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Farmer Jeff Peck, 2, shows off one of his father's beans to agricultural experts at Huron County Soil
and Crop Improvement Association twilight program at Jack Peck farm, RR 3, Kippen, last Thursday
evening. With young Jeff are, from left to right, J. D. Jamieson, Centralia College agronomist; Don
Littlejohns, agronomy division, Ridgetown College of Agricultural Technology; Dr. Stan Young,
University of Guelph extension coordinator and Howard . Deters of RR 1, Dashwood, Hay Township
director for the association and chairman of the program which attracted about three dozen area
farmers. Jeff's dad, Jack, stands at right. —Staff Photo. Story on Page 9
Huron medical cooperative
to merge with 29 others
Auto rams tractor and wa gon
killing Hensall district former„
THE GREAT STORM OF 1913
in strum that struck Lake Huron on NrAernber 9, 1913
l(n kkf , in,ic,111(,rs vverr, lost. Sevt'n of thm-n valii lac r1.
ranrin from the 30-year-old. 270 -fool 'WeXterd- 10 thr,
...)5 0 toot 'Ilmes Carruthers", launched six months earlier ;1.1
GeilillC,"“)0d, The bulk of the wreekae was; (.;;Isl. up on the
shore of Huron County. where recovery )r)c.1
of the err bodies wr'i directed by a Lake Carriers'
AAssocialion committer based at Goderich. The storm, which
ravao,d the Great. Leke9 re ion for three days, dectroyel
total of 19 vessels and resulted in the strandthr of 19 others .
With a loss of 244 lives
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Plaque placed at obourg and Lighthouse Streets in Goderich and unveiled last Stinday by the
Archaecilogical and Historic Sites Board of the Dept of Public Records and Archives of Ontario,
acting On a request front the Goderict? Lions Club, three-day 1913 lake storm in which 19 vesselS
sunk,. 19 others Were Stranded and 244 lives Were lost, Huron MPP Charles MacNaughton and other
dignitaries were present for the ceremony in which Lion Arnold McConnell Was given credit for
initiating the sirojedt. Staff Photo (Story oh fYage 9)
JO-Anne COMM, Vi r of 148 3, Clinton, tests the new CCM bicycle she won in Elmer's Summer Safety
Contest. Her brother, George,. 13, holds the bicycle accessory kit he Won as a second-place prize in the
tame week'S contest, J. H. Aitken, general Manager of The News.fiecord, pretented the bicycle to
Jo-Anne Tuesday afternoon at her home. the winning entries were both from Contest Nb. 3,
published in` this newspaper July '24 as a public service in cooperation with the Ontario Safety
League,' --Staff Photo.
Winter wheat harvest is in fa
swing, according to Don Pullen,
Huron agricultural
representative, in his weekly
crop report,
Soule sprouting has been
observed, he noted, especially in
fields affected by the previously
reported strawbreaker disease.
Harvesting conditions have been
generally satisfactory with
near-average yields and quality
reported.
Swathing of spring barley has
commenced, Mr. Pullen said, the
white bean crop looks promising
and corn has made great progress,
in the last several days.
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The Western Ontario
Conservatory of Music
announced Wednesday. that
Linda Riley, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Riley of 180 Beech
St., Clinton, is included in the
list of medal winners for the
1968-69 season in Grade IX
ballet. A student of Mrs.
Milosawa Zablocka in Clinton
since the age of 7, 13-year-old
Linda last summer attended the
National Ballet School. She
enters grade 8 at Clinton Public
School next month.
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Weather
1969 1968
HI , LO HI LO
July 29 74' 56 69 43
30 78 53 75 55
31 83 58 79 55
Aug. 1 79 68 73 51
2 73 54 75 47
3 79 52 80 52
4 82 53 84 59
Rain .22" Rain .88"
stop progress," he said, and "a
standard basic medical care plan
for Ontario is a good thing,"
All the present co-op offices
in the province will remain open
at least through the end of
December, Mr. Howlett said, and
then some may have to be closed
or more opened depending on
the outlook. Perhaps, he said, 10
or 12 or 15 will do all the
business for the provincial
organization, "but co-op
members will, not lose their
identity. The present office or
one near here will serve you."
R. S. McKercher, who
eventually made the motion to
amalgamate, asked the members:
"What have you got to lose He
then answered the question
himself, saying: "Nothing ... if
you quit, where do the people
go for the other medical care
plans?"
The alternative to
amalgamation would be to cease
operations and disband.
Physicians' Services Inc., the
province's second largest plan
with about 1.4 million
subscribers, has decided to go
out of business and Windsor
Medical Services, Inc. with
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Auto vanishes
on trial run
in Clinton
Police are on the lookout for
a car reported stolen from Lorne
Brown Motors in Clinton on
July 29.
The red 1966 Chevrolet
Impala Convertible, license
H86.165, was• taken for a test
ride in the early morning and
was never returned. The
prospective purchaser did
telephone . several times during
the morning to say he would
return with the car and the
money to buy it, but as the
hours passed police were
notified and an alarm issued.
Provincial police spotted the
car and gave chase, but failed to
apprehend the unidentified
motorist who several days later
again called to say he would
return. Police and the auto
dealer were still waiting at last
word.
In another incident reported
by town police, four livestock
Canes and two whips were stolen
early lest Sunday from Corey's
Sales barn on the 13ayfield Road.
Entry was made through a
window. An office door was
forced open. Value of the
misting items was not listed,
Police are also investigating
damage to a fence behind
Brownie's Drive-in theatre last
Saturday night, Chief Lloyd
Westlake said that SoffieOne
drove tip behind the fence in a
pickup truck and cut an Opening
in order to watch the movie,
When police arrived, the
moviegoer disappeared on fdot,
leaving the Una behind,
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon for Harold Bell,
59, of RR. 2, Hensall, who died
Monday afternoon when his
tractor and a grain wagon it was
drawing were struck from the
rear by an auto on Highway 84
about a mile west of the village.
Driver of the auto was George
Wayne McLachlen, 19, of 554
Crvimlin Road, London. Mr.
McLachlen was not injured. His
wife, the former Sharon Smale
of Hensall, 18, received minor
leg injuries.
Mrs. Arthur Elliott, the
former Ruth Hayman, owner of
the Little Inn in Bayfield,
suffered a serious head' injury
when struck by a bicycle
Tuesday evening and, was in
critical condition at London's
Victoria Hospital when The
Neivs-Record went to press.
Mrs. Elliott, 51, was taken by
ambulance first to Clinton
Public Hospital and then on to
Daniel Joseph Baker, 18, of
..62 Regent Street, Goderich
died in St. Joseph's Hospital,
London, on Thursday, July 31
from injuries received in a car
accident June 29. He had been
listed in critical condition in the
intensive care unit of the
jospital.
Two other Goderich youths,
John Harrison and Wayne
Draper, injured at the same time,
have since been released from
hospitals in London. One other
youth was not injured.
The accident happened in the
early hours of June 29 when the
car in which the youths were
riding crashed 15 feet down a
bank on Kitchigami Road, south
of Goderich and struck a tree.
Mr. Baker was born in
Windsor on March 16, 1951 and
was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Baker of Kingsville.
He had lived in Goderich
most of his life and was a
student at Central Huron
Secondary School.
Surviving with his parents are
two brothers, Robert and Larry
and six sisters, Darleen, Nancy,
Rita, Paula, Karen and Laura, all
at home in Kingsville; his
paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ida
Baker, Goderich, with whom he
had been living and his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Ernest
Deslippe, Cottam.
Mr. Baker rested at Lodge
Bible classes
help Koreans
More than 150 district
children spent the last two
weeks in Vacation Bible School
at the Clinton Christian
Reformed Church.
The morning school program
was supervised by Mrs. C:
Dykstra of RR 1, Clinton, and
started in the church each day
with singing led by Mrs. H.
Kuiper with Mrs. P. Ott at the
piano.
Devotions were led by the
Rev. John Hanegraaf and the
children split into eight elasses
to learn bible stories and do
craft projects.
Each morning, the pupils
Were asked to bring a small
donation to aid children in
Korea. In 10 days, more than
$95 was collected.
The staff held a closing lunch
last Friday afternoon and an
evening program was held for
parents, Each class performed a
skit, the full group Sang gospel
Songs and a film was shown,
At the end, there was a plea
for more donations to the
.Korean children's fund and an
additional $76 was given to buy
milk powder, baby food and
medicines,
The teacher of the smallest
class was Mrs. koorda, with
Margaret Steeristra and Snider as
helpers.
Mr, Bell, who worked for
Don ,Mous,seau and lived not far
from the scene of the accident,
was travelling west on the
highway when the crash
occurred, Shortly after 4 p.m. He
was driving- a tractor Owned by
Mr. Mousseau and was returning
from the grain elevators with an
empty wagon.
The impact of the crash
tossed the tractor and driver into
the south ditch and the wagon
into the north diteh. Provincial
police from Exeter detachment
London after the accident which
occurred alsout eight o'clock on
Main Street in front of the inn.
Ontario Provincial Pollee,
'Goderich detachment, said that
Mrs. Elliott was struck by a
bicycle ridden by Bradley
Turner, 15, of Bayfield.
Constable John Wray is
investigating. ,
The injured woman's brother
Funeral Home until Monday,
August 4, when a 10 a.m.
funeral mass was conducted at
St. Peter's Roman Catholic
Church. Rev Father R.
Moynahan officiated.
Jo-Anne Collins, 11, and her
brother, George, 8, of RR 3,
Clinton, are winners in the third
round of Elmer's Summer Safety
Contest, published by The
News-Record.
For her first-prize entry in
the competition sponsored by
the Ontario Safety League,
Jo-Anne this week received from
J. H. Aitken, News-Record
general manager, a brand new
CCM Rambler Scrambler
bicycle. George received a Flyte
bicycle accessory' kit for his
second-prize award,
The brother and sister both
entered and won in the third
are investigating.
Funeral services will be held
at 1;30 o'clock at I3onthron
Funeral Home in Hensall with
the Rey. W. D. Jarvis of Cormel
Presbyterian Church officiating.
Burial will be at.Exeter
Cemetery.
Mr. Bell is survived by his
wife, the former Edith McBride;
a son, Donald, of Grand Bend; a
sister, Mrs. Jack Carter of
Waterloo; four daughters, Mrs.
Ron (Shirley) Passmore of
London, Mrs. Ken • (Patricia)
said she was headed across the
street and had just stepped off
the sidewalk when she was hit.
He' said his sister was being kept
under close observation as
doctors waited to see if surgery
would be necessary. He noted
that Mrs. Elliott once before
sustained a head injury in an
auto accident. Mr. Elliott was at
the hospital yesterday.
Interment was in St. Peter's
Cemetery, Colborne Township.
Pallbearers were Joseph Baker,
Kevin Rurnig, Wayne Draper,
Larry Mohring, Gerry Pitre and
Ken Young.
round of the bicycle.safety and
coloring contest. Jo-Anne was
one of four first-prize winners in
the province. George was one of
50 who won second prizes.
The winners, children of Mrs.
Stanley Collins and the late Mr.
Collins, live in a farm home on
the Bayfield Road about two
• miles outside town with five
brothers and sisters. They also'
have a married sister and two
other brothers — one in the
armed forces and one who was
married last Saturday.
Both youngsters attend
Holmesville Public School —
Pollock of RR 1, Rensall, Mrs,
Bob (Betty) Beaver of Paris and
Sylvia, at home, and nine
grandchildren.
OTHER ACCIDENTS
An 18-year-old Clinton
motorist escaped injury when his
auto - ran off the Bayfleld Road
and overturned in a ditch about
three miles outside town
Tuesday afternoon.
The driver, Paul Gomel], 31
Winter Court, said he was alone
in the car when the accident
occurred about four o'clock.
The 1963 auto • was damaged
badly. It was righted and taken
from the scene by a tow truck.
In an aecident Tuesday
morning, Albert N. Kyle of
Clinton was reportedly throWn
from his motorcycle in Seeforth
and injured. He was treated at
Clinton Public Hospital for a
chin cut and released. Police are
still investigating the mishap,
Time, location and other details
were not immediately available,.
Another motorcycle accident,
one investigated by the
provincial police, occurred last
Thursday on Huron County
Road 12 in Tuckersmith
Township and injured Wayne
Benneweis of Seaforth. Damage
was not extensive.
Town police reported four
crashes in the last week.
Last Sunday a car driven by
Steven Layton of RR 5, Clinton,
was travelling west on Huron
Street and, in attempting to turn
north on Albert Street, struck a
car driveh by Mervyn Agar of
RR 2, Seaforth. The Agar car
was southbound' on Albert and
halted at the red light. Layton is
being charged with an improper
turn.
Last Friday, about 9:35 a.m..
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Jo-Anne in Grade 6 and GeOrge
in Grade 3. George was the
winner two years ago 'in a
News-Record Christmas coloring
contest sponsored by local
merchants and is entering the
remaining safety contests this
year in hopes of winning a new
bike to go with his accessory kit.
Jo—Anne's bicycle arrived at
The News-Record office
unassembled and in a box
Tuesday and was put together
and prepared for the
presentation by Ellwood Epps
Sporting Goods, a CCM dealer in
Clinton.
Huron Co-Operative Medical
Services will merge with 29
other medical co-ops in 'the
province in order to become
agents of the government under
the new Ontario Health Services
Insurance Act which creates the
Ontario Health Services
Insurance Plan (OHSIP) on Oct.
1.
The new, amalgamated, body
is' to— be —known as the
Co-Operative Medical Services
Federation of Ontario and
representatives of Huron Co-Op
were in Toronto yesterday for
talks on establishment of the
new organization.
Everett Howlett, one of the
CMSFO organizers and a
Middlesex Co-Op staffer, told
Huron Co-Op_ members at a
meeting last Thursday that
Health Minister Matthew
Dymond "flatly refused" to deal
with 29 co-ops and said he
would work with only one.
Since OHSIP will take from
the co-ops their main source of
income, he explained, the local
co-operatives must both
amalgamate and expand services
if they are to continue to exist.
Mr. Howlett .said that the
province will allow the co-ops to
operate as branches of CMSFO
and enroll OHSIP subscribers,
but all claims will be handled by
OHSIP.
Huron Co-Op members will
be enrolled in OHSIP, the new
provincial medical care plan, by
the co-operative and will be
billed through the co-operative.
The meeting. in Town Hall
drew 75 members. Mr. Howlett
explained that the province
Plans to pay only 35-40 cents
per month per contract to the
co-ops. The amount, he said, is
so low that "no one co-op could
survive and keep an office
open."
The CMSFO speaker argued
that the co-ops need not become
just collection agencies for the
province, but have the chance to
set up drug plans, dental care
plans, extended care plans and
other insurance services not
offered by the government.
They could in that way continue
to serve their subscribers and,
possibly, -keep open all the
present co-op offices.
A secret ballot produced a
heavy margin in favor of
amalgamation and the entire
board of Huron Co-Op was
named as a committee to tarry
out the amalgamation process.
Mr. Howlett said the future
for co-ops is not the one he
expected, but "it is useless to
The proposed legislation to
introduce compulsory breath
tests in Canada, in cases of
suspected impairment, gives
extra interest to Great Britain's
experience since the
introduction of such a law. The
Ontario Safety League reports
that in the first 12 months,
compared with the
corresponding period of the
previous years, the number of
people killed fell by 1,152 —
14.6 percent. Serious injuries
decreased by 11.4 percent; slight
injuries were down 10.0 percent.
During the 12, months the motor
traffic index rose by three
percent, which would have been
expected to result in a
significant..-;,increase in' traffic
castialties, if other factors,
remained unchanged.
'
A. 'Prince describes pollution
"This 'most excellent canopy,
the.= airy this brave o'erhanging
firmameritt.. appeareth nothing
to Me 'but.1,,foul and pestilent
congregation of vapours." —
Hainlet •
Bicycle strikes pedestrian,
Bayfield woman "critical"
June crash injuries take life
of 18-year-old CHSS student
Wins bicycle in News-Record contest