HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-05-29, Page 1Parade starts. Saturday events at Clinton's 1.115th annual. spring fair
The Clinton i . pr ng Fair, Western (MOO'S largest livesteek
ed a is 1 t secretary. of the
exhibit, will be open...... . ff'.Tai Y by `Ed Star, .
Qntario .Agricultural :Society, at ceremonies following a parade to
the Community Centre at 1 p•m.;a Week from Saturday.
,Leaving from the Legion Hall on Kirk Street, the parade will be
the n f re truck,m e line o ch will
led by two o bands.and h... taw.... ► . l h ... f mar..
be decorated bicycles .and floats. Any exhibitor with livestock is
welcome O participate and the Huron Central Agricultural Society is
still looking for more floats, according to R, M. Gibbings of RR I.,
Clinton, society secretary -treasurer,
There will be more than 30 prides in various classes for parade
entries, including floats, bicycles and clown or cartoon characters.
Mayor Don E, Symons, in a message thanking the agricultural
society for the work which makes the 115th .annual show possible,
.said in part:
"We extend a cordial and sincere welcome to the exhibitors and
visitors who are participating in the fair and visiting our town. Your
column
wlumn
The first
With the first installment on
property taxes usually .due at the
end of June, town officials are
waiting anxiously for budget
data from the Huron County
Board of Education and the
Huron -Perth Separate School
Board, Neither school board has
yet told council what share of
their budget must be raised by
the town and the result is that
the town cannot set its 1969
mill rate.
* * *
Steven Truscott, in prison for
nearly 10 years for slaying
12 -year-old Lynne Harper when
he was 14, becomes eligible for
parole in two weeks.
* * *
Adoption of a tougher canine
bylaw in the Town of . Clinton
earlier this month has resulted in
a record number of dog tags
being issued — no less than three
of them to town councillors
whose own pets were not
licensed before.
John Livermore, town
clerk -treasurer, says he gave out
40 or more tags in just two days
last week and 'the total so far
this year is running 20 per cent
over 1968.
And at least one stray was
taken to the public works garage
and shot early Monday after
police satisfied themselves that
no one owned the animal.
Whether it was intended as an
example to other homeless dogs
or just an oversight, we don't
know, but the dog's bloody
body was still tied to a piece of
machinery and lying beside the
garage Tuesday afternoon.
* * *
Tenders for reconstruction of
-Clinton's main intersection will
be received by .the town council
Tuesday afternoon and a special
meeting will be • called to
consider the bids.
* * *
Clare Proctor has been
elected president of the Clinton
Teen Town, succeeding Bob
Cooperwho will serve as vice
president this year.
Nancy Pickett was elected
secretary and Steve MacDonald
is the new treasurer, +i
The Teen Town is presenting
The Mandela, billed as "Canada's
top musical group," at the dance
this Saturday evening at the
Clinton Community Centre.
* * *
Stedman's is refurbishing its
storefront and putting up a hew
sign. The remodeled store next
to Stedman's will be occupied
sometime this summer by a
business which plans a move
from its present location in
town.
* * *
Boys 11 years of age or over
who are interested in learning
conservation are invited to join
junior conservation club
sponsored by the Huron Fish
and Game Club. For further
information, contact George
Wise at 482-7536 or meet at the
club house on Aima Street
Sunday at 1;30 p,m,
* * *
The whole cropping system is
very late due to cool Wet
weather, according to this
week's crop report by T. W,
Clapp, associate agricultural
representative for Huron
County. Hay and pasture is slow,
Most of grains are hi but very
Mow in germinating and growing.
Some corn has been planted, but
only a small percentage Sonne
farniers have exchanged corn for
an earlier maturing.variety.
Weather
1969 `(968
Hi LU Hl L6
May 20 55 43 55 42
21 54 30 50 26
22 56 45 53 24
23 59 40 60 21
24 67 37 G$ 46
25 61 40 73 43
26 51 84
70 45
NO Rain Raid .561'
,active partieil}atron .i$ a sign of Your interest in .these agricultural
shows, and ,a, true indication of how vital the agricultural industry :is.
to our whole economy,"
J ams n Il a i 1t ral society resident has extended a cordial
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invitation .to citizens of Clinton and Canadian. Forces Base, Clinton,
ur ing'their. attendance et the two-day .event which geta.underway ,
wekf ,riay
d .
rom .F..
The Joyes Midway will be in .operation Friday night, June 6, and
again Saturday when there will be pony rides and other special.
attractions, including,a farm machinery display.
S aturda 's .schedille calls for the parade at :1, fpllowed by .the
Official y and babyow int C i Centre
Of ► al opening at 2 p.m.. a sh.....he ommun ty ...
half an' hour later. The livestock parade isslated to start at 3:30 p,m,
A feature of the fair will be selection Of a county dairy princes$
to participate at the CNE in -competition for the title of Qntario
Dairy Princess, 1969. Entries for this must be in by June a. 'Forms
linton
104th YEAR — NO. 22
are allailable fro hnffc_e Of 04e t of Agriculture and Fogd in
Clinton,,
There will be a dance at ria, evening a d AdVance tickets are en
sale at $2.50 a couple, The Junior Farmers Square Dance
Competitipn will be held that night and.., jud...ing of teams in harness
Will take place at 7 p.m,
'rhe deadline for livestock entries will .be 11 a.m, the day of the
fair.,. ii dging starts at 1 P.M. Exhibits must remain until 5 p.m.
:fudges for the Saturday events will be: W. J. Dale, Ric 1, Clinton,
heavy horses; Mel Barden, Hillsbtirgh, light horses; Roy Steven$Qn,
Dresden, poflnies; >?rank. Coulter, RR 3, Owen Sound, beef; Glenn
Ruegg, Haddon, dairy; Gerald Comfort, St. Ann's, sheep; Lloyd
Hagey, RR 1, Preston, swine and Bert Mills, CQderich, poultry,
rabbitwilljudges and pets,
The Rey. A. J. Mowatt of ClintonAlbert and C rson of Listowel
oats.
The ladies' division wtii ncee t entries on F. id ne 6
P r� ay, Ju. , betwn
10 a.m. and 2 p.n. That evening the public is invited to view the
exhibits on dist/14Y in the arena auditorium and visit the concessions.
PP' the main flgpr,
The homemaking section has been expanded this year, With many
additigns lo the prize list. Classes will include arts and :crafts, balling,
k'
house
plants, and crocheting, needlework and sewing..
The ladies will staff food booths indoors and out. The outside
convenor will be Mrs, Harry Watkins, Her counterpart in the arena
will be Mrs, James Snell,
Friday evening admission to the arenewili be 25 cents, Adults
will pay $1 to enter the fair Saturday until 6 p.m. when the fee
drops to 50 cents, Highschool students will be charged 5Q cents and
free passes for .elementary school children will be .delivered to
schools in town and the four surrounrling townships. The tickets will
be used for a draw, but must be signed on the back so that tile fair
board can determine hew many attend,
lei ews- Record
CLINTON, ONTARIO — THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1969
The annual inspection of No. 339 Central Huron Secondary School Cadet Corps last week may have
been the last. The Huron County Board of education learned only the day before the inspection that
the Clintore,and Seaforth cadet units, the last in Huron County, will be disbanded June 30. Shown as
they inspected assembled cadets on the CHSS field last Wednesday are, from left to right, Cadet Lt.
David Cooper, Cadet Maj. Brad Kempston, Capt. Brooks, chaplain of the 21st Field Artillery'
Regiment, Wingham, temporarily on duty at CFB Clinton; Lt. N. E. Wilson of London, the inspecting
officer, and Lt. Col. Robert Ritter, commanding officer of the Wingham regiment and vice principal
of F. E. Madill Secondary School. —CRSS Photo by E. F. Hunt
Huron municipal officers meet
to elect executive in Clinton
The annual meeting of the
Huron County Municipal
Officers Association was held in
the Clinton Legion Hall last
Thursday. Stanley Township was
host to the more than 150
representatives of 26
municipalities in the county.
Wilmer Wein of Crediton,
clerk --treasurer of Stephen
Township, was elected president,
suceeding Mel Graham of
Brucefield, Stanley Township's
clerk -treasurer.
Vice presidents are Bill King,
clerk -treasurer of Brussels, and
Elgin Thompson, reeve of
Tuckersmith Township.
Secretary is John Berry, Huron
County clerk -treasurer, and
treasurer is Sherman Blake,
Goderich clerk -treasurer.
Elected as executive officers
Were Ivan Haskins, I-Towick
Township, one year; Wayne
Horner, Zurich, two years and
A. D. Smith, Bluevale, three
years,
After a morning briefing on
the Canada Pension Plan by a
national health, and welfare
representative, the officials were
served lunch by the Legion
Ladies Auxiliary.
Clinton Reeve James
Armstrong extended a welcome
on behalf on Mayor Don
Symons who was unable to
attend. Elmer Hayter, Stanley
Twp. reeve, introduced members
of his council.
Elgin Thompson of
Tuckersmith introduced the
speaker, Dr. Peter A. Forsyth,
physics professor and director of
the centre for radio -science at
the University of Western
Ontario in London,
Besides the four men just
mentioned, at the head table
were Robert E. McKinley, MP
for Huron; Murray Gaunt, MPP
for Huron -Bruce; A. D. Smith,
Turnberry Township, reeve; W.
H. King, Brussels clerk -treasurer;
B. G. Hanly, deputy county
clerk -treasurer; Ken G. Flett,
manager of the Bank of
Montreal's Clinton branch; W. A.
B. Hill, the bank's district
manager and Mr. Graham,
outgoing president.
A representative of the Dept.
of Highways of Ontario and
three men from the Dept. of
Municipal Affairs were also
present.
Dr. Forsyth spoke on the
contemporary university in
general and briefly about UWO
in particular. He told the Huron
leaders that small numbers of
campus dissidents must not be
allowed to erode the goodwill of
the community which the
university heeds.
Municipal drains and how to
coordinate their construction
was the main topic of an
afternoon panel discussion with
J. W. Britnell, county engineer,.
as chairman.
Panel members were Elmer
D. Bell, Q.C., of Exeter; H. H.
Todgham of Chatham, a drain
engineer; Mr. Wein of Crediton,
the hew association president; E.
D. Gamsby, from a Guelph
engineering firm; Frank SMith,
drain officer for the Dept. of
Municipal Affairs in London and
Murray D. Lawson, an
accountant.
Mel Grahaht, right centre, outgoing president of the Huron County Municipal Officers Association,
Congratulates hit successor, Wilmer` Wein of Crediton Stephen Township `` 'ci rk-tre re at he
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�ssetiation't atihtial' trieeting in Clinton laser Noon MP Flobert 6. WitKinley is at right, with
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Clinton l eeve James Armstrong at fee left and beside hint John Berry', Huron Countycierik-tt'easurer.
PRICE PER COPY 15c
Town to close dump in Hullett
Three councils approve landfill,
joint operation to start July 1
The Town of Clinton, the
Town of Goderich and Goderich
Township have approved in
principle a plan fhr joint
operation of a sanitary landfill
garbage disposal site at the Lavis
Contracting Company gravel pits
in Holmesville.
The agreement, whose terms
are yet to be ratified formally,
calls for the three municipalities
to lease five acres of
Lavis-owned land and hire the
contracting company to cover
the refuse with several inches of
clean fill at the end of each day.
Lavis is to furnish the fill.
If the plan is put into
operation by the July 1 target
date, the three municipalities
will be the first ones in Huron
County and, among the first in
the„province to make use,pf a
.saniTa?y • landfill system on* a
• cooperative basis.
The cost of operation is to be
split according to percentages
based on population — the Town
of Goderich will contribute 62
per cent, the Town of Clinton
32 per cent and the township,
six per cent.
Initial capital expenditure —
to build an access road, 'install
culvert and put up fence is
expected to be about $6,000.
Leasing the land will cost $1,000
a year. Lavis will charge $18,000
annually to cover the refuse
daily and top off filled areas
with 12 inches of soil.
The agreement can be
terminated by any of the
municipalities at the end of the
first six months, the first year or
any year thereafter.
The site, east of the Lavis
asphalt plant, is on the north
side of Highway 8 and several
hundred feet off the road. The
location has been surveyed and
mapped by an engineering firm
and received approval both from
the Ontario Dept: of Health and
the Ontario Water Resources
Commission:
Sanitary landfill is a costly
disposal method compared with
Seaforth is site
for Saturday's
livestock stotk mate
The 1969 :Huron County 4-H
and Junior Fanner livestock
judging cotnpetition will be held
on Saturday at the Seaforth Fair
Grounds. 4-11 and Junior Farmer
Club •members from all parts of
iuron County will be attending
and competing for six major
awards plus cash awards.
The Competition is open to
all young men and women
between the ages of 12 and 30
years -inclusive, With a
breakdown int. classes of
Novice, junior, Intermediate and
Senior. The members Will be
judging nine classes altogether,
Three classes Of beef Cattle and
Swine will be judged, along with
two classes of dairy' cattle and
one Class of sheep bre of the
beef classes will be beef cuts and
one M the swine classes will be
hog carcasses
All 4-11 club rnetnberg in the
county should try and attend if'
at all possible as, this 'event
should be tents Challenging and
rewarding, Argo, other young
pare ver1'
eci -le welcoi'rie
participate,
to
iceg �. istration beging at 9745
halt, at the Seaforth Coniniunity
Ceara.
the present open dumps, but
provincial air and pollution
control regulations, are expected
to stop open dumping soon.
All Huron County
municipalities have been told
that burning garbage violates air
pollution control laws and will
be permitted only on a
month-to-month basis while the
councils seek alternate means of
disposal.
Councillors in Bayfield, Blyth
and the townships of Stanley,
Hullett, Tuckersmith, Colborne
and McKillop are among those
surrounding Clinton who are
faced with disposal problems.
Whether any of these
municipalities will ask to
participate in the Holmesville
project is not known.
The town does not expect to
have to change its contract with
Clarence Neilans for refuse
collection in Clinton, but may
soon announce more stringent
regulations concerning types of
bags or other containers in
which garbage may be left for
pickup.
The town dump at Hullett
will be closed and cleaned up.
The new disposal site will accept
garbage from the collection
services five days a week and be
open Wednesday and Saturday
for the use of town residents,
according to present plans.
VIEW FROM GATE OF EXISTING TOWN DUMP
School board meetings here now
BY RICHMOND ATKEY
Although the last two
meetings of the Huron County
Board of Education were held in
Goderich, next month's
meetings and all subsequent ones
will be held in the board room
of Central Huron Secondary
School in Clinton.
The decision to Meet here
regularly was Made last week
when the board voted to
establish its head office in the
former nurses' residence at
Clinton Public Hospital for a
two-year trial period,
As reported in the Iasi issue
of The News -Record, the lease
calls for a $2,500 annual rental
for alt space in the building
except the offices occupied by
the Huron County Health Unit
and by Dr. L. P. Walden.
Relatively minor alterations,
mainly changes in partitioning,
will be Carried out by the school
board.
The chief reason for reversing
an earlier decision to locate the
administrative offices in unused
Space at CHSS was the cast of
renovation, said to be about
$40,000, according to D. J,
Cochrane, director of education,
-( dit or's note'. When the
board first discussed use of
CESS, an amount under
$25,000
Was given as the
probable codof renovation.
One unofficial estimate was:
h
furnis h e - ra t
d b y it local cont cloy
arid formal tenders were later'
received, b t the board did not
disclose the names of bidders or
the amounts of the estimate and
tenders.)
At a special closed -door
meeting on May 12, the Toronto
architectural firm of Paige and
Steele presented to -the board a
'revised tender on the renovation into CHSS ,until further study
from Cale Doucette could be given to use of the
Construction Ltd. of Clinton.
Several motions proposing
Solutions to the cost problem
and use Of CHSS were either lost
on tie votes (5.5) or were
defeated, the board revealed last
week.
Finally, a compromise was
reached on a motion by Daniel
Murphy of Goderich and Mrs.
Marian Zinn of Dungannon who
suggested that the board hold in
abeyance the question of moving
nurses' residence here, St. Peter's
School in Goderieh or Cardno's
hail in Seaforth.
As was learned last week, the
ultimate decision was trade in
favor of the nurses' residence.
Name new CHSS vice-principal
R. V, Whitely, head of the
science department at General
Amherst High School,
Aiiniherstburg, since 1966, has
been named vice-principal of
Central Huron Secondary School
at an undisclosed salary,
The appointment wag one of
several Made at a meeting of the
Huron County Board Of
Kducatibn in Goderich last
week.
Mr", Whitely, 53, replaces
Cord Phillips who will be the
principal of F. E. Madill High
School in Wingham.
The heW CESS vice-prjncipal,
53 years old and the father of
four, is a graduate of the
University' of Toronto and the
Ontario College of Education.
He is a veteran of five yearn'
overseas service in World War Il
taught at t' a anee from
1950 i , at Seaforth from
1955-60 and at St. Vincent in
the West Indies from 1960-65 as
an employee of the Canadian
Government:
Resignations were accepted
from Mrs. Diane Jeffrey, Huron
Centennial School; Ethel Dennis,
Custodian at SS No. 9, McKillop
and from Maitland K. Edgar of
Clinton, a teacher at South
Huron District High School 10
xeter.
Miss Marion ltuth Triebner
Was granted a two-year leave of
abterice from Huron Centennial
School to allow her to teach for
the bept. of National 'Defence,
possibly in Germany.
Mrs, Alice A0dlress,
teaeherrlibrarian at the Clinton
Public School, was granted a
year's leave, J. A, Gray,
principal, wrote the board urging
support of her application and
commending her Work,