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The Huron Expositor, 1975-09-11, Page 1t David Papple, 00 last week • •^ , 04. 1 • • * Year hl ,Adviinpe.- FIRSTSE4TIQN PAGES 1 16 SEAFORTI:1 ONTA410 igiitNitigii 11, 1976 32 PAGES Swgiecooy z.504to reeve .explains fire . sputa - to Seaforth toOritit, Arena to appi for LIP grant Town council has agreed to apply for a Local Initiatives Program grant to get renovations at Seaforth's arena started this fall, but they hope that the arena won't have to be closed during the busy winter season:' The plan is, that if money is received from LIP, construction will start on the arena addition to the north of the building in November and then move to *, include renovations in the present interior in April, when the ice surface is out: ' The amount for which Seaforth will apply has not been decided yet. Clerk Bob Franklin and the town's arena committee will draw up the application before tomorrow's LIP deadline. "Huron County only has about Pit $300,000 in LIP grants. 'I think we should be sensible or we won't get anything," councillor Jim Crocker said. M ayor Betty Cardno said LIP projects must provide a minimum of 60 man weeks of work, and must ask for at least enough money to pay those salaries. • Councillors looked at an alternate plan for arena I renovations from Cambrian Consultants of Kitchener, which would cost considerably less than the renovation plan council got last year from architects Kyles, Kyles and Garratt for a fee of about $6000. The mayor said Cambrian did not charge for their plans unless council decided to use them. The al, plans were for the ground floor r only. Not as many washrooms were'•fittivided as in the Kyles plan and some councillors felt the dressing rooms were too small. 'Ihat's the size ofa box stall," councillor Bill Bennett, chairman of the arena committee commented about the smallest dressing rdom. Council made no decision on what renovation plan is to be followed *. if their LIP grant is approved. They will seek support letters from the Huron County Health Unit, the Liquor Licence Board, the Ontario Hockey Association and from local organizations who use the arena. Fund raising for the arena reconstruction will have to be started as soon as possible, rec . director Clive Buist said Wednesday. Only three people attended a meeting to plan a fund raising campaign Tuesday night, Mr. Buist said. Another meeting will be held Monday night, September 15 at 8 in the • rec office in the lower library, he said. He urged anyone who's willing to serve on a fund raising executive, or on one of the several committees they hope to set up, to attend. H•e said he hoped to see some arena fund raising in progress at the 'Fall Fair'. this'coundil is a majority vote". If the committee has any notion of taking over the PUC, they should find out about costs and have a meeting, the mayor commented. Well before 5 o'clock Monday afternoon when the event was scheduled to begin, lines of cars were heading to Pine Ridge Chalet in Hay Township for a barbeque honoring Jack Riddell, Libereal candidate in 'Huron- Middlesex. When the Ontario Liberal bus arrived at 5:15 with Liberal Leader Robert Nixon, party officials and press the grounds already were well filled and supporters from across the riding continued to arrive almost until the end of the program. .In all about 2500 people attended the event. After speaking to the audience, Mr, Nixon was wisked away in a helicopter shortly past 6 p.m. to go to a live television appearance in London. Despite cloudy skies, chilly winds and the occasional drizzle, DAvid Papple turned 90 on Friday and doesn't think that is such a big deal. He has had a long life with his wife, Isabelle, 84, and has enjoyed their family which included 11 children, 31 grand- children and 32 great-grand- children. They had six girls, five boys, although one boy was lost overseas. One girl is living in California, four of their children in London, one in Brantford and four in the Seaforth area, In March, he and his wife had their 65th wedding anniversary and one of his boys presented him with a replica of the family farm which he sold in 1946. He was born on the Kippen Road about three miles and a quarter from Seaforth, where they lived in a little white house on a farm. He said his father was "just a working man" who worked as a farmhand for years, until he bought his father-in-law's farm on the Bayfield Road in 1890. The biggest changes have occurred in farming because it was all horses when he farmed but now its heavy machinery. He was an only child, had no brothers or sisters to quarrel with and just happened to "find" his wife a mile-and a quarter down Liberal supporters stood around the outdoor platform to hear the speeches and enjoy a program of entertainment. Mr. Nixon praised the Huron- Middlesex member as a "strong speaker, a strong opponent of the Tories". "He's good at keeping i uch with the people at home ut he has a cert ain indepeddent spirit that every good member needs," Mr. Nixon told the gathering. "When he gets up to speak, the Legislature listens." Mr. Nixon said that des ate what Premier Bill Davis is saying: the regional, government issue is not dead. "If the Tories are elected in this election, Ontario will be regionalized from Windsor to Ottawa and this Riding will be included", Mr. Nixon stated. "Don't you ever think this is not the road from where he lived, he chuckled. When asked if he was disappointed that none of his sons took over the family farm, he said: "Why should we? We were glad enough to get off it." He said, by this time, all his family was Started on their own so he and his wife decided to move to town to take it easy. Still and all he worked around town until he was eighty and couldn't do that anymore, he said. Moving to town, he said was "alright", "it was different. I retired to do nothing but take orders from the wife," he laughed. Mr. Papple said the old homestead got the Expositor since 1898, and he remembers getting it when he was a boy. He said his grandfather, David. Walker settled on a farm in 1837 and was likely one of the oldest subscribers to the paper. Seaforth isn't the town it was years ago," he said. There was more industry fifty years ago than there is today, such as the furniture factory, active foundry and blacksmith shops. "It's just kind of a place to live." "I can mind when there were seven hotels in Seaforth."ft was a much livelientovvrt fifty years ago. could do it. That's why I remember saying we should get information to the clerks". (Deputy-reeve Dale said no notice of the 1973 board decision could be found on file with Seaforth. Perhaps council has not gotten the information they should have in the past, Mayor Cardno said. Fire board representatives are now being asked for a monthly report she said. "I initiated getting this out when the press was around," the mayor said, adding that she could understand that Reeve Campbell was upset to see the story in print without forewarning. Reeve Campbell said that since the two new Seaforth appointees had first raised the question of part of Mckillop being allowed to opt out at fire area meetings, in April or May, he had wanted to straighten out the dispute. But, he said, the whole board should discuss the matter and since Councillor Hildebrand had not attended a fire area board meeting since then, the subject had not been raised. Councillor Hildebrand challenged this, saying that meetings had been cancelled by phone, then were held and he was not informed about the changes. "We haven't had a chance to straighten this out," Reeve Campbell said. Mayor Cardno said that she had been surprised to learn that part of the fire area board's original coverage area had been lost. "I was in on the first negotiations and we wanted to make the paragraph (setting boundaries for 10 years) ironclad. an issue in this eleCtion." Mr. Nixon called his own Riding of Brant the "hole in the regional government doughnut", explaining that municipalitiers all around it had been regionalized. He said the Davis government offers increased grants and financial incentive to areas that do regionalize, but he urged his listeners to "beware". "They think money talks," Mr. Nixon said, "but money talks like a Tory." The Liberals beli eve that local autonomy is where the strength of goVernment lies, Mr. Nixon said. Mr. Nixon said Liberal candidates all,,,over the province were meeting with positive response from the voters. "Whatever happens, it's going our way,", the Liberal leader smiled.After 32 years, it is time for a chahge. We need y our help, Everybody was working then and had a little money. Nowadays everybody is doing as little as they can help, he said. Mr. Papple said there are a lot of retired farmers in Seaforth, who h ave come from the farm, but continue to work around town. People had a more social life in those days, now you hardly know your next door neighbor. They used to have barn raisings, but now contractors and bricklayers do it, and it's a "big concern", he said. A lot of people might argue about the state of education today in comparison to years ago, but Mr. papple is one of the few-who still can remember a Seaforth teacher who travelled to a one- room school in Tuckesmith each day for 27 years, for less than $500 a year. Nowadays, kids get an education and they have to go miles away to make use of it, he said. He remembers when councils *had a lot more power than they do today. If something has to be done today, then the council has to get a "Toronto kink who doesn't know one end of Seaforth from another" to tell the councillors what to do, he said, If everybody took this view we could end up with very little in the fire area," she added. Reeve Campbell also told councillors that "something hasn't been right for some time" on the way contributions to the fire area board are assessed. he said that municipalities are supposed to be paying according to the total assessment, including the assessment on tax exempt properties like schools and municipal buildings, and it looks as if both Seaforth and McKillop are paying on only their taxable assessment, a lower figure. Hullett fire area rep Milton Dale, who accompanied Reeve Campbell said there was no problem in his municipality which has little tax exempt property. (By Wilma Oke) Total enrolment in schools under the jurisdiction of the Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board at the end of the first week of school this term was down 85 students from the same time in 1974. Jack Lane, Business Administrator, released the enrolment figures at the board meeting in Seafoth Monday ladies and gentlemen, and together we're going to do it." Stop Hanky-Panky Jack Riddell echoed Mr. Nixon's sentiments about regional government, adding that under a Liberal government, there would be a "stop to that kind of hanky-panky" where people are pushed into change when the government withholds grants. He said too much government attention is focused on Toronto and told his supporters a Liberal government would "treat everybody on an equal basis". Mr. Riddell spoke at length about the educational system in Toronto and blamed former education minister Bill Davis for experimenting with the children of this province to the point that education has seriously deteriorated. The former high school teacher told his audience that students are becoming disenchanted and dropping out of school at an alarming rate. He criticised the credit system which makes it• possible to get a Grade 13 'diploma without any core subjects such as English, Canadian History, Canadian Geography and Mathematics. He said some university students are "functionally illiterate" so that remedial courses in reading and mathematics are necessary in some instances. - "We've got to get back to the three R's," Mr. Riddell insisted. "We've got to get back to the core subjects. We've got to get back to some meaningful way of testing students." Mr. Riddell added that teachers were as dedicated and as conscientious as ever. "It's the system they work under," the Liberal candidate stated. "Davis has been experimenting with the educational system." Whopping Deficit Speaking about inflation, Mr. Riddell said the province has a $4.7 billion deficit which is costing the people $2,000,000 ry day in interest payments. He said a Liberal government would control government spending. He said "super ministries" would disappear and the "Legislative process" would be returned. He promised that new ,bills would get to the standing committees again for some "public input". He said she rp cuts could be (Continued on Page 6) Hibbert and Tuckersmith also share in the fire areaboard. "If we've been wrong we should correct it," councillor• Hildebrand said. Deputy Reeve Dale said he doubted that the section setting boundaries could be changed. He and deputy reeve Dale didn't know the changes to the coverage area had been made, "councillor Hildebrand explained, when they came on as " new appointees this year. "You can't blame McKillop for that", Reeve Campbell replied. -Mayor Cardno ,apologized for causing Reeve Campbell problems and said "we're not inferring this is all your fault." She said perhaps she asked for the fire arel board members' night. He said total enrolment this September is 3082, in 1974 it was 3167, and in 1973 it was 3266. Mr. Lane gave the enrolment by schools as follows with the 1974 total in brackets following the 1975' number: St. Patrick's School, Dublin, 184 (191); St Patrick's Kinkora, 196 (203); Holy Name of Mary, St. Marys, 190(197); St.Mary's, Hesson, 122 (107); Immaculate Conception, Stratford, 119 . (135); St. Michael's, Stratford, 272 (299); St. Ambrose, Stratford, 135 (141); St. Joseph's, Stratford, 141 (138); St. Aloysius, Stratford, 194 (200); St. Joseph's, Kingsbridge, 166 (181); St. Columban, R.R.2, Dublin, 91 (100); Our Lady of Mount Carmel, R.R.3,Dashwood 235 (235); Ecole Ste Marie, R.R.2, Zurich, 90 (83); St. Joseph's Clinton, 99 (93); Precious Blood, Exeter, 65 (71); St. James,' Seaforth , 176 (191); Sacred Heart, Wingharh, 133 (129); St. Boniface, Zurich, 245 (247); and St. Mary's Goderich, 229 (216). The Board accepted the fuel oil tender of Petrofina Canada Limited for the supply of No. 2 fuel oil from September 1, 1975 to August 31, 1976, at a discount of 7.2 cents per gallon off the posted tank wagon price, which at the time of tender was 37.6 cents, except Wingham which was 38.2 cents per gallon. Mrs. Constance Birmingham was hired for 40 per cent time as a remedial teacher at St. Ambrose School, Stratford and Mrs. Regene Whaling, for 40 per cent at St. Aloysius School, Stratofrd; commencing September 2. Barry Linden was hired for Grades 5 - 6 at Ecole Ste Marie School, Zurich, commencing September 10. Mrs. M ary Jo-An Sullen was hired as principal's relief (40 per cent) for one year term, commencing September 2. John Vintar, Director of Education, informed the board the teaching staffs wo'uld be report to council prematurelY4 Reeve Campbell said McKillop had been willing to meet on both • problems for a long time, but repeated that area board• meetings lacked a quorum, "We're agreeable to doing anything to keep peace and quiet but we're not going to•take things' which make us look bad lying down." Reeve Campbell began his comments to Seaforth councillors with an explanation of why McKillop took part of its area out of fire area coverage. There were complaints from ratepayers about protection in the north end of the township, he sad. He gave several examples of. north McKillop'` fires where Seaforth hadbeen called first but 'N Plyth had arrived first. completed when a music teacher ' was located for St. Patrick's School at Kinkora. A polling station will be located at Immaculate Conception School in Stratford for the provincial election at a rental fee of $35. Mr. Vintar reminded the- trustees of the 1975 conference of the Canadian Education Association to be held in Toronto September 24 -26. St. Michael's School in Stratford will be used for the COR weekend again from October 9th to the 11th. Stratford trustee, Howard Shantz , presented the board with a survey he made of the total number of homes, semi-detached homes and town housing units being planned for each area of the City of Stratford and how it would affect enrolment at the present separate schools in Stratford and indicated possible future requirements of additions or new schools. Plans are being made for the* official opening of the new board office now located in the former continuation school and convent in Dublin. The administrative (Continued on Page 8) Draw winners in LiOns car club Seaforth Lions were hosts Saturday night to Car Club 5 when final draws were held. The last of 300 tickets to be drawn was that of Wm. McLaughlin, Seafo rth and he won a new car or $2800. Mr. Mclaughlin, area Ford dealer, decided to take the Dodge Dart instead of the cash. Winners of $50 each in preliminary draws were Janet Cluff, Keith MacLean, Dennis McCauley, Mrs. Shirley Ring and Mrs. Joan Chesney, all of Seaforth. Dancing continued. throughout the evening followed by lunch. councillor Wayne Ellis of the police committee said. Councillors made no decision on what was to be done with any dogs that are caught without tags or known owners. Mayor Cardno suggested that since many municipalities have dog problems, perhaps it's time for county council to set up a county dog catcher and county pound. The crime :ate in August was the highest this year in town, councillor Ellis said, quoting Police Chief John Cairns' report. The chief said that 90% of. the crime had been cleared up. After councillor ' read the list of police overtime hours for. the month, councillor John Sinnamon commented that these hours cost Seaforth about $141 week last month. Mayor Cardno said that the chief is keeping track of how much of the overtime is related to court appeara' NIXON IN HENSALL — Ontario Liberal leader Robert Nixon shakes hands with someone in the large crowd at the Jack Riddell barbecue at Pineridge Chalet Monday night. That's Allan Nicholson of Egmondville behind Mr. Nixon. (Staff Photo) Council continues water discussion The PUC town council dispute was once again a topic at Seaforth council's meeting Monday night. Councillors heard a PUC opinion that it would be alright to selltownwater to service cattle on the Carl Dalton property just outside town, as long as an agreement said that either party could back out on 90 days notice. Councillor Jim , Crocker's finance committee recommended that the sale not be approved. The PUC say they don't have enough Water and then they sell it to cattle, how can they justify that? councillor Wayne Ellis wondered. At the urging of Mayor Cardno, council decided that Mr. Dalton 'would be told that the water decision had to come from the PUC, but that council would then decide whether to give, access to the water, across town property. Councillor John Sinnamon, chairman of the ad hoc committee on takeover of the PUC said his committee hadn't been able to get an opinion, from a local lawyer on either the legality of a takeover or of the PUC's back billing. The mayor suggested that all councillors read the PUC Act. Councillor Sinnamon said he felt his committee was not getting council's support. Clerk Robert Franklin said a plebiscite would be needed to repeal the by-law setting up the PUC. Councillor Sinnamon objected to a comment at the last PUC meeting by acting chairman Ed Daly that one or two people were swinging- council on the issue. "Any motion that gets through C area I . .,. • A lack of communication between members of the Seaforth Fire Area Board is causing problems, Concerned by a "report in the paper" McKillop Reeve Allan ; Campbell came to Seaforth council Monday night to talk•Fire,„ Area Board business. Reeve Campbell objected to Seaforth's fire board represen. tatives, Deputy reeve Bill Date and councillor George: Hildebrand's, contention at the, last local council meeting that:. McKillop hail pulled part of its township out of the area, contrary -to the agreement that all, municipalities signed when the, area was formed in 1970. "What's in the paper is not the:, way it was in the meeting", Councillor Hildebrand told him. Reeve Campbell said that Seaforth Reeve John Flannery chaired the area board meeting in, (5ctober 1973 when the other members agreed to let a portion of McKillop opt out and Seaforth Councillor Wayne Ellis was on the board. Reeve Campbell said that he and Bill Leeming, the other McKillop rep., had left the room and the McKillop request was passed.He showed council a letter to the McKillop clerk from the fire board secretary confirming this at the time. The reeve said he wanted it understood that nothing had been done under the table. Councillor Ellis said perhaps he and Reeve Flannery had been remiss in not bringing this to council at the time. Reeve Flannery said that he had spoken to the clerk about it, "There was . a question (in October 1973) about whether we Seafprth livelier fifty years ago, 90 year old says Crowd hears Nixon at kiddell bcirbeque gathering The long awaited completion of sewers for Seaforth looks closer following Monday night's council "meeting. Councillors learned that tenders on the first phase of finishing the town's sewers will be opened in Toronto on September 23. Reeve John Flannery said he would like to attend the tender opening because it was useful to meet the government men who would handle the job. Council was asked to form a liaison committee to meet when construction is in progress. They named the mayor, town clerk, town foreman, the reeve, the PUC manager and a representative from Seaforth's industrial committee. The town's mechanical dog catcher will be .put into service again, following a number of complaints about dogs running at large. Anyone who complains can have the catcher installed on their property by town workenen,. nrolment down, in Huron Perth schools Council sees early start on sewer installation '-'hole No. 5609 . 16th Year 0