparel,
It appears that an addition to
Pioneer Museum in Gcderich,
of which James Chisholm is cur-
ator, is required if the popular
Huron County tourist attraction
is to make room for all exhibits
now at the museum and all those
expected in the coming months.
Reporting to the January ses-
sion of CountyCouncil, Mr. Chis-
holm recalled that 1965 Warden
Glenn Webb had asked, "Do you
think you'll ever fill it (an ad-
dition)". The museum is now
"full to the doors", the curator
said.
He proposed a 9,600 sq. foot
two-floor addition to the present
building at a cost of about$9,000.
He indicated he would be willing
to do a great deal of the Work
involved in the construction.
In 1966, Pioneer Museum had
23,474 visitors, an increase of
1,312 persons over the previous
year. Included were 3,362 school
children from 82 schools,
"People were pl eased with
What they saw," Chisholm told
council members. "They think
they get the worth of their mon-
ey, I believe the Museum will
come closer to paying its way
than many other projects inalure
on."
A devoted curator, Mr. Chis-
holm noted with some longing
that Huron County Museum had
been offered a Bell Thresher,
built in Seaforth before the line
became obsolete.
"It belongs in the Museum,"
he saki, "but there is no MM."
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