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ommittee
ormed
or Bayfield
Representatives of 10 municipalities
thin the boundaries of the Bayfield River
tershed decided last week to form a
mmittee to determine which, if either, of
o area conservation authorities, the
tershed should come under.
The meeting in Goderich,carne after 12
unicipalities last fall brined down a
oposal to join the Maitland Valley
nservation Authority. r .71,7
These municipalities Will fleet later to
e on a proposal to joinithefsasesable River
nservation Authority. Thatlineeting was
be held today, but has been postponed.
o new date has been set.
The reason the committee was set up
ursday is apparently because everyone
pects the Ausable proposal to be rejected,
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Thursday, January 21, 1971
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Clinton Kinettes recently donated an ice cleaning and flooding The machine was presented to Clinton Recreation Director, Doug
machine to the Clinton Community Centre. The machine not Andrews, last week by aSaiiiiimittee from the club including Mrs.
only speeds up the operation of maintaining the ice surface Bert Clifford, Mrs. Bole Mann and Mrs. Tom Feeney.
between periods but also produces a smoother, faster ice surface.
Clinton N ews-Record
S
ingham's Alexander new Huron County Warden
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
The 1971 Warden of the County of Huron
Jack. Alexander, reeve of the town of
ingham.
Warden Alexander was elected on the
cond ballot, a 20.20 tie vote between him
d Reeve Elmer Hayter, Stanley Township.
e tie was broken in favor of Alexander by
eeve Paul Carroll, Goderich,
The first ballot showed 14 in favor of
exander, 16 for Hayter and 10 for Reeve
ugh Flynn, the third candidate in the race.
Alexander listed the official plan for the
County of Huron, the problems caused by
the approaching closure of CFB Clinton, the
appointment of a new Medical Officer of
Health in Iluroo and the county roads
system as the priority items.
The Wingham businessman promised to
devote himself to the job of Warden for
1971 and to "work hard to keep Huron
County among the leaders in the province of
Ontario".
In his address to Huron County Council,
Elmer alayter said the last warden from
Stanley had been Fred Watson in 1944, He
noted he had spent 11 years on municipal
council, five as deputy-reeve and three as
reeve.
Hugh Flynn stated his ambition to
"someday become warden of Huron
Co u n ty " , He cited conservation,
reforestation, pollution control, regional
government, welfare planning, amalgamation
of health services and the CFB closure as the
prime areas for concern this year.
"If we don't stand up and take a stand
we're going to be told what to do," said
Flynn.
Judge R. S. Hetherington administered the
oath of office to the new warden. He said in
his business he found it necessary to go back
into the archives for direction and he envied
county councillors their opportunity to
"make history".
He urged all members of council to
"co-ordinate and bring together the facilities
of the county".
"That's your duty," he told the members.
"The difficulty comes in trying to apply it.
Don't let local interest too badly mar your
judgement,"
Rev. Garwood Russell of St. George's
Anglican Church officiated for the inaugural
devotions.
His Worship Mayor Harry Worsell brought
greetings from the town of Goderich with
"Mixed feelings" saying he was pleased and
proud to represent the town of Goderich as
Mayor but stating he was sorry to see an end
to his association at the county level,
Outgoing Warden Roy Westcott of
Usborne Township drew attention to the
presence of the new county councillors,
especially Gerry Ginn whose father served
on county council from 1945 to 1948.
Ginn's grandfather also sat oe county
council from 1924 to 1925.
The striking committee was appointed
and includes the new warden, Clarence
Boyle, Hugh Flynn, Joe Hoffman and
Harold Wylds.
`Clinton, Ontario
old debt
15 cents bnngs on study
o f students' councils
Talk about fast action.
Last week we called for a meeting of
nicipalities along the Bayfield river to
cuss how to go about getting a
nservation authority for the Bayfield. The
per came out Thursday morning and there
a meeting on Thursday afternoon.
Actually it wasn't a case of the power of
press but a case of the press being wrong.
re meeting had been planned beforehand
d we had originally understood that such a
acting was to take place last week.
Never, we Were misinformed earlier• last
ek that no such meeting had been planned
d so we now are wiping the egg off our
ce.
An account of the meeting is included in
is week's paper.
* *
We were saddened to learn Wednesday
orning of the death of one of our best and
ost reliable correspondents, Mm. Bert
lien of Londesboro. Although the dear
dy was more than 80 years of age she was
ery active in the community and so her
eath came of something of a shock. We will
`ss her greatly. Eutieral services will be held
iday from the Tasker Funeral Home in
lyth.
* *
It seems every time we are limited in
space we are faced with an influx of newt
from all our correspondents end from
around town, ThiS has beet one of those
weeks and as a result, some items may have
to be left out. We hope readers will
understand and we'll try to include
everything missed next week.
* * *
Two Clinton men ate among the delegates
from Huron County to these leadership
convention of the Ontarlosf Progressive
Cohservatiee patty in Toronto next month.
Doug Freeman and William Dale are
among the 10 delegates. Others are Mrs. Art
Batten, nubile, Mrs. Edwin Miller, Exeter,
Mrs. 'Ronald Merrier, Dashwood, Victor
Fulcher, Exeter, Bert Such, Goderich, Frank
Sills, Seaforth, Lorne kielestiver, Dashwood
and Anon McKinley, Zurich,
* * *
Minor hockey weekend kicks off in
Clinton tonight with WeeWees, Squirts and
the senior girls hockey teams hi action.
Friday night Clinton and Adattral Park
WeeWees will play at 6.45 with Clinton
Peewees end the visiting Maori New York
teeth playing the first game of their series at
8 p.m. The Bantams will play at g pni.
against the New York team,
Saturday will see a full day of action. At
9 a.m. Blyth will play Adastral Park in the
Kinsmen squirt hockey totimatrient. At 10 it
will be Goderich "la" vs. Clinton. At 11 it
will be Goderich "B" Bantams vs. Clinton
Bantams and at 1 p.m. It will be Adastral
Park Peewees against Clinton 'IS" team.
At 2.15 it will be the second game of the
peewee series with local teams against
Clinton N.Y. At 1.30 the squirt
championship game will take place.
At *7 p.m. the second game of the bantam
Aeries will be played and at 8.30 the Clinton
Will play a regular league game against
Hensall in their attempt to move into second
place.
*s:
civic Clinton Kinsmen held their annual
and prets night at the Hotel Clinton Tuesday
night with yours truly along with
representatives of various clubs and toteri
&punch present.
For the ^guests it was A good chance to get
to knew the Work of the club,
Veir es it was alto a chance for a good
dinner.
After a committee of the Huron County
Board of Education met with the Huron
County Library Committee and its librarian,
Miss Ethel Dewar, members of Huron
County Board of Education agreed to
purchase Huron County library services for
the senior grades in schools in Huron County
without library facilities at a cost of $1 per
student.
When the school librarian, the principal
Principals in Huron County have been
advised that students' lockers shall not be
opened without the knowledge of the
student involved and his being present at the
time of opening the lockers
The ruling was made following a
complaint to the board by Charles H.
Thomas, reeve of Grey Township, that 18
students and Several ratepayers have
approached him to indicate their annoyance
at school staff opening students' lockers
Without their knowledge.
In Mere, if it becomes necessary to open
a 'locker arid strident is not available, it shall
be the responsibility of the Principal only to
()pee it in company with one other staff'
member.
The board also learned that the entire
staff of 22 program consultants from the
regional office of the Department of
Education has been made available to Hume
New VP says
and the appropriate superintendent of
operations agree that the school's book
collection is not large enough for the library
to be self-supporting and needs to be
supplemented, the Huron County Library
Service will be purchased.
It is estimated this will cost about $3,000
for ten schools in the county plus the five
senior schools in McKillop Township. It is
also noteworthy that the funds for the
service will be budgeted over and above the
County for the period February 1 to 12.
These services will be concentrated in Area C
schools but provision is being made for
specific personnel to visit other schools in
the county.
This will be a self-analysis experiente for
all those involved in the educational process
hi the schools. The consultants will observe
classroom instruction and follow up by
personal and group discussions with
teachers, department heads, principals,
superintendents and the Director of
Education,
During the twreweek period teaching staff
Will be sharing thole .Aims and Objectives
With the program consultants: Late in
February the Director of Education and his
academic staff will spend a day interviewing
the program consultants, providing an
opportunity for mutual observations and
follow-up In the school,
Appointment of William M, Smith as vice
president and managing director of Bell
Aerospace Canada was announced today by
Bell President William G. Gitel.
In his new position, Smith pill direct the
company's new operations at Grand tend,
Ontario, where Bell will -develop and
fabricate its Voyageur heavy haul hovercraft.
Bell Aerospace Canada, a division of
Textron Canada Ltd., which announced last
week that it had acquired facilities at Grand
Bend Airport, expects to begin operations
there later this month.
Smith said approximately five tecluileal
And management employees with experience
in air cushion vehicle engineering, factory
Management and administrative procedures
are scheduled to transfer to Grand Bend
from Bell's headquarters and main plant near
Buffalo, New York. The remainder of the
work force, which is estimated to reach A
peak of 40 after fabrication begins, will be
Canadians hired through the Canada
per pupil amount allowed by the Board for
the purchase of library books.
Superintendent of education Jim Coulter
told the board it was felt the Huron County
Library service was not too satisfactory for
the junior grades.
This is to be one year arrangement, the
board learned.
Dr. A, B. Deathe of Goderich asked
Coulter If the board of education planned to
integrate its library program with the library
program offered by the county. Coulter
explained that the board of education was
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
The annual question of when to collect
school taxes was discussed at Monday
evening's meeting of the Huron County
Board of Education and a decision deterred
until Monday, February 1,
"As far as dollars and mitt are concerned
we benefit from colleetiotis four times a
year," stated R. R. Dunlop, superintendent
ofbusiness affairS. "And so does the
taxpayer,"
He said it made no difference when the
municipalities made their collections but it
did make a difference when calculating
interest when payments for education
purposes -were made.
Manpower Centre in Centralia, (anted°,
Gisel also announced that James G. Mills,
who has served as 'vice president of Belt
Aerospace Canada for the past five yeart,
will continue in that capacity, Mills, whose
headquarters am at Suite 1400, Varette
Building, 110 Albert St., Ottawa, will
maintain liaison with Canadian government
agencies and prospective users of the
Voyageur hovercraft,
Smith assumeshis new position after
serving for the past two years as vice
president and manager of Bell's New Orleans
Operations in Louisiana, where Bell designed
and is building qa 100-tot ocean-going
Sueface Effect Ship capable of speeds in
excess 'of 92 miles per hour.
Smith has been associated with NIT since
1938. Ile joined tell as chief of laboratories
and rose through the engineering ranks to
become chief rockets engineer in 1049, 'He
subsequently was tamed maa.gor of the
eompany's Rockets Division in 1950 and in
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
A debt of $1150 incurred by the 1963
students' council at Central Huron
Secondary School in Clinton was the topic
of some discussion Monday evening at the
regular board meeting of the Huron County
Board of Education.
A letter from the school's principal, R. J.
Hornuth, said that in 1963, the students'
council at CHSS passed a motion to
purchase bleachers for the new auditorium
at a cost of $4950 with the stipulation that
each year $500 would be paid to the school
board until the debt was paid. To date, the
sum of $3800 has been paid to the board,
the letter stated.
With the rising costs and obligations to
the students' council, as well as the fact that
it is deemed unfair for the 1963 students'
council to expect each succeeding students'
council to accept an obligation to pay for
equipment which "probably should have
been the responsibility of the school board",
Principal Homuth requested the board to
clear this "outstanding debt from their
books".
"Those Bleachers have certainly added to
the assets of the school board," Homuth
wrote, "and they have often been used
during functions in which the student body
played no part."
WILMA OKE
Stuart Wilson, R. R. 1, Brucefield, was
elected president of the Tuckersmith
Township Federation of Agriculture at the
annual meeting held in Egmondville United
Church on Monday. He succeeds Bruce
Coleman, R. R. 4, Seaforth, who stepped.
down after completing his third term.
buying a service, not integrating systems.
Board chairman Bob Elliott wondered if
the board should be looking into the
board-operated book mobile system
whereby books in county school libraries
would be moved from school to school.
Coulter suggested this may be recommended
for fiction-type books but that text books
are required to remain in the schools to be
available when needed. Coulter added that
duplications of books are already being
moved around in the county.
"We've done a lot of this," said Coulter.
* John Taylor said members of the board of
education Must live in the same county as
the municipal commits and it Would be good
public relations to ascertain when the
municipalities would prefer to Melee tax
collections and make payments to the board
of education.
"How much does this goodwill cost usr
asked Dr, A. !lefty beadle,
Dunlop said he had no firm figures except
to say that do 1969 when tax collection Was
made once, interest paid by the school board
amounted to about $115,000. In 1970 when
collections were made twice, interest paid by
the board amounted to about $85,000,
"It is cheapest for all concerned if
collections are made four thnea a year,"
stated Dunlop. 'Definitely,"
1958 he became at :assistant Ike president
and manager of the Space Plight and Missiles
Division, In 1960 he became director of
engineering for the Aerospace/Rockets
Division and the following year he was
named Manager of the division hand a vice
presiderit of the company,. More recently,
Smith Was the company's chief scien't'ist and
a presidential assistant,
During his career with Bell, Smith served
as chief rockets installation engineer on the
World's first supersonic airplane, the Bell
X-1, and he directed many of the company's
rocket and missile development programs,
The ti, S. Nevy'g SK1V111.-1 Hydroskimmer,
largest air enshion -vehicle built to 'date in the
Western Hemisphere, was designed,
fabricated and tested by Bell mider Smith's
direction whet he served as vice president
and 'managerof the Aerospace/Rockets
Division,
Smith is a Fellow of the International
The board has appointed a committee of
Dr, Alex Addison, John Taylor and Garnet
Hicks to look into the matter, As well, the
committee has been instructed to take a
look at all student council operations in the
county.
"It's a very large question," warned Mrs.
J. W. Wallace. She suggested the board might
get into the whole matter of whether or not
students' council are paying for certain
services which the school board should be
supplying,
F. E. Madill, a superintendent, told the
board the students' councils in the county
might take the attitude that they raise the
money themselves and should be allowed to
spend it as they•see fit.
Chairmao Jae!) Elliott said,"The students'
council at cps is asking us to forget this.
We're not asking to run their affairs."
Some board] members felt that if students'
councils areato learn anything about the
working of .* government from their
experiences, .they must learn that one must
live up to their commitments.
"If one students' council makes a bargain
or signs an agreement which involves the
students' council of the next year, that
students' council must honor the agreement
just the way municipal councils and boards
honor the contracts made by their
predecessors," one board member stated.
James I. McIntosh, R. R. 3, Seaforth, is
Vice-President.
Named Directors were: Stanley Johns
and Kenneth Moore of R. R. 3, Seaforth;
Robert Lawson, R. R. 5, Clinton; Harry Arts
and Peter Swinkles of R. R. 4, Seaforth;
James McGregor, R. R. 2, liensall; Robert
Bell, R, R. 2, Kippen; Stuart Wilson, Bruce
Coleman and James 1. McIntosh,
Guest speaker at the dinner meeting
attended by 86 guests was Donald Coxe, C.
I. A. G. (Co-operators Insurance Association
of Guelph), who is a legal advisor to the
Ontario Federation of Agrictilture.
Mr. Coxe spoke on estate planning for the
purpose of retaining the farm within the
family, and how the White Paper would
affect this,
Jack Stafford, R. R. 1, Wroxeter,
president of the Huron County Federation
of Agriculture, and Mrs. Stafford attended
the meeting and brought greetings from the
county association.
Lloyd Stewart, R. R. 1, Clinton,
individual service member director for South
Huron, spoke on individual service
Memberships of which there are 725 in
Heron County and 30 in Tuckersmith
Township, A membership drive is planned
for Tuckersmith and it is expected to be
done early in February.
Tuckersmith Township has a two-fifth of
a Mill tax levy for the Federation.
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Hovercraft Society. Among his many other
professional affiliations are memberships in
the American Astronautical Society, the
Natiohal Society of Professional Engineers,
the American Management Association, the
American Ordnance Association, the Navy
League of the United States and the
Association of the U. S. Army.
A FelloW of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, he also was a
founder and first chairman of the National
Aircraft Standards Committee.
He is former ehaitnian of Bell'e Scientific
Advisory thmrhittee, a panel of Bell
executives and nationally-knoWn scientists
arid educators who provide overall direction
to the corn pany'S research activities,
'Educated at the Mechanict Institute of
Rochester, N. Y., the Univeriity of Buffalo
and Erie Couhty Technical Institute of
Buffalo, he also has studied nuclear
engineering at the University of Michigan.
Locker policy set
Board accepts county library proposal for public schools
Tax decision deferred until Feb. 1
Wilson heads
Tuckersmith federation
Bell Aerospace's Grand Bend hovercraft • plant will hire locally