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Times-Advocate, 1982-06-23, Page 1DIL lays off 134 indefinitely Another economic. blow for area poop holiday, July 5. dustries was responding to recovery in the housing and area's ' Rankin said the temporary poor markt conditions. building industry before the layoff was to allow the com- The president said that spring of 1983. pany's inventory of finished government policies have Shurety said that present products to run down. He add- made it almost impossible for market conditions are the en ed it is planned to do an inven- tory check on July 6 and 7 and house. an average person to buy a manufac- turer. the 100 workers will be recall- He criticised the govern- edhat 114 July 8. ment's "sterile" economic and 20 "That's our plan now," policies for trying to cure the have been Rankin said. problems with tight control of In announcing jhe layoffs the money supply. Friday, compapq president "It is more important now Michael Shurety blamed high to get idle plants and factories interest and mortgage rates . producing again and pro - for the continuing slump in viding jobs," Shurety said. the housing industry: Shurety added he did not "Government policies are see any indications of -hurting the building industry very hard," Shurety said, ex- ,1 y plaining that Dashwood In- iiftt �y An additional 134 le joined the ranks of the • unemployed Friday after layoffs . at Dashwood Industries. Allan Rankin,vice president in charge of operations for the CentrSlla window confirmed t hourly workers salaried employees .laid off indefinitely. This reduces the overall staff at the plant to 230 from last year's high of 554. workers. In lieu of a summer .shut- down, Rankin said an addi- tional 100 of the remaining 136 hourly workers have been laid off until after the July worst since 1934. He predicted the market for the company's products woulddown one- third to one-half from last year. A representative of union Local ' 3014, - United Brother ed of Carpenters and Joiners of America, . Adam $aivona, agreed with the indiflnite nature of, the layoffs. He also said it was unlikely that there would be - • . •.. . - :. .. .� `:: .� , .. j. )..- any recalls before the spring of 1883. • It was reported that the re- maining salaried staff would be working an extra hour per day without pay and that the president himself has taken a 10'percent pay cut. Rankin noted the extra how would be needed to pick-up the extra work forthe 20 laid off salaried employees. A federal work sharing pro- gram begun at Dashwood In- dustries April 18 has been. discontinued • and workers recalled in July will be retur- ningto a five-day work week. RETIRING. PRESIDENT HONOURED — Ann Klungel, retiring president of the South Huron Association for the Mentally Handicapped received roses at Thursday's an- nual meeting from Eloise Klungel and Mary Lou Masse. At the left is incoming presi- dent Herb Verbeek.• T -A photo Imes Serving South Huron, North Middlesex d voca & North Lambton Since 1873 One Hundred and Ninth Year. • Price Per Copy 50 cents Area nl.�n. ies in well tragedy, .._ . plane erash kilis Hensall y A 58 -year-old father of farm when he was overcome himself. The two men were revealed that Dietrich had ap- seven died around 6:00 p.m;. by.the fumes. then pulled to safety by parently died from carbon on Father's Day while helping When he didn't respond to neighbors and relatives. menoxidepoisoning, but that 'clean out a well atthe home the shouts of Davis, the latter Firemen from Lucan and further tests would have to be of one' of his children. summoned his brother-in-law, Granton were called to the conducted. , Leonard Dietrich, RR 3 who was next door at the scene and recovered I Dashwood, was inthe 24 -foot . home, of Hugh Davis. Both Dietrich's body, which was Hensall glider pilot killed d i well on the Usbortaefarm of men went down in the well to partially, in the three feet of A young pilot was killed CHAMP TUNESUP — Hensall fiddle contest champion Ray Schryer tunes up prior •• his son-in-law, Michael Davis, , assist.Dietrich, but were fore- water in the well. ` north . of Hensall Monday to the final Saturday night: Looking on are Gerry Smith and daughter Linda of Ex- when he bas` overcome by ed out by the fumes. Coroner Dr. R.W. Flowers night when his ultra -light air- eter who provided much of the musical accompaniment over the weekend. fumes, apparently from the - Macdillivray then took a. advised that there would be craft crashed into a plowed 'gas engine being used by the rope doom and he was over- no inquest into the death. field. ' two men to pump water from come by She fumes, and with Exeter OPP Constable Don Dead is William l-eyink, 21, the well. more he e on the scene, Davis .Millson was in charge of. theof RR 2 Hensall. Davis, alongwith his went' ' '' n and managed to investigation. He said that a Constable Bruce Crew of brother-in-law, Robert get till* • . • on man partially post mortem examination the Ontario Provincial Police t f • MacGillivray, London, were 'out of well before being conducted . at Stratford detachment at Goderich said d a n C e COI,. C e also overcome by the fumes overcome by the fumes General Hospital on Monday . the machine - basically, a ns council y, No quorum for planners again • in their rescue attempt, but ug t a vacancies have beet, filled on the Exeter planning uoard,,,that.. /gimp continues 4p have trouble at- tracting a quorum. At the' planned June. meeting, only chairman Stu Homuth and members Bob Coates and Dorothy Chapman were in attendance. The session, also attended by county planners Gary Davidson and Malcolm Macintosh. had to. be cancelled. • Failing to snow tor the meeting were Alvin Epp, Ron Cottrell, •Robert Speet's, Dwayne Tinney and Bruce Eccles. - At Monday's council ses- sion, Councillor Chapman said she was "discouraged and . frustrated" over the repeated lack of a quorum at planning board and suggested council may have to come up with guidelines for par- ticipants named to town More stops added On the recommendation of the police committee, Exeter . council this week endorsed stop signs to be erected in 10 new locations. Several of the signs are at dead-end intersections. The stops will bees follows: for the southbound traffic' on Eastern Ave. at Sanders; westbound traffic on Chur- chill at Eastern; westbound on John E. at Edward; south- bound on Edward, Albert and Andrew\at Simcoe; north- bound on Rosemount at Thames Road.; southbound on William at Alexander; nor- thbound on William at Alex- ander and southbound on Carling at Alexander. Council decided to drop one of the locations from the list, that being the sign planned for the intersection of Sanders and Eastern Ave. committees. ' She indicated that one member of the `bard' was seldom at meetings. • Mayor Shaw said atten- dance at most town commit- tee meetings was usually ex- traordinary, but noted that something had to be done to get the planning board functional. Council took'steps to over-. come a problem of their own regarding attendance as Shawnoted that Deputy. Reeve Alvin Epp was still sick 'and now Reeve Don MacGregor . has been incapacitated. He recommended that Mrs. Chapman be named acting chairman of the public works committee in view of the absence of the two men, and after Glenn Kells noted the membership of the commit- tee was now down to two, Morley Hall volunteered to sit on the committee on an in- terim basis to help out until the two . men' are •able to assume their responsibilities again. . werepulled from the well by neighbors. The twp m ere taken to Sf. �Jltsillh's fdkitta1 ifi Lon- don for treatment and observation. Dietrich was alone in the well at the RR .1 Centralia JOINS CRITICISM Calling a Times -Advocate editorial on the subject. "dead on target", Exeter Councillor Bill Mickle this week. joined the voices critical of the Huron board of education trustees' decision to increase their stipends by 33r3 percent. He termed it a "shame" to see that .type of lack of con- sideration beingfoisted upon the taxpayers. . "The sad part is they don't have to collect taxes,"- he said. "They sit. smuggly in their office sending out requisitions." Mickle concluded by saying the trustees should have given their pay increases, more. forethought due to the economic times. TREE UPROOTED NEAR BOB HEYWOOD RESIDENCE' 1 glider powered by a small engine nosed into the _ field from a height of about 60 metres (200 feet) after Heyink Heyink • was pronounced' left his farm property at lot 8, dead at the scene by coroner concession : 1 Tuckersmith, Charles Wallace of Zurich. It about 1.6 kilometres away at is not known whether an in - about 8 p.m. quest .will be. held. Three persons saw the crash and called the police. No payment as yet: employees for Hu hes � The claims for. back .pay. severance pay and holiday pay continue to mount for employees of Hughes Colum- bia Inc., although there has beenno indication yet how stessfig'they may .be in those claims against the firm which went into receivership on June 8. Robert A. Beccarea, the London lawyer hired . by the employees to look after their interests, claims the 84 workers are owed a total of $431,269.54. He said in an interview on Monday that the total in- debtedness of the Huron Park firm maybe more than $1.6 million. Major creditors in- clude the ,Toronto -Dominion Bank and the Ontario Development Corporation, at $800,000. and $300.000 respectively. The claims, of secured and the bank, .is still conduc- ting an accounting of the firm'sassets and exploring the possibility of selling the. business as a going concern. The receiverh s rehired sone rennet( employees; to' complete boats in progress at the plant. MPP Jack Riddell said he has questioned two Ontario cabinet ministers regarding the situation and is still awaiting answers. "There's nothing really anew;" he said Monday in reference to investigations by cabinet ministers Gord Walker and Russ Ramsay. Riddell said he has had assurances from Walker that the ODC will be lenient regar- ding the rent owed ' by employees who live at Huron Park. . Company president Howard Hughes, in a Sater- creditors often supersede day interview. said he was those of employees, but Bec- grief-stricken about the effect carea has statedthat the in- of thereceivership on his terests of the former workers ' employees. -are.of greater priority than Hesaidthe firm's cash flow the claims of secured dried up. forcing him into creditors. .. • receivership. The firm' was Bernard Yale of Yale and caught in the squeeze created Partners Ltd. of Toronto. ap• .by. high interest rates and a pointed receivers by the ODC drasticdrop in.sales. Bob Heywood born hit • Bud Ford holds chicken in front of damaged barn Silo falls into borr, at Winston Shopton's . Severe wind topples barns, uproots trees in Stephen The eastern portion of Stephen township was hard hit by a tornado which caus- ed havoc along a narrow strip early Tuesday evening. Five barns and a large number of trees fell victim to the mini -twister which was accompanied by high winds. The route taken was along the }Wren Street sideroad beginning at Concession 10 in Stephen and continuing five miles completing mos' of 'Its damage at Concession 2, a mile west of Exeter. • First hit was a large barn on the Concession 10 farm owned by Jack Ford: The roof and upper storey was com- pletely torn away with some metal found as far as a mile and a half away. Two of the Ford Bud and Tracy were home when the storm struck at about 6:50 p.m. Bud told the T -A, "When I first looked out i saw a big tree was uprooted only a few feet from the house so I called my brother Chuck who lives a short distance away.. A few minutes later i looked out again and saw the barn was gone. This time i told Chuck he better get over here quick." • When the elder Ford arriv• ed he said the 45 head of cat- tle were just looking out to see what was going on and eating needles from evergreen trees which had -blown towards the barn. Ford said he thought only one cattle beast has suffered any. injury and that was just some . tiffness. The cattle were transferred to another barn the next morning. A large steel door on an ad- joining barn was blown in and somehow turned completely around. Some trees were uprooted and torn at the Cliff Grasdahl residence a mile and a quarter farther east, but, the , next fig damage came at the farm of Bob Heywood on the south side of the Sideroad. The roof was complete- ly picked up from the Heywood barn. a back kit- chen of the house was blown away and a large tree was uprooted and rested against the building. The next stop for the twister was only a few hundred metres to the east on the farm of Mrs. Ross Krueger. 'At the Krueger farm most of a large barn was destroyed and a countless number of beautiful trees were uprooted; mangled and destroyed. Some damage was incurred - at the Noakes residence far- ther down in an easterly direction and on the north side of the concession road. Next' on the damage list came the Archie 11'ehher, farm on Concession 3. • more. than two -miles and a hall ea'st of Krueger'.s Here a h.rrn roof vas taken ,t ,i ;rod hydro service to the house disrupted The final stop %% here major damage was incurred was. across Concession 2 road to Winston Sha pton'. Afoul 227 feet of a silo %%as• ripped jiff and 'desposited through the b.1rn roof and in - lo the granary. A garage just east Of the house was cottt- oletely lifted. away. A car and a bicycle in the garage were not .moved. in (act. Ihe bicycle was still stan- ding upright supported by the kickstand. Shapton said a crahe will be necessary to lift the silo debris from the barn.