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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1966-03-03, Page 11 ...■ .. 1 ...—■ €olumn= :|s * (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 . i(: * 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 . . . * « :H . 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 f No. 9—The Home Paper With the News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1966 $4.00 Per Year—10 Cents Per Copy^—12 Pages it 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 * 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 . . . ’Otl z> .. ?j ... ?, A:/,' ? 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. Mar. Former Seed Show The Weather' 1965 High 17 23 25 31 1966 High Low 33 " 36 33 34 38 40 43 19 6 23 17 14 ’ 34 . 28 35 33 37 Low 2 13 16 9 ■ 4 18 20 ‘ 23 . 24 25 26 27 28 1 Rain: .96” Snow: 2” Snow:9%” 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)