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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-01-27, Page 1TWISTED WRECKAGE — The snowmobile which carried Barry Campbell and James Moffat to their deaths early Sunday morning is pictured here along with the rear of the car the two men struck. Parts of the two helmets worn by the victims were strewn in the snow at the scene. Both men died of severe skull fractures, in- ternal injuries and multiple fractures. T-A photo Sports dinner nears Leaf stars still possible qhe exelerZinesativocate One Hundred and Fourth Year EXETER, ONTARIO, JANUARY 27, 1977 Price Per Copy 25 Cents Mixed news for industries GYMNASTICS — Instructor Willy Heidebrect gives Marta Brunner of Ailsa Craig a little support doing handsprings during activities at the Nairn gymnastics club. Photo by Scheifele Health minister pays quick visit to Exeter TWO KILLED — Exeter Constable Ron Fice, left, surveys the scene following Sunday morning's double fatality on William St. The snowmobile on the right smashed into the rear of a car and the bodies of the two victims lie covered under the blankets. The snowmobile in the centre foreground and the truck were not in- volved in the accident. They were driven by people who happened on the scene after the crash. T-A photo Steel, fund going up Rec Centre Donations This week Huron Middlesex Cadet Corps Exeter Centennial Soccer Club In Memory of Gord, the Baynham Family Ken J. Lampman, London Anonymous Anonymous Bell Canada $ 150.00 100.00 350.00 50.00 50.00 100.00 2000.00 • Expect 500 snowmobiles Close to 500 snowmobilers are expected to participate in Sun- day's Snowarama. It will cover a total of 100 miles with starting and finishing points at the host club Hully Gully, near Varna, The tour will move east of Hul- ly Gully to Clinton and Seaforth and will pass checkpoints at Kippen, Sunset Strip, Kirkton, Lucan, Ailsa Craig, Mount Carmel, Jack Riddell's farm'and the Pineridge Chalet. During the past two winters, participants in the snowmobile event which is called Whipper Watson's Snowarama have rais- ed more than $250,000 for the On- tario Society of Crippled Children. Apart from raising funds to develop local and province-wide rehabilitation services for physically handicapped children, 41, Showarama is designed to show that in careful hands snow- mobiles offer safe, enjoyable winter recreation without caus- ing damage to the envirOnment. Anyone wishing entry forms, sponsor sheets or information is asked to contact Randy Collins at Hully Gully 262-5809 or Phil Ormsby in London at 451-6149, Two killed when snowmobile smashes into parked vehicle Two area teenagers were kill- ed instantly when the snow- mobile on which they were driv ing smashed into the rear of a parked car on William Street early Sunday morning. Dead are K. Barry Campbell, 19, RR 2, Ailsa Craig, and James W. Moffat, 18, 132 Wellington Crescent, Huron Park. A joint funeral service was held for the pair on Tuesday from the T. Harry Hoffman Funeral Home, Dashwood. The two were southbound on William St. about half a block south of South Huron Hospital when the machine driven by Campbell rammed into the car which was owned by Mathers Motors. Officials of the Exeter Lions well known sporting per- club are finalizing plans for the sonalities confirmed. fourth annual Sportsmen's,. While the top speakers are Tom Bell, Tony Gabriel and Darwin Semotiuk, dinner chair- man Doug Ellison is still trying to lure some members of the Toronto Maple Leaf organization here. Ellison' told the T-A Tuesday, "We are almost sure that ex- Leaf goalie Johnny Bower will be here and we are trying to get at least one more from a possible three. They are King Clancy, Darryl Sittler and Borje Salming." The headline speaker recently retired American football referee Tom Bell is a well-known international speaker and a full time practicing attorney in Lex- ington, Kentucky. In addition to working two Super Bowl games and seven NFL championship games, Bell has received a number of awards in the business field. He was also chairman of the State of Kentucky Easter Seal campaign for three years. Tony Gabriel of the Ottawa Roughriders and Darwin Dinner and attempting to in- crease the number of top notch speakers. The dinner will be held at the Exeter Legion Hall on Tuesday, February 8 with a long list of An autopsy showed that both men suffered severe skull frac- tures, multiple internal injuries and fractures. Their snowmobile helmets were smashed into pieces by the impact. The accident occured at 1:40 a.m, and it is believed the two were heading for Huron Park, Exeter Constable Ron Fice was jn charge of the investiga- tion, assisted by Constable George Robertson and Chief Ted Day. Damage to the car was es- timated at $1,200 and $1,000 .to the snowmobile. The first person on the scene was Gregory J. Campbell, Hen- sail. He was also driving a snow- mobile but was a block behind the other machine when the acci- and involved vehicles driven by dent occurred. Mark Coolman, 332 Andrew St., An obituary report for the two Exeter and Marilyn Sillery, RR victims appears elsewhere in 3, Exeter. Constable Robertson this issue. listed damage at $600. The accident was one of eight Vehicles driven by Elmer investigated by the Exeter police Shepherd, RR 8, Parkhill and this week. Cheryl Seymour, RR 4, Seaforth, There were two crashes on collided on the parking lot at Thursday, the first involving a Darling's Food Market in one of hit and run. A parked vehicle two Friday crashes and damage owned by William Harris, 92 was listed at $475 by Constable Waterloo St., Exeter, was struck Short. by an unknown vehicle on Huron He set damage at $800 in the St., near the hospital, Damage other accident which occurred on was set at $200 by Constable Main St. and involved vehicles Short and police are looking for a operated by Michael O'Toole, 1972 green Toyota as a result of London, and Denton McBride, 61 the incident. Gidley St., Exeter, The other accident occurred on There was one accident on Andrew Street north of Sanders Saturday, occurring on Main St. near Nelson and involving The Provincial Minister of Health, Frank Miller, says his ministry is not pressuring the counties of Huron and Perth to form a District Health Board. In fact, Mr. Miller said the ministry is taking a "neutral position" and said the counties should take their time in reaching any decisions. Mr. Miller was addressing a luncheon in Exeter on Wednes- day attended by about fifty area people. Mr. Miller explained to the gathering that in Ontario the areas of Perth and Huron are the only ones not involved in a District Health Board. "The truth of the matter is we've been creating the District Boards of Health faster than we've been able to handle them," explained Mr. Miller. "It's worse to create a board leading them to believe they will be able to work closely with the ministry and then not be able to do so than it is not to create a board at all." Mr. Miller added he is trying to speed up the internal activities of his ministry to deal with the problem, but he said they are not in a hurry to see a board developed in this area. When asked if he believed the district boards were any better or cheaper to run than the county boards used at present, Mr. Miller replied it was difficult to measure such a thing, He added he believed the administrative costs went down when the boards were combined into one unit, and that he felt the program quality usually goes up, However, Mr. Miller added "I and speaking in general terms and not necessarily about Huron and Perth counties." vehicles driven by Robert Swart- man, 111 Riverside Dr., Exeter and Milton Gower, 255 Algonquin Drive, Huron Park. Constable Barnes listed total damage at $1,700. Sunday's only crash took place at the intersection of Highways 4 and 83 involving vehicles driven by Jane Hildebrand, Seaforth, and Rohda Rohde, RR 1, Woodham. Constable Robertson investigated 'and set damage at $500, The other crash of the week oc- curred on Wednesday when a car driven by Gary Moore, RR 2, Tiverton, collided with a vehicle driven by Gary Rau, RR 2, Zurich, on Main St. near Sanders. Damage was estimated at $150 by Constable Barnes. Yacht firm in receivership Semotiuk, coach of the Universi- ty of Western Ontario Mustangs will be•representingfootball. Gabriel was named top Cana- dian in the 1976 Grey Cup game and Semotiuk was coach of the year in Canadian College football circles. Peter Michienzi will be here on behalf of wrestlers. Michienzi has won 15 Canadian cham- pionships in Greco Roman and Free Style. He came to Canada from Italy in 1949 and after pick- ing up the English language in three months received one year of coaching and then became his own coach. Jack Kopas, Canada's top harness race driver will be here along with crippled children's perennial friend Whipper Billy Watson. The master of ceremonies chores will be in the hands of that jovial pair from Kirkton, Lee and Gerry Paul who will keep the program rolling smoothly. Tickets at $25 each are available from any member of the Exeter Lions club and are tax deductible. Total to date $218,426.35 Area hovercraft still considered A Grand Bend firm is still in the running to supply the 'Cana- dian government with a hover- craft for its four west coast search and rescue operations, Transport Minister Otto Lang said Tuesday. Mr. Lang said no fihal decisions have yet been made on purchase of the hovercraft, which it is estimated will cost about $1 million. Conservative MP gobert McKinley (Huron-Middlesex ). suggested in the Commons Mon- day that the government ap- parently had decided to buy a British-made hovercraft. He ask- ed that the decision be recon- sidered and that the government look more closely at a vehicle built by. Bell Aerospace of Grand Bend. Mr. McKinley also indicated that cabinet approval had been given for the purchase of the British machine, adding he un- derstood that a Canadian.twern- ment delegation, including contract-signing officials, was recently in Britain. A spokesman for Mr. Lang's ministry said Monday a delega- tion did go to Britain but only-to study the feasibility of Canadian use of a British hovercraft. Both the ministry spokesman and Mr. Lang stressed, however, that Bell Aerospace, which has operated out of Grand Bend for about six years, was still being considered. Bell Aerospace makes two hovercraft models, the Voyageur and the smaller Viking, which company officials say was designed especially for Canadian Coast Guard use. Mr. Lang acknowledged that during preliminary considera- tion of search and rescue up- grading, the purchase of a British hovercraft was con- sidered because the coast guard already had one such machine. Mr. Lang said, however, the transport ministry received in- formation which made it take a closer look at the Bell Aerospace machines, adding "we've put a hold on the whole matter." Mr, Lang said while no date has been set for a final decision, the government hopes to resolve the matter quickly. The transport ministry spokesman said the financial benefits of the competing machines will be studied before the government. Mr. Miller added the ministry is encouraging the establishment of the District Boards by giving increase grants to such boards, but they were not trying to force them on anyone. Mr. Miller was touring the area, opening a wing on the hospital in Goderich and speak- ing in Wingham, Kincardine and Wiarton. All staff members of South Huron District High School will be participating in Professional Development Days, Thursday and Friday of this week. They will be attending a two day seminar at the Benmiller Inn. The program designed to further staff development will be conducted by personnel of the Ontario Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Educaio'n personnel will include Frank Marchand, Earl Knickerbocker and Jay Lockerbie. South Huron principal J.L. Wooden said this week, "The Ministry of Education sets down the minimum number of days a school must be open. With a total of four PD days this year we are well above the minimum number of days we must have the school open." Wooden added, "Some schools take their PD days late in June to shorten the school year, but we have extended ours to June 23 this year," The other two days allotted to North Star Yachts of Huron Park was placed in receivership Thursday after failing to find the necessary capital to meet a deadline set by the Ontario Development Corporation. ODC had set a deadline for last Thursday at midnight for the firm to raise $100,000. The Clarkson Company Ltd., London, have been named as Snowmobiler breaks leg A snowmobiler sustained a broken leg in one of four ac- cidents investigated by the Exeter OPP this week. The snow vehicle accident occurred at 12:05 a.m., Sunday, when a machine driven by William J. Rowcliffe, RR 1 Hensall, struck John Campbell, RR 1 Exeter, who had fallen off his machine in front of the Rowcliffe vehicle. The accident occurred on concession 3-4 of Hay township and was investigated by Con- stable Bill Osterloo. Damage to the Rowcliffe machine was listed at $25. Three other people suffered minor injuries in a two-car crash on Highway 4 on Friday. The vehicles were driven by Elaine Ford, Grand Bend, and Jean Little, Hensall. They collided about two and a half miles north of Exeter and both cars were extensively damaged with loss estimated at $9,500 by Constable Bill Lewis. Mrs. Little and two passengers, Barbara Bleck, RR 1 Zurich, and Brenda Hay, Hensall, were slightly injured. On Thursday, vehicles driven by Morris Webb, RR 2 Zurich, and Walter Murray, Grand Bend, collided in Oakwood Park with damage being set at $1,000 by Constable Wally Tomasik. The other accident of the week occurred on Monday when a car driven by Ian Fowles, RR 1 Lucan, skidded out of control and rolled over on concession 2-3 of Usborne. The driver suffered cuts and bruises and damage was set at $250 by Constable Don Mason. South Huron by the Huron Board of Education for Professional Development days were in the fall with one being the first day of school, after Labour Day, Wooden said the only approval needed from the Huron Board and the Ministry for this week's two day session was to change a scheduled PD day for April 30 to January 27. The local principal said the cost of the two day stay at Benmiller will be covered by monies from four sources, They are the Ministry of Education, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, the Huron Board of Education and the teachers themselves. Wooden said each secondary school in Huron has been allotted $50 per staff Member for Professional Development this year and this may be spent at the discretion of the principal, He continued, "We will not be spending more than half of our yearly allotment of $3,000 during this week's seminar at Hen- miller, There is no extra cost to receivers by ODC and a chartered bank. A spokesman for Clarkson, 0. W. Parkes, said they were now attempting to assess• the situa- tion at North Star, which laid off its remaining 60 employees about a month ago. The majority of those workers have back pay' owing from late December. Mr. Parkes said ODC were anxious to explore every possibility of reactivating North Star. It was suggested this could probably be undertaken through the sale of the firm and he in- dicated there was "considerable interest" from various sources. At the present time, Clarkson officials are assessing the costs involved in completing the inven- tory at North Star and there is a possibility the workers will be recalled to undertake that task. Mr. Parkes told the T-A his firm hoped to have their assess- ment completed by the end of this week or early next week and a decision would then be made about completing the inventory and the future of North Star Yachts. He was unable to give any in- dication of what may happen regarding the back pay owing to the employees. Meanwhile, most of the employees are looking for jobs elsewhere and indications are that few openings are available in this area at the present time. Recover stolen goods As a result of investigation by OPP Constable Bill McIntyre, $200 worth of items stolen from Carl's Gas Bar in Crediton on January 5 have been recovered. Total loot in the breakin was $800. Two area residents have been charged and will appear in" Exeter court on March 15. The OPP also recovered a $510 vacuum cleaner stolen from a parked car last week. Other investigations this week included four incidents of vehicles obstructing snow removal, three thefts, one prowler complaint, two wilful damage, four property checks and seven escorts. the Board or local ratepayers. Other years these monies were spent in different ways, sending two or three teachers to various conventions, for example." This year we have limited other PD activities and will be using most of the funds for a total staff program. "This will not be a frivolous session. It is the most serious Professional Development idea we have ever had, It is a genuine concern of our staff to do a better job with the more complex problems facing us in education." A member of the PD com- mittee Pat Quigley echoed the principal's sentiments. She said, "This kind of thing is being done more and more by school staffs to develop better interpersonal relationships and understanding of other departments," She continued, "It gives us an opportunity to sort out coma on goals anddevelopniore tolerance in special areas and between departments and should provide a healthier teaching program," 1:40' COMPLEX UNDERWAY — Despite the intense winter weather construction of the South Huron recreation complex continues with beams being raised this week. T.A photo Teachers plan two-day development program