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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-06-26, Page 1104th YEAR NO, 26 Clinton News CLINTON, QNTARi0THURSDAY UNE 26, 19¢9 Record PRICE PER COPY 15c. GFO suffers surprise upset in Iluron opinion poll Linda Clinton of Halifax, N.S. strings on a piano at the Sherlo among the members of the Don show in the Community Centre. The first column THE NEWS -RECORD WILL BE CLOSED NEXT TUESDAY, DOMINION DAY, AND DEADLINES FOR NEWS, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AND DISPLAY ADVERTISING WILL BE ADVANCED TO 5 P.M. MONDAY. WE ASK THAT OUR NEWS CORRESPONDENTS MAIL THEIR ' COPY EARLY ENOUGH TO REACH THE OFFICE MONDAY AFTERNOON. TO ARRANGE FOR COVERAGE OF MONDAY NIGHT OR TUESDAY EVENTS, PLEASE CONTACT THE EDITOR ON MONDAY. THE NEWS—RECORD WiLL BE PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY AS USUAL. THERE WILL . BE NO POSTAL WICKET SERVICE OR RURAL ROUTE SERVICE TUESDAY, BUT THE LOCK BOX LOBBY WILL BE OPEN 24 HOURS. STREET LETTER BOXES WILL BE CLEARED AT 4:15 P.M. MAIL WILL BE RECEIVED AND DISPATCHED AT 6:45 P.M. * * * The Rev. Grant Mills, who is - leaving Ontario Street United Church, will be the speaker Sunday afternoon at the annual decoration service at the Clinton Cemetery. The three o'clock event is sponsored by Branch 140, Royal Canadian Legion and the Clinton Ministerial Association. Organizations are asked to have graves decorated prior to the service. The program is being arranged by Doug Thorndike and the Rev. A. J. Mowatt. * 4 * In his weekly crop report, Don Pullen, Huron agricultural representative, said: "Winter wheat appears uniform, well -headed and promises to be an above-average crop. "While there is an abundance of hay, the weather conditions, have been unsuitable for speedy curing. A few cases of alfalfa weevil damage have been observed. "Weeds Will be vigorous Competitors in some corn fields Where no herbicides have been applied. "In spite of the backward weather, most crops are growing well." Weather 1969 1068 Hi LO Hi LO June 17 73 49 68 40 18 64 50 70 89 19 65 58 68 49 20 62 45 60 39 21 60 35 66 39 22 68 42 68 53 23 64 53 43 76 $ Rain .99" 'Rain .97" watches with evident interest as Howard Currie of Clinton installs ck-Manning factory. Linda, one of the Gunther Buchta dancers, was Messer troupe who toured the plant last Thursday prior to the Messer —Staff Photo. Insulin pioneer Foster Copp, Clinton native, dies in U.S. The world lost one of its greatest contemporary medical minds when Canadian -born -and - educated Dr. E. F. Foster Copp, a native of Clinton, died in LaJolla, California, this month. Considered probably the outstanding international authority in the field of metabolism, according to a report by Lotta Dempsey of the Toronto Star, Foster Copp started ` 'his. career as. Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best's "jo-boy" in the University of Toronto lab where the famed team discovered insulin. Born in Clinton — a brother of Dr. J. C. "Larry" Copp who lives in Toronto . — Foster Copp graduated from the U of T medical school in 1923. His association with Banting and Best, winners of the Nobel Prize for their discovery of .the diabetes treatment, Ied to an appointment at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York. Dr. Copp was he first to demonstrate the administration and use of insulin in the United States, and at the time was 21 years of age. It was to the institute that the famed newspaper publisher Robert Scripps (Scripps - Howard) came in a coma for diabetes treatment and Dr. Copp had him near recovery when something held up the production of insulin in Toronto and there was none for export. Scripps died, and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps, determined to do something for diabetic patients. She invited Dr. Copp to head up a Scripps Metabolic Clinic which she established at LaJolla. With Dr. James Sherrill, he wasco-founder of the clinic, and the two physicians became personal attendants to Miss Scripps. In 1955, Dr. Copp was invited to become medical director of the California Research Foundation, where he remained until the time of his death at 70. He also was in private practice and travelled the world lecturing and sharing his skill and knowledge. Please turn to Page 2 Don Messer and his fiddle, Marg Osburne, Charlie Chamberlain and the rest of the Cast of Don't GBC TV show drew a record Crowd Of more than 1,700 to Clinton's Community Centre last 'Thursday night. Although the CBD show hes been cancelled and the current nationwide tour is billed as bon's testi, a private TV station lans to produce the show next fall and it Will be seen oh p a Lbndon Channel, The performance here was sponsored jointly by the Recreation Contrnittee and Legion Branch 140. — Staff Photo, Majority too slim to approve plan A small majority of Huron County farmers voted in favor of a new general farm organization Tuesday, but here as across Ontario the proposal failed to get the 60 per cent affirmative vote• needed for its establishment. The preliminary • results released shortly before midnight Tuesday by Don Pullen, Huron ag rep and head returning officer for the expression -of -opinion poll, showed that 5,274 farmers cast ballots in the county — about half the estimated 10,000 eligible. There were 2,698 votes in favor of the new farm organization and 2,511 opposed: Sixty-five ballots were spoiled. The narrow margin — just over 51 per cent — was farm below what the GFO Campaign Committee hoped for and expected. The main question on the ballot asked farmers whether they wanted a GFO financed by a compulsory check -off on farm products marketed. A supplementary question asked if membership should be automatic with the check -off or based on an additional fee. Results locally and throughout the province indicated that the majority of those voting wanted the automatic membership whether or not they voted for or against the main question. Asked if marketing boards should have a 'vete on the new organization, farmers who wanted the GFO said yes, those against it replied "no." The poll set up 'at the office of the Ontario Dept. of Agriculture and Food in Clinton counted 121 ballots, with 67 "yes" votes and 54 "no" votes. Results of an advance poll were 13.9 in favor. Other district results were as follows. Goderich Twp., YES — 169-126; Ashfield, NO -- 233-147; Hay, NO — 175-112; Hullett, YES — 256.242; McKillop, NO — 186.164; Stanley, YES — 180-161; Tuckersmith, NO — 156-123; Colborne, YES •— 131-71 and East Wawanosh, YES . — 260.120. Voters in southwestern Ontario rejected the GFO solidly, giving the plan its heaviest setback. Along with Huron, the counties of Kent, Middlesex, Lambton, Elgin, Essex and Perth were among those where the GFO failed to get the required number of votes. In Kent County the affirmative votes were less than 16 per cent of the ballots cast. The GFO received less than 44 per cent of the vote province -wide, according to preliminary tabulations. Estimates were that ballots were cast by less than half of those eligible across Ontario. Please turn to Page 2 School .board adopts staff vacation policy. BY RICHMOND ATKEY Revised recommendations on non -teacher vacations, as proposed by the committee on non -teaching employees' salaries and benefits, met very little opposition at a special meeting of • Huron County Board of Education held in Victor Lauriston Public School, Goderich, Monday evening. A motion sponsored by Mrs. J. W. Wallace and D. J. Murphy, both of Goderich, was carried on a show of hands with one dissenting vote, that of Robert M. Elliott, board vice-chairman and representative of Goderich and Colborne Townships. Although he did not speak at length, Mr. Elliott said he objected to the last three sections which provided the three top men in the employ of the board — D. J. Cochrane, director of education; Roy B. Dunlop, business administrator and J. W. Coulter, superintendent of schools — each with four weeks' vacation after one year. He was of the opinion that they should be employed for five years before receiving the' extra week, not one year. The approved schedule for vacations is as follows: Board office moving here on Tuesday Employees of• the Huron County Board of Education involved in moving the head office from the Huron County Court House, in Goderich, to the Nurses' Residence in Clinton will be off Monday but will report for work on Dominion Day, July '1, to get the job done. D. J. Cochrane, director of education, reported these plans to the board at a special meeting in Victor Lauriston Public School, Monday evening. After a progress report on alterations, he said that the building would not be ready for occupancy before nett week. In connection with the hitting Of office ernployees -- Board decided to meet as a committee of the whole- in the board room. et Central Huron Secondary School, at 8 p.m. yesterday. Director of , education, superintendent (academic) and business administrator — up to one year of service, three weeks; after one year, four weeks. In each case, one week of any yearly vacation may be accumulated over a two-year period. Assistant superintendents (academic), chief accountant, plant superintendent, manager of purchasing and services; after one year of service, three weeks' vacation. In each case, one week of any yearly vacation may be accumulated over a two-year period. Custodians, engineers and maintenance employees: (a) after six months and up to one year, one week with pay; (b) after one year, two weeks with pay; (c) after seven years, three weeks with pay. Secretaries, clerks, clerk -typists and supervisors: (a) after six months and up to one year, one week with. pay; (b) after one year, two weeks with pay; (c) after seven years, three weeks with pay. Present employees of the board, who were in the employ of predecessor boards on December 31, 1968, will have vacations in summer of 1968 as per policy of the former board, and previous service will count. Dr. J. Alex Addison and his wife Jessie (she's known to many of her friends as Jay), are piped into the Community Centre by Hec Kingswell at the start of last Friday's program held to honor and thank the doctor who is quitting general practice after nearly 30 years. —Staff Photo. Community says "thank you" in a big way to Dr. Addison "I left this community once," said Dr. J. Alex Addison last Saturday evening, "because I was too young and there wasn't enough work to do. Now, I'm quitting again, because •I'm too old and there is too much work to do." After 28 years and 2,056 babies, the 59 -year-old general practitioner will see his last patient tomorrow. On the weekend, the community and district he served for nearly three decades said a grand thank you with a party and dance for more than 700 persons in the Community Centre. The doctor conceded that he has beefed about being busy, but said, "I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't think I would be happy if I were not busy." But, he explained, he has already reduced his schedule, would have to cut it back more as time goes on and "that is not the way to practice medicine. You can't do general practice in four-day weeks with seven -hour days. It is a 24-hour job." Thanking the well-wishers on behalf of his wife and himself, Dr. Addison said, "The people of Clinton and district have shown their appreciation this evening. I'd like you to know our family appreciates Clinton." The turnout, he said, may show younger doctors that the people in the community appreciate their efforts and it might help entice new doctors and encourage them to come to Clinton. He said Clinton needs more doctors and said the life of a general practitioner is still a good and enjoyable one, but "all the young doctors in Canada today want to be specialists. No one wants to do the work we have done. "What's going to happen when all the doctors are specialists and there aren't any general practitioners?" "You know," he said, "when I was interviewing doctors who wanted to take over my practice I saw six applicants, There was a, Jamaican, a Nigerian, a doctor from Thailand, two from Ireland and one from Wales. There 'wasn't one Canadian because all the Canadians want to be specialists." Dr. Addison admitted that he was worried about the future of Clinton's medical services. "With me going," he said, "that leaves just three other doctors. And two of them are over 70 and close to retirement. "I was talking to a friend from Listowel the other day, which is the same sort of area as Clinton, and they have nine doctors in the community." "This is one reason why I am leaving the business. I wanted a younger man to take over, one who can devote more time and energy to the town." "Ideally, I would have like to see two young doctors start here. There is that much work in the area now." Dr. Addison's replacement is Dr. William Harrett -- the Welshnian — who starts here soon. "One doctor is comingin my place," said Dr. Addison, ' — there should be more, three or four more, Clinton needs more." If we get them, he added, "maybe I will come back and see you again on a reduced basis." A committee led by Don Kay as chairman and Mait Edgat as secretary -treasurer planned the evening's events which started off with three skits depicting humorously a day in a doctor's life. Elmer Trick played piano selections as the audience awaited the arrival of Dr. Addison and his wife, Jay. The couple was piped into the centre by Hec Kingswell and was greeted with a standing ovation. Jim Doherty, an Irish tenor, sang songs between skits and Mayor Donald S. Symons presented the doctor and his wife each with a new set of luggage. The family will move to its summer cottage for a couple of months. And then there will be trips to the East Coast and the West Coast. "And maybe next year Europe," said Mrs. Addison. In his remarks, Mayor Symons noted that Dr. Addison "is not really going to leave us and we all agree he is entitled to a good rest." Huron MP Bob McKinley was among the guests and Huron Please turn to Page 2 RECORDS.GIFTS GALBRAITH_:. With streamers flying and the air horn tooting, a Boyes Transport truck carried a wedding party through towh last Saturday afternoon. The vehicle oras appropriate because the bride was Bonnie Boyes, whose father, Bert, is president of the trucking cbmpany. Bonne and her new husband, Robert H. Foster of Toronto, were given the ride from church at the su ggestia of the company's drivers, many of whom have known the bride since she Was a little girt Seated in the armchair nearest' the front of the trailer is the Rev. R. LI. MacLean of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. —Staff Photo.