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,CLINTON„ ONTARIO— THUB-WAY, .JANUARY 23, 1969
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The .first
column'
Our Tuesday .deadline for
news is for the last items, not for
all of them, In recent weeks,. Our
new desk has been swamped
with stories on Tuesday'
afternoon often reports of
meetings .held seven to 10 days
earlier.
There is a limit to the amount
of copy .that can be handled on
Tuesday and the amount of type
that can be Set, even with the aid
of our computer, so we ask for
your help.
•If you are the secretary or
publicity chairman of an
organization, please , send in
accounts of your meetings as
soon as possible within a day
or two is best. When a club
meets . on Wednesday, for
example, we would like to hear
from you by Friday or Saturday.
Don't hesitate to send in
stories later when you have to,
but try as often as you can to
get them here, early. It helps us
and it helps 'you because the
earlier a story is here, the better
the chance of it being used. '
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Our apologies to the boys and
girls on Clinton minor hockey
teams whose pictures were taken
at the special church service at
St. Andrew's last Sunday. We
thought we captured all those
smiling faces on film, but we
didn't "due to circumstances
beyond our control."
* *
Mrs. Bill Crawford of
Goderich was the victim of an
avalanche in Clinton, an event
unlikely at best in this relatively
flat terrain.
Walking along the east side of
Albert Street with her two
young. children in tow last week,
Mrs.. Crawford was suddenly
showered with chunks of ;snow
and ice cascading off the roof of
a three-storey building in a row
of stores. ;
She jumped out of the way
with the 'two children, but
suffered a scut hand .pevettheless.
Snow from the roof piled up
two feet deep on the sidewalk.
* * *
Charles. Srokosz of Grand
Bend, an onion grower, was
elected president of the Ontario
and Vegetable Growers'
Association at the 110th annual
convention of the association
held in Toronto last week.
* * *
Audrey Bellchamber, March
of Dimes chairman for Bayfield,
announced Wednesday that the
village will be canvassed on
Saturday, NOT MONDAY as in
Clinton. The drive in Bayfield is
run with the help of high school
girls. * * *
. Hurrying drivers are reminded
by the Ontario Safety League
that speeding doesn't save time
if you don't get there.
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Cochrane
School' chief gets .$27,000 yearly,
business adminstrator to be named
The Huron Aunty' Board. Qf
Education by late Wednesday
had redpeed .to two the 1i4t :of
candidates for the job of
business administrator, but
refused to disclose either name,
In other action this week, a
closed -door session of the board
gave approval to a $27,000
annual salary for D. J. Cochrane,
newly appointed director of
education for the county system
of public elementary and
secondary schools.,
Cochrane, former
principal of Central Huron
Secondary School in Clinton,
left a post with the Ontario
Department of Education to
assume the new job . in Huron'
County on January 1, Prior to
his appointment by the board
here, he served as district
It looks like a mutual, admiration society as Clinton's Central
Huron Secondary Schol basketball squad reacts to its win over
Goderich in a consolation game in the Blue and White
Tournament last Saturday at Goderich District Collegiate
-institute= Ten schools competed for honors. Five from Sarnia,
along with St. Marys, Kincardine, Westminster of London and
•GDCI's own team. St. Patrick's of Sarnia left as victors with St.
Clair of Sarnia in second spot. (Staff Photo)
Seaforth, Goderich
lure school board
The new county board of
education toured Seaforth for a
look at potential sites for a head
office and then held a regular
meeting at Seaforth District
High School Monday night.
The board met earlier this
month in Clinton to consider
possibilities for an office in town
and this week received bids to
inspect locations in Goderich.
Dan Murphy of Goderich;
separate school representative on
the county board, told the other
members Monday that they
would be invited to visit the
just -opened county assessment
building in Goderich,
The assessment department
occupies only the first floor of
the two-storey structure. The
upper floor is not earmarked for
use by any specific government
agency.
After dinner at the Seaforth
Cornmercial Hotel as the guests
of Mayor Frank Sills and the
Town Council Monday evening,
the school board members
inspector of secondary schools.
and area school superintendent
for part of Waterloo County and
the -.counties of Brarit, Norfolk,
Axford and Perth.
Married and the father of
four, Mr, Cochrane is 45 years
•.old and a graduate of the
University of Toronto and the
Ontario .College of Education,
The 14 -member county
school hoard received 31
applications for the business
administrator post and first
considered the written
applications at a meeting • in
Clinton on January 9, The list
was then .cut to nine.
Last Saturday the board held
interviews at the courthouse in
Goderich for six hours without
coming to a final decision.
At a .meeting in Seaforth last
Monday night, the board again
voted to go into committee of
the whole, asked newsmen to
leave and deliberated for more
than an hour.
BULLETIN
Roy B. Dunlop late
Wednesday evening accepted the
position • of •business
administrator for the Huron
County School system. Mr.
Dunlop is currently financial
adminstrator of the University
of Toronto Press.
looked at vacant space above the
post office, ' in the library
basement and in the Cardno
Building.
John Levis, chairman of the
board, has suggested that the
director of education and the
yet -to -be -named business
administrator will be asked to
study the office space situation
as soon as possible and make
recommendations to the full
board.
In other business, the board
voted to spend $2,660.50 to join
the Ontario Public School
Trustees Association and
affiliate with the Trustees
Council.
When several board members
questioned the need for such a
high fee, it was noted that the
county board will be paying
somewhat less than the aggregate
paid in membership fees by all
the former local school boards;
The county board was also
told that custodial workers at
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CFB Clinton recently lbat air industrious,
co'operatiVe- and very popular trail `portation
clerk When Mrs. Mary Browh of Clinton left 'tri
take up new employrne'nt at the Ontario
Hospital, Goderich, the was honoured oh the
occasion Of her departure by The bate
headquarters staff at ari impromptu get,fogethei'
and is shown receiving afalnewa(f handshake lean
Lieutenant t oltirrel t7. E. Warner, acting base
commander, while the Motor transport officer,
Master Warrant bffficei "Harry" Sewell niusters
up a brave smile for the photographer. Mary has
had a long history with the armed forces, Both
she and her husband"; Percy Brown of Lorne
Brown Motors, seed in the Royal Canadian Air
Force during" World War and Mary has been
employed alta clerk -typist at Varioustirifes and in
several positrons on the base shied 1962.
March of Dimes
aided by widow
of MS victim
Support for the January
March of the of Dimes
has come from an unexpected*
source, the widow of a Clinton
man who died last January, Mrs.
Harry Kuiper.
Writing to the campaign
chairman in this area, Mrs.
Kuiper said her husband was
struck by multiple sclerosis
about six years ago, "only two
years after we were married."
He needed something to help
him walk, then a wheelchair and
finally he died of pneumonia.
"You will understand," wrote
Mrs. Kuiper, "that we needed a
great amount of equipment in
our home to keep my husband
from going to the hospital
permanently. And the March of
Dimes did everything they
could."
The Marching Mothers,
canvassers for the Rehabilitation
Foundation for the Disabled will
be catling at houses in the area
this coming Monday,
All residents are asked to
leave their porch lights on to
assist the Marching Mothers.
Them t . pew
e p y
"The Empty Pew," a weekly
column by the Rev. W. Jene
Miller, appears for the first time
on this week's editorial page.
Published by more than two
dozen North American
newspapers, most of them
weeklies, "The Empty Pew," is
said to have a broad appeal, far
beyond any ordinary column on
religion,
The themes, as Rev. Miller
puts it, "vary from poetry to
prose, from piety to politics."
A magazine writer said
recently that Rev. Miller may
occasionally be irreverent, but
"irrelevant he isn't."
• We hope to make "The
E n5pty Pew" a regular feature in
The News -Record, although
occasional columns may be
skipped if they deal solely with
U.S, affairs.
' The author is minister of the
First Methodist Church in
Blackwell, Oklahoma and has
been Writing his column since
the summer of 1950 when
weekly newspaper editor asked
hini to contribute something to
fill in the spaceusually occupied
by school news.
Rev, Miller says, "I chose the
title, `The Empty Pew' because I
Wanted to make some kind of
Christian put a question mark
after that — witness to those
who do- not attend church.';
We welcome readers'
cotntentS about the col rtm.
Rev. Miller tries to Answer
personally all readers' letters'
y
appearing in the papers tarrying
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Clinton's Pee Wee Ponies were opposing Mitchell's team in this
face-off Monday night at the community centre. Their next
face-off will be at the start of a match with their counterparts
from Clinton, Nevv York, tomorrow evening in one of the first
events in the local Minor Hockey Weekend. (Staff Photo)
Hockey weekend
starts tomorrow
Busloads of young, hockey
players from Clinton, New York
and Dearborn, Michigan, arrive
tomorrow for the start of
Clinton's Minor Hockey
Weekend.
Following a Kinsmen: Pee Wee
game at 6:45 p.m., the New
York Pee Wees face off with the
Clinton Kinsmen • Pee Wee
Ponies.
The public school girls
compete after the Pee Wee
match and before the night's
second big event, a nine o'clock
game between the Dearborn (St.
Sebastian) Bantams and
Clinton's Fish and Game
Bantams,
Saturday's schedule starts off
early, again with Pee Wee
hockey. A second Bantam match
'is slated'for 10 a.m., followed by
Kinsmen Squirt hockey and a
2:30 p,m. Pee Wee competition.
Kinsmen Pee Wee town league
play ends this afternoon.
Saturday ',night, at seven
o'clock, the Bantams again meet
on the community centre ice.
Then the senior girls take over
for half an hour and the
weekend is finished off with a
game between the Clinton Lions
Midgets and the Wingham
Midgets, last year's WOAA "B"
Champions.
Adults can obtain $1 passes
for admission to games Friday
evening, Saturday afternoon and
Saturday evening.
Studentsand children can buy
the passes for 50 cents.
4-H leaders
meet here
The Huron County 4-H
Agricultural Club Leaders'
Association will hold its annual
meeting at the Ontario
Department of Agriculture
Board Rooni in Clinton, next
Wednesday at 11 a.m.
4-1-1 work during the past year
will be reviewed and plans will
be formulated for the coming
year. The 4-H Leaders will be
guests of the Department of
Agriculture & Food at a noon
dinner at the Hotel Clinton.
In 1968, there were 24 4-H
Agricultural Clubs with 60
leaders in Huron County. Robert
Fotheringham, RR 3, Seaforth,
is chairman of the 4-H Leaders'
Association.
Huron County beef .producers
elect Blyth man president
Carman Craig, RR 1, Blyth,
was re-elected president of the
Huron County Beef
Improvement Association at its
annual meeting in Belgrave
January 15.
Other officers are Eric
Anderson, RR 1, Londesboro,
vice-president; Donald Pullen,
Clinton, secretary -treasurer and
Archie Etherington, RR 1,
Hensall, provincial director to
the Ontario Beef Producers'
Association.
The meeting included a tour
of beef cattle feedlots in
northeast Huron County. Three
bus loads of beef producers
visited Murray Cardiff's and Jack
Wheeler and Sons' farms in
Brussels and also stopped at the
farms of Eldred Cathers,
Wroxeter and Bob Hastie,
Gorrie.
An evening banquet in
Belgrave W. I. Hall was attended
by 140 interested producers —
the largest gathering of beef
producers ever recorded in the
county for such an event. Bert
Moggach, agricultural
engineering specialist in Perth
and Huron for the Ontario
Department of Agriculture and
Food, gave an illustrated talk on
feedlot operations.
Elect new warden
orHuron county
By SHIFILEY .KELI,ER
Huron County's new warden
vias acclaimed Tuesday
Afternoon at Goderich, James
Hayter, Dashwood garage owner
and, Reeve .of Stephen Township
has spent close to 20 years on
the municipal scene preparing
himself for the -county's highest
office,
Reeve Elgin Thompson,
Tuckersmith, who nominated
the new warden described him as
a man vitally interested in
community affairs and church
matters.
"Although he has never seen
the light politically," quipped
Thompson, "I still .think he'll
Take .a good warden,"
".One thing I've Learned in
my experience on county
council," stated Hayter in.
accepting the nomination,
the art of humility, No man is an
island,"
He was escorted to the
warden's chair by Cal Kreuter,
1968 warden who told council,
"Thank God we're the same
height."
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Town Council argues
about trash tenders
The chairman of the Clinton
Town Council committee on
sanitation and waste removal
criticized his fellow councillors
last week for calling a special
session to award a contract for
garbage pickup.
The chairman, Frank Cook, in
a sharp outburst at the meeting's
start, said that the matter was
discussed and decided by council
at a private meeting ou January
6.
"You can print this, press,"
said Mr. Cook, pointing to a
newsman in the room, "this
Council passed....then they turn
around and throw it wide open."
The committee chairman said
council spent an hour and a half
studying garbage collection
tenders on January 6 and
concluded that Clarence Neilans
deserved the contract although
two other bidders submitted
lower tenders.
At its regular meeting on
January 13, with Councillors
Clarence Denomme and. Frank
Cook absent, council reported
the amounts of -the. tenders •and
listened to a spokesman for
Cook Sanitation of Goderich
who promised better service
than the town now received
from Mr. Neilans who has held
the contract the last three years.
Council did not • vote on
acceptance of a tender or award
of a contract at that meeting.
Rather, it decided to interview
the bidders at a special meeting
last Thursday.
The special meeting opened at
7;30 p.m. in the conference
room off the council chamber in
Town Hall. Although it was
supposedly a public meeting, the
door was locked the entire
evening.
As a result of the difficulty
arising out of the system .of
holding one "committee of the
whole" meeting in private each
month and one public meeting,
several councillors suggested
holding two public meetings
each month and doing away
with the closed parleys.
Mayor Donald Symons argued
against the change, however,
voicing the opinion that council
must have an opportunity to
Calk in private.
"The purpose (of the closed
meetings)," he said, "is for
people to express their views and
have the format of the (public)
meeting pretty well laid out."
After deliberating for some
time, the councillors called in
Jim Carter whose tender was the
lowest of those received. They
asked him several questions
about the service he proposed to
offer then decided they did not
need to talk with the other
bidders, because they already
heard from Cook Sanitation and
knew of Mr. Neilans' setup.
Councillor Cook insisted that
council stick by its original
decision to give the three-year
contract again to Mr. Neilans for
$11,000 a year. When a vote was
taken, there was no dissension
and the contract was awarded to
Mr. Neilans.
Figure skates
figure big in
carnival plan.
Prime topic of discussion at
tonight's annual meeting of the
Clinton Figure Skating Club will
be next month's Winter Carnival.
Friday night of carnival week
will feature "Ice -nicks '69," a
show to be presented both by
skaters from the local club and
visiting clubs.
The junior group will skate to
music from Dr. Doolittle,
appropriately attired for the
animal songs in elaborate
costumes some of which are
being loaned by the Stratford
Club even before the Stratford
skaters themselves get a chance
to use them.
"Ice -nicks" will be at 8:15
p.m. that Friday, Valentine's
Day, in the Clinton Community
Centre.
Carnival Week — February
10-16 — will also include skating
parties on three days, snowshoe
and ski races, snowmobile racing
and hockey games.
The highlight of the week will
come Saturday afternoon with a
parade featuring Miss Dominion
of Canada, Nancy Wilson, along
with bands, floats, clowns and
the seven snow kings and queens
to be chosen from district public
schools.
Stanley Township !Reeve, James Hayter Was sworn iii' as Huron'
County Warden for 1963 Tuesday afternoon during the iriatrgural
Meeting of county cotirrcil. The neve warden had been elected to
the office by acclamation. He is shoWit presentih6 his rnteigrr a
address in the -county council charnbers Ootittioh loIfloWrn
gthe
swearing in terem'ony. (Staff Photo)