HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-10-09, Page 1Mary Leeming, 17, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. William J. Leeming of RR 2, Walton, was crowned
Queen of the Furrow at Huron County's annual plowing match in Goderich Township last
Saturday. The crowning was performed by Linda Reath of Londort, one of the judges. The trophy
was presented by Maurice Love, RR 3, Exeter, president of the Huron County Plowmen's
Association. - Staff Photo
Farmers promise fight
over business taxes
Antong the old-time plownien at the Huron County Plowing Match last Saturday was Simon
Hallahan Of 6lyth, a past president of the local association end a member since 1928. He is
shown with Huron County Warden JarneS Hayter, chatting about farming in the county. Match
Was held on the Oar.,AVort farm of John Rodges oh Highway g at the Benittlier Road.
Staff Photo
Mrs, George Beattie, president of Wesley Willis United Church Women, left, and Mrs. Mervyn
Batkin, her counterpart in the Ontario Street UCW, speak With Walter Currie, president of the
Indian and 5skinio ASSociatioh of Canada,. after Mr, Currie's talk Sunday evening At the joint UCW
thankoffering service hi Wesiey.Willis Church. Staff Photo
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Plow match soil
"Meg in years"
Auto hits house
in Londesboro
Quite a few of Huron's that any business not listed is to
livestock producers will pay be assessed as 25 per cent of the
business tax this year, according value of the property used for
to the new county assessment business.
department. But many of the The county assessors,
farmers are appealing to the maintain that I ivestock
courts of revision and are operations dependent on
promising to fight the levy. purchased feed are businesses.
Where all the feed is grown by
the livestock owner, the business
tax is not applicable, said Mr.
as a matter of principle to
protect themselves, We want
everyone's rights to be
protected. That is part of my
job. Our prime concern is the
people involved."
He said anyone - not only
farmers - can indicate on the
back of their assessment notices
their intent to appeal and return
the notices to the assessment
department in Goderich by Oct.
15. Postmarks do not count, he
said. The appeals must be in the
department office on the 15th.
Mr. Hall said he had no idea
how many farmers were
affected, but doubted it was a
large percentage in the county.
He noted that Bruce and other
counties have already adopted
the same policy on business tax.
Business tax on a livestock
feedlot would apply only to the
buildings involved and a small
parcel of surrounding land. It
would not be based on the full
assessment of a farm, Mr. Hall
said.
month) for the new staff to
evaluate it.
"Don't worry, it will take a
long time to evaluate," said Mrs.
J. W. Wallace of Goderich, a
former school teacher.
"Is it possible to get teachers
if we think we want to expand
this service?" Mr. Lavis asked.
Mr. Coulter said that offering
French as far down as first and
second grade would require 20
more teachers in the county and
said that many qualified in
conversational French are not
available.
"I don't think," said Mr.
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university and of 14,000 in
Ontario only 35 were in Grade
13 last year.
Schools weigh future of French
Bell Canada's new-look,
m u I ti-colored telephone
directory is being delivered
throughout the Clinton area, it
was announced this week by W.
W, (Bill) Haysom, Bell manager,
in Goderich.
Mr. Haysom said about 2600
directories will be delivered in
Clinton this year, as compared
to a total of 2540 in 1968,
* * *
Up to 200,000 people are
expected to attend the 1969
International Plowing Match &
Farm Machinery Demonstration
to be held October 15-18 in
Paris, Ont. Site of the match is
the Ross Kelley Farm and
neighboring farms located two
miles north of Paris on Highway
MA.
While the major event is the
competition in plowing open to
plowmen in any part of the
world, the four-day event
includes a complete program and
varied entertainment for all
members of the family. For the
ladies there are daily fashion
shows, flower arranging, cooking
and other demonstrations,
* * *
Police are looking for vandals
who broke windows at
Gingerich's Sales and Service on
Albert Street, Bill's Billiards and
Bowling on Isaac Street and in
Wesley-Willis United Church last
Friday night.
* * * •
The Town of Seaforth, which
sent a $50,000 cheque, to the
county school board Monday, is
the first municipality to pay a
portion of the 1969 school tax
levy.
"Where stand Exeter, Clinton,
Wingham and Goderich and the
rest of the municipalities?"
asked John Henderson of
Seaforth at the board of
education meeting in Clinton
Monday.
At recent meetings the school
trustees had been wondering
when the money would start
coming in. Heavy bank interest
is being paid to finance the
school operations in anticipation
of tax payments.
Daniel J. Murphy of
Goderich, a lawyer, said he ,
expects that the Ontario
Legislature at this session will
pass legislation to correct the
situation.
Weather
1969 1968
HI LO Hi 1.0
Sept, 30 62 48 70 44
Oct. 1 72 44 77 64
2 64 60 73 60
3 64 48 63 42
4 65 38 49 36'
5 70 40 49 36
6 69 40, 51 36
Rain .19" Rain 2.70"
BY MRS, QHVILLE QK
Warm,sunny weather
provided ideal weather
conditions for the 500 visitors to
the 42nd annual Huron county
Plowing Match at Goderich on
Saturday. The match was held
on the farm of John Rodges, RR
1, Goderich, three miles east of
the town.
Gordon McGavin of Walton, a
long-time director of the
Plowman's Association, said the
land was in the driest condition
they have every had, and this
gave the 36 contestants a good
deal of trouble.
Miss Mary Leeming, 17, RR 4,
Walton, was crowned Queen of
the Furrow. She was judged on a
writ ten questionnaire on
plowing, a two to three minute
talk on the activities of Huron
County Plowman's Association,
plowing ability and appearance
and deportment.
Also vying for the crown
were: Karen Hendrick, 16, RR
3, Kippen; Rosemary Ryan, 16,
RR 1, Walton and Connie
Hickey, 19, RR 1, Auburn.
Miss Leeming will represent
Huron County at the
International Plowing Match
near Paris later this month.
In the tractor class for boys
and girls under 19 years, Glen
Miller,. RR 1, Dashwood, took
top honours, including best
crown and best finish; followed
by John Becker, Dashwood and
A, --..number of Roman
Catholics, who channeled their
property taxes to the separate
schools in Huron County for
years, looked at their assessment
notices last week and discovered
themselves listed as public
school supporters.
Complaints reaching the
Huron-Perth Separate School
Board at its meeting in Seaforth
Monday evening included one
from a board member who said
that one of his farms was listed
in error on the public school roll
after being assessed for separate
school purposes for the last 25
years.
Separate school supporters are
being warned by their churches
to check to be sure their
assessment notices are correct.
That's just what E. F. Hall,
Huron County assessment
commissiorer, wants every
ratepayer to do. He said Tuesday
that he shares the board's
Rosemary Ryan, RR 1, Walton,
Open class for all corners
(tractors drawing as many plows
as wished) was won by T. Peter
O'Mallley, RR 2, Teeswater,
who also had best finish. Placing
second was John Clark, RR 3,
Goderich, who had the best
crown.
Open class (for tractors,
mounted, semi-mounted or trail
plows drawing three furrows or
more) was won by Charles
Becker, Exeter, with best crown
and finish; followed by Randy
Becker, Dashwood; Arnold
Young, RR 5, Goderich and
James Hickey, RR 3, Auburn.
Green class for boys and girls,
15 years and under was won by
John Jansen, RR 2, Seaforth,
who had the best crown and
finish; followed by John
Leeming, RR 4, Walton and Neil
Ryan, RR 1, Walton.
Special class for senior high
school pupils, '19 years and
under (each school to make two
entries as a team) was won by
the South Huron District High
School, Exeter, with John
Becker and Glen Miller of
Dashwood earning honours.
Special class for junior high
school pupils, 16 years and
under (each school to make two
entries as a team) was won by
the Seaforth District High
School with John Leeming,
Walton, and Barry Gordon,
Seaforth. In second place was
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concern over mistakes, but some
errors were inevitable in the
switch to centralized county
assessing and an automated data
processing system. And the
mistakes went both ways, he
said - public school supporters
are in some cases listed wrongly
as separate school supporters.
Mr. Hall noted that letters
accompanying every assessment
notice ask for assistance in
finding any errors or omissions
on notices.
"Would you please," the
letter reads, "check your notice
for correct spelling, ownership,
descriptions, years of birth,
mailing address and school
support,
"If you are a Roman Catholic
and within a separate school
zone, you may choose to
support either public or separate
school. This does not apply if
you are not in a separate school
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E. F. Hall, assessment
commissioner, said the addition
of business tax is based on a
supreme court decision
interpreting a section of the
assessment act.
The act, he said, does not
specifically say farmers are liable
for business tax, but does say
BY RICHMOND ATKEY
The future of conversational
French instruction in Huron
County public elementary
schools was discussed by the
school board at a meeting in
Central Huron Secondary School
in Clinton Monday evening.
French is now taught in four
schools in the Clinton area -
Clinton Public School,
Holmesville, Hullett and Huron
Centennial at Brucefield - and
in Howick Public School.
John B. Lavis of Clinton,
board chairman, asked school
superintendent J. W. Coulter if
With his religion and dress
gone and both his lan'guage and
way of life fast disappearing, the
Indian in Canada is a victim of
cultural genocide, said Walter
Currie, president of the Indian
and Eskimo Association of
Canada, addressing the joint
thankoffering service of Clinton
United Church Women in
Wesley-Willis Church Sunday
evening.
Mr, Currie, an Ojibway Indian
raised in Chatham and now
Working for the Ontario Dept. of
Education, decried what he
termed paternalistic government
policies which "do for the
Indian and not with him."
Canadians ate not taught the
truth , about the Indian people
and few hold an intelligent,
honest and candid picture of the
Indians, said Mr. Currie whose
talk ended with a plea for better
understanding of Indian
problems and an enlightened
effort to remedy them,
"We need your help," he said,
"give us an opportunity to stand
Straight and tall again in out
land,"
Mr. Currie, who attended
Assumption College in WindSor
and London Teacher? College,
was one of the airmen trained as
a radar mechanic at CFB Clinton
in 1944- and returned 1,0 years
ago as an education officer.
Mr. Hall said he recognizes
that some cases were not
clear-cut and "where we make
decisions, we make mistakes."
He said he has had a lot of
inquiries on the matter and "we
are advising everybody to appeal
there were plans to increase the,
teaching of conversational
French in all the elementary
schools.
Noting that the Howick
school is the only one outside
the Clinton area where it is
taught, Mr. Coulter said: "We
feel that this is a test area and
should help us make a
recommendation early in 1970
for the next school year."
Mr. Lavis inquired further
whether or not the
superintendent considered the
French classes a success. Mr.
Coulter said he felt there had
not been enough time (one
In attacking the false images
of Indians held by many in the
white population, Mr. Currie
cited as examples a member of
the present provincial cabinet
who once said that Indians
always lived in wigwams and
shacks and were happy that way
or another Cabinet member who
more recently said that Indians
can't hold their liquor because
of their genetic makeup.
Indians themselves have
trouble getting the true picture
of their people, said Mr. Currie,
recalling that as a child,
"Nothing in my life showed me
a reason to be proud. My parents
did not know - the Ojibway
have no written history. The
teachers could me only what
was in the bSOlts and in the
movies on Saturday afternoon
the Indians always lost."
There are 250,000 "treaty"
Indians (those defined by law
and registered as Indians) living
On 2,260 reserves in Canada, the
I.JCW audience Wae told, Six of
10 Indian homes have three or
fewer rooms, 90 percent lack
electricity, or indOor plumbing.
Pour out of 10 Indian families
receive welfare aid and three of
four families earn less than
$2,000 a :year. Of 65,000 Indian
children in 80hools last year,
only 186 were enrolled in
A Londesboro woman was
injured when the car she was
driving was rammed in the rear
by another auto and crashed
into the side of a house last
Thursday evening.
Mrs, Christina Howatt, the
injured driver, is reported in
satisfactory condition at Clinton
Public Hospital where she was
taken by Box Ambulance
Service, Seaforth, following the
eight o'clock accident which
demolished her car and resulted
in $2,000 damage to Mrs. Mabel
Scott's home. Mrs. Scott was not
home at the time.
Seaforth OPP Constable Ray
Primeau said Mrs. Howatt left
her home and travelled only
about 300 feet north on the
highway before her car was hit
from behind by one driven by
Kenneth A. Crawford of
Wingham, The scene was south
of Londesboro, just inside the
40 mile-per-hour zone, he said.
On Wednesday, Oct. 1,
four-year-old Suuanne Smith,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Smith, RR 4, Clinton, stepped
into the path of an auto on
Victoria Street about 5:40 p.m.
and was held overnight at
Clinton Public Hospital for
treatment of a mouth cut and
chipped tooth. Driver of the car
was identified as John A. Lewis
of CFB Clinton.
The same day, about an hour
later, cars driven by Romuald
Rozan of Strathroy and Mrs.
Margaret E. Rutledge of 193
High St., Clinton, collided at the
main corner. There was several
hundred dollars damage to each
car. Mrs. Rutledge complained
of an arm injury and was to see
her own doctor.
More. than '300' delegates
representing a cross-section of
Huron County citizens are
expected to attend a consumer
protection conference being held
in Clinton today by the Ontario
Dept. of Financial and
Commercial Affairs.
The day-long seminar in the
Clinton Legion Hall is the last in
a series of seven across the
province this year and is the
only one taking place outside a
city. Invitations went to
industry and consumer groups in
all 26 of Huron's municipalities.
A spokesman for H. L.
Rowntree, minister of financial
and commercial affairs, called
today's meeting an attempt to
"bring the government to the
people." He said officials want
to acquaint more people with
existing consumer affairs
legislation and discuss in a
workshop atmosphere the
problems people are
encountering to see where better
legislation may be needed.
Conference chairman is W. M.
Jaffrey, the department's
"Are we really that dumb?"
asked Mr. Currie, "Of course
not. No one is... The system is at
Emley Townley, • 11, of
Clinton, suffered scraped knees
but did not require medical
attention after running into the
side of a moving van on Victoria
Street at 12:30 p.m, on Sept.
26. Driver of the truck was
identified as Douglas Groke of
London.
Police have charged David M.
Riley of Kitchener with failing
to remain at an accident and
driving while impaired: The
charges stem from a collision at
the main corner at 9:40 p,m, last
Friday,
Sgt. Leroy Oesch reportedly
witnessed the accident in which
a car driven south on Albert
Street by Richard LeBeau of
Kitchener collided with a car
northbound on Victoria Street.
The northbound car is said to
have continued on past the
Town Hall despite attempts by
the sergeant to signal the driver
to halt.
Riley was also involved in an
accident Sunday at 6:35 p.m.
and faces a careless driving
charge as a result of that
collision.
Police say Riley's car was
westbound on Gordon Street
and collided with one driven
north on James Street by Ann
M. Shaubel of 108 Ontario St.,
Clinton.
The Shaubel car spun around
and struck a parked car owned
by Fred P. Danells 'of CFB
Borden. Damage to the Shaubel
car was heavy, but no one was
reported hurt.
John Albert Cox, 22, of RR
5, Clinton, suffered a cut on his
arm Sept. 29 at 2:30 p.m. when
his car collided at Wellington
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director of registration and
examination. Speakers include S.
D. Turner, director of the
consumer protection division,
and the registrars of used car
dealers, mortgage brokers,
collection agencies, bailiffs and
real estate and business brokers.
An afternoon panel
moderated by Mr, Turner will
include Mrs. R. E. K. Pemberton
of Bayfield, past president of the
Ontario Division of the
Consumer Association of
Canada; Elmer D. Bell, Q.C.,
Exeter barrister and solicitor;
Cliff Parker, branch manager of
the Clinton Community Credit
Union and K. G. Flett, manager
of the Bank of Montreal in
Clinton.
Opening remarks will be given
by F. J. Pillgrem, deputy
minister, and Mr. Rowntree will
address the delegates following
dinner.
Earlier this year similar
conferences were held at the
Lakehead, in Woodstock, North
Bay, Kingston, Etobicoke and
Kitchener-Waterloo. Another
series will start next spring.
fault ... Indians have been taught
to be brown-skinned white men
and it is impossible."
Assessment notice
may be incorrect,
Catholics are told
The directors of the Huron
County 'Federation of
Agriculture discussed the matter
at a meeting in Clinton last
Thursday evening and the A three-man panel went
county broiler producers held a through questionnaires returned
special meeting at the Dept, of by farmers and decided which
Agriculture office in Clinton last were liable for the tax, Mr. Hall
evening. Details of that session said, explaining that the men
were not available as They` 'ere experienced with farming
News-Record went to press. and "not ones from Toronto
who have only seen chicken at
Col. Sanders."
Hold consumer parley
in Legion Hall today
UCW speaker calls Indians victims of cultural genocide