Times-Advocate, 1978-11-23, Page 1TWO
Two area residents were
killed and three were
seriously injured in .violent
collisions this week.
Dead are John Vanderloo,
19, of RR 3 Lucan, and
Arthur Robert Ball, 70,
Crediton,
Mr. Ball was killed in a
DIE,THREE BADLY HURTIN AREA COLLISIONS
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collision at the intersection
of County Roads 2 and 4 west
of Crediton at 2:00 p.m,,
Thursday. He had been
southbound on County Road
2 and was hit broadside by a
westbound’ car driven by
Mrs. Greta Beaver, also of
Crediton, as he crossed the
intersection.
Mrs. Beaver and Mr.
Ball’s wife, Loretta, were
both seriously injured and
were taken to London
hospitals by Hoffman’s
Ambulance after
treated initially
Huron Hospital.
at
being
South
The driver’s side of the
Ball vehicle was ripped
apart in the impact and Mr.
Ball was pronounced dead at
the scene by Coroner Dr.
Liam O’Connor, Grand
Bend.
OPP Constable Jack
Straughan investigated,
assisted by Sgt. Ray Glover
and Constable Jim Rogers.
Damage in the accident was
listed at $12,000.
John Vanderloo was killed
at 1.50 a.m. Saturday when
the vehicle he was driving
was in a near head-on
collision with a vehicle
driven by 22 year-old Dan
Brintnell of Exeter,
The Vanderloo vehicle was
proceeding south when the
accident occured on High
way 4,18 kilometers south of
the Lucan village limits.
The Brintnell vehicle was
heading north. The crash
took place in the southbound
lane.
A passehger in the Van
derloo car, Mary Lenders of
HR 2, Ilderton suffered
minor injuries and was taken
to St. Joseph’s Hospital,
London for treatment.
Vanderloo was pronounced
dead at the scene by Coroner
Dr. Robin Shearer of Lon
don. Constable W. R. Disher
of the Lucan Ontario
Provincial Police detach
ment investigated. Both
vehicles were demolished.
Total loss was set at $6,000.
Another area resident,
David Mitton, Crediton, was
seriously injured in a one-
vehicle accident on Satur
day. He is a patient in
University Hospital, London.
Mitton was a passenger in
a vehicle driven by Margaret
on Highway 4, south of Lucan. The Vanderloo vehicle is shown here.
FATAL CRASH — John Vanderloo, RR 3, Lucan was killed early Saturday morning in .a crash
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One Hundred and Fifth Year
Foster, Huron Park, which trees on County Road 2, west Exeter OPP Constable
struck a sign post and two of concession 4-5 of Stephen. Don Mason investigated and
set property damage at
$4,000 in that collision.
FATAL CRASH SCENE — A 70-year-old Crediton man was killed and two women seriously injured in a collision at the in
tersection of the Crediton Road and County Road 2 Thursday afternoon. The car in the foreground was being driven west by
Greta Beaver and it was in collision with a southbound car driven by Arthur Robert Ball, who died. His vehicle is shown at the
right. OPP Sgt. Ray Glover and Constable Jack Straughan are shown talking to Coroner Dr. Liam O'Connor, Grand Bend,
right. Staff photo
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DRIVER DIES — Arthur Robert Ball, Crediton, died when this car he was driving was involved
in a collision at the intersection of County Roads 2 and 4 west of Crediton on Thursday. Mr.
Ball's wife and the driver of the other vehicle, Mrs. Greta Beaver, also of Crediton, were
seriously injured. i Staff photo
EXETER, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 23, 1978
May keep buses going
to help financial woes
Huron pays for education
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Will aid palsy victim
The Huron County'Board
of Education agreed Monday
•night to pick up the tab to
send a five-year-old han
dicapped child to the London
and District Crippled
Children’s Treatment Centre
from his home in Stephen
township.
The request was made by
the child’s mother, Kathy
Bullock, to have her son
transported daily to the
London centre for morning
kindergarten classes and
afternoon therapy sessions.
The youngster suffers from
cerebal palsy.
Superintendent of
education Don Kenwell told
the board the tuition fees for
the student would amount to
$15 a day but that the board’s
share of the cost, 48 percent,
would amount to $7.20, the
remaining $7.80 a day being
paid by the ministry of
education.
Transportation costs were
much he.ftier according to
Kenwell. He said three
quotes had been received,
one from Lang Bus Lines had
a daily rate of $60, one from
Murphy Bus Lones cost $75 a
day and one from Exeter Bus
Lines in a van with other
children, would cost $20 a
day. The ministry pays 82
percent of the transportation
costs and the board the rest.
Kenwell told the board
Mrs. Bullock had recently
moved to Huron County from
Middlesex County.
Wingham trustee Jack
Alexander asked Kenwell
why she had moved here
asking if the family was
“renters moving around a
lot.” The Wingham trustee,
looking at the report from •
Kenwell that outlined the
hefty transportation’ cqsts,
suggested that it may be
cheaper for the board to
“buy a house in London and
leave them there”
suggesting it may be less
than what the board will pay
in daily transportation fees.
John Cochrane director of
education told the board that
he was not exactly clear on
the board’s responsibilities
under the education act but
said that to the best of his
memory the board had a
responsibility to pay tuition
fees only for the youngster.
He said the board had the
option to pay none, a share
of, or all the costs for
transportation.
Kenwell pointed out that
he was not familiar with the
family but did know that the
father “did not move this
time” with the family. He
added that the board’s share
of the transporation for
Exeter Coach Lines would be
18 percent. That share
amounts to $3.60 a day.
Vice chairman Don
McDonald asked if the child
could be put up in London in
a boarding house.
“He is a bit young,” said
Kenwell.
JohnBoard chairman
Elliott pointed out after the
meeting that the fees to send
the Bullock child to London
were probably not that much
more than the board pays to
transport mentally retarded
children to the training
centres operated in some
county elementary schools.
The Huron County Board
of Education may attempt to
squeeze a few more miles out
of board owned school buses
to alleviate financial
pressures that are cramping
the board’s capital ex
penditures and equipment
replacement programs.
Board chairman John
Elliott told the board at its
final session Monday night
the practice of automatically
renewing six board owned
buses every year may be
unnecessary, pointing out
that some of the money spent
on new vehicles could be
funneled into other areas.
The suggestion was made
when the board was asked by
John Cochrane, director of,.
education, to approve a five
year capital expense
forecast. Cochrane ex
plained to the board that the
five year program is
required by the ministry of
education for Ontario to
permit the province to set
down a provincial spending
forecast.
The, director said the
province has met the
requirements of the Huron
board with the exception of
one major area, additional
home economics and in
dustrial arts facilities in
elementary schools.
Cochrane told the board
that considering the
ministry’s record of ignoring
Huron county’s request for
funds to establish industrial
arts and home ec centres at
Turnberry, Hullett and
Exeter Public Schools the
board could consider not
asking any more.
Cochrane said the futility
of the request indicated that
perhaps the board should
just ask for the money for the
continuance o( replacing six
Board owned’ buses each
year. The bus replacing
practice is done due to
ministry guidelines that
totally depreciate school
buses over seven years.
Elliott suggested that the
board’s habit of replacing six
buses a year may not be
necessary. The chairman
said some of the buses
A SPECIAL GRADUATION Former Hensall reeve Minnie
Noakes received her grade 13 diploma at SHDHS
Commencement Friday night. Making the presentation is her
son Dr. David Noakes. T-A photo
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Business'as usual
at Conners' plant
ex-Proceedings for the
merger between Del Monte
Corporation and R.J,
Reynolds Industries, Inc.,
are continuing, but the move
is not expected to have any
noticeable effect on the
Canadian Canners Limited
plant in Exeter.
Canadian Canners is own
ed by Del Monte Corporation
of San Francisco.
L.H. Johnston, president
of Canadian Canners, told
the T-A from his Hamilton
office this week that the
firm was carrying on
business as usual “and we
expect to continue to do so”.
“Del Monte will continue
after the merger to operate
as a separate entity, under
its present name and with ....._______
its headquarters in San, of the necessary approvals,
Francisco,” Mr. Johnston the two corporations expect
said in a letter circulated to that the merger could be
employees. completed in February,”
R.G. Landis, chairman of Mr. Johnston reported.
the board and chief
ecutive officer of Del Monte
and J. Paul Sticht, president
and chief executive officer
of R.J. Reynolds, had
previously announced that
the two corporations had
signed a definitive agree
ment providing for the
merger of Del Monte into a
wholly-owned subsidiary of
* Reynolds.
The latter is a major
tobacco company with head
offices in Winston-Salem.
The merger is subject to
receipt of a tax ruling from
the U.S. internal revenue
service, approval by*the
vote of the holders of two-
thirds of the Del Monte
shares and other customary
conditions.
“Assuming timely receipt
Shaw gets support
for Maclean's battle
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Exeter Mayor Shaw
reported this week he has
had ‘/dozens of calls” in sup
port of his contention that
Maclean’s magazine erred
in not printing a story on
censorship in their October 2
issue circulated in Huron.
The story appeared only in
the Toronto issues and
refers to the Huron County
board of education’s con
troversial decision to ban
Margaret Laurence’s’book
The Diviners from the high
school literature course
because it was considered to
contain obscene language.
Shaw, who is principal at
Seaforth High School and a
former English department
head at South Huron, said
most of the callers felt
Huron residents should have
been given the opportunity
to read what the Maclean’s
article said about them.
• The calls came from
citizens throughout the
county he reported.
Maclean’s managing
editor Kevin Doyle has turn
ed down a request from
Shaw that* the article be
reprinted in a future edition
circulated in this area.
Doyle said he didn’t think
the article was worth reprin
ting and he had no intention
of asking people inToronto to
read it all over again.
The publishing firm did in
dicate they would send
copies of the Toronto edition
of October 2 to any sub
scribers in Huron requesting
it.
As a result of the issue.
Goderich Councillor Elsa
Haydon said she plans to
look into forming a Huron
County chapter of the
Intellectual Freedom Com
mittee, an affiliate of the
Ontario Libraries AssocD- "
tion, to fight the banning ot
other books'.
She said she has spoken
with several people who
share her concern for in
tellectual freedom and is
trying to organize a
meeting. “This article (in
Maclean’s) has really got
me in a fighting mood,” she
was quoted as saying this
week.
She said if Maclean’s
• wants to portray itself as a
national magazine it should
indicate there are different
editions, as newspapers do.
GOOD NEWS
Santa does
plan a visit
Frowns will probably turn
to smiles this week for area
youngsters with the an
nouncement that Santa
Claus will visit Exeter after
all.
Last week, it was in
dicated that there would be
no Santa Claus parade, and
while that news was basical
ly correct, it was the type of
news that sparked some peo
ple into action.
The Exeter Lions decided
to take on the challenge and
will be assisted by some
local citizens who had also
decided to ensure that Santa
would make his annual visit.
His visit will be scheduled
for Saturday, December 16
at 1:00 p.m. and letters have
gone out this week to area
businesses and groups seek
ing their support.
Jack Underwood, who is
helping with the project,
said a minimumof twobands
will be on hand.
The committee still has to
finalize some of the details,
but it is expected that the
event could also include free
skating or even movies at
the rec centre.
Chairman of the parade
will be Mike Williamson.
People interested may con
tact him at Snell Bros, or
they could also call Shirley
Hart or Jay Campbell.
The Downtown Business
Improvement Area board
will finance the event.
replaced may be worthy of
more mileage and that the
board could attempt to keep
the vehicles on the road
using the money saved to
establish the home
economic-industrial arts
classrooms.
Brussels trustee Donald
McDonald noted that it may
not be possible for the board
to transfer that capital as
easily as that. He said the
ministry might simply keep
the money itself and give the
Huron board only enough for
five buses.
Wingham trustee Jack
Alexander said it appeared
as though the six buses due
for replacement were “let
go” by the board’s tran
sportation department so
that by the time they are due
to be taken off the road they
are “shot.” Alexander
suggested that by taking
better care of the vehicles
the board may get more
mileage from them.
Elliott said that some of
the buses may indeed be
scrap but felt sure some
should not be replaced. He
said there may be four buses
due for replacement and two
that could be kept on the job,
saving the board the cost of
two new vehicles. He said in
the past two years three of
the buses the board has
replaced have been put back
into service by bus con
tractors.
The board tenders for the
sale of the vehicles, a con
tractor buys them and keeps
them on the road to transport
students under a contract
with the board.
The chairman said two
years age, two of the six
buses the board sold were
put back on the road by
contractors and this year one
of the buses was put back in
service. He suggested that
the board consider the policy
before it automatically
agrees to it.
Seaforth trustee John
Henderson felt that a delay
could put the board in a
financial dilemma it faces in
other areas. Henderson said
if the board “lays off a year
or two it may be facing
same problem it is
replacing equipment
technical classrooms in
county high schools.”
said the board could
afford to “keep up to
situation to avoid facing a
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Centre committees
get final accolades
The final public
acknowledgement was given
the various area residents
who served on the com
mittees responsible for the
completion of the South
Huron rec centre. Monday.
They were guests of the
councils of Exeter. Stephen
and Usborne at a banquet in
the rec centre, an event
which also included Exeter
council’s annual fete for the
residents who serve on
various boards and com
mittees in the community.
“No one can deny you the
energy and enthusiasm you
gave to make this building a
reality.” commented Ex
eter Mayor Bruce Shaw,
chairman for the evening.
He said the completion of
the facility took the effort of
a great many, but the 24 peo
ple who were recognized at
the banquet "deserve
special credit”.
“This is a final thank you
to all those who took part
and it includes everyone in
this building and also all the
residents -of Exeter,
Usborne and Stephen.” said
the rec centre committee
chairman John Stephens.
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Each of the 24 was given a
framedjeplica of the plaque
which bears their names and
is located irt the foyer of the
rec centre. The cost of the
awards was underwritten by
Dashwood Industries, the
major contributors to the
Crash victim
paralyzed
A careless driving charge
against an 18-year-old St.
Thomas woman was with
drawn in Exeter court this
week in view of the fact she
is still in University Hospital
and totally paralyzed.
Cheryl A. Williams was
driving a small car north on
Highway 4 on September 2
when it went out of control
and caught fire in the west
ditch.
Three other passengers
were injured and the Exeter
fire department assisted in
extinguishing the flames.
Ms. Williams was tossed
from the wreckage and
ended up in a nearby field.
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DIL HONORS WORKERS — The 24 area residents who served on the various committees in
volved in the erection of the South Huron rec centre were honored at a municipal banquet
staged by Exeter, Usborne and Stephen at the rec centre, Monday. Dashwood Industries, the
top donors for the fund, donated special plaques to the committee’members find DIL vice-
president Gerry Parsons is shown presenting one to general chairman John Stephens, right,
while Mayor Bruce Shaw looks on. Staff photo
rec. centre financial cam
paign. Stephens acknowledg
ed them as “good corporate
citizens”.
He thanked the three
councils for their coopera
tion and noted that when the
people were being chosen to
work on the various com
mittees. those contacted
were generally the busiest
people in town.
• Stephens, who said he at
times found himself getting
callous and crusty during
the committee’s work,
suggested he had probably
made some enemies “and I
hope the wounds have
healed”.
“I know that not everyone
was in favor (of the rec cen
tre) but I hope they all are
now.”
Stephens, who received a
special plaque from DIL
vice-president Gerry Par
sons. was referred to as the
“main cornerstone" in the
facility's construction.
“It I was ever asked to
chair another committee of
this nature. I would select
the same individuals,’’
Stephens replied.
In addition to the plaques
from DIL. the committee
members each received a
special plaque from the
three contributing
municipalities and these
were presented by Exeter
Deputy-Reeve Don
MacGregor. Usborne Reeve
Bill Morley and Stephen
Reeve Cecil Desjardine.
Those recognized were:
John Stephens. Clarence
“King” McDonald. Jim
Chapman. Murray Dawson,
Gerald Dearing, Doug
Ellison. Jack Puller, Arn
Mathers. Jack Tinney, Ron
Bogart. Carf Cann, Joanne
Dinney. Don Gaiser, Frank
Giffin. Alberta Gregson,
Louise Pincombe, Lome
Preszcator. Rob Grant, Bill
Batten, Jim Beckett, John
Ansley, Jim McKinlay, Jack
Underwood and Alvin
Willert.
McKinlay. now an official
with Wintario, was com-
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