The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-09-21, Page 1look at the priorities.
"If the fire department think
that's what they want, take an
option," stated Reeve Derry
Boyle as Mayor Jack Delbridge
conducted an around-the-table
question on the matter.
Both Councillors MacMillan
and Ottewell said they had been
suggesting use of the Sunoco
property for some time, "If we
don't follow through we're
missing a bet," MacMillan
stated, adding that he had seen a
service station converted to a fire
hall and "it turned out dandy,"
Ottewell noted the first time the
Sunoco property was mentioned,
the firemen expressed opposition
to the idea.
He said that with the post office
for a municipal building and the
Sunoco for a fire hall, it was a
"good and economical situation,
and may be all we can afford,"
Taylor maintained some op-
position to the Sunoco property,
saying it was large enough for a
city fire ball. He said he would
also want to know the cost of
putting the building into shape
and questioned council members
what they were going to do
with the present town hall site
when they get municipal
facilities at six other places.
"We have to keep the firemen
happy," noted Mayor Delbridge
who also explained the need for
another fire truck to adequately
service the area.
He indicated favor in the
project and council agreed to
have the town hall building
committee continue the study of
the Sunoco property.
COLLEGE REGISTRATIONS — Classes for the 1972-73 term are underway this week at Centralia's
College of Agricultural Technology. First year students in the home economics course are shown above
registering with Mrs. Gwen Dykeman. They are from the left, Elva Finkbeiner, Marianne Groot, Janice
Johns, Joan Lynn and Margaret Wilson. T-A photo
Ninety-eighth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 21, 1972 Price Per Copy 20 Cents
Hensall firm gets help too
MISS MID-WESTERN ONTARIO — Joanne Burke of Exeter has
won a beauty contest for the second time in less than a year.
Saturday night Joanne was named Miss Mid-Western Ontario at the
Lucknow Fair and qualified to compete in the 1973 Miss Dominion
of Canada contest. She was Miss Exeter Fair in .1971. T-A photo
Many objectors to
lagoon for GB system
Officials of the Ontario
Ministry of the Environment
conducting a public hearing in
Grand Bend Thursday on the
proposed location of a lagoon for
a Grand Bend sewage system
heard plenty of objections.
The hearing was held to
establish a lagoon location in
order to come up with proper cost
figures for the entire system to be
forwarded to the Ontario
Municipal Board for approval.
Mr. Constantine, a consultant
for the engineering firm of M, M.
Dillon listed three sites, all in the
north-west area of Stephen
township.
These proposals brought ob-
jections from Carl Turnbull,
owner of most of the land in
question, Stephen township
through solicitor Elmer Bell;
Willis and John Hotson and Bill
Crawford of the Huron
Federation of Agriculture.
The engineering report
suggested the lagoon be
suggested in these locations in
order to take advantage of a Lake
Huron treatment plant drain to
return the purified waste twice a
year to Lake Huron a distance of
2,100 feet,
Representing Stephen town-
ship, Bell said, "you've picked
the most expensive land in the
area for your lagoon, There are
adjoining lands to the east which
are waste and would suit the
purpose."
The lawyer continued, "The
proposed lagoon is very close to
an important intersection of
highways 21 and 83. In addition to
valuable farm lands, this area is
becoming built-up and shows
considerable growth possibility."
In defence of retaining their
farm land, Carl Turnbull said,
"Site "A" is in the hub of our
cattle operation. If we would lose
80 acres of land we would have to
go half throttle. We store all our
feed on this property."
Willis and John Hotson told of
their subdivisions with 20
registered lots along highway 83
and the sideroad in Stephen
saying, "We are anxious to
continue our development and
feel there are other sites
available for a lagoon."
Later in the meeting Stephen
township deputy-reeve Cecil
Desjardine also told of another
subdivision of 84 acres being
finalized in the immediate area,
Grand Bend Reeve John Payne
objected to the hearing board
that the village knew very little
about the proposed sewage
system,
Payne said they were asked
more than a year ago by mein-
bars of the Ontario Water
Resources Commission to give
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The Honourable Charles
MacNaughton, MPP for Huron,
has announced that two Huron
County firms will expand their
operations with assistance from
the Ontario Development Cor-
poration.
ODC will purchase land in
Exeter and erect a new building
for lease to Kongskilde Limited
and will assist Traylor Industries
Limited of Hensall with two
loans,
CDC is in the process of pur-
chasing about three and one-half
acres of land from the Exeter
Industrial Commission to build a
16,800 square foot building for
lease to Kongskilde.
The land to be used for con-
s tructippis. located on the easterly
portron ofindustrial Commission
property and is east of the
Custom Trailers Limited
property on Highway 83 east.
A vice-president of the farm
machinery manufacturing firm
which is presently located in the
westerly end of Exeter, also on
Highway 83, John Burke said he
To enforce
dump rules
• Exeter council decided Monday
to ask the Ontario Housing
Corporation to conduct a study to
ascertain the need for low-rental
family and senior citizen housing
here.
Stephen MacDonald, a
representative from OHC, was
present at the meeting to discuss
the housing programs and in-
dicated a community of Exeter's
size could possibly require 20 to
25 such units.
The capital costs of such
programs are carried jointly by
the federal and provincial
governments, while the operating
costs are shared by the two senior
governments and the
municipality. The municipality
pays seven and a half percent of
the operating cost, but Mac-
donald explained this is usually
.covered by the grant in lieu of
taxes which is received for the
rental units.
There are no income
requirements for the ac-
commodation, although rents are
related to incomes, Persons or
families with incomes under $200
per month would pay $37 rent,
while those whose income is over
$200 pay 25 percent of their in-
come.
This covers all costs with the
exception of telephones.
• Home owners are not eligible
for rental units, although senior
citizens may apply and dispose of
their land if they are chosen.
MacDonald told council they
would be responsible. for the
mailing and publicity costs of the
survey, while all other expenses
would be paid by OHC.
Representatives from OHC
would come to the community
and interview all persons who
expressed an interest in seeking
accommodation through . the
survey.
A "point system" is established
• and the people with the highest
number of points — which
represent need are given
411
quest survey
r rental units
C to build for Kongskilde
Exeter council will make one
more attempt at envoking
stricter regulations at the
municipal dump grounds in Hay
township.
The action was agreed upon
this week after members learned
a large number of tires had been
set on fire last week. Dark smoke
from the blaze could be seen as
far away as Granton, according
to Mayor Jack Delbridge.
He said works superintendent
Glenn Kells had seen the smoke
while returning from Granton
with a piece of equipment.
The dump attendant had been
away that particular afternoon
attending Western Fair.
Councillor Ross Taylor com-
plained there was little could be
chine as long as there was no gate
and no sign bearing regulations
at the dump.
Other members immediately
replied that a sign had been
approved and the matter had
been turned over to the sanitation
committee, Taylor is chairman of
the committee.
After some more hassling,
council members again urged the
committee to erect a sign setting
forth the time of use for the dump
and drawing attention to the fact
fires can not be set by anyone
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Ten people were injured and
property damage amounted to
over $10,000 in accidents on area
highways this week.
Two of the most serious ac-
cidents occurred on straight
stretches of Highway 4.
On Sunday at 10:25 p.m.,
vehicles driven by Douglas M.
Howse, Clinton, and Harold E.
Lewis, Dorchester, crashed south
of Kippen. They had been
travelling in opposite directions.
Both drivers were injured,
Howse sustaining fractures. His
wife and 12-year-old daughter,
Melody, were also injured and
property damage was set at
$2.50o by Constable Ed Wilcox.
Two men were taken to St.
Jtx,eph's Hospital in London with
fractures and lacerations after
their vehicles collided on High-
way 4 shouth of Hensall, Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Again, the drivers were
heading in opposite directions.
They were Thomas Shearer,
Residents of Exeter are asked
to watch for new stop signs which
have been erected at three
locations in town this week.
New stop signs are up for north
and south bound traffic on
Marlborough at Victoria, for
north bound motorists on
Marlborough at Wellington and
for west bound traffic on Thomas
at Marlborough.
London, and Wilfred Shortreed,
RR 1 Walton.
Total damage was listed at
$1,700 by Constable Bill
Glassford,
The highest property damage
resulted from a crash involving
two trucks in Usborne Township,
Tuesday. Drivers involved were
Raymond McCurdy, RR 1
Kirkton, and William Ferguson,
Zurich. •
New stop signs
erected in town
Yo th given
18-day term
A Dashwood youth, Michael
Herbert Fleet, was sentenced to a
total of 18 days in jail when he
appeared before Judge Glenn
Hays in Goderich, Thursday.
Two days earlier, the youth had
pleaded guilty in Exeter court to
five charges of possession of
stolen goods and one charge of
theft.
He was sentenced to three days
in jail on each of the charges.
The charges were laid after
police investigated a number of
thefts in recent weeks in the
Exeter and Huron Park area.
Three Huron Park residents
face theft charges as well.
Exeter council bad lengthy
discussions regarding the birds.
• and the bees, Monday.
Problems relating to the bees
were quickly solved, for council
at least.
They decided it was not their
problem that bees were
congregating around one private
property and causing problems
for neighboring property owners.
However. Councillor Mery
Cudmore did suggest the problem
could be easily solved by
plugging the holes used by the
bees. He said they would die in a
few days.
• The problem relating to the
Council members learned from
Wells that there would be very
little cost required to adapt the
station to the department's use.
Some additional clearance was
required for the doors, but this
would be easily attained,
The Fire Chief told council the
brigade members had indicated
their willingness to personally
undertake some of the changes
required.
Councillor Ross Taylor said he
didn't know what the fire
department would do with such a
large building.
The three-man delegation
quickly pointed out they required
training room facilities, because
at the present it was a waste of
time holding practices in the
winter with no inside facilities.
Wells also pointed out the
department officers wanted to
conduct an educational program
to keep interest high among
brigade members.
Deputy-Reeve Don MacGregor
was one of the few who spoke
against the idea of purchasing the
service station.
He said council should build a
new works department building
first and accommodation could
be provided in it for the fire
equipment which can not be
housed in the town hall at
present.
"It's a matter of priorities,"
Councillor Mery Cudmore
agreed, noting these had not yet
been ascertained.
He said the service station
would provide immediate relief
for the fire department and he
said the price was not too ex-
pensive.
Councillor Helen Jermyn
suggested council take an option
on the building, She expressed
fear the building may be pur-
chased by someone else.
Mrs. Jermyn said the works
department could then use the
fire hall for their equipment.
Councillor Bruce Shaw said
council should study the situation
carefully to make certain it fills
the need and also to take a close
rental accommodation first.
MacDonald said that in
Gananoque, a community of
comparable size, a 60-unit facility
was established. He said the
main reason was the fact a
service club had undertaken to
visit all persons over 60 to explain
the OHC program and in that way
had created considerable in-
terest.
He said a local service club
could consider such a project as
well.
Members of council, expressed
an interest in having the
surrounding townships of Hay,
Usborne and Stephen considered
in the survey.
MacDonald explained that to
be eligible, persons had to be
living in the community for one
year, and he said this rule often
eliminated many people in the
rural area who would like to take
advantage of the ac-
commodation.
He said by including the
townships, the residency rule
would not exclude these people.
In answer to a question from
Oouncillor Ken Ottewell, Mac-
donald said the time involved for
the survey and construction was
two years.
It was indicated that family
type accommodation would
consist of semi-detached houses,
while a senior citizens' complex
would possibly be a two-storey
apartment type unit.
Councillor Helen Jermyn asked
if a central dining hall was part of
the senior citizens' unit,
MacDonald said this was not
included, as experience showed it
was not wanted by the tenants.
However, he said it could be
considered and information
regarding this service be in-
cluded on the survey.
"The accommodation is
primarily for people who can look
after themselves," the OHC
official stated, although he ex-
plained there was a "common
room" in the unit.
birds wasn't solved either,
although there were some
suggestions on how to rid the
town hall of pigeons,
Some thought wire mesh
around the tower would keep
them out, but it was noted they
also used the roof for roosting.
Another suggestion was to
purchase a wooden owl, It is
claimed pigeons are terrified of
owls and a life-like wooden
variety will even keep them
away.
The meeting adjourned without
any decision on the pigeons, other
than total agreement they are
extremely dirty and a nuisance.
Tombstone taken
from cemetery
Exeter OPP are searching ter a
tombstone.
A 300-pound granite marker
was removed from the Hensall
Union Cemetery sometime since
the end of August.
Police believe it may have been
the work of vandals and the
tombstone may have been
dumped in a stream or ditch in
the area.
Juveniles have been ag-
prehended following in-
vestigation of damage to Our
Lady of Mount Carmel SS this
week.
Eight windows were smashed
with rocks and damage was
estimated at $130.
A battery was stolen from a
front end loader owned by Norval
Jones. It was parked in Cann's pit
in Usborne Township.
A small amount of change was
stolen from a soft drink vending
machine at the St. Joseph BP
station.
Exeter OPP have a man's CCM ,
three-speed bicycle which was
found in the area. It may be,
claimed at the police office.
Okay Exeter
school work
A five-year capital forecast
proposing an expenditure 'of
$623,000 was approved Monday
night by the Huron County board
of education. It now goes to the
provincial ministry of education
for approval.
Three projects, two at Exeter
and one at Goderich, make up the
spending plans. All but $23,000 of
the total would be financed by
debentures,
The Goderich project, the
replacement of a 1910-built
section of Victoria Public School
with a special education room, a
library resource centre, three
teaching rooms and office space
for the 21 students from the
Queen Elizabeth School for the
Trainable Retarded, is expected
to cost $300,000.
D, J. Cochrane of Clinton, the
board's director of education,
said the project is planned for
1974 "so that we may better
assess pupil population patterns
in municipalities immediately
adjacent to Goderich."
The other two projects would
be carried out at Exeter Public
School.
The first involves $23,000 in
renovations to the school's
heating system. This wohld be
paid for out of current funds and
is included in the board's budget
for the 1972-73 fiscal year.
The other project, involving the
replacement of a 1938-built
section of the building with
kindergarten, music, art and
science rooms, is also planned for
1973.
Mr. Cochrane also suggested
that plans for a library resource
centre and home economics and
industrial arts rooms at the
school should be given serious
thought in future planning.
They collided at the in-
tersection of concession 4-5 and
sideroad 25 around 3:45 p.m.
Both drivers were slightly
injured as was a passenger in the
McCurdy pickup, Jack Duncan,
RR 1 Kirkton,
Damage to the two trucks was
set at $2,300 by Constable Dale
Lamont.
It
• Firem en want Sunoco station,
termed ideal for local fire hall
1
hoped construction would be
completed by the end of 1972.
The building is expected to cost
about $162,000 and will be leased
to the company for a ten year
period with options to renew and
an option to purchase.
Kongskilde located in Exeter
about ten years ago and due to a
growing market is expanding its
manufacturing operations,
When the firm moves into the
new building,employment will
gradually increase with about
fifteen more people expected to
be hired over the next few years,
Hensall firm to expand
Traylor Industries Limited of
Hensall will use an ODC per-
Joymence loan of $7,500 and a
small business term loan of
$24,000 toward the cost of an
additional building and the
purchase of new manufacturing
equipment.
The performance loan is in-
terest free and may be forgiven if
the company meets certain
commitments. The small
business loan is repayable with 8
percent interest.
Traylor Industries produces a
line of truck campers and will
begin building mobile
bunkhouses and offices for
construction sites. The company
will add six new employees when
the new production is underway
and anticipates adding another
thirty people over the following
five year period.
Exeter girl
wins crown
A 19-year-old Exeter girl was
named Miss Mid-Western
Ontario Saturday night in
Lucknow and it was the second
time in less than a year that she
won a beauty contest.
Joanne Burke defeated 15 other
contestants in winning the Mid-
Western Ontario beauty contest
held each year at the Lucknow
fall fair.
In 1971 she was crowned Queen
of the Exeter fall fair.
Joanne, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Burke, Exeter
qualifies to compete in the Miss
Canada contest next July.
Runner-up in the contest was
Julie Dalton, 17, of Grand Bend.
Miss Burke is an employee of
Exeter Flowers and recently
successfully completed a flower
designing course in Chicago,
Illinois.
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•
Members of the Exeter fire
department indicated this week
they are "quite interested" in
acquiring the vacant Sunoco gas
station at Victoria and Main for a
new fire hall.
They made that interest known
• to council this week and most
members of council indicated
their approval for using the
service station for this purpose if
it can be acquired.
Council had earlier made
enquiries into the price of the
building and land and were ad-
vised it was being offered for
$30,700.
Comments at Monday's
meeting indicated the price may
be somewhat below that figure
now.
Fire Chief Gary Middleton
attended the meeting along with
4.1 two officers of the brigade, Roy
Hunter and Don Wells.
Middleton said the station
would be ideal for a fire hall and
noted that some decision
regarding facilities would have to
be made because inside ac-
e commodation was required for
the new tank truck.
The birds and bees
hit council's agenda
Ten hurt in crashes,
damage over $10,000
Also lost in the crash were 90
cases of honey valued at around
$1,500. It was being hauled by Mr.
Ferguson and spilled on the road
when the truck tipped, He had
just removed it from hives and
was taking it to Zurich.
There were three accidents
investigated Friday, two of them
wituin five minutes of each other
in Usborne Township.
At 6:15 p.m., a northbound
vehicle driven by Larry Gibson,
Crediton, skidded out of control
and hit a fence at the junction of
concession 2-3 and the Kirkton
Road, The driver sustained facial
lacerations.
Damage was set at $525 by
Constable Bill Lewis, who also
investigated the second crash on
concession 6-7 in Usborne, at the
Kirkton Road intersection,
Drivers involved were Hubert
Hunter, RR 3 Exeter, and
Edward Rowland, St. Marys.
Total damage was listed at
$1,250 in that one.
Earlier the same day, a vehicle
owned by Martin Vaneste, RR 2
Kippen, sustained damage of $300
when the vehicle, left unattended,
rolled back from a private drive
and crossed County Road 2 and
struck a tree.
Constable Glassford reported
damage of $300.
On Wednesday of 3:40 p.m.,
Constable Lewis investigated a
collision involving a farm tractor
driven by Daniel McCurdy, RR 1
Centralia, and a vehicle driven
by Leo Boucher, Huron Park.
GETTING A POINT ACROSS A large number or persons attbncled a Thursday hearing in Grand Bend Both vehicles were westbound
in connection with a proposed sewage system for the village. In the centre of the above picture John on the Crediton Road when the
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