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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-04-27, Page 11 ill'4It First Section, Pages 1-8 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1972 -16 PAGES Were by last,, Marie McClure by students. crowned of the S.D.H.S. and Karen McEwing, Fractures vertebra and feet in fail Winter , works program assists school board crowned Queen of the S.D.H.S. formal on Friday evening after her selection receives congratulations from runner up Dianne Phillips after,' haviipg been Queen, Vickie Miller. Others taking parein the popular event - highlight season - were Linda Feeney, Nancy Traquair, Rosemary Van den Hengel (Staff Photo) was she year's Under the winter work employment incentive program sponsored by the federal govern- ment the Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate'School Board was re-imbursed $4,038.14 when washroom facili- ties, a teacher's room and a library resources centre *ere added to St. Mary's School at Hessen. FIEV. J, URE ST WART ' Herb Murphy a department head at Goderich Collegiate Institute who will become assistant principal at Seaforth District High School. He suc- ceeds Wm. Murdie who goes to Goderich as vice principal. Huron Liberals have nomin- ated Grey Township Reeve Charles. Thomas as Liberal can- date in the forthcoming, election. The 44-year-old Morris native was the choice of a convention in Clinton Monday evening attended lioy nearly five hundred. He defeated Mrs. Jean Adams of Brucefield, a vice president of the Huron Pro- vfncial association. As the results of the election were an- make the choice unanimous. Mr. Thomas was nominated by Mrs. Ian McAllister, Hay Twp. and seconded by Graeme *Craig, McKillop. Mrs. Adams nominators were Dr. Morgan Smith, Hayfield and PauiStekle, Stanley Twp. while Dr. Lloyd C. Hall, Lucan and Neil Mc- Gavin, McKillop nominated Mr. A third candidate for the nomination; former Middlesex County warden Wilson Hodgfris from. Biddulph Township, alth- dreW. Mr. Thomas, a former Royal Canadian Air Force jet pilot, has been reeve of Grey Township and a member of Huron County council for the last' four years. 'He is married and has three children. Gordon McGaVin, president and Colin Campbell, vice presi-, dent, presided over the meeting while A. Y. McLean, regidnal vice presldent Of the Liberal-- Party of Ontario conducted • the nomination, Reeve Wm. Elston of Morris was returning officer. While the ballots were being nounced, Mrs. Adams moved to 65 years in the ministry Rev J Ure Stewart still, active While Sunday has been a special day for hini throughout his_ long life, this coming Sunday has a'PaRicular- StplifiCaffee for Rev. J. Ure Stewart of Seaforth. It was on April 30, 190'7 that he was ordained as a minister. and Sunday will be the 65th anni- versary of the event. To. mark the approaching anniversary he was invited to preach at a communion service earlier this month at Northside United Church and on the coming Sunday again will take part in the service. Mr. Stewart who will be 90 on June 18 retired several years ago following a heart attack, but agrees that ip the years since there has been no real retire-, ment as he carries o n a busy round of activity. "Retired life is a busy life", he said as he told of accepting several invitations to preach at church anniversary services this fall. Mr. Stewart is kept busy doing supply work at various churches - last year he was, preaching for seven Months. He is a popular guest speaker at numerous church meetings, both in Sea- forth and in other communities. Easter Sunday he was guest speaker at the sunrise service at 7 a.m. at the United Church. in Sebringvtlle where he was Interim minister last spring, "Born in Saltford, near God- erich in 1882, a son of the late James Stewart ,and Anna • Math- eson, he attended elementary and secondary schools there before going to McGill University in Montreal and McCormick Theo, logical Seminary (Presbyterian) in Chicago. It was after this that' he Chicago. ordained April 30, 1907. While a student at the Sem- inary in 1905 he went on his first mission for a four-month period to Potomac, Montana. Here he rode a bronco as his only means of transportation while he 'preached to the lumber jacks and farmers in the moun- tainous countryside, or rode 25 miles to 'the nearest town, Miss- oula, for supplies. Mr. Stewart's first charge after ordination • was at Fort Wayne Presbyterian Church in Detroit. He stayed' there until 1910 when he returned to Ont- ario to serve in churches at Napier, whitechur9h, Long Branch, Belmont, Rockwood, paisley Memorial in Guelph, Elmira, Moorefield, Bright and Oxford Centre. He retired in 1951 following a heart . attack and returned to Moorefield to live. He has been living in Sea- forth since 1961 following his marriage to the former Laura (Continued on Page 5) Describes Planning function Planning provides access to the most opportunities to the most people Gary Davidson -told members 'of the Seaforth Chamber of Commerce at a dinner meeting In the Commercial Hotel Wednes- day evening. . Pointing out that since priori- ties were involved there is no final answer, Mr. Davidson said. Planning was an assessment of values such as roads as opposed to recreation. Planning can , prevent problems occurring by designat- ing certain uses for certain lands. , An example he said was the problem developing as a result of lake front erosion which in some areas had consumed up to 22 ft. of property during the past year and -was threatening cottages. Owners knew the pro- blem but persisted in building. Now that their buildings are threatened they, feel the munici- pality Should assist, them. Referring to the county plan, Mr. Davidson said it set policy as to urban development use of flood plains, proVision Of access and in land use. Enforcement was a local municipal responsi- • bility through zoning by-laws. He told the meeting ithe plan would provide an opportunity to consider future development at former CFB at Clinton. Should thp base be allowed to grow be- y#id its present site, should the site be limited and growth direc- ted to adjoining Seaforth and Clinton or should it develop at random with resulting problems of services and straggling growth, he asked. At present he said a plan ,of subdivision for the base had been submitted to ,the province and was awaiting approval. Answering a query concern- ing severances the speaker said ordinarily the process took 8 to 8 weeks. Since the county pro- cedure was established some 200 applications had been completed. Mr. Davidson was introduced by Reeve J. F. Flannery and thanked by Robt. Read. The meeting endorsed a proposal 'to provide assistance for the Van Egmond Foundat- ion by holding a dance. Dr. Roger Whitman told of the plans the foundation had for aaqiiring the Van Egmond residence. Clair Campbell presided for the meeting. Cnaries 'i'nomas, urey i ownstup reeve, %vat" was narneuouron LIDerai CallUlUaLe 110111,1.1141.10t: convention in Clinton Monday, receives congratulations froin Mrs. Jean Adams, Brucefield, runner- up in the -eontest. On the-right is Mrs. Thomas. ' (Clinton NR Photo) Huron riding Liberals nominate Grey reeve Charles Thomas Whole No. 5433 113th Year Move vice principal to Goderich The Huron-Perth, County Roman Catholic Separate School Board at a special dieeting 'Wednesday approved the 1972 budget of $2,400,780. This is an increase of 6.7 per cent or $151,700 over 1971. The maximum/recognized or- _dinary expenditure for 1972 is $561.10 per pupil or $1,803,200., This covers all expenditures of the Board less capital expendit- ures, transportation, debt charges and the capital element included in rentals payable. The' total increase under ordinary ex- penditures from 1971 is $129,9$0 Little change in area municipal rates CIS Huron-Perth RCSS budget increases average dilly enrniment at.. cents per pupil place per day. A substantial reduction in approval for grant resultsfrom this change in regulation. '• "Transportation costs under the present grant structure will continue to increase the disparity recognized tor grant purposes, a matter which hag been a constant concern to, the board for some time" R he said. "Minor adjust- meat in the rate per pupil per mile announced by the Depart- ment of Education in 1971 have had little or no beneficial result in the Board's net transportation When he fell a distance of ten feet from a scaffold on which he was working while employed at Douglas Point on Friday,; Frank Case, North Main Street, 'Seaforth, suffered s,evere injuries. He was admitted to Seaforth Community Ho sp ita 1-with frac- tures in both feet and a frac- tured vertebra • wm. Murdie for 14 years a member of the staff of Seaforth District High School and since 1968 vice principal, has been. named vice principal of Goderich District Collegiate Institute. He will be succeeded here by Herb Murphy, presently science department head in Goderich. The Director of Education for Huron CoutitY., D.J.Cochrane, announced a series of transfers in the county involving elemen- tary school principals and vice- principals as well as some Sec-- ondary school personnel. "As a result of promotion and retirement in the Huron County school system at school adminis- tration " said Cochran e "three vacancies have been cre- ated. At its meeting on April 17., the Huron County Board of Educa- tion decided that the position of Principal of the Exeter Public School will be' filled by hiring a qualified applicant from outside the present system, and that the other two vacancies would be fill, ed by instituting a.series of trans- fers which the Board felt would be beneficial to, the system at this time. • These transfers are: Garnet Harland, vice-princi- pal of Exeter Public School to become principal of Robertson Memorial public School in God- erich; • John Siertsema, principal of Holmesville Public School to be- come vice-principal of Exeter • Public School; • Robert Raeburn, principal of Hensel]. Public School to become prindipal of Holmesville PS,; Ron-McKay, principal' of Hul- lett Central PS to become princi-, pal of Hensall PS; A.MacLennan, principal of Brookside PS to become princi- pal of Hullett Central PS; William Black,, principal of Colborne Central PS tcrlaecome 'principal of Brookside PS; John' Kane, principal of Vic- toria' PS in Goderich to become principal of Colborne Central PS; Don O'Brien,. principal of Zurich P8 to become principal of Vic- toria PS in Goderich; Ron Jewitt, vice-principal of Clinton PS to become vice-prin- cipal of Zurich PS; W.Millson, vice-principal of Hullett •Central PS to become vice-principal of Clinton PS; W.Tremeer,' teacher at Cent- ral 'Huron Secondary. School to become vice-principal of Hullett Central PS;"" W.Murdie,' Vice-principal of Seaforth DHS will become vice- principal of Goderich DCI; 'Herb Murphy, department head at Goderich DCI will be come, vice-principal of Seaforth DHS. • Vincent Young, Goderich, cha.ir- man orthe building and mainten- ance committee reported at a board meeting in Seaforth Monday that the work cost• a total of $9,780.49 for materials, super- vision and labour costs for the facilities put in the basement of the school. Trustee Young also reported, that three locks to be installed on tale gym doors at St. Mary's School in Goderich, will cost about $200.00. He said that a survey is underway on the amount of snowplowing, costs, etc. at the 19 schools in the two counties. The building and maintenance c,emmittee *as authorized to 'spend up to $5,000 on capital expenditures, reporting on the work done-at each meeting. Passed for payment was the 1972 -fee for. the Canadian Ca- tholic" Trustees Association ti of $80.23. Read at the meeting by John Vintar, Superintendent of Edu- cation, was. a letter to Sister 'Lorraine, principal of St. Boni- face School, Zurich, expressing appreciation of the St. Boniface Youth Club for the use of the schobl for meetings by Val Regier of Zurich, secretary- treasurer of the club. Also read by Mr. Vintar -was an invitation from Spence Cum- mings, Clinton, a Huron County official, asking representatives from the school' board to attend a meeting at the Clinton Com- munity Centre to which repre- sentatives from the municipali- ties and school boards in four or five counties were invited to discuss taking over the sports compleX at the fornier Canadian Forces. Base in Tuckersm.ith Township. Trustees F. J.Vere of Stratford and Chris Walraven• of St. Marys volunteered to attend. Trustees Francis Hick- " nell, R.R.5, Seaforth, Vincent young, Goderich, and Ted Geof-• frey, of Zurich indicated they would attend 11' possible. - Mr. WalraVen reported on a transportation seminar•which he attended in Chatham on April 15. Trie board accepted officially the 1971 financial Statement. or 7.8 per cent. 4 xtraordinary expenditures of the board total $544,500, an increase of $54,500 from 1971. Jack Lane, business adminis- trator for the board, said signif- icant changes in the 1972 regu- lations require the removal from ordinary expenditures the capital element included in rentals and covers portable classroom ren- tals and administrative office accommodation. These are now considered as extraordinary ex- penditures with only the portable classroom being recognized for grant purposes on the basis of counted Elmer Trick contributed musical selections. Murray Gaunt, MP'P, spoke briefly as did Ken Duncan, Liberal candidate in the. pro- vincial election. Warden Elmer Hayter of Huron County brought greetings. - Other platform guests in- cludectCy Cline, Perth can- didate and Arthur Ross,Liberal candidate in Wellington Grey. A large number of undecided ,voters wip 'be a factor in • an election Judd Buchanan MP for London West and parliamentary Johfi"rurner told the gathering. assistant to. Finance. Minister Mi. Buchanan refuted charges of arrogance revelled at ' the Trudeau Government and' said that no government in history had done more to provide assis- Oas pump falls when pedal sticks A Stratford man had a narrow escape from serious injury when the gas pedal on the car he was backing up stuck and the car roared back out of control Sunday night ihSeaforth. Richard Pauli, 18, of 109 Romeo Street, Stratford, had at- t tempted to move the car it the Supertest Gas Statitie hi Seaforth at the intersection orMain Street N. and Highway No. 8, so that another car could get to the gas pumps. The driver of the car, and owner, Michael Pine of St. Marys, had gone to the service station washroom, when his pas- senger attempted his good deed. Mr. Pauli succeeded in mov- ing the car out of the way, but he also knocked out one of the gas pumps, and slammed back- ward across the Main Street into a cement lamp post on the corner of the No. 8 highway in front of the Queen's Hotel. Luckily no cars or pedestrians were in the path of the car. Gonstable Ray Primeau of the Seaforth 'detachment, O.P.P. who investigated the mishap, said damage to the gas pump would be about $800• and that- the car was considered a right-off. Mr. Primeau.drove Pauli to the Sea- forth Community Hospital for treatment of 'a leg injury suf- fered when he was thrown back into the rear seat. He was treated and released. The accident happened about 6 p.m. when traffic was ,fairly heavy on the roads. eost." The provina4gratt-orrorille-L:-- ary expenditures for 1972 has increased by 2.21 per centandiM redogbized extraordinary *WA- - ditures.4, by one per cent. The equelfied assessment per pupa whidh -determines the board's grant percentage has increased from $19,500 to $20,200. The" 1972 local tax levy after deduction of the general legis- lative grant, mill rate subsidy, and other revenue is $365,700, an increase of $13,700 from 1971. The mill rates established for each municipality in 1972 for Separate School support follow with the corresponding rates for 1971 in brackets: Clinton 29.65 (30.96); Exeter 20.59 (19.59); Goderich 2'7.97 (22.97); Seaforth 26.13 (27.09); Wingham 28.72 X21.72) Hayfield 24 (19); Hensall 22.14 (17.14); Zurich 27.89 (22.89); Ashfield 23.50 (18.50); Colborne 23.21 (24.16); Goderich TownshiR19.41 (19.34); Grey 22.72 (21.72); Ray • 27.45(22.45); Howick 15.00 (20.); (Continued on Page 3) Set plans for August flower show • An overflow crowd attended a meeting of the Seaforth Hort- icultural Society in the pouncil chambers Wednesday evening: During the meeting a report of District #8 held in Hanover was given by Mrs: Wm. Scott of Brucefield. She said Frank Stohe, Simcoe spoke on the cul- ture of dahlias, and, showed slides. of his garden where he has 700 named varieties of dahlias. He welcomed all visitors when dah- lias are in bloom. A demonstration on propaga- tion of plants was carried out by br. Roger Whitman,Mrs. Mary Haugh, Mrs, Regale and• H. Huisser. Mrs. -Sandy Doig gave an interesting talk on cul- ture and tare of roses. Lists for a' flower show, to be held in mid-August are being prepared under six classes: An- nuals; Perennials; Roses; Potted plants; Arrangements; Class for Juniors. The meeting was• told that further information concern- ing the lists could be had from the officers or from Mrs. V. Newnham or Rev. P. Packinan of Brucefield. More than 400 members of the congregation and friends crowded the new Brucefield United Church Sunday afternoon for special services marking the laying of an old and a new cornerstone. The Minister, Rev. Paul M. Packman, was assisted by Rev. Frederick M. Faist, of Stratford, chairman of Huron-Perth Presbytery and Rev, E. Donald Stuart of Exeter, a former minister. The choir with Mrs. Fred McGregor as organist, was assisted by Mrs. Hetherington's choir of Goderich. Following the service lunch was served by the ladies of the congregation. In the upper picture the new stone is being laid by Mr. Feast (right) assisted by Mr. Packman and Elgin Thompson, clerk of session(leIt). Mr. Stuart lays• the old stone recovered following the fire which destroyed the former ,church. He is assisted by the contractor W. Rhiel and Ross Scott (right)-ehairman of the !building cOmrnittee4Siaff Photos) tance to the individual member and the opposition and to make possible more meaningful con- (Continued on Page 5) • e."`" '1J,C'Eft :