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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1966-07-14, Page 1i No. 28 --- The Home Paper Wit'll the News THE NEW ERA 1 A THE’ HURON RECORD 84th Year CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1966 J. $5.00 Year — 12c Per Copy ~ 10 Top Winners At Clinton Rose Show Mrs. David Middleton, RR 3 Clinton, holding prize-winning mantel arrangement 'A •' of roses; bottom left, champion peace rose. Mrs. J. W. Counter holding the champion rose of the show, and Doug Miles with Mrs. Counter's seven-rose exhibit. Mrs, Jack Leppington and champion delphinium. Gordon Manning Pies In Brampton, Funeral Today H, Gordon Manning, who. liv­ ed ait RR 3 Clinton and also1 oh Albert Street, here, from . 1952 to 1963, died Monday at th'e Tallamore Nursing Home ’ :ih > Brampton. The funeral ’"is ;fre-. ing held today (Thursday,' July/ 14) from the McMane-Gilbart, Funeral Home, Stratford, at’ 2:30 p.m.; burial will be .iq Avondale Cemetery, Straffprd. '. Mr. Manning retired in 1&52. after 33 years as English: mas* ter at Stratford Teachers:’'Col­ lege. He and his . Wife moved: to a house on No. 8 Highway west of Clinton and later io Albert Street in town. Mrs. Manning died on May 31, 1963, and was 'buried in Sitratford'.' Mr.' Manning moved back ’ to Stratford' in the fall of 1963 arid lived- for some time' at 233 Water Street. Early last year hq moved Ito Waterloo! and some months ago entered, the nursing home in Brampton. Surviving -are three sons: William, Islington; Douglas,'. Welland; and David, Sarnia. A daughter Elizabeth died in early childhood. Active .In. Church Mr. Manning’s professional service extended beyond teach-' ing. Always active in educa­ tional. organization,. in the -- 1949-50 team he was president of the training section of ..the •Ontario Educational Assaria-*' (Continued on page; five)* Huron County Crop Report Don .S. Pullen, associate. . '.agricultural representative, , .has issued the following crop*’' report for Huron County: . “Most farmers • (in Huron , County - have practically - rounded - up their first cut haying. .operatiorirt. <>iSprinj^ grains" are well out in head and' wheat is turning, colour. “All crops are in need of rain. If the dry spell con­ tinues, spring grains and white beans may be adversely affected. “Sugar beets in the area are uneven in some fields. Canning peas are yielding ait feast as well as last year, but later sown peas need more moisture. Pastures are beginning to suffer from the dry condi­ tions. Grain and canning corn are making. good use of heat units this year.” -----------o----------- the A Warning • • • To Holidayers One of our paper suppliers sends along their . blotter' an­ nouncing holidays, July 18-31. Then in the next sentence is­ sues this warning: “Look Ouit! That dumb blonde may be a smart brunette.” \Centralia Base To Close In Fall; Non-Flying Units Coming To Clinton /, Robert McKinley, Zurich, MR- for Huron, informed the News- Record yesterday afternoon that .Canadian Forces Base Cen­ tralia woullid.be closed this, fafl’l.- He said the minister of national defence, Paul Hellyar had just; 'announced the decision. " • ■ '.The Huron member- said: “every effort will, be made by the' department to provide al- Aernative employment for the 250, civilian employees concern­ ed.” He added, , f‘the depart-: ment will work with local or­ ganizations and National. Em- Former Clinton Girl Graduates Mrs. John' MacKenzie,. of • Toronto, is- shown here with ;her two children, Margo and John, after she graduated from the University of Tor­ onto, with a Bachelor of Li­ brary Science degree- on- May 30. Mrs. MacKenzie is the former Lois Middleton, young- 1 Mrs. John MacKfeinizie' “ est daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John ,R, Middleton, RR 3, Clinton. She ffls a grad­ uate of Clinton Collegiate. In September, Mrs. Mac­ Kenzie will be the Librarian at North Albion Collegiate in Etobicoke. ------.----o—■—------. Pupils Pass Music Exams The following pupils of Western, Conservatory of Music of London were successful in piano examinations held recent­ ly at the studio of Mrs. William Collins, RR 2, Seaforth. . Grade IV, Honours: Brinda Finlayson, RR 2, Seaforth; Grade III, Honours: Janet East, RR 1, Clinton; Karen Tyndall, RR 4, Clinton; Pass: Janet Otten, RR'2, Seaforth; Peter Simpson, RR 2, Seaforth. the ployment Service pn theiir b.P- half and • that priority will be given to married personnel be­ fore the corning school year.” Mr, McKinley gave ' us the minister’s’ statement regarding the relocation, of units now at Centralia, ‘.‘the Primary Fly­ ing School amoves to Canadian Forces Base, Barden; part .of the Central Officers’ School will be • moved to Fleet School at Esquiriialt, B,C.; Technical Administration course and the non-flying list specialist train-' ing will move to CFB Clinton,” Phasing out of the huge air force operation will begin this summer, he said. Posted to CDC The Clinton, base has been under study as a site for at least two' of the schools now at Centralia- Permanent ‘ married quarters at the Centralia base will be used to house personnel moved tp Clinton. There are 300 houses in the Centralia PMQ’s. There is a report that an in­ dustrial. organization hag ex­ pressed. interest in using the Centralia base itself, but this is unconfirmed. When rumors of the station dosing were first circulated earlier in the year, protests were directed to Ottawa. At 'that time, Defence “Min­ ister Hetilyer told a delegation of Exeter businessmen that if Centralia was closed every ef­ fort would 'be made by the government to find' a < civilian use for the 'base to' soften the economic blow. to the district. Closing of’the base will mean about a $5,000,000 a year loss to an area bounded by Grand Bend on the west, Kippen on the north, Lucan on the south and Kirkton on the east, Civilian payroll at the Cent­ ralia base is about $1,172,000 a year, The military payroll is alboult $2,700,000. The base is the largest "in­ dustrial” employer (in the area, Which has a populatabn of, a- bout 22,600. . Rising population of the base —now 1,800, including service­ men and their families -r- was a key factor'in the development of Exeter.;'’ Exeter’s population •— now 3,200 — has almost doubled Since the base Was opened -as a service flying training school •ita 1942 under the British Com­ monwealth gram. Centralia end of the in 1947 as the first RCAF fly­ ing training station. Air Training Pro- was closed , at the war and reopened •A * G/C G. F. Ockenden, DFC, CD In an announcement madei by Canadian .Forces Head­ quarters, Ottawa,” Group Cap- tein G. F.’ -Ockeriden,. DFC, CD, Base- Commander of Cam adian Forces Base Centralia, Ontario', has been posted to' the Canadian Defence Col­ lege, Kingston. G./C Ockend'en will commence the one year Defence College course early in September. G/C Ockenden joined the RCAF in 1941 and. trained as a pilot. He completed a tour as a Hurricane pilot with Eastern Air Command. While flying Spitfires overseas, he destroyed five enemy aircraft and 35 veh­ icles in France, Belgium and- Holland, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He saw service with var­ ious units of the RCAF in Canada, the USA and over­ seas, since 1945, and assumed command of. RCAF Station Centralia in January, 1965, and has undler his care the Central Officers’ School, Of­ ficers’ Selection Unit, Mediic- - al Selection Unit and Prim­ ary Flying School. Fewer Entries In Successful Rose Show In spite of the continuous drought and late season gen­ erally, the rose show held 'last Friday by the Clinton Citizens’ Horticultural Society was sue-, cessful. Held in the council chambers the annual show at­ tracted 143 entries, 23 of which were lin the public school child­ ren classes. There were fewer exhibits in some classes and fewer people came in to view the well ar­ ranged displays; A silver collec­ tion netted only $36.26, but $48.40 was paid out in prize money. Included in the prize money was $5.00 from. Mrs. Frank Fingland for five prizes in the children’s class for most artistic arrangement of wayside flow­ ers. Douglas H. Miles, agriculture tentative for Huron Ooun- t.Vj who was judge of the show, gave a $5.00 prize for the cham­ pion rose. This.was won by Mrs. J. William Counter, John Street, who showed a pale Or­ ange coloured rose lin the hy­ brid tea rose class. In the rion-rose exhibits, the blue' delphinium shown by Mrs. Jack Leppirigtori, North Street, drew much attention. Other exhibits Which drew at­ tention were the Peau rose shown by Mrs. David Middle­ ton, the arrangement of climb­ ing roses from Mrs..Don Mid­ dleton’s garden and the seven roses 'in a container shown by Mrs. Counter. The prizes in the . seven rose class were donated in mommy of the late Clifford H. Epps, 'an ardent Worker of the local horticultural society, who was a director of the Ont- .airio Horticultural ? Society, a well known flower show- judge and grower of flowers. An outstanding feature of the show for the part few years has been Mr. Miles’ exhibit of some 20 specimen roses of the new varieties, from his own garden, Which has more than 120 roses. These attracted great interest ■and added to the educational Value , of the show. These in­ cluded Candy Stripe, Garden Bouquet,, Matterhorn, Camelot, etc. Mrs. J. W. Counter was, the biggest winner of prizes taking seven firsts and a second. Other top winners were Mrs. J. Lep­ pington, Mrs. Don Middleton, Mrs. Frank Fingland and Mrs. David Middleton. During the evening showing four draws were imadei. The first door prize number was 56; but no one was present to claim the prize. The person holding the little yellow card With number 56 may contact officials of the society for thleir prize, Other door prizes' were won by Miss Ida Wal'kinshaw, Miss Beth FeOney arid Steven Campbell. Rose Prizewinners 1 Hybrid tea. rose, one bloom': White, Mrs. Brock Olde, Mi’s. J. W. Counter; yellow, Mrs., Ed. Mtytell, Mrs. M. Epps.; pink, Mrs.- Counter,, Mrs. Fred Slo- man; red, Mrs. Counter, Mrs. Dori Middleton; any other col­ our, Mrs. Counter, Mrs. Frank Fingland; peace rose, Mrs. David Middleton, Mrs. Olde; Two blooms hybrid tea roses, any colour, Miss Dorothy Mar­ quis, Mrs. Fingland; three blooms, Mrs. Counter, Miss Marquis; two stems Polyanthus or Ftorabunda roses, Mrs. Fing- (Continued on page 3) ,. Snowball Bingo Jackpot Worth $762, July 25 Council In Action Weed's and. dogs took up much time at Clinton town council meeting Tuesday even­ ing. The discussions were first prompted by'a letter from Clin- .ton. Women’s Institute, and lat­ er discussions developed during committee reports; ' The WI letter referred to un­ tidy ness of town, weeds, dirty streets, only two' benches in li­ brary park and dogs still run­ ning at large., When Mayor Don Symons en­ quired as . to whose, responsi­ bility lit \vas to- cut grass at old post' office, the. clerk said' Crown Assets Corporation owns the .property and that the post-' .'master tha§;fi.’t:.evehvgi'dt The town ‘now’, employs./a teenager to> cut the library park lawn and he will also' be hired to cut grass at old post office V. Public Works chairman Coun­ cillor Jim Armstrong remarked that people ' complain about weeds when they siee a vacant lot overgrown With grass. If the Huron County weed inspector were called' in, he would only be concerned with the weeds. In the protection to persons' and property report, Councillor Gordon Lawson spoke of dogs still running at large. Clinton, has no dog catcher this year. Coun. Armstrong said-it could cost up to $5,000 to build a pound to keep stray. dogs’ in. He added “the Humane Society is .possibly to blame; they are stretching this 'cruelty, to:' ani­ mals'’ idea tpio far.” ' . Mayor Symons remarked that this was an annual problem and requested the' press to help. We reprint here, the -portion of ■ the' by-law regarding dogs running ' at large . in summer months:' • ’ ’ . “Dogs ABE NOT permitted to' run iat 'large.- during the ■months' August: Any owner ‘dr harbouf- er Convicted of a breach of these provisions is liable to prosecution and on' conviction a penalty not exceeding $50.0,0 may be imposed?’ A letter from Doug Ball of Ball and Mutch Funeral Home, and George Beattie of the Beattie Funeral Home, request­ ed the town’s answer to their offer of giving an ambulance to the town. The clerk was in­ structed to reply stating that s (Continued on page five) Vandals Destroy Trees On Huron Street If members of Clinton town council, the horticultural soc­ iety, 'tiie police, force and even residents of Huron Street ever find the person or persons who damaged two sapling, maples last Friday evening, I’m sure the culprits would be" whipped with what is 10ft of one of the trees. Sometime last Friday night >1966 The Weather 1965 High :Low High LOW 6 86 64 75 36 7 79 53 69 57 8 75 48 78 56 9 86 57 81 62 10 87 60 69 49 11 88 60 72 45 12 84 62 77 45' Ttaiiri Rain: 1 .59” The snowball jackpot bingo, worth $661.70, Was not Won in the 52 calls at Monday night’s bihgo in Clinton Lions Areina, so the next snowball on July 25 Will be Worth $762.50. This was the third in a series of eight bingos sponsored by the service clubs of Clinton for funds for Clinton and Community Centre Centennial Fund. The group made a small pro­ fit Monday night. There were two winders, in the share-tho-wealth part of the $500 snowball bingo. They were Mrs. John McCormick, RR 1, Rockwood arid Harry Thomp­ son, Clinton. They each received $50.75, The other half of the share-the-wcalth, $101.50 was added to the snowball, which .makes the July 25 snowball Worth $762.50, but must be won in 53 numbers. Mrs. Harry Vifalper, Exeter, won the other major prize, a $500 bingo. Winners 'Of door prizes were: Mrs. Brown, CFB Clinton and Mrs* Joe Silcock, Clinton. Mrs. Alex Riley, Londesboro, 'won $75.50 in one share-the- wealth and Mrs.* Don McGuire, RR 3, Goderich, won the other sharejthe-wealth, worth $74.25. Winriers of regular $30 bingos were: Amos Osbaldeston, Gode­ rich; Mrs. William Upper, Lis- towel; Joe Snider, Wingham; George Henderson, BrucefieUd; Mrs. Draper, Goderich; Annette Manderson, Goderich; William Upper, Li's towel; Annette Man­ derson, Goderich; Mrs. Kaittiing, Goderich; Mrs. Townsend, Clin­ ton; Those Who split $30 regular birigbS were: Mrs. Fred Ohm, Wingham; Mrs. Ed, Dick, Cro­ marty; Mrs. William Thuell, Bly th and Mrs. He(rb McAdam, Who each received $7.50; Marg Warner, Goderich; Mrs., Jim Barry, Seaforth, Who had (Continued on page 5) Huron view Ladies ToMeetJuly 18 The HuronviaW Auxiliary will meet Monday, July1 18 at 2:30 p.m. is' the Arts and Crafts' room; Damaged Trees The tree bn the left was completely destroyed, and the one on the right was broken but thoughtful citizens have done a good repair job. (News-Record photos) the sugar maple on the boule­ vard in front of the vacant lot at corner of Huron.' and North Streets was broken off at the ground. There Were also two gouges three and four feet up the tree which were made by a sharp .object. The next tree, east, a Norway maple in front of Mrs. Bridle’s home, 152 Hur­ on Street was nearly broken off, about three feet from the ground. The sugar maple is a com­ plete- loss, ibut the Norway maple may be saved. Councillor Pat Noonan who lives at 176 Huron Street, feels badly over the destruction' of the sugar maple. He had babied this 'tree along since it was planted.1 this spring. It was not the strongest tree, but was pro­ gressing. Mr. and • Mrs, NoOnan with the assistance of Police Corpor­ al Leroy Oesch doctored the Norway maple Saturday morn­ ing. They wrapped the break in rags, used: wooden splints and outer wrapping of black tape. They are. confident it will live. Forty trees were planted on Ontario and Huron Streets new boulevards this spring by the Clinton Citizens Horticultural Society and town council. Each resident on whose boulevard there was a new itTee has pa­ tiently looked alter them. This reporter is 'Confident that very severe action will be taken Slf the vandals are found for last week’s destruction; and isisues a Warning about ahy more destruction of these young frees, Community Sales Cancelled Friday Due to the death of sales manager Joe Corey’s fOJthei’, Harry Corey, there will be no community sale - at the. shies baths oh tihd Bayfield Bond south of Clinton this Friday evening, -Sales will resume next Friday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m.