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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-10-08, Page 1Orville Erigelstad and Winifred HeimUth draw tickets during the draw for the litfemeta'S Auxiliary to the Clinton Public Hospital Penny Sale an Saturday. the sale brought a $1,000 profit for wait at the hospital. -- staff photo, Clinton wspooRetord 105th. YEAR. No, 41 , THV.BSPAY, O01-013I Fi 9, 197t pRIC p F CQPY 16c Imtiojpoliivimilimplimmumoiloffiumilffimponoimoommmifilyiplowitmogimplilmothimpolipiumpoommilippmwommsmmoolmmoommoomom.Rop.,moiminl000mmilmmumpoomommonvilluomimmmionOmm.rnmomoimmommiimmuliwOomilm0000111011111wommommoullfififioOnnommioommon.oniollolimmomminumwmomm000mmoolifimiiiiimomoo. Doug Thorndike dropped in at the office the other day and left d sample of the pin for this year's winter carnival (later than you thought isn't it?). This year's pin is quite a departure from last year's little snowman but should give a much more unique appearance to the event. It shows the town's radar symbol and .a clump of evergreen in green relief on a white background, * * The Royal Canadian Legion Service Bureau Officer will be making a visit to the area in the near future. Anyone wishing to discuss pension or allowances should contact the Branch Service Officer,: Hal Hartley at 482.6693 not later than October 16, * * * Next Monday is Thanksgiving ,Day and the Post Office will be giving thanks for a holiday (with pay this time). This means them will be no wicket or rural route service. The lock-box lobby will be open as usual for the full 24-hour period. The street letter boxes will be cleared at 4:15 p.m. and mail will be received and dispatched at 6:30 p.m. '' * * A brochure came to the News-Record this week regarding the 1970 Christmas Country Fair to, be held at Carlow on Wednesday October 21 and Saturday October,24. The fair is a revival of the old Colbourne fair started in 1871 which ceased in 1894 when the Goderich Agricultural Soceity was formed. In 1966 the fair was begun again when a group of Colbourne township craftsmen began "Country Crafts" a display of local crafts and paintings when people are looking for Christmas presents. The Christmas Country Fair is 'a continuous show from 2-9 p.m.. All booths are open through the supper hour. Those_ Clinton Public Utilities workmen are busy this week helping to give Clinton's main drag a new wishing to avoid crowds are look. While construction crews were playing havoc with traffic on Albert St., the PUC was urged to come between 5 and 7 p.m. or on Saturday evening. .installing new street lights. — staff photo. The bake sale, an important part of the Fair continues throughout the afternoon and 'evening as bakers bring in more baking. The first column' Clinton rail passenger service to end November 1 The big new News-Record has initiated another change this week, actually two. The first' is a major redesigning of the editorial page which sees the introduction of our own cartoonist. The page will continue to • contain editorials, Bill Smiley, Jack Scott and From Our Early Files. Gone will "be the church advertisements and the business cards, but more about them in a moment. We hope the t new editorial page, besides presenting a bit of humour through the cartoon antics of Frisbee, the name of the central character in the cartoon, will also give more space for editorial opinion. Another is to give the opinions of our readers expressed through letters to the editor, a permanent home, rather than spread all over the paper as in the past. We hope you'll help by writing your opinions down and sending them Another feature of the new editorial page will be a condensation of the editorial opinions of other newspapers in the county= We hope you'll enjoy it. If you're looking for those church notices, they are now in the second section of the paper on our new Church page, The page will generally be built around the activities of the church in general and our area churches and Church groups in particular: It will also feature a picture ancl.short background on Various churches in the area and, the Rev. Jene Miller, who used to have a column in the paper, will return with his Empty Pew on that pages We welcome your comments. Weather 1070 HI LO Sept, 29' 51 38 80 58 45 Oct. 1 56 42 2 63 48 a 60 44 4 52 43 5 61 40 Rain .88" 1969 H I LO 58 35 62 48 72 44 64 60 64 48 65 38 70 .40 Bain .1e BY WILMA OKE. Tuckersmith Township Council at a meeting in Brucefield Thursday night, October 1, acdepted the tender of Robert Nicholson Construction Company Ltd., RR 1, Sebringville, to construct the McCully Drain for $1650.00. It was the lower of two tenders. The tender of Harold L. Roth, New Hamburg, to construct the Bell Drain for $2394.00 was accepted, It was the lowest of five tenders. Approval was given to Dennis Chapman of Egmondville to erect a house in the hamlet. Alvin Regier, Egmondville, was present at the meeting to discuss water laying on his property. A check is to be made of the drain. A tile drain loan for $3000.00 Dr. Bob McClure, first layman moderator in the history of the United Church of Canada, spoke Sunday night to an overflow audience at Wesley-Willis Church. Ile challenged the Canadian people to ready themselves for a new role in trying to heal a divided world, Dr. McClure pointed out that this is an ever shrinking world. Stand at any airport in the world and you will find that nobody oh this globe is further than 20 hours away. There Are cultures which have survived for thousands of years. We are up against them and must share the world with them. Who made the world shrink/ When we realize how the jet engine, the transistor radio, and the satellite have cut Communications, We see that it is We who have made the world shrink. "Now We assume that the whole world is delighted to be in Stich close contact With lovely people like us," said Dr. McClure, "but they are not at all pleased. They think that We have a Master plan for the world — but we haven't t due!" The moderator also pointed out that this IS a hungry world-, Seven out of ova's,- 10 deaths in was approved. Robert Cook, Hensall, attended the meeting to discuss a minor drain constructed through his property which would affect the township road. Council passed amending by-laws on the Etue Drain which cost $14,106.86 instead of the estimated $13,940; and on the Charters drain which cost $16,083.35 instead of the estimated $14,410.00. Council agreed to set the due date for final payment of taxes to be paid December 15, and Clerk James McIntosh was instructed to prepare a by-law to cover this. Anyone in Tuckersmith erecting a. new building or making an addition to an existing building costing in excess of $300.00 must apply to the world are directly due to hunger or malnutrition. Meanwhile Canada has its own little problem: "We have one billion bushels too much Wheat in a hungry world. It wouldn't be half the problem it is exeept for the fact that these hungry people know about it!" Dr. McClure emphasized the fact that 50 percent of the people in the world today are 21 years of age or under and they are going to be around a long time. Our children and grandchildren will have to figure out a More equitable solution than we have. But in a shrinking and hungry World, we the white, so-Called Christian nations Make up only 20 percent Of the world's population. Before the turn of the century it is estimated that we will only be about nine percent of the total. In the world today there is a new "Revolution of glaing Expectations." The depressed peoples of the world are no longer going to be satisfied with their lot. Formerly they said, "It Is Out Karma," or "It is the will Of Allah!" Some day in the near futUre "when we ate Sitting on too Much of the World's wheat, Clerk McIntosh for a permit, Road Superintendent Allan Nicholson was given permission to order more road signs to replace several which have been stolen recently. Council passed for payment accounts totalling $35,702.84 for October. Of these $17,218.70 are road accounts; $9,134.38 for drains; $7000.00 for Tuckersmith Telephone System loan; and $2,349.86 for miscellaneous accounts. Deputy Reeve Alex McGregor was appointed to attend, as Tuckersmith representative, the meeting to be held by the Conservation Authority Branch of the Department of Mines, Energy and Resources Management in the Court House, Goderich, on October 7 at 2 p.m. some of these people will say: `Let's go oiler to Canada and help the bast with their wheat problem.' " These people are not unduly concerned with • our ability to have men walk on the moon. What they are interested in is the fact that We share the same sphere. "Too many of us are like first class passengers on a world Cruise. As we look down from our lofty position on the upper deck on the dirty steerage pmprtgers below, we say, 'It seems your end of the boat is sinking!' Little do we realise that it Will not be long before our own feet get wet!" Dr. McClure concluded his stirring message with the suggestion that all cultures that have survived have had a strong faith. The Christian religion is the only one that teaches a Message relevant to the world today: Cod is a God of love, the creator and father of all men. But our yonng people of today are the most illiterate people of the world as far as religion is terecerned. The Makin, Dr. McClure pointed out, it that we have failed to preserve family life as the Centre of our Western Beginning November 1, the era of railway passenger service will end in Clinton. Permission was granted last Thursday by the Canadian Transport Commission for the Canadian National Railways to discontinue passenger service on its Stratford to Goderich line which serves Clinton. Service on the Toronto-Palmerston, Palmerston-Owen Sound, Palmerston-Southampton, and Kincardine-Stratford lines will also be discontinued. Canadian Pacific Railway's Toronto to Owen Sound route will also go out of service. Service on the CNR's Guelph to Toronto line was ordered continued and the railway was ordered to upgrade the standard of service, CNR service between Guelph and Toronto, which carries up to 400 'passengers daily, is served by a conventional train but, said the commission, accommodation for passengers is not of the standard that customers of CNR have a right to expect. "Specifically the 100-seat coaches, built in 1919, are crowded and uncomfortable and have no air conditioning. "The surprising thing is that so many people are prepared to put up with conditions as they are,,,and ride regularly on these trains, Canadian National is clearly capable of a better effort: It is inconceivable that there are not modern coaches in the The meeting has been arranged because of a resolution from the town of Seaforth asking to have the boundaries of the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority enlarged to include the municipalities in the Bayfield River Valley. The Bayfield Valley cannot be established as a separate authority since it is not large enough to be economical. The Bayfield Valley lies between the Maitland and the Ausauble Authorities. The representatives from the municipalities affected will discuss and vote on which authority the Bayfield Valley should be under. The Department of Highways is to be petitioned for road Subsidy from January 1 to September 30. c ivilization. We are so preoccupied with the acquisition of wealth and the pursuit of pleasure, that we have turned over the responsibility of religious training to the Sunday School and Sex Education to the schools. ,Questioned as to the statistical failure of the Christian Missions in countries like China, Dr. McClure said that there is no way of competing the influence of Christianity by the use Of statistics. We are Mathematically minded and can figure out how many man-hours it takes to build a car. Yon can't do that With people. Our Christian .missionaries have so influenced native people of the World that they have gone out from our mission schools to libetate their people in great revolutionary Movements. . "In a true revolution,"• Dr. McClure pointed out, "you don't displace a thing until you have Something better to take its place, To destroy a thing deliberately is anarchy. It is not revolution. A rebel is a man who is unhappy with things as they ate and wants a better world," This is the challenge to a teal, working Christianity, railway's inventory that could be substituted for these relics of a bygone age." Passenger services to be abandoned were found uneconomic by the committee, which said they are likely to continue to be so "because there is a marked and persistent preference of the travelling public for the bus or their own automobiles over the service offered by passenger train." The orders were the first issued under revised regulations which would require the public treasury to reimburse the railways up to 80 per cent of their losses on passenger services they are rerjuired Lo provide. The commission said the region the trains serve has a network of paved, all-weather highways and roads and all rail points are either serviced directly by bus at least once daily or are within a convenient distance from a bus stop. Bus service is available at the larger centres several times a day to and from Toronto and intermediate points, and bus fares are competitive with those of the railway. "We find that in the light of the, actual losses incurred in the last three prescribed accounting years in relation to the number of passengers using or likely to use the services, no such alterations could render them economic," the commission said. Education at a meeting Monday evening in Clinton. 'Elliott was referring to the policy which was approved by the board regarding maternity leave for female teachers. The board had learned it had no choice but to approve the policy which became law during the summer when the Ontario government passed legislation inaugurated by the Department of Labor regarding pregnancy leave. The legislation gives female employees six weeks leave of absence prior to the birth of a child and six weeks leave of absence after the delivery. Where female teachers are concerned, this makes it possible for a teacher to remain in the classroom until six weeks before she is delivered. It also makes it impossible for a female teacher to lose her job during pregnancy if she chose to retain it. • Some board members were particularly perturbed by the fact that a female teacher may renew a contract at the end of the school year knowing full well that she will be having a child in the first few months of the new term. "That's unfair to the child," noted John Broadfoot, Brucefield, "and I mean the child in school." "Six weeks is three months," (See Page Three) $1000 profit in Penny Sale At the regular meeting of the Worii&S Auxiliary to Clinton Public Hospital, Mrs. Helen Davies, in the absence of Mrs, Betty Weight, reported $1093.33 had been realized in the Annual Penny Sale. This is the highest amount ever to be made by a Penny Sale and is to be used in furnishing the new addition to the hospital, The hospital cart this month IS in charge of the Loncleshoro Women's Institute and will be stocked 'in November by Mrs. Doug Ball. Thanksgiving favors ate being tnade by No. 1, Brownie Pack under the direction of Mrs, Ken Wood, Mrs. Ryan, in charge of the flower exhibit at the Hospital, asked for Small metal vases to be left at the hospital: Co-operation of the nubile would be appreciated. Arrangements Were Made for delegates to attend the Hospital Conference in reran to October 25-28, The findings = resulted from public hearings on the applications for discontinuance held in the Grey County court house in Owen Sound March 31, in the Wellington County court house, Quell* April 8. . The accounting years considered by the commission were 1966, 1967 and 1968, The Canadian National service between Stratford and Goderich incurred total costs in 1968 of $86,828, against total revenue of $10,035, for an actual loss of $76,793, An increase in rates for nearly .600,000 rural customers was announced October 1 by Ontario Hydro. Effective on bills payable January 1, 1971,, the rate change will raise revenue from Hydra's rural customers by nine per cent. It is the second general rate increase in 17 years. The last one was effective October, 1968. Specific percentage rate increases to customers vary according to service classification. Details are being mailed directly to all customers. Hydro Chairman , George Gathercole said that the increase is "regrettable", but unavoidable. Owing to inflationary pressures and rising costs, our rural system is now operating at a substantial loss, During the last four years the cost of coal has increased by more than 21 percent in terms of energy content. Actual fuel costs have climbed from less than $35 million to $86 million, an increase of 148 percent in the same period. Interest costs have risen Canadian National provides service six days a week to these communities, and it would he • impossible for the railway to provide more frequent service without substantially increasing cost. The cost distribution, on a per passenger basis for the Goderich-Clinton-Stratford. line, based on 1968 figures would be $1.01 paid by the average passenger, $1.54 by the company and $6.17' by the taxpayer. sharply. All new plants are being financed at interest rates that are nearly double those of a few years ago. In 1966 Ontario Hydro's interest bill was $65.5 million; this year it is over $1.11 million, up 70 percent. Property taxes, • operation and maintenance 'expense have also increased. "The adjustment of rural rates", Mr. Gathercole said, "has been deferred until absolutely necessary. It,is designed to offset current operating losses and meet predictable cost advances. The increase will barely meet costs but •should carry us into 1972." "If Ontario Hydro is to maintain its ability to meet the power needs of the province, an increase in revenue from all customers is unavoidable." in farm fire Clinton Fire Department answered two fire calls in the last week. The first, on Saturday morning about 9A0 was to the farm of Robert Trick, RR 3, Clinton. An implement shed was on fire, fed by gasoline from a 500 gallon tank inside, the tanks of two tractors and a drum of fuel. Using the new foam method for gasoline fires for the first time, the firemen were able to save the building although it was badly damaged. The tractors were also badly damaged. The second call was just after 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning when they put out a small fire at Blake's Welding Shop on King St. BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER "There are some things the; sK4°' board controls and' some things it doesn't," observed Robert Elliott, vice-chairman of the Huron County Board of Tuckersmith council accepts drain tenders Distinguished missionary challenges large audience Board approves maternity leave Hydro rates up % to rural users "Costs have . been escalating for equipment and supplies, salaries and wages,, on capital funds. Methods, to Garage damaged and interest control air pollution have become an' ' ' significant budget consideration. Heavy expenses have been incurred for the installation of pollution abatement equipment and purchases of low-sulphur fuel," he said. "The relative shortage of coal, particularly that • with low sulphur content, has exerted a strong upward thrust on all fossil fuel prices during a time when the Commission's fuel requirements have been rising rapidly."