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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1967-02-02, Page 1..........1 ....... "■.. ®be ytW (Column* Clinton News-Record THE NEW ERA r—102nd Year . v THE HURON RECORD-r~ 86th Year No. 5 — The Home Paper With the News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, ■'! .. . ■ ■ .■■■■■... ■■■■■■■ ... ■ ........ .u,,., x , ,,, ................ 1967 $5.00 Per Year—12 Cents Per Copy—10 Pages We did it again. ‘ We talked about sweeping and brushing our snow-free sidewalks and streets in Clinton and by the time the paper got to all our readers, the weather­ man was pelting Clinton and all of South Western Ontario with more of the fluffy white stuff, Perhaps the biggest problem to motorists last weekend was the sleet which accompanied the storm and stuck like glue to everything it touched. Slippery conditions underfoot and' a bliz­ zard overhead made travel treacherous, probably the rea­ son so many persons chose to stay off. the roads. * * * Still, when you think of it, winter in 1967 isn’t near the problem that winter ten years ago or more was. Most of us will remember a time in our lives when an old fashioned storm such as we had last weekend would knock everything for a loop for days. Roads became blocked . . . and stayed that way. Sidewalks and driveways that were plugged were unplugged by one method the application of a shovel and a strong back. People who grew chilled -in drafty homies got warm >by snuggling closer to the stove in the kitchen. Mother turned to hot biscuits and. homemade muffins to al­ leviate the bread shortage, and father and the kids played bingo until someone shouted, “The plough’s coming.” * * * Things are different now, though. When a storm hits, the police department issues a warning that motorists should stay off the roads for their own safety. Certainly the roads are open to people who for one reason or another must travel on them — and -thanks to snowfences and sand and salt and snowploughs and elevated highways and dozens of other modern ideas, the roads are generally in pretty fine shape. Staying home in 1967 is no hardship. In fact, it is often a welcome break' away from the business world and pressures of the social whirl in * which s6’ many of us live. . If it is a little cool in the house, we. crank up the ther­ mostat. Entertainment is pro-" vdded by the television, .the radio, a stack of good records, a library of books. An unending supply of food is taken from the frig and the freezer, although we know all the time that we can leave the house almost any­ time we like thanks to the snowblower which deans, the sidewalk and driveway in a jiffy.* * * And consider the difference in winter transportation these days' when heated cars make riding as comfortable as slitting at home by the fire. Children don’t have to sit bundled' up and half frozen the way grandma had to when she was a girl in the horse-drawn cutter — and father can strip down to his shirt sleeves if he (Continued on Page Five) Huron County Junior Farm­ ers met 'in the agricultural of­ fice board rooms, Clinton, on January 25, with president Bob Fotheringham in -the' chair, when Don Pullen presented a favourable financial statement. The juniors decided to extend their Centennial Sign Project until the end of 1967. Any quali­ fied farm owner who 'has not applied for a Centennial sign may still obtain one at the cost of $5.00 by contacting Donald McKercher, Seaforth. Donald Young outlined plans for the drama festival which will be held in conjunction with the Agricultural Conference at Two employees of the Clin­ ton office of Bell Telephone Company of Canada have com­ pleted 21 years of continuous service in telephone work and were rewarded this week. They are Mrs. L. M. McCann, a long distance operator and Don McArthur, a serviceman. Mrs. Arabell Bushell, Strat­ ford, president of the Stratford Club of Tecumseh Council of Pioneers of Telephone Compan­ ies, was in town on Monday to present life membership cer­ tificates and pins. At a luncheon in Hotel Clin­ ton dining room on Monday, Mrs. Bushell presented Mrs. McCann with her certificate in the Pioneers and Mrs. Mary Jordan, a retired Bell operator here and also a life member, presented Mrs. McCann with a The Weather 1967 1966 High Low High Low Jan. 25 54 32 15 6 26 33 24 11 -12 27 32 24 17 -10 28 27 21 9 0 29 24 13 12 -2 ' 30 18 4 17 0 31 31 1 20 11 Snow:10”Snow : 7” | Honoured for 21 Years in Telephone Service • Mrs. L. M. McCann of the Bell. Telephone Company staff at Clinton office •: was honoured oh Monday for having been a telephone company employee for 21 years. She came to Clinton office when the Exeter office closed and Clinton became the long distance dialing centre. At a luncheon in Hotel Clinton, Mrs. Mary Jordan, left, a retired Bell employee, presents Mrs. McCann with a Pion- i eer pin and Mrs. Arabell Bushell, right, of Stratford, president of the Stratford Club of Tecumseh Council of Pioneers of Telephone Companies presents a cer­ tificate to Mrs. McCann. There are over 12,000 members of the Pioneers of Telephone Companies in Ontario and Quebec. Both Mrs. Jordan and Mrs. Bush- , ell are members. (News-Record Photo) First Activity on Site of Clinton's New Community Centre On Monday of this week bulldozers, shovels and trucks began excavation work for the new Clinton and District Community Centre in Com­ munity Park. Shown above on Tuesday afternoon at the left is the general contractor’s workshop and toolshed and at the right the bulldozing equip­ ment of Garth Postill loading excavated earth onto Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd: trucks. Both these firms are from Clinton. The general contractor is Shantz & Hicks Construction Limited, Waterloo, who put in a contract price of $224,660 to build the 215’xl04’ building With an ice surface of 80’xl80’. (News-Record Photo) Jr. Farmers Extend Centennial Project Clinton, Friday evening, March 10. Seaforth Junior Farmers and Clinton Junior Farmers will be presenting plays. The H. T. Baker Meeting Improvement Trophy and other awards wall be given out at the drama festi­ val. ‘ The designing Ojf the sweater contest was extended to March 15. Any Junior Farmer member Who has ideas for this sweater is asked to send them to Bob Fotheringham, Seaforth, prior to the above date. The colour of ■the. sweater and crest may also be included. Murray Hoover reported that the curling bonspiel was a com- Two Bell Employees Given Pioneer Awards Pioneer pin. Also at the lunch­ eon was Mrs. Jessie Hart, an­ other Clinton Pioneer Club member; Bob Winman, plant superintendent at Clinton and other Bell employees. Mr. McArthur received his certificate and pin later this week. Mrs. McCann is from Credit- on and came to the Clinton office when Bell changed! to long distance dialing some years ago. . To become a Pioneer of the Telephone Companies of Am­ erica, a person must have been a telephone company employee for 21 years. The motto of the Pioneers Club is "fellowship, loyalty and service”. There are over 12,000 Pioneers in Ontario and Quebec, of which 4,700 are retired, said Mrs. Bushed!. plete success and the bowling tournament held in Clinton in December was also very suc­ cessful! according to Gordon Gross who was in charge. Eight members were chosen to repre­ sent the County in Inter-County competition. Congratulations were extend­ ed to the Huron County Girls Trio consisting of Sharon Strong, Joan Sinclair and Chris­ tine Pryce, who won their com­ petition in Toronto on January Clinton’s eighth annual minor hockey weekend was a decided success as far as competitive hockey and seriousness -of the teen age boys participating but spectators were few and far between. The Friday evening program was the best supported of the three evenings. It was unfortunate that this district experienced the heaviest snow­ fall of the winter during minor hockey weekend. The three visiting American teams — Dearborn, Mich, ban­ tams and peewee and bantam teams from Clinton, New York State — provided excellent competition for the Clinton and Adastral Park team’s. The US teams requested as much ice time and games as possible. Each played two games here. The best efforts by the visitors was a 5-3 win by the Clinton, N.Y. bantams over Adastral Park and Dearborn London Nats Manag I A A* I_I I I The personnel of six minor hockey teams, many parents and sportmen from Clinton, New York; Dearborn. Mich.; Adastral-Park and the town of Clinton heard Eddie Bishop, manager of London Nationals Junior “A” hockey team, talk on the business of junior hockey at Clinton Legion Hall Satur­ day noon. Nearly 250 persons had dinner at the official ban­ quet of Clinton’s Minor Hockey Weekend. Bill Haris, chairman of the local minor hockey day com­ mittee was chairman and made the introductions; he was as­ sisted by Clinton’s recreational supervisor Doug Andlrews. ’ Mf. Bishop, who is also man­ ager of London’s Treasure Is­ land Gardens arena, remarked that Canada Was “the land of hockey”; then added “It won’t be long before American boys Will be in the National Hockey League due to the expansion to 12 teams”; Speaking to the young boys, he said, "It’s a long arid rocky road to the NHL, and there’s not too many Gordie Howe’s in the world’’. He spoke at length on the cost of operating junior “A” teams. His .team costs over $70,000 a year to operate; it costs $1,100 to take hisi team to 7. Tom Cunningham was named Junior Director to' the Federa­ tion of Agriculture. Jamieson Ribey thanked the county for giving 'him the op­ portunity of attending the Ef­ fective Speaking Course. Tuniors are requested to at­ tend the fun night and annual meeting in the Belgrave Arena on Friday, February 3. The next meeting will be held on February 22. and Adastral Park bantams played a 4-4 tie. The town teams both won the feature games on Saturday night over their Clinton, N.Y. guests. ’ Most of the hotel accommoda­ tion in town was taken up by visiting parents from Dearborn and Clinton. The players from these towns stayed ait the homes of Clinton minor hockey play­ ers. This was the eighth year that minor teams from Dearborn, Mich, had competed in Clinton’s minor hockey weekend held as part of the Minor Hockey Week in Canada. Both Dearborn and Clinton, N.Y. team executives expressed a wish to come back to Clinton next winter to play in the town’s new arena which was started over the weekend. The Clinton, N.Y. teams were invited here this year to add an Montreal for a scheduled game, and it costs $2,000 a year to have a hockey player attend a ■technical school in London. Mr. Bishop forecasts that it won’t be too many years before Canadian Universities will have to offer athletic scholarships like the US schools do. The speaker was introduced by Bert Clifford, overall chair­ man of Clinton Kinsmen minor hockey set-up, and thanked by Jack Reid, treasurer of the local minor hockey day com­ mittee. Harvey Miller, recreatiOri supervisor of the town of Clin­ ton, New York, and Harv Snel­ ling, athletic director from the City of Dearborn, Mich, each spoke and introduced dither guests from their towns. Ciiriitori couricinor Cameron Proctor, representing Mayor Don Symons who was out of town ori duty With Ontario Hy­ dro, informed those present that Clinton’s new arena bad been started this weekend as the town’s major Centennial projects Other speakers were Don Kerr, mayOr of Adastral Park; J. D. Thorndike, chair­ naan of Clinton Recreation Committee and Dennis Riggin, ft former professional hockey (Continued on Page Teh) Spring Fair To Sponsor 4-H Sheep Club Central Huron Agricultural Society directors, meeting in the agricultural office board room, Monday evening, decided to sponsor a 4-H Sheep dub this year. Club members will show at dinton Spring Fair on Sat­ urday, June 3. The directors also voted' the $350 profit from the Hell Driver exhibition last summer to go to the Clinton and Dis­ trict Community Centre Cen­ tennial Fund. The fair board is also promoting a draw in the near future, the proceeds of which will go to the community centre fund. At Monday’s meeting person­ nel of the fair’s various com­ mittees were set up. -----------o----------- Toronto Children Theatre Group Coming to CFB Canadian Forces Base Clin­ ton’s first CentenniJal project will take place in February when the base sponsors a visit by the Toronto Child­ ren’s. Theatre. This well known profession­ al company will stage “The Tinderbox,” by Dorothy Jane Goulding, in the Base Physi­ cal Training Centre on Feb-... ruary 20 and 21. The only show open to the public will be held at 7 p.m, on Feb­ ruary 20; admission is 25 cents. Four other shows will be presented for grade school children in the surrounding districts. Attendance at these per­ formances is being co-ordinat­ ed by Huron County School inspector. The visit to Clinton is part of a five month Ontario tour by the Toronto Children's Theatre. The play will be staged in various cities and towns including London, Sar­ nia, Chatham, Palmerston and Walkerton. international Centennial flavour to the annual even/t. ■The American visitor's' were quite impressed with an exhi­ bition by 65 weewee-age boys on the ice at. one time on Fri­ day evening. Ken Clynick, the physical education head at Cen­ tral Huron Secondary School, who is a former Kinsmen Club member and former hockey player, put the 65 boys through a series of practice drills and games.- This was followed by a game between two girls’ teams — up to 11 years of age — instructed and coached by arena manager Doug Andrews. Complete coverage of ail games on Minor Hockey Week­ end can be found on pages 9 and 10 of this issue. (ADDITIONAL STORIES AND PICTURES ON PAGES 9 and 10) Trophy Winners in Annual Dearborn-Clinton Game Paul Bartliff, centre, captain of Clinton Fish and Game Club bantam hockey team is holding the Hugh Hawkins Memorial Trophy, after his team won the annual game with St. Sebastian Catholic School of Dearborn, Mich. The St. Sebastian Dad’s Club put up the trophy some years ago in honour of the late Hugh R. HawkittS, Clinton sportsman and minor sports promoter* Bartliff also won the K. W. Colquhoun trophy as second star in the garde on Friday evening. On the left is Phil Beiickelaere, St. Sebastian captain who won the Clinton Dry Cleaners trophy as the third star. On the right is Bob Langille, first string centre of the Clinton team who was judged the first star of the game; he is holding the Anstett Jewellers Ltd. trophy. Clinton won the game 1-0 on a goal by Gary Cummings from Gordon Lavis in the first period. Community Centre Funds Canvass Starts in March With construction started over the weekend on dinton's new arena and community centre, interest has increased in both the building and finance committees. Shantz and Hicks Construct­ ion Limited, Waterloo, moved onto the site in Clinton Com­ munity Park last week and ex­ cavation began Monday for the $224,660 centre. Fund Growing The Clinton and . District Community Centre Centennial Fund received another boost. Monday night when Huron Central Agricultural Society gave $350. According to fund treasurer Andy Peterson there is over $6,220 in the fund at present. , The month of March has been designated by finance commit­ tee chairman Mait Edgar as “drive for funds month”, with a dbor-to-door canvass to be­ gin during the first week of March. At that time volunteer canvassers will be asked for donations and/or pledges. Mr. Edgar again reminded citizens of town that"~for every Officer Cadet R. Johnston Wins Military Training Badge at RMC A Clinton area Officer Cadet, Richard Johnston, has 'been awarded the Military Training Badge at the Royal Military College of Canada. Richard is the son of WO2 and Mrs. R. J. H. Johnston, 17 Toronto Blvd., Adastral Park, Clinton. Prior to at­ tending RMC, Richard gradu­ ated from Canadian Services College le College Militaire 'Royal de Saint-Jean, Quebec, where he held the cadet ap­ pointment of ■ Cadet Wing Recreation Officer. Besides following the 'third year Hon- Officer Cadet Richard Johnston ours Commerce and Econom­ ics course he’- is active in football, hockey, water polo, curling and track and field. On. graduation in 1968 lie­ will receive an honours Bach­ elor of Arts degree and a commission as a Flying Of­ ficer in the Canadian Armed Forces. The Military Training Badge, comprising "Crossed Sword in a Laurel Wreath”, is awarded to individual ca­ dets who display outstanding achievements in military and leadership training during the 4a... v . . year. Only 35 of the 560Military Training cadets at RMC received this Badge high distinction. dollar they contribute in the canvass or pledge to give, is equal to $2.00 over the next 20 years on debenture payments and interest. Meet Thursdays The finance committee has scheduled regular meetings for every Thursday night at the Legion Hall at 8 o’clock. Other committee members and inter­ ested citizens are invited to these meetings. Representatives for the four surrounding townships have been named: Goderich Town­ ship, Councillor William Jen­ kins; Stanley, Clerk Mel Gra­ ham1; Tuckersmith, Frank Fal­ coner and Hullett, Councillor Hugh Flynn. As in most canvasses in the town of Clinton, the four ser­ vice clubs will be responsible for canvassing a ward. St. And­ rew’s Ward, Lions Club; St. James’ Ward, Legion; St. John’s Ward, Fish and Game Club; St. George’s Ward, Kinsmen Club. Donations can be left at the Royal Bank, Bank of Montreal, (Continued on page 10)