The Huron Expositor, 1973-07-12, Page 1•
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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
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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
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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. .