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The Huron Expositor, 1973-07-12, Page 1• • Past President of the gestOrth tions Club, Brian handl the keys of a new 1978 Chevrolet to Betty Leonhattit, Mrs. Leonhardt won 'the Oar in the third Lions Car Club draw. - Bill 'Nall of Motors looks on. (Staff Photo) Hold dinner Whole No, 5496 1140, Year__ S. EAFORTH, o S NTOICI, IMURSIMIT o JuLy 3.974 =16 Page armor escapes when ow floor collapses A Cromarty man eecapeitsefo tees injury last Frld!y .wherk -the Oliver 88 - traOtol,.;',t1Or driving broke threilgtt moor. Ivan Norris waft load. of bales into the 'Porn wtg9.0 the floor gave way lettlilff Cite tractor down into a pen con* taining three calves. The trac,;= for came to rest with one pf the back wheels on the floor and the other on a cement partittOrt which it had broken down to about one and a half feet high, Because • the tractor formed about a 79 degree , angle to the floor, Mr, .Norris, was able to' roll off the •-seat onto. the straw in the pen, Mr. Norris' brother-in-law, Ronald Kraemer, seeing the 'Wagon backing down the bank i,loward his truck, shouted to Maurice Ruston, who works with Norris, to run downstairs. !;^Mr. Kraemer grabbed the brawl tongue and steered the wagon to a safe place without the loss of one bale. It was thought for a few min- utes that one calf had beenvinned under the tractor, but it was found in another part of the stable, having jumped out of its pen. The following morning, Rus- sell Parsons of Staffa was able to raise the tractor back up through the hole with two of his derricks, and it went back to work minus only one fender. Council- •vances study of $70,000 itorm*drain program 4a• Parachute jumps, swim meet added tcir~i~`v~a1 .feattites . Cromarty farmer Ivan Norris, left, marvels Bruce, how the tractor he was driving broke and Mr. Norris, landed below in a pen containing seat into the straw in the pen. at his escape without a scratch as he tells son, through the barn floor on Friday. The tractor, three calves. Mr. Norris rolled off the tractor (Staff Photo) Seaforth Council 'heard a pre.- limpary report from JameIrMac Laren and Associates regarding the Brantford Street Drain when it met Monday evening. Peter Sawyer, representing the •firm was present to dtscui30 details of the proposed drain. In their preliminary study, the engineershadfoundthat-coun- cil had two alternatives in re- gard to the drain. Since there was a great difference in the prices of the two systems; Mr. Sawyer said his firm had felt that further discussion with coun- cil was necessary before engineering contd .be proceeded witho An enclosed drain running along Brantford Street, from Main Street to the town limits, starting with a 42 in. tile at Main and dropping down to a 12 in. tile at the town limits, would be around $70.000. If the drain ended at Isabelle Street, the cost would be about $11,000 less. The other alternative open tQ council would tie open drainage, ditches on both sides of the road at a cost of approximately $28,000 The drainage ditches would live for Huroh, Mr. Broad- not he deep enough to. take the; el water from the Mill Street drain' atou ,-416S Siff etren1 catitteraM1-1011),afgagartasaated Pro- and therefore would not serve the c my Eastern Ontario "said ducticin. T o loans, ee'eadtaaali' purpose council had in mind when Huron is heaven compared to the be used for purchase of cattle, they started proceedings for the East. Last year was a bad year, an industrial milk quota or to drain. he said, but at least farmers in expand facilities. Council felt that since the that part of the country got to In other business, it'was re- Brantford Street drain is intended plant their' crops. This year ported by secretary-fieldman ' to be a collector drain foi the many didn't even get that far be- Bill Crawford, that a blitz of area bounded on the north by the cause of the wet weather. Colborne and West Wawanosh town by Main Street, it would be foolish poasr. es intended and would create would prove costly over the ye After much discussion, coun- cil agreed that Mr. Sawyer and his firm should be asked to proceed with the engineering on a closed drain to run from Main Street to Isabelle street. Council felt if development in the area warranted completion of the drain In the future, the town public works department -would be able to complete the drain from this point on. 1. sked by, council if his firm had eard any word from the Ontario department concerning 'a proposed across town sewer pro- ject, Mr. Sawyer said they had been told to bring their construc- tion figures into line with esti- mated 1974 figures, but that no- thing concrete had been heard to define what a farm is and who at this time. A delegation fromtheSeaforth, 4Optimist Club consisting of Ken "Coleman and Charles Geddes' were present to discuss plans a building the club is pro- 'posing for the Optimist recrea- tion grounds. After a lengthy 'discuSiion,s __Council agreed'an Agreement could 'be worked out with the club in this regard and a further meeting between the club and council will be set up to arrange details after both sides had a C.N.R. tracks, on the west by bersships produced 59 new mem- the town limits, on the south by The July 18 meeting of the the town limits and on the east .Legislature's Select Committee to proceed with open ditches, is a farmer in Wingham was which would not serve the pur- announced. HFA President Ma- a maintenance problem which • son Bailey pointed out "The fact Then the directors heard from Jim Jacklin, Ontario Farm Ma- chinery Agency president from Elmwood who said that the d ay before had seen so much rain in that part of the country that the corn was laying in pools of water. .• Actually, the July meeting of that this committee has been set the Federation suffered from up is directly due to the pres- good weather as only about a sure the OFA has been putting dozen directors and members on government." Showed up at the meeting even A new constitution for the though the meeting was scheduled county federation was discussed for .9 p.m. in the hope farmers and will be voted on at the next would come after finishing work. meeting in August. Huron weather not so bad visitors tell Huron F of A chance to do some investigating. Four members of council were authorized to attend the annual conference of the Associa- tion of Municipalities of Ontario to be held in the Royal York in Toronto, August 19 to 22nd. Mayor F.C.J. Sills, Councillor Betty Cardno, Reeve John Flannery, and Deputy Reeve Cuthill being the voting delegates for the conference. Several member of council,,., along with Seaforth 'Community (Continued on Page 12) - Harry Hinchleyi: aaaaaaaaaa...„.....ao By Susan Whit* --Ptbe catalogned thera -atid' polite available. to historical re- almost .r- courtly, man with a con - searchers in the future. "Othe "Mse-they wOuld•lie•an-someone's suming interest in the pre- attic, to be thrown out when those nervation of Seaforlh's history, as it is documented in our old who know the story behind the• photos die," he says,. "Too many buildings and photographs. A former resident, and a graduate stories about our early settlers " 'of Seaforth Collegiate Institute, are being lost. Mr. Hinchley was in town last A donor of any photos to the week on his first visit since1954. Archives will be sent a large gl ossy 'copy iginal, Mr. His brother, Harry Hinchley, a. recently retired' from the Hinchley says. urges any teaching staff of the Owen Sound local people o have photos of Collegiate Institute. historical 'importance (portraits Although he has been away of early settlers., early industry o from Seaforth "the better part or old buildings) to send them of fifty years I guess", he is gt000dthdeescription, where they will Archives along with a extrernaly proud of the town. Mr. Hinchley is an amateur historian be professionally preserved. "I am just one man, trying to do and geologist and knows a great deal about earl Ontario a bit to keep our history alive y • and available," he says. aThis architecture. He- bubbles with ideas about what shou'd be docu- would be an excellent project mented, celebrated and pre- for a group or a historical served here. sGCMietrY:H"inchley has some excel- He rejects the philosophy that lent photos of the original Sea- everythiag woathless or forth Creamery, wherehe.started "unprogressive and should, be, in the creamery businesa under thrown out or torn down, "Let people board up these old build- Charlie Barber in 1918. lugs for fifty years," he says, "Some day, someone will watt to write a history•of creameries "and then decide whether they in Huron County, and these old should be torn down or not. By that time, of course, they photos will be in the Archives would realize their worth". to help them", he said. He spent the past week in the (Continued on Page 12) Visitor says Early area buildings are valuable heritage Harry Hinctley, former Seaforth resident who was here last week digging into local history, holds an old photograph of his ancestors, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Clark, pioneer Tuck- ersmith residents. The photo belongs to John MacKay,Tucker- smith. (Staff Photo) . A member of the Hamilton Sport Parachute Club Inc. rides to earth supported by a Colorful parachute. The club is presenting a jump program as an opening feature of the Seaforth Lions Summer Carnival on Thursday evening (to,- night) at 8 o'clock. One Of the jumpers pi tin j lane idgan, a Seaforth native. • A parachute jump will be the opening feature as the Seaforth •e-) Lions 38th annual summer carni- val gets under way Thursday night. Carried out by members pf the Hamilton sport parachute club the jumps • will involve • three members of the club including Jim Flannigan, formerly of Sea- forth and a brother of Brian Flan- nigan, past president of the Lions Club. Jim Flannigan with 9 years experience has over 400 jumps to his credit. The first jump from aCessna 172 will take place at 8p.m.from a height of '7500 feet. Just before exit of the first jumper, a smoke bomb will be fired to indicate the path of the aircraft. From '7500 ft. the jumper, who will be trailing smoke, can delay the opening of his parachute for 30 seconds. The speed of his falling is about 120 miles per hour, or 174 feet every second. After • falling for 30 seconds the jumper will have descended to 2500 ft. where he will open his parachute. The chutes are color- ful sport parachutes, custom de- signed and used only for sport parachuting. The rate of descent of the jumper is about 1000 ft. per min- ute. The jumpers are members of the Canadian Sport Parachuting Association and have many years and several hundred jumps ex- perience in sport parachuting. The first jumper is Bert Brown, with over 600 jumps and over 10 years experience in para- chuting. His parachute will be black and green. The landing is about the same as stepping off a 4 ft. high step. At 8:03 the aircraft will again pass over the field, trailing smoke, and two more jumpers will exit the plane. One of these in the red, white and blue paradhute, will be George Wolfe, a qualified pilot with over 200 jumps and 3 years parachuting experience; the other in the checkerboard red and black parachute will be Jim Flannigan. Swim meet Revived after an absence of several years, a swimming meet will be a feature of the 38th annual Lion's Club Summer Carnival which gets under way tonight, „Thursday, and continues until Saturday night: ,• Highlighting the' swim meet will be the appearance on Fri- day night of Ken Armstrong of Woodstock, who placed second in the 3 metre diving event at' the Canadian championship meet in Halifax last weekend. He will be a member of the Canadian national team who will compete this summer for the World's championship at Balzano, Italy and at the Canadian games in Vancouver as well as at Belgrave, Vag° Slavia. With hi m, taking part in the exhibition , will be Members of the Woodstock Diving Club. The meet gets under way Friday night at 8 p.m. On Thursday and Saturday nights, area swimmers will com- pete in a series of swim events according to Gord Rimmer who is looking after ,the swim exhi- bition. Many attend Band concert The most recent in a series of Sunday evening band concerts which the Seaforth Boys and Girls Band and the Seitorth Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring this summer at the Band Shell in Victoria park had a large and appreciative audience last Sun- day. The concert featured the` Stratford Royal Canadian Legion Band, conducted by Paul Cross. Mayor F. C.J. Sills was Master of Ceremonies for a program - which included music from the films adspell and Oliver, some Mozart, two marches "Army of the Nile" and ',Old Comrades" and a medley of Carole King music from "Tapestry", as well as other popular music. Listeners reported a very fine concert by the Legion Band. Many of the band's members are pro- fessional musicians who play in the Stratford FestivalOrchestra. The next concert on July 22 at '7:30 will feature the Goderich Youth Orchestra. (see pictures on page 12) Brucefield girl injured A seven. and one half year old Brucefield area girl is in Clinton public Hospital after being injured in a car - bicycle accident, Friday night. Mary Ann DeJong, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon DeJong of H.R. 1, Brucefield, was in collision '•vith a northbound car on the 2nd concession of Tucker- smith Township as she came out of a lane ray on a bicycle. The car was driven by Herbert W. Fleming of Seaforth. She suffered wad injuries, a fractured left arm and mul- tiple abrasions and contusions to the body. The accident was in-testigated by Constable Ray Primeau of Seaforth detachmt•nt, O.P.P. Falls in silo Phillip Blake, 19, a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Blake of R.R. 2 Brussels is still a patient in Wingham and District Hospital following a farm accident three weeks ago. Phillip was assisting his fam- ily in getting the silo ready for grass silage when the unloader auger caught his leg when he was on the top of the silo. He suf- fered a long deep gash and a cracked bone in his right leg. Sena:nail area, doing research in old Expositor files and visiting friends and relatives, and unearthed a number of old photo- graphs. He preserves these by writing a short story about the people or places photographed and sending it, and the original photo to the Ontario .archives in Toronto or the Dominion Archives in Ottawa. The originals and their stories will Crash claims fourth victim A car accident on Saturday, June 16th at peace River, Al- berta has now claimed a fourth life. Mrs. Jo (Kathy) Reynolds passed away on Saturday, July 7th in The Royal Alexander Hospital, Edmonton. Her husband, a son of Cyril Reynolds, former Sea- forth resident, was killed in the accident. The couple's son, 8 months old Kenny Reynolds, Is still confined to hospital with two broken legs. A funeral mass for Mrs. Rey- nolds was celebrated Tuesday morning at St. Columba's Church, Swan River,Manitoba. Intern'. ment was i the parish ceme- tery. Cyril Reynolds, who also suf- fered injuries in the accident has been released from hospital and now is at his home. Prank Reynolds of Harpurhey and his sister, Sister Cyril of LonciOn, belie returned from the west having gone out tWo-ireeitt ego for %enteral of theitheitielt Reynolds. If Huron county farmers are suffering bad weather, they cer- tainly have it better than else- where, directors of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture learned Thursday night at 'their July meeting. First they heard it from Bill Broadworth, newly-appointed Associate Agricultural Heppe- Mr. Broadworth outlined to the meeting the new industrial milk incentive plan, a new five- year program designed to boost production of iedustrial milk in the province. The first year, he said,' the farmer would pay only the interest and in the second year a 20 per cent refund of the principal of the loan was available if the farmer met the • Members of the Board and of the medical staff of Seaforth" Community Hospital together with their wives, held a dinner at the Seaforth Golf Club Wed- nesday evening. Board chairman, Mrs. Jos. McConnell wel- comed the guests. A family gathering and barbecue were held at the farm of Mr. died Mrs. Harry Nesbitt on Rutnia.y tohenour Mrs. DaVid Ryan on the occasion of her 96th birth day. Mr. Patlatit in SedOrth CettiftliitiltY 11001tal, was unable to attend hut Mr*. ItYan•,„n resident nt Ihittiliadat in good health and feniaiii* tinite active, ter Main hob* is. .