HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-07-31, Page 1Clinton received.. the contract for the project after submitting a
low tender of $39,477.50. New traffic patterns, streetlights,
traffic signals, sidewalks and park area should emerge and CFB
Clinton's centennial gift to the town, a large radar antenna, will
then be installed atop a concrete base south of the Main corner,
between Victoria and King Streets.—Staff Photo
It took more than a year from the time local officials pressured
the province to agree to reconstruction of the intersection of
Highways 4 and 8, but work finally started last week — and the
pace was fast and steady. Traffic — both pedestrian and vehicular
— will be disrupted at least through August, but indications are
that the Sept. 1 deadline will be met. Levis Contracting Co,, of
Lions frolic, kids pain t in Bayfield •
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Judging by theigrinS, these two baCkWoodi types were in good
spirits at last Week's gayfield Lions Club frolic Maybe because
they were into the spirits in those kmarked jugs, Stewart turner
and John Graham won'a prite fot their hillbilly costumes*,
,-Photo by gellchamber
Six.year.old Michael Latet of RR 5, Clinton, hit by an auto near the main Corner in Clinton last
5aturday eVening, is carried by Maynard Hynners to a Oar waiting to take the boy to the hospital. A
citietor has already examined the boy and said it was safe to move hien. The boy was released from the
hospital the following day.-,..Staff Photo
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Huron MP fears CFB Clinton will be shut down,
sees • base at site of $5.5 million DOT school
CFB Clinton may "very
likely" be one of several defence
department bases slated to close
as the government tries to cap
defence spending, Huron MP
Robert McKinley told The
News-Record this week.
The compact base which
began as a vvartime radar training
station 28 years ago this month
has for quite a while been on a
list of bases whose futures were
being "reassessed," said Mr.
McKinley, adding that "I think
Clinton is very likely to be
closed."
Two weeks ago Mr. McKinley
wrote to Defence Minister Leo
Cadieux and urged that
"everything possible" be done to
keep CFB Clinton operating. He
also sent Mr. Cadieux a copy of
a July 3 letter he wrote to
Transport Minister Donald C.
Jamieson.
In the letter to Mr. Jamieson,
the Huron MP suggests that CFB
Clinton could serve as the site of
a Transport Dept, air services
training school for which a $5.5
million 'building is to be erected
at Uplands in Ottawa.
Initially, said Mr. McKinley,
the Uplands school is to
accommodate some 300 to 400
students at a time on a
year-round basis and is expected
eventually to expand both its air
and marine instructional
programs.
Calling the facilities at
Clinton "ideal" for the federal
transport ,school, Mr. McKinley
noted that sod-turning on the
project is set for spring, but as
yet no tenders have been sought.
The Huron MP said he has
known for some time that CFB
Clinton was on the reassessment
list, but had been "sitting still
hoping it would not be 'one of
the ones'elosed."
Reports that up to 15 bases
will get' the chop were
discounted last week by Mr.
Cadieux as an exaggeration. It is
understood about half that
number ,-would be closer to the
truth.
In addition, a number of
bases will be cut down in size,
Cadieux was to have announced
the base closures by the end of
this week, but final cabinet
approval of plans prepared in the
defence department was delayed
and it may be as long as two
weeks before an announcement
is made.
Speaking by telephone from
his office in Ottawa late
Tuesday, Mr. McKinley said
that, in spite of his hopes and
although there was still no
official word, it appeared
"practically 'certain" that the
minister's announcement will
sound the death knell for the
base here.
Rumors that the Summerside,
P,E,I. base will be among those
closed prompted a Prince
Edward Island delegation led by
Premier Alex Campbell to visit
Ottawa Monday to see Mr.
Cadieux and plead for retention
of the base which is said to
pump $10 million annually into
the provincial economy.
Military personnel at
Summerside number 1,056; their
dependents, 3,000. Civilians
employed at the base number
about 275. Another base that
has figured in advance
speculations about the coming
closures is the one at Rivers,
Man.
CFB Clinton, by Canadian
military standards a
medium-sized establishment,
housed about 700 military
personnel with 280 civilian
employees last February,
The bulk of personnel
training at Clinton is for
n o n••o f f leers primarily
privates —, in electronics and
radar. At least 1,700 men a year
were being graduated from the
school's courses when the
personnel statistics were
disclosed by the base
commander, Col. E, W, Ryan, at
the Clinton Industrial
Committee dinner in February.
Armament officer and
aeronautical engineering officer
training, involving about 20
instructors and about 60 trainees
a year, was shifted to CFB
Borden in recent months. The
communications officer training
program, involving about 40
graduates a year, remains here.
As a result of a general
reduction in the size of the
armed forces, the Radar and
Communications School
remained at about one-third its
normal level last year, but added
few more students earlier this
year.
The basic instructors' course
at the School of Instructional
Technique is increasing its
operations steadily in order to
train about 1,000 instructors a
year and a new Canadian Forces
Warrant Officer School is to
open here' this fall.
Lt., Cmdr, P. A„ Scott of CFB
Cornwallis is to be the first
commandant of the school •
whose opening is slated for Nov,
7 with a ceremonial parade and
aircraft flypast to be attended
by senior military personnel
from Ottawa and from Training
Command Headquarters at
Winnipeg.
There are to be about 26
instructors and administrators
and about 100 students at a time
will take the six-week course.
Students will all be of sergeant
or warrant officer rank and will
be preparing for the higher ranks
of master or chief warrant
officer,
On July 18, during a question
period in the Commons, Me,
McKinley asked Mr. Cadieux ..if
he would give advance notice of
base closings to members whose
•• constituencies would be affected
and Mr, Cadieux said that was
the normal procedure.
The closedowns will be
staggered over a period of years,
informed sources said this week.
In this way the economic impact
is expected to be eased. It is
anticipated that a minimum
one-year notice will be given,
with some bases being put on
two years' notice and others on
three years' notice.
Defence department sourceS
say a comprehensive program
has been prepared for helping
civilian personnel thrown out of
work by the closedowns to find
alternative employment. This
program is to get under way
when the closedowns are
announced.
Attempts will be made to
relocate affected workers within
the department, Where this is
not possible, the civilians will be
offered other jobs in the public
service.
The program will be carried
out in co-operation with the
federal manpower department
and regional development
boards.
Personnel teams will be at the
various bases earmarked for
liquidation to interview affected
personnel about available
openings, the sources said.
At the industrial committee
dinner in February, Charles S.
MacNaughton, treasurer of
aOundtarimop,p formlb
Huron,
ofister
urged
eco
that
nomics
the federal government play a
bigger role in redeveloping
deactivated military bases.
He promised that if the base
here were to close like the one at
Centralia did in 1966, the'
provincial government would
s'o'alguatiinon."adBdurtesshe siatseidllite htoopeda
that a harmonious arrangement
with the federal government
could be arranged because the
province "can't go on investing
in deactivated air bases."
He pointed out that lack here
of hangars and other facilities
boasted by Centralia made the
Clinton base less desirable for
industrial deeelopment and he
suggested that a community
college or other educational
institution might be created here
if the base closed.
The first
column
Monday is Civic Holiday and
most stores and businesses will
be closed.
A. E. Ball, postmaster, has
announced that there will be no
wicket or rural route service.
Street letter boxes will be
cleared at 4:15 p.m. Mails will
be received and despatched at
6:45 p.m. The lock-box lobby
will remain-open as usual for the
full 24 hours.
The News—Record office will
not be open Monday. Classified
advertising will be accepted until
noon Tuesday and display
advertising until 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Correspondents are urged to
send in their news copy as early
as possible. •
The town swimming pool will
be opeiron the holiday.
* * *
This week's 'item for the
cloud-with-a-silver-lining
department concerns the Hotel
Hensall whose help wanted
advertisement appeared on our
classified page in the
employment wanted section last
week. Despite the mix-up, one
of our Clinton readers responded
and was hired.
* * *
Do a good deed and it will get
you in trouble. That seems to be
the moral to be learned from
what happened to town
clerk-treasurer John Livermore
one day last week.
• John was on vacation the day
he parked his car on Albert
Street near Anstett's and put a
penny in the parking meter.
When the Meter dial registered a
whopping 36 minutes instead of
the usual 12 minutes, John
decided that holiday or not he
would have to take the meter
head off and replace it with one
working properly. And he did.
But he forgot to put in
another penny and the new
meter stood there with its red
flag up until Constable Clarence
Perdue happened along and
slapped a ticket on John's car.
* * *
A twilight meeting on crop
production will be held today at
7 p.m! at the farm of Jack Peck,
1.25 miles west of Kipper',
Thismeeting is sponsored by
the Huron County Soil and Crop
Improvement Assoeiation in
co-operation with Jack Peck and
the Ontario Department of
Agriculture and Food.
Weather
1969 1968
LO HI LO
July 22 82 57 76 60
23 86 58 78 57
24 85 62 77 50
25 79 58 76 51
26 75 , 69 78 56
27 74 58 77 55
28 75 61 10 58
Rain 1,06" Rain .07"
Janet Huntley, Barbie Sims and
Jeanette Reynolds.
Floats — 'Phillip Turner and
Chris Tonkewicz; Guest,
Hutchinson and McCauley
children; Andy Webb and Andy
Laudenback; and Ann Hew,
Wendy Penhale, bale Elliot and
Ricky Penhale, •
Decorated cars — Mr. and Mrs.
N. C. Brown and Buffy; Walter
Erickson and family with Andy
Sturegon; Pat Graham and Kelso
Fitzsimmons; and Mr. Conkey.
Costumed pedestrians—
(Adults) Joan Merner and
pedestrians.
Williams; (children) Pam
Hookings, Wanda Botly, Doris
Steadman, Janice Steadman and
John Steadman, Andrea
Morrison, Tom Morrison,
Christihe Downie, Jocelyn
ownie, Andy Rogers
John-David RogerS, Laurie
McCardell; Jeffrey Merner,
Susan Robbie and Pat Eynon,
Decorated bikes - Crystal
Huffman, Shirley Brandon, Clay
McCardell and Bonnie Makins.
Decorated tricycles John
Dowson, gobble Siertserna and
Totrinhy Owens,
Miscellaneous carts John
Graham and Stewart Tutner;
Jenny, Jill and Jainie. Grant and
Jay Lapp and The McAuley
ganiily with Elizabeth Walden,
The Zurich Centennial Band
_played during the parade and
later in the park.
' Winning ticket holders
included; Mrs. June Humphries,
Bayfield; Blair Bender, Bayfield;
Mrs. F. LeBeau, Bayfielcl;
Barbara Graham, Bayfield; E.
Pongracz, Detroit; Trudy Hill,
Varna; G. Foden, Woodstock;
Jack Hammond, Bayfield; Jake
Reder, Bayfield; Barbara Martin,
Bayfield; Dave Trudgeon,
Ridgetown; Robbie Lawrie,
Blyth; Paul Kerigan, Clinton;
David Powell, Strathroy; and
Stan Johan, Sarnia.
Gate Prize winners Were —
Dale Martin Of ,Detroit and Mrs.
Gordon Scotchmer and Mrs.
Arnold Makins, both of
Bayfield.
PAINT-IN
Bay field's third annual
"paint-in" attracted almost 70
young artists July 23.
The children made serious
fforts to record their
impressions of the village and
area, but we were a little
sari:Wised to note that the recent
rrioon.walk did not inspire any
of the works.
This year sever an improved
"canvas" in uSe -- over 'I00 feet
of whitewashed plywood
provided by Will Diann.
Organize]' of this popular
event were once again, Mrs. R.
0. Hunter and Professor
KalbfleiSch,
BY AUDREY BELLCHAMBER
Almost 1,000 people enjoyed
the Bayfield Lions Club's 23rd
annual frolic at the fairgrounds
last Friday evening and Harold
Weston, Lions president, called
the event "very successful."
Winners in the carnival parade
included;
Pony with rig -- Valerie
Merner.
Horse riders Dayle
Scotchmer, Patricia Payne and
Michelle Flowers.
Pony ciders -- Dianne Sims,
Boy runs in front of car,
but is not seriously hurt
Michael Lazet, 6, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Art Lazet of RR 5,
Clinton, came close to serious
injury when he dashed into the
path of an auto on Huron Street
just west of the main corner last
Saturday evening, according to
town- police.
The boy was hit, lost one or
two teeth and suffered scrapes
and bruises, police said, but was
released Sunday from Clinton
Public Hospital where he was
taken for treatment after the six
o'clock mishap.
Driver of the car was Mrs.
Nora M. Enzensberger of
Goderich. She was not charged
and, witnesses told police she
came .through the intersection
onta green light.
Police were told that the boy
was crossing with his mother to
the family's car which was
parked at the side of the Royal
Bank building. The youngster
reportedly pulled free of his
mother's grasp and darted in
front of the car.
Dr. R. W. Street of Blyth was
at the hospital and went
immediately to the accident
scene, examined the boy and
advised that he could be
transported to the hospital by
car. Maynard Hymers picked up
the lad and Dave Ball drove to
the hospital.
Early Sunday, at 1:15 a.m.,
an auto owned by Mary Boyce
of 114 Nelson St., Goderich, was
found crashed into a hydro pole
on Orange Street south of
Joseph Street. The car's front
end was badly damaged and a
transformer on the pole was
jarred and started, to • drip oil.
Police did not know who had
been driving the'' vehicle until
Mrs. Boyce's husband, Norman,
reported to the police office
later in the day.
Sunday evening, at 7:40
In fair condition in London's
Victoria Hospital with severe
face cuts inflicted by a
bottle-wielding assailant last
weekend is 19-year-old James
Patrick, Gautrau whose family
moved from Adastral Park seven
months ago.
The young man's father,
Norman G. Gautrau, then Sgt.
Gautrau, was stationed at CFB
Clinton for about a year before
he retired last January to take
charge of food services at Ford's
Talbotville plant. The family
then moved to London.
James was the victim of a
savage attack on Langarth Street
Sgt. Gautrau's son
attacked in London
o'clock, autos driven by
Cornelius Devries of RR 4,
Goderich, and Steven Jenkins of
RR 1, Clinton, collided at Huron
and Albert Streets. Police said,
they were still investigating and
did not know if any charges
would be laid. Damage estimates
and circumstances of the crash
were not immediately available.
No one was hurt.
Town police also received a
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in, London early last Saturday as
he strolled home after a date
with his girlfriend. His throat
was badly cut and facial nerves
severed when the bottle smashed
against his head. Doctors spent
three hours on emergency
surgery Saturday.
Police said the attack was
unprovoked and a warrant has
been sworn out for the arrest of
a London youth in connection
with the attack, Police said the
suspect they are hunting was
apparently at an outdoor beer
party at the foot of 'Langarth
Street prior to the assault.
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