The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-02-08, Page 1Ninety4hird. Year Price Per Copy 15 Cents EXETER, .,PNTARIP‘..FEBRVARY ,8,. 1968
Approve idea of liquor vote,
but fail to agree on questions
OPP report six crashes
Crediton organist honored
At the annual congregational meeting of Zion United Church in Crediton a faithful church worker Was
honored on her retirement. Mrs. Emmery Fawner who served Zion E.U,B. church for many years as
organist and choir director is shown receiving a gift on behalf of the choir from. Miss Ella Morlock.
Edmond Hendrick, an elder at left and Rev. Howard Zurbrigg watch the presentation. -- T-A photo
Bad start for February
Ice forms 'tables'
The recent flood left some unusual sights around the area in addition
to acres of water. When the water receded it left ice hanging on trees
as shown above in a scene in Stephen Township. T-A photo
To discuss problems
with Humane Society
Members of area councils are
getting more serious in their
war on dogs and plan a meeting
with London Humane Society of-
ficials in the near future to see
if that group can help solve the
problem of dogs running at large.
Exeter council decided to have
'
Humane Society officials outline
the cost of their services and will
invite councils from Hensall and
Grand Bend and any others inter-
ested to a joint meeting.
That there is interest in such
a meeting was indicated at Hen-
Dog problem
at Stephen
At its latest meeting, Stephen
Township Council authorized par-
ticipation in the Ontario Muni-
cipal Employees Retirement Sys-
tem by their employees and also
set up an accumulative sick leave
benefit plan.
Discussion also took place on
the probability of obtaining a
medical group insurance plan.
Although plans have not been
completed for this year's warble
fly control program, clerk Wil-
mar D. Wein was instructed to
advertise for a warble fly in-
spector.
A request from Claire Sch-
wartz and Frank Regier for re-
pair and improvement to a por-
tion of the Mud Creek Drain was
accepted and forwarded to drain-
age engineers Mannerow and
Gamsby of Guelph for a survey,
plan and report.
Fred Culbert reported dogs
running loose on his property on
Coricession 5 and several head of
cattle are missing.
A considerable amount Of time
at. Monday's regular meeting of
Hensall village council was spent
on reviewing and discussing the
salaries of clerk Earl CaMpbell
and road fOreMan Ernie Davis:
The matter Will be finalized at
the March meeting.
Although no definite action was
taken bn the problem of dogs
running at large Councillor liat‘.
Old knight Said he was in touch
With neighboring municipalities
wouldbe willing to join in
On a plan to haVe stray dogs hand,
led by the turnane Sodiety.
Regarding the matter of fire
protection, for the townships of
Hay and Tuckersmith, it is
petted ilenSalPSAWO neighboring
municipalities will be lOOking-
inte the possibility of purchasing
ari available fire. truck from
Crown Assets Corporation:
this purchase takes place it would
be a joint affair Of the three
councils and *CAM prObablY
Manned. by the Hensall fire
'Partite*
Road foreman Ernie :Davis was
instructed to cut down Mete deed
trees in the village. He reported
eleven hadaireadY been removed,
some limb by limb at a coat of
$532.75.,
sail council this week as well.
They too planned to discuss the
dog question with the Humane
Society and area councils.
Exeter council took the action
after reading a letter from one
citizen who complained that past
efforts to have a neighbor con-
trol his dog had borne no re-
sults.
Ron Heimrich reported that a
dog owned by a neighbor had
knocked down one small visitor
to the Heimrich house and that
children in the area were afraid
of the "large dog".
It was also reported the dog
had "grabbed" two persons.
After the letter was read,
Reeve Boyle suggested the mat-
ter be turned over to the police
for investigation.
However, after it was learned
that some action had been taken,
Councillor Ted 'Wright left the
meeting to speak to Chief C. H.
MacKenzie and returned with the
information that charges were
pending.
"I still think we need a dog
catcher," Wright stated, adding
that people simply defy the law
that all dogs must be tied. "They
just laugh at you," he said.
T- A editor Bill Batten revealed
that a recent conversation with
A. S. Bone, manager of the London
Humane Society, indicated that
organization's services were be-
ing used by many communities in
the London area. Mr. Bone in-
dicated the Society would be happy
to discuss the possibility of ex-
tending such service to Exeter or
any other neighboring communi-
ties.
"We have to take some steps,"
Mayor Delbridge stated in sup-
porting the suggestion that Hu-
mane Society officials be asked to
attend a meeting and detail their
services and costs.
Reeve Minnie Noakes Said, "It
is better to have these trees saw-
ed down than have. them come
down on somebody's head." Coun,
tiller Knight suggested that a re-
planting program be started
whereby the village would pur-
chase the trees and have the help
of residents in watering and ear-
ing for them in the early stages.
Membership in the newly form.,
ed South Huron Aasociation for
the Mental Retarded was approv-
ed and councillor Oliver Jaques
Was appointed as the village's of-
ficial representatiVe,
Harold Knight reported on a
visit to the dump during last
Week's Wet weather and said,
"the new culvert was well worth
its cost, the road is still there."
Councillor 3ataiea suggested
that a map containing the loca-
tion and sizes of drains in the
village be drawn up.
In other business,
Learned that the Huron County
daily rate for indigent patients
in licented nursing homes had
risen to $8 per day,
Heard a letter front Bell Tele-
phone asking for information on
Mute road construction in con-
nection with the locations' f phone
ca.blet.
Members of Exeter council
became "hung up" on the matter
of holding a liquor vote, Monday,
and it will be another two weeks
before residents will know if they
will go to the polls to decide on
outlets.
The matter of whether or not
to stage a vote was not the issue
on which councillors couldn't
agree, but rather what questions
should go on the ballot.
All members of council with
the exception of Deputy-Reeve
Mery Cudmore supported a liquor
vote in some manner. He ab-
Members of the Exeter Police
Department received eight per-
cent pay boosts this week, but
council members weren't quite
prepared to go along with their
requests for purchase of tear gas
-and a riot gun.
The eight percent wage hikes
were less than requested by mem-
bers of the force, but were the
same as council had approved for
members of the works crew.
The increases will be retro-
active to January 1.
The increases bring Chief Mac-
Kenzie's salary to $5,616; $5,-
508 for Cpl. VanBergen and $4,-
536 for Constable Robertson.
"Conditions with the force are
real good and relations are the
best they've been for some time,"
commented Councillor Ted
Wright in indicating the members
of the force were agreeable to the
pay increases suggested by the
committee and presented to coun-
cil Monday night in the form of a
recommendation.
In addition, council approved
the recommendation .that pay for
the Auxiliary Police be increased
from $1.50 to $1.65 per hour.
In recommending the police be
given the new type of tear gas
which is carried in push-button
cans, Wright said the need for
such equipment does arise when
a lone officer is confronted by a
group of men whom he . would
find impossible to control him-
self.
However, he indicated he was
not quite' as sure that a riot
gun (sawed-off shotgun) was re-
quired,
Councillor Joe Wooden ques-
tioned if it was really necessary
to arm small town police forces
with such things as tear gas and
riot guns.
After a brief debate, council
Nab suspect
in Nashville
Robert Stewart Smith, 20, of
RR 4 Brussels, sought in con-
nection with the Jan. 3 armed
robbery of the Bank of Montreal
branch in Brucefield was arrest-
ed this week in Nashville, Tenn.
OPP Set.-Sgt. George Herries
of the Mount Forest detachment,
who has headed the investigation,
said Smith was picked up through
the co-operation of OPP and
Buffalo and Memphis FBI agents.
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stained in all votes over the is-
sue.
However, Reeve Boyle along
with Ceuncillors Joe Woodep and
Jim Newby favored putting all
five questions on the ballot, while
Councillors Ross Taylor, Ted.
Wright and George Vriese op-
posed beverage rooms and want-
ed only licensed dining lounges
and cocktail bars on the vote.
Wooden said the whole idea of
liquor votes "irks me" and term-
ed it "barbarous" that the-re
should be questions on whether
women can drink beer in some
took no action regarding the riot
gun and asked Wright to secure
more information on the tear gas
to be used. He was also asked to
determine if the Ontario Police
Commission approved its use.
Council approved purchase of
a new revolver for the force after
Wright noted that a plan had been
instituted whereby the three guns
were to be replaced over a three-
year period. One was replaced in
1966, but not in 1967.
Members of the police depart-
ment were also asked to collect
outstanding dog taxes.
Hand out 56
parking tags
Members of the Exeter Police
Department, . who have come in
for criticism in the past for fail-
ing to crack down on illegal park-
ing, may be moving too much in
the opposite direction to suit
some people.
During the past month, the po-
lice issued 56 parking tags, most
for parking on streets between
the hours of 1:00 and 6:00 a.m.
There were only 59 parking
tickets issued during the entire
past year.
Mayor Jack Delbridge suggest-
ed the police needed to show more
discretion in issuing tickets, re-
porting that one driver was fined
while stopped for a coffee, while
several cars have been ticketed
while people attending house par-
ties that extended past 1:00 a.m.
He said he didn't think people
attending parties should be tick-
eted, especially when there was
no need for snowplows to be on
the street.
"One week we tell them to
clamp down and the next we tell
them not to," complained Coun-
cillor George Vriese. "We have
to make up our mind."
Other statistics in Chief Mac-
Kenzie's monthly report were as
follows:
Four reportable accidents, one
charge under the Liquor Control
Act , one under the Highway Traf-
fic Act, 18 complaints investig-
ated, one place of business found
Insecure, three unoccupied haus-
es checked, four summonses is-
sued for other forces.
The officers spent 142 hours
on foot patrol, 153 on motor
patrol and 225 hours on office
duty.
rooms while they are excluded
from others.
"Why not put on all five ques-
tions?" he asked. Newby replied
that this confuses the voters.
Reeve Boyle said it wasn't fair
to beer drinkers to leave off the
question of beverage rooms and
said it looked like snobbishness
to leave beverage rooms off the
ballot.
"If you put on all five ques-
tions, nothing will go," countered
Mayor Delbridge, who offered to
make a wager with Boyle on that
opinion.
Councillor Ted Wright said he
was not in favor of beverage
rooms and therefore wouldn't
want to see the question on the
ballot. He said he favored liquor
outlets so the community could
have a good dining room; but that
was as far as he was prepared to
go.
After more debate, Reeve Boyle
and Wooden presented a motion
to call a vote on all five questions
but this was defeated as they re-
ceived support only from Newby.
Taylor and Wright then pre-
sented a motion calling for only
two questions on the ballot and
they received support only from
Vriese.
Mayor Delbridge started to
cast a tie-breaking vote, but it
was pointed out both motions had
been lost and in fact no tie ex-
isted.
Cudmore then explained his
position, noting that a letter re-
ceived from the Board of Trade
urging council to stage a liquor
vote was misleading.
The letter from President Bill
Smith stated 80% of the Board
of Trade members were in favor
of having a liquor vote, but Cud-
more explained he had not been
approached and learned that New-
by and Vriese had not been ap-
proached either, although all
three were members of the Board
of Trade.
"This is wrong when we are
dealing with such an important
question," Cudmore stated.
"Do we need the names of all
those in favor?" questioned May-
or Delbridge.
Wooden then pointed out he felt
council should make a decision
and again stated it was ichypoc-
rat y" not including all five liquor
questions on a ballot.
He said the matter of drinking
was a private opinion, and council
members didn't have the right to
dictate what people could or could
not do, which in effect was what
they were doing if they left any
questions off the ballot.
Taylor argued strenuously with
that contention, saying council did
have the right to say.
Mayor Delbridge replied that
council had the right to say wheth-
er there would be a vote or not
and said they should also have the
right to decide what people vote
upon.
At this point, Boyle again pre-
sented the motion that a vote be
held with all five questions, and
while Taylor questioned whether
a defeated motion could be pre-
sented again, it was . . . and it
again was supported by only three
members.
A motion was presented by the
other three that the matter be left
over until next council meeting,
but this too received support from
only three members.
"We're backing away from the
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The month of February started
off in a bad way for area drivers,
with three accidents being report-
ed on the first day and a total of
six for the month to date.
The most serious of the crash-
es occurred on Thursday at 11:45
a.m. when a pickup truck operat-
ed by William E. Brock, RR 1
Granton, collided with a truck
operated by Joseph H. McQuar-
rie, Hensall.
It took place on Highway 4,
south of Hensall.
Brock suffered severe lacer-
ations to the left arm and left
leg and was taken to St. Joseph's
'Hospital, London, for treatment.
Damage in the crash was listed
at $3,000 by OPP Constable J. A.
Wright.
At 7:15 p.m. damage was esti-
mated at $75 by Constable E. C,
Wilcox in an accident in Zurich.
A car operated by Lloyd Stew-
art, Grand Bend, collided with
a parked car owned by Edward
J. Boyes, Egmondville.
A Crediton woman, Mrs. Vera
E. Bullock, was • injured when
struck by a bar in the village at
11:15 p.m. Thursday.
Driver of the car was Albert
Gaiser, also of Crediton.
Mrs. Bullock suffered two
broken ribs and bruises to the
back and left leg.
On Saturday at 1:45 p:m. a car
operated by Edward Haberer,
Zurich, collided with a car oper-
List changes
in businesses
Two business changes were an-
nounced in Exeter this week.
Lloyd Cushman of Mid-Town
Cleaners, has sold his business
to John Moddejonge, who present-
ly operates cleaning establish-
ments in Mitchell and Seaforth.
Mr. Cushman plans to work
with the new owner for a period
of time.
The partnership of Middleton
& Genttner has been disolved
With the retirement of Mr.
Middleton and the business will
now be known as Ralph Genttner
Fuels Limited.
ated by Gordon J. Corriveau,
RR 2 Zurich, on Highway 84 in
Zurich.
Damage of $300 was estimated
by Constable D, A. Lamont.
An accident in Zurich on Sun-
day morning resulted in $50 dam-
age to a parked car owned by
A. M. Bedard.
The car was parked in front of
his residence and was hit by a
car being backed out of a lane-
way across the street by Harry
Plantinga, Zurich,
Constable Wilcox investigated.
Falling crate
does damage
The Exeter Police Department
investigated four accidents dur-
ing the past week, all being of a
minor nature.
There were two on Thursday,
with the first at 4:45 p.m. on
Main St. just south of the bridge.
William C. Smith, Hensall, had
parked his vehicle on the east side
of Main St. and it was hit by an
empty crate which fell from a
truck driven by Gerald I. Wil-
helm, Dashwood.
Cpl. Harry VanBergen listed
damage at $200.
At 5:10 p.m., vehicles driven
by James Jones, 459 Carling and
Robert Scott, 63 Waterloo, col-
lided at the intersection of Ann
and Carling Streets.
Damage in that one was esti-
mated at $400.
Chief C. H. MacKenzie was
called to the scene of a two-car
crash on Main St. on Tuesday
at 12:50 p.m. Involved were Mrs.
Margaret A. Beaver, 71 Andrew,
and Harold M. Hern, RR 1Grant-
on.
Mrs. Beaver was southbound
on Main and Hern was proceed-
ing west on James St. and was
in the process of making a left
turn onto Main.
Damage was listed at $110.
Cpl. VanBergen is investig-
ating a hit and run crash Tues-
day night on Gidley St. A parked
car owned by Arend P. Kersten,
Exeter, sustained damage of $75
when struck by an unknown ve-
hicle.
The final crash of the week
occurred on Monday at 5:25 p.m.
when a pickup truck being driven
by George Hepburn, RR 1 Credi-
ton, went off the C rediton road and
flipped over in the ditch.
Damage of $50 was estimated
by Constable Lamont. The crash
occurred about two miles west
of Highway 4.
During the past week, the Ex-
eter OPP detachment officers
laid seven charges under the
Highway Traffic Act and issued
warnings to another 30 drivers.
One person was charged under
the Liquor Control Act.
The officers spent 182 hours
on duty and covered 1,782 miles
on patrol.
Constable Wright, the Detach-
ment Safety Officer, attended a
traffic safety seminar in Mount
Forest in preparation for safety
lectures to school pupils which
will begin shortly for the spring
months.
STOP FOR BUSES
Cpl. C. J. Mitchell issued the
following safety tip in his weekly
press release:
When you see a school bus
with red lights flashing —STOP
— whether you are approaching
the bus from the front or over-
taking it from the rear, the flash-
ing red lights mean you must
stop,
You must stay stopped as long
as the red lights are flashing.
If you fail to stop, you will be
charged under the Highway Traf-
fic Act and are liable to fines
up to $50 for the first offence,
$100 for a second offence and
$200 for a third.
There are four demerits lost
for each offence.
Hay discuss
longer term
At their February meeting,
members of Hay council discuss-
ed the possibility of providing
two-year terms for elected of-
ficials.
Many municipalities are fol-
lowing this trend and it was de-
cided to continue investigation.
Pay increases were approved
for some employees. The road
superintendent and permanent
workmen were given 15 cent an
hour increases, bringing their
salaries to $2.00 per hour.
Clerk Whitney Brokenshire
was given a raise of $200 per
annum.
In other business at the meet-
ing and special meetings in Jan-
uary, council:
Authorized advertising for
tenders for supplying, loading,
hauling and spreading approxi-
mately 22,000 cubic yards of
crushed gravel on township roads.
Match 2 was set as the deadline
for tenders.
Decided to ask the South Huron
Veterinary Clinit if they, would
act as Wind keepers if a dog
pound bylaw was passed by toim-
cll.
Appointed George Arrnatrong
as assessor at a wage of $1,000
per annum, plus mileage.
Agreed to meet again on Men-
day, March 4 at 1120 p.m.
Set rental rate at $12 fOr the
grader and $10 per hour for the
township truck.
Hensall, neighbors
consider fire truck
Police get raises,
seek gas, riot gun
1High water does some damage
The Weekend flood; Which did thousands of dollars damage in the Wellaceburg and Dresden areas, did
create a few pibbleins in this area; Many batenienta Were flooded and Some roads blocked by Water.
The 'water rose to the point 'where sand bags were placed on the north abutment of the dam at RivervieW
Park by Exeter PUC and works department crews. The raging water makes a picturesque scene above, but
the Men shown bottott `right will tell yOu that carrying bags 'of sand dulls one's appreciation of such
scenes, tap right, PU0 totersso 'Bob PoOley hat a rope 'around ARCA field officer Terry McCauley
as the latter attempts to break up lee near the wall. 'Ttie water spilling .over the Wall did erode some Of the bank. 'It-A flibto