The Huron Expositor, 1973-09-06, Page 1Phil Durand, Chairman of the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board discusses the bean
market and current prices with area bean growers on Bean Day held last Thursday at Jack Peck's fs rm near Kippen.
Paul Steckle of A.R. 2, Zurith,
was master of ceremonies for the
Hostess competition,
A dance at the sbiorth Cont..
Munity, centre rounded out the'
.eVening'S entertaiiiinent.
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6 hour Tuckersitith
The large L shaped barn on the farm of. John Boven, R.R,2, destroying a large and small barn, 3,000 bales of hay, 4,000 Seaforth Was destroyed by fire early Monday afternoon. Fire ' bales of straw, a diesel tractor and milking equipment.
,broke out. first in the barn's upper story and was spotted by Seaforth Fire Area Chief, Don Hulley surveys the remains
Harry B'oven, 9. The fire caused an estimated $40,000 damage, of the barn as portions of the building continued to burn.
(Photo by Oke)
McKillop council
Advances land severances
There were 24 residents of
Vanastra on hand when Tucker-
smith council met Tuesday even-
ing and they voiced various com-
Waints. Their unscheduled
appearanCe caused other dele-
gations with appointments a wait
of almost two hours, and was
partly responsible for the meet-
ing, to continue to within a few
minutes of 2:00 a.m. Wednesday.
The Vanastra residents who
came with complaints of speeding
listened while Council discussed
traffic flow and street signs at
Vanastra with Patrick Laurin
of London, traffic analyst with
the Ministry of 'Transportation
and Communications.
Mr. Laurin presented council
-with a report of a preliminary
survey he had made at Vanastra
on these conditions and his
recommendations. Mr. Laurin
will assist council in preparing
a byelaW for Vanastra setting
speed zone in residential areas
at 25 miles an Jiour. He has
also prepared a plan for street
signs.
Commenting , on persons who
drive at excessive speeds or
while drinking, he said, "The
police cannot be at Vanastra
24 hours of the day. You won't
solve all your problems withput-
ting up signs 30 miles an hour."
The Vanastra residents lis-
tened while William E. Little of
Londesboro, 'who collects the
'garbage at Vanastra, requested
that the homeowners keep their
garbage separated - bottles and
'broken glass, in a box preferably;
newspapers and- cardboard put
together; and the regular gar-
bage in a separate bag.
All the Vanastra residents at.
the meeting agreedthat Mr. Little
was doing a good job of garbage
removal at Vanastra except for
one man who questioned having
his garbage bag's contents
checked. Mr. Little reminded
him that he knew why his gar-
bage was checked and maintained
it 'garbage removal did not.
--include manure from several
dogs in the houSehold.
Kenneth Ziegler acted as
spokesman for the Vanastra . resi-
dents. His first complaint 'Con-
cerned excessive dust from ,the
roads at Vanastra which are in
tiai process of being brought up
to government specifications by
the owners of Vanastra before
Tuckersmith Township will take
them over.
Reeve Elgin Thompson ex-
plained that the township had no
authority over the roads until they
were completed, which he said
the owners were doing as fast
as they could, Mr.. Thompson
suggested some of the delay was
due to sewage tile still to be
laid under the roads which was
helding up the application of
blacktop.
Mr. Ziegler charged that
40,000 to 50,000 gallons of water
a day were going down the drain
becauSe the man in charge of
pumping was overpumping at a
loss of up to $40 a day. The
Town of Clinton supplies water
to the hamlet through the
Tuckersmith Council, who inturn
charges the cost back to th"
resident's. Mr. Thompson as
sured Mr. Ziegler this would be
investigated at once.
Mr. Ziegler stated that the
residents of Vanastra wanted the
Township to put through the
zoning by-law with the ap-
propriate laws to govern. He
was told the township was Working
on this by-law.
The next problem Mr. Ziegler
raised was concerning dogs, es-
-p ec tally barking dogs which he
said would have to be muzzled
if enough' neighbours complained.
H e suggested that the township
should Increase the dog license
for anyone keeping a second or
third dog. "You are altogether
too cheap," he said, Presently
an owner must pay $3 for the
on the drain will be done be-tween July 1, 1974, and July 21.
first and $5 for the second or
more dogs; for females he must
pay $5 for the first and $7
for any more female dogs. -
Others at the meeting
complained to council at the
number of dogs still running at
large at night, preventing them
from putting out their garbage
ahead of time, etc. They were
told to contact the animal con-
trol officer for the township,
Gordon Dale of RR 4, Clinton,
who has authority to 'shoot the
animal.
It was uported there were
three to fiv -derelict cars in
Vanastra with children smashing
the windows in one near the
church only that evening.
Before leaving the meeting the
Vanastra residents again asked
Council for relief frOrn,.the dust
from the roads as theft' feared
health problems for oabi, and
spoke of the difficulty of putting
out laundry • on the clothesline.
They asked if calcium could be
applied.,
Fred Ginn of Vanastra
Developments, owners ofVanas-
tra, and his son Gary, who had
been kept waiting for almost two
hours, entered the meeting to
discuss road work, at Vanastra.
Mr. Ginn was indignant that com-
plaints were being made about the
roads at Vanastra, when he said
it was costing the owners almost
a quarter of a million dollars to
bring thelei up to standard. He
said that if they were not doing
this then it would have meant
that those living at Vanastra
would have to pay it. He also
said that the roads belonged to
his firm and they would not
tolerate anyone putting calcium
on them while they were in the
process of working on them.
In agreement with earlier dis-
cussions with- Mr. Ginn, Council
passed a by-law to amend the-
subdivision agreement regarding
construction of roads on the sub-
division at Vanastra.° Three
additional sections-of roads are
to be re-constructed this year
in place of the construction of
two new roadways namely Andrew
and Anna Courts. The Vanastra
owners have agreed to construct
these two latter roads at the time^
of development of the property
which they serve.
Council did not accept the one
written tender for the property to
be sold at the tax sale at the
meeting but adjourned the sale
until October 2 at 9p.m., Council
will advertise that it will
purchase the property,
Passed for payment were ac-
counts totalling $28,576.03',
including municipal drainage,
$11,122.21; Brucefield water,
$7,548.85; roads, $4,453,65;
Vanastra, $1,787.98; tile drain-
age, $2,500; Administration,
$1,001,04; fire, $162.30.
Building permit requests
were granted to; Ben Bridges
for addition to bouaq t'faGregOr
Farms, steel. grain bin; MIPS
Brown, implement shed. A re-
quest by .SeafUrtit Loultier -Xotdp.
for permits .fcr two new. licapa
is to be seat back for adjust-
ment as plans do not meet
township, building by-laws which
require '1,000 .04. feet of living
space. The two - lack this
amount by 40 Sq.. feet.
Council will circulate the old
zoning by-laW of a year ago to
those residents 400 ..feet outside
the triangle (Clinton, Brucefielci
to Egmondville, including Vana-
stra) as required by the Ontario
Municipal Board. At the same
time Council will start working
on a new zoning by-law for the
entire township.
Council accepted a requestby
Bill DeJong for drainage and
appointed engineer Henry Uder-
stadt to bring ifi'llAeport.
Clerk James McIntosh re-
ported to Council that Tucker-
smith's grant from the Property
Tax Stabilization Act for 1973
will amount to $48,254. '
wave which has caused bronzing
and is making the crops mature
earlier. He said they hoped to
he hack in the market in about
two weeks.
One of the problems between
the grower and the marketing
hoard said Mr. Broadwell is that
the farmers find it hard to relate
Fire caused an estimated,loss
of 'ove1 -$40,000 early Monday
afternOblr-when. flames raced
through a large L-shaped barn
on the farm. of John Bowen of
R.R. 2, Seaforth, east of Kinburn.
Fire in the upper storey of
the barn was first spotted by
nine-year old ' Harry Boven.
The family was able to free only
five calves while ten were killed
by the flames.
Also destroyed beildes the
-large barn was 'aismaller barn,
thesseason's crops .- 3,000 bales
of hay, 4,000 bales of straw,
a diesel 4ractor, and milking.
equipment.
Seaforth f...emen under chief
Don Hulley hosed, down an imple-
r men6
ment shed and while. doing this
were summoned to the farm of
K.J. Thompson, about a half mile
east on Concession 6 where flying
embers are believed to have
started a fire on the roof of the
barn.
The Clinton Fire Department
was called to assist the Sea-
forth firemen but their services
were not required as theSeaforth
men were able to extinguish
the flames on the Thompson roof
before. Clinton arrived,
About nine o'clock in the
evening, Seaforth firemen again
were called to the 'Hoven farm
where a change in wind was
carrying flying embers from the
smouldering fire north toward the
implement shed and the farm
Home.
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Seaforth
youths hurt
in accident
Two Seaforth teenagers re•
'ceived head lacerstioes in a sing-
le car a.i.cid,mt ors Hignws. 9 at
Alastrai 'Pas's sideroad at 3:30
p.m. Monday.
Richard A. al..intyi e, 17, of
4 Main Street, Seaforth, was
treated for lacerations to his
forehead at the Clinton Puclic
Hospital, when the car he was
driving left the highway and
stru6, a di .7. , se-Siankm
A passenger I t his s.ar, Bc-
verley Rottaaa 18, also of 4Maih
',Street, Seaforth, wss .rea.ed for
head laceratioas reeeasstd.
Constable Ray ?rims. 11 t e
Seaforth detachment 0.1),P., est-
imated damage to the Mientyre
car at $200.
An early morning Labor Day
crash took the lives of three
members of a Kitchener family
and two others of the same family
were injured. The single car
accident occurred about 1 a,m.
onday.
The car, driven by James
Woelfle, 28, plunged into a ditch
and smashed against an embank-
ment on Huron COunty Road 12
about 12 miles north of Brussels
and a mile . north of Wroxeter,
McKillop Township Council
at its meeting Tuesday authorized
payment of $52.00 to a township
farmer for the ewe killed by dogs
at the rend of August,
Mrs.' Kenneth McClure, Clerk
Treasurer, reported that the pro-
perty tax stabilization grant for
McKillop Township amounted to
$18,739 for the year and that' the
interim payment had already been
received, amounting to $9,370.
The Ministry of. Treasury, Ec..
Back to Huron
after 65 years
-Scan -rn Ontario for the first
time since he left here 65 years
ago, Henry Smale of- Mankota,
Sask. found the changes that im-
pressed him most were the large
trees.
Referring to trees planted by
his father on the family farm on
the 12th of Hibbert at #7 School
he remembered them as not much
taller than he was. Now they
tower fifty feet or more in the
air.
Mr. Smale, now 87. with Mrs.
Smale and Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Smale of Toronto ,were visitors
this week with his brother, Frank
Smale and Mrs. Smale of
Wilson Street,
Huron match
coming up
Plans have been completed for
the 46th Annual Huron Plowmens
Association plowing match.
The match this year i s being
held at the Howard Datars farm,
1 mile north of Dashwood on
Saturday, September 15th.
The preceding day, starting
at noon on Friday, September
14th a coaching class will be
held, when expert plowmen will
demonstrate the proper setting,
of plows and coash the plow boys
and girls on the art of match
plowing . The plowing match
will get underway at 9.30 Satur-
day morning Septeber 15.
A horse shoe pitching contest
is another feature of the matCh on
Saturday afternoon with two
classes - one for Huron players
only, and one for all corners.
A Queen of the Furrow
contest - another popular feature
of the match will be held
when the 1973 Huron Quee n of the
Furrow will be chosen. The
Huron Queen will be eligible to
compete in the Ontario Queen of
the Furrow contest at the Inter-
national Plowing Match in
Lambton County, September 25 to
29. •
police reported.
The crash killed Mrs.
Woelfle, 27, and two children,
Lisa, 1. and Kenneth. 2. Mr.
Woelfle and another son James,
3, are in Kitchener-waterloo
Hospital in fair condition with
chest and head injuries.
The Woefle family was
returning to their Kitchener home
following a holiday at Sauble
Beach. Woelfle is a nephew
of Mrs. Wm. Brown, Jarvis St.
Seaforth.
onomics and Intergovernmental
Affairs re/orted the final pay-
ment would be made in October:
Council recommended for ap-
proval land severence for John
Glanville; R.R. 4, Seaforth, of
one acre at Lot 19s-Concession
11; and for William fieuertnan of
R.R. 1,. Dublin, for the east half
of Lot 13 on Concession 7.
Eight tile drain loans for a
total of $26,600 were approved.
Passed for payment were gen-
eral accounts totalling $7,448.37
and road accounts of $2,746.94.
Counc II authorized payment of
Enrolment in 'Huron County
public schools has dropped 312
from last year's total it was
revealed when schools opened'
Tuesday.
Total „ enrolment in the
system's five secondary schools,
24 elementary schools and three
schools for trainable retarded
children- on opening day was
12,601, compared with 12,913 last
year.
Decreases were registered in
both elementary and secondary
schools, with the secondary
schools dropping from -4,581 to
4,441, students and elementary
sehdols dropping from 8,285 to
8A01 pupils,•
The only Increase recorded
at the schools for retarded child-
ren which registered 59 children,
compared with 47 last year.
Being m odd year the annual
Ontario bean meeting was held
in Kippen. Even years the meet-
ing takes place in Ridgetown. Last
Thursday morning over fifty of
the area's bean growers gathered
at Jack Peck's farm, 1 1, 4miles
west of Kippen to discuss the
latest in different bean varieties,
coloured beans, herbicides and
fertilizer.
A new variety "Kentwood" of
which Doll LittleJohns from the
Ridgetown college of.agriculture.,
who spoke on the different varie-
ties of white beans, made special
mention of is a new bush variety
released this year. It is between
the Seafarer and Sanilac type of
white bean in time of maturity
and has slightly larger seeds,
It has similar disease resistance
to Seaf arer, The latter heinc
resistant to prevalent strains of
anthracnose and common bean
mosaic. yields have been high
with both early and mid June
planting of the new Kentwood
white bean. Foundation seed will
be available in 1975.
Among the varieties of
coloured beans anon their
potential discussed by Mr.
Johns were Yellow Eye, Licht
red kidney, Azuk1 and Black
turtle. A spokesman for the
Dept. of Agriculture mentioned
the possibility of an opening in
the Cuban market for the Black
turtle beans which have small
black seeds.
The price of white beans
quoted on bean clay by the mar-
keting board according to Chair-
man Phil Durand was "an average
price of 46.92 ner hundred
the township's portion of the cost
of the garbage dump at Walton,
which it shares with Grey Town-
ship, for the period January 1 to
June 30 amounting to • $488.67.
Bill Campbell, Road Superins'
tendshit, was authorized to adver-
tise for snow removal equipment
for 1973-74 season.
Building permit requests
were granted to; Cornelius De-
Corte. of R,R, 2, Seaforth, for a
silo; Edward Taylor, R.R. 1,
Seaforth, 'a porch; Gordon Mac-
Kenzie. R.R. 1, Seaforth, repairs
(Continued an page 12)
IC P. R„ C. School enrolment
figures are down 101 from Sep-
tember l9'72. according toJoseph
Tokar, assistant superintendent
of education„ There were a total
of 3,262 pupils enroled in the
Huron-Perth school's on Tuesday.
DOWN IN PERTH
School Superintendent Gordon
S. Stewart, told the Perth County
board of education that opening-
day school attendance was within
one per cent of projections based
on a five-year forecast.
In elementary schools 9,426
pupils • were registered. In
September, 1972 the opening-day
enrolment was 9,563.
In secondary schools,
Tuesday's registration was 5,144
compared to 5,176 for opening day
a year ago.
weight." Chairman Durand also
said that to date 40% of the 1973
crop has been sold,.
Sec treas. Charles Broadwell
said the board pulled out of th
market about two weeks ago be-
cause of the impossibility to
determine the years potential due
to factors.like this August's heat
Silver Creek
Bridge bids
are cleared
'Roger F. MacEachern Con-
struction of Mount Forest has
been awarded „thecontract to
oonStruet a new bridge across
Silver Creek at the Seaforth Golf
Course, about a 'mile east of
Egmonv ale on concession 2
(Huron Road survey). The action
was taken by Tuckersmith council
at a meeting, Tuesday evening.
The MacEachern tender,
lowest of four received, was
$16,522.
J. Harris of Hamilton has been
awarded the contract to supply
the steel for reinforcing the
bridge at a tender price of $3,374.
The Harris tender was the lowest
of three.
John McIlwain of Seaforth will
supply 5,700 cu. yards of granular
B fill gravel for the approaches
to the bridge at a cost of .'73
cents a cu. yard. This tender
was the lowest of three.
The new bridge is part .of a
plan to straighten out dangerous
curves in the road by replacing
the present narrow iron bridge
and constructing a new road.
The tenders are subject to
approval of the M instry of Trans-
portation and Communication
which has already given verbal
approval. Work is expected to
be started as soon as govern-
mental approval is confirmed.
Tuesday 'night at the council
meeting, Tuckersmith Township
Council accepted the tender of
Parker and parker of Hensell
to construct the Brock Drain at
a cost • of $5,728.60. This was
the lowest of four tenders. Work
the current price to what they
receive as an initial payment for
their crop. The Agricultural Co-
ops marketing act sets the initial
payment from an average percen-
tage taken from the previous
three years price. While a
grower can't do anything about
the first set payment; Mr, Broad-
well said that before interim
price is set in mid-April
producers should go to the direc-
tors and ask for higher interim
payments earlier than April.
Discussing this year's bean
crop, it was agreed that the
yield was down but that prices
should be good, Ozone which
causes the bronzing is an air
pollutant. It is hydrocarbon
which is a product of incomplete
combustion in the presence of
sunlight. Ozone levels have been
extremely high in the first of
the month of August which was
hot and muggy because of little
air movement. Other problems
plaguing the beans this year were
premature whitening, dry wea-
ther disease and leaf hoppers,
insect pests.
A word to baked bean lovers.
In an effort to obtain bean recipes
that were typical of Ontario, the
Ontario rood Council advertised
a bean recipe contest. More
than 350 homemakers sen t in
their family's favorite. After
strenuous testing and tasting the
Ontario Bean Board has come out
with a booklet of mouth water-
ing recipes. For your free copy
write to the Ontario Bean Pro-
ducers Marketing Beard, 431
Newbold St., London, Ont.
N6E 1K2. It contains a deli-
cious recipe for Sherry Baked
Beans.
Why worry about the price of
beef! Beans not only offer con-
sumers a good meat substitute
according to C anadat'S Foal Guide
bid also contain body-building
protein, iron; calcium, phos-
phorous and thiamine. To put
muscle into your food dollar buy
beans,, the bean people advised.
DEBBIE RIDDELL
Select first
pork hostess
Debbie Riddell, R.R,I, Hay,
18-year old daughter of Jack
Riddell, MPP for Huron, and
Mrs. Riddell, became Huron
County's first Pork Hostess in
Seaforth Wednesday.
The selection of the Huron
County Pork Hostess' was part
of the annual Huron County Pork
Association pork barbecue.
There were three girls in the
competition and the other com-
petitors were Janice Johns, 19,
of R.R. 3, Exeter; and Adrienne
VanRaay, 19, of Dashwood,
Debbie will represent Huron's
pork producers at the Royal Win-
ter Fair in Toronto in November,
The idea of a Pork Hostess
for the province is relatively new,
and the producers hope her duties
will help promote the respective
product to consumers across the
province,
Each girl was interviewed by
a panel of judges made up of
Mrs. Robert S. McKercher of
Seaforth, Mrs. Ian McAllister of
Zurich and Mrs. Sid Freleigh
of Lambton County.
The girls were questioned on
pork production, preparation of
pork for the dinner table, and
general information questions.
Following the barbecue which
fed over MO people, the girls
delivered a two-minute speech on
"Food Value of Pork".
Debbie was presented with a
silver tray from the Huron County
Pork producers' Association and
a leather bag and leather gloves
by Bainton Ltd. of Blyth. The
other contestants were presented
with a pair of leather gloves
each from Bainton Ltd.
Loss $40,000
when HuIleff
`barn burns
Labor day crash
takes three lives
Huron School enrolment
shows slight decrease •
Area bean growers update knowledge
a