HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-10-02, Page 1Parading to the cenotaph for wreath-laying ceremony prior to
zone meeting held last weekend, Canadian legion marchers pass
Wesley-Willis United Church led by pipers from several Huron
County branches. — Staff Photo.
Forty-foot radar Screen is delicately Smiting into place Monday afternoon at Clinton's main corner.
Thu radar Unit, CPO Clintods centennial gift to the town, will be dedicated in ceremonies On
ReMeenbrance Day in conjunction with Legion Branch 140 parade and program. One of the military
en watching Monday suggested that Motorists might slow down at the main corner if poli M ce post
sighs reading "Speed Radar Checked."—"staff photo,
Walter Currie, president of the Indian and Eskimo Association of
Canada, will speak Sunday evening at the joint thankoffering
service of the Ontario Street and' Wesley-Willis United Church
Women • in Clinton.„„Eormerly—principal of a York County
elementary school, Mr, Currie is now assistant superintendent of
education in that county. The service will be held in Wesley-Willis
Church. — Photo by Gerald Campbell
Will tax house trailers
as regular buildings
Matter Warrant Officer Harry Sewell, newly elected mayor of Adastral Park, the married quarters
community at CFB Clinton smiles modestly as he accepts the Mayor's (mare'ill chain of office from
Cot. E. W. Ryan, base commander. MWO Len Palmer, retiring mayor, looks happy at the prospect Of
being relieved of hit arduous duties. Canadian Farces Photo
Clinton ews- ecord
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ohs vie for Ontario title;
deciding game on Sunday
MODA eyes base office The first,
column
For most farmers, cutting
corn for ensilage is close to
completion, according to T. W.
Clapp, associated county
agricultural representative, in the
weekly crop report from the
Clinton office of the Ontario
Dept. of Agriculture and Food.
, The corn quality was quite
good, said Mr. Clapp, even
though the leaves were turning
brown due to a lack of moisture.
Last weekend's rain was too late
to help the ensilage corn, but
may help the picking corn.
A great deal of winter wheat
has been sown and some is up.
The recent rains will add to soil
moisture, helping regrowth of
hay and pasture fields. The rains
should also soften the ground so
that more fall plowing can be
done,
* * *
The Canadian National
Institute for the Blind is making
its annual appeal for funds early
this month. Canvassers from the
Kinsmen Club, the Lions Club
and local churches will be
directed by the Rev. A. J.
Mowatt of Clinton and Peter
Corliss, CNIB field secretary
from London. Last year nearly
$900 was raised locally for this
worthWhile cause. More
canvassers are needed. Please
phone Dr. Mowatt (482-9696)
immediately if you are willing to
help.
* * *
The October meeting of the
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture will be held this
evening at 8:30 o'clock in the
board rooms of the Dept. of
Agriculture and Food in Clinton.
The OFA's new policy of selling
direct service memberships is
expected to be a topic of
discussion,
* * *
Clinton Mayor Don Symons
has been in hospital for a week
for treatment of phlebitis in one
leg. Ile is reported to be resting
comfortably but may be
hospitalized a week longer.
* * *
Committee — A, group that
keeps minutes and Wastes hours,
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We could all fight inflation if
we all act our Wage,
One of the Most difficult
instruments to play Well is
second fiddle,
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BY BERT CLIFFORD
After The Clinton Colts'
tough 5.2 loss to Corunne last
Sunday, the three-game
all-Ontario QBA Intermediate
"B" final series stands. at 1.1.
The deciding game will be
played this Sunday afternoon at
Clinton Community Park at
2:30 o'clock.
The score was tied 1.1 after
six innings last weekend and
Corunna pounced on two costly
Clinton more to score four runs
before Archie Pickett was able
to put out the side.
Pickett struck out Rob
Beaton who had hit a single and
a double his earlier times at bat.
The next batter walked, then
trouble started.
I'inch-hitter I. Smith hit a
long fly ball to right field. Don
Bartliff ran a long way, but
wasn't !able to hold on to the
ball. Both runners advanced —
one to second and one to third
The 21st Field Artillery
Regiment, whose ranks include a
number of Clinton and district
men, has been chosen to fire a
21-gun royal salute to His Royal
Highness Prince Phillip, the
Duke of Edinburgh.
Prince Phillip is to present the
Queen's Color to the 1st and 3rd
battalions, the Royal Canadian
Regiment, in London, Ont. on
Oct. 23.
The prince is coming to
Canada to present new colors to
the Royal Canadian Regiment of
which he is the honorary
colonel. Any regiment, active or
reserve, could have been chosen
to fire the salute. Being chosen is
the greatest honor which can be
paid an artillery regiment
according to the 21st's
commanding officer, Lt. Col. R.
All public elementary and
secondary schools in Huron
County and some separate
schools will • close next
Wednesday so that teachers can
attend one of four seminars on
the report of the Hall-Dennis
commission,
The seminars, proposed by
the Ontario Teachers'
Federation, will be held at
secondary schools in Clinton,
Exeter, Wingham and Goderich.
When the school closings
were discussed at the last
meeting of the board of
education, D. J. Cochrane,
director of education, expressed
some misgivings and said the
federation's request left him
with "mixed feelings."
The one-day seminars are to
discuss the report of the
Auto crash
hurts four
One young woman from
Mitchell and two from Seaforth
are reported in satisfactory
condition in Seaforth
Community Hospital with
injuries sustained in a one-car
crash which occurred early last
Sunday morning in front of the
Elm Haven Motor Hotel On
Highway 8 West in Clinton.
Hospitalized weret Constance
Sorsdahal, 20, of Mitchell, driver
of the cart Joanne Malone, 22,
Seaforth, a passenger in the
front teat and Geraldine ,Malone,
19, another passenger in the car.
There were two other
occupants of the car. Elizabeth
Shea, 22, of Seaforth, injured
her right ankle: Thomas Malone,
21, Of Seaforth, was reportedly
uninjured.
Polite said the three in
hospital all suffered shock and
had face and head cuts. MISS
Sbrsdahalhad other
Undetermined injuries.
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— and then Bill Fleckie hit a
triple into centre field over
Little Joe Livermore's head.
Two runs were scored on the
play.
Rick Fremlin caught the next
fly ball for two out and held the
runner at third base. Corunna's
next batter, Craig Carter, hit
another triple deep into center
field and Little Joe became
tangled up in the fence and
Fremlin had to make the throw
in. Third baseman Doc Miller
had an easy out to retire the
side, but threw the ball too
easily to first and allowed the
fourth run to score.
In the seventh, Fleet hit an
over-the-base-bag single and then
was put out by a fantastic catch
by Corunna's pitcher, Doug
Peters, on Archie Pickett's line
drive,
Again in the eighth, Cam
Uoiquhoun picked up his second
single of the game but was left
stranded after Laurie struck out
P. Rater, who said it is
considered the peace-time
equivalent of a wartime
regimental citation.
The regiment will supply a
complete troop of guns and 36
men from its three batteries. The
unit draws its personnel from
Clinton, Exeter, Seaforth, Blyth,
Belgrave, Wingham, Listowel,
Gowanstown, Palmerston,
H a r riston, Mount Forest,
Mildmay, Walkerton, Hanover,
Chesley, Paisley, Teeswater and
Lucknow. None of the
communities has a population of
more than 5,000.
The 21st perpetuates the
19th Army Field Artillery
Regiment of "D-day" fame and
the 7th Medum Artillery
Regiment.
provincial committee on the
aims and objectives of education
in the schools of Ontario.
Mr. Cochrane said the
proposal was discussed at a
principals' meeting Sept. 3 and
the general consensus was that
such a day would be an excellent
form of professional
development and should be held.
The board gave tentative
approval to the seminars, but
left Mr. Cochrane with authority
to cancel the plans if he felt the
program was not organized well
enough.
A principals' meeting was
held again last week and
according to James Coulter,
superintendent of schools, Mr.
Cochrane was agreed that the
seminar should be held as
scheduled.
and Don Bartliff hit to the
second baseman. With two out
in the ninth, Ed Deer pinch hit
for Brad Dotot and blasted a
long home run for Ciinton's
second run.
Clinton had an early chance
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
The Huron County Council
session last Friday in Goderich
was a quiet one but did contain
an announcement which may be
felt in a number of Clinton
district pocketbooks.
E. F. Hall, county assessment
commissioner, told council that
house trailers will soon be
assessed on the same basis as
permanent homes when they are
placed on foundations or
otherwise considered to have
"become part of the land."
Taxes due on the trailer
assessment will be charged to the
landowner and it will be up to
him to arrange with the trailer
owner for payment, Mr. Hall
said. He gave no further details.
In other news affecting
Clinton, Roy V. Pattison,
chairman of the county
development committee,
reported on the group's visit last
month to CFB Clinton and again
solicited the county's
to tie the score up in the third
inning, with the bases loaded and
only one out. Livermore hit a fly
ball, but Miller couldn't score
from third, then Cam
Colquhoun struck nut, Peters
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co-operation to "get something
in there."
Robert W. J. Lyons, chairman
of the committee of
management of Huronview,
received council approval for his
committee's recommendation
that rates be set at $216 per
month and $7.10 per day for
any part of the month
retroactive to April 1 of this
year.
Clerk-treasurer John Berry
informed the councillors that
county expenses are in line with
budget estimates so far this year
and Elmer Hayter, Stanley
Township reeve and chairman of
the county road committee,
reported that six projects
completed or nearly completed
will cost less than the estimates.
"it is," said county engineer
Jim Britnell, "the first year in 13
that we've been under the
estimates ,.. we're looking
forward to a surplus."
Mr. Britnell suggested that
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Canadian Forces Base
Clinton, slated to close in 1971,
was suggested last week as a site
for offices of the Midwestern
Ontario Regional Development
Area Council and its partner, the
Midwestern Ontario Tourist
Council.
The lease on the present
MODA office in the Victoria and
Grey Building in Stratford
expires on June 10, 1970. The
MODA region includes, Huron,
Perth, Waterloo and Wellington
counties.-
The MODA directors met in
the Victorian Inn in Stratford,
Sept. 24. H. B. Such, Goderich's
representative on the council,
outlined the CFB Clinton
phase-out plans and later several
directors suggested the MODA
offices be moved to the base.
The only action taken was to
ask the new MODA manager,
Milton Phillips, to examine the
costs of moving the office from
one centre to another.
Reeve Walter Gerth of
Milverton complained of lack of
communications between the
council and its`zones. There is a
large vacuum, he said, between
the directors and manager and
the zones — the townships,
villages and towns within
MODA.
0. J. Wessman, reeve of
Grand Bend, said the big
problem facing MODA right now
is getting word back to the locals
that MODA is going again. He
was referring to a period of time
earlier this year when the future
of the council was in doubt
because some former members
did not pay 1969 membership
fees,
Curtis L. Roth, mayor of
New Hamburg, said, "You have
to get to the people who do, the
voting. They think that all we
want is their money and we
don't do anything for them
when we get it."
A. R. Hoffer, reeve of Elora
and president of the MODA
council, told the directors that
the zones would first have to be
reorganized and then a general
conference called for the first of
the year, when the zone
representatives could meet with
the directors and with MODA's
new manager, Milton Phillips,
Warden James Hayter of
Huron County, feeling a greater
urgency for action, suggested a
general information meeting be
held as early as possible and be
open to all city, county, town
and township councils and the
general public.
Mr. Hayter said he would be
willing to have all his county
councillors there "even if they
have to be paid."
Mr. Phillips was instructed to
organize such a meeting late in
November.
Mr. Wessman told the
council: "This is a damn
important meeting if we are to
stress the importance of regional
councils. We should have a guest
speaker like Ontario Premier
John Roberts, Municipal Affairs
Minister Darcy McKeough and
Provincial Treasurer Charles
MacNaughton or at least two of
them."
The MODA agencies have
reduced their debt from $32,000
to $10,600 -- just about the
amount Kitchener has refused to
pay, AII, 1968 members were
asked to assist with writing off
the debt at a rate of 11 cents per
capita. Kitchener owes $10,445;
Waterloo Township, $900 and
Elmira, $458. They are the only
members which have not paid
their assessed share of the debt
liquidation.
Several members voiced
displeasure over the failure of
the city to assume responsibility
for a share of the debt which
was incurred last year when
Kitchener was a member.
Acting on a motion made by
Warden' Hayter, the council
decided to send representatives
back to' Kitchener city council
for one last appeal.
Mr. Hayter said "It looks
kind of funny for Kitchener to
get out when we are in a year of
debt. They could just jump back
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21st Regiment
to fire salute
Schools closing
next Wednesday