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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 4981 - 20 PAGES
Ex-manager
.pleads:.gujity
Gary Schenk, former manager of Roth's
Food Market, Seaforth.' entered a plea of
guilty in provincial ' court in Goderich
Monday on a charge of theft over $200.
Judge WI Cochrane requested a pre-
" sentence report at •the hearing, and
remanded--Mr. Schenk Out Of, custody until
Feb. 16 when he will be sentenced. He was
represented .by Seaforth lawyer__ Ralph
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The'fOrmer managerNvas Charged after
store owner Ken Roth noticeetunds were
missing front-thsbusinest, After conducting
his o vn investigation. Mr. Roth reported his
suspi ions to police.
• Mr. sciumk, a fOrmer Kitchener resident,
&civet •,to Seeforth in May to become
tnenigef of the market.
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ACCIDENT SCENE-7.1...ongtime_Seafortirresident, Hugh Thompson of 19
John St., was killed Monday motting when he was struck by ice falling
front the roof of his house: ' Police believe that Mr. Thompson was
attempting to dislodge the ice with a long pole. when the accident
occurred. • (Photo by Ellis)
Seaforth :resident
killed by falling ice
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While Seaforth Pehlie Utilities CM- In'Seafatih, rates won't An ep emit . GingeliCh. *t-6011 MX' triatta$Or-
'1,1 $i°1) (FI:SO haysk„Mie of lowcv • AfteN NOITch whenttelt,vdit intreasc. 7.7 'said Hydro inereaSeti its rates fI/ the Utility
pereFritage increases area ' peer cents Thi§411eaus x ialipayer using 750' ' .9.3P'eir cent, - and monthly hills
Municipalities, when new rates...AO into kilowatts of power could find hiS bill increased by the same etnoup3. A Hydro
effect in March town ratepayers maysfi>l increasing, OPIn toS490 monthly. user who paid $27.75 Per month now pays
be paying higher monthly Hydro bills than ' Clinton Axil-ismer Gus 13nOstey said
neighbouring ratepayers. beginning Jan. 1. 1981, his utility started
Don CarMichael, of Hydro's regional
office. London. said a householder in July.
1980 in Seaforth. using 750 kilowatts of
power monthly, .would pay 530.55.A
Plderich resident for example. ifie
same amount of power, paid $27.60; a
Clinton resident received a $77,85 bin:, in
Mitchell, the figure was S27.75 and in
Exeter. $26.45.
Ontario Hydro has since increased the
price of electricity sold to municipal PUCs,
an increase some householders ' haVe
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Advertising negofiations
upsets Perth board
530.60. Mr. Gingerieb said, hi$ PI,tC didn't
add. anything to cover inflationary trendk.
as some utilities have done.
In Exeter, PUC, manager H,L. Davis said
OntariO Hydro increased its rates to, the
municipality by 9.3 per cent. In turn. there
..was aril .9-per cemincreasent rustomerS
monthly bills in Exeter. Mr. Davis pointed
out while a municipality's rates may
Suffering a back injury in a hockey 'game last
weck4Wlio longer in intensive care.
He has been taken out of the itensive 1,06(
core unit at L University Hospital'. ndon,
and currently has' 50 per cent use his
spinal cord and a little bit of feeling in- both-
legs. according to hiSifather. Mel. ,
•Deug.,a memberof the Brussels Midget
Hockey tearn,received the injury-at a game
played in Seaforth last, Tuesdaymight. Jerry
Wheeler, coach of "the 'Brussels-team- said-
-Dougseemed to go backwards into the
boards. hittingrhis-back----after- a. Seaforth -
player caught him on the breakaway, -He '
said since the play happened beside the net
CROWN FOR A PRINCESS--Eileen' DittfY a student at' SDHS, was
Crowned Snow Princess by last year'6 winner Mary Murray on Friday, in
con unction with last w eekend s Optimist WInteFcafriiiiall'—()Prfolo by
Ellis)
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Seaforth resident Hugh • Malcolm
Thompsen, 68, of 19 'John• 'St. was 'killed
instantly Monday morning when he was
crushed by ice and snow which fell from the
roof of his home:
Police ' believe Mr. Thompson ' was at-
tempting to remove ice and snow from the
roof when the accident occurred. A section of
club,
"Weather and snow conditions were
ideal", said cOkcitairman 'William • Whyte,
who headed up, the event along with Kee
Cardno and Ken Coleman. The hardworking
committee held many -,,rneetings to co-
ordinate the "various „events which got
underway Friday night at 6:30 p..tin, with the
firstgames of the 16-team Atom-Hockey
tournament and ''a .taiiiiii-style carnival fun
night.
• Snow ."Sculpturing with area school
children' participating started, off the
'Saturday events along with'iriliteltackey that
Went on until 10 p.m. With sat., moist snow
the 16 teams from area school , children
entered in the sculpturing =Vest. *ere
soon piling uP• snow °and patting 'out some
shapes,
Two young ptimary students at Seaforth
Public School. Connie McCowan andlillysop ,
Scott, produced a car, using paint to show Off
In Halifax
•., Lloyd 'Eisler Jr. of Seaforth and partner
•Lori Baler' of Mitchell, are competing for
another top figure skating award in Halifax
this• week.
'The pair, silver meda lists in the 1981
world junior figure skatipg champiopships
held in London in December. are skating in
the Canadian National Figure Skating
Championships in Halifax this week. "
Lloyd and Bev Eisler have accompanied
the skaters to the competition.
Lloyd 3r.. known- as '"Herbie", in the
skating world, said earlier, the pair's main
competition will'be the reigning champions.
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Super carnival.
There was ItrOk"O tour-
natnent„ ice sculptures, cross '
country. skiing, snowmobil-
ing and trucho•ntich more at
the S6'1'61111 Optimist Winter
success
• Five young boys' from.the Junior .grades
shaped, out a large dog which they promptly
natirled-Goldie Chang Snow-. -Which made
them top winning team in their class. The
five - boys from Huron Centennial school,
Brucefield, are:Jenathan and Jason Knight,
Peter Ste Marie and Jeremy and johnny
Miller.
Four Intermediate Class students from St.
James Catholic school took top honours" in
their division withjheirlilige pink lobster--
Traty Wright, Corinne DeCort. Linda
VanDyk and Pam Betties. .
Saturday afternoon 2S ,four-wheel drive
vehicles took off from the Seaforth recreation
park .on a 25 mile poker rally. mainly In
unplowed sideroacls. First place winner we,.
Brian Glanville of Egniondville, who turned
in a hand of two eights and-two nines and in
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skater ,Barbara Underhill and partner Paul
Martini of Toronto.
The • local pair will be competing on
Thursday night. ,
The national figure skating Championships
will be broadcast on CKCO. Channel 13. on
Saturday nad Sunday.
Lloyd Eisler Jr. and Lori Baier will be
guests Feb. 3 at the Exeter Lions Club
annual Sportsmen's Dinner , at the South
Huron Rec. Centre.t,Other guests are Don '
Cherry, former NFU., „-coach- and sports
commentator and former Montreal
tanadiens player. Jean Beliveau.
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BY: COLLEEN MALONEY
1:t_PidatlYertisetnent, placid 'tithe local
media by the Perth County Board of
Education became the topic of considerable
the boars meeting Jan: 26.
The - ad expressed concern about news
coverage of board relatiqns with its 77'6
secondary school teachers during recent
contract negotiations.
-The- — fo. Waled many -
citizens to believe that the Perth County
Board of Education expects its teachers to
work considerbly more for less pay than do,
most other school 'boards," the ad stated.
It explained that the board's intent in
purchasing the ad was to "inform the public
AWL Walley, indivicluals,to.draw
A vehicle reported stolen
by Seaforth police last week
was discovered by Waterloo
Regional Police Saturday in
Kitchener. A juvenile, found
with the car 'keys in ,his
possession, has been
charged. The vehicle belongs_
to Neil Bell of Seaforth.
Police investigated •a
report of mischief Saturday
after damage was discovered
specifically to the recent advertisement-But,•
he wishedroinsure.that, 'infuture,anything
that is going into the media that we (the
board) pay for should be brought before the
board." :
Dr. Kelly refused to comment On whether
or not he felt the recent ad was needed.
MrS. Herman termed the idea that any
member would advert's; on behalf of the
board without its approval, "Hair seising."
She„said the actual text of the recent ad
Was not presented to the board because of
the time factor involved.
It' was essential the ad appear while
"people had the details still in 'their minds."
said Mrs, Herman.
However,, Mrs. Herman said the board
' was informed of the nature of the planned
advertisement before it was issued. •
Mrs. Herman suggested that perliaPi r.
Kelly was ,'concerned about advertising
policy because he was not present when the
ad was presented to the beard,
Dr. Kelly, virhosewife teaches secondary
suspects. Seaforth
Community. Hospital rents
the building as a workshop. ,
There was minor damage
in an accident Friday
morning between a vehicle
driven by Mark Flannigan of
Seaforth and one driven by
Raymond Flynn of Clinton.
Both drivers were turning
west onto Railtvay St. when
the colligion occurred. "'
- Support staff in Clinton, Exeter and
Goderich are not merithers of CUBE.
Gord McKenzie. administrator in Seaforth
said the hospital had an opportunity to join'
with others when the association was formed
but decided against it.;
increase (fii6 ypt, .comparison tp, ether
tows s. they, may decrease the next year.. .5,-
He pointed out'some ofAciincrease'riy
depend- op capital expenditures fa livid
projects. •
For Seaforth PUC custoraeis the
statistics mean that while out-percentage ,.,
increase was lower than other
municipalities. our monthly,,,bills aren't
necessarily less. The reason,according to
Ontario Hydreis latest available statistics
for.-980,4s-Seaforth-bills mere-originally-
higher than those in the four neighbouring
towns.
said.
Paul McDonald, another Brussels „cp,ach
said play in Tuesday night's game didn't
seem any rougher than usual but added that
he hadn't seen Doug McArter go into the
boards-since bisattention. was-with players - -
on the bench. •
Dave Nielson. secretary manager of the
Western Ontario Athletics Association.
(WOAA) in. Wingham, said there wasn't
-going ta-be.an-investigation- of-the incident-. • -
Doug. the ,son of Mel and Lois McArter of
Rrussels._ and...a. student_ .at.
Secondary School." Wingham, is inrotra PO4
on .the tenth floor of University Hospital.
He is survived by . one son. 'Kenneth
Maleolin offludsoirrQuebec: a,brother. Jaek
Thompson' of Seaforth, and 'five grand-
children, He was predeceased by a sister,
'Mrs. John (Florence) Hoelscher and 'a
brother, Cecil.
Mr.. Thompson served as An elder at
Northside United Church and was a member
The body restedat the Box Funeral Hente.
Seaforth where , the funeral service was,
conducted Wednesday by Rev. James,
Vanslyke. After temporary entombment at
the Pioneer Memorial Mausoleum burial Will
folio tater at the ivIttithindhatdc Cetrietity:-
Pallbearers were:'' Bruce Hoelscher, Bill
Irwin, Bill CaMpbell. 'Paul Kay, Allan
Campbell, DaVi Stewart. ,
Flowerbeaters• were Denise. Nancy
Stephen. Kate and Chuck Thompson.
False alarm
A daft responded•to by the Seaforth pre
• Dipartntent at noon yesterday iff -47 Chalk
St., Seaforth-was a talsealann.
"It was- just a kettle ,on the tite4e,"
explained .Alberfolialtittbritatt.dereer at the
house." We• just turbid the stpue et" •
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arniv I a
weather.
• - BY WILIVIA OKE the licence plate. head lights, windows and
"A complete success" was the way the other features. It caught the eye of the
organizers summed up the 14th annual judges who awarded it first prize in the
winter carnival by. the Seaforth Animist -_primary-division.
Lloyd, Lori
• this wee
Carnival On the Weekend. We
bawl -a 'photo feature on ail
the happenings., See page 8.
Going strong at 90
Longtime Brucefield. resident--
J, K. Cornish• was honoured
by more than 140 friends and
relatives Sunday in celebrat-
ing his 90th birthday: The
Expositor visited with the
popular gentlemen to share
some of his stories. See
story. picture. page 3.
So bring it on
The Seaforth Curling Club
ackttriWiedged" tradition
' conclusions,:" about the events surrounding 11-
e settlement. ea F.
th Much of the ad outlined the terms of the
neW...eOntrect,
Seaforth Coinmunity Hospital. along with
others in Huron County in Clinton. Exeter
and Goderieho is- not affected by the illegal
strike by non-medical staff in a number of
Ontario' hospitals: ,•
Although support staff in S,eiforth are "
membets of the Canadian Union of Public
-Employees-ICUPE1Ah-e-hospiralis not Wart
of, an association of hospitals which was
formed to negotiate collectively, with, their
Wednesday and • honoured
Scottish poet Robbie Burns
with a parade and address-to
the haggis. Those eating the
delicacy (?) were participants
in a ladies' curling' bonspiel
at the club. See picture.
bonspiel details,' page 9.
Whew I co
to three ,
They were befuddled and
bedazzled at SDHS last week ,
when the Incredible. Mike
,Mandell a hypnotist froth
Toronto, performed for Mu-
dents, and teachers. For an
outline of his amazing skills,
see Patricia Rimmer's Kids.
Teens and In Betweens. page
14.
A preSs conference was held followingthe
agreement. BM trustee' Barbara Herman
(who served as head' of the. salary
negotiating committee involved in the
cettlenient) situit_wa,s_believed_the_ad.wouild__ school in tennnurbad:_• deoated-aenniet...(t
, be helpful, "in case-theinforMaiion was not Interest. He was not presentfollowing the
, board's contract discussions, when the ad relayed to the public," • ...
The ad became a Ionia of discussion was 'praposedo -
follow\pg a notice of motion by Trustee Dr. <, . ' Canon Michael Griffin, vice-chairman of
J. Ke ly. Dr. Kelly asked the board to , the board said he was; "very much against
consider drawing up and 'implementing a this type of advertising'.
policy pertaining to the placement •of paid Canon Griffin said to his knowledge:this
advertising in ,..the media. was the . first time the board had been
Dr. Kelly said he was not referring - involved in such a purchase.,
Juvenile charged
Car found in kitchener
With the windShield wipers ,
and motor of a vehicle owned
by John• Forrest. Police:have
no suspects for the incident
.which occurred on January
24th.
Saturday police in-,
vesti ated a. report of a
brcilie window in a garage at
the re r of 15 Main, St.
,at
Seafot h. The garagewas riot
entere . and there are no
No strikes in Huron hospita15:.,
Negotiations in Seaforth, which are
currently going on, are handled separately.
workers. Support staff have been without a contract
since Sept, 30, 1980. .'
would now pay $30.S0.
paying it to 12 per cent more to Ontario.
Hydro for power. However, while ,Mr.
Boussey presumes this means there will be
an increase in utility bills for Clinton
residents; the PVC is waiting foriti audit
report before deciding what the increase• in
rates for users will be. e
W.A. Lawson. Goderteh PUC manager,.
said, Gederich is paying Ontario Hydro 9.8
per cent more for power. The rate increase
for customers was rounded off to an even
'10 per cent. Mr. Lawson said, a homeowner
214/94711ASWA4f/OtePRWArkirleogg.gartgre5e was crieult to see exailly„what hmenell.
el. )4 )1 )P1)1)4. .Y4 )4 140 in serious condition in hospital a ft er It. was Just' wreak a cct ent. eeler
Hockey player improved
the eave, torn by the weight of the ice, and a of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Club • and of
long piece of wood were diteovered beside the 1.0.0.F.
the body. Mr, Thompson lived alone. • ,• ,
The body was discovered by Grant Little, a
cable television repairman investigating a
report cable service was' out. The cable Was
broken by the falling ice.
Huron County coroner, 'Dr.:ANY Flowers..
propounded Mr. Thompson, 'dead at . the-
seene. Police say cause of death was
multiple fractures of the skull.
Mr. ThoMpson was well-known through-
out the Seaforth area where he had operated
a shoe repair business until he retired in
1980. In addition', he taught the trade at
Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton,
Tot Sekretin years,
He was born in 191,2 in. Eden Grove, Bruce'
Cot nty. the son of Neil 'Thompson and
Martha, Ann • (Kellett), He received his
primary educationin RIO, before attending
high school' in. Clinton He was Predeceased
by his Wife. the former •rurgareirtrwin. lit
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