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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-01-16, Page 1Clinton News -Record THF NEW ERA. 104th YEAR, NQ. 3 CLINTON, ONTARIO — 'THURSDAY, .JANUARY 16, 1969 THE HURON RECORD 67th YEAR -,- SINGLE COPIES 12c The first column Parents of all players on, Clinton's Midget, Bantam, Peewee and Squirt hockey teams are urged to send their boys to the annual minor hockey church service at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Sunday morning. The boys are to meet at the library park at 10:30 o'clock and proceed in a group to the 10:45 service. Final arrangements are being Made for the Minor Hockey Week Programme the weekend of January 24 - 25. Visiting teams are expected from Dearborn, Michigan and Clinton, New York, along with the Wingham Midgets, last year's WOAA winners. * * * Clinton Councillor Harold Lobb, new chairman of the public works committee, said Monday night that Christmas trees will be collected as soon as the men can spare time from snow removal. He asks that resident save the trees because the Carnival Committee has several uses for them, including use as markers for snowmobile courses. * * * A Huronview resident this week marked his 102nd birthday. The story is in Mrs. Hadden's news of Hensall. * * * Police Chief Lloyd Westlake warns motorists that tickets will be given out for overtime meter parking on Albert Street now that the high snowbanks are gone. . "We've been pretty nice,". he says, "but please ask people to start putting their pennies in again." The police chief and other town officials also urge extreme caution while snowbanks line side .streets. Children often slide down the banks or step out from behind the snow into the path of oncoming traffic, they note. In addition, snow -blocked sidewalks force many children to walk in the road en route to school. 1969 1968 HI LOW 111 LOW .Jan. 6 29 8 21 7 28 20 10 3 . 8 22 12 8 5 9 25 16 11 0 10 19 16 . 30 22 11 22 18 29 21 12 24 20 33 22 13 26 16 37 22 Snow 15" Snow 5" Kinsmen plan carnival race With less than a month before Clinton's winter carnival, the planning committee is moving "full steam ahead." Larry Jones, president of the Clinton Kinsmen, announced this week that his organization will run snowmobile races as part of the February 10-16 event. Racers from Owen Sound and Toronto have already inquired about the carnival, he said, and competitions are planned for both novice and experienced drivers. Four snowmobiles have been reserved to give children rides and let some adults sample the "sport." Don . Hall and Fred Lobb, both 'Kinsmen, attended races in Stratford last week and passed around word of the scheduled event here. They also picked up pointers on holding races and say they anticipate a crowd of more than 500 persons. Two nubile address systems and a refreshment booth will be. set up for the races, they said. Adults will be charged 50 cents admission, with children under 13 free. Another Kinsmen, Larry Jones, was smiling when he said, "A few weeks ago we were concerned about- the possibility of snow for our event. That has been more than taken care of." Clinton Mayor Donald Symons announced Monday night that a race is planned for Huron County mayors and reeves and he says Councillor Ted McCullough is tuning up a snowmobile for Clinton's entry. The mayor has not competed before in such contests, but explains it will be just a "social race." Girl, 3, hurt in crash police say charges due A three-year-old girl hurt in a two -car collision at Elm and Erie Streets on Monday evening was released from Clinton Public Hospital after treatment for a gash on her forehead, according to town police. Drivers were identified as Archie Fleet, 129 Orange Street, Clinton, and Howard Tait, 184 Huron Street, Clinton, Police said the girl, Connie Tait, was a passenger in her father's car. Doctors reportedly used nine stitches to close a cut on her forehead. Police say charges are pending in the 6:45 o'clock mishap which left both cars damaged extensively. Damaged in a collision at Princess and Gibbings Streets shortly after noon on Tuesday were cars operated by Dennis Fleischauer, 118 Orange Street and Town Councillor Clarence Denomme, 187 Ontario Street. (Please turn to page 3) Shoplift loot stashed in ,snow, youth held Clinton police cuts week charged.:,.as.-16-year-old youth with the theft of a $30 tape recorder after Goderich authorities retrieved the "hot" machine from cold storage — in a snowbank. Police say the youth, identified as Donald McGhee, 189 Strang Court, Goderich, pleaded guilty to the charge and is awaiting sentencing. McGhee reportedly brought the stolen recorder to a store in Goderich and complained it was not working properly. When the shopkeeper advised him to return it to' the store in which it was purchased, McGhee is said to have taken the recorder outside and buried it in the snow. • Police were notified, dug, the. recorder out and determined that it was taken January 4 from Stedman's in Clinton. In other shoplifting incidents, police charged one juvenile with the theft of a pair of gloves from a Clinton store and charged three others in connection with the theft of two transistor radios from the Clinton Discount Centre, 2 Huron Street. Police allege that the radios, valued at $70, were taken by two youths. A third is charged with receiving stolen property. AlI are said to be 15 or 16 years old. One is from Blyth, one from Londesboro and the third from outside the district, police said. Merchants drop dinner plains, blame apathy, lack of interest 9 Hope for agreement on uniform store hours in Clinton faded this week amid signs that the Retail Merchants Association may go the way of the Chamber of Commerce and disappear. A meeting of merchants was to have been held tonight, but the gathering was called off when no more than half a dozen This driverpMonday,pp e. Maybe the snoW stet ped on but the,problerns continu scribed distance from the is not only less than the re . hydrant, but skidded in sct close that the car's side was dented, The niishap came as the driver tried to leave parking Space Where snow concealed the icy pavement, — Staff photo,' storeowners made reservations. No more meetings are planned. Besides discussion on store hours, the meeting was to choose a successor to Bob Campbell who submitted his resignation as chairman' last month. And there were to be proposals for participation in the winter carnival. It appears now, however, that apathy and lack of interest have drained life from the association and threaten its end: One merchant told • The News -Record, "As far as I can see, We have no association." Another said, "We don't know where to go from here. There is no interest whatsoever and there's not much we can do." Turnout was poor at several meetings prior to Christmas and the association was unable to hold a parade or tither holiday activity as in past years. Mr. Campbell said notices were sent to members announcing the dinner meeting and then the storeowners were contacted and asked to buy tickets. After 30 calls, he said, there were only six tickets sold and it was decided to surrender. There are about 40 members in the association, Last spring the assaciation members. established a five-day business week by Closing on Wednesda rs. During the suminer a meeting was held and a majority voted to close Mondays instead of Wednesdays. But several merchants disagreed and Would not coinpNow l y . most stores are back on a six-day operation. "Want your roof shoveled, mister ? At least this shoveler doesn't have to worry about where to throw the snow. He's a Clinton PUC crewman commandeered by the police department which feared that overhanging snow and ice would be weakened by the sun and drop on passersby on Albert Street. — Staff photo. ff Reach library peace at twO-board parley Members of Clinton's former library board put on war paint. for a meeting with county library authorities last week, but buried their tomahawks after some measure of harmony was restored to relations between the two groups. Gordon Phillips, vice principal of Central Huron Secondary School, is a member: of the local board and attended Monday's town council meeting to report on the conference with county officials. He started offlby conceding' that the local group no longer has any official status under the law. "It no longer exists at all," he said and can function only as an informal committee, if at all. Mr. Phillips blamed lack of communication for the • confusion about the board's status and for "all the uncertainty and undercurrent of bad sentiment," noting that at times there was not only an undercurrent of hostility, but "a flowing, rampaging waterfall." Mr, Phillips said the meeting with the county board led him to conclude that "these people are acting in good faith and are making sane, sensible decisions." He said • he is satisfied 'with 'answers given by • the county board to the Clinton board and no lorger has doubts about the county's "motives or procedures" although its decision, like all decisions, are open to criticism. (Please turn to page 3) DHIA holds workshops on dairy feed problems A program for members of the Huron County ,Dairy Herd improvement Association will be presented in two locations on two days near the end of next week. The program will be held Thursday, Feb. 27 at Ontario Street United Church in Clinton and on Friday, Feb. 28 at Belgrave's Women's Institute Hall. Members are asked to try to attend the meeting closest to their homes. The events are slated to run from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. each day. D.H.I.A. supervisors will be selling $2 tickets until Feb. 15. Husbands and wives are invited. It is suggested the men bring along an interested neighbour if their wives cannot attend. The program includes presentation of current D.H.I.A. 4-H puts meat on Huron menu With a new year just beginning, the 4-H girls' clubs in Huron County are also beginning a new project. This one is a foods and nutrition programme called "Meat in the Menu." In the course, the girls will study beef and pork cookery, With an emphasis on preparation of econorny cuts. Identification of cuts will be taught to permit wise selection of meat to fit the family's resources, Local leaders' training schools are being held the last two Weeks of this month. TWo of the two.day sessions are slated for Clinton, at the Ontario Street United Church. One will be January 28 and 29, the second January 30 and 31. Other schools will be in Wingham, on January 21 and 22, and in Exeter, on January 23 and 24, The training schools will be conducted by the county home economist under the Department of Agriculture and rood, information by Henry Bent, regional supervisor; discussion of factors affecting profit in dairying, by Harold and Tom Clapp, and a workshop on feeding dairy cattle, with Harold Clapp, provincial specialist, giving the introduction. A noon banquet is on the agenda, followed by discussion of ration formulation with milk commission, fieldmen and D. H.I.A. supervisors participating. Members are reminded to bring their own dairy ration details (amount fed to cow and production of cow) to be discussed during the afternoon. Salary bylaw nextmonth Council gives six per cent across-the-board pay hikes Workers on the Town of Clinton payroll can expect six per cent pay raise, retroactive to January 1, when council meets next month to consider a bylaw setting salaries for 196$. Discussion at Monday night's council meeting indicated that negotiations with police first produced the six per cent figure and other committees followed the police committee lead. Mayor Donald Symons said exact salaries will not be disclosed until the February meeting, but "the recommendation of each committee was six per cent or thereabouts . . . with adjustments, perhaps, in some categories." The mayor, who heads the police committee, also said council will be asked to approve promotion of Leroy Desch from corporal to sergeant in the Police Department. Six members of council were present Monday. The meeting, , scheduled for 8 p,m., got underway shortly before 8:30 and continued until past 1,1:30. Councillors Frank Cook and Clarence Denomme were unable to attend the year's first meeting. Although the council's two-year term means that the boy's makeup is unchanged this year, there was one shift in committee assignments. Reeve Armstrong and Councillor Harold Lobb switched roles on the public works committee, with Mr. Lobb taking over the position Mr. Armstrong held last year as chairman. Mr. Armstrong. was hardly reluctant about relinquishing the job and told Mr. Lobb: "There's only one job worse that the streets committee and that's mayor." Councillor Lobb reminded his colleague that "the only reason I'm taking this on is that you offered a lot of help." The new committee chairman said he spent four or five hours just on Monday on "this. high -paying job." Council patted itself on the back gently after Clerk John Livermore reported that the town "just about broke even" in 1968 and may even end up with a small surplus. In addition, he noted, there are no outstanding bank loans. Mayor Symons remarked that there are probably few municipal governments able to end the year with even a small surplus. Call meeting on tenders today A special meeting of Clinton Town Council has been called for 7:30 o'clock this evening for the purpose of considering garbage and waste collection tenders received at Monday night's meeting. The apparent low bid of $9,925 was submitted by Ivan and Jim Carter of Clinton, The next best price, $10,500, was one submitted by Cook Sanitation of Godericht Clarence Neilans, who has the contract now, offered to continue doing the work for $11,000. Other tenders were from Gordon MacDonald of MacDonald Sanitation Service, R.R. 1 Crediton, $11,700 (MacDonald services the Clinton Canadian Forces Base it was reported), and Calvin. "Gus" Bisback of Clinton, $12,480. The councillors agree to eliminate the two highest prices, but want to confer with the other bidders before awarding a contract. One problem mentioned by Mayor Donald Symons is that the out-of-town companies may not have beeh aware of certain factors in the town's garbage bylaw. He said the advertisement Soil for tenders listed no specifications, a deficiency he called "unfortunate" and said. was due to "an oversight on our part." Council also wants to know what equipment the companies plan to use because, as Councillor Ted McCullough pointed out, "The type of equipment affects the service the can give." The only bidder to speak at the council meeting was a representative of Cook Sanitation which handles garbage collection in the Town oL Ooderich. He said his company has a 7.5 -ton "packer" truck which will make it possible to collect all household or domestic waste in two days each,,,,week,..with a. third day needed for commercial service. He told council that his studies show that "in no way" does collection service here compare with that in Goderich. As examples of "poor service," he charged that garbage put out last Tuesday was still on the streets Saturday and that a mound of garbage 10 to 15 feet and crop show opens on Wednesday Fred Cohoe, President of the Ontario Soil & Crop Improvement Association, announces that the 1969 Convention will be held January 22, 23, 24 and 25. The Coliseum, Exhibition Grounds, Toronto, is the site of this important agricultural event and under the same roof the Canada Farm & Industrial Equipment Show will have the largest indoor display of agricultural and industrial equipment in North America. Mr. Cohoe emphasizes that the convention programme provides vital information to all segments of Ontario agriculture. Pedigreed seed, livestock, cash crops, all receive prominent places on this four-day programme. The Thursday night (January 23) banquet at the King Edward Hotel features as its guest speaker Forest Goetsch, Doane Agricultural Service Inc. The President stresses that an important part stresses the programme is . being held on Saturday, Those who cannot get away during the week should plan to attend the Saturday sessions. New developments in the corn industry will be featured in the morning, high is accumulating behind one supermarket. He said his truck will compact stoves and other large items, although large refrigerators and similar items would have to be collected separately. He offered to keep the dump open two days a week and to keep a plow and snowblower there all winter to keep the access road open. Noting that the Goderich dump is open 24 hours a day, he said he has discovered that some Clinton residents are taking refuse 'to Goderich when the dump here is closed. Christmas rush? Clinton Town Council held a special meeting on December 21--a fact not made known until the minutes were read at council's regular meeting Monday night. Mayor Donald Symons told reporters that the special meeting was called on short notice was not announced to press or public due to an "oversight." The minutes read by Clerk John Livermore showed that Councillors Harold Lobb, Cameron Proctor and Ted McCullough missed the special session. Council reportedly discussed the recount of ballots in the county school board election and agreed not to put forward any funds to pay for the recounting. The councillors also voted to pay Levis Contracting Company $3,000 which reporters were told was a balance owed for paving work at the community centre. In other business at the December 21 meeting, approval was given for payment of $6,000 to Don D. Colquhoun-- $4,800 for extension of the fire hall and $1,200 for paving in front of the fire hall. tWo of them 'sporting carnival buttons as Well as club badges, a quartet of new members 'of the Clinton Kinsmen incindes, from left to right, bill Smith, br, Graham. Hawker, Fred Lobb and Bruce McDonald. A fifth new member, Urban MacDonald, rnissed the meeting _ were when the photo was taken. The five w re rnitrateil recently, raising the club's roster to 32, — Staff Photo.