Clinton News-Record, 1971-11-25, Page 1Weather.
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Conestoga opens Clinton campus
Mrs. Clarence Denomme, (seated) and Mrs. Ray Gordon, last week opened their new
boutique on Beech Street, Called the "Spinning Wheel," It specializes in knitting and
weaving crafts.
Russell Dallas wins
third World Hay Crown
For the third time in the 14
years it has been awarded, a
Brucefield farmer, Russell
Dallas, has won the White
Challenge Trophy for the world
champion hay entry at the
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
in Toronto.
Mr. Dallas gained the trophy
after his entry took top place hi
a second-cet hay class in the
hayieg tOrnpetitiOns. The
trophy, which has been awarded
annually since 1958- by White
Farm Equipment (formerly
Cockshott Farm Equipment) is
competed for by all types of hay
entries at the' oyal.
The individual winner award,
Which is represented by an
engraved silver tray and a *100
cheque, Was presented to Mr.
Dallas by Paul M. Soubry,
Whites Vice-President,
IVIarketing, hi a ceremony oil
Wednesday, November 17 in the
Coliseum Building at the
CanadianNational Exhibition
groundt in Toronto. It was one
of a number of awards in the
annual Royal Winter Fair awards
presentation program. Mr.
Dallas, 76, received the first
official notification of the award
on Nov. 9, the day he and his
wife Helen were celebrating their
50th wedding armiversary. The
farm which they operate in the
Brucefield district, has been in
the Dallas family for more than
120 years, having been
established by his grandfather in
1848,
The original trophy offered
by White Farm Equipment is .a
large bronze representation of a
farm haying operation, Which-
remaina permanently le the care
of the Royal for Safekeeping, It
is brought out and displayed
annually during the Fair
With this year's win, Mr.
Dallas becomes the second
entrant to have won the
championship on three
occasiOns. His other two awards
were in 1963 and 1969. A U.S.
farm operation—'Rolling Rock
Farms, of Ligineier,
Pennsylvania--was the other
three-time winner in the award's
history, having taken the
championship in 1961, 1967 and
1968.
Following it a list of winners
by years from 1958 through
1970:
1 95-8—Robert Allen,
Brucefield, Ontario;
1959—Thomas Bowmen, Strinucl;
Ontario; 1960—Thomas
Bowman, Stroud, Ontario:.
1961—Rolling Rock Farnat,
Ligonier, Penn., U.S.A.;
1962—Robert Allen, BrUcefield,
Ontario; 1963—Russell Dallas,
BrueefieTil, Ontario;
1964—Wilbur Keyes, SeafOrth,
Ontario; 1965—Robert D.
Fotheriegham„ Seaforth,
Ontario; 1966 Edhert D.
Fotheringhare, Seaforth,
Ontario; 1967—Rolling Rock
Farms, Ligonier, Penn., U.S.A.;
1968—Rolling Rock Farms,
Ligonier, Penn., U.S.A.,
1969—Russell Moiled;
Ontario; 1910-11 Pattetson,
R.R. 3, CoShectOn, Ohio, U.S.A.
Royal Winner of the 1971 world hay tharripiorishiO at the Toronto R Agricultural Marketing Vice-President of White Fortin Equipnlenti sponsors or the award. At left,
Wintat lair was Russell Dallas (centre) of Brucefield, Ontario -- seen here behind, Mrs, Dallas holds' n engraved Silver tray which the winner retains, it was Mr.,. Dallas' the White (Cookshutt) 'Challenge Trciphy which has been awarded annually since third Win, the others being in 1963 and 1969.
WO. At right, oretenting an eccoMpanying $109 cheque, is Paul Sonbry,
Winiseraft to head
Chilton operation
BY WILMA OKE
A delegation of seven Egmondville
residents attended the Tuckersmith Council
meeting, Tuesday night. They were Walter
Armes, Mr, and Mrs. Howard James, Melvin
Cooper, Carl Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Teeter°.
They presented a petition bearing 33
names for reconsideration by Council for
revocation of William Brown's license for a
salvage yard, The petitioners requested:
(a) Relocate Mr. Brown's business at
some mutually satisfactory location at their
own expense.
(b) Permit Mr. Brown to operate at his
present location until the above is carried
out.
Members of Council explained to the
delegation the circumstances leading up to
their decision not to renew the license
because Mr. Brown did not operate under
the conditions set forth in the Township
by-law.
In answer to a request from the Ontario
Water Resources Commission on what action
the Township had taken on their suggestion
that sanitary sewerage be installed in
Egmondville, Clerk James McIntosh wrs
instructed to write O.W.R.C. that the
Council was waiting on the development of
the proposed new system in Seaforth which
it is understood is adequate to serve
Seaforth, Egmondville and Harpurhey.
The Clerk was asked to write to
Department of Transport and
Communications to request that guard rails
be installed along Highway 8 at Silver Creek
in the Seaforth Lions Park which was the
scene of a recent car mishap.
A letter was received from the Director of
Huron County Social Services outlining the
procedure in converting to the county
welfare system in January, 1972.
Ontario Hydro notified Council it will
provide a grant in lieu of taxes on the 3.46
acres of property at the former Canadian
Forces Base in Clinton.
A grant in lieu of taxes was received from
the Federal Government for the former
Canadian Forces Base.
Clerk McIntosh revealed that the 1971
census indicated the population of
Tuckersmith Township was 2,871 compared
to 4,042 in 1966.
Ontario Hydro is to be contacted to
investigate additional street lighting needed
on Mill St. north one block from Bayfield.
St.
The Clerk is to apply for the Provincial
Municipal Employment Incentive Program
Grant which is made to ease the
employment situation as a 'Winter works
program,
Ex-Cell-0 Corporation of Canada Ltd.,
has announced the appointment of Bruce
Williscraft as Plant Manager of the new
Will.Dex facility in Clinton, Ontario.
The Wil-Dex plant will manufacture the
Wil-Dex line of cartridges and toolholders
for the Canadian and American market, and
in addition, will manufacture tungsten and
titanium carbide throw-away inserts for the
Canadian market.
Mr. Williscraft came to Ex-Cell-0 in 1960.
as a special machine designer of automated
lines. Prior to joining Ex-Cell-O, he was a
designer in the Tooling and Product Division
Of General %tors of Canada. In 1969, Mr.
Williscraft went to Ex-Cell-O's Colonial
Tooling as Engineering Product Manager. He
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held various management positions leading
op to his most recent promotion.
Williscraft received most of his
education from Faoshawe College in
London, Ontario, where he speeialized in
Industrial Management and Administration
and Production and Quality. ControL
.He is also a member of the Canadian
branches of the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers and the Society of . Carbide
Engineers.
Conestoga College of Arts and
Technology will open its Huron Centre on
Dec, 6.
Plans for Huron Centre have been being
laid for many months but programs could
only be scheduled after the college located a
building. With the sale of the former
Canadian Forces Base Clinton, Conestoga
finally got a home. It will occupy the former
Air Marshall Hugh Campbell School on Dec.
6. The college has been given permission to
move in on that date although it will not
officially take possession of the building
until the end of January.
Ross Milton, director of Huron Centre
said Wednesday morning, that course will
begin immediately for Manpower retraining
classes. These will take place at the Base
school from 9 a.m, to 4 p.m.
He said there will probably be about 20
students to start and this will increase by
five or six a month.
Plans are also laid for three commercial
courses and perhaps another certified visiting
homemakers course at the new school.
Towards spring Courses are planned for fast
food cooks and food hostesses,
A course in finance and taxation for
farmer and small businesses is planned.
Eleven more courses are under development.
Long-range courses will begin next
September. Plans have been made for a
course in neibile home technology. This
would be a three-year diploma course. A
two-year course is planned in secretarial
science.
Two courses which will take students
right into business and industries will begin
soon. Three management development
courses for small industries are also planned,
two in Wingham and one in Exeter, Mr.
Milton said there has also been interest
likes, Dr, Young said. Beware of
"bandwagons" he warned.
Dr. Young said the food and beverage
industries provide opportunities for farmers,
by organizing products, to be able to supply
a continuous quantity and quality of
product.
Get better, before you get bigger, he told
the farmers in his conclusion.
Don Pullen Agricultural Representative to
Huron County from the Ontario Department
of Agriculture and Food outlined the short
courses available at the Agricultural office in
Clinton and at Centralia College.
Gordon Hill of Varna, President of the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture, outlined
the activities of the OFA and urged farmers
to make their organization a stronger force
in Ontario Acr'culture.
A resolution recommending lowering of
the Farm Credit Loan interest rate was
deemed unfair and defeated, A resolution
recommending an OFA investigation of
corporate interests taking over farming
through contracts was approved by the
meeting.
Another resolution was referred to the
county executive for amending, It opposed
the proposed forgivable loan to cow-calf
operators.
shown from the Clinton area in such a
course.
Mr. Milton said that plans for these
Ernie Williams, Robert Burke and Gordon
Seetchiner were re-elected as directors. A
newly-elected director is Ken Tyndall who
replaces Art Ball who moved to Kincardine.
Officers for 1972 are: Flee Kingsweli,
president; Ernie Williams, vice-preSident and
Robert Bourke as secretary,
Total assets of the Clinton credit union
are $4,245,053.99.
A banquet for the Clinton Colts who won
the Ontario Baseball Association
Intermediate Championship will be held at
the Hotel Clinton on Saturday night, The
team will receive trophies from the town of
Clinton in recognition of their achievement.
Similar trophies were presented to the
Clinton Peewees in a banquet last Saturday
night, The Peewees also won the OBA
crown.
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At the banquet for the Peewees on
Saturday night, a presentation was made to
Bert Clifford who is leaving town next week
to live in London.
Bert was manager of the Peewees and was
active in many other sports in Clinton, He
was also reporter of most sporting activity in
town for the News-Record. He received a
barometer.
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Well the snow is here and it looks like it
will stay for awhile this time. It isn't too bad
when you're prepared though and many, like
your's truly got prepared in a hurry after
that earlier snowfall.
Now that the snowtires are on the car and
the storm windows on the house, winter
won't be too bad until we get the first big
blizzard. Hopefully that won't be until
January, at least. And hopefully it won't be
like last year's when it does come, It it is,
here's one vote that we all move to
Australia.
Tuckersmith
council hears .
petition
Huron county farmers were told last
week that livestock production must be tied
to crop production in Ontario.
Dr. Stanley Young, president of the
Ontario Institute of Agrologists, speaking at
the annual meeting of the Huron Federation
of Agriculture held in Clinton on Nov. 17,
maintained that Ontario farmers could
compete with American and eastern and
western farmers. He stressed the need for
growing more high protein crops such as soy
beans.
He pointed out that there is now a'
surplus of feed grain. Corn prices are now
low because of the huge production in the
U.S. with no impbrt quota control, Feeders
need to take advantage of all opportunities
to make use of all available waste product$
to lessen costs.
Dr. Young also pointed out that farmers
Must make use of all available technology.
He said that governments are taking a
very critical look at the amount of money
being spent on agricultural research. Farm
organizations may have to do their own
research in the future he said.
Farmers should base their purchases of
equipment as related by need rather than
Farmers told livestock
production tied to crops
A six per cent dividend was set by the
Clinton Community Credit Union at its
regular meeting Tuesday night, It will take
$113,000 to pay these dividends this year,
Mrs. Margaret Cameron of Londesboro
became the first woman ever to be elected to
the credit tommittee at the meeting. Other
members of the committee are Jack Reid,
Gerald Holmes, Charles Nelson and Arthur
Coorribs,
courses have been laid for some time but the
Huron Centre program could not proceed
without a building.
Clinton Credit Union declares
6 per cent dividend