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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-06-12, Page 1 (2)• • • • • LOTTERY WINNERS — Sunday's Olympic Lottery draw proved very beneficial for two area youth. Shoring a $5,000 win were Mike Ottewell and Paul Jeffrey. Above, the two congratulate each other in froniiof the van which Mike purchased recently. Paul indicated his win- nings would be used to further his studies in forestry this fall at a Lind- say school. T -A photo New offices, street projects on estimate Tenders on two projects were opened at a special meeting of Exeter council, Tuesday, and in both cases the lowest bid was within estimate. In fact; on the reconstruction of portions of Andrew and Sanders Street, the winning bid submitted by Jack Tanner Construction, Stratford was about $20,000 below the estimate. The Tanner bid was for $130,784.68, that being $8,000 below the second low bid on the project and $20,000 below the highest of the six bids received. The work includes the recon- struction and paving of Andrew St. between Gidley and John and installation of a storm drain on that street. 'In addition, the Anne St. drain will be extended along Edward St. to Sanders and then east to Pryde Boulevard. Sanders St. from Edward to Pryde will be excavated and backfilled on completion of the sewer work and Tractor pull set for town The Exeter Agricultural Society was given permission Monday night to use the fair grounds and track facilities to present a tractor pull. Fair board president Bruce Shapton told members of RAP that tentative plans called for the tncctor pull to be held on a Sunday afternoon in late July or early August. Shapton said similar tractor pulls in Listowel, Seaforth, Lucknow, Kirkton and Teeswater have proved very successful. RAP gave permission for the tractor pull providing the track and grounds were left in a resonable condition satisfactory to the committee. The fair board president showed slides of a similar event he witnessed recently in Texas. While sponsored by the local fair board, the tractor pull will be staged by the Western Ontario Tractor Pullers Association. Several classes will be open for modified machines but most events will be open to local "out of the field" tractors. will then be ready for paving. Noting that the bid was well below estimate, Councillor Ted Wright exclaimed "good, now we can do another road." Bids were also opened for the renovations to the former post office. Council had set a budget of $35,000 for this and the winning bid submitted by MR Con- struction, London, was for $35,033. This includes the central air conditioning system, which council approved Tuesday night in view of the fact the bid was within the total budget. The air conditioning constituted $5,876 of the bid. The low bid was welj under any of the other four submitted. The highest price received was a tender of $61,025. Architect Bruce Martin, whose firm drafted plans for the renovations, was present at the meeting to review the bids with council. It is not known when work on the new administration offices will commence. Council learned last week that the federal department of public works has still not signed the lease. Despite the fact, council have paid four months rent on the facility. There was no indication if they would attempt to retrieve that money. Department officials advised council not to proceed with any work on their project until the lease has been signed. At Monday's special meeting, council concurred with a suggestion. of their engineer and will request the ministry of the environment to add about 400 feet more sanitary sewer to the current project. The added sewer will be on Huron St. East, Simcoe St. East and on Edward St. north of Simcoe. Works superintendent Glenn Kells also asked council to consider installing a drain across the lot at the Exeter curling club to handle water that previously flowed down into Riverview Park. He said that with a new home being constructed in this area by Len Veri, the drain would be required. He estitnated the cost at $3,000. Council decided to hold the matter in abeyance until drains committee chairman Bob Simp- son returns from a holiday trip. Osborne approves five plan sessions Five meetings have been scheduled for this summer for residents of Usborne township to study recommendations for a secondary plan for the municipality. The five sessions will be part of a planning workshop with specialized topics and different members of council acting as chairmen. The first meeting to introduce Thieves again take chemical For the second week in a row, thieves have stolen a quantity of chemicals from an area farm supply centre. This week's victim was Cen- tralia Farmers Supply where a large quantity of Fatoran was reported missing The chemical has been valued at between 87,500 and 810,000 . OPP Constable Freak Giffin is in charge of the investigation. Thieves also made off with a complete rear seed planting assembly for an IHC seed planter when they broke into a storage shed owned by Charles Kernick, Usborne Township. The loss was estimated at 8600, and was discovered early this week. Three London juveniles are being questioned as the result of police investigation into a theft from the North Ridge Beach cottage of Adam Stecher, Stratford. About 860 worth of fishing equipment was stolen. The majority of it has been recovered. An attempted entry was made into the Hensall Post Office Tuesday night, hut it was un- successful. the secondary plan will be July 14. Agriculture with Reeve Walter McBride in charge will be the topic for July 17. On July 22, the natural environment, recreation and extractive resources will be discussed with deputy -reeve Bill Morley as chairman. The July 28 session will discuss hamlets. Co-chairmen will be councillors Gordon Johns and John Stewart. A general roundup meeting will be held August 7 with the entire council in charge. All meetings will be held at Usborne Central school with an 8 p.m. starting time. At Tuesday's regular council meeting the tender for paving -of .625 miles of Huron Street (Sideroad 15-16) adjacent to the town of Exeter was accepted. Levis Contracting of Clinton submitted the lowest of two bids at 816,962.60. The work is to be completed by October 15. In a second tender award, Ross -Paton Construction of Kirkton was selected to supply and place 5,000 cubic yards of clay fill, 8,500 cubic yards of B gravel and' 1,000 cubic yards of crushed gravel for construction of the S.W. Boundary road. The Kirkton firm with a bid of 819,870 was the lowest of three tenders received. A land division application from Alvin Fulton was approved. One tile drainage loan ap- plication in the amount of 84,500 was accepted. Council learned that the licencing officer had completed his rounds and 358 dogs were tagged. The Huron assessment office informed council that sup- plementary additions had been made to the assessment roll in the amounts of $45,920 liable for full year taxation and $7,090 for nine months. Proceed A pumping test on an Usborne township well is scheduled for June 16 in an effort to determine if an adequate supply of water is available for the use of Exeter Public Utilities Commission. The test had been scheduled earlier, but was delayed when over 100 Usborne farmers petitioned their council to prevent Exeter from taking water. Thursday night, a special meeting was staged in Exeter in an effort to resolve some of the problems associated with the matter. At that time, members of Usborne council indicated they were in favor of proceeding with the test, although their questioning suggested they still held some reservations. Usborne Reeve Walter McBride said he wanted to see a proper test conducted "to see who's right and who's wrong." That was in reference to the conflicting reports which have surrounded the situation for the past few weeks. "We'll be relying on you people to do your job," he told four of- ficials from the ministry of the environment who attended the meeting and who will be monitoring the test. Others attending the meeting were Commissioners from the PUC, consulting engineer Steve Burns from B. M. Ross & Associates, PUC manager Hugh Davis and representatives of Exeter council. PUC chairman Ted Pooley chaired the meeting and said he regretted the circumstances under which the meeting had been called, but noted it was important to air the complaints properly. "We're hereto answer questions and see if we can find a solution to the problems," he said, adding that in all the years of taking water from Usborne sources, this was the first time complaints had been received. "We've never taken a gallon of water that was needed by the farmers in Usborne township," he claimed. Mr. Pooley saidthat as'alresult of opening previous wells in the township, only two wells had been affected and in both cases the PUC provided better wells to the two property owners in question. Hugh Davis added that at the time, the PUC were not legally obligated to do so, but felt a moral obligation to the owners affected. Campers choose Exeter for rally The Ontario Association camporee for the Campers and Hikers Association will be held in Exeter over the Victoria holiday weekend in 1976. RAP recently signed a contract with the association fqr use of the grounds for four da�s and the arena for three days. This represents a total rental fee of approximately 81,000. The camporee is one of the largest held in the province. On previous occasions, the Sarnia and London chapters of the association have held camp - outs in Exeter. Under present legislation, however, the PUC would have a legal obligation to provide water to any property owners affected by a new well. Mr. McBride sought to have that point clarified when he asked the ministry officials what rights Usborne had to their water sources. R. Slaughter, hydrologist,tech- nicol support section,said that in the cast. of ground water it was a matter of "priority of time." Where existing wells were interfered with, the supply must be restored by the owners of the new well which had caused the problem. "Otherwise the water is with Osborne tip for grabs," he said. Slaughter, noted that in Exeter's case, they had restored water for any owners affected by previous wells in Usborne. Usborne Deputy -Reeve Bill Morley wanted to know who had the authority to permit wells being established in the township and was advised it rested initially with the proPerty owner in- volved. although a permit would have to be approved by the ministry. Slaughter explained that water was the property of the Crown as a natural resource"We oversee it on a permit program," he ex- plained. One Hundred and Second Year He added that the ministry very rarely refuses a permit, but that a permit would be cancelled if water was not restored to property owners adversely af- fected by a new well either at present or in the future. The conditions for the permit could also be changed at any time by the ministry. Morley concluded that the PUC had not been required to seek Usborne council permission for test drilling, but said "we ap- preciate the PUC coming to us." The ministry officials went on to point out that water "is there for everyone" and it is in fact a renewable resource. water test However, they added that it was necessary to realize the capacity of any well and pump accordingly, because over - pumping could reduce the supply. This was referred to as "mining" and the officials explained that this had been the case in London where a supply in White Oaks had been over -taxed by the city. However, after the pumping had ceased, the supply was regenerated. K. J. Goff, a geologist and groundwater evaluator with the ministry, displayed a cross- section drawings of the area in which the test drilling would be undertaken and suggested "the EXETER, ONTARIO, JUNE 12, 1975 potential for Interference (with other wells) is low." He said the water for the proposed PLIC well was at ,a different level than the wells on nieghboring properties and it was doubtful the viens would be connected. "They're not taking water from the same source," he stated. However he stressed the fact the ministry would have recor- ders on as, many of the surrounding wells as possible during the test pumping to ascertain what affect may be generated. In addition, any property — Please turn to page 3 Price Per Copy 25 Cents Wading pool heater, program chopped in RAP budget slash Exeter's RAP committee chopped several items off their budget, Monday, in an effort to reduce spending as necessitated by their reduced grant from council. RAP had requested a grant of $62,000 but this was reduced to 855,000 when council approved the budget last week. One of the items deleted by RAP was a proposed heater at the Victoria Park wading pool. This will necessitate other arrangements being made for the beginner's swim program held at the pool. The Beta Sigma Phi Sorority had pledged • 8300 for the new heater, while another $100 had been secured from a bikeathon staged by the playground last year. However, RAP faced an ex- penditure ofanother$900 on their own for the heater and it was dropped, meeting only objections from council representative Lossy Fuller. "I'd rather cut some of the playground staff costs than the heater at the wading pool," she argued. Rec director Jim McKinlay explained there would be some . problem providing supervisory staff for the wading pool this year, because there will be no playground activities held at Victoria Park. All these activities will be held at Community or Riverview Parks. Alvin Willert suggested RAP should consider replacing the present wading pool with another facility at Riverview Park ad- jacent to the community pool. He said both pools could be operated with the same heater and filtration equipment and it would be easier to provide supervision. r •. 11111411• ire RAP agreed to discuss the matter with the 'Sorority. Another $1,400 was eliminated from the budget through RAP receiving a Youth -In -Action grant from the provincial government for the local playground program. The grant was actually 82,100, but another Gets two years for girl's death Gary Wayne Gingerich, 25, of St. Joseph,was sentenced to two years in an Ontario reformatory Wednesday' on conviction of causing the death of a 16 -year-old London girl by criminal negligence in the operation of a motor vehicle. Gingerich was convicted April 8, on a charge concerned with the death of Marsha Louise Perry in a head-on collision between two cars early last May 11, on High- way 4, 112 miles south of Lucan. Mr. Justice E. Haines of the Ontario Supreme Court imposed sentence, along with a three year term on probation, after release f, _ prison, requiring him •to abstain from consuming alcoholic beverages. Before sentencing, Jude Haines asked Gingerich if he had anything to say for himself. Gingerich replied that he was very sorry for everything that had happened. Later in judge's chambers with prosecution and defence counsel present, Mr. Justice Haines added a recommendation that Gingerich be allowed a daily parole to continue his em- ployment. There was no recommendation of the parole in the courtroom. • i staff member had to be hired at a salary of $700. A proposed shuffleboard court for the bowling greens was eliminated at a saving of $2,000, while another $2,000 was chopped from the parks budget. The latter had been set up for the start on a creative playground, planting of more shrubs and trees, and the start of a long-range lighting project for the park. McKinlay said he was loathe to cut off the park projects, noting that lack of funds would soon show up in deteriorating facilities. He said this had happened in Sarnia and the parks board there were faced with a half million dollar expenditure this year to correct the situation. Another 850 was eliminated for the purchase of a new record player and 8200 was saved when a proposed swim leadership program was reduced from a weekend affair to a one -day event. That brought the final deficit to around 81,500 and RAP approved working on a budget that calls for total revenue of 8133,270. Member Dave Zyluk was op- posed to. the_ .deficit .budget, suggesting that members stage another meeting in an attempt to find further savings. "If we budget for a 81.500 deficit we won't have too many problems," Reeve Derry Boyle argued. Boyle, who is finance chairman of RAP, had said earlier in the — Please turn to page 3 Seniors' facility to open Saturday Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. the Well Come Inn facility for senior citizens on John street west will be officially opened. Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw will be on hand to cut the ribbon. Coffee or tea will be served to visitors. Anyone interested is more than welcome. Well Come Inn spokesman Murray Neil said this week, "We would like everyone to drop in and look around whether they are eligible to join our ranks or not." The senior citizens facility is located in the Scout house. Senior citizens members have been busy painting and refurbishing the building with the help of a New Horizons grant. Neil said 10 tables and 48 chairs have been purchased for use in crafts or playing cards by members and visitors. AUTHORITY MEMBERS ON TOUR — Members of the Ausoble- Bayfield Conservation Authority toured the watershed, Tuesday. Above, Jock Delbridge, Exeter, chairman Elgin Thompson and Leonard Erb, Hensoll look at a scole model of a pavilion at the Clinton conser- vation area. T -A photo Four men die in auto crashes Three young men were killed and two others injured in a single car crash about 5:00 p.m. Saturday on Perth County Road 19, just north of St. Marys. The vehicle, a 1970 Chevrolet Nova driven by Douglas Smith of St. Marys, left the road as it was attempting to. pass. a car..in the northbound lane. The car struck two trees before coming to rest against a third tree. Dead are the driver, Douglas Lloyd Smith, 20. of St. Marys; Graham Claire Robinson. 20. of RR 1 Kirkton and Robert Joseph Dill, 21 of St. Marys. Two other occupants,Richard Scott. 20. Kirkton and Robert B. Dotzenroth, 21. of St. Marys are both in University Hospital in London. Scott suffered broken legs and a fractured jaw while Dotzenroth was listed in serious condition. Sebringville detachment of the OPP investigated the crash. Police said it is believed the Smith vehicle was passing a car and struck the shoulder of the road. veering out of•control. Funeral service for Graham Claire Robinson was held Tuesday from the Lindsay Funeral Home in St. Marys with burial in Kirkton Union Cemetery,. Douglas Lloyd Smith of St. Marys and formerly of Woodham, was buried at St. Pauls Anglican Cemetery following funeral service held at the Lindsay Funeral Home in St. Marys. Constable G. Mueller was the OPP officer investigating the fatality. Dr. R. S. Hiscock of St. Marys was the coroner. He told the T -A Wednesday that further discussions with the Crown Attorney would take place prior to a decision on the advisability of an inquest. Killed near Vanastra No decision has been reached as yet on the possibility of an inquest into the death of 61 -year- old Frank B. Hamilton of RR 2 -•Stafa on Saturday afternoon. • • Mr. Hamilton was the lone occupant in a car which collided with a second vehicle at the crest of a hill on sideroad 30-31 Stanley Township, a gravel road. Driver of the second car was Lieda Gerrits, 23. of RR 5 Clinton. She is in fair condition in University Hospital London with hip and leg injuries. A second occupant of the vehicle, Mrs. Gerrits' three-year-old daughter Jennifer was treated at Seaforth Community Hospital and released. Mr. Hamilton, driving a 1969 Plymduth, was westbound at the time of the accident. Driving a 1971 Dodge, Mrs. Gerrits was eastbound. The accident oc- curred about one mile west of Vanastra. Coroner was Dr. G.F. Mills of Goderich. OPP Constable H. Claus was the investigating of- ficer. No charges have been laid. Business group may change name Exeter board of trade president Ben Hoogenboom announced this week his group has received its charter from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. He indicated the group will probably change its name to Exeter Chamber of Commerce in the near future. 004 .4 Ali :1 BLOWING UP CANADA WEEK — Exeter's Canada Week activit'es should be well advertised. A number of balloons with EPS student names attached were launched Tuesday. Shown blowing up the balloons are Mike Soldan, Dick Vandergunst, Jock Underwood and Ruth Durand. T -A photo Canada Week gains momentum Balloons, blooms bustle Members of the Alpha Pi Sorority believe in the old saying, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and is evident where intended." The sorority is sponsoring a garden contest to be held in conjunction with the upcoming Canada Week celebrations from June 27 to July 1. Green thumb awards will be presented to Exeter residents who have contributed to the beautification of their neigh- bourhoods. Entrants will be judged on originality of front gardens and landscaping, maintenance of trees and shrubs and general appearance of lawns. Entry forms may be clipped from an ad in this week's issue of the T -A and deposited in boxes located at Russell Electric, Pat's Pet Shop or mail to Box 786. Exeter before June 24. The entry forms are to be filled out by residents who wish to nominate a neighbour for the award. Prizes will be awarded at an Open House at the Exeter Legion on July 1 when Canada Week festivities will come to an end. The local celebrations really began Tuesday afternoon when 18 helium filled balloons were launched from the Exeter public school grounds. The balloons were sent up by the 17 classrooms at EPS and Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw. Cards with students names were attached to the balloons and they are expected to be returned by the finders. Students at Precious Blood. Usborne, Stephen and McCurdy public schools sent their balloons into the sky yesterday, Wed- nesday. As part of the Saturday, June 28 activities, the Exeter fair board is sponsoring a talent show at the arena. Fair board president Bruce Shapton said this week the talent show is not a contest but just an opportunity for area muscians and performers to display their talents. READY TO LAUNCH celebrations were launched at Exeter students ready to let the balloons go. BALLOONS — Tuesday afternoon, 18 balloons advertising Exeter's Canada Week Public School. Mayor Bruce Shaw is shown in the midst of school T -A photo 4,