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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-06-19, Page 2Minton 104t1 YEAR —• NO, 25 Y1 CL,INTON, •QNTA:RIQ T)-1L1RSpAY, JUNE 19, 1969. The first column Sixty fifth, sixth .and seventh graders. from Air Marshal Hugh Campbell Elementary School at .CFB Clinton were .scheduled to Spend a day this week in .an outside class at the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority's Gorrie conservation area. One group was to visit the area yesterday and the other one today. Growing conditions were favorable in the last' week and most of the spring grains are up and growing well, according to a crop report by Thomas W, Clapp, associate agricultural representative for Huron County. Mr. Clapp said a lot of the corn and grain spraying has been done, almost all the beans am planted and some farmers have started to cut hay for haylage. * * The relatively smalldebts that accumulate and become unmanageable are the ones that create financial .difficulties 'for many persons, according to bankruptcy studies made by the Institute of Life Insurance. The typical, is not disadvantaged. He's in the mid 30's, has a job, a wife and three children, and a reputation as a ;good husband and father. * * * Staff at the Lions swimming pool this year will be Jim Collins, Bob Cooper, Pat Stanley, Judy Finley, Phyllis Fremlin, Paul Crittenden, Grace Strong and Peter Cameron. Registration will.be from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 28. Instruction begins on 'Monday, June 30, when latecomers may still register. • * *• '* "We may be on the wrong track when we stop short of eking such expressions as French-Canadians and •English -Canadians," Maurice d'Amours, vice-president, MA., told Rotarians in Stratford, Ont.,last week. "The idea, it seems, is that no one should be what is commonly called a "hyphenated" Canadian," Mr. d'Amours said. "In my book, a hyphen unites; it does not divide. Its - function is to bring together, not to rend asunder. In the expressions, "French-Canadian" and. "English -Canadian," you find the word Canadianas a common denominator. It means that• we are not French or English, -but Canadians all." * *' * Once again this year the Clinton Citizens' Horticultural Society is planning its open rose show. The event will be held in the Town Hall on Friday, June 27, from 2:30 to 9:15 p.m. A prize list and details appear this week in an advertisement. * * * If you're a working wife with •a $5,000-$7,000 income, you're, worth $8,285.68 as a housewife, says a study by the Chase Manhattan Bank. As housekeeper, nurse, purchasing agent, cook, chauffeur, and economist, you should be getting $159.34 'a week. No alioivance is made for tender loving care and maternal instinct. As night watchman, accountant, assistant shopper, garbage man, and fashion consultant, your husband is worth only $51.50 a week around the house. Housewives have always known this, but now they have the figures to prove it. * ' It Was the Assyrians who Invented the envelope, The idea came to then' When spies intercepted their secret messages, Written 4n large, heavy, clay tablets. Cleverly, they constructed similarly large and heavy clay envelopes. The rumour that a disgruntled Assyrian mailman invented Writing paper is unsubstantiated. Weather 1969 196$' Ht LO H7 to June 10 75 41 82 bit 11 80 49 89 58 19 88 61 73 50 13 70 52 62 40 14 68 48 .. �9 68'- 15 ,15 60 45 65 51 ie dl3 86 64 45 Rain .53f' Rail .36" J. G. Lind, Liberal MP for Middlesex, totes in his pocket a guide to midwestern Ontario as he greets Bert, left, and Alfred Dykstra at the brothers' farm in Clinton. Mr, Lind was among` 16 members of the Commons standing committee on agriculuture which visited two Huron County farms last Saturday, the final day of a nationwide tour. —Staff Photo. MPs tour local farms. On the final day of ,a six-week, 15,000 -mile tour which took them from Victoria to Newfoundland, members of the Commons standing committee on agriculture made brief stops at farms near Clinton and Hensall last Saturday morning. Sixteen of the committee's usual 30 members, including Huron MP Robert E. McKinley, were aboard the bus when it headed into Huron County from London. The first stop was the 1,400 -acre crop and beef operation-. •of William B. Rowcliffe on Highway 4 south of Hensall. Mr. Rowcliffe showed the committee a barn where the calves are first housed and then took the group across the road to the main farm where he answered questions as they looked over the . livestock, buildings and equipment. Joseph Rowcliffe, 13, who offered cans of cold soda pop to the visitors, ,is the sixth generation in an Usborne Township farming family which still holds an 1835 deed from the Canada Company. One point stressed by Mr. Rowcliffe was that transportation is "atrocious." He complained that the railroad doesn't want his business and said that he has had cattle aboard a train from Winnipeg for as long as eight days with• little or no food or water. Mr. Rowcliffe engaged in a short debate with Jerry Pringle of Chilliwack, B.C. (Fraser Valley East) on the subject of estate taxes. R. R. Southam of Gainsborough, Sask. (Qu'Appelle-Moose Mountain) thanked Mr. Rowcliffe on behalf of the committee and said he hoped the members would be able to take what they learned back to the Commons to translate it into action. Though he said he thought there were places the committee might learn more, Mr. Rowcliffe said he was glad to have the MPs call. On the drive to Clinton, Don S. Pullen, Huron agricultural representative, gave a capsule report on farming in the county. The Clinton stop was just on the west edge of town at a 110 -acre dairy and broiler operation recently taken over by two bachelor brothers, Alfred and Bert Dykstra. The two, — Alfred, 26, and Bert, 21 recently formed a partnership and are buying the farm from their father, Uiuilke, with the aid 'of a Junior Farmer loan which they said made the venture possible. Mr. U. Dykstra and his wife are moving into town, Another of their sons, Please turn to Page 10 Education director wants liberal vacation policies but school board balks BY RICHMOND ATKEY • Several members of the Huron County Board of Education balked Monday night at vacation policies recommended by D. J. Cochrane, director of education, and the discussion is to be continued Monday at a special meeting in Goderich. The recommendations concerned non -teaching staff and were considered by board members to be out of line with practices of other employers, public and private, in the county. The matter was referred to a special committee and .is to be debated at the special session Monday at 8 p.m. in Victor Lauriston Public School, Goderich. The meeting site was chosen because the board wants to look at the soon-to-be=vacated building which the Goderich Recreation Conin'iittee has asked be made available to the town. Also to be discussed Monday Will be the closing of school and board offices on statutory holidays arid staffing the offices during "Christmas and mid-term recesses: At this week's meeting in Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, board members did not seem ready ta agree ta the recommendation that the closings be "at the discretion of the director." Mr, Coehrane's recommendations, which he said were arrived at after study of simi.tar polities adopted by other `county beards and formers boards in liuron, call for five Week's annual vacation for the director, four Weeks for , the business administrator, and three Weeks each for the chief accountant, plant superintendent and piurei acing manager. The assistatit superintendents (ii adeniie),would be given three weeks each, with at least two to be taken in July and August. The academic superintendent' would have four weeks' vacation, with three to be taken in summer months. Secretaries and clerk -typists would have two weeks off with pay if they were employed for three months prior to July 1 and three weeks vacation after working for the board one year. Custodians would have one week with pay if they had worked' three months prior to July 1 and would earn two weeks off after a year's service and three weeks after two years. The recommendation said the policy, if adopted should take effect July 1, "but should be left flexible during this . year of transition to allow employees in the board's administrative offices to have a vacation in spite of the fact that they have not all been employed in. the county for a year." " Robert M. Elliott of RR 3, Clinton, vice-chairman of the board and representative of Goderich and Colborne Townships, said there would be widespread criticism throughout the County if the recommendations were adopted. Mr, tiliott presented • the eight following examples of vacation policies existing in various public and semi-public bodies and private enterprises in the country, Case 1 =- after one year, 2 weeks; after 10 years, 8 weeks; Cate 2 .. - One to five years, 2 weeks; six to 15 years, 3 Weeks; 16 to 20 years, 4 weeks; 91 to 25 years, 6 weeks; 25 to 80 years, 5 weeks plus 'one paid day for each year over 26,, Case 3 After one year 2 Weeks; atter t' ve years, 3 weeks, Case 4 tip to three .year* 2 weeks; three to 20 :yeas, 9 weeks. 20 years and over, 4 Weeks. Case 5 —• Up to 20 years, 3 weeks; 20 to 25 years, 3 weeks plus other benefits. Case 6 — Up to 10 years, 2 Please turn to Page 10 Record -PRIQE PIER COPY Tq Farmers go to polls, Tuesday to express. opinions on. GFO I-luron .County farmers will go to the polls next Tuesday to. answer the question: "Are you in favor • of a general farm organization with compulsory checkoff?" Voting will take place from 8 a.rn, to .8 p,rn..at• 37 polling stations in the county. Don Pullen, Huron County agricultural representative and chief returning officer, said more than 10,000 are eligible to vote, Every farmer, his wife and ' relatives over 21 engaged in operation of the farm are eligible to cast ballots in the expression of opinion poll. Polling stations will be at the following locations: Colborne Colborne Township Hall, Carlow. Goderich -- Holmesville Hall (old school), Hay Legion Hall, Hensall; Hay Township Hall, Zurich. Hullett — Auburn Community Centre, Walton Community Centre, Londesboro Hall and Foresters' Hall in Constance, ' McKillop — McKillop Township Hall, Winthrop; Tom Murray residence, lot 10, concession 4. Stanley — Bayfield Town Hall, Blake School, Varna Hall. Tuckersmith — Tuckersmith Township buildings, Egmondville; Ken Gemmell's residence, lot 10, concession 8. East Wawanosh -- Blyth Memorial Hall, Belgrave Arena and George McGee's residence, lot 30, concession 10. A polling station will also be set up at the Dept. of Agriculture and Food Building in Clinton. The agriculture department offices is also being used for an advance poll today until 5 p.m. Locals in the proposed GFO would be set up on the basis of 'nne local for 'every •'1;000 farmers in the area. There would be 100 locals in the province. Members would elect officers for. their local and delegates to the annual convention. Each local would have one director on the provincial council. Districts with fieldmen would be set up to co-ordinate activities of about five locals each. Any farmer who produces and markets one or more farm products will be eligible for membership. Membership would be required to vote at GFO meetings, to hold office and to receive services of the organization. The way in which a farmer can become a member after the founding convention will be decided by the plebiscite next week and at the convention. The ballot will contain three alternative• forms of membership and the farmers will choose one; The plans are as follows: 1. Should membership require a voluntary payment regardless of the amount of checkoff paid by the individual? If farmers vote .in favor of this, a payment will be required in addition to money paid by checkoff. The amount will be 'set by the convention. 2. Shquld membership be automatic if a checkoff, whether large or small, is paid? If farmers vote infavor, all will be Members automatically no matter what amount of checkoff is paid, 3. Should membership require some minimum level of contribution which could come from the checkoff or a voluntary payment or a combination of the two? The committee. urging a "yes" vote Tuesday op the .central issue is recommending a checkoff level of one-tenth of a cent per dollar's worth of produce. This is equal to $1 per $1,000 or $20 fora farm selling $20,000 worth of produce a year. For some commodities, the level might be lower. The maximum allowed .by the legislation would be two-tenths of a cent per dollar. The exact level will be set by the founding convention if farmers want the GFO. The plebiscite also asks farmers whether they think marketing boards should have a vote on the provincial council of the GFO. If the marketing boards do not have a vote, the council will be composed of directors from the locals only. The ea -operatives are not being included in the GFO plan and will net be part of the questions on the ballot. The Ontario Farmers' Union, whose chairman, Walter Miller, spoke last Friday at Huron Centennial School in Brucefield, maintains that the GFO will be government controlled, will still not be able to deal effectively with national problems and is "the thin edge of the wedge for government and agribusiness to takeover farming." Please turn to Page 10 Members of the executive of the newly chartered Goderich Power Squadron were at Snug Harbour in Goderich last Sunday for the unit's first "sail past" Left to right above are R. S. Atkey of Clinton, secretary -treasurer; Ken S. Woods of Clinton, first lieutenant; Dr. G. F. Mills of Goderich, commander; E. B. Menzies of Clinton, executive officer. Absent were Bert Corbett of Goderich, training officer and. Bud Kuehl of Clinton, also a first lieutenant. —Staff Photo. Clinton men are on executive of new power squadron unit BY RICHMOND ATKEY The chief Canadian power squadron commander, Howard S. Rees of Ottawa, presented a charter to the newly formed Goderich Power Squadron at a dinner, charter night and commander's ball held last Saturday in the officer's mess at Canadian Forces Base Clinton. Nearly 200 persons attended the gala event at which Mr. Rees presented the charter to Dr. G. F. Mills of Goderich, first commander of the new unit. Mr. Rees was assisted by George P, Coppin of London, Western Ontario district commander. Officers installed with Dr. Nehbir3 bf the new ex'ecutt+ e of the Clintonbn mettes Clubare, from left to right th e fr b'nt rbW, MrsDon fu f, re erNSecretary;ang Mrs: Bob Mann, president, Mrs. Larry Jones, past president and Mrs. Bert Clifford vicepresident. Standing, from left to right, are Mrs. Tom Feeney, registrar; Mrs. Steve $!`own, bulletin editor; Mrs. Russ Archer, assistant btillati,ti editor; Mrs: Doug Norrhan, treasurer and Mrs, rain Jewitt, corresponding tell'efary. --Sfaf# Photo. Mills were E. B. Menzies of Clinton, executive officer; R. S. Atkey, secretary -treasurer; H. R. Corbett of Goderich, training officer and both K. S. Woods and Bud Kuehl of Clinton first lieutenants. Among those graduating from a piloting class held in Goderich last winter were Ronald Carter, Clinton; Harold Cook, Blyth, Roy B. Dunlop, Goderich (took course at North York, received his certificate here) Jack Elder, Clinton; Fred Fester, Goderich; R. V. Hurst, Goderich; Bud Kuehl, Clinton; Donald Langridge, Goderich; Donald McArthur, Goderich; B. Y. McCreath, Goderich; Murray McGill, Goderich; Dr, Frank Newland, Clinton; E. A. Roberts, Clinton; George Robertson, •Goderich and Emerson Shera, Wingham. Lady associates were Miss Madeleine Naftel, and Mrs. Ruth Robertson, both of Goderich. Junior associates were Warren Cook of Blyth and Kevin Milts of Goderich. R. S. Atkey, Clinton, received the award for Advanced Piloting, a course which he had taken with the Daytona Beach, Florida, Squadron of the United States Power Squadron. Greetings were brought from the USPS by a past district commander, Keith Brookes, of Port Huron, Michigan. Commander Rees stated that the Canadian Power Squadrons is a nationwide association of Canadians interested or active iri boating and sailing. He said the objective is to establish a high standard of skill in handling small boats and improve ability through training. PCs hear party leader, elect officers at meeting The National Progressive - Conservative party has evolved into having an opposition state of mind, said Frank Moores of Ottawa, president of the PC national association, at the annual meeting of the Huron County Federal PC Association in Clinton a week ago yesterday. If the party hopes to form the next government, he said, the attitude must be changed. Mr: Moores stressed that there must be a dialogue between the national organization and the constituency organization, With this in mind, he said, the PC party is planning a policy conference for ihid-October which for the first time will have grass riots participation from each constituency across the country. outlined some of the moves the party it taking 10 strengthen this dialogue. Te ieh-iris for campaign Managers will be sponsored with the emphasis ori special. programs and policies for the youth "so they may be comfortably involved With our party:" A speakers' bureau is being estobishen At the national headquarters in Ottawa, he said, which will make speaches available for any PC function in the country. Headquarters will also do surveys and data processing as a `method of making known what people are thinking. The country association named R. E. McKinley, MP (PC•Huron) and Elmer 1): Bell of Exeter, past president of the Ontario PC association as honorary members: Frank Walkom of Goderich . Was re-elected president of the Huron association. Other officers are: vice-president, Clayton Laithwaite, RR 1, Goderich; Eddy Powell, RR 1, Wingham; Fred Neaman, Ric 3, Parkhill; Mrs. Bob McCabe, RR 4, Goderich; Barry Wenger, Wingham Harry Hayter, RR 2, Dashwood; setretary4reasurer, Mrs: Douglas Andrews, Clinton; directors, Gordon Grigg, William bate, and Mrs, 'Eyed Thompson, all of Clinton; Robert Chaffe, Centralia; Ivan Hearn, Lucan; Earl Mills, Walton; Valentine Becker, Dashwood; J im Donnelly, Goderich; and John. ttardy, AA 6, Goderich.