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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-06-22, Page 1'10 POPAS 20'o44ts Irgar Hibbert buys office The former McKillop-Hibbert municipal telephone building in Dublin has been purchased, ^ by Hibbert Township council for use as a municipS1 office. Charles Friend, the Hibbert Township clerk-treasurer and tax collector said, Thursday township council authorized a purchase price of $7,8Q0 for the Dublin building, which has been vacant since the telephone corn- , pany moved out and comhined operations with Bell Telephone about four years ago. The building has been owned by Herry -Rubenstein of .Dublin since the telephone company moved out: Hibbert Township haS , township hall at Staffa but the actual municipal offices have been in the residence of Mrs. Anne Burchill, clerk-treasurer- tax collector, who retired in April. . • REV. AND' MRS. J, URESTEWART (Photo by Dave Rieman) Whole No. 5441 113th ',fear 44 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1972 - 18 PAGES (t. Huronu-Perth board rejects.--proposal that offices bt -moved from Seaforth At a special meeting of the Huron-Perth County Ronlan Catholic Separate School Board in Seaforth Monday night it Was . decided by a vote of nine to five to - keep .the beard offices, _in Seaforth. This decision was reached following several hours' discus- sion in committee of the whole. All four Stratford, trustees and Patrick Carty, representing Ellice, North and South East- hope Townships, voted against the motion, hoping to nave tile offices relocated in the Loretto convent on Huron Street InStrat- ford. Voting to retain the offices in Sealorth were:- John McCann,. RR 3.,'Ailsa Craig;JosephLooby, Dublin; Michael Connolly, RR 3, Kippen; Arthur E. Bald, RR 4, Listowel; Chris Walraven, St. Marys; Oscar Kieffer, RR 1, - Bluevale.; Ted Geoffrey, RR 2, 'Zurich; Vincent Young, Goderich and Francis Bicknell, RE 5, Sea- forth. At the regular meeting of the board on 'June 12 a pro. posal ,,.had been made by Rev. &eerie... of_fifi _, Joseph's • Roman 'Catholic C)iurelilifStfat:;"-- ford that the board move its administrative offices to the•con- vent, which will heeflue avail- able when the Loretto sisters leave the building for smaller ' quarters. ' Mrs. Ann Burchill, Dublin, who. has retired as clerk of Hibbert Township, was honored Thursday evening by the township and the police village of Dublin at a dinner in the Staffa hall. Joseph Cronin, centre, of Dublin, Inspecting Trustee, presented her with a chair, and Reeve Ross McPhail of Hibbert presented Mrs. Burchill with a silver tea service. Mrs. Burchill has A, completed 23 years service with the township.. She is being succeeded by Charles Friend of Dublin. (Staff Photo) Completes 23 years service Hibbert honors Mrs Anne Burchill ing her appreciation, Mrs. Bur- 611111 said she wished she had been better prepared and had had a deeper knowledge when she as- sumed her responsibilities in the" township. She had enjoyed it all and she enjoyed being vigorously busy. During the evening musical numbers include,1 thosa by Mrs. Calvin Christie' avid Stan'ey Christie; Fred liarbarn accom- panied by Mrs. Cilff Miller and a'sqiariet including Arthur Ken;.'; Robert Norris, Eidon Allen aid Murray Christie accompa lied by Mrs, Eluit,r Dow. ,Others who tsok par' in to led Re's.' 'Dayaarl, Clerk Ken Ramey of Logan, He nryHa rbura, and Mrs. Joyce Miller. Dinner was served by the Staffa vgemais' Institute. Arrangements for the events were completed by Reeve-Mc- Phall and councillors HenryHar- burn, Cliff Miller, John Drake and Charles Roney. " retired, he is still preaching actively as a supply minister throughout this area. Mr. Feist said that ''the secret of Mr. $tewart's life is the way he translated thanksgiving into translated thanksgiving into thanksliving—a person who. is grateful has found a way of in- volving himself with others, and he can never 'repay what others have done for him. ti Mr. Stewart said he had re- ceived over 160 cards and letters. Among these Were letters of con- gratulatiots and best wishes from, Robert McKinley, M.P.; from Rev.' Clinton A. Brittain of Orillia, Avho was best man at his marriage to the former Laura Mole Workman in 1961; from Rev. G. L. Royal of Goderich and the Session of Knox Presby- terian Caurch of Goderich, in which congregation as a boy and young man he was raised go far as his spiritual life was con- cerned. Frank Thompson, Newly At the social hour words of elected president of Group Six of greeting, were received from Rev. the Mutual Fire Underwriters Angus MacKay, just retired as a Association told a recent meeting missionary of the Presbyterian of directors at Hanover that Church in India, and who, as a boy, directors should think about the was received into membership of necessary changes needed for the Whltechurch Presbyterian their companies to become true Church, where Mr. Stewart was Community Mutual Insurance the minister from 1913 to 1918. Conipahies. , Other letters read were from The spring meeting was the official board of Mount Forest attended by McKillop Mutual dir- United Church charge' and from ectors John Moylan, William R. - the session of Napier Pres- Pepper and Robert Archibald. Rev. J. Ure Stewart has 90th birthday There will be no rural mail delivery on .Saturday, July 1 and Monday, July 3 according to Post- master 0. G. Oke. 'No mail will be received on these days. Dispatch of mail will ' take place at 5:30 p.M. on July 1st and July'3rd. There will be no dispatch of mail onSunday, July 2nd. c S b they serve. G Among several recommenda- tions put before Huron County Board of Education Members and passed last Monday evening by the 'advisory vocational coramit- ee was a 'suggestion from Mr. . Ring, the industrial arts' tea- her at Seaforth District High chool, that his senior class be allowed to • construct a small uilding under contract. The Mail hours on holiday Fire Mutuals in HanoVer +it Mutual Fire Insurance Com- panies have been urged to become 'tore involved in the overall insurance of the communities Hibbert Township honored Mrs. Anne Burchill ThUrsday evening when municipal officials gathered for a testimonial dinner in the township hall at Staffa. Mrs. Burchill has retired as Hibbert Clerk-treasurer after completing 23 years service with the.township. Reeve Ross McPhail was chairman for a short program that followed the dinner and which included reminisces by a form- er Reeve Earl Dick. Mr. Dick recalled he had come , to Hibbert in 1932 when Thomas Wren had been clerk and among his first duties Was that of driv- ing Mr. Wren to council meet- ings. He recalled the long as- • Plan early start on well at Brucefield Drilling is expected to begin ,next week for an estimated $56,000 municipal water syStem for Brticefield, which will replace ° • 4 the individual Wells in the ham- let now. Clerk, James McIntosh of Tuckersmith Township said Mon- day in a telephone conversation that the well, will, be drilled by W.D.Hopper and Sons of RR 2, Seaforth. The cost will be borne by Brucefield residents. The proposed site for the well is lo- cated on the south-eaSt corner of Highway 4 and County, Road 3 - at the main intersection in the hamlet. The project involves install- ing more than 7000 ft. of two- ' inch pipe along the streets and along County Road 3. At this time there is no indication when the Job Will be completed. About 60 of Brucefield,s 70 households, signed a petition in March stipporting a municipal 4 system after it was found that - some individual well in Bruce- field were unsafe for human use. Followin g a meeting of Bruce- field residents with the members of Tuckersmith Township council and the engineering firm of B.M. Ross 84 Associates Ltd. Goder- • ich, on June .12 when the water system was outlined two of the Brucefield residents Withdrew their names from the petitiOn. However, Douglas Campbell of Briidefield, one of the original , ratepayers seeking the munici- pal system, reported that two • others had their names added to the list. Mr. Campbell said he thought more property owners might join the system to get in on the initial connecting charge of $200 as this will be increased to $400 for customers entering the system at a later date. The $200 initial down payment includes only-the,cost of bringing water to the customer's property line. It is estimated an annual service charge of between $80 'and $85 may be charged to each / customer. Mr. McIntosh said that after the initial well is drilled by, the Hopper firth, the-engineering firm will report on the amount of water available and whether it. will be necessary to have ground level storage thanks built. The report will then be sent to the Ministry of the Environment for approval and then to the On- tario Municipal Board , for ap- proval to issue debentures for the project. Huron board reverses bus decision The monthly meeting of Iltiron County Board of Education at Clinton on Monday evening pass- ed- a-motion in f avour.of.a.delega- tion with regard to busing that was seen by at least some board members as a break from Board .policy on the matter. Mr. and Mrs. Don Carter, who live on the outskirts of Seaforth, were on hand at the meeting to appeal an earlier decision by the Education Committee denying their request to send their daugh- ter to Kindergarten in Seaforth this fall. The committee had'-act- ed against their request on the basis that Board policy places their residence in a zone desig- nated to attend Brucefield school rather than the Seatorth school even though they are closer in miles to the town school. The Carters, when explaining their case, showed the board that a Public School bus on its way into Seaforth passes their home each day. This bus they also pointed out pieks'up a number of Separate School Children under an agreement with the Board of Education as well as a Public, School youngster who attends school in. Seaforth. "It seems," Mrs. Carte; not- ed, "that we should have Just gone ahead and enrolled our child in Sealorth wain:nit approaching the board, as the other family did, and nothing• would have been said. We took" the proper course of action and are now being denied something that is in effect for the family who did not follow that course." Board Chairman, Bob Elliot admitted that such seemed to be the.case. It was also 'pointed out to the Board that the Kindergarten fa- cilities at Brucefield were more crowded than at Seaforth and that if a bus had to'pidk up the Carter child .it would be forced to travel well out of its way and extra emit would be incurred due to the long. er distance. Following lengthy discussion on the matter the Board carried a motion on a 10, - 4 vote to re- cind the motion taken earlier refusing the Carters' permiss-, ion to enroll their child at Sea- , forth , Public School. A further motion was then passed indicat- ing that due to the circumstances, the number of children already in Kindergarten at Brucefield and the busing situation, the Carters would be permitted to send their child to Sealorth. It was stress- ed, however, that the ruling was effective fo.r.only this child. A number of Board members voted against the move on grounds that this would only be a first step toward completely destroy- ing policy on where children shall attend schoOl. Auxiliary elects new officers Mrs. W. c. Bennett, was re- elected president of the Wont- .en's Auxiliary to..the Seaforth Community Hospital at the June meeting WedneSday. The meeting was held at the Seaforth Golf and Country Club with over seventy attending. The Auxiliary members were joined (Continued on Page 16) ' Books to be used for instruct- ion in English courses throughout Huron are creating problems again for the County Board .of Education, at least one book Is. At their monthly meeting Monday evening in Clinton the Board was presented with a list of books drawn up by the heads and assistant heads of the English Departments of the five Secon- dary Schools. Among the books suggested for study in the English courses was "The Story of Steven Truscott", as told by. author Jack' Trent. Steven Truscott was tried and convicted' of the murder of Lynn Harper in 1959. Truscott and the 'girl were both residents of the Canadian Forces Base. Clinton and the body was found near that community. • In raising objection to the book Board Vice Chairman, John Broadfoot said' that it presented a very biased view of the case and indicated that the book re- flected unfavourably uponcertain members of the board. .He also charged that it was of no edu- cational merit. ,Mr. Broadfoot Said, "Since I am the only member of the ,"board who has read thia book I might point , out that some of the people in this room should be aware of what is in it and that they are involved." He refused Ato discus's the.,,matter any further in the open meeting and later took the master up when the Board met in commit- tee. Following the committee meeting the Board announced they had decided to drop the book from the list on grounds that it was "not 'an unbiased, look at the story and that it was of no educational merit." Two members„ of the Huron County Board were indeed closely affiliated 'With the case. 'Clarence McDonald of Exeter sat on the jury who convicted four- teen year old Truscott but little is said about him in the Trent book. . Dr. Alex Addison of Clinton however is portrayed in rather negative terms by Trent. Dr. Addison was the doctor respon- sible for the medical examin- ation of Truscott and the intro- duction of medical evidence in the case as Called for by the prosecution. . ' The jury returned a verdict pf,guilty with a plea for mercy but 'Steven Murray Truscott was sentenced to death by hanging. His sentence was Later com- muted to life imprisonment and he has since been parolled from prison. The committee of English teachers say ttley had proposed the book for study due to 'its local interest. Accept bid A contract for Highway 4 IA the Stratford district has been awarded Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd. of Cliqton ,for $171,592. The project is for hot mix paving on,Highway 4 from Blyth, northerly to Highway 86, a dis- tance of 11.2 miles. Work is slated to commence in early July with completion scheduled 'by September 22;1972. Gifts $2,222 for cancer ifts totalling $2,222.00 were received in the recent Seaforth area cancer campaign, J. R. Spittal, the committee chairman said. Any who wish to make addi- tional gifts may do so by for- warding them to Mr. Spittal at Seaforth. Wins in club Winners of the 10th weekly draw for $25, in the Lions Car Club II was John Flannery, Sea- forth. Field trip bid raises queries A request for permission to conduct afield trip by the Outers Club at Exeter Secondary School ran into some opposition at Board • of Education meeting on Monday evening with a number of Board, members expressing concern for the safety aspects of the Venture which was to include canoeing on the Saugeen h` , Cayley Hill expressed some concern for the safety of those taking part pointing out that can- oeing at best is a dangerous ac- tivity unless those involved are • very experienced and skilled. After some discussion most of the board members agreed with Mr. Hill. AS a resultresultMr. Hill proposed a motion, which was passed, state ing the trip could only take place if the students were instructed to wear life,, jackets and if the parents or guardians would sign waivers excluding the Hoard of Education from all resonsibility. "Perhaps this will help the par- ents to realize the-risk involved," he noted. It was also recommended that ' a board policy to this effect be drawn 'up and presented to the next meeting for passage. , Two. other field trips were apprOVed if the meeting as well. An outing for' Hullett Central 'School for a. camping trip to Family' Paradise near Walton was given the go ahead and the annual field trip for biology students from Goderich District Colleg- iate Institute in the fall was ap- proved. In similar business the board gave its approval to the recom- mendations of the sub committee on outdoor education bypassing their suggestions in the form of a motion. issuer of the contract was to supply the materials. It was explained that students felt some disappointment to build a structure as part of their class work and upon completion see it torn apart again. Board members agreed that if a party could be found interest- ed in taking advantage of the idea it met with Their approval and seemed like an excellent way to give the, students practical ex- perience.. sociation the Burchill family had. had with the township. Roy Bur- chill had been Clerk-treasurer before his death and his father had been in council for nine years from 1929. Referring to physical changes 'that had taken place, Mr. Dick said Hibbert had purchased its first power grader in 1941 and this had been followed by con- struction of a shed to house it. This had led to some slight em- barressment he said, because -"after we put the doors on, we found we couldn't get'the grader in the shed." ' During this term as 'reeve, the present township building had been erected in 1966; He Com- plimented the council on the pur, chase of a new,township office in Dublin. Charles Friend, who is suc-' ceeding Mrs. Burchill, introduc- ed her son, Jim, brother and sister-in-laW, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Weldon of Stratford and brothers in-law, Robert and Jack Burch- ill. On behalf of the police village of Dublin, Inspecting Trustee, Joseph Cronin, presented Mrs. Burchill with a reclining chair. "You have rendered a tre- mendous service to Hibbert" Reeve McPhail told Mrs. Burch- , ill and added that clerks are the key pin in any successful mun- icipal eperation.. "Ctnincils come and go and any success they achieve re- flects the work of a good clerk" he said as he prepented her with a silver tea service on behalf of the township. Speaking briefly and express, To mark 86th birthday For more than years a- leading figure on Seaforth's Main Street where he served as CNR express agent, Malcolm McKel- lar will observe his 86th birthday on Friday:. , On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Kellar will mark their 59th wed, ding anniversary. A special recognition service for Rev. J. Ure Stewart of Sea- forth was held Sunday night in Northside-United Church by the Huron-Perth Presbytery to celebrate and honour him on his 90th birthday. The service also marked the 65th anniversary of his ordination on April 30, 1972. More than 300 guests attended the service and reception later in the church school room. Included among these were almost all the clergy and their wives in the Huron-Perth Presbytery, as well as many friends from the various charges where Mr. Stewart has served over the years, and the places where he has served as supply minister since his forinh..1 retirement. Taking part in the service were Rev. J. A. Mowatt of Wes- ley Willis Church in Clinton, and Rev. F. M. Faist, Stratford, chairman of the Presbytery and president-elect of London Con- ference of the United Church. Mr. Faist also acted as master of ceremonies at the fellowship hour following the' service. In his sermon, Dr. Mowatt said me. Stewart nas been a forceful preacher and still preaches with amazing power. Although Mr. Stewart has byterian Church which was the first Charge he served in C anada. -Also read was a letter from George Milligan who is in his 90th year, and who was a member of the first board of Fort Wayne Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan, which Mr. Stewart organized in 1906. Mr. Milligan in his letter stated that his son Robert, in the Kindergarten class then, is now 70 years old, with ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The lighting program being undertaken bySeaforth Optimists at Optimist Park is well underway. On Wednesday six seventy foot poles were raised with the assistance of Seatorth"P.U.C. staff. Two of the poles will carry 3,000 watts, the remaining four 2,000 watts each. Wm. Teall, dommittee chairman said' Wednesday, 'work of installing undergrqund wiring to feed the lights would be ' underway thip week, and the job should be completed within the next two weeks. (Phillips Photo) Reject book on Truscott Agree with SDHS take contract work Arnold Mathers, principal of -Huron Centennial School, Brucefleld, graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Education degree. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Mathers, R.R.4, Wingham, he also has received his Supervisory Officer's Certificate from the Ontario Department of Education.