HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-06-22, Page 1Thursday, Jone 22, 1972 107 Year No. 25
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20 rents
Farmers advised
to replant corn
Corn that has shown no signs of recovery by
today (June 312) will not likely come back,
according to the Clinton office of Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
Mike Miller, Associate Agricultural'
Representative for Huron County, said that
fields With less than half of the stand are net
likely to make satisfactory yields and growers
Should examine their fields,tO accurately
determine the percentage of pants growing.
Growers can replant beside the existing row
if weed control iS, good and if between 20 and
40 percent of the original stand is recovered,
Mr. Miller advises producers who have less
than 20 per cent of the original, Stand left to
disc the field or replant on top O old row. Any
replanting, hOWeVer, should be done using the
Dr. Paul Walden, left, Orville Engelstad, and Bob Campbell accept a check for $1,000 on behalf of the Clinton Public Hospital Trust from Gordon Richardson and Harvey Johnston,
The money was left over when the Huron-Bruce Medical Co-operative amalgamated into the
Co-operative Health Services of Ontario. Funds are tentatively earmarked to help pay for a new X-ray unit for the hospital.
With the barn of Ken Gibbings 'Mating a few feet behind hirri,
Clayton Groves of the Clinton FireQepartmentplays a hose oh a
.shed to prevent the flames from 51:Weeding l est Sunday. The shed
whiOh contained $1,500 worth of antiques is owned by John
Harrison of RJI, 4, Clinton. Mr, Harrison plant to open art
antique store on the location two &tiles east of Clinton on Highways.
Separate board hot moving
BY wit-MA ME
-At a special meeting of the Huron-Perth.
County Roman Catholic Separate School Board
in Seaforth Monday night, it was decided by a
vote of 9 to 5 to keep the board offices in
Sea forth.
This decision was reached following
several hours discussion in committee of the
whole. All four Stratford trustees and Patrick
Carty, representing Ellice and North and
South Easthope Townships. voted against the
motion, hoping to have the offices, relocated at
the Loretto convent on Huron Street in.
Stratford.
Voting to retain offices in Seaforth were
John McCann. 13,H. 3, Allan Craig; Joseph
Looby,. Dublin; Michael Connolly, H.R. 3,
Kippen; Arthur E. Held, R.R. 4, Listowei;
Christopher Wairaeell, St. Marys: Oscar
Kieffer„ReR, 1, Bluevale: Ted Geoffrey, H.R.
2, Ziirich; Vincent Young. Goderich and
Francis Hicknell, R.R. 5-Seaforth.
Last week, Rev. Carl Keane of St. Joseph's
Roman Catholic parish in Stratford offered to
rent to theboard a Stratford convent, which is
ten years old, which will be vacated by the
Loretto sisters for smaller qearters. Since
1969, at the formation of the board. offices
have been occimied on Main Street, Seafortli. A
year and a half remains in the current lease.
Huron County Board qf Education
Seaforth family wins appeal on busing
showed the board that a Public School bus on
its way into Seaforth paSses their home each
day. This bus, they also pointed out, picks up a
'number of Separate School children under an
agreement with the Board of Education as
well as a Public School youngster who attends
school in Seaforth.
• "It seems," Mrs. Carter noted, "that we
should have just gone ahead and enrolled our
child in Seaforth without approaching the
board, as the other family did, and nothing
would have been said. We took the proper
course of action and are now being denied
something that is in effect for the family who
did not follow that course,"
Board Chairman Bob Elliot admitted that
such seemed to be the case,
It was also pointed out to the Board that the
kindergarten facilities at Brucefield were
more crowded than at Seaforth and that if a bus
BY MILVENA ERICKSON
For the first time in almost seventy years
Bayfield is legally a "Wet" town.
Mrs, Elwood B. Robinson, owner-
manageress of the 10-room Albion Hotel was
granted her liquor licence Wednesday, June
14, but held it over for the official opening
during "Open-House" on Thursday evening.
The ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the
occasion was performed by Robert E.
McKinley, M.P. (P.C,) Huron.
Over 200 guests turned out to join in the
BY WILMA OKE
Drilling is expected to begin next week for
an estimated $56,000 municipal water system
for Brucefield which will replace the
. individual wells in the hamlet now.
Clerk James McIntosh of, Tuckersmith
Township said Monday in a telephone
conversation that the well will be drilled by
W.D. Hopper and Sons of R .R. 2, Seaforth. The
cost will be borne by Brucefield residents.
The proposed site for the well is located on the
south-east corner of Highway 4 and County
:Road,
The project involves installing more than
7,000 feet of two-inch pipe along the streets
and along County Road 3, At this time there is
no indication when the job will be completed..
About 60 of Brucefield's '70 households
signed a petition in. March supporting a
1 st Column
Garth Brock, a resident 'of Huronview, is
recuperating in Clinton Public Hospital
following his near brush with death last Friday
afternoon, Garth, who walks in and out of
Clinton twice a week, hung for nearly five
hours after his feet became stuck while he was
attempting to cross the fehee by the CN tracks.
Luckily, he was spotted by a passing trainman
and rushed to hospital.
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Art Colson has Sold his share of the Clinton
Meat Market to Grant Irwin who will cohtinue
to run the business. So do your beefing with
Grant from now on:.
Clinton has a new doctor. He is Dr, Brian
Baker from Ottawa and he will he taking up
'temporary offices at the old nursing residence
On July fourth, Dr. Baker will live in Adastral
Park. He is most welcome.
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Some merchants on Albert Street are
brightening up their-stores with a fresh coat of
paint. This only adds to Clinton's- fresh clean
reputatiele
celebrations and wish Mrs. Robinson every
success.
Since purchasing the Albion about 10 years
ago, Myrtle,.(as she is more familiarly known)
has run it as a hotel with dining-room service;
now (following a liquor plebecite held last
October in the village) and after much
renovations, she is able to serve spirits and
beer in the three licenced dining rooms.
The age old landmark on Main Street was
built in 1856 as a Coach House. added to in 1875
with the verandah built on in 1890 and has
always been known as the Albion Hotel,
The furnishings and decor add to the
municipal system after it was found that some
individual wells in Brucefield were unsafe foe
human use. Following a.meeting of Brucefield
residents with the members of Tuckersmith
Township council and the engineering firm of
S.M. Ross & Associates Ltd. Goderich, on
June 12 when the water system was outlined,
two of the Brucefield residents withdrew their
names from the petition. However, Douglas
Campbell of Brucefield, one of the original
ratepayers seeking the municipal system,
reported that two others had their. names
added to the list.
Mr. Campbell said he thought more
property owners might join the system to get
in on the initial connecting charge of $300 as
this will be increased to $400 for customers
entering the system at a later date.
The $200 initial down payment includes only
the cost of bringing water to the customer's
property line. It is estimated an annual
service charge of between $80 and $85 may be
charged to each customer.
Mr. McIntosh said that after the initial well
is drilled by the Hopper firm, the engineering
firm will report on the amount of water
available and whether it will be necessary to
have ground level storage tanks built, The
report will thenbe sent to the Ministry of the
Environment for approval and then to the
Ontario Municipal Board for approval to issue
debentures for the project.
Colonial atmosphere and with the original bar
in the same location: keeps the Old World
Charm that the village is noted for down
through the years.
Dr. William A, Tillman of London and
Hayfield has one of the original licences in his
possession in his cottage.
(A note of irony) During the heavy downpour
last Thursday morning: villagers stood in the
rain or watched through their windows as the
Brewers Retail truck drove up Main Street to
the Albion; and someone was heard to remark
"to-day Hayfield is "wet"—inside and out."
Board says
parents must
sign waiver
A request for permission to conduct a field
trip by the Outers Club at Exeter Secondary
School ran into some opposition at Board of
Education meeting on Monday evening with a
number of Board members expressing
concern for the safety aspects of the venture
which was to include canoeing on the Saugeen
River,
Cayley Hill expressed some concern for the
safety of those taking part pointing out that
canoeing at best is a dangerous activity unless
those involved are very experienced and
skilled. After some discussion, most of the
board members agreed with Mr. Hill,
As a result Mr. Hill proposed a motion,
which was passed, stating the trip could only
take place if the students were instructed to
wear life jackets and if the parents or
guardians would sign waivers excluding the
Board of Education from all responsibility,
"Perhaps this will help the parents to
realize tile risk involved," he added.
It was also recommended that a board policy
to this effect be drawn up and presented to the
next meeting for passage,
Two other field trips were approved at the
meeting as well, An outing for Hullett Central
School fora camping trip to Family Paradise
near Walton was given the go ahead and the
annual field trip for biology students from
Goderich District Collegiate Institute in the
fall was approved.
In similar business the board gave its
approval to the recommendations of the sub
committee on outdoor education by passing
their suggestions in the form of a mOiOn,
earliest possible hybrid (2600 Heat units.) In
northern parts of Huron County. the reseeded
corn should be considered for silage. only.
"It's very hard to tell how much loss was
suffered," Mr, Miller said. "It will -depend on
whethee we get a good fall or net,"
Wheat growers should also be On the lookout
and examine their crops to see if they are
heading or filling oitt properly,
Producers who are in doubt about their crop
shbuld tall the Clinton office of Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
The monthly meeting of Huron County Board
of Education at •Clinton on Monday evening
passed a motion in favor of a delegation with
regard to busing that was seen by at least
some board members as a break from Board
policy on the matter.
Mr, and Mrs, Don Carter, who live on the
outskirts of Seaforth, were on hand at the
meeting to appeal an earlier decision by the
Education Committee denying their request to
send their daughter to kindergarten in
Seaforth this fall.
The committee had acted against their
request on the basis that Board policy places
their residence in a zone designated to attend
Brucefield school rather than the Seaforth
school even though they are closer in miles to
the town school.
The Carters, when explaining their case,
Vocational class
gets go ahead
on contract
Among several recommendations put
before Huron County Board of Education
members and passed last Monday evening by
the advisory vocational committee was a
suggestion from Mr. G. Ring, the industrial
arts teacher at Seaforth District High School,
that his senior class be allowed to construct a
small building under contract. The issuer of
the contract was to supply the materials.
It . was explained that students felt some
disappointment to build a structure as part of
their class work and upon completion see it
torn apart again.
Board members agreed that if a party could
be found interested in taking advantage of the
idea it met with their approval and seemed like
an excellent way to give the students practical
experience.
On Tuesday evening the Huron County Board
of Education passed a motion in accordance
with a recommendation from the Director of
Education that approval be given for the
establishment of a Memorial Fund by friends
of the late William Cutt of Goderich.
The fund would be used in recognition of the
student achieving the highest standing in two
languages, other than English, in years four
and five at the Goderich District Collegiate
Institute.
The recipient would have to be registered at
G.D.C.I. for both years and his attendance in
these years would be consecutive.
William Cutt, a graduate from G .D .0 .1. , was
killed recently in a highway accident near
Goderich. HO was the son of J.M. (Max) Cutt
and had attended Victoria Public School and
0,D.C.I, and was a student at York University
in Toronto at the time of his death.
At York he was editor of the Yearbook. Mr.
Cutt had been a former Queen Scout and winner
of a bronze medal for swimming. A member of
the congregation at Knox Presbyterian
had to pick up the Carter child it would be
forced to travel well out of its way and extra
cost would be incurred due to the longer
distance,
Following lengthy discussion on the matter
the Board carried a motion on a 10-4 vote to
rescind the motion taken earlier refusing the
Carters permission to enroll their child at
Seaforth Public School A further motion was
then passed indicating that due to the
circumstances, the number of children
already in kindergarten at Brucefield and the
busing situation, the Carters would he
permitted to send their child to Seaforth. It
was stressed, however, that the ruling was
effective for only this child,
A number of Board members voted against
the move on grounds that this would only be a
first step toward completely destroying policy
on where children shall attend school
group deposit the funds directly with the
Board, A receipt would be issued and a Trust
Fund established which would carry on in
perpetuity regardless of the absence of any of
the Ainslie group or any one presently at the
Board offices.
It was this final suggestion the Board of
Education sanctioned last Monday evening.
Meaford man
dies in Clinton
William Grant, 70, of R.R. 1, Meaford died
in Clinton Public hospital last Friday night
after his car was involved in a collision with a
truck on Highway 4 near Londesboro.
No injuries occurred to the truck driver,
John Hallam of H.R. 1, Auburn. The accident
occurred about 3 p.m. near the seventh
concession of Hullet Township.
Robert E. McKinley, (PC) M.P. Huron is shown with a group of
citizens as he cut the ribbon for the official opening of the Albion
Hotel, now a I icenced dining lounge. Since the early 1900's, Bayfield
has been legally "dry" and last Thursday's opening marked the
beginning of Bayfield becoming legally "wet".—Photo by Milvena
Erickson.
Bayfield finally goes "wet"
Church, be was the former president of the
Young Peoplets group there.
In his original letter to the Board, Kimble F.
Ainslie noted on behalf of the group behind the
Cutt fund that, "After the tragic death of Mr.
Cutt it was decided by several of his former
companions to stimulate the presence of his
memory and pay tribute to his many and varied
accomplishments while living in Goderich."
Mr. Ainslie at that time suggested a bond be
deposited with the Board to provide the
necessary funds,
Later at the recommendation of the
Director of Education it was suggested the
Lavis awarded contract
Levis Contracting Company of Clinton has
been awarded a $171,592 contract by the
provincial government for paving Highway 4
from Blyth northerly to Highway 86.
The 11,2 miles of hot mix paving is slated to
start early in July and should be completed by
September 22 this year.
New well for Brucefield
Huron school board sets up Memorial fund