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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-09-16, Page 1Weather 1971 1970 HI LO HI 1.0 Sept. 7 80 65 79 46 87 63 78 63 9 77 57 76 52 10 79 58 74 58 11 72 58 70 46 12 73 56 74 45 13 66 60 65 43 13ii, trip. Oltiaeirp 5 Ceotis Clinton News-Record Tbu.rs day, SeP f ember 16 , 1971 OBA final set for Clinton park this weekend The Bayfield annual Fall Fair was held on Saturday in its 115th addition to leading the parade year and officially opened at 2;00 p.m. with a parade staged selections during the official opening through the village. Leading the opening event was the ..,och grounds es staff photo. Citiiens sand tinder the direction of 'aeries Kalbfloiselt. In the band played a number of ceremonies at the fair Eight to thirteen eoffee house club This Monday a special boys and girls' club is to be organized at the "One For All" coffee house for all young people between the ages of eight and 13. The opening eveningo! events is set to get underway,at Organizers plan to operate this club every Monday evening during the shoot year between the hours of 7:00 and 9;00 offering an evening of games, quizes, and other activities at the coffee house facilities for this age group. Anyone who might have games such as checkers and so on around their home not being used is urged to contact the coffee house if they would .be willing to donate them to the facilities for use by the young people there, On Saturday, September 25, a special event at the coffee house will present the Tabernacle Trio in concert, The facilities will be open from now on each Wednesday and Saturday for everyone 14 years of age and up. A split over the weekend with Hagersville wild pitch.' Hagersvillp's Cassidy gave up one T offered a emoking area and that the habit is already condoned by the parents of these students 'despite injury to health. Many board members rested back in their chairs, puffing away on cigarettes and cigars, to discuss the matter. "it would keep them off the street and from bothering people," said Jim Taylor, Hensall. "This Smoking area would only be in use a few nice days in the fall and in the spring, said John Henderson, McKillop. "Next thing they'd want to smoke in the school, in the * cafeteria." Chairman Bob Elliott, Goderich Township, referred to the fact that this has been a problem for the previous board at the school and said that a sidewalk on the • school's side of the street was supposed to have corrected the problem of students crossing the street and smoking and eating adjacent'to private property there, "If there has to be 'a smoking area, let there be no furniture outside 'for them," reasoned Elliott. Reeve Harold Lobb noted that the There were congratulations all around on Saturday evening when the Clinton Lodge No. 83, situation was "just ridiculous" and that the Huronic Rebekah Lodge No, 306 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows held a dinner in situation was, no doubt, proving to be rather honour of Benson Sutter, centre, who was recently elected and installed as the Grand Patriarch of discouraging for the local police officers if the Grand Encampment of Ontario of the 1.0.0.F. at Toronto. Extending best wishes to Mr. their charges were thrown out of court every Sutter are Grand Marshal Howard Robbins of RR 1 Dorchester, left, and Harry Weymouth of time. Clinton who acted as chairman of the special event. — staff photo. • direct students to these areas." ospita auxiliary Homuth told the board in the letter that students will smoke whether or not 4-1'dy are BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Even though the Huron County Health Unit and the staff at Huron County secondary schools are making continued efforts to discourage young people from taking up the smoking habit, there still seems to be a considerable number of young people who prefer the "weed" to other forms of diversion. This fact was made abundantly clear at the recent meeting of the Huron County Board of Education when a request from the Central Huron Secondary School principal, R. 3. Homuth, was heard. Mr. Homuth was asking for the establishment of a "grassed area for a lunch area, and the gravelled area for a smoking area" to the west of the school on board-owned property. The principal requested that picnic tables and benches be placed in both areas; that garbage containers be chained to trees throughout these areas; and that a student organization be set up to provide daily maintenance of those areas. The letter from Homuth reviewed the situation which has existed at Clinton for years. Students congregate on the sidewalks in front of the school to smoke and to lunch. They then toss their cigarette butts and their refuse on the private properties which surround the school. In the past, this situation has caused considerable grief for Clinton ratepayers, Clinton Town Police, the principal at CHSS and the school board. "No 'doubt the board is aware of the perennial problem that now exists between residents in the immediate area of our school and our students," wrote Homuth. "I feel that these residents have every right to be concerned over students congregating in front of their houses, eating, smoking and scattering cigarette butts and garbage on the street in front of their homes and on their lawns," • "With an outdoor eating and smoking area," continued Homuth, "students at CHSS will have an opportunity to demonstrate that they too are concerned about our public relations, and with such an area under my jurisdiction I am reasonably certain that the problem outlined above will be eased considerably. I shall then be able to ivestock dies n Saturday fire The Clinton Fire Brigade battled a fire on .aturday night op the farm of Ralph Muller t R. R. 4, Clinton, that deatroyed'barn nd eight heifers, housed there, In addition to the building end the ivestock lost, the summer's crop of 6,000 ales of hay and 2,000 bales of straw were lac, lost. A milk cooler was destroyed in the laze as well. Two cows were rescued from the barn by r. Muller when he discovered the fire at bout 9:20 p,m: but the flames had ogressed too far to allow him to rescue the maining stock. The fire, said to be of nknown origin, is under investigation by he Ontario Fire Marshal's Office. The Muller farm is in Mullett Township nd is located about four miles to the ortheast of Clinton. There -were no injuries involved in the incident. ouncil unhappy ith court rulings Speeders, noisy cars and squealing tires •roved to be a popular topic of discussion gain at town council meeting on Monday vening, in as much as the town fathers don't feel the courts are enforcing the law to their satisfaction. Many councillors say they have been receiving countless complaints for some time about traffic noise and council has asked the police force previously to crack down on the tire squealers in particular. This week' the councillors again reported that complaints were still coming in and that apparently the police were unable to enforce the laws. In a discussion with town police Sgt. Roy Oesch, council found that the police had indeed been laying charges against the tire squealers but that when the cases came up in court the judge was dismissing the charges. "The last two nights have been just wild," Reeve Lobb noted, "the situation is getting worse instead of better and something has just got to be done." The main question that council would like answered is why the courts are making it ao hard for the police officers to make their charges stick. A meeting is to be arranged in the near future at which members of the local council will meet with members of the Tuckersmith Township Council and the Sauble Conservation Authority to discuss a clean up program of the Bayfield River area between Highway No. 4 south and Highway No. 3 east of Clinton. It was reported to the meeting that representatives of the Clinton council had already met with the Tuckersmith council and, that body had agreed in principle to the roject but informed Clinton that they had no funds available at this time to finance a lean up project. The situation is to be further discussed at the upcoming meeting f the three parties. A letter was also read at council welcoming Clinton as a member of the Ausable Conservation Authority and council passed a motion appointing Harold Lobb as the council's representative on the authority. In other business handled at Monday vening's meeting, five by-laws were mmended changing a number of streets and top signs to yield or through streets in greement with a report submitted at the aSt council meeting by town police chief L. Westlake. In a short ceremony during Monday's eeting, Mayor Don Simons presented Tinton town foreman Dave Ball with his ertificate of graduation from a three-year ourse offered by the Ontario Good Roads ociation at the University of Guelph. It was reported that town council is resently involved in negotiations with the ational Department of Defence with regard o Providing fire protection on the now efunet Canadian Forces Base Clinton. 'Final raft of the agreement was expected bank orn the Department of Defence in time for onday's meeting but had not arrived, It was also announced at the meeting that own clerk John Livermore will be retiring as March 80, 1972. Council agreed to onsider in the near future the appointment f a new clerk. The town fathers also plan to iscusS whether a Clerk and -deputy-clerk are necessary in Clinton or if a clerk and tenographer could do the same job. I hold penny - sale The 'Women's Auxiliary to the -Clinton Public Hospital -Will be holding its annual penny sale from September 23 to October 2 this year and in addition the group announced this week they would be seeking the support of the communities business tnerribers and professional people for this project. The sale is one of the Auxiliary's major fund raising projects and all profits realized re spent On new equipment for the hospital patient comforts. Membere of the auxiliary will be acting as arreassers and will be calling on business pie seeking cash or merchandlie onatio`bs towards the project in the near uture and the group asks for public support. All donations will be publicly displayed acknowledged throughout the 16-day clod of the sale; has set up a big final game in Clinton this fiveand Saturday at 2:00 p.m. After thumping the for his shutout erformance. Jolts were stopped cold in Hagersville by a BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER vieked throwing left bander. George Ives of Blyth and Pat Mason of Laurie Colquhoun's two run homer in the meeting of the Huron County Board of irst inning opened the doors to an onslaught Education to ask for the board's ingles scored four runs. Coiquhoun along for five deaf children in Huron County to rith his homer, had a single and scored two the school for the deaf in Milton. uns. Big Hans Leppington continued to "The students," they said, "were located ammer the ball with three singles and a in the central area of the' County with one ouble and scored three times, each in Goderich, Londesboro; Blyth, Catcher Butch Fleet scored in the eighth Clinton and Seaforth." nd on a double which scored two runs. Doc The men appeared at the first of the Miler and Don Baitliff hit two singles each. meeting but were only invited to state their !Attie Joe scored a run in the seventh which business. Board chairman Robert Elliott said name in a single and three throwing errors on he could not permit any discussion on the he same play. matter since the men had not announced Clinton's pitching combination of Brad themselves as a delegation in advance of the Dutot and Cam MacDonald gave up nine hits meeting, and allowed no walks. "We didn't know the procedure," said In the Pee Wee division of the All Ontario Finals the Pee Wees ran up against their toughest opposition of the year in their first game of the finals against Dresden, who bunched their hits together in the third and fifth innings for a 6-2 victory over the local boys. Terry Gordner had retired Dresden in the first two innings without any trouble then in the third with one out the Dresden pitcher hit that team's first single and the next batter beat out a slow chopper down the third base line and a walk loaded the bases. Two more singles scored the three runner to give Dresden a 3-0 lead. Unfortunately for Clinton, their hits came with two out each time and a total of nine batters were left on base. In the fifth, Dresden pushed two runs in on a home run which left fielder Don Peterson had to go up onto a porch in a home across the street from the Diamond to retrieve the ball. Mark Nicholsan relieved Gordner in the sixth and he gave up one hit which eventually led to one more Dresden run, Two walks and a nice bunt by Dave Counter and a fielding error set up runs by Robert Harkes and Doug Riehl to put Clinton on the board in the seventh. With some back to back hitting and continuing good fielding, the local Pee Wees who won the flies for the third game can come back this Saturday and win at home. A good crowd is hoped for to give the kids a big support with game time set for 4:30 p.m. Admission will be 50 cents a person for the Pee Wee game to help cover the cost of hiring the bus for the Rockcliffe trip. In the Ponies — Rockcliffe match the score ended up 13-5 in favour of Clinton but the Rockcliffe team kept the Ponies in trouble all game. Clinton committed five errors and along with four walks and three hit batters there was a lot of action on the field. In the first four innings David Counter threw out four runners trying to steal. Terry Gardner gave up three hits but two of them in the seventh helped Rockcliffe to score three runs. Clinton went ahead early in the game when Dave Clynick scored his first of four runs as he lead off the second with a double. In the third, five walks to Dave Counter, Paul Priestap, David Clynick, Robert Harkes, Doug Riehl and a single by Neil Coiquhoun and the bases loaded double by Terry Gordner gave Clinton a 7-0 lead. Dave Clynick, Robert Harkes and Gordner scored in the fifth and the final three runs came by Neil Coiquhoun, David Clynick and Robert Harkes in the sixth inning. ockey meeting kicks off season Although most Clinton residents may not be thinking of ice and snow just yet, or at least trying not to think about it, one group of citizens, the members of the Clinton Minor Hockey Association, have turned their attention towards the upcoming winter season. At their first meeting of the new season held on Monday evening, the group discussed many plans for the upcoming season, among them a new undertaking for the organization, the operation of the Clinton Junior "D" club, which last year was the responsibility of the Recreation Committee. Several boys attended the meeting and gave the association some of their ideas and hopes for the upcoming season in connection with league operation. At the conclusion of the meeting, president of the association Jerry Holmes announces that Bert Clifford had been named manager of the Junior "n" team and that last year's coach Bill Weber is expected to return again this year, He also announced that boys of Junior age (16 to 20) who would like the opportunity to try out for the team should contact Mr. Clifford at 482.9772. In other developments at the fleeting it was announced that this year the complete Minor Hockey program is to be operated coy the association with financial backing still corning from the Kinsmen, Legion, Fish and Game Club and the Lions Club. A fund raising program is also to be set up to raise the necessary money to cover operating costs. It was explained that the dance held lest Saturday evening enjoyed a good turnout and that another is planned for October 2. This year's executive members are Jerry Holmes, president; Robin Thompson, vice-president; Eugene McAdam, treasurer; and Len Fawcett, secretary. The hockey program co-ordinator is Ken Clynick; Doug Andrews is in charge of coaches and managers; Bruce Collins is to look after referees; Bert Clifford oversees registration; Jack Irwin is the Arena Board representative; and the social Committee is made up of Oscar Priestap, Clarence Neilans and Frank Cook. When registration is completed, Which is expected to be during the next two weeks, all parents Wilt be invited to join the association. The ice Is expected to be put In the Arena In about two weeks as well. Dr. Alex Addison, Clinton, wondered why an area would have to be established and gravelled, He suggested just allotting a small area for smoking. Superintendent Frank Madill said that if the board established a smoking area, it just might set a county policy. He referred to the Goderich high school prinicpal, John Stringer, who doesn't permit smoking on any sidewalks adjacent to the school. "If a principal in these trying times can persuade students not to smoke on school property, then more power to him," said Madill. Madill also noted that the Clinton cafeteria is not fully so that over-crowding there is not the reason that a smoking and eating area outside has been requested, Goderich's Cayley Hill asked to hear the director's comments on the subject. D. J. Cochrane, a former principal at Clinton, said he understood the problem at Clinton. "It is peculiar to this school," said 100 Year No. 37 hit to Mustard in the third and walked Stu struck out 16 visiting Hagersville club on Saturday for 18 p Archie Pickett held Hagersville to only one hit for five full innings and struck out eight before he gave up four hits in the sixth with two out. Hagersville scored two runs and scored another in the seventh on a double and a Board of Ed to establish smoking and lunch area Cochrane. "We get more complaints about trespassing than we do about teenagers smoking." Vice-chairman John Broadfoot recognized a "divided camp" within the board and suggested there may be "some alternative way to work this out that would be acceptable to the board". Alex Corrigan agreed. "There must be a better way of doing it," said Corrigan. "I'm not in favor of some of the things which were requested in that letter." John Henderson felt the board was "backing off" from the problem and wanted the board to deny the request made by Homuth, However, it was decided that Dr. Addison and chairman Bob Elliott meet with the principal of CHSS to discuss alternate methods to handle the smoking problem at the school. The subject was tabled until the next meeting, ransportation for iits and an easy 11-5 victory, the Clinton Londesboro were on hand at the recent ,f hits. Stu Mustard with a double and two consideration in the matter of transportation Ives, "so we just took, the bull by the horns and came in." However, later in the evening, a letter was read from D. E. Kennedy, superintendent of the Ontario School for the Deaf in Milton. The letter gave particulars about the Schools Administration Act which now permits a school board to provide transportation for a student to and from an Ontario School for the Deaf. "It is my understanding," wrote Kennedy, "that school boards assisting parents in this way will be able to claim all or part of the transportation cost as an approved expenditure and subject to grant,' The two visitors were then invited to speak on the subject and the board learned that the parents of these five students at Milton from Huron have been transporting the children home and back to Milton every two weeks. It was also learned there are five or six deaf students in Perth County attending school at Milton who might be able to be transported in a joint agreement with the Perth board. "We can't take any action because we haven't all the facts," said Chairman Elliott. He did promise, though, that the board administrators would get to work on the matter and present a recommendation at the next meeting, deaf requested