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Clinton News-Record, 1971-03-18, Page 1Despite the harsh winter Clinton has been subjected to, work has progressed well on the senior citizens home on James Street, With much of the outside work on the building completed, the emphasis has now switched to the interior. The building, hopefully, will be reedy for occupancy in early summer. Hospital reports small deficit in 1970 106 Year - No. 11 Thursday, March 18, 1971 Clinton, Ontario .1.5 cents 109••••••••••.1W Weather 1971 1970 HI LO HI LO tar. 9 23 10 25 -4 10 25 2 23 11 28 12 26 12 12 30 -3 29 5 13 40 22 27 10 14 42 22 26 6 15 53 33 23 10 Snow 6" Snow .5" One of these lovelies will be crowned school queen when Central Huron Secondary School holds its annual at home Friday night. Students will vote Friday to choose from Ileft to right), Jo-Ann sates, Diana erochu, Betty Snell, ,Agnes Lawrie, Rhea Sturgeon and Sharon Keys, Could be a tough decision. — photo by Jack Column New credit system could cost county taxpayers $150,000 1 Baron Burkard von 1Vjuelleheim.Rechberg, consul genera( of West Germany in Toronto is leaving Canada to be transferred to Tansania, In an interview with the Toronto Star last week the Baron said his proudest moment while in Canada came last May when he was asked to address the dinner celebrating the 25th anniversary of , the completion of World War Two here at the Clinton Canadian Legion Branch 140, It was the first time that anyone knew that a former German officer had spoken at an official function of a Canadian Legion Branch. The Baron served aboard the famous battleship Bismark at one time during the war. When he spoke at the Clinton dinner he was presented with a plaque showing two clasped hands. * * Clinton Police investigated an accident on Saturday at Huron and Orange Streets involving a 1961 Falcon driven by Pearl Hutchings of Bayfield and a 1968 Buick driven by Wayne Johnston of James St., Clinton. Damage totalled $150. * * * The hockey season is rapidly drawing to a close but two big hockey nights remain. Friday will see the final playoffs in the Clinton House League as part of the Kinsmen Hockey Night at the arena. Next Friday will see two games with the proceeds to go to house league hockey, baseball, track and field and playdays for the Lake Huron Zone recreation area. The first game will see Clinton's Orange Raiders against the girls team from Fanshawe College. The second will feature recreation students from Fanshawe against the Lake Huron Zone Recreation Directors. Conservation meeting April 15 BY ERIC EARL Bayfield Council met Monday night with all councillors present. The Reeve reported that a meeting of representatives of municipalities in the Bayfield River Watershed is scheduled to take place on April 15, 1971 at which it will be decided whether to join the Ausable Conservation Authority or not. The Village Planning Board were still waiting the review and comments on the Official Plan, which was submitted on February 25. There had been no reaction to the request for names of people interested in a short course in Tourism. A further investigation will follow. Registered Plans in the South part of the Village had been obtained from the Registry Office for incorporation in a Village map. It is also proposed to inchide Otiating Registered Plans in the North part of the Village. In further business insurance coverage in the Village was reviewed and approved, A further extension of protection is to be discussed with Mr. McConkey at a later meeting. It was reported that dogs are still roaming the Village streets and frightening youngsters. The Village Constable was instructed to warn owners that dogs are again required to be confined or on a leash, The ancient, inadequate sanitary facilities near the old Town Hall are to be completely removed. The new facilities at the Municipal Building will be open for the public use by the middle of April, 1971. Vehicle operators, who use Village streets were warned that signs have been erected indicating Cameron Street is to be closed from Highway . 21 to Lidderdale Street. Vehicles using this street, do so at their own risk and are subject to prosecution. Loads on all roads in the Village are restricted to one-half load. Penalties will be in accordance with those laid down in this Section. inspection of the Lakeshore indicates very serious erosion of the bank. Remedial action must be planned as soon as possible so as to minimize further loss of land. BY SHIRLEY J. FELLER Although it Means an increase of only, two teachers across the county next year at the secondary school level, the Ontario Department of Education's mandatory introduction in September 1971 of a revised credit system in Grade 13 will in actual fact require a total of 15 extra teachers in Huron County and cost the taxpayers approximately $150,000. That's because the new credit system requires more teaching time, The board had hoped to cut the secondary school teaching Clinton Public Hospital operated at a deficit in 1970 but it amounted 'to only $150 in an operation with a budget of two-thirds of a million dollars, In reporting to the annual meeting of the hospital board oa Monday night, board treasurer Art Aiken reported that costs continued to rise this year reaching a total of $667,146 but he said comparisions with other hospitals in the area showed the Clinton Hospital was one of the most efficient around and congratulated the staff for their good management. Five vacancies on the board were filled for two-year terms. 1R.e-elected to the board BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER For a trial period of two months, the Huron County Board of Education will adopt a new meeting schedule. On the first Monday of each month, the board will convene at 3:30 p.m. to discuss academic matters. This portion will adjourn at 6 p.m., the trustees and the administration will have dinner together in were Joe Murphy, Robert Campbell, Mrs. Charlotte Norman, Bill Counter all members of the last board. Mrs. H. C. Lawson fills the vacancy of James Armstrong who is now the representative of the town of Clinton. In reviewing the past year, board chairman Bill Counter said he fell, the biggest news was the addition of sunrooms and a new board room at the south end of the 1947 wing. The addition, made possible by the generosity of an annonymous donar added greatly, Mr. Counter said, to the unit. Work is almost completed. He also stated that the wheels were turning to put a cardiac care unit into operation at the hospital, He said the the school cafeteria and the meeting will resume again, In Camera, at 7:15. The regular open meeting of the board will be held beginning sharp at 8 p.m. and continue Until 10:30 p.m. The second meeting of the month will be held on the third Monday and will be held entirely in the evening, The change is planned to give the board a One and English Two, and will require five periods each per week or cycle or ten rather than seven elasses per week or epee to get two English credits, Similar conditions exist in almost all courses offered to Grade 13 students in Huron County and will necessitate many additional hours of teaching in the classroom. "The Department puts a lid on vending and then offers a course which will require more teachers," stated Chairman Bob Elliott shaking his head. "I can't follow their addition of Dr, Watts to the hospital staff had meant much in the past year and that a long-awaited 90-second x-ray developer is now speeding operation in that department at the hospital. Looking into the future, Mr, Counter said that if the Canadian Forces Base now being phased out was taken over by some other operation and the general outlook in the community stayed bright that the hospital might be building a new addition in the "million dollar range" in five or six years. He said the past board had been a pleasure to work with and congratulated them on their efforts, better opportunity to explore the academic side of things within the Huron County educational system. The first presentation will be the afternoon of April 5, when W. D. Kenwell will make a report on special education in the county. Special education, the board learned, covers the trainable retarded schools, the remedial classes, vocational courses, guidance services and special problems such as perceptual handicaps, emotional distress, speech therapy, etc., etc. The public is not invited to attend these meetings, although the press will be included and permitted to make a report. reasoning always." Dr, A. B. .Deathe, Goderich, told Elliott his problem could be that he assumed the Ontario Department of Education reasoned things out before passing legislation. Elliott asked Cochrane what benefits the new credit system -WOOld have over the old one, Cochrane admitted he was not convinced there would be too many benefits but added the new system would be a "resolution of some of the inequitiee of the past". The director also told the board there is Smelly problem solved A potentially smelly issue was worked out quietly Tuesday night at a special meeting of Hullett township council and residents of north end Clinton, Hullett township and Goderich township. The problem arose when Hullett council issued a building permit to John Rapson to construct a mink shed on his farm just north of the town limits. The permit was passed at the March meeting of the council and brought reaction from local residents who feared the smell from the mink could lower the value of their properties and make life unpleasant for them. A petition was circulated last week protesting the building and a meeting was called to iron out the problem. Reeve Hugh Flynn said following the meeting that the council had delayed action on the permit in January to give people time to react to the proposed building and that the permit had not been issued again at the February meeting. He said that by the March meeting the council felt they had done enough, research into. the problem and since they had had no complaints passed the permit. Mr. Rapson had been raising mink without a barn for over a year, the reeve said. However many residents in the area did not learn about the building until the issuing of the permit was reported in a news story about the March meeting. They then circulated the petition. At the meeting Tuesday night Mr. Rapson made it clear that he did not want to go ahead with his building if his neighbours objected. With his permission the council rescinded the permit for the barn. Seminar planned at CFR A one-day seminar for elementary school principals is being planned by the Huron County Board of Education for April 14 at C PII3t Cli n ton, is the purpose of the seminar to advance the leadership qualities among those in a position of administrative responsibility and will deal with such problems as leadership development, problem solving at administrative levels, motivation of staff, methods for improving meetings and conferences, establishing improved communications, practices and procedures for effective supervision and handling misunderstandings and conflicts, tohre4ddeissti9nettoposanibi t)li etycoomfia4crmedaltndsaytsoterym ill In September 1972, and in that case, it would become necessary to reassess the whole question of number of staff, "If it is going to take this many teachers for the new system in Wade 13 only, what will happen when it goes into the other grades?" asked John Henderson, McKillop. "Isn't it foolish all round?" Cochrane told Henderson that in the other grades, there is a broader base of both teachers and students and the change would not require as much additional staffing. Although some board members expressed displeasure at the new system and suggested that a letter be forwarded to the Ontario Department of Education voicing that disapproval, it was agreed that a document from Huron would be a little premature, "This credit system is a new game," stated Cochrane. "It will involve education of the teachers, of the students and of the public. Let's take a look at it first." In the meantime, Director of Education Cochrane received the permission to hire 270 fulltime teachers for the secondary school system when it had been hoped that 255 would carry the load in Huron this year before the new system was imposed. "Maybe we should regionalize small demand options," said Dr. A. B. Deathe. Mrs. Marilyn Kunder, Seaforth, agreed. She noted that a very small percentage of the Seaforth High School students were taking Latin this year. Since Latin is not required for anything but entering a course to become a Latin teacher, suggested Mrs. Kunder, maybe the Latin course should be offered at only a couple of schools in the county with the students desiring a Latin course travelling there to take it. "I've been there and back," stated Bob Elliott. He reminded the board that Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton had been built with the agreement of all seconday school boards in Huron so that'all technical training could be taken there, not requiring the other schools in the county to build technical facilities locally. "The students were the hangup there," said Elliott. "They just wouldn't leave their home school to take the course. They preferred to stay at home and take a course they were not suited for and maybe didn't even want." John Henderson asked why the students at Seaforth District High School were not given the opportunity to have home economics in Grade 13 when Exeter, Wingham and Goderich had it. He said several parents had indicated to him that their children were interested in the course. The director of education told Henderson it was his feeling that the Seaforth school had too few students enrolled in Grade 13 to warrant the addition of an extra option. He said home economics wasn't required for entrance into any university, not even when students would be majoring in home economics. He also stated that the modern home economics course was more sociology than cooking, sewing and baking. He said the course was taught in a classroom, not in a home economics laboratory, and added that in some cases, boys are enrolled in the course, Cochrane indicated that while some students perhaps thought the course would be relatively easy, it was quite involved. It was suggested that when Huron County students were fully aware of the content of the home economics course, there might not be as much interest in it another year. Home economics has been an option for Grade 13 at SHOES, Exeter, but for the first time this year will be offered at Wingham and Goderich. As well, the board also approved a basic programming course for South Huron DHS at Exeter this year inn addition to the schools in Clinton and Wingham. A new course, dramatic arts, will be introduced at Goderich this fall. At the same time, Clinton will offer a one-year special commercial course which was obtainable at one time in most Huron County high schools before the four-year commercial course took precedence, To enter, a student must have Grade 11 with commercial options or Grade 12 general. Mrs. Kunder was promised that now that teacher and course requirements for the secondary schools had been established, the administration would take a look at requirements for the elementary schools. staff back during the 1971-72 school year but now, since the new regulations, two additional teachers added to last year's staff will he needed to meet bare requirements in Huron's secondary schools this fall. ' D. J, Cochrane, director of education, explained that under the current system in use, a Grade 13 student could get two credits in English, for instance, with seven periods of English per week or cycle. Under the new system, said Cochrane, English Literature and English Composition will become two separate courses, English -• • Separate school board approves statement New meeting schedule for school board BY OKE The Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board approved the audited 1970 financial statement as presented by Jack Lane, Business Administrator, at a meeting in Seaforth Monday night. The net tinderlevy for the year was $18,572. Maximum provincial assistance was attained by reaching the ceiling in allowable expenditures as imposed by the bepartment of Education. The total expenditures for the year were $2,077463. A preview of the 1971 grant regulations reveals that the Department of Education has included a one-third cash grant towards the deficits introduced by the former school boards at December 31, 1968, This payment is to be applied directly to the deficits as established by the board of arbitrators in relation to the former school boards. Trustee Arthur liald, Ittt 4, Listowel, chairman of the transportation committee, reported no word has been received since November 1970, from the transportation committee of the Perth Board of Education regarding co-operative sharing Of but services. 'The Superintendent of Education, John Vintar, was requested to write again in an attempt to arrange a meeting with the Perth Board committee to discuss avoiding duplications of bee services. The board approved the following report of the building and maintenance committee as reported by its chairthari, John McCann, RR 3, Ailsa Craig: that a Ventilator hood be installed on the roof of Precious Blood School at Exeter; to award the contract to convert the coat alcove to a paper and book storage room at St. Joseph's School in Clinton to Clarence Ryan, RR 1, Dublin, for $145 for labour and painting while the 'material for the job is to be supplied by Ball and Macaulay of Clinton for $180: J. P. Krauskopf of Dublin, is to histal water pipes to the Kindergarten room in the former Continuation School in Dublin; that a storage shed at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, RR 3, Dashwood, be built for the garbage barrels. John Vintar was again re-appointed hiring agent for the board. Mr. Vintar reported that a letter had been received from the Department of Ttade and Development that "Ontario Place" will be opened this spring and that all students are invited to visit, at no charge, this showplace constructed off shore from Toronto in Lake Ontario. Jack Lane, business administrator for the board, reported on a Stratford transit study meeting he attended on March 11. The meeting was attended br representatives from the City Clerk's office, Stratford Public Utilities, Perth Board of Education, the Department of Highways and the Toronto firm of Read, Voorhees and Associates, Ltd. The firth Of Associates has been hired by Stratford to study the present transportation system, including the transportation of school children within the city and from outside the city into the city schools. Four representatives of the Catholic Patent Teacher Association were present at the board meeting to discuss the role of the Association and to seek moral support from the board ih extending the Association to the 10 schools in the two counties where there is none. At present nine schools have a Patent Teacher Association of the 19 separate schools in Perth and Huron. The nine schools with an Association are: St. Columban; Dublin; Kinkora; St. Marys, Winghani; Ste. Marie at RR 2, Zurich; and Our Lady of Mount Cannel at Dashwood, and two Stratford schools — St. Joseph's and St. Michael's. The four representatives at the meeting were: Joseph Visser,. RR 5, Seaforth, president of the Huron and Perth Regional Council of the Catholic Parent 'reacher Association, and Don Crowley of Kinkora, also of the Regional Council; and two members of the Ontario Federation of The Catholic Parent Teacher Association — Pat Cowan, London, a director, and Ted Lynch, also of London and a director of the Federation. Mr. Cowan said the Association would like a policy statement from the board to the parish priests arid the principals of each school regarding Parent Teacher Associations. Visser said the Association would like to see an Advisory or Liaison Committee set up to consist of two trustees, one representative from administration and three parents, This committee would channel information the Association — the board — the schools the parents and the students,