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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-04-17, Page 1Ingle Coplea,. q41' .Adianen • ONTARIQ, rtUROAt, APRIL 17, 1969 -- 12:PAG:ES ur .‘ Student Models Display Fashions SDI'S! students 'featured al fashion shOW bins„ he annual variety night program Friday when garMents they had made during t*C10061 year were modelled by class,,inetnbers as com- mentator Barb Box (righWileScribed the: creations. Part of ..the capacity crowd which saw the program is visible in front. (Photo by Alan McLean). (Also see page 5). SWIS,.. Variety. Night ft, •* New Creamery Underway ' . . • Production of a new, dairy product got and erway recently at the 'former creatnery on South . . . Main St. The Seaforth Creamery Company Ltd. has begun processing of the butter based sand- wich spread. Shown unpacking boxes of butter a re George Worth (left), assistant .butter-maker and Lloyd Seiler, manager and butter-maker at the plant. (Expositor photo by Haley). • . . County, school Rates to Come Expen s, which was presented on Friday was a .great success again this year: The various clubs and or- ganizations presented a show which featured music, drama, comedy,and athletics. The drama club performed the play "I Never Said A Word -- But", which featured an all-girl east including: Barbara Bryans, Darlene Elligsen,- Margaret El- -ligsen, Nancy Forrest, Terry Kunz, Beata Malkus and Mary. a acts -Ca 'stya -Croi w • The ' annual Variety Night Seciforth Store Changes Ownership company now owns 13 stores in Ontario and plans further expan- sion. Mr. Read added that the pre- sent staff will be retained and More products added to the store's stock. He said Mrs. Glad Reith would be in charge' with Whs. Jean Dill and Mrs. Doreen Brightrall also on staff. Besides outlets in _Clinton and Seaforth; J-L operates six stores in London, three in Hamilton, and one each, in Brantford and Chatham. Anne McLean, The staff , advisor was Miss Joan Hatten and Jim Rowatt, Cynthia Newham, Starr Fischer ',1 Doug Phillips, John McGrath, Mary Bewley, Brenda Bewley 'and Karen McDonald were in charge of the sets. This year the Home Econo- mics classes presented a fashion parade undif the direction of Mrs. McKercher, The girls mod- eled the outfits, which they made in class this year. iBarbara Box was the' commentator and Diane . Seaforth council acted •14 11- ( day night to open west Will "In ' Street onto Duke Street e a permanent basis thus' revolt g ,,a decision taken by last ye s --council and 'rejecting planning i/.., consultants recommendations for at he develooment of the area.; The motion by Deputy-Reeve Cuthill and Reeve Flannery '- lowed defeat of an earlier_ o- tion by councillors Dinsi e and Moggach seeking to h e gravel removed from the new curbs at the end of the street. Decision to close the street as it joined Duke Street and provide , a turnaround area was taken by lst Year's cmincii when it accepted the report of planning consultants• Canadian Mitchell Associates and the sec- omnientlations of. the planning board who had studied the p0- posal for many months. , , .. The move was part of an otter- all review of the, community and Was designed for the eneour e- ment of industry by- separa residential areas from in trial areas. In iMplementing the , report council last _year approved the purchase of additional'land;' to. provide for a turn around area. When the street was rebuilt plans for curbs, gutterS and paving were based on recom- mendations in the report. At the same time agreement to theiac- lion was received from ni .agement of Highland ShoeS._ le, there i1410Fit On ,0 countyat. achOethe 4 oo4nty rates );114r...beci" fottfil genera, purpose e' for1969'ilia s' i iq e e from -3!a4r;`.17' council 4404 17 report of the budget preset ed There is nothing to prevent principals of area separate schools from using the strap it was revealed at a meeting of the Huron-Perth separate school board in St. James' "Separate School Monday evening. The discussion arose when it was indicated .principals appear to feel department regulations forbid use of the strap in schools. The principals are to be advised that' such a regula- tion 'does not exist. A kindergarten class in Clin- ton Separate_School is to be de- ferred , for at least one year. The board accepted the resigna- tion of Mrs. J. LeBlanc. The family is moving from the city. The board approve& a motion to contact the Perth County engineer regarding the erection of school signs at St. Patrick's School, Dublin. It was reported at the meet- ing that the Superintendent of Education, John Vintar, will meet all school principals on April 24. The next meeting will be'held sni AVM 21. Board Advises Straps Ok since it would be necessary to send out tax notices 41,401Y. ' Reeve• Flannery told eotiindi -that as a result of psottosalu by; the county roadCeininitten the rebate on county road costs Within the municiptility was.he- t gasredneed from 45% to 40%. T. arose from a decision apt assume responiibilitY for „her.' taint local roads within Huron toms. "Seaforth and. Clinton, however, will not have an*. ad- &banal - roads assumed by the county ,since there already is a county connecting link thrgugh the towns. Reeve Flannery contended this was not fair since existing county roads are -connecting links and serve an entire area whereas when a particular street is taken over within a town the improved street can make a contribution to local as- by Clerk-Treasurer R. M. WU, liamS at a meeting Monday, night. Fapenditures this year may be approximately $9,000 over last year--Mr. Williams said; but; when this Fits . reeonaed Nvirthi anticipated revenue, the net in- Council moved early in Jan- uary to allow through traffic on a temporary basis because of snow conditions after Highland Shoes had reminded council that the town had not provided (Continued on Page 7) Creamery Sandwich Production is underway of new dairy products in the' for- mer creamery on 'Main Street, south of the CNR tracks. The product is a butter based sandwich spread, carrying 'the label "Mayfair". It contains 75% butter, which is purchased knzmett MP DIES Lewis Elst Car, Con- . servetive MP for Huron for on' 2.5 yearsii;dbid in .St. Joseph's HOspitail4itite'Wetinesday, He wa*,7101' Furolaf,,,,tatraittattnaith ore • incernnik Culbert Named President Harvey Culbert of RR 6, God- erieh, was elected president Monday of the Huron County Road Superintendents' Associa- tion, succeeding Melvin Good of Colborne Township. He is road superintendent for West Wa- wanosh Township. Other officers elected at an annual meeting at Goderich were) vice-president, Karl Hab- er, Zurich; sebretary-treasurer, Clarence Hanna, Beigrave. About 30 county road Superintendents attended.' Speakers Roger Veresebeauer and Rosa Jackson, both depart- ment of highways engineers at Stratford, discussed gravel con- tracts and road building stan- dards during the meeting. crease it is hoped will be ,rela- tively small. The estimates, take into account the east of the pot:* lien of the main 'street program for which the town is respon- sible: He told council that he had' been informed that the proviii.„, cial tax, rebate program would continued this year mid that the VInallzation factor that would apply to Sealorth was 25% resulting in a dollar re. tusn equivalent to that, of 1968. The precise amount of the cre- dit would depend on the final tax rate that was established. Endorsing a plea from the clerk for the early, return of estimates, Coun, L. F. Ford, chairman of the' administrative committee said that no estimates had been' received from the Recreational council, He said he was concerned at the lateness Makes Spread from a local creamery. • Lloyd Seiler of Pembroke, manager of the plant said the operation is a private company not connected with any chain and will be known as the Sea- forth Creamery Company Limit- ed. Initially the plant will em- ploy about five or six and will be in full production in about two 'weeks. The product is not available in local stores as yet although Mr: Seiler said the *duet- was- being said inAlieklarger chain stores in,and around' T0'1;61116,- Mr. Siler added/ that whiti the operation4 in full2' swing, butter will be purehased &OM most of the area creameriei. The operation,briegs back in- to use' a .building •Which was first built in 1894. Tile building originally hous- ed the Seaforth •Electric Light, Heat and Power Co. owned by James and Archie Scott. In 1914 Charles Barber con- verted the building into a creamery which continued to operate until the 1950s. It has since housed a grocery antl, cold storage business, a butcher shop and an auction centre. Firemen Called To Grass Fires Seaforth firemen were called to two 'gram fires Monthly air- ternoon within an hour of each other. The first was at the farm of Russell Bolton in McKillop, the second about the some dis- tance south into Tuckersmith at the farm of Alistair Broadfoot. Sister Discusses Education Self fulfilment is the goal of all education Sister Mary, prin- cipal of St. James' Separate School, told members of the Seaforth Lions Club when she addressed the club Monday eve: ning. The meeting was held in St. Thomas' Church Hall. She pointed out that the decision as to the kind of educational ex- perience which we wish to pro- vide for our 'children and which they will receive is a matter for our own decision. • Referring to the time she had been in Seaforth, Sister Mary said that, she had been impres• sed by the friendliness with which she had been* greeted by the people of the community, "Staforth certainly is living up to the sign at the entrance to the town" she said. (The re- marks of Sister Mary will, appear in full in next :week's issue), ' The speaker was introduced 'by Earl Ritchie and •Gordon Beuttentniller expressed the ap- preciation of the club. The meeting heard plans for a visit of the St. Thoinas Lions Club to Seaforth on May 26th and. arranged for members of the club to participate in an area meeting at Zurich. The draw was won by John W.„Tal- hot. Reporting for the Rural Re- lations Committee Allan Camp- bell said the recent Rural Re- lations dinner had been a sue-, cess with 152 in attendance. -Preliminary plans for the Summer Carnival being held (Continued on Page 6) • Agree on Change Slow Down . A resolution originated by Tuckersmith Council critical of proposals concerning regional government resulted in a long debate by Seafoyth Council Monday evening. ' Mayor Sills said the conclud- ing words -of the- resolution re- ferring to opposition to "the establishment of Regional Gov- ernment as presentee 'were misleading since nothing had been presented by the Provin- eial GovernMerit inelar as Re- gional Government in, this area was concerned. But Reeve Flan- nery felt that the whole trend towards centralization-should be slowed down. On the other hand Coun. DinsmOre indicated in- opinion it was inevitable wheth- er "we like it or not". Referring to the assessment take over as the first step; Reeve Flannery pointed out the degree to which costs had risen in Hum-on and which now were More than doubled as compared to the estimate, "If this 'is the type of thing that happens we should certainly do some study- ing". he said. Coun Moggach pointed out the , effect the assessment changes would, have en rural properties. "But can we honestly endorse this as' it written here,' the last sentence bothers me," May- or Sills said and added he ,agreed at the same WO that the move had serious lintillOa. tions and should- be,ntaidiedi Saying, he was against Itegitna- al Government as far a.4 he could see it now Reeve Flan• nery said he didn't think it was any better than we have now. - The discussion terminated as (Continued from Page 6) Vandals Smash Bank Windows Plate glass windows had a particular attraction for thrill addicts over the weekend with area banks being ,favorite tar- gets. A large window in the Toron- to-Dominion Bank, 8e,aforth was smashed early Sunday evening when a bottle was thrown again- st ft. In a similar incident in Hen- sall over the weekend a window in the Rank of Montreal was smashed.• This is the second such inci- dentin Seaforth. A' beer bottle crashed through a plate glass window in Briim'S Hairstyling here a couple of weekst ago. The Seaferth Discount -Centre opened on the southeast corner of •Main and Goderich Streets last year, has been purchased from Wilnier Johnson of Clin- ton by J-L Vitamins and Cos... metres Ltd. of London, tie com- pany which hos supplied mer- chandise sold in, the store here. Barry Read divisional control- ler of J-L which in owned and operated by Capital Building In- dustries of London, confirmed • that the company bad taken ov- er the discoWt -centre here and one in Clinton on Monday. The Tournament Trophy Winners The fourth. annual K of C hockey tournament held recent- lyr:4114 sponsored by the -Sather Stephen, r4eit Council, No. of Seardith and: District was won by the Junior and. Sen- or grades of Mt. Cimoriei Separate School, 'Presentation of the trophies was -made by Vincent J, Lane (centre) tournament ' chairman, to Gerald O'Rourke and by Clayton Looby, Grand Knight (left) to Doug Regier, Junior eaptaifl while Leo Hagan, Deputy Gradd Knight (right) watches proceedings, (Staff photo) Henderson and Evelyn Storey sang solos accompanied by Mary. Leeming. Those taking part were: Diane Fraser, Vicki Miller, Gail Sear-' -le, Brenda Dietz,- 'Shirley Brint- nell, Josephine Willems, Rose Marie Eckert, Jean Devereaux, Ann Nobel, •Darlene Dale, Mary Klaver, Sharon ,Marks, Elaine Carter, Joan Hopper, Mary Lou .„,,MacGregor, Lois Muegge, Lod rattle Townsend, Cheryl Dale, Jane Sills, Judy Jeffery, Rae Butson, Brenda liodgeit' , plane McKay, Karen—MeEWing, Gail Doig, Ruth Ann Dunlop, Elaine McClure, Connie Coutts, Janice' McClure; Betty MacGregor, Jan- neke Van Rooiliert„ Eleanor, Butsets. -Nancy Sillery,'Kathy Dale,. Mary Ann McLean, Peg Cornish, Margie McLean, Karen Scott, Sharon Scott, Gwen'. Mc- Lean, Karen McDonald,. Jean Campbell, Shortreed, Diane Patterson, Barbara Me- Clitre, Sandra Watson, Mary Heenony Barbbra Gemmell, Shar- on Talbot. The-Girls' Trumpet Band un- der the direction of George Hildebrand played a variety of • songs including Blue Moon, ar- . rangement by Mary Mat and xTiarajgauanreta BagseTaxi arrangement by Members of the band' were: Pam Patrick Gloria Putman, Karen' Henderson, Jane Shan- (Continued on Page 6) g sg Reverses Streetecision said..the towns ., over Phvb. : riTrV:4074VVOg - rbour. Pilioun4ions are continuing with Me OIN:A7Pc.40$141t. Ilibbert Conn. Robert 44L,.440i4":14.1H#sr;1*:(toteX..:', a recent mee g it watt indt at, ed there was ,dealre-traegiiire, a tank truck to, serve the. area in the event a committee' was es- tablished. HoWever,' :there Were differences. bt opinion as to :the representation which each mun- icipality should have on a com- mittee and members agreed to consult with their councils be- fore meeting again. Seaforth felt that 'since it would have the responsibility of staffing the brigade and for the housing and maintenance of vehicles. the majority of ' the committee should be from the town. Similar arrangements were... in effect in other -afeas where 'area committees function. Connell. named Couns. Dins- more and Cardno to represent the town in the discussions on the-fire • ciimmittee. • - • - A' Accept Resignation Council accepted thoresigna- tion of Constable Sinnamon on the • recommendation • of .,the Pollee committee and instructed~ the clerk to advertise for appli- cations. Applications alio be asked for a clerk-typist - in the clerk's office since Mrs. Broome, who has held the, posi- tion for some time, was resign- ing. 'Coun. Dinsmore said the pol- ice committee had worked out with Chief Hulley arrangements for part-time help when Con- stable Ruston was at Police Col- (Continued on Page 12)