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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1961-02-23, Page 1Ebe etilinint= (By W. D, D.) ecor THE HURON RECORD-79th YEAR Five Million Dollar Contract for Huron County? A five million dollar contract for one of the manufacturers of Huron County was announc- ed on Saturday afternoon by Elston Cardiff, MP for Huron, at the annual meeting of the Progressive Conservative party here. "It will mean a lot of work for people in the county," pre- dicted Mr. Cardiff. "It has passed through the cabinet, and has passed the Export Trade Corporation. However, the con- tract is not yet signed and I can make no more details pub- lic." The Progressive Conservative associations for the riding of Huron in provincial and domin- ion circles merged on Saturday and will be headed by John Durnin, ex-warden of Huron County, Mr. Durnin succeeds Dr. E. A. McMaster as presi- dent Other officers include: Vice- presidents: Mrs. May Mooney, Goderich; Doug Freeman, Clin- ton; Reeve Coleman, Stanley Township; James Donnelly, Goderich; Roy Cousins, Brus- sels; Hugh Berry, Exeter; Wil- lis Dundas, Seaforth; secretary, Mrs. F. G. Thompson, Clinton. Directors, Charles Roney, Dublin; Tom Webster, Luck- now; Harry Bolger, RR 1, Brus- sels; William Ellerington, Exe- ter; Valentine Becker, Dash-. wood. Young Progressive Conserva- tive advisory committee, 'James Hayter, Dashwood; Donald Dur- Long Row of Dimes from Brownies Proud Leprechauns of the Clinton Brownie Pack had the honour of turning over a strip of dimes totalling $22 this week, to Mrs, Kenneth Stafford, finance chair- man of the March of Dimes collection project of the Clinton Kinette Club, From the left the Brownies are: front, Gail McCarty, Barbara Ball, Ruth Murphy; back row,Bonnie Wade, Mary Ann Miller, Sandra MacDonald, Susan Bellinger and New Guides Are Enrolled Newly enrolled in the Clinton Girl Guides are from the left, front, Jean Dale, Name Switzer, Connie Beck and Rowena Corey; back row, Joan Lobb, Bonnie Taylor, Elaine Scruton and Heather Van Riesen, Also passing her Tenderfoot and becoming officially a Guide is. Heather Darling, (absent from the photo). Lead- ers are Mrs, Jack Irwin and Guide Captain Mrs. H. A (Carol) Graham, linton .Newspag THE NEW ERA-95th YEAR H. C. Lawson Chairman Clinton Hospital Board Robert McGregor, Kippers was re-elected chairman of the Huron County Beef Producers following the annual meeting here yesterday. Other directors' elected are Jack Armstrong, Londesboro; Robert Cainpbell, Dublin; Elmer Robertson, RR 5, Goderich and Stanley Jack- son, Kipper). Also nominated, but losing out in the vote were Charles R. Coultes, Belgrave, Bev. Thompson and William Bishop. About 60 men attended. Guest speaker was J. D. Baird, chief of marketing, Live- stock Division, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture. Mr. Baird showed coloured pictures of scenes in various European customary fee of $5 plus $45 for the use of the Federation's office and secretary, J. Carl Hemingway. There is about 17.5 million bushels of soft wheat grown in Ontario and in order to stabil- ize the price the wheat produc- ers marketing board bought 693,000 bushels last year. They exported 603,000 bushels. In promoting the product the producers have found that a mixture of 90 pounds of On- tario wheat, plus ten pounds of soybean meal will make a bet- ter feed than 100 pounds of straight West e rn Canadian wheat. Last year 'the support price was $1.40 per bushel. Huron Beef Re-Elects R. COULD IT BE THE SAME thief who broke into the bowl- ing alley in Seaforth . . , that also broke into the bowling alley in Clinton? Maybe they have a misplaced idea of the amount of money left in the tills of such premises . . . * * IN CASE ANYONE IS WOR- rying about the "in the red" situation of the Clinton Spring Show , . , which we rather doubt . . . the worriers can consider the Fair in good shape in comparison with some others . . . We read 6f Renfrew fair "in the red" $2,417.14 on last year's operation . . They're not discouraged by that . . . of course their projects last year included capital expendi- tures of $6,000 for a new ad- ministration building . . . then the Chamber of Commerce at Renfrew rests it for five years as a tourist bureau . . . Quite possibly we should be spending more money, instead of less, to make the Clinton Spring Show a booming concern . . . Sandra Middleton Wins In Spelling Contest Miss Sandra Middleton, 13- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 3. Ross Middleton, RR 2, Bayfield, was declared champ- ion of the Huron 3 Inspector- ate last week in Exeter. Miss Middleton is a grade eight stu- dent at SS 4 West Stanley Township where E'ngene Bender is the teacher. The spelling contest is car- ried out annually by the Exeter Times-Advocate, and is featur- ed at a meeting of the Home and School Association of Ex- eter Public School. Sandra's father teaches at Clinton District Collegiate In- stitute, and operates a farm and apple orchard in Stanley Township. This is the first time that a Stanley Township student has won •the spelling match, which has been held for oix years. Anglican Rector On CKNX111 Scheduled to take part on "Think on these Things" over CKNX-TV on February 27 is the Rev. C. S. Inder, St. Paul's Anglican Church, Clinton. Time of the program is 10.55 a.m. On February 28, the Rev. R. E. McLagen, Blyth United Ch- urch will take part and on March 1, the minister is the Rev. Leslie Elder, Seaforth Presbyterian Church. The Week's Weather 1961 1960 High Low High Low Feb. 16 30 17 35 27 '17 26 -1 35 31 18 40 18 34 23 19 44 21 30 25 20 45 25 30 23 21 29 20 31 16 22 35 14 28 16 Rain .2 in. Rain .1 in. Snow 3 ins. Fined $15 For Taking Benefits Illegally from Fund A Clinton man was fined $75 in magistrate's court 'at God- erich on Thursday, for making false statements and accepting benefits from the unemploy- ment insurance fund to which he was not entitled. Three of- fences were involved, and total amount obtained illegally was $60. Raymond Mitchell, 1236-nalarY Street is making restitution of the $60. and the fine is in ad-, dition to that. Magistrate Glen Hays put forward a strong lec- ture to Mr. Mitchell The case of a Goderich man charged sim- ilarly was held over for a later court. According to H. C. Blackwell, London, the Unemployment In- surance plan's employee, Mr. Mitchell had worked at Clinton Hosiery Mill until that factory was closed. While on unemploy- ment benefits he obtained work in the construction field for two weeks, and did not report this employment to the Unerne ployment Insurance officials. He continued to draw benefits during this period. Band Concert Plans Include Guest Artists The Clinton• Community Band concert on Sunday, Mar- ch 5 has been re-arranged somewhat. Due to unforseen circumstances the junior chair at CDCI will not be available, but may be able to sing for a May concert. In place of the choir the band has arranged for local artists to appear. A program and artist listing will appear in next week's paper. The con- cert will be held in the auditor- ium of CDCI at 8.30 p.m, sharp. Local Growers Earn Awards At London Show Robert P. Allan earned sec- ond place for the bushel of oats class at the Western Ontario Farm Show in London this. week. The variety was Russell. Robert Fotheringham, Bruce- field, earned third place with his bale of first cut hay. White beans still seem to be the spedialty of Huron County Growers. Top three prizes in this alma were won by John McLachlan and June lefcLach- Ian both of RR 3, Kipper, and Robert Fatheringham, Bruce- field. Nearly 219,000 men, women and children Of all ages partiei- pated in Canadian Red Cross water safety services and pro- jects last year. 0 Lit year, doctors, burets, physiOtherlapistS end technical representatives of •the Cana- dian lied Cross Society served An the Congo, Morocco and FAME Continues To Receive Good Attention There was a good crowd at- tendieg the FAME information meeting, in Londesboro Cora- inkinlie" all on Tuesday night. Guest' speaker was Bob Good, the Man who has promised to Permit half of his beard' to be Shaved at the time one million in salea of common shares has been., reached. He hoped that thin would happen by March 31. Other° meetings are planned in Exeter on Monday, Febru- aey 27; in Belgrave on Thers- slay, March 2, Mrs. W. M. Hefter New Clerk Third Division Court Mrs. W. (Mary) Nediger has• been appointed clerk of the Third Division Court of the County of Huron, effective immediately. She succeeds C. J. ,Livermore who resigned at the end of January. Word came to Mrs. Nediger of her appointment from the Department of the Provincial Secretary by an order of his Hen. the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario John Keiller McKay. Mrs. Nediger is familiar with the Work, having started with Tom Steepe when he was clerk, and continued through the per- iod during which Mr, Liver- more served in that capacity. E. M. Carroll, Iona Station in the county of Elgin, and first vice-president of the On- tario Wheat Producers Mark- eting Board was guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Huron County Wheat Producers here on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Carroll outlined some of the paints made in 'the Wheat producers brief- to government, stating that the Ontario wheat grower is being discriminated against due to the Western Feed grain freight assistance program. "Since we produce more Ontario soft winter wheat than is needed by the milling trade for the production of high priced pastries, the basis for the producers price for the en- tire crop is actually the price of hog feed." Mr. Carroll also noted that the brief asked for a support price of 90 percent of the last ten year average; or 80 per- cent of the last ten year aver- age plus 15 cents a bushel. This to compensate for the feed frieght assistance program, Russell Bolton, Dublin, a zone director of the Ontario association was chairman for the meeting. He commented that in 1958 four million bush- els of wheat had been exported. If this had not been. gotten rid of, then it would have been a surplus, and the price would not have gone up in 1959. "We have power to negotiate a higher floor Price," said Mr. Bolton, "but if we get it up too high, then our nine cent a bushel deduction will not be big enough for us to equalize the price." The need for farmers to have storage space of their own was stressed. Without storage space they .are unable to control the price and sale of their own pro- duct. Voting delegates named were Robert Welsh, Bayfield; Alec Chesney, Seaforth and Russell Bolton, Dublin, Additional com- mittee representatives were, Gordon Rate, Dashwood; Wil- liam Dale, RR 1, Clinton and Robert Henry, Blyth, A fourth man is to be named by the Huron Farmers Union, Only the president of Huron Fariners Union, Robert Taylor, RR 3, Clinton WAS Preterit, and th, ough he felt that someone should' be representing the Un- ion) he Was not prepared to name anyone. The Meath* agreed to at, Miate with the Huron Fedora,. rid tine nin, Auburn; Robert Chaffe, Centralia; Glen Webb, Dash- wood; Earl McSpadden and Verne Godkin, both of Seaforth; William Irwin, Blyth; Arthur Bolton; RR 1, Dublin. George Ginn, Goderich, a past president of the association, was' chairman of the nominating committee which brought in the slate. A new constitution drawn up by Elmer Bell, QC, president of the Ontario Progressive Con- servative Association was ap- proved. Charles S. MacNaughton, Ex- eter, MLA for Huron, paid tri- bute to the retiring president, stating that the doctor has re- tired from "a labour of love" in Huron. "He does not take on a job frivolously," said Mr. MacNaughton, "but goes on to carry out his task successfully." He also complimented the new president and his contri- butions to municipal life. Elston Cardiff predicted that Charles MacNaughton would become a cabinet member in the Ontario House. Concerning em- ployment, Mr. Cardiff stated that the only talk of unemploy- ment comes through Paul Mar- tin, the Liberal member for Es- sex East. "I believe he'd like to see two million unemployed if it would assure him of a seat in parliament," said Mr. Car- diff, The member said there was a lot of people listed as unem- ployed who just won't work; many are listed who have a job but want a change. "There should be some way of finding out who those people are and getting at the true figures," said Mr. Cardiff. "There's some smart men at Ottawa 'that can talk better than I can," said Huron's vet- eran member, "but a lot more people have talked their way out of parliament than ever talked their way into it." He outlined the four zones in Huron that have been laid out for the 1961 census. Then he introduced the guest speaker Charles Alexander Best, MP for Halton. Mr. Best is the 30- year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Best. Dr. Best is the co-discoverer of insulin. The guest speaker is a farm- er at "Greenock Farms" in the nursery business and specializ- ing in Landrace hogs. He is the author of scientific articles on horticulture, gardening and live- stock. Mr. Best, in reviewing the achievements of the Conserva- tive government at Ottawa since (continued on page 12) Over 80 Birthday Club Mrs. Grace Rapson will cele- brate her 91st birthday on Feb- ruary 25. She is at present with her son and daughter-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. Orval Rap- son, Hensall. No. 8—The Home Paper With The News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961 $3.00 Per Year-10c Per Copy-12 Pages Two new members were ap- pointed to the Clinton Hospital Board on Monday night at the annual meeting of that associa- tion. Orval Engelstad, manag- er •of the Clinton Branch, Royal Bank of Canada and R. B. Campbell, partner in Pickett and Campbell 'Ltd. men's wear are the new appointees. They replace Judge Frank Fingland who has served for more than a quarter century and Harry D. Ball who has been on the board for the past ten years. E. Beecher Menzies, Clinton barrister, is the new appointee of Huron County Council. He replaces William Morlok, man- ager of the Clinton branch, Bank of Montreal. Mr. Morlok will retire from the bank later this year. Harold C. Lawson was re- elected chairman of the As- sociation for the second term. G. Morley Counter is vice- chairman. Other members include medi- cal men Dr. Walter A. Oakes and Dr. R. W. Street, Blyth; town council representatives Reeve Melvin Crich and Coun- cillor Donald Symons; Joseph Murphy, Arthur M. Knight and Mrs. Frank Fingland from the Ladies Auxiliary to the hospi- tal. Mr. Lawson reported that a 20-bed addition was on the drawing board but whether it Receiving Line at CDCI "At Home" Receiving line welcoming guests at the CDCI "At Home", major social event of the school year are, from the left, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Homuth; Mr. and Mrs. A. Whetham; Miss Jeanne Etue and Stephen Scotchmer, Bayfield, presi- dent of Students Council. About 350 attended. (News-Record Photo) • would become a reality depends on finances. Late last year in an appeal to Huron County Council to set up a program of grants for county hospitals, it was pointed out that the pro- posed addition to Clinton Pub- lic Hospital would cost an esti- mated $222,213. Chairman Lawson told the board he hoped for the proposed addition to be cotnpleted by May, 1962. During 1960 he reported that a pension plan for hospital employees had been introduced; a 40-hour work week for nurs- es was inaugurated and a 44- hour week for other hospital employees. After provisions for deprecia- tion of $12,401 on buildings and equipment the hospital ended up 1960 with a deficit of $547. At the end of 1959 an operating surplus of $4,503 was recorded. Some of that surplus included revenue items in 1958. W. Mor- lok, chairman of the finance committee reported that salar- ies in 1960 totalled $135,726, an increase of $22,459 over 1959. He said that the hospital could be considered the next-best in- dustry to the Clinton RCAF Station as far as payroll is concerned. Operating revenue in 1960 was 207,899, an inerease of $18- 250 over the previous year. To- tal operating expenses for the (Continued on Page Seven) Two Associations Merge John Durnin Will Lead Huron PC Association Association McGregor countries where he had visited last summer, and 'told of the varied situations in these coun- tries. There is a lot of interest in Canadian live stock overseas, and St . has been built through the individual effort of men like Ernie Warwick, who have shown personal initiative and ideas. "Russia" said Mr. Baird, "is interested in improving their beef cattle stock, but are hap- py with the standard they now have in the dairy industry. They feel that their milk pro- duction is all right for it is equal to that of the United States." Mr. Baird predicted that soon Canada may be shipping beef steaks by air to Switzerland 'for the use of eating places catering to tourists. As far as the native, population is concerned, he felt that they would have to change. their eat- ing habits a good deal before they would be trying to buy and eat beef the, way Canadians do. He said, "The European mar- ket is the cream we should get, but our main market will re- main at home and in the Un- ited States." Charles R. Cosines felt that the group would get support of a deduction scheme if it was made plain that no compulsory clause would be included in the beef marketing plan. He felt that it should be used' only for advertising and the promotion of the product, not for selling. The Ontario Wheat Produc- ers Marketing Board is at pres- ent feeling its way forward, and so far have not come up with. a marketing plan to put into effect. Wheat Growers Hear of Good Markets Overseas 0 Hensall C -op Will Hold Annual To-night The annual meeting of the Hansen District Co-operative Inc. will be held in the Com- munity Centre, Zurich, to- night, Thursday, February 23. This is the 22nd annual me- eting of this Co-op. Tickets hire available from the Zurich, Ireniall or Brucefield branches of the co-op and include the hot dinner to be served that evening.