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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1966-01-27, Page 10Page 10—Clinton News^Record—Thurs., Jart. 27, 1966 Clinton Reeve Opposes System Of Voting for County Warden GODERICH — The reeve of Clinton dislikes the Huron sys tem of electing warxiens, espec ially "pressuring” pf ortlaeq? members by the candidates. In ia brief to county council last Wednesday, Reeve Duff Thomp son proposed the adoption of secret balloting.* The brief wias spnt to the warden’s and personnel commit tee "for discussion,” the warden said. ■ "As a new member ill 1965,” Duff Thompson said, "I found the procedure of verbal voting .difficult. As a second-year member, I find) the procedure even more difficult this ■ year, Man the Daredevil will be one of the giant spectaculars featured in We Expo Stadium during the World Exhibition. It will feature such stunts as high- wire and helicopter acrobatics, human cannonball acts and motorcycle, airplane and auto mobile acts .... many of them never before seed in North A- merica. The Expo Stadium, ca pable of seating 25,000, people will be located at the start of Mackay Pier near the main gate. Before voting takes place, I have pressure exerted on me to commit-myself how I am going to vote. This I do not think’ is faji'r, Pressuring of voters leads to .the ejection of a candidate who might not be the voters'- real choice. "May I suggest changing to secret balloting? This would place .the voters in a better position to vote as he sees fit, and serve the best interests of the people of the county.” ■ Reeve Thompson also made representations about passenger service, the CNR 'having asked permission to discontinue it 'be tween Stratford and Goderich. ‘This may affect only the middle section of the county,” he said! "However the adminis trators .of these municipalities are not in favour of this pro posal and believe the service should be continued, with per haps a change in train schedule, "With this thought in mind,’ we are wondering if the appro priate committee of council would study this situation with a view to supporting the cause of the municipalities affected. We believe you will find nine municipalities thus affected.” r ARMOR-GUARD FRAME FOR EXTRA STRENGTH The box-section design with steel girder-type side rails means exceptional strength and rigidity. Front cross member assures precise wheel alignment and positive handling. Discover the difference CRAFTSMANSHIP makes! W. H. DALRYMPLE & SON Brucefield, Ontario z wmchthj^paceto^iorestudebake^xt^as^ .....I MB Introducing INTERLAKE CHEMICAL SERVICES limited Head Office: 355 Ridout Street North, London Phone 438-2961 *. The Ultimate in CROP SPRAYING SERVICE The "A. B. Cs"ol ——■— I ■ I . I 1.1 I ',1 Interlake Service —Accurate Application of the ..- 3—Best Ch emicals at the . . * £—Correct Time. Operations and Warehouse: KIPPEN VIEW FARMS KIPPEN, ONTARIO Keith Lovell, Representative for Interlake Chemical Services PHONE 262*5058 AT HURON COUNTY COUNCIL Surplus Safety Inspector Named Huron county council had a surplus of $43,412.87 on the op- erations of 1965, according to the report of the «yuclitox‘. A. M. Harper, The general account showed a surplus of $28,531.52, and highways $14,881.35, The statistics announced by clerk-r treasurer J, G, Berry, do not include $12,554 received from the registry office. A 'transfer’ of funds from surplus account to general was made during the year, Highways Minister Charles MacNaughton in a message to council wrote: "Thank you for allowing Mr. Britnell to serye on my engineers’ advisory com mittee, which has been, of the seeking solutions to many prov blems conftpnting the govern ment and department.” «, . Adopting a report of the war den’s and personnel eommitee of 1965, presented py chairman difif. Dunbar, county council appointed Everett Smith, Sea- for to as construction safety .in spector, effective February 1, His salary will/ be $4,800, plus travel allowance ,at':10 cents a mile, " the entire situation to be reviewed in six months.” Mr, Smith has long experience and irocently1 he has been on a con struction jolb at Woodstock. Council has been under pres? sure from the Ontario Depart ment of Labor to majte such an appointment, mandatory now for about two years. There were 54 applications for the Huron job, 10 were Interviewed, and several appeared well qualified. The committee was assisted ■by E. Goodman, construction ■safety officer of the depart ment, but "we had full auton omy,” said Chairman' Cliff; Dunbar, "and the. selection we made, is, on paper> the most qualified' applicant and pomes closer, in my opinion at least, to what the Act slays the qualk fications should be. “Happily, he is fairly central ly located. A lot oif .construction is on the drawing bear'd, for Huron this year, and much seems to be along the lake. "As we have an inspector, I recommend that this man be accepted by county council.”greatest assistance to me in Huron CAS. Cares For 504 Huron Children’s Aid Society served last year 157 families, involving 504 children. ' The number of cases closed; was 79, involving 263 children'. There were 19,527 days’ care provided for the welfare of children un- der the Child' Welfare Act. , These statistics. were given county council in the report of Miss Clare McGowan, local di rector, who said the number of children in care at December 31 was 64. Forty-nine a- doptions were completed in 1965. Members of the staff made 6,832 visits, covering 72,- 902 miles, Miss McGowan devoted most of this report to the neW Child Welfare Act, and in particular part three. "A new section I am not hap py about,” she said, "iss 60(2) Which states that the Children’s Aid Society shall make every effort to ensure the collection of arrears regarding affiliation orders. This can ruin any posits ive assistance we are trying to give tire parent. We do not want to be a collection agency, and much prefer that this res ponsibility remain with the court. This is something that troubles me very much.” When babies are born in hos pitals for unmarried mothers, the law requires adoptions to be made 'by the C.A.S. in that jurisdiction which creates an awkward situation. "Unmarried mothers are either going to have their par ents or others go and get the baby and bring it to the office, or we may take the girl back to this county, and then she may gave it to qs. London, Chatham, Hamilton, Windsor and Toronto, where these hos pitals are, their Societies can not get enough homes for their babies. I think we won't be malting these babies wards un less we can- make some ar rangement whereby the babies can be brought back into Hur on.” Annual meeting of the Huron Children’s Aid is to be held at the Legion Hall ip. Clinton on February 9 — a dinner meeting at 6:30. Huron Roads To Cost $1,275,000 GODERICH — Bylaws be fore county council at the Jan uary session and in March will provide for expenditure of $1,- 275,000 on the Huron road sys tem in 1966. The road commit tee of 1965, in' a report pre sented on Thursday by Chair man Grant Stirling, recom mended a mill rate of 8.75 to finance the 1966 program. That is the same as at present. These projects include five miles of hot mix paving on Road 13 west of Clinton (the Bayfield Road'), and the grading and paving of five miles from Khiva to Highway 81. Grading was completed last year on the Crediiton-Khiva mileage, with only trimming and seeding to be completed. A contract for the' section from Khiva west will be awarded early this year and) will include paving the unpaved part of the first section as well as all of the second section. Road 27 from Carlow to Nile was paved a couple of years ago, and grading of five miles from Nile .to Glenn’s Hill is a 1966 project, along with land and fence operations between Glenn’s Hill 'and Lucknow. The only other road project is grading and paving the quarter mile airport road here. Four new bridges are sche duled. By far toe largest is a 270-foot over the Maitland at Marnoch on road 20, about four concession roadS west of Bel grave. It will replace an old steel bridge. The county only last year built a new bridge over this same winding stream a few miles south at Donny brook. The other bridge pro jects are a 30-foot Dane bridge on road' 7, and 40-foot spans on road's 20 and 27 south of Luck now. Road construction in 1965 cost $367,621, bridges and cul verts $186,705, 'and maintenance of roads, bridges and culverts $395,699. Adding machinery purchased, county rebates and overhead 'and deducting Ontario retail sales tax rebate,, the grand total was $1,177,674 elig ible for subsidy. There is some indication that the mill rate may be increased at the March session an order to qualify for more, of what was termed “Treasury money.” County Engineer James Britnell provided members with copies of an elaborate formula show ing the estimated increase in development road entitlement. "If we raised our mill rate to 9.3,” he explained, "we would qualify for 47.2% or 20% more. A raise of .55 mills equals $35,000. On this we would get a subsidy of $35,000 plus ad ditional development road en titlement of about $60,000 for 1965 and $50,000 for 1966, or total D.H.O. money of $155,000. "This is 'like getting 80% subsidy on road expenditures for the 'amount we spend over our last year’s budiget, since ,we could do $190,000 worth of work with $35,000 Of county money.” "Why wouldn't we go for this?” asked Reeve Carl Dalton', Seaforth. “We are looking for more roads' in our area, and if this is the case we are foolish if we don’t go for it.” From the chairman of the 1966 toad committee, Reeve Donald McKenzie of Ashfield, came this comment: “We can not carry it along so people are going to be satisfied with these roads. If we continue normally we will never catch up as we have in recent years with the development roads;” There were doubters also. Reeve Tom Leiper, of Hullett, referring to the return of road mileage to the townships, said hie could not see how there was any saving to the provincial treasury. "The 'intention may be to ■bring county roads to a certain standard,” he said, "but we might have 'two grades, A and B, one gravel. We are still pay ing the same rate with fewer miles of road!” 1 Engineer Britnell replied: “It depends on where you stand. Mr. MacNaughton, speaking for the province, did not say it was the intention to save the pro vince money. He is. trying to spend more, but spread it more evenly. The main purpose in the road needs study was not to turn roads .back, but to have all county systems approximat ely equal throughout the pro vince. Sugar And Spice (■Continued from page 4) I don’t know whether the lady who’d asked believed me. I just walked qifif and left her standing there, mouth open, eyes slightly crossed. The next enquiry came from pne of those, loudmouths who like .to embarrass one in front of a ‘group. He tried. Loudly, “Whada do? Got drunk and fall down the cellar stairs, ho-ho?” Not at all, I told him calmly. I’d got drunk, been' locked put, Slept in a snowbank ail night, wakened with a frozen foot, and had to have three toes am putated. I asked him if he’d like one as a souvenir, but he didn't seem too keen. The next customer was a malicious old bat who looks like the flower, but in reality is the serpent under't. "Been fighting with your Wife again? It’s a- bout time she put her foot down. On yours, hep-hee.” “Well we weren’t exactly fighting,” I told her, "I had the shotgun out and was just trying to scare her a little, just in fun1, When the dam tiring went off arid blew a hole in my’foot the size of an orange. Wanta see?” She turned green.' and started to sway, so I left her. A fourth 'interrogator, a young lady who loves trouble— other 'people’s, that is — came up to me, eyes glistening, and solicitously hoped it was noth ing serious. I said not really, just a few severed tendtxns. Never be able to wiggle my toes again, 'but lucky to get off so easily. "After all, it was a 30-foot drop.” Gaping, she pursued, “What in the world happened.” "Nothing much. I fell off the roof and landed on one of the iron spikes in the ftont porch rcLiling.” "But What ill the world were you doing on the roof, in the middle of winter? You must have been out pf ypur mind!” "Oh, np, not really, I was just faying to get my wife to come down out of the free.” And tliat shut her up. As the day went on, I told other'vultures that: A, Grey hound bus had stopped on top of my foot and didn’t move un til the lights changed; the foot had been burned' beyond recog nition by a faulty electric blan ket; that my daughter had been helping to chop l^indling for the fireplace, missed, and' top ped off all but my htttPist toe. Getting my cojat in the roam, at the end of a pretty ip.- teresfing day, I heard two fe- m,ale collogues, unaware of my presence, reconstoucting the ac cident, "Drunk qs a billy-goat, they say, and.' climbing a tree after blade squireels, with a shot- gtoi "Np, no. I heard he’d gone after his Wife and kids with the axe, and dropped it on his foot.” I limped off. Quietly. Tri umphantly, ---- --------------(J--—.......... “To be a man .is to feel that through one’s own contribu tion, one helps to build the World” —- from Terres des, Hpmmes — the theme of Expo —by Antoine de Saint Exupery. 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