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Clinton News-Record, 1961-09-14, Page 1WHEN 'THE HON. LOUIS P. Cecile was making what many hearers remarked upon es a down to earth talk, out at Huronview last Friday . . he shocked Wile of his list'enerS by suggesting that one way to keep older people happy was to largue with •them . . . take the opposite sides in politics, religion, etc. ... If that is a workable remedy ... then our personal parents are due for a long and happy life to come . for rarely a day goes by that we don't have an argu- ment about something .. . * * WE'RE GOING UP TO Wing - ham to -dray . . . just to see what might be ,involved .. , or could be involved: in the idea of enlarging the Middle -Mait- land Valley Conservation Au- thority u-thor ity . , . What could it do for Clinton and the area tar- ound here? Should Clinton people be asked to help pay for it? and such questions .. . We have another good one we want an answer to: could the Bayfield: River be included as part of thissame authority? and if so, what would be done by such an •authority for the Bayfield, river ; .. We'll make a report next week .. * y: * MRS. B'E-TT Y' BT: -LOUTS; Brucefield . . was a • lucky booster of Huron County at the Western Fair, London, last Fri- day . , . Along with her four children she ,attended the Fair, and obtained booster :buttons from the London Free Press booth operating on the grounds Later she was tapped on the shoulder, and since she was wearing the "1 aria a Huron County Booster" button . she was given $5.00 in silver dollars ... lucky lady .. ,. * * * 'IITIOUGH COUNCIL WAS half an hour late in starting the meeting Monday night .. part of the discouragement over this disappeared ... when Councillor N. Livermore offer- ed apples and pears from his own trees . . . a treat for all, The Week's Weather 1961 1960 High Low High Low Sept. 7 80 62 88 62 8 80 59 91 60 9 80 54 85 67 10 85 63 68 45 11 85 70 72 45 12 72 64 72 42 13 85 62 66 50 Rain: none Rain: .5 in, lint�n THE NEW ERA --95th ¥EAR. THE HURON RECORD 79th YEAR Ne. 37 -;-The Home Paper with the News CLINTON, ONTARIO/ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961 $3.00 Per Yepr--.l 0e Per Copy -40 Pages Million Dollar Structure Huronviei Official Ribbon Cut By Welfare Minister Blazing hot sun before a re- cently completed new wing and entranceway at Huronview greeted visitors last Friday afternoon for the official open- ing ceremonies ori connection with that new building. The Hon. L. P. Cecile was the cabinet minister an hand for the occasion-. Mr, Cecile is minister .of welfare for the Province of Ontario. He band- ed a cheque for $20,000 to J. Roy Adair, reeve of Wingham and chairman of the county -home committee this year, as part of the grant still owing from the. province, Total cost of the first wing, opened in 1954 was $469,976,48, of 'which the subsidy from the province was 50 percent, or $234,988.24. The 60 beds in that wing brought the capacity of the home to 115. The 86 beds tin • the old building con- tinued to be used. In the second addition there are 118 beds for bed care; 30 beds for special care; eight in the sick bay and 24 for the staff, making a total of 180 bed's, This plus the 60 in the 1954 -wing makes 240. The old building has been demolished and removed. Total estimated cost of the new wing is $1,086,821.30. So far the provincial payments have been $505,387.45. On Fri- day the cheque from the H. Mr. Cecile for $20,000 leaves about $18,000 yet to come. Ag- ain the province is paying 50 percent of the cost, with the county raising the other half. "You have every reason for pride in Huronview as a com- munity accomplishment and a community success," said the speaker. "I know that the people of Huron County have a.tr tradition', stretching back alt ,feast ith'bee:;generatio?]5.....'o :gu: r porting and caring for their e)ged here .at Clinton. In 1895 when there were only a dozen municipal homes in Ontario, and those mostly in the older parts, the citizens of thisnewly settled county lying between the Queen's Bush on the one side and Lake Huron on the other, gave the Province an ex- ample of vigour and initiative in establishing their own County Home. In those days all the expenses had to come out of local pockets for there was no 50 percent provincial subsidy to spread the load. But Huron County then --as it al- ways does --proved to be as generous as it is prosperous." The Minister commented favourably of tthe work done by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Home whish was formed' just over a year ago, but he urged everyone to visit Huronview as often as possible. "Don't think of )this Home as an institution set off in a corner with its doors closed to you, but rather as a communal household where your presence will be es welcome :as in any of the hom- es of the neighbourhood." "Huronview," he concluded, "stands as a splendid and prac- tical expression of the good will of the citizens of this county towards their aged fel- low citizex --truly a way of honouring their Mothers and Fathers that their ,days may Jae Rigg in the land." J. Roy Adair, Wingham, was chairman for the affair, which took place on the driveway and lawns stretching Out from the reception centre and front .oaf- flee. He paid special •tribute to the Lions Clubs of the coun- ty for their gift to the :home of pillow speakers for the bed pat- ients, so that they could hear the services from the chapel and entertainments in the auditorium If they could not attend them. A number .of the speaker in the program paid tribute to the late Harvey Erskine, fernier clerk of the county, ftthe groundwork he had laid ing pre- paring for the building .of IHuron:view.. Included among the speak- ers was Warden Ivan Forsyth, reeve of Tuckersrn,ith Town, OAP, in: which the home is loc- ated Also in attendance was Charles S. MacNaughtou, Ex- eter, MPP for Huron, who in- troduced the guest speaker, and John Hanna, Winghann, MPP for Huron -Bruce, who thanked him, (continued on page 12) C D C 1 Graduates Enter Universities and Colleges David Cooper, Kippen was the top student of CDOI Grade 13 this spring, and therefore is the winner of the annual award known as the Sir Ernest Cooper Scholarship. Also, he has a Dominion -Provincial bur- sary of $500. David is enrolled at the Uni- versity of Western Ontario. Steven, Scotchmer, Bayfield,; 15 off to Queen's University, Kingston, in an engineering course with a $500 Doaninion- Provinciai bursary and a $400 bursary from the Atkinson Foundation. Egbert Bakker also has a $500 Dominion -Provincial bur- sary and is going to University of Western Ontario in London. Miss Eva Verhoef, who also Mrs, -PepperW Wins Jackpot. it was lucky Jackpot week for Mrs . William Pepper, RR 3, Seaforth, when the draw was made Tuesday night. She is the lucky winner of s' $5 in the weekly draw. Her purchase was made at Fitzsim- ons Food Fair. Readers will note an error in judgeanent last week when announcement was made of the BIG draws to be made "next week", September 19. Of course, this is next week, and Tuesday was only September 12. The BIG draws for $50 and $15 as well as for the regular $5 draw will be made next Tuesday, September 19. Note that all tickets that have been placed in the jackpot since Tuesday night, August 15 are still there, and are still elig- ible to win. All tickets will be destroyed after the September 19 .draw, and another jackpot will be started. Superintedent Johnston .Received the Keys During the openfngcereinoniee at Thironv'few last F'ric1Ry, Ilarvey John- ston, t + .... .g, officially Ston, superintendent of the I�ozne received keys the btiildin offs from the architect firm of Nolan and ver. re he presents , e a short address of acceptance, and appreciation of the work and co-operation of the ni tubers of the tol'rim ittee of the Home. (News Record ?hots) earned a $500 Dominion -Pro- vincial bursary, is enrolled at Stratford Teachers College, More Houses Are Urgent Need; Council to Act Oen theurging of Councillor Walter G, Newcombe, the Connell of the town of Clinton ill take 'action towards ob- Raining more rental homes; for !the town under the Dominion - Provincial .scheme of subsidiz- zlr g, 'hoi ses, i Mr. Newcombe had under- tali'en a survey of the town wince the August meeting of Council, and has arrived at the decision that 55 homes at least should be built in the very near future, Since the building of the St, Joseph's Separate School, inti-- eations are that at least 20 More families would live in Clinton, if rthey could find a ?*ace to live. `: Also, with the new vocation al wing to be built on the col- legiate, about 10 to 15 homes will be needed for teachers. by ;the fall of 1962, this increas- ing to 25 homes for teachers "h r the fall of 1965, Mr, Newcombe noted that in his store, he.had never in the more than ten years in busi- ness in Clinton, received more requests for Issusing than he had in the past: three months. Both Reeve Crich and Mayor Miller had talked with Prem- ier Leslie Frost -and with Char- les S'` MacNaughton, MPP for 'Huron, during the past week, and were advised by them to make ,app}iea'tiokn for more subsidized homes. T h e motion authorizing council to •act was- worded as follows: "Be it resolved that because of the' need for more housing in our town at the pre- tent time, and ween more so in the foreseeable future, that the town; ort Clinton. urgently take ration hi contacting the proper :authorities in Toronto and/or Ottawa for the pur- pose of lxf ilding.Yllore houses.', Mo r s' •uri ' Ne fc' be Moveis orri , ondene,Ree.vesCri ' se:— Mayor Miller noted thatthe town already had 12 such hom- es, which he didn't know any- thing about. "Our clerk knows. Perhaps we could ask him," said the mayor. Clerk John Livermore in an aside to the News -Record re- porter veld, "They have asked me a question. I don't have to answer •them." Then he re- ported that rents were from $50 to $72 a month. Mayor Miller stated that he realised the clerk "did not have to answer • guestionss and if it's for publication I won't ask more. " Clerk Livermore volunteered the information that the rent scale in town was not high enough to have tenants' that could pay full rent, That was why the scheme under which they had been built was chang- ed to full. subsidation. Remits are paid on a basis of income. If tenants income is increased too much, they must find other accommodation. Councillor Donald Symons asked how much the town had in those houses. Clerk report- ed, there was probably $1,000 there. Counoillor Symons ask- ed, "If we have money in the houses, why can't we find out more details about them?" Clerk Livermore noted that so far there had been about $1,900 paid in taxes on these homes. DAVID COOPER wins Sir Ernest Cooper Scholarship and therefore the amount of the bursary will likely be re- duced. Two Dominion -Provincial bur- saries for $100 each have been awwarded to Grade 13 students this fall. Paul Pickett is enrolled . at Ryerson, Toronto, in a business administration course. Attending Teachers College in London are Emily Collins and Howard Scatehmer. The biggest group from last year's Grade 13 to attend any one place are those at Strait- fond Teachers College. They pare Eva Verhoef, Larry Powell, Margaret Merrill, Beth Thomp- son, Judith Halward, Jean Turner, Eleanor Durst, Ron Belcher moved to To- ronto in mid -summer, and it is not known just what he :is in- volved in, this term. John Sharp has joined the firm of A. M. Harper, Gaderich, which has an office in Clinton, with view to becoming a chartered ac- Countant, Also attending Western Uni- versity, is Wally Michalski in premeds; and Jim Alexander in engineering, Marilyn Rabhwell is at Ryer- son in home economics, Hospital Board Accepts A. Knights Resignation Arthur M. Knight, member of the Clinton 1•ioSpital Board for a iluinber of years, and a former chairman of that group, has resigned, effective imntedi- ateiy. Mr. Knight gave as his reason the fact that he has added responsibilities in his position as manager of the On- tario Hydro rural operating area att Clintort since the area was enlarged at the first of the month. Members of the board are appointed! for a three year term. Mr. Knight's terra would have been, up in February of 1962. His resignation, Was ac- cepted by the board Monday night. Also leaving the hospital in the near future is Raymond Fear, 95 Raglan Street„ who has been maintenariee man at the hospital for the pat 13 years, Now 75 years old, Mr. Fear is hopertul of having Mtdee time to 'work at honie, and Mere leisure time than he utas had l'or sOme time. A replatollent for` Mr. Pear is being advertised fee, with employment to begin at the first cif November. Mr, Fear will continue to work part time at the hospital, lending his years of experience to the new appointee. Miss Margaret Lovett has joined the staff as laboratory tethnician, • She comes to Clin- ton from the Provincial labor- atories at Stratford, It has been a busy summer .at the hospital, according to the report given by Mrs. Mary Phinney, superintendent, to the board meeting on Mon- day night in the nurses resi- dence. So far this year, art has been operating at about 96 percent of the ratedbed tap- acity, Ohairtmati• Harold C, Lawson presided for the meeting. Fur- ther discussion was carried out om the proposed addition to the building, but as yet complete Blanc are .xot .notavail- able from the architect. Itepes are that tenders may he tailed early in the new year, and that work rriay Ott* t aalde in the early spail Council In Action Still Negotiating Over New Subdivision and New Street Hope for any immediate action, to bring the southeast end of Townsend Street up to standard, went for another full circle on Monday night as council of the town of Clin- ton prepared an answer to a lawyer's letter concerning Hays, Prest and Hays, aet- ing for some of the residents on the street, had written ask- ing for information about the responsibility for the street, "If the town claims ownership of the street, then I would .as- sume .you accept maintenance of it," read the letter. "If the town does not claim ownership, Couple Heads Kinsmen and Kinettes MR. AND MRS. CLARENCE DENOMME, Rat- tenbury Street, are the presidents of the Kinsmen Club of Clinton and the Kinette Club for the 1961- 62 term. They were jointly installed along with oth r to of s� an freer s at installation meeting on Tues- ,, -day, Septembe , .by, on Hole ;;:Ntarkdale .fieputy .. governor of Kinsmen Zone "3". RCAF PR Officer Addresses Lions Club Flying Officer Nick Chris- topher, public relations officer at RCAF Station Clinton, was guest speaker at Clinton Lions Club first meeting of the sea- son. President Herb Bridle was in Charge of his first meet- ing, in St. Paul's Parish Hall Tuesday evening. Thirty-three Lions attended. The RCAF speaker spoke an "My First Experience Flying Operationally in World War II." At that time Mr. Chris- topher was a wireless operator, on a Wellington bomber, fly- ing out of Egypt. He came down in the Mediterranean on his first flight, and his com- mentary of the flight, ditching and subsequent rescue was both interesting and, entertain•L ing. .During his talk he cited many humorous stories about air force life during the war. Mr. Christopher later, remus- tered and finished two tours as a bomber pilot. The speaker, who had atten- ded! McMaster. University and Osgoode Hall, but gave this up and Went back into the air force instead, was introduced by lawyer E. B. Menzies. Guests at the meeting were Ken Flett, new manager at Clinton, :branch of the Bank of Montreal, who will be trans- ferring his Lions membership from Aurora to Clinton; and Robert Hunter, guidance coun- sellor at O'DCI, who was intro- duced as a prospective mem- ber, Entertainment at the meet- ing consisted of a double quar- tette of school teachers and school board members, (Continued on Page Seven) CDC! Enrolments Compared With County Schools Enrolments at Clinton schools this fall, have settled down to 634 for the collegiate; 503 for the public school, and 81 at the separate school, a total of 1,218. Comparisons with other towns in the county are interesting. In. Exeter, High School en- rolment is 756; public school 540 (there is no separate school), a total of 1,296. In Goderich, collegiate enrol- ment is 630; public schools 986; separate schools 161; business college 42, and retarded child- ren, 29, a total of 1,848. In Seaforth, high school en- rolment is 420; public school 343 and separate school 177, a total of 940. In Wingham, high school en- rolment is 720; public school 478; separate school 52 and re- tarded children seven, a total' of 1,250. then it would' be a. privately owned street, and could be used for the purpose of the residents alone." The answer authorized by council Was worded by Coun- cillor , H. Bridle, "Tell • him negotiations are under way to aftrange for having the street brought up to standard and then we will .be able to •take over the street." Mayor Miller commented . that he had had no word from anyxane about the answer re- ceived from the residents of the street who had written the municipal board. (Note, the answer from, the Municipal Beard, as this news- paper'understands it, was an- other example of "putting off" the writer, The residents on Townsend Street were .advised that they must get legal advise locally, and proceed on that Weis). Agree to Sweepstakes Council agreed with the re- solution circulated from Peel County suggesting that e na- tional sweepstakes be set up, with proceeds for hospital building throughout the coun- try. (There was no discussion, One councillor noted that they had discussed it in full, in com- mittee, The press is barred from committee meetings.) Building Permits Councillor N, Livermore, chairman of the by-laws com- mittee, reported that they planned to make some chang- es in the building permit ap- plications, so that three copies would be made, and they would be on file in the clerk's office for reference. After ap- proval by council, the clerk will issue the permit. The clerk read the by-law ooncern'ing building, now on ;the,- books, , andMayor. Miller noted • that this' provid`ed" for the Building Inspector (who is Eire Chief Grant Rath) to; in- speet the pians and recommend whether or not the building be authorized. Then it must be passed by council. Councillor Bridle commented that actually the by-law is all right, but council has not been adhering to it. Police Report Mayor Miller presented the monthly report of Police Chief H. R. Thompson, which includ- ed six cases prosecuted and six convictions; 13 prosecutions under the highway traffic .act and 13 convictions; one under the Liquor Control Act and one conviction; three arrests; six summonses served; $210 fines levied; 40 investigations carried out; two occasions for highway patrol ,escort; six places of business found: in- secure •and six accidents inves- tigated. Trailer Fees Mayor Miller remarked that there were 29 trailers occupied at the trailer court, and three empty. Since there are 14 children attending school from the court, Mayor Miller was Concerned that the charges for trailers collected' by the town at $4 per month was not enough. Children from out of town attending the school, pay about $11 a month. An investigation will be car- ried out, with view to deciding upon an increase in rate. Mayor Miller also noted that there was some difficulty ex- perienced: by people attempt- ing to reach the police by tele- phone, and that some arrange- ment of telephone in the police (Continued on Page Seven) darned EGbERr BAKKER $500 bursary, attending Western University Dominion provincial Bursaries E%M VtRHOER $500 b1i1 ary, • attettdittg ,Stratford Normal School sTevEN S13O`rCHM R $500bursary, died at Queen S University