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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-11-01, Page 3• It "'cm- 6.t,poig,482 - ouR 'IRS,'',Raft R # REDI-MIX CONCRETE Washed Sand & Stone (ALSO FORM WORK) McCann Const. Ltd. DASHWOOD Phone 237.3381 or 237-3422 HOMES to- Times-Advocate, November 1, 1973 Page 3 Donations OM coming. for retarded. project shaping, sorting and packaging contract for Tillotson Plastics. in Dashwood. The director said he is negotiating several other eon- tracts and has been promised a packaging contract from Dash- wood Industries, He said that it was "just amazing" to see the almost "immediate improvement" even a few days of constructive work has meant to the trainees. At the present, there are still only 10 trainees at the workshop but Mr. Rawlings said they hope to expand this number "very soon". Weather conditions plague area drivers INTERVIEW WITH THE MAYOR Grade seven students at Exeter public school are currently doing a project on government leaders. In order to get the history of Exeter, mayor Jack Delbridge met with them at the Exeter library, Monday afternoon. A group of the students are shown above with Mr. Delbridge. Back left, Heather Meikle, Dwayne Mothers, Richard May, Alice Ann Dalrymple, Cindy Wasson, Susan Chapman and Judy Webb. Front, Elaine Kestle, Susan Brintnell, Tracy Clark and Barbara Armstrong. T-A photo Officials survey situation Crop year one of best ever Five accidents were in- vestigated Monday by officers of the Exeter police department and most were blamed on the rainy weather conditions. The local police department asks motorists to slow down and drive defensively. A news release Tuesday added, "drivers must realize that during this time of the year, the rain together with falling leaves makes driving hazardous. A vehicle cannot be brought to a stop instantly. Adjustments must be made for climatic changes. Damages of $3,600 occurred late Monday afternoon when three vehicles were involved in a collision on Exeter's Main Street just north of the bridge. Involved were vehicles driven by Joseph Campbell 249. Main Street, Lloyd Cooper 18 James Street, and Ursula Regier RR 3, Zurich. Constable Jim McKeekin investigated, Vehicles driven by Eugene Hartman RR 1 Hay and Julian Donations are still coming in to the Adult Rehabilitation Centre at Dashwood, according to Don. Rawlings, manager. He told the meeting of the South Huron Association for the Mentally Retarded last week that London Life in London IS furnishing the entire office area of the workshop, including filing cabinets, desks, chairs, type writers, and calculators, all free of charge. Case Van Raay also officially announced that the Grand Bend Lions Club is donating a total of $4,500 towards a brand new 15- seater Chrysler bus for the workshop. The bus is on order and a priority listing was requested, but it is not known how soon it will be delivered. The balance of cost for the bus, estimated at $1,200 will have to raised by other means. It was also announced that W.G. Thompson and Sons, with headquarters in Blenheim, have given a cheque in the amount of $1,000 to the workshop porject. In spite of all this, much more is still needed, said Mr. Rawlings. They need and would like 50 chairs and nine tables for the cafeteria at the workshop and he added that any contributions from area organizations would be more than welcome. In the meantime, work is starting to speed up for the trainees. "We're gradually shifting into high gear," said Mr. Rawlings. Their first project was packaging Christmas cards which will be sold by the YACMR youth group and Monday they began a prices will hold up. Paquette continued, "when meat prices escalated, there had to be some panic buying but things should straighten out." In summing up he described 1973 as basically a good year although Imarketings are down right now. The chicken industry was listed as having a good year with laying hen people getting good prices despite the rise in feed and production costs. Paquette said the "A" large egg price at September 15, 1972 was about 40 cents per dozen at the same time this year the price was 70 cents a dozen. He added feed costs had also doubled. Prices of chicken broilers also went up this year to 36 cents per pound from about 22 cents a year ago. Turkeys also rose at about the same ratio. Mantey, 182 Huron Street Exeter collided on Main Street, near Huron. Damages were estimated at $110 by Constable McMeekin. A mishap at the intersection of Waterloo and William Streets involved vehicles driven by Morley Hall, 502 Main Street, Exeter and James MacDonald RR 2 Crediton. Constable McMeekin was again the investigating officer and he listed damages at $225. Damages were listed at $150 when two vehicles collided on the Graham Arthur service station lot on Main Street south. The drivers of the vehicles involved were Wilfred Berdan, 49 Simcoe Street, Exeter and Norman Norry of Concession 1, Usborne township. Constable McMeekin investigated. Constable George R.obeilson set damages at $550 in the fifth accident on Monday at the in- tersection of Main and Sanders Streets. The vehicles involved were driven by Edward Deeves, RR 3 Clinton and John Angyal, 433 Main Street, Exeter. Sunday evening a vehicle driven by Joseph Campbell, 249 Main Street, Exeter struck a fire hydrant on Main Street near Gidley. Constable John Goarley listed damages at $150. 17M VOR 171F ° R.F r 71? f fie Bub Pt ySI rr_ year. In talking about corn, Miller said "this year's crop brought the best price ever at harvest time." At that time corn was selling from $2.30 to $2.40 per bushel, It has dropped slightly since har- vest time. The agricultural represen- tative said the dry weather af- fected the corn yield a bit but he listed the quality as excellent and well matured with a very low moisture content. More farmers in Huron have planted winter wheat this fall due mainly to the fact white beans were harvested early. The moisture was no more than adequate at planting time, The 1973 price for wheat is much stronger at $3.25 per bushel. Last year the going price was $1.55. Miller said wheat farmers are extremely unhappy with the 1971 and 1972 subsidies still to come from the federal government. The spring crops including barley and oats were listed as excellent with harvest prices much above the five year average. Spring grains were planted the earliest in more than five, years. Huron county cattle producers are not putting ag many animals in for the winter as in previous years according to Stan Paquette, a cattle specialist with the Agriculture office. Paquette listed the high price of grains as the reason for less wintering saying, "a lot of far- mers are selling their grain and corn rather than feeding it." He said he was optimistic that In a year-end survey, officials of the Huron office of the Ontario Department of Agriculture in Clinton term the 1973 crop season as one of the best in many years. While production costs were much higher, the prices received for all crops along with cattle, hogs and poultry reached an all- time high. Due to a very poor crop in Michigan, the white bean price per hundred weight has soared at times to close to $40. Mike Miller, Huron's Associate Ag. Rep. said, "white beans in Michigan were a disaster. They lost more from their estimated production than the entire Ontario crop of about a million and a half bags. While the average price of beans is expected to be well up in the $30 range, farmers are complaining of the low first payments received. Based on previous year averages, the initial payment this year is only $5.75 per hundred. Due ter this small first pay, suggestions have been made that another interim payment should be made before the end of the Area delegate liked outcome If the Huron delegates voted at the Liberal leadership convention on the weekend the way they indicated last week, they must have been a very happy group after that affair ended on Sunday. When interviewed last week they indicated almost unanimous support for Robert Nixon and he defeated federal representative Norman Cafik by 317 votes on the third ballot, The final outcome was 992 to 675. The third major contender for the position, Donald Deacon was defeated after the second ballot and threw the majority of his support to the former leader, Mr. Nixon. Ian McAllister, RR 1, Zurich, president of the Huron Liberal Association attended the con- vention and was very pleased with the outcome. He said he felt most the delegates from this county supported Nixon and said one of the reasons seems to be that "Nixon's nature fits in well with the people of this area". He felt that most of the support Nixon received had been decided before the delegates even left home, He expressed some surprise, however, on the amount of support accumulated by Norman Cafik, Mr. Cafik joined the leadership race only three weeks before the convention. "He made excellent strides in a short time," said Mr, McAllister. He said Cafik's was the most highly organized campaign at the convention, utilizing everything from continuously broadcasting closed circuit television to brass bands and pretty girls. But he said Nixon showed "a great deal more confidence in his leadership" than he had before and it was evident that he definitelyhad more of the people's support. "I think he is now fitting the image of the kind of politician we want," said Mr. McAllister. He added that he was not worried that the leadership convention might produce a split in the provincial Liberal party, as some people had predicted. - "It was fortunate that it came out with Cafik and Nixon in the final vote," said Mr. McAllister, "because Mr. Cafik is not ac- tually sitting in the provincial house. Donald Deacon made it clear that he switched his support to Mr. Nixon, so it turned out all right," From the point of view of future Liberal prospects, he said the convention was also very en- couraging. t rr charge of arrangements. Rev. Glen Beach, Welland officiated assisted by Rev, Paul Kilburn and Rev. Arthur Krueger, Owen Sound. Rev. Rodger Bitner rendered a solo. Interment was in Bayfield Cemetery, Pallbearers were Ken Mac- Gregor, Carmen Ireland, Fred Desjardine, Elgin Snider and Glen Montgomery. MRS. WESLEY NICHOLS Mrs. Wesley Nichols, the 411 former Margaret Eunabelle McKay, Kitchener, passed away at Freeport Hospital, Kitchener October 25, 1973 in her 75th year. She was the wife of the late Wesley Nichols (1964) formerly of London and Grand Bend and mother of Harold W. Nichols, Kitchener, and Glen Nichols, Grand Bend and Florida, Also surviving are five grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Janet Stein, Saginaw, Michigan. , Mrs. Nichols was a native of Tuckersmith Township. Funeral service was held from the T. Harry Hoffman Funeral Home, Dashwood October 27 with Rev. H. Dobson officiating. `Interment was in Grand Bend Cemetery. masks. From the left, they are Jean Mills, Marian Dougall, Anna Ballan- tyne, Elsie Westcott, Lillian Pym and Lorraine Alexander. HURONDALE'S FUNNIEST - Prizes were awarded in various categories at Wednesday's Halloween party sponsored by the Huron- dale Women's Institute. The winners are shown above without their T-A photo Proposes phone service, people uneasy in Hensall MRS. GERALD T. SNIDER Mrs. Gerald T. Snider, the former Jessie MacGregor died at her , residence in Grand Bend October 26, 1973 in her 78th year. She was predeceased by her husband and was the mother of Mrs. Keith (Grace) Horner, RR 2, Zurich; Marion at. home; Irving and Russell, RR 2, Zurich; and Myron, of Berkley, Michigan. She was the sister of Mrs Annie Sherritt and Russell MacGregor, both of RR 3 Parkhill and is also survived by eight grandchildren. Funeral service was held from the Church of God, Grand Bend October 29 with the T. Harry Hoffman Funeral Home in CHARLES A. STEWART Charles A. Stewart, London passed away at Victoria Hospital, London; October 29, 1973 in his 65th year. Mr. Stewart, formerly of Exeter, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mildred (Thorn) Stewart and was the father of Mrs. Alex (Verna) Ross and Gary Lee, both of London. He was the brother of Gertrude Stewart, London, Mrs. Sheldon (Violet) Moffatt, Rono, Ontario, Mrs. Gordon (Lyda) Merner, Lakeside and Mrs. Edward (Ethel) Alexander, Hensall. Funeral service is to be con- ducted November 1 from the Sifton Funeral Home, St. Thomas. Interment is in Union Cemetery. VERHEY — Peter Philip Verhey died at Green Gables Nursing Home, Parkhill, October 24, 1973 in his 74th year. He was the husband of Ruth (Kuhn') Verhey, RR 2, Grand Bend. in Exeter, rumors were running rampant in Hensall, as they were in all parts of the district. He said that increased precautionary measures were being taken, both by older people and by parents, concerned about seeing that their children aren't out after dark or don't have to walk home alone — this sort of thing. "There is still lots of concern, but unless something happens to bring it all out into the open again, things are starting to settle back to normal," he said. There was one thing which all those interviewed agreed upon and Reeve John Baker probably phrased it most succinctly: "I definitely think it would make things a lot better if the murder was solved, but I guess we're going to have to sit pretty tight and hope that nothing else happens in the meantime". Requests aid for playhouse Ben Tuckey, Exeter, a past warden of Huron County and presently chairman of the Board of Directors of Huron Country Playhouse' near Grand Bend, visited Huron County Council last week to request $2,000 in a grant toward the theatre endeavor. Tuckey told council that while it was forward thinking to plan for the possible Lake Huron Parkway to attract tourists to the area, it was important to have something to hold the interest of the visitors once they have arrived. That's where services such as Huron Country Playhouse come in. Attendance at the Playhouse increased by 60 percent this year, according to Tuckey. He said attendance would have to go up by at least that much again this coming season. He described the Grand Bend theatre effort as "behind the eight ball" where finances are concerned and urged the county to give consideration to the group's request for additional funding for the coming year. While many people in Hensall are reacting to the recent murder of Mrs. Bertie McMurtrie with a definite unease, and others with increased caution and precautions, a former village reeve, Mrs. Minnie Noakes has come up with a definite plan to try to ease the minds of village residents. In a letter to the T-A this week, Mrs. Noakes suggested that a team of volunteers should be organized to take turns phoning or visiting the older and lonely people in the village, "helping them in any way we can and so make their lives more pleasant and give them assurance we are friends they may call on for help", "We've all been lax," said Mrs. Noakes, "in not doing this before. I think there are quite a few people in town who don't have someone to look in on them regularly". She said she felt this type of Service would cost no money, would take very little of a per- son's time during the day, would be non-denominational and would be basically just a "good neigh- bor policy". "There are visiting groups from the church and the Kinettes are good, but these are not daily visits," she said. She added that she was not suggesting that a simple phone call might prevent another ocurrence such as that of Thanksgiving weekend, "But if word gets out that there are people in contact with the older people and perople who care, a person might think twice before doing anything," she Said. If she gets no response from her request for volunteers, Mrs. Noakes said she would just call as many people herself as she could, Councillor Harold Knight, while not disclaiming the possible usefulness of such an effort said he didn't think there were that many elderly persons in town who are really alone, "I don't think there are many people in town who don't have family who check on them at least once a day," he said, Reeve John Baker said he felt most of the older people in town are pretty active and get out quite a bit. "So a phone service might not accomplish much in those terms," he said. • Nevertheless, there is still a distinct feeling of disquiet in the village — a disquiet which has been augmented with frequent rumors of prowlers and other strange and unusual happenings. Exeter OPP who are con- tinuing to investigate the un- solved murder say these are fairly common reactions to an incident of this sort. Although they don't discount reports of these various rumors, they say this is to be expected. But Rev. Don Beck is con- cerned about the prevailing at- titudes in the village. "It's definitely not a healthy situation," he said. "People are up-tight and I don't know how to deal with it, except positively." He said that as far as he knows there are 65 widows living in Ilensall, an unusually high number for a community that size, He too has heard the rumors and said one woman actually did pack up and leave the village after the Thanksgiving weekend event. "The only way I can see to deal with the situation is to treat it positively, not negatively," said Rev. Beck. "And the only positive way to deal with it is to instill a feeling of confidence back into the people. "Now it's like an open sore just waiting to be fed by rumors." Mr. Knight said that he really doesn't think there is that much "paranoia" in the village. But he added that a lot more people are locking doors, both at night and in the daytime, and leaving at least one light burning in the house at night. He said he was very glad to see that people were being a little more cautious and suggested that some of them may have been"too trusting" before. "I have done a lot of can- vassing for the Kinsmen," said Mr. Knight, "and it was amazing what would happen, Now maybe they were expecting us," he said, "but many of them would just call `Come in' and not even look to see who was at the door. "It's an expensive lesson to learn but I think it's a good one." Councillor Paul Neilands agreed and said he was glad to see "that they're being more vigilant". Councillor Murray Baker said he didn't feel there was nearly as much talk now as immediately after the murder. He said that when the police were still very much in evidence, it kept the topic at the front of everyone's mind. He added, too, that when the body of Mrs. Muriel Steep was found last week Two businessmen were talking. "Is your advertising getting results?" asked the first. "It sure is," moaned the second. "Last week we ad- vertised for a night watchman and the next night we were ;robbed," Co-Worker: "So you're the father of twins. Who do they look like?" Excited Parent: "Each other!" Salesman: "There's a lot to be said for a car that. has pleased, not just one, but a large number of owners!" 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