HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-04-04, Page 1THE.NEW ERA ., 103rd Year No.. 1 4 THE ctANToti.,SEW54002.R4,. 'MORS AY, 4PR$L 4, 196
THE H.VRQH RECORP 87th Year
As the winter season of hockey and pleasure
skating slowly melts behind them, Doug Andrews
Clinton centennial arena manager and Clem
Walterbeek, assistant, prepare roller skates for
the spring and summer Activities. The arenr
will have 100 pair of skates ready to roll as
soon as the ice melts and the arena is, giver
a brief spring clean up,
A rt on display at Clinton library
Mrs. Henry Young and Mrs. Maureen Blacker discuss hanging cdpaintings. (Staff Photo)
Assessment system termed "tragic"
The Clinton leeyolVer Club won the Dr, Kirk ,Memorial Trophy
last Tuesday when' they beat 1,,istowel i who had won the trophy
for the past six yeai'si by 12 points., Above left to right) are
eleillbere of the Clinton Hes/elver Club, BO)) Morgan, Clayton
8huitz, ElWoied Eppe,. Clarence "Sleety" Chisholm. The latter
three had scores which &meted in the tetteete. top five. Not
sheeni In the picture are Goed Shore and Eugene "Butch"
McLaren, ti hose sabres also contributed to the win, (Staff photo)
5tHap cQPIES
Huff workers -non-resident
money. drain resulting
said. On Apr11,15 Mrs. Young
removes her paintings and takes
them to Albion Hotel, Bayfield
The library is hoping to have
a change of painting every month
as long as there are artists
willing to display their work.
Mrs. Young has yet to sell
her first painting, "I usually
give them away," but accord.
ing to Mrs. Maureen Blacker,
librarian, there have been sew
eral inquiries.
sessment bill was $38,000 and in
1967 it had been estimated that
the new system would cost ape
proximately $80,000 per year,
"If anyone has a headache
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The, first
column
If Doug Andrews, manager of
Clinton centeenial aerie, at.
tams his objective the arena
should become financially self
supporting this year. He said
last fall's brief roller skating
season brought the arena ape°.
fit of about $2,100, most of
which was used to pay for the
roller skatee. With e 'longer
season this year the skates
telly paid for, Mr. Andrews
is hopefUl the profits from the
roller skating nights may be
enough to bring the arena, close
to the limit eyen point.
* * *
Murray Gaunt Liberal Huron.
Bruce, is making his mark in
agricultural matters in the On.
tario legislature; particularly
in his fight for the survival
of the Canadian sugar beet in.
dustry, He his alSo been pres.
sing for the Inclusion of optos
metrists, dentists and other
services under OMSIP,
* *
Howard Aitken's escapades
along Joe Greene's campaign
trail have earned him a few
inches of recognition in the Tore
onto Daily Star of April 1.
The story reads; "Trailing
Greene on many of his sorties
into the small towns and cities
has been the 'Beaverbrook of
Goderich' Howard Aitken, 37,
3 ice-president and publisher of
the Goderich Signal-Star, the
Clinton News-Record and the
Huron Shoppers' News."
Mr. Aitken is vice-president
but not publisher.
* *
Agriculture Minister J. J.
Greene has announced a pro.
gram of federal assistance to
commercial potato growers
across Canada.
Working ghrough theAgricule
tural Stabilization Board, the
federal government will pay
each grower $25 per eligible
acre up to a maximum of $400
per farmer, based on his 196'7
crop. Payments will not be made
on crops of one acre or less.
Mr. Greene said, prices re.
eeived by growers have been
extremely low for two straight
years.
* *
Science has taken another
zot at the speeding motorist.
His latest enemy is a minia.
Lure radar trap which can be
held in the hand and fired at
any speeding object. British rea
searchers who are developing
the "zap trap" which has a
built in speed meter, say it can
be produced for as little as
$50 per copy,
* • * *
Mr. and Mrs. Royce Mace
aulay of Ball-Macaulay Limited
Clinton, are attending the 51st
annual convention of theOntario
Retail Lumber Dealers Associ-
ation being held at the Royal
York Hotel, Toronto, March
31 to April 2,
* *
The Freezer Forum sponsor.
ed by the • home economics
branch of the Ontario Departs
ment of Agriculture and Food
is being held at Central Huron
Secondary School, Clinton' at
8 p.m. April 17 and at St.
Andrews Presbyterian Church
Wingham, 8 p.m. April 18.
Tips will be given, on how
to select freezers, how to freeze
certain types of food and how
to make the best use of your
freezer. Each woman attending
the forum will be given a book.
let on freezing and an opporte
unity to sample the products and
ask questions of the Home Econ.
.mists. There is no admission
charge.
* * *
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture will meetThursday
April 4 at 2 p.m. in the agri.
cultural board rooms, Clinton.
At the same location the egg
and fowl producers are having
a vote On marketing plans, April
9 and 10. An informal discussion
of the egg plan took place Mons
day,
* * *
Anyone in possession of a
shopping cart ofi store pre.
mises is now liable to prosecta
tion and a title_ Di em_ to $20
in Calgary -ataeuellng to a rear
port in Canadian Grocer. Cal.
gary city council has passed
a cart-napping bylaw to this
effeet, but only after a Mune
ber of aldermen ecered major
stores for "Shirking their re.
sponsibilities,"
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For as long as the local
supply of artists lasts the Cline
ton Public Library will be pre.
seating displays of painting.
Currently featured are about
15 still life and landscape oil
paintings by Mrs. Henry Young,
63 North Street,
The displays are valuable
as a means for the artists to
bring their work before the pub.
lie and, at the same time, beau.
tify the library and provide
Huron County councillor Mil-
ford Dunbar of Grey Township
termed the coming county as.
sessing system as a "tragic
increase" representing one and
one.third mills - or $100,000
to the taxpayers. Reeve Due.
bar was speaking at the Tues.
day afternoon session of couhcil
in Goderich last week.
Chairmen Roy Pattison of the
equalization committee re.
ported that his committee will
advertise for a commissioner
qualified to oversee the county
assessing operation, He added
that a full report will be even.
able at the June session of
county council.
Though speculation ha's it that
by Kenneth C. Boltori
Directress &teen E. Car*
rniehael seared a major triumph
With her final presentation at
CF13 Clintoree Pegasus Theatre
Saturday and Sunday nights:
48eit The Body"; a murder
comedy by Fred Carmichael
(no relation) was ideally suited
both to the cast and to the
audience.
It ie a shame the Pegeeue
Theatre can accommodate no
larger a crowd, and even more
of a shame that there Were
'seats empty for the production,
for What emerged Was an easily
nab table evening of erieephistie
diversification of interest for
book browsers.
Mrs. Young, her work follows
a display by Mrs. Evelyn Hardy,
started painting about four
years ago. She takes art classes
at night at Central Huron
Secondary School and paints
from both photographs and real
life.
"The people don't seem as
interested in art here as they
do in other communities," she
the new assessing system will
cost in excess of $100,000 an.
nually, Chairman Pattison,
reeve of East Wawanoeh be-
lieves it is a "good idea which
will bring us up to standard
with the Ontario assessment
commission".
He suggested that if council
wants economy it will have to
pay for it. Pattison added that
it has been the experience of
some municipalities that the
cost of assessing has been off.
set by the collection of taxes
which through neglect or ignor.
ance, had never before been
billed.
Hayfield reeve Frank Mc.
Fadden said that the 1966 as.
bated but still highly enjoyable
theatre.
Mrs. Carmichael, who With
her husband is leaving the Cline
toe baee, had obviously as.
sensed her cloth carefully and
fashioned a coat of perfect fit.
Despite a lack of polished
theatrical technique, the per.
forma.nce was rarely cheesy Or
self.teneciotie. TWo vignettes
Which lied east mernbere beck
into each other by surprise
could have been handled More
effeetively, and one might
opartel with the credibility of
the private deteetive's restore..
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More than 45 per cent of the
employees of Clinton's major
businesses' live outside of the
town, and the industrial cora.
mission wants to know why,
A month long study, of 15
local businesses, by the eight
man commission, has shown158
of a total 336 employees haye
rejected Clinton and chosen to
live in surrounding eommunite
ies.
Central Huron Secondary
School, the largest employer is
typical, with 28 of its 67 em.
ployees commuting to work.
The ramifications of this are
obvious, said Clarence Deno
omme, chairman of the come
mission, "These people are
draining the Clinton economy.
"They earn their money here
and then go home to one of the
surrounding communities to
spend their money." They do
their shopping and buy both
necessities' and luxuries out.
CPH ready
for disaster
Come fire, flood, airplane
crash or any other disaster
Clinton Public Hospital can now
handle large numbers of case.
ernes.
The Ontario Department of
Health has provided a complete
packaged emergency treatment
centre designed to accommo.
date large numbers of injured
people. In exchange the hostile
tal has given up a little store
age space for the equipment
and prepared an area - the
nurses' residence - where an
emergency treatment centre
can be set up.
The 82 pieces of equipment,
which weighs 4,176 pounds, in.
elude stretchers, blankets, ban..
dages, drugs, food rations, cot.
fee urns and propane stoves.
The supplies are.packaged in
colour coded boxes with the
ones which are most likely to
be needed first, stored at the
front.
In the few weeks the equip.
meet has been available the hes.
pital has had no need for • it
and, as fax as 0, L. Engel.'
stad, hospital administrator,
can remember, there has never
been an emergency in the Cline
ton area where this type of
equipment would be needed,
"But it would be foolish to
turn it down just because we
haven't needed it yet. All we
have to do is provide storage
space," lie said.
A team of five Clinton resi.
dents are familiar with the
equipment available and the erne
ergeney procedure. Dr. Paul
Weldon and KathleenElliottRN,
will supervise treatment. Fred
MacDonald is transportation of..
ficer with Walter Newcombe
taking care of the medical sup.
plies.
Overall organization will be
under Mr. Englestad.
Coupled with an emergency
generator, purchased a year
ago, the new equipment will
allow the hospital to give emer-
gency treatment to large num.
bers of casualties under any
conditions.
Success comes to him who
hustles while he waits.
side of where they earn their
wages,
Denoulme said 110 could
See no reason for people pre,
faring Brucefield Goderich,
Bayfield or SegOrth to Clinton.
"What do they have that we
don't have?" he asks,
He hopes he will get some
answers with the publication
of the commission's report,
"We're not asking anyone to
live in Clinton if they prefer
t o live elsewhere," Mr. Den.
omme added, "We just want to
know why they prefer other
communities. We want to 'mew
,what we have to provide to get
them to live here,"
The only objection Mr. Den..
omme has to the present site
uetion Clinton is the att.
itude of many of the residents.,
He said some people were bee
ing unjustly critical of their
home town. and were not help..
ing the situation at all,
The Liberal government is
not concerned with low farm.
er incomes because the num•
ber of farmers is decreasing
and there will be less of them
to vote against the present
government, R. E. McKinley,
MP - Huron, told the Com.
mons.
In a half hour speech which
put a sarcastic knock on the
policies of the Minister ofAgri.
culture J. J. Greene, Mr. Mc.
Kinley said 12,000 °kerb!)
farms had disappeared since
1961.
"It (the Liberal- eovernment)
feels that this is a good trend,"
he said.
Mr. McKinley stated this was
a "classic pattern."
"The government pays no
The force behind the indeste
eial commission's study isSkip
Winter, a home builder who is
out of business but has some
lots he would like to sell. He claims the 47 per cent nOprosi.
dent workers have been forced
out of town because of a lack
of housing, and he is deter.
mined to prove his point.
When the Ontario government
initiated its Home Ownership
Made Easy plan Mr . Winter
figured it was just the thing
to solve his own problems and
the town's problems.
He applied toOntario Housing
suggesting they purchase his
land for e. HOMB project. They
said they would be interested
if the town was interested, When
the town gave its nod the house
ing people studied the Clinton
situation and concludedaHOME
project was not needed.
Mr . Winter intends to let
them know they are wrong and
attention to what is happening
to the farmer, because it feels
that with the drop in farm popu-
lation it can get along with.
out the farmers' votes. Mr.
Chairman, I suggest this
government is going to find
out how wrong it is in that
theory at the next election."
He also said, "I am sure
the fanners of Canada will be
interested to hear the minister
of agriculture telling them they
have never had things so good
as they are now. Of course •
that is what they were trying
to tell the minister when they
were Up here last summer, out
on the lawn. Maybe he would
like to give us a report as to
how good the security measures
were on that day.
is going to use the non-resid.
ent workers figures to baek up
his cleat),
The study shows the CFB
public school has 16 employees
and 14 live outside.Clinton, with
20 of the bases 24 civillian
instructors living outside the
town.
Of Clinton public Hospital's
permanent staff of 51, 27 live
out of town, The part time ratio
is 14 non.residents of 17 work.
ers.
Dutch Calvin School has 6
employees and 3 commuters,
Clinton Public School's ratio is
19.6. St. Joseph's Separate
Schopl 3.3, Parker Knit, 16.3,
1-ludie Mi11,12.3, Epps IVlanufacte
uring 7.5, Harrison Fertilizer
6.5, Ontario Department of Age
ricuiture 12.5, Bell Telephone
28.17, Boyes Transport 20.12.
Ontario Hydro has the best rev
cord with only 5 of 32 employees
living outside Clinton.
"There is a theory going
around that there are just too
many farmers altogether, and
that the only way to cure the
problems of agriculture is to'
starve them off the farms. This
is a theory which I cannot ac-
cept. We have seen the elime
ination of the quality subsidies
on hogs, lambs and cheese. This
is another indication Of the be.
lief in this theory that is going
around.
"There is another theory
which Is held by some ,people
in the government, and it is
that all farmers are well off.
I have talked With some of the
officials working in the public
service and they come lip with
this idea, They figure that ell
farmers drive around in Cathie
lace except when they are in
Florida - they fly down there.
This is not Very true, and it is
the wrong way in which to On•
eider the probleme of egricule
hire.
"The fact Of the matter 16
that farmers who make a go of
it are obliged to Work very
hard indeed. They have to be
well up ie the latest methods
they have to be extremely fors
tunate with regard to Market.
ing conditions end they have
to enjoy a lot of leek. i think
luck Comes into it as much as
anything, and maybe it is the
Meet important teeffeeef
Exit scores triumph
as directress exits
The good warm earth can sure feel good on
the hooves after a winter of slipping and
sliding on snow and ice. Mayrene, a four year
old pacer who will compete locally, claimed the
honour of being first horse out to test the new
firm footing. Owner, Walter Pepper took May.
rene for the spring jaunt around Clinton track.
Liberals ignore farmers
McKinley says in commons