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Clinton News-Record, 1961-07-20, Page 1(BY WV, UP IN frii4 NORTHWEST corner of our town a most mar- vellous institution steadily goes about the business for which it was created .... Clinton Public Hospital with 48 full time em- ployees (and another ten on part time) , cares for be- tween 45 and 52 patients, day in and day out ... quite quiet- ly and without Hauch fanfare It's a big business . , . • * DO YOU KNOW THE hospital spends almost $1,500 a month just on flood? That's a lot of cooking and preparing and .a lot .of bread and meat and desserts and. vegetables. THE PAYROLL FOR THE month of June was $11,802.85 .. . Mul aply that by 12 and you have about $142,000 , That money comes back to the businesses in Clinton . , to the town for taxes . . . and into the general economic stream , , . That's big business . and it's good business . • * SALE OF CHEAP SNORKELS to children for use at play in waster Inas been condemned by coroners in several centres :in Ontario , . . Often the heap snorkels are defective .. and youngsters farad out too Bate that they cannot get air . . . A coach end manager :at the swim pool in Hamnilrton calls them "death machines" . The warning is there for par- ents ... and for children! .. • * * .ANOTHER CLINTON STORE . . . Sutter -Perdue Ltd. Hard- ware ardware has decided to run a weekly draw for a Dash prize Each Customer in the store from Wed7nesd'ay moaning to the following Tuesday at 6 p.m. will receive a numbered coupon . . . At that time a store employee or (=sterner will select a number which will be posted in the store window end also announced hi Sutter -Per - clue's advertisement in the News -Record . , . The winning person must produce his coup- on to collect the $3.00 credit at the store . . Bayfield Fair Prize List Is Print Read to Pry (Bayfield Correspondent), Diec'tors of the Hayfield. Agricultural Society met in the Town on Monday evening and the event was chaired by the president, Alvin Rau, with 17 attending. Donations and most of the advertisements to beinserted in the prize list (to which there has been a generous response) have been turned in bo the secretiasy- treasurer, Robert Snarling. The prize list will soon be in the hands of the .printer. Judges for the fall fair on Thursday and Friday, Septem- ber 28 and 29 were selected. It was decided to interchange judges with other local fall fairs. Grant Stirling was ap- pointed convener of a: commit- tee unit - tee .to look into the possibilities of go-caait races. It was decid- ed to iriivites the CKNX mobile sound system for fair day. Wins $50 From Jackpot Last Week's Draw Mrs. Malcolm Campbell, 84 Vic- toria Street, is the lucky winner of $50 in the Tuesday night Jackpot draw at the News -Record offee. Other winners are $15, by Mrs. C. J. Ulmer, 23 Ratten- bury Street, and the regular $5 weekly draw, Bernice Mc. Clinehey, Blyth. A11. three Winners made their purchases in Herb's Food Mar- ket. Chief H. Russel Thompson, kindly visited the Newt -Record office at 6 o'clock Tuesday to Make these draws. Note: Whiners may pick up their prizes at the office of the News -Record at their own convenience. The large diravv's for $15 and $50 will win credit notes, worth full value at anY of die steres taking part in the jackpot event. All tickets in the jat have been destroyed, rand a new jackliot wasp ,started right after the draws were made. There will be a weekly draw for $5 and then; on August 22, draws Will be made for another $15 amt wiother $50. 1111011 THE NEW ERA--9.5th YgAR - THE HWRQN RECQR0--79th YEAR No, 29 -.The Horne Paper With the News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1961 $3,00 Per Year -10c Per Copy --10 Pages New Wing for Clinton' Hospital PIan!'[$Q 54,000 investment Members of the Clinton Pub- lic Hospital Board expect to call tenders in January for the construction of a $254,000 addi- tion to the present hospital. "`phis would accommodate an additional 20 beds, and ease the crowded condition now be- ing experienced," states Harold C. Lawson, chairman of the board. The Clintoe hospital is rat- ed at 40 -bed capacity, Through- out the year so far it has oper- ated at 96 percent of that cap- acity. At the start of June, Loaded Gas Truck Involved In Crash Monday Considerable damage occur- red! to vehicles involved - in an accident Monday evenrnlg on Highway 4, three miles south of Clinton, but drivers andpas- seriger were unhurt. ' A loaded gasoline bulk ear- rier driven by Frank Lewis, London (formerly of Clinton) was following a ear driven by Robert H. Stringer, Exeter, north, when the car made a left hand turn. The truck struck the car. The car ended up in the ditch on the west side of the highway. The truck went through the ditch knocking off a main hy- dro pole there and •going through the fence (Department of National Defence property) into tire corner of the SCAF Station sports field. When the truck came to rest, the pole. (held upright by the numerous wires attached to it) was sitting on top of the truck. Hydro men called to the scene eased the pole off, ,and back into proper position. Hydro service was interrupted in that area for Some time, while re- pairs were being made. Mr. Stringer and his passen- ger Dwayne Tinney, also of Exeter, were taken to hospital for observation, but both were released shortly after, Constable Donald Hobbs, OPP, Goderich, investigated. The Week"%Weather. 1$61 1.360 Iigh Low >Tigh Low 9'uly 18 82 51 17 64 14 80 63 '12 54 15. 83 85 18 42 16 81. 82 83 . 52 1.7 77 • 60 82 64. 16 79 58 10 63 19_ 84 62 18 49 M M itits.:twit .b fin. Clinton on TV CKNX Focus Clinton will be featured by Wingham'ss television station next Tuesday, July 25, in the regular event Focus on the Town. This annual practice of CKNX is appreciated by the residents of areas so honoured. Taking .part this time will be two members from the Kins- men Club. of Clinton, who will take part in a contest "Fun and Profit". The program should prove interesting to viewers in this area. Second Trip To Toronto By Hog Men To -day The second' bus trip to To- ronto to the Ontario Hog Pro- ducers building from Huron will go to -day, July 20, from the S.eaforth area with the third one planned for next Thursday from Goderich Townl- s+hip and the north part of 'the county. Included on this tour are visits to PresswoodS, which kills and packs pork, and the srtockyartdk, and the offices of Unrated Co-operatives of On- tario. Alf. Warner, RR 1, Bay- field, who plans these trips, in co-operation with other officials of the Huron Hog Produceats, premises a busy day, at low cost. according to the report of the superintendent •given at Mon, day's board meeting there were 4$ beds occupied. At the •end of June there were 50 beds occupied, Mrs. W. (Mary) Phinriey, Reg.N., RCAF Station Clinton, was giving her first report to the board following her appoint- ment as superintendent, effee-. tive July 1. At that time Miss Kathleen Elliott, Brucefield,be- came the assistant superintend- ent. It .appears that $50,000 must be raised locally, through sub- soription or otherwise, to com- plete payment for the new building. Grants from the provincial and dominion governments are expected to total $124,000. The County of Huron is expected to contribute $40,000, The board. has on hand about $40,000, leaving a balance of $50,000 to raise locally. Orval Engelstad is heading a ways and means committee to look into the problems of rais- ing the $50,000: E. Beecher Menzies and Robert B. Camp- bell are the other members :of this committee. Tentative approval for the building of the addition was received from the Ontario Hos- pital Services Commission in May of this year. With tenders to be called in January, 1962, it is expected that the building will commence in the spring. Architects Dunlop, Wardell, Matsui and Aiken, Islington, have prepared plans for the construction, which will be a two-storey building with ac- commodation for a new kitchen, diningroom, Iaboratoury and op- erating room. Staff Changes Mrs. George Yeats (formerly Madeline Mason) agraduate of the Clinton Public Hospital school of .nursing, began werl at the hospital this '"Week; H6 husband is employed with K. C. Cooke, florist. Two register- ed nurses are leaving at the end of July. Two certified nursing assistants, Miss Susan Cann and Miss Norma Chapman, gradu- ates of Wingham General Hos- pital school of nursing have joined the staff. There have. been 'no applications from reg- istered nurses lately, but sup- erintendent Phhney reports there are enough registered nurses on staff to cover the various shifts properly. Miss Margaret Lovett, Strat- ford, was hired as laboratory technician and part time x-ray technician, effective August 21. She will replace Miss Kay Un- ger, who resigned effective the end of June. Miss Lovett will also work on the x-ray room on Miss D. Marquis' days off. Miss Lovett is a registered 1 nurse with training received n England and has been in Cana- da for several years. Recent- ly she has been in the Strat- ford General Hospital The August meeting of the board was cancelled, with the next regular meeting to take place on September 18. Effect First committee For FAME The first Meeting of Huron County shareholders in Ferm- ent er n - e t Allied Meat Enterprises Co- operative Limited. (FAME) was held in the board room of the agriculture office on Tuesday night with about 30 present. Charles S. Maoists, president of the FAME board was present along with Pat Dickey, secre- tary. Members elected committee- men from each .or the town-, ships as follows:, Colborne, Ross Fisher; Goderich, Alf Warner; Stanley, Maicoim Davidson; Hay, Jack Soldanl; Stephen, Ed Hendrick; East Waw'anosh Elmer Ireland; West Wawa - nosh, Robert MCAlliater; Grey, Martin .Baan; Turnberry, John Willyts; Howick, Warren Zur- bni+gg; Morris, Wilfred Short - reed; Ashfield, Warren Zinn; Mcltillop, Gordon Elliott; Tuck- er -smith, .Alex McGregor; Hiu1- iett, Lloyd Stewart; Usborne, Theron Creary. Morris coan- mitteema7n has yet to be named. Four committee anenrnbers named at Large are Carl Hem- ingway, Bob McMillan, Robert P. Allan gaud Robert McGregor, making up the 20 members for which Huron is eligible. • Following the meeting, 'exec- utive was elected by !diireotors as follows: chairman Carl Hemingway; vice - chairman, Alex 1VIcG,regor; secretary, Alf Warner. This committee will hold :of- fice until - Ootober, where the first annual meeting of share- holders will be held. The cotnitnitrtee was given a'wtihoa'sty to conduct a "Drive for FAME" as soon as possible, contacting farmers throughout the county to sell shares in FAME. So fair Huron has betugb t $40,000 worth. of .shares, With, ori bjeetivb of•'$1O6;000:-- Charks McInnis pointed out that, if tarmacs would 'invest one cent of every $1 of live stock sales' in a year, Huron would be well over their objec- tive. This county is the third largest in live stock sales in Ontario, with $17 millions a year. 59 Support Separate School According to applications' re- ceived by 'the town clerk, John Livermore, 59 owners and ten- ants in the mown of Clinton have directed that their school taxes be applied to the support of the new St. Joseph's Romain Catholic Separate School. The three room school is be- ing built at the earner of Beech and 'Whitehead Streets and will be open for use rat the begin- ning beginming of the fall term in Sep- tember. Other support of the school will be given from .the rural area within a three mile radius of the building. Huron Veteran Farm Leader Bert Lobb W. R. "Bert" Lobb, RR 2, Clinton, seated, was honoured by fellow members of the Huron County Hog Producers last week. They presented him with an ebony cane with engraved gold plaque. Ross Love, RR 2, Hensall, right, read the presentation address and Robert P. Allan, Brucefield, left, made the pre- sentation. (News -Record Photo) Vocational School Almost Certain Boards to Sign Contracts "I appreciate the opportunity of working with people . so haplxily` working: together," coin rented • Doxialdr M S'eott, in; Spector of secondary schools in Ontario. School boards at Seaforth, Exeter, Goderich and Clinton are co-operating to provide a school at Clinton to offer vo- cational training for young peo- ple of their districts. Official request for permis- sion to build 'the school was mailed to Toronto on Fridiay, following the meeting. Tentative plans are for 21 additional classrooms, plus one more gymnasium (45 x 70 'ft.) and a cafeteria with area of 2,000 square feet, to seat 570 students at one time. Included in plans is the con- version of the former auditor- ium into a library classroom. For the past two years the old auditorium. Sias been divided with locker taking up the area next to The hallway. The other half has been a typing roan. The stage is still intact. As a library classroom, it would be :bright and airy, and the stage could be used for pro- ductions of plays by English classes, or "little theatre" gr- oups within the school. Since a good part of the vo- °atonal school training is "ac- ademic", eight regular class rodms would be .constructed (Even ilii %he "fourth year of vooational se'hool course, over 50 percent of classroom time is for academic subjects.) Two more rooms would be needed for training inbusiness machines operation, three more for typing. This would' complete the needed area for the four- year commercial training course which is contemplated. There would be two more laboratories constructed, one Storm Damage Is Light In Clinton Area Though sections of the county report a good deal of damage to crops caused by the severe hail and rainstorm on Sunday afternoon, the Clinton area was remarkably free of property damage. Both the Public Utilities and the rural hydro office report very minor damage to lines. The town streets men dealt with several limbs which came down over streets. Clinton Post office Still Efficient The staff of the Clinton Post Office has again earned an award symbolic of the ex- cellence of their skills at sort - ring mail. This is achieved by them in a building which was built over half a century ago, when the amount of mail being sent was considerably less. Also, the Clinton Posit Office is now handling• a good deal of the sorting which used to be donee on the trains, en route from one town to the other. Ever since the present motor vehicle service was installed, and 'trucks have been used to transport mail to and from Win Mail Sorting Trophy Again For thefourth consecutive year, the staff of 'Clinton Post,, Office has earned an efficiency trophy presented to post offices of similar size, The three men above recorded 99.47 percent accuracy in the sorting of mail. From the left is Arthur Ball, oast -luster; Richard Dixon, John I-Iartley and Gordon Sutcliffe, who in broughtp 1960 attained the record which this week them the trophy) .. and Maxym Lysack, regional director, Postal Service, Ontario Region who made the presentation. Already Mr. Dixon aril Mr. Hartley are working on the task of winning the trophy again in 1961, though Urs. Sutcliffe (now, post- master in Wingham, is promising competition. (News -Record Photo) .m.. But For How Long? Clinton, the need for better 'ac- commodation here has been felt by the post office. Here on Tuesday to make the presentation, of the McLean trophy to members of the 1960 staff at the Clanton office, was Maaxymi Lysaok, regional direc- tor, Ontario Region. With home' was J. A. Flaherty, district director, London district and S. J. Howard, the public relater's man for the London district. These men report that ever since 1957 the Clinton office has been rated Class A, which means that better aocernmada- tion is recommended. "How- ever," they said, "the next step is tip to Clinton The Post Of- fice officials haVe done What they could. They do not in- tend to interfere in. a local squabble about the location of a post officer At the present your Service may ,be ,fairly good. This can not be e#cpected to Continue if a ccom>rmodatioat is not itxnpreved," (Nate, it Was late in 1959 that a petition signed by 'about three percent of the town's population at that itixnxe, Was tiled D stop negortnationys. the Depart/tent exit nf Public Works for site for a propos- ed anew 'post office.) Though lack of 40a6:11 far tsortinig MAU banipext the effid- itrttY of 'the staff, wording to postmaster Arthur Deli, it would seem that as far as the public is concerned, the lack of lock boxes is more serious. There are only 408 to serve a population) of 3,000 persons, and an estimated 1,000 households or businesses. An additional 200 boa'es would be made avail- able if a new pont office was built, There are 69 persons on the waiting list for loch boxes at the present time, and probably there would be more, if they had any hope of reetiviaig one. The parking problem has lately been aggravated. Stop- ping on a provincial highway to pick up mann at the post office is hazardous enough. However, sincere the Hotel Clin- ton is licenced, parking is be- coming more and more of a problem. With the trend to more trav- el rayel by truck, the post office of- ficials here on Tuesday empha- sized that any new post office must be ;planned with view to creating a large enough "court- yard" for the parking and turn- ing of the snail ;trucks being used now, and even iarger ones in the future. Mail Truck on Sidewalk Large converted bus, used to °transport mail on the highways, cannot park ori the area at the loading dock to the rear of Clinton Post Office without leaving the front wheels and bumper on the. side. walk.(1 ew$ letord Photo) for standard lab subjects, the other for industrial chemistry Gagniculiure). ..' b ""new '` shops " Wot> dr be built, to include auto mech- anics, carpentry and millwork, drafting, electrical, and mach- ine shop 'training. One more would be needed for occupation- al training, boys. An existing room in the building would be converted for occupational tr- aining, girls. Also included in the new building, will be additional rooms for administrative of- fices, staff rooms, and heating. Since some of Clinton's nor- mal secondary school enrolment will be attending the proposed new vocational school, part of the present CDCI building will be empty. This can be used for the vocational school as welt The proposed addition will be for a possible 570 extra pupils. Location for the new school will be the campus of the pres- ent CDCI. No extra land will be required. Work so far on the negot- iations to obtain this additional opportunity for secondary sch- ool education in the county, has been carried out by a com- mittee of two representatives from each district board. Irvine Tehbutt, RR 2, Clinton has been chairman. This committee was appointed' only to investigate the possibilities. Upon their decision, the Clin- ton District Collegiate Institute Board has now made formal request for the school, and per- mission to qualify for the 100 percent grant offered by the dominion and' provincial govern- ments for the building and equipping of the school. When"tentative approval" has been received from the De- pertinent of Education at Tors onto, then 'the Clanton board is ermpowwred to hire an 'architect and definite plans for the build- (continued on page 12) 0 Over BO Birthday Club Mans. Annie Wolper, oetebrat- ed ,her 918t birthday last week art Huronview. She was a life long resident of Auburrt com- munity before moving to the county Home. Congratulations go to Joh Scotchmer, Sr., who on Thurs- day, O'uly 20, is 91 years of age. Sinee his wife's illness, he has been making his home with his son, Charles and family, He keeps aetive and enjoys hoeing the garden William Hyde, old time fid- dling champion (who has wort ere.se to a hundred cups, tnedels, prise and cash in varitsits old One fiddling tentestts oveir the years) will celebrate his 01th birthday in geYasalb, ftxi 28. He thinks he will tittered the Old Time Midler% Contest at Shelburne but does riot thunk he will participate.