Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1956-05-10, Page 1Charter Members Of Lions Club The above three charter members of Clinton Lions Club F. B. Pennebaker, 1-1.- C. Lawson and A. D. McCartney — were honored at a 20th anniversary dinner meeting of the club Tues- day evening. They, along with Dr, W. A. Oakes, who was absent, have been continuous member of the club since it was started. . Scouts Prepare Fire At Rally Preparation of the fire in the string-burning contest. at the Huron, District Scout rally here last Saturday afternoon was a ticklish and important part of 'the event. Here •Ken Magee (left) and Stephen Brown, do some of the finer whittling which, was necessary to get snavings which would begin to burn. The Object was to get a fire blazilig high enough to burn through both strings stretched above it. Third Goderich Troop was the victor in this contest. (News-Record photo) Many Local Musicians Take Place In County Festival A beautiful day, though. .:hilly, and the Clinton;. Community Park combined on Saturday to provide an excellent setting for the annual rally of Huron district's Cub Packs and Scout Troops, when upward of 30p boys with their leaders, and relatives, gathered to display their skills and compete for -honours. Highlight of the event was - the presentation of a Scout certificate of merit to John Simmons, Third Goderich Troop, for his res- cue last summer of Julford .Bissett, Goderich, non, swimmer who had fall en into eight feet of water. The award commended John for the calm and efficient manner in which he conducted the rescue'. This presentation' was made by L. G. "Skip" Winter, district com- missioner, and the boys joined in a spontaneous cheer for the hero in their midst. This was the sec- ond certificate presentation to be made to John, since his first one was destroyed by fire last winter, Presentation of shields- for top placing Scout and Cub events were made by Bob' Taylor, Hermiston, Western Regional North 'Commas- sioner, who also took the grand howl at the opening of the event, and supported. by Mayor W, J. Mil- ler and L. G. Winter, took the sal- ute when all troops and i. packs -marched past the reviewing stand. Symbolic Bones Banes, symbolic of the jungle play on which the Cub work is ten on Tuesday, 1Vray 29. On Wed- nesday, Winchelsea school will be the site of the clinic from two to five in the afternoon, and that evening• the unit will be' at Credit- on community hart The last three days of the x-ray survey will be spent in Clinton, at the town hall, when a• unit will be in operation, on May 30, 31, and June 1, in the afternoon and even- ing. In case you miss the clinic at the location nearest you, remember you are perfectly welcome to visit any one of the clinics, and have your x-ray taken at your conven- ience, The County TB AssociatiOn is anxious that ,everyone eligible for x-ray is done this year, and would urge that you make it, a point to visit the clinic. It costs nothing. It takes- only two or three minutes of your time. It may save you months in hos- pital, Red Cross Donations Transferred to London District Here a cheque for $2,222.06 is transferred from A. J. MelVlurray, right, local chaitinan'of the Red Cross campaign for funds, to John Anderson, left, who. Is the manager of the /Alden- district Red Cross campaign, The cheque represents toll r, lops Olinton and Londesboro areas this spring in the annual fund-raising canvass. Looking on is Mrs, A. I. MclVfarray, (News.P.edord Photo) ec THE NEW qRA----91st. YEAR. THE NEW$-REcORP. 75th YEAR No, 19—The Home Paper With the News CLINTON, ONTARIO„ THURSDAY; AAY 10, 1956 7 cents -0 copy $3,00 a year W BAND UNIFORMS FOR e cadet hand at =01 . and oncentrated training by the Cadet ps „ All leading up to Cadet nspeetion day on Friday evening The Clinton Community Park the place for inspection day this ear einee the seeding of the ampus at the school has not preg- eesed far enough to accept the amp of marching feet .. . Every,. ne is welegme to attend this lay by the cadets at the park— a admission fee—aed it really is colourful display . The CDCI adets have always done well in rnpetition in past years, and ere is no reason to expect that ere will be any exception this ear . . * ,l' * OW1 DID YOU SEE' 'mon re parked on Library Park? ell, they're really something, pecially the special hard-top he Kinsmen Club is planning to ire them away the week after ext ... and the story of bow they e to be given away bears looking to rather closely . . . See the dvertisement in this issue • • • ' Brumfield Area Men Favor Mill Purchase * * * AJW THE FIRST 'SOCCER GANLE the season . . . and our personal ery first" game last Saturday ening . . Now, there's a spec- cular sport, if there ever was e . . . Plenty of action . . . lots excitement . . . and the ball is uncing on some other person's d' -4f you understand. what we can That is, from a spectat. s point of view it is a good me . . . just how the players el is another thing entirely . . t they must not be too unhappy, 3 they'll be right back in there the next game of the series ayed in Strathroy, on May 12 ... e next home game for Clinton U be on May 26 . . . * * * ALLY THERE WERE MORE re male knees in evidence in linton on Saturday than you'd d anywhere short of Grand nd beach in midsummer . . anon. was the soccer game of urse—it's played in shorts, knee ohs,. and short sleeved oil:into 'th open neck8 . . and then veral hundred Scouts and Cubs am all over the County displayed goodly, set of knees, top . ley ranged all the way from the mpled type of knees common in all Cub-size boys to thew more obby, though often quite hand- me type of knee, common to the er set of Scoutmaster-size men. * * * E'RE, AFRAID OUR FACTUAL ry Of the Scouts. and Cubs hievements on Saturday leaves raething to be desired . . . urse you could not re-capture e day properly, even if equipped th movie camera, film and sound . for that would leave out the iells of the day . which were rt,of the whole . . To see more an 300 boys enjoying themselves oughly . . : while dressed in y coloured Uniforms . . way- union jacks and Scout banners signal flags . . . white and rquoise coloured tents . , was pleasure, indeed . . . Add to that e sound of those same 300 boys joying themselves . . and the and pleasantly spread over the acious community park . . . and e smells of wood smoke resulting in contests, the odour of hot go being enjoyed, by everyone and the ordinary smells of 11 boys and a beautiful spring y . . and you have a day to member . . . * * * EAKING OF WOOD-SMOKE . the most interesting contest the day, to us . . . was the • g-burning contest' , . . Car- d out by the Scouts . . . In this, o strings are laid out on stakes, e running about 15 inches from e ground, and another about four ches above it . . pairs of Scouts ationed at intervals along the ay,, were provided with one block wood', about a foot square, 'and /2 inches thick to use as a fire Ise , . . another block of wood .'use as fuel (same size) . . . a atchet and a Scout knife . . . Iso two matches . . . At a signal re Scouts began to chop the wood, ad whittle it to fire starting size . and the fires were located rider the string . . The idea was fan the fire into height where would burn both strings . . 'ow that sounds. simple, doesn't . ... But add to it some excite- lent . „ a clumsy movement a teen-ager lad at the wrong me, ,which destroyed cleverly tilt up fire . . a strong wind lowing . . and an interested rowd.. , and the thing takes on different look , . . These boys ren't going to be caught out in le cold without a fire . . They're cod at the job . . * * * UCH CHANGEABLE WEATH- r, . . Last Friday we. came out ) the car in the morning to find good half inch of soft snow on ee windshield.. and everywhere Ise, too, of course... and had to et the wipers going to clear a few for ourselves, That was on re fourth of May, . , Veteran Hur- rilan Jim Sterling, recalls a eriew- e, May some 48 years ago . , See That he says about it in the God- rich Township news Jim says That ought to fix all the people 'rat are grumbling about the late pring.. ." A new award, to be known as the Gertrude Wendorf Memorial-- Shield has been provided for public school choirs competing at the Hu- ron Comity Music Festival, The music supervisors and music teach- ers of theaarea have Obtained the shield in memory of the work which the late Mrs. Wendorf has done with the children in the schools. • Throughout the festival, which began last Thursday and will con- tinue until this Friday evening, tribute has been paid to Mrs. Wen- dorf and to the influence and stim- ulus she had given to festival work in the County. Mrs. Clayton Ed- wards, Goderich, who is president of ethe festival, reports- that' this Clinton Lions Club Celebrates 20th Anniversary Night Clinton . Lions Club observed its 20th anniversary at the dinner meeting Tuesday evening in St, Paul's Parish Hall. Four men. who were charter members are still, active in the club. They are; treasurer F. 13. Pennebaker, past president H. C. Lawson, A. 0. McCartney and Dr. A. Oakes. Frank Finland, now Huron County Judge, was the club's' first president. The 20-year monarch members were presented ,with certificates and pins. Also honburdd and presented with cer- tificates and pins were seven 15- year members and five ten-year members. The 15-year Lions are: J. A, Sut- ter, L. J. Brown, W. E. Perdue, C. W. Draper, A. Garon, Russ Holmes, E, J. Jacob and W. E. Dale, The ten-year members are: Dr., J. A. Addison, George Beattie, Howard Brunsdon, Hugh R. Hawkins, and Stewart Middleton. President Ken McRae addressed and congratulated the veteran members after they were escorted to the front of the hall by the vice-presidents. of the club, Deputy District Governor Alvin Jordan, from Mitchell, was the speaker of. the evening. This was Lion Jordan's second visit to the Clinton club this year. He is town clerk at Mitchell and has 11 years of .perfect attendance at his clubs meetings. • After congratulatieg all the vet- eran Lions, the Deputy Governor gave an excellent talk on Lionism, pointing out the "service" and leadership knowledge gained in Lions club work. Lions International Counsellor Nelsen Hill, Goderich, who was present 20 years ago when the Goderich Lions Club sponsored a Liana Olub in Clinton, also con- gratulated the charter and veteran Mee-there. The Deputy District Governor was Introduced by Hugh Hawkins, himself a past deputy diettiet OVA (Contietted on Page 12) New Car? -Take • A Chance Two At. Bin g0 . Most people who haVi,beeS town within the last few days have stopped to see the two new 1956 cars perked in the Library Park, These two automobiles are the ones that will ha given away at the Car Binge sponsored by the Kinsmen Club of Clinton on -Fri- -day, May 25 in Clinton Lions Arena,, , bingo will offer the great- est prize value of any bingo ever staged in Clinton,' perhaps in Hu- ron County, To all $3,700 will 'be given away, Major prize will be the new Chevrolet, then there will be etwo $100 special bingos, two share-the-wealth games, and 15. regular games for 825 each. -Special Door rrize. As an, added incentive for your attendance the Kin Offer a free $200 door prize, 'Everyone attend- ing the bingo will receive a ticket when they enter the arena. To top off the evening the draw for the 1956 Buick Special Hard- top will take place. Only 1,000 tickets are being sold on this car so if you haven't picked one up, do .so immediately, All Kinsmen have tickets and they are also available at the News-Record office, Hotel Clinton, Bumball's Grocery, K. W. Colquhoun'S office and Herman's Men's Wear. CONGRATULATIONS: Mr. and Mrs, Robert Freeman will be at home to their friends and neighbours on Saturday, May 12, from three to five' in the after- noon and seven to ten. in the even- ing, in honour of their 50th wed- ding anniversary. 0 TB Chest X-Ray Begins Mon6y; Here On May 30 By next Monday evening, some of the people of Huron County will have- already taken advantage, of the opportunity of a free chest X- ray for tuberculosis. On Monday, May 14, in the evening and for the• following two days, both after- noon and evening, a clinic will be open at the Town Hall, Wingham, with trained technicians and at- tendants; ready to take an x-ray picture of the chest of each resi- dent of the district. On May 16, while one mobile clinic will still be in Wingham, another will be in Fordwich, in the afternoon, and it will proceed to Brussels that evening. On May 17, one of the clinics' will be in Dun- gannon, both afternoon and even- ing while one remains in Brussels and will be in action throughout the afternoon and in the evening. On May 18, Friday, one mobile clinic will be in 131yth, throughout afternoon and evening, while the other unit will• commence a four and a half day stay in Goderich at MacKay Hall. From Friday evening, seven to ten o'clock, and then on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday' and Friday, both after- noon and evening, a mobile' unit will be available in Goderich, On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 22, 23 and 24, a chest x-ray mobile unit will be in Seaforth, afternoon and evening, at Northside United Church. Hensall and district residents will be able to have their chests x-rayed on Friday, May 25, any time from two to five in the after- noon, or from seven until ten in the evening, Clinics will be in Bayfield at the town hail on the evening of May 28, and throughout the after- noon and evening of that day, in Dashwood at the fire hall. In Zurich, clinic hours will be from two to five, and seven until Graduates RUED W. KIR,BY, Lain, B.A. Son of Mr. and Mrs, Albert Kirby, Princess St., Clinton, graduated from. Huron College this springe at the annual con- vocation held there- on Friday evening, May 4. Mr. Kirby has been supply minister at St, Paul's Anglican Church here, since Rev, R. M. P. 13ultdel re- tired in March. Meeting .0.4 Monday evening in the Odd -Fellows' Hall at Bruce- field, area farmers favoured the purchase of the Brucefield Chop- ping Mill. now owned and operated by J. K. Cornish. Of the 75 farm- ers present, 43 men signed ballots, Stating they wished; to buy the mill and operate it as a Co-op, and these 43 men promised $3,900 of the needed funds to buy the .mill. Negotiations for the purchase of the mill have been going on for several weeks, The price; as agreed .upon by the proprietor and the Co- operative efficials. is $6;6170,for the Council Meeting To Set Budget There is a special meeting of the Town Council this even.: ing in the council chamber at the town hall, for the purpose of reviewing the budget for 1956, and setting the tax rate. The time is eight o'clock. planned were presented by offic- ials, to each pack. These bones, which are marked with the words, Huron District Rally, 1956, are in- tended to hang on the totem poles of each pack. Pennants marking the occasion were awarded each Scout Troop. Tribute was paid to 'Stan Cay- roll, ,RCAF Station Centralia, as- sistant district commissioner for Huron South, for his contribution to Scout work during his four years in the district. Mr. Carroll leaves shortly for an. RAF Stat- ion in Alberta. Officials taking part inchided Frank Ling, Huron district assis- tant commissioner, north; Doug, Carswell, Huron District Scout- master; Ernie Dempthter, Huron District Cubmaster; Sam Poxon, chairman of Huron District Scout council and Bill Gagne, secretary of the council. Clinton Lions Cub pack won the challenge shield donated for corn- (continued on page twelve) 0 Hereford Sale Brings $410 For Top Price Bull Top price for animals at the Hereford Sale in Clinton Commun- ity Park barns on Tuesday was $410 paid by J. J. Kelley, Tees- water, for a 19 month old bull con- signed by W. J. Clark, Goderich. Royal Helmsman's R.°Domino was one of 12 bulls sold at the' event. Highest price for females was brought by Cransford Cameo, con- signed by J. L. E'edy and Sons, Dungannon and purchased by New- man Walker, RR 2, Brigden. The two year old heifer sold for $325, and was one of 26 females in the sale. The 35 head of Herefords sold for $8,445, averaging $241.20 each, The 11 bulls were sold for $3,130, averaging $284.54, while the 24 females averaged $221, bringing in a total of $5,315. The sale com- pares with last fall when 35 head sold for $8,845:- J. R. Coultes was sales manager, while W. S. O'Neil, Denfield, was the auctioneer, A packed room indeed was the council chamber of the town hall last Friday evening, when the Clinton Citizen's Horticultural So- ciety held an open meeting and vited all those interested in- flow- ers to take part in a free draw for a miscellaneous lot of started plants, bulbs and roots. . Chairman was Rev. D. J. Lane, president of the societY, and high- light of the evening Was an ac- count of experiences in gardening as" told by Low Davis, Strathroy. He outlined commonsense methods for starting and caring for. fine flowers and plants. Mr. Davis, who was introduced by Clifford Epps, zone direeter for the area, 'spoke in an. attractive way about his. love of flowers, and said, "Flowers are love." He ur- ged commonsense treatment of them, warning against too early and too strong fertilization. Mr. Davis, who is known to TV view- ers, as a gardener who at times appears on the Hoy Jewell farm program, provided a• humorous talk, and hie listeners found tetteh to chueltie at in his homely way of referring to growing things-, H. Ormond) BayfieId, and Albert Livermore, Clinton, report• eti on the highlights of the animal convention of the Ontario Horti- cultural Association held in Toron. to in March. 'Mails were made for the annual biz trip of the Clinton branch to the botanical and rock gardens at Hamilton in June. Mr. Livermore reported that identification signs in the society's town flower plots will be placed soon. Mrs. Lillian McKinnon exhibited a new flag which, the local branch purchased for use on the Library Park flag pole, which will be pre- sented to town council at its next meeting. Mrs. Fingland, secretary of ‘ the society, reported that the Clip. ton Public School Board would co. operate with the society in plant• ing suitable shrubs on the school grounds, and also said that plant- ing at the Library Park would be underway soon. Planning similar to that carried out last year will be encouraged at the new nurses' residence, Low Davis had brought along a beautiful geranium and fuchsia from his own greenhouse, and these were on display at the nur- ses' residence on Wednesday at the annual Hospital Day tea, These flowers were presented by Mr, Davis and his wife, and they will be placed in- the women'e wards at the Clinton Public Hospital, Birthday Club Mrs, John It Noble, High Street, celebrated her 50th birthday at her home on Monday, May 7, Mrs, Noble is in good health, and does her own housework • year the Goderich Public School has won the shield. Prior to her death, Mrs, Wendorf had trained a choir of teachers at Goderich, especially :with the selec- tion "The Green Cathedral". On Monday evening after the regular festival events were over, the, choir of teachers sang the number, con- ducted• by Mrs. Edwards, followed by a minute's silence by all pres- ent, in, memory of Mrs. Wendorf, Sherlock-Manning Piano. Co. Ltd. has taken keen interest in the work of the Festival, and as usual this year is lending a piano for the piano classes. They provide sev- eral tunings during .-the Festival. The Sherlock-Manning rose bowl, which is presented in annual com- petition for the highest mark in piano classes was won this year by Sandra WalPer, Exeter. Feeling that the rose bowl (which is kept by the winner for one year, and then is competed for again) was not a lasting memento of the ac- complishment, this yea.r the Clin- ton firm has added a $25 cash award to' the bowl. It is awarded with the expectation that parents will supervise the spending of the money. The, Harbouraires, made up of male singers from. Goderich and Clinton districts, sang two num- bers, being awarded a mark of 88, and the Huron, County Cash award for male chorus class. They had no competition in winning the top (Continued on Page 12) Over 300 Boys And Leaders Enjoy Scout And Cub Rally mill, machinery, house, garage and land. The prospects of larger grinder, and immediate provision for storage space for raw grain.% make it necessary to raise $10,000 locally to swing the deal, The propesal is that-"the Bruce- field Mill will he run as a branch of the Hensall Co-operative, similar to- the way in which the. Zurich -branch now is run, Robert McGregor, Kippen, vice- president of the Hensall District Co-operative Incorporated was chairman for the meeting, and he introduced the other members of the directorate: Roy McBride, president; George Clifton, Bruce- field; Donald Hendrick, Dashwood; Russell Grainger, Bayfield; Alex McGregor, Kippen and Orland Reichert, Hensall. Garnet Mou.s- seau, manager of the Hensel). Co-op and Bertram Klopp, manager of the Zurich Co-op, also were present. Mr. McGregor introduced Ed Schenk, assistant manager, locals division, United. Co-operatives of Ontario, from Stratford, who out- lined the way in which' Co-oper- atives' were managed. "It is a group of people who pool their buy- ing and selling," said Mr. Schenk. '"The Co-operative does not at- tempt to sell cheaper- than other firmS. • However, it is owned by the farmers, who are the investors. In 20 years the investment is paid back. In the meantime interest at the rate of four percent is paid. At the end of each year, after de- preciation on equipment is taken into account, profits are paid back to the patrons." Last Year in the Hensall Co- s operative, a dividend of seven per- cent was declared, This' meant that if a farMer spent $500 on feeds, fertilizers, fencing (anything sold by the Co-op) at the end of the year,he was paid back $35. Mr. Schenk emphasized the fact 'that the Co-operatives are owned by "the "back concession farmers" who invest in the local Co-op, elect their directors, send local directors to the annual meeting of the Unit- ed Co-operatives of Ontario, and from them on a geographical basis, the 'directors of the IMO are selected. He warned that the farming group, which now is only 13 per- cent of. the population, is becoming more of a minority. "Industry is progressing, and as a political bloc, the farmers are losing influence, Sooner or later," said Schenk, "the controls will have to come off some of our products. We will no longer be able to do anything about it, We can bark and holler all we like, but the voice of the farmer is not as large as it once was. Fanning is no longer a way of life, it is a business, and must •be. run as such, if we are to- survive." The need for keeping the Bruce- field Mill operating was seen in the fact that the Zurich Mill is over-taxed for facilities, with no easy chance for expanding. The Brucefield Mill could fill a need in the County, George Clifton, who is a new member of the Board of Directors, spore in favour of the purchase, and 'described his work in contact- ing 'farmers and arousing interest iii the project. Speaking of the condition of the mill, Mr. Schenk reported that the engine, which is an upright diesel, installed 31 years ago, was in ex- cellent condition. He said he had never seen an engine of that age, which had been kept in such good repair as Mr. Cornish had kept this one. However, he said that the grinder was inadequate for the volume of grinding which they would hope to do. Low Davis Says "Flowers are Love" Horticultural Meeting Is Success The Weather 1956 1985 High Low High Low May 3 V 39 83• 59 4 48 32 84 57 5 57 38 /2 50 i 6 51 3 43 61 39 '7 49 3 '70 44 52 30 54 37 51 35 47 30 iftain; 3,.29 lee, tale; .24 ins,