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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1964-08-20, Page 1Early Bird The oat crop is in at the Varna farm of Mr. and Mrs. Orville -Webber and -ploughing is under- way so a crop of spring grain can be sown. Manning the tractpr is 15-year-old Fred Webber who, will' enter Central Huron Secondary School this fall. The Webber farm is one of the first in this area to have the oats crops already harvested, although many farms in the London area reportedly are already sowing spring grain crops, (News-Record Photo by John Visser) Clinton Lions Mardi Gras' Cancelled, Draw Tickets Good at September Sale Touting Flower Show This display in the window of Simpson-Sears' office on Albert Street reminds passers-by of the ' Open Flower Shaw of the Clinton Horticultural Society on Friday. The table cloth will be awarded to exhibitor of the best Dahlia in the show by Simpson-Sears. — (News-Record Photo by John Visser). Flower Show Is Friday The annual open Flower Show of the Clinton Horticultural Society will be held Friday afternoon and evening in the council chambers of Clinton Town Hall. Defer Toll-Free 'Phones The introduction of toll-free telephone calling between Lucknow and. Dungannon and between • Goderich and Dungannon will be delayed by tech- nical difficulties, according to officials of the 'Huron and Kinloss Telephone Company arid the Bell Tele- phone Company. Crash Claims Clinton Mother A 28-year-Old Clinton Woman who was injured last Tuesday in a, highway crash near Wingham, died Friday in Victoria Hospital. Dead is Mrs. Gerald Leeson. Mrs. Leeson was a passen, ger it a, Oar delete by her husband, a 29-year-old Clinton Scheel teacher, When it Math- ed intie the rear of a truck Which was turning oil Highway i'to, Mr, Leeson suffered Miner injuries but was not achnitted te hospital, FOattgliter Inkiked eb-UPlet, 10-Meath-old daughter, Laurie, also injured iar the accident, was moved to Clinton Public Hospital Satur- day from Victoria. Hospital, She was reported htakirig Slat isfaaery reeovers4 ItErt, Leeson was taken winghatt and bisteidt Hospital after the aecident, and later was. transferred to London, Truck driver Jahn Lane,. 45, and a passenger, Ranclali Ham- ilton, 16, both of RR 1, Wrox- eter, escaped injUry.. Mewed Itetermy• Mr, and Mrs. Leeson rniwed Clintonto three months age from their home at Arnprior. Mrs, Lefton was the former Marlene Mesita*, Surviving in addition to her &welted! and husband are her parent% h2r. and Mrs. Leslie Haralia% of Windsor; brorther8 The-YAM, Duane -and llayntentl, all Of WintlSorl atia skit Harold Melkinnon mid (Colt anned On Page„ Council Agrees . ant Mutual Fire Ai Telephone Aids Police A telephone recently installed in the Clinton Police Department cruiser already has proven to be a valuable assistance to the Police Department, according to Chief Russ Thompson. "It answers our communications needs quite effectively," says Chief Thompson who is shown above taking a call on the telephone. (News-Record Photo) Detcencients Span 96- Years Not every baby gets the same chance to meet ton and her grea4reat.grandmother) Mrs. 1-leleri her ancestors as Brehda Hymers had Friday at Dalrymple, The fivo generations met for tea, Mrs, herrandfather's home, From the right) her moth- Dalrymple will be 97 years old November. Baby Mrs.er May hard 10:mei* het grandfather). Edward Brenda is three and ote.half mohths old, Lavtom--her, greltit.,dtto V-0",44 14i CHSS Gets Sports Field The board of Central Huron Secondary, School -agreed at a meeting last week to purchase 4.5 acres of farmland adjacent to the present site of the high school for use as athletic fields now occupied by a new addition to the school, N pag ec THN 1 ERA 97th YFA.R ClINTQN4 TIORSPAY, ACIOU.4T49.,. 1904 THE HURQN RKORP,0.1-st 'OR ;4,00 PerYeet,---,19 Cents Pnr. -copy---a Pars, No. 34—The Home Paper With the News "Plau,Rh 'The fielc.4 And .$c._ tter ," NCIL PONDERS INVITATION At a meeting in Clinton Lions, Arena last night, the executive of Clinton Lions Club cancelled their Mardi Gras for this year. The event had been postponed from last Thursday to tonight. Tickets sold on the 14 cash prizes will be drawn for at the Lions big rlituMage sale early in September. Watch for date. The matter was brought to council's attention by Stuart Forbes, Emergency Measures Organization co-ordinator for Heron County, during a spec- ial meeting with council. Mr. Forbes • said only Huron and Carleton counties had no arrangement, and as a result were missing out on many benefits available from EMO. Mayor Surprised Explaining it_ was net, really his job — or his business — is there for the enjoyment of all. If the purchase had not been made 18 years age, there would have been no place in the village. for :the public to go to watch the sunsets or enjoy the view over the lake. The aim is to make desirable chan- ges and improvements. Welcome Donations The planning committee pre- sented a report which was fav- orably received of which the first results will soon be visible. A special feature of the meeting was the appearance at a given time of three young boys presented by Mrs. R. G. Hunter: - John Chapman, Tom Lloyd and Douglas. Willock, who had induced their' mothers and .friends to- Make candy and sold it at the movies one night (-Continued on Page Five) Stuart Forbes, Huron County co-ordinator of the Emergency Measures Organization, met with Clinton Town Council Monday night to outline Clintons role in the EMO plan for Huron County and the province of Ontario. Apartment Destroyed By Blaze GODERICH — The Blue- water Lounge, an- apartment building about three miles south of here, was destroyed by fire Monday night. Damage was estimated at more than $75,000. The cause of the fire 'woe not immediately determined. The building formerly had been used as a private elub but three yens ago was con- verted to six apartments. Saw Flames Owner Gordon Smith said his wife went to the kitchen to make coffee about 11 p.m: and thought she heard rain. He said she looked- out a window and saw that the seatheatt end of the building was burning. Goderich fire fighters were unable to save the building; and concentrated their efforts on trying to keep fire from. spreading to the Bluewater Motel, about 50 feet away. The new dialing system or- iginally was scheduled fbr later this year, but-new, according to efficlals, will not go into effect until the spring of 1965. Lang distance charges will be removed 'from :telephone mils. placed between Clinton and Goderich' — as • scheduled this fall. Rate Increase The addition of the Clinton exchange to the local calling area of Goderich' is sufficient to make a nominal increase in monthly 'rates:. - '‘ a"' - • There will be no increase in Goderich rates when the Dun- gannon exchange is added next spring. Although Goderich telephone users Will pay. higher monthly rates when the plan is intro- duced, - most of them will pay less in total monthly bills than they are paying' at present when long 'distance .charges to Clinton are added' to the mon- thly bill, the Bell Telephone Company says. DDD This Fall The nominal increase in monthly rates in Lucknow and Dungannon will not' come into effect until long distance ch- arges are -removed from tele- phone calls placed between Lucknow and Dungaemet in the spring of 1965. In- the fall, direct distance dialing will be introduced to Clinton and Goderich subscrib- Huron Harvests Delayed By Rain Harvest is still moving slow- )57 as a result of heavy rains during the past week, accord- ing to Mttrray R. Shepherd, summer assistant of Agricult- ural Representative for Huron County, Doug MileS. Mr. Shepherd said prospects are brightening as a few days without rain are allowing far- mers to get back to their bar- veSting. Due to the severe rains, the quality of the grain will be Somewhat reduced. Corn Delayed Corn and white beans are reported making fairly good growth, but the lack of warm weather has caused the growth rate to decline from what had been anticipated. Cool weather has delayed by at least one week the hal-0d of sweet corn. ers. -Dungannon subscribers will receive "DDD" service in the spring of 1,90. 'The three communities then will join the growing number of communities where subscrib- ers can dial their own station- tostatioaelon-g distance calls to -any of More than 90,000,000 telephories.' in Canada and the United States. - (Continued on Page, Eight) The show is open to all who wish to exhibit flowers and any would-be exhibitor is -invited to The executive of the society said a number of merchants and busineeernen had offered During the 'speelal three- hour session held in Council's committee room, Mr. Forbes explained the EMO- organiza- tion and answered questions put to him by Mayor Miller, Reeve Agnew, deputy-reeve Stater and all councillors with the -eaception• of George Wench who was unable to attend the meeting. • , -aer, Forbes said Clinton and Exeter were the only centres in Huron county remaining to be organized by the EMO. "We have had excellent cooperation everywhere in the county so far," he said. Five Areas The co-ordinator said the to tout a mutual aid fire sys- tem, Mr. Forbes answered numerous questions about the matter put to him by Clinton officials, , "I'm surprised to hear only two counties in Ontario have not got such a sensible thing as mutual fire aid," commented Mayor Miller . . . "there must be lots of hard heads in the county". EMO hoped to 'split Huron County into five areas with a county town -in each area or- ganized as a directional point. He said ,Goderich, Winghem. and Seaforth -already were or- ganized and. could be effective in the event of an emergency. "There are 14 civil emergen- Cy Planning Groups at the minty level, and we want each town to have the counterpart at the local level," -he said, "that is, 14 persons in each of the five towns who have -a specific job to- do -and who would be in charge of one specific area such as health, water, hydro, communications, etc." Mr. Forbes -said Huron likely had ne mutual system because a full-time • fire chief is need- ed to co-ordinate such a plan, and his annual salary would (Continued on Page Five) Need Local Direction Mr. r-orbs said, Eaqo was organizing area towns "be- cause in the event of a disast- er, you can't run a county from one, town, Goderich and Clin- ton could be wiped out and then Winghero, Exeter and Senfoiith would have to run the operation," he said. The clerk-treasurer in each of the five .towns in Huron County would be called on to not as sub-coordinator, and would be under the direction of the Goclerich EMO head- quarters. In time of emergency, the mayor and councillors would give the orders, and each per- son being responsible for a small area of the operations would make for a smooth-run- ning organization; he said. Four Auxiliary Police Mr. Forbes said the EAT() works on a bud-get based on 25c per person per year—which amounts to $12,500 a year in Huron. This is not enough money, he said, to carry out all the plan's EMO should lathe area, but it is a start. . Under the EMO set up as proposed' by the co-ordinator, Chaton council would locate one EMO cadet for each mem- ber of the regular police de- partment, and the four cadets would be trained by EMO. (Continued on Pa.ge Eight) The property will be bought from Mr. Ernest Brown .and his wife, Mrs. Bernice Brown for $14,000, with an option to purchase a further 4.7 acres for $11,000. The purchase will be made immediately. The Clinton District Colleg- iate Institute school beard wh- ich administers CHSS said the land will serve -as a sports and - athletic area, and the 4,7 acres of land under option could be used for expansions of the school, Capacity Enrollment The board said no expansion was expected within the next year although the school will be operating at capacity this fall With about 1,300 students enrolled. Before the addition, there were 775 students en- rolled. The new $1,500,000 extension — fully paid for by „govern- ment grahts—was built on the old athletic field. Boat, Trailer, Burn At Hensall HENSALL — An, outboard motorboat owned by Laverne Hamilton of Seaforth, was de- stroyed by fire Saturday after- noon- as it was being hauled on a trailer four miles east of here. Mr. Hamilton estimated the loss at $1,000. The owner said he was haul- ing the boat to his father's farm at Mensal), and noticed flames coming from ithe boat as he was driving through Usbeene Township. Jr. and Sr. 4.11 Plan Farm Trips Educational trips have been plamital :Mit year for both the junior and senior 4-H Swine clubS. The junier club will have their trip on Augu.st 27 and will visit the Shur-Ckin fad Maple in the morning, Iii the attereiberr they will visit the °Marie I-leg Producers' main office in Toronto, The senior club will have their 'trip on August 31 and Will also be visiting the Shur- Gain farm at Maple in the morning. In the afternoon they Will Visit the A. L Unit at 1VIeple. 88th Birthday writ., Nellie Scott, a resident of Otteensway Nursing Home at Rensalli and a fOnner.rest. dent of truSSelS, recently mar- Red her 88th birthday at a Party given by members of her • cr,A, prizes for which members were grateful. Contributors Contributors include: a sil- ver vase froni Eatons for the winner of the Most points in the show; a lace table cloth froni Simpson-Sears for the beet dahlia in the shear, Other prizes from C. S. Liver- Mere, best gladiola; stethrhan's Store, best rose; Lee's Ladles Wear, $5 for runner-Up of Moat points in shov,q Mrs, Steve:art Middleton, 'prizes for a aew class..,.... "arrangement depicting a. song title." Complete prize lists may be Obtained from C. H, Epps. The Weather 1064 1063 High Low High Low Aug: 13' 70 150 58- 44 14 15 55 67 46 16 '10• 51 68 45 16. 65 52 15- 48 11 '66 41: 11 .56 18 16 '66 65 4/ la 59 46 61 45 Treasurer's Report The treasurer's report, which had been audited by R. Roy Fitsimons, showed receipts for the year 1963 to have been $901.60, expenditures $507.47, leaving a balance on hand for the year of $394.13. One- of the most popular features of the year is the rum- mage sale which was presided over this year by Mrs. Rabin Hunter, who turned. in an en- thusiastic report. There- were over 50 helpers involved and the proceeds' amounted to $322. Mrs. Huater received a he-arty vote of thanke for her efforts. In his address; the president said all were looking forward to the re-incorporation of the Village of Hayfield. He remind- ed the members that regardless of our shortcomings, the park ew • ilicial Addresses g neer ark ciation BAYFIELD—The annual Pioneer Park Assoc- iation meeting was held Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. C. E. Diehl,. Members were wel- comed by the new president, canon F. H. Paull, who has recently moved here. Clinton town council learned Monday night Huron is one of two counties in all of Ontario. not to• have set up a mutual aid fire system.