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Clinton News-Record, 1971-08-19, Page 1Clinton. On rio 1.5 colts Weather Thursday, August 19, 19 71 106 Year - X. 33 1971 HI 10 1970 HI 40 , Aug. 10 93 67 83 62 11 68 52 87 57 12 77 44 82 58 13 82 62 83 67 14 77 60 85 62 15 73 51 87 62 16 75 49 81 68 Rain .26" 'imosmioneo. We're moving The News—Itecord office will be closed Friday, August 20 (tomorrow) in order to facilitate the moving of office furniture and equipment to its new premises across Albert Street in the former Ontario Hydro building. The office will reopen in its new location, 53 Albert Street on Monday morning at 9 a.m. Customers may call for newspapers or advertising 'on either Thursday or Monday. No advertising can be taken over the telephone on Friday because they will be disconnected for the move. The new premises was recently purchased from Mrs. F.E. Fingland and has undergone extensive alterations. J. Howard Aitken, manager of the News—Record said this 'week he intends to hold an open house later this month. County development officer says 110 deals ooking on CFB Delegation hears answers. to kindergarten questiOns A delegation of interested McKillop Township parents were on hand at Monday evening's meeting of the Huron County Board of Education in Clinton to hear the answers to the questions posed by them at the July session. Although the matter took up the greater part of an hour, there was very little new to report on the matter. The parents who were present in the board room indicated their desirr for half-day kindergarten with the board providing the noon-hour transportation for the children, In reply, the board members reiterated their kindergarten policy which states that any additional transportation other than morning and night bus routes must be provided by the parents and stressed the fact that giving in to the wishes of McKillop Township parents could very likely have county-wide repercussions which could cost the taxpayers dearly. The board representative from McKillop, John Henderson introduced the new thought that with the amalgamation of high school, separate school and elementary school buses in the fall, it could mean that some kindergarten students would have to leave home by 8 a.m., spend a full day at school and not arrive home until 5 p.m. "Now, as a parent, I wouldn't permit my child to attend kindergarten under those conditions," stated Henderson, "Would you?" "I would not," agreed Board chairman Bob Elliott, "but I can't see the transportation committee of this board permitting such a timetable." It was agreed that the transportation committee at its meeting this week would study the McKillop situation closely and advise the parents of all kindergarten students in that township by mail concerning its decision about bus routes. Chairman of that committee, Don MacDonald, Walton, said he and his cohorts would endeavour to work out some arrangement which would be satisfactory to all, The chairman urged as many board members as possible to be present at that meeting to voice any suggestions or criticisms they may have. Bus drivers of board-owned buses will receive a raise in pay this school year. Salaries will be raised from $1800 to $1900 for 10 months with spare bus drivers to be paid at the rate of $9.50 per day. Ten days per year sick leave will be granted and all unused sick leave at the end of the school year will be paid at a rate of $9.50 per day. The board approved a recommendation (Sec Page Six),. News from Ottawa that Crown Assets disposal corporation will put Canadian Forges" Bese. Clinton on the block soon makes little difference in the .future of the Base according to R.S. Cummings, Huron County Development Officer. Mr. Cummings, who for more than a year tried to find new owners for the Base, said there is nothing "cooking" to his knowledge in the way of a deal that would put the Base back into operation after its official closing in September. At present the Base is staffed by only a small crew seeing to final details of the placing out of the Base and keeping up the building, The post office at the base will close this Friday, "All they're saying," Mr. Cummings said, "is that the hose will now be advertised." He said rumours which spread around Clinton in the past few months of an imminent announcement on the future of the base were based on proposals which were discussed by various government agencies and rejected, " "Maybe there's something going on they're not telling me about," he said, "but I doubt it." Lack of concern on the part of the public has made the job of finding new tenants for the 13w extra hard, Mr. Cummings said, He said he had been informed that the Member of Parliament for Huron had not received a single letter asking for action about the Base. "Other places which have had bases closed out have been getting something done with their bases," he said, "This indicates they must have more political pull than our area to get this done," He said there were three letters everyone in the area could write. One was to their federal member, Mr. McKinley, one to their provincial member, Mr. MacNaughton and one to the Premier of the province, Mr. Davis, If the people didn't care enough to write a letter, he said, why should the politicians care? The upcoming provincial election gives the people a chance to exert pressure on the provincial government to do something about the situation, he said. Mr. Cummings felt sure that if one school or government institution located at the base the government would taken over the running of the Base and there would be no trouble filling the rest of the building. Most of the fixtures are now gone from Base buildings he said. Mr. Cummings felt the Base buildings may be sold off piece by piece if no buyer appears soon. SWEEP crews clean up around Griffith's pond, still needs work Students Working in an Environmental Enhancement Program (SWEEP) came to Clinton Tuesday to cleanup around the pond behind Central Huron Secondary School which is sometimes called Griffith's Pond. But the SWEEP workers have only a small crew and only two days for the Clinton operation. They were scheduled to be through by Wednesday afternoon. the News—Record article last year, a picture of this slope showed piles of sawdust and tee bodies of several old wrecked cars. A year later the sawdust and cars have disappeared and in its place is a pile of fill from a Construction project, interspersed with pieces of broken concrete. An improvement, perhaps, but certainly no tourist attraction. The pond itself is as bad or worse than ever. Work by the town works department last fall has succeeded in speeding up the draining of the pond but that has just meant more debris which was hidden under the water before is now visible. A large group of volunteers could clean up the rubbish in the matter of a few hours. Henderson says last year's English course books were 'disgraceful' Water sports will be highlighted at the Community Park on Saturday. From 9-10 there will be a water polo game and from 10.1 courses in dtown proofing. Then all afternoon there will be swimming races. The public is invited to attend, *** In the "it's later than you think" or "winter sure is coming on fast" department, we received some brochures last *week on several events of interest in the county in the next while. One of them was the annual Christmas country fair at Carlow, October 20 and 23. Christmas..ugh! Other events you might like to keep in mind are the Bean Festival on August 28 at Zurich, the mid-western Ontario Rodeo at Exeter on September 5 and the big thresher reunion at Blyth on September 10 and 11. *** Because our excellent cartoonist has moved out of the Clinton area we are once again in the market for a cartoonist. We have just three requirements: keep it simple, keep it clean (looking that is not the content) and keep it funny, Why not give it a try. *** Keeping up to date oh all the news from all the areas the News-Record covers IS a rough task because of the shortage of correspondents available. We've been lucky in the last couple of years in replacing some correspondent but in some areas we've juet, been stymied. .Right now we're looking for correspondents in Kippen, where Mrs. Norman Long has long been keeping us up on the news, flolmesville, Porters Hill and Tuckersmith Township. W,hile you won't get rich overnight as one of our correspondents, we do pay just about the best rates around for correspondents. BY SHIRLEY .1. KELLER For the second consecutive year, the members of the Huron County Board of Education have given careful discussion to the matter of English Literature books to be used in the county's five high schools . — and Monday evening's ftee.swinging discussion resulted in only three board members voting against the list as presented, Those members were Mm, Marion Zinn, Ashfield; John Henderson, McKillop; and the chairman, Robert Elliott, Goderich Township, questioning the administration concerning the wisdom in putting some of the books on the list on the course of study for Huron high school students, John Henderson claimed that some of the books studied last year were "disgraceful". "Decent girls don't want to be in the Curfew declared at park after vandalism A curfew has been declared at the Community Park by the Police Department and the federation committee following vandalism Sunday night. Recreation director Douglas Andrews says the problem of -unruly youngsterf eoing damage in the park after closing has been going on for some time but it reached a peak Sunday night when they were on top of the roofs on the horse barns and doing malicious damage to patk property. During a power blackout in the northern half of the town Sunday 'night which lasted 40 minutes, groups of vandals toatned Albert Street breaking bottles on the highway, taking pot shots at overhead signs and swinging from awhings. The blackout was caused by a failure at an Ontario Hydro sub-station which feeds the area north 'of Clinton and the northern part of the town. room when they are being studied," said Henderson. He said he was aware of a complaint which had been made to the school principal concerning a certain book studied in class. The student had been advised that the board had approved the list of books for study. "Some of these books cost only 50 cents per unit," argued Henderson. "What good can they possibly be?" Jim Coulter, superintendent of education, reminded Henderson that these paperback books would cost a good deel more if they were purchased in the hard-cover volume, He said the books are examples of Modern English Literature and are studied hi that light. Coulter said he had asked the opinion of the Huron County librarians concerning the book lists. lie admitted that the librarians had questioned the value of some of the books on the list, and said that only one book — "The Godfather' — had been removed from the list. "I read it and considered just one page too vivid," said Coulter. "I'd like to hear a teacher present a lesson on one of these books," said Hendereon. "Maybe I'd learn something." 'Thirteen persons from Clinton returned last week from a 21-day tour of Europe, part Of the friendship tour sponsored by the News-Record and led by Walter Forbes of Ontario Street. The local group was part of a group of S2 from Clinton, AA/Ingham and Strathroy which left July 21 for the trip -via LIN Royal Dutch Airways. Mr. Forbes said the tout was a smooth operation and well conducted, He said the trip was not strenuous even though it took the tourists to Britain, holland, Germany, France, Switeerland and Austria in 21 days and though most of th ea- on the tour were in their 50's and 60'e. .• Although Mrs. Marion Zinn defended the idea of the Modern English course in the secondary school, she expressed the hope that English department heads would take greater care in selecting books to be studied. She said she had had a complaint from a ratepayer concerning a book which waS studied in school last year and quoted from a brochure on mind-pollution. The brochure deplored the fact that The group journeyed around Europe in an air conditioned bus with a capacity of 45, leaving them plenty of room to spare. The same guide and driver accompanied the tour throughout Europe until it left Paris for London where it picked up an English guide, Mr. Forbes said the guides were very helpful in sorting out problems with the strange money and negotiating menus hi restaurautS le the various countriee. On the tout besides Mr. Forbes and his wife were Mr. arid Mrs. Ernie Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Rathwell, Miss K. 'Elliott and her friend Miss Phillips and Mary Jamieson, "pornography is openly featured in lewd books used for English courses in high school, es though there is an insufficiency of the great classics of our literature for cultural educational enlightenment." Mrs. Zinn was the author of a report on "Moral and Religious Education" heard later in the evening. In the report, Mrs. Zinn wrote, "Schools and colleges ate already moving in the A highlight of the trip for the Forbes Was a side trip during their day off in Paris. They boarded e train in Paris, aided by their guide, and traveled the 192 miles to Caen in 142 minutes. From Caen they visited the grave, about 14 miles away, where Mts. Forbes brother, killed eating the war was buried. Mr. Forbes was extremely impressed by the upkeeping 'of the 2000 graves le the cemetery. Ile said the markers were well preserved and the grass was cut AS neatly as a bowling green. Mr. Forbes said he wouldn't mind going on well tour again to some other part of the World, direction of sharing with students, or delegating to them, responsibility for making important decisions hi matters of behaviour, course content, instructional styles and school policy generally. High school freshmen will not learn how to do these things well until the school provides practice in applying democratic theory and processes to issues that are real to them. This le unlikely to happen unless the operative milt becomes the pupils' home-room with the home-room teacher a key person in the moral education program of the entire school." "The time has come for boards of education, schools and teachers to adopt a positive and constructive approach to reaching these goals by means of e definite program of moral and religious education," she concluded. Hulku court of revision scheduled Court of revision for the Pickard Drain Report was set for September 7 at 9 p.m. by Hullett council at e special meeting Monday night in Loridesboro. The report of the drain was provisionally accepted at the meeting Monday at which engineer tit. Uderstadt and several interested ratepayers were present. Mr. tklerstadt was appointed engineer on the petition by several ratepayers headed by W. Scott and another headed by Brim) The tender of Ken Hulley to load and haul 1500 cubic yards of gravel at 35 cents pet yard for construction on side road 10.11 and concession 1.2 was accepted. A complaint on dog-damage was left over to the September meeting of council for further consideration. Clintonians relitni from European tour 1 Column