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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1960-01-21, Page 1No. 3—The Home Paper With the News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1960 $3,00 Per Year-10 Cents Per Copy-10 Pages u nto THE. NEW ERA---,-9304 YEAR THE NEWS-RECORD-77th YEAR Travel Cart Begins Hospital Rounds First visits of the travelling cart to the wards of Clinton Public Hospital, were made on Tuesday, by Mrs, Douglas Ball (right) and Mrs, Alex Roddy, Patient above is Mrs, Nellie Edwards. The cart provides used magazines for the convenience of patients; and small. items for sale, including tooth-paste, candy, gum, cough candies, letter paper, etc. Sponsors of the, idea are the Hospital Auxiliary, who stocked the cart initially, and'hope to keep it supplied, with receipts, (News-Record Photo) After a dozen years in the Clin- ton District Collegiate Institute building, the Huron County Seed Fair will this year be held in Ex- eter. The Legion Hall in that town will be .the site, on dates March 11 and 12.. Hope pf the Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Associa- tion is that the program of the fair can be expanded by one whole day, and in that case, start- ing day will be set back until Thursday, March 10. Twenty-five businessmen in Clinton have signed a request to the council that' a vote be held to permit legal outlets for beer and liquor in, town. This request was prepared by the Clinton Citizens Local Option Repeal Committee, headed by J. W. "Bill" Counter as chairman.* 'There are three questions sug- gested for the vote, .including gov- ernment store for sale pf liquor; dining lounge licences for sale with meals; and sale under lounge licence for consumption on licene- ed premises. Although council has not officially agreed to ,call for a vote, a request has been telegraph- ed to Col. C. E. Woodrow, Toron- to, solicitor for the Ontario Liqu- or Control Board, for a date An which such a vote could be held. There will be a specialameeting of council tonight, January 21, at •111,1ch further steps can be expec- ted, and further information. made available,' Change of locale for the fair Was made when cramped' condi- tions. at CD.C1' made it impossible •to hold the event there. An invita- tion from the town of Exeter was received by the Association, with 'the offer of various types of ac- commodation,. Although the fair itself will be held in the Legion Hall, some of the associate act- iv.Ittes . Will be mOVad 'to • • other buildings. For instance, it is ex- pected that. 'the junior seed judg lag competition will be held in the community centre. As in the past, a newspaper will .be published late in February, known, as the Huron . County Soil and Cron -1\lews, and Wlli"he-anall- ed to every farmer in the county: This will include the prize list and complete program- for the Fair.- • Prize lists for the fair are av- ailable from the office of the Agri- cultural Representative- for Huron County' in Clinton. • A municipal• council MAY re- quest that a vote of the people be held. But if they decide not to, then a petition 'representing 25 percent of the eligible voters, and requesting such a vote, would force council to call one. A 60 percent majority would be reqtur- ed. This action taken by the local committee, follows the publication in' the Canada Gazette in Ottawa last Friday, of two orders-in-coura cll. which revoked the placing of Huron and Perth under the Can- ada Temperance Act. Both' coun- ties are now governed by the On- tario Liquor Licencing Act. Clinton is- the only town in Hu- ron County which will have to hold a vote before beer -Or liquor stores can be established within the municipality, ' Other . towns, (and Clinton). must have a vote if they wish beer Or liquor sold by the glass in taverns, cocktail lounges and dining rooms. (By W, D. Do P R GE E S S IS GOING ON steadily at the new home of the News-Record , Cement pad on which the new newspaper press will rest has been poured . . This is about ten inches below the rest' of, the floor, so that the press can be set down , . * NEVER BEFORE HAVE WE kept such close watch over men at work in laying cement floors . . , They ptit a layer of widely spaced wires, (for all the world like a fence) flat on the gravel fill „ Then after the cement is Pentad they reach down into it with hooks, and pull the wire up part way into the five-inch layer Of cement , . . StopS cracks from appearing, so they say . . . *- FIREPLACIP-ISSTILL INTACT * ilHOSE INTERESTED IN CON- struction might ,like to know that the theatre building was built with clay tile . . All of the walls are made of these red, hollow brick-shaped tile . . . including *the inside partitions . . . The roof, and the floor of the front parta(including which is a base- ment) is supported by girder type steel joists . . . * * snrm$ AS IF MOTHER NATURE were trying to lay down in one week enough snow to make a January thaw a practical affair . . Snowplow men and their vehicles are busily at work once more . . and those who haven't bought snow tires ,are wishing they had—inchiding ourselves . . . ' * * SCAlsr.PiRED THROUGH THE comment which we have heard about the new post office (if and when) is a feeling of amazement . . . 'that the dpeartinent Of public works at Ottawa, would' allow it- self to be swayed .by the wish of a few. people . . After all, the civil service is supposed to have , some sort • of. freedom from pol- itics . , from the spoils system, etc. . • * * OUR OWN FEELING IS THAT the post office job should be a separate one from politics . . . What they are supposed to do for the country is to provide service, which in most cases they do . . When a building becomes too Small and tog Ald•to accommodate the efficient methods sof modern mail handling . . their it should be their job to obtain land and build a structure that will be the answer . . . for many years to come . . . * * * REMODELLING THE SECOND floor Of the town hall will not be a small job . . . Neither will it be inexpensive. . We do not think that after 30 . years of letting the building "go to pot" that the taxpayers will expect, nor want the councillors to go all out and do the complete job up in one year . . . But, it seems reasonable 'to suppose that planning can get under way for remodelling, now . . . with the idea of not doing anything which will' have to be re-done, when opening of the up- stairs is accomplished . . . Last:Night Pupils from RCAF Statioli Won Many Prizes Pupils of AAV/M,HUgh 'Camp- bell Pulilic School took home five of six prizea offered in public Lscellgoolgn.,esplrnsesor4dlastponiliacht•spoinairg contests. Whiners • were: senior, IC athie Cameron:, 13-year-old, Grade 8 student; ''Second, Mal Jones, both of the RCAF school, and third, Alan Lowe, Clinton. Public School, ,Junior, Ernie Fafird was first, Carolyn Langille, .' second and Doreen Forrest, third. Judges for this part of the con test were 'Harold C. Lawson, Geo- rge H. Jefferson and J. Dirks There were three entries in the senior secondary schOol class, with Judy Halward first; Diane Person second; Ralph TrevOrtha, third. Ten entries in.e junior sec- ondary class competed, and Wil- liam McKim placedsflrat. Louis van• Lammeren was second and Regena Horbanisik Was third. Prizes in this last class were awarded by Barbara Inder, the reigning champion hi Ontario in this grouping of the province-wide competition. She carried out her task with poise, and. wished 13111 McKim success the coming competition. Judges in the seiner class were Mrs. Harry Ball, Qayton Dixon and the Rev. L. E.,geed-Lewis.• Next contest will he in Kincar- dine in Febrnary `The date has yet to be set. • i" J. Douglas Thoittlike, head of the committee of ,the Legion in charge of this competition, was chairman for •the evening, assisted by his wife. girl a ride on his. bicycle past the woods ...to No. $ klia,Away, •where intcra cat•I"Ath a y,elloW- license plate. The-judgetold the jury it Must acquit the boy if it believed his story, In order to convict, the jury was instructed, it must =com- pletely reject his story. Mr. Justice LeBeI, one of the five judges sitting on the appeal observed that the jury should have been told that it could re- ject the boy's story and still ac- quit him of murder. If the evid- ence raised a reasonable doubt as to his guilt, Mr. O'Driscoll argued, Steven should, have been acquit- ted. In addition the lawyer contend- ed that the Crown stried to estab- lish that the boy went into the woods with the girl, ••on the un- sworn testimony of a young boy. Mr. O'Driscoll claimed the evi- dence was not corroborated except by a 13-year-old girl who should not 'have been sworn. The final main point raised by the defence was that a mistrial should have been declared because Crown Counsel Glenn Hays, in his opening address to the jury, re- marked about Steven's statement to police. The statement was dis- allowed as evidence by the trial judge. Mr. O'Driscoll argued that the jurymen might have thought the statement was a confession and assumed that the boy had admit- ted his guilt to the police. Steven Truscott has been in Huron County jail since his arrest on June 12. He has been kept there under close confinement since his• conviction in the Court House at Goderich on November 30, 1959. 0 Clinton Airman Receives Acquittal Arthur L, Cranstoun, 29, stu- dent at RCAF Station Clinton, re- turned to his course here follow- ing acquittal in London last week by a Supreme Court jury. He had been charged with murdering, Ruth L. Buckley, a 25-year-Old nurse at Westminster Hospital, Mr, Justice R. A. Danis directed the jury to acquit Cranstoun. said the only evidence offered by Crown Attorney- C. C, Savage, Q.C, was Oircumstantial. 1Vir, Cranstottn'S home is in the British West Indies. Constable Harold Armstrong ex- plained. during the course of the trial that he had tried about 150 stores before finding a pecket knife tittilar to the one found near the spot where the murder took plate. He' told the court he had bought the second knife at Epps Sport Shop in Clinton. This constable also said that a mental patient at the hospital had told one of the hospital's psychiatrists that he had murdered the nth-se, Prepare For 106th Spring Show Steering the operations of Huron Central Agricultural Society for the 1960 Spring Show, and the year's work, are, from the left, A. J. McMurray, who has been secre- tary-treasurer for 32 years; William Pepper, RR 3, Seaforth, re-elected president and John Deeves, former reeve of Goderich Township, RR 3, Clinton, who was named vice- president. "Fair Never Meant to Pay" Comments Showman Dale iety, reported that close to $2,500 was handed out in prize money at last year's show, distributed among 527 entries. A suggestion was made by Wil- liam Morlok, manager of the Bank of Montreal in Clinton and a di- rector of the Society; that the fair be held on Saturday, rather than Wednesday, in order to help in- crease the gate attendance. William J, Dale, a former reeve of Hullett Township, and former warden of the county, pointed out that the fair is, not meant to be a money-making project. "Rath- er," said Mr. Dale, "it serves as a training ground for livestock and exhibitors for the larger .fairs." All attending the annual meet- ing held in the board. room of the agricultural office, 'voiced their opinion with the sane answer, that the quality of the fair 'ex- hibits , could not be` improved. Re-elected as president for a second year was William Pepper, RR 3, Seaforth. John ,Deeves, RR 3, Clinton, former reeve of Gode- rich Township, was elected' vice- president, replacing William J. Miller, Clinton in this. post. Sec- ond vice-president is Edward Grigg, also of RR 3, Clinton. Directors will be: •for Hullett Township, William Dale, Reeve Tom Leiper, Ephriam Snell, How- ard Armstrong and James Snell. For Tuckersmith Township, Howard Pepper, J. W. Crich, Geo- rge Turner, William Pepper, Lorne Carter. For Goderich Township, Edward Grigg, Harry Watkins, Mervyn Lobb, Howard McCullough, Mur- ray Forbes. For Stanley Township, Harvey Taylor, Fred Gibson, Dick Jacob, W. J. Miller. For Town. of Clinton, Mayor Herbert Bridle, Reeve Melvin Crich, Dr. • George Elliott, Orval Engelgtad, William Morlok, Ken- neth McRae, Howard Snell, Burt• Stanley, J. W. Counter, George German. Junior directors, Bert Pepper, RR 3, •Seaforth; Garnet Wright, Robert Lawson, both of Clinton; Ivan McClysnorut, Varna; David Middleton, Bayfield. • • Presbyterian WMS Meets Here Pictured at the presbyterial meeting ol the Presbyterian Women's Missionary Soc- lety held in St. Andrew's Church here fait week, are from the left, Mrs, James P. Scott, Seaforth, retiring president; Miss Barbara Woodruff, deaconess at Goderich; Miser E. M. Somerville, Goderich, the newpresident; Miss Belle. Campbell, Seafcrth, retiring secretary and Mrs. D. J. Lane, Clinton, the hostess. Miss Campbell received an honour-. dry life membership certificate for her service of many years, (News-Record Photo). ebt iftrot 4:011111111-1=-: To Stage Seed Fair In Exeter Hall On March 11 and 12 The Week's Weather 1960 1959 High .Low High Low Jan. 14 32 30 34 29 15 33 22 32 15 16 30 19 20 8 17 32 26 14 0 18 29 24 28 5 19 26 19 22 -4 20 26 21 43 21 Snow: 15 ins. Snow: 14 ins. 'Rain: .95 ins. Judgement was reserved by the five judges on,theberich in. Toron- to last Weaesda:Y, Yanua'rir -15, in the appeal of Steven Truscott against his conviction, The appeal lasted three days. The judges will consider four points raised by defence counsel John O'Driscoll, who 'questioned the validity of the boy's murder conviction. Mr. O'Driscoll contended the boy was convicted on circumstan- tial evidence: No one testified to seeing Steven enter the woods with Lynne Harper, and there was no evidence of blood being found on the clothes he was known to have been wearing. Mr. O'Driscoll also attacked Judge Ferguson's explanation to the jury of the law involved in the boy's account to playmates. Steven had said he had given the Businessmen Ask Council For Vote on Legal Outlets judgment Reserved For Study In Truscott Appeal Two men pleaded guilty to care- less driving charges in magist- rate's ,court here on Tuesday be- fore Magistrate A. F. Cook, Strat- ford, and were fined $10 and $15 respectively, plug costs of $2.80 in each case. Following his decision in 'the second case, Magistrate Cook ask- ed if there were a driving school in the area. The answer was "no". Consulting with the magistrate after court was closed brought forth the information that 'in the city of Stratford, two driVing courses are set up, which consist of two-night lecture sessions, fol- lowing which examinations are written. In the case of persons losing their licence due to charges in, court, the magistrate advises them to attend the school. Satis- factory completion of 'the course is necessary before licences are returned,- . Two Fined Here On Carelest Driving; Directors of the Huron Central Agricultural Society decided last Saturday afternoon to proceed with plans for the 106th- fair in Clinton, and .the Spring Show will be held as in the past. Adam J. McMurray, Clinton, who has just completed 32 years as secretary-treasurer of the see- Clinton Lad'i Treated :For Fractured Wrist Mrs. Albert ,• Fremlin was in Hospital for three days, following January 12, when she was admit- ted with a fractured left wrist. It was placed in a cast and she was released last weekend. X-rays on all the staff at the hospital for 'the regular six-month chest examination have just been completed. Clinton Public School Board Has Deficit; K. W. Colquhoun Named 1960 Chairman For the first time in, the career of Harold C. Lawson as ,secretary- treasurer of 'the Clinton Public School Board, he ,had to announce a deficit at the end of last year. A loan of $2,500 had to be made from town council to complete the 1959 year. Mr. Lawson explained that it was increases in salaries during the year which caused the situa- tion. K. W. "Danny" Colquhoun was elected chairman of the Board St the inaugural meeting last Thurs- day. Mr. Colquhoun has been act- ing in this capacity since • the middle of 1959, when Larry Hau- ghton moved from town. The Board re-hired H. C. Law- son at $500 salary per: year. This is an increase from $450. All members of the board attended the meeting: George Lavis, Clay- ton Dixon, Kenneth S.' Wood, Wil- liam Riehl, Alex F. Cudmore and the chairman. Committees set up were as fol- lows: Study and wlefare; Lavis, Dixon and Wood; property, pur- chasing and finance, Dixon, .Cud- more and Riehl; sports, Wood and Riehl. Regular meetings of the board will be held on the second Thurs- day evening of each month, in the school. Caretakers were re-hired with a raise in pay. Percy Livermore will receive $2,800 for the year (up from $2,600) and Tony Za- blocki will receive $1.10 an hour (up from $1) with a limit of 30 hours a week. Both these in- creases were made effective Jan- uary 1, 1960. The principal's repot was giver by the vice-principal Terry Carter and showed an enrolment of 554 in December, and an average at- tendance of 92.8 percent for the 16 days. in that month. Principal Bert Gray is in Clin- ton Public Hospital, following sure gery. He expects ' to be back on the job within a short time. Mr. Gray was re-appointed to the Clin- ton Library Board for another three year term. Other members appointed by the Public School. Board are Mrs. J. D. Thorndike •and Miss Jamieson.