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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-04-20, Page 1IZ First Section, Pages 1-8 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1972 --16 PAGES Vie. 20 $8,00 4 Tear Adveace * Whale No. 5432 113th Year • HON. HERB GRAY Liberals to nominate in Huron Huron Liberals will nomin- ate a candidate to contest the Riding 'of Huron at a nominat-* ing Convention set for Clinton Monday night. Charles Thomas, the reeve Of Grey Township has said he would, seek the:: nomination. Others who have indicated in- terest in the nomination are Wilson Hodgins," the reeve -of Biddulph Two., Calvin Krauter of Brussels, a former warden of Huron, Crawford DouglaS, Wingham and Mrs. Jean Adams -of Brucefield. ' Gordon McGavin, of Walton, the Riding president, said the 'Minister of National Revenue, Hon. Herb Gray would address the meeting.. Mr. Gray is the member for Windsor Wept arid has been a men-Or of the Fed- eral Cabinet since 1969. • Membership tickets at $1 each and Which entitle members to vote at the convention are avail- able from members of 'friunici- pal executives across the Riding. Recount tour • carolanne Doig and Elizabeth MacLean shared their exper- . fences whileon a tour of European Countries with members of the Twilight Circle Tuesday . night. The meeting was held at the' home of Mrs. Glen Rose and was -arranged by Ruth Smith, and Doreen Strong. ealortn tiremen 'used their longest ladders as they fought a fire on the third floor of the Queens Hotel last Wednesday evening. The fire which appeared to have., begun in a bedroom on the third floor, was under control in less than an hour and damage was confined to the top floor and attic. • (Photo by Phillips) Third floor damaged when • fire threatens Queens hotel Members of Brucefield Congregation have been busyfor more than a year with,the work of erect- __„ing a new churCh to replace the building destroyed by fire in November l9''x0. Now that the new clutsch is completed activity centres around plans in connection with the opening. Here (left) Mrs. .Wk Henderson, Mrs. Geo. Henderson and Mrs. John Broadfoot are busy preparing invitations for mailing. (Staff) Andre Laurin (centre) accepts the new colored TV he won at the Optimists 'Millionaire Night Saturday, with. him are (left) Ken Cardno, a member of the- Optimist Committee in charge of the event and Dodd Buddo of the TV manufacturers. (Staff Photo) Winner in Huron Park gets Optimist top prize „.. Ontario Provincial Police are assisting in Seaforth town patrol. The OPP were asked t to help on Friday when on doctor's orders, Chief Gordon Hulley was granted sick leave. ' His illness, coupled with the earlier resignation of Constable Keith Ruston left the department with only Constable Lloyd Eisler. Meanwhile, the investigation of the Seaforth police department which council requested at a meeting on, April 1.0 is under way. The investigation is^being carried out by F.E. ,Davies, a representative of the Ontario , • Police Commission. Decision to seek the investi- gation arose as a result of a re- quest by a group of citizens for an enquiry into the' resigns .ion of Constable Ruston. The police situation was the subject of dismission at a special meeting of council Monday night. Council went into committee of the whole and met in camera for , _ • - It's a proud Gary Gray who displays the Seaforth Industrial League Trophy at the League banquet in the Community Centre Friday night. He is captain of the Stars who ended the season as League Champions. (Staff Photo) School population rises as house occupancy up To date there has only been one inquiry at the Huron County Board of Education offices in Clinton, but indications are that people are • beginning to move into living quarters at the form- er Canadian„Forces Base, Clin- ton. ' At' Monday evening's board meeting in Clinton, board mem- bers agreed that since Clinton Public School has a rated•capac- ity of 675 on an enrolment of only 426, ' elementary school children whet may move into the former Adastral Park will attend Clinton Public ,Sbhool, 'Secondary school pupils will be transported to Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton., • A studywill also be made into the feasibility of utilizing Huron , County Board of Education 'buses for the transportation of students to Calvin ChriStian School at Clinton. Since Christian schools in Ontario do not• receive any grant assistance from the gov- ernment and are entirely financ- ed by donations and tuitions from parents and others, wayS and ' means of sharing facilities with goVernment sponsored boards• are being sought. R,L,Cunningham, transporta- thin officer for Huron County, will explore the possible opportunity for cost savings in the transpor- tation area. At the urging of GarnetHicks, chairman of the Advisory Voca- tional Committee in Huron' County, the board will initiate a study of the impact o f the credit system on the existing vocation- al facilities in the secondary schools. • Mr. Hicks told the board that existing facilites at the South Huron 15tiS woodworking shop are - crowded and may be, due to the fact that the' course has been "over sold." The Usborne Township mem- ber asked the board to make a thorough study of the matter throughout Huron for recommen-• dation at a later date, ' In other business, the board passed a policy statement indica,- ting that teachers should not con- sider a leave of absence as a means of extending holidays or as a means of joining together 'two holiday periods that happen to fall in close proximity on the calendar. There may be ekten- uating circumstances of course, but board members seemed to agree, that most holidays are adequate for Staff and well dis- tributed through, the teaching year. Mrs. John E. MacLean heads Seaforth Womens Institute 4 ti Huron Board OPP assists. Seaforth considers new camp project in patrolling town Outdoor education was the beverage rooms, a cocktail lounge and dining room on the .ground floor. Guests in their rooms and patrons on the ground floor left, the building, when the fire was discovered by Mike Darwish, an employee, at 7:45 p.m. 'At the height of the blaze dense smoke billowed from upper windows and blanketed adjoining Goderich and Main Streets. Tuckersmith council clears drain, road prOgrarns The engineer's report °tithe Moore Drain was provisionally adopted by Tuckersmith Town- ship Coencil at a special meet- ing Tuesday„,eightdn Brucefield. ' Seven of the 35 ratepayers affected by the drainwhichstarts at No. 4 Highway south of Bruce- field and goes, in a•south east-, erly direction for' 8,220 lineal feet, were present to discuss the report with Engineer Henry Ud- erstadt of Orangeville.Court of 103/1Aion for the drain which is estimated to cost $10,350, Will be held. May 16 at Huron Centen- nial School at Brucefield. An account of $585 „for the winter works employment incent- ive program was-passed for pay- ment--two weeks work cutting dead elm trees. Council is to request Ken Dunn, Goderich, engineer, to make a legal survey of acqui- sition of land, .relocating road and building a new bridge on nection, the branch named as delkates; Mrs. John E. Mac- Lean, Mrs. Lorne Lawson, Mrs. Ken Stewart and Mrs. Eldih Kerr. A number of committees were named for other duties and Mrs. Wm. Milison reported cm the work of the decorating cool= mittee. • The annual meeting business included reports from M rs.Gor- don Elliott, secretary-treasurer. standing committee reports as ' follows: Agriculture and Canad- ian Industries, Mrs., Mary Ilatigh and Mrs. Earl Papple, read by Mrs. Eldon Kerr; Citizenship and Education, Mrs% Los Camp- bell and Mrs.. P. .1. Doig, read by Mrs. Ken Campbell, Home Ecoriomics and Hetilth, Mrs. Wm, Milison and Mrs. Brim(' Cole- man, ready by Mrs. Milison; HiStorical Research, Mrs. Lorne Dale and Miss Belle 'Campbell, (Continued on page 5) Seaforth Firemen battled a blaze on the third floor of the Queens Hotel early Wednesday, evening and were successful in t. Confining the flames to the upper area,. Fire damage to the rooms on the third floor and in the attic as, well as water damage in lower floors was extensive.' Firemen attacked the . fire from the outside as well as from within the building. The Seaforth. P.U,C, bucket lift was brought into play to provide access to the high •situation.• The 95-year-old building con- tained eighteen guest rooms and Opens new church at Brucefield Plans for opening ceremonies • in connection with the new Bruce- field United Church are complete with the corner stone to be laid on Sunday afternoon. The new corner stone will be laid by Rev. Frederick M. FaiSt, B.A., E.G., chairman of the Huron-Perth Presbytery. The corner stone from the church building destroyed by fire in November 1970 will be laid by a former minister, Rev. Donald Stuart, C.D.,.M.A.,, B.D. The official opening and dedi- cation is set for Sunday afternoon May 7th when Rev. Wilson L. Morden, B.A., President of the London conference, will officiate. topic !sir thelinalafternooripZeS", entation to the Huron County Board of Education for this school year. Meeting with the board Monday in Clinton, the committee chaired by Vincent Elliott of South Huron District High School, Walt a strong case for their pro- posal to make outdoor education an integral part of a student's education in this county. The seven-member coin2mit- tee asked the board to consider the possibility of establishing a centrally located "base camp" for conducting overnight or pro- longed field trips for school stu- dents in Huron, The suggestion was for the board ,,te accept the offer by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests 'to utilize. the Stone Farm adjacent to the Hullett Conservation Area for this purpose - on a land use permit costing $1 'annually. Although preliminary studies are still going on, the committee told the board the Stone Farm could provide -facilities similar to those at Camp Sylvan inMidd-, iesex County. At Camp Sylvan where "rustic" conditions pre- vail, many Huron County stu- dents annually enjoy a camping experience with their classmates under the supervision of their teachers. Rates are rising for 'students on overnight cainpouts, howeVer, and the committee intimated that (Continued on Page 5) Clears new quarters Mrs. A, E. Crozier was host- ess for the' annual meeting of Seaforth Women's Institute, with Mrs. Frank Hunt as co-hostess. The roll call was answered with "My responsibility as a member of the Women's Institute, as well as payment of fees. The motto "Perfection is not expected, but improvement is", was taken by Mrs. Alex Pepper. Correspond- ence included courtesy notes from'.The Erlin Whitmore fanf- ily, Mr and MrS. Dave Papple and Mr . John McLean, as Well as communiciations from the South Huron Mental Retardation organization and the Huron-Perth Tuberculosis Association. Mrs. Gordan Papple reported on the district board of direc- tors meeting held in Hensall on April 1: Her report included a review of plans for the District Annual to be hosted by Seitorth branch in Egmondville United Church on May 17. In this con- the - diScussion. No .results of the discussion were made available following the meeting'''. Mayor Frank Sills said Tuesday no statement could be made at this time. Prior to going into committee at the Monday, ,night meeting council passed a bylaw enabling action to purchase and tear down a building on the corner of Mar= ket and JarVis Sts. to provide a site for a sehior citizens' hous- ing project. Mayor Frank Sills and Clerk E.M.Willianns were given the necessary ,authority to purchase the property. A committee consisting of Deputy Reeve Wilmer Cuthill, Mayor Sills and the clerk was appointed to .contact interested , parties for demolition of the building 'and to determine de- tails on the completion of the project. A rear room at the Town Hall has been made available foi• use, by the Salvation Army as a cloth- ing depot and the property com- mittee was instructed to hb.vethe floor covered. Workshop fire loss is $10,000 A workshop on the farm 'of Allan Haugh, R.R 1, Brucefield ',vas levelled by fire around '9:30 p.m. Monday. Mr. Haugh was sanding a tractor, which was to be deliv- ered ' to 'a customer the next day when , the' fire erupted. He' had been ising lacquer thinner shortly before. When he rushed outside to his truck for a fire extingui- sher he was unable to reenter because of the flames which were • already shooting out through the' windows., •Bru ald Vo. Firemen, who attended the fire, were -unable to save the two- storey steel covered building. Lost in the shop, only recently renovated, were a four-horse, air compressor, welding equip- ment, and other tools and equip- Ment as well as the small trac- tor. The loss, estimated to .be about $10,000 is partially cov- ered' by insurance. Seaforth Optimists sponsored a successful Millionaire's Night at the Legion Hall Saturday, cut-' minating a series of draws that had been under way since last fall. Top prize - a colored T V - went to the holder of the last ticket drawn. Her.vw Andre Laurin 'of Huron Parr JoeSteffler, RR 4 Walton, held the second last ticket and won a stereo while Brian Leon- hardt with the third and final ticket took home a bag of nickels, Prizes won by holders of ea.9 25th ticket dt'a,wn were Ed Baker, There was no immediate es- timate of damage available, Fire Chief Jack Scott said.. The hotel is owned by Alex Hassan Holdings Ltd. of London and is managed by Fred Hassan. Mr. Hassan, said the fire appeared to originate -in a third floor room on the southwest cor-, her of the building but the exact cause, has not yet been deter- mined; Silver Creek on Concession 2 and 3 (Huron Road Survey). The work involved is on the road from Egmondville to the Seaforth Golf Course. The council endorsed a res- olution from the City of St. Thomas that requests the mirt, _ i$try responsible for the were- Hon of the assessment. review courts, regional assessment of- fices . and related functions. to take appropriate action to en- „ Deletion sure the disposition of appeals on or before November 30 and !if the certification of the roll. ported the township would re- ,, • Clerk James aiP.:Intosh re- seeks elp eeive the unconditional per capita He was authorized to seek the grant on a population of 2,100. of minister grant on a population of 2,799 as recently reported by the Huron-Perth Assessment office. This will mean a difference of about $3,030 increase in the grant. A delegation from the Huron County. Board of Education was in Toronto Tuesday, April 11 for a meeting with Education Minis- ter Thomas L.Wells, two of his senior grants people, Hon. C.S. MacNaughton and Mr. Maellaugh- ton's exectitivl secretary, Don Southcott. According to the chairman of the board, R.M. Elliott, Goder- ich Township, the delegation was well received and is •now only awaiting an answer from govern- ment regarding the board's pro- teSt to the new grant ceilings on Ordinary expenditures in the- schools. ' Mr. Elliott told the board at • Monday's Meeting that the gov- ernment readily admitted that Huron Board had the fifth lowest budget in Ontario id the elemen- tary division and the setend low- est budget in Ontario at the sec- ondary level. The government recognizes,, Mr. Elliott said, that the Huron Board has put up a valiant fight to hop the line on education ex- penditures ' especially in the area of salaries. John Henderson, of McMillen asked whether of not Murray Gaiiht, Liberal member for Hur- on-Bruce had been invited tb the meeting with the Education Min- ister. He was told that Gaunt had not been advised of the meeting. Subject to. approval of the Ontario Municipal County M unicBipoaalHrd ofBEo adur do a, t itohne announced acceptance of the pro- posal of James Hayman Con- struction Limited. of London to provide 'administrative offices for the board at a purchase price of $ 198;000. The proposal entails the re- novation and updating of the form- er ParLKnit Hosiery factory at the corner of Albert and Mills Streets in the town of Clinton. Completion is estimated at three and one half to fournnonth,s following signing of the contract. The new facility will bring the preSent administrative offices located in the former Nurse's Residence, the office of Student Services Personnel located in Central Huron Secondar,y School and the board room, also located in CHSS, under one roof for ,the first time since the inauOuration of the board in January 1969. Provision of this accommoda— lion does not fall under -the pro- vincially imposed ceiling on or- dinary expenditures and there- fore does not affect day-to-day school operations or budget lim- itations. It is anticipated that the Hay- man proposal will be financed by the sale of debentures. The board also considered another proposal for .construc- lion 'of a new building, but found the price of $2.85.,8.7.5 to be pro- hibitive. 111 X Seaforth, Bill Eisler, Seaforth, John Cardno, Seaforth, Ray Ans- tett, Seaforth, ,Les Seiler, Sea- forth, Milton Dietz, Seaforth and Joseph .1, Lane, Seaforth. • Early ,b)rd winners of prelim- inary draws were Murray Car- diff, Brussels, Robt. Campbell, McKillop, Vern Scott, Seaforth, and. Wm. McLaughlin, Seafcirth. The evening featured a series of games followed by supper. The event was arranged by a comfnittee -headed •by president, Ken Campbell, Ken COlefnah and Ken Cardno.