The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-03-06, Page 19Times-Advocate, March 6, 1975 Page 19
ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY — A Seaforth man, Sun-Myoung Yoon escaped with minor injuries Friday
night when the car he was driving left Highway 4, near Birr and overturned in the ditch. T-A photo
Turn down request for house,
set rules for park services
Twenty-three members of
Huron County Council voted.
against signing a new lease for
library headquarters facilities in
Goderich, but 30 affirmative
votes were cast to permit the
building on Lighthouse Street to
remain in county service until at
least January 1, 1977.
The debate arose when the,
county library board asked
Extend lease, ..despite objections
In a brief to the Ontario
Cabinet, the Ontario Federation
of Agriculture told ministers that
it had a choice of bringing in an
Act to permit OFA to insure the
return on production cost for
their members or face the
prospect of farms closing down
Sand import all food from outside
within ten years., e"- • 1, •
Gordon Hill, OFA president,
said that his organization, with
25,000 members, nearly all
marketing organizations and co-
operatives, represents the vast
majority of Ontario's farmers
and will administer the insurance
plans with the marketing
organizations.
The premium, the brief said,
would be shared, with farmers
paying one third and the
government two-thirds.
Agriculture Minister Stewart and
Premier Davis agreed that
farmers can't be expected to
produce below cost and stay in
business.
Even a farmer who owns his
land can no longer go through a
bad year just by tightening his
belt," Hill said, "Specialized
farming in one or two com-
modities is so common today,
that if that commodity doesn't
yield the price expected at the
time the crop is sown, the farmer
has no others to fall hack on."
The brief said that the cost of
production would be negotiated
by the federation with the
government and include all cost
of production, investment and
labour. It also showed the trend
of declining farmland and
production and predicted that if
this trend continues, there will be
I shortages of many farm corn-
modies in a span of ten years. It is
clearly not prudent in our day to
simply assume that abundant
food supplies will be available at
reasonable prices.
Hill said that the reception of
the brief by the Cabinet was
encouraging enough for the
federation to go ahead and
develop more detailed proposals
and costs.
METRIC COMING
Farewell to cups and quarts!
Would you make a cheese sauce
using 250 millilitres of milk in-
stead of 1 cup? If you said yes
then you've get the right answer
because 250 millilitres is about
the same as 1 cup, And how about
the boiling salted water for the
carrots? Just add 5 millilitres of
salt (1 teaspoon) to 200 millilitres
of boiling water (about 3,4 cup)
and the carrots will cook to the
tender-crisp stage as usual. A
millilitre is just another way of
measuring as you would in cups
and ounces.
But how would you talk about
larger amounts of liquid such as a
quart of milk? The new term will
be litre. 1,000 millilitres are
called a litre and 1 litre is a bit
smaller than a quart. A gallon of
ice cream which now has four
Imperial quarts will be 5 litres.
The next time you saute 1 (2 cup
of chopped onion for the stew why
not think of it. as 125 millilitres!
council to approve a new lease
with the owners of the building.
According to hoard members, the
building has changed hands and
new tenants have shown interest
in the building.
While the county lease does not
expire until June 1, 1976, the new
owners were willing to negotiate
a new lease with the county at
this time. The five year lease will
Youngsters with pellet guns
have been causing considerable
damage to Exeter's street lights.
A letter from the PUC in-
dicated approximately $123,82
worth of damage had been
created in an area north of the
river. With labor costs involved
in the repairs and replacements,
the figure will go even higher.
The PUC said council may wish
to consider offering a reward in
an attempt to curtail the van-
dalism.
Council took no action in this
regard, although some members
felt there was a standing offer for
a reward for anyone providing
information leading to the con-
viction of vandals.
Earlier in the meeting, Police
Chief Ted Day told council his
department was investigating the
situation.
He said the police had the
names of about 10 people who
they were inverviewing in an
effort to locate those responsible
Recommend
leaf machine
Exeter council's finance com-
mittee was asked this week to
consider coming up with about
$5,000 in this year's budget to
purchase a machine to pick up
leaves.
Sanitation committee chair-
man Garnet Hicks said an at-
tachment could also be purchas-
ed for the machine to clean out
catch basins.
"We feel the machine should
pay for itself over a period of
years," Hicks explained.
He said a forage wagon could
possibly be rented from an area
farmer to carry the leaves pick-
ed up by the self-propelled
machine.
In answer to a question from
Mayor Bruce Shaw, he said the
machine required two men to
operate it.
He recommended at first that
council authorize the purchase,
but agreed to have the
recommendation go to the
finance committee for inclusion
in the budget if possible.
increase the rent to the,county to
$4.85 per square foot or $810 per
month with a yearly adjustment
up.or down for taxes and utilities
based on the_actual costs for 1974.
The county can terminate the
lease with one year's notice, any
time after January 1, 1977.
The board members explained
that if the new lease had not been
negotiated until the present lease
for the damage.
Statistics listed in the February
police report were as follows:
Twenty accidents with one
injury and damage of $9,791, 16
charges and 16 people warned
under the Highway Traffic Act,
14 investigations and nine
charges under the Liquor Control
No money
for projects
The Huron County Board of
Education voted unanimously to
make an appeal to the Ontario
Ministry, of Education who
refused any capital allocation for
building projects for schools
under the board's jurisdiction for
the 1975 fiscal year.
The board had budgeted for
$900,000 in its five-year forecast
to include industrial arts and
home economics complex in
Exeter, Turnberry and Brussels
each to cost approximately
$200,000 and also $40,000 for a
mini computer for South Huron
Secondary School,
The computer facility, if it was
approved by the Ministry, would
have been installed as a pilot
project and under the Board's
approval similar facilities would
have been installed in other high
schools in the area,
D. J. Cochrane, Director of
Education, told the board that he
was sure the Ministry would cut
back on expenditures but was
surprised that they got nothing at
all, He stated that the only course
of action was to appeal the
decision to the Minister. A letter
from the regional office of the
Ministry of Education in London
stated that the region received its
proportion of provincial funding
and unfortunately all needs or
requirements cannot be met.
Board member Charles
Thomas said the Board should
challenge the decision since the
building projects were not only
important from an educational
standpoint but it, would also be
good for the economy by
providing jobs.
Since the board cannot proceed'
with any project and building
expired next summer, the odds
are that a lease at that time
would he much more expensive
than $4.85 per square foot.
Theory was, according to
Chairman Norman Durst, to lose
a little now hut gain a substantial
amount later.
Discussion showed that not all
members of council were con-
vinced the economy would
remain that buoyant for that
length of time, Reeve Ed.
Oddleifson of Bayfield said he
was "darn sure" the county
would not have to pay as much
for library facilities even in the
Dogs are enough,
won't tackle cats
Despite being told that cats
present a greater problem to
communities than dogs, Exeter
council filed a letter from the
Ontario Humane Society
suggesting that a bylaw should
he passed to control the keeping
of cats.
The Society explained that
dogs are more visible and are
possibly more destructive, but
that stray cats present an equal-
ly serious problem and in fact
can create more harm to humans
than dogs.
"We can't, enforce the dog
bylaw, so there's no way we
could cover cats," Reeve Derry
Boyle stated in suggesting the
letter be filed.
After this was clone, Councillor
Ted Wright noted that Exeter
had a "very serious problem"
with dogs. He said they were run-
ning in groups and "sooner or
later we'll have some children
mauled by dogs unless we do
something".
Councillor Lossy Fuller said
the social services committee
would be meeting with Stephen
officials the next night
(Tuesday) to review the
applications for a dog catcher for
the two communities.
Act, 20 parking tickets issued,
two assault investigations with
one charge, one break and enter
with three people charged, four
thefts of under $200 with the total
loot being $89 (no recovery) one
theft over $200 (a snowmobile not
recovered) 13 animal complaints
with two people being charged
and one dog taken to the Kirkton
pound, two persons charged with
impersonating police officers.
Chief Day reported that Con-
stable Jim McMeekin had
recently completed the Police
College session at Aylmer and
Constable Joe O'Driscoll was now
attending the same course.
Some good news
from good roads
Councillor Bob Simpson gave a
brief report on the recent Good
Roads convention during Mon-
day's session of Exeter council.
He said this year's convention
was much better than last year
and he reported that the minister
of transportation and com-
munications had told delegates
he hoped to get a 19 percent in-
crease in money for his depart-
ment this year.
His department provides road
subsidies to municipalities.
Simpson also noted that the
deputy-minister predicted that
communities undertaking sewer
projects would receive ad-
ditional funds for reconstruction
of roads.
His announcement came on the
heels of complaints from Forest
that money was not available to
fix up the roads after a sewer
project was completed.
That provided some good news
for Exeter council members, as
the town will undergo a large
sewer project this year and will
be faced with several roads re-
quiring reconstruction,
must be put off a delegation of
three members, Cayley 11111,
Harry 1-layter and I), J.
Cochrane, were elected to ap-
proach the ministry concerning
grants for the region.
4-H leaders
at conference
Over 100 men and women from
all parts of Ontario represented
over 1,500 4-H leaders at the third
Annual Provincial 4-H
Agricultural Club Leaders'
Conference held in Toronto at the
King Edward Hotel, February 21
and 22.
The delegates spent two days
participating in workshops and
,discussion groups which covered
various aspects of the 4-H
agricultural club programme.
These included 4-H Youth
Councils, resource materials for
clubs, social recreation in 4-H,
ways to improve local meetings,
and the image and the role of 4-H
in the community.
Club leaders also had the op-
portunity to evaluate local,
regional and provincial
programs and to make recom-
mendations governing these
programs. "Communicating with
Teens" was the theme of
Saturday morning's activities
with Ken Lewis, Professor in
Communications from Cen-
tennial College in Toronto,
speaking to the delegates.
The Hon. William A. Stewart,.
Minister of Agriculture and Food,
brought greetings to the
delegates at their annual banquet
complimenting 4-H club leaders
throughout the province on the
work that they were doing. Guest
speaker at the banquet was
Margaret Woof, Supervisor of
Junior Extension, with the Home
Economics Branch, mentioning
the importance of providing
strong leadership to the young
people today.
Special entertainment during
the Conference included a dinner
at Toronto's first Theatre
Restaurant, the "Teller's Cage".
Delegates enjoyed the musical
theatre production of "Jacque
Brel is Alive and Well and Living
in Paris."
Delegates attending the
Provincial 4-H Agricultural Club
Leaders' Conference from Huron
County were: Harvey Black,
Belgrave, James Brigham, RR 1
Belgrave; Jean Dinsmore,
Fordwich; Jack Flanagan, RR 1,
Dublin; Maurice Love, RR 3,
Exeter; Dave McCallum, RR 1,
Wingham, Anne Powell RR 2,
Seaforth,
• • •
As a result of the visiting
restrictions at the Home, several
of the regular events have been
cancelled.
Mrs, Elsie Henderson, Norman
Speir and Jerry Collins provided
the Old Time Music for Monday's
activities along with several
numbers by the Huronview
rhythm band. The residents
practiced square dancing with
Mrs. McGratton doing the
calling,
Slide pictures that have been
taken during the past four years
Of special events were shown in
each of the areas during the
week.
Exeter council this week
accepted two recommendations
from their land use committee.
The first was that a building
permit for, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Hohner be denied until such time
as a plan of subdivision is
prepared for their property west
of Marlborough Street and the
second that developer Len Veri
remain the owner of roads and
services in his mobile home park
and that he be required to post a
bond to guarantee the
maintenance of those services.
In explaining the first
recommendation, Councillor
Tom MacMillan noted that
Sanders Street would have to be
extended to the proposed lot
location chosen by the Hohners
and also that services would
have to be provided.
He said there was the possibili-
ty of more development in this
area (the couple hinted at con-
sidering a row type housing
development) and that unless the
proper engineering was under-
taken before any homes were
constructed, there was the risk
that a lot of errors could be
made,
MacMillan said this could in-
Queensway
Last Tuesday the Church
service was conducted by Rev. H.
VanEssen of the Bethel Refor-
med Church in Exeter. Mr. Van
Essen accompanied on the piano
while his wife led in a hymn sing.
Visitors on the weekend were
Les Mitchell, daughters Brenda
and Barbara with Louise Mit-
chell.
Rose Harris and Susan
Mousseau with Bernice Lavery.
Clarence Smillie with his
Mother Ada Smillie.
Mrs. Jessie Angle and Mrs.
Isabele Alcock with Cora Alcock,
Clarence and Marg Dilling,
Brenda, Brian and Krista with
Anna Dilling.
Mary Goodwin with her father
Wilfred Goodwin.
Milton Taylor of Exeter with
his mother Adeline Taylor.
Dorothy Brintnell with her
sister-in-law Isabel Brintnell.
The ladies from the Chiselhurst
UCW entertained the residents on
Monday by playing bingo. Mrs.
Eva Laing of RR 1, Staffa
favoured with selections on her
accordion.
Birthday greetings go out to
Mrs. Isabel Sproat who will be
celebrating her birthday on
March 11.
Employer; "I'm sorry we can't
hire you, but there's just not
enough work here to keep you
busy,"
Applicant: "You'd be surprised
at how little it takes."
elude the possibility of the couple
building their home at the wrong
elevation.
In the situation regarding the
mobile home park, the com-
mittee chairman said the
recommendation was basically
that which had been made by
lawyers and engineers when they
were asked if it was best for the
town or the developer to own and
JOHN R. BEER
John R. Beer, passed away on
Friday, February 28, at Victoria
Hospital, London, in his 49th
year. A member of the Canadian
Armed Forces, he was the
husband of the former Lillian
Mitchell; father of David,
Vancouver, John and Steven, at
home. He is further survived by
his mother, Mrs. Fred Beer,
Hensall, brother George, Hen-
sail, sister Elaine (Mrs. Ralph
MacArthur) Edmonton. Funeral
services were held on Tuesday
March 4, from the Bonthron
Funeral Chapel, Hensall.
Interment was in the Hensall
Monteith, Eric Cosgrove, Roy
Ellis and Ivan McKay.
LORNE EDGAR MOHR
Lorne Edgar Mohr, of Lucan,
passed away at his residence on
Saturday March 1. He was the
husband of John Mohr; father of
Mary Margaret and Anne
Elizabeth, both at home, brother
of Harold, of Lucan and Walter of
Milverton. By the request of the
family the body of Mr. Mohr has
been donated to science. A
memorial service was held on
Wednesday March 5 from the
Lucan United Church, Rev.
Madden officiating, Murdy
Funeral Home, Lucan in charge
of arrangements.
ROBERT McCUBBIN
Robert McCubbin of East
Williams Township, passed away
on Friday, February 28 at
Strathroy Middlesex General
Hospital, in his 73rd year. He was
the husband of Lottie M.
(Squires) McCubbin; son of the
late John and Annie McCubbin;
brother of Isabelle (Mrs, Paul
Morland) of Toronto. He was
predeceased by one brother, Dr.
J. Gilles McCubbin, and one
sister, Lena McCubbin. Also
surviving are several nieces and
nephews. Funeral services were
held from the M. Box and Son
Funeral Home, Parkhill, Mon-
day, March 3, by Rev, James
Perrie of The Centre Rd.
Presbyterian Church. Interment
followed in Nairn Cemetery.
service the roads and services.
MacMillan explained that Veil
could hire the town to maintain
the roads, but he would retain
ownership.
The bond would enable council
to take action to answer coin-
plaints they may receive from
residents in the mobile home
park regarding the condition of
roads or services.
IDA BENDER
Ida Bender passed away on
Friday, February 28, at her
residence in Ailsa Craig, in her
79th year. She was the wife of
Simon Bender; mother of Inez,
London; Ruth (Mrs. Fred Arnel)
of Ailsa Craig; Bernice (Mrs.
George Fraser) of Parkhill,
Gerald, of Kitchener and Harold
of RR 3 Denfield; sister of
Emma, (Mrs. Albert Oesch) of
Milverton, Christina, (Mrs.
Norman Roy) of Wellesley. She is
also survived by seven grand-
children. Mrs. Bender rested at
the T. Stephenson and Son
Funeral Home, Ailsa Craig, then
to funeral services at Nairn
Mennonite Cemetery.
GRETA M. HARNESS
Greta M. Harness of Exeter
passed away on Friday,
February 28, at St. Joseph's
Hospital, London. She was the
daughter of the late Mr, & Mrs.
Edward Harness. She is survived
by several cousins. Funeral
services were held from the
Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home,
Exeter on Monday March 3 by
Rev. Harold Snell. Interment
followed in Exeter Cemetery.
Miss Harness was a member of
the South Huron Hospital
Auxiliary and was employed at
the Bank of Montreal for 40
years.
Pallbearers for the funeral
were Ernest Wells, Nelson Wells,
Don Wells, Ralph Genttner,
Edward E. Hall and Robert D.
Hall.
CHARLOTTE JANE BOX
Charlotte Jane Box passed
away on Friday, February 28 at
the Green Gables Nursing Home,
Parkhill, in her 95th year. She
was the wife of the late Marshall
Box, predeceasing her in 1946.
She was the mother of Lois (Mrs.
Lloyd Poore) of Woodstock,
Dorothy (Mrs. Donald Pedlar)
and Laurence Box, both of
Parkhill; sister of Mrs. Edna
Fink of Vancouver. She is also
survived by seven grandchildren
and 18 great-grandchildren, Mrs.
Box rested at the M. Box and Son
Funeral Home, Parkhill, where
funeral and commital services
were held on Sunday March 2.
Interment followed in Parkhill
Cemetery with Rev. R. W. Scott
officiating.
Farmers ask
income plan
SERVING REFRESHMENTS Visitors to Huron Hall during Centralia College's "Activities '75 were treated
to coffee and cookies. Shown with some of the refreshments are students Allana Scidmore, Velma Louttit
and Jane Flannery. T-A photo
A PANEL ON NUTRITION — At Thursday's "Activities'75"at Centralia College, home economic students
participated in a nutritional discussion. From the left are Bonnie Veenstra, Roasemarie Karlovits and Joanne
Maloney. T-A photo
Youngsters blast lights
with pellet guns in town
present building, in 1976.
"Maybe we want to be Santa
Claus," quipped Oddleifsop who
warned against "presuming" the
economy would remain stable.
He said he felt the country is
definitely in a recession and
headed for a depression.
The present lease should be
honored," Reeve Oddleifson said.
Deputy-reeve Frank Cook, a
longtime advocate of decen-
tralization of county offices, drew
council's attention once more to
the fact that a building is
available at Vanastra which
would adbqua tely house the
library headquarters.
Library head William Partridge
was present and commented that
the library staff makes regular
fuasceiloifticeosp rt house equipment and
"We like to be close to the court
house," said Mr. Partridge.
"I've been on this council for
five years and it is the same old
story, Everybody likes to be close
to the court houses," stated Mr.
Cook. "Let's change it a little.
lAn' ich i hGy oddoeersey?e,rything have to be
Reeve Oddleifson concurred.
He said that with proper planning
and a courier system, library
headquarters at Clinton could
still make use of court house
equipment and facilities,
"You don't have to be just
across the street from the court
house to make use of equipment
here," said Reeve Oddleifson,
Deputy-reeve Frank Cook
called for a recorded vote which
resulted ina 30-23 tally in favor of
signing the new lease for present
library facilities.
During the debate, however, it
was evident that county officials
are considering a new county
building to house the library as
well as other county depart-
ments. It was pointed out such a
building would take several years
to plan with construction not
possible much before 1977.
Union Cemetery, Memmonite Church on Monday, Manx/N°*4 A vl r y s da 1 e: dacleSimmonscRebert ',.'ficiating,InterthenVwaHh Nairn
Pallbearers were Jack March 3, Wilfred Schlegel of-
ANOTHER 50-50 WINNER — The winner of the March 50.50 draw sponsored by the Exeter Minor Hockey
Association is Don Cowan of town. Above, draw chairman George Pratt presents a cheque for $210 to
Cowan while Reeve berry Boyle is at the right, T-A photo