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Clinton News-Record, 1966-07-28, Page 1The Home Paper With the News % Big Pipe* Band Holds Final Practice In I New Nursing Matron uare Huron's Blind (Photo by Audrey Bellchamber) Bayfield Prior To New York Engagement 60-Member Pipe Band ! I n Clinton News-Record THE NEW ERA — 100th Year ' , 0 THE HURON RECORD — 84th Year CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1966 $5.00 Per, Year ,•— 12c Per Copy / BAYFIELD — The largest pipe band' seen in .Bayfield for , many a year ,assembled- in Clan Gregor Square o-n Sunday Headfed by a Legion colour 'party and led by Drum Major Jim Kennedy o-f Centralia, tlie- ' - 45 pipers and 15 drummers, re splendent in full.colour, ehter- taiinedtan enthusiastic audience of several hundreds, before par ading around the village. Pipe Major Hector Kingsweil, Clinton, tells' us that the band leaves on -Friday for Sherrill, New York, to fulfill a three-day engagement. . Members of the band come from Clinton, Strathroy, Forest, Brussels, Duclmow, Goderich ’and Exeter. , ! Councillor Merton Merner states that he has received many favourable -comments from residents .and .others who enjoyed the’ concert and council have authorized hliim to extend their -thanks to^Pip^^Majcr^H. Kingsweil and fhejbanxi.’’ Straughan Clan Holds Reunion AUBURN — The annual Straughan family reunion -held at Harbour Park, Goderich, had 49 present from Toronto-, Thor- pld, Wingham, Goderich,' Clan ton, Blyth .and Auburn. Prizes were presented as fol lows: oldest mian, Norman Ball, Clinton; oldest lady, Mrs.. Charles Straughan, Auburn; largest fairhily present, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Johnston, Blyth; Officers elected for 1967 are as follows:, president, William Slt-raughan, Auburn; secretary treasurer, Bill Straughan, Ben- miller; lunch convener, Mrs. Jean Gertie, Toronto-;, sports convener, Stewart Johnston, Blyth. The, reunion is -to- ‘be held again next year at Harbour Park, the third Sunday in July.- Mrs. Clark Ball of Clintoin..was the serteitai^-treasurbr for this, year’s'reunion. ' Flight Lieutenant Mary Neve -has been transferred to Canadian Forces Base- Clin ton from Holberg, British. Columbia. Her new position will be matron of the base hospital. Flight Lieutenant Neve’s mother, Mrs. F. A. . Neve, resides at 81 Chesley Avenue in London.’ ’ . ' - Civic Holiday Mail Service ■ ■■ "Postal service at Clinton Post Office on Civic Holiday, ^Monday, August 1 will be cut' to a minimum- There will be no wicket Service *or rural maiil delivery. ■ ’ .The lock-box lobby will be open from 4:30 to. 8 p.m. for those with boxes. The street letter box mail will be picked -iqjp at 4:15 p.m. and there is- .a letter box outside the post office north door,. Stamps may be obtained from vend ing machines at the post of- . filce and town hall. . Outgoing mail will 'be re ceived' up to 5:30 p.m.. and despatched at 6:45 p.m. Clinton Snowball Bingo Worth Over $900 Community Centre Tenders Too High; To Call Again Robert E. McKinley, Zurich, Member of Parliament for Hur on riding, submitted the follow- 'ing^ review and some of his im pressions of the first '.sitting of Canada’s 27th • Parliament. This is Mr. McKinley’s first 'session in parliament. . * =1: PARLIAMENT AT WORK As Parliament recessed1 on July 15th, I would like to mien- ,tion a few of the highlights that 'have taken place at this first ' sitting of the 27th Parliament. . parliament has given full leg islative! Sanction to 43 bills, plus a further 7 appropriation bills. In addition to these items which have been’fully complet ed, -the House has dealt with the introductory ’stage of 15 more bills, several of which are undergoing detailed study by ' Standing Committees of the House. , We have' spent a total of 47 days dealing with supply., Ap proximately 30 of the 47 days : Were spent in discussing the old ' estimates for the year 1965/66. We have completed three of the four supply motions respecting this year's spending, and we have spent 12% days on this year’s esimates or on -interim supply. In this time -we have completed consideration of the estimates of 10 Departments o-f Government and 9 other De partments are now available to- the HOUSe for final disposition , following a" study by Standing Committees t -. The Committee Work in JPar- li’ament was greatly ' increased at this Session. 27 Committees Were 'established and to date they have held a total of 349 meetings. With such a Commit tee -structure, the detailed op- eratioh of Government Depart ments hhs never before been ex- amlined so ffaly* as Members can ask questions of Depart ment officials in a more relaxed atmosphere and the debating time for these bslthnates in the House itself is shortened con siderably and allows for more to be accomplished. I would like to mention some of the more important pieces of legislation that has been pass ed. We passed an. Act to amend the Hours of Labour and Fair Wages Act for Federal Govern ment contracts. An, Act was passed to incorporate a new bank in Edmonton, called the Bank of Western Canada. ’ The change in the electoral boundaries has been completed and, as most people realize, Huron now includes.the Town- Ships of Turnberry and Howick, the town of Wlingham, and also the Townships of MfeGillivray and Biddulpih, including the towns of Ailsa Craig and Lucan. Hibbert Township, which ’ha<s bean a part of Huron constitu ency, will how revert to Perth County. These new boundaries will take effect upon announce- The Weather 1965 Low 46 41 48 59 52 - 63 66 1966 High Dow 69 73 77 78 83 81 74 40 40 57 62 62 53 50 July 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Rain: 1.06’* High 75 75 S3 84 '89 89 82 Rain: .90” Miss Patricia Cox, RR 2, Bayfield, Was^one -Of 52 Sue- cessful graduates to receive her nursing diploma and ^ih at the Nightingale School of Nursing, Toronto, oh July 22. Daughter of Miri and Mt’S. TL Ray Cox, she received her ed ucation at CUSS and has iibivV been accepted to the staff of the New MoUnt Sinai Hospit al, T’oronuto, to begin Work in September. rnent of the next election. There has been legislation passed to- help provide for the Development of’ -Commercial Fisheries in Canada. We have established a fund for the econ omic and social development o-f special rural development areas. Something that" has been needed for. Some time in this country was passed in the-A- mendmient to the Combines In vestigation Act and the Crim inal Code. The Bankruptcy' Act has been amended to make it less possible far fraudulent bankruptcies 'to occur. For the purpose of the re-training of persons under the Technical and Vocational provide allowances while these persons are being retrained. The Public Service Superan nuation Act and Canadian Forces Superannuation Act. the Defence Services Pension Con tinuation Act, the Royal Can adian Mounted Pollice Superan nuation Act,. the Diplomatic Service (Special) Superannua tion. Act, the Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railways Employees’ Provident Fund Act and the Canadian Corporation far the 1967 World Exhibition Act — all these have been a- mended. The corporation to establish the -National Arts Centre has been set up, and the Students Loans Act ha's been amended to provide more loans .for Stu dents. Arrangements have been made for the establishment of a Health Resources Fund to assist Provinces in the acquis ition, construction and. renova tion of health training facilities and research institutes. The Government -has provided, for the establishment of a Dairy Commission for Canada which should eventually control all dairy product operations* The Canada Assistance Plan' has been set up to authorize the- making of contributions by Canada towards the cost of pro grammes undertaken by the provinces for' the provision of assistance and welfare services in respect Of persons in need. The Crop Insurance Act has been amended to assist the far mer iln Obtaining crop insurance, through the Provinces by rais ing the Federal Government’s payment from 20% to 25% of the total premium required. * These are some of the more I (Continued on Page Eight)' The share-the-wealth snow ball bingo- -at the next bingo on August 8, sponsored by the ser vice clubs of Clinton for Clinton and District Community Centre- Centennial Fund, will be worth $906. . The $762.50 snoiwball was not won in 53 numbers at the Lions arena, Monday, but the crowd bought $287 worth of cards on‘ the snowball share-the-wealth. Mrs. Doug . Farquhar, RR 1( Clinton won the bingo and re ceived $143.50 and the same a- rnount -was added to the August 8 snowball which must be Won in 54 calls. ' The other winners, Monday, were: L. McDonald, CFB Clinton won. $103.00 in one share-tJh'e- wealth' and. John Cameron,. Goderich, wo-n the other share-, the-wealth, worth $99.50.- Winners of door prizes -were Mrs. Appleton, Exeter and Mr. Sutton, CFB Cliihton. ■ ,'The major .$500^Jbingq^,was- split ,by Mrs. D. Wilson, Gode- rich and Mrs. R. McInnis, Ex eter. Winners of re-gular $30 bingos were: 'Mrs. A. Johnston, Mitch ell; J-ean Brown, Port Albert; Mrs. Leather, -CFB Clinton; Mrs. L. McKay, Blyth; Mrs. Jim Barry, Seaforth; Mrs. Herman Metcalf, Wingham. Those who split $30 regular bingos were: Mr. Toman, Kit chener and Mrs. Gladstone Grigg; Mrs. San.dow, Lis towel, Mrs. E. Rock, Walton, Mrs. Ken Swan, 'Seaforth, W. .Upper, Lis- towel and Joe Scheil'eniberger, Mitchell; C. Littlechild, Gode rich and F. Sutton, 'CiFB;. Bob Collins, RR 3, Clinton, Mirs. Hairy Thompson, Mrs. New man, . Clinton, Mrs; Joe Rumig, Goderich,' Jim Carey, Goderich and Mrs. -Leslie H-abkirk, Seaforth; Mrs. Herb MacAdaim, Goderich and Miss Sadte. Lov ett, Clinton; Mr. Beadle, Au-. burn, Mrs. Vandertburg, Clinton and Mirs. W. SDoak, Goderich; Mrs. M. Willis, Sarnia and Mrs. Apple ton, Exeter; Mrs. 'Cliff 'Ashton, Clinton and Mrs. G. Glanville, Seaforth; Bob Mar tin. Petersburg and Mrs-. Dur- ocher, CFB Clinton. / Honor Secretary The annual summer picnic of Huron County branch of the Canadian National Institute of the Blind was. held at Lions Park, Seaforth, Wednesday af ternoon, July ’20. Mr. and Mrs. Et Boswell were1 hosts and wel comed .everyone. Sports were in charge of Misses Amy and Greta Lammie of Hensalt, assisted by Mrs. Robert Elgie, Kippen and Larry Snider, ..Exeter.. 4;,_,, At -the supper hour, the chair man of the Huron County ad visory board, J. H. Kinkead, Godertch, called on Mrs. W. Stirling of Bayfield who ex pressed -the -appreciation of the blind of 'the county to E.. F. Wheeler, who has1 -been field secretary in the district for the past 20 years and is now being transferred • to the Kingston Area. Miss Amy Lammie read a poem to Mr. Wheeler and he was presented with a braille eight-day alarm clock, a table lamp and a bag, on behalf of the group by J. Ruddick, Gode rich; Miss Iva Switzer, Blyth and Stuart Henry, Wingham. Mir. Wheeler thankect the group for the gifts and also all wlho had helped .to -make the picnic a success. | I Tenders have been recalled for Clinton’s proposed new com munity centre, according to an announcement on page four of this paper. The reason; only one com plete tender was received up to the extended tender closing time of 5 p.m. Thursday, July 21. That evening, the building committee Of Clinton and Dis trict Community Centre, headed by David Beattie, -met with town council to open the tend ers. Tenderers had requested an extension of closing time from Friday, July 15. All councillors were present last Thursday, except Deputy Reeve George- Wonch. Also- present was A. E. Kiraly of the Peterborough engineer ing firm of A. ,E. Kiiraly and Associates Ltd., who had been engaged by the committee' and 'drew up the plans and specifi cations.- Building committee chairman Beattie informs us that hits "committee rejected -the only complete tender, mainly be cause it -was away over tlie es timate. His' committee recom mended to council that plans and specifications be altered and tenders recalled. All tenderers were having trouble finding sub-trades to tender on the -project. Engineer Kiraiy' met with the committee and council and got theib (ideas on altering the plans. He will have the revised plans and specifications ready by August 2 and they will be available at the town clerk’s office and at his home: A. E. Ki-raly .and Associates Ltd., 759 Aylmer Street, Peterborough, Ont. The revised tenders close at 5 p.m. on Monday, August 15, 1966. The original plans were for New Army Officer a 200x110 foot building, with arena ice surface of 80x190 feet, an arena floor suitable for roll er skating, and an auditorium over the front of the building. The committee had estimated up -to $230,000 for the commun ity' centre. Mr. Beattie -did not reveal the amount of the only complete tender received last Thursday/ The other two. members of the community centre building com mittee are Don Kay and J. William Counter, 1HT , Lieutenant Darryl Mur alt has been transferred to Can adian Forces Base Clinton Where Mis' new position will he Officer-in-Charge of the Base Ration Group.' A former •Canadian Guards Officer who' was previously stationed at Peitawawa, he will probably find his. new posting some what different. Lieut. Muralt, his wife and son David reside at 65 Blade Street, West, in Goderich. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Muralt still live in Victoria, B.C. By D. H. Miles, P. Ag., Ag riculture representative for Huron County. “Tuesday morning’s rain in some areas of the county, temporarily relieved, but did not correct moisture condit ions, “Late sown beans and corn and turriips were showing the effects of high temperature and no> moisture. Fall wheat is being harvested in excellent condition with fairly good yield and quality — some barley is being harvested but quality only fair. Oats and barley are ripening too quick ly. “Pastures are drying up and there is additional feed ing of hay to cattle on pas ture 'to try and keep milk production up. .“Canning pea yields are re ported to be decreasing from day to day.” /Holly Deline Top Swimmer The first swimming meet of the season at Clinton Commun ity Swimming Pool for children 18 years and under was held Saturday afternoon. In com parison with the number of per sons using..the pool, entries were low but competition was keen. The meet was in charge. of chief swimming instructor Rolfe Cooke, assisted by his staff of instructors. Don Kempston and Doug Andrews of Clinton Rec reation Committee, and Mrs. Andrews assisted with the meet. The biggest winner was Holly Define. with four firsts, two- thirds and one second for 25 points. Points * Were, five for first, 'three for second and one for third. Other top winners in girls events were: Cathy Griiigg, Rowena Corey and Janice Bur-, rows/ Top boy winner was Gary HOLLY DELINE , . . Wins Swim Meet Deline, followed by Cliff Currie, Doiug Cameron and Barry Ed gar. The top three winners in each class received ' ribbons from Clinton Community Swimming Pool. Winners and number of en tries are as follows: Penny hunt for swimmers 9 years and under, David Bartliff and Bruce Kempston tied with 27 pennies' each.; Jim Amsing, Barry Welch; newspaper race, 9 and! under, Jim Amsing, Bruce Kempston; two-widths of pool, 9 -and under, Jim Amsing. Bruce Kempston, Dave Bartliff. Boys, freestyle, 9-10 years (6 entries), Cliff Currie, David Engel, Jim Amsing; girls free style, 9-10, (3' entries), Holly (Continued on Plage Eight) CLOSING NEXT YEAR ONE TEACHER 1861-1910 I s Among the one-room rural schoolhouses .the function of which will end with the open ing of the consolidated school at Brucefiold next year, is that of Section Number One, Stan ley, better known as Baird's School. This title it owes to the unusual record of Mr. George Baird, commonly spok en of in the neighbourhood as “The Master”, who was its tea cher for half a century, from January, 1861, to December, 1910. During this time, of course, he taught many of the Children, and even*some of the grandchildren of his early pup ils. The records that have been preserved of the early years of this school section are tat tered arid incomplete; but they indicate that a school, existed here at least as early as 1855. Two teachers preceded ■ Mr, Baird. Their names were Alex ander McKenzie and John Mc Faul. British currency was still in use, the change to the deci mal system apparently being made in 1859 Or 1860. The scholars at this time were re quired to pay ohe shilling and three pence per mohtib “accord ing to the days they attended?’ In 1859 a motion Was made at the annual meeting that the school. should ■ become a free school, but this radical idea Was voted down. Two years later, however, a sithilhir motion was passed; so that ifiree schodl- ing began in 1861 with “The Master”. An interesting note from the financial report of 1862 is that Mr. McFaul who had left two years before, returned the sum of $5.57 to the trustees, for five school days lost. The pioneers expected value for their money, and had long memories', and per sistence. The amount indicates, as" did “The Master’s^’ first year’s salary of $240.00, that a rural teacher at that time received about one dollar a day. Fifty years later “The Mast er’s” salary had a little more than doubled. ( The first school building was a square frame Structure wilth a cottage roof. It stood on the south-west corner of the cross roads (a mile and a quarter West of the present CFB cor ner); and, as far as can be made oust from tlie records,- had no school-yard. In 1872, three- quarters of an acre on, the north-east corner was bought and fenced off with a board fence. Thanks are due to Mr. Baird for subsequently making this into tractive area, by planting trees along all four School building was erected on this site in 1875, the contract being let to Mr. Peter Camp- one of the most at- school-yards in the sides'. The present . „ ■■ . . .. . ... - (News-Record Photo) Baird's School As It Stands Today bell for $870, the contractor un dertaking to provide all mater ials. ' To anyone familiar with this school, the specifications prepared by the board make in teresting and almost nostalgic reading. The original building was then relegated to tlie role of -wood-shed and rainy-day- play-room, a role it played until the “new school” was raised1, and. a furnace installed in the new basement in 1916. This pro ject cost, just about the Same amount as had ■ the original building* Over these years a daily duty of the pUpils in win ter was’ for each to carry an armful of firewood across the corner from the old school to the new, -to feed the. big box stove, on the top of which they frequently toasted their sand wiches. ■ ■■ There is much talk now-a- days about the population ex plosion; but, as the Preachex’ said in Ecclesiastes, “there is no new thing uhd'er the sun.” The school register of Baird’s school for 18,65 shows an enrol ment of 134 pupils, 17 of whoiri lived outside the boundaries Of the section. Tlie latter were probably older students who were coming to this s-chopl to take -advanced work. Many a pupil wont directly from "The Master’s” instructibn to Norm al School or some other more advanced institution. It is not likoiy that such a large htifff* ■ber of pupils were ever all pre sent on any Ohd day; but, even (Continued On Plage ’Three)