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The Huron Expositor, 1969-02-13, Page 1Single ,topies,,. 12 Cola* Year in AilvPicP young ease and a 14$e, quantity 4. former 'Kerr of hay and straw. F011*. 41-4! . . The..ire;broke out s)t cows which the building- COP. •.fere #afire o cloelr'-acid '-t4.14C534 were shvecle'elhe$6 r40.0,.es-the,•:.14mOdd•Was gether with 80 cows- MaSs;uf flames. Firemen tong which had been In the main. to contain. the •fire 'within ;t' burn wpo released and yeandetr, building so .that::.it ,wouliChit "ed around the snOW-„col?ered 'itself out so as grounds., . danger from :Sparks Late.r, at night when danger' " The WidiPg of a further outhrealc was, re- heur,later,`fhtit luis*fickit dined .the cows were returned pumpers continued for milking. The cows 'from the er the 'hlye.tnV1.4.P§I'Ail#P burning shed were accommoda- late in the Mi.erung; ted in the nearby barn on the lowed shaft4ter. it was, the first time the new Blyth 'truck had taken part in ."a'fire.- The truck was delivered last Dec- ember. Th'eM is no ipdication as to haw the fire began. John Eckert had been in the shed checking a cow perhaps 20 minutes •be- fore his youeger brother saw smoke. At that time he said everything appeared to be in order and, there was no sign of smoke. Lost in the building were six Girls Wift Speaking Honors Whale Ne. 0466.. 1.10th,vw., .II•rgiDAY; FEW.11:ARY 1-9 Skaters Under existing legislation the Set. for , „Province can only pay for side- walk construction when it be- comes necessary because of. road changes: In the case of 7 Su nd ay 'Seaferth no appreciable change is anticipated in the 'road grade. Seaforth .-firemen fought ..a winning. battle .for .nearly - urs MendaY. evening and into Tuesday morning to Save • a' large barn on the farnx:ef Con 'Eckert, a Mile- north :0f Sea- The barn was threatened when ' .•an. a6dol neeitPlv9O,si, opotliieogi,01,„4.05; osfeet Lossby • was set by SeafOth Fire Chief ohn F. Scott at' .:$20,000. Aided be- Blyth' .- firemen,; who rrived with a 'new fire truck nd tanker the firemen poured ore than, 20,000 ,gallons of wat- r on the flames according to hief Scott. The water was brought from Seaforth hydrants by the four eaforth and Blyth units opera- led on a shuttle run. between ' the:fire and a north Main Street hydrant. hefire T was discovered by ob Eckert who saw smoke as e looked from .the Eckert raise -a f moments after he ad returned from school. With- minutes the Seaforth brigade •Vi,as on. hand with the rural -truck. Chief Scott called for a S econd Seaforth truck as the attle to save the main barn 'as organized. Blyth units fol- While an parties concerned were agreed that new sidewalks should be laid on Main Street when the street is rebuilt this summer a decision rests on *cost and who pays for them. Matters concerning the street program were discussed at length Friday night when Huron County engineer J. 'W. Britnell and Burns Ross, Goderich, who designed,the road,, met with council. gree on New Sidewalks But Who Will Pay the Bill. Town Aids Scout Program With Parking. Meter Money This was the scene shortly after the roof fell in as fire raged through a 105 x 136 foot pole barn a few feet distant from the main barn on the Con Eckert farm north of Seaforth late Monday afternoons While the burning barn was cempletely des- troyed the main building was saved, Blyth firemen co-operated Water Aids Fire Figlitert On the other hand doubt ex- ists that water mains laid in the road are at a sufficient depth to permit work to proceed. If ., this is, so it will become neces- sary-to. lower the mains and connecting services... and the cost of this would, to a atifistan- tial 'degree, 'be a cost against the project being paid for by • the county and province. lewering the Mains it to first remove the sidewalk and this The most economical way of would mean . replacement side- walks also would become,a , part of the Project cost. So that the actual , situation regarding the mains may be de- termined it was agreed test holes would- be dug along the street. Mr. Britnell explained the formula, under which develop- Legion Sponsors Speaking Contest 1 Seaforth Scouts will benefit from the nickels and dities which motorists pay into, Sea- forth parking meters. Council Monday night agreed to a Scout request that proceeds from parking meters during Boy Scout Week, February 17 to 23 be donated to the Scouts, Receives Safety . Award - For the second •consecutive year Frank Kling Limited has received a safety award recog- nizing an accident free year at the sand and gravel plant. The award was made at the annual convention of the Aggregate Producers of Ontario in Toronto last week. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Ches. -hey attended the convention and Mr. Chesney accepted• the award on behalf of the com- pany. Among the Seaforth area youth who gave their lives in the First World War was.State Icy Hays, son of the late Col., R. S. Hays and Mrs. Hays and a brother of G. D. Rays of Seaforth. Mr. Hays was killed while taking pilot training at a pion- eer aviation school established in Texas and to which Canadian recruits were sent for instruc- tion. Recently while on a trip through Texas another brother Hector Hays decided to enquire concerning the location of the Camp Where his heather was killed and to determine Wheth- er any referernme was available concerning the presence there More than 60 years ego, of the Canadian contingent. He was surpriged to find in sort Worth an, active interest in the war-time Pregrain and des- cribes his expetiences in the 4following. letter. "Thieyear when ternsig west we decided to go 'via Fort Worth,. TOMO 614,86e-the eerie. taph erected in bailor of the Canadian Airmen, who lost their lives while in training 4 a*. Discussion revealed proceeds during on averags week are 'be- tween $70 and $100. The arran gement will not include park- ing fines. "I think we could afford to help them. It will lie good pub- licity for thein," Coup. Robert Dinsmore said as he expressed what appeared to• be council's opinion. The decision followed a dis- cussion on •the condition of street signs and, lack of house numbering., which the C of C drew 'to council's attention. Several street signs were broken arid the, C of C suggest- ed they be repleced. The Cham- ber added a number of' business places and residences • as yet had no numbers, contrary to a town by-law. ' • Colin. R. S. 'MacDonald won- dered how the numbers had been, arrived‘at. His house was 55, his neighbor's 59, yet there was no room for a house • be- tween. Clerk E. 'M. Williams• explain- ed he had laid 'out 'the formula by which 'numbers had been there in First World War. When we first arrived in the city we had difficulty.trying to find Its location. After several eneniniee we were referred to Mr, Jim Neil, Mr Force Reporter for the Fort Worth Press. He was in-. deed most helpful, Then he re- ferred us to Mr. Dick Noon, his• torten for the RAF and RCAF. Mr. Noon met us and took us out to the' town of Benbrook, where the original air base was situated. • There we were Met by Sgt, Halibnook and 'Mery Rourke the city adininistrator, sanita- tion inapector; •plumbing inspec- tor and secretary. They expiaitied fo us how the Canadian and British airmen that were trained here formed the nucleus for the. American Air Force. Then Sgt. Halbrook and Mayor Roarke' proceeded us by patrol. ear to. ‘vhere Ver- non Castle was killed'. and a rorntument erected,- then on to place now a private residence built on the concrete of the old hangar site. They are trying to collect in- forination 'on the airmen. who contributed so much and as they came from various parts of Can- ada, they say it is difficult. This is the "Fiftieth Year" since the war so they are working More actively an it. We told Mr Noon the story of how thy brother enlisted. The story as we recall it is that in April,. 1916,, a plane was forced to land 'near Seaforth. The young pilot went to Jack Daly for gasoline and repairs, 'Mr. Daly called the school' and asked for Stanley Hays to re- pair the oil Line. He obtained some material from Bell En-'• gine, and Thresher Co. and im- provised a spare part. In re- turn he asked the pilot for a ride -in the plane,' which the Pilot gave him. The next day Stan enlisted." A copy •of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram which Mr Hays forwarded features a story con- cerning_ -the training, school of 50 years ago. This is• what the Texas paper said! The romance between Fort Worth and the airplane is , fly-by-night affair. • . It was al ready in high gear Habkirk Heads New Club T. L, (Les) Habkirk was elect- ed president Tuesday night of -the newly formed Seaforth Snowmobile Club'. The club which held an or- ganizational meeting Tuesday, received -much support from area snowmobile enthusiasts. Membership in 'the new club reached 35 at' its first meeting which was held at the Vincent .Farm • Equipment building'. The functions of the organiz- ation will include, advocating safety measures for area snow- mobiles, as well as to help con- trol snowmobiling within the town. Future plans also call for providing designated snowmo- biling areas and poviding social functions for members. Membership in the Ontario Snowmobile Federation was con- sidered at the meeting and Dave Jones of, Stratfoid, .Federation president, was on hand to dis- cuss this. Other , officers named 'were Marten Vincent, first vice-presi- ' (Continued on Page 9) as long ago as the winter of 191748. That was the year a Canadian contingent of the British Royal Flying Corps arrived in' this area for winter training. ' They came to Texas under terms of an agreement be- tween the U.S. and. Canadian governments which provided the RFC with winter training facilities in exchange for flight and maintenance instruction for American personnel. The Canadian aerial complex named Camp Taliferm, consist- ed of three fields, located at I-licks, Benbrook and. Everman. Among the RFC airmen who journeyed from Ontario to Fort Worth 50 years 'ago wait Richard C. Noon, a longtime employee of Pangburn Candy Co. and a semi- official historian of-that chapter in The stmiy ,of the "air city." Noon, a British natithe ve, was living in Pittsburgh at out- break of °World War 1. He join- ed the TIM:lifter being denied service in the American armed forces. After his discharge' from -the ROW Air Force (the RFC had by then been merged with the h. Students from" four elemen-, tary schools in the area took part in a 'public speaking con- test--Tuesday night sponsored by the Seaforth Branch 156 of the-Royal Canadian Legion. 'Joanne Bode,' 11,,Grade .6 Stu- dent at Seaforth Public School won the junior division speaking on Towns and Cities. Barbara Brady, 12, a Grade 7' student at the same school won' the senior division. Her topic was 'The Seven Wonders of the World. Saturday the two winners -will compete at the area competi- tion at Exeter. Royal. Naval Air Service to form the RAF) in 1918, he returned to ' Fort Worth and built the home on the North Side where he has lived ever since. It 'was the warm hospitality extended to the' Canadian visit- ors by the people of Port Worth that brought him back, Noon said. "They spoiled us with hospit- ality," said Noon. The RFC veteran turned' Tex- an revisted Canada this sum- mer in connection with the Golden Anniversary of the es- tablishment of the RAF. In fact he said, the trip was in commemoration of three sim- ultaneous golden anniversaries — also the beginning of British, Canadian and American cooper- ation in 'aviation, and of his com- ing to Fort Worth. Noon described his recept- ion in Ottawa "a quietly thril- ling and sedate experience."' miring the past six years he had thipplied much of the in- formation, and meter of the pho- tographs which the air histori- cal *section of the Royal Canad- ian: Air Force had used to coin- (Continued on Page 8) ment roads were now being built. The county is given so much money and if used here is not available for other pro- jects. In this sense there is a change from he rules that ap- plied wimp .the north road was built he said in answer to a query by Reeve Flannery. By combining 'certain town work such as' storm sewers with the" county project, substantial savings result to the town he said. This was accomplished by using common sewers and by increasing size of sewers to the -Road conseruction': estimates totalling $182,800 were 'cleared by Hullett Township Council at its February meeting. The esti- mates require WO _approval, Main. item in 'the estiinates is _the construction of a new bridge on the side road between lots 15 and 16, con. 11. The bridge is estimated at $103,800. Other construction items total- ling $5,000 and maintenance of $54,000 make up the remainder. Reeve Hugh Flynn presided for' the meeting which named former clerk Harry Tebbutt as HuIlett representative on the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority. A grant of $100 to Huron Central Agricultural So- ciety was approved_ ' Council authorized calling for tenders for requirements for the warble fly program as- well as for necessary road stone. ' The.. report on the Veenstra Drain was read but •since bad roads -prevented attendance by Engineer Henry Uderstadt, dis- cussion' was postponed. Caudell agreed that any municipal of- ficial would' be paid, $60 for attendance at one municipal convention.- Tile dame of Dol- ores Howatt was added to those forming the hall board. In the event Reeve Hugh Flynn is absent' in attendance at county meetings, it was maximum permissable. Continuing the discussion on sidewalks Mr. Britnell said gen- erally a 48 foot mid allowance was considered ample but seine- 'times additional width was der sirable for parking. He agreed it was less costly to build roads than sidewalks. Councillors expresbed con- cern that under the. :present proposal the roadway• would be approximately a foot narrower than at present since this amount would be required for (Continued on Page 14) agreed-,Couneillor Len '4rChain- bault Wouldhe .acting *Oa, - ' • Council approved a by: to . permit the township, to enter in- to an agreellIgIUM.V.eforeda- tion.,with,J. B. Taylor. The road superintendent was instructed to make necessary arrangements. to 'provide calcium chloride on .. township roads. Name Winneri in Speaking Contest Winners of the public speak- . ing program at Huron Centen- nial School, Brueefield, on Fri- day included: senior, Glen Mc- Gregor, Brucefield, Jean Falcon- er, RRS, Clinton, both in grade 8; junior, Shirley, McFadden, Bayfield, grade 6, Janet McKin- ley, RRI, Zurich, grade 6. The winners will compete in the Legion Public Speaking Con- test on Wednesday evening in. Clinton. • , te omen; who competed in. Seaforth Tuesday were: senior,, Ken Chalmers, RR2, Kippen, a, grade 8 pupil, Anne hopper. Harpurhey, grade 7; junior, Brenda People, Egmondville, grade 5 and Linda Bell, RR2, Kippen, grade 6. Judges for the event were Richard. Espey, Mrs. Harry Scott and James Slattery, all teachers' or retired teachers. Students taking part were 'from Huron Centennial School, Brucefield, St. CoIumban Separ- ate School, Seaforth Separate School and Seaforth Public School, D'Orlean Sills of Seaforth was program chairman. Lots of fiar ailott , ed-r and had allowed. 30 feet to each number. ----- Agreeing the program should be completed council suggested Scouts might take on the pro- ject. They could sell numbers where required and advise auth- orities those properties that did not comply with the by-law, Colin, Wm. Pinder agreed to- discuss the proposal with Scout leaders and in the meantime Reeve Flannery suggested fur- ther action under the by-law be deferred, Acting on a suggestion from Huron that a subdivision control by-law be, considered council instructed the clerk. to prepare such a by-law. It was recalled the planting board had made a similar suggestion last year. A request from. MODA re- suited in councillors Cardno and Ford being re-appointed to ,that body as well as the MODA Tourist Council. • Both agreed to act although they eepresseththe hope meet- ings would be in the evening Since afternoon meetings inter. (Continued' from Page 8) Texas Monument Honors with Seaforth in pouring more tha,n. •20,000 gallons of water on the flames,. The water was trucked from 'Seaforth in a shuttle run. Fortunately there was little wind 'at the time. In the lower picture the Eckert barns are shoWn shortly after the fire was discevered -but before it had levelled the"-pole barn Ot the' left. (Staff photos by Haley). The Skate4A.-Thon on -behalf of Seaforth Scout and Guide ac- tilvities get underway at niacin Sunday inn, •the Arena. contie- uas until Id. pen. . According to chairman Ed. Taylor, hundred of area skaters have obtained sponsors for the teeent. Some skaters have as • many as 20 sponsors. In other cases organizations-such as. the Legion have agreed to sponsor any member who takes part, at a specified- rate. per minute. , Emphasizing that any . one who skates can 'take part, Mr. Taylor said all that was requir- ed was that the skater arrange for a sponsor' to pay a stated -amount for the time he stayed on 'the ice. Siniply by skating around the arena skaters could make a contribution •to the boys and girls program he said. Seaford' Veteran 430.0' fstimaite*:. Setui $142;$00 Barbara Brady (left) and Joanne Bode are being congratulated 'by. ,glom presidont Ditt- rymple after they had Won disttict public Speaking awards at the Legicin Tuottay Oening, (Expositor photo by Phillips).