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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1965-03-11, Page 1THE .NEW ERA 98th YQr• No. 10 -- The Home Paper With the News • THE. HURON RECORP 02.nd Yeor - 144.TON� 'O*1TARiO 'THL RsPAY, MARCH 11, 1964 esi, The Picture Is OK ... , But Look Closer! This five-ton'truck of Canada Packers Limited, News -Record, photographer John Visser was right • Walkerton, rolled upside clown last Thursday near on the job to record on film the transfer of the- Hensall The driver, Anthony Al, was not hurt, chickens to another Canada Packers truck. but about 30 of the 2,500 chickens were killed. Truck Driver Escapes Injury In Accident Near Hensall (By Mrs. M. Hedden) HENSALL — Truck driver Anthpnr Al, 21, RR 1 Walker- ton, escaped uninjured Thurs- day afternoon when his truck loaded with 2,500 crated chick - IT'S EXAM TIME AT bliss "Will you pass the nuts, prof- essor?" a friend asked et the dinner table. "Yes," he answered absent- mindedly, "but I suppose I should flunk them." ens • rolled into a ditch. The accident, just north of Hensel], on Hiighway 4, killer] about 30 chickens and caused $400 damage to the truck;'own- ed by Canada PackersIAaniited of Walkeeton. Only a few of the orates were broken. The chick- ens on the loose were quickly recmated. A mobile crane fa'em Hensel). was used to right the truck and get it back on the highway. The accident occurred about 1:30 pen. andit took ,until 7. p.in. to get the five -ton truck back on the highway, Frovineial `Corisitabier Harry Clinton firemen Collect $147.53 For Muscular Dystrophy Research .Clinton Volunteer Fire Brig- ade reis'ed $1.47.53 in their re- cent funds campaign for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada. Fireman Gordon Dalgliesh, chairman of the local campaign reported ' $113.00 given by Clin- ton and district organizations and $34.53 collected from the cannislters in various • stores. The total is down somewhat from previous years, he saki. And•he also reports that three of the plastic and cardboard cannisters had been nabbed of their silver, According. to Mr', Dalgliesh there : are no known case of inuscuI•ar dystrophy in Huron County. Therefore all the money collected locally goesto finance research into muscular, dystro- Phy (Continued On Page 12) TWO HORTICULTURALISTS Auburn Ladies Receive Meritorious Diplomas AUBURN—Two Auburn Hor- ticulturalists .were honored by the presentation of • a diploma for meritorious service to hort- iculture at the. March meeting of the Auburn Horticultural So- ciety when they met 4n the Auburn Community Memorial Hall. The ladies so honored were Ed. Davies and Mrs. Wil - 'am Strawghan. .Mrs. Robert J. Phillips and . Arthur Grange pinned lov- ely corsages•, on these ladies and Mrs. Gordon R. Taylor read the ecl'di"ess thankthg them for the work they had done to help beautify the village. Mrts. Phil- lips and Miss. Grange presented the diplomas on behalf of the society. The meeting was in charge of `;he president, Mrs. Wes Brad - luck and the pianist was Mrs.. xordon R. Taylor, After sing- ng 0' Canada the minutes were tad by the secretary, Mrs, .loyd Humphreys, It was decid- el to assist the Athletic Assoc- anion by planting trees on the ithiebie Park, and 'William ;itraughan and Ed. Davies were taatied to be the committee,. It was decided to enter the anibr conhpetitio i, "Any plower 'ontest" and Mr's. Robert Tures er was stained convener, the enter contest, "A tree of Ont, rib" and Mrs, Arthur Grange rag hated convener and the hot'dgraphic competition is to e in char=ge of Mrs, Gordon R. laylor, Clifferd H, Epps, Clinton, No, disrtriet director, was guest Of it evetiieg and brought greet- gs +atid spoke of the Work being sire throughout the district. l''t. A.rthdr Grange thatike+d le EPOS and pt'"itented him itis. a 'gift. A trio Wa sung by na, Deflaid Haines, Mist Mar - let Hairtee and Fd, Haines and also a' duet by Mrs. Haines and Miss Margaret. Miss Karnes played a piano solo. Mrs. Russel Brindley intro- duced her guest of the evening, Mrs, Ed Jessop of Goderich. She showed colorful slides of the flowers of her garden and nacre (Continued on page 9) Reid of Exeter, who was assist- ed ssns t -ed by Chief of Police E. R. Davis of Hensaii, .said the acci- dent occurred when the Canada Packers truck was passing an- other truck. The other vehicle was not involved. IT COULD HAPPEN EVEN IN CJLINTON A man, full 'of ' excitement, phoned the fire departmient: "Five! Fire!" "Where is it?„ "My house!" "I mean 'the location of the fare." "My kitchen, for . heaven's sake!" "Yes, but how can we get' to your place?" "You've got a fire engine, haven't you?" ANNUAL MEETING Horticultural Society Sees Films OE Gardens The , annual meeting' of the Clinton Citizens' Horticultural Society was held Friday even- ing, March 5 in the council chambers of the town hall. According to Cliff Epps' sta- tistics, this meeting ' was the most largely attended of any of this sooiety's ' ever held. The mild weather brought out a ca- pacity crowd. The president, Miss Luella Johnston opened the meeting with John Donne's poem "No man is an Island, entire of it- self" and extended a warm wel- come. Mrs. Stewart Middleton pre- sented the secretary's report and C. H, Epps gave the finan- cial statement. Speaking also as head of Dis- trict 8, Ontario Horticultural Association, Mr. Epps urged a greater increase in, membership "on the whole, our District made an increase in membership of over 13% in 1964." The president moved a vote of thanks to Toni Cronin, of Sparling's Hardware, for kindly attending to watering the Post Office flower bed. .. Mr. Epps also answered many garden questions during the course of the meeting. The Clinton Greenhouse and Garden Centre, whose propriet- Popular Clinton Guide Leader e Receives Guiders Camping Award Lieutenant dtkyce Xrwin, right, was presented with her Green Tree Pita at the Girl Guides Meeting,Moiiday even- ing, by District Guider Beulah Watch, left, To obtain this phi Lielartoiit ta.i'it Irwin attended weekend training at Dee Laine', the Pr:windfall b'Va i damp Site end Camp Keew'aydin Area Caird site en Lake Mullin, She worked a Otlatterinase ter at a 10 -day cA!rrirp at Camp Keewaydin in 1961 and assist- ed' at a 16 -day Pioneer Catsup at Camp r;eewnydin in 1962, attending tt two -clay training at I-lefisali hi 1963 end eon- ducting a, weekend Company Camp at the Toed Cub Camp at Haler viiia, She then completed her re- tluireirie it'' by :conduetang a 10,day Division Pioneer C7anii rat Glen Maid, Seafoi*th•,• 1964, atnd wrlirtling the ?twin, c%aui Ct toper d lieeitse test, 'or is John Steele Smith, sent the . society a flower catalogue for 1965 at bargain prices. for 100 lot orders. Anyone warding to order these mums, dahlias, canine, geraniums, etc., available from this catalogue, please contact Mrs. C. H. Epps or Miss L. Johnston, Mr. Smith also don- ated several plants for draws at the meeting. Mrs. L, M. McKinnon brought in the slate of officers for 1965: Honorary- President, Douglas Miles; president, Miss Luella Johnston; first vice-president, Fred SIoman;' second vice-presi- dent, Mrs. Frank. England; sec- retary, Mee. Stewart Middleton; treasurer, Clifford' H, Epps; Xpress secretary, Mrs. D: Middle- ton; Directors for one year, Mrs. W. S. R. Holmes, 1\ rs. H. Ball, Mr's. R. G. McCann, Gorden (Continued on Page Three) Public Works Men Visited Bayfield Goorge Meyrinek, region- al engineer, Department of P>rtibiie Works (Highways .. and Rivers) and Mr., Sly- wchuk, representing the area .engineer, visited Bay, field yesterday, 'Wednesday, March 14, at 10 a.m. They viewed the harbour and met with council in (private) discussion of the problem, q Auxiliary Police Chosen To Train In EMO Course Eugene "Bu,tch" McLaren, Welsley Holland, Craig' Cox, and Qetorrge Currie have been chosen (roan• 11 „appl'ioants to train .as auxiliary police for the town of Clinton, under the Huron Coun- ty Emergency Measures Organ- ization. They •attend'ed the first of Borne 14 lectures last night - They were picked by Chief of Police H. R. Thompson, who will be responsible for training then, The auxiliey police will work with the county EMO in case of emergency and with the local pence when the need arises.. , When the course has been completed, the men must pees written examinations, They will then be supplied with uniforms by the county ;EMO, of which Stewart Forbes, Goderich, is co- ordinator. Seed Fair Set For Weekend At CHSS Here . E, McGill, assistant live- stock conmisldioner for Ontario, will be train speaker at the Annual Huron Comity Seed Fair, todie held at CHSS Friday and Saturday. Mr. McGirli's S'a'turday address will cover "profit by cash crops for efficient lives'to'ck." Exhibits will be set up at the echooil Friday afternoon. Judg- ing by Gordon Tolton and James Richiaildson, both of Walkerton, starts at 5:00 p,m. Panel discussions on farnii managementand dairy housing systems will be held Saturday. G. S. "Bert' Moggach, agricult- ural engineering specialist for Huron and Perth counties, will speak oni profitable, grain corn production. Another speaker will be Don Hill, of Markdale, a soil and crop spedialist with the deportee -lent of agriculture. The .seed fair is sponsored by the Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association, On Friday at 8 p.m., the an; nual Huron Junior Farmer dra- ma ranva festival will be held at the school. The junior farmer choir wlill perform, Londesboro Delegation Seeking Better Lighting For Village e 9 g9 The regular monthly meeting of the council of the Township of Hullett was held in the Com- munity Hall, Londesboro. The reeve and all councillors were present, A delegation of residents of the hamlet of Londeeboaio was present to present a petition to council for the improvement of the present street lighting sys- tem in Londesboro, Mrs. Bert Allen Mrs. Robert Townsend, and Harold Livingston present- ed the petition to council and discussed the proposed change from the present system of an- candescent lighting to fluores- cent standards. The council had already in-" situated the clerk to write to the Hydro Electric Power Com- mission to obtain an etstitnate of costs and when this estimate is received a more realistic pro- posal can be Made to the• council based on the cost and number of street lighting standards that would be required. Tenders were opened for, the supplying of ctusbeti gravel for the roads; There were two ten- ders received witlt the tender of the George Radford Construc- tion; Ltd, 13lyth being the suc- cessful tender at a price of 67c per cubic yard, The amount of gravel to bb Used will be ikp- The Weather 1965 1064 nigh Low High Low Maar. S 38 31 48 34 3 49 36 4 41 36 52 36. 6 42 ,36 36 20 .7 39 29 44 30 8 39 28 88 27 9 l-clm 3'r 31 33 Rain: .38" 7'1V 8nau:4" proximately 12,000 cubic yards. Tenders for the supplying of wambicide powder' for the warble fly spraying prograan were re- ceived, with Murray Reid of R i 1 Lon'd'esbora being the success- ful bidder. Jaynes Leishman of RR 2 Seaforth was the suecees- (Contanu'ed On Page 1?) $4,00• Per Year -,-70 cents Per copy.,—,1p Pagee awn Council A. hree Existin Red Cross Drive On Mara 22 Mrs. W. A. Oakes, local chairman of 'the Canadian Red Cross Society fund campaign 'informs us that the town of Clinton will be canvassed on Monday, Mar- eh 22. , in former years the four servicer clubs in town will do the canvassing: Lions in. St. Andrew's Ward; Legion, St, James Ward; Fish. and Game, St. John's Ward; Kinsmen, St, Geo- rge's Ward. Every Molise will be con- tacted, If you are not borne on March 22, the canvasser will call back later in the • week, At lbs regular meeting wren_ day evening, Clinton town coun- cil agreed to amalgamate three existing town boaxds into .one. This was, the outcome of a re- quest by letter and delegation from Clinton Recreation Com- mittee at the February' meeting. At that time Mayor Symons instructed the recreation com- mittee ehaininan, Robert Hun- ter, to consult all members of the three boards. This was done and the recreation groups seat a letter, which was supported at Monday's meeting by Robert Mann. The three groups which will now be known as C'inton Rec- reation Committee, were Clin- ton Athletic Field Board, .Clin- ton Community Swimming Pool amenittee, and Clinton Recre- ation Committee, Eleven members of the new committee as suggested by the Clinton Airman Presents Pilot Wings To His Son at Moose Jaw Ceremony Corporal 3, N. Hill of RCAF Station: Clinton •.pre- sented pilot wings to his son, Flying Officer D. N. Hill, at a ceremony at RC- AF Station Moose Jaw, Sask. This represenrted the succesefiai completion of fly- ing training in the . Chip- munk Harvard and T-33 aircraft. t. F/O Hill will, be proceed- ing to RCAF Station Begot - vine Quebec for further training on jet (aircr'aft, 'af- ter a leave with -his parents at RCAF Station Clinton, Huron County� Expected To increase Tax Levy At Its March Session (By W. E. Elliott) GODERIC,H --- Huron County Council at its March session is expected to increase the tax levy. Clerk -treasurer John G. ]3erly.warned council last Nov- ember that a ane -mill increase was ,indicated, if the present program were to be continued. He qualiitiied this by pointing out that an allocation might be - made for future capital outlay, as an alternative to debenturing or pay-as-you-go. In any case, the amount of increaae will be determined by acceptance of the various committee reports and their projects. The roads co'm- m'ittee has already recommend- ed an increase of three-quarters of a mill. On the agenda for March 24- 25 is discussion in connection with the County Roads Needs Study, set up in this and other counties to estimate future con- stuction maintenance and oper- ating needs and to determine population and assessment trends. The Huron study has been directed by Ralph Jewell, 1964 Warden; road committee chair- man Joseph Kerr, Wingharn, a- long with the district municipal engineer and a representative of the Highways Department. It was carried out by.McConmick & Rankin, consulting engineers, Port Credit. "Pending implementation of the nee'da study recommendat- ions in 1966," committee chair- man Kerr reported at the Jan- uary session, "We recommended a mill rate for highway purpos- es in 1,965 of 8..75. The general purposes rate set last March was six mills, for Mads eight. Though council irn, January ap- proved construction • of a 75 -bed addition to Huronsriew, no ac- tion has yet been taken by the comniittee relative to the actual building program, and • there de to be further discussion. a tes 'ate s roe. group are: Douglas An- drews, David Beattie, Orval Engelstad, Robert Bunter, Don I• ay, Hector I:V'ingswel], Pecy Livermore, Robert Mann, Doug las Thorndike, and Cauncifiors Norman Livermore .and Gordon Lawston, • From the 11 -man committee, a mailer.committee of ;five or seven rnen (including the two eounicillors) will be formed to administer the Clinton Com- rnunity $Whum'ing Pool, This is n'eces'sary under the 'Community Centres Act, , Councillor 71t Hospital Councillor Cainer"on Proctor is a patient in Westminster Boapitatl, London, awaiting an operration, and.. no health. and welfare report was given at the meeting, Mid -W. OAA Delegates Reeve Duff Thompson, chair- man Of council's industrial com- mittee, and Royce Macaulay, a former councillor, are Clinton's delegates to all meetings of the Mid -Western Ontario Develop- ment Association in 1965. Couar- crl joined .Mid-WODA in Febru- ary this year. Broke Car Springs A letter from William 'Riehl requesting the town to pay for three broken springs on'his car, was referred to the town's in- surance broker. Mr. Riehl 'at- teided the meeting. The darn - (Continued on page five) 0 Hospital Ladies Thanked For Ice Machine The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary to Clin- ton Public Hospital was held in the nurses' residence on Tues- day, March 2. The president opened the meeting with prayer and the. minutes of the Febru- ary meeting were .approved. A. letter from Clinton Public Hospital Board expressed their appreciation of the ice machine which the audliary had pur- chased and installed in the hos- pital. • The treasurer's report was read and approved. Mrs. Weil - ham, buying convener, reported that six pairs of drapes had been rniade and hung in the hos- pital and suggested buying three pair for the children's ward. Mrs. A. Hadcly reported that tag day will be held in May. Mrs. R. U. MacLean asked that a date be set for the penny nolle and it was decided to hold this on October 2. The Auxiliary will. visit Ontario Hospital near Goderioh in May. A hat show is being sponsored. by the auxiliaay, with Nims. Humphry of London conning to show her hats. These hats will also be for sale and will be modelled by members of the auxiliary. This event will be held on March 30 at the nurses' Residence wlith two showings at 2 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. Mrs. E. B. Menzies will be the convener for the hat show. The bumsaiy for a student nurse from Central Huron. Sec- ondary Sdhool will again be sponsored by the Auxiliary. Clinton and Adastral Park Ladies from AdestratPark: and ClintonMeet at the World Da .. of Prayer tea held at the Air,. iti ii s Mess. Mrs. ; 0, S. 8waren (left), Wife 'df Protestant Padre at l3.CAlt' Clinton talks' tc (from the left) Mr . Weniunn, Clinton) Mrs. B4., Ladies at Day of Prayer Service Greenaway, Mrs, C. Heers)nlz, Mrs, J, D. Bates, Dean of Women McMaster University; trarnzlt0n, gdest speaker, and Mrs, `W� l;'. Cook, Other pictures on page 3, '(CAP Photo)