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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-03-12, Page 1Nearly 300 Hullett Township and area residents jammed the Londesboro Community Hall last Thursday . afternoon determined to get some answers about the proposed 5500 acre wildlife sanc- tuary in Hullett Township. Landowners, in the designated area, peppered Provincial Trea- surer, Hon. Charles MacNaugh— ton, 'Huron MPP, and officials of the Departments of Public • Works and Lands and Forests, with questions about land aqui- salon, expropriation 'and flood damages. • The meeting was called by Reeve Hugh Flynn and Hullett Council to . inform the township concerning the proposal, Aile- • gations of 'lack of communic- ation" between the departments and the township prompted the action. Since the February 12 announcement of the prpposal, SD IS Girls Teams Win WOSSA. Title Seaforth Council, Monday night set a budget of $53,800 for road expenditures in 1970. $27,000 is earmarked for road maintenance and $26,800 is al- lotted-for road construction. The budget, which is $3,000 higher than last year, is subject to the approval of the Depart- ment of Highways. Council has applied to the Department of Highways for, a transfer -of $8,000 from their 1969 allotment for road construe-• Lion to road maintenance. Expenditures on road ,main- tenance in 1969 ran almost $8000 higher than was initially approved' by the Department of Highways. However, the surplus from the road construction allotment is sufficient to-cover the $8,000. Payment of $334.00 to Main- land Valley C onservation Author- ey was approved. A brief presented by Robert Cherry of Palmerston regarding the proposed cancelling of C.N.R. passenger train servicein this area, sparked discussion among. Board Names Delegates Whole No. 5.322, 111th year 0 Seaforth Council Sets $53,800 Road NEARLY, 300 ATTEND A capacity crowd ; nearly 300, jammed the Londesboro Community Hall on Thursday to 'hear a lively discussion on the proposed Wildlife Sanctuary in The Huron - Perth Separate School ,Board at its meeting in Seaforth on Monday night agreed to send . fiVe delegates to the tees' Aseociation Annual Co Tuckersmith 'Hears Ontario Separate Schooner-s non in Toronto April 8, 9 and 10 -- Superintendent John Vintar; Drainage ...Reports Balmiess, Adminietratee, Jack Lane; and three trustees, chair- ` man Keith Culliton of Stratford, Chris. Walraven of St. Marys and one other trustee, to be named later. Chairman of the property committee, William limes; re-" commended that the boys' wash- room and part of the basement floor at Immaculate Conception . ;School in Stratford he sanded and painted by the custodian and the Board voted its approval, also of hieeeeeothmenciation for replace- --anent of four hydraulic closures for the entry doors at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, H.R. 3, Dashwood, at .a cost of $160 as the old closures are broken. The. property committee is to investigate TV cable service for Holy, Name School, St. Marys, as cable company is laying the• -service line to the exterior wall of the schoOl free and then the Board is at liberty to extend the service within the school if it considers the cost is accept- able. • The Board approved that the necessary arrangements be -made for the resources of 'Hesson Separate •School • (two class-' rooms) to be .made for confirmation classes during March holiday week as well as school bus to transport the child- ren from Listowel to Hesson. (Continued on Page 8) Tuckersmith Township Coun- cil at a special meeting on Tues- day night -at, Huron Centennial School, at .Brucefield accepted the preliminary report on-the 0.61ger Drain. The request for a repair and improvement of the Drain was referred back to the'Township of Usborne.• Reports on the. Chesney Drain and on the Melady Drain were accepted. The 5430' long Me- lady Drain is' estimated to cost $11,700. The 2030-fOot Chesney Drain is estimated to cosf$3600. For the. report on these drains Egnineei Henry Uderstadt of Orangeville was, present to ans- wer questions of• the interested ratepayers attending the meeting. Two pf the th'ree ratepayers do the Chesney Drain were at the meeting and four of the prince= pal' owners on the Melady Drain were present. Council will advertise for ten- ders on five dra,Ins Chesney, Melady, McBride, Bengali- Tuckersmith and Geiger Drain, 'B' Branch. Work on installing new street lighting by' the Ontario Hydro is progressing well Egmondville. Tghis consists 'of installing • 55 units of merdury vapour type - 16 of these drills are 250 watts for Main Street and 39 units are 175 watts for the back streets in the hamlet. Council agreed to sell 39 of the old units which are 150 watts incandescent style at $4.00 each to anyone wanting to purchase one or any number. , Warble fly spraying •will-not-- be done under a township program this year and any ratepayer in Tuckersmith wishing to have the spraying done on his' cattle will have to contact on his own a spray operator. Council received the halance of the road subsidy amounting tO $78,873.85., Council approved a motion that the Tuckersmith Federation of Agriculture will receive the taxes from the levy of 2/5 milt in the Township (in 1969 this levy amounted to slightly more than_ . $800.00). -• Ratepayers not wanting this 'levy deducted should notify the clerk, J. I. McIntosh. The following grants for a total of $500,01) were approved: Huron Crop and WI Improve- ment Association amounted to $15.00; Salvation Artily, $15.00; Huron Plowman's Association; $20.00; Seaforth Community Hos'- pital, .$150.00; Seaforth Agricul•-• tural Society, $100;'Clitapn Agri- cultural' SO ,iety, $100; and the Hensall . A`a icultural Society, -$100.00. The S.13.1-1.S. Whippets, ju- nior and senior basketball teams captured the W.O.S.S.A. "A" championships here on Saturday afternoon. The S.D.H.S, equads, coached by Marianne •Weller, a physical education teacher. at the school, scored lop-sided victories in the final games to win the titles. It is the first time that both teams have won the title ih the same year. The senior girls won their es semi-final game 38-6 over Sai- nte St. Pats and went on. to down previously unbeaten Glencoe 58-21 in the final game. Angela Devereaux sparked the senior Whippets in the fine' with 12 points. Carol Glanville scored nine. The junior Whippets defeated Sarnia St. Pats 3'7-18 in the serniefinals and beat Mitchell in the final game 41-31. Betty .McGregor scored 14 points in the final game and Rae Bbtsbn scored 11 points. Teams from Parkhill, Glen- * coe,Sarnia, Mitchell and Seaforth Increased- sales of over $57,000 were reported by presi- dent Lloyd E. Stewart when mem- bers , of 'the Seaforth' Farmers' Co-operative held their annual mtatting and banquet on Thursday evening in Egmondville United • Cluirch. The increase boosted total sales for the year to over $489,000 and resulted in a net profit of $4,728. Mr. Stewart credited manage- ment at the local co-operative for the increase in rates. . The largest tingle factor de- competed for the W.O.S.S.A. title. The S.D.H.S. Golden Bears boys' basketball teams also corn- peted in the W.O.S:S.A. cham- pionships held last Friday and Saturday in Strathroy. The seniors lost out in the semi-final round to London Regina Mundi 76-62 and the ju- niors were defeated 64-29 by Sarnia St. Pats in their semi- final. Earlier in the week S.D.H.S.'s two senior basketball teams lost out in the Huron-Perth semi- finals. Stratford Northwestern nip- ped the Golden Bears 56-51 here last Wednesday to advance to the senior boys' final against Stratford Central. The, senior girls were also defeated here on Wednesday 34- 24 by Stratford Central in their semi-final round. The girls only lost one regular scheduled game this season and that was a 33-32 loss also,. to Stratford Central. Members of the W.O.S.S.A. Championship teams are pic- tured on page 3. termining the $57,000 increase was attributed to the installation of a new bulk blending fertilizer set-up. Fertilizer sales soared by 600 'tons in 1989 which repre- sents a f27,000 increase in sales. Increases were else reported On petroleum salet, Where an additional, 49,600 gallons were sold as Well as the` store and farm supply sales. The president told the co- operative members that the board was recommending a patronage dividend of 1%. rumours concerning expro-. prlation, flooding and even mis- conceptions' about the actual lo- cation of the proposed ,site haVe been circulating. .Mr. MacNaughtoreand a panel of -government officials gave the ratepayers, for the most part, the answers they wanted during an orderly question and answer period. In' his opening remarks to the meeting, Mr. MacNaughtan reviewed the events leading up to the meeting in an effort to resolve the alleged lack of com- munication. He said it was agreed at an earlier meeting that all corres- pondence concerning the proposal would be between the province and the County Development Board. The allegation of lack of com- munications arose 'when Hullett council said they had received no word on progress of the project or no reply to their Original conditions for agreeing to the plan. Reeve Hugh Flynn, said the announcement concerning the project came as a complete sur- The meeting re-elected Lloyd Stewart as president, Robert Mc- Millan as vice-president and Earl MCSpadden as secretary. ,se Directors re-elected were Wilfred Coleman, Gerald Van Den Hengelo and Oliver Pryce. ,(en Campbell was elected as director to replace Joe A. Lane who retired from the board. Gordon Elliott 1s Manager. Bill McLean Vas guest spea- ker for the meeting and he showed slides of his receni trip through- out Europe. prise to 'him and to council. It was learned, at the meet- ing, that a letter was sent to the 'county, dealing with , the Hullett -requests. However; this letter was filed by the County De- velopment Board and never.for- warded to Hullett council. The 40 or more landowners in the designated area were 'told by Mr. Macelau'griton that there would be no expropriation of land and that if a sufficient number of landowners ,refused to sell or if landowners in vital areas reeved to sell, the project would be halted. "Expropriation is a very messy, business and. we don't want to do it" he said. A decision to _go ahead with the proposal will be determined once all of .the landowners in the area ' have been• 'contacted for purchase negotiations. Landowners are to be con- tacted immediately to reach a decision. It was not revealed what percentage would be re- quired to sell to proceed with the plan. The Public Works Depart- ment is the land purchasing agency for the province. At one stage during the meet- ing Mr. 'MacNaughton , told the meeting that he .,was prepared to go back to Toronto and re- commend that the proposal be deferred. One landowner said he didn't feel that was the answer. Another shouted that he'd like to see what greenbacks the government had to offer first. , Mr, MacNaughton proposed that no actual work on the pro: jest be done until farmers have been approached and further in- formation is obtained from feasibility studies which include a ore-engineering report. The report would determine the effect a 2,000-acre lake that would be created behind a dam would' haVe on drainage of properties bordering the pro- ject and on flooding upstream In McKillop TownShip as well as below the dam site. Mr. 'MacNaughton said there was a misconception in the press release of February 12 Announc- ing the project. He said the residents had been led to bellow the wildlife scheme was definite- ly going ahead, when in fac it is only a proposal. , It isn't a thing the govern- ment is "going to ram through,' he said. At this point he added that he was personally disturbed at a remark in the Clinton news- paper that the plan was "an arrogant proposal by an arrogant government," Hullett Reeve Hugh Flynn con- cerned that the township requests' • (Continued on page 81 Hensall Councillor Stricken A Hensall Councillor for the past year and a half, Hein Roose- boom died suddenly last Thurs.= day night a few hours after being admitted to South Huron Hospi- tal, in Exeter with a severe heart attack. He was 42. Mr. Rooseboom was active in community affairs as well as municipal politics in the Hensall area. In 1968 he headed the polls on his first bid'to bectime coun- cillor on the village council. He headed the polls once again in the 1969 election when he was re-elected. • He was on the executive of Branch 468, Royal Canadian Le- gion. He was employed with Ron 'Mock at the Hurondale Dairy (Continued on page 8) Couple Honored At Party Mr. and Mrs. David Papple spent the week end in the cel- ebration of their 60th Wedding Anniversary. A party in the Legion Hall` on Saturday night for family and friends was fol- lowed Sunday by a dinner for the immediate family in Dublin. On Su hday after noon open house was held at their home on North Main 'Street. Mr. and Mrs. Papple receiv- ed a telegram from Prime Min- ister Trudeau and a congratul- atory message by telephone from Mrs. Papple'-eeibrother. Pearson Monk in Clover Bar, Alberta. Guests were present from Stratford, Walton, Goderich, London, Dorchester, Brucefield, Brantford, Kippen, Clinton, Kit- chener, Mitchell, St. Marys, SeafOrth and Bad Axe, Michigan and included their daughter Myrtle, Mrs. Elmer Scott from Norwalk, 'California. 4 4 4 LaiDESBORO MEETING council Members.- Council agreed to send let- ters of protest to the Railway Transport . committee of the Transport Commission, Robert McKinley, M.P. for Huron, and to the C.N.R. Several council Members also expressed in- terest in represeeting Seaforth at the Transport Commission hearing scheduled for Owen Sound on Marchselst. (See page 9 C.N. Railway.) Council voted in favour of car- rying through with the province's intention that lotteries be licensed by ' the local muni- cipality. , Clerk, Ernestt Williams, was • named licensing officer and fees as established by the Province were adopted as follows: No fee for a lottery where the prize is valued et less than $25.00; a $2.00 fee if the value' of prizes is between $26.00 and $500.00; a fee of 2%9 of total value if prizes are between $501 and $3,500. Income derived from the sale of licences remains within the town. Mr. Williams reported on a legal opinion received in connec- tion with the request from David Schenck for a building permit for an auto body repair shop, on Goderich Street West, which is that the non-conforming use ceased to exist and it would con- stitute a violation of the by-law for a new building to be con- structed there. However, Council pas offered gr. SellP44 43400' tatnecrnit tt eine determining n4ning 4 $4141e al Repairs to the ceiling. In OW office of -the clerk,, the ceuectl chambers .and the court •room were considered and it was de., cided to have sugpended ceilings In these three rooms.• The • Seaforth Public trtUltY Commisiton on the recomrnebda- tion of Ontario Hydro asked noun- cil for an increase ontheir allot- ment for billing costs. the 'Tchoes t town collsecrteir annsdibblet 1 Iftong4. of the sewer. accounts and the _current charge for. the P.U.C., providing that service is 201 per bill. The P.U.C. is seeking an in- (Continued' on Page 8) Additional Gifts Needed Many more gifts are required before the Easter Seal campaign for crippled children goes over the top according to Clair Camp- bell who is' chairmen of the Lions Club 'committee sponsoring the event on behalf of the Ontario Society for crippled children. During the perilod since the 1970 campaign was announced gifts totalling $836. have been received - less than half the quota of $2,000.00. Set Date For Inquest An inquest will be held Tues- day, April 7, in the Ti n Hall, Seaforth, into the death of Charles Sliver, 45, R.R. 4, Seaforth, who was killed in a car-train collision' on Sideroad 15 and 16 in Tuck-e ersmith Township, 1 1s/4 miles / west of Seaforth on February 23.' Mr. Stiver was alone in his car. Coroner ear Peron County, Dr. Paul, L. Brady, will preside over the inquest.. Co-Op Annual Hears r $57,000 Sales Increase Hullett Township. Hon.4charles MacNaughton, M. P. P. for Huron, and officials of the Departments of Lands and Forests and Public Works were on hand to answer questions. (Also see page 9) (Staff Photo) H.ullettj Wildlife I Sancutary Capacity:. Crowd Reflects interest in Proposal ADVANCE-PLANS FOR FAMILY FUN DAY Plans are well advanced for a Family. Fun Day at the Seaforth Arena this^Sundm, afternoon.. tle The even is sponsored by the Seaforth" Figure Skating Club and includes demonstrations of skating s s. The event is under 'the direction of club professional, Bruce Brady, who is pictured he giving instructions to little Mark Pinder, four-year-old sea Mi.. and Mrs. William Pinder of Seaforth.