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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-09-25, Page 1Whole No. 5011 116th. Year FIRST SECTION PAGES 1 TKE, HURON XPOSITOR,,SEPTEMBER 25, 1975 —22 PAGES ' $1.000 A Year 'My:ince $inkle 900 25:conts Town finds sewer costs up when bids opened THE FIRST RETURNS — Frank Sills puts some of the first election returns that came into Returning Officer Russell Bolton's office in Seaforth up on the big board,' Thursday night. Bill Smith is at left. Most of the local returns were in by 8:40, not long after the polls closed. There were few spectators outside the returning office and few celebrants on the streets because of the drizzling rain. In Huron-Middlesex SDHS band invited to Fidrida There is a pretty famou s group of girls in Seaforth, a group that hometown people tend to take for granted. They're the SDHS Girl's Trum- • pet Band, directed since 1957 by r Georg Hildebrand. The band has just received an invitation to play in Florida this winter and they are pretty excited about it. SDHS principal Bruce Shaw and Mr. Hildebrand told the Expositor that the girls are invited to be the only Canadian band to play in the Thomas Edison Pageant of Lights parade in Fort Myers, Florida. Every year the organizers of the third * largest parade in the state ask one Ontario band to represent Edison's association with Ontario. The band won't decide to accept the invitation, for Feb- ruary 12, 1976, until they get more information from parade organizers on how much they will be paid. Mr. Hildebrand said that if they accept the band will have * of look at a local campaign to raise funds. The SDHS band, the only school band in the county, this year gets a budget allottment from the Huron County Board of Education. Previously they depended on donations from parades they played and in local school board days, on requests to the board for, specific items. The band has played all over Ontario and in many parts of Michigan. They are the official band for the Ontario Plowman's Association and Haven't missed an International Plowing Match. This morning the band left for a day at the International near Oshawa. Monday night a small group of women supporters of the • band met at SDHS to organize a Ladies Auxiliary. Principal Shaw told the group that they were needed to "relieVe theburden on George and give the band a little guidance and moral support." When George started directing the band there were 28 members; now there are 63 and there will soon be 70. The new Auxiliary will look 41 over all band uniforms and get them put into good shape; from then on upkeep will be band member's responsibility, the women decided. • They will also help organize fund raising activities and are planning a bake sale, October 11. Peg Coombs was named presi- dent and Carol Baker secretary treasurer of the group. They will hold another meeting and sewing bee, Wednesday, October 8 at 8p.m. at the school: HPIZC board sets official opening (By Wilma Oke) November 5 was set as the date for the official opening of the new Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board office in Dublin when the mem- bers met Monday in their new board room. * Michael Connolly of Kippen and William Kinahan of Wing- ham will work with administrative staff on the details of the opening. Effective October 1 the board will contribute to OHIP for all its employees not covered by the teacher-board agreement 80 per cent, up from 75 per cent. Architect Brian Garratt of * Kyles, Kyles and Garratt of Stratford attended the meeting to present to the board members the finalized working drawing and specifteations for the addition to St. Patrick's School, Kinkora. The plans call for a gymnasium, change rooms and showers and kitchen. Estimated cost is about $200,000. Tenders will be called to be opened October 27. * Sister Mary St. Louis, principal of St. James School, Seaforth, presented a report on Family Life Education Sister Mary said as educators, "It is our responsibility to consi- der the total development of the child, meeting his deep emotional needs as well as providing for social, spiritual, emotional and intellectual development. 01 She said since humans have no built-in knowledge of how to solve problems of family living this (Continized on Page 6) Huron M iddlesex voters sent Liberal Jack Riddell back for a second term in the Ontario legislature Thursday when they gave him a majority of nearly 4,000 votes over PC candidate Jim Hayter. Seaforths vice principal Paul Carroll ran a poor third. The final tally was Riddell - 11,8 85; Hayter- 8,106 and Carroll - 2,008. Mr. Riddell, Dashwood area farmer won the former Huron riding after 30 years of Tory representation in a March, 1973 by-election. The race was expected to be a close one between Mr. Riddell and Mr. Hayter, a Goderich car dealer, but in fact the Liberal increased his majority from 2,967 over Conservative Don Southcott in 1973 to 3,779 over Mr. Hayter. The NDP's Carroll increased his vote from 1749 in 1973 to 2008 this time of which 541 came from the Middlesex portion of the riding. He says that the NDP is slowly gaining acceptance in the area and that he'll run again. Mr. Riddell lost only two municipalities, Lucan and Hayfield where he ran 10 votes Hayter in both cases. The riding had nearly 30,000 voters this time, since several Middlesex municipalities were added to the former Huron riding. Nearly 76% of them voted, a bigger turnout than in the 1973 by-election and bigger than the Edighoffer holds Perth Liberal , incumbent Hugh Edighoffer was re-elected in Perth to a third consecutive term in the legislature Thursday with a record majority of 10,482 over his Conservative opponent. Mr. Edighoffer had 17,869 votes. Conservative Bob Smith 7,387 and NDP candidate Larry Wraith 2,941. Mr. Edighoffer swept 174 of the 178 polls. Mr.Smith won four polls and Mr. Wraith none. Mfr Edighoffer more than doubled Mr. Smith's total in every municipality but Listowel and St. Marys. Mr. Edighoffer's victory surpassr6d his 6,815 margin in 1971 when he was re-elected. THE VOTE IN PERTH Edighoffer Smith Wraith (Continued on Page 6) provincial average. About 71% of the voters turned out for the by-election in the old Huron riding. In Seaforth though, the turnout was about the same when a.little more than 1000 people voted. Seaforth went strongly for Riddell who got 613 votes, compared with 345 for Hayter and 90 for Carroll. In Hensall it was closer, with Liberal Murray Gaunt won every town and township 'in Huron-Bruce Thursday to take the riding by a 10,000 vote majority. Mr. Gaunt, who has represented the riding at Queen's Park since 1962 polled 16;561 votes • to Conservative Bill Walden's 5,955 and NDP David Milne's 2,635. Mr. Gaunt , who has been agriculture critic for the Lib erals took 369 votes in Brussels compared to 125 for Mr. Walden and 17 for Dr. Milne. In Morris he polled 567 to 142 for Mr, Walden and 39 for Dr. Milne. The Liberal swamped Grey as well, taking 588 votes to the P C's 135 and the NDP's 48. In McKillop, he polled 463 votes, to 145 for Mr, Walden and 44 for Dr. Milne.Hullett went 540 for Gaunt, 178 for Walden and 41 for Milne. Mr. Gaunt, 40, had about two-thirds of the vote after the first few polls and kept the lead the rest of the evening as results came into the office of Returning Officer George McCutcheon in Brussels. The popular Liberal won the riding in 1971 by 8,600 votes. Huron-Bruce included the townships of McKillop and Hullett for the first time. Returning officer George McCutcheon said that after the vote was officially counted on Monday the totals changed somewhat. The total vote was 24,772, with 16276 for Gaunt. 2613 for Milne and 5883 . for Walden. Detailed election results are: ,1 Saugeen Twp. 401 86 177 Southampton 645 155 406 Pt .El gin 931 288 607 BruceTwp. 436 183 251 Tiverton 142 98 116 (Staff Photo) Riddell getting 280 to Hayter's 208 and Carroll's 36. For the first time in many years Exeter had a Liberal majority, with Riddell getting 941, Hayter 722 and Carroll 152. Tuckersmith gave Riddell a majority of more, nearly 500 votes, 860 to Hayter's 379. Carroll got 144. A poll by poll vote tally of local (Continued on Page 6) Kincardine Twp. 600 246 351 Kincardine Town 937 461 541 Greenoch Twp. 584 69 172 Huron Twp, 594 140 287 Ripley 206 29 90 (Continued on Page 6) Fall fair entries tops Despite competition from the we weather and the Ontario eleition in Seaforth • the fall fair attracted top entries in all classes and an attendance equal to last year. There were disappointments Mrs. Kathleen Cuthill, fair secretary, said but they couldn't be helped. Wet weather and a muddy track forced cancellation of several attractions including horse races and chariot races. An accident to midway staff at an earlier fair resulted in only a portion of the midway which had been contracted turned up disappointing hundreds of kids and lots of adults too who had looked forward to a ride on the ferris wheel or merry-go-round. A confliction in dates brought a school professional day in competition with the fair on Friday. Since many area schools were closed the number of children participating in the noon parade was down from previous years. Exhibitors emphasized the high quality of stock and keen competitions that was present in most classes. Ty pica! was the comment of prominent hay exhibitor Bill Turnbull of Brussels, "ft was stiffer than the CNE" he told a fair official. Continuing a program of improvements to the grounds and buildings fair officials this year erected new chain link fence (Continued on Page 6) system will cost $1,399,024 if the lowest of 12 tenders is accepted, Completion of Seaforth sewer asked to look at the tender figures again. Other low tenders being studied by Ministry officials are: town repreSentatives learned Yundt and McCann Construction Tuesday afternoon when they Ltd., Stratford, $1,455,582.08, attended a bid opening at the requiring 65 weeks td complete ministry of the Environment in work; and C.A. McDowell Ltd., Toronto. Centralia, $1,495,899.45, 65 week Representing Seaforth at the to complete the work. proceedings were Mayor Betty Highest bid received was Cardno, Reeve John Flannery, $2,296,153. Clerk Robt. Franklin and works Mayor Cardno, said council will superintendent Harvey Dolmage. hold a special meeting to consider The low bid, came from Vasto the revised cost figures based on Construction Company Limited the bids, Weston. The company indicated Mayor Cardno said the initial it would need 85 weeks to estimate of the work made in 1973 complete the system. was about $1,282,000. The dif- The company representative ference between this and the bids Tuckersmith hears of River pollution day care deficit (By Wilma Oke) Tuckersmith Council has' been notified by the Ministry of the Environment that Egmondville sewage is polluting the Bayfield River. The report to council based on surveys made in July, 1975, by the Ministry, states that waste water and sewage is gaining access to the storm drains, causing a deterioration in the quality of water in the Bayfield River and ' creating a health hazard. The Ministry st ated that the results clearly emphasize the need for the proposed provincial' sewage works for Egmondville. The proposal calls for Egmondville to be connected to the Seaforth Sewage System when it is completed in the spring of' 1976. , .Tuckersmith council in a body met with the Clinton PUC' in Clinton prior to its meeting at Huron- centennial School, Brucefield. The meeting was called to discuss what procedures. Tuckersmith would have to take to have the Vanastra Water and Sewage Works taken over by Clinton P.U.C. rather than continue under the Ministry of the Environment through the township. Costs will have to -be studied among other things. A committee was named to study the proposal changeover: township clerk James McIntosh, Clinton, P .U.C.manager R.J.Bdussey and one member of Clinton Council yet to be -named. Passed for payment was the Pfaff Electric account of $2,200 for work at Vanastra Day Care Centre presently being constructed. Building permit applications were 'approved for: Vern Alderdice, Kippen, grain and storage buildings; Henry Binnendyk, Seaforth, new barn sand silo; Bruce Rathwell, Brucefield, addition to house; Bill Price, Egmondville, new house; Gerry Salton, Vanastra, addition to house; George Townsend, R.R.4, Seaforth, silo. Tenders for the Nott Drain were opened and work on the drain was awarded to Robe's.,, Nicholson for $4,500. The tenders ,, for the . closed drain were considered too high to accept. As• the tenders stated work on the drain would not be done until 1976, Council decided to re-tender in the spring. Plagued by complaints from ratepayers about dogs running at large councillors asked Clerk McIntosh to write the London Humane Society to enquire about service and costs for the Society to police the dog problem in the township. Mr . McIntosh said at his office alone received an average of two dog calls a day. Council approved requests for tax refunds from: Canadian Fabricator Products Ltd., Vanastra, for three ‘months ($270.12) . They have moved out; McGregor Farms, Kippen, for two barns removed; Alvin Hoff, Egmondville, dismantled an addition to house. Council concurred with the Hay Township by-law for the maintenance and repair to the Soldan Drain. It is estimated to mkt $4,500 for a complete clean-out. Council was informed by a letter from Harry Loyens of' reflected increased construction costs and higher interest charges.. Ministry officials told the Sea-' forth representatives there also could be an increase in operating costs. Mrs. Cardno said the ministry officials have 60 days in which to award a contract. The present work will complete the sewage system for the town of which about one third now is served. Involved is a total of nearly ten miles of sewage tile ranging in sizes from 5 inches to 20 inches in diameter. The system will be owned and operated by the environment ministry. Capital costs will be recovered from the town over 40 years through a surcharge on resident utility bills. A few people who hadn't put any offici al entries in any 'of the fair classes still went home as winners from the Seaforth Fall Fair on Friday. The system will be connected to a sewage lagoon with four eella "conipleted in 1973 and OP provide about 1,000 sewage connections. The current project will result in sewer set-Vice being available throughout the town and will complete a program begun more than twenty years ago when a disposal plant was erected and lines laid to serve the main street area. The present project has been under way since September 1965 when council asked to participate in a provincial program whereby smaller communities could have their sanitary sewers upclited or completed by the ministry with costs to the town amounting over 40 years. Riddell wins by 4,000 Gaunt again sweeps Huron-Bruce riding London, an answer to Council's request, that he would clean up all debris from the two buildings being demolished at Vanastra. ' Council expregsed concern over delays in getting the street lights installed in Harpurhey at the entrances from No. 8 highway. Council had accepted the offer of Borland and Orchard of Thamesford (firm recommended by Ontario Hydro) to install the lights which were requested .by Harpurhey residents. Council turned down a -request from Hensall Recreation, Parks and Community Centre *Board to contribute to up-dating costs of $155,00 to the arena. Council finds it cannot contribute to capital costs to four arenas -- Hensall, Vanastra, Clinton and Seaforth -- all used by, tuckersmith residents. Tuckersmith council will ask John R. Mucha of the Ministry of Social Services to consider funding the over-expenditure of $20.000 above the estimate approved for the renovations to the Recreation Centre as a Day Care Centre at Vanastra, they decided at Tuesday's meeting. To date $53,000 has been paid by the Ministry. Council considers it might cost about $90,000 before it is.cornpleted and furnished. It was learned that only eight children are registered for the Vanastra Day Care Centre. which is scheduled to open Monday. When the Centre was proposed at Vanastra. council was Assured about thirty children woad, avail .themselves of the day care service,, Doris Hugill of Seaforth won the Order of the Eastern Star THE OLD AND THE NEW — 1974 Seaforth Fall Fair Queen Marj Jansen crowns the new queen,' Nancy Dietz at the fair on Friday afternoon, Nancy, an SDHS student, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Dietz, R.R.3, Seaforth and was sponsored by the Queens Hotel. (Photo by Wilma Oke) Lucky few win quilts quilt. The quilt raffled off by the Women's Institute was won by Mrs. Frank Dunn. Seaforth and the pillow by a Mr. Kennedy. The Calendula quilt from the Van Egmond Foundation was won by Stafford Stephenson, Wood- stock. THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION --Newly re-elected Huron Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell, centre was at the Fall Fair Friday, the day after his victory. Talking to Mr. Riddell are Seaforth area farmers Cot Dorssers, left and John Klaver„ (Staff Photo) J