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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-12-09, Page 1Weather Nov, 30 Dee, 1 1971 - HI LO 31 , 2a 23 7 197Q HI LO 30 .45 59 33 2 32 S 59 39 3 33 23 42 33 4 33 27 40 20 5. 35 25 36 20 6 s 41 34 24 19 Snow 4" Rain ,59" Snow -5" Th u rsda y, Weent r 9, 1971 1(11..) Vo,n r - No, 19 _Clinton, On in rio 1.(1 rents 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 0 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. I. I 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * 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. * 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 AI ,