The Huron Expositor, 1971-01-07, Page 1S
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At Seaforth Inaugural
The coming year will be an
opportunity to tidy up some proj-
ects instituted last year as well
as considering some new
projects, Mayor F. C. J. Sills
told Seaforth Council at the in-
augural meeting on Moriday
morning.
Referring, to the completion
of projects begun some time ago
such as the Main Street program,
he emphasized the extent to which
co-operation of the various ag-
encies involved had contributed.
Looking to the future Mayor
'Sills said it would be necessary
to complete the Industrial study
-and official plan. Other projects
involved a new sewage disposal
lagoon and drainage plan #1 in
the ,, pertheast section of_ town.
,He said it would be necessary to
,consider an option on an Mgt's-
trial site and the Ontario Water
Resources Commission feasibil-
ity study on completing the
sanitary sewer system for the
remainder of town. • .
'with the ocitsibility of additional
industry a requirement would - -
arise for houSing. He foresaw a
need for replacement of certain
town equipment as well as repairs
at -the arena. Provincial re-
quirements •-•ould necessitate
new refuse cizposal facilities.
Referring to the town's finan-
cial position, he said tax arrears
were down and he expected it '
would be podsible to hold the
existing tax rate for the coming
year. •
Mayor Silts welComed a new,V\-
member, Counc. Dave Tremeer,
who he said would contribute a
more time to discuss,, the aims
and 0,biectiYes...ia Huron. County
scho91S, and called attention to
Mrs- J.W. Wallace's enthusiasm
for this subject to ,be introduced
on some regular .basis at the
board meetings'.
,.He suggested the formation
of an ad hoc committee of the
board to review the policies made
in the last two years and urged
Joseph Lobby
that. these be studied in depth
to ensure that everyone under-
ptood and approved them.
The, chairman said there was
need for 'a transportation study
as well' arid hoped that the board
would soon be able to delve into
this subject.
° He pralked the administrative
staff of the Huron County Board
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Name
Contest
inners-
Injured by Snowmobile
Robert Duffy of R.R. #1, Dub-
lin is resting. comfortably in
Seaforth "Community Hospital fol-
lowing a Boxing Day snowmo-
bile accident.
Mr. Duffy was driving a nei-
ghbour's machine in his front
-yard when he extended his foot
to maintain his balance. The
, foot caught on the ground and as
a result his hip was badly dis-
located.
Mrs, Duffy said that he 'iiiay
have to be in traction up to
three months to allow the injury
to heal. Mr. Duffy was brought
' to ,the hospital by his family,
senior steward; Jack Hutson,
junior,. steward; Joseph Hugill,
director of ceremonies , and
David McLean, tyler."
ORVILLE G. OKE
Stamp Sales
Up at Seaforth
Total • stamp stieii
December at Seaforth Post Office
were up this year compared to-
1969.
While the total was up :.1513
there was a difference of Only,
27 in , of 5 cent
stamps sold :401s year.coMpared
to Vast year.
During the month 64438 five
cent stamps and 28,604 Slit cent
stamps were purchased.
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Whole No. 5365
111th Year SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1971 12 PAGES
Tuchersmith Meets
Seek Understanding
On Drain Projects
• FIRST BABY ARRIVES •
Seaforth Community Hospital's first baby of 1971 was born, at 12:32 a.m.., Sunday, January
3. The first arrival was a 7 lb. '7 oz bby, the first child of Bill and Katie Teall of Goderich
Street, Seaforth. The Tealls have. named their son Winiam•Scett. The baby and hip parents
will receive an impressive array of gifts from area merchants ineluding Mainstreet Variety,
Box Furniture, Hildebrand Paint and Paper, Canadian Tire, Read's Shoes and Luggage,
Anstett Jewellers, Wilkinson's I.G.A., Geo. A. Sills and Sons, Keatings Pharmacy Ltd.,
Stedman's dealer and staff, Gingerich's Sales and serVice, •Smith's Superior Store, Seaforth
Jewellers and Stewart Brog. (Staff Photo)
illi,otti:Proacitoot•Head
Huron- C6---ulity:Schooll.,,....Board
Is ice Chairman
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HOW many million •words , were set on this Linotype during the more •than 50 years it was
in use at .The Huron EXi5oSitor is anybodys guess. Brand new and the most modern available
when it was installed during the First. World War, the Linotype provided all the type used'
in the weekly editions bf The Expositor,---in addition to producing,,type fdr county es voters
lists, reports and other commercial jobs during that time. Siike the mid fifties it 'Wad been
used as a second machine. Changes in the printing process two years ago made it'surplus
and When the CUrater of Huron County Museum indicated interest, it was preSented to the
Museum. Here the '.Linotype, *filch weighs jtist under a ton, is loaded ready for its last
ride 'Wile MUSenM. Shown with it are Leo Hagan(left) of.The Expositor staff , who first
aim' the Machine when he came to The Expositor in 1931, Randall Marriott of the Museum
sit41 afid Ray SCOtelinter, MuseumCurator. (staff Iffiete
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The importance of close co-
operation' between the drainage
engineer, and the owners of
property through which the drains
are to, be put, was stressed by
Reeve Elgin Thompson in his
remarks at the inaugural meeting
of the Tuckersmith Township
Council Tuesday night. Mis-
understanding of what the
engineer intends be done and
what the landowner expects
arises and in turn causes extra
costs when the report must be
revised.
The meeting extended into
Wednesday eforning adjourning
at 1:30 a.m.
Reeve Thompson said there
is a possibility that the township
will have to de something about
securing new land fill facilities
for refuse. At present the
township rents the use of the
Seaforth dump but Seaforth has
been warned it must•cease,using
the dump by the Department of
Energy and Resources. Reeve
Thompson hoped that Tucker- •
HEATHER MCPHERSON
smith would be able to continue
renting such facilities in the
future.
Rev. Donald Stuart ' of
Brucefield conducted a, brief
devotional period.
An amending by-law, for the
__Geiger Drain was passed and
council authorized final expendit-
ures for the drain. The drain
was estimated to cost $1450 and
actually cost $1968.30. '
Council will request the Huron_
Continued on Page 6
The winners of —The
Expositor's annual Christmas
colourihg contest have been
chosen by Miss Mable Turnbull
who again acted as judge for the
event.
First prize went to Heather
McPherson,? aged 11, of Seaforth.
Eleven-year-old Kim Anstett, of
Seaforth, was the secopd prize
winner and Gayle Siernon, aged
5, of R.R.#1, Bornholm placed
third.
In her report, Miss Turnbull
said that five guidelines were kept
in mind to decide the -winners:*
These.. were: choice of colonrs,
combination of colours, general
effect, neatness and age.
Five honourable mentions
were also, awarded by the judge.
They go to 9 year old Debbie
• Mere of Seaforth, 8 year _old
Eileen. Connelly, R. fl,# 3, Kippen,
8 year old Barb Eckert, R.R.#1,
Dublin; Sheila Snider, aged 9
from Exeter and eleven-year-'
old Roger Salmon of R.R.1,
Bornholm.
Miss _Turnbull said the judg-
ing task, was extremely hard this
year as the winners had to be
culled from almost a thousand
entries from, as far away as
Hamilton and Toronto.
Howard Shantz, Stra.tford, was
elected chairman by acclamation •
of the Huron-Perth County Roman
Catholic Separate School,Board at
the inaugural meeting inSeaforth •
Monday night. Mr. Shantz was
Vice-chairman of the board last
year. He succeeds Keith Culliton
of Stratford who did not stand
for election to the board this
term. Of the 14 members of
the" board Mr. Shantz was the
only one' to •let his name stand
for 'the position of chairman.
Joseph Looby of Dublin was
elected vice-chairman'. Four
trustees entered the race for
the position - Joseph- Looby;
Christopher Walraven,St.MarYS;
Francis Hicknell, R.R. 5, Stmt.-
..ford and James Morris, Strat-
ford. Three votings by ballot
were necessary before Mr.Looby
emerged as winner by a vote of
8 to 6.
The -inelifbers of four.stand-
ing committees were named, with
the firS't .named as 'chairman:'
Finance and Insurance Com-
mittee - Michael Connolly, R.R.-
3, Kippen; Francis Hicknell and,
Christopher Wairaven. Property
Committee, - John McCann, R.
R. 3, Ailsa Craig; Vincent Young,
Goderich and David Teahen,
Stratford. Transportation Com-
mittee - Arthur Haid, 11,12. -4,
Listowel; Oscar Kieffer, R.R.1,
Bluevale and F. J. Vere, Strat-
ford. Personnel and Salary Ne-
gotiating Committee - Ted Geof-
frey, R.R. 2, Zurich; James
Morris, Stratford and Pat Carty,
R.R. 51 Stratford.
Rev. Carl Keane of St.
Joseph's,•parish, Stratford, Dean
of Perth-Huron , Deanery con-
ducted devotional exercises te
open the meeting., He took the
:occasion to compliment the board
On the progress in the school on
the Canadian Catechism
Program.
Father Keane emphasized that
the clergy of the deanery were
eager to assist the board and co-
operate in any way with the
school's toward attainment of'the
Christian formation of ours
youth" based on the concept of
parents, students, teachers, '
priests and school board working
co-operatively together.
In other business the law firm
of Donnelly & Murphy, Goderich,,
Board
was again named as solicitors for
the boardfor 1971. t•
Trustees Howard Shantz,'
Joseph Looby and Vincent Young
-and Superintendent of, Education,
John Vintar, were named to attend
a -School Board Administration
Seminar in Toronto on January.
21 to 23. The seminar is titled
Control and Autonomy - Today's.
School Board. ' . )
Trustees James Morris, Ted
Geoffrey and Pat Carty arid Mr.
Vintar were named to attend the
Ontariochool Trustees Council
in Toronto on January 15 and 16.
Jack Lane, Business •Ad-
ministrator, was Ninstrikted to
contact the firm of Kyles, Kyles
Garratt, Stratford, to have them
check the heat, regulators at St.,
Ambrose, St. Michael's and Si.
Joseph's schools in Stratford and
Our Lady of MOuntCa.rmelSchooi
at ,p,R, 3, Dashwood.
A borroWing ,by-laW was ap-
proved for $850,000.
• Mr. Vintar reported that the
.Seaforth bptimist Club,„,had
invited the separate schools in the
Seaforth area to participate with
other schools in a snow sculptur-
ing contest during the Optimist
Winter Carnival during the
January 23 week end.
Clatide Harvey and Victor
Lindsay of Stratford were re-.,
appointed to the Stratford Public
Library- Board 'for one year to
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The Hibbert Cooperative
Dairy Association (Ltd.) ended
more than thirty-five years of
community service when it was
closed down this week. The Staffa
creamery and assets of the com-
pany were recently purchased by
Stacey Bros. Ltd. of Mitchell.
The Mitchell dairy took poss-
ession on January first.
The Jlibbert Coop held its first
meeting/ in July, 1931 and in 1933
purchased the home of Archie
Miller, formerly the Hibbert
Hotel, for tthe as a creamery,
according to Isabelle-Campbell's
"A'Hibbert Review".-' The first
hitter was churned' CM JUly 1,
1933. The directors of the Coop
For New Council
fee of $15.00. 2,
Communications from Police
Chief Hulley, members of the .
force and a third from auxiliary
police set out suggestion& con-
cerning new contracts weFe re-
ferred to the protection to per-•
'who told of a local 'taxi driver..,.
f o r el).erm:belinlnettini
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arising
were pointed out by Mayor Sills
sans committee. - ,
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from
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by-laws
'e-
at that time were preSident And- at the Staffa plant will be out
row McLaughlin along with Bill ,of work. Mr. Stacey indicated
Kay and Johh CairnS. The Ares- 'that this was' an unfortunate re-
ent directors are Gordon Scott, suit, of the transaction but the
president; Arthur Kemp msecre.:- • automated equipment in Mitchell
tary'-treasurer; .Bryee Skinner, could easily, acconiedate an In-
Norman Jefferson and- Ruasell creased production with no fur-
Worden. ther additions to the staff.- ,
Howard Stacey, of Stacey "A desire to increase bust-
Bros. said, Monday that all pro- ness", was cited by Mr. Stacey
duction 'at Staffa had now ceased , as the reason the Mitchell com-
and the operationwould be mewed
to Mitchell Immediately. Most
of the equipment in the Staffa
plant will .be sold according to
Mr, Stachy.
Route 'drivers• from the Hib-
bert Co-op v411 be retained by
Stacey's but all other personnel
The inaugural meeting of the
new,, enlarged . Huron county.,
Board of Education 'was held
Monday evening in Clinton in
the board rooms at Central Bu-
ren Secondary School.
The '16-Member board sat
down to brand new desks,..,
4
,,in
black swivel chairs to begin the
business of the. year. New faces
at the board meeting were Wil-
fred Shortreed, Dr. A. B.Deathe,
Dr. Alex Addison, Charles Rau
and Alex Corrigan.
MeMbers chose Bob..Elliott
as .their chairman 'for the ..%71-
KIM ANSTETT
72 term of office with John
Broadfoot as vice-chain-2am
board, Mr. Elliott re-echoed the
In, his Opening remarks to the Of H R ,c
words of the board's first chair-
, man, John LaViS,tliat board mem-
bers would , have to grapple with
the problem of red schoolitis... -
concern for one school in a par-
- ticular part Of. Huron County
rather than' the entire educatiepal
picture in all the schools.
",I don't know if we can ever
get away from it," the new chair- .
man stated,. ',but we must try."
He outlined plans to allow
• '0 •
Changes- in the personnel of
council's- standing committees
were approved Monday night with
the adoption of a report presented
by Reeve ' J. F, Flannery and
Deputy. Reeve Wilmer Cuthill, the
striking committee.
Counc. Betty .Cardno was
named to head the • general
goverpment Committee. Others
on the committee are Copies.
Pinder, Ford and Tremeer. •
The public works committee
will be headed byReeveFlannerY,
and include Councs. MacDonald
and Tremeer and Dep.ReeveCut-
hill.
•Counc. George Hildebrand is
chairman, of the protection to
,persons and police committee
-which includes Counc. Cardno
and Reeves Flannery andCuthill.
Counc. MacDonald will head
the welfare and industrial 'cern-
mittee. Also_ on the committee
are Councs. Pinder, Ford and
Hildebrand.
Councillors Cardno ' and
Tremeer were named to repre-
sent the town on the fire area
board.
As council adopted the repoit
Mayor sills Urged early action
on. the balance Of appointments
recalling that last year there had
been delay.
John , Tremeer appeared
before council to' discuss
probleins that had arisen in con-
nection with snow plowing in the
area of his apartment. Mayor
Sills and Counc.Macbonald 'said
the problems had teen considered ,
and it was hoped were corrected.
Council rained Clerk E. M. -
Williams as representative 'to
attend meetings on January '14'
and January 21 in' connection
with the Hayfield watershed and
conservation authorities. In ad-,
dition it was agreed other
members of council who were
interested' would attend. ,
Medallions bearing the town
crest will be presented 'to
members of council and to dis-,
tinguished, citizens or visitors
on approval of counc11 ,4t was
agreed following early consider-
ation of a report presented',by
special , 'committee including
Councs. Cardne,, Htldebrand and
MacDonald. The dies . of the
crest are owned by the town.
Counc. Ford told council' he
had investigated, a suggestion that
3 1/2% bonds held by the town
be exchanged for Canada Savings
lxinds but had found that munici- .
palities .were not permitted to
hold savings bonds..
Council agreed, there would
be advantages in an Ontario-
Pence secretarial to make avail-
-able information and assist con-
cerning police matters. The
additional charge is slightly
higher than the association
Orville G. Oke was installed
Monday night as master of
Britannia Masonic''. Lodge, 170, „
succeeding Gordon Beutten-
miller.
Other officers: KennethScott,
senior warden;, enneth:Caldwell,
"" pihior warden;'Ross 'Scott-, Map-
lain;' Cyril Kirk; treasurer; Gor-
don Wright, secretary; Ross
Smale,senior deacon;Jack Eisler
junior deacon; Robert Caldwell,
inner guard; Robert Newnham,
Staffa Creamery Is Closed
pany approached the, Hibbert
Coop some time ago ad offered
to buy if the Stan group were
ever interested. The directors
decided late last- year to accept
the offer ' and to terminate 'the
activity of the forty year old
company., '
• igoreat deal to council deliberat, Name' Comintttees,...._, Rev. Bruce Morrison of the
Pentecostal Church in a shcirt
service pointed out to council '
`that_ the scripture ',it is re-
, mitred of a steward that a man
'be found .iaithfult. applied to the
Church- but equally• to a person
involved in any public. office.
As faithfulneSs tended todrop
away from 'our society, he said
it was increasingly important
that ; holders of public office be"
aware of their responsibilities.
Following the inaugural' pro-
ceedings members of council .
offiCials 'and presS were guests,.
,,of' the' town and PUG, eta lung.
cheon in the COMmercial Hotel.
....
..... Sharing the honors of being crowned Junior Snow Queen -
at the Christmas dance at SDHS are Dena Wey (right),..15,
a Grade 10 student • at the schnot-and Nancy-Deveremix-,
---- also in Grade 10.
, They received an equal number of .votesr for first place
among the nine contestants named by the teachers for the •
fsicvheo04Grade 9 rooms and the four Grade 10 rooms at the
Voting -on a popularity basis • by the • 472 students took
place on the last _day of school, before the Chkstmas holiday.
The girls were crowned b3:. 'Margaret Eckert, last year's
• Queen, after 'being introduced by William McCurdy, president
of the Students' Council.
Nancy is a daughter of Mr. and Mr's. James Devereaux,
R:R, 4, Seaforth; and Dena is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Campbell Wey, R.R. 4, Walton.. r, (Staff Photo)
Council agreed to, buy 15 desk •
type sets at $4 each.'Heads Britannia Lodge