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Clinton News-Record, 1969-10-23, Page 1The Pickett house at height of Saturday evening's blaze on 1.04111 .Y.A19.. NO. 43 OLINIQN, -.QNTAMQ THUFISQAY„.Q.QT(:)13U 25, 1969 PRic nii.PPPY 15c Neighbors try to raise money for eight left homeless by fire . Police chief keeps job without move to town The first column Central Huron Secondary School's annual commencement exercises will be held tomorrow evening at eight o'clock. Parents and friends have been invited to share in the ceremony of presenting diplomas and certificates to 240 students, 35 of whom will also receive awards and scholarships. Ian S. Fraser, a consultant for the city of Windsor who headed the English department at CHSS from 1963 until this year, will address the graduates. Harold Newland, son of Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Newland, will be class valedictorian. The Clinton Community Credit Union took two busloads of Huronview residents to luncheon at the Tiger Dunlop Inn and on a tour of the Huron County Pioneer Museum at Goderich last Thursday, international credit union day. More than 60 of the oldsters went on the trip, but because of bad weather the number was smaller than organizers had hoped for. * * * Any reader who wishes to express his or her opinion on current local events is welcome to write a letter to the editor for publication, but we can print only those letters which come to our office signed with the name and address of the author. We Will, on request, withhold the name of a writer or permit use of a pen-name when, the letter appears in the paper. * * Except for -some corn to be picked and turnips to be pulled, this year's harvest is about complete, according to Thomas W. Clapp, associate agricultural representative' for Huron County, Fall plowing Was very slow until last weekend's rains, said Mr. Clapp in this week's crop report, The soil was relatively hard and dry, but has now softened . and plowing should progress more quickly. * * The Bev, George Goth of London's Metropolitan 'United Church, newspaper columnist and radio broadeaSter, will be guest speaker at the fall banquet Of Clinton Legion &aria 140 oh Nov. 6. The dinner is scheduled not for Seven o'clock or seven-thirty, but exactly at 7:12 P.m, Please turn to Page 8 After meeting with Police Bayfield to Clinton within a Chief Lloyd Westlake for three year. hours in committee-of-the-whole The decision this week, Monday night, the town council disclosed in a statement by announced that it,. decided to Mayor Donald E. Symons on reverse last year's decision to Tuesday morning, will be put require the chief to live in town. before council in open session The council resolution which Nov. 10 and is expected to be appointed the chief last Nov. 1 approved. stipulated that he move from "It was a rather good Martha Newland, in grade 13 at Central Huron SedOridaty School 'Clinton IS not Modeling the Style of the '70's (we hope). When snapped by h, , 0, Hunt, a .CHS teacher and vearboOk photographer, she was showing grade 9 newComers a typital Outfit and hairstyle- for Initiation. meeting," said the mayor after Monday's conference, "it sometimes pays to clear the air. A lot of things were settled and one thing that was proved is that the chief has never failed to respond to an emergency call. There is no instance on record that we know of where an emergency situation was not looked after and the chief can almost always be reached by telephone at home." "It is all cleared up," said the mayor, "and we hope to have very good communications between the force, the police chief and the council." "I think that the whole sum and substance of it is that he is capable of doing his job — or at least we feel he is — while living in Bayfield. There are arguments on both sides, but I think that now in our present day and age with the communications at our disposal the distance means only a matter of a few minutes. I think we are very fortunate ,.. council feels we have a very dedicated chief ..." The Mayor noted that Sgt. Leroy Oesch has been ill more than a week and Constable Clarence Perdue was injured last Please turn to Page 8 DOT to visit CFB Clinton Huron MP Robert McKinley disclosed Wednesday afternoon that officials of the federal Dept. of Transport will visit CFB Clinton next week to assess its potential for use in transport training after the Dept. of National Defence phases out operations here in 1971, Mr, McKinley said the DOT representatives will be at the base on Oct, 27, and 28 in response to letters he wrote to all government departments Urging them to consider using the base When the armed forces abandon it, Mr. McKinley said he has also received a letter from Communications Minister Eric Kierans Who suggested that the base facilities be used 'as a training centre for several departments with either the Public Service COnimissiort or the Treasury Board co-ordinating the operation. The post office would use the base to the "fullest extent possible to meet its needs" it such ; a 0-Operative plan IS adopted, Mt. Kierans Said. A family of eight made homeless when their Goderich Township farmhouse burned last Saturday evening have been given clothes and temporary shelter. Neighbors are seeking donations to a fund to meet other needs. The fire leveled the Roy Pickett family's two-storey, brick veneer, frame house on the 14th concession about three ,miles west of Clinton. Firemen ,arrived too late to do more than protect a driving shed and garage nearby. The house and its contents were uninsured. Mr. Pickett, 49, and his 80-year-old mother, Mrs, Henry Pickett, were milking cows in the barn when the fire broke out between eight and eight-thirty. An incident in which Clinton Constable Clarence Perdue was assaulted outside a teen ,town dance last weekend has resulted in charges being laid against two young men. James Heard, 18, of RR 2, Clinton, was charged with assaulting a police officer. Willard Junior Cotton, 21, of Clinton, was charged with causing a disturbance and having liquor in a place other than a residence. The two will appear in provincial judge's court here on Nov. 5. Constable Perdue suffered a broken bone in the instep of his left foot when he tried to 'take Heard into custody. Auxiliary Constables Fred Shropshall and Ron Scotehmer were on duty at the dance in the Community Centre and reportedly ousted Heard and :Cotton twice bef C obStabl 'Perdue, Three Beech Street buildings . the Clinton Community Centre, Huron Laundry and Clinton Dry Cleaners — were hit by burglars Tuesday night. Police Chief Lloyd Westlake was being assisted in the investigation yesterday by Sgt. Murray Peer, an identification specialist from the Mt. Forest OPP district headquarters. Doug Andrews, recreation director, said a panel in the rear door of the arena was kicked in and "everything that was locked was broken open." Mr. Andrews said every door London's Sisters of St. Joseph Concert Band will perform at CFB Clinton prior to a Canadian Cancer Society panel discussion Tuesday evening. The 50-member band, believed to be the first organized within a Canadian religious order, is directed by Martin Boundy and made its debut at the University of Waterloo last spring. The band has taken to the road to mark the centennial year of the order's coming to the London diocese and the concert at the base is one of a series in southern Ontario to be followed by stops in Edmonton and Winnipeg. Long-range plans call for a European tour. Besides a varied repertoire of instrumentals, Tuesday's program will include a' number of vocal selections by band members. And by laying aside flutes, clarinets, trumpets, French horns and trombones, the full 50-member band will convert instantly to a 50-yoke choir. The panel diseuSsion, hosted by the base and sponsored by the cancer ,society's Huron County unit, will cover prevention, detection, treatment and dire of cancer. Don Gray, CFPL-TV personality and direetior of educational teleVision for the London Board of Education, By 'the time they noticed the flames, a neighbour had already called the fire department, Four of• the five children were with their mother at a Christian conference meeting in town. Clinton Fire Chief Grant Rath said the fire is believed to have started in an overheated stove pipe in a. wood stove in the kitchen. .A stiff wind fanned the blaze and ' flames quickly enveloped the Whole structure. The intense heat drove spectators far back, across the farm lane into`a field.. Mr. and Mrs. Pickett and Mr. Pickett's mother will stay in a trailer on the 80-acre farm until they can find other accommodation. The trailer was furnished by a relative. Chief Lloyd Westlake said that Constable Perdue tried to put Heard in the police cruiser, a scuffle ensured, the constable's foot was injured and the youth escaped on foot. Cotton, meanwhile, was put in the cruiser by the auxiliary men, but an unidentified person opened the other door of the car and released the young man before he was taken to the police office. Recreation director Doug Andrews said that all but a few of the young people attending the dance were well-behaved, and said that there was no disturbance in the auditorium. He did say that someone that evening damaged doors and fixtures in the men's washroom. Repairs will cost about $200, he added. Constable Perdue's foot is in a cast and he will be off work for five to six weeks." was pried open — the kitchen, office, refreshment booth, locker rooms, skate shop, team equipment room, broom closet and furnace room. The vending machines were looted and "they ransacked everything," he said. An insurance adjuster was inspecting the damage yesterday afternoon and no loss estimate was immediately available. The laundry was entered through a furnace room door, the office was ransacked and the pop cooler robbed. The cleaners' building was entered through a bathroom window. , will be panel moderator. Members will include Maurice J. Grimes, executive director of the cancer society's Ontario division; Dr. Kenneth I. Mustard, division • medical advisor; Sister St. William, the division's education Four of their children, Jacob, 11, Mary, 12, Gwen, 3 and Joyce, 16, will stay with Mrs. Pickett's sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs, Bruce Dupee, of James Street, Clinton. Another son who was living at home, Gordon, 20, will stay with his older brother, Ivan, in town. Mrs. Frank. Potter of RR 3, Clinton, said yesterday that the response from the community has been "overwhelming" and that the immediate clothing needs have been met. A "fire victims fund" has been established, she said, and donations are being accepted by both banks and the 'credit union in Clinton, by Glen Price at his garage on Highway 8 west of town and by herself and her husband. The family was outfitted by the Salvation Army without charge last Sunday afternoon and more clothing was donated in response to a plea made to the Ontario Street United Church congregation. Women from Adastral Park at CFB Clinton had held a rummage sale Saturday and after hearing of the fire, sorted through and selected unsold items which could be used by the Picketts. BY RICHMOND ATKEY The Bank of Montreal's Clinton branch was chosen by the Huron County Board of Education as its "authorized bank" Monday evening. It was noted that by not including the words "Interim" or "permanent" in the resolution;-the boardtan amend or rescind the motion at any time. The bank's Goderich branch has handled school board funds since the county school system was established lasf,January, but removal of the head office to Clinton makes it preferable to use the Clinton branch, it was said. The board's payroll is handled on a contract basis by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and is separate from the general account in the Bank of Montreal. D. J. Cochrane, director of education, said that a representative of another bank asserted that the account was large enough to split between two banks or divide among more. . "I pointed out to him," Mr. Cochrane said, "that it is our main objective to keep this co-ordinator and Dr. G. P. A. Evans, Huron medical officer of health. Anna Meyer, former host of CKNX-TV's "Woman,to- Woman" show, Will emcee the event to be held in the CFB The family is still in "dire need," said Mrs. Potter, and cash donations to the fund will do the most to help relieve their plight. She did say that cooking' utensils are also needed, although dishes and tableware have been supplied by neighbors and relatives. There was no chance to save the house, so firemen needed only a relatively small amount of water to protect the other buildings. The wind was blowing in a direction which kept the barn out of danger, but Fire Chief Rath noted that the,scores of spectators' cars lining the road. Would have made it all but impossible to bring in water or more equipment, or to leaVe the farm in the event of another fire occurring. A' pickup truck with 13 milk cans of water did arrive soon after firemen and the extra supply was pumped into the fire truck to replenish the tank. Similar traffic problems occurred about a week ago when fire leveled a large barn north of Blyth. In that case tanker trucks did have to ferry water to the farm and the provincial police had to be called to clear the route. matter as uncomplicated as possible. I told him we were satisfied at the present time." Mr. Elliott pointed out that the situation can be reviewed by the board at any time and a decision made at the board's discretion. Industry ideas sought by town Members of the town council met with the industrial committee Monday evening and agreed to invite an Ottawa company to send someone here to talk about ways to attract industry. The firm, T. E. McLaughlin Development Associates Ltd.,, wrote the town last August offering its services and offering to discuss ways it might help the town's efforts'to spur development and creation of jobs. County planning board representatives and Tuckersmith Township officials are to be notified and asked to attend so that use of CFB Clinton can be included in the talks. Clinton Recreation Centre which can accommodate an audience of 2,000. Starting time for the concert is . eight o'clock. Admission is free and there is ample parking space on the base parade square. Charge two youths after constable hurt Burglars hit three places Clinton bank branch handles school. $$ Sisters of St. Joseph to play here The Sisters of St Joteph Concert and, seen here in kiteheiier-Waterltro Record photo tnede at their debut last spring, will play at Crp Clinton Recreation Centre Tuesday &ening prior to a mammoth rally planned by the Huron Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society as part of the Worhan to' Woman Week cancer education program. in progress across Canada. The concert starts at eight o'clock and will be folloWed 'by a panel disoussion. Admission is free.