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THE NEW ERA-95th YEAR
THE HURON RECORD-79th YEAR
No. 21—The Home Paper with the News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1961
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Jack Kerner Is
New Foreman
Jack Merrier has been hired
as, foreman of the town streets
department, and will begin Wee*
itinthe' neat' Iiutus e. ' The'iti-
pointment will become 'official
as soon as the regular; council
meeting is held and .a by-law
can be pasieed, which will be
on Monday, June 12.
According to George Rum-
ball, chairman of the public
works committee; there were
nine 'applicants for the job.
Appointment was made on
Tuesday night when council
met in the committee room of
the town hall, 'in committee of
the whole.
Projected work for the de-
partment includes painting of
parking areas on the downtown
streets; drain work which must
be dkerie before paving is, laid;
calcium chloride is on hand,
and will be applied in two ap-
plications to the gravel streets.
Jim Cox, caretaker of the
town hall and library, is sweep-
ing the dawn town streets once
a week.
Stringing Heavier Wire
Joseph hart, ground/tan with the Clinton Rural
Hydro, is seen on the job south of Clinton on high-
way 4 last week, where a voltage condition in the
area is being corrected by stringing heavier con-
duttors. Tieing in with this 18 the provision of
three-phase ' power to the new learn Wholesale
warehouse on, Highway 8, The heavier• line will,
tut across from • Highway 4, behind thehydro
warehouse and will approach the Seaforth highway
near the residence of Cale Doucette, before pro-
deeding east tO the new warehouse,
(News-Record Photo)
Lucknow Boy Earns Trip
For Skills in Judging
New Warehouse Going Up
For Hearn Wholesale Ltd.
Irbt
OW W. D,
A mgamt OF 'MO MW$,,
Record Pfaff, Miss Catherine
Kantree has been sending hack
ward of her voyage overseas
She left by Empress of
England from Montreal on Fri-
day, May 12 . accompanied
by her eunt .
* * *
IT WAS SEVERAL YEARS
ago that Catherine supplied a
weekly column of everyday hap-
penings at home in Clinton ,
until suddenly she rain out of
material with which to write
. . . We understand that this
happens to the best of journal-
ists . . . Even Pierre Berton
takes a holiday from Toronto
at times . . .
IN HER CLOSING COLUMN
she said: "Never let envy raise
its ugly head—isomeday we will
gather our energies and our re-
sources and have a holiday to
end all holidays. Into it will go
a purity of planning and a con-
centration of funds that will
make it echo down through the
years as the one vacation that
can never be equalled. Or so
we hope. But in the year of
grace, 1956, that time has not
yet come."
WELL, FIVE YEARS FLEW
by, and now Catherine is writ-
ing from Iver Bucks, England
. She will visit the continent
and tour the UK before sailing
for home once more . . .
* * *
THE TRIP WAS FAIRLY UN-
eventful . . . that is, after they
talked their way onto the boat
in the fast place . . . Although
passports were in order and the
"purity of planning" had been
of the purest . , . somehow
their tickets had not arrived
. . . But Catherine and' her aunt
made it aboard on duplicate
tickets . Honest faces, with-
out doubt .
* * *
* * *
THEY ENTERED THE FIRTH
of Clyde on May 18, to dock at
Greenock . .
* * *
OH, WELL, WE FOLKS AT
home, must just rest content,
and settle down to plan for our
own voyage from Canada's
shores when opportunity comes
in view .
The Week's Weather
1961 1960
High Low High Low
lefay 18 61 44 72 57
19 54 42 75 49
20 67 34 74 50
21 57 43 75 60
22 56 40 71 43
23 60 35 76 45
24 75 37 58 41
Rain: .26 ins. Rain: .4 ins.
tion of Agriculture for the
largeSt number of competitors.
Runner-up was North Huron
Junior Farmers, with nine mem-
bers present.
The Canadian National Ex-
hibition Shield for most points
was won by Robert Chambers,
RR 1, Wingham, who had a
score of 589 out of a possible
700. Runner-up was Karen
Powell, RR 1, Wingham, with
a score of 581.
The Blatchford Feeds Ltd.
Trophy for the individual with
the high score in the entire
competition went to Ivan How-
att, RR 1, Bel grave, with a
score of 638. Jack Broadfoot,
Brucefield, was runner-up with
a 637 score.
The William Stone and Corn-
pe.ny Trophy for the individual
with the highest ccore in swine
competition, was won by Joan
Elliott, RR 1, Zurich, with a
189 of a possible 200. Runner-
up was Ken Kirkland, RR 3,
Lucknow, 179,
The Carnation Company Ltd.
Trophy for the high score in
the dairy section went to Jack
Broadfoot with a score of 197.
Runner-up was Ivan Howatt,
also with a score of 197, (in
case of a tie, preference was
given to the competitor with
highest score in oral competi-
tion).
Hight scorer in the sheep
section was Ivan Howett with
95 of a possible 100; runner-
up, Karen Powell, 93; high
scorer in beef section, Ivan
Hewett, 192 of a possible 200;
runner-up, Jack Broadfoot, 191.
HSSA Field Day
At Sports Field
On Saturday
Track and field enthusiasts
at Clinton Collegiate are in
tsaenirg this week for the inter-
school track meet at the RCAF
sports field on Saturday. The
local school won the champion-
ship last year at the Heron
Secondary Schools Association
meet, which Was revived after
a lapse of 12 years. They are
hoping to keep the laurels oil
May 27 as they compete with
students from Goderich,
hare. and Seaforth.
Though sonic good records
Were made at the CDCI nieet
lett Week, results are being
kept undercover WWI the
I-ISSA meet is over. This is to
prevent competing schools from
knowing what they are up
against.
118SA field ineet owes its
existence it good part to the
enthusiagin of 13i11 Craig, In-
tittItrial arts teacher at CDCI,
Who in 1948, While at GOderich
Collegiate, won the senior boys
championship at a eitellar meet.
Farm Folk Aid
Neighbours By
Putting In Crop
Mrs, Ralph Koskarnp,. RR 3,
Clinton, is in Victoria aloepie
tal, London. Mr, Koskamp, a
patient in Clinton Public Hos-
pital until Friday, was taken
to Victoria Hospital that day..
. Neighbours pitched in last
Thursday to work the Kos-
kamp farm and ,et the seeding
deee, and at one time nine
tractors and men were at work.
Taking part m this neigh-bourly task were Gys vender-
Tin r, Bill vanderBrand, John
Bylerna, DOnaia Middleton,
David Middleton, Robert Se1n
plc,., Robert Smith, Edgar Rath-
'Well and Frank Thompson.
Band Concert In
CDCI Hall
Sunday Night
Sunday night band concert
and, variety night will be held
in the ,CDCI .auditorium on May
28 commencing et 8,30 p.m. In-
eluded in the program, accord-
ing, to bandmaster George
Wonch, are: '0 Canada";
Mutual March; Operatic Over-
ture; vocal quartette by Phyl-
lis Lobb, Dianne Person, Judy
Persan and Pam Muise; Rosa-
lind Waltz; service march; voc-
al soloist, Mrs. R. Homuth;
military escort; College Bay
Marches with majorettes; En-
ergy Overture; Bands and Ban-
ners March; choir, Gloaming;
Heart Throbs Waltz; a hymn;
the Show Boy March and God
Save the Queen,
Accompanists will be Miss
Cathy Haig and Miss Emily
Collins, and Orrin Baird will
be MC,
The Clinton Concert Band
is participating in a number of
events, provided practices bring
°tit sufficient members. In-
cluded is the Clinton Spring
Fair on June 3; the Hensel].
Twilight Fair en June 9 and
Goderich--Trade Meter linear-
Summer concerts are being
planned for. The Band also
hopes to play at the Bayfield
Frolic at the end of July; the
Teeswater Fair; and at Sea-
forth Santa Claus parade, at
which they have an eye on the
first prize.
Bandmaster Wench warns
that these engagements can
only be played if there is a
good attendance at Tuesday
practices held at 7.45 p.m.
sharp. Mr. Wonch notes that
there is still room for new
members, especially experienc-
ed adults, and baritone, bass
and trombone instruments are
available.
A silver collection will be
taken at the concert. Money
from this and from other en-
gagements, and from the tag
day to be planned, will be used
to replace antique equipment,
arid to buy one or two more
uniforms.
Receives B.Sc,
HARRY HENDRIK
GUETTER, B.Sc.
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Guetter, Dinsley
Terrace, Clinton. He grad-
uated from Queen's Uni-
versity, Kingston, last
Saturday, May 20, with
the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Honours Phy-
sics (Class 2).
For a horse
show without
equal this side
of the Royal
Winter Fair,
or the • Cana-
dian National
Nti Exhibition, vis-
it the Clinton
Community Park ore-Saturday,
June 3, for the Spring Fair.
Manager A. J. McMurray pre-
diets a variety of entertainment
that should meat the approval
of young and old. For the
practical farmer, the best in
cattle, sheep and swine, For
the lover of horses, everything
Children in Hospital
With Flash Burns
Gregory Brandon 15 and his
Meter, Janet, 13, are in Clin-
ton Public Hospital suffering
from flash burns to their faces,
hair and hands, following an
accident at their farm home on
Monday, May 22. They are the
children of Mr. and Mrs. Char-
les Brandon, RR 4, Clinton.
They apparently found some
gunpowder, put it in a can, and
then lit it, through a hole in
the can. The resulting blaze
cauzed their burns.
.FOOtings, are in, and frame-
work is rising at, the site of
the new warehouse being erect-
ed in .Hullete Township on High-
way 8, east of Clinton, by The
Hearn Wholesale Ltd.
The, steel building is to be 84
feet square pole type construc-
tion and is being greeted by
Beaver Lumber as general con-
tractors. It will house both The
Golfing on Graves At
Clinton Cemetery
Not Gentlemanly Act
Eisenhower helped make golf-
ing a sport for men of all ages.
A recent news •article rumours
that Mrs. Kennedy is giving her
husband a small golf course for
his birthday.
We have it on excellent auth-
ority that some persons, we
would hope they are not Clin-
tonians, and we would not dig-
nify them by referring to them
as gentlemen, were seen prac-
ticing their golf on the "green"
immediately behind the n'zaus-
oleum at the Clinton Cemetery.
It may be the sport for "all
ages", but golfing over dead
bodies . . or in an area set
aside for the purpose of inter-
ring them, is completely out of
order.
from tiny ponies, to palominos
and huge draft horses.
For the youngsters, a parade,
a band, rides. For everyone,
fun, competition and the noise
and excitement of Fair Day in
the spring.
The Clinton Spring Fair is
one of two in the peovince,
whir Herreall'e aevilight fair the
following Friday being the
other one. It has all the ad-
vantages of an agricultural
fair in the fall without the dust
and heat,
John Deeves, president of the
Huron Central Agricultural
Society is heading up the fair
at a time of enthusiasm, One
of the indications of interest
is the contribution of animals
as draw prizes, by three pro-
minent farmers in the area,
This makes it a truly rural
fair. If the winner wishes, a
cash prize can be awarded.
Added feature is the Huron
Dairy Princess Contest which
is being staged for the second
year on the fairgrounds at the
regular milking hour late in the
afternoon. According to best
information available, this is
the only county that makes use
of a Pair, to stage this contest.
Winners go on to compete at
the CNE in the fall.
Hearn Wholesale Ltd.,- and C.
H. Epps Mfg, Co. Ltd. now in
several buildings at the corner
of Church and Erie Streets at
the south-west corner of town,
William Hearn and Duff
Thompson own the two firms,
Which deal in wholesale plumb-
ing supplies, serving plumbers
from London north into the
Brace Peninsula, They manu-
facture domestic water pumps
and softeners% air volume con-
trols and foot. valves,
Up to eight people are em-
ployed, with an ever-widening
number of sizes of parts being
made.
Graduates as B.A.
NEIL A. McGREGOR,
graduates Saturday, May
26, at the University of
Western Ontario, Lon-
don, with a Bachelor of
Arts degree. He is the
son of Mr, and Mrs. John
McGregor, RR 5, Clinton.
A CDCI graduate, Neil
will take a summer
course, and then will take
up a position on the staff
of Renfrew secondary
school, this fall.
Seaforth Paper
Places First In
Ontario Contest
Huron Expositor, Seaforth,
published by McLean Bros.,
placed first in) general excel-
lence competition carried out
between weekly newspapers
published in towns of under
4,500 population. Second was
the Listowel Banner and third
the Stoutfville Tribune,
A. Y. McLean, is the editor
of the Expositor. Awards will
be made in, Ottawa this week
at the Ontario Weekly News-
papers Association convention
in the Chateau Laurier.
No other Huron County week-
lies have won awards in the
1961 provincial competitions,
Ken Alton, RR 7, Lucknow,
lias 'been naffed winner" of
trip to the United Nations as
the competitor with the tap
aggregate score in Huron Coun-
ty grain and livestock judging
competitions for 1,960 and 1961.
The announcement was made
by Donald G. Grieve, associate
agricultural representative for
Huron, Clinton, following com-
pilation of results of the live
stock judging .‘7aturday along
with results of grain judging
competition.
Bob Fotheringham, RR 3,
Seaforth, will receive a trip to
Eastern Ontario as the second
place winner.
Other winners of special
awards in Saturday's competi-
tion were:
George Underwood, RR 1,
Wingham, leader of the Turn-
berry 4-H Beef Calf Club, who
received the club leaders* trip
to the Ralston-Purina plant in
St. Louis, Mo, Seventy-five per
cent of his clue members at-
tended the competition Satur-
day.
Seaforth Junior Farmers
with ten competing received the
special challenge prize donated
by the Huron County Federa-
New Rector at St. Paul's Church
The Rev: and Mrs. Peter L. Dymond, their 'teen-age daughter Hilary and four-
year-old Matthew are installed in the Rectory of St. Paul's Anglican Church.
Mr. Dymond's induction takes place in the Church on Monday, May 29. The
Right Reverend H. F. Appleyard, MC, BA, DID, Bishop of Georgian Bay, will
officiate. (News-Record Photo)
CATHERINE WRIT ES OF
visiting the navigating • bridge
. . the engine room . . . and
the other interestingly active
parts of the Empress . . . and
she was not laid low by sea-
sickness until some rough wea-
ther on the fifth. day out . . .
The tit/ugh part ef that was
—that 81-6-,''rritial'atiVated-faur
of the printing shop . . . How-
ever, the return trip aboard the
Queen Elizabeth should provide
opportunity of remedying this
Come to the Fair! June 3
Fun For Old and Young
Clinton Concert Band Poses for Formal Picture
Front row, from left, Dawn Grigg, head majorette; the Rev, Grant
Mills Carol Riechert, Linda 'Webber, Bonnie Hamilton, Charles
Woods, Goderich; Carol Taylor, Carol Plumsteel, Clayton Dixon,
Judy Graham.
Second row, from left, Margaret Trewartha, Margaret jean
Addison, Stephen Cooke, Douglas McCann, Peter DeCoo, Donald
Taylor, Ronnie Plumsteel, JohnCullen, Bruce Graham, Bud
Sampson, Goderich; Paul Dixon, Mina Wonch, Charlene Turner,
Third row, from left, Bill Hamilton, herby Armstrong, Code-
rich; Henry Martyn, Blyth; Barrie Elliott; Ross Sturdy, Goderich;
Gerald Shaddick, T-larty Cummings, John IVIartyn, Blyth; and
George Wench, Bandmaster.
Fourth row, from left, Ralph Trewartha, Garry Jewltt, David
Walsh, Elvin Potter, John Wise, John Powell, John Turner, Prank
VanAltena, Neal Trewartha,
Absent when picture was taken were majorettes, Barbara
Carter and Marjory Woods. Additions to the band since then
were Ca Jack Scott, RCAP, trumpet soloist; Margaret Lesyk,
formerly of Port William and district bands, on baritone horn;
Joan. Thompson, Myth, trumpet, (News-Record Photo)