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Th u rsda y, Weent r 9, 1971
1(11..) Vo,n r - No, 19
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Clinton News-Record
Santa Claus did a tittle impromptu traffic directing when he
arrived in Clinton on Saturday afternoon. He dismounted from
the fire truck, which brought him into town, on the east side of
Albert Street and had to shepherd a large group of youngsters
across the street before he could settle down in his Santa Centre
on the west side of the street, next to Bartliff's Bakery. He'll be
there again on Friday and Saturday of this week, Friday and
Saturday of next week, and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
Christmas week. The hours the Santa Centre will be open are
advertised elsewhere in the paper.
reeve and three councillors of $400 each for
the year 1971.
A tile drainage debenture by-law for
$4,800 was approved,,
Three more by-laws given approval, were
to authorize the transfer of lands in
Brucefield between Tuckersmith Telephone
System and Harold Lobb of Brucefield.
Council granted a building permit to
Henry Binnendyk, RR 2, Kippen for a
machine shed.
Ken Dunn, consulting engineer of B. M.
Ross and Associates, Goderich, is to be
asked to inspect and prepare a preliminary
report on the Silver Creek Bridge, fronting,
Lot 14, Concession 3 on the Huron Road
Survey (on the golf course road).
r;ouncil authorized payment of wages on
Dec, 17 for the five employees presently
working for the township under the
Employment Incentive Program.
Council instructed clerk James McIntosh
to apply for an additional Employment
Incentive Program grant of $2,100, A grant
for the same amount has already been
approved for Tuckersmith.
Council consented to an application for
lot severance of the west half of Lot 30,
amounting to 50 acres from Gordon
Richardson to Carl Richardson of RR 3,
Seaforth,
The preliminary plan from the engineer
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Ws a sure sigh of ChriStrhaS where the Christrnas decorations
up- on the lamp poles along the Main drag, Here Jirri Stott of the
Clinton Public -Utilities COministion makes use of the PAC's
boom truck to Mount the large tietoratiOn in a bracket oh the
'pole: the street was alive With colour every night Since the
decorations went up last week.
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Mervin Smith of Walton, a member of the
Huron executive, said that when the
federation restructured several years ago
following the General Farm Organization
vote, the Ontario Executive realized that in
its form at that time the federation was on
the way out; that it would not have lasted
more than a couple of months longer.
Bailey added that it was generally agreed
that it there had been 25 or 30 fleldmen
instead of seven at the time of the GPO
vote, the proposel would have carried.
He said that the proposed new structure
was more for the benefit of the rest of
Ontario, not Huron. He pointed out that
Huron had the best set-up of all now with
the most members and the most extensive
office of any county federation.
Mr. Bailey said he expected Huron would
be approached by Perth in the near future to
have a joint area office. Perth presently has
about 500 members,
Jim McGregor said the organization could
not hope to go on financing through
memberships and said it should work harder
at getting money from commodity groups
such as the Milk Marketing Board.
Mervin Smith told the members they
Mutt see that the levy system is continued in
their townships.
Bailey pointed out to the membership
that the present ISM system was instituted
before Gordon Hill, Jack Stafford, himself
or Most of the other present leadership
became involved in the federation and now
they would just have to put up with it until
something better was worked out,
Reports from the OFA convention were
heard from delegates who had attended
during the three days.
Three of tout required directors of the
Huron Federation of Agriculture were
elected. They were Adrian Vies, lad
Stafford and Vince Meths were elected and
one position was left open to be filled at the
next meeting, possibly by a member from
the south end of the county,
Vince Austin was elected as the county
director to OFA defeating Doug Fottune.
New plan would
completely overhaul
Ontario Federation
1 st Column
We are sorry to report that our long-time
correspondent from Hensall, Mrs. Maude
Redden has informed us she will no longer
be able to supply the news from that village,
In the last year er so, Maude has been
confined to hospital several times. During
her last stay in South Huron Hospital,
Exeter, the news was provided to tie by
Joyce' Pepper, who will continue to send the
news in Mrs. Heciden's retirement,
We are sorry to hese Mrs. Redden. She has
been a shining example of what handicapped
persons could do with their lives. Although
confined to her home, she never failed to
come up with full reports of the happenings
of the village, and most of the time one
would swear she must have been there in
person.
We welcome Mrs. Pepper to our staff and
compliment her on the quality of her work
to date.
An advertisement in this week's paper
announces the store hours for businesses in
Clinton during the holiday period.
Stores will be open on Friday, Dec. 24
until 6 p,m. they will be closed on Christmas
day, and on Monday, Dec. 27, Stores will be
open regular hours on Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday and will remain open all day on
Wed. Dee. 29. Stores will, of course, be
closed on Saturday, Jan. 1, 1972.
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The deadlines of the News-Record will be
affected somewhat by the holidays.
Deadlines will be normal for next week's
issue but for the issue immediately before
Christmas, deadlines for classified
advertisements will be Friday, Dec. 17 at 5
p.m.
Deadline for news copy will be Friday
night. These deadlines will enable the paper
to be published so that all readers will
receive their copies well in advance of
Christmas.
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A special treat is in store for people from-
the Clinton area this Christmas.
A special non-denominational Christmas
carol service will be held at the auditorium
of Central Huron Secondary School on Dec.
20, at 7:30 p.m. the event is called a
Community-Christmas-Happening. Mayor
Don Symons _expects to be at the get
together to read the Christmas story.
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It may be getting close to Christmas but
apparently everyone doesn't have the
Christmas spirit.
We heard this week of a farmer who
asked someone to come and cut down POO
dead elms on his farm. They were only to be
felled, not cut up and taken away. The
farmer didn't make any agreement as to
price.
The job was done, taking about seven
hours. When the bill came it was $400,
rather a steep wage on a per-bout basis.
Farmers who are having elms cut to take
advantage of the government grant would
apparently be wise to make sure they know
in advance how much it will cost. If not,
they may find themselves handing over most
of their grant to the jobber and still having
to get rid of the trees themselves.
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A plan which would drastically alter the
working of the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture was towelled at the December
meeting of the Huron Federation of
Agriculture held In Clinton on Thursday
night.
The plan was proposed at the recent
convention of the OFA in Hamilton and one
of the members of the committee who called
for the change was Mason Bailey, president
of the Huron Federation.
Concerned because of the decline in the
number of members recruited for the OFA,
the committee calls for firing of professional
secretary-fieldmeh whose job it would be to
run the local federation *offices and recruit
new members. Previously, staff was hired to
run the office and volunteers recruited new
Members, The recruiting process has worked
With some success in Huron where there are
over 1,000 Members but membership on a
province-wide basis is only 7,489. The
A number of members has dropped 1,245 since
April 30, With membership down and
county tees down, the OFA faces a financial
crisis, it was revealed at the meeting.
The restructuring would set up a
secretary-Heldman in an area office wherever
there were 3,000 or More farmers, County
boundaries would be left intact,
The present field staff of the OFA would
be closed out and comity offices such at; the
one in Clinton would be replaced by the area
office. It was pointed out that Huron is big
enough to have an area of its own With area
office and secretary-fieldman„
The new set up would be financed by the
OFA using the savings from eliminating the
present field' staff and from the five dollar
rebate on memberships which formerly went
back to the county federations but which no
longer would.
Mr. Bailey warned that the OFA either
has to do something drastic or fold up. The
federation had operated at a deficit ovet the
past two years and'could not continue this
for another year, He Said that at present the
OFA would need 9,200 members just to
break 'even.
Brown asked what would happen if he were
unable to locate a suitable property in six
months, Reeve Elgin Thompson told him his
application for an extension of his license
would be reviewed at that time.
Council passed several by-laws. The first
one set the date of the inaugural meeting for
1972 for Tuesday, January 4 at 8:00 p.m, at
Huron Centennial School, Brucefield.
Six of the by-laws approved were
amending by-laws on drains to indicate the
completed cost. Two of the drains affected
Tuckersmith ratepayers with small costs
only as they are liullett Township
drains--the Veenstra drain with a final cost
to Tuckersmith owners of $167,79 and the
Gibbings drain with a final cost of $705.64
to Tuckersmith owners.
The other drains for whieh the amending
by-laws were passed were: the Bell drain,
estimated to cost $10,500 with final actual
cost of $8,161.66; Slavin drain estimated to
cost, $16,500 with actual cost of
$15,108.85; the McCully drain with
estimated cost $3,900 actual cost of
$3,549,16; Sinclair drain with estimated cost
of $1,875 actual cost $1,737.50.
Another by-law approved was for a
"Yield right of way" sign to be erected on
concessions 2 and 3, London Road Survey at
Usbortee Township boundary. It will now be
sent to the Department of Transportation
and Communication for approval,
Another by-law was to cover payment of
salary allowances to the reeve, who is also
welfare officer, of $650 arid to the deputy
Mitchell coach
nearly starts riot
attacks player
Mitchell Junior eoach Lou Heinback kept
up to his image in causing uproars in Clinton
arenas when he struck Greg Jervis over the
head with a hockey stick during Friday
night's hockey game in Clinton,
Jervis arid Strohm of Mitchell had been
penalized for higlisticking and on the way to
the penalty box the two started tussling.
Neither referee could handle the pair when.
Jervis got a good hold on Strohm. Heinback
went over the boards to try to pull Jervis off
Strohm.
In the confusion, Jervis let go of Strohm
and the whole Clinton team came to his aid.
On the way back to the players' box,
Heinback grabbed a stick and clouted Jervis
over the head. The blow knocked Jervis out
cold as his helmet had come off in the
original fight. 'Constable Clarence Perdue and
off-duty officer Wayne McFadden escorted
Heinback to the Mitchell dressing room and
then out to the cars.
Several years ago lieleback, as a player,
pulled much the same trick in the old arena
when he wrapped Murray Noble for a dirty
check, then proceeded to bow to the 'crowd,
`That evening the local police had their bands
full getting Heinliack net of the rink. The
two referees gave Ileinbaek a match penalty
which automatically suspended him from
coaching the team until a hearing is arranged
by theOHA.
Greg JerVis was also Assessed a -game
Misconduct arid he was out of the lineup for
the game in Mitchell Tuesday.
Bay field citizens
vote in favour
of liquor
BY MILVENA ERICKSON
DaYfield residents went to the polls to
vote on a Liquor Plebecite, Monday, Dee, 6
and approved two of the three issues.
More than 60% were in favour of the
granting of a dining-room licence and
liquor store but rejected the vote for a beer
stare,
acquiring the recreational facilities at the
base told the News-Record Tuesday that
some announcement on the project may be
made soon. Mr. van Geste] had said that a ski
hill and a nine-hole golf course could be
added to the complex.
Bible Society to
canvass Clinton
Under the leadership of Mr, Evert Bidder,
a group of canvassers from the local
churches are soliciting funds for the
Canadian Bible Society. Few people realize
that the Bible Society not only has the
all-time world's best seller paper-back in its
beautiful modern translation of the New
Testament: "Good News for Modern Man",
but that native translators are doing the
same in over one thousand other languages,-
bringing new hope to many despairing
peoples.
It is hoped that the busy people of
Clinton will take time to welcome these
dedicated canvassers in the next two weeks,
and so help to "Bring Christ Back into
Christmas."
was received on the cooper drain at, Kippen.
Copies will be sent out to the assessed
owners prior to a meeting of the owners.
Passed for payment were the following
accounts: General government $3,640.80;
tax levy, $14 4,496.89; welfare, $143.00; tile
drain loans, $4,800; roads, $14,099.87;
dump rent for 1971, $600; Street lights,
Ontario Hydro, $2,342; fire area boards and
fire calls, $733.51; drains, $3,816.64 for a
total of $174,672,71.
Council will continue to pay the school
tax levy in two payments, June 30 and
December 15.
A luncheon meeting has been set for
today (Thursday) between the new owner of
Canadian Forces Base Clinton, John van
Geste! and Mayor Don Symons of Clinton
and Clarence Denomme chairman of the
town's industrial committee.
The meeting had been scheduled earlier
last month but had to be cancelled when Mr.
van Gastel left on a week-long tour to
Amsterdam, Rome, Zurich, Berlin and
Brussels in an attempt to drum up interest in
the base.
"lt looks like I was successful" he told
the London Free Press on his return last
Thursday night. Two European industries
may establish at Clinton but they are not
completely signed up. The first is involved in
general manufacturing, producing a wide
variety of goods, including mirrors and
chairs. The second is more specialized but he
would not comment on it.
Mr. van Castel had earlier told the
News-Record that one plant manufacturing
fibre-glass brick would locate in the old
airman's mess in February and the operation
would be expanded soon afterward to
manufacture plastic panel building systems.
Mr. van Gastel also announced that
renovations would be begun soon on the 217
housing units at the base, 150 of which are
two and three bedroom houses.
A spokesman for the group interested in
BY WILMA OKE
When Tuckersmith Council met in regular
session at Brucefield on Tuesday night, it
granted William Brown of Egmondville an
interim license for a six-month period to
continue his salvage yard on the
southwestern outskirts of Egmondville.
This license was granted to enable him to
continue his operations while he looks fora
suitable location to relocate his car-wrecking
yard that would be satisfactory to him and
to council. Mr, Brown was present at the
meeting accompanied by Melvin Cooper and
Kenneth Glanville, both of Egmondville and
Harold Dodds of RR 4, Walton. When Mr.
Van Gastel scheduled
to meet mayor today
to discuss Base plans
Tuckersmith council gives extension to junkyard owner
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