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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1966-09-01, Page 1I Clinton News-Record THE NEW ERA — 1C ? ’ THE HURON RECORD — 84th Year No. 35 •!—- The Home Paper With the News i ®lje JfirSt Column= 1 By S, J, K. AT LQNG last, worried par ents can breathe a little easier as their > children take to the school buses this fall. New ■ legislation makes rules regard ing motorists approaching a stopped school bus from- any direction abundantly dear . . . ALL MUST STOP! Word from the Ontario De-, parfment of Transport is this: J Effective September 1, alii vehicles' must 'Stop in BOTH .. DIRECTIONS for school busier - when red signal-lights are • flashing and remain stoppet: until signals have stopped and the bus is1 again moving. Motorists are liable to a fine . of up to $200 for a third offence r - if they fall to comply with this new'regulation. Tragic deaths of young child ren have occurred, one not so • long ago! in the Seaforth dist rict,-when motorists pressed for time, in this busy world ‘took a chance”. This neiw legisla tion removes all doubt about rules for passing or meeting a stopped school bus. Still, this is just half the job. Parents and teachers must remind children agaiin and again to be caineful when getting on or off a school bus. Kiddies are trusting souls and, should be warned Often that adultfe do not always abide by the rules set forth for them. Children must be taught to look both ways for oncoming ‘traffic when crossing the road and- carefully ‘ check that all cars are stopped before darting out.’ In Ontario over ■dents' ride school 275,000 miles any Who can estimate of cars encountering buses loaded with such precious car go? Everyone must be on the alert! The lives of children—yours •and mine—are at stake in traf fic. ‘ CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1966 Two Local Ball Teams $5.00 Pejr Year—-12 Cents Per Copy—-10 Pages 247,600 stu- buls’es over school day. toe .number The 19T2 Primer Class, at Baird's School Mrs. R. Y. (McEwen) MacLaren, left, renewed acquaintances with hei’ 1912 primer class at Baird’s school reunion Saturday.' From the left they are/ Mrs. Mary (Stewart) Smith, Toronto; Mrs. Marion (McEwen) Laramie, Kin cardine and John McGregor, RR 5 Clinton. (News-Record Photo) In Playoffs Clinton midget and peewee baseball teams start into On tario. Baseball Association play downs .this weekend. Both local teams won Western, Ontario Athletic Association champion ships in “B” classification. MIDGETS The 'Legion sponsored mid gets play host to Amherstburg at Clinton Community Park on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock- Two years ago a Clin ton, midget team defeated Am herstburg, the Western Coun ties champions, to win the OBA title. Second game in this best of three quarter finals is slated for Amherstburg at 2:30 Mon day afternoon. Persons plan ning to go, should keep in mind that Amherstburg is not on daylight saving time. There are six other midget teams playing in “B” classifi cation: Milton .and Penetangui- . . ; Stoney Creek and An- Chippawa and Mounts- shehe; caster; field; HURON CURTAILS EMO PROGRAMME FOLKS MAY be restdirig^ from;. their-'labours on 'MiohdaV' but that -is no reason to take a holi day from earning money. There is plenty, of easy money for some lucky person at the Lions Arena in Clinton on Monday, September 5 at 9 p.m. Somebody will take "''home 1,000 lovely dollars from the •Bingo at the .arena, fifteen oth er lucky people will be richer by $30 each and there will be_ three share-the-wealth bingos" for some folks. Two door prizes: will be of fered as well—a grand oppor tunity to combine business and pleasure. And, all profits which the combined service dubs of . Clinton make on Monday night, goes to the Clinton Community Centre Centennial Fund to help build a new community centre.* SCHOOL GOES in1 for another year on Tuesday ... oh happy day. Just a tiny reminder to be exftra cautious when driving in school zones lor the next few days. Kids Will be at their live liest, you can wager! ------o- Neighbours Make Surprise Visit To Finlay Home Three couples made a Sur prise, visit to toe new home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Finlay, God erich, .formerly of Goderich Township, and presented, them with gifts on behalf of their neighbours and1 friends in the S'S 9, Tipperary School area. Harold Yeo read tod address and Arnold Miller and Jack Smith presented Mr. and Mrs. Finlay with a centennial white, taffeta beadspread and a smok ing stand. An evening of cards was enjoyed by those present. -----------o—‘—* Linda Thompson Receives Cap LONDESBORO—Miss Linda Thompson, a senior student at the 1967 graduate class of Stratford General Hospital, re ceived her blue band cap in a ceremony Friday evening in toe recreation room at the Nufe’S Residence. Caps were present ed to a class • of 2$. $ The Weather 1965 Former Teachers at Baird's Farewell Reunion -j Only, seven. former •.teachers attended the ..reunion at SS 1 (Baird’s) Stanf/ ley, Saturday 'aTterriOQiL The.two older teachers attending!are seated/left, Mrs;,’* R. Y.,MacLaren, Hensall, the former Miss E. A: McEwen, who taught from Jan uary 1911 to June 1912, and on the right, Miss Ida Taylor who taught from September 1919 to January 1920 and from September 1922 -to June 1923. Stand ing, left to right, Mrs. William McEwan; Mrs. Margaret (Henry) Herne, St. Catharines; Mrs. Jean Taylor; Mrs. Marion Powell and Mrs. Kathleen (Cam eron) Lockhart. (News-Record Photo) Clinton Area Boys At Summer Camp PEEWEE year the OBA peewee “B” championship will be' de cided at A weekend tournament in , Rodney. There , are eight teams remaining. All games are sudden-death affairs. . Hugh Hodges, vice-president of the WOAA and a member of toe OBA executive, tried to have this series played at Clin ton, but could noit get proper facilities. At 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sep tember 3, the Clinton Kinsmen sponsored peewee Ponies take on Tillsonburg, and Dunnville plays Mountsford at the same time. At 2 p.m., Milton vs. Perth and Penetanguishene vs. Amherstburg. Ait 4 p.m. toe same .day the morning teams declare a win ner and the two afternoon win ners decide on a winner.,.. Then o.n Monday (Labour Day) toe two remaining teams also play.a sudden-death game for toe OBA peewee "B” cham pionship. The- Clinton team has suf fered only two losses in 12 lea-' gue and playoff games this year. They are managed Bert Clifford and coached Bill Craig. -----------o----------- TW s by by Many Clinton iafoa boys are enjoying their last fling before school opens Tu'e-’ay. at Hur on Presbytery United Church Camp at Goderich. This week’s camp for junior and intermedi ate boys at the Goderich Sum mer School is oa’.ted Hiawatha and at the end of the week long camp on Sunday, Septem ber 4, the camp newspaper* “Hiawatha Herald” will be giv en to all boys. Gary McAsh, Varna, is in charge of 80 junior age boys and Rev. R. J. Tscihanz, minis ter cif Londedboro United Church, is in charge of the in termediate ciamp of ,45 boys. Besides campling, swimming and Bible study, the activities include bow making and camera club projects for 'the intermedi ates, and archery and various crafts instruction for juniors. Near the end of the week, a swimming regatta, track meet and scalping raid will be held. The intermediates go to Point Farms Provindial Park and make their way 'back to camp, spending one night at an out door camp. Bruce Elliott, Blyth, will be the counsellor on this trip. The juniors have, a similar overnight camp-out on their way back from Benmiller Falls. George Jardine, Wing ham, who has just completed1 a. three weeks leadership course at the Ontario Leadership Cen tre, Bark Lake, near Algonquin Park, is in charge of the junior camp-out. The Bark Lake camp (Continued on Page Five) Clinton Legion Draw Winners Clinton'Legion did not meet during July and August, but the regular draws were made' at toe executive meetings. Winners of the July ‘ draw were : Art Knight, $30; Wes Holland, $15 and Lawrie Slade, $5; August draws were won by John Wise, $30; Louie Dutot, $15 and Jer ry Holmes, $5. Only 260 Entries in Flower Show 1966 . High !Low High Low AUg. 24 69 56 76 43 25 68 51 75 53 26 73 49 Y4 58 27 79 56 80 58 28 81 58 *74 48 29 85 59 65 47 30 ■ 83 60 84 56 Rain: .16”Rain ! v75” Best Display of Gardeh Flowers Miss Lueila Johnston, president of Clinton Citizens Horticulture Society,( was top winner in the flower show here on Friday. She is shown here with her display of garden f lowers in container of same shade, and holding the silver rose bowl which goes to the top point winner. (News-Record Photo) The judge at Clinton Citizens Horticultural Society annual flower show, Mrs. W. G. Moor head, RR 2 Clinton, added a little more colour to the show when she' attached her com ments h’ibits. Mrs. judged flower, is as good or better than most of this year’s shows-.” The weather has not ’been ideal for flower growing/ but “this show is very good” she continued. A sample of her comments was attached to Miss Lueila John ston’s exhibit of a, display- of garden flowers in container same colour as follows: “A die lightful arrangement showing lovely colour harmony.” Miss Johnston’s garden flow ers entry was made up of zin nias, roses, dahlia, gladioli, snapdragons and cornflowers, all in contrasting shades of pink to match the china con tainer. Miss Johnston, who is presi dent of the local flower society, was the top paint Winner in the show. She compiled 54 points With 14 firsts, five seconds’ and two thirds and won the silver rose bowl; Mrs. Cliff Epps was runner-up in points and Mrs. Stewart Middleton, third. These three ’ladies Ore veteran mem bers of the Society and spend many hours organizing the’ an nual rose show in July and the flower show ;in August. Mrs. Middleton is secretary and Fred Sloman, treasurer of Clinton Horticultural Society. Held in the council chamb er of the town hall Friday aft ernoon and evening, this- year’s to some of the top ex- Moorhead, who had at many of the area’s shows, said "this show show had only 260 entries com pared to over 400 last year. Douglas H. Miles, agricultur al representative for Huron County, who is an aVid flower lover and grower of1 roses, was quite complimentary of the ex hibits. He said the gladioli were of exceptional quality. Russell Neal was present at 9:15 p.m. when his ticket was drawn as winner of the door prize, a cup and saucer There Were ages A Mrs. best The single red gladioli shown by Mrs. Stewart Middleton was the best glad in the show. She also won the prize for the best basket of gladS. The best unusual potted 'plant was a caladium shown by Miss Dorothy Mdrquis/ and the.prize for any other flower not listed in the 44 classes was a poppy flower shown by Mrs. “ Fingland. Entries were down public school children’s for flowers and vegetables; Debbie and Bonnie Johnston, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnston, James Street, Were top Winners ill these class es. The complete list of prize Winners! i's US follows: (By R. S. Atlcey)' GODERICH-r-Hunon County's emergency measures program me, as now established, will be drastically curtailed under the County Clerk-Treasurer as acting co-ordinator at an hon orarium of $50 per month. W. Stuart Forbes, the EMO co-ordinator, has. been relieved of his duties, with’ his salary continuing 'until September 30 1966. . x ' ■ Direct action along this’ line was taken by Huron County Council'at a special session in the Count House, Goderich, Tuesday evening, when a re corded division, of 32-6 support ed the recommendations of the Emergency Measures Commit tee undei- the chairman. George Wonch, deputy .reeve of Cljnton. FOR the report: Alexander, Boyd, Cook, Corbett, Cuthill, Dalton, Dunbar, Etoerington, Gandon, Geiger, Gibson, Hardy, EHmier Hay ter, Hendrick, Jewell ('two), Kerr, McIlwain, McKen zie, Moody (two), Noakes, Rob inson, Smith, Snell, Stewart. Stirling, Talbot, Thiel, Duff Thompson, Elgin Thompson, Wonch; total,'32. AGAINST the report: Boyle, Jim, Hayterj, Krauter, Leiper, McFadden,- Procter; total, 6. The- special .session opened sharp at 8.30 p.m.; the Queen sung 'at 10.20 p.m. Warden Kenneth Stewart, McKillop, welcomed members, with only one absentee, Hilliard Jefferson, West Wawanosh, away on a fishing trip. ‘•‘Actually, I did call the meeting to receive a report of the Agriculture and Reforesta tion Committee which met in Hensall last week, with the idea pf 'pressing for the establish ment of some sort of agricul tural college at Centralia Air Force Base,” the Warden com mented. “As a county council we should promote anything brou ght'before us so that was why fhe meeting was called so quickly. There also-was the re port of the Emergency Measure Committee to consider, and one from the Huron County Library Co-operatiye.” ■ Supporting the committee re port, George Wonch, chairman, stated that it was ‘.‘unfortun ate’’ this situation had arisen, •‘because somebody has to get hurt”. Council members had received copies of reports of past meetings and “the commit tee hasn’t 'been asleep”. Opin- ions had been voiced from all • sides. “Contrary to what has ap peared in the press, there never was a secret report,” he declar ed. Everything the committee decided is tin the recommenda tions submitted in this report. All' newspapermen and county councillors know .that the con tents Of any meeting should be held confidential. “Secondly, I didn’t appreciate quite a. number of phone calls at my place' of work, State ments have been made that ‘you people fired a person before the• County Council session.’ That is not true either”. Mr. Wonch said the public was not 'interested in EMO and if interested, would not take part, leaving it all, to elected! officials. Some think the prob- . dem might be because of geo- (Continued on Page Ten) EMO Committee Report To County Councillors To The Warden and, Members Of Huron County Council: At the June Session of County Council, Motion No. 49, 1966, was passed. This motion was as follows: “That Huron County Council give consideration to with drawing from the Emergency Measures Organization and fur ther that this, matter be refer red to -the Emergency Measures Canadian Forces Base Gets New Personnel Administration Officer 'CFB Glmtph’s:.new:»^rS'pn- nel Administration' Officer is Flight Lieutenant “Bob” Fur- neaux, a native' of St. Cath arines, Ont. He replaces' Squadron, Leader “Bud” Long ley who1 was transferred to Ottawa earlier this month. F/L Furneaux served as an air gunner during the per iod 1943-45 until leaving the Service at the end of the war. Re-enlisting in the RCAF in 1947 he was. trained as .a clerk and served at various stations in Canada. In 1953 he was commissioned as a fighter controller and trans ferred to Tyndall Air Force Base lin Florida. He was sub sequently stationed in Fal conbridge, Quebec City, Mont Apica and Metz, France, be fore remustering to the Per sonnel Administration Branch and' moving to St. Sylvestre, Quebec as Chief Administra tion Officer. Prior to arriv ing at Clinton, he completed a two-year touf at Sioux Lookout, Ont. F/L Furneaux Is married to the former Sylvia Peters of St. Catharines. They reside at 17 Victoria Blvd., With their three sons, Jim aged 15, Barry 12, and Brian 5. But of High Quality additional draws for pack et plant food. cactus dahlia, shown by Cliff Epps, was judged dahlia in the show. petunia, Bohnie Johnston, David Counter, Paul VanDamme; Bonnie and Debbie Johnston placed first and second in the table bouquet under nine inches high class; Barbara Elliott and Paul VanDamme were the oth er entrants. In vegetable classes for pub lic school children, Barbara Elliott took first for potatoes, carrots, beets and sweet com; Esther Merrill showed the best tomatoes and took second' in the potato class. Flower Exhibits ’ *■ Double asters, 5 blooms, Mrs. Wilfred ColcloUgh; cosmos, 4 stems, Mrs. J. W. Counter, Miss Lueila Johnston; large zinnias, 5 blooms, Miss Johnston, Mrs. Counter; small zinnias, 5 blooms, Miss Johnston, Mrs. Counter; ' . Petunias (single plain) Miss Johnston, Mrs. Counter; petun ias (single frilled) Mrs. Col- clough, Mrs. Joe Silcock; pans ies, Miss Lorothy Marquis, Mrs. Don Pullen; snapdragon, Miss Johnston, Mrs. Stewart Middle ton. .African marigold1, Miss John ston, Mrs. Jack Leppington; French double marigold, Miss Johnston, ,Mrs. Pullen; stocks Miss Johnston, , Mrs. Frank Fingland; perennial phlox, Mis's .Committee of County Council, with full report to be presented ■ at the September Session of County Council.” .As a result of the foregoing motion, a meeting was called on June 24th. At this meeting, in addition,to the full commit tee, were the representative of the Department of the Attorney General, Mr. N. W. Tim merman, the Director and Mr. A. C. • Clarke, Field Officer. Al so present for this meeting was Mr. W. S. Forbes, the County Co-ordinator. A lengthy' discussion ensued regarding the problem in con nection with the present Emer gency Measures Program. At the ’meetinng of June 24th, it was recommended that the Em- • ergency Measures Program be disbanded but that the Coun cil would be asked to continue their contact with the Province in the event of a need to re activate the program. Following .the above meet ing, a letter was forwarded to the Department of the Attorney General, advising of the Com mittee’s recommendation. On July 22, a reply was received from the department outlining the procedure necessary in ord er that the County might with draw from the Emergency Mea sures Program. The instructions were as follows: 1. The present By-law passed in 1962 establishing the Organi zation will need to be rescinded. Once this is done, no further funds can be made available under the Financial Assistance Program. 2. Huron County would have- •to refund the Federal and Pro vincial share of the money1 (spent on purchases of all items under Classification II, HI, and VI since the • establishment of the Organization, after depreciation at the rate of 10 percent per annum. The letter from the Depart ment did make the following . suggestion: “As an alternative to the drastic step of disband ing the Organization, we would be prepared- to consider the payment of a modest honorar ium to some other municipal (Continued on Page Ten) -----------o----------- Frank in the classes , Children’s Exhibits Large zinnias (5 blooms), H. Gudmore, Debbie . Johnston, David Oounter; small zinnias, Bonnie Johnston, David Count er, Debbie Johnston; asters, Bonnie Johnston; pansies, Deb bie Johnston, David Counter, .Bonnie Johnston; single stem (Continued on-' Page Five) Best Glad in Flower Show Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Middleton are proud of their red gladioli which was judged best in the show. Mrs. Middleton is secretary of the local horticulture society. (News-Record Photo) Frank Andrews Found Two Stone Ink Wells I ■ After reading a story in a daily paper of persons finding old stone ink wells, Clinton’s Frank Andrews brought two well-preserved crockery ink wells into the News-Record of fice. Mr. Andrews found one in a load of fill he had secured from the town when they were exca vating Ontario Street (Highway 8) last summer. The load came from near the comer of Ontario and William Streets, opposite Clinton Credit. Union building. . He claims this , was the site of Clinton’s first public school, a log building. His other stone ink well was found on his own farm bn George Street, Clinton. Last summer Mr. Andrews ploughed tip a portion of land p near his'barn which had not S been worked since the old fair grounds and race track had op erated there. Ho found the stone ink well near the spot where ■the office and betting booth was located. r /