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(By W. D, D.)
So- it 'is estimated that
will cost as much as the United
States 'is spending on their
space program, to keep the
water in the Great Lakes fit
to dnink ... So what. . . Surely
having good1 water is as impor
tant 'to man, as his ability to-
visit the moon and the stars , . .
We suspect it -'is even more im
portant , . ,
$ *
Nothing to report on the
clock on the former post office
. . . No one has -apparently of
fered to permit anyone to do
the job of winding ... At least
the dock is right twice .a day
. . . (No, there-is no dock out
side the new post office).
$
Conceiming the post office
doors ... we understand that
the needed action to have them
loosened up is now in capable
hands . . . and as soon as pro
gress can be reported . .
will do so in this column .
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Have a' story about another
Doherty product . . .. Mrs.’ Hen
ry Young reports that 13 years
' ago, she saw a Doherty organ
in operation in England, which
was older than the one men
tion in a recent letter to the
editor .... and-was in good
condition . . . These products
of Clinton craftsmen are all
over the world . . .
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. While we’re still way back in
■ ;ih'e\past'. . .wte had a visit
•froim' Constable Clarence Per-
■ ,d|Ue;-’cy^i.o-lives in a.frame house
<xn. Shipley Street . . . He has
documents to show that in 1878
that same building sold for the
sum of $37*
Clinton News-Record
THE HURON RECORD — 84th Year
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No. 9—The Home Paper With the News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1966 $4.00 Per Year—10 Cents Per Copy^—12 Pages
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THE NEW ERA — 100th Year
Farewell Visit With CNR Fireman .
Henry Carter, station agent here at Clinton for the past ten years, is
■ spending his last day on the job to-day, March 3. Here he visits with William
R. “Bud”' Hutchison, fireman on -a freight moving from Stratford to Goderich,
which paused briefly at the Clinton Station. Mr. Hutchison had an anniver
sary this week: 25- years with the ,CNR. (News-Record Photo)sary this week: 25' years with the ,CNR.
Clinton To Proceed With Full
At the meeting called by
Clinton town, council last Thurs
day evening it was the feeling
of the 40 persons present that
Olinton should build a. commun
ity centre type recreation
centre.
Previous meetings of the new
arena committee and council
had tentatively planned a new
arena building only. The com
mittee of service club members
and councillors had *a price of
$167,940.40 for the smaller
structure. The by-law authoriz
ing 'this 'amount wias passed at
the February meeting after
having been read a first and
second,1 time at the August 1965
meeting of council.
Mayor Don Symons was
chairman and he and members
of the original committee out
lined plans to date.
When the mayor asked1 for
volunteers for the three sug
gested committees: building,
finance and publicity, there was
immediate response.
J. W. “Bill” Counter, David
Beaittie and Don Kay volunteer
ed as a building committee.
The financial committee will
be headed by CHSS teacher
Malt Edgar, With Frank Cook
and K. W. Oolquhoun.
The publicity (or advertising)'
committee includes Bert Clif
ford, Gerhard Haaksmian and
Len Fawcett.
Immediately after -the meet
ing the building committee met
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Lots of people revel in the
past, because of the startling
comparisons in statistics that
can be made . . . We’re getting
into the past of this newspaper
within1 the next few weeks . . .
and will be ready to tell you of
its development from infancy
100 years ago to its status as
one of the best in the land
during recent years . , .& * *
Clinton is to have a second
dentist in the near future . '. A
Graham 'Bowker, now complete
ing his dental training at col
lege in Toronto, has. rented the
former clinic on Rattenbury
Street west, and is re-furnish
ing it as office and home . , .
So cheer up, those who have-,
despaired of ever having a cav
ity filled . ... springtime and
graduation day cometh . . .
* * *
5 Other changes s along main
street: Co-operative Insurance
Association' has opened an of
fice in the location , on Kang
Street once occupied by Clin
ton Speed Wash Laundry..". !
The Fitzsimons Food Faiir build
ing owned by Mrs. C. D. Con-
hell, on Albert Street, has been
sold . , . Clinton Downtown
Florist shop on Albert Street
(next to Bartli'ffs) was closed
over the .weekend, and propriet
or Mrs. June Smith has com
menced work with K. C. Cooke
Florist, on Orange Street . . .* * »
' We never *' did get around to
reporting that the boss of the
News-Record got back from
Florida . . . arrived sun-tanned
and healthy after-three weeks
among oranges, pink flamingos
and leaping porpoises . . . and
while talking about staff here:
Rick Finch, who was appren
ticing as printer, left us last
week to join the staff of Toast
master Bread . . .
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At Desk in Clinton Station
Dispatching freight and passengers, has long .
been .the task Mr. Carter has performed for the
Canadian National Railways, and he served in
many communities. Accepting t information via
' telephone; he sits in the sunny bay-window of the
Clinton Station, a spot which affords a view up and
down the track without, going out-doors.
(News-Record Photo)
Feb.
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Former Seed Show
The Weather'
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First Farm Conference
In Exeter March 12
Details of the first Huron
County Agricultural Conference
are fairly well laid down now
and .the all-day affair wall be
held in the South Huron Dis
trict High School in Exeter on
Saturday, March 12.
Sponsorship of the Day has
been expanded considerably, to
■include the Huron County Fed
eration, of Agriculture, and the
Town of Exeter.
The Agricultural Conference
replaces the Seed Show which
has been held continuously for
the past number of years, and
Was sponsored by the Huhon
County Soil and Crop Improve
ment Association.
Change in format for the
“farmer’s dlay” came about due
to a recognition by the leader
ship of 'the Federation of Agri-
culture this year, that more
educational programs for those
farmers Who Wanted to take ad
vantage of them, were neces
sary; and consideration by the
Soil and Crop group that the
Value Of a Seed show, as such,
was limited. '
’ Morning programs will last
for two hours, from 10:30 to
12:30 p.m., With four different.
topics being dealt with. After
noon programs last from 1:30 to
3:30, p.m. again with four dif
ferent topics under considera
tion.
At noon a 50 cent lunch will
be available at the school, sold
by the directors of the soil and
crop association.
A welcoming program lasting
15 minutes is scheduled at 1:15
pah. With president Iah McAl
lister, Zurich, of the Soil and
drop Improvement Association
giving the Welcome, along with
Jack Delbnfdge, mayor of Ex
eter and the chairman of the
South Huron District High
School Boiatd.
The Soil and Crop News, pre*
pared1 each year by the Associ
ation, will bo available this
Week to all farm people in the
county. Details of the proposed
programs will be explained
there.
MORNING PROGRAMS
PROGRAM NO. It
lligli Moisture OOni
Chairman, Elmer Powe, first
Vice-president, soil and Chop.
Speaker, G. S. Moggach, eh*
gineor with the extension
(Continued on Page 2)
Clinton Hospital Board has
taken no definite action con
cerning acceptance of the job
of operating an -ambulance to
serve the town and area.
At the February meeting Joe
Murphy 'informed the board
that Councillor H. F. Noonan,
chainman of council’s special
committee in the matter had in
quired ‘Whether the hospital
would be interested.
The board will discuss the
subject further, when more in
formation about this type of
service is available1 to them.
Mr. Murphy and manager T.
Steep will represent the Clinton
hospital on the board of trus
tees of a hew building hear the
Stratford Hospital to be known
as the Perth-Huron Regional
School of Nursing, There are
seven ’hospitals involved in the
operation of this new school,
and each Will be represented on
the board, it is expected to at
when completed, nurses un
training there Will do practical
work in each of the affiliated
hospitals.
Huron County Council ha!s re
appointed E. Beecher Menzies,
Clinton ibarrfster, to the Clinton
Hospital Board for 1966.
Five, new beds, along With
bedside tables, over-bed tables,
etc. Will be purchased. this year
tor use in patients rooms, in. a
continuing plan to re-furnish
the entire hospital. As funds are
available, beds and accompany*
ihg accessories are bought, five
at a time.
Also approved tor purchase
this year are dictating units fof
recording medical histories;, a
Hobarts mixer tor the dietary
department; a desk, file cabinet
(Continued on page 7)
After 10 Years!
Henry Carter ‘retires to-4ay
after 46 years in the employ of
■ the Canadian National Rail
ways. For the .past ten ydirs
he has been station agent, here.
Mr. Carter began work in&he
express division of CNRfat
. Lucknow in 1920 at -the agdipf
19, and’ remained on tKe jbb
there until 1940.
Then he went to Fergus as
shed man, and the year after
became operator at stations in
Fergus and Clinton, working
between the two areas through
out the summer as other men
had vacations.
■’ He continued on relief work
throughout southwestern On
tario, serving as far north as
Park Head (near Owen Sound),
east as far as Malton and
south as far as Camlachie
(hear Sarnia).
•• Mr. Carter stayed in Clinton
for a lengthy period of time
while Roy Sparling was agent,
and then went to Newton as
agent himself. He served as
agent at Brucefield, then at
Ripley, and came to Clinton to
stay in May of 1956. ■
The News-Record asked Mr.
Carter if he- recalled special
events duitag 'his years of work,’
and he selected an incident in
February 1965, when a tram,
went off the .track right at the
statical here at Clinton. The
mishap occurred while the en
gine was shunting — and a
“.hook” or repair train was
brought from London to put it
back into place. The ten hour
job lasted until about 2 a.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter live at
142 Frederick Staeet,
“Only time will tell which side the various com
batants are on. Disputes over farm marketing is
sues are often like icebergs: one-tenth above water,
nine-tenths below!”
This was comment by James Boynton quoted in
“The Market Place”, February issue. Mr. -Boynton
is secretary-treasurer of the Ontario Hog Produc
ers Association.
■Since then the~Bean vote has
been held', the issue defeated,
the producer-eleioted Bean
Board has been dissolved by
government action; an auditing
firm has moved into the Bean
Company office; three new di
rectors ’ have been named by
the government to form a new
bean board; and that board has
named three men to direct the
company; a demonstration was
staged Monday by 350 farmers
at the Bean Company in Lon
don; Archie McMurehy, secre
tary-manager with the old
board, has been re-engaged (for
one month) by the new board.
Last Thursday, February 24,
the Bean Board members, along
with Archie McMurehy, went to
Hotel London for a meeting
with the Farm Products Mar
keting Board. They were met by
Fair Board Gives
To Fire Fund
Directors of the Huron Cen
tral Agricultural Society dipped
generously - into- their pockets
this week and contributed $33
toward the Ross Lovett Fire
Fund, which has been started
by residents on the Base Line.
Clark Ball,- who made the
appeal to the directors, while
he. was-on a route collecting
tor the fund; announced that
there would be'.a-dance-at Lon-
desboro Community Hall this
Friday night, and' the proceeds
will go toward the fund. Mr.
Lovett, has been an active dir
ector of the Society.
The Fair-Board made chang
es in the prize list to bring it
up to date; authorized the’sec
retary William- Riehl to- con
firm ah invitation to an NHL
hockey star who will open the
fair; accepted silver trays for
awards on specials; arranged
to'have bleachers moved inside
for a hog sale scheduled tor
March 26.
Herb Arbuckle, chairman . of
the OFPMB and the other re
maining members of that board.
In a half hour session, the Bean
Board, chaired by Robert P.
Allan, Brucefield, was. advised
that the board ceased to exist.
The prepared statement of
the FPMB said the action was
taken “because they (.the mem
bers) failed to adhere- to an
agreement ■ with the FPMB
dealing with marketing princi
ples and separation of the com
pany from .the .bean growers
'marketing board. The FPMB
believes that the* ‘bean board’
has failed to serve the best in*
terests of Ontario white ,'bean
growers.’’. -. \
A new board “Ontario Bean
Marketing Board” was set- vp
by' the .‘.FPMB with three ,dL
rectors:--Roy Coulter,.,Campbbll-
ville, a past chairman of the
Ontario Wheat Producers Mar
keting Board; Clarence Dbwn,
Exeter, past chairman of the
Ontario Vegetable > Growers'
Marketing Board and Fergus
Turnbull, Dashwood, a 'past.
Chairman of the Ontario. Bean
Growers Marketing Board..
The FPMB asked all' mem-'
bers of the old board 'and ‘staff
of the board and company, to
help the new board in their job.
To this Charles Rau, Zurich,
chaiirrrran of .the company, said
he “would' not give them a
damn bit of co-operation.” '
And Archie McMurehy, Glen
coe, "was ready to tell them
(new directors.) where they
could put the facilities they
stole, from the growers/’
However Mr. McMurehy has
since re->hired with the new
board Where he can. work in the
interests of the growers. For
one month at least, he will try
to work with the new board.
Thursday night the 3-man
board met and appointed a 3-
man board of directors to run
the company. Named are Archie
(Continued on page 7)
with Jack Peirson of Peirson
Buildings Limited, of Peterbor
ough, Ontario and Chilliwac,
B.C.
Mr. Peirson was in the dis
trict last Thursday and attend
ed the meeting and answered
questions, The original new
arena committee had been deal
ing with the Peirson company
for over a year ‘and that is
Where the $167,940 had come
from.
Peirson was instructed to
draw up plans to include an ice
surface 80'xl80’, an auditorium
and the required dressing
rooms, booths and offices.
The proposed community
centre will be built on. a site in
Clinton Community Fiark. Soil
tests 'have been taken, and ap
proved for this type of build
ing,
The addition of an auditorium,
to- the original- plan and auth
orizing the various committees
will be requested at the March
14 ‘meeting of Clinton town
council.
The enlarged project (to in- .
elude auditorium.) will cost up
wards of $200,000.
Last Thursday’s meeting was
a lively one, with, questions be
ing asked by local ratepayers
from all walks of life.
Liquor Fines Levied
At Mag istrate’s Court
At. court here on Wednesday
morning, Magistrate Glen Hays,
Goderich, fined, a series of men
on offences involving liquor.
Allan C. Martin; 35 Ratten-
bury Streep, was fined $60 plus
costs on .a-charge of being in control of a yehicle-iyhiU^->V^<?"
er. the. influence of alcohol'. The
conviction carries a statutory
. suspension of drivers licence for
six months.
George N. Langlois, 19, Gode
rich, was fined $25 and costs
'foy consuming while -under 21.
Others fined on the same charge
were Lyle R. Shaw, 19, .and.'J.
Conrad Morneau, 19, both of,
RCAF Station Clinton and each
will pay-. $25 ■ and costs. ‘
. Donald Chyimyshiyn', 18, con
victed of consuming while a
minor was fined $35 and costs.
He was apprehended February
26 When he Wandered by chance
into Constable Oesch’s home
seeking directions for getting
back to Station Clinton..
G. P. Hogan, 21, paid $30
■and costs for having liquor in
a place other than his' resi
dence.
Bruce, D. Lyndon, 18, < RR 1,
Brucefield, paid $25 and costs
for causing unnecessary noise
by squealing the tires on a car
he was driving at the main in
tersection in Clinton.
Ernest R. McGee, RR 2, Bay-
field, was convicted ,by careless
driving’,-, and- Wasiftaqd. $25 and
costs. The charge 'arose out of
an accident on New. Year’s
Eve, December 31, 1965, ’when
Mr. McGee’s bar was in colli*
sion with one owned by the
late Howard Tait. Constable
A. Shaddick was investigating
officer. ■
The McGee car came from a
driveway on the. north side of
Mary Street, crossed the street,
and collided. With the door of
the Tait car parked on the
south side.
Magistrate Hays pointed out
that'there was no evidence of
recklessness, nor foolhardy ac
tion, but that the street was
wide enough that the McGee
car could have been turned
either . to . the right or left,
in such a way that the Tait
car would not (have 'been struck.
According to his counsel, P.
(Continued on page 7)
Century Farms Sought
By Huron Jr. Farmers
At the January directors’
meeting of the Junior Farmers’
Association of Ontario, the as
sociation adopted as a Centen
nial Project the locating and
identification of all Century
Farms in the Province of Ont
ario.
In order to qualify, a farm
must be resided on, and it must
be in active operation; farms,
must be Registered in the same
family name for 100 or more
years as of January 1st, 1967;
farms in th£ name of a widow
will qualify; an incorporated
farm will be eligible,
It is estimated that" over 500
farms 'may qualify for Century
Farm sign recognition in Huron
douhty.
Maurice Love, RR 3, Exeter',
who is Huron Clotaity’s Provin
cial Director is compiling a list
of names and addresses of pos
sible Century Farm owners in
Huron County.
Clerics from all of Huron’s
16 townships have been request
ed to advise ML Love as to.
the owners of Century Farms
in their respective townships.
Any farmers qualifying for Rec
ognition tn this project may
check with their local township
clerk to see if ■thigh? farm is in*
eluded, .
Immediately following the
Junior Farmers’ Association of
Ontario Conference in1 Guelph,
March 11, 12 and 13, all possible
Century Farm owners will re
ceive a notice or order form
from the Huron County Junior
Farmers’ Association.
May 1st is deadline for sub
mitting applications tor signs
to designate Century Farms.
Each Century Farm sigh will
be delivered 'by a Junior Farm
er member to the farm receiv
ing it. In' Huron County, all
signs Will ibe erected by the
Junior Farmers before the 1966
International Plowing Match.
The Century Farm Sigh Will
be 16 inches by 19 ihethes in
size; it will be made of twenty
gauge cold tolled steel, and Will
be double faced (i.e. the sign
Will be painted oil both sides).
The cost Of the sign to quali
fying farmers will be $1.00 with
the Junior Farmers’ Association.
Of Ontario subsidizing the re
mainder of the cost of each
sign.
There Will be four holes in
each Sign —* two at the top for
mounting and two at the bot
tom tor attaching a name plate
(if the farmer wishes, and at
ihls -esspodsbL-
Getting Final Instructions From Coach
' CHSS senior boys basketball coach Aubrey Langdon is shown here talk
ing to his team M the last time-out in regulation time at the'Hufon-Perth
schools basketball final in CHSS auditorium Saturday night. The score was tied
40-40 with Goderich at end of regulation time. The first three-minute over
time produced a 44-44 tie, then Clinton went on to win 52-50 in the second
overtime period. Clockwise from coach Langdon are Byran Lavis, Clare
Magee, Rolfe Cooke, Brad Dutot and Fred Jewson (15). (News-Record Photo)