HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-12-04, Page 2council work, but did offer to
stay on the industry committee.
In reviewing his term as
industrial chairman, he .noted
that there have been many
inquiries but they quickly lose
interest. •
don't know," he said, "what
cools them off whether it is
the facilities we haven't :got. We
should follow-up and find .out if
they settle elseWhere and why."
Mr. .Deriornine told the
meeting that two industrial
committee members, Antoine
(Red) Garon and Councillor
Harold Lobb had appeared
before county, council earlier in
the day to invite officials to a
Dec. 16 meeting in Clinton on
industrial development and to
propose creation of .a county
development office with costs
Mr. Steep said serving on - shared by all Huron
council would be a new and
challenging experience. As a
civilian employee at Canadian
Forces Base Clinton (slated for
phase-out in 1971), Mr. Steep
voiced concern about creation of
new jobs in town and said: "So
far I haven't seen anything
coming to me or the town — this
is my aim."
"I am 48," he continued,
"and have a home here in
Clinton with friends here. I
hesitate to have to relocate to
another town." He said council
will have to bring work to
Clinton so men will not have to
move away.
Councillor Norman
Livermore, who was appointed
to council last year after
Councillor Wes Holland resigned,
said he thought a mistake had
been made in planting hedges in
front of the cenotaph and
suggested that flowers would be
a more satisfactory border along
the walk.
Mr. Livermore also works at
the base and said all of Huron
must press federal, provincial
and county officials to find a
new use for the armed forces
school. "If we keep bugging the
MPs," he said, "I am sure we will
get something there." he should come out and say it
The fact that so fewmen were , here."
seeking council seats was Councillor Ted McCullough
lamented by Councillor Frank
Cook who admitted the job
takes lots of time and
perseverance and a councillor
makes "a lot of bad friends."
"But," he said, "it bugs me that
men won't let their names stand
.., that they haven't got the
guts."
Mr. Cook noted that Mr.
McCullough would have to
remove his name from the list and Doug Andrews, recreation
Mr. Denomme had said he was director, was asked to give a
not in the running. report and disclosed that it was a
"There are not enough," he $1,000 gift from Dr. J. A.
said, "we will have to hold Addison that financed
another nomination night. There installation of a patio and
are a lot of good men here, but fencing (to be put up in the
COntinued from page none will let his name stand,,,, I
like to 'See the municipal tp0911Lt know my dame is.going
swimming pool covered, He held stand hem."
that "there is not top much left COUncillor Denomme gave no
we can offer the children have indication that his mind was
a very full recreation program." open to change and said he felt
The reeve-to-be, Harold Lobb, his business responsibilities
told.of projects completed tinder would not leave enough time for
his superMion as public works
chairman. and .said the Highway
4 work next year and a major
storm sewer installation will be
expensive, but 'well worthwhile.
He noted that the town has been
sticcessful in negotiating for a
sanitary landfill garbage disposal
site to be operated together with
Goderich Township and the
Town of Goderich,
In his brief remarks, Mr.
Lawson said: "I have nothing to
say about the past because I
think that though we did raise
taxes we spent the money well,"
He urged that emphasis be put
on industrial development and
asked that Councillor Denomme,
chairman of the industrial
committee, be persuaded to
remain on council, for another
year, at least.
municipalities.
Mr. Archer, 31, is manager of
the Beatty Farm Service Centre
in Clinton, and a director of the
Kinsmen Club. He promised to
"give everything I can" if
successful in getting a council
seat.
Councillor Cameron Proctor
reviewed progress on community
planning and advocated either a
full , or part-time industrial
commissioner for the town. He
said he wants to see the
rebuilding of Highway 4
completed and a sidewalk
installed on the north side of
Princess Street in the vicinity of
the high school.
Mr. Proctor was the only
council member or candidate to
respond to an item in a
Newg-Record editorial last week
which urged the end of
closed-door council sessions. He
said there should be "fewer and
possibly no more committee of
the whole meetings in the back
room."
"They are a waste of time,"
he said, "because we have to
come out here a week later to
make it (the action agreed on by
council) legal. If a councillor
feels strongly about something.,
said he had learned a lot in two
years as finance committee
chairman on council, but felt a
lack of citizen support for
councillor.
"I have yet," he said, "to have
a member of the Kinsmen Club
come up to me to tell me what a
bad club it is, but in 26 years in
Clinton and district 10 people a
day have told me how bad it is."
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'Mayor, council by acclaim
sprung) around ,the children's
Wading ,pool., He .agreed with
Mayor Symons on the swimming
pool Cover and said it would cost
little more to run an enclosed.
pool for the whole year than it
does for the present twn-month
season.
I.V1r ...Andrews praised the.
Kinsmen Club for, .its. work on
the ball fields and said "Bert
Clifford deserves a medal
there working day after
The recreation director said
Fanshawe College students plan
to study the Clinton park which
he said "in a year or two will be
.one of the finest in the
province,"
One member of the audience
suggested that the new storm
sewers be big enough to, allow
snowmobiles to Tell
underground. He said the
late-night noise and trespassing
problems are annoying many
residents and added, "If the
town can't or won't do
anything, maybe I will have to
buy one myself and raise the
devil,"
Councillor Harold Lobb said
in reply that it might be possible
to impose a time limit for
operating the snow vehicles on
town streets.
Reeve James Armstrong said
that after a recent meeting of
law enforcement officials he
learned that the provincial
government expects to introduce
more snow vehicle legislation.
Mr. Thompson, chairman of
the meeting, said it should not
be hard to write a local bylaw
and "make it stick." •
Hec Kingswell asked that the
road grader be used more to fill
potholes on town streets.
Councillor Lobb said that gravel
was put on all the streets last
year and "we can't understand
why they are breaking up as bad
as they are." He promised to try
to improve the situation if there
is some mild weather.
John Lavis, chairman ,Of the
county school board, noting that
this is the first election year with
no local board of education,
thanked the incumbent council
for the support given him when
he sought election to the county
board last winter.
He said it is not possible yet
to give • financial figures on
operation of Huron's new, school
system, but i4 statistics, will be
compiled • once the system.
completes a hill year. He said he
does not feel the public has been
kept informed well enough on
the board's activities, but
believes it has been because of
the many problems in getting
started and the fact that the
administrative staff is one of the
smallest in the province in
relation to the number of
students in the system.
The Post Office will introduce
a new money order form in
1970. It will speed up service
and provide carbon copy records
for both the Post Office and the
customer.
HO Hartley, chairman of
Clinton's Public Utilities
Commission, and the threP other
commissioners — Antoine (Red)
Oaron, Jelin. T. Wise and Charlea
Brown — were re-elected by
acclamation last week.
In comments at the
nomination meeting Friday
evening, Mr. Hartley said that in
15 years the cost of hydro did
not rise and then M the last two
years Ontario Hydro • upped its
Power price three times.
To raise the local electrical
rates, the PUC must apply for an
Ontario Hydro rate study and
wait for approval, Mr. Hartley
noted, the studies lag behind the
wholesale price increase and the
town is paying more for the
power than it is charging its
customers.
A 4.5 per cent wholesale hike
went into effect Jan. 1, 1968
and the PUC was unable to raise
its rates that year, resulting 'in a
1.3 per cent deficit for hydro
BY A. L. COLQUHOUN
Herb Lyons, London, who
was plant supervisor for the Bell
Telephone Company of Canada
at Clinton from 1963 to 1966,
was guest speaker at Clinton
Lions Club's last dinner meeting.
Mr. Lyons is now an installation
foreman in the city of London.
The speaker was brought to
Clinton by 22 Lions from the
Ilderton club, who were special
guests. Ilderton Lions President,
Howard Keays introduced his
club members and one of them,
Bob Petrie, a Bell employee
introduced Mr. Lyons.
Clinton Lion Joe Murphy
arranged the visit of the Ilderton
Club and at this meeting Joe was
presented with a 15,year Old
Monarch pin and certificate.
Mr. Lyon's talk was on
"Communications Prologue of
Tomorrow" and how Bell and
other companies are looking to
the future.
Using a flip-chart, Mr. Lyons
traced the progress in
communications . from the
caveman style ,of living right pp
to the present moon-landing era.
Two important dates in the
communications field were:
1832, when Samuel. Morse
invented the telegraph and 1876
when Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone. ,
The speaker explained
undersea cable telephoning;
them the micro-wave method;
how Canada's two electronic
central offices in Montreal and
Tordnto operate, with unlimited
future communications ideas;
computers are now extensively
used by Bell, and how laser light
will be used in the future.
Other future methods of
phoning will be by touch-tone
dial telephones (now in use in
operations. A study early this
year led to a rate rise July 1, but
the Ontario Hydro Price had
gone up another six per cent
Jan. ao the deficit climbed to
3.4 per cent for the period from
JamiarY to June,
At the moment the hydrp
department is running in the
black about 3.8 per cent, Mr.
Hartley said, but Ontario Hydro
is boosting its price again and
"the raises are coming quicker
than we can cope with them,"
Op a more positive note, he
said the billing work is being
streamlined with the use of a
computer system at the London
,PUC. Expenses will be kept
down with the new system, he .
said, once it is working
smoothly,
Red Garon reported on
waterworks, noting that the last
year was a big one for repair and
replacement of equipment.
He said the PUC plans a
combined waterworks and
London, Ontario, on a limited
scale); and picture phones, one
of which is now in use between
New York and Chicago.
Mr. Lyon had some good
things to say about Bell of
Canada's research department
which is inventing technical
apparatus that is being
manufactured here and being
purchased by phone companies
in the United States.
Both Clinton and Merton
Lions Clubs held short business
meetings. On display in the
meeting hall of St. Paul's Parish
was a six-foot long Lion, cut out
of wallboard and painted in
Lions colors by the new
president, Clayton Dixon.
Winners of draws were: Laurie
Colquhoun, Duff Thompson and
Don Cplquhoun.
The next meeting of the local
Lions Club in on Tuesday,
Chief gives
safety tip
Christmas should be a time b£
joy for children, but Clinton
Fire Chief Grant Rath warns
that preparations for the festive
season, and some of the
celebrations, associated with it,
may constitute deadly threats to
their lives.
"Never leave little children
unattended," urges the chief.
"Never take a chance on
`slipping out' for a few minutes.
Only a few seconds can turn
happiness to horror, when
decorations, gift wrappings and
trees bring increased dangers of
fire into homes."
Bell man addresses Lions
NC commissioners keep posts
sanitary sewage building to
house trucks, equipment,
material, workshops storage,
These are spread among six
buildings now, he said.
John Wise 's report on sanitary
sewerage termed 'the situation
"not good,"
He said the equipment is more
than Q years old and is
overloaded, periodically. It is in
need of Constant repair and parts
replacement, he added.
Mr. Wise said the PUC is now
Waiting for a consulting engineer
to report on how the whole
system can be updated and "we
are sure that extensive
renovation will have to be done
to operate the system properly."
In response to questions, he was
unable to provide any cost
estimate.
Mr, Brown was unable to be
present, but earlier had given his
consent to be nominated.
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