HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-07-24, Page 1Standing amid furniture pulled from their burning house at 177
Princess Street, Clinton, early Sunday members of the T. K.
Overboe family and several of their neighbors watch from the
backyard as firefighters attack the blaze which resulted in $7,000
damage, Overboes were asleep when fire broke out and were
awakened by neighbors in time to flee safely. — Staff Photo
oused by neighbours,
folly escapes blaze
Michael Neil Edwin Rodger
astrobaby born on moonday
Sunday — the day man walked on the surface of the moon, the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. William
Rodger of Auburn was born in Clinton Public Hospital. Shown above with his mother, Joan, and
nurse, Linda MustaLd, the 7-lb. 4-oz. tyke has been named Michael Neil Edwin in honor of the three
U,S. lunar explorers — Col. Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Cot Edwin Aldrin. The baby was
slated to get another name and was expected Saturday, but when his late arrival coincided with ,the
historic descent of the lunar landing ship, Eagle, the parents decided on the astronauts' names
because, according to Mr. Rodger, "they landed about the same time." The new member of the
Rodger family, to be known as Neil, has three brothers, Warren, 13; David, 11 and Norman, 6 and a
sister, Vickie, 7. His mother is the former Joan Chapman of Goderich. Photo below was taken from a
TV screen in Clinton during the live telecast from the moon Sunday night as Armstrong and Aldrin
planted a United States flag in the lunar soil. The streets were quieter than usual Sunday evening as
people here joined hundreds of millions around the world watching Armstrong's "one small step for
man, one giant leap for mankind." -- Staff Photos
Blank spades on the hymn board which stood in the grass waiting
to be auctioned last Saturday afternoon tell the story of Grace
United Church, Porter's Hill, which Was Cloted last 'month and
sold last weekend because the congregation had dwindled as
members of the chutch One by one sold their farms and moved
away. The 42-year-old brick church on the 6th concession of
Goderich Township, three Miles west of 1-lolniesVille, was sold for
$1,850 to Andrew AO of Saitford who plans to convert it into a
house. Staff Photo (Story on Page' 11)
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The News-Record is one of
many Ontario newspapers
publishing Elmer's safety
contests this summer — Contest
No. 3 appears this week.
Winners of Contest No, 1
include Margaret Van Dyke of
RR 3, Seaforth. She won a first
prize and will receive a new
bicycle. Second-place winners
include another Seaforth girl and
one from Listowel. We're sure
there is some winning talent in
Clinton and district. Give it a
try!
The Huron County Soil and
Crop Improvement Association
is sponsoring t twilight crops
program at John Hazlitt's farm
1.25 miles east of Benmiller
tonight at seven o'clock.
Doug McNeil, RR 6,
Goderich, soil and crop director
for Colborne Township and host
for the evening, will be calling
on a number of agronomists to
explain the various cereal and
field crop demonstrations.
Refreshments will be served at
the end of the program.
The date of the program was
given incorrectly last week.
* * *
Farmers are looking for rain,
according to T. W. Clapp,
associate agricultural
representative for Huron
County, in this week's crop
report.
- "All the crops could use a
good shower a growth is slowing
down," said Mr. Clapp. "The
white beans need some moisture
as their growth has slowed
down. On the average, there are
some very good stands.
"A few root rot problems are
still occurring, especially on the
heavier soils. There has also been
some incidence of the corn seed
maggot attacking roots. If these
problems have occurred, the
farmer should hill his beans up
higher to encourage roots higher
p on the stem.
"The spring grains are looking
good and again a good warm rain
would help, flaying is
proceeding normally. Quite a
few farmers have completed
j hitying, while a few are still at it.
* * *
High speed cornering is one
of the driving habits that results
in excessive tire wear, says the
Ontario Safety League. Dunlop
reports a test program in Which a
car Was locked in a tight circular
path; after only 40 Miles of
driving the front tires were worn
completely bald.
Weather
1969 1968
HI LO Hl LO
July 15 88 57 89 65
16 89 67 88 67
.17 83 69 866 66
IS 16 63 88 40
19 83 57 722 64
20 83 58 77 48
21 83 59 88 57
Rain Nil Rain .77"
Neighbors spotted smoke,
pouring from a two-storey frame
'house next to Central Huron
Secondary School early Sunday
and awakened the six persons
sleeping inside in time for all to
escape safely.
Flames heavily damaged the
roof, attic and part of the
second floor of the Ken Overboe
family's house at 177 Princess
Street, Smoke and water damage
throughout the house was
extensive. Fire Chief Grant Rath
estimated loss at about $7,000,
Asleep when the fire was
noticed about eight o'clock were
Mr. Overboe, his wife, Doreen,
their three children, Lorraine,
17, Andrea, 12 and Jim, 14, and
Lorraine's fiance, Richard
Ostrom of Varna.
Several neighbors across the
street reportedly saw the smoke
at about the same time. Mr.
Overboe said it was Mrs. Thelma
Cox who arrived first and
knocked at the door until he
awoke. The family was soon
iousc.-d, the Fire Department
summoned and a quantity of
clothing and furniture salvaged.
The Overboe's pet dog and cat
also escaped safely,
With the wedding to he held
in Ontario United Church
Saturday, gowns for the bride
and the maid of honor were
among the items first sought for
and saved, but the headpieces
and bride's shoes were left
behind. Some of the many
.wedding and shower gifts in the
house were also damaged or
believed lost.
Firemen arrived to find
smoke and flame spurting from a
second-floor bathroom and the
roof at the east side of the front
of the house. Extinguishing the
stubborn fire in the attic and
far hits bike,
two boys hurt
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Two boys suffered minor
injuries last Sunday morning
when the bicycle they were
riding collided with an auto at
the north end of town,
according to Clinton police. The
mishap, shortly before 10
o'clock, was one of nine in the
.area investigated by town and
provincial police in the last
week.
The boys, James Finney, 13,
of 364 Base Line Road, and
Robert McMahon, 13, of 217
Maple St., reportedly rode from
Highway 4, around the traffic
island and onto the Base Line
Road just before the accident.
The driver of the auto which
was southbound on the Base
Line, Wes Chambers of 81
William St., Clinton, told, police
he thought the boys were
headed north, but they suddenly
turned across his path.
Police Chief Lloyd Westlake
said the Chambers car swerved in
an attempt to avoid hitting the
bike and skidded off the right •
shoulder of the road. But the
bicyle hit the side of the car, just
behind the right front wheel,
throwing the riders to the
ground.
The Finney youth was
treated at Clinton Public
Hospital for abrasions and the
McMahon boy was treated for
cuts and scrapes and held
overnight for observation.
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Plaque recalls
great 1913
lake storm
On Sunday, August 3, 1969,
an historical plaque will be
unveiled at CObourg and
Lighthouse Streets, Goderich,
commemorating the Great
Storm of 1913,
The plaque is one of a series
being erected throughout .the
province by the Department of
Public Records and Archives,
acting on the advice of the
Archaeological and Historic Sites
Board of Ontario.
The ceremony, which Will
commence at 2:'80 o'clock, is
being arranged and sponsored by
the Getterieh Lions Club,
Clayton Edwards, chairman of
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roofing took nearly three hours,
but its spread in the living
quarters was checked citlicItlY,
Working on the roof and
from ladders much of the time,
the firefighters braved intense
heat and thick smoke, but none
were injured. One section of
hose burst on .the ground and
drenched onlookers, but caused
Modernization of the existing
ball diamond at Clinton
Community Park and
construction of a second
diamond will be undertaken this
year by the Clinton Kinsmen
Club as a service project to mark
the 60th anniversary of the
Association of Kinsmen in
Canada.
Approval is also being sought
from federal, provincial and
local authorities for a planned
schedule of summer Sunday
horse races. It is hoped that
three races can be scheduled
before the end of this season and
as many as eight next year. The
town council recently enacted a
bylaw permitting Sunday horse
Stores in Clinton,
Londesboro and Blyth were the
targets of burglars late last
Saturday night or early Sunday
morning. Four of the five illegal
entries appeared to be the work
of the same person or persons,
according to police who say the
same methods were used in
Clifford-Mildmay area break-ins
the next night.
Entry was gained by pulling
lock cylinders from the doors of
W. J. Counter Builders' Supplies,
Clinton; Ball-Macaulay Ltd.
building supplies, Clinton;
Thompson's General Store,
Londesboro and Sparling's
Hardware, Blyth. Also entered
the same night, by forcing open
a window, was Beatty's Farm
Service Centre in Clinton.
Teachers
still seek
contract
BY RICHMOND ATKEY
Secondary school teachers'
contracts were still under
negotiation when the Huron
County Board of Education met
at Central Huron Secondary
School in Clinton last week, and
there was no promise that the
bargaining would be finished
before the board's next meeting
on Aug. 18. 1
A series of committee
meetings are to be held by the
board for discussion of both
salaries and benefits for teachers
and also non-teaching staff.
In other business, the board:
DECIDED to advise Huron
County Municipalities this year
that the school board plans next
year to ask that education taxes
be remitted in two installments
rather than in a single payment
as is being done this year.
AGRRED not to act on a
proposal by Lorne A. Shantz, of
Kitchener, chairman of Church
and School Week. Mr. Shantz
suggested that Sept, 14-21 be
declared Church and School
Week here with the slogan
"Every child in Sunday school,
church or synagogue,"
GRANTED permission to
J.IL Stringer, principal of
Goderich District Collegiate
Institute, and J. Wooden,
principal of South Htitori
District High School, to attend a
seminar and workshop on
ungraded secondary schools" The
meeting will be in Toronto Aug.
841.
bECIDED not to become a
sustaining member of the
Ontario Educational Research
Council at a cost Of $500,
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no harm.
Don Switzer, a friend of the
family and employee of Noyes
Transport Ltd., secured a truck
and moved the salvaged
belongings to a house owned by
the Ostrom family at RR 2,
Varna. Lorraine and Richard are
to move into the house after
their marriage Saturday and Mr.
races and other recreational
activities.
The go-ahead for the park
project was given by the town
recreation committee this month
and it is expected that details
will be presented to the. town
council next month, prior to the
start of the work which is to be
done in three stages.
The first phase, slated to be
finished before the end of
summer, involves installation of
bleachers around the existing
hardball diamond at the south
end of the athletic field and
preparation of the grounds for
the diamond at the north end.
When the fall and spring
stages are complete, the south
Town police say that about
$90 in cash was removed from a
filing drawer at Beatty's and the
office ransacked. Taken from
Ball-Macaulay was about $20
cash. Sperling's. , ,Hardware,
according to provincial police in
Wingbam, lost about $60 cash
BY RICHMOND ATKEY
A plan for computerized
payroll processing was adopted
by the Huron County Board of
Education after its business
administrator, Roy B. Dunlop,
strongly recommended
acceptance , of a proposal by the
Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce.
Robert M. Elliott of Goderich
Township chaired the board's
meeting held in the board room
of Central Huron Secondary
Overboe is looking for a
three-bedroom house to rent in
Clinton until the fire damage is
repaired.
Cause of the blaze is not
known, but defective wiring is
suspected, according to the fire
chief. -Mr, Overboe said the
house was insured.
diamond will have 30-foot
dugouts, a screen to be like the
one at Listowel, a rebuilt and
grassed infield, an improved
outfield, baseline fences and,
tentatively, a lighting system
similar to ones at Dashwood and
Mitchell.
The screen from the existing
field will be removed to the new
diamond which is also slated to
get baseline fences and a grassy
surface.
Chairman of the anniversary
project and president of the
Kinsmen is Steve ,l3rown.
Members of the park project
committee include Bert Clifford,
Dave Beattie, Doug Norman and
Paul Kerrigan. The club has
between 30 and 40 members.
and some small tools. Nothing
was reported missing from either
W. J. Counter or Thompson's.
In an incident Monday night,
seven cases of beer disappeared
from the Clinton Legion Hall.
How entry was gained was not
determined immediately.
School, Clinton, last week.
Board Chairman John Lavis of
Clinton was ill and unable to
attend. It is the first board
meeting he had missed.
Cost of the data processing
for the board's 700 employees
will be about $2,500 a year,
according to Mr. Dunlop who
said the figure is based on a
monthly payroll with a charge of
about 25 cents per cheque. If
more frequent payrolls are
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Kinsmen to improve park,
may start Sunday racing
Burglars busy in district
Schools use computers
for payroll processing