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Royce Kellens of William Street got a better Christmas present
than he expeoted last Week when his ticket was drawn from the
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Clinton of tickets turned in by shoppers
during the Christmas period. It took two men tb turn the drum
before the lucky winner was chosen betause soniewhere between
'350,000 and 1100,606 entries were deposited. IMO Smith,
president of the -Clinton Retail Merchants Association presented
hitt With the cheque on Monday morning, — staff photo,
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Federation briefs
local members
Long discussions on county " Guidelines
Well, it's been quite a year.
Looking beck it seems most of the news
has been bad,, but there was just enough
good news thrown in to keep spirits bouyed
up.
Hanging over everyone's head for the past
year of course has been the knowledge that
our major source of employment and
revenue the CFB Clinton is coming closer
and closer to its closure date. Added to that
was the economic slowdown that has been
hurting the whole country. Then there was
the closure of one local factory and lay-offs
at another.
But balanced against that was the
knowledge that people still had lots of
money to spend. Borseracing came' to
Clinton during .the summer and was so
popular the number of dates had to be
increased. Every Sunday from $20,000 to
$50,000 changed hands down at the track.
Then Christmas came and the Clinton
merchants in their biggest, and most
successful promotion in some time, found
out people still like to shop in Clinton. How
much money was spent in Clinton during
December is not known for sure. But it is
known that stores participating in the
promotion handed out between 400,000 and
500,000 tickets, each representing one dollar
spent.
* *
A major concern this year was the crime
front where we had just about every crime
. possible in a small town. The year started off
badly with a tragic murder, progressed
through assorted breakins, vandalism, and
beatings to arnattempted bombing.
All the time the police were battling with
crime, town council was battling with their
budget, trying to figure out how to get the
most police protection for the least expense.
While council cut and pared their budget
they enviously eyed the county education
budget that again grew this year. (But.
enough said before we arouse the ire of the
new board too).
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For the News-Record it has been a pretty
good year, This is the 52nd issue since this
editor came to Clinton and we hope we've
served you well.
Some things we do know for sure and
we're a little proud of them. For one, we
held the line against inflation. In fact you
are now getting more for your money than
you were a year ago in your newspaper. The
number of pages this year has, increased by
about one third. Circulation is also well
ahead of last year. In face of the economic
situation it's been good progress and the
people of the Clinton area should be
compliniented on their confidence in their
newspaper,
In the face of several rises in newsprint
prices (three in the last year at latest count)
we've been able- to keep from increasing
advertising or subscription rates because of
this growth. Others in the county have not
been so lucky.
A month ago, two papers, the Listowel
Banner and the Wingham Advance-Times
boosted their news-stand price to 25 cents
and subscriptions to $10 per year.
* *
As for predictions •for 1971, well may be
we should make a few first that are almost
sure bets. We'll have snow for winter carnival
in February and it will be gone so we can
celebrate July 1 (come to think about it, the
way it's been snowing lately that may not be
such a sure bet).
Several members of the Board of
Education will take exception to comments
in the News-Record, and we will again make
the public works department angry (though
not as long as they do as good a job of
cleaning snow as they've been doing),
The Spring Fair will be the best yet. The
Redmen from CHSS will either win the
Huron-Perth senior basketball crown or
come close /to it. The Clinton Juniors will
have to scramble to win a playoff spot in
hockey,
By next fall some Solution to the problem
of the base will be found and we will have
new hope. With this accornplished, planning
will begin for development of the Bayfield
River and talks will be underway with
Tuckersmith to co-ordinate development of
the area between the base and Clinton.
Charles MaeNaughton will run in the next
provincial election and Win,
The NeWs,Reeord will look back at these
predictions this time next year and wonder
what went wrong.
Weather
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Snow 19"
Local members of Parliament heard beefs
from the beef producers and talked turkey
with poultry producers and other farmers
Tuesday afternoon as they met with
members of the Huron County Federation
of Agriculture for the annual Members of
Parliament dinner.
Robert McKinley, M.P. for Huron, and
Murray Gaunt, M.P.P. for Huron-Bruce,
attended the luncheon and heard 13 briefs
presented afterward by heads of the
commodity*sections and various committees
of the federation,
John Stafford, president of the federation
led off the speakers and expressed concern
over the problem of ,pollution in farming. He
said pesticides and the disposal of animal
waste would be of increasing importance in
the years ahead.
"Are we to be harassed by laws and
regulations more stringent than the
producers of competing provinces or
countries?" he asked. "Will livestock
producers be compelled to invest scarce farm
funds for pollution abatement equipment
without an adequate increase in returns? Will
our urban friends be permitted to establish
residence to enjoy the benefits of country
living, and then later on cause problems
because of farm smells?"
The problem of research fOr better
methods of disposing of animal wastes was
discussed by Gordon Hill of Varna, president
of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. He
asked if there was any way to encourage
research on practical system of waste
disposal.
Mr. McKinley said that it had always been
his opinion that good systems, properly
operated, worked well and presented few
problems.
Several cases now before the courts in
Huron and Bruce counties where neighbours
are complaining about the smell from nearby
farming facilities were discussed. It was
pointed out that in many cases the farming
operations had conformed to all rules and
recommendations laid down by the
Department of Agriculture, Ontario Water
Resources Commission and other
authorities.
Don Pullen, Agriculture Representative
for Huron, said later in the meeting that
research was going on by the Department of
Agriculture but that solutions would never
come fast enough in face of the growing
pollution problem.
Mr. McKinley asked what effect the
banning of DDT had had on farming
operations.
Mr. Hill pointed out that in many cases
there was no good economical alternative.
He also said that produce coming into the
country from outside often Carried DDT.
Mr, Gaunt said he understood that special
licences to use DDT had been issued for
those who could not find an alternative
pesticide. This had been permitted to
tobacco growers and to lettuce growers in
the Holland Marsh area after they had
suffered from an invasion of cutworms.
Red tape had been a problem with special
permits for the lettuce grower Mr. Hill said.
By the time they got permission to use DDT
the crop was already lost.
oAnother major topic discussed at the .
meeting was a proposal by Mason Bailey that
some of the funds being paid in welfare be
diverted to help farmers pay for hired help,
He pointed out that input costs were now
so high on many farms that the farmer, his
wife and family had to work long hours
seven days a week to complete work. With
the small amount being paid for farm
produce it was impossible for farmers to
even pay the minimum wage for farm help.
Why should an able-bodied person getting
a good living on welfare ever go to work for
less money, he wondered?
"Hopefully, someday, someone will find
more realistic solutions to economic
problems, than subsidies and welfare
programs," he said in his brief.
Mr. McKinley said he couldn't agree
more. Fruit growers, he said, were unable to
hire competent labour and had to import it.
But the government, he said, seemed to be
hindering this by saying the transient
workers should pay some of the cost of
travelling to the jobs.
Gordon Hill pointed out that much of
what Mr. Bailey advocated would be
implemented under a negative income tax
plan.
The cost of this so far, Mr. Gaunt paid,
was prohibitive. Cost might be cut,
according to Mr. McKinley, if 'all
unemployment and Welfare programs were
administered by one department but, he
noted, this would mean a great deal of
trouble in winning acceptance from the civil
service.
Other briefs presented at the meeting
dealt with crop insurance, snowmobiles,
junior farmer and 4-H groups, importation
of butter, commodity councils, milk quotas
and pricing, pork production, community
selling projects, soil management and
problems of beef production.
Text of the I3 briefs will be presented in
the next few weeks on the Arm page of the
News-Record jrO your information.
For some people, liquor is an important
part of Christmas.
For a local man, it was so important he
broke his way into the Liquor Control Board
store on Christmas morning and made off
with four bottles.
Police said that a charge has been laid but
did not release the name of the accused.
Police also investigated three accidents
over the Christmas period. One involved an
errant salt truck that badly damaged
Vodden's Jewellery on Tuesday morning
about 5 a.m. It went out of control on the
slippery street and knocked over a PUC pole
on Huron Street and took one corner out of
the shop. The truck was owned by W. C.
Barber and son of Port Rowan.
A Strauss Transport Ltd. truck was
involved in an accident on Victoria Street,
December 17. A car owned by Austin Shea
of Clinton was also involved in the rear-end
collision, .\
Six session beef
course offered
A six session course is being offered at
the Ontario Department of Agriculture and
Food Board Room, Clinton from January 6
— February 17, 1971.
The course, programmed by Stan
Paquette, associate agricultural
representative for Huron, will offer study on
"Nutrient Requirements and Feed
composition," "Ration ,,.Building," ,"Beef
Calf Production," "Production Costing,"
"Grading and Marketing".
Course participants will include Ralph
McCartney, beef cattle specialist, Ontario
Department of Agriculture and Food,
Guelph. Graeme Hedley, secretary-manager,
Ontario Beef Improvement Association, Dr.
Ron Usborne, ' meat science department,
University of Guelph and Stan Paquette,
associate agricultural representative, Huron.
Charles Gracey, Manager of the Canadian
Cattlemen's Association, will be banquet
speaker at the conclusion of the programs,
Enrolment is limited to 35 producers.
Farmers' rebate cheques in the mail
The government announcement of the
rebate came after a summer-long campaign
by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture for
the removal of education taxes from
property. The rebate is approximately equal
to 50 per cent of the education taxes paid
by farmers.
Many farmers across Ontario withheld the
education portion of their property taxes
during the campaign, to protest what they
called the unjust and inequitable taxation of
farm property.
Gordon Hill, Ontario Federation of
Agriculture President, said at the time of the
government announcement, "This is a
triumph for farmers and their organizations.
There is no doubt that the government
would not have granted farmers this rebate if
they hadn't prodded the government into
action."
Following the rebate offer, OFA called
,off its tax-withholding activities for a
"wait-and-see" period. The farmers'
organization promises to resume tax
withholding in 1971 if the government fails
to announce a plan to remove all education
taxes from all property.
Vas. Mary Evelyn Glazier who was
seriously injured in an accident near Lapeer,
Michigan, on Decoriber 4, died Monday,
December 21, in Strathroy.
The 65 year-old Clinton woman had
suffered multiple fractures and internal
injuries in the trash which had killed het
son, Mervin, 42, of OshavviL MrS. Glazier was
being transported from Lapeer COunty
General Hospital in Michigan to a London
hospital to be nearer her husband so he
could visit her durieg the Christmas seasons
During the 105 mile journey her
condition Worsened and was taken to
StrathropNicidloSex Hospital where she died
about 1p.m,
She was born in Hullett township On July
29, 1005, the daughter of Serail and Charles
Johnston. She Married Clifford Glazier On
January 7, 1925 and Spent her life as a
housowife: The couple lived all their lives in
Huron County Council concurred provided
any presentation be made jointly by a
committee comprised of representatives
from the Association of Ontario Mayors and
Reeves, the Ontario Municipal Association,
the Association of Counties and Regions on
-Ontario, and the Ontario Association of
Rural Municipalities.
3. Municipal people be consulted by the
province prior to the introduction of
legislation dealing with local government
responsibilities, re-structuring or
re-organizational processes. — Council
concurred.
BOARDS OF EDUCATION
1. Mandatory legislation be introduced to
provide for a joint capital budget committee
representing area councils and their
corresponding school boards and that such
committee be authorized to make
recommendations, upon approval of the
respective appointing bodies, to the Ontario
Municipal Board. — HtirOn Connty Council
did 'not' Concur and recommended that each
elected body make its own financial
decisions.
2. The Ontario Municipal Board continue
to have the authority to approve capital
expenditures for school boards and councils,
but that it be mandatory for the OMB to
provide detailed documentation of the
priorities to be established. — Huron County
Council did not concur but did agree that
local officials should be able to establish
their own priorities.
3. The ' division of functions be
maintained with education being the
responsibility of elected boards of education
and provision of other municipal services,
the responsibility of councils. — Council
concurred.
4. A closer liaison be established between
school boards and councils and both bodies
work together to produce a tax bill which
will define the allocation of tax dollars to
each. Council concurred.
ASSESSMENT
1. Now that the province has assumed the
function of assessment, it be retained as a
provincial responsibility. — Council did not
concur and expressed the hope that at some
future date, the assessing function would be
turned back to the county.
2. We register our disfavor with the
current equalization factors being used by
the province and request that they be altered
to guarantee equal sharing of the costs of
shared services. — Council did not concur.
3. The province be requested to give top
priority to the reassessment of all real
property in Ontario. — Council concurred.
Space does not permit complete
publication of this report this week.
Other
recommendations dealing with Municipal
reform will be printed next week.
the Clinton area. Mrs. Glazier was a member
of Ontario Street United Church.
Surviving besides her husband iS one
daughter, Mrs. James (Thelma) Wilson of
Blyth. Two brothers, Gordon of
Londesboro, Louis (Buster) of Clinton and
three sisters, Mrs, Cecil (Fdith) Cartwright,
Mrs, Charles (Pearl) Brumey and Mts. Lloyd
(Mae) Pease all of Blvth.
Funeral services took place on Thursday,
December 24, from the Beattie Funeral
Home with the Rev. W.H. Wonfor
officiating. Interment was in Clinton
cemetery.
Pallbearers were W. A. Glazier, Doug
Fronton, Charles Brandon, William Holland,
Reg. Ball end Doug Kennedy.
Flowerbeatera Were Frank Wilson gric
Glazier, Arnold Pease, Barrie Brintiley,
Dale and Wayne Pickard.
49406004
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Members of Huron County Council spent
just about a day and a half on "Guidelines
For Action,1970" a report prepared by the
Special Study CoMmittee of the Association
of Counties and Regions of Ontario. The
document was an effort to update "A
Blueprint for Local Government
Re-Organization."
Huron County Council was just one of 37
county councils in Ontario invited to make a
thorough study of the document and to
forward their ideas concerning it to the.
study committee for reappraisal before the
final drafting of the report is presented at
the mid-term meeting of the Association of
Counties and Regions of Ontario in April.
"We should have our say," noted •the
warden, Roy Westcott as the councillors
plunged into the study.
The following is a clause by clause study
of the report, including the study
committee's recommendation and Huron
County Council's proposals:
GENERAL
1. Each political party in Ontario be
asked to prepare and distribute, prior to the
next provincial election, its platform on
municipal government. — Huron County .
Council did not concur,
2. The provincial government be asked to
include this association in future
federal-provincial conferences which deal
with matters relevant, to local government. —
Charge laid in break-in
A PUC truck was involved in the third
accident. Thomas O'Connell of Clinton was
driving the truck on Victoria Street when it
was in collision with a car driven by Agnes
Kapstein of Brucefield. Charges are pending.
Mailmen begin delivery of $20 millioh of
cheques to Ontario farmers this week.
The cheques result from the October 6th,
1970,' announcement by the Ontario
government of a Farm Tax Reduction
Program, designed to reduce the burden of
municipal and education taxes on farm
property. Each farmer will receive a cheque
equal to 25 per cent of his net property
taxes.
Mrs. Clifford Glazier
Woman dies from injuries