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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-12-19, Page 1Barbara Symons, Glenyce Anderson and Lynn Gibbings. In the second row: Marie Ferguson (pianist), Christine Cann, Danny Laing, Becky Howse, Carolyn Hibbert, Wendy Bird, Cathy Chandler, Judy Chandler, Rhonda Fear, Jeannette ,Lobb, Sandra Paterson, Frances Bottena, Isabelle Lassaline, Lyn Argyle, Joanne Veldhuis, Alice Roorda, Jennifer Grange and Helen Anderson. In the back row: Robert Roy, Jim Roy, Jim Beeproft, Ivan Crittenden, Bjorne Christensen, Don Collar, George Cull (director), Bernard Bakker, Don Welsh, Gary Black, Gordon Lobb and Wayne Payne. Photo by Bell chanthet Bayfield fishing spot in winter New Centralia veterinary lab Road adjoining station to be resurfaced in '69 , Tenders are to be called early pay up to $22,000 toward the in the new year for resurfacing project. of a Tuckersmith Township road It involves just over a mile of serving the armed forces base at the road running from Highway Clinton. 4 at the south of the base and Township council, meeting then veering northward to Monday night, discussed a letter ,connect with Highway 8. from the Department of The road is used extensively National Defence agreeing to (Please turn to page 5) Three grOups at CFB Clinton this week each' presented a wheelchair to Huronview, the county hone on Highway 4, near Clinton. Desinond Barker, a Huronview resident, is seen at left next to Prank Johnson, administrator of the borne. Lt, Cot and Mrs. Otto Hack stand next to Mr. Johnson and Warrant Officer Kerr is at tar right. Lt Col, Hack presented a 'chair on behalf Of the officers' Mess 1701 Club. His wife presented a chair on behalf of the Adasttal Perk Ladies' Auxiliary. WO Kerr presented the chair given by the Warrant Officers and Sergeants' Mess, Sgt Gord (Curly) Ebel, base fire chief,. was in charge of the night's programme Which featured a 40-Voice choir froin the bept. of National Detente School at the base, — Canadian Forces Photo, TI-1E,N1A1 _ERA — 103rd YEAR, Clinton News-Ficctricl; Thursday, December 19, 1968 THE ,HURON RECORD 7 87th YEAR — SiNGLE COPIES ormer -Clinton principal eads schools in county Tired of being a spectator at a Christmai carolfest? Make this year special! Young and old alike are invited to join the Centennial Huron County Youth Choir Monday night at eight o'clock in the Central Huron Secondary School auditorium in Clinton for an evening of carol singing "with a difference." For 25 cents, music will be provided to audience members and they will be able to join with the choir. Dress is casual and only the first 400 can be admitted. More than half the choir members are from Clinton and most are from the surrounding district. Seen above in the front row, from left to right are: Joan' Aggerholm, Betty Moss, Marie Johnston, Cathy Cann, Clinton picked up eight penalties to Wiarton's nine, including a 10-minute misconduct to Wiarton at 7:54 in the third period. • ;I: * With only eight players in the lineup, the Colts faltered late in the period of the game lost '11-7 and gave up too many goals. Scoring for Clinton were Harvey Dale with two, Don Martin with two and Randy Glew, Fred Parsons and Paul to the industry„" The Minister alSo announced that, following the establishment of the new laboratory Service at Centralia, the Animal Health Town Council, at its final meeting of the year, approved purchase of street equipment to replace that which was destroyed in a $50,000 storage shed fire November 9. A general purpose tractor will be pure h ase d from George Wraith Company Limited, of Goderich for $11,096, and a truck from Lome Brown Motors Limited Of Clinton for $6,379. Three weeks ago council approved purchase of a used road grader from Dominion Road Machinery Company of Coderich for $9,450. The company had loaned the town a new grader since the fire and Until a second hand grader, could be located. Ted Roberts, Ed Bizairre and Ken Clynick, all of Clinton, won the Clinton Kinsmen Club's, Christmas glass turkey draw. The club asks us to thank everyone who helped make the event a success. *, * * Sorry we missed Shirley Keller's column several times recently. A mixup in mailings delayed the copy, but she is back with us this issue. Lucy Woods, whose "Rambling With, Lucy" column has been missing from these pages for a while, tells us she is home and feeling better and hopes to start writing soon. * * * The committee - which sponsored- the recent stag night.. to benefit Clinton recreation reports it is turning•over $1,330 to the Recreation Committee to be used to cover a portion of the engineering expense incurred in the study of arena problems and planning. of new drainage at the site. * * * NOTICE The Christmas and New Year Issues of the Clinton News-Record will be published on Monday, December 23 and Thursday, January 2 respectively. Deadlines for the Christmas issue are set for NOON TOMORROW, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, for all advertising and news copy. Deadlines for the January 2 issue nave been set for NOON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, for all advertising and news copy. These deadlines have been set in order to enable the News-Record to be printed and mailed to subscribers on the dates shown. News copy received after the deadlines will be held over for one week. No advertising material will be accepted after the deadlines. There, will be no postal ,service, • no street letter box collections and no rural route service on Christmas Day. On Boxing Day there will be no wicket 'service and no rural route service. The lock-box lobby will be open from 5 to 8 p.m, Street letter boxes will be cleared at 4:15 p.m. Mail will be received at 6:45 p.m. and dispatched both at 6:45 and 8 p.m, On New Year's Day there will be no wicket service, rural route service or street letter box collections. Mail will be received at 6:45 p,rri, and dispatched both at 6:45 and 8 p.m. Tli 1968 LOW Dec. 10 11 y 40 32 23 11 36 1 .37 26 12 42 35 44 36 18 46 35 82 10 14 36 20 29 16 15 17 7 34 24 16 28 14 36 33 Rain .47 Rain .66 Snow .5 Snow 2" The Clinton Colts' last two contests pitted them against Wiarton and they came up winner in one battle and lost the other. In downing Wiarton 4-0, Robbie Farquhar and Gary Black teamed up to give the Colts their first shutout of the season. In the dying minutes, Robbie Farquhar literally' stole a goal from a Wiarton forward when Will check farin book It Is farm record book analysis time again, according to Donald S. Pullen, agricultural representative for Huron County. Anyone wishing to have his 1968 book summarized should forward it to the Agricultural Office, Clinton, next month. As in the past, the book will not leave the office. The checking will be done by local staff members and a summary card forwarded to the computer centre at the University of Guelph where it will be analyzed. The book may be brought to the Agricultural office or mailed in. Anyone who would like assistance on completing their record book may call the agricultural office for an ;appointment. ' Every farmer in Huron County who has completed an Ontario Farm Record Book in 1968 is welcome to make use of this "no fee" analysis service. For those who wish, a clinic in this connection will be held at the Agricultural office Board Room, Clinton, January 15th, 1969, 2 — 4 p.m. For further information,, please call the agricultural office, Clinton. Santa leaves sleigh Lacking snow, Santa Claus came roaring into Clinton atop a fire engine Saturday. Between 700 and 800 children were waiting for him in front of the town hall. They were all rewarded with candy treats. Santa's appearance was sponsored by the retail merchants' committee. Financial support was given by the Town of Clinton and by the town's four service clubS Boyal Canadian Legion Branch 140, Clinton Lions, Huron Fish and Game Conservation Club and the Kinsmen Club. About 460 children greeted Santa at liensall as he arrived by fire truck at the town hall Saturday. They'got candy treats and weer shown cartoons courtesy of the Hensall Businessmen's Association, Farquhar made an unbelievable save. The more than 200 hometown fans left 'the arena talking about the save. Black played the first period and Farquhar completed the game. All of Clinton's goals came on rebounds — two by Don Martin and singled by Harvey Dale and Bob Livermore. Playing coach Mait Edgar set up three of the goals and big Butch Murney teamed up with Dale to earn an assist on the other marker. Plans for a major expansion in the facilities at the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology have been announced by Honourable William A. Stewart, Minister of Agriculture and Food. Speaking in the Legislature, Mrs. Stewart outlined plans for a new Veterinary Services Laboratory to be established on the Centralia site, using the former Mr Force Base Hospital building for the purpose. Work will begin on the conversion of this building early in 1969, in order that the new facility will be providing service to the livestock and poultry producers of the area as soon as possible. "The establishment of these facilities is in response to a growing demand for diagnostic and laboratory facilities to serve this general area," the Minister said. "When it is considered that the eight cOunties of Mee, Elgin, Huron, Middlesex, NortOlk, Oxford, Perth, end Larribton produce one-third of the province's cattle, pigs, and poultry, one.half of the turkeys, and one-fifth of the horses and sheep, thee, it must be recognised that this area is vital Draper with one each. With only three minutes left in the away game, Clinton goalie Robbie Farquhar was hit above the eye on a shot which bounced off Randy Clew's skate. The cut took six stitches to close and Farquhar will be lost to the team for several weeks. * Clinton's next home action will be tonight against Arthur, at home. The game starts at 8:30 o'clock. Technicians Course, now being provided at the Ridgetown College of Agricultural Technology, will be transferred (Please turn to pace In Other business, council decided to send a delegation to the January 8 meeting of Huron County library board. Last month Mayor Donald Symons told council, members of the Clinton library board had complained they have little or no say as to the typo of books placed on library shelves. Council, at that tune; requesteda mooting be arranged between council arid the two library boards but W85 told the' county board would entertain such a meeting only at a regular board meeting. Delegates will include Reeve James AnnStrOng Councillor Iftttold Lobh and several library board Members: D. John Cochrane, principal of Clinton's Central Huron Secondary School from 1960 to 1965, has been named director of education for the new county school system. The newly elected members of the Huron County Board of Education, meeting Tuesday night in. Coilerich, also appointed Mr: Cochrane secretary-treasurer. He is to start work, on January 1 at a salary yet to be decided, according to a board spokesman. Mr. Cochrane is now district inspector of secondary schools and area school superintendent for a district dovering part of Waterloo County and the counties of Brant, Norfolk, Oxford and Perth. Forty-five years old and married, the new education director lives in Woodstock with his wife, Lina, a former elementary and secondary school teacher, and four children: Joanne, 11; Michael, 9; Lynne, 5 and Ian, 5. A graduate of University of It may take a Solomon, not Santa, to pick a winner in the race for one of the two Clinton arca seats on the new Huron County Board of Education. Norman Counter, a Clinton jeweller, polled 542 votes in the December 2 election, one fewer than one of the successful candidates, John Henderson of RR 5, Seaforth. Mr. Counter asked for a recount which was held Monday in the county judge's 'chambers' before Judge R. S. Hetherington. The result of the recount was a 543-543 tie. Mr. Counter, who indicated he sought the recount only because of the narrow margin of the election results and because Toronto and Ontario College of Education, Mr. Cochrane began his teaching career in a combined public-secondary school in Kemptville and went on to Port Credit Secondary School. He served as department head of one Cooksville secondary school and then vice principal of another before coming to Clinton in January 1960 as principal of what was then called Clinton District Collegiate Institute and is now known as Central Huron Secondary School. He left the post here to become district inspector for the Ontario government. In his present capacity, he supervises 21 secondary schools, two private schools and one school under the Department of Reform Institutions. Mr. Cochrane has been guest lecturer, vice principal and, for the last two summers, principal of the Ontario Department of Education's Secondary School Principals' Course at the he was informed there had been several spoiled ballots, said Monday night that legal counsel for Mr. Henderson, and himself were ,to nleet-min—Goderieh - December 23 with Judge Hetherington in an attempt to settle the tie. Neither he nor Judge Hetherington indicated how this would be done. The recount took from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. After the first results were reported, Mr. Henderson was sworn in December 9 as one of the 14 members of the county school board. The other area member is John Lavis of Clinton who polled 938 votes and who was elected board chairman. There were originally six men vying for the two seats. D.J. COCHRANE University of Western Ontario. He also wrote the chapter "Roles of the Principal and Vice Principal in the Supervision of Instruction" for the 1968 yearbookof the Canadian Association of School Superintendents and Inspectors. lie authored the section at the .request of senior officials within the Department of Education. Mr. Cochrane served as a (Please turn to page 5) Both Mr. Counter and Mr. Henderson, a , McKillop Township farmer, have served for seven years on area school 'bbards; RC board plans office in Seaforth The Huron-Perth Separate School Board at its meeting Monday night in Seaforth decided to have its head office in that town for at least a year. The choice was made because of Seaforth's central location. When office space is found, Paul Franck of Stratford, business administrator for the board, will move from his office at St. Michael's School, Stratford, to Seaforth.' The board approved paying its members $100 a month and 10 cents a mile travelling expenses to and from meetings as prescribed under the School Administration Act. It was decided to hold board meetings Monday nights. Of the 14 members of the board, 12 were present. The two men from Stratford did not attend, because of other business. Colts, Wiarton take one game each Clinton vs. Arthur at home tonight Centennial carolers The first. column 1961 HI LOW Town replaces equipment lost in November fire Tally now 543-543 Recount produces tie in school board race