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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 $25. (Photo by Phillips)
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Junior Skaters At Lions Arena
Young indeed to be on her own at the skating arena, little
Ms Christine Hartley (right) has more than 12 months to
her credit on skates. Last year (at 18 months) she was. a veteran
with bob skates. This year she graduated to single blades and
visits the rink each Wednesday afternoon with her mother, Mrs.
H. E. (Erma) Hartley, Recently, too, she has found a youthful
friend at the rink, and with Miss Janice Herman (daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Herman), also an experienced skater she,
enjoys the ice at Clinton Lions Arena. (News-Record Photo)
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THE NEW ERA-91$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,
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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