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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-03-13, Page 1i nton N ews- Recor� :area Jennison, last year's queen, crowns her successor, Bev Lee, uring Central Huron Secondary School's At Home dance last :riday night. Bill Vincent, Miss Lee's escort, stands at left. Photo by Jack Hunt CHSS At Home is 'super success' BY LYNDA HILL, CHSS • Last Friday night, many eople from the Clinton area sok an unscheduled trip. They ent to Hawaii. Not really, but ley did the next best ung --they went to Central Duron Secondary School's At .ome. The dance, sponsored by the tudent's Council, featured ionel Thorton's orchestra, and ras attended by many students, raduates, teachers and lterested local residents. Before examinations, which Carted February 27, students fere busy making props and lanning the decor. As soon. as tie exams were over, two days efore the formal, about 75 :udents worked full-time trying o complete the decorations in me for Friday night. It was a big job! The most ogenious features of the Iawaiian setting were an active olcano and a running waterfall. leveral murals, painted by the tudents, and soft lights added or a romantic Hawaiian theme. Voting for School Queen was The first column • Five Clinton men and their vives attended the four-day Ontario Municipal Electric llssociation convention in Coronto last week. Hal E. Hartley, Charles 3rown and John Wise, • all nembers of the local Public Utilities. Commission, were lelegates to the convention and were accompanied by Gus poussey, PUC manager, and Mayor Donald Symons. Among the topics in business 'iessions anddiscussions for the more than 1,000 OMEA delegates were environmental pollution, electrical leving and regional government.• * Chief Lloyd Westlake announced this week that Clinton police will use radar after dark in an attempt to cut down nightime speeding. "We are doing this," he said, "to try to slow traffic down and will be using the radar apparatus in various plates." * * * Police in Clinton are looking for a thief who has some heavy lifting te, do -- two powerful jacks were stolen from service Stations in town last Thursday night or Friday morning, Taken by the burglars were a 12 -ton hydraulic unit front .I. and T. Murphy, Ltd:, Huron Street, and a 10.5 -ton jack from Hap MCAlpine's On Victoria Street. In another theft, one discovered last Monday, the Legion Hall's lost a pole lamp valued at $5, police said. * Weathetth Page 10 again this year a very difficult task. Five girls were nominated: Diane Carter, Wendy Holmes, Pat Tebbutt, of grade 12; Pat Holmes and Bev Lee, of grade 13. The student body was introduced to these girls at an assembly on Thursday, and voted • for them on Friday, morning. At midnight, Karen Jennison, last year's queen, placed the tiara on the radiant Bev Lee. Each of the girls was presented with gifts donated by Bail and Mutch Furniture, The Clinton News -Record, Fairholme Dairy, Galbraith Radio and TV., Bartliff's Bakery, Lori Lyn Beauty I:aunge, Aiken Brothers, Herman's Men's Wear, McAdam Hardware, Beattie Furniture, Stedman's, Lee's Ladies' Wear, Clinton Meat Market, and Lobb's Shoe Store. The tiara was donated by Anstett Jewellers. The queen and her escort led the others in the next dance. The At Home was again a super -success, and, as a follow up, the Students' Council is now planning a spring prom. CLINTON, ONT.ARiO— THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1969 PRICE PEP COPY 12c Town hires planners, prepares zoning bylaw In deciding this week .to hire planning consultants to lay groundwork for passage of a zoning bylaw, Clinton's Town Council and its appointed planning board took the first big step toward regulating land use and assuring orderly growth for the town. After a presentation by Bud Kuehl, planning board chairman, and R. J. Boussey, secretary.treasurer, the councillors voted to retain Dryden and Smith Planning Consultants, of Kitchener, to. work with the local board to. survey and .map the town, decide on land use recommendations and draft a proposed zoning bylaw. • The planning board leaders indicated that most of the work will be finished this year and that the cost through the end of, 1969 will total about $5,200. Of the total, $3,600 is for the basic study , by Dryden and Smith, the balance for meetings with the consultants, legal fees and other expenses, for the basic study by Dryden and Smith, the balance for meetings with the consultants, legal fees and other expenses. The end result will be akin to an official plan, but it is the Start search for new doctor The board of trustees of Clinton Public Hospital this week received the town council' guarantee of financial support for a committee set up to investigate the possibility of getting another doctor to establish a practice in the town. Orville L. Engelstad, hospital administrator, sent the council a letter which was read at Monday night's meeting in Town Hall. Mr. Engelstad said the hospital board is setting up the special committee with one member of the hospital board, one representative of town council and two members of the hospital medical staff. Council quicklyindicated it backs the plan for a committee and appointed Reeve. James Armstrong to work with the group. The reeve last month was named as the council's representative on the hospital board as well. The councillors agrees to share with the hospital board any reasonable costs incurred in the committee's work. The moves by town officials come as a result of last month's announcement by Dr. J. A. Addison that he would retire from general practise in June after 28 years in town. Several local residents have reminded the , council that although six doctors have served the Clinton area, two are specialists who do not engage in full-time general practise. The council received a letter from the Clinton Kinette Club which said the "future doctor shortage" will leave Clinton in a "very serious position .... more so than some people realize." Two local women appeared at the last council meeting to urge action to find a new doctor as soon as possible. They pointed Preacher, topics named for Renewal Week here. Renewal '69 moves into the preaching phase with a Renewal Week in Clinton starting Sunday. The Rev. Jerome Stowell, a Passionist priest, will be the preacher at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church here. "Change in the World and Change in the Church", "The Knowledge Explosion and Its Influence," "Can the Church Today be Relevant," "The God of Promises and Future," and "Modern Christian Families" are among the contemporary themes that will be subject matter for sermons next week. Father Stowell is one of 20 renewal preachers from throughout Canada and the U.S. participating in the week-long programs in 90 Roman Catholic parishes in western Ontario. Twenty Protestant Churches are also participating. The renewal preachers have been astonished at the interest shown by Roman Catholics in the Renewal '69 program being carried out in Western Ontario. Already two regions have participated in a renewal week, the Lambton County churches, which was an interfaith effort, and the RC Churches in Kent County. Currently, the roving theologians are in Norfolk and Please turn to Page 7 dwarfed ,by a bright, shiny and brand OW pumper delivered Tuesday afternoon, Clinton's 1028 fire truck stood forlornly but briefly in the Shadow of its replacement before it was retired and temporarily placed in a storage, weary and old with service, but atdl travelling bn its Original set of tires. The new truck is designed specially to serve not only the town, but those part's of Goderieh, Hullett, Stanley and Tuc ersmith Townships Served by the fire brigade. Other pictures and details on page .Staff Photo, out that dependents of all the military personnel at CFB Clinton rely on the town for health services and voiced concern in particular about summer months when vacations will take one or more of the doctors out of town. There are now three doctors in town on call for emergencies at the hospital. One of them is Dr. Addison, who also is among the general practitioners who administer anesthetics at the hospital which lacks a certified anesthetist. Mayor Donald Symons said Monday that the council appreciates the fact that people are aware of the medical situation and added, "I think things are progressing well." • 4-H clubs organize in county This year's Huron County 4-H agricultural clubs will all be organized next week. The clubs are open to young men and women who were at least 12 years old last January 1 and who will not reach their 21st birthday by December 31 of this year. The 1969 4-11 program will include two conservation clubs in Huron County — the one in this area sponsored by the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority and directed by Ken Musclow with Don Lobb of RR 2, Clinton, as volunteer club leader. Age limits are 16-21 for these clubs. There will also be a single countywide farm and home electric club open to those between 16 and 21. For further details about times and locations of the 4-H organizational meetings,, consult the advertisement appearing elsewhere in this newspaper. The conservation clubs hope to focus attention on the need for good conservation practices and to develop an understanding of the significance of forests, soil, water, fish . and other wildlife in our modern economy. The club starts in May and ends in August and will include field trips, discussions and possibly participation in a conservation camp. The electric club will be sponsored by Ontario Hydro and its basic objectives will be to create a better understanding of next week the application and uses of electricity on the farm and in the farm home and also to study safe use of electricity. A summary of the 4-H agricultural clubs follows: BEEF OR DAIRY CATTLE CLUB — Feed and care for one calf during the club year. Junior heifer, born between Jan. 1 and May 1, 1969. Senior heifer, born between July 1 and Dec. 31, 1968. Baby beef steers and heifers for market purposes are in this age group. SWINE CLUB — Feed and care for a pair of weanling gilts, or members may enroll in a market hog club with a minimum of five market hogs. FIELD CROP CLUBS — Members must seed and care for one acre of corn, forage of white beans. MULTI -PROJECT CLUBS — Members may take up to three different projects within the same club, TRACTOR MAINTENANCE — Keep records of cost of operating and maintaining the farm tractor during the club year. Study economical tractor operation and maintenance and learn how to make minor adjustments. SENIOR PROJECTS •—• Besides conservation and electric clubs already outlined, there will be an engineering club to study buildings and machinery. The county programme will include 44I picnics, bus tours, field days and judging competitions. planning board's suggestion that the town stop short of an official plan which is registered with the province and can be changed only with provincial approval. The contract with the consultants calls for billing on a monthly basis according to actual cost. The $3,600 is a maximum amount, The town can decide to drop the project at any time and will pay only for the work already done, according to Mr. Kuelhl. Mr. Kuehl and Mr. Boussey said the town will not be wasting money or effort by starting its own land use study when Huron County is ready to do the same sort of work for .the whole county. It may wart; the other way, they said, with Clinton benefiting more from the county project because it will be able to Please turn to Page•? mcAOAM HARDWARE MARTIN $INOUR Gene McAdam and a pair of co-workers make like barbers, "taking a little off the top" of the McAdam Hardware store at 24 Albert St., Clinton. The old sloping roof which dumped snow on passerby is being removed to reveal a new, steel supported one built beneath it during the last few weeks. General improvement project also involves replacement of second floor with steel beams and new decking, removal of old wiring and elimination of old false ceilings. The store will close Saturday for two weeks to allow removal of a first -floor wall dividing the store in two from front and back. —Staff Photo. Hold Huron farm confab in in Clinton March 19-22 The Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association is sponsoring a three-day agricultural conference in Clinton, beginning Wednesday with a warble control symposium. The two-hour program starts at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, in the Legion Hall. Speakers include Don Pullen, county agricultural representative, as chairman; Jim Knight, president of the soil and crop improvement association and three chemical company representatives with films, slides and tape recordings. The windup of the symposium will be a discussion led by Dr. R. F. Roelofson, Exeter veterinarian, and open to all beef and dairy cattle owners. An estate planning seminar will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, with the guest speaker expected to be D. A. McArthur, head of the Farm Business Management Division, Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. Ladies are invited. The Friday schedule starts at 11 a.m. with Thomas Clapp, associate ag. rep. for Huron, as chairman. The topic will be livestock feed handling and preparation systems and the speakers include an engineering specialist from the agricultural college at Ridgetown. There will also be films, exhibits, farm safety, with a demonstration by Hal Wright, provincial farm safety specialist. Following a noon lunch sponsored by the soil and crop improvement association, there will be a four-part program . on harvesting, processing, storage and distribution. Engineering, soils and crop specialists will talk and lead workshop sessions. A corn planter and sprayer symposium will be held at Centralia College, Huron Park, next Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. G. S. (Bert) Moggach will be chairman of the event to be held in Huron Hall. Topics include planting machinery and various aspects, of seed sizing, selection and treatment. Speakers will be from major equipment manufacturers, chemical companies and seed suppliers. Lunch will be available for those who purchase $1 tickets at the registration desk. A number of Canadian chemical companies will have exhibits set up and representatives on hand for individual discussions of herbicides and insecticides. Merchants become teachers for two weeks Quite a few Clinton stores have been used as classrooms the last two weeks. But it isn't due to any crisis in the schools. In fact, it is becoming an annual event which goes unnoticed by most people. It's part •- an important part to two dozen teenagers this year -- of a vocational training program at Central Secondary School. George Cull, co-ordinator of the six$year-old CHSS occupations course, describes it as a two-year program for both boys and girls. Combining practical and academic work, its aim is to teach transferable work skills and ready the graduates for the job market, though not always for any specific trade. Students in the occupations course are allowed to seek jobs and leave school at the end of the second term, early hi April this year. But first, they all spend two weeks actually working in a local business. The school finds the jobs for the students and makes ail arrangements with ' the "employers." The young men and women Work during normal school hours, and receive no pay, The businessmen find themselves not only offering instructions and guidance, but filling out evaluation reports on the students ability in various tasks, attitude, punctuality, honesty, personal appearance and other factors vital to getting and keeping regulate jobs; Occasionally the temporary job leads to a full-time position, but that's not the main goal. Mr. Cull stresses that what counts is having enough employers cooperating to place all the students each year and trying to place them in jobs suited to their skills and interests. In school, practical training for boys involves work in welding, carpentry, shoe repair, paint and decoration, auto service, sheet metal, horticulture and small motors. Girls learn beauty culture, hospital services, homemaking, restaurant services, sewing and retail merchandising. This year's , class has girls working at Le Patrician Hairstyling, Lori -Lyn Beauty Lounge, Edith Anne Hair Fashions, Bartliff Bakery, Ltd., and Huronview, all in Clinton. Other "employers" include Alexandra Marine and General Hospital, Lakeview Restaurant and Maitland Manor Nursing Home in Goderich South Huron Hospital, Exeter; and Superior Foodmarket and Kilbarclian Nursing Home in Seaforth. Boys are working at Bali -Macaulay Building Supplies, Cooke Florist, McAdam' Itardware, Ringsweil Welding, Lorne Brown Motors, Doty's- Su ertest and Groves and Son TV in Clinton. Other employers are Dominion Road Machinery Co, and Argyle Marine and Small ]Jngines in Goderich and twli Seaforth companies, Huron and Fabricators and Seaforth Motors. Clinton participants in past` years include, Clinton Body and Radiator Shop, Clinton Laundry and Dry Cleaning, Hearn Wholesale, Wise Plumbing and Heating, Ball and Mutch Hardware, IGA Food Store, Slater's IGA, Wells Auto Electric, Charles House of Beauty, Clinton Public Hospital and Stedman's. Also, Goderich Manufacturing, Ontario Hospital, Akromold and Goderich Nursing Home, all in Goderich; Leo's Plumbing in Zurich; Seaforth Community Hospital, Wilkinson's IGA, Seaforth Manor Nursing Home, all in Seaforth; Cameo Hairstyles in Brussels, and three Exeter companies, Tuckey Beverages, Chainway and Green's Variety. Peter Kakak-eyash of Sioux' L. o. okou t, Ont. (Peter iS studying here through an arrangement made by the Dept. of Indian Affairs) and Tim Sheardown of Goderich load sheets' of plywood onto a truck' at Bail -Macaulay Building Supplies in Clinton, directed by Royce Macaulay, centre, one of the • Many local businessMen co.operating with OHSS to provide work experience to students in the school's decapations coarse. —Staff Pho'fo