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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-08-29, Page 1Seven injured in crashes, one still listed as serious A Centralia College student remains in serious condition in London hospital from injuries sustained in a single car crash near Exeter early Tuesday morning, while a six-year-old area youth hurt in a farm ac- cident is now reported in satisfactory condition. Randall Castelloe, 19, suffered fractures, a concussion and other injuries when his car rolled over on Highway 4 several times around 6:20 a.m., Tuesday. Costelloe was proceeding north and was in the process of passing another vehicle when his small convertible went out of control and rolled over twice in the west ditch. Week investigated by the Exeter OPP were hit and run incidents reported around 5:30 p.m. at the Zurich bean festival, Saturday. An unknown vehicle struck a parked car owned by R.W. Fabian Furniture, Milton, which was parked on the lot at the LCBO store, Damage was $100. A motor home owned by Gren Gough, London, was hit by an unknown vehicle on Goshen St., with damage listed at $300. Constable Ed Wilcox in- vestigated the latter two ac- cidents cise in boat safety and survival last Friday, Righting the canoe and reentering in deep water were also part of the exercise, Debbie Wooden, instructor looks on, T-A phpto MAN OVERBOARD — Doug Raymond, Peter lackey and Laurie Ross take a plunge into the swimming pool at Exeter as part of their survival swimming course last week. Tipping the canoe was planned as an exer- Light standard is knocked off One Hundred and Second Year EXETER, ONTARIO, AUGUST 29, 1974 Price Per Copy 25 Cents A Public Utilities Commission light standard on Main street was knocked over early Tuesday morning. ' It was struck by a vehicle owned by Tuckey Beverages and driven by Steven Dettmer, 303 Carling street, Exeter. Constable George Robertson set damages at $1,200, The first of three accidents this week occurred late Sunday af- ternoon on Main street, north of Wellington. Drivers involved were Kenneth Case, Zurich and Rinehart Keller, RR 3 Exeter, Damages were estimated at $675 by Con- stable Robertson. Friday at 8:30 p.m. Constable Robertson was called to a mishap on Huron street, west of Main street. Involved were vehicles driven by Carolyn Glanville, RR 1 Hensall and Mahlon Ryckman, 545 Main street, Exeter. Damages were listed at $350. Brady, Indians on rodeo show Preparations have moved into high gear for the 11th annual Exeter Rodeo to be held Saturday and Sunday on Labor Day week- end. Work crews have been up at the grounds in the community park, painting, nailing, repairing and setting up bleachers for the expected crowds. An added attraction this year will he the Oshweken Indian band. They will be setting up an Indian village on frontier street at the rodeo grounds, complete with teepees. Crafts will be displayed and tribal dances performed. The Six Nations group are currently appearing at the C.N.E. in Toronto and before that, had completed an eight week tour of Europe. The broncs and other livestock will be arriving on the grounds Thursday night to give them a day to settle in before the two shows at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. A regular guest of Exeter's Rodeo will be back again this year. CFPL radio personality Bill Brady has thrilled Sunday af- ternoon crowds with various stunts from riding broncs to sharpshooting and roping cattle. A pancake breakfast will also he served on the grounds for cowboys and spectators alike. Another feature that has proved popular in past years is the Little Britches steer riding contest that gives local youngsters a chance to compete. Entry forms can be received from Bob Baker of Hensall. For those wishing to reserve grandstand tickets, Glenn North- cott of Exeter should be con- tacted. Parking and tickets receipts will again he handled by the Exeter Agricultural Society. Exeter man OPP Constable Jim Rogers reported the vehicle was demolished in the crash. The youngster injured in the farm accident was Robert Sims, son of Mr, and Mrs. Evan Sims, RR 1 Hensall. He was in the process of getting on a tractor operated by his 16- year-old brother, Stephen, when he fell and the front wheels grazed his head. At first it was believed the wheels may have passed over his head. His mother told, the T-A Wednesday morning the youngster was in satisfactory condition in St. Joseph's Hospital where he had been taken after the Sunday accident, The lad sustained a fractured nose and facial lacerations. Five other people were also injured in area accidents this week, three of them in a crash at 12:15 a.m,, Saturday, when a car driven by Gordon Bleck, RR 1 Zurich, went out of control into a ditch on concession 6-7 of Hay Township. The vehicle had swerved to miss an unknown vehicle. The driver was injured as were two passengers, Gordon Bleck Jr. and David Thornton, Zurich, All three sustained cuts and bruises. Damage to the vehicle was set at '$1,000 by Constable Jim Rogers. Two people were hurt in another single vehicle mishap on the Hay-Stanley townline. A vehicle driven by Melvyn Areiel, London, swerved to miss a small animal and the vehicle crashed into the ditch, injuring the driver and a passenger; Peter Murphy, London. Constable Ed Wilcox listed damage at $200 to the 1966 vehicle. The other two accidents of the handed jail term, four have licences suspended To take all students despite construction No cable TV for this fall erratic driving and a breathalizer test showed a reading of 140 mgs. Caldwell had been charged with impaired driving in Hensall on March 2 after his car went off the road at the CNR crossing. A breathalizer test showed a reading of 190 mgs. He was fined $ 100 and his licence suspended for six months. Nadon was also charged with impaired driving after police found him sitting in his car in Usborne Township on June 9. He was asleep at the time, but found There will be no cable TV in Exeter, Huron Park or Centralia this fall. That was the comment made by Ron McIntosh of Bluewater Cable TV in a conversation with the T-A this week. He said the company hopes to have some definite word on scheduling in the near future and said there was a good chance some work on the system for this area would start this winter. "It will be no later than a spring start," he stated. The firm plans to start the Wingham cable system next week. Classes at Exeter public school Tuesday morning will include all 535 students. Principal James Chapman announced at noon Wed- nesday that construction and renovations at the school un- derway for the past five months were sufficiently completed to house everyone. the last five months of the 1973-74 term, grade four students from EP.S were transported to J.A.D. McCurdy school at Huron Park. Chapman said officials of the Huron County Board of Education along with the ar- chitects and contractor toured the school Wednesday morning and decided all students could be accommodated. to he substantially impaired. He was fined $ 100 and had his licence suspended for three months. In other cases heard before Justice of the Pe,ace Douglas Wedlake and Judge Hays, the following fines were levied: Judgement was delayed until a further court and a pre-sentence report was ordered on Brenda E. Coll, Stratford, who pleaded guilty to five charges of obtaining goods under false pretences from Exeter merchants. The charges arose out of incidents in early March and late February. William Dinney, Exeter, $13 for allowing his dog to run at large, contrary to Exeter bylaws. Richard. F. Finkbeiner, Crediton, $35 for having liquor while under the legal age. Paul F. Masse, Zurich, $35 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. Frederick Ducharme, Zurich, $90 for having liquor while under the legal age, He had a previous conviction for the same offence. Please turn to page 3 Two classes will continue in the school gymnasium while physical education classes will be held at, the nearby Exeter arena. One renovated classroom will be in operation Tuesday and one —please turn to page 3 Zurich units given okay Ausable monsters tracked by police Alligators in the Ausable River, Sound unbelievable? Not to a motorist passing the river north of Lucan Tuesday morning. The unidentified man stopped at the Lucan Ontario Provincial detachment office to make the report. Constable. N.A. Campbell and Sgt. Sid Dalcy went to the scene and getting closer to the water found two huge snapping turtles. Two charged on abduction Two area men have been charged with abduction resulting from an incident involving a 13- year-old district girl. One of the men also faces a charge of having sexual in- tercourse with a female under the age of 14. The two men are scheduled to appear at a future court date. Two break and enters were also investigated by police,but in both cases nothing appeared to be missing, A front window at the Huron Park post office was broken and the building entered, while the other entry was made at the Algoma Tire warehouse on Columbia Crescent, Huron Park. Norman Mineault, Huron Park, reported the theft of his vehicle on Friday and it was later recovered by Lucan OPP. A charge has been laid in the in- cident. An Exeter man was sentenced to a total of seven months in jail and had his driver's licence suspended for nine months when he appeared before Judge Glenn Hays in. Exeter court, Tuesday. David Lloyd Vincent, was sentenced to six months in jail on a charge arising from an incident on May 13 when he broke into Mathers Motors in Exeter, took the keys for a vehicle on the firm's lot and made off with it, The other month term and licence suspension were handed out on a charge of dangerous driving associated with a sub- sequent police chase. The court learned the accused attained speeds of up to 90 miles per hour over several area roads in his attempt to elude police and he finally drove the vehicle into a wheat field near Grand Bend, The vehicle sustained damage estimated at $ 2,000. Vincent pleaded guilty to the charges. A 16-year-old Hensall youth .yas' fined a total of $ 203 and had his licence suspended for 12 months on charges of careless driving and failing to heed the direction of a police officer. Perry W. Mattson was charged on August 12 in Exeter. Constable O'Driscoll ordered Mattson to stop after the accused was spotted for speeding. However he raced away from the scene and hit speeds of 80 m.p.h. through Exeter and into Stephen Township via Huron St. One pedestrian had to jump to safety at one point to prevent being hit by the speeding vehicle. The youth was finally ap- prehended, He was fined $150 on the careless driving charge and $ 53 for the charge of failing to stop for a police officer. Four other drivers in the area were also handed licence suspensions by Judge Hays. They were Paul E. Townsend, London; Andrew R. Steep, Clinton; Ronald W. Caldwell, Dashwood; and Kenneth A. Nadon, Crediton. Townsend was fined $100 and had his licence suspended for six months after pleading guilty to a charge of being in care and control of a motor vehicle on July 20 while the alcohol content in his blood was over 80 mgs. The ac- cused had been involved in an accident and a breathalizer test gave a reading of 140 mgs. Steep was also fined $ 100 and had his licence suspended for three months on a similar charge. He had been stopped for QUEEN AND HER PRINCESSES — Kathy DeJong of Centralia was named Queen of the Zurich Bean Festival, Saturday. She is shown in the centre of the above picture with her Princesses Joanne Ross, left, and Troyanne Bell, right. Citizens News Photo Construction of senior citizen apartments near the Bluewater Rest Home at Zurich is expected to start this fall. A building permit was granted about two weeks ago by Hay township council and the Home's building committee has engaged engineers and architects to prepare final plans. Vice-chairman Gerrie Gingerich said Saturday he hoped work would begin sometime in October on the first phase of construction. In the initial phase three of five eventual apartment blocks will be built. Each block will contain eight one-room apartments. The apartments are being built on an eight acre parcel of land located on part of Lot 20, Con- cession 12 in Hay township, almost directly across Highway 84 from the present Bluewater Rest Home, The apartments are designed for senior citizens who can afford their own facilities and to relieve the housing shortage. Gingerich added, "we of the 13luewa ter Rest Home committee are hoping to give our senior citizens accommodation in a setting that will assure high quality living. The design of the apartments is similar to town houses. The total project is being financed by Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation and will be repaid over a period of 50 years. JF starts expansion, show export increase An expansion program is un- derway at the JF Farm Machinery Limited manufac- turing plant locatad on Highway 83 at the easterly end of Exeter. Company owner and president Erik Gravlev announced this week that a new addition to the present plant would be ready in about three weeks. The new addition is 208 feet long and 50 feet wide and will double the floor space in the present structure. Another building to the east is of 21,000 BUSY CORN HUSKERS — Visitors to Sunday's fly-in at Sexsmith airport north of Exeter were treated to a corn roast. Shown above husking corn are Mr. and Mrs. Bob Martin, Ron Helm and Harry Dougall. Lack of rain causing crop concern, low white bean yields predicted twenty per cent." As far as malting barley was concerned Paquette said a lot went for feed because of the lack of bushel weight and plumpness of kernel. ' Ile continued, "The oat fields also looked very light. The last couple of weeks in July just dried up the grains," The crop of peaches was reported good along the sand ridge orchards in the Bayfield, Clinton, Goderich areas. At the Klondyke Gardens branch of United Co-operatives manager Irvin Ford said three or four inches of rain in the next few days would certainly help the late potato crop. Ford said the head lettuce- which is just being completed was of excellent quality. Yields of potatoes and onions were expected to be of somewhat "The extreme dry and heat has caused the blossoms to die off before maturing." As far as turnips are concerned Earl Neil of Quality Produce said the situation was similar to beans, "rain is needed badly and quickly". Neil continued, "Without an immediate rain the yield could be well below average." At Exeter Produce comments by Len Veri were similar saying the crop is about 10 days behind schedule because of the lack of rain, Talking about corn Stan Paquette said the crop in the Clinton and north area is at least a week late and in the south it is suffering severely from lack of moisture. Len Veri said corn cobs were just forming and rain was needed badly. lie added "If we don't get rain within a day or two our yields could suffer by at least - please turn to page 3 adjoining row they are green and barely forming in the pods. Several bean dealers in the area have indicated if rain does not come within the next few days, the yields could be cur- tailed drastically. Stan Paquette said he had seen a couple of fields in the southern part of the county west of DaSh- wood which had received some of the very isolated showers and looked green and prosperous. "Heavy rains now could cause second growth," he added. Earl Reichert, manager of the Centralia plant of Cook's division of Gerbro said there would be more beans in the 10 to 15 bushel per acre range than there will be 20 bushels. He estimated last year's average crop at from 25 to 32 bushels per acre, lie continued, "Rain in the next couple of days is a must for even an average crop of beans and corn. Rain, rain go away, come again another day. If the other day doesn't come very soon Huron county farmers are going to suffer severe losses in their 1974 crops. Extended dry spells in most parts of this district are causing many problems' for farmers. The crops appearing to be hardest hit by the well below average rainfall in the last two months are white beans and turnips. Many bean fields are suffering from combination of blight and quick maturing because of the heat and dryness. Stan Paquette of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food at Clinton said there was some indication of bronzing which affects beans in a similar way to drought. A common occurrence is to have beans in one row turning yellow and maturing while in an square feet proportions giving the entire operation square footage of more than 42,000. Gravlev said a large United States export market along with new business from exports to Europe were responsible for the need for more manufacturing and warehouse space. Close to 100 persons are now employed at the local plant. Double shifts are now working. A new 34 foot field crop cultivator is now being manufactured here along with row crop cultivators. Also built in Exeter are the wooden parts of forage boxes. One JF truck and three leased vehicles are busily engaged trucking machinery to all parts of Canada and the United States, Clare Elston with 20 years experience in the farm machinery business is the JF sales manager in Ontario heading a sales force of five. In the United States, Murray Brown is the sales manager and two travelling salesmen are employed along with a dozen representativet. Warehouses are located in Quebec, Michigan, Tennesee, Minnesota and Florida, Production manager at the Exeter plant is Donald Gaine and Gerald I3onner is the controller. JF products are now being sold in Denmark, Austria, Germany, Italy and Israel. Exports to Europe were started in 1873 and. Gravlev said the potential Is great. He leaves Exeter Sep- tember 12 for an eight day sales mission in Germany. Another building of 80 feet by 75 feet dimensions is planned for the near future. This will be used entirely for painting machinery. A SUBSTITUTE WINNER — The winner of the foot long hot dog eating contest at Grand Bend Thursday wasn't around at the finish. Morgan Clarke of Windsor consumed eight and three-quarters hot dogs and headed for home. In the above picture his wife adopts the trophy from Dennis Mothers, The runners-up are Butch Desjardine, left and Doug Peer, right, T-A photo ,.--4.3. #4.-,—e#., 44. 3,1,_1,313,1,‘A# A .,AA