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Clinton News-Record, 1959-01-29, Page 10,90 Year. THE Nf WS-RECORD-77th YEAR nts Per Copy --Y-12 Pages UNTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, :JANUARY 9,, 1959 News THE NEW nrd YEAR saa 1111111111110!1! ililikilli111111 •?:,ieg,PA sOkasas 1_ ...aaassaaes sas Member Honored . at PC; Banquet Event Showing their pleasure at the success of the WNW meeting here last Friday night ore members of the Clinton!! Lades Progressive Conservative Association and their guests. From the left, Charles S. MacNaughton, Exeter, MLA for Huron; Mrs. Thomas Steep, secretary of the ladies group; Douglas Freeman, president of the Clinton Men's Progressive Association and his wife, the vice-president of the ladies group; Mrs. Mac- Naughton and Mrs. F. G. Thompson, president of the host group. (News-Record Photo) --0 WESLEY-WILLIS WA WILL MEET THURSDAY The Woman's Association of Wesley-Willis United Church will meet on Thursday afternoon, Feb- ruary 5, in the church parlour, at 2.30 p,m. Mrs. Wilfred Jervis' group will be in charge. • 0 The Week's Weather 1959 1958 High Low High Low 45 8 21 -1 1.F> 2 31 9 24 0 32 20 25 8 36 19 11 -22 40 20 19 -6 41 30 39 27 Jan, 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 25 -5 Snow: 7 ins. tett lira C011111111,== W, 0, 0.) OTED WITH .l:'NTEREST, re- cently a Pieture, in a daily paper of the huge mound of salt piled at Goderich harbour for , use by the Department of ,Highways on the streets this winter Un- usual thing was that the story said, it was shipped fretn. Detroit, during the navigation season , . seems .a lot like the 'deals 't.0 Newcastle bit * ALSO' -NOTED WITH INTER,EST that next year the licences .• we get to permit :us to drive a 'car Will be goOd for three. years And the day it cornes- due will be on 'our birthday , ; Now, there's a day ,to look forward to. . Carried tO its-ultimates the young driver .and the' one with little cash, can be hopeful that the birthday -.presents will add up in cash money at least as far as the cost. of the driver's license . , This seems . to , be a good idea, however, and it will be a great help to avoid the :rush at the first of the year, , We expect that this,. Will net eliminate' the first of the 'year date for ear licences , . *. , THE: LARK AND ARE STILL getting along with the old 1958 plates it came with . „ 'Seems funny to be driving a 1959 car with last year's plates but such is the case . , * GOT A TERRIFIC RAZZING AT the Hog Producers meeting the other day . . Yoh see we can't afford a proper camera bag to tote equipment along to such af- fairs, and so make do with a wick- er shopping•basket which happen- ed to -be on hand - . . We had just enjoyed a lonely banquet dins ter of roast pork, of course . and the producers thought it -was a. fine thing, if we had to bring along a basket lunch to Satisfy the appetite . . We assure them, and the hotel cook, -that we had nothing edible in the basket. what- soever . . GE'rI'ING BACK TO THE'CountY Town . , we find that the signs which were put up to restrict parking in certain sections of the Square were taken down about three .dayS after they, were put up , . Guess the poArs that be -deCided that , the wishes of resi- dents and MerchantS .Was more- ini- EVERYWHERE WE WENT THIS week we found people Clipping out the story which appeared in the daily paper about some baby- sitter in St. Paul, Minnesota, who stuck to hen job „ . far beyond the actual call of duty . . Quite interesting to all, apparently . Funny, how an amusing story is often-the result of an embarrassing situation for somebody else . s Six-Year-Old Hurt Slightly By Car colours at first, but over the years the number was decreas- ed to three, then two par regi- ment. Originally intended to serve as a rallying point dur- ing the battle, a regiment's colours were usually accomp- anied by a band as the eom- bined use of sight and sound proved effective in establish- ing such a rallying point. British Colours were last carried into battle during the Crimean. War. The Increased range and accuracy of weap- ons at that time made easual- ties among colour bearers so high that the practice was dis- continued. Master, there is need for more room in various departments At Present there are 400 lock boxes, for the use of the public, There are over 400 people receiving mail through general delivery. A total of 200 is considered a large gener- al delivery in most post offices, Besides this, there are as many as three families using the same lock box, The .result Is that there is a waiting list of 75 to 80 names all the time, and many people inquir- ing about a box are discouraged when they see how long many of those names have been on the list and don't ask for their names to be added. It is estimated that another 250 lock boxes would be taken up immediately-if they were available, and maybe more. The modern concept of the lock box area in that it be separate from the general delivery lobby, so that it could remain open long- er hours for the convenience of the public. This is the plan at the post office at Adastral Park.' Since the inauguration of truck service instead of the previous postal trains, more work has' come into the Clinton post office. The local office receives mail from 17 post offices south of town, and it all must be sorted here to go out towards Toronto. ,This mail, which leaves in mid-afternoon, gets -quicker delivery than if the 17 post offices sorted themselves, and sent in out towards London. Much of this 'work used to be done on the trains while the mail was, en route to Stratford and Toronto, ' Also, more room is needed for equipment for the rural mail del- iverymen. There has to be five sorting areas for them—one' for each rural route. At present they do this .work in the main sorting rQorn. The 'Class "A" rating which en, titles Clinton to a new Or. enlarg- ed post office accommodation is determined from: an enalyais Pi the need for such, in all towns in the Dominion. Yesterday a representative from the Department of Public Works was in Clinton to obtain the feel- ing of the executive committee of the town council with regard to the building. Though it . was not an open meeting, it is understood that the committee does not favor a change of site for the post of- fice. Six-year-old John Leppington narrowly escaped serious injury on Tuesday afternoon, when he was struck by a car on Mary St- reet. He and his brother were cross- ing the street, when a car driven by William H. Humphrey going slowly up the icy and now-packed grade struck the younger boy. He suffered only a bruise on one leg. Mr. Humphrey took the lad. to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Leppington, North St- reet> Queen's .Colours Paraded by Station Clinton Need for increased space in 'the Clinton Post Office is becoming increasingly pressing, and the De- partment of Public Works at Ot- taiva has given the town an "A" rating in the list of municipalities needing either new or. renovated 'post offices. The present post office was built in the early 1900s, and has not the capacity to serve the present pop- ulation of Clinton properly. According to Arthur Ball, post- W. E. Perdue Again Chairman in 26th Year on Commission William E. Perdue who has ser- ved the town of Clinton in the Public Utilities Commission for more than a quarter-century, was again named chairman of that body at the inaugural meet- ing held last Wednesday night,' January 21, H. E, Hartley was returned as secretary and Frank 'Hutch as treasurer. The regular meetings throughout 1959 will be held on the last Tuesday of each month, Installation of hot water tanks on a rental basis has been very well received by the people of Clinton; and at the moment the supply of tanks does not meet the demand. Superintendent Jz• E. Rands reports that more of these will be available soon. TV NEWS Ellwood 'Epps of Epps Sport Shop, will take part in the King- Whyte Show on Saturday night This is a CBC show, scheduled for the period following the hock- ey broadcast. Depending on the length of the hockey game, the King Whyte Show takes up the balance of the time until 10.30 p.m. Cliff Epps, 'Clinton, will be a guest on "M'Lady", CKNX-TV, on Monday, February 2, at 2.30 pan, tary organizations, are not new and even as long ago as 5,000 B.C. there was a "Cult ' of the Standard" in India. Ro- man Legions carried standards surrounded by a regimental symbol and eagle, and Napo'', eon's army had standards copied from these ancient Ro- man emblems, Colours for tritigh units first came into use during the 17th Century and the King's Colour was adopted to show allegiance to the Crown by military groups, rather than to the lesser royalty that may have outfitted them. t 1 Local Reeves Hold Jobs on County Council Committees Two local reeves, Ivan Forsyth, Tuekersmith and W. J. Miller, Clinton, were on the striking com- mittee which set up the commit- tees in Huron County -Council at the session last week. Harvey Colernan, Stanley Town- ship, is this year's ;chairman of the roads committee, which this year is expanded to five men, and includes representativea from Btu- ssels, Usborne, Stephen and Ex- eter. Deputy Reeve Harvey Taylor, Stanley. and Reeve 3, Forbes, Goderich Township are on the legislative 'committee. Deputy Reeve Melvin Crien is on the reforestation committee, which has two other reeves, the county en- gineer and Douglas Miles, Clin- ton, agricultural 'representative, as members. Crick is also on the Children's Aid committee and the airport committee, Reeve Forbes is on the proper- ty committee. Reeve Forsyth is also on the warden's committee. Judge Frank FingIand, Clinton is a member of the criminal audit board. County Mt Taking Part in CIA Action; Petition Needed On the advice of its solicitors, Huron County Council decided not to get involved in a campaign to end the operation of the Canada Temperance Act in Huron. Dur- ing the past year, County Coun- cil has received delegations and resolutions asking it to petition for a change from CTA to Liquor Control Act enforeement, Huron and Perth exe now the only counties hi '-411%:h-rio where the Ontario LCA does not apply, and where the liquor late in ef- fect is the cm. '• As a conse- quence,, there are no authorized beverage rooms, brewers' ware- houses, or government liquor stores in Huron. Action by the county, or by any municipality in Huron, to petition for an end to the CTA, would be useless, Council was advised at its January session this week by the Goderich law firm of Hays and Prest, county solicitors. Under the terms of the CTA, the solicitors advised, the only. procedure by which the Act may be made inoperative in any coun- ty in which it has been in oper- ation, is a petition of electors. If it were desired to remove Hur- on from. the list of CTA counties, said the solicitors, in their opin- ion the necessary thing to start action would be a petition, ad- dressed to the Dominion Govern- ment, and signed by individual citizens, qualified to vote at Do- minion elections. Clinton Branch, Canadian Legion president Cameron Proctor, offic- iated at an initiation ceremony Monday night When six new them- hers were accepted into Clinton Branch 140, He was assisted by past presidents J. W. Counter and Hector Kingswell, secretary R. B, Campbell and sergeant-at-arms George Campbell. Those initiated Were Cpl, Karl Manko, from RCAF Station Clin- ton. ' Ernest• Laidlaw, Zurich; Jam- es Armstrong, Arthur Aiken and Leslie Nice, all of town, The various committees for the coming year were picked at the Well-attended meeting. Over 70 members were present, Apointrnents included: James Graham,' to the Park Board; J. E. Dale and R. J, Schoenhals, to the Swimming Pool Board. Committees are as follows, with the first named as chairman: Pop- py, 3, D. ,Thorndike0arnet Her., land, Merton Merner, J, K, Cor- nish, Don Symons, 0, M. Counter, W. Counter, George Cowan, Ephriarn Snell and Roy Fitzsim- ons, Relief, J. W. Counter and Cam Praetor; sick roan equipment, 3. W. Counter and knelt Cree; hall rental, Cam Proctor, P.. 13, Camp- bell and Gordon Herman, Sick and visiting, Ed. Gibson, Joe Sileock, and Rev. D. 3, Lane; sports, Doug Andrews, James Gra- ham, Reg, Smith, Len ArfiStoti and It, 3, Sehoenhels; social, Alf. Crozier, Doug Andrews, Robert Draper, Ed Porter, Reg, Smith and. cordon Herman. Entertainment, Jame Graham,. ffite Space rornised- 'for Clinton If anyone is interested in mak- ing, the change, their present water heaters now running through the meter, may be converted to flat rate system if so desired. The dharge varies with the size of the portant thansupplying, certain:. heater> and details would have to parking space to cbunty employ, be receiviid*Voin the PUC'Uffide; ees but the service charge is only 11 * cents per month. Probably not noticeable to the home owner to any startling •de- gree, is a slight decrease in the hydro accounts sent out for the month of January. Most consum- ers in town will receive a slight reduction in rate. The invoices are now based on four rate structure, and the new arrangement is expected to reduce revenue to the PUC by about $5,000 in the year. There Were no requests for hydro, water, or sewerage service before the Commission this mon- th. Progressive Conservatives Honour, C. MacNaughton NEW PRESIDENT Ross Love, Hensali, was elected president for 1950, succeeding W. R. Lobb, Clinton, Elections were conducted by Douglas Miles, ag- ricultural representative for Hur- on, Vice-presidents are Albert Ba- con, Morris Township and Lloyd Stewart, Rullett Township; and secretary-treasurer is Alfred War- ner, hayfield, Township directors elected for 1059, to the Hog Produerzs Co- operative and the Hog Producers Association, with their , alternates, the 801.111C • "The church has opposition, but it carries' on," said Charles McInnis here on Tuesday after-. noon, as he challenged the hog producers of Huron County to car- ry on their program in the face of their difficulties. Mr. McInnis was speaking at the annual meet- ing of the organization held in• the Legion Hall here. "Our program is sound, good and right," stated Mr. McInnis, "let us go forward". At the event which was chaired. by president W. R. "Bert" Lobta RR, 2, Clinton, abdut 300 producers, heard McInnis, who is the presi- dent of the Ontario Hog Producers Association, urge for vertical in- tergration from the producer up, if it must happen. Spontaneous applause greeted his declaration that "if they (the packers) invade our field of production, thew we must invade theirs." He went on to say, "If we are going to have vertical integration, we must be loyal to the consumers who have been loyal to us, and see to it that they are not put at the mercy of a few big corpor- ations". The poultry industry, Mr. Mc. Innis asserted, stands as a warn- ing to hog producers of what can happen if contract farming en ab I es big processing com- panies to gain control over pro- duction on the farms. "In the poultry inclitstry, the producer finds himself a slave to a few large processing concerns". He urged the producers to take a hand in the selling of their pro- duct, to tell the consumers the facts, and do an advertising job for themselves, dent of the men's Progressive Conservative Association of Clin- ton spoke in appreciation of the banquet. Elgin McKinley reorted, that Elston Cardiff was at his home, and able to do all his work as a member, but was not attemp- ting meetings such as this until his injuries had improved. He said that Mr. Cardiff would welcome visitors, and was as willing as ever to shelp with any problems in the constituency. Tom Steep moved a vote of thanks to the Ladies -for the suc-. cessful meeting, and Mrs. Thomp- son thanked the Ladies Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion' for their work in catering• for the banquet. Mrs. Cameron Proctor, president, received these thanks. Mayor Burton Stanley welcomed the group to the town, congratu- lating them for choosing a compe- tent man as MLA. He said that Mr. MacNaughton was helpful to the town, and did not seem to con- (continued on Page 12) Hog Producers Challenged To Stand Up To Opposition Mrs. G. E. Saville, Rattenbury Street West, Clinton, will be 95 years old on Thursday, January 29. January 30 is the birthday o Mrs, Thomas Baird, St,, Bruce field, and she will be marking the 'end of her 99th year. Mrs. Baird livos with her son and daughter, in-law, Mr and Mrs. T. B. Baird. Mrs. Ellen Howard, who lives with her daughter, Mrs, CparleS E, Wallace, at 14897 Stoepel Ave., Detroit 88, Mich,, Will celebrate her 89th birthday next Thursday, February 5. She Is in good health, and enjoys the News-Record, She Plana to plant her garden again in are: Ashfield,R. Finnigan, C. Kil patrick; Colborne, J. Fisher, R, Fisher; Goderich township. Al- fred Warner, William Longrnire; Stanley,,William Coleman, Ernie Talbot; ay, Ross Love, G, Gren- ier; Stephen, Ed, Hendrick, Bruce Shapton; Usborne, Harry Hern, T. Creery; Grey, Mel Dennis, Douglas Hemingway; Hullett, L. Stewart, Arnold Jamieson; Mc Killop, Gilbert Smith, Gordon Elli- ott; Tuckersmith, Alec McGregor, Wilfred Coleman; East Wawanosh, Robert Armstrong, Prank Nesbit; West Wawanosh, William Good, W. Kenehan; Morris, Albert Bac- on, R. H. Coultes; Turnberry, Les- lie Fortune, Harry Mulvey; How- ick, Elmer Harding, Gordon An- gst. Directors-at-large ftsr 1959 are W. R. Lobb, Alvin Rau, Simon Hallahan and Elgin Porter, who were elected on a ballot to choose four from Six nominees. tithe candidates were Edgar ,Rathwel and Robert Allen. The nine directors who will re- present Huron on the Ontario Hog Producers Marketing Board are Alfred Warner, .Ross Love, Ed, Hendrick, Mel, Dennis, Lloyd Stewart, Robert Armstrong, Al- bertL Lobb, Harry Horn and W. rz Delegates to the marketing (continued on Page 12) Over 80 Hospital Auxiliary Will Meet on February 3 The regular meeting of the Wo men's Hospital Auxiliary will be held in the Nurses' Residence, on Tuesday, February 3, at 8 p.m, Please note change of date. The annual Burns Night was enjoyeu on Tuesday by the Clin- ton Lions Club, at their meeting in the parish hall. St. Paul's Ch, urch. Bill Mutch piped in the hag- gis in full ceremony, and the time- honoured dish was borne by Wil- liam Morlok and Mitchael Me, Adam. 71, Beecher Menzies, vice-pres- ident of the Lions, made the ad- dress to the haggis.' Guest speaker was William P Roberts, RR 3, Clinton, who spok on the life and personality of Rob ert Burns, illustrated with a num her Of the honoured man's.peeris John Lavis thankedathe speaker 0 Lions Pay Honour To Haggis And The Immortal Rob Burns Birthday Club Charles MacNaughton, Exeter, MLA for Huron County, was the honoured guest and speaker at a banquet' meeting held in the Leg- ion Hall, Clinton, last Friday night by the Clinton Ladies Progressive Conservative Association. The Association, which was for- med two years ago, is headed by Mrs. F. G. Thompson, who recalled that since its beginnings the Lad- ies Association had seen three successful elections for the party. Mrs. Douglas Freeman, vice-presi- dent, introduced the guest speak- er. Mr. MacNaugpton said be was overWheImed by the welcome he had received, and noted his pleas- ure at the friendly, informal even-' ing. He set the tone of his in- formal address by quoting a para- graph from the Sugar and Spice 'column which apears each week in this and other weekly newspap- ers. Stating that "I don't have to exhort you people, because you all have a one track mind like a have," Mr. MacNaughton proceed- ed to recount some of the inter- esting facts about Huron's early history, and read the famous will left by Dr. William "Tigard' Dun- lop. He told especially of Col, VanEgmond, Gibbings, Vander- burg and Rattenbury, the early settlers and developers of Clinton. Then he commented on recent growth of industrial development in all the towns in Huron and clos- ed with the hope "that I have in- spired in you all the affection and enthusiast-It that I have for Hur- on." . Mrs. Ernest Epps thanked the speaker. Douglas Freeman, presi- Legion Initiates Five New Members; Picks Committees For Coming Year Harold Black, Reg. Cudmore, Lou- is Dutot, Hector Kingswell and Glenn Carter; 'property, Robert Draper, Ed, Porter, Hector Kings.- well, R. I. Schoenhals, Reg. Smith, Dick Freeman, Merton Merner, Howard Cowan, James Graham and J. K. Cornish; Guides and Brownies, Doug An- drews; Ed. Porter, Garnet Har- land, and J. D. Thorndike; pub- licity, D. J. Thorndike, R. B, Campbell and A, L. Colquhour. Bingo committee: Dick Free- man, chairman; callers, Hector Kingswell, 3, W. Counter, Hal Hartley, Cam Proctor; cashiers, K. W. Colqtthoun, Cain Proctor, Garnet Harland, Gordon Herman, and 3, E. Dale; floormen, Doug Andrews, Sam Spencer, Sam Shipp, Louis Dutot, Harold Black, Fred Ford, Bill Harris, Clinton Wells and Percy Brown. It is hoped to organize a past president's group within the br- anch to take charge of the mem- bership, suspension and by-laws eornmittee. In the monthly meeting attend- ance draw, L, E, Desjartline's name was called; he not being present, the draw at the next meeting will be worth $85. This trittkea six consecutive meetings at which the winner was not pre- sent, A, Mathers was the regular draw prize winner. The Legion will purchase one of the prizes for the minor hockey Program at Clinton Liens Arena this Saturday. The branch also gave $15 to the Westminster Boa- -Vital bingo' committer; to purchase prizes, The Colours carried by the :RCAF Station Clinton Guard of Honour at the opening of the Ontario Provincial Parlia- merit on Tuesday represent a `'first" for the Royal Canadian Air Force as it is the first British Air force to be grant- ed as a whole, the right to . carry the Queen's Colour. Presentation and consecra- tion of the Colours took place in Ottawa on the late King George VI's birthday. His Excellency Viseeurit Alexander of Tunis, Governor General of Canada, made the presenta- tion on His Majesty's behalf,