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Clinton, Ontario
Thursday, September 28, 1972
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Clinton Kinettes help Arthritis campaign
The board of governors of Conestoga College of AppNed Arts and Technology
met et the Clinton Centre last Monday night for the first time. From left to right
are: William E. Byers, chairman of the 12 man board; Professor James W. Church,
president of Conestoga; and Ross Milton, administrator of the Clinton Centre.
Open House at the Clinton Centre is tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m. (News-Record
photo)
Clinton host bd. of gov.
"You can see, therefore, that 300 severan-
ces would give us revenue of $12,000 against
a cost of $24,000," stated Berry, "meaning
that the direct cost to the County would be
approximately $12,000 or $1,000 per
month."
B.G.Eastwood, Regional Assessment
Commissioner noted there are very few
changes between 1972 and proposed 1973
apportionments, the major changes being in
connection with Tuckersmith Township and
Stephen Township as it relates to the
Canadian Forces Bases.
"The Tuckersmith situation will
gradually be adjusted and worked into the
regular assessment figures," said Allan
Campbell, chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee of council. "The Stephen Township
picture, however, is different as the taxes are
paid based on rents collected working
through Ontario Development Cor-
poration:"
During the day, Spence Cummings,
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The district meeting of the Ladies' Hospital Auxiliary was held in Clinton on Mon-
day and a large number of ladies from all parts of Southwestern Ontario turned
out to hear a fine guest speaker, Miss Angela Armitt of the University of Western
Ontario and to install new officers. From left to right are: convener Helen Bartliff,
Clinton; past chairman, Mary Hays of Fergus; Miss Armitt; and new chairman
Peggy Menzies of Clinton. (staff photo)
Hospital Auxiliaries
Long known for its many important
charitable undertakings in the community
The Kinette Club of Clinton this year is
lending its wholehearted support to the fight
against the Nation's most serious health
problem — painful, crippling• arthritis, it
was announced this week by Mrs. Jean"
Jewitt, president of the Club.
"Here is a disease that affects more of our
citizens than heart, cancer, tuberculosis and
diabetes combined and for many years The
Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism
Society has been providing its professional
home-care services to many of those in the
community and district afflicted with
arthritis, and at no cost to the patient. Also,
a few years ago The Society donated the
basic equipment leading to the development
of the modern physiotherapy department in
our local hospital. It is for these reasons
that we have decided we should volunteer
our time and energy to helping this
worthwhile organization", Mrs. Jewitt
stated.
The Kinette Club has set the week of
October 2 to 7 as "Arthritis Week" in
Clinton and will be calling on our Citizens
seeking their support of the Arthritis
Society's program. Mrs. David Corrie, 180
Raglan Street, has been appointed
Campaign Chairman.
Everyone knows someone with arthritis.
More than a million and a half Canadians
are afflicted, Nearly one-half million are
limited in their activities in some way due to
the disease and close to 95,000 of this group
are unable to work, keep house, or carry on
their usual major activity.
Separate board backs plan
BY WILMA OKE
The Huron Perth County Roman Catholic
Separate School Board meeting in Seaforth
Monday again approved giving a $75
scholarship to the Kiwanis Music Festival in
Stratford for the festival next April second
to 14. The Board was informed there had
been an increase of 200 entries in 1972 over
1971.
A request was approved by Mrs. J. Grant
of World Service Committee through YMCA
and YWCA to allow the distribution of
UNICEF boxes in the Separate Schools in
Stratford to permit the students to par-
ticipate in the UNICEF program on
Hal !owe' en.
Trustees John McCann of R.R. 3, Ailsa
Craig, and Ted Geoffrey of H.R. 2, Zurich,
will represent the board at the Ontario
English Catholic Teachers' Association
weekend conference in Toronto on Novem-
ber 3.5. Assistant Superintendent Joseph
Tokar will attend as well. The conference is
on the theme "What takes place in a
Catholic school room from nine to four."
Copies of the printout (budget balance to
date) were distributed to the members of the
board. These will be considered and then
next meeting time will be allowed for
questions on the budget to be answered.
The property committee was appointed to
investigate what has to be done to clean up
the board's new property on Highway 4 in
the eastern part of Seaforth so that it may
be used as a play area by the students at St.
James School. Estimates of bulldozing costs,
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. The social and economic cost of the
disease is staggering. Annually, they account
for an estimated thirteen million days' lost
work and about a $457 million loss to the
Canadian economy. •
Despite the belief that nothing can be
done for arthritis, the Arthritis Society now
proclaims that Canada is today on the
threshold of the best arthritis control
Because the age of the voter has been
lowered, Huron County Council is facing an
accommodation problem. There could be
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received in Toronto
and with extreme ingenuity, we are
given the fearfulness of a rural winter,
with its dual responses of cages and
escapes.
The fear that the actors might sen-
timentalize farming is dispatched in
Miles Potter's memorable monologue
about a day'.s hay-loading. Cool looks
are given to such furors as Orange
parades and Jesus revivals. Miss
Amos has a wonderful sequence about
weddings, rising to the great line, "We
laughed until we died at the stupidity
of it all."
Darker regions are probed as well.
There are moving insights into farm
tragedies and a sharp vignette about
people drifting to the cities. Very fine,
too, is the section devoted to the
strange recluse Charlie Wilson (David
Fox), with his religion, his en-
cyclopedic knowledge of plants and
his cruel, self-inhibiting facial tic.
It is difficult to account for the ex-
citement which this production brings.
Partly there is the lucid beauty and
ease of Paul Thompson's
methodology, and the vividness of six
actors - Anne Angline, Janet Amos,
Fina MacDorinell, David Fox, Miles
Potter and Thompson himself - perfor-
ming with such versatility, tact and
palpable compassion.
The evening is filled with suble
cross-references so that we come to
discover a whole contained world. In
The Farm Show, Thompson and his
actors have helped us to know, under-
stand and love a community of people
beyond our sphere of familiarity. As
artists, they can have no higher am-
bitions.
Conestoga College of Applied Arts and
Technology has its first Open House at its
Clinton Centre tonight (Thursday) at 7 p,m.
and as part of the celebrations, the board of
governors for Conestoga College met at the
Clinton Centre for the first time last Mon-
day night.
at Column
This Saturday is the last day of the
baseball season as far as Clinton is concer-
ned. The Colts take on Barry's Bay in the
finals and Clinton are down a game. If Clin-
ton wins the game at 2 p.m. then the rubber
match will take place at 5 p.m.
This is it; so why not get out and support
your team and watch them bring home
another championship.
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Due to the untimely resignation of Clin-
ton's. Recreational Director, Norton Irwin,
all judo and gymnasium classes are suspen-
ded for the time being. Attemts are being
made, however, to get new instructors so
watch the News-Record for further notice.
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We kind of slipped-up on printing of the
results of the commencement at Central
Huron S.S. last Friday, so hold tight and
next week the complete results and pictures
will be in the News-Record.
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As a service to our readers and to the
town in general, the News-Record and Town
Clerk will be starting a column to answer
any questions on the up-coming municipal
elections in Clinton.
This year, all municipalities will be
holding elections on the same day and a
large part of the Municipal Elections Act
has been extensively changed.
Any question is valid and all questions
will be answered but please include name
and address with question. Either write to
the News-Record or to Clerk, Cam Proctor,
Clinton Town Hall.'
Passe Muraille
; Play well
Theatre Passe Muraille, 'which
stayed at the old Bird farm on the
Maitland Line in Goderich Township
for six weeks this summer, opened
their play about this area in Toronto
last Thursday. The play, which is
about people and places around
Clinton and Holmesville, was very
well received in Toronto. This review
is taken from the Toronto Star of last
Friday.
BY URJO KAREDA
Toronto Star
The Farm Show, which is opening
the season at Theatre Passe Muraille,
gives a lot of pleasure for a lot of
reasons,
As a dramatic work, it is vigorous,
informative, stylish and often insanely
funny. But its' power arises as well
from our communicados by which this
production was put together.
The Farm Show is a Paul Thomp-
son-organized collective creation, a
form which has been uniquely perfec-
ted at the Theatre Passe Muraille and
which, because this talented Man has
chosen to work in Toronto, is now ours
as well,
This particular collective creation
seems an advance on the past because
the performers have had a much more
direct relationship to the material. As
a result, there it a richness in the per-
formances which adds depth and color
to the whole eXperience.
For six weeks this summer, Thomp-
son took his actors to live on a farm
near Clinton, Ontario, with the object
of creating a production about, and
for, the farmers of that region,
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"It is the policy of the board of governors
to meet at least once a year at each of
Conestoga's seven centres", said William
Byers, chairman of the board.
Ross Milton, Administrator of the Clinton
Centre, which is located in the former Air
Marshal Hugh Campbell public school at
Vanastra, said Monday night that the public
response to the Clinton Centre has been
overwhelming. "We have nearly twice the
number of students than was forecast."
Currently, the Clinton Centre has nearly
150 full-time students and about 225 part-
time students. Many of the courses offered
are credit courses and non-credit courses
range from powderpuff mechanics to human
relations.
Don Hayward, manager of Information
services for Conestoga, said that the night
courses offered at the Clinton Centre would
be different than those offered at the secon-
dary night schools.
Visitors to the open house will be
welcomed by Mr. Milton and Conestoga
President Professor James W. Church.
Charles MacNaughton, MPP for Huron and
provincial treasurer will also officiate at the
Open House.
Administrator for Huron County, John
Berry, told "council last Friday at its regular
September neeting that the majority of
budgets are well within the original
estimates as of June 30, 1972.
"Total revenue to date is $1,493,401.25
with expenditures .of $1,443,137.18, or a sur-
plus of $50,264.07," said Berry.
The working capital fund now sits at
$200,000, the employee benefits fund at
$60,000 and the hopital reserve fund at
$55,600, he added.
The Land Division section has handled
approximately 190 severances so far this
year, and by the end of the year it is
estimated that 300 will have been before the
committee. Estimated cost to the end of
December, said Berry, should be about
$24,000.
Working through both a subjective
and objective response to the en-
vironment, joining farmers at their
tasks, meeting local residents and
listening, always listening, the com-
pany developed the dramatic material
which was first presented in a barn to
the farmers themselves and has now
been transported to Toronto.
The performance in Clinton must
have been electrifying in its im-
mediacy. In Toronto, we receive the
data not with a shock of recognition
but with a glow of familiarization.
The Farm Show is performed on a
raked acting area, the floor of which is
a large map of the rural area in-
volved, with the names of the in-
dividual farms boldly labelled. Some
very nice entertainers from the area -
Russ and Dorothy from Teeswater -
provide preliminary music, and
though the fire marshal has vetoed
bales of hay, the atmosphere is un-
believably evocative,
That authenticity is the triumph of
the performers, who also, of course,
created the material. This is by no
means a conventional documentary,
but it is certainly realism of a magic
intensity. Through mime, song,
narrative, sound poetry, monologues -
the whole range of possible com-
munication - we come very close to the
heart of their experience,
There is a succession of inspired
ideas. A farmwife (Janet Amos), prat;-
Cling happily about her cleaning
chores, sits in her wringer-washer, and
eventually ilbtaTfeS the machine itself.
There is a stirring heroic drama (iti
verse) dbout the mythology of tractors.
We have a hilarious, plowing Match
several new deputy-reeves at County Coun-
cil next year after the fall elections.
It was learned that if a municipality has
over 1,000 voters, a deputy-reeve must be
named. Townships which could be affected
are Morris, Grey, McKillop, Hullett and
Usborne.
And county council is also feeling the
pinch as far as "pin money" is concerned.
"In view of the fluctuation in the price of
gold at the present time," the executive
committee report said, "the Committee feels
the cost for County Council pins is out of
line and recommends no further action."
Apparently Huron's councillors had plan-
ned to spruce up, for at the end of the coun-
cil session Friday it was learned that the
cost of jackets for county councillors was
$90 each.
"Now we know how much money the
fellows have who wear them," said one
councillor.
• There was no act;.on on the jackets, either.
Racing ends
Racing at the Clinton Raceway ends this
Sunday but the Kinsmen are finishing the
1972 season with a bang.
Nearly $5,000 in purses will be distributed
for the ten race card with $2,000 up for
grabs in the featured tenth race, an In-
vitational, Matching strides in the seven
horse pacing field will be J,R. Grattan, Miss
Pal, Ainbro Kernal, The Cape Man, Danny
Dee, Midnite Brad and Popular Brad.
With such a classy field, the track record
will be in jeopardy. If Sunday is a good day
weather-wise, the winner of the Invitational
could take home an extra $50 just for going
faster than 2:05 4 /5.
As well as the big purses, there will be
other prizes given away. Molson's is giving
away $50 arid a silver tray each to both the
top percentage of the meet and the driver
with the most dash wins,
Melchers is presenting a blanket to the
winner of the ninth race' and the Kinsmen
are presenting a blanket to the winner of the
Invitational. The Old Mill will present 10
pairs of gloves to the top ten drivers of the
Meet.
Harness racing has gone over big in the
Clinton area and the Kinsmen hope to do
bigger and better things next year.
BY WILMA OKE
Mrs. Beecher Menzies of Clinton was in-
stalled as chairman of District No. 2,
Hospital Auxiliaries Association of Ontario,
at the fall conference held in Ontario Street
United Church here Monday. She succeeds
Mrs. William A. Hayes of Fergus who has
served for the past two years.
Other officers installed were: Mrs. Orville
G. Oke of Seaforth, first vice-chairman; Mrs.
Kemp Thompson of Waterloo as second vice
and Mrs. Kenneth F. Marshall of Wood-
stock as third, Mrs. Howard Porter of
Clinton, secretary-treasurer.
All aspects of the work of hospital
auxiliaries were studied in a successful day-
long session which attracted 109 delegates,
Clinton Hospital Auxiliary members were
hostesses for the conference and many of
them were on hand to greet the volunteers
from other hospitals, and to dispense
hospitality led by the convener, Mrs.
Douglas Bartliff, Greetings were extended
by Mrs. L.P. Walden, president of the Clin-
ton auxiliary and Miss Kathleen Elliott,
director of nursing.
The morning sessions on various aspects
of education in a hospital drew an excellent
response. Six areas were covered by the
following panelists; Education of Children
by Mrs. W.C. Benriett of Seaforth Com-
munity Hospital; Education in Careers for
Students by Mrs. Ralph Batten of South
Huron Hospital at Exeter; Education of
Auxiliary Members by Mrs. G.W. Becker of
Guelph General Hospital; Education of
Volunteers by Mrs, H. Winterburn of Kit-
chener-Waterloo Hospital; Education of the
Community by Mrs. G. Standish of Graves
Memorial Comtntinity Hospital in Fergus;
and Educational Publications and Other
Source Material by Mrs, A.G. Edmonds of
Palmerston, a past president of the Ontario
association.
Mrs. Bennett speaking on the educational
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kindergarten teacher at the Seaforth Public
School, Mrs. Raymond J. Boussey of Clinton
to the Huron Expositor and also carried by
"The Volunteer", the hospital auxiliary
publication in Don Mills. In the letter, Mrs.
program in the world. Treatment programs
have been developed which can prevent
serious disability in four out of five patients
suffering from rheumatoid arthritis,
In addition to professional care of home-
bound arthritics in Clinton district, the core
of the Arthritis Society's entire program is
the network of Rheumatic Disease Units
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week, is 31 years old and if from Grimsby.
He is married and the father of three
children and has experience on Hagersville,
Grimsby, North Grimsby Township, and
Niagara Regional Police forces.
Mr. Armstrong, 32, is married with two
children and brings with him six years ex-
perience on the Edinburgh, Scotland police
force and six months experience on. the Lon-
don, Ontario police force. He is presently
with London Life Insurance Co. Mr. Arm-
strong who is no relation to Clinton coun-
cillor James Armstrong, starts working in
about three weeks.
Boussey had told of the experiences of her
students and their reactions to the tour,
which it is hoped will make it easier for any
child admitted to hospital in the future.
Mrs. Batten outlined her hospital's ex-
perience in taking high school students to
the hospital to be told of the various careers
open to them in the different departments in
a hospital.
Mrs. Becker, Mrs. Winterburn, and Mrs.
Standish spoke on orientation meetings for
volunteers and public relations for the
citizens in the community in relation to the
local hospital.
Mrs. Hayes, who presided for the meeting,
gave a detailed report of the activities of the
twenty auxiliaries in the district which stret-
ches from Guelph on the east to Goderich on
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Venereal Disease
increases in Huron
Dr. Frank Mills, Medical Officer of
Health for Huron County,says his depart-
ment is not interested in the morals or the
private actions of people.
"We're only interested in the control of
venereal disease," said Mills.
He said according to the national
averages, Huron should have about 200
cases of VD.
"There are 26,000 cases in Canada • the
ones we know about," said Mills, "and we
have our share."
He said it had come to attention that
people go "out of the county" for treatment
rather than risk people knowing their afflic-
tion. Medical practitioners, he said, were
duty bound to report cases of venereal
disease to the local health department,
"For one reason or another then," con-
eluded the doctor, "only a small percentage
of the actual number of cases of venereal
disease in Huron are reported to our office."
The MOH also reported that rabies is on
the increase in Huron, The disease is up by
about 52 percent, he said, He urged people
to take advantage of the free rabies clinks
throughout the county,
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Huron budgets within bounds
Clinton has .beefed-up its police force to
five men Mayor Don Symons announced
Tuesday with the hiring of two new first-
class constables.
. The move comes after the police commit-
tee and Clinton Police Chief Lloyd Westlake
decided that the town was not adequately
protected.
One of the men hired replaces Sgt. LeRoy
Oesch who resigned from the Clinton police
in early Sept. to take up work as a cabinet
maker.
The new policemen are James Donald,
(Don) Armstrong and Frank Draper.
Mr. Draper, who starts his duties next
Two policemen hired
Fall conference inClinton