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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-04-23, Page 1, Kindergarten students from Clinton Public School took a trip to a sugar bush on the farm of Charles East of Mullett Township recently. They were accompanied by their teachers, Mrs. More pictures on page 6A, — staff photo. Dorothy Williams and Mrs. Rhea Jones, Here Mrs. Jones gives Brenda Riehl a taste of fresh syrup. • German consul to address Legion anniversary dinner Rev. Don Cornish Former Clinton man to preach at Wesley-Willis Resting comfortably, thank you. These girls can rest knowing they did their good turn by giving blood in the blood don6rs' clinic held at C.H.S.S. Monday. The students gave 143 pints of blood while the night clinic for adults resulted in only 70 pints..— staff photo Clinton Society host to horticulturalists John Smith, President Of 'the Ontario Horticultural Assotiation, was a guest speaker Saturday as the Clinton Horticulture Society played host to More than 100 Members from the District 8. staff photo 105th. 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Of course, with the way things are going, there's always the chance the Indians wouldn't take it back. * * * The date has been set for the appearance of Don Messer at the Community Centre. The master of the "way-down-east" sound will be here May 21, a Thursday night, The Fish and Game club and the recreation- committee are co-sponsoring the show. * * * Despite the cold weather we did see a farmer' working the land last Friday near Benmiller. Hopefully he soon won't be alone. * * The kids outdid the adults again this year at the blood donors' clinic, Monday at Central Huron Secondary School. During the day the students and their teachers gave 143 pints of blood. The adults gave only 70 at night. Our editor can't remonstrate though. He almost fainted just taking pictures. Maybe he should have given anyway. They say that chickens bleed well. * * * A great deal of concern has been expressed lately in town council and elsewhere, about the, way many of the high school students Who refuse to sidewalks and litter streets during their lunch hour and before and after school. A letter from the students' council may be interesting to all concerned, It can be found printed inside. -44 * * Remember Daylight Saving 'lime starts this weekend, Set your clocks ahead one hour. Weather 1970 1969 HI LO HI LO Apr. 14 57 40 70 38 15 60 34 56 49 16 57 33 67 50 17 58, , 36 68 49 18 46 33 63 40 19 48 34 47 30 20 52 34 54 27 Rain .54" Rain 1.90" Bayfield council gets complaint BY AUDREY BELLCHAMBER Mr. and Mrs. John Bird, Bayfield, joined Council Motday night, to ask for clarification regarding zoning on Main Street (Highway 21) and Elizabeth Street. They aSked for further information regarding water supplies for lots which they May sell. Council referred them" to the County Board of Health for a decision. Council also agreed to inspect Elizabeth Street, The clerk read a formal letter of complaint from a summer resident stating that she wished to build a permanent home on her lot on Sarnia Street but that she requred assurance from council that a lot in the vicinity wduld be cleaned up, The clerk Was instructed to write to the offending property owner. A request was received to install a sidewalk on Main Street. Councillor Baker said he was, all in favour and that "you Ohl stop progress', The road Corintittee will investigate the request, Clan Gregor Perk IS to get its annual spring Clearkill With necessary repairs to the bail diamond and Swings, Council will Meet on Sunday to conduct the anneal road siirvey, Rev. Don Cornish 11.A., of tnamanuel Church, Hamilton Will be guest speaker when Wesley-Willis United Church holds its anniversary services Sunday., Rev. Cornish is formerly from Clinton, ton of the late Cr, C. Cornish, He will speak on "Renewal, Not dust ChangeV destroyer, then served as gunnery officer aboard the famous ship Bismark which was sunk in May 1941 in the Gulf of Biscay after a mammoth chase by elements of various allied navies. He was one ' of the few survivors of the sinking and spent the remainder of the war in British and Canadian P.O.W. the Morning Service, The evening service will be of speoial interest to young people with the Mitchell School Choir of 40 voices entertaining during the program and at the later coffee Met A group of young people will form a panel to put 11,0v. Corinth "on the spot", BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Two very controversial subjects pertaining to school matters were opened at Monday evening's regular meeting of the Huron County Board of Education in Clinton but board members did not allow themselves to become too embroiled in discussion concerning them. The topics were religibus education in elementary schools and corporal punishment. Religious education in elementary schools was discussed briefly after the board YOU can rest your mind as you relax fishing along Lake, Huron shoreline this summer. The fish you catch are not contaminated by mercury Robert McKinley, member of Parliament for Huron, informed the Nevv&Record by telephone TueSday that he had received assurance from Fisheries and loorrestry Minister Jack Davis that tests had ShOwn no significant contamination of fish from Lake Huron. The information was a follOw4ip to a question in the house by Mr. !McKinley on Anti' 8, Mr. Davis informed bins at that time that tests were at that time being carried out on all fish in the Great Lakes area. OnMonday, Mr. Mcl<inicy There will be some changes made in the Stedman store on Albert St. The store, formerly part of the Stedman chain, is now under the ownership of Mr. A. H. Mathers who, along with his son Gordon, will operate as a Stedman dealer:" Mr. Mathers has 18 years experience in the retail business, 11 of them as senior children's buyer for the Stedman chain at head office in Toronto. He said the strain of head office work prompted him to go into business for himself. So far he has enjoyed being in Clinton very much and hopes soon that he and his son will take up residence here, At present they comute every day with Gordon attending C.H.S.S. and working in the store after school and on weekends. Said, Mr. Davis informed him of the results of the 'tests carried out by the rish Research Board of Winnipeg. Pickerel from southern Lake Huron tested showed .38 parts per million content of Mercury. The danger level is .5 parts per million. Pickerel from Northern Lake Huron (including the Bayfield-Goderich area) tested .18 parts per million. Whitehall from Northern Lake Huron showed .04 parts per million Mercury. Mr. Davis informed Mr. McKinley that the Research Board was having trouble Obtaining accurate information on cohoe salmon because of the heavy fat-content of the fish. Perth had' earlier been found safe, Central School, "just Across the river" from Goderich *Township's Holmesville School, Mrs,Marilyn Kunder, Seaforth, asked whether the board Would give consideration to relieving the overcrowded conditions at Colborne by transporting students to Holmesville where a classroom was available. In Mrs. Kunder's opinion, such a move would eliminate the need for any expenditure at either school.. She learned this was not being considered at the present time. Mrs. J. W. Wallace, Goderich, suggested that the county board would, soon have to look into the question of boundaries, the indication• being that in future, there is a possibility that a shifting of students would be employed to solve temporary pupil-place problems, It was interesting to note that projected figures over the next five years show that enrolment in both schools, Holmesville and Colborne will drop. Enrolment at Holmesville is predicted to drop from the Present enrolment of 310 to 244 in 1973. At Colborne, present enrolment is '276 and in 1973 it is expected to be 241. Board members learned of the following resignations and retirements: Mrs, Elizabeth Moore, Exeter PS; MrS. Elizabeth Suter, F.E. Madil SS; Ronal Hunt and Donald Fischer, Goderich DCT; Mrs. Carolyne Wood, Huron Centennial School; Mrs. Roberta Meehan, Robertson Memorial School, Mr. Mathers plans a complete restocking and redecorating of the store. He promises" a "satisfaction guaranteed" policy. Goderich; Mrs. Margaret Box, Stephan -Central School; Mrs. Lynne Mediae and MM. Carol Westlake, Turnberry CS; and Mrs,. Elizabeth Croldthorpe, Wingham PS. In other business, the board agreed to sponsor Bjarne Christensen of Central Huron Secondary School at the Canada Wide Science Fair at McMaster University, Hamilton, next month; to advise the Clinton Horticulture Society hosted district 8 of the Ontario Horticultural Association for a dinner and meeting at Ontario St. United Church. Mayor Don Symons welcomed the 104 representatives of the 18 societies in the district who attended. He said he hoped the work of the societies would grow and that they would continue in their efforts of beautification. He quoted the late Mr. Cliff Epps, Clinton, who coined the motto of the society, "Grow a flower where a weed was." Mrs. Cliff Epps provided the floral arrangements for the meeting. Other speakers at the meeting were John Smith, President of the Ontario Horticultural Association and Charles Department of Municipal Affairs that _there is no need for school facilities in the proposed subdivision of Lot 21, Qoncession LRW in the Township of Hay; and to permit the shop staff at Central Huron Secondary School to build a small building to serve as an office at the. Land 'Fill Site at. Holmesville with the building materials to he supplied by the Land Fill Site Committee. MacNaughton, M.P.P. for Huron. Mr. Lloyd Smith of Tobermory was the main speaker and showed slides of wild flowers and birds photographed in the upper Bruce Peninsula. He is a former government supervisor at Flower Pot Island National Park. Returned to office were Mrs. William Klie, Hanover, president, and executive members Ed Fielding, Wingham, Mrs. Russell Bray, Lions Head and Mrs: G. R. McGee, Goderich. Several local businesses donated gifts and prizes for the m e et i g These included Wettlaufer Feed Mill, McAdam Hardware, Anstett's Jewellers,, Durst Farm Centre, K. C. Cooke Florist, I. G. A., Ina Steffen Greenhouse and Dixon Reid Co. Plant food. Clinton Canadian Legion Branch 140 will have an unusual guest speaker when it meets May . 11-r irs,an annual commemoration of the ' end of, hostilities in Europe in World War Two, 25 years ago on May 8. Burkarcl Baron Von Muellenheirn-lychberg, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Province of Ontario and a war veteran of the other side will address the gathering. The Baron was born June 25, 1910 at Berlin-Spandau and after graduating from high school joined "the German navy in 1929. He was commissioned as an officer in 1933, then served duty on various ships, as an instructor at naval college and as Assistant Naval Attache to the German Embassy in 'London in 1938-39. During the war he was, for a time, second in command of a Tamps. While in Canada he was at a camp in. Bowmanville. At Bowrnanville, he studied . law, history, languages and'• . music and when repatriated to Germany in 1946, continued his studies until he graduated from law school in Frankfurt in,1949. He entered the German Foreign Service in 1952 and since then has served in Iceland', Norway, Paris, Jamaica, Congo and became Consul to Ontario in April, 1968. The Baron is married and is a knight of the German Order of St. John, The dinner is open to any men from the area who wish to attend. • BY SHIRLEY .4. -KELLER The question Of priorities where school libraries is concerned came to the fore Monday evening at the regular meeting of the Huron County Board of Education, Although approval was given for a classroom in the Holmesville Public, School to 'be converted into a library at the estimated cost of $1,500, ,several board Members asked what priority the board was putting on establishing libraries in other county elementary schools where there are no facilities at present, Vice-chairman of the board " Bob Elliott, Goderich Township, said that the library was requested for Holmesville School because it was evident that a classroom could be •made, available without causing any .overcroWdin-g at the school. He said the $1,500 expenditure was for shelving, tables 'andbasic library furnishings and that he would be prepared to approve a motion to include library facilities at any Huron County elementary school where similar changes could be made as economically. - If the inclusion of library facilities would entail a major expenditure, Mr. Elliott suggested, including perhaps the construction of a new room, then it would be an entirely different matter. The board also approved the purchase of a portable classroom at a 'cost of approximately $9,500 to $10,000 for Colborne request from the Huron-Perth Presbytery of the United Church of Canada for one board member to be appointed as a representative to committee that will study the question of religious education in elementary schools. One board member,- Mrs. Warren Zinn, Ashfield, stated that she would be a member of the study committee in her capacity as a youth leader in the church of which she is a member. Vice-chairman Bob Elliott of the board wondered if Mrs. Zinn could also act as the learned that there had been a board's representative on the Tests prove Lake Huron fish free of mercury Local Steeciman's store changes hands Board discusses religious education, corporal punishment study committee but the lady declined to volunteer for the position. Mrs. Zinn told the board that she was not convinced that daily hour-long religious education sessions in the elementary school was the ideal situation, but added that she did not wish to have all religion bannished from the school in the county. She left the impression that religion taught in the schools should be on a very general basis and ahould not cut into time spent on academic subjects. Chairman of the board, John Lavis said that in his opinions , some religious training in the schools was beneficial to students. Although the board did not appoint a representative to the study committee, it is understood that one board Member will attend the meetings and that the board will take the time to give that board member some guidelines to follow when he or she is expressing the board's opinion on the matter. Gordon Melt; Wingham, suggested the board take a Stand on a recent resolution which was . passed unanimously in Lambton County Council recommending that corporal punishment 'not be eliminate p d from the schools. Mr. Moir said that corperal punishment has proven itself to be beneficial in Most cases where it is applied judiciously by discerning educators. He- Was advised that as the Matter 'presently stands, the decision is made locally in the , Please turn to page 2