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Gets $100,000 ODC loan
Ex-Cell-0 Corporation of Canada Ltd.
announced the selection of Clinton,
Ontario, as the site for the construction
of a manufacturing facility to be
known as WILDEX, Division of
Ex-Cell-0' Corporation of Canada Ltd.
The plant is being constructed in
Canada to meet the increasing demand
for Willey carbide inserts and standard
indexable tooling. These products are
presently imported into Canada from the
Willey facilities in-the U,S.A.
Ross Strickland, Vice-President of
Ex-Cell-0 Corporation of Canada Ltd.,
has announced the appointment of Bruce
Williscraft as Plant Manager. Mr.
Williscraft has been directly associated with Wiley products of Canada for a number of years.
The office of Charles MacNaughton,
M.P.P. for Huron and Minister of Transport
and Communications announced Wednesday
morning that the Ex-Cell-0 Corporation had
been granted a $100,000 performance loan
from the Ontario Development Corporation
to facilitate building of the Clinton plant.
The loan wit be forgivable after a six-year
period if conditions of the loan are met.
Mr. MacNaughton indicated the plant will
have 10,100 square feet and will employ 12
in the first year and expand this to 28 more
during the next five years.
Mr. MacNaughton said he felt the loan
aided by a $100,10 forgivable loan from the Ontario
Development Corporation. Negotiations have been underway
between Ex-Cell-0 Corporation, owners of the new plant, and the
Clinton industrial Committee. —Staff Photo.
of G. V. Kleinfeldt Associates Ltd. to about
40 ratepayers at Exeter town hall.
Mr. Keith stressed that there was room
for loot planning under the county-wide
plan which wasn't designed "to replace local
councils but rather to act as a framework of
deciding general land use objectives."
John Wooden of Exeter, a member of the
county planning board, asked if the
pro posed county plan Would take
precedence over local planning. Mr. Keith
replied that the county plan would Only be
effective if municipalities chose to pass
toning bylaws to enforce the county's
official plan recommendations.
Mr. Wooden, who is also principal of
South Huron Secondary School, criticized
the official plan's quoted figures for
secondary school capacities. The plan sets
the capacity for South Huron Secondary
School at 1,505 which Mt. Wooden said was
an unrealistic figure, He said a more sensible
figure of 1,180 studenta was set by the
education department.
Gary Davidson, planning director fot
Huron County, said he would investigate the
difference between two figures.
Exeter lawyer Elmer Bell suggested the
proposed plan discourages people from living
outside town limits. Mr. Keith replied that
the plan discourages the construction of
Subdivisions in agriculture areas and would
tegelate their location.
If the official plan is approved it will be.
submitted to the municipal affairs
department for final approval.
It has already been approved by the
Majotity of municipal tounclis in the
county.
Meeting tonight in Clinton
to discuss county plan
in hospital
following car crash
Four persons are still in hospital after a
three-cat accident about 10:40 Vitednesday, transferred to Victoria Hospital London on
July 14 just south of Clinton. July 17 suffering from Undetermined James Shanahan, 145 Joseph St., Clinton, internal injuries. He was reported in
was driving one of the vehicles. Mr. satisfactory condition on Wednesday Shanahan was returning to Clinton after . morni__ ng Mr. and MrS,:culbert were reported golfing in Exeter with David 'McAdam a in satisfactory condition on Wednesday in fellow employee at the Clinton Branch of Clinton Public Hospital.
the Bank of Montreal. Also in the car was Mr. MeAdarn was treated and released on
Douglas Smale of RR 2 Staffa, hitch-biker July 16,
who had been given a lift, Mr. Smale was transferred to St. Joseph's On the hill just south of the Bayfield river Hospital, London, on July 17 with a
bridge the Shanahan car swerved to avoid fractured leg.
hitting a car driven by Robert Brown of R.13,
5, Clinton and struck a car driven by Merton
Culbert of Lucan, broadside.
McAdam and Smile were both taken to
hospital at Clinton as were Mr. Culbert, his
wife Muriel and sons Jeffery, 14, and
Timothy, 7.
New Goderich
member on Board
of Education
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Cayley Hill, the vice-president and general
manager of Dominion Road Machinery Co.
Ltd., and the last chairman of the former
Goderich Public School Board, has been
appointed by the Huron County Board of
Education to fill the seat left vacant by Mrs.
J. W. Wallace, who resigned one month ago.
Mr. Hill, chairman of the Interim School
Organization Committee (ISOC), ran against
Mrs. Wallace in the first elections for school
board, but was defeated.
Mrs. Wallace resigned her position with
the Huron County Board of Education
following a dispute over the board's stand on
the secondary school teachers' salary
negotiations.
At Monday evening's board meeting in
Clinton, the resignation of Dr. A. B. Deathe,
also of Goderich, was received and accepted
without objection. Dr. Deathe also resigned
following the dispute concerning teachers'
salaries in secondary schools.
The replacement for Dr. Deathe will be
named at the next regular meeting of the
Board of Education, August 16..
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Anyone who would like to look at the
official Huron County Plan before the public
discussion meeting tonight at 8:30 in the
town nail is welcome to drop in to the
News-Record office anytime to glance at our
copy. Our only stipulation is that the copy
must stay in the office.
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Two local Clinton men recently received
confirmation that they had been granted
licenses to operate amateur broadcasting or
"ham" radio sets. That would be news
anytime but there is extra interest here
because both Allan Reid and Stuart Henry
are blind. They were trained by the
Canadian National Institute for the Blind in
London.
* * *
A London man was charged Monday with
theft after a shop lifting incident at the
Deirnac Variety Store on Victoria Street.
Police say George Maxim, 48, of London
has been charged.
* * *
In answer to our pleas last week for an
employment bureau for part-time student
workers for the summer, Mr. and Mm. Henk
Gelling who run the Koffee House have set
out to fill the need.
The Ceilings already have a list of willing
Workers which they began last week at the
Koffee House. If you are interested in
getting someone to help out in your business
Or around your farm or home for a few days,
please tall 482-n192 between 5-7 p.m.
Students wanting work can register by
leaving their name, age, addtess, telephone
number and type of work they would be
interested in doing at the Koffee House. If
they are unable to attend the Koffee House
they May register by phone.
The Koffee House will be closed tonight
{Thursday). Those interested are welcome to
attend the concert by the singing group the
proverbs at the Huron Christian
BtisitleSsmeit's Chapel in Auburn, This group
has been touring the continent from Texas
to North Ray..
* * *
One thing about the newspaper business;
when you make a mistake you soon know
about it. Last week We erroneously reported
Memorial to his father and mother, tiled to
opetate a store where Smith's Office
Supplies now stands. Our informant was
that Mr. A. T, Cooper, whose son Willis C.
Cooper of England is donating $25,000 for a
No indication
wrong and the sale of the business was a
While the secondary achool teachers' little before our time .(a year to be exact) in salary dispute with the Iluroti County Board
February of 1046 so we didn't know that his of Education is still unsettled and the board Store used to be in the block now occupied is unable to offer any indication of whether by Martin's Department Store. or not secondary schools in the County of
Some suggestions have already come iri Huron will open on schedule in September, through our office as to a suitable memorial members of the board, Monday evening,
to the Coopers. They will be passed on to ratified an agreement- with the Huron
Clinton Town Council.
County elementary school teachers for the * *
upcoming school year.
Regular readers of Marg Rudd's Town According to the schedule, the starting
Talk column will be sorry to see it is not in salary for teachers in Category 1 will be
the News-Record this week. Marg is on $5,400, with the maximum of $7,300
vacation this week and next. Last year we reached in six vats; Category 2, $5,800
tried to fill in for her but after the disastrous starting to $8,800 maximum in nine years;
results we decided to leave well enough and Category 3, $6,300 the starting salary
alone this year. * * * and $10,500 maximum after 12 years t)f
experience.
Results froth the Western Ontario Categories 4,5,6 and 7 have not been
conservatory of musieshon, that ttuce CraIg settled to date since these depend tin the
passed his 'Grade 8 piano. Linda Blake won secondary school teachers' settlement.
first class honours in Grade 2 theory and Elementary school .principals' salaries
Janet M. East passed with honours, range from a maximum of $14,000 to
at Seaforth showed that the project is
moving along on schedule. It was also noted
that a separate contract has been arranged
with Cale Doucette of Clinton for $14,000
to renovate existing windows, repair existing
roof and repaint the existing school,
The McKillop Schools will be sold by
auction with the date for dispersal to be
arranged with the auctioneer, Bruce
Rathwell, R. R. 1, Brucefield. It has been
agreed that the school bells will be sold
separately from the buildings, with the
removal of the bells to be the responsibility
of the person who purchases them,
Results of the maintenance tenders for
schools in Huron County were discussed and
showed that painting contracts were costing
lesS this year than last year. Reason given by
MeVean for the imprOved prices was the
great amount of competition displayed for
the contracts.
Mrs. Mildred MacGregor has been engaged
as a full-time teacher for Huron Hope School
at Centralia for the coming year, Increased
enrolment at the school for the retarded in
that area of the tounty has necessitated the
engagement of Mrs. MacGregor* who served
only on a part-time basis last year. The
principal of the school is Mrs. Scott.
Reports were received from all three of
the county's schools for the retarded.
"I think the board should commend these
dedicated teachers," said Mrs. Marion Zinn.
"Their enthusia.sm fairly pops out 'from the
reports here before us."
In other business, the. board planned a
whether
maximum of $18,000 per annum 'depending
on the number of teachers on staff in a
school. The Maximum for a vice-principal in
any elementary school in the -windy is
$14,500.
Opportunity class teachers, remedial
teachers, teachers of children with specific
learning disabilitieS and teachers of children
with specific speech problems Will be paid a
basic salary according to the schedule plus
an annual allowance of $100 if an
elementary certificate is held; $500 if an
intermediate certificate is held; and $500 if a
specialist's or supervisor's certificate is held.
The same pattern of allowances will be
paid to a teacher on the recommendation of
A principal to a committee composed of the
director of education, two superintendents
and three elementary school.principals
appointed by the Elementary School
Principals' Association,
, As well, any principal who holds a
Master's Degree in the field of Educational
dinner for the Young Voyageurs from
Manitoba, who will visit in Huron from July
29 to August 6; learned that R. T. McBride
Ltd., Stratford, was the successful bidder for
the contract to complete the heating
renovations at South Huron District High
School at a cost of $41,760; approved the
fuel oil tenders of Sunoco for all schools in
Huron County with the exception of one
which goes to Sterling Fuels; turned a
request for a Seaforth high school student to
attend Central Huron back to the
transportation committee for further study;
and hired two teachers, Mts. Dorothy Brown
for Guidance one day per week at Brookside
School and Mrs, Brenda Holland as an
itinerant Guidance teacher for six schools.
The second of a series of meetings
throughout Huron County to discuss the
proposed official county plan will take place
in Clinton Town Hall tonight at 8:30.
Tuesday night, at the lira such meeting
to discuss the plan prepared by G. V.
Kleinfeldt and Associates of London and
presented to county council in March.
The two-year study costing $58,000 was
presented by J. A. Nicklorn and T. S. Keith
Administration shall be paid an additional
allowance of $500.
'The settlement also provides that
following the successful completion of each
Department of Education or University
Course, up to a Maximuth 'of two per year, a
teacher will receive the sum of $100 per
course.
Supply teachers will be paid a per diem
rate of $22.
The board will pay the greater of 55
potent or the percentage agreed to with the
secondary school teachers of the Ontario
Health Services Insurance Plan and the
Ontario Hospital Services commission
coverage.
As well, both malt and female teachers
Will have available to them a group krill life
insurance plan amounting to $10,000
overage of which the board will pay the
greater of 55 percent or the percentage
agreed to with the secondary school teachers
of the premium.
was a major factor in the decision of
Ex-Cell-0 to locate it's plant here.
The plant will manufacture carbide
cutting tools and the devices which hold
them to compliment a line of machinery
built at the company's other plants.
Mr. MacNaughton worked as; a
co-ordinator between the ODC and Clinton
town council. Negotiations have been 'going
on for some time between Ex-Cell-0, which
operates a plant in Windsor, and the Clinton
council through its industrial committee,
with Clarence Denomme and James
Armstrong handling the negotitations for the
committee.
The plant will be located on a portion of
the Don Andrews farm on an extension of
George and Hill Streets. The property was
recently purchased as an industrial park.
Hydro water and sewerage 'facilities have
recently been installed by the Clinton Public,
Utilities Commission and work on the
roadbed of the new streets was begun last
week by the public works department.
It is good news for a hard-hit town. In the
last five years the few factories in Clinton
have closed one by 'dne or have cut back
prduction drastically. In addition the closing
of Canadian Forces Base Clinton has been a
severe blow to the economy of the area.
It is anticipated that the plant will he
in operation by November 1, 1971.
people wanted to know way the
Kindergarten hours had been changed from
half days to a full day every other day, He
said the parents had been asked which
system they preferred for their children and
when they indicated the half-day every day
plan, they were told the board would not
supply transportation at noon for the
students.
"If this was not going to be considered,
why was it ever asked?" questioned Smith.
"Was the welfare of the children taken into
consideration? Are we just confusing the
people?"
Smith said his delegation did not like the
manner in which the parents had been
contacted concerning the change in
Kindergarten hours for fall.
"Some people got a letter in the mail,
some got it from their children, some from
the bus drivers and some still haven't got
them," stated Smith. "We don't just want to
stir up trouble, we ate concerned."
The chairman told the delegation there
would be answers to all their questions at
the next meeting, after the board members
had had an opportunity to seek out the
policy on the matter and study the
committee reports.
Accepted
into Mounties
Richard Charles Shaddicki ton of Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Shaddick of RR 1, Londesborb
Sit tfully completed Recruit training
With the Royal Canadian Mounted POI ice on
July 21 and has been engaged with the force.
He has been transferred frit duty in the
province Of British Columbia.
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
A delegation of parents from McKillop,
who have children going into Kindergarten
in the Walton School this fall, visited the
Huron County Board of Education Monday
evening in Clinton.
A number of questions were asked of the
board by the parents , but there were no
immediate answers from the board.
Chairman, Robert Elliott, claimed the
delegation had been invited to submit a brief
concerning the specific questions which
would be asked of the board, but had chosen
not to comply with that regulation.
The group's spokesman, M. H. Smith,
Walton, said he and his delegation had felt
the letter stating an intention to discuss
matters pertaining to Kindergarten was
sufficient information for the board.
Smith said a more specific accounting of
the questions to be asked by the delegation
at the meeting Would "tie our hands" to
discuss only certain sspects of the entire
problem.
Smith said the Walton and McKillop
Jeffery was released the next day
following observation. Timothy was
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Dr. Alex Addison of Clinton expressed
some displeasure at Monday evening's Board
of Education meeting in Clinton concerning
the way in which materials donated by
A.V.M. Hugh Campbell School at CFB
Clinton were distributed to schools in the
County of Huron.
However, the doctor received little
support for his views from other board
members who agreed that Since the supplies
were a gift, there should be no dispute.
Director Of Education, D. John Cochrane,
said that when the school at the base was
closed down, much of the equipment was
token to the school at Camp Borden, A few
other supplies such as library books, text
books, maps and globes, sports equipment,
records, filmstrips and sundry items were
distributed in Huron.
Principals in the county elementary
schools received a letter advising what was
available and noting that the materials would
be even out to the schools in most need on
a first-come basis.
Dr. Addison asked fot a repott on where
these items had been received, He indicated
that the Clinton Panic School did not get a
fair share of the items for distribution.
Cochrane said that all schools in the
county — the public schools, the Roman
Catholic Schools and the Christian
Reformed Schools — had shared in the gift,
"Right about now I wish they'd taken it
all to Camp Borden," stated Cochrane.
A report on the progress of construction
A Public Works Department truck dumps gravel in preparation
for the extension of George Street to facilitate building of the
new Wildex plant in the north end of Clinton. Construction of
the 10,100 square foot plant was announced this week. It will be
Addison unhappy at distribution
of materials from Hugh Campbell school
schools will open
ildex to build factory in Clinton
Board gives no answers
to parents' questions