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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1966-01-27, Page 7Wesley-Willis Church Outstanding Year The Wesley-Willis United Ch urch Congx'egational Meeting, held on January 24, heard en couraging reports of the work done by the church and1 its organizations tin,' 1965. Financially, the year was one -of outstanding achievement. The new Holmes Organ was in.-, stalled and paid for. The total money ..raised by the Chutdh .and its organizations was the largest in the history of the church, reaching a net of $27,- 044. The total raised' by the United Church Women was also the largest ever — a net of $4,- 283. The congregation gave $1,- .885 to Presbytery projects', 'Contributions to the National- Unified Budget of the Church through the M & M Fund were $5,075, and by the UCW $1,039. It was painted out that the Charge (Wesley-Willis and Hol mesville together) had contri buted for work outside its own field a total of $9,500. Gains in church membership Were Very modest .•—• 27 new members were received during the year -and 18 were lost, 10 by death and 8 by certificate, to. leave a net gain of 9. Present membership of Wesley-Willis stands at 465, and of the Wes ley- Willis -Holmes ville Ch ar ge at 600. Elections1 brought a number of new faces to the boards of' the church — Kenneth Johns- ton and Elmer Hugill were elec ted members of the session, for .a 5-jy-ear term and' Garnet Har land and Harold Hartley were •re-elected for the same period. New members of the stew ards!, elected for a 3-year period, .are Wesley Holland, William .Jervis, Ralph Holland, David Corrie, Donald Pullen, and Bert Clifford1. Hector Kingswell was re-elected for a 2-year period and will continue to serve as chairman- of the property and1 manse committees, Beecher Menzies was elected chairman of the committee of stewards and of the M & M committee, and Maitland Edgar was made chairman of the Christian Edu cation Committee. William Craig continues as chairman of the music commit tee and Charles Nelson as chairman of the United Church men’s committee, and Mi's. George Beattie as chairman of the communion committee,, Orville Blake js president of the Wesley.-Willis-Hohnes.viUe .men’s club. Robert N.. Irwin continues as treasurer of the ohurch, and Robert MacDonald as secretary of the committee of stewards. Miss Katherine McGregor is president of the United' Church Women, and Kenneth Johnston js Sunday school superintend ent. Mrs, M. Neidiger is church secretary, Tom Steep is enve lope secretary, Wilfred Jervis is chairman of the welcoming committee and Mrs. Harold Hartley is chairman of ushers, Miss Esther Jamieson is- the representative of -the United Church Observer for the con gregation. pan Kerr is 'presi dent of the choir. Mrs. Willis VanEgmond is Senior choir leader, Mrs. Wil liam Hearn -is junior choir lead er, and Charles Merrill is or ganist. William Hearn is* secre tary of the official board. Mrs. Cameron joins- the O.B. as the ‘representative of the Hi-C Club. Rev. C. G. Park referred to the happy ministry he had en joyed during 'his five-year pas torate in Clinton and reminded the congregational meeting that he would be retiring on June 30 to reside in Byron (London), remaining that “Our retire ment is likely to be largely in name only as1 we' shall be min istering as retired supply in a little- church called Glendale on the south edge of London.” “The pastoral relations com mittee of the charge is present ly engaged in the search for a suitable 'successor and hope's soon to be able to announce a selection. 8:00 1:00 2:00 2:00 3:00 9:45 11:00 .7:30 10:00 11:15 Attend Your Church This All Services on Standard Time FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec) Pastor: Paul Coon, B.A. Sunday, January 30 p.m.—Song Service am.—Sunday School a.m.—Family Worship ALL ARE WELCOME HERE Ontario Street United Church “THE FRIENDLY CHURCH” Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A. Sunday, January 30 a.m.—Sunday School a.m.—-Morning Worship TURNER’S p.m.—Church Service ■pm.—Sunday School ^nlntesriille (Uljiircljea REV. CLIFFORD G. PARK, M.A., Minister Sunday, January 30 Subject: “Grow Old Along With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be” HOLMESVILLE p.m.—Church Service p.m.—Sunday School WESLEY-WILLIS" am.—Men’s Breakfast Meeting Speaker: Fit. Sgt. Ross Milton “The Signature of a Missile” a.m.—Sunday School9:45 ___ _____11:00 am.—nChurch Service ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH Rev. R. W. Wenham, L.Th., Rector Mr. W. H. Bishop, FRCO, ARCM, Organist Sunday, January 30 — Epiphany IV 8:00 a.m.—Holy Communion 9:45 a.m.—Church School 11:00 a.m.—Morning Prayer Tuesday, Feb. 1—Ladies Guild, 2:45 p.m. at home of Mrs. Morley Counter. ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. M. J. Agnew, Organist and Choir Director Sunday, January 30 9:45 a.m.—Church School 10:45 -a.m.—Public Worship EVERYONE WELCOME i MAPLE STREET GOSPEL HALL i CLINTON ; ! Sunday, January 30 ; ! 9:45 a.m.—Worship Service < J 11:00 am.—Sunday School > < ; 8:00 pm.—Evening Service | ; Speaker: Fred 'Runnings I i Tuesday—8:00 p.m.—Prayer Meeting and Bible Study - ; Subject: “God’s Good News” Book of Romans I ’ ALL WELCOME 1 CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH REV. G. J. HEERSINK} Minister Sunday, January 30 10:00 am.—Service in English 11:00 am.—Sunday School 2:30 pm.'—Service in Dutch Every Sunday, 6:15 p.m. dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas, listen to “Back to God Hour”. EVERYONE WELCOME I JOSEPH STREET GOSPEL HALL ' CLINTON - 11:00 a.m.—Breaking of Bread ■ 7:00 'p.m.—Gospel Service .......... 8:00 p.m. Thursday—Prayer Meeting arid Bible Reading 7:30 pm. (Friday—Children's Meeting , . Mrs. Alice Caldwell Londesboro Lady Dies at 88 Years Mrs. Alice M, Caldwell, 88, Londesboro, died Sunday, Jan uary 23, in Clinton Public Hos pital. i Born1 in the Londesjboro area, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moon, she lived in that area all her life, The widow of Robert Cald- WeU, she is survived by a dau ghter, Mts. Wallace (Mary) McDougall, Londesboro; three sons,. George, White Horse, Yu kon; Thomas, Goderich; Leo nard, Londesboro; s'ix grand children and seven great grand children. . - Funeral service was held Wednesday afternoon at the - Ball and Mutch funeral home, here, Rev, Robert Tschanz, Londesboro United Church, of ficiated. Temporary entombment was in the Clinton Cemetery Mau soleum. Burial will be made in the Londesboro Cemetery. -----------o----------- Library Plans. Renovations (Continued from page one) Last year the board had to spend over $900 in extra re pairs and maintenance. Total expenditures were $6,416, with the largest items being: wages, $2,778; repairs and mainten ance, $1,144; books, $924; fuel, $468- and janitor and cleaning supplies over $400. The board renewed its mem bership in the Ontario ” Library Association and will request that all board members receive a subscription to. the Ontario Library Review, a quarterly publication of the Ontario. Lib rary Service, Department of Education. The next meeting of the board will be on Wednesday evening, February 23 when members will plan for the pro posed changes in the reading room and children’s section. The library is closed Wednes day nights. -------------------io-------------------- Meeting Here Monday Re CNR Brief (Continued from page one) cott came from B. R. Robinson, a Goderich businessman who now uses the freight service. ,- He said CN has all the fig ures to show that passenger service has been a money-los ing proposition and that there has been a dropping population with no promise of growth. . x “This is what the railways study. They have the figures and they do not see -anything but the dollar signs,” he said. “We have to have something very concrete and positive to show them or it is hopeless.” Reeve Duff Thompson of Clinton said he felt more opti mistic. “Here in this area, we have everything that contributes to more economical production than the highly - populated area,” he said. A Goderich councillor sug gested the CN reinstate a for mer train schedule which was discontinued in 1957 and under which a traveller ‘ could catch an early train from Goderich, reach Toronto by 10 a.m. and return to Goderich by midnight. The only Toronto-bound train under the present schedule lea ves Goderich at noon and reach es Toronto at about 4 p.m., which means travellers must stay overnight in Toronto a to conduct their business and re turn home the next day. Huron County Council at the January session last week ap proved a brief to the CN and Board of Transport Commis sioners re the curtailment of passenger service to Goderich. -------------------Q-------------------- Wheat Growers Meet Feb. 2 Huron County Wheat Pro ducers annual meeting is sche duled for 2 p.m. in the agricul tural office, Wednesday, Feb ruary 2. All producers are wel come. This is one of 30 county meet ings throughout Ontario, called in accordance with the Ontario Wheat Producers Marketing Plan, to receive reports and elect the County Wheat. Com mittee members for the next year. LONDESBORO MRS. BERT ALLEN Phone 523-4570 The WI is sponsoring a card party in the Community Hall the evening of February 4. Lunch will be provided by the committee. Heartiest congratulations are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Har old Livingstone, They will be celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary on January 27. The community was saddened When it was loathed that Mrs. Alice Caldwell had passed away oh Sunday night. Mrs. Caldwell was highly respected by all who Clinton Barrister Addresses The Haggis Lion E. Beecher Menzies is shown here ad dressing the haggis at Tuesday evening’s Burns night dinner in St. Paul’s Parish Hall. Nearly 70 persons attended the annual event of Clinton Lions Club. Guests shown here are, Group Cap tain K. R. Greenaway, Rev. R. U. MacLean and Andy Peterson, president of Clinton Kinsmen Club. (News-Record Photo) UWO Professor Dr. J. J. Talman Tells of Impact Of Poet Burns on Canadian Life Dr. J. J. Talman, the chief librarian and history professor at University of Western On tario, London, was guest speak er at Clinton Lions Club annual Robbie Burns Night in St. Paul’s Parish Hall Tuesday evening. Thirty-five guests attended the dinner, including 17 mem bers of the Kinsmen Club of Clinton. Professor Talman did not talk about the Scottish poet himself, but based his speech on "The Impact of Robbie Burns and Scots away from home.” He asked, “What. can be said at a Burns meeting?” It has all -been said through Burns poetry, he answered. There are more Scots out side Scotland than presently in that country now, said the speaker. The country is poor but produces a good quality of person. Burns' birthday is celebrated' all over the world. The speaker referred to two former prime ministers’ of Canada — MacDonald and Brown — who were bom in Scotland. He then went on to talk about three Scots who became newspaper editors in Ontario, and were so influenced by Burns poetry, that they wrote and published poetry in their papers. The editors were a Mr. McQueen, the! first editor of the Huron Signal at Goderich; MacGeorge of the Streetsville Review and George Menzies of the Woodstock paper. Prof. Talman recited excerpts from the poems, sonnets and rhymes of these editors. Each of the editors showed a double loyalty in their poetry — to Scotland and Canada West. He said they were not great poets . . . but they brought something imaginative to Canada when life was hard, cruel and nasty. Thomas McQueen was bom in Ayrshire in 1803 and at the age of 10 was injured and was left permanently lame. He came to Canada and worked as a stonemason and corres pondent to papers. In February 1884 he became the first editor of the Huron Signal to advance the views of the Liberal party. He established a temperance paper in Hamilton, and when this fell through he -returned to Goderich. Mr. McQueen had three -books of poems published before he left Scotland and con tinued his poetry writing while editor at Goderich. After Mr. McQueen died Goderich persons started a me morial fund in his memory. Professor Talman did more research on McQueen on Mon day of this week and found -that monies from the fund were us ed at Maitland Cemetery in Goderich. Haggis Dinner The Lions honoured Bums by dining oh the old Scottish delicacy, Haggis. The haggis was piped in by Piper Hec Kingswell, carried by Lions John S. Parker (who was born in Scotland) and Joe Murphy, with Maynard Corrie as chef. Lion E. Beecher Menzies gave Burns’ "Ode to a Haggis”. The guest speaker was in troduced by John S. Parker and thanked by Rev. R. U. MacLean, who congratulated the Lions on their usual good choice of speakers for Burns night. Besides the 17 Kinsmen at the annual Burns dinner, other guests included Mayor Don Sy- had the privilege of knowing her. Het kindly disposition won het many friends and will long be remembered, The sympathy of the community is extended to the family. mons, Group Captain K. R. Greenaway, Squadron Leader C; H. Hawthorne, , Squadron Leader Doug Timihs, Walter C. Newcombe, K. -S. Wood, Ken Harris, Doft Jefferson, 'Frank Mutch, William Mutch, Art Aik en, Paul Aggerholm, K. W. Colquhoun, Joe Reid -and Car man McPherson. Draw prizes were won by E. B. Menzies and Frank Mutch and Ken Harris won the regul ar ‘ dinner meeting draw prize. Thurs., Jan. 27, 1966—Clinton News-Record—-Page 7 Turn Ambulance Problem Over To Municipalities (Continued from Page One) through the municipalities.” Reeve Kraut-er, Brussels, said that after consultation with the reeves of Grey and Morris an arrangement was made on the local level. “I .think 'in every case Some body would take it on,” he said, “the fire department or some body else.’’ Mr. Morrissey: “I think the fee has been too low, and may be that is the answer. Insure anc-e rates are up sharply.” Reeve Jewell: “Our two fu neral directors in Goderich have given wonderful service in the past. We are not opposed to conning to some agreement, but there would still be Colborne and part of Goderich to be con sidered.” Reeve Grant Stirling: “This matter was brought up at tine Association1 of Counties, and there is no county operating an ambulance.” -Clerk Berry said a letter from Wingham funeral direct ors indicated they want to get out of the ambulance business.” He read1 some information from a province-wide report on am bulance service. It was reported that ambu lance- subsidies ranged from $100 to $17,400. A survey show ed' 23 operators carrying on the service exclusively, and 158 in connection With some other bus iness. Collections were made in only 58% of traffic accident calls. When county representatives on hospital- boards were making their reports, earlier, the am bulance question was brought up'by Warden SiteiWart. “Some thought this could1 be tied in with hospitals,” he said. “Would any of these men be prepared to say whether or not this is1 a good idea?” John. Fischer, Wingham, thought ft might be worth look ing into. Deputy Reeve Jack Alexander, Whigham, said: “We have no trouble with ambu lances:. We have two1 working; our -firemen are trained in first aid and quite capable? of handr- ling an. ambulance and quite prepared to do that if we have to, but we have no trouble at present.” “I think the ambulance prob lem is greater here than else where in the county,” said Hos pital chairman John Schaefer. “This will came up in council, but personally I feel I wiant to have some assurance there will be ambulance service in Gode rich. “There are good reasons why an ambulance should be con nected with a hospital. It could be tied in with your answering service. If you have co-opera tion of other hospitals with am bulances', you could co-operate and cover one another's terri tory.- “Cost is one factor, and in our position we are in no pos ition to make outlay for nec essary equipment or face the loss in running a service. Some of the cost could be put in with hospital cost, as far as OHSC is concerned and other services integrated. “We have at present no or derlies to drive an ambulance. Night calls would' be a prob lem, -because not too many hos pitals have night staff on, and for the night hours, -when the number of -calls is smallest, St. John Ambulance might provide the go-and-carry type of ser vice. “We have had some discus sion, and if no service were provided I think the hospital board would step in and try to provide dt.” Reeve Duff Thompson, Clin ton, who presented the Clinton hospital report in absence of Beecher Menzies, said: “At pre sent 'the Clinton hospital is working very closely with Sela- forith, -and as1 far as the ambu lance is concerned in our com munity we have no difficulty. We made arrangement not only 500 Farmers Hear Hill-Allan (Continued from page one) had been asked to -build, and had been urged to by the Hen sail Co-operative, but that they had refused. “UCO said they might build facilities for wheat and com only, and maybe for beans later, but they would not plan to do any processing,” re ported Mr. Allan. Mr. Hill stated the need for a better business relationship between -the Bean Board and the dealers. Mr. Allan noted that the Board had possibly trusted the dealers too much in the past, and this was one reason price was not as good as it could be, Mr. Hill warned against com petition of the Bean Board with the Co-operatives. Mr. Allan said he did not foresee competi tion of this sort, but actually hoped to work along with the Co-operatives. Mr. Hill said that -the floor price negotiated by the Bean Board was too -low to be of help. Mr. Allan stated that the -floor price had to be a “disaster price”, because if it were ten cents higher, it would result,in beans -coming in from the Uinted States. Mr. Hill faulted the board for not advising farmers last fall that a market for beans existed overseas, and they should hold -their beans on the farm until, the price went up. Mr. Allan stated that “no one can predict a higher price. If we had advised f armers to hold beans, and then the price had gone down, we’d be wrong, too. You all can read the papers, and see the U.S. price. You can -tell from this yourself, what is likely to happen to the price here.” Mr. Hill urged the division of the Bean Board from the Company that operates the storage facilities in London. Mr. Allan reported that since Aug ust last year, all finances of the two operations have been separated—that- separate staff is (or -is ibeing) hired to oper ate each. Mr. Hill faulted the Bean Board for not realizing soon enough that their operation needed an overhaul—although lie said it was often difficult in day-to-day operation to real ize when changes were needed. He told his farmer-listeners that they could be criticised if they had not done all they could to assist the Bean Board in making decisions and assess ing the changing situation1 pro perly. Mr. Hill wanted to see con trol of 100 percent of the crop, and warned -that less than this did not give enough control to do any good. He urged the Bean Board to become better businessmen and -assume great- er business knowledge. He not ed the possibility of the Board becoming an agency, to buy from the farmer and sell to the dealer, with 'the dealer Working oh a commission, “The Bean Board must get in the position of getting the best price possible for the farmers/' said Mr. Hill. Mr. Allan indicated the fin ancing plan which the Board was planning to use to build the new storage, was the same that had been -used -to acquire the .-processing plant in Lon don. Basicly, there is an 83 cent deduction per hundred pounds of (bean's, made by the dealer from each -payment made to the grower, when he sells his beans. The Bean Board .uses six cents of this for operating costs of the Board. The 77 cent balance is placed -in a stabili zation fund to be used to 'im prove export conditions. .With a crop of about one million hundredweight each year, this means a fund of $770,000 in the stabilization fund all the time. As Mr. Allan pointed out, this earns four percent interest in -the banks at small term loan rates. The fund collected in the fall, ‘ is used to stabilize the price the next fall. By that time, re ceipts are beginning to come in on .the next year’s crop. If the 77 cent deduction is not needed, -then it is returned to the farmer one year later. The board proposes borrow ing from the stabilization fund, $400,000 to build the new plant in Huron County. Permission to do this would have to be ob tained from the Ontario gov ernment. The -board does not foresee any interruption -in the refunds to the farmer from the 77 cent fund. The Board plans to increase the six cent operation fund levy to ten cents, and apply the four cent deduction toward re-paying the loan from the stabilization fund. Four cents per cwt. on a crop of one mil lion cwt. brings in $40,000. In ten years the capital cost of the -building would be recover ed. Asked about interest on the money, Mr. Hill noted the Bean Company would -pay the Bean Board six percent interest on the $400,000 instead of the four percent now being earned in the bank. This would increase the stabilization fund, and even tually would be returned to the farmer. ( . * Where does the Company get money to pay interest re quired of it ? Mr. Allan stat ed that the Company in Lon don had experienced a profit of $12,000 last year; that the new one would be twice the size, and therefore could expect a profit of $24,000, which could be! applied toward the interest. ;Mr. Allan answered Mr. Hill’s contention that a better business relationship was need ed'between the Board and -the dealers, by saying that he per sonally sold inis own beans to dealers in Huron County, and had very goSd relations with them. There was a lively discus sion period after the debate. Mr. Allan stated that a cost study on the new plant would be ready by January 31, when in Zurich the first meeting of the Bean Board to advise growers of their plans, would be held. There were queries -about different grades given by dif ferent firms for the same load of beans; -and different “pick”, and different weights. -One questioner suggested that a one-cent increase in price on the shelves of .-grocery stores, per can, could mean $2.00 per cwt to the farmer, and ponder ed the chances of negotiating this sort of change. A series of questions charg ed .that Mr. Hill and other members of the Farm Products Marketing Board, -had continued "sniping” at the Bean Board. The questioners challenged the knowledge of the Price Water house group that investigated the financing of the , Bean Board: “They didn’t know any thing about beans,” said one. Mr. Hill accepted the fact that .there was a lot of critic ism of the Board, and said that they had tried to get the Board on a solider foundation and get a better -price for beans. Defending the Price Waterhouse report, he said, “You don’t have to be a hen to grade an egg.” One farmer who was prepar ed to store his beans at home, contended that he should not be required to. pay for the stor age of those who do not store at home. —--------o----------- Clinton Personal J. R. Makins, Albert Street, celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday, with seven guests present. for the -hospital but tor the town. (Goderich council, meeting Friday night, ^ejected a request from Ralph Hawes far a subsidy of $8,300, and asked1 the board pf Alexandra Marine and Gen eral Hospital to consider taking over the service.) Mr. Hawes, after the county council' session ended, fold this reporter that after the provin cial Act -is passed ,it will stand ardize ambulance service and set minimum basic require ments for operation. “I have two vehicles operat ing efficiently and economically for Clinton and Goderich, ” he said, “I should have three, so that if ' the regular vehicle is out of the area another is available. These will s-'erve tem porarily, but will be obsolete’ when the Act is passed-. “If a hospital is going to take it over, We might as well get into the basic minimum require ments right away, pay a man $6,500 and provide staff for 24 hours. A hospital is the best place to- run it from. “We are not equipped to handle -intricate cases such as often are transferred. to Lon don. What is the community going to do when the vehicle is aiway? The question is who is going to subsidize who? Hos pitals — the bigger ones — have gone out of this, arid prob ably Listowel and Kitchener- Waterloo- are the only ones still doing it.” -----------o------------ The First Column (Continued from page one) Some support comes from the Goderich Ministerial Associa tion . . . and Mr. and Mrs. Mal colm, of the restaurant help supervise . . . The Open Net is open Wed nesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and all young -people are welcome ... By that we mean that you don’t have to be affiliated with the United Church . . . you are expected to join in with -the mood of the coffee house, and we found that was very easy to do . . . While we visited, we learned a .good deal from an eager young lad who was an expert at taking cars apart and putting them together again . . . and his largest problem, -after get ting money together to affoid his own car . . . was to -finance trips to London, where for some reason his girl friend liv ed .. .- We’re going back to The Open Net some time when we can find the time to get to Goderich . . . For one reason, we have a cribbage -board which would be of assistance there, and we planned to give it -to the cause . . . But we’re also going because we like cof fee houses . . . and since there isn’t one in Clinton, then Gode rich is the closest one . . . Maybe they’ll have an ouija board next time I get there. -----------o----------- Goderich Firm Has Contract For Blyth PO Refflinghaus Construction Limited', Goderich, has been a- warded1 a $24,690 contract for the construction of a post office at Blyth, Public Works Minis ter George J. Mcllraith an nounced today. The successful bid was the lower of two. The new post office will be built on the southwest corner of Drummond and Queen Streets in Blyth, which is on Highway No. 4, about 15 miles> Quality 8 Service east of Goderich. SPECIALS THIS WEEK YARDLEY ROLL ON DEODORANT For Men—2 for the price of 1 Reg. $3.00 for $1.50 For Women—2 for the price of I Reg. $3.00 for $1.50 ' RUBINSTEIN WATER LILY CLEANSING CREAM Reg. $4.50 Special Sale $2.95 VO-5 SHAMPOO 2 Btls., Reg. $3.00 Special $1.90 NOXZEMA SKIN CREAM 10-dz, Jar—Special Sale $1.45 VALENTINES Our Cards Are Now On Display Choose Yours Now—Don’t Be Disappointed 5c to $ 1.00 VALENTINE HEART CHOCOLATES 50c to $6.95 GET A BOX TODAY PRESCRIPTIONS Phone 482-9511 Clinton, Ontario