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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1956-08-23, Page 1Sta FlF. olid4ys Next Week No Pe tier: UAW Septe'mber C. Open There will be :no News,Reeord- peblished next week. This to. allow for 'staff holidays, The .office will rOnain open for the receiving accounts, and written, news itkeins., Cor- respondents are .asked to eon- tinue .sending in news budgets as they make thene .:Up. It Traill help to have theee; on hand when the staff returns to get out the fleet paper in, September. Emergency , printing only will be handled, since Most of the. staff Will be on vacation, The first issue of the Neese- Record in September will. be prin, ted on Friday, September 7, rather than the usual Thursday publication date, This is be- cause of the Labour Day holi- day and the difficulty in pub- lishing with only two -days to prepare the news and advertis- ing copy, Advertisers are asked to have their advertising ready on Tues, ,day, September 7. 151 2.00 Debenture For Moir St, -Drain Clinton Towns Councillors in throughout the lower part of town, special meeting on Tuesday even- and is expected to take care of all ing accepted the report of engin-- ideate' rains. 90 is not econorn- eer D, M, Ross regarding the en- ical," said Mr. Ross, "to plan your largernerit of the Mary Street drainage syetern to take care of a Drain, and proceeded with the cloudburst, which is after all, an necessary paper work io,get the act of God." Work done. Estimated -dost of the The engineer's plan has been installation is 815,200. A deben- sent to the Department of Health tore issue will be prepared to pro- and Welfare for approval. Mot- vide this amount. ions were made accepting his plan The enlargement of (Reeve Burton Stanley, seconded relieve flooding by Coun. Bridle); authorizing the town solicitor E, B. Meezies, to will. this drain, conditions THE NEWSRECORD 75th YEAR ail Truck Proposals egded By Sept. 1 Squadron Leader E.'1). Finley presented' the Lorne 'Broivi Trophy on Friday to the winner of tithe annual Station Truck Roadeo to LAC Garneau, Raltenbury Street'. LAC Garneau won the conitsetition with. a score of 320 points out of a possible - 400: The competition consisted of written tests as well as a displayeef driving, skill around a course studded with obstacles. LAIC Garneau will proceed to RCAF Station Tqnton for the Inter-Command competition. • ' Below: Judges from town were Clayton Dixon, Leslie Ball, -W. B. "Hap" eVIcAlpine, „John S. Scruton, Joseph Murphy and Harold • McPherson. Tender Let For Pool ork. To Start Soon Bowling Green. Scene, of Hobberlin Trophy Competition Sixty four men from as far south as London, and north as far as Teeswater, competed for the Mee-Atli.; Troth v in the mens' doubles bowling tourney on. the Clinton greens last Wednesday night. Play continued all day and till well after midnight before all the results were, tallied, This is W. C. Newcombe, local druggist,' grill* up for a good bawl. (News-Rec rd. Photo W.be (1:01tinitt, (BY W. R. TK NEW ERA 92rid YEAR the, reeds , There are strict rules abeut the way in which they :are ridden, and the rules of the read which apple' to care', also apply to bicycles . „ , They arc, not toys they are a =WIs . of transportation , And if your child is Ala enough to ride a bicycle outside of his own, back yard . , *hen he is old enough teeknow those rules and abide by them . . One of the rules is; don't ride on the sidewalks „. Sensible .enough, don't yob, think Yet, .Chief Thompson tells us that it is being dope . .„ and that be, has' had to .o)Ifjwate some bikes, in order, to make the rule remembered „ DID YOU KNOW THAT LAST Friday was -60th anniversary - of - the clay in which gold was dis- coyered in the Yukon, . * *. „ANOTHER NOVELTY GROWTH , was brought to us this week _ seems as though this is• the year of strange things . „ . including the weather. , ..Hugh Ball brought in a ,strange cob .ofecorn which had' seen fit to grow. .out of the top of the tassel 011 a -core stalk. small and slightly deformed . : . still the thing certainly Was unusual. . A REMINDER, FOR PARENTS and their fergeetful Urchins , NeW 'e v e yied y knows that Ha.:141.,:Th! Home Paper With, the Ne.,w, bicycles are meant to be ridden on Station: Clinton's Roadeo Champion` Pool Board. Town council .had previously named Reeve "'Burtien Stanley and Councillor J. E. Dale 'as its representatives. When ac- cepted by the town council this board will act until successors are appointed in 1957. The vice- presidents named to the board are, Douglas Andrews, from the Lege ion; Harold Glew, Fish and Game Club; Ross Middleton, Clinton Lions .e1ub and Donald Kay, feem the Kinsmen Club of -Clinton. At Monday'evening's.meeting of the executive of Clinton Branch of the Canadian. Legion, it was passed that $1,000 besgiver. to the Clinton Community Swlynming Pool Fend. This will ,come before, the 'general meeting of Legion this coming Monday night. Plans were made Tuesday even- Frig by the_ ways and means com- mittee of the swimming pool fund, headed by -Frank Cook, and ac- cepted by the full. committee' last night to go ahead with two major fund-raising events. • (Continued on. Page Twelve) Mitchell, Sebringville and Strat- ford by 7.47 p.m. Proposals far hnaldng these three trips are to be in the hands of the post office officials, by September 1. De-tails or require- ments may be gotten from any post office along the routes af- fected. - 300 People See Best Of Flowers Grown in Clinton and District The Weither 1956 1966 High Low High LOW Aug, 16 82 17 81 18 '78 19 '71 20 65 21 58 22 72 Rain; .68 ins, Rain; .16 ins. ' The tender of the G. F,, Mc- aormiek Construction" Co., of St. Thomas, was accepted last night to do the concrete work on the Miming pool t& be constructed in Clinton Community Park. ThiS was recommended by the building committee, headed by Earl ,Dou- cette,-and'paeted at the full Swim- ming Pool Fund- committee meet- ing at the Legion Hall last even- ing. The building committee had met Monday evening. According to the building chair- man, excavation- work,. will com- mence next week on the 120x35- foot 'pool, to be built east of the present children's wading pool in the park. Henry Young, local cement contractor, was- added to the e building committee, The plumbing sub-committee was auth- orized to purchase and install the necessary piping required ..while the concrete work is, in progress. The first •viceepresident of each of the clubs promoting the pool project were suggested as mem- bers of the official Community A proposed temporary time tab- le has been set up by the post of- fice officials for mail truck ser- e'dce through Clinton"- from. Strat- ford to Goderich and Stratford to Kincardine. This service is scheduled to go into effect on Monday, October 1, since the Post Office has received word from'the Canadian National Railway that mail service by train will be discontinued then. It is proposed that a truck leaving Stratford at ten in the morning would proceed through Sebringville, Mitchell, Dtiblin, Sea- fort (11.38 a.m.), Clinton .(11.58 am.) and' Goderich, (12.25 a,m.). The retern trip for this route would be leaving Goderioh at 1,30 p.m., Clinttiri (1.57 pen.), Seaforth (2.17 p.m.) thele through. Main, Mitchell, Sebringville and Strat- ford by 3,40 p.m. A second trip would leave Kin.- card* for Winghano at 11,45 in the morning, and return to the lake town by 2,35 in the after- noon, A third trip would, leave Strat- ford at 4.25 in the morning, pro- ceed daugh Sebringeille, Mitch- ell,* Seaforth (6.15 a.m.) have a five minute stay in Clin- ton front 8.36 tun. to 6,41 and then proceed north through Londesboro (6.55 aen,), Blyth (7.03 a.m.), Belgrave, Wieghain wind, Kincar- dine by 8.45 in the morning. The return trip would leave Xinerealine at 4.30 in the eiterhden, go through Wingharn by 5.43, then BeIgrave, Blyth (6,13 p.m.), Lon- desboro (6.23 pen.), Canton for a five minute , stay at 6.36 nth 6.41 p.ni.., then ihrough Seaforth at 6,59, and On through 'Dublin, Flower fanciers throughout Clin- ton and the district combined ef- forts on Saturday to transform the Council Chamber in the Town Hall here into a bower of beauty onrthe occasion of the annual flow- er show put on by the Clinton Citis zens' Horticeltural Society. There was keen competition 'in all classes 'and quality of bloom wee. exceptionally fine. Two lov- ely baskets of gladioli from Gor- don Stock's garden in Hohnesville (placed on the may-or's desk) drew much attention. They were not entered in competition, Though everyone could not win in any show, the event gave every- one ideas on how to prepare ee-, tidbits for another year, and thus be in the winning class then. There were many novel arrangements, and one lady said eshe "hadn't seen any better at Westeen Fair in London". Prizes were awarded as' follows: Double asters Mrs4-W. Burton, Mrs. Fred Middleton; cosines, Mrs. Stewart Middleton, Mrs. Bruce Holland; zinnias, C. J. Livermore, Mrs. H. Williams; petunias, Charles Brown, Mrs. W. Burton; pansies, Mrs. Donald Middleton, Miss Luel- la Johnston; snapdragons, Miss Luella Johnstoh, Mrs. Stewart Middleton; African parigold,, Mrs. Neville Forbes, Mrs:Fred Potter; French marigold, Mr. A. F. Harris, Mrs. C. Epps; phlox,Mrs. C. Epps, Mrs. Bruce ,Hollan. ,Gladioli, one spike, Mrs. C. Epps, Mrs. W. Jenkins; gladioli, three spikes, Mrs. C. Epps, Mrs. W. 'Penfound; gladioli, basket, Mrs. C. Epps, C. J. Livermore, Best hybrid tea rose, Mrs. Bruce Holland; most unusual potted plant, Mrs. C. Epps, Mrs. F. Pot- ter, Mrs. H. Williams; lady's cor- sage, Mre. T. le. Thompson, Mrs. L. G. Winter;' mantel piece bou- quet, Mrs. E. Farquhar, Mrs. Charles Nelson;e miniature bou- Bricking of the front entrance to the town hall began on Wednes- day and work- had progressed quite swiftly. It is intended to brick up the door to the 'police of- fice and the door to the clerk's office. Entry to these offices• will. be made through the new entran- ce. Also scheduled for .change is the window to the police office which will be made large to match the clerk's office window, At the rear of the town hall, an old door evhich once was used to go into the lod2ek of the fire hall will be bricked in. According to the Bremen this door has not 'been used since about 1.925, when, it was spiked shut. Bricking will no doubt cut down on "the breezes" The children's exhibits were much admired zned showed' real artistic possibilities, especially the bird house which had a sign, "To rent for a song." The, executive is ;Most grateful for the wonderful support, of all those who helped make the show such a success. The door prize of .a cup and saucer was won by Mrs. Thelma Twyford. Observers would "note that no prize was given this year for table bouquets, though a number of fine examples of these were in the show,- The class was for a mantle bouquet, which. Calls for a 'distinct- ly different type Qf arrangement. A table bouquet must be- fairly low, - and is designed to be looked down into, , whereas the mantle bouquet is arranged with one' flat side against the wall (for it will not be seen) and' the other side is the, one which is looked at. The mantle bouquet can be much tal- ler than the other, - An invitation frOna Ripley to all members of the ;Clinton Citizens Horticultural 'Society has- been received, for them to attend the flower show in Rip- ley this Saturday, August 25. Last year a ims-load, of i1ower- fanciers from that village were in Clinton for the flower show? and were given a grand tour of some of the fine, flower gardenain town. This, aceord- leg to C. H. Epps, the director of District 8, Ontario (Horti- cultural Association; is a re- turn invitation, and he. urges ail interested persons to make the trip and take along friends. The winner of the prize for best robin shelter, • Faye Johnston, will have her work shown at the district meeting held in Southamp- ton on September 7, at which delegates from each of -the 16 societies -in the district will meet. A $5 prize for the best one there is being 'Provided by C. it Epps. Then the prize-winner will be sent to Toronto to compete against the best one from each of the 16 districts in the. Ontario association. The horticultural association is also sponsoring a poster contest, an essay contest, and two photo competitions, further announce- ment of, details will be made in due, time. Again on Monday morning, the fire alarm failed° to respond to prescribed treatment; and when a call came to the horde of Art Lev- ett, corner of Dunlop. and -.Isaac Streets, none 'of the proper meths ods would set off the alarm. Finally Chief H. R. Thompson tried the manual methbd, of break- ing the glass in the front of the box where the red light burns on the front of the Town Hall, which should automatically set off the siren. It did not set itself off. And 'to, Alvin Fletcher,evas call- ed upon 'to ring the tosen • bell: It has been many a year since that bell was used for a fire alarm. Clinton has 2,865 People According To 1956 Census Official totals of the populat- ion of the Town of Clinton, es received in the ' preliminary counts of the 1956 Census of Canada this week' are 2,865. This in. comparison With „the census count of 2,547' made in 1051, records a gain of 318 per- sons in five years, 0 65 Huron Farmers To Enter Western Livestock Judging There will be 65 entries from Huron County taking part in the Janice Farmers competition in judging held at the Western Fair, London, on Monday, September 10. Entered in senior and junior classes the young men will judge five classes of livestock; two dairy, two beet and one swine, giv- ing reasons on three designated classes and completing the West- ern Fair Agricultural quiz, There Will be in each division, eight awards of $5 each; eight awards. of $4 each arid 15 awards of $3 each. The Canadian Bank of Commerce has donated a watch to be ,given the boy with highest total score in the three divisions of the senior class, arid also of the junior class, Congratulatious! IVIr, and Mrs. Robert Fair- service, Lohdesboro, will be at home to thole relatives, neighbours and Mende on Sat- urday, September 1, from three to five, and seven to nine on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary.' obtain easements for the drain (Coun. E. Dale, seconded by Coale N, Liveroiore); authorizing the by-laves committee to prepare the necessary by-laws (Coun, H. Brid- le, seconded by Coun. N. W, Tre- wartha.) 'Clerk John Livermore will get prices on tile for the job, and the public works committeee will in- vite tenders on the materials,. and machine work for the drain. It is expected that construction will take two weeks to complete after a start is made. Coen H. Bridle remarked; "That'e a lot of money to bury,in two weeks, isn't it?" • 'Plans far the enlargement have been made on the assumption that a cut-off drain will be laid in the forseeable future across the race track to the pond east ,of, that, in order to drain off surplus water. Engineer Ross reports' that this will drain off 39 acres of the wat- ershed, and thus, relieve pressures on the lowerepart of the town storm drains. The engineer reported several tiles broken; in the old section of the Mary Street Drain, and rec- ommended that these' be replaced,. It is 322 feet long, of 27-inch tile, The new drain will parallel the old one, running for the most part deeper than it, and laiger, grad- ually increasing to 36-inch pipe at the open ditch on Erie Street, • Queried about the sewage back- up, Engineer Ross said, "The oply way to stop back-up in, the, sanit- ary sewers is to get your roof water out of the sewer laterals and into the surface drains. En- force the by-law you have and make sure that surface drains do „ rietego into the sanitary sewers." However, Chief Thompson reports that there seemed,to 'be more peo- ple at this fire than at some other ones called in the usual way. The bell brought .Fire Chief G. Rath. back from the edge of town where he was just setting off for Sea- forth. „Fortunately the fire was not a serious one, .and the delay occas- ioned in setting ,off the siren did no harm. The firemen soon had the situation under control at the Levetts, where an oil burner had gotten out of, hand. Hurried calls to the Bell Tele- phone Company whiph _was sug- gested as the culprit brought im- mediate. action, and repairmeh were despatched at once. Offic- ials of the Bell drove to Clinton from London and the whole situa- tion Was reviewed. However, the Bell equipment was found to be in• perfect condi- tion, and this time the fault lay with the town's , own equipment According to PUCeesuparintendent' J. Rands, a coil in the electrigal circuit was found defective prob- ably made so by lightning, and this was soon put to rights. The alarm on Tuesday was caused by a short circuit in equip- ment at the Bell Telephone ex- change, where employees were at work on the lines. 0 Plans Progressing For Centennial Bayfield Fair. The directors of the Bayfield agricultural Society, met on M6n- • pay evening to make further plans for the Centennial celebrations which will mark this year's agri, Cultural fair, Upon the suggestioe of president Carl Houston, a minute's silence was observed hi memory of the late Elmer Webster, active mem- ber and strong supporter . of the Society through the past years. A number of plans were final- ized, Among them were the de- cision to run a raffle on the prize- winning 'Centennial Cake. A prize of $50 is offered for the best three, tier fruit cake decorated suitably for the 100-year celebration. The cake then becomes the property of the fair, and a raffle is to be held CO it, with tickets selling for 25 cents each. The' next meeting of the dime, fors is seheduled for September 5, * .* * MISS COSTIN HAS DONE IT again... According to Staff John- ston, writer of the "Queen's Bush Now" column in the Stratfoed Beacon-Herald, all of her fifth form Latin class 'at Mitchell High Schap], has come thrdugh • with, first clase honours in both Latin • Anthors and Latin Comp. . This, reports Staff, is a, repeat of what, happened in 1953, . Now, what does a Latin teach- er in Mitchell have to do with "Clintonianee Well may you ask.. , However, Miss Costin was our own personal Latin teacher... and so we are quite personally inter- -v ested in here.. and Since you are reading this column, . t you must today read about here .. : Of pours se you may , turn away td soe- thing more interesting you like. . . HOY/ever, had you been a stud- ent, of Miss Co$tin's you , would have found it impossible to turn away from that subject: . . no matter how uninteresting you might have found it, . . for to Miss Costin, Latin was, is, and ever will be the• important. thing to learn. . and her' pupils learned it. . Where we knew her she was ready to retire, . . and she did Shortly after we left her class- room. . . However, with- teachers scarce; . and -the 'board realizing that they would find it hard to hire her equal. . . less• Costin• was - hired back again.. Then in 1953, when all of her class came up with double firsts.a. . she announced her retirement again and did just that for another year. . . 'before the Board persuaded her back in- to a claseroom,. . There's nothing fishy about this story. . . Miss Costires pupils tried the department's examina- tion, the same as every other fifth class Latin student.. We rather doubt that any 'one of them ever called her by her. first name as Staff Johnston has done in, his commentary... . . at least to her face. . s But Carrie Costin is known by students (probably the world over). . . and will always be remembered fondly by them as a teacher who knew isk subject. . and how to teach it. . . * * DOWN IN eSEAFOR,TH THERE , is a mystery. : According td the Seaforth News, Mayor E. A. Mc- Master cannot figure out Clinton's ,secret. . . 'we quote "They are spending money like drunken sail- ors at Clinton and yet their mill rate is not as high as ours", the Seaforth Mayor said to his council --last week: . . Apsarently Seafor- th's tax rate is 84.1 mills this ,year. • compared with Clinton's at 74 . . . and they're a little wor- ried. . . The mayor looks to our complete sewer systems public school, bigger than Seaforth's, a seven-room high school addition, and now a new drain. . . Perhaps Aso they willlook at our hospital which will be completely new this fall. . . and the new nurses resi- dence. . . and the freshened up i town hall. : , It is an impressive record. . . Of course, here in Clin- ton, we look /at the back streets that really need doing. . , and we find room for grumbling. , How- ever, the record here is prOtty good, after all. . * * SPEAKING OF RAISING MON- ey. . . the swim pool is going to need every little hie of 'support possible. . In our neighbour tovvresSeaforth, the people are len- ding all the enthuslasea they can behind the-project. , last vietk we read of a children's- circus, which netted $2,05-for the treastirer. . That's real appreciation of the fun the young folk have had in the water this. summer.. 0 Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Grealls, leave today for a two week visit to New Brunswick. cl.INYON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, A1NUSy 1944 7 cents copy $3,00 a year 61 86 '61 62 85 64 66 89 65 58 91 61 48 91. 66 42 98 70 5q f 80 07 Results Of Judging At Flower Show Point Out Many Proud Wihrters quet, Doris Tyndall, Mrs. H. Wil- liams. Best basket• assorted ' flowers, Mrs. Fred Potter, Mrs. H. Wil- liams; best five hybrid tea roses, Mrs. C. Epps (first and second). Clinton District Collegiate Di.= stitute pupils, best artistic ar- rangement,. seven blooms, Patsy Pegg, Bonitte Williams; corsage, Sharon 'Moines* „Bonite,,, Wil- liams, Patsy Pegg. Public school children, bird house, Ralph Trewartha, Bob Wat- kins, Doug Fremlin and Heather Winter (tied for third); robin Shelter, Faye Johnston; five zinnias, Fred Livermore, John Turner, Shirley Turner; five ast- ers, Wendy Magee, John Turner, Sharlene Turner; five petunias, Pat Cudniore, Heather Winter, Valeri Holland; five pansies, Hea- ther Winter, Fred Livermore, Ralph Holland; • table bouquet, Ruth-Batkin, Valeri Holland, Tom Turner. Brick Work On Town Hail Will Include ttnused Doors which have increased heating costs for some time, Also, two windows looking into the fire hall will be bricked up, since these have been covered to prevent the sun gettingin at the equipment. Sand-blasting and paint trim have\ yet to he done on the old building, and then the term can no longed: be' "the old town hall" for Clinton will have a quite mod- ern looking municipal building. • Though heating costs are ex- pected to be trimmed with the re-furbishing of the' hall, still a large arnoiinteof coal will be used. Fifty tens of Qie, black stoker coal was delivered to the town hall this week, according to Councillor George Beattie, chairman of the general government committee. .Fire„Alarm.,Aglin In:Trouble As -Siren Fails.Tolou' :lid Off Birthday Club , Congratulations to Mrs. Isabella 'Laws asoh, Bayfield, who on Tues- day, August 28, celebrates het ninetieth birthday,