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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-09-10, Page 1Brucefield Fire Department rushed to the farm of Keith Layton early Sunday morning to help extinguish a fire in the Layton barn. Mr. Layton went to the barn about 7:45 in the morning 'and discovered a fire in the grainery had burned down through to the stable. He called the fire brigade and doused the, fire with a couple of pails of water. The Brucefield volunteers finished the job. Mr. Layton said that if the fire had reached the straw stored in.the barn, he could see no way that the building could have been saved. Seven loads of grain had to be dried as a result of water damage. BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Although the Huron County Board of Education heard the varying viewpoints of about 100 McKillop ratepayers at their meeting in Clinton Tuesday evening, members later agreed to move forward with plans to build an. addition to Seaforth Public School to accommodate McKillop students and to close the one-room • schools in McKillop. Members of the administrative staff of the Huron Board of Education as well as Mrs. Mollie Kunder, Seaforth; John Henderson, McKillop; and possibly Don McDonald whose family attends the Walton School, will go to Toronto to Agriculture in Its fight to have education costs .rnet through funds gained •elsewhere than property tax. The Federation has called for a tax strike at the end of 'September if the provincral government does not give in to the demand. In a meeting sponsored by' the Federation in Clinton on Monday of last week, Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaughton had said that the tax. structure was a much More complicated business than the Federation seemed to realize and said the would not "tinker" with it in one area for the benefit of a minority. At the meeting Thursday night, support for the tax withholding seemed unanimous among the 30 or more farmers Present- Bob : Henry president of .the Huron of Blyth, Past The long and short • Clinton s Robin litlacAdarn stands, at first base during an OBA playoff game at Clinton on Saturday afternoon. Holding him on is one of the larger Kingsville players. The Clinton team, badly out-sized by the visitors, played valiantly and held the giants to a 10-5 win after an earlier 30-0 humiliation. —staff photo. 114th Bayfield fair set for weekend of it 113e!ri71471 7JA'Yoitix tvan, 014i4"170:N; VST With *Iwo ugh of bulletin a perk stool the fleyfielld River at the **there Witt of tome, it it interestinifto tee how the ares used to look in this penny Postcard found by Mrs. Annie Blacker, Mill Street in her Mother's possession. Mrs. Blacker thinks the picture Was taken some time beforn 068. it shoVies how open and ParicLlike the area east Of the highway used to be. An ounce of prevention They carne in all shapes and sizes; colours and breeds as MOM than 00 animals were brppght to get their rabies shots at a free rabies clinic in Clinton Community Centre on Tuesday afternoon and evening. Dr. M. K. anastoo of the Canada. Department of Agriculture, Health of Animals Branch, wielded the needle to immunize 289 dogs and 170 cats from the dreaded disease. *me cringed, some.took their medicine bravely and some were just SQ frightened by the surroundings that they probably never even felt the needle. . Nice pussy s*. I don't think like this mit look poi ecord §th NP. CLiNTON, ONTARIO THURSDAY, SEPTEMOER 10, 1970 PRICE Pen COPY 15C „ Some Huron farmers -jororiated to hold taxes and rig, best pony outfit, The arena will be open Friday grooming and rider considered; night for viewing of the exhibits decorated bicycles; antique cars; and for a monster bingo, floats and novelty vehicles. Barn saved when fire starts in grainery :The first • colOtirm . The Huron meeting of the t round 9f cliSetissiQn tings on the Design for' velOpment, Phase 1: Analysis to be held in. Exeter last ght. , ' A second round of meetings being planned for October'so at "local people" can express emselves regarding the future their region. The results of e* meetings will provide the 'c information whereby the oard of Directors of the id-western • Ontario evelopment Area, • with the 'stance of a consultant, will able to prepare and submit a of on behalf of the people of is region to the provincial vernment It is at this stage, Phase I, that eryone in the region will have opportunity to take part in e planning procedures that will old the hiture of the region. With the •increasing role the rovincial government is playing all fields, the • voice of the dividual is often lost. Here is ne chance everyone will have to eke his voice heard before 'station, is initiated, and it ould not be wasted, We'd like to say goodbye.and anks to Rick Kush who moved a Grimsby over the weekend. Rick has been a . regular ontributer to the News-ReCord ports pages' for some time. It's alao a tribute to Rick's ork' and the work of Russ cher and Bert Clifford that he Clinton Peewees made such a me -showing when they 'played -rigsville in their ,playoff series n Saturday. ... Earlier in Kingsville the boys ad been drubbed , 30-0 so they ad: - cause to be discouraged hen they took the field turday. 1 Yet Saturday, against boys hat were big enough to. play our mys' fathers, they refused to 've up and played hard right to helinal out. Had it not been for seven-run outburst in the fifth I `R.InglYille7 •'the bii$ii 'might lien have Pulled off a Win as hey held the visitors from the !ley of the jolly `giant to a 10.5 n. * '* * Joint installation for the Kinsmen and Kinettes from GOderich; Clinton, Exeter and Hensalt will take place at the Legion Hall .on Ssturday evening.. * * * In case, you don't think winter is getting close, a meeting will . be, held 'at the Clinton Community Centre one Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. 'to determine interest in • forining a junior hockey club. A meeting was' held earlier but was inconclusive as to whether there were enough interested players. Since then, Doug AndreWs, Recreation Director reports, several good players from out of town haVe indicated their interest to him so another meeting is being held to recruit locals; ' * *'* • The turn-out for . the anti-rabies clinic at the arena Tuesday seems to have been good. We know it 'was in our neighbourhood where at leist five dogs and` three eats were shot. Our own big black tom didn't mind the needle but Be sure hated the trip' back and forth in' the car. It seems every time Blackie gets into a car he thinks he's a dog and begins panting, even to the tongue hanging out. He doesn't like a box but he doesn't like to See what's going on around him either, Tuesday he just 'buried his head under an arm and whined,..chicken cat, We were glad he stopped panting at the arena or the good doctor might have thought he was rabid already arid ordered him destroyed. As it is he survived but we don't know if he's eyer going to trust us again or not, • Wilothet 1970 1969 Hi 10 HI 10 3ept. 1 67 40 82 64 2 73 41 80 6/ 3 77 59 52 66 4 74 60 83 53 5 65 48 34 66 6 74 43 85 62 7 — 73 66 Rain ,57" Rain .211" Huren CountY fanners seem t' be bracing tbentaelves to Withhold taxes in order to win their fight to have edueation taxes removed from property assessment.. That was • the feehng , that sc'enied to be general at a meeting of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture held Thursday evening in Clinton. The Huron Federation has joined the Ontario Federation of One of the countries oldest fall fairs, the 114-year-old Bayfield Fall Fair will be held at Bayfield this Friday and Saturday. The fair, the biggest event of the year in the "village" swings into full action on Saturday. at 1 p.m. with a parade that starts at the post office. Prizes will be given for the best pony or horse • Race visitor suffers-,attack A 50-year-old London man ' died suddenly in Clinton Sunday afternoon while returning from the 'Clinton Kinsmen Raceway. James Phillips Jr., 1011 Adelaide Street, had been feeling ill at the raceway and left to go to a restaurant for something to eat. Still feeling ill he decided to go to his car, parked in a lot beside the News-Record building. It was in the parking lot that the heart attack struck. Dr, J. A. Addison attended at the scene and gave the victim mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He was then sent by ambulance to hospital in London but later died. Federation, said that the politicians at the earlier meeting had always seemed to turn the argument of where the additional funds would have to be raised if the policy, was accepted, toward income tax.11e said that this would make him very happy. He didn't Mind paying more in a good year he said'as long as he wasn't saddled with heavy taxes in a bad year. Mason Bailey said that he had been in seven area farms recently soliciting memberships in the federation and when he had asked if the farmers would be withholding their taxes all had replied that they were. The first Sunday of Clinton Raceway's supplemental racing dates saw , another wagering record fall this week. The new record of $46,680 surpassed the old betting record set three wecks ago by more than $600. Attendance on Sunday was 1,770' despite heavy competition in other towns including an air show at Centralia and a ball tournament at Goderich. Clinton area children went back to school on Tuesday and despite the fact that drastic changes in school attendance might have been expected due to the phasing out of CFB Clinton, the changes were relatively light. Most directly affected by the phasing out process was the Air Marshal. Hugh Campbell school at the base. When school closed last June there were 357 students at the school. Tuesday morning, 219 attended, including 16 new students. Teaching staff at the school has dropped to 12 from the 16 who were at the school last year. Another drop was recorded at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton where attendance dropped to 997, a drop of three seek the very best accommodation possible for all McKillop students. Enrollment figures following Tuesday's school opening showed that 177 are registered in McKillop Schools and 256 are attending classes at Seaforth Public School. It was pointed out that present enrollment figures may indicate that the proposed addition of three classrooms and a library at Seaforth may not be sufficient There are eight classrooms, a kindergarten room and a gyninasium presently existing at the Seaforth Schbol. However five year projected enrollment figures indicate that enrollment in Seaforth and McKillop may drop to about 407 in 1971-1972 and to 359 by 1974-75. There are 24 McKillop students presently attending the four-room school in Walton. A large delegation — about 50 persons — prevailed on the board members to give Walton every consideration when making their decision. Spokesman for the group was Neil McGavin who suggested that by building an addition to the eight-year old Walton structure to accommodate all of McKillop's schoOl population, equal educational opportunity for the whole of McKillop could be realized, He Was told by direetor Of education John Cochrane that it Was doubtful if 'the Ontario Department of Education would give Maximum , building grants on an addition at Walton. An approved addition at Seaforth could realite 100 percent financing from the department It IS believed. "What Will happen to Walton?" asked Mrs. Neil MeGaiin who intimated that The . meeting spent considerable time discns.sing the earlier meeting and most present seemed to feel the meeting had been a big success as far as their fight was concerned. Mr: Bailey also reported that membership had reached more than 470 with the addition of 17 members' following a recent blitz of about one third of Goderich• Township. • In August, Huron's 416 members were recognized as tops for any county in Ontario and the county federatiOn received a rebate for $1000 covering five dollars on each of 200 members. Ray MacLean drove Goldies Joe in the featured tenth race and equalled his own pacing record of 2:07 1-5 set earlier this year. • Racing, which was to have ended at ,the local track on August 30, will now continue until September 27. The number of dates were extended by the Department of Agriculture because 'of the huge success of the Clinton track, • from last year. . Clinton Public School was harder hit, dropping to 463 from 490 last year. Another area school that had a drop was Hullett Central in Londesborough. First day attendance there was 353 compared with 370 last year. But balanced against these' losses were small gains at other area schools. Holmesville recorded an increase from 310 last year to 321 this year. Huron Centennial School at Brucefield jumped to 682 from 672. The seven one-room schools in McKillop township had a total enrolment of 177, four more students than last year. Walton area McKillop residents would press for equal educational opportunities for their children. "Nothing right now," admitted Mr. Cochrane. Another McKillop ratepayer, Harold Pryce stated that 216 notices had been sent out in the township advising ratepayers of .a meeting to discuss the future of • education in McKillop.' He said 95 households were represented at the ensuing meeting. Pryce said that 86 households had children in school and 55 of them were represented at the meeting. . A poll at the meeting, stated Pryce, showed that the majority' (81, no; 59, yes) were not ih favor of a central school. There were '73 votes in favor of the $eaforth addition and 61 in favor of an addition at. Walton. Art Bolton spoke for the delegation in favor of the (Continued on page 2) Liquor taken in cottage burglary A Bayfield cottage was broken into over the weekend. The cottage, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Cook of Chicago, was discovered to have been burglarized on Monday by Fred Frazer When he arrived at the cottage to do some work for the Cooks. A Window over the catch on the bank door had been broken to gain entry. An amount Of liquor Was taken. Ontario Provincial Police from Goderich, 'Working on the case, said Tuesday that no arrests have yet been Made, Another betting record set at Clinton Raceway Area schools show attendance decline as school year starts Board continues moves to close McKillop schools