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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-04-03, Page 1ears r .7 Mr. and Mrs, Will Miller, slat: er and brother-ins ,of. the groom as well as. "„ Kellar whii attendee e wedd- ing and were present at the an- niversary dinner. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McKellar farmed on concession eleven Hibbert Town- ship, retiring to Cromarty• vill- age in 1965. The couple have one daughter Mrs. Bill (Betty) Binning, Miteh- ell and three grandchildren. Through the years Mr. and Mrs. McKellar have been active in community and chtireh 'af- fairs. Many flowers and cards of congratulations were received. Open house was held on the preceding Wednesday in honor of Mr: and Mrs. McKellar at the home of their daughter and son- in-law Mr. and Mrs. Bill Binn- ing. • Over one hundred friends-and` relatives called during the after- noon .and evening when they were showered with good wish- _ In charge of the guest book was Ms Jane Binning. C of C Approves Budget of $1,272 it • A;NO Mit6; 1 lilt 5r'l III K 'Li Alt Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hawley th We4 ing Anniversary e rr York ,Trip Best public Speakers 'in a co est sponsorq by i'Huron. County Odd Fellows and Rebekah Lodges are given parclunent certicastes of merit after the competition in Central Huron Sewn- '.dary. School last Friday night. Sho4. from left to right are Mrs. Mary Lowe of Brussels, Rebekah district '-deputy, Margaret Enigma,. YftR 4,' Walton; runner-up Bill Binissey Clinton, winner of a trip to the I, Nations this . summer and Jahn Broadfoot of ffrucefield, Offd fellow 'district deputy grW.,rnaster. (Photo. ..eourt4sy Clinton N CMS Record). ; Major items of expenditure include general government $11,200, protection to .persons, etc., $5,950,.roads, .$165,000, drainage $11,200, interest $6,600, county rates $73,112, board 'of education $100,000, separate school beard $5,800. Taxes will be levied on a -farm and residential assessment of $2,876,250 and' commercial $149,767. Rates for warble fly spraying - were set at 20c per, head and 75e. per pound to anyone wish- ing to purchase powder. Council adopted, the• report of auditors', Diegel, Malcohn and Hagey, StratfOrd and ,reappoint- ed the firm for another year. A grant of $150 to Seaforth Fi Win Curling Championship ' Huron County': Junior Farm- ers won the ,AlbOntario Mixed Curling championship in Guelph Saturday. After winning the zone finals held in Walkerton recently the rink competed against rinks representing six „ zones in On- tario to win the hampionship. The rink' ititluded4kii.ltoss Veitch, Brussels, vice Marjorie Papple, Seaforth, second Mur- ray Hoover, .Brie ;la and lead Grace Campbell, 5 Toth. IN 1919: : Dr. J. A. Munn (above) and. Dr-W. 44 '.C4tVf0;47A, 4 pearecl- when ther:Were, ed from the RAF in 109. They were among RAF veter- ans at a Toronto reunion last week. ... Ready When The Season Opens , His years of Service as padre of SCiforth Branch 156, Royal Canadian Legion were recalled Monday night when members of the branch „presented ReV. ii. a Pry with a trait rod .prior to his departure for Red Deer, Alberta. The Women's Auxiliary also presented gifts- to W ,.tind ;Mrs. Fry. Mr. Fry tried out his gift under the experiended eye of Mrs. Miles /frown, -AnxiliarY• - President and Legion President Wm. Dalrymple, who made the pretentatim Single:004i 12:,•:660iii,,: 4419 V0 m10. ed. during " ' .:•.• V0Pertf:.c010ftW'einlrm 0oo. 14,I040.%;014'Ae;county4k 4110044WV0e*:/drieed'the: s pepirtMent-0V will' ttse the --entire admrinistra- t•Ar0 building for the assessment, WorlOpg conjunction Witk:the.Department•'0:Muniek • pal Affairs.` - • Tho„,bnilding .program Oontizi. MS at ..the-ailtniniatrative.' The parking 'tkipintiet; at the building will .1/0' ...extended to accomModate.a tits'-car width plus a Centre drive. 'The amid- tea-- is securing prices in con- nection with partitioning. • Members of the property committee "regret that no one .; was .. advised of the propose.& change in assessment policy 'prior to the actual :vonstruction of this' new building". ."This in- formation might have changed the plans and the thinking- Or the -property' committee at that time." The province will also share maintenance costs.with the Count, • ty at the court.. house, the jail . and children's aid. offides. At the court house; the province will pay 49 percent; '1 4. the jail and CAS offices, 86 percent. Raymond Scotchmer is the new curator of -the Huron Coun- ty Pioneer Museum at a salary, of $0,200 per annuto.' The county renewed their membership -lee in the amount of $5,000 with Midwestern On- tario...Development Area Conn.: „... 01 and approved the following- ,orants: Belgrave, Blyth and Brussels Music Festival; $24.,l4eIgravet: RlYtIV,and Sr** School ya14. 05a - • -0ovile.lr •." School. Midwestern. Ontario:, Fair; .$24;,711" 'on„ Q.0.1113.1/%10401 Fie Aid. sooktio, 'MEV 1300.10 00001ty of - 00eMbv!:. 11g4e,A111740%/illar gY,-.11(114. -01101404* W-Vi/tet, versitl.of Western Ontario,- scholarships to lirdYersitefif Waterloo,,. $2,00;„,, scholarshig. toff'. Centralia School of Agriculture and Home Economics, $200.- • ' Bursaries UWI:V $1.,000;' • bursaries to 'University of -Wet- elle°, $1,000; bursaries-ft) Water- loo Lutheran University, $200; 1,13_ so building fund; $900; Wing- ham and district school of the retarded, $350; Goderich and district school .fOr the retarded, $350. A fund "containing $700 was set aside .to,bepaid to students. in need Who are 'attending oth- er universities” not already re- , ceiving, grantS. Other grants to be paid are $1,500 to the Salvation Army; $2,500 tp CNIB; $4Q0 to the Hur: on branch, of the Canadian Can-• cer Society; $15 each to East Huron WI, West Huron WI and South Huron WI; and $75 to St. John Anibulance. The consulting -firm of G, V. Kleinfeldt ' and Asa-oelates-Ltd. has been engaged to commence work on the preparation of an official 'plan for ..the County of Huron Planning Area. . • - • Winghath Reeve Jack Alexan- der. concurred" with Colborne Reeve. Wilmer- Hardy. that the fox bounty should be-increased • to $5 fro . m$2. BothV r. exande and . Hardy said the , increaSed incentive would encourage hun- ters to_go our; looking for foxes and destroy them before they Multiplied or became -.rabid. Borden, 'Cnolf, Blyth, suggest- ed .ninnicipalities get together with their farmers; who forbid hunting of?-their property. Injured In Crash A two-car head on collision Sunday afternoon in • HuLlett Township resulted in three of the occupants being sent to Sea, forth Community Hospital. Robert Clayton Shannon, 107 East William' St., Seaforth, sus; tamed facial lacerations when his car collided with a car dritr- en by Pacob L. Telma, of Pal- myra, New York. Mr. Shannon was released from hospital on Tuesday. His wife, Karen, a pas- senger, received severe facial lacerations and remains in- Sea- forth Hospital. - Martha Talmajfi passenger in her -husband's car sustained head injuries and facial lacera- tiona and remains in Seaforth oemnilinEirtY Hospitad. Mr. ma was not injured. Neighl-44?gn,1401,11114es. will.•/-thn-: -Clinton- Public Utilities Lic,"?,t kin ,";contest- its Wing- likely he, pit). foiled to increase Commission.' the fox bo t fr. Alain t month, and en earlier y, Runner-up and alternate for- preliminary in Biyth. They ad- the trip if the winner can't go, vanes this month to the semi- was Margaret Elligsen, KR 4, finals :in Angus and have a Walton, who attends Seaforth chance of going on to the On- District High School. tario-Quebec competition in Of,- - Bill will visit- New York in tawa. July as one of more than .1,000 Judges for the contest in' students from Canada and the • Clinton were the Rey: D. Stuart • United States taking part in the of Brucefield, John Siertsema 20th annual Odd Fellows' tint. of Bayfield, principal oC the ted Nations Pilgrimage for liolmesville School and ' Ed. Youth., Dearing of Stella. All five Huron secon- The 'other seven contestants Three Bill• Boussey, a grade 11 stu- dary schools were represented .dent at Central Huron Secon- at the contest which was spon- dary School, but formerly of sored by IOOF District Eight Seaforth, topped a field of and Rebekah District 23 and nine speakers last Friday.., to, held at CHSS. win a trip to the United Na-, F.4r Bill Boussey, last week's tions in New York. He is the: win' was only the latest in a - son of Mr. and' Mrs. R. J. Sous- serms,„ • sey who moved from Seaforth Rill and Mid Collins of RR to Clinton last fall after Mr. 3, Linton, Ore winners of the Boussey became manager ,,of Lio tonal" district. pub- Increases„ of one and twi).10110: respectivCIY in l'nciterfinfith. farm and residential and nlqreial tax rates were aPPPY' eaTileSdaY.evening Whe4 ,cfrtia• cii considered ..estimated receipts: and Axpenditilr4P-tet 1069.-- The farm and' residential rate- 1,1'10 mills- and, the commercial rate 2f. mills. Total estimated expenditures, are $505,512 of which $229,111 *10, wine from taxes. The 'fed-eral government pays $17,253 in lieu of taxes On•CFB Clinton and in addition Will-provide a sub- sidy on road construction of $22,000. The balance of the rev- enge includes provincial grants of nearly $100,000, ' municipal drain fund $120,000 and'surplus from 1968 of $4,673. Community Hospital. was -aPPF07 yea ' meeting goAed:1337••110110t , Township,.' , got held: tit •Seo, ,forth on April! 9i to '.discuss Sea- ••• forth area • The nigeting:-kipprovp.44, 01. ren'S Aid SocietY:-,proposal declare Week in %Children'e Aid in hersmith:ToWn- „ ship. - The, iVinnielli* ciatiert meeting F.Csq Stanley TownShi in the,Legion HalllsIvivr‘44Arili 1,,,r4...46til May. 22. Mel 7e4 ,'clerk of Stanley, is preside/4'0f the ne- sociation.. Road superintendent "Allan Nicholson 'reported a problem of garbage being dumped on The accident Occurred at 1:50 p.m. on Huron County Road 15, 11/i miles• north of Milburn, ' diming one of the blinding snow squalls that hit the area last weekend. Constable Ray Primeau of the Seaforth OPP detachment -who investigated 'the' accident, des- cribed visibility as almost nil at the time. A message of congratulations from Queen Elizabeth was a highlight when Mr. and Mrs. W. Earl Hawley, Seaforth celebrat- ed their 60th wedding 'anniver- sary with open house on March 24th. A family dinner had been herd the preceding day at their home. Mrs. Hawley, the former Hen- rietta MeSpadden, was a daugh- ter of the late Mr. and Wirt. W. G. McSpadden of Winthrop. She has two sisters, Mrs. Cart- wright (Minnie)' Hawley, Sea- forth and Mrs. Pred Hutchings, Stanton; California And one bro- ther, Zack ,McSpadden`, Sea-•' forth. Mr, Hawley, who was 91 on Feb. 23, is a son of the, late Mr. and' Mrs. Andrew. Hay Bay, near, Kapanee on the. Bay `of Quints' and as a ,youth wont west- with the cPU. In a career Cromartr .pouple.. Menibers''..of ..;the • committee aoraageaMpar •At learnIrig! tb.:4:41410:,r0V1ilfea . WIllTaakV,..a.asesi4ent• Pra.thic14, gOiC.inMetW,.ftinotrOn• ‘,1' 7 • af Meeting Friday in,_Ggderleh, told couOtr!'k ,,051040001004 had, boo reeeNkfreM,theriPei?.att-' Meat, of MniffOigal;irs WU- eatluk the .'province rent the county's' administration building and will reimburse the county'' for nIttiets niture ondi ,ruipmentr.ingcnas" Smoke • Hartippr,s Firemen Heavy acrid smoke hampered firemen when they answered an alarm' late Saturday evening at • IdeClinchey's restaurant, Main Street, Seaforth. Source of. the smoke, which filled the restaurant and adjoin- ing Flannery Cleaners was trac- ed to burning • material on a stove in the restaurant kitchen. Mr. and Mrs. Garnet McClin- they who occupy the apartment above the restaurant were awakened by the smoke and called firemen. 0- Kellarvelebr ted their wed- ding anniversary at,.g' diimier in - the Presbyterian Church, Crom- arty, Saturday evening-. -. SeVenty _guests ..attended.- the dinner including relOtivekand friends from various.; - aces du Ontario and Mrs y• Wes brother Dan, "Ason froni Buffalo, N.V. - It' was a happy and friendly occasion . as •a varied program of music, speeches and . rernin- iscente was carnied out. isittudtine solos by,-„;thiktoupte's .nine year Old vandaughter Jane Binning. J. WittlYi)Vas master 'of cere- monieS.4f, Mrs.:I4I6.0.lifac;' the fatinsler Frances is .the daughter of the---late':Mr.'.: and Mrs. Janies. • Scott and W.:McKellar is a son Of the late 'Mttand, Mrs. Donald McKellar,.altjof .Cromarty. The couple,4Vere married by the Rev.. Jailitig Footein Caven Presbyterian Manse, Exeter on March..26th, 1915-- -Compared to the weather bn the, anniversary occasion the wedding day,-_was bright and warm and Mr., Mc- . Kellar recalled he had driven a ?:‘ team in his short sleeves. A budget oil $1,275 was ap- proved at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in the Commercial Hotel Wednesday evenings .• Presented by treasurer Ed. Taylor the budget will provide for a program of work which will include $300 for further Christmas lighting decorations, $50 to assist with publicity and signs during 'the reconstruction of Main Street, $100 for a tree replacement program in co-op- eration with the town council and $400 towards the initial cost of a proposed display board at the eastern entrance to the town. Other expenditures in- clude. Provincial and Federal C of 6 fees,„expenses of dinners, publicity, miscellaneous and of- fice supplies. The Charliber es- timates it will have 56 business menrbenship at 05, twelve associate memberships at $5.00 extending over fifty years he served the railway in a num- ber of capacities retiring as sta- tion agent at Alexander, Mani- toba. During their years in the west, Mr. and Mrs. Hawley were active in the work of the Pres- byterian Church and since com- ing to Seaforth are associated with First Church. They took a keen 'interest in a wide range of community activities. Mr. Hawley was a long time member of the Masonic Order, the MOP and the Encampment Lodge while Mrs, Hawley is a PNG of the Rebekah Lodge. Mr. and. Mrs, Hawley were married at Boissevain, Man., by Rev. T. B. Wilson. They had met -while she was visiting friends in the west, The couple has no family. After retiring they came to and grants of $200. Including the balance from last year of $380, estimated, receipts will re- sult in a balance at the end of this year of $205. The meeting which was in (Continued on Page 4) Campaign Is Underway The Red Cross campaign now underway in the • district is meeting with a good response according to campaign chairman Earl Ritchie. To date-,a total of $1,037 has been received but many addi- tional gifts` are necessary if the quota is to be met Mr. Ritchie said. Winthrop and purchased the 'farm owned many years earlier by Mrs. Hawley's grandfather, the late Samuel McSpadden. The place has been occupied by four generations of McSpaddens, the present owner being Rev. Bert McSpadden. They later moved to their West William Street home in Seaforth. • The anniversary occasion 're- sulted in the recipt of many gifts and measages of congratu- lations from friends and rela- tives across Canada. Included were messages from lion. R. L Stanfield, itt. 'Hon. Johia Diofen- baker, • Premier John Rob s, Hon. Chas, MaeNaughton, It McKinley, MP, as well as a phone Call from Montreal from the railway, association. Mr. and Mrs.. Keil IV.IcKellar County cornier forth Youth Wins rip to nited Nations . . were Kathy Cann of Exeter, Paul Charrette of RR Dash- wood, Dorothy Collins, RR 3, Clinton; Gene DeJohn, Goder- ich; Beatta* Malkus, Seaforth; Lynda Walden, RR 2, Lucknow; and Linda Wilson of Brussels. The committee; in charge con- sisted of John • Broadfoot, (t.cki Fellows' depnty. district grand master; 'Gerald 1VIeFalls ter, past district deputy grand master; and Mrs. Carman. Me- Pherson of Clinton, former Re- bekah deputy district president. roadsides. Stirring events• of more than fifty years ago were recalled Friday •when former niembers of the Royal Naval Air 'Service; the Royal Flying "Club and the Royal Air Force gathered for a reunion', in the Royal York in Toronto. The event marked the 51st an- niversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force. About '250 veterans of battles in the skies above France, Italy and the Modifteraneau — of the 450 of whom there is a record — were on hand for the reun- ion. Included were Dr. .1.'A. Munn of Seaforth and Dr. W. A. 'Crich of Grimsby. Dr. Munn, who enlisted in 1917 when be was 17, went overseas with a dental corps and later was transferred to the Royal Naval Air Service. He flew twin engine . F3 flying" boats and Recall Events of First World War Shortt sea planes from" Malta while escorting convoys and -on anti submarine patrol. For a time he was in Libia with a de- tached flight of four-. aircraft. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was mentioned in despatches. When the RAF came into be- ing April 1, 1918, Dr. Munn Was transferred and retired in 1919. He was 19 at the time. B.esuining his dental studies he graduated in 1922 and three years later began his Seaforth practise, retiring in July, 1963. During the second war he ser- ved for four years in the RCAF , as an instrument flying instruc- tor. Dr. Crich, a native of Sea- forth where he attended school, served in France for two years with the RAF. He was a mem- ber of the 49th squadron. He was 21 when the Armistice was declared in 1918.