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Glancing through old issues of The News-Record, Raymond M„
Evans of Maidenhead, England, recalls early days of the Clinton CFB
when he was among the first gritound radar 'instructors who helped
establish the military installation in 1941. Flanking Mr. Evans is Lt.
Cmdr. Maundcote.Carter who photocopied some of the news
clippings to give to Mr. Evans. Mr. Eiyans visited last week in Clinton,
staying with Mr. and Mrs. Morley Counter,
Canadian Forces Photo
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An incorrect date was given
last week for the October 30
Remembrance Day Banquet of
Clinton Branch 140 of the Royal
Canadian Legion.
At the banquet, the local
legion will be presented with a
Victoria Cross and Croix de
Guerre. These two military
awards were won by Corporal
Harry G. B. Miner in World War
I. They will be presented
officially by Ira Miner of
Detroit, a nephew of the late
Corporal Miner.
Guest speaker will be the
Reverend Clifford Waite, of
Forest, a former padre in the
Royal Canadian Navy.
Legionnaires had until last
Saturday to buy tickets. A
ltrniteci number of tickets are
now available to the general
public at five dollars apiece.
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Regulations, incorporating
new and specific inspection
standards to assure the
mechanical fitness of all used
motor vehicles, sold either
privately as well as through
dealers, for operation on
Ontario's highways, were
announced today by Transport
Minister Irwin Haskett.
Effective November I, any
used motor vehicle will need a
certificate 'of mechanical fitness
before the purchaser can have it
registered in his name and
operate it on the highway.
Inspection of the vehicle must
be carried out by a licensed
mechanic or a licensed dealer
and certification of the vehicle
will be based 'on the
specifications spelled out in the
new regulation announced
today.
If a used motor vehicle is sold
without such a certificate, the
person applying for a transfer
must surrender the licence plates
to the Department of Transport
and an unfit vehicle permit will
be issued. Registration plates for
the vehicle will be issued as soon
at a 'valid certificate of
mechanical fitness is produced.
Certificates are valid for a period
of 30 days.
Private sales will now be
affected by this legislation and
used motor vehicles sold
privately and through dealers
will be subject to the new
standards of inspection.
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St. Andrew's Presbyterian
Church, Clinton, will celebrate
its 111th anniversary with a
special service at 11 a.m,
Sunday.
the Reverend Everett
Hawker bf Blitevale, guest
speaker, will talk on "An
Ancient Message for a Modern
Age."
The Choir wilt sing several
Special anthems, including "The
Lord is In His Holy Temple" and
"What Are These?"
WEATHER
Father Libby speaking in Ontario Street Church to UCW
At least two Clinton
craftsmen and several more from
surrounding Communities will
display their work at a Christmas
Country Fair to be held at the
Colborne Township Hall at
Carlow, seven miles northeast of
Goderich, October 30 and.
November 2.
Among the displays will be
woodturning by Jobn Plumtree
of Clinton, millinery supplies by
Mervyn Batkin of Clinton and
Japanese embroidery by Laurel.
Gloushen of Blyth.
This year's show will feature
potter Vaughn Stewart and his
artist wife, Sheilagh, of "The Pot
Shop", Grand Bend. Ann
Fairservice of the Country
Studio, Blyth, will show pottery,
art and rugs:
The event is believed to be
the only craft show of its kind in
Western Ontario and is
sponsored by those who make
the items.
Many area women will
provide mouth-watering goodies
from candy to bread and buns.
Admission is free. Hours of the
show, both on Wednesday and
Saturday, will be from 2 to 9
p.m.
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Clinton was the "hingepin" in
development of radar this side of
the Atlantic, according to•
Raymond M. Evans of
Maidenhead, England, one of the
RAF men who helped establish
the Canadian forces Base here 27
years ago and returned for a visit
last week,
Mr. Evans reminisced a bit
while at The News-Record office
last Friday looking through back
issues for the first news stories
about the radar school.
He was one of the 11
instructors in ground radar
equipment here "when the first
load of equipment arrived and it
was extremely hot when we had
to unload it...it was a Sunday . evening, July 20, 1941."
Radar training originated in
England, Mr. Evans said, and
spread to Canada when the RAF
wanted to train Canadian and
American military personnel.
The Americans were not in
the war then, he noted, and
came to the base in civilian
clothes, Early types of radar
equipnient, said Mr,„ Evans, were
improved here and copied for
use in the U.S. and Canada.
Though Americans sometimes
try to assert they developed
radar, it is not true, Mr. Evans
held, and, in fact, the first U.S.
equipment was given to the
Americans and came from
Clinton,
"This is the cradle of radar in
Canada, there's no doubt about
it," he said.
In the armed forces only in
Ontario will have the highest
minimum wages in Canada when
a 30 per cent increase in the pay
floors takes effect January I.
Dalton Bales, Q.C., Minister
of labour, announced the hike in
minimum ' wages for general
industly and also said a new
Employment Standards Act
embodying new basic rights for
workers will become effective
January 1.
Mr. Bales said the new rate in
general industry will be $1.30 an
hour. Present rate is $1.00. The
new rate in the construction
industry will be $1.55, up from
$1,25. Other rates also will rise.
The new act does not apply
to general farming, but
Pullen given
top post in
agriculture
Donald Pullen, 189 Church
street, Clinton, has been named
Huron County agricultural
representative, succeeding
Douglas Miles who becomes
farm business management
consultant in the Toronto office
of the extension branch.
Mr. Pullen, who was raised in
Perth County, came to Huron on
May 1, 1963, as' associate
agricultural representative, the
post he has held five and a half
years.,
A graduate of the two-year
diploma course in agriculture at
the University of Guelph, he
received a degree in agricultural
science from that university in
1963.
His extension experience
includes also summer
'employment in Wellington,
Dufferin and Perth Counties. A
successor to Mr. Pullen is to be
announced at a later date.
Mr. Pullen's wife, the former
Florence McCully of St. Mary's,
is also a graduate of Guelph
University, She taught science
for two years at the Seaforth
District High School.
The Pulleris, who have a
17-month-old son, David, both
were active, in Perth 4-H
agricultural clubs and how Are
counsellors for the.High•C group
at Wesley Willis United Church,
in Clinton. Mr. Pullen plays
hockey in the Industrial League
in Clinton,
Eastern Daylight Saving Time
will revert to Eastern Standard
Time this coming Sunday when
all clocks should be set back one
hour.
Time for the change is Set for
2 6.01. Sunday.
wartime, Mr, Evans returned to
England after his duties here
ended„ but he returned ht 1948
to ,marry the former Jean
fliirford of Seaforth, whose
father was rector of the Anglican
Church there. 1
His wife has visited regularly
since and he, has returned at
intervals, the last two years.
Mr. Evans said many of the
small stores here in the early
' 4 O's seem to 'have
"...evaporated, but one or two
good old names are still
around.,,Bartliffla for one —
many a' time I used to eat
-there," •
/Clinton seems to have'
prospejed in the last
quarter-century in Mr. Evans'
view: "The standard of housing is.
very high, the number of derelict
properties low. You succeeded
in producing a fine arena and the
facilities are good for a
community this size."
The CFB, he ' added, has
certainly helped by pumping
some seven million dollars into
the economy each year.
While in Clinton, Mr. Evans
and his wife stayed with Mr, and
Mrs. Morley Counter, 49 William'
Street. Mr., Counter was
postmaster when Mr. Evan;,
arrived in 1941:
In the electronics and radio
business in England, Mr, Evans
remarked that one company
near his home produces
equipment in use at the
base..„"and I had to come 3,000
miles to have it demonstrated."
minimum wage rates and
vacation with pay protection
have been extended to persons
engaged in several fields,
including: the boarding and
breeding of animals; livestock
registration; egg grading;
greenhouse and nursery
operations; tree trimming and
surgery, and the growing,
transporting and laying of sod.
Mr. Bales said the new rates
will restore the Ontario
minimum to the relationship it
held with the cost of living and
wages when it was first
established in 1963,
Soon after the
announcement, several
newspapers expressed the
opinion that, even with the
planned boosts, the minimum
wage still gives a worker only
$52 gross weekly pay, an
amount they said is insufficient
in today's economy.
"Despite astounding and
unbelievable" sums spent to deal
with criminals, the Canadian
penal system changes little and
may be regressing as the rest of
society moves ahead, the United
Church Women of Clinton were
told this week.
Speaking at the Joint UCW
Thankoffering Service held in
the Ontario Street Church
Sunday night, the Rev. Neil
Libby, an Anglican priest from
Windsor who founded Canada's
first halfway house for released
prisoners, called crime the
number one social problem in
North America.
"It didn't just happen," he
said, "it is the result of a
lethargic society." Urging a
replacement for the present
prison system, the 37-vear-old
priest suggested supervised
probation for criminals and
advocated that an offender be
made to pay for' what he has
destroyed,
"We have a society today in
Which non-involvement is the
keynote," he asserted, "more
crimes are committed and the
totirts are jammed."
"This is not the product of a
good, Christian, involved society
With concern for itself and
fellow man,"
Father Libby quoted Winston
Churehill at once saying that if
he was shown a society's prisons
he c'otild judge the state of that
Satiety's advance,
"I would hate to see the
judgment of Canada if that
Clinton Lions Club initiated
two new members into Lions
International at its
dinner-meeting in St. Paul's
Parish Hall, Tuesday evening.
Charles Fee and Glen Price
were instructed in Lionism and
some 190 Presbyterian
ministers and an equal number
of .ruling elders have been
summoned to attend the 95th
Meeting of the Synod of
Hamilton and London in Knox
Church, Goderich from October
28 to 30.
Synod will be constituted by
the Moderator, the Reverend R.
H. Armstrong, Hamilton, on
Monday evening when a new
moderator will be elected. He
will be assisted in the conduct of
Worship by the Minister of
Knox, Reverend G. L. Royal,
A f ter the Sacrament on
Tuesday morning the Synod will
divide into five groups for
discussion led by the major
committees: Camp Board,
Reverend W. A. Henderson,
Woodstock; Christian Education,
Reverend John Congram,
Hamilton; Evangelism and Social
Action, Reverend . D. G.
Archibald, Tara;, Missions,
Reverend D. S. Campbell,
Sarnia; Stewardship and Budget,
Reverend A. Clements, Dutton.
At the Tuesday luncheon
greetings are to be brought by
His Worship Dr. G. F. Mills,
Mayor of Goderich, and
Reverend J. D. MacDonald of
the Ministerial Association.
Tuesday evening and
Wednesday morning the Synod
will deal with the reports of the
standard was applied here," he
said.
In Canada, where there is a
shortage of accommodation for
the mentally-ill and the aged,
there is always room for another
prisoner, Father Libby said.
"I dare say we could build a
$104 20 million prison
tomorrow and there would be
no objection. We in Canada put
more money into our penal
system than any other
department in the country."
Last year, the Canadian
penitentiary system spent $70
million for fewer than 7,000
inmates, he said.
Father Libby, executive
directOr of St. Leonard's
Society., started and supervises
the halfway house in Windsor
and works toward establishment
of similar agencies across the
country.
The "house" at Windsor,
actually two houses side-by-side,
handles 18 men at a time as
residents and 600 or more who
live on their own. About 120
pass through the house each
year. The average stay is two
Months,, St, Leonard's deals only
With ex-penitentiary arid
reformatory convicts and will
aid a man only when he asks for
assistance,
Father Libby charged that all
We try to do- with our prisons is
put the offenders behind bars so
that we, tan avoid 'being close to
fhe problems, '
The willingness to spend
inducted• by E. Beecher Menzies,
a past president of the club,
Stewart Taylor and Harold
Bondy who sponsored the new
members presented them with
their pins and Mr, Menzies gave
them their Lions information
kits.
in Goderich
committees and the following
and Loyal Addresses, Reverend
M. D. McNabb, Port Elgin;
Synodical Women's Missionary
Society; Presbyterian Men and
History, Reverend E. E. Eaton,
formerly Innerkip; Town and
Country, Reverend T. J. Lewis,
Waterdown; Articles of Faith,
Reverend Frank Lawson,
Southampton; Students and
Colleges, Reverend R. H.
Armstrong, Hamilton; Lay
Centre, Walter Oldham, Paris;
Nominating, Reverend R. 11 A.
Currie, .Wallaceburg; Finance,
Reverend F. J. Barr, Sarnia;
Pensions, Reverend D. Macfnnes,
Ridgetown; Public Relations,
Reverend R, R. Gordon,
London.
The Reverend J. K. West,
Hamilton and formerly of St.
Thomas, is Clerk of Synod and
J. B. Foote, London treasurer.
Reverend P. J. Darch, Chippawa
is convenor of the Business
Committee, and Mrs. M„ G'ovier,
Goderich is in charge of billeting
the Synod.
The Synod of Hamilton and
London meets Annually and
includes all Presbyterian
Churches south and west of a
line joining Hamilton, Innerkip
and Owen Sound, including the
Niagara and Bruce Peninsulas.
Synod met in Wingham last
October.
almost any amount to' maintain
and expand the penal system "is
what scares me," says Father
Libby.
"That kind of lethargy in the
Canadian public is what George
Wallace is working on in the
U.S., the same Hitler worked on
— we are dead as persons when
We have lost interest in society,"
he said,
The Fall Thankoffering,
jointly sponsored by Ontario
Street and Wesley Willis
Churches, was attended by
several hundred. A tea, for the
speaker followed the church
service and Father Libby's talk.
Mrs. Doris Batkin, Ontario
Street UCW president, opened
the service with a scripture
reading. Mrs. Ina Durst, Wesley
Willis president, offered a prayer
Which was followed by a hymn
sung by soloist Mrs, Donald
Lloyd and a prayer offered 'by
Mrs. Helen Potter,
Mrs. Mary Sutter introduced
Father Libby and Mrs. Evelyn
Olde later expressed the UCW's
appreciation for his appearance
in Clinton, Mrs„ Olde called
rather Libby's ideas
"mind-stretching" and said, "We
have all been shaken up a bit,"
Among the committee
members who planned the
Service and invited Father Libby
were Mrs. Potter and Mrs.
Roberta Planisteel of Ontario
Street Church and Mrs. Donna
WOods arid Miss Billie Stewart; Of
Wesley Willis.
R, S. "Dick" Atkey, former
publisher and .editor of the
Clinton News-Record, and a
Member of both the • Clinton
(Ontario) and Daytona Beach
(Florida) Lions Clubs was guest
speaker at his home club's
dinner-meeting in St, Paul's
Parish Hall, Tuesday evening,
The retired publisher spoke
on his impressions gained on a
three-week trip this summer to
the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland,
and the Republic of Eire, He
titled the main part of his talk,
"The Vocal Minorities,"
- would seem that almost
every country in the world
today is experiencing problems
of greater or lesser magnitude
with respect to its ' so-called
minorities," began Mr, Atkey.
Mr. Fee is the local C,N.R.
station agent and Mr. Price owns
Clere-Vu Auto Wreckers on
Highway 8, west of Clinton.
President Don C. Colquhoun
chaired the meeting at which his
brother, A. Laurie Colquhoun,
was named second vice-president
and Clayton Dixon was
promoted to third
vice-president. These- changes
were made necessary when
Douglas Miles, Huron County
agricultural representative, who
was second vice, moved to
Toronto : and Rev.. Ron
Wenham, rector of St. Paul's
Anglican Church, who was a
director of the Lions, was
transferred to Wiarton.
Gladstone Grigg was appointed a
one-year director and another
appointment will be made to
replace Mr. Dixon who was a
one-year director. A. L.
Colquhoun was third
videTresident.
The guest • speaker, R. S.
Atkey, won the regular draw
prize and Joe Murphy won a
special draw. ,
Maximum speed for
passenger cars and motorcycles
will be increased next month
from 60 to 70 miles per hour on
highways 400 and 401 only, it
was announced 'today by Hon.
Irwin Haskett, Ontario's Minister
of Transport. The only
exception will be for commercial
vehicles other than buses, for
which the limit will remain at 60
mph.
The new limits will come into
effect on November 15 when the
replacement of speed limit signs
Then he
"Perhaps
said;
we
think that
Canada is more prone to this
kind of thing than any other
country; but we ourselves know,
pretty well firsthand, just what
troubles face The United States
of America; during the Olynipic
Games and before, we know
what the Mexicans have been up
against. And then the great
debate goes on in our Canadian
House of Commons regarding
Nigeria and its rebel State of
Biafra.
"Greece has been a hotbed of
troubles over many decades;
Belgium is another nation in the
same category and even France,
under its dictator, has been in
the news.
"So it may not appear very
strange that even the well-tested
British are having their
problems, too, although, of
course, solution will be arrived
at within the framework of their
democratic system of
government, as we, too, would
wish our problems to be solved."-,
Mr, Atkey commented on the
home-rule agitation in the
British Isles, where the .Scots
want to be free again from
England. 'He said there is-unrest
in Ireland with the British as the
target of a lot of criticism; and
in Wales and even in the Isle of
Wight there are independence
movements.
"All these things are
symptomatic , Of the times;
Hydro poles were the victims
in two local auto accidents last
weekend, according to Clinton
town police.
A car driven by William
Boussey of Clinton hit and
broke off a pole at Rattenbury
and Princess Streets at 12:15
a.m. last Friday, police said', but
no one was luN4yin4he,,,mishap.
Larry Denomine of Clinton
was the driver of an auto which
hit a pole on Victoria Street near .
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on highways 400 and 401 will be
completed. The delayed
effective date will allow time to
make the required change in
signing on 560 miles of limited
access highway.
Mr. Haskett said the move
was carefully considered for
sometime by officials of his
,Department after detailed study
of accident experience and
traffic surveys.
Mr. Haskett said that studies
show that the accident rate is
Minorities the world ov er
particularly in the ..democratic
world — are exercising their right
to dissent," said the speaker, and
then added:
"But sometimes I wonder if
this trend today isn't going just a
little too far?" Mr. Atkey said
Canadians were very welcome in.
the British Isles once they
realized you were a Canadian
and not an American. With the
deflated British. pound
(approximately $2,60 Canadian)
'MS us in a very favourable
position, said Mr. Atkey.
"I think. the British like us for
what we are; many of them have
kin in Canada; many have visited
relatives in Canada or are
planning to do so, once they
save up enough money.
"And the British, I don't
believe, are as ignottnt of
distances in Canada as many of
our friends from the United
States, They listen with awe
when you give them some idea
of the vastness of this land of
Canada, with all its God-given
advantages, most of which we
take for granted," concluded Mr.
Atkev.
The speaker circulated travel
brochures and literature on
many of the beauty spots and
historical sites in the British
Isles.
Mr. Atkey was introduced by
program committee chairman
'Maynard Corrie and thanked by
A. Laurie Colquhoun.
Walker Street at 1 a.m.
Saturday, police said. Again no,
one was injured, but
considerable damage to Mr,
Denomme's car was reported.
About 1:45 a.m. last Friday
an auto owned by Robert Green
was parked on James Street and
was damaged in a hit-and-run
accident. The car which left the,
scene was later chased by
provincial police and was
abandoned in a ditch.
Minimum wage
goes up Jan. 1
d d Syno meets
Lions welcome new members
and name two vice presidents
Cars snap poles
Highway speed limits to rise
actually lower on four-lane
divided highways,
The Minister warned that
maximum speeds are the
maximum for driving in good
weather, road and traffic
conditions and advised drivers to
slow down when conditions
were unfavourable.
The present speed limits will
remain in effect until November
15, on and after which date the
new limits will be strictly
'• enforced.
Priest tells UCW prison change needed