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Paving of the Kippen read
from Kippen to (Seaforto was
going forward on Tuesday . s .
stretching a broad ribbon of
black asphalt across tote coun
tryside ,
* 4' ?l>
Work at the site of Huron
. County Public School Area One
. , , jjutet south of Brucefield ite
continuing , , . A grey building
small in size, has- joined toe
turquoise one as a worknshed
. , . and there are innumerable
interesting wooden stakes all
'.over the site, along with pile's
of earth . , We believe there
has been some cement poured,
somewhere ip the middle'of'this
“plowed field” probably in
neighbourhood of the well,
some such spot
He $
Good news for the section
Highway 4 within the town
Clinton, south of the main in
tersection, seems' to be soon
coming . . . Survey crews have
been at work for several weeks,
checking - levels in (driveways;
slopes of shoulders, etc. . .
Winning Designs
For Canada's
Centennial Medal
OTTAWA — A farmer Ot
tawa man, retired chief en
graver of the Royal Canadian
Mint, Thomas Shingles., and a
Toronto artist, Mrs. Dora de
Pedery Hunt, are toe winning
designers in the lin^itedi com
petition for the Centennial
Medallion, Canada’s Centennial
1s
Clinton News-Record
THE NEW ERA — 100th Year THE HURON RECORD — 84th Year
, CHSS Revue Helps Community Centre Fund
CLINTON/ ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1966"
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PUBLIC HOLIDAY
MONDAY, MAY 23
Monday, May 23, will be a
public holiday for most place?
of business in town—observ
ing Queen Victoria’s birth-<
. d|ay, which is May 24.
The two banks and the
credit union Will observe- the
full holiday.
■ The Clinton News-Record
■ office will be closed but part
of the mechanical staff will
be on duty.
■ Citniton Post Office will be
clqsed all day, but the outer
lobby where toe boxes are
located, will be open from 5
p to 8 pm, only. There will
be no .rural mlail delivery on
Jhe holiday,
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9 Year Old Londesboro Girl
Killed On Way To Theatre
After playing to two full houses on May 6 and 7, the CHSS Students*
Council presented its CHSS-TV Red and Blue Revue on Saturday, May 14 in
aid of Clinton and District Community Centre Centennial Fund. Paul Griffin,
second from left, the variety night master of ceremonies, is presenting a cheque
for $410.00 to CHSS teacher Mait Edgar, who is finance chairman of the
centennial fund; on the left is Miss Lynn Rees, one of the featured artists of
the revue, and on the right, Fred Tyndall, the assistant master of ceremonies.
(News-Record Photo)
Ju
OBVERSE SIDE
an-Commissioner John Fisher
nounced;; -
Mr.; Shingles,, who.. now. lives
in Victoria,-tarid Mrs?•Hunt,’’will'
each receive $1,500 for their
winning designs; Mr. Shingles
for the obverse side of the
Medallion and Mrs. Hunt'for
REVERSE SIDE
toe reverse.
The Medallions, more . than
5,500,000 pf them, will be dis
tributed to all Canadian school
children, grades one to 13, as
reminders of toe Centennial
Year and tilts significance to
Canada and to Canadians.
The Medallion will be minted
by toe Royal Canadian Mint
and will be made of red brass
metal, an alloy of copper and
zinc. They will be one and one-
quarter inches in diameter or
about the size of a silver dol-
(Ctentinued on Page 12)
Mary Elaine Hesselwood,
nine-year-old daughter. of Mr.
and Mrs. Keith L. Hesselwood,
RR 1 Londesboro, was killed
Saturday night in a* two-car
collision near- Goderich.
She and four other children
were being driven to Sunset
Drive-In Theatre, 1% miles
east of Goderich, by Sam Jam
ieson of Blyth, a friend pt the
Hesselwood family.
.They were Involved in a col
lision with a car driven by John
Sdhneiker, Goderich. The Jam
ieson car was turning south off
No, 8 Highway,
theatre.
The accident
9:45 p.m.
Other children
towards the
happened at
in the Jamie-
sister and brother, Brenda, 13,
and Kenneth, 11, and Jeannette
Riley, 12, daughter of Mr, and.
Mrs. Alex Riley, RR 1 Londes-
boro, and Clayton Riley, 12,
son of Mr, and Mrs, Archie
Riley, RR 4 Clinton,
All persons were taken to
Alexandra Marine and Gener
al Hospital, Gpderich. Jeannette
Riley is still in hospital.
•Goderich coroner Dr. N. C.
Jackson, who
girl dead ait
She died of a,
Elaine was
Blyth Public
tended Sunday School at Burn’s
United Church in
Tbwnship. She was
January 8, 1957.
( The funeral service
pronounced, the
the scene, said,
broken neck.
in Grade 3 at
School, and at-
HuUetit
born on
was held
from the Ball and Mutch funer
al home, High Street, Clinton,
on Tuesday, May 17 ait 2 p.m;,
with Rev. R. J. Tstehanz, minis
ter of Lond'esboro United. Ch
urch, officiating. Interment was
in Clinton cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Douglas
Riley, Thomas Riley, Harvey
Riley and Wallace East.
Flower-hearers were: Gloria
Adams, Kathy Carter, Judy and
Joan Hewatt, Terry Flynn,
Sandra Riley, Bonnie and Kar
en Sheppard.
Besides her parents1, the sur
vivors (include her brother Ken
neth, sisters Verna and Brenda,;
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Hes-
selwood, London, and maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
James East, of RR 4 Clinton.
Ontario Bean Growers
Announce Changes
share capital co-operative.
. The Company by-laws have
been approved by the Board of
Directors of the Company and
by toe Ontario Bean Marketing
Board.
Election procedures to elect (
q new marketing board which
will be known as toe Ontario
Bean Producers’ Marketing
Board have been drawn up and
approved by the presently ap
pointed Ontario Bean Market
ing Board.
Representatives "of. both, the
Ontario Bean Marketing Board
and Ontario Bean Growers Ltd,
will attend all county meetings
to explain election procedures
and to answer questions.
Notices of. meetings and in
formation regarding toe revis
ed Bean Marketing Plan and
the reorganized Company will
be mailed! to bean growers.
Details of election procedures
and the revised representation
will be announced shortly.
The county meetings are ten
tatively scheduled for late
May and it is hoped to have re
organization completed in June. -
The Ontario Bean Marketing
Board and Ontario Bean Grow
ers ‘Ltd; have published an ad
vertisement on page 10 of this
issue, announcing changes, -tn
their, organizations.
v The Board in future will be
the “Ontario Bean Producers
Marketing Plan” 'and the form
er company will be. toe “On
tario Bean Growers Co-opera
tive”.
Meetings will be held in the
bean growing counties, shortly
■for directors; cbmmaittetemteiri’
and directors for the new cooperative. **
Huron is the largest bean
producing county, of the six
major .areas, and will nominate
12 comlmitteemen and four di
rectors on the marketing plan.
If more than the required num
ber of directors are nominated',
an election will be held by mail
ballot, possibly in June.
Application has been made
for supplementary letters pat
ent to reorganize Ontario
Bean Growers Ltd. to a non-
Rev. R. Craig Peters
Six Kinsmen
To Convention
The Kinsmen Club of Clinton
will be represented! by six mem
bers at the District 1 Conven
tion in Chatham, this- weekend,
Friday, May 20 to Monday,
May 23.
Heading the delegation will
be president Andy Peterson,
immediate past governor Malt
Edgar, incoming president Dav
id Beattie, Robert Mann, Larry
Jones, Bert Clifford and Wil
liam Fleming. All will be ac
companied by their wives. Mirs.
Fleming is president of the
Kinette* Club of Clinton.
Tom Feeney, the immediate
past president, will attend part
Of the sessions,” after a visit-bin
Windsor.
The Clinton Kinsmen will be
interested in "a report on the
building of the $350,000 Nation
al Kinsmen Institute for Mental
Retardation. The Institute will
be built by 1970, commemor
ating Kinsmen's 50th anniver
sary. The Clinton club has com
mitted itself for $885, of which $100 has been paid; >
Larry Wood of Preston is the
governor of District One, and
his successor will be’.picked at
this convention.
Wild Fur Sales
And Rabies At
Trappers
The' spring meeting of the
Huron County ’Riappens’ Asso
ciation was held April 22 in the
Agricultural Office Board
Room, Clinton, with a good at
tendance.
Alter.three interesting films
were shown on moose, by Norm
Hoy, Goderich; eels by Roy
Bellinger, ■ Goderich, and North
Bay fur sales, -by Alex S-hieff,
North Bay; the' president,
Merv Batkin conducted a short
business session.
Ed Meadows was the first
speaker, and stated toe musk
rat catch was high due to
plenty of water in the streams;
rabies was still bad in foxes
and skunks. Bats are carriers
of rabies but raccoon is not
seriously affected.
Township < and county trap-
(Continued on page 12)
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HULETT MUSIC
FESTIVAL NOW ON
The 15th annual ,,Hullett
Tbwnship Music Festival
.started last night in Londes
boro United Church and will
continue today (Thursday)
■morning and afternoon.
On Friday evening, Miay
20 at eight, o’clock a concert
of toe fii-rsLand second place
winners will be held.
The News-Record will
carry the complete list of
prize winners and photos of
the first place entries in each
class in next week’s issue.
The annual event is spon
sored jointly by Hulleitt Fed
eration of Agriculture and
Londesiboro WI.
In Auburn and Clinton
Former Baptist Pastor Ordained
R. Craig Peters, who has
served the Auburn-Clinton ch
arge of the Baptist Church,for
the past five years as pastor,
was ordained into the. Chris
tian Ministry, at -two separate
meetings last Thursday.
The proceedings of the or
dination council and the^exam-
inatibn of the candidate was
held in the afternoon at the
Auburn Baptist,' and1 at 7:30
in the evening the service of
ordination was held in First
Baptist Church, Huron Street,
Clinton.
The two services were under
a council of delegates of the
Middlesex-Eambton Association
of Baptist Churches.
Afternoon Session
Bud Kuehl, a deacon of the
Clinton Baptist Church, assist
ed by Bert Doran of Auburn,
conducted toe worship service.
Rev. A. B. Schulte of Sarnia
was ’elected moderator and1 Rev.
H. deVries of Goderich was
elected clerk. Mrs. Reg. Clif
ford of Clinton, read1 the let
ter from the advisory council
re the ordination and Rev. Er
nie Johns of Sarnia, invited
the visitors to sit with coun
cil.
Frank Raithby, deacon of the
Auburn church, introduced Mr.
Peters, -and /the examination of
toe- candidate was done by the
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council. Mrs. Ella Donaldson
of Goderich was toe organist.
Following the afternoon ser
vice a dinner was served to the
100 delegates and guests in the
Auburn Community Memorial
Hall by the ladies of the Au
burn and Clinton churches.
During the dinner, Mr. Pet
ers received a telegram of con
gratulations. from the director
and staff of Yokefellow Insti
tute, Richmond, Indiana, and
also one from his home church, -
toe Claremont Baptist Church,
near Toronto.
On April 1 Rev. Peters join
ed Yokefellow Institute ■ at
Richmond, Indiana, as associ-
a ate director. He had studied
'for the past year at toe Eari-
• ham School of Religion at
Richmond, Indiana. Mr. 'and
Mrs. Peters reside at the Earl
ham Campus Village and Mrs.
Peters is employed by toe city
of Richmond as a receptionist
for toe family service agency.
On May 10 Rev. Peters grad
uated from McMaster Univer
sity Divinity College, Hamil
ton, at toe spring convocation
exercises.
’ Rev. Schulte, who was elect
ed moderator of toe examining
council in the afternoon, was
chairman for the service of
ordination in the Baptist Ch
urch, Clinton, which was filled
to capacity. The organist Was
Mites Sherry Cochrane and so
los were sung by Miss Mary
Lee Hollenbeck and! Lome Salz
man, both of Clinton, ReV. W.
F. Steeper Of London gavte the
Charge to the Church and Rev.
(Continued on Page 12)
Baptist Deacons Congratulate Newly Ordained Minister
After the ordination service in First Baptist
■ Church, Clinton, Thursday evening, the deacons of
the Auburn-Clinton charge congratulated the newly
ordained minister, Rev. R. Craig Peters, who had
•boon pastor of the two churches for the past five
years. Left to right, Frank Raithby, Auburn; Lome
Salzman, Clinton; Rev. Peters; Mrs. Peters; Robert
Phillips, Auburn, and Rud Kuehl, Clinton. The or
dination service Was carried out by the Middlesex-
Lambton Association of Baptist Churches, with Rev.
A. B. Schulte of Sarnia as moderator of the Exam
ining Council. Rev* Peters has been appointed
associate director of the Baptist Yokefellow Insti
tute, Richmond, Indiana. (News-Record Photo)
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son car were the dead girl’s
Michigan Masons Welcomed To Clinton
The Masonic Lodges of Berkley, Mich, and Clinton, Ont., exchange frater
nal visits every year. Last Saturday the Berkley brethren were in Clinton and
attended a banquet in St. Paul’s .Parish Hall, followed by a. lodge session in
the Masonic lodge -rooms here. Shown abbve, at* the banquet; areydeft to right,
Robert Cross, worshipful master and Alvin Ford, secretary of Berkley Lodge
No. 536, being welcomed to Clinton by Harry Williams and Donald Watson,
worshipful master, both of Clinton Lodge No. 84. (News-Record Photo)
Bayfield Changeover To Dial
Has Homey Atmosphere
BAYFIELD — At’ 3 a.m. on
May 15, 1966, William Dowson,
Tuckersmith Municipal Tele
phone System lineman, pulled
wires at the new dial house,
and with flashes and shooting
of sparks, popping of fuses,
the subscribers on Bayfield
central went on dial. He was
assisted by Steve Meidinger of
the Hay Municipal telephone
' ' a matterSystem. It took only
or seconds.
It was on March
that service on toe
switchboard was inaugurated
in toe Malcom Toms building
on Main Street; with Mbs.
Malcom Toms as chief operator.
Jack Caldwell, Hensail, who
has done relief work on Sat
urdays, Sundays and Christ
mas Day for the past 16 years
took the last shift as operator
10 p.m. - 3 am., on the old
board,
Walter McBeath, lineman,
the genial friend of the Tuck
ersmith subscribers since 1926,
is a patient in St. Joseph’s
Hospital. He worked very hard
on toe project and took sick at
an Ontario Telephone Services
Commission meeting in Toronto
17, 1949,
Rayfield
on March 15. And John Keller,
Seaforth, who did all the- cable
work, died suddenly March 25.
Mrs. Malcom Toms held
open house on Saturday night.
Refreshments were served, buf
fet on the dining room table,
and coffee was also provided by
the operators.
Two card tables, were set up
in the living room and some
played cards to pass the time.
Others came and' went after re
freshments.
One of the Belli Telephone
officials remarked that he’d
been -ait many cut-overs but
never been invited into a. home
before.
Present on this occasion,
Which to some was a nostalgic
night, were: Commissioners,
Art Nicholson, Lloyd Lovell,
To Open Spring Fair
Drive-In Bingo
For
Over $400 was realized from
the drive-in bingo and movie
Tuesday evening for Clinton
and District Community Centre
Centennial Fund, Brownie’s
Drive-in Theatre donated their
facilities to' a combined Clinton
service clubs gtoup in support
of the fund.
Bingo winners were: $10 reg
ular games, Mrs. Doug Miles,
Miss' Dorothy Mutch and-Mrs.
Alex McMichael (split); Mrs.
Jack Lcppington; Miss Kay
Sharp; Mrs. J. W. Crick; Mrs.
Ken Harris; Mrs. Russ Hdimjes;
Mrs. Jack Leppington; Mrs.
Robert Smith, and Mrs, Pauline
Gordner (split).
Share - the«wtealth winners
were: Mrs. Harold Gibbih&s,
$38.50; Mbs. Tony Hutchings',
$38.50; Mrs; Phyllis Butler and
Mrs. Joe Reid fated and won
$20.75 teach.
Harvey Coleman; Mel Graham,
secretary-treasurer, and 'Mrs.
Graham; Murray McKenzie,
lineman; Mrs; Walter McBeath,
Brucefield; Mrs. John Keller,
Seaforth;
Operators, Mrs; Reg. Francis
and husband, Mi's; Fred West
on, Mrs. R. Roy Fitzsimons,
Mrs; J. B. Higgins and' husband1,
Mrs Pearl Shaddick, Hensail;
Willihm Gibson, Hensail; Mrs.
Emerson Heard; Mrs. Spencer
Ervine (in charge of cleaning);
W. W. Haysom, distinct man
ager, Bell Telephone, Goderich;
Gordon Hesis, Zurich, salesman
for Northern Electric equip
ment installed; Maritin Fritch-
eartt, engineer with Ontario
Service Telephone’ Oommission,
Toronto; S'hawn Kerr, Toronto,
who designed toe cast of con
nections in the office;
Joseph Portsmlouto, Inde
pendent Companies Service Co
ordinator, Toronto; Andy
Ahonen, Northern Electric in
staller; Francis Gemmell (Rap-
.ley)’ Ontario Telephone Service
Commission co-ordinator, who
took over the direction after
Walter McBeath was incapaci
tated.
Bob • Webster, a linesman
with the Tuckersmith system
arrived' late but gave a festive
touch to the homey atmosphere.
He had been best man at a
wedding and confetti still clung
■to his clothes'.
At 3:05 a.m. Dial was work
ing smoothly in Bayfield. Many
of those attending, returned to
have another cup of coffee at
the gracious home of their hos
tess.
Subscribers here will miss
the kindly help and personal
touch of the operators.
G. W. ‘Merry” Montgomery
Former agricultural repre
sentative for Huron County,
Who- will officially open Clin
ton Spring Fair on Saturday,
afternoon, June 4. Jerry was
one Of the most progressive
and popular -agr. reps, to
have served In Huron, He left
Clinton in February 1957 to
become Ontario agricdltui’al
agent for the CNR in Tor
onto, after serving here since
August 1951. Jerry is pre
sently a representative with
The Mutual Life Of Canada,
with offices at 200 QdetefiS
Ave, in London.
Huron County
Farming Report
Don Pulleti, associate agri
cultural representative for
Huron County,, reports that
“Warin spring rains have
given hew vigor to forage
and cereal crops in Huron
County. Spring. grain is
Showing through on many
farms. Some farmers have
turned livestock out to grass
for the sutoirhteri Practically
all dairy cattle are still iii«
side. Soil moisture supplies
appear adequate.”' ■