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Times-Advocate, 1980-01-16, Page 3SHAW FINISHES SECOND — Former Exeter Mayor Bruce Shaw finished second in the Progressive Conservative nomination for the Huron-Bruce riding at a meeting in Brussels Tuesday. Prior to the nomination, Shaw (right) conferred with his nominator former Goderich mayor Deb Shewfelt and his seconder former Huron county warden Reeve Jack Tinney of Hay township. T-A photo Incumbent has heart attack t Elliott withdraws in race MANY UNADVERTISED SPECIALS 50-85% OFF BLUE BONNET VARIETY STORE Zurich 236-4012 Several display counters and racks available ALL SALES FINAL STORE CLOSING SOON Everything Must Go LEVIS Mens reg. $23.95 now $17.95 Ladies Reg $22.95 Now $17•95 Not all sizes available EXQUISITE FORM BRAS 1/2 PRICE Not all sizes available CHILDRENS GWG CORDS Size 7-12 reg. $16.95 14-18 reg. $19.95 9 3 95 Each Chicken Snack includes 2 pcs. of delicious tenderfried Chicken and a generous portion of golden french fries. ONE DAY ONLY CHICKEN NACK Wee k CHICKEN ii SEAFOOD Offer good at these following stores. • St. Marys • Stratford Dash wood water . project underway Memorial Hospital and the news of his withdrawal was relayed to the nomination gathering by his wife, Lucy. A second nomination has been schedided for this coming Monday at Clarke Road Secondary School at 8:00 pan. The riding includes Bid- dulph and London Town- ships, Lucan, Ilderton and Denfield. The NDP have named Bill Lloyd and the Liberals have nominated Garnet Bloom- field to again carry their respective banners. Bloomfield, of Ilderton, lost to Elliott by a margin of less than 500 votes in the last federal election. Bloomfield said he felt he was hurt last time by a' Five thefts reported over the weekend Martin, while a quantity of gasoline was stolen in a breakin at the C.A. McDowell ready mix plant on Highway 83 west. Frank Wilfong, 430 Albert street reported the theft of a weathervane from his property and a two-way radio was stolen from a bus parked at the South Huron rec centre. The owner of the radio was Ellard Lang, RR 2 Tavistock. The bus had transported the Tavistock Braves to a local junior hockey game. As'a result of investigation by Constable Kevin Short into the theft of several items from Exeter Billiards, the items have been recovered and the persons responsible apprehended. The police report only one accident this week, it oc- curring on Wednesday in- volving vehicles driven by Gladys Morris, Grand Bend, and Paul Cronyn, Lucan. Minor damage was reported. The accident was in- vestigated by Constable George Robertson. What was expected to be a return bout in the riding of London-Middlesex took a different turn Monday when MP Nelson Elliott withdrew his candidacy for the Progressive Conservatives due to a recent heart attack. Elliott suffered a heart attack on Friday, and while he had intended to carry the banner once again, decided late Monday to withdraw his name, just a few hours before his scheduled nomination meeting. No one had planned to oppose the sitting member, • who first won the seat last May 22, and the nomination meeting has now been rescheduled while the PCs scramble for a candidate. Elliott is in St. Marys At the first meeting of 1980, Stephen cuunell accepted the tender of Robinson Farm Drainage for construction of the O'Rourke-Corbett municipal drain. It was the. lowest of five tenders received., Further work on erosion control on the. Walker Drain at Grand Coves Estate, near Grand Bend will be carried out this spring. The project will be carried out through the Ausable- Bayfield Conservation Authority, Stephen will be the benefitting municipality and will in turn charge that portion back to Grand CoveS. Drainage inspector Ken Pickering has been in. structed to make the necessary repairs to the Court Continued from front page addition to spray painting vehicles, the youths, along with a juvenile, were charg' ed with spray painting a Bell Telephone booth and some signs. Pleading guilty to taking the motor vehicles was James Roland 1VIcCaffrey, Exeter, The charges arose from incidents from August 1 to Septernher 30, A motor- cycle *as taken from the residence of James Scott and the other motor vehicles taken were owned by Peter Raymond, Reg Stagg and Arnold Mathers. The court was advised that two juveniles were also in- volved in the incidents. McCaffrey, 16, was given an absolute discharge on one of the four charges and given a conditional discharge and placed on probation on the other three. He was also ordered to make restitution for his- share of the damage caused to the three vehicles, which was about $650. PCs choose Continued from front page crowd indicated that the ex- tra time would not be forthcoming, Shaw returned to his seat on the stage with the other candidates. The surprise of the nomination was Johnston, the 35 year old reeve of the Bruce county township. In a hard-hitting address Johnson said "There are few people here tonight who agree this election was necessary", His number one priority Johnson said, was the use of alternate forms of energy, specifically the production of alcohol from corn and sugar beets. The use of some funds ear-marked for foreign aid could better be used at home in this regard, Johnson stated. Turning to agriculture, the increased subsidation of farm credit loans by the government was important If the family farm was to be preserved and the farmers of this country need more than a "Mickey-Mouse" transportation system to get their goods to market, he said. Bailey, the 54 year old retired farmer said he was most concerned with tax policies which discouraged initiative and that the un- employment situation can only be solved by the private sector of the economy. He said it might not be beneficial for farmers to im- prove their productivity un- til a better marketing system can be established, One person who was noticeable by his absence was McKinley who accor- ding to riding president Ma- jorie Bennett was unable to attend due to an illness in the family. NDP ready Continued from front page NDP government would explore all sources of energy including the sun and wind and would attempt to cut interest rates by taking the profit out of credit. The guest speaker NDP member for Hamilton Centre Mike Davison said, "There is no difference between the other two parties. We are the alter- native. All we ask is a chance to show what we can do." strong anti-government • vote, but expects his chances to improve this time around as the shoe is on the other foot. Lloyd agrees that leadership is still very much in the minds of .the voters and claims that Ed Broadbent is the only one of the three party leaders who is credible and respected. Rec budget is approved The South Rec Centre board of management gave their blessing to the centre's 1980 budget at their meeting Monday. Rec Centre Ian Smith has budgeted for $210,446 in expenditures compared to $178,000 a year ago. Projected revenues are up substantially with Smith estimating the centre will take in $147,000 compared to $123,000 in 1979. Grants from the townships of Usborne, Stephen and Hay will, remain constant at '$6,000, $1,200 and $400 respectively. Smith said he expects the town of Exeter will be asked for about $48,000 in the 1980 which is the same figure as requested last year. The centre actually received $45,000 from the town in 1979. Plan cards at Whalen There will be a euchre party at Whalen School on Friday, January 18 at 8:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. John Scott will be the conveners this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Damen and family spent the week in Barrie with Mrs. Damen's sister, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Gautier. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hern along with Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Spence spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Gene Spence and Adam of Richmond Hill, and visited the annual boat show in Toronto. SeVeral attended the Open House held in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Knight at Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hern's on Sunday afternoon and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hicks, Barrie spent the week with Mr. and Mrs. John Scott and family. Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jamieson and Scott, Scar- borough were also guests with Mr. and Mrs. Scott. Vandalism hits' school Damage has been estimated at around $600 in what has been described as a "lot of stupidity" by vandals who broke into South Huron District High School in the early morning hours, Saturday. Principal J.L. Wooden said it was the first incident in his memory when the school had been attacked in a clear case of vandalism. Other in- cidents have indicated the perpetrators were after money or. other items in the school. Saturday's attackers made their way into the school by breaking an ex- terior window and they then proceeded to break several windows in the school. Two fire extinguishers were stolen, some areas damaged by spray paint and a dispensing machine was ripped off the wall in .the girls' locker room. Lamenting the deliberate act of vandalism, the SHDHS principal said it appeared to be a sign of the times. Claim kids cause crash Vandals released the brakes on an empty railway tanker at the AquaChem Ltd. plant in Huron Park, Mon- day, causing the Gar to roll into a second car which crashed through a' wooden overhead door at the plant. Provincial police at Exeter said someone released the first car's brakes at about 6:15 p.m., sending the car rolling along a railway siding into the other car, which also was empty. A company spokesman estimated damage to the door at $3,000. He said a track mobile used to move the cars along the siding was also damaged. The railway car was not damaged. The plant spokesman blamed children for the incident but said plant operations would not be affected. The company cleans and relines tanker cars. Notice was incorrect 'Usborne and Exeter ratepayers are asked to note that this issue contains important notices for them from the regional assessment office. A similar ad appeared in last week's issue, but was incorrect due to an error by The Times-Advocate, and the information in it should be disregarded in favor of this week's notice. The newspaper apologizes for any inconvenience this may have created. density and value criteria. Although the MIG program terminated on December 31, 1978, grants are still being continued for projects begun before that date. Housing units eligible for MIG are for permanent residency; are self- contained; are connected to municipal piped sewers; and are served by streets and roads finished to at least a gravel surface. Under the National Housing Act amendments passed during a recent session of Parliament, financial assistance similar to MIG will be available to municipalities for the con- tinued development and improvement of eligible community services. Makins municipal drain. Clerk-treasurer Wein reported about 90 percent of To settle or not to settle is the question that wouldn't be answered until the meeting of Exeter council Monday. South Rec Centre ad- ministrator Ian Smith told the board Monday that the employees of the centre were willing to settle for 9,5 percent wage increase that night. If the increase was not approved by the board the rec centre employees would then throw their lot in with the town's other employees. When asked about the the 1979 township taxroll had been received. The balance owing of 3,0 percent com- proposed wage increase by members of the board, Exeter Mayor Derry Boyle said in hushed tones that he believed that the town's employees might settle for an amount less than 9.5 percent. The board then went behind closed doors to discsuss the wage increase. Boyle said salary negotiations between the town and the employees were to begin in earnest next week with the police wages to be discussed first. pares favourably to the past few years, Taxes for 1960 will be again collected on a two. installment basis with payments due June 13 and November 28. The penalty and interest on unpaid taxes has been increased to one and one-quarter percent. The same interest rate will be charged for overdue accounts in connection with ratepayer purchases or. rentals from the road department. Reeve Kenneth Campbell, deputy-reeve Doug Russell, councillor Alan Wainer, road superintendent Eric Fink- beiner and road department employee Peter Wuerth will be attending the Ontario Good Roads convention in Toronto February 25 to 27. Pcornis, are connected Timis-.Advocate, January 1 6, 19119 Polio 3 Two break and enters and five thefts are under in- vestigation by the Exeter town police this week. The majority occurred Friday, night or early Saturday. A small amount of cash was taken by thieves who broke into the Main Street office of optometrist Norm Hay okay severance At the January meeting of Hay council, council gave their consent to a severance' application from Charles Jeffrey, Lakeroad west concession providing it was for residential use only. Council authorized the clerk treasurer to borrow up to $300,000 temporarily. Clerk-treasurer Joan Ducharme and councillor Tony Bedard were authorized by council to attend a meeting in London concerning the planning act on January 31. The Honourable Elmer MacKay, the federal Minister responsible for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CIVIH- C) , the government's housing agency, has an- nounced his approval of grants to the Town of Exeter under the provisions of the federal government's Municipal Incentive Grant (MIG) Program. The grants total $24,000, They bring to $47,000 the total grants Exeter has now received under the program. MIG was introduced in 1975 to encourage both house construction and the economic use of land by providing a federal grant df $1,000 to eligible municipalities for each housing unit satisfying size, Recent excellent weather conditions have allowed the start of construction on the water system for the puce village of Daghwoed. • Stephen township clerk Wilmer Wein said this week that work on the supply trunk line from Shipka to the village would be completed Within a few days. Wein said construction of the distribution system to Dashwood homes would start in early spring and should be wrapped up by the end of June. Connections to a number of farms along the supply route are also being made this week, Exeter receiving more federal cash Rec staff seek boost A ,