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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-02-22, Page 1Karen Jennison, 12A student at Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, won the title of "School Queen" Friday night at the annual "At Herne" dance in the auditorium of C.H.S.S. Miss Jennison's escort for the evening was Paul Wardle of London. Other candidates in the competition for school queen were Lee Gulliver, Pat Bali, Linda Hill, and Agnes Dykstra. (Staff Photo) Bayfield defies demon rum II 4:1 ,;07410.4; aft ortt Peekers Pay No Price Outside C.H.S.S. "At Home" Dance 14owl. c.,o'rci4A1 Cynthia Dumont, 5,- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ierry Dement, {er Street Clinton, grasps the pest Preparation for a frawhinceded rest, ,A .bout 05 kindergarten children Were treated to an afternoon of skating at'the Clinton arefie feet Wednesday, (Staff Photo) better closing day, Customers were lisedto'Wed- nesday • afterneon closing, Mr. Campbell explained, and traffic In stores was fairly light in the morniegs. Of all. days, it was felt by the Teeechants that Wednedday closing offered the least ruption of service. The retell merchants come mittee was formed 12 years ago after the Clinton Chaney• ber of Commerce was closed. Its nucleus was the retail merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce, kept in action as a continued liaison 'between .merchants and custo• .raers, ,Members of the committee are active in town promotion, and played. a key part in or. ganizing last yearts centennial celebrations. Each year, the committee sponsors the Sent; Claus Par. ade, and is responsible for decorating downtown Clinton., Other store hours will re- main unchanged a. m, to 6 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays. When the Clinton Cross Trailers square-dance club held its Valentine dance recently, members were asked to select a Valentine "queen" from among three lovely contestants. The three beauties using the names "Geraldine", "Bunny" and "Madame X" waged vigorous campaigns throughout the evening. When the ballots were counted, "Bunny" was crowned "Val. entine Queen. '68"-and presented with an appropriate bouquet. The winner is shown above (centre), flanked by runners-up Geral. dine (left), and Madame X, with caller Earl Bowles at the microphone. The Cross Trailers Club, which meets each Thurs., day at CFB Clinton, is made up of service and civilian couples from Clinton and surrounding areas. HENSALL $500,000 A Michigan firm plans to start building a $500,000 drain. age manufacturing plant on Highway 4 about one mile south of Hensall. Lowell Kraft, vice-president of Eric Kraft and Son Inc., of Pidgeon, Michigan am-tome ced at London that the firm will be called Big 0 Drain Tile Company Limited. ' As president of the new firm Mr. Kraft said the '0' is for Ontario, province of op. portunity. Big 0 was formed six months ago by Mr, ,Kraft with the in. tention of producing concrete and plastic drainage tile for the Ontario and Quebec mar. kets. Market potential of Ontario, particularly the Western On. tario area, is the main reason GETS PLANT the firm decided to invest in the area, Mr. Kraft said. When the plant - to be built on a six-acre site purchased from Robert Rowcliffe, of R,R. Hensall - is completed, the firm will hire between 10 and 20 men. "I would really prefer not to say just how many workers will be hired," Mr. Kraft said, "I don't want to get everyone in Hensall optimistic." • The parent firm in Michigan sells equipment for installing drainage tile. Both concrete and plastic tile will be manufactured in the new plant, and part of the machinery is to be purchased in Canada. Production is scheduled to permit fall sales to farmers, and plastic tiles are expected to be ready first. Trete ("liken high school '$tth Weeked.off with the heinitirS at the finals of the Illtrou COMity Public :Speaking Contest held at Cieder i bistrint Cellegiate institute last Wednesday, terry Sewell, tat, grade 1i student at Central. littron Secondary School, Clietoie won the MI, Peobitit Mei:tote of the contest, and Wayne (*Hell, grade student at e, 11.8 took toll liOnours in the prepared (Staff Photo; THE NEW ERA 103r4 Year , No, TNI qINTONNEyttS4 THURSDAY, fgpguARy 1968 THE F1U N RECON) 87th Year , SINPt.f cpRip.12; EAT 11ER • 1968 1967 Feb., is 19 -10 23 .32 2414 174 121 g $2 10 0 20 4 17 10 .0 21 6 19 0 32 s 112 Snow V' SnoW.:4" Eight lovely contestants have entered the Ice Queen compete ition to be held during Cline ton's winter carnival, reports Doug Andrews, manager of the Community Centre, gifts for the winner have already been pledged by the. Clinton Recrea. Lion Comenittee, Martin's De. partment Store, Irwin's Ladies Wear and Dry Goods, Lee's Ladies W ear, Newcombe's Drug Store, La Patrician Hair Style ing, and K. C. Cook .Florist. * * Teen Town has donated $50 to help sponsor Clinton Legion Juvenile hockey club. The money will be used to pure chase sticks. * * * Joke: A sweet old lady dres. sed in cloak and bonnet showed up at Western Fairetaceway one Saturday afternoon to place the first bet of her life. She obviously disapproved of racing in general, and betting in parti. cular. But her horse won and paid 20 to 1. She tapped her foot as she waited at the mutual window to collect her winnings. As the clerk handed over the loot, she said severely: "I hope this will be a lesson to you, young man!" * * * Notice to readers: A number of "coming events" items have been reaching this desk as news. When an event actually happens, it is news, printed free of charge. Before it happens, it is a "coming event," handled by the News-Record advertising department. • Long-haired students work• ing in school shops at the Paul. ine Johnson Collegiate in Brant- ford were given the choice of either getting their hair cut, or wearing hair nets. Technical director P. A, VanNest reports that since the hair nets were distributed the long hair pro. blem has disappeared. A hair cut was preferred to a hair net by most male students. * * * There's a real Dick Tracy style outfit on the Canadian market now, and not for kids, either. It's a combined AM radio, flashlight, Swiss-made watch and cigarette lighter. The electronic package features a styrene case with detachable strap, a built-in recharger operated by plugging into any AC outlet; speaker or earphone operation; luminous dials,on the dustproof shock - resistant watch; and battery operated cigarette lighter. All this costs about $50. * * SMOKING IS BAD. * • * Triangular "no draft" wine dews are being dropped from some model cars, and may disappear altogether, says the Ontario Safety League. In cere lain conditions they are a hazard, because they help bring deadly carbon monoxide into the car. These vents extract the air in the tar, which must then be replaced by other ale entering elsewhere, /f theregu. lar side windows are shut tight, this replacement air may come in through leaks in the floor, bringing exhaust fumes with it. An almost certain way to build up carbon monoxide in a car is to have one or both vents open and the trunk partly open (because of a large pack.. age). In e. Stollen wagon driven With the back, or back window, open carbon monoxide will be eutked into the interior Steadily if the side windoWs are shut, and the vents open, Roy Haeus. ler, Chrysler's chief safety engineer, makes these reeorn. mendetione. Always have aside window open If a vent is open. Standing in heavy traffic, keep the heater fan running at inaitimuni. This brings in relax lively fume-free ale from just below the witi dehi eId (Older ears Used to have the intake down by the headlights), Withtheheae ter fan going it 'ewe helps if all windows are kept shuts this builds up air pressure inside the ear, arid rfilhimieee any in. take thrOugh floor eta.oke, tinplUgged drab' holes in the trunk, 116 against. The other ballots: brewers' warehouse store, 130 for 119 against; wine store, 114 for 133 against; men and women's beverage room, 109 for, 137 against; men's beverage room, 102 for, 145 against; beer and wine with meals, 127 for, 123 against; cocktail lounges, 121 for, 129 against. The plebiscite, the first quor vote ever held in the village, brought out 261 of the 270 eligible voters. It took 4 3/4 hours to count the 2,088 bal- lots.. Judy Valiance tops speakers Judy Valiance, a brussels Public School pupil in Grade 8, won the Huron County elem. entary public speaking contest held Tuesday at Clinton. A (laugher of Mr. and Mrs. James Valiance, Judy defeated 14 other contestants. She will compete in the zone final at Strathroy, for which no date has yet been set. Runners.up were Marilyn Ir. win, a grade 7 pupil at Wing- ham Public School and Betty Ann Brown, a Grade 7 pupil at Howl oh Central Public School, The competition was spoil. sored by the Ontario School Trustees and Municipal Coun. enters Association. Remand pair of suspects in bank holdup Robert Stewart Smith 20, of R. R;. 4, Drussels, charged with the January 3 robbery of the Bank Of Montreal at Bruceteld, was remanded until Monday when he appeared in Goderich magistrate's collet, lie hae been Unable to post bail of $10,000 cash Or $20,000 property and is Meg held in Huron County Jail. Charged with possession of Money stolen in the robbery, William Jerhes Yuill, 23, of Kitchener, was retirended until the seine date, lie is free bell, more than $5,000 of the $0,i, 144 stolen in the robbery has been reeevered, Dorothy Dilee Derfey, 18 of London, was sentenced to six months indefinite iii Mercer geformaiory after pleading guilty to stealing $ttO ttoto is dresser deaevet in the home of Robert ileihi, 66i:fetich; where She was staying, Clinton's retail merchants have voted to "close all elay Wednesdays instead of just 'afternoons, starting March 6, At the best-attended meet* ing in the history of the retail merchants committee, about 98 percent of 48 members pre. .sent voted in favour of the ehange. There are 65 mem•. beep of the committee, but not all are owners of retail stores, B, Campbell, of Pickett and Campbell. Limited Men's Wear; chairman of the cone,. mittee, said closing hours were extended because the trend in yarmers this year will be treated to the biggest edition of the Farm Show ever offered. Starting next Tuesday, Feb. ruary 27, at London the show will lie open daily from 10:30 a.m, to 10:30 p.m., until close ing on Friday, March 1, at 4:30 p, m. A new area, opening this year for the first time, will be the second floor grandstand level, This new area will 'house both the main theatre and a special ladies' demonstration theatre. Also in this area will be special educational exhibits of future istic farming Methods by the federal and provincial departe meats of agriculture, Special farm education pro. grams will be held during the first three afternoons, design. ed to aid the progressive farm.. er. Tuesday, February 27 is Soils Day and a panel starting Graham Caney writes for The Canadian An article by Graham Caney, editor of the Clinton News-Re. cord, appears in the current issue of The Canadian, a meg- azine with a national distribu• lion of 2,000,000. The Canadian is distributed as a weekend supplement by daily newspapers, including the London Free Press. Mr. Caney's article, on the building and flying of gyro. copters, is hiS second to appear in recent issues of the mag. azine, During a 20-year journalism career, Mr, Caney has worked on newspapers and magazines in Britain, the U.S., Mexico and Canada. In recent years, he has been a reporter, editor and feature writer with the Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company, the Globe arid Mail, and the London Free Press. Among other publications, Mr, Caney's work hasappeared in Weekend, the Star Weekly, Saturday Evening Post, Argosy and True Magazine. He has also written for radio and television and published two hovels. John Jewitt wins race Jewitt, of Clinton, won the horse and "cutter race at the Seaforth Winter carnival lest Saturday. Theee were only enough horse and cutter entries for the one event, which used to beawinter carnival. favourite, Snowmobiles have taken over popularity from the horses and cotters, A field of 15 entered races at Seatortit. More then 100 spectators dee fled bad weather to attend the etieriNal, sponsored by tlw newly chartered Seater th Optie Mist Citib. Success of the carnival, the &Werth Optimist's first pro ',feet, prompted the- chili to plan It as an anneal terniiiiihity event, Canada is toward a seorter work week. Retailers 10 smaller centres where the labour force is not large have experienced a help problem because their hours were too long, he said, A feW retailers would have preferred Monday as a close ing day, Mr, Campbell said, malting a two-day weekend. This has been the trend among re- tailers in centres north of Clinton. But the majority of merchants agreed that for customer con- venience Wednesday was the at 1:30 p.m. will be entitled, "Helping your soil to help you" On this panel will be Bill Grieve, Professor Tom Lane, Andy Stewart 'and George Morris. Wednesday, Februaxy 28 is Corn Day and the 1:30 p.m„ , program that day, "Manage• meat facts for profitable corn production" will have as speak.. ers Dr. Sam Aldrich, Illinois State University, and David Garet, Coon Rapids, Iowa. Bean Day on Thursday, Feb- ruary 29 will have a double. barrelled program starting at 1:30 p.m. on "Growing beans for profit." Dr. Wayne Adams, Michigan State University will talk on white beans and Dr. Stanley Young, University of Guelph will cover soya beans. • The new ladies' demonstra-' tion theatre will host a variety of afternoon programs designed to appeal to women. On Tues. day, February 27 there will be " a hair styling demonstration at 2:15 p m. The afternoon program Wed. nesday February 28 will come mence at 2:30 p.m. with an educational film which will be followed at 3 p.m. by a cook- ing demonstration, Two events are also planned for Thursday, February 29 with a floral are rangernent demonstration schee duled at 2:15 p.m. and a roll. on embroidery demonstration at 3:15. Varied, programs with a wide appeal will be offered evenings in the main theatre. Tuesday, February 27 evening program will start at 8 p.m, with the crowning of the Farm Show Princess, the Baking Queen and the Baking Princess, This will be followed at 8:30 pm. by a fashion show. A junior amateur contest will lead off the Wednesday, Feb. ruary 28 show at 7:30 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m. there will be an elementary school Square dance ing competition. A special Junior Farmerama program will highlight the even. ing program on Thursday, Feb. ruary 29. This entertainment program by, the Junior Farm. ers Will commence at 8:30p.m, The largest display Of farm equipment and machinery ever exhibited has all space cram. med to capacity. This gives farm families a chance to shop and compare most makes of equipment without obligation, At the same time they can enjoy the entertainment features and profit from the educational dis. plays and programs. Hayfield residents defied demon rum last week, answe. ing no to all eight questions on the village's first liquor ballots. So Robert Snell, a Goderich sales clerk who led a "vote yes" committee, will continue to bring his alcoholic bever- ages to Bayfield from Goderich. And other Hayfield residents will carry on carrying their liquor from Clinton, and do most of their other shopping in the town, On the dry side, the victors congratulate themselves that Hayfield will remain static, a dormitory area in winter and a quiet residential resort in sum- mer. Closest of the eight ques- tions to the 60 percent vote required for acceptance was dining lounges - 137 for and I .The first column BY FARM SHOW GROWS. Town retail merchants vote for all-day closing