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TOLEN. DYNAMITE
OUGHT- 'BY POLICE
Twenty sticks of dynamite were being sought
by police in the Goderich-Auburn area at press
time Wednesday night,
Tuesday night held a terrifying few moments
for 88 cats and dogs and their young 'owners at the
free rabies clinic 'held in Clinton by the Huron
County Health Unit, but the animals are now en-
sured safety from rabies for at least the next year
Inthe above photo, Anne Crittenden holds her pet
FRIGHTENED FELINE CRINGES
cat, "Silver", while Dr. T. R. Melady of Goderich
prepares to administer the dose. Behind Anne is
her brother, Paul, holding his cat, "Dusty". The ,
children are son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Crittenden of Orange Street. -
(News-Record Photo By John Visser)
Legion Hall Reception
For Ken, Stelle McRae
Clinton's "Mr. and Mrs. Minor Hockey" were
honored. Friday night at Clinton Legion HalF at an
"Appreciation. Night": sponsored by the -Clinton
Minor Hockey Association.
Early. honored.
Third Pedestrian Hurt
A 32-year-old RCAF Station Clinton airman
suffered leg injuries Saturday evening when he was
struck by a car as he crossed' Albert Street.
"Me. Minor Hockey Honored
ken MeAae, retiring secretary-treasurer Of the Clinton Minor Hockey As.
sociation was honored 'Friday night at an Appreciation Night held in the Legion
Half. In the photo above, Mr. McRae is presented token on behalf Of the
Association by Don Itay, past-president of the Association, Mrs,- MG (at
right) and Association president Doug AndreWS(iii backgrOu.nd) look On.
(News-Record Photo Bp Jan VAser)
SEAFORTH — Tuekerernith
Township Council Tuesday
night passed Bylaw No. 9 at its
regular monthly meeting to IS'et
-tax rates in the Township. for
1964.
The bylaw was passed unani-
mously after it was read by
township 'clerk-treasurer Jam 's
McIntosh,
The bylaw raises some mill
rates, bItt brought no drastie
hikes in taxes to ratepayers.
Assessment
Based on a 'total asseesrnerd;
of $2,848,229 for the township,
the mill rates for 1964 are as
follows
County rate, 14.0 Mille, un-
changed from last year. The
township rate is up two mills
to 11.0 for residential 'and
farm; 13.5 for commercial.
Schoel areas in the town-
ship remained unchanged at
8.0 for farm and residential;
9.0 for commercial. School
section No. 3 will ha,verto levy
this year due to .a surplus from'
1963 taxes.
School Areas
Union school district was un-
changed at 5.0 mills for farm
and residential, 5.6 for com-
mercial, and ' also unchanged
was Seaforth Separate Sehool
at 12.5 for farm and readdin-
tial , and 13.9 for commercial.,
Clinton Separate School jum-
ped 3.9 mills to 11.9 mills from
8.0 in 1963 for residential and
farm,. There is no commercial
taxation in the, district,
RCSS No. 4 Hibbert mill
rate was set at 14,0, the same
as last year. There is no com-
mercial in the district. The
rate for RCUSS No. 3 McKil-
lop and Hibbert remained at
14.0 mills.
An Council Present
Seaforth District H 1,g h
School, Central Huron Secon-
dary School and South Huron.
District High School all brought
mill rate hikes.
SDHS stands at 16.7 farm
and residential; 18.5 commer-
..cial. CHSS is 18.4 and 20.4
commercial, and SI-11)1-15;t1s43.0 .
and 14.3 commercial.
- Present at the meeting held
iii Seaforth Town Hall were
Reeve Elgin Thompson, Road
Superintendent Andrew Hous-
ton, clerk-treasurer J. I. Mc-
Intosh, and councillors Irvine
Sillery, Victor Lee, Alex Mc-
Gregor and Arthur Varley.
Rain Slows
Harvesting
Periodic rains are making
the harvesting of spring grain
crops' difficult, according to D.
H. Miles, Agricultural Repres-
entative for Huron County.
Except for low-lying 'areas in
some fields, white beans have
not been hurt although hae-,
vesting will be delayed at least
two weeks, Mr. Miles said in
his' weekly report.
Corn Growth Good
Simscaling makes fields look
as, though they are damaged.
Corn is, reported making
good growth and is cobbing
well. Many fields are beginning
to, dent,. arid, silo filling likely.
will be later than average.
Hay and pasture ate 'report-
ed in plentiful supply.
.1 LAC Arnold Brian Venables
was treated at RCAF Station
Clinton hospital, and released.
X-rays indicated no bones were
broken.
The airman was struck by a
car driven 'by Cpl. David Fred-
erick Campbell, 27, also of
RCAF Station Clinton.
No Charges
The accident happened about
6 p.m. Friday:
LAC Venables suffered bruis-
es and a,brasions. He was at-
tended at the scene by Dr.
rx,allic Newland and ,talten
the RCAF Station Hospital by
an RCAF ainbulanCe.
Clinton Police declined to
disclose details of the accident,
but it Was understood no
charges have been laid in eon-
neetian 'With the accident,
The Weather.
1964 1963
High Lbw Nigh Low
Aug. 27 75 45 77 48
28 88, 46- "n 54
28 80 68 /2 66
3t5 :84 56 72 54
31 75 56 67 56
Sept, 3 70 51 75 41
2. 75 45 /4 51
t68" Atibit ,58"
'NW foal of
AUgnSt, 1664 was
Third Victim
The airman was the third
pedestrian to- be- struck by a
car in Clinton this Summer.
Last week, Foster Martell,
19, of RCAF Station Clinton,
was struck by a car driven by
Wayne Johnston, 22, of Clin-
ton. IVIaritell suffered a broken
leg.
George Kenneth McDonald,
First. Entry
ins Prize
WDERICH J,
McLaren of Bearniller entered
her first flower thow over the
weekend and won two troph-
ies.
She won the Paton Trophy
for the highest number of
points in the show and the
Denomme PlOrist Trophy' for
most points in the, floral At-
eangenient
Mrs, Donald 1Weittee, also of
5entailleti w the Sheafter
Pen 'Trophy far ateuinulating the most points In the hate,-
cnItUre SeetiOn. of the thew,
Ontario Provincial. Ponce
from the• Goderich Detachment
told the News-Record the dy-
namite was stolen from powder
magazines of the. Sift°, Seat
Division of Domtar chemicals
Limited, on Tuesday,
Thieves 'broke into the five
magazines on County Road 31.
—about two miles east of Gode-
rich—and spread two cases of
dynamite and detonating caps,
over the area.
Dangerous
The OPP and Domtar effic-
leis said, it appeared no caps
—used to trigger the dyne-
mite=—were taken
Constable Alex Twaddle of
Coderith OPP, 'investigating of-
ficer, said it is quite possible
Douglas George Scott was
fined. $75 and costs of $7.50
with the alternative of one
month in jail. Magistrate H.
G. Hays of Goderieh allowed
the youth three weeks to pay
17, also of RCAF Station Clin-
ton, was struck by a car, June
19 near the intersection of
Highways 4 and 8. Driver of
the car in 'that instance was
Gordon Baxter, 24, of Go'derich.
In each of the three 'acci-
dents, police attached no blame
to the drivers of the cars, and
no charges were laid.
In Africa Miss Lyon will
make use of her medical tratin-
ing and medical miseionarY ex-
perience to help the people of
Angola, a Portuguese province.
Before going to Angola, she
will. spend about a year in
Portugal looming to write and
speak the language.
Well Qualified
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Lyon, of Londesborb,
IS well qttalified to handle the
task.
She went through public and
high sehool at Clinton, Arid then
trained for rthree years at Vic-
toria hospital in London, grad',
waling as a llegistered Nurse,
Seeking some "adventure,
she headed west to Hazeltoii,
it small town in north eentral
British Columbia, She nursed
at Et hospital there for
five Years and then Went to
qutdti Charlotte City.
treated knaiats
DettAter its name, Queen
Formal invitations have, been
mailed to about 130 people in-
cluding former School Officer's
Commanding and School of
Food Services staff, members
of Station Clinton staff, mem-
bers of the press, members of
the Canadian Dietetic Associa-
tion, distinguished local civilian
Personnel, parents or relatives
of the officer cadets, and pres-
ent S.P.S. staff,
Graduation exercises will get
underway at 3 p.m. and will be
followecle by a buffet dinner at
5 p.m,
10 Years Old
Food Services training •in the
RCAF originally was establish-
charlotte City is a small town
on the Queen Charlotte Isl-
ands off The coast of British
Columbia,
Patients at the hospital there
—as was also the rate at Ilan le
Miss Vera .Lyon` •
Nittugat4htiiiit
Stinks Strewn.
Const, Twaddle said 'two full
boxes of caps Were found in
the bush near the looted mag.
ezines along with a box of lead
wire.
The contents of two boxes of
dynamite, strewn about •the
area, were also recovered,
Gordon Muir, manager of the
Goderich division of Demtan
(Continued on Page Five)
Announcement 'of the purch-
ase was made by officials of
-"Agrjco" at the London office
of the company. -
The fertilizer Warehouse has
been operated for the past sev-
eral years by A. J. Mustard,
son of the late John Mustard,
the former owner.
Plan Expansion
Agrico officials told the
News-Record in 'a telephone
interview from London that
facilities of 'the warehouse, will
be 'expanded in the.near future
"to make fertilizer more read-
ily available locally."
The Mustard property is on
two and a half acres of land
on the west side of Brutefield
and includes three buildings
and' an office-sonic, house..
The existing services will he
expanded to a complete fertiliZ-
er service centre for dry bulk
and bag fertilizer. Equipment
for applying different types of
feetilieer will,, be rented Jo--
farmers, ..
To Have Ammonia
Agrico officials also said an
all-new anhydrous ammonia
distributing plant soon will be
installed and a railway siding
will be laid into' the property.
The.Agrico• company now has
plants at Chembiy, Que., Port
Hope, Orangeville and London.
The company took possession
of the property here on Tues-
day.
For ten years 'the School of
Food Services 'has responded
to this principal aim and while
marking its tenth anniversary
this year, hopes for the Oppor-
tunity to progress further to
be introduced to the challeeg-
ing commitments of' a new era
and to continue its progranime
(Continued on Page Eight)
ton—were for the most part;
Indians.
Miss taierx stayed art Queen
Charlotte City for two and a
half years.
• -Sails Sept. 23
She returned to Ontario last.
year, aticl took- - a year-long
course at'COVereent College, TO-
nente, 'This training was &I-
lewed by a two-month and a
entainenth doutte at ,London
:this Stninnee as orientatien for
her work in Portttgal.
Miss Lyon tails foe Portugal.
from New Z.-tark. an Sept. 23,
and will he at Lisbon for about
year during which Tie .slie
Will learn.. to read, speak and.
write 'the Peettignate language.
She will not -knew for el,
most a, _year Whether' She Will
be ,giittrited a Vise to Angola,. on
specifically where in that proves
Thee she will be sent if and
when a ViSa"is granted..
Holp Othotot
All she knows Mire it that she will be 'working 'either
in a mission hospital ar un Seine
related field -6(1 iriedital work
(Cdnthitied On Page PiVe)
The guests of honor, Ken
and Stella McRae, were paid
tribute by their many friends
in this area for the work Mr.
McRae has clone for the Clin-
ton. Minor Hockey Association
of which he has been secretary-
treasurer .for the past four
years.
In his presentation 'speech
on ,behalf of the Association,
President Doug Andrews not-
ed that looking back over the
years, "one could never find a
better citizen in Clinton's his-
tory than Ken".
— Present Gift
Mr. Andrews read a note
from. Fred Sloman who has
been sick 'since July and who
could not attend the, function.
It read in part: "see that Ken
and Stella have a merry panty.
They are both valuable people,"
Don Kay, past president of
the Association, presented the
McRaes with a wall barometer-
thermometer - hydrometer on
which was engraved "In ap-
pretiation—Ken 1Vicleae----From
Clinton Minor e Hockey Assoc-
ation-1960-64,"
Mr. McRae 'then spoke brief-
ly; quoting a. magazine article
on Yogi Berra in which men-
tion was made of a time when
the Yankee ballplayer was slin-
At that time• Berra said:, "I
would like to thank each and
every one of you for making
this night necessary."
Mr. McRae said someone
when learning of his transfer
to St. Marys had noted that
town only "a hop, skip and a
jump" from Clinton, but Mr.
McRae felt "we might as well
be moved 'to Cypress or South
Viet Natn."
He said what he and his
wife gave to Clinton•was small
in comparison to what they
received,
He repeated a comment
made to a neighbour- by his
son, David, when he returned
from Camp Ipperwash and first
heard the news of his trans-
fer.
Evening Dance
With tears streaming down
his :cheeks, David had said, "I
thought that it would never
happen to me."
Following his brief talk, Mr.
and Mrs. Andy Parer& — who
travelled from Dearborn, Mich.
for the 'occasion — presented
the Meats With a gift. Mr.
Petrere coaches the hockey
teams which have come . here
on Minor Hockey Day for the
past six years,
Doctor 'Comforts Accident Victim
Dr. Frank Newland and police constable Leroy 'Desch comfort LAC Arn-
old Brian Venables, 32, of RCAF Station Clinton after he was struck by a
car Saturday evening on Albert Street. (News-Record Photo By John Visser)
the missing Sticks of dynamite
still are lying around in -the
area.
Ne said the dynenite could
be dangerous — especially if
found by children witn did not
realize the harmless-looking
tubes are explosives.
Clinton Court Cases
A 17-year-old Wingharn youth pleaded guilty
Wednesday in Magistrate's Court at Clinton to the
second charge laid against him within two months
of having' liquor in'a place other than his residence,.
the fine.
Scott was charged in Clinton
Aug. 1,- when the car he Was
driving was 'stopped by con-
stables 'Clarence, Perdue and.
Ab Shaddick on Albert Street
at 9;215 p.m.
Second Conviction
The officers found two open
bottles of beer in the car.
"You're a foolish, boy to be
back so soon," observed Mag-
ietrate Hays, noting Scott had
paid a fine of $15 and costs
on, his earlier conviction at
Wingham on June 10.
Scott told the- court he had
just changed job's front the.
foundry at Wingham to 'a
foundry at Galt, and would need
three weeks to pay the fine.
Pay Or Go To Jail
"If your fine is not paid at
the end of three weeks, a war-
rant will be issued for your
arrest and you'll be in jail,"
the magistrate told the youth,
"And 'if you come back a
third time, I will hand down a
(Continued on Page Five)
National Firm Buys Out
Old Brucefield Business
BRUCEFIELD — The John B. Mustard coal
yard here was sold this week to Agricultural
Chemical Limited, of Port Hope, Ont., for an un-
disclosed amount.
School of Food Services
Plans Tenth Anniversary
The tenth anniversary and graduation exercise
of the School of Food Services will be held in the
Recreation Centre of RCAF Station. Clinton on
Thursday. Plans include the attendance of the sta-
tion band and the guard of honour.
ed in June of 1941 and forma-
tion of a permanent school did
not take place until September
of 1954, The school at Clinton
had the responsibility of teach-
ing and directing RCAF Food
Services Personnel in correct
methods of food preparation, .
cookery and service.
Londesboro Nurse Assigned To Post In Portugal
A Designation Service will be held this Sunday
at 9 p.m. in LOndesboro United Church for Miss
Vera Lyon, R.N., who has been appointed by the
Board of World Mission-to serve in Africa.