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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-09-26, Page 3FREEZER SPECIAL Home Killed Hind Quarters of Beef Fully Processed 1 .09 LB. Quality Beef from the Exeter Feeder Calf Club 1974 INTERNATIONAL PLOWING MATCH bit FARM MACHINERY DEMONSTRATION SEPT. 24-28 W. T. CRAIG REID FARM GEORGETOWN HALTON COUNTY OVER 520,000 IN PRIZES FOR 300 COMPETITORS tonluct Onforob InOvornon K Asikiniton c o AgrtculriwaT Societies. Atorsch Onforio of Agneufute and food Po lament 9u,ldingi TORONTO. 'Ontario M7A 1A9 ( 416)965-101 WORLD'S LARGEST PLOWING MATCH & EXHIBIT or FARM EQUIPMENT , & SUPPLIES OVER 300 EXHIBITS ON 100 ACRES Tockersmith.. ratepayers ..back down drain. tenders 1.0 percent higher This Week's Extra Specials of Tuckersmith council. They learned that costs had risen ten percent over the engineer's estimate, For the past several months the Seven of the ratepayers of Tuckersmith Township who were prepared to have the Dill Drain constructed, received a rude Shock Tuesday night at a meeting at Careless, impaired drivers given fines DARLING'S Food Market EXETER Maple Leaf Dinner Hams Boneless Ham Slices Highway 4 near Centralia on October 18, 1973. A passenger in the McLaughlin car, Thomas White, was killed. Driver of the tractor was John Masschelein, RR 3 Parkhill, He had been fined $33 in a March court sitting for operating a tractor with improper lights. The court learned that the tractor had rear lights, but they were pinkish in color, and not red as required. McLaughlin said he didn't see the tractor until he saw a great dark shape in the road in front of him. Both vehicles had been southbound. Judge Woodliffe ruled that McLaughlin should have seen the tractor. Only one licence suspension was handed out in Exeter court this week. Harold Bender, Dashwood, was fined $150 or 10 days in jail after being found guilty of impaired driving on July 27. His licence was suspended for three months, although he was given permission to drive bet- ween the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 7:00p.m. Monday through Friday for business purposes only. The court learned the accused was asleep in his car in a ditch when he was found by police. A Port Elgin man, Warren McLaughlin, was fined $200 on a charge of careless driving, He was charged after the car he was driving struck a tractor on OUT FOR A RIDE — Douglas Cudmore, 3 1/2 and Karen Cudmore, 5 were out for a drive at the Exeter Fall Fair on Saturday in the kiddy car ride. T-A photo ,B$ 1.49 6' 1 .69 County road costs struck by inflation Frozen Roasting 69‘ Chickens LB. Fresh Domestic $ Rabbit LB. 111 •69 ECONOMY PACK Goderich Township. Council will accept a gift of half an acre of property in Egmond- ville, Lots 1 and 1, north of West Bayfield Street (located north of Egmondville Cemetery) for a playground for the children of Egmondville from Miss Vera Pierce of Sup City, Arizona , In answer to a letter from council asking to lease or pur- chase the old Quinlan homestead as a playground she offered it as a gift. She requested it be used as a playground or such other public use as the council may deem appropriate for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of Egmondville. Miss Pierce wrote "As a name for the area I suggest 'Elizabeth' as that is the given name of your Queen, it will appeal to the people. It was also the given name of my maternal grand- mother who received the property (house and land) as a gift from her father, George King. It was also the given name of one of her daughters, my beloved aunt. Requests for building permits were granted to John Segeren, RR 2, Seaforth for a steel grain bin; William Haugh, Brucefield, addition to barn; Eldon O'Brien RR 5, Clinton, corn crib; and Leen Rehorst, RR 5, Clinton, new house. Clinton Public Utilities Com- mission signed the agreement which calls for Tuckersmith to pay 50 cents per 1,000 metered gallons of water, for residents of Vanastra, an increase of ten cents per 1,000 gallons. Council will ask the Huron County Library Board to consider establishing a branch library at Vanastra in the building used as a library when it was the Canadian Forces Base. The county informed council that Tugkersmith's tax share to pay the county this year for general and highway purposes will be set at 5.3309 percent compared to 5.0776 in 1973. Council accepted the resignation of John Duddy of Vanastra from the Recreation Committee because as a real estate agent he found it difficult to attend evening meetings. land owners affected by the drain to be built east of Seaforth, have been attending numerous council meetings in an effort to reach agreement on whether the drain should be open or closed, Engineer Henry Uderstad of Orangeville prepared the original plan for the drain which called for 10,430 lineal feet of open drain and 2,733 lineal feet of closed drain. The landowners decided to have more of the drain closed, In late August the owners agreed to accept the revised drainage report which called for 18,495 lineal feet of tile and 2733 lineal feet of closed drain. Court of revisions was set for Sep- tember 24 and tenders were called for the construction. When the landowners heard the tenders were 10 percent higher than estimated, they backed down. Reeve Elgin Thompson said it was "completely unreasonable to pay $16,000 for a drain on a hundred acre farm" as one landowner would have had to pay, The seven owners present agreed to go back to the original plan for mainly open drain. Court of revision was set by council for Tuesday October 22 and tenders will be advertised for the open drain. Owners at the meeting were John Midfield, Harry Arts, Stewart Bannerman, Lloyd and Matt Haney and Mr, and Mrs. Wilbert Maloney. The former Logsdon Chicken Hatchery property (building torn down) was sold to Kenneth Coleman of Egmondville for $3,105. The township had the property for unpaid taxes. It is located at the boundary of Seaforth and Egmondville on the Main Street in Egmondville. It was sold for residential purposes. Jack Burton of Moffat Lake Explorations was at the meeting to discuss supplying natural gas to Vanastra. With Mr. Burton at the meeting was Paul Kerrigan of Clinton who will be the franchise dealer for the Moffat firm. The proposed agreement will be for a 30-year term. Mr. Burton said he has a 20- year supply ready from wells in T-Bone, Wing Sirloin Steak LB. I SM Chef's Pride Pizza 8" TWIN PACK 99‘ Smoked Pork Chops County seeks bylaw LB. $ 1 .6 CHAMP AND CREW - Randy Bowers of Crediton, winner of the recent Exeter soap box derby was in Saturdays' Fair parade. His pit crew is Scott Dinney, Paul Wein, Brian Dinney, Robert Bowers and Steve Dinney, Pork Neck Bones —continued from front page Charles Thomas, reeve of Grey Township, asked what was wrong with the Bridge Motors development and argued it was tb It Sports complex proposal 4 LBS. 994 Pork Riblets LB 49‘ Available This Week Fresh Dearing Lamb Mary had a little lamb Her father shot it dead And now she takes it to, school with her ,Between two slices of bread Jim Britnell, Huron County engineer, holds out gloomy prospects where costs are con- cerned for all road departments throughout the county. He has warned all municipalities to "look for trouble" in many areas of the program to provide roads for citizens. "Your committee is ex- periencing considerable dif- ficulty in securing delivery on many items which we use daily in our maintenance and con- struction operations," Joe Dietrich, chairman of the Huron County road committee noted in his report. "It is becoming in- creasingly difficult to call ten- ders or quotations on many items of machinery, equipment and supplies since most bidders are now qualifying their bids and making them subject to price adjustment at the time of delivery which could be from six to 12 months away." "While not coming right out and saying it, some suppliers are indicating that if you don't want to =buy on ourterms, there are dozens of others who do and we really don't need your business so badly that we need to take a risk," the report said. The County Engineer is in the process of securing more in- formation on this problem from other municipalities and from the province to see if there isn't some solution. "If we cannot find a solution to this problem it will virtually destroy the low bid tendering system for many items we must purchase," says Jim Britnell. To be more specific concerning the kinds of increases the county is facing, Britnell spoke of the road signs used throughout Huron. 'He said there had been a 39 percent increase in the cost of the raw materials to produce thesigns in the county's Wroxeter office. This increase, Mr. Britnell advised, is due to the increase in the cost of plastics and aluminum which are used in the production of the reflective materials of which the signs'are made. He pointed out there is only one company - the 3M company which produces these vital raw materials. "Like Bell Telephone," Mr. Britnell observed, "you either use it or do without it." A stop sign now costs the county about $25 to make up and install on a post in the ground. "Eight or ten of these are lost every weekend," Britnell complained. He charged that motorists deliberately knock them down and mutilate them for the sheer joy of being destruc- tive. He told council of one stop sign at Carlow at a dangerous intersection which had been maliciously knocked over recently. This particular sign was set into a heavy base to discourage vandals. The OPP officer who discovered the sign missing was not able to right it and three men from the county road department had to be dispatched at night to reinstate the sign Jack McCutcheon, reeve of Brussels, suggested that if the signs were installed on steel posts, rather than wooden ones, they might be "more stubborn" to push over with a car. "These people don't seem to have any preferences," replied r Britnell who advised* that manner Of posts had been tried to stop the senseless expenditure of having to replace signs. - Britnell did tell council he could probably erect the signs on construction steel so that they could not be destroyed, but he added that some motorist who struck the sign then by accident would probably end up dead. The county engineer warned reeves and deputy-reeves that contracts this winter for snowplowing would probably be substantially higher than they were last year. He said that the price of fuel has gone up along with the cost of trucks and the wages of those who operate them. Even a small item like centre line paint is costing more. This commodity has gone from under $2 per gallon to over $4 per gallon. Secretarial graduate Francis Knip, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Knip, RR 2 Lucan, graduated recently from a Secretarial course at the Westervelt Business School in Lon- don. Miss Knip is hoping to obtain employment in the area. She is a graduate of Medway Secondary School at Arva. as farm related as some other developments recently permitted on agricultural land in Huron. It seems to depend where the agricultural'land is and who it affects," mused Goderich deputy-reeve Stan Profit. He recalled the uproar in that area regarding the Hydro line crossing prime agricultural land. "Now they're saying Bridge Motors is a good thing," Profit reasoned. '.'It may be, but it is still agricultural land going out of production." Reeve Ev. Mcllwain of Goderich Township said he knew the area in question quite well and told council only a very small portion of agricultural land was being used for commercial development. Bridge Motors purchased 180 acres of farmland, most of which is still in farm production. Only the portion of land formerly occupied by the buildings on the farm is being used for the Bridge Motors building. Reeve Thomas also advised council that people were confused about the building regulations from municipality to municipality. Clerk John Berry said he's noticed that some people regard the building permit as final ap- proval to build. In some cases however, a land serverance is required before construction can begin and problems may well develop in this area unless something is done to streamline the procedure followed in issuing buildine permits, population centre - to be prac- tical. SHDHS physical education department head Ron Bogart noted that the area communities that have arenas wouldn't be interested in spending money for an arena which Exeter needs. He also predicted "everyone would be up in arms" if the complex was built in some outlying community. "We delude ourselves to suggest it could be built anywhere but in close proximity to Exeter," Bill Batten suggested, noting that to be economically feasible it had to be near the most heavily populated community in the area and also in close proximity to the high school so the facilities would have full use. "Exeter is the logical place," added Grand Bend councillor Murray DesJardins, noting that was the central point of the area to be served. "I do feel that Exeter will have to take the brunt ( of costs)," he quickly added, DesJardins also explained that Exeter would have to assume most of the brunt because the community would derive the most benefits, not only from the facilities but also due to the fact considerable money would be left in the community by out-of- towners who visit the facilities. Underwood then explained that other area communities could —continued from front page the shaky condition of the existing arena. Shaw was the final speaker, noting that a complex could only proceed with the en- dorsement of each area council "because we can't do anything without grant money." He also explained that the special committee recommended that a citizens' committee drawn from .the entire South Huron area be formed to proceed with further investigation and that it not in- clude any members of RAP or area councils. It wasn't until near the end of the question period that the matter of cost was mentioned,'it being broached by Jerry MacLean. In answer to his question, Shaw - said the cost would probably be in the neighborhood of $1,500,000 and he again noted that about 60 percent of that would be covered by federal and provincial grants. Shaw also suggested the complex when built, would be self supporting. The matter of location was also discussed at some length, with committee members stating it could be built anywhere in South Huron that the citizen's com- mittee felt adviseable. However, the feeling of many in the audience was that it had to he built near Exeter - the major Have Your Beef or Pork CUSTOM SLAUGHTERED KILLING DAYS MONDAY & WEDNESDAY Darling's Abattoir and Food Market THE Place To Buy Meat Exeter court —continued from front page Peter Gebel, RR 2 Lucan, $53 for having liquor in a place 'other than his residence. John Edward meson, RR 8 London, $28 for pulling a trailer without a proper red light on the rear. Terry E. Pickering, Huron Park, $18 for a speed of 65 in a 50 zone; $23 for failing to produce a licence; and $53 for failing to produce proof of insurance for the vehicle he was driving, All charges were laid on May 30.. Terry Nelson Phillips, Exeter, $53 for having liquor in a place other than his residence. Wilfred I, Waller, Huron Park, $23 for driving without proper headlights, Joseph Regier RR 8 Parkhill, $78 for having liquor in a place other than his residence, it being his second offence. Ronald Joseph Smith, Zurich, and Richard Neil Walker, RR 3 Zurich, $25 each for having liquor in a place other than their residence. They had been jointly charged on July 22, Glenn Parkinson, London, $25 for creating unnecessary noise with his vehicle on July 27. Ronald J. Essay, Centralia, $50 for driving with an unsecure load. The court learned rocks were falling from his gravel truck on August 30. ADVICE ON PITCHING — During Saturday's Exeter Fair horse shoe pitching competition, fair president Bruce Shcipten, centre, took a moment to receive' expert advice from area enthusiasts Elgin Kipfer and Cy BlOmmaert. T-A photo help with the project without paying too much themselves and by merely soliciting government grants available to them. Walsh reminded the audience that while Exeter may appear to be the best location, the matter of sufficient land was a prime consideration. He said that the Tillsonburg complex took 74 acres. SHDHS teacher Pete Condon, a resident of Exeter, argued with DesJardin's opinion that Exeter would benefit from the sports complex. He said there may be benefits for local businessmen, but the average citizen would end up paying higher taxes and it would accrue no added benefits to him at all. Usborne Reeve Lloyd Ferguson wondered if the Huron Park arena could be used more by the community, but was advised .it was now in use most of the time. Doug Ellison was another who suggested the only praqtical location was Exeter because it was the most central point. He also said the most input would have to come from Exeter residents. At this point, Usborne Coun- cillor Bill Morley differed with the suggestion by the special committee that they should now be replaced by a new citizens' committee. He said that when the Kirkton- Woodham Community Centre was built, those who had been on the investigating committee carried on and became the finance committee and then the building committee. "The more you find out, the more enthusiastic you become," he explained. "If you form a whole new committee, you've thrown a bucket of water on the first committee," he concluded. Considerable debate ensued at this point as to the next step to be taken, and it was finally resolved to take the action mentioned by approaching Exeter council to endorse the project and proceed with further investigation, Bill Batten suggested "someone has to take the bull by the horns, and if the committee will need money for the next step it should come from Exeter." Ile predicted lengthy delays if the committee had to wait for all councils to approve the project in principle and added that if the committee came up with suggestions that would enthuse all area residents, they would get behind the project, regardless of who implemented it. +fir, -14 .4'4•X AL -AC t, %,`24L, :