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LYNDA WALDEN
RR 2, Lucknow
ANN DE GROOT
RR 3, Blyth
rincess title at
MARIE TR MARTHA
RR 4, Clinton
tiiI tcn spring fair
DAWNA REYNOLDS
RR 2, Seaforth
DONNA RITCHIE
RR 3, Lucknow
Clinton
104th YEAR — NO. 23
N ews Record
CLINTON, ONTARIO — THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1969
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Among the many guests last week 'at the 10th anniversary tea and Mrs. Norman Holland, Mrs. John Nediger, Mrs. James MacLaren,.
bazaar of the Huronview Auxiliary were, from left to right above, Mrs. Leslie Ball and Mrs. Cliff Holland, all of Clinton, and Mrs.'
Clarence Potter of Huronview. — Staff Photo.
The first
column
The June meeting of the
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture will take place
Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in the
board room of the Ontario Dept.
of Agriculture and Food in
Clinton.
The guest speaker will be J. A.
Nicklom, an engineer and
regional manager of G. V.
Kleinfeldt and Associates Ltd., a
planning firm, and Mervyn
Cudmore, chairman of the
Huron County Planning Board.
The Western Ontario Athletic
Association will hold a baseball
coaching school in Walkerton at
12:30 p.m. June 8 and a softball
school in the Wingham area at
the same hour on June 22.
D.G.Inglis, extension assistant
for Huron County, Ontario
Dept. of Agriculture and Food,
reports this week that most of
the county's corn crop was
planted by last weekend and
farmers are now preparing the
ground for soybean and white
bean plantings:
Spring grains in most cases
look good, according to, Mr."
Inglis, although some farmers
report yellowing due to excess
moisture.
Hay and pasture crops are said
to be coming on well, and
should provide lots of feed now
and when the haying season
arrives.
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Patsy Priestap'will be working
as a playground leader at the
Clinton Community Park for her
second year, according to Doug
Andrews, recreation director.
Other leaders include Vicki
Garrow and Barb Pollock.
Weather
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2$ 84 63 54 45
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30 70 45 58 45
31 77 41 62 45
June 1 79 9 56 65 42
2 66 53 73 54
Rain ,71" Rain ,28"
Hydro's office here to absorb
60 percent of Exeter area
Ontario Hydro's Exeter Area
Office will be merged with its
Clinton and Strathroy areas,
respectively, early in 1970.
About 60 percent of the
4,664 Exeter Area customers
will be transferred to Clinton
Area and the remaining 40
percent to Strathroy Area.
Ontario Hydro Chairman
George Gathercole said,
"Consolidation of the area
offices is part of a province -wide
program of reorganization that
will affect a considerable
number of communities, but
achieve a saving to electric
power 'consumers of more than
$1,000,000 a year while
preserving and improving our
standard of service in rural
power supply.
"This reorganization and
consolidation has been made
possible by the emergence of
new facilities and technology.
The development of excellent
highways, the use of
radio -equipped vehicles and
reliable telephone service
contribute to conditions that
enable us to combine good
service with greater economy.
With rapidly rising salaries and
wages, interest rates and prices,
it is imperative that Ontario
Hydro seek every means of
combatting rising power costs,"
he added.
As most customers pay their
bills by cheque or at a chartered
bank, there will be a minimum
of inconvenience for Exeter
customers in this respect when
the close out becomes effective.
Although consolidation may
inconvenience a few of the staff,
no serious dislbcations will
occur, and it, is expected that
most will continue to make their
homes at their present locations. •
As part of the reorganization
a new service centre and
administration office will
ultimately be built near Clinton.
"It is recognized," said Mr.
(:athercole, "that even a modest
degree of consolidation, as in
this case, is bound to affect
some communities more than
others. But, Ontario hydro must
strive unceasingly in fulfillment
.of its obligations to its
customers."
Province rents assessment building,
Huron to get $19,200 annually
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
With the province taking over
all assessment duties in January,
Huron County has agreed to rent
its brand-new administrative
building in Goderich to the
Ontario Dept. of Public Works
for an annual fee of $19,200.
Although the county now
uses only the first floor of the
building to house its assessment
department, the province will
make use of the entire building,
including the space which was
offered to the new county board
of education as a head office
earlier this year,
The building will be the
headquarters for the province's
assessment staff in the'
Huron•Perth area, county
council learned last Friday,
The county will maintain the
building and, if any municipal
tax is levied on the building, the
province will add that money to
the rental paid Huron County.
The county's equalized
assessment for the year 1970
was established at $69,999,380
for county purposes when the
council passed a bylaw last
week, In' his hist and final report
to the couneil as HurOii's
assessment commissioner, E. F.
Hall provided 'the following
breakdown of the assessment:
Faint land: $22,020,530;
farin buildings, $15,007,370;
residential land, $2,678,320;
residential buildings,
$20,027,550; commercial land,
$1,647,805; commercial
buildings, $6,140,570 and
business assessinent, $2,477,235,
The only municipality in the
county which showed a decrease
in general taxable assessment
'was Hensall Village, and
Commissioner Hall attributed
the drop to the shutdown of a
large miilling operation.
Total education assessment is:
public, $64,549,090; separate,
$5,513,620.
Proof that I-Iuron County is
essentially a farming county was
shown in the following figures:
farm assessment represents
52,91 per cent of the total;
residential, 32,48 per cent and
commercial, 14,66 per. cent.
Mr. halt cliaraeterized the
county assessing departnieht as
ari "orphan," not yet adopted
by the province which will
employ the full staff as of next
year. He said the department is
"in linib0" because of the lack.
of information on its future, but
said he assumed the countywide
property reassessment will begin
on schedule in 1970.
Award contract
for intersection
to Lavis firm
Lavis Contracting Co. of
Clinton Submitted a low bid of
$39,477.50 for reconstruction
Of the town's main corner, the
intersection of Highways 4 and
8, and was awarded the contract
at a special town council
Meeting Tuesday afternoon.
The only other bidder was
George Radford Construction
Co of Blyth who submitted a
tender of $42,899;75,
The work is to be finished by
Sept. 1 and will result ina new
traffic pattern at the corner, new
streetlighting and traffic signals,
new paving and sidewalks and
installation of a radar antenna
frorn C113 Clinton atop a
concrete base park area to be
created south of the corner.
Clinton residential tax rate
goes up 11.3 mills to 127.5
At a special meeting last
Thursday night, Clinton's town
council set a 1969 residential tax
rate of 127.5 mills, an increase
of 11.3 mills over last year.
The business and commercial
rate is 140.2 mills, a 10.& mill
increase. •
A mill raises $2,925 this year.
For a homeowner with an
average assessment of $2,000,
the new. rate will mean about
$255 in taxes, an increase of
about $2L20 over last year.
The board , of education's
Seaforth youth
best as judge
of livestock
There were 140 competitors
in the annual Huron County
Junior Fanners and 4-I1
livestock judging competition
held in Seaforth last Saturday.
Tom Papple of Seaforth won the
senior award, with 612 out of a
possible 650 points for an
aggregate high and the highest
scores in swine and dairy
sections.
Thirteen competed for the
senior title of top livestock
judge. Tied for second place
were Bill Wallace of RR 4,
Seaforth, and Murray Morrison
of RR 1, Lucknow. Each
garnered 594 out of 650 points.
Joe Phelan of RR 2, Blyth,
scored 607 out of 650 to take
the top .intermediate prize, with
Neil Hemingway of RR 3,
Brussels as runner-up.
Forty-seven competed in the
intermediate category.
Out of 48 in junior
competition, Glen McNeil of RR
6, Goderich, tallied 583 points
out of 650 for the first place
position, trailed by George
Thompson of RR 2, Clinton,
with a score of 573.
A score of 578 put Helen
Chandler of RR 3, Wingham, in
the top novice position among
32 contestants, with Jim
Middleton of RK 3, Clinton
taking second place with 562.
The Wingham girl also won the
Canadian National Exhibition
shield, with. Jim Middleton as
runner-up.
Tom Papple's top score won
him the Blatchford Feeds Ltd.
award and his scoring in swine
and dairy competition gave him
the CIL and Carnation Company
trophies.
Joe Phelan was runner-up for
the Blatchford honors, Grant
Coultes of RR 5, Wingham, was
runnenup for the CIL Trophy
and two contestants tied for
runner-up for the Carnation
(dairy) prize. The two were
Lynda Walden of Lucknow and
Dave Marshall of Kirton. Each
had 143 out of 150 points.
The Cyanamid of Canada
award for the highest score in
the sheep section went to Gerard
Dietrich of RR 1, Centralia (97
out of 100 points). Runner-up
was Dwight Etherington of RR
1, Hensel' (96 points).
The, Huron County Beef
Producers Association award was
given to Murray Morrison of ItR
1, Luckriow, whose 193 out of
200 points was followed closely
by Brian Miller in. 8, EXeter
and Joe Phelan of RR 2 Myth
a , y 1
who tied to runner-up with 1.92
points eaelt,
share of the residential tax levy'
this year is 47.90 mills, up from
last year's 45.54 rate. The
general or town rate is 57.87
compared to 1968's 51.52 and
the county share is 21.73,
compared to 19.14.
Included in the town's
six -mill increase is $4,800 for
the town's share of the cost of
operating a new garbage disposal
site near Ilolmesville, about
$8,000 for new lighting at the
main intersection and $11,905/
to pay for drains installed at the
Community Centre, an item on
which the town hopes to recover
all or part of the expense.
After the basic shelter grants
of $62,500, the amount to be
raised by taxes is 319,005.
School expenditures include:
public, school, $75,445; high
school, $66,499 and separate
school $2,834.
The Huron County levy of
$63,929 on Clinton's assessment
of $2,924,837 requires a rate of
21.73 mills.
Public and separate school'
supporters will carry an' equal
tax load because the
Huron -Perth Separate School
Board has agreed to accept the
same levy as the Huron County
Board of Education.
The basic shelter grant this
year will be $63.75, but changes
in the eligibility requirements
limit the actual amount paid to
50 per cent of the tax due on
any one property. If the tax bill
on 'a home is less than $127.50,
the grant can be only half of the
actual tax due.
Garnet W. McGee, center, retiring after 41 years as an educator — almost 28 of those years teaching in
Clinton — accepts a gift from W. C. Newcombe, former chairman of the Clinton District Collegiate
Board on whose behalf the presentation was made at a recent Central Huron Secondary School staff
meeting. Robert Homuth, CHSS principal, looks on at right. R. Middleton presented another gift on
behalf of the school staff. —Photo by E. F. Hunt.
MPs to visit Clinton, Hensall
The House of Commons
standing committee on
agriculture plans to visit a
Hensall feed lot and a Clinton
dairy and poultry farm on June
14, the last of three days to be
spent in Western Ontario in the
course tour o
of _. ur 'of Eastern
Canada to inspect farms and
hear briefs from the industry.
Robert E. McKinley, Huron
MP, is a member of the
committee and this week
furnished a copy of the group's
local itinerary.
The party will arrive in
London from St, Catharines the
evening of June 13 and head
north by bus at 8:30 a.m. the
next day. The first stop will be
the William B. Rowcliffe beef
feed lot, RR 1, Hensall.
Mr. McKinley said Monday
that the rest of the committee
left that morning for St. John's,
Newfoundland, and would spend
four days in the Atlantic region,
four days in Quebec and four in
Ontario.
The Huron MP said his local
commitments prevented him
from taking the whole tour,
though he will accompany the
other members tIur n and
Bruce Counties.
Mr. McKinley plans to attend
the Clinton Spring Fair this
weekend and will be in town
again next week for the annual
meeting of I-luron County
Progressive -Conservative.
Ile said Don Pullen,
agricultural representative for
Huron County, selected the area
farms to be visited on the June
14 tour.
At 9:45 a.m., the committee
is to leave for the Alfred and
Bert Dykstra farm, RR 2,
Clinton — the first farm west of
town on the south side of
Highway 8.
At 10:30 a.m. the bus goes to
Goderich and on to Kincardine
for noon luncheon at the Bruce
Inn. The afternoon schedule
calls for stops at the ARDA farm
in Bruce County and the Stacey
milk plant in Mitchell.
A plane is to carry the
committee members from
London airport to Ottawa that
evening, concluding the tour
which will have taken them to
Quebec and the Maritimes prior
to this region,
' ..
Harold Lobb of Clinton tows a plane from Elmer Trick's land on the Bayfield Road. The Cessna 175;
aircraft damaged its propellor and lost its nose wheel when it landed and taxied into a wet spot on the
field last Friday morning, Story on Page B, —Staff Phato,