HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-12-04, Page 1Clinton
1,94th YEA - NO, 49 -Q1-11\1'01114, QNTA19.10, TKU:5,0,0AY, PKEMBER 4, 1909 PgFiCQfY 1.0g
The ffrst I Guelph downgrading
column OAC, G aunt
Two new loos
Mayor, council
in by acclaim
Slate Biafra forum
Monday at CHSS
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
There may be a bit of
reduction in the county mill rate
for 1970 according to the
forecast of John G. Berry,
clerk-treasurer for the county of
Huron, speaking at last Friday
morning's session of county
council.
He said that because the
building program at the new
administrative building in
complete and final debenture on
the 1961 addition at Huronview
has'-been paid, coupled with the
fact that the county is no longer
responsible for the assessment
department, it seems feasible
that the county may be in a
position to consider reducing the
levy for general purposes.
Berry urged council not to
reduce the mill rate to such a
position that in 1971 there
would have to be a substantial
increase. He stressed a "middle
of the road approach."
He also recommended that
the working capital reserve fund
be increased to avoid such large
borrowing costs. Interest cost the
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
"It's noisy!"
That was the comment of
Mrs. Marilyn Kunder following a
tour of the gymnasium at CHSS
Clinton where complaints had
been forwarded to the Huron
County Board of Education
concerning the extreme noise
when the gym is in use.
BY WILMA 00 front page of our second section
this week- Decreasing emphasis on
agriculture at the University of
Guelph was attacked by Murray
Gaunt, MPP for Huron-Bruce,
when he spoke at the annual
banquet and dance of the Huron
County Junior Farmers in the
Seaforth Community Centre last
Saturday.
Mr. Gaunt said that more
stress in being placed on arts and
science courses at the school and
plans are to drop the name
Ontario Agricultural College
despite the institution's
world-wide reputation in
agriculture,
Mr. Gaunt said the university
administrators want to do away
with the old names—the Ontario
Agricultural College, Ontario
Veterinary College and the
MacDonald Institute—by
If you look closely, you may
see ItudolPh with his red nose
leading Santa's sleigh across the
•
More than 50Q persons are
expected to attend the Huron
County 4-H awards night
tomorrow in Seaforth District
Nigh School.
* *
Don Pullen, Huron
agricultural representative, said
yesterday afternoon that a
Channel 8 TV series on livestock
feeding will be postponed a
week and will start Dec. 14
rather than this Saturday. The
first show will be broadcast from
1 to 2 p.m. that day, not from
12:30 to ,1:30 as was announced
previously,
* * *
Chocolate bars and almonds
will be sold by Central Huron
Secondary School students
during the next two weeks in an
attempt to raise $2,000 to help
support two orphans in
Southeast Asia and to help pay
for the school year book.
The CHSS Students Council
askes that Clinton and district
residents support the project and
suggests that "the world's finest
chocolate bars" make good
stocking stuffers.
The Clinton Guides and
Brownies are selling tickets on a
draw for a Kewpie Doll. The
draw, which is sponsored by
Canadian Legion, Clinton
Branch 140, is to be made on
Dec. 15 with all proceeds going
towards the work of Guides and
Brownies.
The Clinton post office will
be open all day 8:30 a.m. to
5:45 p.m. this Saturday and
for the two Saturdays following,
Dec. 13 and 20.
* * *
Regular and associate
members of the Canadian Forces
Base Clinton Officers' Mess
presented an oil painting to
Clinton Public Hospital in
memory of H. C. (Tubby)
Lawson, an associate member of
the mess for 25 years and a
hospital board trustee for 30
years.
* * *
The December meeting of the
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture will be held this
afternoon at two o'clock to elect
a president and other officers.
* * *
As many motorists are well
aware, the main corner in
Clinton still lacks a full pet of
new traffic signals. The Public
Utilities Commission has been
waiting since spring fox Canadian
General Electric to deliver the
long, steel arms needed to
suspend the lights over the
traffic lanes. Hal Hartley, PUC
chairman, speaking at the
nomination meeting last Friday,
said the shipment had arrived
the day before, but there was
one problem — the arms were
the wrong size. Maybe the PUC
will have to speak to Santa,
* *
Peter Corless, assistant field
secretary of the Canadian
National Institute for the Blind,
has Written to thank Clinton and
district for the $955.23 in
donations collected by the Lions
Club, Kinsmen Club, Central
Huron Secondary School
students and the total United
Churches,
A Christmas party for the
blind in Huron County took
plate yesterday in Goderich.
* *
'you have to see danger to
avoid it, the Ontario Safety
League reminds all drivers, Keep
windshields and windows free
from slush, lee and
condenatttiOn,
Weather
io6 igo
Hi LO HI LO
NOV, 25 42 31 88 33
26 40 26 40 32
27 31 lq 39 34
28- 36 14 61 29
29 84 10 43 31
35 'n 35 30
34 17 35 27
StieW l'' Rain LO"
Snow
changing them to ,e faculty or
Other new Structure,
When the , Ontario
government moved to create the
University of Guelph, Mr. Gaunt
said, the Dept, of Agrieulture
and Food ' received every
assurance that the focal point
would be agriculture. Because
there are thousands of arts and
science students, the MPP said,
"we have ,seen that the
agricultural groups and the
veterinary group have, steadily
become less."
Mr. Gaunt said the Dept. of
Agriculture and Food has asked
for a meeting with the
agricultural part of the Guelph
administration and hopes
something can be worked out.
Now the Dept. of Agriculture
and Food contracts with the
university to provide the
diploma course and
end of October amounted to
$9,401.07 for the general
account and $37,948.32 for the
highway account:
Council discussed the
possibility of two instalments
for payment of taxes. It was
pointed out that in
municipalities where taxes are
collected on an instalment basis,
county taxes should be
forwarded in instalments as well.
Everett McIlwain, of Goderich
Township, said that the same
people are paying the interest
charges Whether the local
municipalities borrow the
money or the county borrows
the funds.
Elmer Hayter, Stanley, said it
would be a real hardship for
farmers to pay their taxes in
instalments because they have to
wait for their crops to grow
before they have the money to
pay their taxes.
Charlie Thomas, Grey,
pointed out that a municipality
could borrow money cheaper
than the individual farmers.
Jack -Alexander, Wingham,
suggested that the penalty for
It was learned at Monday
evening's board meeting in
Clinton that architects Page and
Steels have had similar
complaints about gymnasiums
designed by that company.
"They are now making
allowance for sound deadening
treatment in the gymnasiums
they' are planning," noted John
D. Cochrane, director of
correspondence.courses at a cost
of $163,000, and short courses
at $127,000, plus advisory
programmes and extension
programmes for another
$600,000.
Mr. Gaunt suggested that
farm organizations, the Junior
Farmers in particular, should
mice their views on the matter
known to the government and to
the university.
The final decision has not
been made yet, the MPP said,
but there is not much time left
for discussion.
Junior Farmers who intend to
stay on Ontario farms and make
farming their career and
profession will benefit if they
. prevent the change at Guelph,
Mr. Gaunt said, and agriculture
will have preserved an institution
that has given it status, prestige
and prominence.
failure to pay taxes on time
should be raised to the highest
possible level in order to get tax
money in promptly.
Warden James Hayter said
that homeowners who are
paying their mortgages}' off in
monthly instalments which
include taxes are disturbed by
the fact that it is costing so
much money for interest charges
on county borrowings.
The warden also stressed
co-operation at the local level so
that the individual municipalities
would not lose their - ight to
collect taxes locally.
"They could lose this
function as well," warned
Hayter.
Clerk Berry also asked that
the executive committee
consider the possibility of
establishing a reserve fund for
sick leave credits.
"In view of the tight financial
guidelines as proposed by
various provincial departments, a
large payment in any one year
could result in overspending,"
advised the clerk. "The reserve
fund would be a protection
factor."
edu cation.
Estimate to correct the
situation in the Clinton gym has
been reported at $1,500 to
$2,000. Foam glass acoustic
blocks at ceiling level, special
panelling or carpeting on the
lower part of the walls have been
suggested by Page and Steele as
possible solutions to the
problem.
An open forum on the
Nigeria-Biafra civil war will be
held in Central Huron Secondary
School, Clinton, Monday
evening at'eight o'clock.
Guest speakers will be
Cartoonist Ben Wicks and
Toronto newsman Peter
Worthington who has covered
the African conflict. Slated to
participate in a panel discussion
are Robert McKinley, MP for
Huron; D, J. Cochrane, county
education director; Brig. G. L.
Morgan Smith (ret.) of Bayfield
and Dr. Charles Mayo of
Seaforth. Moderator will be the
Rev. Donald MacDonald,
minister of North Street United
Church, Goderich.
Mr. Wicks and Mr.
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
"1 think we've had a good
value for a road money this
year," said Either Hayter of
Stanley Townahip, reeve and
chairman of the road committee
for 1069.
He lauded good weather and
fine cooperation of the Huron
County road crew tar the
excellent results in toad building
throughout the county.
"I think we've accomplished
all we set Out to ice" concluded
f-Taylor.
Road'maintenance to Nov.-
has cost the county $474,00
with an eStirnated final account
of 0130,060.
Worthington will address a
school assembly in the afternoon
and be questioned by a panel of
students.
The evening program is open
to the public. The audience will
be encouraged to question the
speakers and panel members.
The day's events are being
sponsored by the Students
Council as a continuation of the
project which began last week
with more than 400 students
signing a petition urging the
federal government to do more
to help bring about a settlement
of the Biafran war. Student
Bjarne Christenson and Dale
Gray, head of the CHSS English
Department, are among those
organizing the forum.
Read construction in 1969
will probably total $609,000
according to the estimated final
figure with bridges and culverts
costing and estimated $250,000
at year-end.
Development road
expenditures which ate fully
subsidited by the government
total $430,000
Estimated total to be Spent
on county roads for 1089 is
$1,029,000.
Robert Irvin, Dungannon,
was On hand Friday afternoon
and learned that the road
committee advised that no
action by taken , on
request to ralSe the elevation of
county road 1 Dungannon
adjacent "service station.
Clinton Mayor Donald E.
Symons was unchallenged in his
'bid last week for another term.
He and a full council slate were
,chosen by acclamation to serve
during 1970.
Harold Lobb, an incumbent
councillor
'
becomes reeve and
Gordon Lawson retains his post
as deputy. 'Reeve James
Armstrong chose not to run
again and Councillor Ted
McCullough revealed that he is
moving to Peterborough this
month to accept a new job with
Co-operative Health Services of
Ontario.
Newcomers Melvin Steep and
Russell Archer join incumbents
Clarence Denomme, Norman
Livermore, Cameron Proctor and
Frank Cook in the councillors'
chairs.
Mr. Denomme, who declared
earlier that he would not stand
for another term, and Mr.
McCullough both were
nominated for council Friday
evening. At the close of
nominations there were seven
names on the list for six council
seats. If both Mr. Denomme and
Mr. McCullough failed to
qualify, another nomination
meeting would have been called
to fill the one vacancy. But Mr.
Denomme was persuaded to
remain for a year and qualified
Antoine "Red" Garon and
Harold Lobb of - Clinton
appeared before Huron County
Council last Friday afternoon to
solicit co-operation in the town's
efforts to secure some kind of
replacement industry for CFB
Clinton when it is closed late in
1970.
The two men told council
that representatives of
Development Associates Ltd.,
Ottawa, will be in Clinton Dec.
16 for a meeting with Clinton
officials as well as anyone else
who is interested in the fate of
the military base,
In his brief address to
council, Mr. Garon maintained
that everyone in Huron County
should be vitally interested in
what happens at CFB Clinton.
He urged the county
development committee, all
county councillors and as many
representatives as possible from
each municipality to be in
attendance at the Dec. 16
evening meeting in the Clinton
town hS11.
"We cannot go it alone," Mr.
Garoti said, "no community is
igoingts eif.y tto be able to progress by
He stressed the importance of
working together for the
common good Of the county,
"We should start ourselves
before We are forced into it,"
commented Caron.
Warden James Hayter
complimented him on his
ntegreasiVe thinking and told Mt.
Caron and Mr. Lobb those were
the very' ideas held by some
membert of county council who
ate working toward certain
before the 9 p.m. Saturday
deadline.
The only place where it
appeared a race might develop
was in the nominations for
deputy reeye. John McFarlane, a
former council member, was
nominated for the job, but did
not qualify,
John Livermore,
clerk-treasurer, feared Friday
evening that the town would
have to hold an election for
deputy reeve Dec, 8 and then
call a nomination meeting for
one council post. If two or more
sought the job, then a second
election would have been
necessary.
Observers said the turnout of
fewer than 50 persons was one
of the poorest at a nomination
meeting in years. Duff
Thompson was selected
chairman and limited candidates
to three-minute speeches.
Mayor Symons recounted
some of the achievements of the
last two years — and a few items
which were planned but not yet
done — and said he hopes the
town will be able to rebuild
Albert Street north of Highway
8 in a continuation of the street
reconstruction program next
year,
The mayor also said he would
Please turn to page 2
changes.
Exeter Deputy-Reeve Mery
Cudmore asked Mr. Garon what
the development company knew
that was different. He was told
they are professionals from
Ottawa who have easy access to
every government department.
Reeve Elgin Thompson of
Tuckersmith said his
municipality was in harmony
with all efforts made by Clinton
to reactivate the base just as
soon as it has been closed.
Two of three
Carter awards
go to CHSS
Two of the three Carter
scholarships for Huron County
are going to Central Huron
Secondary School graduates this
year. D. J. Cochrane, county
education director, notified the
acheol this Week of the awards
which Were not announced in
time for commencement
ceremonies last Month.
Hatold Newland, a spring
graduate now at the University
of Tbronto, was awarded the
first scholarship and Charles
Trewartha, new at the
university of Waterloo, received
the third scholarship.
The Carter" Scholarships are
administered by the Province of
Ontario fromthe will of the late
1. Carter of Sarnia through the
local hoard of education and are
now awarded to those with the
highest Grade 13 standings M
Huron.
County financial picture good
Santa's gift to taxpayers
may be mill rate drop
CHSS gym noise due to design
Hal Hartley, left, Clinton Public torntnisaion chairman, presents retiring office inanager
Prank Mutch and hit wife, Elva; with a combination clothes washer and spin dryer.' The couple
also received a swivel chair as a gift from the OUC gaff at ifs annual Christmas patty at the Legion
Hall Monday evening. Mt, Mitch, Clinton native, hat worked foe the PUC for more than 16
years. ia retire at the end of the year, but will assist, at keg on part.thrie bads; until the
Pees neW eoinputerlied billing system is working smoothly and year-end statistics are compiled.
MELVIN STEEP RUSSELL ARVIIpt,
Hullett Township officials ignored superstition and invited 13
men to participate in the official opening of the Wallace Bridge
Monday afternoon. The concrete span just north of County Road
15, 2.5 miles east of Londesboro, replaces a much smaller and less
sturdy steel structure and was part of a $103,000 project which
included realignment of the stream (an unnamed Maitland River
tributary) installation of a culvert west of the bridge site and
rebuilding of four-fifths of a mile of the township road. Above
from left to right are John Jewitt, councilor; Jim Scott, a
Hensall Reeve Oliver Jaques, who won reelection by defeating
Mrs. Minnie Noakes by a 261-145 vote this week, cheeks
election results with Paul Neilands who also received 261
ballots to earn a seat on council. Others elected to council in
the. six-man contest were Hein Rooseboom, 285; John Baker,
259 and Leonard Erb, 257. Incumbent Harold Knight's 221
votes wete not enough to hold a seat and challenger Willard
Buchanan trailed the list of Candidates with only 64 votes.
Rood money well spent
part-time township employee; George Hoggart, road
superintendent; Leonard Archambault, councillor; Charles
Scanlon, councillor; William Venn of Stratford, district engineer
for the Dept. of Highways of Ontario; Hugh Flynn, reeve; Ross
Jackson, DHO; Ken Dunn, engineer from Burns Ross Associates,
Goderich; Owen King, contractor; Joe Hunking, councillor;
Robert Shaddick of the Ross firm and Clare Vincent, township
clerk-treasurer. — Staff Photo
Parley Dec. 16
on base future