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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-09-09, Page 1CI in t . to rio Weather 15 cents Thursday, September 9, 1971 106 Year - 36 1971 Hl LO. 1970 HI 1,0 Aug. 31 71 54 65 45 Sept. 1 76 48 67 40 2 84 55 73 41 3 76 '65 77 59 4 83 68 74 60 5 86 67 65 48 6 81 68 74 43 Rain 1,43" Rain .57" 11,1111MINOMMIMINFM01111111.1111101M1111111•111MIIIIMINIMINk New minister at Baptist church First Baptist Church, Clinton, received a new pastor Sunday with the arrival of Rev. W. H. McWhinnie, F.R.G.S. Mr. McWhinnie and his family will live in Goderich and serve congregations in Goderich and Clinton. Mr. McWhinnie received his formal education in Motherwell, Scotland, and studied for the ministry in Glasgow. Before coming to Canada 21 years ago, Mr. McWhinnie held pastorates in Hereford and Bristol, England, and also spent some time in the Orkney Islands. Since coming to Canada, he has ministered in Oakville, Preston, Sarnia and Hamilton. He also held a pastorate in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has lectured on Evangelism at the Bible Training Institute in Brantford and in two colleges in Britain, at the Faith Mission Training Home in Edinburgh and the,College of the European Christian Mission in Cardiff, Wales. He has also served as vice-chairman of the Board of Evangelism of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. During his last pastorate in Meaford, Mr, McWhinnie was chaplain of the Retarded Children's School and president of the Meaford and Thornbury Ministerial. Mr. McWhinnie has been active in Bible teaching ministry in Britain, United States and Canada. Mr. and Mrs. McWhinnie have one son, Paul, who graduated with first class honours in Commerce from McMaster University and he is now a Chartered Accountant with Woods Gordon in Hamilton. McKillop dump Conestoga's Huron Centre graduates first class BY WILMA OKE Meeting in regular sesion Tuesday night, Tuckersmith Township Council issued three building permits: Garry Finlayson, RR 2, Kippen, Henry Klaver, RR 4, Clinton and Robert St. Marie, RR 4, Seaforth, Clerk James McIntosh reported thirty-one building premits issued to the end of August for a total cost of 346,350. :.tr. McIntosh said this was the first year that new buildings and additions required a permit in the whole of the township. Council approved a transfer of a subsidy of $3,750 from the Department of Transportation and Communications from construction of roads to maintenance or roads. tAs there were no buyers at the township tax sale, Tuesday evening for the one property on sale, the Council members adjourned the tax sale to 9:00 p.m. on October 5 when the Council gives notice they intend to purchase the property. When Alan Nicholson, road superintendent, gave his report he said township citizens did not seem to be aware of the by-law that does not allow them to blacktop or pave a driveway without first The Clinton News—Record welcomed many friends Friday night to an Open House at its new location, 53 Albert St., Clinton. Guests saw displays of how their classified and display advertising goes through its various steps from idea to print. They saw a slide presentation detailing the procedure, equipment and staff involved in turning out the News—Record each week. On view were the cameras and other photographic equipment used by the News—Record staff and guests were shown how photographic prints are made. Those attending who signed the guest book were: Mr. and Mrs. Bob Morgan, Bill Mulch, Frank McCowan, Mrs. Viola Lampman, Mr. and Mrs. George Glazier, Mr. and Mrs, Allen Betties, Mrs. Muriel Grigg, Mrs. J. C. Busley, Mrs. Alice Lawson. Mr. and Mrs. William i3akelaar, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Gibbings, John Hart, Robert Hart, George Snieder, Jack Snieder, Mr. and Mrs. Dannie Gliddon, Mrs. John Rueger and Marion, Mrs. G. Tiesma, Judy Tiesma, st Column It's playoff time in baseball and fans in the Clinton area have two top teams to cheer for. The Clinton Colts are in the Ontario Baseball Association finals and will play Hagersviile in the best two-out-or-three series Starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday at the local park. Then at 3 p.m. the peewee Ponies will take on Itockeliffe at the park in the second game of the OBA semi-final. If a third game is needed (Clinton won the first game) it will be played at 5:30 on Saturday, If they win the series they will go against Dresden on Sunday ih Dresden. * * * Believe it or not, hockey season is almost here again. The Chilton Minor Hockey Association is holding a meeting at the Community Centre, Monday, September 13, at 9 p.m., for all IntereSted junior hockey players in the area. The minor hockey committee is going to take over the running of the team from the recreation committee this year. Anyone interested in helping out with the 'Minor hockey teams this winter is also asked to come out to the meeting, * * At a directors meeting of the Huron Plowmen's Association held in McXillop Municipal Office, arrangernente were completed for holding the 1971 Plowing Match on October 9th on the farm of Jamieson Ribey, Lot 5, Con. 9, Colborne Township, Arrangements were also made to hold a Writhing day on Friday afternoon October 8th at the same farm, when expert plowmen will be on hand to advise contestants on the fine points of plowing, Helena Tiesma, John Tiesma,.Y. Tiesma. Mrs. Torn Twyford, Ruth Ann Twyford, Mrs, Mary Grigg, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Irwin, Harvey C. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Gene McAdam, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fee and Brenda, Mr. and Mrs. Mary Hough, Mrs. Norman Tyndall, Mrs. Mary Gibbings, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tyndall, Walter Gardiner, Mr. and Mis. Ken Flett, J, A. Vodden, Mrs. Marion Seeley — all of Clinton. Mrs. Orville Oke, Mrs. Junior Storey — Seaforth; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Makins, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Scotchmer Bayfield; Miss Mary McMillan — Goderich; and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Straughan, Goderich. School enrolment down in Huron County Enrolment in Huron County schools is down this year with the heaviest drops coming in Clinton area schools, possibly due to the closing of CFB Clinton. One school, of course, is closed altogether this year. That's Air Marshal Hugh Campbell School at Adastral Park which served the children of personnel at the base. Attendance at Chilton Public School dropped from 463 last semester to 423. At Central Huron Secondary School 948 students showed up for classes. Last term there were 997 students enrolled. Enrolment at the five Huron County secondary schools dropped from a total of 4,624 to 4,609, Elementary enrolment slumped from 8,768 to 8,519. Huron County board of education student enrolment totalled 13,171, a decrease of 263 from the previous echool year. While most county elementary schools reported slight declines in student attendance, Seaforth and Walton Public Schools showed substantial increases because of the closure June 29 of seven one-room schools in McKillop Township, Seaforth enrolment jumped to 419 from 256 and Walton attendance increased to 116 from 70. Total enrolment at the 19 elementary schools administered by the Huron-Perth Roman Catholic separate school board has increased by 23 students, Jack Lane, business administrator for the board, said Tuesday in Seaforth. Mr. Lane said registration figures indicate 3,530 students have enrolled at the schools, 1,623 students in Huron County and 1,907 in Perth County. There are 150 teachers hi the system, including remedial teachers, special education consultants and principals. Last year, there were 136 teachers. Mr. Lane said the nest day for the integrated bus system arranged between the separate school board and the Huron County board of 6chication was "confusing", but he hoped things would run more smoothly today. The bus system transports students from McKillop Township and parts of Grey, Morris and Hallett Townships to Huron County schools. Robert McKinley, Member of Parliament for Huron told the Huron Federation of Agriculture Thursday night that the 10 per cent tax on imports imposed by the United States may do harm to Canadian farmers but he would hate to see the government retaliate in a way which might begin a trade war. He was answering questions from the floor after he had delivered an address to the meeting on the effect of the surtax on Canadian farmers, Several questioners favoured action by Canada to cut off products needed by the Americans such as oil and other natural resources unless the U.S. lifts the tax for other Canadian products. "It may come to something like that," Mr, McKinley said, but I would hope not. I wouldn't like to see a trade war. I agree with the government on this." Such threats, he said, would hurt some Canadians to help others. He warned too that many products Canada sells to the U.S. such as oil, could also be obtained elsewhere, "These things have to be done all in good time," he said. "You don't jump in with both feet, you have to test the water first." One questioner felt the effect of the surtax would hurt Canada long after the tax itself was gon, He said he didn't think Canadian exporters could expect to go into the U.S. after the removal of the tax and find the same markets waiting for them that they had before. Mr. McKinley pointed out in his talk that it is hard to estimate just what effect the surtax will have on farm produce. He said his research had turned up 100 or more items in beef alone with different tarriffs for entry in to the U.S, His research, based on trade from 1966-1970 in wheat, beef, dairy products, apples, potatoes, eggs and pork with the major Canadian trading partners, showed that in the past, tarriffs had had a great deal of effect on trading patterns. He pointed out that tarriff reductions resulting from the Kennedy round of trade talks had increased trade in farm produce with the United States Over the period of study. At the same time, be pointed out, new duties imposed by the European Common Market had limited trade with Europe. He said the U.S. was striking out against the policies such as those of the ECM, "We're in much the same boat." he said "but we're caught in the squeeze" of the U.S. actions against those that are hurting it. He blamed the federal government for not going to the Americans and proposing joint action before President Nixon made his startling decision to impose the tax. He said the Ametican decision treated Catiada unfairly because Canada had nothing to do with the American trade problems, but be thought the imposition of the restriction on Canada had perhaps been a reaction against other unpopular Canadian decisions, Mr. Mckihley said that when he attended the North American Treaty Alliance meetings in Europe last year, the U.S. people were cool to Canadians because of Canada's NATO cutbacks. The report by the Canada Department of Agriculture which Mr. McKinley had at the meeting showed that 66 per cent of Canadian Agricultural exports to the U.S. could be affected. In 19'70 Canada exported $331 million to the United States. Nineteen per cent of exports will enter free, Thirteen per cent are exempt because Auction helps The building fund for the new Brucefield United Church is $570 richer this week after some unusual donations were made to an auction sale in Brucefield on Saturday. Possibly the strangest item sold was a 250 pound pig donated by John Broadfoot of H. R. 1, Brucefield, The pig was purchased by Fred McGregor of Brucefield and brought in $46 of the $112,000 needed for the new Construction work on the new church began late M August on the new building with completion date uncertain, Fire destroyed the old church on the night of November 20, 1970. Bruce Rathwell of Brucefield donated his time as auctioneer and did the selling to the The Huron Federation of Agriculture will sponsor a petition asking lot a wider toll-free calling area for many of the smaller telephone exchanges in the northern part of the county. The decision to sponsor the petition was Made Thursday night at a meeting held in Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton. The problem was brought to the attention of the federation last month and a committee was set up chaired by • Harry Bakker of Londesboto. Mernters of the committee talked with Maitland Teleservices Ltd. and Whiteman Telephone Company and with a representative of the Bell telephone company and said that they were told the best way to' get, action was through a petitioh, At present, most of the small exchanges have only one or two other small exchanges to 011 without paying a toll, This is in Seventeen women became the first graduates of Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology's Huron Centre when they received their diplomas in a ceremony in Clinton Legion Hall Thursday night. The graduates had successfully completed the certified visiting homemakers course they began in early summer under the direction of Mrs. Gail MacKenzie. In his opening remarks, U. Ross Milton, Director of Huron Centre, told the graduates they were charter members of a greater alumni to come, He said the first course run in Huron County bad had few headaches although it. they are under a limiting quota and two per cent are exempt because they had "most favoured nation" status, and any increase will only bring them up to the general tariff rate paid by other nations. Mr. McKinley said the Canadian farmer could lose more if the floating Canadian dollar rises in value in comparison to the U.S. dollar which is also floating. There could also be some affect on Canadian consumers, he said, if the increased price of Canadian products abroad holds up the price of products at home. Brucefield 250 persons present. Members of the community and the church's 110-family congregation donated items for the sale as well as offering other items for sale by consignment, By the "consignment" arrangement, persons offer goods for sale with the church fund receiving 25 per cent of the sale price, An uptight desk telephone, consigned by Ellwood Epps of Clinton, sold for $25, while a pump-type organ was sold to a Detroit woman for $105. A $35 bid on a 100-year-old Seth-Thomas "weight" clock was turned down by auctioneer Bruce Rathwell of Brucefield. During the auction, the United Church Women cleared $100 from a bake sale. had been developed with a minimurn of resources, Absenteeism and dropouts had been non-existent he said. He thanked the clubs, associations, institutions and individuals who had helped make the course e success. Professor James W. Church, president of Conestoga College was present for the ceremony after a hurried trip from Toronto. Prof, Church teld the graduates he hoped it was just one of many courses they would take in the future, "The rate of increase in knowledge scares the daylights out of us," he said, One way to beat the knowledge explosion was Co specialize, but this could lead to too narrow a view of things, he said. If we look at technology as the only part of our education system we will be downgrading humanity, he warned. He said the purpose of many of the courses offered by the college was to help people run technology, not technology run people. Ben Hey, of the Canada Manpower Commission which helped set up the course, told the graduates that this was an example of federal, provincial and local governments co-operating to improve the education system. Mr. Milton introduced Mrs. McKenzie, who he praised for pioneering the course. He said she had built it from the ground. Valedictorian of the class was Mrs. Ida Nelson, who reminisced about some of the long hours of theory, medical training and practical experience the ladies took part in during the course, Receiving their diplomas from Mr. Milton and Gerry Smith, Director of Development for the college were Mrs. Selina Boshart, Miss Rita Duncan, Mrs. Ceacilia Edgar; Mrs. Kathleen Falconer, Mrs. Laura Haward, Mrs. Anne Kennedy, Mrs. Helen LeBeau, Mrs. Elsie Murrell, Mrs. Isobel MacDonald, Mrs. Ida Nelson, Mrs. Grace Pepper, Mrs. Vera Priestap, Mrs. Amelda Reynolds, Mrs, Beatrice Storey, Mrs. Genny Valkenburg and Mrs. Estelle Wise. regulations approved BY WILMA OKE Regulations for the waste disposal site at Walton, jointly shared by Grey and McKillop Townships, were approved by McKillop Township Council members when they met on Tuesday in Winthrop. The council provisionally adopted the Leonharrit drain report for repairs and improvement at an estimated oast of $4,050. Court of Revision on the drain will be held at 1:30 Nit on October 4. A report on repairs on the Regele drain was accepted. The cost is estimated to be $1.000. A report that repairs and improvement to the Devereaux drain are estimated to cost $1,490 was accepted by eountil. October 4 at 4:00 p.m. was set as the time for Court of Revision. General Accouhte of $12,526.86 and road accounts of $1,712.83 were passed for payment. Council passed a supplementary road by-law for $4,200 to cover incteased costs of snow removal in the township last winter. Council gave permission for the Huron County' Board of Education and Huron-Petth County Roman Catholie Separate School Board to use the property at the McKillop Township offices at Winthrop to transfer students riding the school buses. Instead of having three buses travel over the same route, one bus picks up High., Public and Separate school students along a given road and at Winthrop the buses Meet and pupils transfer to the proper bus rot transportation to Seaforth District High School, Seaforth Public School, St, James Separate School, St. Coluneban Separate School, Dublin Separate School and Walton Public School, Tuckersmith may hold public meeting to discuss Van Egmond property getting permission from him. Council approved a tile drain loan of $4,300. Passed for payment were road accounts of $11,274.28. A letter from the Department of Transportation and Communitions was received outlining changes in the Highway Improvement Act. Meeting in a special session on August 24, Council issued five building permits; Roger Hoornaert, RR 2, Kippen, Jack Van Miltemberg of RR 4, Seaforth, Warden Heaney, RR 4 Seaforth, Carl Richardson, RR 3, Seaforth and Brucefield United Church. Council approved having the pump and motor on the Egmondville pump number 2 lifted as it is working at less than half capacity. If necessary this is to be replaced by a new unit by by Neil Hopper of Harpurhey. Council approved a tile drain loan of $3000. The decision to hold a public meeting is under consideration to determine the interest in the old VanEgmond property in Egmondville. Many attend open house at new offices The first graduates of Conestoga College's Huron Centre received their diplomas in a ceremony at the Clinton Legion Hall Thursday night. Here Mrs. Genny Valkenburg (left) of Rattenbury Street, Clinton receives her diploma from Ross Milton, director of the Huron Centre, assisted by Jerry Smith (right), director of development at the college while fellow graduates watch. There were 17 graduates in the certified homemakers course which was taught by Mrs. Gail MacKenzie of Seaforth. McKinley warns against trade war church rebuilding fund Federation to petition for better phone service contrast to such centres as Clinton where Seaforth, Hensel), Bayfield and Goderich can all be called toll-free. Mason Bailey, vice-president of the Huron Federation and a member of the committee, said he had been told by the manager of the Maitland company that when Bell Canada bought Maitland it handed to initiate a wider calling area, tell's profits levels were then frozen by government order, however, so the company cut back on expansion plans and is now doing things on a priority basis, A petition, he indicated, might cause the company to change its priotities. Mr, Bailey warned that the extension of the toll-free system might bring a slight raise in telephone rates to customers on the I smaller exchanges. He pointed °tit too that there were many More advantages for people from Myth to be able td.photie Clinton free than for Clinton to be able to ealfil3lyth free,