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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-03-05, Page 1 intoft New. Zbt iftrOt Coluningg= ecor THE NEWS-RECORD-77th YEAR CLINTON. ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1959 $3.00 per year-40 Cents Per Copy-12 Paget Awards Presented at Legion Public Speaking Finals Group .Captain K. C. Cameron, Commanding Officer of RCAF Station Clinton (left) attended the Legion Public Speaking competition last week, .and presented the winning trophy in the junior public school section to Carol Robichaud, pupil of A/V/M. Hugh Campbell Public School. Second place winner was Alan Lowe, Clinton public school, and third was Ernie Fafard (right), of A/V/M Hugh Campbell. Mayor Burton Stanley, at rear, presented the certificates to the boys. Judges in this competition were George H. Jefferson, Mrs. A. Hearn and Mrs, F. Fingland. (News-Record Photo) The trustees of the Goderich Township School Area Board met with council of that township on Monday night to request again that all of the schools in the township be included in the School Area. The board feels that it is the wise move, and at two meet- ings, one in Holmesville, attended by 50 ratepayers and another at SS 6, near Goderich, when 55 rate- payers attended, they received complete approval of their sug- gestion. Ice Fishing Brings In Suckers; Other Fish Harder To Attract to Deep Nets ation are laid under a strip of clear ice which occurs between ice jams on the lake. During the winter, as the ice forms, it goes out into the lake and comes back again suddenly, forming jams of ice right down to the bat= of the lake. Between these ice jams are strips up to a half mile long where water below is not packed with ice. It is here that nets ean be lowered, They are laid "in-and- out" from the Iake shore, so that as the fish search up and down for entrances to streams to spawn in the spring, they can be caught. Greatest excitement of the job is the actual pulling up of the nets, when the men watch to see just what they got "this time",. Mr. Gemeinhardt and Mr. Fra- ser expect to keep On with their fishing for several days, or even weeks yet, depending oil the br- eak-up of the ice, During the period of Lent there is- a great demand for the fish, arid all of the finny creatures are rapidly sold, The demand fat out• strips the supply, Other similar fishing Operations are being carried out on the lake north of Bayfielcl, arid at Grand Bend. VISITED THE FINAL SESSION. of the Clinton Community Night School held in the collegiate last week ,„ and found dozens of adults having fun showing off to their friends and neighbours the lovely things they had made dur- ing - the winter session . . MRS. H. A. MCINTYRE WAS THE only lady in the shop-work course but she did not allow the men to outshine her in accomplishments . . . not wanting to lose a minute of the time available in the shop room . . she was sawing up some boards preparing for another pro- ject . . . On display was a lovely coffee table she had made during the winter . . and other pieces, too . . * * * FOUND MYSELF ,RUSHING TO hear the speeches over at the Legion Hall the same night . . . and so was unable to see all the rooms . but did visit the millin- ery course . . . Lovely hats . . . they will no doubt grace many heads between now and March 27 . and on Easter Sunday, too * THOSE PUBLIC SPEECHES , are a supreme trial for parents and children • . . but it is a cert- in pleasure to notice how the oung ones improve each year . . . ctually the life, of child is a rim and terrifying one . , ,..When a invite an adult to give a sp- ech, it is usually on a topic which e has spent his life perfecting . We ask these children to pick topic from among a list he has ittle personal experience with, d then expect him to get on his eet and expound for three or five Mutes on the topic, with know- edge, and ease of manner, in a rfectly unrealistic setting . e congratulate them upon their xceeding good record . . . * * * OlVfEBODY LOST THEIR EYE- lasses . . . and they've ended p. in the News-Record Lost and ound department . . Owner an haire same by identifying and ollecting them. . . By, the way, hey're in their own case . . . eaders will be interested to know at owners have been found for he boys skates, the coloured se- rf, and the change purse. . . he house key is still in our win- ow . . . A home also was found 3 a wristwatch which came to he office on Saturday. . * * * RS. R. H. F. GAIRDNER ,BAY- ield, reports picking the first nowdrop of the season on Wed- esday . * * -* VE WORD PROM MERVYN atkin that he's heard a robin inging . . but he doesn't know hether it was an honest-to-good- ess "spring" robin . . or one of hose diehards who stay .around I winter just to confuse bird- atchers . . . 0' in Club Has Films or Education Week The Kinsmen Club of Clinton etched two films on education on uesday evening. One concerned hysical Training, and the other old of the problems of children, ged 10 to 12, The filing. Were sh- wn by past president Donald Kay. Three prospective members of he club attending were Parl Liv- rmore, William Chovven and Geo- ge Peters, The Kinsmen Pee Wees All-Star ockey team will compete- at Mit- hell on Saturday, March 14,, in Pee Wee Tournament, arid also t Coderich during young Canada eek. The 'Week's Weather gh 1959 Low Itigh 1958 Low ed. 26 38 11 37 32 27 35 25 35 32 28 34 23 39 31 1 86 23 38 29 2 37 19 36 30 3 37 29 37 29 4 31 22 38 31 StioW: 1 in. Rain; .12 MS, Snow: 3 ins. THE NEW ERA-93rd YEAR No. 9---The Home Paper With the News Clinton Ice Rink Safe, Decide Lions After investigation The structure of Clinton Lions they had assurance the rink was spatted, and declared safe, Arena has been completely ire, This action was taken follow- in good condition. Inspection on Tuesday did not discover any- rotting of the lumber, or any indication that the rink was any- ing the disaster on Saturday- thing but in good shape, Snow morning at Listowel, when that on the upper part of the curved community's five-year-.old arena roof, about ten feet wide, the collapsed, killing seven Pee Wee length of the Wilding and six hockey players, and the recrea- inches deep, was cleared away, tional director of the town. and some of the tie-in wires are Since then several skating being replaced to-day. rinks in Ontario have been•clos- The Clinton rink was built ed, and others have been in- in 1912 by a private• individual spected for structural damage, and was operated as a private caused by heavy snow, or other concern until the Lions Club stress. bought, it about 12 years ago. -On Monday word was receiv- Insurance against accident in ed from RCAF Station Clinton, the building is $20,000 per per- 'that personnel and dependents son, up to $200,000 for a group would be stopped from using mishap. the rink until such time that BEGIN OIL DRILLING Two Wells Being Drilled Hope toBring in Gas orOil The first three wells of a were "spudded in" this week and multi-well drilling program by Mineral ,Exploration Corp. (Min- ex) and its Tulsa and Pittsburgh eral Exploration Corporation Lim- man Vincent, president,' The Min- are now drilling, according to Nor- ited. associates 'on extensive acreage The first of the Minex group holdings in south-western Ontario wells —Wilson No. 1, is iodated near Holmesville on the farm of C, F, Wilson in Goderich Town- ship. The Bayfield Gas Field wh- ere one of the largest natural gas wells in Ontario, rated at 8,000 000 cubic feet daily, was recently completed on E. Porter's 'farm . is now on production. The No. 2 location, Young No. 1, is a short distance to the north on the farm of Arnold E. Young in Colborne Township, close to the new gas pipeline recently com- pleted betweep Goderich and St- ratford; and the No. 3 well of thg-Xinex group, Pentland No. 1., is drilling on the property,of Har- vey D. Anderson and G. F. Penh land a few miles further to the north in West Wawanosh Town- ship, an area where a new gas discovery was also made recently. Associated with Minex in this program is the Canadian subsidi- ary of Western Hemisphere Pet- roleum of Tulsa, Oklahoma, , and the Benedum-Trees Oil Co. of Pit- tsburgh, Penna. The three comp- anies share equally a 50 percent interest in these three acreage blocks and in two others further south near the Dashwood Gas Field and the Grand Bend , Oil Field, comprising a total of 9,000 acres obtained on farmou,ts from Imperial Oil which retains the 50 percent interest. Imperial Oil is (Continued on rage Twelve) Winter Fishing at Bayfield Last of the job of lifting the nets from ice-covered Lake Huron, was Slightly ditoppointing Sunday for Doug- las Gerhelnhardt (right) and Jock Proser, both, of soy- field. They have nets set about a quarter of a mile out from the piers at the village. Catch for the day was about 30 pounds of suckers, The men find a ready market for any kind of fish they beirig,, in at this time of year, (News-Record Photo Local, Publk'School Invites (Visitors Open- House Tonight. Open house for all parentS and friends of pupils at Clinton Public' School takes Piece to,night, be- ginning at 7 p.m, 'A program in the auditorium starts at -8 o'clock. Featured will be displays of the students' work, and a presentation of their musical training.' Awards. for athletic ability will be pre- sented. Late Session Hears Delegations In Goderkh Township 0 Scouts and: bs. TO Begin Meetings Again at School Meetings of the Clinton Scouts and Cubs are expected to resume next week after a lapse of three months. Scouts will meet in the auditorium of the Clinton Public School on Wednesday and the Cubs on Tuesday. During the building of the, ad- dition to the public school, the auditorium was not available to the Scouts and Cubs. In the fall they made use of the upper part of the Town Hall until it was too cold, The Scouts and Cubs deserve the support of their parents and the community. Leaders are hope- ful that all the old Scouts and Cubs can come out to the meet- ings next' week. Frank van Altena is Scoutmas- ter; Percy Brown, assistant Scout- master. Bob Mitchell, who is a past Scoutmaster of the troop, is again stationed at RCAF Station Clinton, and will be assisting with the boys. Council Meets Monday The March meeting of the Clin- ton Town Council will be held in the town hall on Monday evening March 9, commencing at 8 o'clock, Douglas Gemeinhardt and Jack Fraser are carrying on a winter fishing operation which brings them about 30 pounds of suckers a day, and sometimes perch, herr- ing or pickerel, besides. Recent mild weather produced a slushy top on the ice, which made walking on the surface un- comfortable, but it was quite safe. The two fishermen have nets strung about 200 feet out from the end of the piers, at Bay., field, and make daily trips to lift them. jigging for herring has been tried a few times, but so far thiS spring these fish are not biting. Bait used, according to Mr. Gem- einhardt, is a pearl button on the line. Sitting in a tiny ice house, Set over the hole, the fisherman watches down into the water, and whets a fish is seen taking the bait, he is hauled to the surface. Heat in Doug's icehouse is pro- vided by "summer girl" Coleman heater, the last of a half dozen he Once owned, These little heat- ers were once used to great ex- tent by cottagers before hydro Was obtained in the village of Baytield. Nets for the Main fishing opet,,, DELEGATES TO TORONTO Members of the Clinton District Collegiate Institute Board have an appointment on Friday morning inToronto with-the Ontario Dep- artment of Education, concerning grants now available in the build- ing of the necessary addition to the collegiate. Dr. J. A. Addison, chairman of the building committee and chair- man of the board Irvine Tebbutt will attend, and possibly two or three others of the board. The financial picture for the addition was made brighter last week, when the budget of Ontar- io's finance minister, the Hon, James N. Allan was made public. Changes in the grants system pro- Last year the board made the same request, and understood that council was going to hold a pleb- escite throughout the township on the matter. This was, not done las,t. December at election time. School section meetings' held last year in those sections not now be- longing to the area, voted against the idea, The School Area Board states the situation this way: Under the School Act, each section in an area receives a special grant of $300. But if all, or ten sections belong to one area, the grant is $500 per section. At present the grant to the six schools is $1,800. If the oth- er four belonged, the grant would be $5,000, an increase of $3,200, In addition to the financial ben- efits, the School Area sees ad- vantages in being able to provide larger school units, and proposes two consolidated schools: a sirs room school at Holmesville, and a four-room school on the Blue Water Highway near Goderieh, with transportation arranged to take the students to their classes, This would make it easier, the board feels, to attract and keep good teachers. They feel that the school buildings, some of which are nearly a century old, are too old to spend money on in repairs, much longer. Both the 1-loltnesville school and the One in SS 6 are overcrowded, Members of the Board are Rob- ert Welsh, chairman; iloward Mc- Cullough, vice-chairman; Jack Te- bbutt, Gerald Orr and Rod John- son, Over 80 Birthday Club Mrs. Mary Brtinadon, Loncles. bore, celebrated her 92nd birthday on Saturday, February 28, quietly at the home of her aughter, Mrs. ft, Vodden, Clinton, vide for $25,000 per classroom, in- stead of the previous $20,000. Other changes provide for in. elusion of industrial arts shops, home economics classrooms and for cafeterias, on the same basis as standard classrooms, for grant purposes. Another change provides for payment of grants to those schools who must buy land for building of schools. These adjustments will make. changes in the entire plan for fin. ancing the new section of the coll. egiate. The delegation to Toronto plans to ask for grants assistance in transforming the present auditor- ium into a proper typing class- room, and locker rooms. They also hope to present the idea of trans• forming the present gymnasium, into a cafeteria, and are hopeful of receiving grants for that pur- pose on the same basis as for an ordinary classroom . Probable cost of the addition has been estimated at $328,000. With the former grants in force, this meant a share of 70 percent of $120,000 being paid by the pro- vince. With the new grants sys- tem, Ontario's share could be a percentage of $250,000. This is an estimate based on the proposal of five regular classrooms, one laboratory, one general shop, one home economics room, a gymnas- ium-assembly room, and a cafet- eria, at $25,000 each. The delegation will discover in Toronto what the actual interpre- tation of the new system is, Decision of the Ontario govern- ment to change the system of gr. ants for educational purposes has• been attributed to the "demands by local boards", It is quite pro- bable that the delegation which went to Toronto last month from Huron county was successful in adding weight to these demands,, D. Alexander Named Leader at CDCI David Alexander, Londesboro, has been nominated for the Stu- dent Leaders' Club by the staff of Clinton District Collegiate In- stitute. The choice is based on academic . and athletic standing, David, who is a student of Grade 12, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nor- man Alexander. a Holmesville Requests Estimate on Lights A petition from villagers at Ilolmesville was 'received by the Goderich Township Council on Monday night, requesting that in. StalIation of streetlights in the vil• lage be investigated, and costs be determined. Members of the committee pres, enting the request were W. R. "Bert" tobb, William Bender* and Wilbert /olinsen. Huron Seed Fair Here This Week Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, the Huron Seed Fair will be held in the Clinton Dist- rict Collegiate Institute for the 12th annual year. Sponsor is the Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association, whose president is Delbert Geiger; Zu-r rich. Entries already made in the fair point to an even greater display of seeds and grasses than -in the past. Judging will be completed on Friday, and on Saturday they will be on view to the general public. After the program on Saturday afternoon, which will get under way by 1.30, the auction sale of ten- bushel lots of oats and barley will be carried out, Auctioneers 'are Edward W. Elliott and Bert Pepper. MOVE TO CONSOLIDATE Stanley Township councillors a- greed at the meeting on Mdriday afternoon, to support the board of Clinton District Collegiate In- stitute,, in the proposed $328,000 additioh to 'the school building, with two provisions. Their approval is based on the provision that the board use the present gymnasium for a cafeteria, and that they receive a grant of $25,000 for that purpose. Tenders for the warble fly cam- paign were opened, • and William Hayter was named inspector. Hu- bert Cooper will do the spraying. After interviewing Reeve Ivan Forsyth, one councillor and Clerk E. P, Chesney of Tuckersmith Township, Stanley agreed to pay the neighbouring municipality the sum of • $92,36 in settlement of agreement over Brucefield street- light expense. The clerk was instructed to ap- ply to the Department of Public Works for subsidy on the Stanley Big Drain, and also to call for, ten- der on 6,000 yards of gravel for the township roads in 1959. Stanley Approves CDCI Addition With 'Reservations A long session of Goderich Township Council lasting until 2.30 a.m. Tuesday morning was led by Reeve Walter J. Forbes. Tenders were opened regarding I the warble fly campaign, and three separate petitions were received. The village of Holmesville re- quested that investigations be made about streetlights in the vil- lage. William McIlwein presented a petition from the ratepayers of School Section No. 8, Goderich Township, bearing 17 signatures, asking that a, section be transfer- red from Goderich over to Stanley Township. • All members of the Goderich Township School Area Board, hea- ded by Robert Welsh, approached council asking that all the schools in the townshi be put into the Area. B. A. Thompson was the only tender for the position of warble fly inspector, and was awarded the job at 95 cents per hour. Clayton E. Laithwaite will supply the war- ble fly powder. The tender for applying the spray is still open. School Area Requests All Sections In Area System CDCI Board Will Request Information on Grants