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Clinton News-Record, 1969-04-24, Page 11().4th YEAR— NQ. 17 pPERecord ,ON.TARI.Q THL)13.5P.AY„ APRIL 24, 1969 PRICE PER COPY 15c • POp., EPPPp,_- "C ICING ss,r Ne 'griring la4e n VICTORIA ST, HWY, NO. 4 n News -Record Sketch / April 1969 30 MPH HOTEL CLINTON Rad1.4r Amp, "14 SitQ and paik -'011/11, No rnirliinr. ,a1•111=1, Traffic pattern at main corner• to change Clinton plans to revamp its nain intersection — a key :rossroads in Huron County -- uld the $45,000 project holds he promise of several bonuses or the town. Not only will traffic flow more smoothly and with added afety at the meeting of ighways 4 and 8, but there will e new paving, sidewalks, street fights and a grassy centre island s a site for the radar antenna hich was CFB Clinton's centennial year gift to the community. Final plans for the reconstruction were prepared by B. M. Ross and Associates, Goderich consulting engineers, using a traffic pattern ordered ' by the Ontario Dept. of Highways. Cost to the town is expected to be about $18,000, plus the price of 24 mercury vapor streetlights. Work can start whenever the province approves the grant. The first column A reminder — The Clinton u b I ic Hospital Women's uxiliary is holding its craft and obby exhibition in esley-Villis United Church om 7 to 10 p.m. tomorrow and om 2 to 10 p.m. on Saturday. With 55 exhibitors from ross Huron County, there iould be something to interest reryone in the farriily. If the number of latecomers church services increases this inday, don't be surprised -- it ill be only the people who rgot to shift their clocks to aylight Savings Time before Aug to sleep Saturday night.To e on time Sunday, remember •ie key, "spring ahead, fall ack" and move your clocks lead one hour. Our apologies to Dave Beattie id Don Kay, membeis of the Linton Industrial Committee, hose names were omitted last eek in an editorial which =Mended the committee for s successful efforts in attracting new industry to town. * Application forma for the nsm en Minor Baseball rogram for boys 9 to 12 have een left at local schools and ick Kush, this year's thairtnan, *Ts they must be returned by morrow, Mr. Kush hopes to aye the first games• a week from aturdtiy. * * The Huron=1"erth Separate chool Board last week decided defer for at least one year a indergarten class in •St. Joseph's chool, Clinton. Weather T966 1968 HI LOW HI LOW 56 49 40 85 67 50 60 21 63 49 67 41 63 40 66 47 41 30 61 37 54 27 63 42 60 89 60• 48 Rain 1.00" Rain Mary Street is to be extended east across King Street to Victoria Street (Highway 4) and traffic will be restricted to a one-way U -pattern at the north ends and intersections of King and Isaac Streets. The triangular plot on which the radar antenna will be placed narrows to a peninsular strip which will cut off direct access from King Street to the Colin highway. A 55 -foot concrete from the divider on Highway 4, south of the main corner, will keep northbound cars from turning left into Isaac Street. New traffic lights will hang out over the traffic lanes and at least two lights will face in each direction. King Street will be widened south of Mary Street to provide a paved parking lane near the post office. 'Trivers, an engineer Ross firm, said parking wifl be prohibited on the west side of Victoria Street opposite the Clinton Hotel, but more parking will be provided on King Street where parallel spaces will be shifted to angled slots. The net result will be a gain of from three to five parking spaces, he said. The curb in front of the Bank of Montreal will be moved a bit closer to the building line, but . „tittle change can be made on the ..1:111110.111•11MINMIIIMMINIIIMMINI•11111•01111111W other corners because the buildings stand so near the street already, Mr. Trivers said. Another item he noted was that hedging or an evergreen screen is to be planted along the island at the end of King Street. The screen, he explained, will aid motorists heading south on Highway 4 because it will block the headlights of cars travelling north on King Street. AMIIMM■10. County school board to decide: Kindergarten for Goderich, Colborne Twps? Kindergarten classes may be started next fall in the four areas of Huron County now without them, but the board of education will make no decision until James Coulter, superintendent of schools, furnishes cost estimates and a firm recommendation next week. Without kindergartens, Mr. Coulter told the board at a meeting in Clinton Monday evening, are the townships of Colborne, Goderich and Grey and Huron School Area No. 2 which takes in Ashfield and West Wawanosh. Even if kindergarten classes are opened in those places, Mr. Coulter noted, there Still will be four different kindergarten systems within the county; (1) full days every other day with transportation both ways; (2) half-day every day without transportation; (3) half-day with one-way transportation and (4) half-day with transportation to school and home again. An example of the problems the board faces in planning to meet 'future needs was provided by an informal survey of potential kindergarten pupils in each of the four areas now without kindergarten. The following figures show the number of children eligible for kindergarten in each township next fall and for the succeeding four years: Colborne Township -- 35, 32, 23, 16,12; Goderich Township -- 26, 28, 16, 22, 15; Grey Township -- 42, 39, 19, 26, 33; Ashfield and West Wawanosh -- 56, 32, 31, 26, 21. After lengthy discussions of various ways to set up the proposed new kindergarten classes, Mr. Coulter indicated that he favoured plans which would require use of two portable classrooms and the hiring of an additional 3.5 Cost of offices at CHSS is more than When the Hurn County Board of Education opened tenders Monday evening, the price of converting space at Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, into offices for the school system's central staff was found to be "cOnsiderably higher than anticipated," in the words of John Lavis, board ehairman. Mr. Lavis said tenders were opened at the board's closed.door session prior to the regular meeting. He refused to disclose the names of bidders, the amounts or Lenders submitted or the original estimate of Paige and Steele, architects for the planned renOVation, The board chairman would say only that the architects will be instructed to try to negotiate a reduction in the lowest tender. To release details now would not be in the beard's beat interests, Mr, Lavis added, When the board lad Month decided U establish its head expected office in Clinton, one contractor whoSe name was net disclosed was said to have estimated the cost Of renovation at $23,200, without air conditioning Which reportedly cost about $3,000 m ore. The board subsequently authorized relOcation of a science lab at a cost of $3,131. That work is finished, The plan is to convert surplus Space on a single floor in one wing at CH88. into administrative offices and a board 'meeting room. The spate ,is available because the school's capaeity is 1,400 students and enrollment is below 1,000, Serving temporarily as a head office ate the former quarters of the Ontario Dept, of Education in the Huron County Court House at Ooderich, The Education Dept, is leaving its furnishings through the end of June, the county is charging $100 a month tent and the sebool board has installed- a new telephone. teachers. All the kindergarten schemes considered involve half-day programs. Where portable classro9ms would be used, older students would be shifted into them from permanent buildings so that the kindergarten pupils would be closer to washrooms and drinking fountains, Mr. Coulter explained. There will be an estimated 42 children in the Grey Central School area eligible for kindergarten in September and nine more near the school of Walton -- enough to warrant two classes, the school superintendent said. One way to accommodate all of them would be Lo installa portable classroom at the central school. Because the Brussels kindergarten is used only half a day now and because there is room at Walton for a kindergarten class, it would also be possible to use existing buildings and split the group. Although there are only 32-35 children eligible for kindergarten in Colborne, Mr. Coulter said the number is too large for one class and again there are'two ways to house two classes. A portable classroom would provide the needed space, or the central school's present student Please turn to page 3 Central staff of 17 seen for schools John Cochrane, Huron County's director of education, envisions a 17 -member administrative staff for the school system and the board of education on Monday night approved an organizational chart based on that number of head Office staffers. Six of the 17 have been hired already and applications are being sought for three more openings. The remaining positions will be filled when the need develops, Mr. Cochrane said. Already appointed or on the payroll besides Mr. Cochrane are a business administrator, school superintendent, two assistant superintendents and a secretary. The board has advertised for applicants for the positions of plant superintendent, chief accountant and office manager (one job) and manager of purchasing and servites, The chart calls for eventual creation of eight more jobs: a secretary -receptionist; two aceOu n Li ng clerks, a payroll supervisor and Tour clerk,typists. The board also 'ladled a nine -member vocational advisory committee and replaced two Of the five members Of the newiy named arbitration cornmittee. Board Chairman John Lois will head the vocational panel which will include Gordon W. Muir of Goderich, W. N. Counter or Clinton, Lorne Kleinstiber or Dash wood (representing the Exeter district) and Richard Wehmeyer of Wingham. Also on the (ternroittee will be four board inemberS: Mrs. Marilyn 1nder, Sea rort,h;. John Broadfoot, RR, 1. Brucefield; Gordon Moir of Gorrie and Garnet Hicks, RR 3, Exeter. The vocational advisory committee's du ties are to commence Sept, 1, the board decided. Both Barry Wenger of Wingham and Ronald Menzies of Goderich resigned .from the arbitration panel - Mr Menzies for personal reasons and Mr. Wenger because of his appointments as chairman of Wingham's hospital board. James Kinkead of Goderich was selected as one replacement on the committee and the name of the other, a Wingham man, was witheld until he is contacted and his availability assured. The arbitrator's basic role will be to apportion the school budget among the towns and township in the county - taking into account the assets and liabilities of each unit when it joined the county school system. A township which came into the county school system with a heavy debenture debt may have to pay a higher mill rate than a township with no debt, for example, and these questions will be settled by the arbitratorS. In other business Monday, the board: AUTHORIZED Mr. Cochrane to attend the first annual conference of the Association of Directors of Education ih Orillia May 26.28, AGPIE,I) to advertise fon tenders on demolition Of the former Neil 13el1 Shell Nervite Station on Highway 8 in Seeforth and real o unked cart from the bOard-owned land. APPROVED a policy under which a teacher may be granted a two-year leave of absence with the guarantee of an equivalent job on his or her return, Please turn to page 12 Cardiff dead at 77, was MP 25 years Lewis Elston Cardiff, Conservative MP for Huron County for 25 years, died in St. Joseph's Hospital, London, April 16. Ile was 77. A friend and constant supporter of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, Mr. Cardiff was first elected to Parliament in 1940. At that time, he represented the old federal riding of Huron North. He continued 'to win election after election even after the riding was merged into the new Huron -Perth area. Mr. Cardiff was born in Brussels and lived there for most of his life. On retirement from public service in 1965, he returned from Ottawa to live in Brussels, moving to 445 Elizabeth Street, Listowel, about a year ago. Mr. Cardiff is survived by his wife, the former Mrs. Alice McFadden, two sons," Clarke of Angelmont, B.C. and Ross of Brussels; a daughter, Mrs. Dean (Leota) Davison of Listowel; and a step -son, David McFadden of Toronto. Mr. Cardiff was chief government whip in 1957 and 1958 during the Diefenbaker administration. He also was parliamentary secretary to D. S. Harkness, minister of agriculture in 1959 and 1960. Mr. and Mrs. Cardiff had returned from Florida April 11. The funeral service was held at the United Church, Brussels, at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, with Rev. Alan Johnston officiating. Interment was in Brussels Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were: The Honorable Charles MacNaughton, treasurer of Ontario and minister of economics; Honorable ' Waldo Montieth, Conservative MP for Perth; Eric Winkler, MPP; Murray Gaunt, MPP; Robert McKinley, MP,; Glen Hays, provincial judge and John White. Active pallbearers were George Feagan, Gordon McGavin, Russell Bolton, Ted Thomas, Selwyn Baker and Lloyd Michel Red Cross collects 226 units of bio "Give the gift of life," the Red Cross asks -- and 266 people answered the call at a blood donor clinic at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton on Monday. The success of the transfusion service team's visit to Clinton was due largely to the turnout of students -- 169 -- many of whom were first-time donors. Boosting the total to one of the best ever in Clinton were 97 teachers, and others who work or live in and around Clinton. J. W. Routledge, director of blood donor services for the London Area Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society, was in charge of the clinic here and voiced his thanks to Mrs. Doug Andrews and her 22 volunteers who aided the 12 Red Cross staffers. Volunteers who worked in shifts during the day included Mrs. Alan Haddy, Mrs. Wes Haddy, Mrs. Milton Steep, 1VIrs. Gordon Herman, Mrs. Robert Burke, Mrs. Don McLean, Mrs. Maynard Corrie, Mrs, Carl Powell, Mrs. Anson Colman, Mrs, George Wonch, Mrs. William Managhan, Mrs. William Cook, Mrs. J. Semenick, Mrs. C. Magee, Mrs. S. Mason, Mrs. John Wise, Mrs. Jack Irwin, Mrs. Aubrey Langdon, Mrs. Phil :White, Mrs. Ron McCann, Mrs. Don Eastman and Mrs. Ken Stephenson. ,l,k1vrt9' `: yr?, '44.-ehk ‘otAi ,odmo,o, ,;;;,,,,,„•t1 • 160 cHS 8 gtutrENts DONATab- gLoob At fl8tY CP OS CLINIC MONDAY