Clinton News-Record, 1969-09-11, Page 1Frank Bolger, 33, of RR 2, Clinton, was charged with careless driving after his Ford Maverick, above,
rammed the rear of a Volkswagen driven by Walter Lobb of Chatham on Huron Street last Saturday
night. The VW was pushed across the street and onto curb. The Maverick curved past the VW and
over the curb into bushes at 133 Huron St. — Staff Photos
•
1920 stearn'engine built by Robert Bell Engine and Thresher Co. of Seaforth and owned now by
Harold Baechler, R R 3, Auburn, was one of Many of the old machines seen last weekend at the
Blyth annual Steam Thresher Reunion, An estimated 3,000 persons visited the two-day show.
Town already has curfew
JACK SCOTT
News-Record will carry
new Jack-Scott column
Officials from Huron, Grey and truce teuntieS- met in Hanover last Thursday with provincial
Minitters of economics and municipal affairs. John Berry, Huron clerkgreasuret, is in center
foreground, Beside him are John Livetriuire, his Clinton counterpart and Huron MP- Robert McKinley.
Mayor Dian Symons iS at far end of baek few. Next to him are County Warden James Hayter, dtinton
peeve Jim Armstrong and Wilmer Wein, Stephen Twp, clerk and president of the Huron Municipal
Officers Association, —Staff Photd.
Clinton NOws),Recor
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Officials tour bcise. 'tomorrow;
two provincial ministers due The grain harvest is almost
pompleted, according to T. W.
Clapp, associate agricultural
representative for Huron, in the
weekly crop report of the
Clinton office of the Ontario
Dept. of Agriculture and Food.
Very little plowing has been
done, said Mr. Clapp. The
ground has been very hard due
to lack of moisture and good
steady rains will help this
problem as well as the growth of
hay and pasture fields.
Corn is ripening fast and
harvest is not too far away,
continued Mr. Clapp. Bean
harvest is in full swing with
good, average and poor yields
reported. Most appear to be
average. Due to dry weather,
there has been some splitting of
beans at harvest.
* *
• Huron County will have 76
4-H fall homemaking clubs the
largest number in any county in
Ontario.
The project is needlecraft — a
relatively new club designed to
introduce the girls to
embroidery as a means of artistic
expression. Basic rules of good
design will be taught and the
girls will experiment with color
schemes.
Clubs start to meet this
month and continue into
November. Achievement days
will be held in November,
December and January. Projects
are developed by the Ontario
Dept. of Agriculture and Food
and clubs are led and sponsored
, by local leaders and groups.
• * * *
Kerry McLean of 80 Albert
SL, Clinton, was selected Miss
Union Maid at the annual Labor
.Day dance of the Goderich and
_District Labor Council at
Goderich Memorial Arena Aug,
- 30.
About 200 couples attended.
There were 45 contestants for
the Miss Union Maid contest.
Mis. John Buchanan of RR 6,
Goderich, was runner-up.
* * *
Norman Shepherd, a lawyer
elected last December to
represent the Town of Wingham
and East Wawanosh Township
on the 14-member county
school board, is moving to
Kincardine and is expected to
announce his resignation from
the board of education. There is
as yet no word on who will be
appointed to serve the remainder
of the two-year term.
* * *
Today is. Junior Day at
London's Western Fair. Four
area girls will be among 18
Huron Couhty 4-lrhomemaking
club members chosen to attend.
Those selected by Mrs. Susan
Wheatley, home economist,
include Heather McAdam,
Clinton; Debbie Stephenson, RR
1, Varna; Avon Toll, RR 3,
'Blyth and Kathy Taylor, RR 4,
Goderich.
* * *
The first breeds of sheep and
swine went through the show
ring at the Western Fair in
London Monday as livestock
judging moved into high gear.
In judging of Leicester,
Cotswold, Lincoln, Corriedale
and North Country Cheviot
sheep, Ephraim Snell of RR 1,
Clinton was the major winner.
He showed the grand
champion ewe, grand champion
ram, and the best group of four
animals owned and bred by an
exhibitor.
Runner-up to the Snell flock,
taking the reserve grand
champion ram and ewe prizes
and reserve best group of four,
Was H. M. Lee and Sons of
Highgate.
Snellt also had three first
prize ribbons in section
competition While Lees picked
up two first-prize ribbons.
* *
Here's a message on a French
bumper sticker, noted
approvingly by the Ontario
Safety League: "The Smile Has
The Right,of,way."
Weather
1969 1968
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3 82 55 72 55
4 83 53 7f3 57
5 84 66 77 65
6 85 62 69 64
/ 73 56 65 46
64 49 76 49
Rale .20" Rain ,88"
BY RICHMOND ATKEY
The Huron County Board of
Education has adopted a
schedule of fees for use of
school facilities by outside,
groups. The charges range from
$50 for use of large auditoriums
in the Exeter and Goderich high
schools to $5 for use of any
classroom.
John B. Lavis of Clinton,
board chairman, told board
member John Broadfoot, RR 1,
No local curfew bylaw is
needed to keep youngsters off
the street at night, the town
Council learned Monday — a
tection of the provincial child
welfare act already prohibits
anyone under 16 years old from
loitering in a public place
betWeen 10 p.m, and 6 a.m.
The applicable section of the
provincial law reads:
"No boy Or girl tinder 16
years of age shall loiter in any
public place between the hours
of 16 p.m. and 6 a,m. or be in
any place of public resort or
entertainment during mai hours
unless accompanied by his or her
parent of 411 adult appointed by
Brucefield, that the Tuckersmith
Township Council will be
required to pay the minimum
fee for its meetings in Huron
Centennial School at Brucefield.
"I think a municipal council
would be classed as non-profit,"
said Mr. Levis. The fee schedule
was contained in a report by
Mrs. Marilyn Kunder of Seaforth
and Mrs. J. W. Wallace of
Goderich.
There will be a dual set of
the parent to accompany the
boy or girl."
A boy Or girl found
contravening the restriction may
be warned by a Constable, and if
the warning is not regarded or if,
after the warning, the boy or girl
is again found contravening the
act the youngster may be taken
home or "to a place of safety"
and dealt with as a child
apparently in need of
protection,
A parent who permits a boy
or girl to contravene the act is
guilty of an offence and on
Summary conviction before a
judge iS liable to fihes of up Lb
$100.
fees — the cost 'will be lower for
non-profit uses where no
admission is charged. The higher
fees will be collected for
profit-making ventures.
The charges will be as
follows, with the non-profit fee
appearing first where two are
listed:
Elementary schools —
auditorium, $10-$15;
auditorium plus kitchen,
$15-$25; library, $10; library
plus kitchen, $15; and standard
A special meeting of the
council's police committee was
held Tuesday night and is
expected to result in a decision
to try to enforce the welfare act
provisions and may lead to other
changes in local law
enforcement.
At Monday evening's regular
council session, Mayor Donald
Symons said: "At the rate things
• are going, it is going to take
mote than a four-man fade in
this town. It it going to take
more than one man at night and
maybe days also."
Councillor Cord Lawson said
that wilt mean use of two
etuisers AS well.
Two provincial cabinet
members and the director of the
Ontario .Development
Corporation will visit CFB
Clinton tomorrow to inspect
facilities which will become
available when military
operations at the base are phased
out over the next two years,
Education Minister W. G,
Davis and Huron, IMP Charles S,
MacNaughton, Treasurer of
Ontario and . Minister of
BY BERT CLIFFORD
The Clinton Colts advanced
to the Ontario Baseball
Association intermediate "B"
finals last Sunday night,
defeating Tillsonburg 6-5 to take
the best-of-three series, 2-4 in
games. A crowd of more than
200 watched Sunday's game.
The Colts will play either
Cambellville or Corunna in the
provincial final. Campbellville
won the first game Sunday in its
contest with Corunna. The
second game of that series is
slated for Corunna Sunday
Afternoon.
OBA Series Chairman Earl
Chandler says that the 013A
finals will begin Sunday, Sept.
21, and will be a best-of-three
series. Details are not yet
available.
Clinton thought it had won
the Tillsonburg series with a 2-1
record, the final game a 7-1
victory, but the OBA upheld a
classroom, $5.
Secondary schools — large
auditorium, $15-$50; other
auditorium, $10-$25; cafeteria
without kitchen privileges,
$10-$15;,and classroom, $5.
The cost of lighting, sound
and stage crews will be extra.
Arrangements for such services
will • be made with the
appropriate student or student
organization through the school
principal.
Authority to rent premises
A bylaw to require early
closing of outdoor eating places
was considered last month by
Clinton's town council after
complaints were voiced about
early-morning noise and litter in
the vicinity of the Crown
Drive-In Restaurant on Victoria
Street.
But Mayor Donald Symons
reported Monday evening that
council lacks authority to
regulate the hours of restaurants.
Ward Knox, manager of the
drive-in, appeared before council
this Week to answer criticism.
Mr. Knox denied that the
drive-in ever is open until 5 a.m.
as one citizen charged last
month. The staff stops serving
ibod no later than 2:15 a.m.,
said Mr. Knox, and locks up at 3
or 3:30.
The restaurant manager also
denied that he had been asked to
close earlier. lie said police told
him he would be asked if
complaints continued.
In response to objections 'to
noise, Mr. Knox said "that's
outside, we have nothing to do
with the noise."
"We are not dirty," said Mr.
Knox, "... we open at noon and
it's clean. Do you see Bartliff's
cleaning up at night'?"
He Said he hires young boys
or girls to clean up in the
morning because he is too- tired
to do so at closing and has to
drive one or more of his workers
home because of the hoer.
He also said that access to
washroom facilities is not
denied, but the washrooms are
kept loeked until someone asks
to use them,
Mr. Knox asserted that the
drive-in's operation had been
"misrepresented by the paper"
and implied that the eotincil
made some of 'what he
considered false criticism,
Economics, are expected to
Arrive at Sky Harbour Airport in
Goderich with the ODC director
At 1.2; 30 p.m. tomorrow,
Meeting with the provincial
•officials at a luncheon on the
base will be Huron MP Robert.
McKinley, .Clinton Mayor
Donald E. Symons; Tuckersmith
Reeve Elgin Thompson, County
Warden James Hayter and
county council members of the
County Development
Tillsonburg protest of the first
game which was won by Clinton
7-5 on an umpire's decision.
Tillsonburg protested after
the plate umpire called out a
Tillsonburg batter, Jerry Forth,
for coming to bat without a
batting helmet. Forth came to
the plate in the second inning
with two men out and the bases
loaded.
Big Hans Leppington and
pitcher Ed Daer were the game
heroes late in Clinton's exciting
6.5 win over Tillsonburg on
Sunday. The tall lefthander for
Tillsonburg, Greg Biggs, had
given up only four hits up to the
end of the seventh before he ran
into the tough Clinton batters in
the eighth.
Don Bartliff, replacing Archie
Pickett, went down swinging.
Little Joe Livermore went to a
full count before earning a walk.
Cam Colquhoun's infield
grounder to the shortstop forced
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was delegated through the
education director to the
individual principals. Custodians
are to be on duty whenever
facilities are used outside regular
school hours. Extra
compensation will be paid by
the board.
No fees will be charged when
facilities are used for
instructional, educational or
school functions, the board
decided.
Councillor Clarence
Denomme told him: "It was not
the town council that said it.
Someone told us and the paper
has to report what is said at the
meeting."
"We are hearing your side
tonight," said Councillor
Denomme, "we heard the others
last time."
When Councillor Norman
Livermore said that the car wash
on Victoria Street is cleaned
nightly, Mr. Knox asked: "Do
you expect me to clean up at
night?" Mr. Livermore said, “yes.e
Committee.
Also present will be Bert
Such of Goderich And Mayor
Frank Sills of Seaforth, members
of the board of governors of
Conestoga College, the
community college in Kitchener
which has been asked to
consider opening a satellite
campus in Clinton when the
armed forces leave.
'Announcement of
tomorrow's meeting came from
One of Canada's leading
writers and editors, Jack Scott,
will be writing a weekly column
for The News-Record. His first
appears this week on page 4, the
editorial page.
The Jack Scott column will
touch on any subject which
interests The News-Record's new
columnist, which means that
readers are assured of candid and
often humorous comments on
how Scott views the world
around him.
Councillor Cameron Proctor
told Mr, Knox that his business
is the subject of ' "countless
complaints from the public" and
when Mr. Knox said the
youngsters he hires to clean up
fail to do the job properly, the
councillor said: "That's a
pathetic excuse. You can tell
them when to have it cleaned
up."
Then Mr. Knox said that
there really is not much litter,
sometimes only "10 milk cups."
"Then," said Mr. Proctor, "you
can easily pick them up in five
Minutes."
Douglas McDougall, who
John Berry, county
clerk-treasurer, Tuesday
afternoon,
The possibility of Clinton
annexing the area south of town
to bring the base site within the
town limits was suggested at a
regular council meeting Monday
evening. That idea and
Councillor Clarence Denomme's
proposal that a town promotor
or co-ordinator be hired may be
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Missing from the editorial
page this week is the Rev. W.
Jene Miller's column, The
Empty Pew. It appears on page 6
in this issue and in the future
will be published periodically
but may not be a regular weekly
feature.
Jack Scott has had a career as
the editor of the Vancouver Sun,
later as a foreign correspondent
for the Toronto Star, but is now
devoting his full time to writing
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owns a home next to the
drive-in, argued with Mr. Knox
on several points and repeated
criticism he made last month.
The discussion came to an
end with Mayor Donald Symons
asking Mr. Knox at least to ease
the situation by cleaning up
earlier in the morning.
Moments after Mr. Knox left,
letters came up for consideration
and the first two complained
about noise, shouting, horns
blowing, ear tires squealing,
rowdyism and drunkenism
around the drive-in. A dozen
signatures were on the
complaints.
Colts are slated
for final playoff
Board sets fees for usinqz.:Hijiiiii schools
Manager says drive-in not dirty, noisy
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