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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1956-03-08, Page 1ecor THE NEWS-RECORD-75th YEAR. Miss Bonnie Hamilton brought great honour to herself, her family, school and Clinton this week when she spelled down 15 other girls from the Stratford zone in. the Ontario Spelling Bee. With her (at left) is Miss E. Jamieson, Grade Seven teacher at Clinton Public School. At right is Miss Nancy Hughes, Goderich. Public School, who was runner-up at semi-finals when winners in this inspectorate were declared, Miss Hughes is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ray Hughes, Gode- rich, and (at far right) is her teacher. Bonnie, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ham- ilton, Albert Street, Clinton, will now go forward into the Provincial finals in Toronto during Easter week. (News-Record Photo) Owner of the grand champion exhibit at the Seed Fair, Donald Buchanan, Londesboro, here receives the congratulations of Deputy Reeve N, W. Trewartha, Clinton, for his honours. The winning exhibit was a bushel of red clover and sold later that afternoon in the auction sale to Charles MeNaughton, Exeter, for $25. (Photo by Phillips) T wn cti n Junior Skaters At Lions Arena Young indeed to be on her own at the skating arena, little Ms Christine Hartley (right) has more than 12 months to her credit on skates. Last year (at 18 months) she was. a veteran with bob skates. This year she graduated to single blades and visits the rink each Wednesday afternoon with her mother, Mrs. H. E. (Erma) Hartley, Recently, too, she has found a youthful friend at the rink, and with Miss Janice Herman (daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Herman), also an experienced skater she, enjoys the ice at Clinton Lions Arena. (News-Record Photo) The WeatIrr 1950 195*. High, Low High Low Mar. 1 42 7 35 30 2 43 29 34 29 3 38 23 32 26 4 33 25 30 23 5 38 30 30 20 6 37 31 29 17 7 37 20 20 11 intott. News- THE NEW ERA-91$t YEAR No. 10 The Nome Paper With the Now' CLINTON,ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1956 7 :cants a ropy $3,00 a year Rain: 1.9 ins, Snow: 1 inch Snow:. 5 ins. Champion. Speller of Four Counties: Miss Bonnie Hamilton Ross Stephenson Champion Exhibitor At Seed Show All members of Clinton Town Council were present on Tuesday evening for the regular meeting which was completed in the record time of 90 minutes, Permission to Ray Hoggarth to ing lighting on the main streets; sell tobaccos and cigarettes was improving surface on back streets; granted. Lions Club Gets $1,000 Arena Grant Town. Council on Tuesday night unanimously passed a Motion granting the Clinton Lions Club $1,000 toward the mortgage exist- ing on the skating arena. This grant is the outcome of a request by the Lions for financial assistance with the rink, In other local towns, where the skating arena is managed by the town, ex- penses have gone up as high as One to three mills of the tax as- sessment. Bonnie in Spelling Finals . Tops Entries From Four Counties; Wins Wristwatch Congratulated For Champion Exhibit good advantage in Stratford on Tuesday evening when she spelled her way to the top in zone finals of the Ontario Spelling Bee in competition, with a group of 16 girls -, all of whom were in Grade Eight, Bonnie is the daughter of Mr. Only 12 years old and in Grade and Mrs, John. R. Hamilton, and a Seven, Miss Bonnie Hamilton pupil of Miss Edna Jamieson at showed her abilities in spelling to Clinton public School, Mr, Ham- ilton, who works in Toronto, at- tended the spell-down in Stratford. Tension was high at the spelling bee held in Stratford Teachers' College auditorium where nearly 500 parents, friends and students crowded the hall for two and a half haws, to hear the four boy contestants and the 16 girls battle Permission to the Clinton Hospi- tal Auxiliary to hold Hospital Tag Day on Saturday, May 12, was granted. Recommendation f r o m the Chamber of Commerce that Coun- cil support the Upper Grand De- velopment scheme was received, and council passed as motion to pay the town's contribution of $170 and take part in the plan. A request for one mill for the Athletic Field Board (as provided for by by-law) was referred to the finance committee. A resolution from the municipal- ity of New Toronto to ask that old age pensions be increased from $40 to $65 per month was ordered filed, The police report given by Coun- cilor R, N. Irwin commended Clin- ton motorists for having an acci- dent-free weekend on March 3-4; reported ten highway traffic act prosecutions; 31 investigations; fines of $55; warnings under the Highway Traffic Act, 12; 17 places found insecure; four motor acci- dents; one attempted housebreak- ing and one attempted shop break- ing. Council accepted tender of Mur- phy Bros. for a new car for the police department at the price of $1,200 and the old one as trade-in. Councillors OK'd $10 expenses for Mayor W. J. Miller's trip to New Hamburg, re: the Upper Grand Development Association. Motion to sign an agreement with the Department of Highways to pay for half the cost of sanding and plowing Highways 4 and 8 within the town was passed. This amounts to $165 so far this winter, Discussion of the lack of proper agreement with surrounding town- ships with regard to the use of fire equipment was held, and a re- quest will be made to meet with the reeves of each to discuss the matter, Councillor J. E. Dale complained of the students at public and col- legiate schools walking four abreast on Highway 8 (Ontario Street) and refusing to budge an inch to let a car go by, Coun. Irwin reported that the police had been trying to do something about the problem, Council decided it was a problem for parents. Two communications were re- ceived concerning purchase of the old public school building and lots. One tender for $2,500 was received from J. W. Elliott. The second letter was from. Lawrence Hough- ton and George M. Lavin, who re- quested a. 60-day option on the building during which time they, would investigate the possibilities for which it could be used. They asked that the council stipulate uses which they would permit in that location, and asked for a Mutually agreed upon assessment to be set before a period of four years' had elapsed, This latter communication was referred to the general government committee Which 4 to report at the nod (By W. D. D.,) "THE ELEMENTS HAVE BEAT us . ." After months of getting your paper to you on time, the staff has had to give up a losing battle this week, in the face of sleet, more sleet and more sleet When the hydro goes off, which it did in our part of town last night at eleven . . . and con- tinues to go off throughout the night, as it did, due to ice weight- ing down hydro wires . . . our presses won't run , . We can't see, either . . . so finally last night we went off to our homes . . . Power came on again once or twice . . . but it was hard to get back to the job quick enough to accomplish anything before the next interruption . . . Thanks to the hydro crews who worked through miserable weather . . . most of us in town were able fo• have a hot breakfast this morning. OUR WORLD WILL EVER BE blessed with the company of fools . . . Last weekend cub leaders went out to the site of their camp on the Maitland River for the first time this season . . They found the direction sign at the entrance to it, shot up . . . The padlock on the hut in which supplies are kept had been shot off with a shotgun . . . and muddy boot tracks led into the room . . . Their stoves had been turned over and smashed . the toilet was over-turned . one of the huts had been turned over, and the force of the weight of the hut on the supporting bricks had punctured the floor . . . some of the bricks, themselves•' were smashed . and three curtains from the cabins had disappeared . . . Why do these shot-gun happy characters make such a nuisance of themselves . . 'K * * IT WILL ONLY BE FIVE WEEKS now until all of us will be trying to memorize new telephone num- bers for all our regular calls . . . The switch-over to dial will take place on• April 15, and after that, no cheerful voice will be heard saying, "Number Please?" . . . We'll have the dubious pleasure, of listening to the grind of the busy signal, or the happy sound that our call is going through ...Mod- ern times are here for Clinton and district . . . * WE'VE BEEN TRYING HARD to find some significance to the following facts: In. February at a meeting in New Hamburg, Kitch- ener and Clinton. were the two municipalities not ready to say they were Whole-heartedly behind the industrial promotion scheme which is going to influence all municipalities in four counties . On Tuesday of this week, Kitch- ener and Clinton Sent the best spellers of four Counties to the zone finals in Stratford . . But no matter how we try, we can't seem to come up with any con- nection between the two items . . * * 0 Winner Of $50 At Saturday's Draw Mrs. Austin Harris, RR 2, Bay- field, braved bad weather last weekend to win $51.70 in the Sat- urday afternoon draw from the Clinton Merchants' treasure chest. This was on a ten percent Apprec- iation Day coupon, Next week the treasure chest Will amount to $540,32 and tha gest Winnings possible will be $265,16, However, even a five per- cent coupon will net the winner $26,52. Though the crowd was reduced slightly because of bad Weather, still a great number of shoppers in Clinton came out to avoid missing a chance. ttricee nob Campbell was., hi charge of the draw Two brothers from Ethel last week showed their knowledge of seeds, grain and showmanship when they placed first and second for highest number of points at the ninth annual Huron County Seed Fair. Ross Stephenson was declared grand champion of tha Fair, and was awarded two troph- ies for this accomplishment. Mr. Stephenson won the Simp- son-Sears Limited Special (a sil- ver tray) and also the Blyth Co-op Special (ten pounds cheese) for totalling 48 points. He also wor the Bank of Montreal special cash prize for winning the feed grain championship, and the Canadian Bank of Commerce trophy . for champion hay exhibit. His brother, Norman, won the Read Bros. of Elmira award fo" winning second highest number of points (47). Young Norman Cartwright, Lon- desboro, was, the youngest exhib- itor with ten or more points, and he won the Hensall District Co-op Special prize of $5. He also took home the Hullett Township Fed- eration Special of $5 for getting most points in grain classes (1 to 12). For the second year, Norman Hyde, RR 1, Hensall went home with the A. Y. McLean Trophy for being the 4-H Club Member with Clinton Hospital Provincial Grant Will Total $7,200 When the Ontario budget was brought down last week, notice was made of a special grant again being made to hospitals on the basic of $200 per bed. Clinton hospital benefits under this plan by the amount of $7,200, since there are 36 beds in use. This money is intended to be used for rehabilitation of facilities and oth- er capital purposes. The South Huron District 1103. pital at Exeter benefits an equal amount. However, Scott Memorial Hospital, Seaforth, with 39 beds will get $7,800; Alexandra Marine and General Hospital, Goderich, with 58 beds will get $11,600 and Wirigharn General Hospital will get $10,000 for their 95 bed °stab- lishinent. highest number of points exhibit- ing in three or more classeS, at the Fair. Luther Sanders, RR 2, Seaforth, also won two special prizes.. With 21 points, he won the Jones• and McNaughton Shield for the -most points in the small seed classes (14-17) and he also won the Hul- lett Township Federation Special of $5 for most points in small seed classes. Other special winners were: Lewis P. Coyne, RR 5, Sedforth, who won the Royal Bank of Can- ada Trophy for the new exhibitor with highest number of points in grain and small seed classes (1-17). won the R. N. Alexander special of 15 pounds alfalfa for shoWing the best bushel of wheat at the fair. Murray Roy of Roycroft Farm, Londesboro, won the Canada Pack- ers special for his best bushel of turnips. Robert Broadfoot, Brumfield, won the T. Eaton Co. special which is a 14-inch round waiter, valued at $16. The best bushel of barley was won by J. Arnold Jamieson, RR 4, Clinton, and the special prize of five gallons of oil awarded by Lorne Brown Motors, Ltd., Clin- 1 0n. Mr. Jamieson was last year's grand champion exhibitor. Mrs. C, F. Garrow Contest Winner Mrs. C. F, Garrow has Won the twenty-third Cartoon Capers con- test and by including a sales Slip from one of the, participating mete chants is eligible for the $80 award that will be made at the end of the contest just three weeks away. Mrs. Garrow found the hidden title "She wants her petunias Wat- ered" and named the advertises ments in which she found the words, ,Her suggested title wa.3. "Let's give her a free bath". CLINTON THOSE RECEIVING CAPS Miss Pauline Jervis, Clinton, was one of a group of nurses-in-train- big who received their caps in special eererriony held in Stratford General Hospital recently. She is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Ro- bert Jervis, and received her sec- ondary school edutation at County Engineer Resigns Day After Appointment Close on the heels of an an- nouncement that H. Frank Law- son, London, had been appointed engineer in. the County of Huron, last Friday,. came the announce- ment on Saturday that he had withdrawn from the appointment. Mr. Lawson, who is a native Of Clinton, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Lawson, received the appointment to succeed Peter Pat- terson, on April 1. At the present tirfle he is a member of the engin- eering firm of R, C. Dunn and As- snele tes, Arva. Mr, Lawson's reasons for with- drawing are due to "purely per- sonal interests" and according to a letter received by A. R. Erskine, clerk of the County, "due to rea- sons unknown at the time of meet- ing with the road committee". Ap- pointment had been made by the committee meeting in Exeter last Wednesday, 0 Whitaker Trial. Postponed To Wednesday, Apr. 16 Hearing of the Crown versus Gerald Whitaker as a result of a charge of careless driving in the motorcar death of Mr.'s. Florella Davidson, here, was adjourned this` week to April 17, after presenta- tion of evidence by LAC Patrick J. Dort, 19-year-old passenger in the car, The plea of not guilty was ent- ered in court on Tuesday after- noon. Defence counsel is Samuel Lerner, London. o Spring Show Has Men Picked To Plan All Phases At a meeting of the Huron Cen- tral Agricultural Society here yest- erday afternoon, committees for the Spring Show were picked as follows: Heavy horses, Thomas Leiper, Elmer Webster and W. J. Dale; light horses, George Gibson, Geo- rge Turner and Ed. Grigg; ponies, J. Middleton, Stewart Broadfoot and Harvey Coleman. Beef cattle, Roy Pepper, Howard Armstrong and Bruce Keys; dairy cattle, Mervyn Labia, Kenneth B. McRae, Thomas Rathwell, William Hanly; sheep, William Pepper, Ephriam Snell and James Snell; hogs, Reeve John Deeves, W. J. Crich and Harvey Taylor. Races, Dr. G. S. Elliott and J. E. "Dick" Jacob; entertainment, J. E. Jacob, W. J. Crich, J. Middleton, Reeve Burton Stanley and Fred Gibson, The Goderich Girls' Trumpet Band has been engaged to play at the Spring Show. Secretary A. J. McMurray re. ports that response to support of the fair has never been better, and the executive appreciates this sup- port which may well make 1956 a Banner Year for the Spring Show, Two hundred prize lists were mail- ed out to prospective exhibitors yesterday. Bob Hern Goes From County To Simcoe Farm Bob Hem, RR 1, Hensall, prom- inent Junior Farmer, Club leader and 1951 winner of the Queen's Guineas, has accepted a position as herdsman with one of Ontario's oldest purebred Hereford farms near Sim.coe. He will leave for this job in midsApril. Son of Councillor Harold Horn, Usborne Township, this 22-Year-old farmer will be employed by F. W. Releheld and Son, Jarvis Hereford Farms, where he will be in charge of 300purebreds on the 800-acre farm. Bob has been operating the farm owned by his father-in-law, John Selves, and has built up a herd of 30 purebred Herefords, which he now plans to auction-, He was president of the South Huron Junior Farmers in 1053 and was in line for presidency of the Hinton County 4-/-I Club Leaders Association this ea need for a planning board in the town; and a municipal by-law with regard to the establishment of trailer camps. To further organize a local of the Ontario Farmers' Union in Goderich Township, upwards of 300 farmers and wives attended a meeting in Clinton town hall Tues- day evening. Edgar Rathwell act- ed as chairman. After an excellent talk by Albert Cormack, Arthur, president of the Ontario Farmers' Union, and a liv- ely question and answer period, many farmers were seen signing membership,-cards in the new local. Mr. Cormack, who is a mixed farmer at Arthur, is one of the chief Farmers' Union, organizers in Ontario. On Monday night he was speaking at a OFU meeting near Sudbury. In his, opening re- marks he said one of his duties as president is to bring before farm- ers their own true picture. He urged farm women and wives to take more interest in their men- folk's businesses, "Too many papers and period- icals have been tickling the farm- ers under the chin', and now it is high time we organized and brought ourselves face to face with the true picture of farming," the speaker said. He continued, "Are we worse off now than in the 30's," The Ontario Farmers' Union now has a publication of its own. Mr. Cormack stressed that it was through the Farmers' Union, that Western Canada farmers re- ceived millions of dollars just last week on their farm-held grain. The speaker made comparison between prices today and in the 30's. The farmer's share of na- tional income in Canada in 1955 was 6.8 percent; in 1931 it was 6.1 percent. Farmers received only 40 cents of the consumer's dollar last year; this was the same as in 1935. The Ontario, president took ex- ception to a statement by Profes- sor D. R. Campbell, of OAC, that "low income farmers should leave the farm." "Who are these lows income farmers?" he asked. He spoke of two meetings held in Elora and Arthur between business- men and farmers, concerning the above. statement. While cattle prices have drop- ped one-half in three years and hogs dropped one-third in two years, packing plants and other businesses have expanded, he said. The farmer is not making ends Meet, "We, the farmers, are exploited by the great expan- Sion of chain stores, Let's take a look in the glass and see what's wrong wi'' us," Mr. COrriltlett said, Parity prices for farmers it out to the finish. Douglas Mac- Pherson, 13-year-old student at Sheppard Public School, Kitchener won in the boys' competition. "Propriety" was the word which won the day for Bonnie, while "penitentiary" was the one which gave Douglas his win. Cy Mack, of CI3C, gave out the words. Both winners received 23-jewel wristwatches as their requard, and the schools will receive an ency- clopedia in their honour. The con- test is sponsored by the Ontario Education Association in co-oper- ation with the Toronto Evening Telegram, The final spelling bee will be held in Toronto on April 5, and the two top spellers will receive an expense paid trip to. Calgary for the Stampede this summer: Top prize also is $300 and runner-. up $200. Though the top boy winner's comments after the contest was, "I'm hungry", Bonnie was too thrilled to make any comment,. but gave a dazzling smile to show her excitement. Words misspelled by the young people were: peddle, gnome, con- scientious, excerpt, 'accentuate, miscellaneous, negligible, fallacious, feasible, espionage, sinus, stanch- ion, orifice, flaccid, exhort, rarefy, consummate, proboscis, gratuitous. alimentary and resplendent. Local young people taking part in the contest were Carol Gibbons, Exeter; Thelma Gowing, Bluevale ind Barbara McPherson, Mitchell. CLINTON COUPLE MARK 10TH WEDDING DAY AT HOME Mr. and Mils. Harold Morrell celebrated their 40th wedding an- niversary quietly at their home in Clinton. They have four children: Fred, at Queen's Park and Eldon, with B-A Oil Co., both of Toron• to; Mrs. Gordon (Isobel) Troyer, Hensall; Mrs. J. W. (Marion) Smith, Goderich Township and nine grandchildren. was his answer. Later in the meeting, in a ques- tion period, Mr. Cormack spoke of the Dominion Federation of Agri- culture President, Dr, Hannam only asking 65 to 85 percent of parity prices for farmers in -s meeting with Federal agricultural men. He said "Why would any group only ask for 65-85 percent of parity; labor organizers would not tolerate this. If the Federa- tion won't ask for 100 percent parity, what is its purpose?" Ml'. Cormack reviewed the work of some of the marketing boards. Of the hog marketing issue, he said "Maybe it is not very safe to get into the hog marketing dis- cussion just now." He went on to say, "Today not one hog board is working for us. We need to get together and do something about prices." "We're still doing business at world prices," the speaker said in speaking of meat coming into Canada from the USA. At a Canadian Farm-Labor Ec- onomic Council meeting at Ottawa in February, which he attended, Canada's two largest labor unions —the TLC and the COL—intimat- ed that they will stand behind farmers for parity prices. On January 23 this year the OFU presented, its second brief to, the provincial government. Appealing to the Clinton area farmers to join the OM Mr. Cor- mack said, "We are trying to' bring farmers closer together — we, the farmers, who are the producers.. The sooner we organize and get together the closer we are to our parity prices." A very lively question period took place after Mr. Corrnack's address. He answered all questions to the best of his ability, The Goderich Township local of the OFU will hold a meeting Mon-. day evening, March 12. 0 Present Gifts As Nighta School Ends On closing night of the Rural Community Night School here, the class in English smocking pre- sented a piece of jewellery to Mrs.. G. W Cuninghame, their instruct- or, Mrs. Cuninghome also received a fully equipped' sewing kit from members of a class she taught at her home, made up of ladies from Goderich, Presentations were made to Oth- er teachers at the school, including James Scott, Seaforth and Rev, Snell, Exeter, who instructed the publie Speaking class, C. C. General Meeting For All Members, At a directors meeting of the Clinton and Pistrict Chamber of Commerce last week, it was decided to call a general meeting of all mem- bers in the council chamber of .. the Town, Hall, and the date was set for Monday, March 12, Purpose of the meeting is to gain ideas from members. as to the work of the Chamber throughout the year, and to acquaint them with projects which the directors have in mind. Herbert Bridle accepted the position of chairman of Retail Merchants Committee, and a meeting is in the offing to dis- cuss open hours, parking prob- lems, etc, 0 tin "mg Column= ge seral meeting. An advance of $500 on the 1956 grant to the Public Library was approved. Discussion was held on improv- 400 Farmers And Wives Attend Farm Union Organization Meeting