HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1971-11-25, Page 13WinnerS in the ,recent subscription contest carried on
by Seaforth District High School students are surrounded
by copies of The Expositor that they assisted in selling.
Tqp winner was Josephine Willems (left) while 'Judy Steffen
and Joy ,Fischer 'were runners up.. The student council
received nearly $200 as' a result of the efforts of the students.
(Staff Photo)
CNR Est
New Expr
The continuing process of
eliminating the CNR as an.active
presence in the community
advanced a step further with the
announcement this week that'
express pick-ups and deliveries
no longer would be processed
at the CNR depot.
For several years express
shipments have been handled by
truck out of Stratford but local
responsibility has' been that of
the local agent, The C,N.R. said
this week thaLeffective next Mon-
lishe
ti
s Depot
day Sills Hardware would repre-
sent the railway for shipping and
receiving express. They added
that in future and for the time
being the agent here would be
on a part-time basis serving
both Clinton and Seaforth.
'While the agent will be present
on occasions he is no t permitted
to serve the public. Ho doesn't
sell tickets, provide information
or take telegrams. These func-
tions are handled by phone out of
Kitchener.
Friday was moving day for 119 grade 7 and 8 students of Seaforth Public School. The
students had been holding their classes in, the basement of the High School while waiting for
the completion of work on the new addition at the Public School. tinder the watchful eye
of school custodian, Jack Eisler, students "helping to move supplies are left to right, Neil
Reuerman, Steven Maxwell, Glenn Stewart and Keith Bennewies. 8 (Staff Photo)
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Council clears 21 Unit Senior Citizen Housing
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• Seaforth council at a special
eeting Thursday approved' con-
c t
tion of a 21 unit senior
ens housing development by
the Ontario Housing Corporation.
-- Linder investigation for
several years, the original in-
tention had been a 10 unit develop-
ment. However, since subsequent
surveys indicated a larger
arrangement to be practical,
Sydney Kage, OHC regional de-
velopment officer who attended
the meeting, asked council to ..-
consider a 21 unit apartent.
The OHC has accepted a pro-
posal from J. and C. contractors
of Kitchener to construct the
accommodation at a figure of
$10,410.00 per unit. The com-
pany plans to erect the two storey
building on the west side of
Church Street north on land to be
purchased from the Dr. J. A.
Munn Estate.
Council discussed at some
lengths the location which the
company proposed in view of
its distance from the centre of
town. Other sites suggested
included the former CFM factory
building at the corner of Market
and Jarvis but it was indicated
this would involve additional ex-
pense and "delay.
The Church Street location
will involve a change in the
zoning by-law. The area now is
zoned as prime residential which
does not include apartment type
buildings,
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Second Section .SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1971 — Pages 1 to 12
Hullett Council has entered
into an agreement with Ontario
to provide for a township road
serving the proposed provincial
ei game sanctuary and conservation
area in the township to be desig-
nated as a development' road.
The new development road -
side road 10 extends north from
No. 8, highway for 1 1/4 miles. It
- is. understood the road, which is to
be improved sand black topped at
an estimated cost of$15,000 ,will
Proposed Development Road Petition Asks
Will Serve Hullet Sanctuary Review Of
License
become a main access to the
conservation area. I Costs in-
volved will be covered by the
province.
Council reversed a position
it had taken at an earlier meet-
ing and endorsed a Hullett Feder-
ation of Agriculture resolution
palling on Bell Telephone to pro-
vide a large toll free area for
the district.
Brian Garrett of Stratford,
representing the Victorian Order
Sisters Skid Into River
During Snow Squal
Huron -Perth Board Clear
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Two sisters sat on the top
of their' car's front seat as icy
' water filled their vehicle to the
dashboard Saturday afternoon
after it plunged into,Silver Creek
in the Lions Park.,
Mrs. Lila H., Carroll, 72,
Tillsonburg, the driver of the
car and her sister, Mrs. Edna
Davey-Dyke 01 Lindsay, were
driving wesetoWards Seaforth on
Highway 8 during a snow squall"
When the car spun across the
road .and backward down' an
embankment into the creek,
• floated across the creek and
settled in about four feet of water.
Passing motorists, Wayne
Fell. „of Toronto and Charles
Tolton of Denfield, assisted by
ot Dr. Stanley•Alkemade ofSeaforth
assisted the women from their
car to Dr. Alkemade's car. They
were taken to the adjacent.Sea-
forth Community Hospital,
treated, for exposure by Dr.'Roger
Whitman and released.
The women had been on their
way to Blyth to visit Mrs.
Carroll's daughter prior to their
annual trip to Florida for the
winter.
TWO-CAR ACCIDENT •
A two-car aceident early
Monday morning prevented. Tom
Wilbee from going eithis school
bus route.
The accident happened on
Main Street near the Library
corner when Mr. Wilbee was on
his way to pick up the school bus
he drives; He was treated in
Seaforth Community Hospital for
head 'cuts and released. Damage
to the rear of the Wilbee car is
estimated to be $500.
Driver of the other car was
Murraynieesbitt, Walton. He was
not'injured. Damage to the front
end of his car was considerable.
Icy road conditions were re-
ported at the time of the
accident.,
of Nurses in Perth, was present
to request the Council to partici-
pate in the expansion of service
in Hullett Township. No de-
cision was made pending further
meetings and getting more infor-
mation.
In other business council ad-
opted the following resolutions:
- That we issue Building Per-
mits to; 'M. SalVerda;L.Radford;
Tony Middegaal; and Don Greid-
anus; as requested, subject to
Township By-Laws, plus Robert
Dalton.
- That•-we approve severance
on Lot.17, Con. 1, Hullett Town-
' ship.
That we grant permission
to the Art Galleries of Ontario
to sell lottery tickets in the
Township of Hullett.
Expenditures approved for
payment included; - General- -
$1,651.19 Drainage -$13,342.04;
Roads $6,134.49, making a total
of $21,327.72.
SPS Pupils
Leave 'SIMS
For 1,19 students of Seaforth
Public School,'Friday was moving
day. The pupils of Grades 7-and 8
who have been balding classes in
two rooms in the*basement of the
high school since September,
moved 'back to the Public School.'
Pupils and teachers had been
making the\best of it while wait-
ing for construction on the new
addition at the Public School to
be advanced enough to allow them
to move back.
Friday morning students
aided the movers by helping to-
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Tuckersmith Council took no
action at a special meeting Tues-
day evening to reconsider revo-
cation of a salvage yard license.
A delegation of seven
Egmondvllle residents appeared
before council and presented a
petition bearing 33 names for
reconsideration by council of the
revocation of William, Brown's
license for a salvage yard. The
petitioners requested (a) the
relocation Of Mr. Brown's busi-
ness at some mutually satisfac-
tory location at. their •own ex-
pense; and (b) permission for
Mr: Brown to operate at his
present location unt# the above.
is fully carried out.
Members o f the delegation
were; Walter Armes, Mr. and
Mrs. Howard James, Melvin
Cooper, Carl Cooper, and Mr.
add Mrs. Leo Teeter°.
Members of Council explained
to the delegation the circum-
stances leading up to their dec-
ision not •to renew the license
based of a complaint that Mr.
Brown did not operate under the
conditions .set forth in the town-
ship by-law.
In answer to a request-from
the Ontario Water Resources
Commission -on what action the ,
township had taken on their sug-
gestion that sanitary sewage be
installed in Egmondville. Clerk
, James, McIntosh. was instructed
to write OWRC that Council waS-
waiting on the development of a
proposed new system in Seaforth
which it was understood would be
adequate. to serve Seaforth, Eg-
mondville and liarpurhey. •
The clerk.. was asked to write
to the Department of Transporta-
tion and Communications to re-
quest that guard rails be in-
stalled along Highway 8 at Silver
Creek adjacent to the Seaforth
Lions Park. The area was the
scene of a recent car mishap.
A letter was received from the
Director of Huron County Social
Services outlining procedure to
follow in converting to county
welfare in January, 1972.. -
Ontario Hydro notified Coun-
cil it will provide a grant in
lieu of taxes on the 3.46 acres
of property at the former Can-
adian Forced Base at Clinton.
A grant in lieu of taxes was rec-
eived from the Federal Govern-
ment for the, former Canadian
Forces Bade.
Clerk J., I. McIntosh revealed
that the 1971 census indicated
the population of Tuckersmith
Township was 2871, compared to
4042 in 1966, The decrease ref-
lected the closing of CFB Clinton.
Ontario Hydro is to be con-
tacted to investigate additional
street lighting needed on 'Mill
Street north one block from East
Bayfield Street.
Clerk McIntosh will attend
a meeting of Huron County clerks
and treasurers at Clinton on
December 2,
The clerk is to apply for the
Provincial Municipal EMploy-
ment Incentive Program which is
made to ease the employment
situation as a winter' works pro-
gram.
Council adjourned after 1 30
a.m.
The Sun Life Insurance of
Canada Limited will provide
group life insurance for the ad-
ministrative staff, afull-time
teachers, bus drivers and cus-
todians for the Huron- Perth
County Roman Catholic 'Separ-
ate School Board. The board
made the decision when it met
in regular session Monday night
in Seaforth.
The program affects 185 em-
ployees-and the cost to the board
'will amount to $11.30 per year
per employee for a three-year
term beginning January, 1972.,
Trustee Ted' Geoffrey, R.R.
2, Zurich, chairman of the com-
mittee which drew up the plan,
reported thirteen tenders had
been received and the Sun Life
tender was the lowest.
The plan provides term life
insurance for the employee in
an amount equal to one time's
earnings plus accidental death
and dismemberment benefits, as
well .as $1,000 term insurance
on the employee's spouse and
$500 term insurance on each
dependent child.
The board appointed -Martin
Gulikers, R.R.7, St' Marys, as
custodian at St. Ambrose School,
Stratford, effective December 1.
He replaces John Anderson who
resigned.
The tenders for scow removal
as recommended by Trustee John
McCann, R.R.3, Ailsa Craig,
chairman Of building 'and main-
tenance committee, were ac-
cepted by the board as follows;
Joseph McCann and Son, Strat-
ford, for the five separate schools
in Stratford,' at a rate of ..$14
per hour or $7 per half hour;
Adrian and Son Service, St.
Marys, for Holy Name School
in St. Marys at •a rate of $1:2
per hour for heavy equipment
and $8 per hour for light equip-
ment; and Tim McDonnell,R.R.
2, Gadshill, for St. Patrick's
School, Kinkora. at a rate of
$8 per hour.
The September print-out was .
discussed, with Jack Lane, Busi-
ness Administrator answering a
number of questions put by the
trustee,
,CrdsswalkS are to he marked
on the road for the pupils at St..
Patrick's School in Dublin. -
John Vintar, Superintendent
of Education and Jack Lane re-
ported oh a meeting at the Reg-
ional Office, Department of Edu-
cation, Kitchener, and divulged
certain information with respect
to 1972 grant regulations.
It was pointed out that the
ceilings are $595 for an elem-
entary school pupil and $1;100 for,
a secondary school _pupil--
increased from $545 and $1,060.'
In addition two new weighting
factors are being introduced. The
first of these factors is called
the grant weighting factor which
is the sum of the weighting fad-'
tors fo r special edition for
compensatory education and cost
differentials. The second weight-
ing factor is called the expend-
iture weighting factor and is the
grant weighting factor increased '
by the sum of the weighting fac-
tors „for 'experience and qual-
ifications of teachers and for
density of population within a
given region.
Assistance for French lang-
uage instruction has not been set
out by the Department but it was
Suggested that the weighting
factor will probably remain as
that for 1971.
The Department indicated that
.the Province will pay another
one-third of the adjusted def-
icits of former boards as at
Decerriber, 1968, that became a
part of the county separate school
board.
In referring to the ceiling
for subsidy purposes.,Mr. Lane
pointed out that the only signi-
ficant change Is in' the increase
to $10 per pupil elementary for
unapproved net transportation
expenditure and capital expend-
iture from current revenue. The
amount recognized in 1971 was
limited to $5 per pppil elemen-
tary,
In his report Mr. Lane stated
that In preparing beget estimates
for 1972 expenditures the cost of
unemployment insurance for
teaching staff which becomes ef-
fective January 1, 1972, will be
a further burden on the available
'funds to,,,the board. He reported
that the grants office of the
Department of Education has cal-
culated the employer's share of,
Canada Pension plan cost and
unemployment insurance host to
be $5.51 per pupil.
Passed for payment was 'an
account Mr $1,092 for profes-'
sional services for the years
1970 and 1971 submitted by Don-
nelly and Murphy, Goderich, sol-
Still Time t•
Many subscribers in recent
days have taken advantage.of the
present • six dollar subscription
rate to the Expositor to renew
their subscriptions.
As announced two weeks ago,
the annual subscription increase
to eight dollars Is effective
November 29th.
The Father Stephen Eckert
Council. met in their council
rooms at St. Columban Thurs-
day evening when Don Scrim-
geour, Lecturer for the Coun-
cil, had as his guest, Tom Haley
of the Expositor Staff. Mr. Haley
explained th e offset process of
printing the council's bulletin
and also the newspaper produc-
tion, showing and explaining the
various steps taken to obtain
the finished product. Showing
much interest in the production
of the weekly and the Knights of
Columbus bulletin, the members
asked many questions and each
• was explained 'by Mr. Haley. He
was introduced and thanked by
the Grand Knight, Leo Hagan.
The council rooms, on Sun-
day evening, was the setting for
the annual Memorial Mass and
Commemorative Service at which
a large number of members and
their wives paid' tribute to the
deceaSed members of the coun-
cil during the past year.
Rev. II. J. Laragh, Council ,
Chaplain, was the celebrant. St.
James' choir assisted at both
services. The committee in
charge of the commemorative
Service was Ewart Wilson,
Church Director on the council
program committee; Grand
Knight Leo Hagan; Deputy Grand'
Knight, James Devereaux; Chan-
cellor, John Paul Rau; Warden,
Philip Durand; Acting Recorder,
John J. Flanagan. Eulogy speak-
erS were Wilfred Mousseau and
George Coville.
Following the service the
Grand Knight expressed thanks
to all who attended, particularly
friends and relatives of theCoun-
cil's •two deceased members,
Philip Masse and, Gerald Hol-
land; the choir and organist,
Mrs, Alice Stiles; Rev. H. J.
Laragh, Chaplain, and Rev. P.
Oostveen the Council's assist-
ant Chaplain and those who took
part in the Commemorative Sbr-
vice.
To end the evening a light
lunch was served by Council
members under the direction of
lunch chairman, John Moylan.
'of the poor not `to 'try to in-
crease our church membership,
not to gain any benefit our-
selves, but to basically fulfil
the law of Christ which is to
live love".
"You could imagine if the
421 churches in the London Con-
ference were to become actively
engaged in this work we could
improve the lot of thousands of
people in our Conference work-
ing ip close co-`operation with
welfare authorities, who, I am
sure, would welcome such int-
erest at the local level," he
continued.
Mr. Morden suggested ,that
each congregation could work out
its own system and deal with
this matter in its own way 'hut,
he 'did suggest that they. might
model their efforts on the Big
Brother movement whickis des-'
perately cryitg for help. "Per-
haps the church movement could
be called the Big Family move-
ment," he said.
Mr. Morden also called for
a Conference-wide organization
foe-initanists and choir leaders,
pointing out we have more org-
anists than ministers, but that
they are widely neglected when
it comes to instruction and en-
couragement. He said that they
should , at least be given an op-
portunity to help themselves, and
improve the musical standards in
the church, which he finds rather
.low.
Mr. Morden briefly'eutlined
the proposed new structure' of
the church Which has. been sug-
gested by the Long Range Plan-
ning Committee. This calls for
the appointment of an Adminis-
trative Officer, a Personnel Of-
ficer and three field secretaries
to look after the area of missions
,(Continued on Page 9)'
Winner In
Car Club
The seventh weekly winner in
the Lions Car Club Is Miss
Marjorie Papple, R.R. 4,
Seaforth.
icitors for the board.
Trustee Joseph Looby; Dub-
lin, questioned about notes being
sent home witir the school child=
ren to the parents by the schools
requesting parents to act as vol-
unteer supervisors at the schools
at• different occasions, such as
for yard duty or when a teacher
was attending a meeting. It was
agreed that parents had ,the op-
tion to volunteer or not to vol-
enteer.
• There will be only one meet-
ing of the board in December—pile
December 17.
Tells SK of C
Presbytery
Urges Adion-
PO Poverty •
"It's time to start acting and
not•just discussing the problem
of ,poverty", Rev. Wilson L. Mor:-
den, Colborne Street United ,
Church, London, the president
of London Conference of the Uni-
ted Church told delegates attend-
ing amee,ting of the Huron-Perth
Presbytery in Seaforth Tuesday.
"I think we leave too much to
the Government and not all the
problems in relation to poverty,
are financial", he said,
"I would like to see us M a
very Aquiet way embark on a war
on poverty," he said. “The United
Church 111 Canada is developing
a task force on poverty and it
is my hope that the local con-
gregations will make available