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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-04-13, Page 1Joanne DeGroot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Joe DeGroot of Seaforth won a trip to the United Nations Friday night when she topped competitors at the Ocdfellows and Rebekas' public speaking contest held at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton, Speaker wins trip to United Nations `tin to , to io 20 o.enu Snow 6" Snow 107 Year - No. 15 Thursday, April 13, 19 72 4 Weather 1972 Hi IQ 1971 Ill 1.0 April 4 39 26 30 19 5 33 22 33 23 6 26 18 41 20 7 21 '7 44 24 8 25 9 51 23 9 39 14 60 32 10 50 31 40 23 Sewer expansion means whopping bill for homeowner Dirk Westerhout of Rattenbury Street was the winner of 20 merchandising coupons worth one dollar each in the final draw of the Bargain World Promotion this week. Here Mr. Westerhout receives his coupons from Mrs. Lorne Garrow of the Kum-in restaurant where he picked up the lucky ticket. It was the second winner from the Kum-in during the contest. The contest proved popular with Clinton shoppers and thousands of entries were received. Huron Federation to investigate fuel costs A new business openedon main street in Iinfon fast week when Robin Phittiot of Seaforth opened a fruit Market in the former tack-shop building next to-Bailiff's Bakery. Mr. Phillip' will be assisted by his wife dioria in the new venture. The Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board will continue to accept taxes from 30 municipalities in the two counties in two instalments each year and from 15 on a yearly basis. This decision resulted following the defeat of a vote seven to six on a motion which was introduced for the quarterly instalments of the taxes from all municipalities according to section 87 of the Separate School's Act, Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1970 which would have become effective in 1973. The matter of tax payments had risen originally when concern had been expressed about paying interest on money borrowed from the bank to carry on the board's business while waiting for the taxes to be paid in. It had been revealed that a saving of $4,196.20 would have been made by the board with the quarterly instalments. An educational course on local government, consisting of six sessions at King Lear School in Stratford, is being attended by Superintendent of Education John Vintar of Stratford; Assistant Superintendent Josepti,04 Tokar, of Stratford; and Trustees Howard Shantz, Stratford; Chris Walraven of St. Marys; and Vincent Young of Goderich. Mr. Young as chairman of the property perty committee, made the following recommendations to the board which were approved: at St. James School in Seaforth, that C. Ryan install the cupboards at a cost of $375 and that George A. Sills and Sons, Seaforth, be engaged to install the sink; that a sink and cupboard be installed in the staff room at St. Ambrose School in Stratford, by Moffat and White at a cost of $443; and that a rental dusk- to dawn unit and pole be installed at St. Joseph's School in Kingsbridge, tat a cost of $4.25 per month in order that the south-west corner of the school will be illuminated. Reporting on the• 42nd annual Conference of the Ontario Separate School Trustees Association held in Toronto April 6 and 7, Vincent Young said he had attempted the Family Life Education seminar and found it both interesting and informative. He believed the information at the seminar would assist him since he is a member of the Huron-Perth Advisory Committee on Family Life Education, Reporting on the same seminar Mr. Vintar stated that education for family living was a community responsibility according to the seminar leaders and the school could play a special role within that community. It was pointed out that family life programs deal with attitudes, relationships, and the development of a consciousness of a person as a total being. Mr, Vintar stressed that sex comprises only about 15 per cent of the course, a fact which many people do not realize. The program where it has been put into effect is integrated into other subject areas. Mr, Vintar stated that the Huron-Perth Advisory Committee has held meetings and will continue to hold exploratory meetings into the feasibility of introducing Family Life Education into the HuronPerth curriculum. Trustee Arthur Haiti, R.R. 4, Listowel, reported on the Assessment seminar and the proposed Bill which is expected to be presented to the, Ontario Government the first week of May, making certain revisions to the assessment act and Bill 127, an act to amend assessment act. Elaborating on the proposed legislation, Jack Lane, Business Administrator, stated that the legislation when passed will permit enumeration of all assessed owners for statistical purposes in order to form the voter's list and school support for each municipality, This information will be relayed directly to the municipal clerks, thereby giving them greater local autonomy. This will permit appeals to be made by assessed owners directly to the municipal clerk, particularly with respect to school support. He said formerly appeals of this nature were processed through Court of Review. Mr, Lane went on to explain that Bill 127 was passed to enable the Department of 'Municipal Affairs to achieve complete equalized assessment by 1974 for implementation in 1075. Mr, Lane concluded his remarks by stating that it was necessary for Roman Catholics to declare themselves as separate school supporters to be properly recorded on the voter's list within their mnnicipalities, Joanne DeGroot, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe DeGroot of Seaforth and a student at Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton topped a field of seven speakers last Friday to win a trip to the United Nations in New York. Runner-up was Mary Edith Garniss of Wingham. The other contestants were Kathryn Cook, Hensall; Kathy Simmons, Exeter; Barbara Brady, Seaforth; Carl Bolton, Dublin and JoAnne Palmer, Clinton. Judges for the contest held at the C.H.S.S. auditorium were Mr. J.W. Coulter, Superintendent of Program and Planning, Huron County Board of Education, Clinton; A pilot project, to test the buying power of 25 farmers in Huron County in purchasing petroleum products is to be set up by the Huron St Column Rick Snell of LondeSboro placed first Saturday in the Zone 3 finaIS of the Lions Club effective speaking contest held in Newry, Jo-Annie Palmer of Clinton was second in the girls division. Both Jo-Anne .and Rick will advance to the sub-district competition at Angus on April 14 and the winners there will advance to the finals at Peterborough in May. + + + Dates for 4-11 Achievement Days have been announced for the "Sleepwear" project. One of the Achievement Days will be at the Central • Huron SecondarySchOol, Clinton on April 29. The girls will model their creations. + + + Laying of the cornerstone of Brucefieters never United Church will take place April 23 at 2 OA. Rev, Frederick M. Faist, chairman of the Huron-Perth presbytery will perform the dereftiony. Official opening will take place the hext May / at 2 p.m, Miss Ethel McKay, Toronto, retired School Teacher; and Rev, Paul Packman, Minister of Kippen and Brucefield United Churches. The Oddfellow and Rebekah Lodges of Huron County are sponsors of the 10th annual all expenses-paid trip for two weeks in July to the United Nations and other spots of interest enroute. Mr. Murray Taylor, D,D.G.M. Clinton was chairman for the event which was attended by a large group of spectators, Mr. Bill Taylor, Varna is secretary-treasurer. Mr. Richard Ottewell, Exeter, last year's winner expressed his thanks and showed several pictures of interest taken on the trip. County Federation of Agriculture. At a meeting in Clinton Town Hall Thursday night Chairman of the input Committee stated. that a • similar project had already been established in Napanee. Mr. Austin confirmed that farmers in that area have reduced the cost of gasoline by six cents, fuel oil by four cents and furnace oil by three cents. A resolution was moved by Adrian VoS, Blyth, seconded by Vince Austin whereas Hog Feeders received five dollars per Hog Deficiency Payment, therefore be it resolved that O.F.A. request the Stablization Board for comparable assistance for Sow operators. The motion was carried. In new business it was reported by Allan Turnbull of R.R. 1 Grand Bend that of a recent delivery this week of fuel oil he was billed an additional 25 cents per gallon for road tax, Up to now farmers have not had to pay any road tax on fuel oil, however, the interpretation of the recent legislation by Darcy McKeough it appears that this will be a future law, If this interpretation is true 0.17,A. will oppose this movement. Field-Secretary of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture Bill Crawford reported Individual Service Membership has increased to 1150 in Huron County. He also reported to the Directors that the office in Clinton is open to members every Friday or can be contacted by telephoning 482-9642 any day Monday through Friday. ' in sewerage rates, However, paying back the debentures, and CMHC loan would total $42,984.50 more than 155.'7 per cent of last year's revenue. On top of this is the cost of maintenance which last year totaled $16 (500. The letter explained that Gus Boussey, manager of the Clinton PUG doubted if under the new system the maintenance budget could be kept that low. "If anticipated maintenance and operation costs are even $22,000," Mr, Menzies explained, "this would represent a further sewer rate of 79.85 per cent for a total sewer rate of 235,55 per cent." Other avenues open for raising the money are for a foot-frontage assessment, and An agreement is to be signed soon between the Clinton Kinsmen Club and Clinton town council which will bring the town a share of profits from the, operation of the Kinsmen Raceway. The agreement calls for the town to get 25 per cent of all profits at the track with no provision for the Kinsmen to write off the costs of capital expenses such as buildings except for mutual machines. In the past, the town was to get 25 per cent of the profits but only after all capital costs had been paid for. In addition, the town will bill the Kinsmen for work done at the raceway by town employees and machinery. No new capital expenditures will be undertaken by the Kinsmen without consultation with the town. The town, for their part, will take over maintenance of the ball park on its completion. The park has been completely renovated in the last two years by the Kinsmen. A delegation was present at the meeting of council Monday night and indicated this agreement was acceptable except for a few minor changes of wording. They also were interested in the town's plans for a new work building for the Public Works and waterworks and sewerage divisions of the PUC, Originally the town had proposed building the building on Park Lane near the PUC in an area now used as a parking lot. The Kinsmen were against such a site since it would cause a shortage of parking space for the community park, Councillor James Armstrong reported however that they had little to fear because soil tests carried out on Monday showed that building on this site would mean an extra cost of $7000 to sink footing which would support the structure, Councillor Armstrong said that the town was now looking for another site, Considerable discussion took place with the delegation and council on possible sites. The delegation suggested the compound beside the PUC but councillor Armstrong reported this possibility had been investigated and rejected because the site was too small for the 120 by 45 foot structure, Mayor Symons noted that the purpose of having the PUG and Public Works share the samebuilding was because both needed room and the streets and water and sewer First Base industry gets UDC grant The honourable Charles MacNaughton, tvl,P.P, for Huron, announced last week that the first industry to locate in the former CFB Clinton will receive Ontario government assistance. Advanced Automated Equipment Ltd. will begin manufacture in the near future on two newly-developed products, an automated self , feed screwdrivers 'and a rotary vibrators parts feeder for the domestic and export operations. The plant will locate in a 12,200 square foot plant, the former Construction Engineering building at the Base and will begin operation With seven employees. It is expected that employment will increase to 50 within five years. Housing is available for employees in the residential section of the Base formerly Occupied by Canadian Forces Personnel. John White, Minister of Trade and Development Said the company will receive an Ontario Development Corporation performance loan of $30,000 to help purchase $60,000 worth of new , Manufacturing equipment, In addition, a venture capital term loam and an export support loan under the government's recently announced aid program for (Mario exporters will provide funds for the company to manufacture its hew products for' commercial markets and generate both Canadian and export business, It is expected that experts wilt he worth about $250,000 of the first year's production, addition to the mill rate or a combination of the three. The letter, however, was written in December. Since then council has been informed that the cost of the project has risen from $420,000 to $510,000 so a further expenditure can be forseen, A meeting is to be set up in Toronto in the near future to discuss financing with the Ontario Water Resources Commission and R, V. Anderson and Associates, the Toronto firm which drew up plans for the expansion program, In other business, council learned that it is going to have to pay from $6000 to $9000 in departments often overlapped in their areas of work. He noted that the town did not want to take water and sewer departments out from under the PUC, but thought that equipment and personnel could be shared with the Public Works department. The mayor wondered if the council should be more long-sighted in the project than just building a works building. He noted that the present town hall is in a deteriorated state with inadequate police office and not enough room for all trucks in the fire hall. He wondered if the town should be looking at solving all its problems at once. The police report showed that with the closing of the Huron County jail at Goderich, it now requires three hours for Clinton police to transport prisoners to Stratford or Walkerton, further hampering the work of his force. The tender of Carter's West End Supertest was accepted to supply fuel for town equipment at 44 cents per gallon for regular and 49 cents for premium gasoline. The fire department was given a boost in salaries of $600. It was recommended that the firemen get $30 per hour rather than $25 for each hour after the first in fighting a fire. The Protection to Person and Property committees also recommended that the department visit Huronview to give instruction in fire drills. Council agreed to ask the Planning Board to approve additions to buildings before they came to council. The planning board now approves permits for construction of new buildings but not of additions. Council was concerned that some additions may not abide by zoning restrictions. repairing paved streets this year if it wants to avoid completely rebuilding the streets in the next few years, Councillor William Crawford, acting as chairman of the Public Works department in the absense of Councillor Russell Archer who is on vacation in Japan, read a letter from John Lavis of Lavis Contracting Ltd. who had been asked to look at paved streets and make recommendations, Mr, Lavis recomrner led that parts of Princess, William, Rattenbury and John Streets be either patched or patched and resurfaced. He warned that if the work is not done this year, the council can expect to carry out a major rebuilding program on the streets. Councillor Crawford also reported that he had asked Mr. Lavis for a rough idea on the cost of paving gravel streets which have a suitable roadbed. Mr. Lavis estimated the cost at about $7000 per mile, It was also recommended that curb and sidewalk be installed on King Street from the post office to Cutter Street to prevent cars from parking on the sidewalk area, blocking pedestrian movement. Hullett Council approves radios for fire trucks Hullett township council approved the installation of radio equipment for Blyth Fire Area Department trucks. The radio equipment will give constant communication between all fire department vehicles, the fire chief's car and a base station. Similar equipment has already been purchased by the Wingham Fire Department and has been approved for the Blyth department by Blyth' village council. Council set the mill rate for 1972 at 28 mills for residential and 31 mills for commercial. The tender of George Radford Construction Ltd. of Blyth was accepted to supply gravel for • townshipTOad'S was at a cost of $1,03 per yard, '' Building permits were approved for E. Szusz for an addition to his barn and an underground manure storage tank and to A. Finch for a house and foundation on Lot 19, application Con from Carl Nesbitt, Lot 22, 7 n. , Con. 13 was accepted for a tile drain loan of $6,000. The clerk is to apply for an additional $80,500 subsidy for bridge construction on Lots 30-31 on Concession 7. A special council meeting was held on March 20 to discuss the engineer's report on the Millson Drainage Works. Several interested property owners were present and after considerable discussion council passed the engineer's report provisionally. Clinton homeowners were given three possible ways of paying for the expansion . program for the Clinton sewerage system and any of thre three ways is going to hurt, A letter from E. Beecher Menzies, the town solicitor was read at council Monday night outlining the alternative ways of raising the money to pay for the improvements. One method of payment, the solicitor said, was for the costs to be absorbed in an increase H-P board to stay on same tax schedule BY WILMA OKE Town to share profits from raceway