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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-02-18, Page 1poismoimmoolommommomommilowlomosisowougoionomolsommoisowsolowoonoomonsosimmoommumiumitolommouliwiswilomoutioroulliioniquimiuwwilitwol000lt 'hilt ion., ao.i(trio 1.5 coots. Clinton News-Record 106 Ye(ir - No. 7 rs(Ift Feb rif (4. ry 18, 1971 wioninumonmoommommumoimmumisommommomoomminimmmoommommoomimmumimuninionommounimommoimmmunionommilimommoommillomilmonmornimmolilli Randy Green, king of the carnival from Hugh Campbell School, watches as Norma Hickey (right) Miss Dominion of Canada crowns the Queen of the Carnival, Lorraine Chan-ney of Hullett Central. Contestants from Holmesville, Brucefield, Clinton, St. Joseph's, Hugh Campbell and Hullett Central took part with judging based on personality, skating ability and dress. A.. Community government experiment successful The Clinton Bantams are sponsoring a fle for four tickets to Maple Leaf Gardens March 6 to see Toronto Maple Leafs play icago Black Hawks. Tickets are being sold members of the team, coaches Brian triage and Bert Clifford and Robin ompson. The draw for the prize will be de on Feb. 27 during the Class AAA mpionship game at the Clinton Bantam urnament. * * Sometimes we make mistakes here at the ws-Record but we'd have a long way to go beat the one made in last week's copy of e Bill Smilie that was sent to us by a ndicate from Toronto. The syndicate nds us preprinted material for the Sugar id Spice column but last week the printer ust have had something else on his mind ?cause the column was so mixed up it was legible. Our crew managed to ascramble part of it but found out in the mg run that part of the text was missing together. So we gave up. This week the printer emed to be back on the job so we again ave the column for all our Bill Smilie fans. The old timers from Dearborn Michigan rill be in town on the weekend to play the Id timers from Clinton on Saturday night at :30 p.m. The teams first hooked up when hey were not so old, back in 1960, The ame will be preceded by a girls hockey ame. * * * One of the most unhappy men around the rnival on the weekend was Hugh Flynn, eeve of Hullett township. Last year Hugh as on the team that won the broomball ampionship at the carnival and he also on the mayors and reeves snowmobile race. his year, though, Hugh missed most of the rly part of the carnival because he was in e hospital for several weeks. He did get out time to watch the Hydro and Stanley wnship teams play for the broomball ampionship on Saturday. Although in most ways this year's carnival as as good as last year's despite the bad eather for the month preceding it and the ath of carnival chairman Doug Thorndike, o areas suffered, the parade and the snow aalpturing. Entries in both events were nsiderably down, probably because of the d weather leading up to the carnival. :a 4: :ft With the bantam tournament coming up xt weekend and the weekend after that, e tournament committee is looking for Ilets for visiting teams in case the weather is bad and they have to stay all weekend. nyone willing to help out should call the ena. Weather 1971 1970 HI LO HI LO b 9 20 11 32 24 10 19 8 34 29 11 34 13 30 19 12 35 16 20 13 13 16 6 14 -10 14 27 4 12 -20 15 23 4 22 2 Snow 12" Snow 2" Members of the Clinton Figure Skating Club were busy over the weekend. The club not only put on a successful two-day ice show on Thursday and Friday nights but entered a float in the Carnival Parade which captured first prize. The Junior Horticulture Society won second place in the parade with their float while the Central East Block Merchants won third. • The children of Clarence Denomme, 187 Ontario St., won first prize for snowsculpturing with the sculpture by Stephen and Peggy Jones taking second place. These youngsters live at 269 Townsend St. Clinton Public School grade eight class won the prize for the top school snowsculpture. They also took the trophy in public school skating at the arena on Saturday morning by nosing out Air Marshall Hugh Campbell school 32-30. The beautiful carnival queen for 1971 is Lois Chamney of RR 1 Auburn who represented Hullett Central School. Randy Green of ABM Hugh Campbell School was the King. Prince and princess are Dennis Medd and Betty Heyensbergen, both of St. Joseph's Separate School. In the old-timers game on Wednesday night the town beat CFB Clinton 14-5 in a hard-fought game. Clinton bombed Lucknow 8-0 in girl's hockey on Saturday scoring five in the first and three more in the second, Last year's winners, the Fair Board were out-pulled by Goderich Township this year for the Tueo War crown. Gerald Rathwell and Arnold Taylor won the log sawing contest with Grant Snell and Clark Ball second and Harry Snell and Bill Jenkins third. Leonard Lobb outlegged the rest of the field to win the snowshoe race over a half-mile course in a bitter wind. Bob Trick was second and Ernie Lobb third. Fred Lobb won the endurance section of the snowmobile rally on Saturday afternoon in the 341-440 c.c. category. Jim Cox of Albert Maul of RR 2 Kippen and formerly of Belgium was found dead in his home on Sunday morning. Ted Taylor and Bob Bell missed Mr. Meul and went to investigate why be hadn't been seen recently. They found the body in the bed, Provincial Police from Exeter investigated but death was from natural causes, Mr. Maul was 53 years of age, single and lived alone, He is survived by two brothers and a sister in Belgium. He had no relatives in Canada. The body is resting at the Bonthron Funeral Home, Hensell with burial this morning (Thursday) at 8 a.m, at St. Boldface Roman Catholic Church, Zurich. Prayers were offered at the chapel oh Wednesday night. An experiment in community government carried on at the Clinton town hall on Monday night could be repeated in the future. The experiment involved representatives from all four townships surrounding Clinton and the town council itself in a discussion of mutual problems. From comments after the meeting it appears that such joint meetings could become more regular. The meeting was called by the Clinton council. The entire Clinton Council with the exception of Councillor James Armstrong met with at least two members from each of Stanley, Tuckersmith, Hullett and Goderich township councils to discuss how the councils could co-operate. Subjects covered a wide range from fire and police protection to conservation and recreation in the three-hour meeting. TANKER TRUCK Gerry Ginn, Deputy-reeve of Goderich township opened the discussion by suggesting that a committee should be set up to look after the tanker truck run by the Clinton Fire Department. The truck is owned by the four townships and housed by the Clinton department. All bills for maintenance are paid by the townships with Goderich Township in charge of co-ordinating the effort. It was pointed out that a committee comprised of Bill Jenkins of Goderich Township, Hugh Flynn of Hullett and Hee Kingswell of the fire department had originally been set up to purchase the truck last spring, Once the truck had been purchased however, the committee had disbanded. At present there is no representative from .the townships to co-ordinate the maintenance of the truck. Mr. Ginn pointed out that in one instance the townships had been billed twice by a The directors of the Huron Central Agricultural Society held a recent meeting in the council chamber of the town hall to elect a new executive: Past President — James Snell, RR 1, Clinton; President — Rosa Lovett, RR 1, Londesboro; First Vice-Pres. — Gordon Lawson, Clinton; Second Vice-Pres, Harold Lobb, Clinton. During the business part of the meeting, plans were begun for the 1971 fair to be held June 4 and 5. Discussion was held on sending delegates to the annual convention to be held in the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, February 24 and 25, 1971. A dance committee of Ken Flett and Jack Taylor was set up for the dance to be held supplier for one tire, The mistake had been caught he said but a committee could make sure it didn't happen again. Mr. Ginn suggested another three-man committee be set up. Several Clinton councillors pointed out that it would be fairer if all the townships had a representative and the town, since it was housing the tanker, should also have a say. The meeting then agreed that a five-man committee should be set up with one representative from each municipality to meet periodically to co-ordinate maintenance of the tanker with the engineer of the fire department, CONSERVATION Mayor Don Symons of Clinton opened discussion on the problem of the Bayfield conservation area by saying he felt the area had something of great value in the Bayfield River and that we should do something about the river while it could still be saved. Mr. Ginn said that he lived along the Maitland River and that the river kept getting worse despite the efforts of the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority, Reeve Elgin Thompson, a member of the Ausauble Conservation Authority questioned just what a conservation authority could do to clean up pollution on a river, Reeve B, U. Mcilwain of Goderich Township asked what powers the authorities had to fight pollution, Robin Thompson, clerk-treasurer of Goderich Township asked each of the municipalities just what they would like to get out of a conservation authority for the Bay field. Harold Lobb, reeve of Clinton said he would like to see a recreation area along the river right from Seaforth to Bayfield. Mayor Don Symons was more specific as far as Clinton was concerned. The mayor said he thought the area from the first road east on Clinton on Highway 8 to the point where the river crossed Highway 4 at the south end of town provided an excellent site for a park with camping and other facilities. Reeve Thompson of Tuckersmith said that this was the area of greatest concern to his township (the area in question is within Tuckersmith) and that he would like to see a dam built in that section to provide a small lake. Reeve Elmer Hayter of Stanley Township said his township had no major demands from any such authority. Goderich and Hullett representatives also said they had no big-projects in mind, A discussion arose over the merits of joining either the Maitland or Ausauble authorities. Mayor Symons said his town had leaned toward the Maitland for the obvious Reeve reports to Bayfield council BY ER IC EARL Bayfield village council met Monday night and heard a report from Reeve B. Oddliefson. The reeve reported the following to the Council: (a) that the traffic by-law was being printed in pamphlet form and that these pamphlets would be available at the clerk's office within seven to ten days; (b) that the official plan for the Village of Bayfield was nearing completion. A discussion of the draft plan is planned for the near future; (e) that the conservation meeting called for last week had been cancelled due to bad weather. Further business by Council was as follows: the street in front of the Municipal building was named Municipal Road; brush clearing on Lidderdale Street is to start so that ditching operations can commence; the old lights on the portion of the highway inside the village are to be replaced progressively by fluorescent fixtures, following requests by residents in the area. reason that part of the town was already under the Maitland authority. Reeve Thompson of Tuckersmith said his township favoured the Ausauble for the same reasons Clinton had favoured the Maitland. He said there were other reasons in favour of the Ausauble such as the fact that it had been in existence longer and its projects were farther along. Reeve Hayter of Stanley wondered how soon work could begin if the municipalities (See Page Two) Bantam tourney biggest ever Clinton's annual Bantam Hockey tournament beginning next Thursday, February 25 and running all weekend and again the next weekend is one of the most popular and respected tournaments in the country. The popularity of the tournament is obvious by the number of entries for this year's schedule. Clinton Recreation Director, Doug Andrews reports 55 teams entered this year, more than twice as many as last year. The large number necessitates increasing the tournee from a single weekend as in the last two years to two weekends this year. In all, 47 games are scheduled for teams from class B to class AAA. Most of the championships will be held the final weekend but one, the AAA championship will be held on Feb. 27, Word of the tournament has certainly spread. When Mr. Andrews began receiving entries from Toronto area teams that he hadn't even notified he began to wonder what was going on. Then speaking to an official of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association one day he found out that the OMHA had spread the word that Clinton was one of the best tournaments around. The result was a flood of applications from the Toronto district with such teams as Scarborough, Thornhill, Bayridges and Markham represented. The most mystifying thing for the recreation committee in the past has been the poor turnout of local fans for a tournament that outsiders feel is tops. The hockey is among the best played anywhere and local fans seem to be missing out on something good. St Column Carnival big success despite cold Kippen man found dead BY MRS. MAUDE HEDDEN Ingersoll won the 296-340 c.c. section. Doug McGregor of Kippen and Dave McInally of Seaforth won the hay race. Cox and Harry McClinchey of Clinton won the western pickup race. New executive for fair board following the fair. Robert Gibbings and Greg Brandon were again selected to arrange for dates and orchestras for dances for the fall and winter months of 1971 and 1972. The directors voted in favour of making application to the Canada Department of Agriculture for a raise in rating from a Class "C" Fair to a Class "B" Fair for 1972. Before adjourning the directors agreed to meet the first Tuesday of every month with the next meeting scheduled for March 2, 1971, to be held in the Board Rooms of the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food. Only one'spectacular spill occurred during the rates on Sunday afternoon when this inside as the other Machine tame down off the bank and the two collided. Neither iVloto',ski collided with the Skiroule of John Elder of Hensel' on the final turn in driver was hurt and both managed to finish the race. one of the modified races. The Elder machine was trying to squeeze by on the The old tittle skills tante in handy Saturd y in the log-sawing contest. No chainsaws here, lust an old tresscut and plenty of Sweat.