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Clinton News-Record, 1970-06-04, Page 8Clinton News-Fiegbircl, Thursday, June 4. 1979 1111111111111011111141101111111111111l111111111111111111111111111111001111111111111111111111101101111111111at Rarriblinu with Lucy I NOTICE TO E,),E$TRQY NOXIOUS WEEDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all Property Owners in Huron County In accordance with the Weed Control Act. R.S.O. 1960, . 3, 13, 19, and amendments thereto, that unless noxious weeds growing on their lands are destroyed by July. 2, and throughout the season, the Municipality may enter upon the said lands and have the weeds destroyed, charging the costs against the land in taxes, as set out in the Act, The co-operation of all citizens is solicited. rt ALEX CHESNEY, Weed Inspector, County of Huron We are sorry to report that Mrs. Wm. Caldwell is not as well as her many friends would like. STUDIO Specializing in . „ * Weddings * Children Single or Group Portraits and Passports 524-8787 Fan Trellis . No. 86 Wall Trellis made of Acrilan Acrylic Fiber —1 39 Colours, Styles and Qualities — here's a preview of two Of them!•"1 lb-Eat° NOW ONLY .... Yard twist White is very papillae because the convect but resilient surface Osisis rnarkinq and oushine. Avail- able 10 several qaalities ?Ott pat Square yard. Loop pile in varied leVels for Mauro', plus tour My tan la unique coloOr combinations. Appears rick but -Casual and is easy to care lor.-VerY Dried Value At Oit.OS per tquare y'artf. LUCY R. YVP0P$ Lucy has been quite interested in letters to the editor following her Rambling on the supposed progress which would take place in Bayfield if cement sidewalks were installed. May she be permitted to state that she spent spme time in Ireland, England and Wales and she walked on cinder and gravel sidewalks in villages and hamlets which were certainly not shims, but bordering on the rural areas as does Bayfield. And to go back to the Roman occepation, they built to last with brick end tile. Most of which is now 20 feet underground. A splendid example is the old Roman baths which have been excavated at Bath in gegland. In reply to "A Bayfield Citizen" he er she surely cannot be aware that most of the taxes are paid by summer residents. She is at time of writing, unable to check the percentage. Some 20 years qr more ago the summer residents paid 75 percent, Many cottages have been built since then, Why then should we be selfish and disregard their feelings in the matter. They are, so to speak, Bayfield's bread and butter and certainly they don't wish to pay any more taxes. Since baby buggies were first introduced to hayfield they have been wheeled on the gravel sidewalks and grass boulevards on Main Street as have little wagons. They perhaps stick to the side of the gravel roads at night for safety's sake, For while the uptown and downtown herds of cows kept the grass well grazed, they did leave manure and a step into a fresh patch could have disastrous results to shoes and stockings, as Lucy knows from when she was young, as late as the twenties. The cost to the taxpayer was nil but came the day when the cows were a menace to automobiles and so were not allowed to graze at large. Then the grass was long and dusty before a program. of cutting was introduced. Then perhaps on a dewy night, one chose the dusty road instead of getting one's underpins wet and dirty. Now the streets are kept neat and trim. Then, as now, some small children persisted in playing dangerously on the road. It is nothing new. One cannot legislate people into walking on sidewalks, even the best, Talking to a young English couple, they were amazed that people in Bayfield would want cement sidewalks. Why spoil the beauty of the place? The gentleman is a high school teacher on exchange in Windsor, He walks to school every day on the sidewalk while the pupils he teaches walk down the centre of the road, completely oblivious to traffic just as the school children do in Bayfield when they get off the bus at Clan Gregor Square and walk down to the Post Office. Walks are not going to change that, for it seems to be the trend of the times. And if an accident occurred, it would most surely be the fault of the driver. Wheh Lucy was about eight years old she went to Trinity Church choir practice one night with her mother. She grew weary and wished to go home. So she started off in the pitch dark. About opposite the Orange Hall she heard a horse and buggy coming, so edged over and felt her way into the ditch until the buggy wheels had passed. Then she continued her journey. She couldn't even see her hand in front of her but knew it would be Mr. Alfred Naftel driving to the church for his daughter Celia (later Mrs. George Greenslade) who played the organ in church. Lucy arrived home safely, lighted a lamp and was in bed when the rest of the family arrived home, • There is something to be said for those horse-and-buggy days. There Ives •no air pollution then and sparrows were assured of their daily bread. Of course there were accidents with run-away horses and drunken drivers on the road in those days too. One cannot go backwards in time but one can preserve the best of the past for the future. And one of these is fine horses. No longer may Tom Jones race Bob Dowson on a good stretch of road to prove which is the faster driver. That is so parallelled by the teenagers today with their sports cars a much more speedy and dangerous operation. No longer do such horse-lovers as Tom King and George Weston train their racers on the highways as in Lucy's young day. They have all gone, But we still have beautiful riding horses about which will wry a man, woman or child along the by-vvays oft Bayfield and H ron County. PROPOSED HOME CARE PROGRAMME HURON COUNTY PUBLIC MEETING To Discuss This, Subject SEAFORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL 8:30 P.M. JUNE 17, 1970 All interested are invited to attend Dr, G. P. A. Evans, Medical Officer of Health NOTE: "Home Care" refers to care of patients in their own home. 23 Coreesponclents of the News-Record gathered at the Hotel Clinton for a dinner and seminar. Some of those present inoluded (I. to r.) Mrs. Bert Allen, Londesboro, Mrs. Wes Bradnock, Auburn, Mrs. Wilma Oke, Seaforth, Bob Shrier, President of News-Record hosts correspondents for dinner, seminar The Clinton News-Record hosted a dinner for correspondents and frequent contributors to the paper last Friday at the Hotel Clinton. The meeting provided a Brumfield BY MRS. H. F. BERRY Mrs. Stanley Went, Leamington, is convalescing at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. E. Forrest. Brucefield firemen were called 'out to a fire at the home of Peter Dud. The barn and contents were completely destroyed. Miss Darlene Burdge is a patient in Clinton Hospital having undergone appendectomy. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Neale, London, spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Mac Wilson. Flowers in Brucefield United Church on Sunday were in memory of the late Mr. Geo. Falconer, placed by relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Aitken, Dublin, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Norris Selleng on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kuhar, London, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hargreaves. The 'YOUni "People's Union held anniversary services in Brucefield United Church on Sunday. The junior choir under the leadership of Mrs. McGregor and the folk singers, Zurich, were enjoyed by all. Mr. and Mrs. R. Kovack, Ottawa, spent Sunday with Mrs. Chas. Snelling. Mrs. Snelling and Mrs. Murray Tyndall returned to Ottawa with them for a opportunity for the Huron two-week visit. County road committee to see how' things are done in other parts of the world as well as Canada. The motion was referred to the executive committee for study and Friday's recommendation to adhere to former policy was approved. At Friday's session, Elmer Hayter, reeve of Stanley, made a strong bid for council's reconsideration on the matter. He asked for a clause by clause reading of the executive committee's report so that each councillor would have an opportunity to vote for or against the specific motion • regarding the Canadian Good Roads Convention. Before the vote was taken, chance for the writers to become acquainted with one another and with the operation of the newspaper. In attendance were Bob Shrier, President of Signal-Star Publishing Ltd., Howard Aitken, manager of the News-Record and Keith Roulston, the News-Record editor. Following dinner, a slide presentation showed the correspondents something of how a modern offset newspaper like the News-Record is printed, from the time copy enters the front door until it appears in the newspaper that arrives at the reader's door. After the slide presentation, a seminar was held in which correspondents and the 'editor exchanged ideas on how to improve the service of the newspaper to the community. Only the warden, the chairman of the road committee and the county engineer will be permitted to attend the Canadian Good RoadS convention this year, members of Huron County Council decreed Friday at the may session: At the April meeting, motion was introduced to send the entire road committee—six members—to the Canadian Good Roads Convention to be held this year in Montreal. It was pointed out that the World Good Roads Convention was to be held in conjunction with the event, and it would be a fine 118 St. David Goderich • In May 28 issue of the News-Record, a story on school board affairs carries two small paragraphs at the end stating that Roy B. Dunlop's salary has been increased to $21,000 from $17,000 since being named superintendent of business affairs. As $4,000 is a very nice pay raise for any position, it makes one wonder how the taxpayers of Huron County are going to be financially able to pay the high-priced officials on school boards. A goodly number of the taxpayers of our area are in the $3,500 to $5,000 salary bracket—some are making very little over the so-called minimum wage of $1.30 per hour. Perhaps some of the gentlemen on the school board who are in charge of spending the budget, salary wise, would give us a clue as to where all the money is going to come from when there are so many unemployed people and older people on fixed incomes in this area. SEAFORTH 527-0910 CLINTON 482-9514 HENSALL 262-2713 Enhance Your Climbing Roses an d Flowers Exeter Reeve Derry Boyle, well-known for his disapproval of needless convention delegates and social functions at the expense of the taxpayers, called Elmer Hayter's suggestion "utterly ridiculous and unfair". Boyle termed it "double taxation"' ' niaV "ltledf. municipalities will send delegates to the Good Roads convention. "It cost about $1,100 last year," stated Boyle. ",That isn't peanuts. It is a half mill on Exeter taxes almost." Individual voting on the motion showed overwhelming support for the smaller delegation to the Montreal event. Announcement was made during the session of scholarships which have been received by several Huron County young people. They include scholarships' at the University of Western Ontario for William Burling, Huron Park, and Miss Gloria Reed, Wingham; and at the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology for John Duizer, Stanley Township; Barbara Dougall, Usborne; and Ronald Ford, R.R. 1, Hensall. Plans were also announced for a bus tour of the Conservation Authorities June 22 for approximately 80 municipal persons and a trip to a Detroit ,ballgame, at the expense of the participants, for July 12. No. 100 PICNIC TABLES LEGS ASSEMBLED CEDAR Special 3.25 5.49 County sets limit for convention Signal-Star Publishing, Eric Earl, Bayfield, Howard Aitken, Manager of the News-Record and {standing) Keith Roulston, News-Record editor. — photo by Carrie Rudd. Letter to the Editor I also note that our salary schedule for teachers and principals in this area is quite comparable to the salaries for rerech larger areas where wages are considerably higher. In most cases it is not the cost of sending our children to school, but the cost of the administration which' is taking „the large portion of the money we earn. Purse strings will have to be tightened somewhere or • we are going to be in trouble. Yours truly, CONCERNED BALL Nu MACAULAY BUILDING SUPPLIES Wail Trellis Flower Box (Not as illustrated) THIS OFFER GOOD TILL JUNE 6,1970 make this HARDING 1" " (SALE ENDS JUNE 20th) CARPETS sale value: BEATTIE'S GUARANTEE If you on buy for less 'in 30 days, we will give you, back the. difference PLUS 10%. $359 00 ftEGUILARLY SpARticiEgio sg99 00 Twin or full EiNdli PIK* SEALY GOLDEN SLEEP Supreme our lowest price ever for a nationally advertised Sealy quilted mattress 2 Piece SKLAR SPANISH SUITE .,..4Holdt 'COLOUrt ••0.4tAVY 'WRAPPED OUSIHONS•