HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-03-06, Page 1Clinton News -Record
104th YEAR, NO. 10
CLINTON, ONTARIO — THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1969
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Winners of Huron -Perth trophy for the second year in a row,
members of Central Huron Secondary School's Junior Boys'
Basketball team are: front row, left to right, James Newland,
George Brown, Frank Newland, Frank Cameron; second row,
Dick Jewson, Brian Edgar, Gord Lavis, Peter Cameron (Lavis and
Cameron are co -captains); third row, David Aiken, Ron Irwin,
Bruce Craig, Coach Ken Clynick, Wayne Gornal, Paul Bartliff and
back row Paul Crittenden, Jim Engel, Glenn Irwin, Andrew
Amsing and Basil Maundecote—Carter, team manager. -- Photo
by Jack Hunt.
The first High school basketball team
retains Huron -Perth trophy
column
As Ontario Hydro and the
anadian Union of Public
mployees continue to argue
aver contract terms, at least one
man in the utility's management
may be able to sympathize with
union workers who complain
bout plant "lockouts"
Why should he be more
understanding than his colleagues?
He was locked out himself last
week when CUPE'S rotating
led to a one day walkout at the
Clinton office.
Staffing the office alone, he
had to lock the door and man
the telephones. Which was fine
ntil he walked to the street, let
he door clote behind him and
liscovered he left the keys
nside.
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All ex -service personnel and
ependents are invited to take
dvantage of a free Legion
service March 17 when H.W.
/foyer, bureau officer
-'m London, will be at the
,gion Hall at 5 p.m. to give
killed advice on veteran's
penefits.
Anyone wishing to see Mr.
Moyer is urged to call or write
Hal E. Hartley of Clinton to
arrange an appointment.
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Local March of Dimes leaders
his week sent a special
lank -you to the Clinton Teen
town which donated $84 to
ging the total for the district to
31,005.15.
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An inquest will be held March
21 into the death of Marcel
An.sthtt, 51, of Windsor, who
was killed in a snowmobile
nishap here last December 29.
The inquest, to be held at 10
in the Town Hall, was
,cheduled originally for January
31, but was postponed because
gown Attorney W. G. Cochrane
was not available.
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BY JIM ENGEL
Central Huron Secondary
School's junior basketball squad
is the proud winner of this year's
Huron -Perth trophy. And it's the
second year in a row the school'
in Clinton has taken the top
honour in two -county play.
The CHSS boys got off to a
shaky start this season by
defeating the Goderich Vikings
45.41. Since that rather unstable
beginning, the team triumphed
in nine consecutive games and
took the trophy.
Exeter's Panthers fell soon
after Goderich, by a score of
53-9. Seaforth lost by 46 points
in a 65-19 game. At Stratford
Northwestern, the juniors dealt
the Perth team a 55-24 loss.
Wingham and Mitchell were
also downed by CHSS, with
scores of 74-23 and 72-20
respectively. The next game
proved to be the year's highest
scoring contest for Clinton
when, at Listowel, Peter
Cameron and Jim Engel each
scored 25 points. The final score
was 82-47 with Clinton on top.
With the finals fast
approaching, Central Huron's
team, coached by Ken Clynick,
headed Stratford Central a 63-34
defeat and St. Marys was
trounced 60-46, leaving CHSS in
first place.
A sudden -death game against
St. Marys, a critical match,
ended with Clinton ahead 52-31.
CHSS advanced to Stratford
Central and sustained their only
loss in Huron -Perth Conference
competition this year, 40-37.
The final game was held on
Central Huron's court last
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Huronview budget
Budgets for the maintenance
of county buildings was
approved at Friday's sitting of
Huron County Council.
The courthouse budget is set
at $54,950; registry office,
$3,160; children's aid and
county jail, $8,500; and
administration building, $8,200.
The budget for the
courthouse includes an
allocation of $20,000 to repair
walls. The committee will
consider this project if the
provincial government provides
49 percent of the cost.
Other budget adopted by
council were for the general
government (executive)
expenses, $61,100; the general
government (administration)
expenses, $67,700; and
construction safety, $7,400.
The Huronview budget was
approved at $746,466 with the
county share being $78,900. In
his report, Reeve Robert Lyons,
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County councillors increase
daily pay from $20 to $25
BYSHIRLEY J. KELLER
At Friday's session of Huron
County Council, members voted
themselves a raise of $5 per day,
from $20 to $25; an increase to
'$8 per day for meal allowance
while attending conventions; a
$400 per annum increase for the
warden from $800 to $1200 and
a bus trip to the Ontario
Legislature for which $600 hat
been bndgeted.
In discussion preceding the
pay raise for members and the
warden, Reeve Clarence "Derry"
Boyle, Exeter, told council the
warden received "a pretty small
piece of change as the head Of
government this size."
Warden James Hayter who
had suggested an honorarium of
$1,000 for the warden, said he
was keeping a running expense
account which would show
Whether or not the warden was
"making Money" for his one
year of office,
Reeve Borden COok of Blyth
Said, "Anybody who gets into
municipal politics for' the money
involved would soon be looking
for a better position," Cook did
advocate a six percent hike for
council members in keeping with
the six percent per year system
of salary increases for other
county employees.
Stanley Township Deputy
Reeve Anson McKinley said that
if council had taken the six
percent raise every year since the
last raise five or six years ago,
the per diem rate would far
exceed $25 per day. Oliver
Jaques, Hensall, said for a man
attempting to hold down a job,
he was "losing money at the
present rate."
Reeve John Flannery,
Seaforth, reminded council that
the average wage in Hurn
County was $1,000 below the
provincial average.
Warden Hayter explained that
it costs the county about
$35,000 per year for the 38 men
and women who serve the
county as councillors. He noted
that some individual men in the
county are making "almost that
much" and compared the
salaries of board of education
members at $1,800 per annum -
to county councillors' average
wage of $000 per member hist
year.
The bus trip to Toronto led
to another discussion started by
Reeve Boyle who called it a
"waste of the taxpayers'
money" and "utterly
ridieulous." He predicted the
taxpayers would be "pretty
bitter about it."
Boyle said he was not only
opposed to the bus trip to
Toronto but any bus trip which
it a "social event at the expense
of the ratepayers."
Clerk John Berry announced
the trip to Toronto would
include 40 free tickets to see a
hockey game at Maple Leaf
Gardens "at no expense to the
county!' Results of a Vote
showed 82 members in favor of
the trip and four against.
"That's three more votes than
I got last year," commented
Boyle.
The salary of construction
safety insPecter Everett Smith
Was increased to $5,300. Mr.
Smith asked fOr co -Operation in
the matter of prompting
municipal clerks to advise hirti of
building projects in progress
throughout the cot; ray,
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Head office for schools
be in CHSS here
The administrative offices of
the Huron County Board of
Education will be in Central
Huron , Secondary School,
Clinton.
The decision to renovate
unused space at the high school
and open the head office here
Ontario Street
Church is site
of prayer day
The World Day of Prayer for
1969 will be observed in Clinton
on Friday at Ontario Street
United Church. The March 7
program starts at 2 p.m. and will
have as its theme, "Growing
Together in Christ."
Mrs. L. W. Hibbert of Clinton
will be guest speaker. The
theme, scripture readings and
prayers were proposed by
women from Sierra Leone,
Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa,
the Congo, Zambia and Kenya
and were coordinated by the
Department on Home and
Family of the All -African
Church Conference.
The World Day of Prayer is a
day set apart for prayer by the
women of the world. On this
day, they join in a special
service, remembering before God
the needs of all people.
Last year, the service was
held in more than 3,000
communities across Canada and
in more than 140 nations.
Offerings given at the local
service will support the
preparation and distribution of
large quantities of Christian
literature in Canada and
overseas. They will also assist in
sponsoring broadcast
announcements, film strips and
posters.
Convenors of the program
here note that the day is an
important one in today's world
and they invite every woman in
the district to share in the
prayers and commitment of the
women of the world.
Clinton men hurt
in fatal crash
Injuries sustained in a
car -truck collision south of
Wingham Saturday took the life
Monday morning of a university
exchange student from Hong
Kong. Two Clinton men were
among five other persons hurt in
the accident.
The dead student, Joseph Lo,
20, was admitted to Wingham
and District Hospital with a
fractured skull. • He was
Unconscious and in critical
condition when he reached the
hospital.
Another student, Paul Tse,
22, has been released from
hospital. Both attended
McMaster University, Hamilton,
and were passengers in a car
driven by Nelson Eby, 50, also
of Hamilton, Mr. Eby was
treated for minor injuries and
released soon after the accident.
Driver of the truck, Harry
Brown, 54, of Clinton, is in
Clinton Public Hospital with leg
and knee fractures.
A passenger in the one-half
ton pickup truck owned by
Lavis Contracting Co. of
Clinton, James Patterson of
Clinton, was treated for a cut ear
and released from the hospital
after the crash.
Provincial police said the car
was travelling west on Highway
86 bound for Mr. Eby's Lake
Huron cottage. The truck was
southbound on Highway 4. Both
vehicles were heavily damaged.
A Lavis spokesman said this
week that Mr. Brown is
employed by the contracting
company.He did not say how
Mr. Patterson came tO be riding
in the truck.
The GOderich Detachment,
Ontario Provincial Pence,
reported three other crashes in
the distriet during the week
ended March lst. None involved
injuries. -
Cars,driven by Eva
Darnbrougand Jean M. Leavety
of Bayfteld were involved in a
collision TueSday, Feb. 25, on
County Road 13, east of County
Road 31, in Goderich Townthip,
Total damage was estimated at
$1,000.
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was reached in an 8-6 vote an
paper ballots at a meeting in
CHSS Monday night. _
In picking the Clinton site
over one in Goderich, the
14 -member elected board
rejected the unanimous
recommendation of its three
newly hired top administrators
who wanted the office located
on the now -vacant second floor
of the new Huron County
Administrative (Assement
Dept.) Building.
The search for office space
started soon after the board
took control of the county's
schools last December_ and
climaxed in recent weeks with
hours of debate by board
members. Clinton, Goderich and
Seaforth each sought the board
offices, though the choice was
narrowed to the county building
and the high school before the
deciding vote,
The discussion preceding
Monday's ballot began with
John Cochrane, director of
education, announcing that one
contractor estimated the cost of
renovations at $23,200 without
air conditioning which would
add another $3,000. A second
estimate was not ready by the
time the board met.
It was later learned that a
good-sized chunk of the expense
will go toward relocating a lab,
one of the school's oldest, and
Will give the students a new
facility as well as make space
available to the board of
education.
The board offices will be in
what was the main building
originally and is now the
southeastern wing of the
expanded high school plant on
Princess street. The wing has
three floors, one partially below
ground and two above. The
board plans to occupy the
western side of the second floor,
Space is available in the
school because enrollment is
below 1,000, although 1,400
students can be accommodated
in the school.
CHSS was not among the
sites first considered by the
board. It was suggested as an
office site only two weeks ago
by Robert Elliott, of Goderich
Township, vice-chairman, who
said the board could save money
by using one of its own buildings
rather than renting space
elsewhere.
Following the board's
approval of the site this week,
Mr. Cochrane was given
authorization to retain the
architectural firm of Paige and
Steele, who designed the most
recent addition to CHSS, to
draw plans for the renovation
needed.
As News -Record urged
It was agreed that the project
will have to be put out for
tenders and it was reported that
approval of the fire marshall is
needed on changes in the
building, No date was given for
completion of the work.
The board has been using
space in the Ontario Dept. of
Education offices in the county
courthouse at Goderich, but will
have to vacate those rooms .at
the end of the month when the
province will close the office and
remove furniture, according to
James Coulter,now an area
superintendent for the province
and soon to be on the county
system payroll as assistant
superintendent.
Mr. Cochrane was empowered
Monday to find temporary
accommodation. It was
suggested that CHSS can be
used, if the renovation is
scheduled so that one end of the
wing is finished first. Another
proposal was for temporary use
of the nurses' residence at
Clinton Public Hospital.
Mr. Elliott provided the main
arguments in favor of the CHSS
offices and, in brief presented
Monday, asserted that a total of
about $25,000 can be saved over
five years if the board used the
high school for offices.
After five years, the savings
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Three municipalities study
ioint waste disposal plan
Officials of Goderich
Township and the towns of
Clinton and Goderich are
studying the possibility of a
central sanitary landfill
operation to dispose of garbage
from all three municipalities, it
was learned late last week.
Such a move was urged by
The News -Record in a Feb. 13
editorial which contended that a
joint project might be the best
answer to disposal problems
faced by the neighboring
communities.
The talks began informally,
without the exchange of letters
or invitations by the councils.
One Goderich town councillor
complained last week that five
of his colleagues met with
officials of the other
governments without
authorization to do so.
Coun. Paul Carroll said the
meeting was in direct violation
of the Municipal Act and called
the actions of the five Goderich
town councillors "reprehensible
and unconstitutional."
Goderich was warned last
month that provincial health
authorities will take action to
force closing of the town dump
by the end of March unless
agreement is reached on a new
site by then. The present dunaT
beside the Maitland River
has-
been condemned by • local and
county health officials.
Clinton's open dump is also
likely to come in for criticism by
the province and, in any event, is
said to have room for only
another year's use.
The Clinton dump is situated
a short distance east of Highway
4 north of town in Hullett
Township. Raw garbage is left
uncovered and frequently
catches fire. There is no
enclosure and refuse is spread
over a wide area.
Prior to last week's meetings,
Clinton officials were not known
to have made any efforts to find
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Minister sees regional centre
replacing old jail in Goderich
Huron County has at least
five years to wait for regional
government, according to
Charles S. MacNaughton,
minister of economics and
treasurer of Ontario.
Replying to questions at the
Town of Clinton Industrial
Committee's annual dinner last
month, Mr. MacNaughton gave
the five-year estimate for overall
regional government, but
intimated that the county jail at
Goderich may be replaced by a
regional detention centre
sometime sooner.
Clinton Reeve James
Armstrong, a member of county
council's property committee,
mentioned the jail in asking Mr.
MacNaughton whether the
county should undertake major
repairs of its facilities now or
await the province's plans for
regional government.
The minister said that
existing jails are already slated
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Clinton's town dump advances on wooded arca
as waif or refuse creeps closer to the site's
capacity. Offidials eXpect the dump to be usable
for only another year - and proVineial regulationt
may force its closing Oen Avner- With that
prospect in mind, the town. last Week met with
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representatives of Goderich Township and the
Town ni Goderich to explore possibilities for a
jointly operated sanitary landfill. Present disposal
operation is en open dump with raw garbage left
uncovered. - Staff Photo