The Huron Expositor, 1973-03-29, Page 1ft'Vjreirl Iser. •r• t.
Whole No. 5481
114th Year SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1973 16 Fate's 01P09: cO.nts:.
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Huron Perth RC Board
reports over first levy
More than 200 Huron people filled five busses on Monday as they travelled to Toronto to
congratulate newly elected Liberal MPP Jack Riddell as he was introduced in the Legislature.
Here Mr. Riddell is being sworn in by Roderick Lewis, Clerk of the legislature, while Ontario
Liberal Leader Robert Nixon and members of the Riddell family proudly watch. Seated in front
is Mrs. Margaret Campbell who was elected in the riding of St. George in Toronto. It was the
first time in 30 years that Liberals were elected in the two ridings. (Photo by Wilma Oke)
Huron delegation watches
as Jack Riddell sworn in
A nominating committee was
appointed by the Huron County
Board of Education at its meeting
in Clinton Monday night to bring
in a nomination to fill the va-
cancy created by the resignation
of Jack Riddell.
Mr. Riddell, the newly elected
provincial member of parliament
for the riding of Huron, along
with Clarence McDonald repre-
sented the Town of Exeter and
the Townships of Usborne and
Stephen, on the Huron Board.
His resignation was accepted with
regret.
On the nominating committee
are Clarence McDonald of Exe-
ter, Herbert Turkheim of Zur-
ich and John Broadfoot of RR 1,
Brucefield, who will bring in
their report for the next meet-
ing of the board on April 16.
In other business the board
received resignations from two,
public school principals and a
secondary school vice-principal.
T. Stewart Beattie principal
of Wingham public r ...loot since
1942; J. A. (Bert) Gray, prin-
cipal of Clinton Publib School
since 1956; and Morley C. San-
ders, vice-principal of South Hu-
ron District High School at
Exeter, all who will retire as
of August 31.
The board approved hiring John
H. Mann of Stratford as principal
of Wingham Public School, effec-
tive September 1. Since 1967. he
has been a master at Stratford
Teacher's Collage:
Transfer,s,--of other principals
invol "Allen Taylor from Us-
borne- Central School to Clinton
public School as principal.
William Linfield from the prin-
cipalship at J. A. McCurdy Pub-
lic School in Wingham to Us-
borne Central School as principal.
John Siertsema, vice-principal
of Exeter Public School to J. A.
McCurdy School as principal.
Two custodians were appOilltO,
by the board: Stephen Youngblut
as custodian at Victoria Park
Public School in Goderich; and
Robert Knox as custodian at South
B of E 'corognittea:
will seek nominee
to 'fill vacancy •
the students should be exposed
to an easily prepared, easily de-
livered, sensible program of
health education. As well, Dr.
Mills said there is a need for
teachers interested in taking
courses to provide the health
program for the students.
Dr. Mills reported that prin-
cipals and teachers were made
aware of many health problems
of individual students following
the severe blikard in 1971 when
some pupils were marooned in
country schools for as long as
four days. School nurses only
were aware of some of these
problems until then, he stated.
In other business the board will
await a report on how much it
will cost to mount permanently
and display as a remembrance
at the Zurich Public School the
former old school bell which at
the present time is in the hands
of the village council. The re-
The Huron-Perth C punty Roman
Catholic Separate School Board
at its meeting inSeaforthMonday
learned that, for the first time
since the formation of the coun-
ty board in 1968, it•had an ac-
cumulated overievy when it was
presented with the financial
statement for 1972. The over-
levy amounts to $5,600.
Jack Lane, Business Adminis-
trator, presented the financial
statement which was accepted
by the Board. He said the total
expenditures last year amounted
to $2,426,966. He said the or-
.* dinary expenditure per pupil
amounted to $560.32.
Mr. Lane said that 82.64 per-
cent of the money was provided
by provincial grants, 14.18 per
cent by local taxation, 2.69 per
cent by tuition and transportation
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recovery and .49 per cent from
other revenue.
Mr. Lane said that he would
present the 1973 budget and sug-
gest the tax levies as soon as
all municipalities have provided
the 1972 assessment for taxation.
Trustee Gordon Ball of St.
Marys reported for the ad hoc
committee for building projects,
which appeared before the St.
Marys town council last week to
discuss sewer services for Holy
Name School. . They were in-
formed by the council that a
50 per cent grant for costs could
be obtained from the Ontario
Water Resources Commission,
with the school board paying the
other half.
The school board members were
told there would be no difficulty
in the 1sook-up to the school
before it re-opens in September.
There is no sanitary sewer sy-
stem on the street at the present
time.
The Board will contact the Town
of"St. Marys to get a firm' con-
tract price to install the sewer
system, also the size proposed.
Trustee Howard Shantz of Strat-
ford reported that Kyles, Kyles
and Garratt of Stratford, archi-
tects, will hold job meetings on
the site at St. Aloystus school in
Stratford on March 30 at 10:30
a.m. and every second Friday
thereafter; and at Holy Name
School in St. Marys on March
29 at 10:30 a.m. and every sec-
ond Thursday thereafter.
Trustee Francis Hicknell of
RR 5, Seaforth spoke on the re-
port recently completed by the
Family Life Advisdy Commit-
tee, which was presented at a
special meeting at St, James
School in Seaforth on March 13.
Mr. Hicknell reviewed the work
of the committee and its recom-
mendations, and the report was
approved by the board. To carry
out phase 1 of the report the
board approved sponioring up to
eight candidates, primarily tea-
chers or .members of the advi-
sory committee to attend this
summer studies in Family Life
to be held at St. Jerome's Col-
lege at the University of
Waterloo.
Phase 2 could be considered
during the 1973-74 year, with a
proposal made to the board early
in 1974. Mr. Hicknell indicated
that the sponsorship in Phase 1
would in no way bind the board.
The purpose for sponsoring par-
ticipation this year is to pro-
vide people with the necessary
background who could be used as
resource persons in discussing
this program within local school
communities as to the feasibility
of introducing the program into
the education system.
Mr. Hicknell also reported on
an Ontario Traffic Conference in
Toronto which he attended on
March 1-3., Among some of the
things he learned was that there
are twice as many accidents in-
volving school buses than any
other bus, even though school
buses are on the road for less
time. The general feeling of
the panel, he said, was that bus
drivers are not experienced
enough.
Mr. Hicknell spoke of two ways
suggested for school crossing
protection--adult guards or
trained marked student guards.
John Vintar, Superintendent of
Education, said the four resolu-
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Dublin scholar
earns 5 year
fellowship
Dr. Susan Friend of Dublin
has been awarded a 5 year
fellowship in pathological re-
search at the'University of
Guelph.
Dr. Friend, who is a
graduate of the Ontario Vet-
erinary College, Guelph, is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Charles
Friend of Dublin. She is ser-
ving on the staffeof the Bracken
Animal Clinic in Windsor.
Celebrate
64th wedding
anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. W. Earl Hawley
of Seaforth, quietly celebrated
their 64th wedding anniversary
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawley were
married on March 24, 1909, in
Boissevain, Manitoba, where Mr.
Hawley was a telegrapher and
station agent. They retired to
Seaforth seven years ago.
Mrs. Hawley IS the former
Henrietta McSpadden from Win-
throp and Mr. Hawley is from
Haybay, near Napanee, Ontario.
Mr. Hawley, who celebrated
his 95th birthday on February 23,
is a patient at Seaforth Manor
where he -has been for the past
year.
With the couple to mark the
occasion were two sisters of Mrs.
Hawley and her brother: Mrs.
Frederick (Susan) Hutchings of
Stanton, California; Mrs. Cart-
wright (Minnie) Hawley of Sea-
forth who also is a patient at
Seaforth manor; and Zechariah
McSpadden of Seaforth.
Among the gifts they received
was a bouquet of 64 red roses
from a nephew and his wife,
Rev. and Mrs. Bert McSpadden
of Toronto.
People from across Huron
riding crowded into five busses
Monday on their way to Toronto
to see new Liberal MPP Jack
Riddell sworn in and introduced
to the Legislature.
What began last week as a
trip by a few supporters in the
Zurich area by the week end
had expanded into a group of
more than 200 representing all
areas of the riding. Buoyed up
by the first Liberal victory in
many years, supporters were
anxious to indicate their interest
and to witness the Toronto cere-
mony.
So great was the interest in
the event that for the first time
the swearing in ceremony was
moved from the room where it
usually takes place to the Legis-
lative Assembly. The Liberal
supporters from Huron crowded
the public gallery for the occas-
Huron County Board of Educa-
tion meeting in Clinton Monday
night approved the sketch plans
for alterations to Wingham Pub-
lic School. D. J. Cochrane,
Director of Education, said he
hoped there would be no delay in
having the work completed in the
renovations to the two class-
rooms to enlarge facilities for
the trainable retarded. He re-
ported at the present there are
16- pupil's arid when school opens
in the fall he hopes to accom-
modate 22 pupils.
Mr. Cochrane informed the
board that he had replied to a
letter from the Bruce County
Director of Education which said
there are several pupils in
Brookside School in Ashfield
Township who should be attending
Ripley Public School in Bruce
County.
Mr. Cochrane wrote that he was
most emphatically opposed to the
unilateral decision of the Bruce
Bill Eckert, 326 Darling
Street, Brantford, who has
been elected to the Board of
Governors of the Ontario
Teachers Federation. A
native of Seaforth, he is
principal of St. Pael's
Senior Elementary Separ-
ate School, Brantford.
With the Brant County
Separate School Board
since 1964, he has been
active in teacher organiz-
ations.
ion and prompted Roderick
Lewis, clerk of the legislature, to
remark that it was the "first
time we have had a cheering
section".
After a tour of the parliament
Buildings and lunch in the East
block cafeteria, the group again
crowded the gallerys to witness
the induction of the new members.
Ontario Liberal Leader,
Robert Nixon, introduced Mr.
Riddell and Mrs. Margaret
Campbell who also had been
elected in the March 15th by
election. Referring to the ac-
tivity of the by elections he
added that he "must point out
that th outstanding—quality of
both new members has been
apparent on all sides."
"There are some of us who
might have wished it had been
another way," 'said Premier
William Davis. "But the by-
Board to withdraw pupils from a
school that he was convinced they
have a right to attend under the
laws of the Province.
He told the Bruce Director that
is he referred to those pupils
living on lots 1 to 60 inclusive
of concession 1, Huron Township,
that is was his opinion that these
pupils have a right to attend
Huron schools, basing his con-
tention on the facts that children
of residents living on these lots
had the right to attend the school
in the North Ashfield Union School
Section, and that subsequently,•
but before January 1, 1969, the
former North Ashfield Union
School Section was absorbed into
the Ashfield-west Wawahosh
Townships School Area. With
the formation of county board of
education on January 1, 1969,
pupils referred to above, due to
previous rights of attendance,
were guaranteed continuance of
their rights under section 43 of
the Secondary Schools and Boards
of Education Act R.S.O.
The Huron board referred a re-
quest from the Huron-Perth
County Roman Catholic Separate
School to its madagement com-
mittee for in-depth study on the
feasibility of integrating bus ser-
vices for public and separate
Lions hold
annual rural
relations event
Seaforth Lions entertained
area farmers Monday night at
the club's annual rural relations
night.
During the evening, entertain-
ment was provided by the Mc
Quaid family and Fred Durst,
a Goderich accountant discussed
problems of income tax and an-
swered questions. Appreciation
on behalf of the guests was ex-
pressed by Reeves Elgin Thomp-
son and Allan Campbell.
A feature was the presen-
tation of a 40-year pin to Lion
B.C. Boswell by the club.
The evening was arranged by
a committee headed by Dr. Wm.
Thompson and including W.
Titford, Gordon Beuttenmiller,
John Talbot and Irwin Johnson.
Dr. G. F. Mills, Goderich, med-
ical health officer for Huron, ex-
pressed his concern. about the
health education of students in
Huron County when he presented
a report to the Huron County
Board of Education meeting in
Clinton Monday night.
After showing films and speak-
ing on drug abuse in October
he noted that the students lack
knowledge on drugs, venereal
diseases, nutrition and birth con-
trol.
He suggested that health educa-
tion be offered as an option,
separate from physical educa-
tion. It could be given as a co-
ordinated course. He said all
Winner
Gordon Scott, Seaforth won
the seventeenth weekly prize of
$25. in the Lions Car Club 3.
Huron District High School in
Exeter, both effective April 2,
The Opportunity for Youth group
was granted the use of the Zur-
ich Public School for the lesser
of half the length of the course
or the month of July, with the
approval of the principal of the
school.
The board was informed that 12
Huron County high school stu-
dents will visit Didsbury, Al-
berta, from July 3, to July 17,
as Young Voyageurs '73.
Allan Mullin, a teacher at God-
erich District Collegiate Insti-
tute, and Mrs. Laura Mullin, a
teacher at Central Huron Secon-
dary School will accompany the
students from Huron andMiddle-
sex.
From South Huron Districtliigh
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Peter Sillery who was
called to the bar last Friday
at-a ceremony in O'Keefe
_40re in Toronto. A
graduate of the University
of Toronto Law School, he
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. '
A. W. Sillery, Seaforth.
quest seeking assistance was in
a letter to the board from W. D.
Armstrong, clerk-treasurer,
Zurich. Previously, the board
had assisted in an .amount up to
$500 in mounting other bells at
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Our mistake
The fact that it was the first
time in more than 30 years that
a Liberal had been elected in
the Huron provincial riding
apparently placed too great a
strain on our facilities and as
a result the vote totals as they
appeared on page one of last
week's issue were transposed
suggesting that Conservative Don
Southcott had polled more votes
than Liberal Jack Riddell. This,
of course, was not the case and
the corrected results appear on
page 7 of this issue.
A group of nine young people from the Ottawa Valley were
in Seaforth last week taking part in an AIM (Ambassadors
in Mission) program of the Pentecostal Church and with
Rev, and Mrs. David Quigley of Deep Rider co-Operated with
Rev. Ray Faulkner of the Seaforth Church in conducting a
bible school during the school break for 35 area children. In
the upper picture Michael Hill pays close attention as he
holds sister Kimberly oh his knees. (Below) Clenton Coombs,
Esther Ayers and Elizabeth Ayers perform with their puppets
to tell a Bible story to other members of their class.
(Staff Photos)
Board looks at integrated
school bus transportation
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elections are over. The people
in those constituencies have made
their determination and I would
like to make it very clear to
both of the new' members that
we appreciate the contribution
they will make.
"We recognize the degree of
sacrifice that is required in
public life, we respect the posit-
ions they have taken and we
certainly welcome them here as"
members of this house," he said.
NDP Leader Stephen Levitt
said he is sure "they will thake
the government profoundly un-
comfortable."
Following the proceedings the
Huron visitors were guests of
Mr. Nixon and the Ontario Caucus
at a reception in the Liberal .
Caucus rooms.
The busses then leftfor Huron
arriving about 8 o'clock.
Preparing for the Optimist canoe race next 'Sunday Don Muir (left) and Bob Wilson are busy
building a specially- designed Kayak with which they expect to cover the 18 mile course along the
Bavfield river in record time. Optimist President Ken Coleman said Wednesday a large entry
was assured and the event would produce keen competition.
Student health education
is concern MOH tells B of E
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