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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1973-02-22, Page 1Whole Na 5474 114th year 4 ".1 ti SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSD.At FEBRUARY 22, 1973 — 12 PAGES Stagle copif30 29 Copts $B.99 A- Year inl AdvOcik Jack Riddell is happy as he receives congratulations from. Ontario Liberal Leader Robert Nixon on having been chosen Liberal candidate for the March 15 Huron by - election. He was chosen from four candidates by an audience that over- flowed the large Hensall school auditorium. Mrs. Riddell shares in the congratulations. Huron B. of E. clears new appointments Mrs. Mavis slater, of Schreiber, Ontario, president of the Rebekah Assembly of ontario was honored at a luncheon in the 1.0.0.F. Hall, Seaforth on Tuesday, when representatives of area lodges were guests. Mrs. Slater, who was making her official visit to Huron district 423, is shown (Centre) with Mrs. Mae Habkirk (left)NobleGrand of Edelweiss Rebekah Lodge, Seaforth and Mrs. Margaret Sharp of Seaforth, the. District Deputy President of the district. (Staff Photo) Tuckersmith and Vanattra . Sign subdivision agreeinent 1 Tuckersmith Township Coun- cil signed the subdivision agree- ment with 260303 Holdings Ltd. of. Kitchener, the owners of Vanastra at a meeting at Bruce- field Tuesday. Fred Ginn of Kitchener, one of the owners o f the company attended the meeting as well as William J. Dickson, President of G.V. Kleinfeldt and Associates of Kitchener, planning con- Progressive Convservative supporters Friday night nomi- nated Donald Southcott the former executive assistant to Charles MacNaughton, to seek Mr. Mac- Naughton's seat in the Legis- lature.. Mr. Southcott, 42-year-old former editor of the Exeter- Times-Advocate, on the first bal- lot easily defeated his three opl. ponents at the meeting held in Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton, with over 500 in attendance. He won 212 votes defeating Bert Such, Goderich, who polled 38 votes, Mrs. Betty Cardno, Seaforth, 29 votes and William 'Dale, Clinton, 14 votes. Mr. Southcott said he seeks the mandate to carry on the Mac- Naughton tradition because after five years of close association he shares his dedication to the riding. Mr. Southcott said he believes in the worth of the 'individual, in his rIgh to participate in pub- lic affairs, in the responsibility he must assume for himself. "And I believe in responsible free enterprise' he said,Nthat govern- ment should not do what people Ar' can do for themselves." He said be believes Huron must - make. its —own- decisiona Don Southcott beams his satisfaction as he receives congratulations on having won the Conservative nom- ination Friday evening at Clinton. A native of Exeter, he has been executive assistant to Hon. Charles MacNaughton, who recently resigned the Huron seat. (Photo by Oke) sultants for the company. Council discussed require- ments necessary to be met prior to registration of the final plan for subdivision. In other business council con- ditionally accepted the engineer's report for the repair and im- provement of the Clark Drainage Works, Clerk James McIntosh was instructed to prepare a cash by-law for the drain estimated to cost $13,000. Engineer Henry Uderstadt of Orangeville was present at the meeting to exr plain the report and answer questions by three of the rate- payers affected by the drain - Ross Forrest, James McGregor and Nick Blom, all of RR 2, K ippen. Court of Revision for the Clark Drain will be held on March 20. Mr. Uderstadt -discussed the report of the Dallas Drainage Works with another group of ratepityers who will be asses- sed costs for that drain; Jack Nan Miltemburg, Preston Dallas, Gerrit Wynja and Jim Papple, all of RR 4, Seaforth. Unhappy with the amounts assessed against their properties the owners required lengthy and de- tailed explanations from Mr. Uderstadt on methods of asses- sing, benefits and outlets, etc. Court of Revision for the Dal- las Drain is set for March 20 when owners will be aple to have Non residents, so bus aid not possible Bus transportation for men- tally retarded preschool child- ren r attending the Goderich Municipal Day Nursery cannot be provided by the Huron County Board of Education, it was an- nounced at the Board Meeting in Clinton Monday. D. J. Cochrane director of education, said that the children are not resident pupils of the Board and therefore are not eli- gible for services provided under the Ontario Schools Administrat- ion Act. At the present time the child- ren are being transported by taxi from the Sheppardton area of Colborne Township at a cost of $3.00 per day and from elinton and Hayfield at a cost of $12.80 per day, with the parents paying the fare. A total of 32 children attend the Nursery SchoOl. . Harold Walls, Clerk-Trea- surer, Goderich, had sent a letter to the Board asking it to consider providing transportation. Chairman of the Salary Ne- gotiating Committee,, E. C. Hill, has appointed the following,trus- tees to act with him onthe salary committee; Wilfred Shortreed, Jack Riddell, Herbert Turkheim and Charles Rau. Mr. Rau will act only for secondary teachers and will be replaced by 'John Henderson for public school teachers. Trustee Jack Alexander indi- cated his intentions of attending the Regional Conference for School Trustees and Adminis- trators in Hamilton on March 29, 30 and 31, and Trustee Charles Rau, the Ontario Separate School Trustees' Association annual convention in Toronto on April 5 and 6, Mr. Rau, the Separate School representative on the board, had •attended the conven- tion for the past four years. tuation of the Tuckersmith Muni- cipal Telephone System, At the Annual Meeting, Wednesday, of the Telephone System the Town- ship will be asked to issue de- bentures for $125,000 if 100 sub- scribers o f the system vote approval of this proposal. The money is to be used to improve the system. No decision was reached. The meeting adjourned at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. written objections considered if they so desire, Tenders were opened for the demolition of the former 3-storey Logsdon building on the dividing line between Tuckersmith Town- ship and Seaforth. They are to be discussed with Seaforth Council before a decision is made to accept one of them. Council spent considerable time discussing the financial si- the Davis g overnment he said. It's particularly interesting here in Huron because Charlie Mac- Naughton, the former Treasurer, comes from here. We all re- member his prediction back in the sixties that Ontario faced "a fiscal nightmare". It's ex- tremely ironic that, with Mr. McKeough's forced resignation, Mr. MacNaughton was brought back into the Treasury just in time to preside over our largest deficit in history which will amount to $800 million-. Last year it was $600, and we must not forget those two years since Bill Davis picked up the reins of government have been the most disastrous "fiscal nightmares" in the history of Ontario. The next largest deficit before the Davis years w as in 1968 where under John Roberts, the deficit was $119. million. The interest on our provincial debt alone is $460 million, which is $1 1/4 million a day, every day. of the year, he said. Government extravagance, he added, coupled with incompetent planning, have, put Ontario into the "fiscal, nightmare" Charlie predicted and he is now being proVen right. Mr. Nixon listed some of the premier's extravagances• in- cluding doubling his personal staff and refurbishing his office and enlarging the quarters for the extra staff. He cited some examples of poor Government planning such as several highway decisions and the closing of 1,500 active treat- ment beds in our hospitals. He said theseticilities built at pub- lic expense over the last few years are now closed in order to save money. Mr. Nixon said the second important issue deals with changes in local government where the Conservative govern- ment has imposed regional govqrnment on large areas of On- tario. He called the experiments in Niagara, Ottawa, Muskoka and York expensive failures with costs rocketted upward and so.- called local government made more remote from the people. Mr. Nixon said "This elec- tion is your chance to express your views to the Conservative, government supported by its huge and placid majority. You may be sure that a vote for the Conservative candidate will be an indication to the government that you favour their policy on regional government - so make no mistake on that." The third issue, he said in- volves the provision and financing of our health services. (Continued on Page 4) Planning Board elects Lloyd Rowat .Seaforth Planning Board at a meeting Monday elected Lloyd Rowat as chairman. He suc- ceeds A. Y. McLean who retired after serving since the inception of the board nearly six years ago. K. G,, Oldacre was re- appointed secretary-treasurer. Huron County planner, Gary Davidson, who was in attendance, agreed to make recommendutions concerning a request for rezoning an area on Main Street South to make possible a four bay car wash. The application had been forwarded to the board by coun- cil for an opinion. At the same time the applicant will be re- quested for a site plan to indi- cate building location on the lot, traffic flow and lighting. The Board considered details of a draft subdivision control by- law with Mr. Davidson. Several suggestions will be incorporated into the draft by Mr. Davidson and at the same time the OWRC will be asked to provide data on sewer requirements. On completion the by-law will be recommended to council for adoption. Teachers attend workshops Teachers from Kinkora, Dub- lin, St, Columban and Exeter braved cold weather to attend another in a series of Educat- ional Television Workshops on Thursday at St. Columbanfichool. Jim Onn, a television technician from the Ministry of EdUcation in London, assisted by John Mc- Carron Consultant for the Huron Perth R.C.S.S. system conducted the workshop, Teachers were divided into two groups where they took an active role in the handling of, audio visual hardware. Mr. Our( first demonstrated the porto-pak projector to his group and the teachers then had confidence in using the equipment. Meanwhile, a second group was involved in another "hands on" approach with heavier equip- ment. John McCarron assigned teachers a period of time to video tape various activities ac- tually taking place during the workshop with the stable tripod based projector. The next in the series of education television workshops will take place in Seaforth on March 13th. Gymnastic Workshops for teachers continue their series at St. Mary's School in Gederich on Wednesday, February 21st and at St. Columban School on Thursday, February 22nd. The final workshop will- be held at Stratford's Northwestern High School or. Wednesday, Kebruary 28th. David Keyho, a regional P.E.Consultant from the Minis- try of Education in Kitchener, will conduct the workshops. J.F. Flannery heads area Fire Board - John Flannery was re-appoin- ted chairman of the Seaforth Fire Area Board at a meeting held In Seaforth Monday night, Mrs. Earl Dinsmore was again appointed secretary-trea- surer. Other members of the Board beside Reeve Flannery who re- presents Seaforth, are; Wayne Ellis, also representing Seaforth; Reeve Allan Campbell and Wil- liam Leeming for McKillop Township; Milton Dale for Hullett Township; John. Drake for Hib- bert Township; and Cleave Coombs 'for Tuckersmith Town- ship. The 1973 budget was discussed but cannot be finalized until the total assessment for each muni- cipality is ascertained. Wins trip Members of the Huron County Board of Education learned at their regular meeting in Clinton Monday that Ontario Scholarship winners will be awarded $100 each this year (Grade 13 students Win awards at St. James St. Jan-ies School, Seaforth, held its public Speaking Pre- sentation for parents on Thurs- day. All grades were involved in the presentation which offered variety in story-telling, reading ,and prepared speeches. The Kindergarten students told the stories of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Bears", in their own unique way. Grade 1 and 2 read a story for the group. Pupils from Grades, 3 to B had prepared speeches. In the Junior Division Car- olyn Wilson and Diane Van Dooren were chosen as winners. Inter- mediate Division winners were Joan Devereaux and Clare Dever- eaux. Following the speeches the Grade 4 class demonstrated their ability in a square dance. The Grade '8 students presented a short play entitled "The Truth Telling Machine." Winner Don Murray of London won the twelfth weekly prize of $25. in the Lions Car Club 3. with an average of 80 per cent) following re-instituting of the monetary award by the Ontario Government. There are several conditions which apply to the award to a student, awarded a Secondary School Honour Graduation Diploma, who has obtained an aggregate bf at least 480 marks in --any approved Honour draduation level courses having a total value of six credits. The Board approved a recommendation from the Education Committee that the field trip from Goderich Dis- trict Collegiate Institute to Brantford Collegiate Institute.and Vocational School, April 12 to 14 be approved in accordance with Board policy, and subject to the necessary consent forms being obtained from the parents of all students participating. The Board approved the hir- ing of one additional teacher for the Clinton public School' as of February 1, 1973, for the balance of the current school year. This became necessary because of the families moving in to Vanastra and the children attending the Clinton school. Three classes averaged 36 pupils in the junior grades and by hiring one teacher all grades were reduced to 27 pupils each. The hiring of E. Eberhardt, presently on half-time basis at Queen Elizabeth School for the Trainable .Retarded, Goderich, to . a full-time basis was approved, commencing February 1, 1973. The Board approved the re- Conservative delegates choose Don Southcott about its future, that Huron must continue to refine its planning programs, 'that we must protect our good farm land, that we should continue to promote a steady growth in industry and jobs, that we should pursue our potential for recreation and tourism. Mr. Southcott said he believes the feture demands that we must strengthen our local govern- ments, that we must return more decision-making power to the local level. " And l share with you the conviction that we must preserve our Huron identity and heritage. W e can create an effective form of regional government within our own Huron boundaries" he stated. Mr. Southcott said he sup- ported the contention of the farm community to continue to reduce the weight of property tax on working farms, to continue the refinement of tax policies to ensure that productive family farms will pass from father to son, and to help young people who want to farm. Mr. Southcott said he believes the new Progressive Conser- vative Government under Bill Davis has shown itself to be sensitive to people, that is prio- itY"IS people, that it responds to-people. He said he wants ,to use the knowledge and experience .gained at Queen's , Park, working with Charles MacNaughton, to make a further contribution to Huron. Mr. Southcott concluded by saying he wants to coine back to Huron "to work for you and with yOu". While the votes were being counted, Mr. MacNaughton was asked to speak. He reviewed his fifteen• years as representa- tive for Huron going from a pri- vate member through nine port- folios. He said after fifteen years he found it difficult to be as contemporary a s he should and decided it was time to step down. Mr. MacNaughton said he didn't enjoy what he read in the London Free Press of the NDP and Liberal nomination meetings. The statements that were made at the meetings were not based on facts or knowledge. "A hell of a way to start off an election" he said. Mr. MacNaughton was angry at the NDP candidate for making the statement "they would wipe the smug smiles from secure Tories." "I've never seen a smug one yet," Mr. MacNaughton replied. (continued on page 5) Once one of the busiest areas in town, the railroad which passes through Seaforth and the station building now are idle much of the time. Little by little the railroad services are being removed, the latest being a siding on the north of the main track which for nearly a century has served the community. Here a large crane lifts the rails as an interested group watches. (Staff photo) Liberals in, Huron Thursday night chose Jack Riddell, a 41- year-old Dashwood farmer to be their candidate in the March 15 by-election, More than 500 Liberals crowded into the auditorium of the Hensall Public School and overflowed out 'into the corridor for the meeting. Mr. Riddell won the nomina- tion over three other candidates on the first ballot. His majori- ty was not announced, but to win he had to receive at least half of the 232 votes cast plus one. Defeated by Mr. Riddell were Graeme Craig of R.R. 1, Walton; JOhn Lyndon of Goderich and Don Symons, Mayor of Clinton, a last minute candidate. Mr. Riddell owns and operates a 200-acre farm in Stephen Town- ship and is a trustee on the'Huron County. Board of Education. A former high school science tea- cher in Clinton and Exeter, he is part owner-operator of the Hensall Livestock Sales, a former agricultural representa- tive for Hastings and EssexCoun- stieesc. A former livestock specialist with the Saskatchewan p Department of Agriculture, he holds a degree in 'Agriculture from the University of Guelph. He was formerly assistant mana- ger of the Ontario Stock Yards in Toronto. Mr.. Riddell spoke of the cen- tralizing tendencies of the Con- servative government that are causing the demise of the small farm operations, small business, municipal governments, local municipal, services such as the telephone systems and public uti- lities commissions. gone he said, are theAlr local eady schools and school boards along with such things as structural courses, basic subjects and stu- dent di. scipline. Backtracking to the demise of the small farmer, Mr. Riddell said he believed the small farm family units of 100 to 200 acres should be retained .rather than have them join the ranks of the unemployed.' "And unless we can find a satisfactory means of get- ting food across to the have- noCcountries, what do we do with the surplus food produced on these larger farm units. It would be extremely wasteful to dump this food, which is apparently what happened to the stationery and envelopes that bore the name "Department" rather than "Ministry" during that tran- sitional period," he said. Mr. Riddell questioned small businesses being treated fairly compared to the forgivable loans given to some large corporate structures which puts the small business on an unfair competi- tive basis. On the issue of regional government, Mr. Riddell asked what is wrong with having towns and municipalities govern their affairs by those who live and work within theirboundaries and who know the problems to be solved. "What will regional government accomplish other than rising costs, if it is any indication of other government centralization programs?" he asked. Mr. Riddell added, "If regional govern ment is inevi- table, then let's endeavour to see that it operates within the con- fines of present county boun- daries." On centralization he ques- tioned the costs especially in education. He said he was not convinced the young people today are any better than they were with the one-room school. Having taken up the time al- lotted to him to speak, Mr. Rid- dell concluded his talk by asking for support and-"I'll give it all I've got to beat the big blue "Ibry Machine." The guest speaker at the meeting ,was Robert Nixon, On- tario Liberal leader. H e said with the by-election in Huron and the other In the heart of Toronto the whole spec- trum of provincial concerns are up for review and judgment by the tax-paying electorate. The most important issue must be the financial record of Jack Riddell carries Huron Liberal banner commendation from the Manage- tenders be aWarded to BP Oil ment Committee that gasoline Shol- (Continued on Page 5) dice, Walton. The trip to Florida sponsored by the 550 Club (SDHS Grade 12) 411Nas been won by Mrs. Mac ti