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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1957-03-07, Page 1ANDREW Y. MCLEAN Paper Work At The Seed Fair A tremendous amount of paper work is necessary in COnfiee- tion with the Huron County Seed Fair, and most of it has to be undertaken on the first day of the fair. Miss Mae Coleman of the Department of Agriculture staff, was on the job all day keeping 'record of the judges' findings. William Clark, RR 5, Goderich, one of the directors of the Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association -has just reported on one of, the Masks, and Robert P. Allan. (left), grucefield, first vice-president of the S..C.I.A.; and grand champion exhibitor of the Fair, omits t'1" if et V II nle re hip 'CW15'1' (News-Record Ithoto),, 'Gld NA. me -Huron Says Crops heidman THE NM(S-RECORD 76th YEAR cL.eantNominate uroh Liberal Candidate Lots. Of Real Talent Among. Figure ,Skaters Their instructor, Dennis Siivertnorne, re- ports plenty of real talent among the members of the Clinton Figere Skating Club: These are just eight yoting ladiese from the more than 70-member Clete Front, left to right are: Carol Verter, RCAF Station Clinton; Sandra McLean, Mary Macaulay; Dianne Cudmore, Margaret Ad- dison, Dijagreerlo?4..Y..t.er, Joanne Cudmore and Sandra Lee. ' (News-Record Photo) Four names were propbsed at last week's meeting. The first three: Hugh Hill, Hugh Hawkins and Earl Campbell, all spoke' briefly arid withdrew, their 'names, Mr. McLean signified his intention of serving if the Huron Liberals wanted him to. Speakers at the gathering in-* eluded James Scott, Seaforth; Iv- an Kalbfleieeh, Zurich, the presi- dent of the county Liberal Assoc- (Contioued on rage Twelve) "Though exhibits were down in Mr. Montgomery spoke in comp- quantity over last year's exhibit, limentary terms of C. S. Kiegs- quality was surprisingly good con- bury, fieldman of the Crops, Seeds sideting the had crop year in and Weeds ,Branch, and of the 1956," reported-G. W. Montgomery, presidents 'of ,the Soil and, Crop at the Saturday afternoon meeting group - during his time in the in connection with the Tenth An- county. nee' Coenty. Seed Fair: He introduced Douilas11.,Miles, Speaking his farewell public ad- •the new agricultural represent- dress to the farmers, Mr.. Mont- ative, who takes over in Huron on gomery thanked Mayor W. 3. Mile April 1. Mr. Milee spoke briefly ler for his word's; of welcome to eaying 'that the work of ,the ex- the Feie, and expressed his pleas-.,.tension branch is to help farme uie at hying hi Clintoe and work-' be more pfeeperous and' lonJ ing with the people here. He said their work more.. • he had always had the co-opera- tion of Clinton people• in the meet- ing which 'the farm groups had' planned, and he mentioned espec- ially the generous donation which the Town of Clinton had given each year' toward the ,had fair. Mr. Montgomery ' announced special awards earned at the fair, and made presentations to the winners, William Turnbull, president 'of the Soil and Crop Improvement Association was Chairman for the event. He introduced Mayor W. J. Miller, who spoke words of wel- come, mentioning that Clinton Town Council was trying to do everything • possible to. improve parking conditions in the town for 'the benefit of farm _folk visiting Clinton. Warden Harry Gowdy brought greetings from the County. Arthur S. Bolton, assistant agricultural representative announced the re- sults of the seed judging competi- tion of the day +before, Arthur H. Martin, secretary of the Ontario Soil and Crop Im- provement Association, and a dir- ector of the Field Crops Branch was in attendance at the Saturday program, - • 7. -7771 ht trot ilir!ep*: /44 CARL FIXKINQWAY, THE NEW secretary-404=n for the Huron Federation of Agriculture, atteen del; the Brussels S.kating. Carnival recently with his family. . .„ and won the prize for having the lar- geet family -co.stunied ,and taking part M. the carnival, „. Sore mem- bers Or the family also woo priz- es, Donald was earned king of the,. carnival, David and Laurel placed third for best, dressed couple ever 16. . Sharon placed Woad for" best clown. . , David placed eficond, for best national costume, . Rose Was first for the best St. Petrick's costume. Carl and" Ruth were the Most graceful couple, Donald was named best dressed Man aver 16 , . Marion place.d, second, for 'best Valentine costume. „ • * . :STUDENTS FROM THE ENCe lish courses at .CD:01, , last week attended a presentation in :London Little Theatre, London, . The play was "She Stoops to Con- quer". , part of the course being studied by some of the .students, . Brumfield Farmer Grand Champion Tenth Seed Fair The W'eek's Weather • * 1957 . 1956 High Law High Low Feb, 28 29 12 37 15 Mar, 1 36 18 42 2 34 I 19 43 29 3 28 15 38 28 4.28 7 23 25. 5: al 10 afl SO 0 39 21 37 31 ' in. Rain:. 1.9 his. The Liberals en Hunan County packed the Legion Hall last Fri- day evening to elect their calla, date for this year's Federal elect- tion, and to hear the. Hon. Walter Harris, Minister of Finance, speak in his support. Skating Tests Tried Here - For First Time Now the itembere of the Fig- ure Skating Club are working hard in preparation for the Can- adian Figure Skating Associat- ion tests in ,both figure anti, dance, which will be held for the first time in Clinton, on Sat- urday afternon, March 23 in the Lions Arena, This coMpetition is open to the public to come into the arena and watch if they wish. Time is from 1.30 to 3 o'clock. Judges will be from cret-of-town, similar to those who judged the skating last Saturday. Women's World Day of 'Prayer In -Ontario Street, The Women's World Day of Prayer wilfbe observed. in Ontario Street 'United Church on Friday, March 8, at 3 p.m. The leader of the program will be Mrs. W. M. Aiken, The key woman is. Mrs. Mrs. L. W. McKen4le.. RepreSent- atives of various churches in town will lead in the se4eice. This service ''was' prepared' by Serenat Vassacbe forneerly of Hun- gary., It was adopted: for use in Canada by the Committee of the Women's' Inter' Church Connell of Canada. • All women are,invitedeto come to this prayer service "praying that we may be kept firm in our faith, unfaltering ire paths, of duty and aware Of all opportunities to make knoWn this endless love of God for all mankind." The Heron 'County Junior Far- ere are holding their annual meet- ing, and election or %facers in-the CDCI -auditoritmeeife Igrit at 8.30. .Norman Lindsay;' London,. former 'recreation director of. the YMCA there will be in charge of the, pro- gram, which will include dancing. Less than the price of:' small pack of cigarettes is the cost of education to the average taxpayer in Clinton today. -This. was one of the highligghts of the informative talk given by Glenn Gardiner, Public School in- spector for Central Huron area to the • Kinsmen .Club of Clinton at their dinner meeting held in Hotel Clinton on Tuesday night. The meeting was planned to coincide with education week in Canada. Speaking on the cost of educa- tion Mr. Gardiner noted the fact that "education is everybody's bus- iness." He stated that there are many problems with many -Solu- tions and many complaints even from .within the school system it- self, He expressed the belief that perhaps the biggest problem at the present time is the tremendous increase in school population sin- ce the war-, He said that there has been a trend towards levelling off in the lower grades but that the secon- dary schools had yet to feel the surge of 'pupils that will he corn- ing from the higher ,grades of the public schools within the next few years. Mr.- Gardiner stated that the schools were unprepared for this great influx of students in sonic pacts of Ontario and that accommodation and more' teachers would have to be provided. The gueet speaker pointed out that a tremendous job had been done in the construction of new schools in. Ontario; We now have the majority of the pupils housed in classrooms constructed 'since the last war and where new class- rooms have not been erected the existing conditions have been vas- tly improved. The limited source of teachers is a major problem. This Shortage means that there are a greeter number of apprentice teachers who have limited training or experience arid so the principals have 'a Much greater responsibility. The. speaker .told of th'e pro- blem of a great number of stud- .enie .dropping out of high schools and not completing their educat- ion and of the ways that have been used: hi some countries to 'combat this situation, Mr. Gardiner reviewed the man- ner in which education ,!s financed in Ontario from the provincial grants to the municipality's share. ;He told his audience that the av- erage .assegainnet in Clinton was $2,200 and with 29 mills going,..to ward schools the average taxpayer in Clinton would pay just $64 per year, $1.50 per week o,' 32 cents a day—less than a small pack of cigarettes. Other guests at the meeting in- cluded Bert' Gray, principal of Clinton Public School,; C. A. Trott, principal of A/V/M Hugh Camp- bell School, RCAF Station Clin- ton; Harold Knight, Hensall Kins- men; Cliff Quance and Lloyd Stanlake, Exeter Kinsmen Club. The club decided to hold a hat pool on the Stanley Cup finals and final arrangement for the draw on each game was left to the ways and means committee under Jack Clegg. Frank McEwan reported that the Peewee hockey schedule had *been completed and plans were being made to rent the arena for the two nights to have the teams play the semi-finals and finals. The allastar team has been prac- ticing regularly and has yet to be defeated. They are entered in a one-day tournament that will be conducted in Mitchell on Saturday, March 80. Plans were made for the inter- club meeting that will be held in .Clinton on Tuesday, March 19, when the flensall and !Exeter Kinsmen Clubs have been invited. Sergeant-at-arms = w a L .57.1Le. k Moore. President Harry McEwan was in charge of the meeting, Council he has had to take his own little girl to school quite of- ten, and haehoted with alarm the situation there. At the same time that school is let out there are school' buses. using the' road; cars leaving• and arriving at the school and heavy traffic. "One child's life, or his maiming or laming;' said ,the minister, "is worth much more than any cost involved in filling in that gully." Speaking in behalf Of Council and backed up by Reeve Burton Stanley, Mayor W. J. Miller assur- ed the petitioner that fixing the gully was in the plans for 1957. It had iii fact• been planned last year, but additional 'and .onexpec- tedcosti„rising"Oet of rainy weath- er, and drainage - problems had stopped the work. Regulations, . A request from the CDCI beard for a no parking area in front of the school between Gibbings Street and the:-east boundary of the school, ore the. north side of the street, was received and also a request for making the area from ,Gibbings to Raglan street a 15 mph area from 8.30 to 4,30 p.m. This was left in the hands of the police committee for ; a report at the next regular Meeting. Hullett Pays-$700 w Toard, Goderich, Hospital Wing Hullett Township Council auth- orized payment of its $700 alloca- tion towards the cost of the' new hospital wing at Alexandra Mar- ine and General Hospital, Goder- a yard were awarded Gecirge Red- ford, Blyth; for, spraying cattle for warble fly, to James Leishman, Clinton; for supplying warble fly powder, to Tom Allan, Londes- ' boro. Wilmer,Howaet, RR 1,, Aule :ern was appointed warble fly in- spector. The Council instructed' clerk George Cowan to apply to the On- + tario Department of Highways for authorization :for a supplementary $20,000 by-law to rebuild the 40- i ye, r-old Walkerburn bridge in the western section of the, township. tbeeniorced open but no cash nor i stamps Were missing, Gordon T. Scribbins, former caretaker of the post office, had Moved out of the apartment- over the building, only a few days be- 'fore, H Weymouth has been in charge of the caretaking job. rentry'at the Simpson-Sears of- fice was made by prying open the front door, A cash drawer was smashed and files rifled but noth- ing was taken. Miss Mary Turn- er, an office employee, discovered the break-in. Then the office of II, F. Wett- laurel-, grain and seed merchant, was entered and a few dollars taken, Chief Thompson Is 'being assis- ted in the investigations by OPP Constable Jahn Parkinson, Goder- ich.. obert Kirkby Is En route to their home in Wal- ton front Elmira early Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs, Robert Kirkby were killed when their car plunged off the Molesworth-Ethel road and crashed' into' a tree. Mr, Kirkby; '36, was well known in race horse circles . throughout Western Ontario, and raced here on the Clinton track at the an- nual race meet, e The crash- occurred in front of the farm home of Clifford Row- land, former Grey township reeve. An inquest will be held CM March 15, at Ethel, with Cornoner Dr. R. cor No. 110—The Home raper With the News • CLINTON., .ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1957 7 Ceilts a Call $3* a 'Year rincess $t. -Gully, Needed Surprisingly Good Seed -, Shown Despite Bad ,Year. Robert P. Allan, Brucefield, a young farmer who has taken great interest in many of the organiza- tions, of farmerseewithin Huron County, was last Saturday ac- claimed Grand ,Champion of the Tenth Annual Huron County Seed Mr. Allan is first vice-president of the Huron County Soil and Crop Inaprovernent Association, which sponsors the fair. He racked up a total of 55 points at the seed fair, from his exhibits of late po- tatoes (second); medium or late oats (second); barley (fourth); field crop competition (second); hybrid corn (second); Oats (first); barley (second); mixed grain (fourth); , second cut field 'chopped hay (first), PUC Raising Rent For Lodge ,Rtionis Considering the costs of, upkeep on their downtown •building,. the Public Utilities Commission decid- \ ed at their meeting last Thursday night, to approach the 100F and Rebekah Lodges with regard to a raise in rent for their hall and other rooms upstairs, At. the preseet time the. PUC .reeeierina-490+-atellteePlx!LaWAV. heat for these rooms. Considering costs on the` basis orhale taxes,- half , Insuranee, and "the 'heating cost 6f the upstairs, it is costing $329 a year, without regard to re- pairs to the building. With •this in view the 1,,,pc has decided to ask for $300 per year, including heat, and effective March 1. "You're sitting on a "gold mine, here in Huron County," C. He Kingsbury told farmers gathered at the Huron County Seed Fair here on Saturday, "and if' • you don't' recognize' it as -such, then you've got nobody to blame but yourselves." Mr. Kingsbury, who is the liedd- man for the Field Crops Branc,h of *the Ontario Department of Agriculture, warned his hearers that if they did, not carry cut good practises of farming they would be eased put into other le- dustriee "This," he said,' he "did not wanteto see happen." These remarks were Made in conclusion to an. address based_ on the results of seed drill surveys made in the county which sh,!tiaved a. marked improvement in the `past eight years, but whcih still indi- cated a remarkable indifference in farmers about the brand,' grade, and cleanliness of the seed they were sewing. "When you buy a dozen oranges, eyott expect to get a dozen or- anges," said Mr. Kingshury, "and when you buy a bushel of peed you should expect to get 'a bushel of pure living seed. Not a bushel of seed combined with weedseeds, and seeds that will not grow." Eight years ago, the speaker recalled one out of every three Samples in the Huron County seed Hill survey had been rejected. Last year, one out of five samples Was rejected. This shows some improvement. He warned that small seeds cannot be cleaned pro- perly in a farm cleaning ,plant. Chuckling, Mr, Kingsbury said, "'you're a hopeful hench in Huron County." Out of five cereal grain samples, 'four farmers did not THE NEW ,,BRA---9 ridYEAR Andrew Y, McLean, publisher of the Huron Expositor, Seaforth, received the unanimous nomina-. tion as the Liberal Candidate. The 52-year-old pewspaperman will 'be entering his third campaign for election., In 1949, when his riding was the Huron-Perth, he won his seat in the House witb.a plurality of 295 votes. That same year, Elston Cardiff, Brussels, the present member for the Huron,riding, won his election in North Huron, with a' plurality of 521 votes. During that four year term of office, Mr. McLean served in 1952 as one of five' Canadian delegates to the Seventh General AsseniblY of the United Nations. Then in 1953, ,in a situation changed owing to ‘re-arranging of the ridings, the Huron riding was extended to include all .ef South Huron ,,as well as Hilbert Town- ship, and most of North Hurian, exbept the township eaf Howick and Turnberry and the town of, Wingharie In this election held in mid-August, Mr, McLean lost to Elston Cardiff, the veteran Pro- gressive Conservative campaigner, who had a majority of 953 'votes. know what grade of seed they had 'been sowing. And in the small' seed samples, two out of three farmers were net aware of what grade the seed was. By sowing good grade seed, and the varieties of grain recommen- ded, for a particular area, said Mr. Kingsbury, as men as $100 extra on ten acres could be realized. Concerned about the dangerous situation on Princess Street; where' for the length of a half a block absence of sidewallee- on either side, is combined with a deep, hol- low in the roadway ,itself, Rev. A. G. Eagle• yoiced the opinion of niany, a toeyn parent Tuesday night when he approached the town council in this regard. In the half block west of the Clinton District Collegiate Insti- tute there is a deep "gully. Owing to the greet amount of fill needed on each side of the road to accom- modate sidewalks, these have nev- er been put in. Now with -over 300 stedents at the Collegiate;' plus about half of, the Pitfall& School enrollment Using that particular bit of street, the situation• has become .serious. As Mr. Eagle recounted for Cheaper -Than Smoking Education Costs: 32 Cents A little flurry of break-ins at business places in town through- out the past week, has 'so far net- ted the would-be thieves very lit- tle for their trouble, according to 'pollee, The first two occurrences were at K. C. Cooke`e florist shop, where a few dollars was taken from t11e till, and at the Clinton ILions Arena, where only minor thefts were noted. These happen- ed on Tuesday evening, Webrilary 26. The following night, February 27, entries occurred at the post office, and at Simpson-Sears order office, According to Chief Con- stable It It Thompson, entry at the post office was made by for- cing a rear window near the load- in platform. A deSk drawer had Flurry Of .Breakins Net Thieves Little (ash; Police Iniestigating Saturday Matinee- Pop Conceit' Col4ws'Big Crowd ich. Other gr nts awarded were $75 to the Blyth flee area for the purchase of a new inhalator and $25 to the North Huron Plow- ,men's Association. Contracts for cubic yards of gravel at 72 cents'F atally injured supplying 12,000 A refreshing change in the year- end concert of Olinton'e+ figure skating club, was the pop concert ,staged in the Lion§ Arena here on Saturday aiternon. An impromptu air, and a variety of progeam, kept the large crowd interested in the items which followed swiftly upon each other, throughout the event. Dennis Silverthorne, Stratford, professional skater, has been in- structor. here for the past three years, and is under contract for the 1957-58 season as well. In speaking of the 'Work which the -Clinton youngsters have been do- ing, after four years Of instruction, he ,expresses his ' enjoyment of working with nihern, and says, "there is cOnsideralile talent" here. Particitietihe in the' pop concert were 70 local skaters; with spec- ial ninnbeiS "provided 'hy nine fig: ure skaters from Stratford, includ- ing the senior and junior Western Ontario champions. In a free skating solo competit- ion, Sharon,.Cook won in the sen- ior class, while Sandra Lee cap- tured the junior class award. Tro- phies to both girls were presented by Mrs. Duff Thompson, president of the Skating Club, who donated the trophies: . Rurmersup in the senior- class were Caron Gattinger, RCAF Stat- ion Clinton; Ann Trott, Clinton. In the, junior class, Shirley Spilsbury, RCAF Station Clinton and Glenda Mero, Clinton. The Figure Skating Club exec- utive is most appreciative of the assistance given financially by those who purchased concert tick- ets, and morally by those whe came to see the younsters skate. With athis concert behind them, the Club can now go forward into the next season without too much financial worry, 0 W. S,tcvens, Brussels in charge. Surviving are three children: David, 14; Mary, 11, and Robert., 10, The funeral service will he from ithe Box funeral home, Seaforth. o Over 80 Birthday Club. Mrs. John McPhee, Auburn and. Miss Martha 1VicIlwain, Goderich, celebrated their 90th birthday :at the family homestead, rut 3, Aub- urn, ' on Friday, March 1. They are believed to be Canada's oldest twins, and are sole survivors of a family of 13, Mrs. Albert Seeley, High 'Street, Clinton, will celebrate her 83rd birthday on Saturday, March 9. Mrs, Agnes E, Pollock, formerly of Hayfield,, and now living at :t•hp. num County Home, will be 92, years old on March 12. Mrs, Grace Ilapson celebrated her 87th birthday On. February 25, at the home of her soil and daugh-ter-11'14;w, Mr. and Mrs, Orval Re ison • Homan