HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-07-29, Page 1Two bystanders look at the remains of a 1971 model car which left Highway 8 a mile
west of Clinton on Friday evening, summersaulted over a fence and landed on its side in a
bean field. A 77-year-old St. Thomas woman was killed in the crash.
Clinton, Ontario
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Thursday, hay 29, 1971
106 Year - No, 30
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The Clinton merchants and the Clinton
Lions Club have combined efforts this year
to put on a big outdoor event which begins
today.
The merchants annual sidewalk sale and
the Lions' summer carnival have been joined
this year to bring a good show,
The carnival will be held tonight with free
pony rides for children eight years of age
and younger, bingo, games of chance, a
denlehim game, refreshment • booth and
Dutch Tea Garden.
The merchants will kick in with three
days of bargains with their merchandise on
the street, And the Town of Clinton has
contributed with free parking during the
eve*.
The whole package is called Oldfa,shioned
Days,
For . details on the many bargains offered
by the merchants, check the advertisements
in this week's News—Record.
An'overhead crane lowers a section Of pipe into the PUG well near the community park
On Park Lane. the well was dismantled and repaired for the`first time in Many years last
week by PUG workmen, PUG manager'Gus 'ElouSSey said it was good timing because
-several defects were found which Could have touted trouble if they had been left much
longer.
Fire chief condemns Clinton cells
There's an old joke about the firehall
burning down, but it almost came true early
Sunday Morning in Clinton.
It began when Constable Wayne
McFadden of the Clinton police department
deposited a prisoner in the town lock-up,
part of the town ball complex which
contains the clerk's office, council chambers,
polite department, cells and fire hall... The
cells are located only a few feet away from
the fire hall at the rear of the building.
The prisoner had been arrested for
intoxication about 3 am. arid, after being
lodged in the cell, was checked three times
by the police officer, Oh the third visit he
foiled the prisoner bad wedged torn strips of
his shirt in cracks in the wooden walls of the
cell and set fire to them,
The constable was able to extinguish the
fire himself without the help of the fire
brigade,
Police Chief Lloyd Westlake Said it was
lucky that the constable checked back or
there might not only have been more
damage, but the prisoner could have
suffocated from the smoke.
The cells in the town hall are not
regularly used by the Clinton police.
Normally prisoners are taken to Goderich to
the provincial jail, but, in such cases as
Sunday morning, when only one officer is
on duty, the prisoner is lodged in the
Clintori cells until he can be taken to
Goderich,
Clinton Fire Chief Grant Rath inspected
the cells on Sunday after being notified by
Chief Westlake. He placed a Signed order on
the doorway to the cell area which said
occupancy of the cells was to cease until
they were repaired or replaced to the
satisfaction of the fire marshal.
Town Council has discussed the need for
a new civic tentre for some time because the
91-year-Old town bah is in a bad state of
repair and facilities for police, fire
department and clerk's office are all
inadequate. Earlier this year council voted to
Meet with a consulting firm to discuss the
future needs of all departments in town end
analyse of istieg facilities, 'That meeting is
scheduled to take place tonight.
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the order of the Fire Marshal posted on the doorway leading
to the cell area at the Clinton town hail forbids the use or the
cells until they are properly repaired or replaced follOwing the
fire Sunday morning,
Clinton Paha Chief Lloyd Westlake looks through the steel
hers of one of the two cells in the rear of the Clinton town hall
used to lodge prisoners in emergencies. the bars are the only
metal part of the cells and a prisoner made use of the wooden
walls of one of the alit Sunday -morning to start a fire,
MerrihAnt.s, Lions Club team .up for Old Fashioned Days.
Woman killed Friday
when car crashes
Marine General Hospital in Goderich for
overnight observation.
Investigating officer, Constable G. L,
Hiles of the Goderich OPP detachment, said
Miss Parker was knocked out in the accident
and did not recall what happened.
However, he said road markings indicated
the car, travelling towards Goderich, had
veered to the north shoulder of the road.
The 1971-model car was wrecked in the
accident and damage was estimated at
$2,400.
An autopsy was performed Saturday at
Stratford General Hospital,
institute a training program for both male
and female employees."
Initially, he said, about ten persons will
be employed and trained followed by
additional training programs as
employment requirements increase.
The local Canada Manpower office will
receive applications after September SO, he
said.
Fire hits close to home
The man who wrote the proposed official
plan for Huron County, described the idea
of immediate land-use planning on a
province-wide basis as a joke when he
addressed the 50 persons present in Clinton
Thursday night to discuss the new plan.
Ian Keith, of G. V. Kleinfeldt and
Associates of London, who was present at
the meeting to explain the plan, made the
remark in answer to criticism that the plan
was not integrated fully enough with
provincial planning.
Mr. Keith said his company had tried to
find out as much as possible the province's
plans for the area when they were preparing
the plan. He said they had tried and failed to
gain access to the Department of Highways
long-range projection of highway needs in
the area.
He said that planning on a provincial scale
was a huge job and that he felt, quite
frankly, that talk of a provincial land use
plan in the near future was a joke.
Mr. Keith said the province was slowly
moving in the direction of province-wide
planning but that any plan for land use on
such a big scale was several generations
away.
He argued that the Huron plan will have
more influence on provincial planning in the
area than the province will effect the county
planning.
The question of integrated planning was
just one of many topics which arose and
were discussed at the meeting which was
regarded as a success by many of those
present.
The meeting was chaired by Reeve E. W.
Oddliefson of Bayfield, a member of the
county planning board. Also present to
answer questions was Gary 'Davidson, the
young planner recently appointed as head of
the county's planning department.
Mayor Frank Sills of Seaforth raised an
objection to the wording of the proposed
plan which said that all other plans in the
county were subservient to the county plan.
He said Seaforth had had a zoning bylaw for
five years and it was working well. Under his
interpretation of the proposal he said, the
town would have to go to the county on
anything the town wanted to do.
Both Mr. Davidson and Mr, Keith assured
the mayor that it was not the intent of the
county to ride rough-shod over the
intentions of the municipalities. Under the .
terms of the planning area set up for Huron
Planner sags province wide
planning a joke
County in 1968, Mr. Davidson said, the
other plans must be subservient. But in
actual terms it would be up to the local
municipality to enforce the county plan
through zoning bylaws.
In answer to a question from Mayor Don
Symons of Clinton who wondered if Clinton
should now go on preparing its own plan or
rely on the county plan Mr. Keith said that
the plan had been sufficiently general in the
urban areas of the* county to allow each
town to plan its own land use.
Local governments were quite capable of
dealing with local matters, he said. The plan
had been set up to deal with problems that
were bigger than one municipality.
An example of such a problem, he said,
was the continued growth of cottage
populations along the lakefront. He said he
saw no problem in such growth if the
cottages remained as vacation homes only.
In fact, he said, such a trend would help out
most municipalities by increasing assessment
without substantially increasing costs.
The problem, he said, lay in the
possibility that these cottages could be
converted to year-round permanent homes.
This danger had been forseen in the plan
which warned it would mean a 40-mile long
city stretching from one end of the county
to the other. Mr. Keith said he knew of no
legal way a municipality could stop a home
owner from converting his cottage to a
permanent home. If cottages were converted
in large numbers, it would bring a demand
for more services and heavy costs to the
municipality.
The plan's call for larger lot sizes for rural
development, however, was attacked by
several persons at the meeting. The plan said
lots should' be a minimum of one acre in size
if they were to have their own well and
septic tank system and one half acre in size
if they shared a communal well and had
their own septic tank,
This was branded as impractical by one
man who said he was a small sub-divider. He
said he had been informed by several real
estate agents that if the county plan went
through he might as well stop trying to sell
his lots to city people because they didn't
want that much land.
Phil Durand of RR 2, Zurich claimed the
lot sizes were unrealistic.
Mr. Davidson said the increased lot sizes
were an attempt to get hold of the problem
of pollution.
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We received the midsummer edition of
Huronview News in the .mail the other day.
The News is a long established tradition at
the home apparently but this is the first
copy that has come to our notice, The
residents should be congratulated on their
fine magazine,
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One of Clinton's newer businessmen,
Mason Bailey of Bailey Real Estate on
Albert Street, suffered a loss Saturday night
when the barn on his Blyth-area farm was
destroyed by fire.
Mr. Bailey was away at the time of the
outbreak of the fire which also claimed a
good deal of machinery housed in the
building and killed about 10 calves,
' The loss was partially covered by
insurance.
* *
A number of relatives called at the home
of Mr, and Mrs. John McAsh, Varna, in the
afternoon of July 18 on the occasion of
their 55th wedding anniversary with flowers
and best wishes for their health and
happiness.
At 5:30 in the evening they were honored
by their family and were escorted to the
Dominion Hotel, Zurich, for a very delicious
dinner.
Those attending were from Hamilton,
London and the Varna area.
In the evening the family gathered at
their home when pictures were shown of
B.C., where their son and his wife had been
on vacation.
Two days later their other son, Floyd,
left on a camping trip to the East Coast.
* * *
A provincial election hasn't even been
announced yet, but already there are two
declared candidates from the New
Democratic Party.
Ed Bain, of Goderich, last week declared
he would contest the election as an
independent NOP candidate.
In a signed statement released to all
citizens of the Huron Riding, Bain wrote,
"Recently, there has been a rash of
irresponsible statements made over the news
media, claiming that it is not possible for me
to stand as an Independent NDP. Also,
have been expelled from the NDP riding
association. I can assure you that my name
will appear on the ballot in just those terms
and that my being expelled from the
Association is just wishful thinking by a
handful of political infants."
Bain had been a nominee last month
when the NDP Huron Riding association met
in Clinton to pick a candidate for the
election which is expected this fall. He lost
out at the time to Paul Carroll, reeve of
Goderich who will be the official party
candidate.
The contract for construction of the
WilsDex factory has been awarded to a
Stratford firm, it was announced this week
by R, H. Strickland, Vice-President of the
Ex-Cell-O Corporation of Canada, parent
company of Wil-flex.
Plans for construction of the plant were
announced last week by the company and
coincided with the innouncernent of a
forgivable performance loan of $100,000
from the Ontario Development Corporation.
Logan Construction of Stratford have
been awarded the contract for the new
plant. Target date for completion of the 165
by 60 foot plant is November 1,1971.
Wil-Dex is a subsidiary of the tx-Cell-O
Corporation, a multi-national corporation
with manufacturing facilities in the United
States, Canada, England, Germany, Italy and
India. The products of the company include
machine tools, eating tools, aircraft parts,
packaging equipment, electronic
components and weapon systems.
The Clinton plant, which will
manufacture cutting tools, will be the fourth
Canadian plant for the company. Others are
located in Windsor, London and Braritforci.
indexable cutting tools and precision
ground carbide inserts will be produced at
the plant here. Carbide is a man-made metal
which contains a hardness similar to
A St. Thomas woman was killed Friday
evening about 6:45 in a violent single car
crash about a mile west of Clinton on
Highway 8.
Mrs. Beryle Buttery Parker, 77, of St.
Thomas was killed when a car driven by her
niece left the road, hit the ditch and
tumbled end-over-end until it smashed
through a fence and came to rest in a bean
field on its side.
She was pronounced dead at the scene by
Dr. N. C. Jackson, a Huron County coroner.
Miss Mary Ellen Parker, 23, also of 5
Drake St., was taken to Alexandra and
diamonds. The basic composition of carbide
is tungsten, cobalt, and carbon. The metal is
manufactured by mixing these three
components and compressing them into the
shapes required. The Wil-Dex plant will
manufacture these shapes, called inserts, to
the sizes and tolerances required by
industry, using specially designed machinery.
These carbide inserts are positioned in
holders for mounting on metal cutting
machine tool-lathes, boring mills, etc.
Wil-Dex will also manufacture toe' holders.
Products from the plant will be
distributed to the metal working industry in
Canada and exported to the United States,
Australia and South America.
The new plant will be built facing Don
Street in the north-west section of Clinton
on a 10 acre parcel of land purchased from
the Don Andrews family, Don Street is a
new street running east and west from
George Street to North Street.
Mr. Strickland said the nature of the
manufacturing operations in this type of
industry produces neither air or water
pollution.
"As this plant will bring to Clinton
requirements for skills which are not
available," Mn Strickland said, "Wil-Dex
together with the Manpower servites of the
federal and provihelal governments will
Mr, Keith added that the standard lot size
recommended for many years of 15,000
square feet (a third acre) had been found
over the years by health officials and the
Ontario Water Resources Commission to be
too small, It was these bodies that now
recommended the large lots, he said.
In any case, he said, one of the alleged
reasons people had country places was so
they could own more land than they could
in the city.
Mr. Davidson said that if soil conditions
on each individual lot could be checked, it
might not be necessary for all to have such
large lots, But the plan, he said, was dealing
with development on a broad scale.
Robert McKinley, Huron M.P. asked if
the plan affected lots which had already
been subdivided.
Mr. Keith said that previous registered
plans of subdivision were not affected and
could continue with the smaller lots,
However, he warned, reference plans of
subdivision, those not registered, were not
included. Large parcels of land divided under
a reference plan but still owned by one
person would be governed by the same rules
as raw land.
A. "Red" Garon of Clinton asked what
would happen in the case of trouble with a
septic tank on a lot already occupied by a
building.
He was told that the plan had no effect
on this and the department of health would
deal with any problems.
Anson McKinley, of Stanley, past
chairman of the county planning committee,
told the meeting that one of the purposes of
the original thinking behind having a county
plan was to help out the small municipalities
who couldn't afford to set up their own
plans, to meet the needs of their area. The
cottage problem was one such area he said.
Mr. Davidson said one of the main purposes
of the county planning staff was to
co-ordinate action between adjoining
municipalities.
Reeve OddliefsOn pointed out that the
county planning staff was available to each
of the municipalities and to individuals as
well.
Reeve Paul Carroll of Goderieh praised
the plan and said it coincided with
Goderich's own plans.
Wil-dex awards contract
for construction of plant