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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-02-22, Page 1• • Libotal Ifoadoe Robert Nix6n itingratulatog etiudidate Juek Riddell 38 27 35 28 36 20 24 4 30 6 35 25 27 11 FEBRUARY 13 29 2 14. 33 14 15 31 11 16 11 -'2 17 16 -6 18 25 0 19 33 23 Clinton, Ontario Thursday, February 22, 1973 20 _Cents 108 Year - No, 8 Weather .1973 '1972 • IA Snow 2" Snow 12" °cal lady wins contest rs. Beverley Williscraft of Mohawk Street in Clinton is presented with a year's roe subscription to the News-Record from General Manager J,H. Aitken for orrectly guessing that the pieces in the "Guess Who it Is Contest" made up a icture of Clinton Mayor Don Symons. A new contest starts this week with ad- itional prizes added. (News-Record photo) treasurer, told the 700 people in attendance at the Central Huron District High School at Clinton that the opposition par- ties were guilty of "blatent mistatements" concerning government policies. Par- ticularly Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lewis's attacks on government spending. He said Ontario Liberal leader Nixon "should know bet- ter" than to charge that the open the government to the people," he said. In promising his support to Mr, Southcott y Mr. MacNaughton called the Huron by-election a "whole new ball game," ' present Ontario government was distant. "Premier Davis' major platform has been to In his remarks to the conven- tion Mr. Southcott said he would like to see more power come back to the local level and said he felt "Regional Government could work within the boundri'es of Huron County." He went on to say that he supported a zero property tax on farmers and explained that he wanted to come back to Huron to work with the riding to "achieve its potential." Defeated candidate Bert Such urged everyone at the meeting, and the defeated can- didates, to make the nomination of Don Southcott unanimous. Speaking of his 15 years of representation from the riding of Huron Mr. MacNaughton told the meeting that his work had been "rewarding because his constituents were such decent people and showed ap- preciation for any work done on their behalf. "My 15 years as an MPP," he said, "have been intensive and interesting." After 15 years Mr (continued on page 3) Jack Riddell, a 41 year old Dashwood area beef farmer, emerged victorious last Thur- sday evening when the Huron Liberal Association held their nomination convention at Hen- sail Public School in Hensall for the upcoming March 15 by- election. Mr. Riddell Was named the Liberal candidate on the first ballot over three other can- didates, Graerne Craig of R.11, No. I Walton, John Lyndon of Goderich and Don Symons of Clinton, There were 332 voting delegates among the nearly 500 persons who jammed the school auditorium to watch the can- didate selection and hear guest speaker Robert Nikon, provin- cial leader of the Liberals. Mr. Riddell is part owner, operator of the Hensall Livestock Exchange and is the Huron County Board of Education trustee for Usborne and Stephen Townships. He is no stranger to politics his father having won the Mid- dlesex riding Liberal nomination in 1968 but with- drawing from federal election after suffering a heart attack. Mr, Riddell is a former agricultural representative for Hastings and Essex Counties and a former livestock specialist with the Saskat- chewan department of Agriculture. Mr. Riddell holds a degree in Agriculture from the University of Guelph. In addition to his agricultural exnerience Mr, Riddell also taught High School science for four years in Clinton and Exeter and was formerly assistant manager of the Toronto Stock 'Yards. He is married to the former Leone Bryan of Biddulph Township in Middlesex County. The daughter of' a far- mer, her father was Reeve of Biddulph Township and she comes from a long established and widely-known Liberal family, according to a biography circulated by Mr, Riddell at Thursdays meeting, The Riddle family also in- cludes five children, Debbie 18, Wayne 16, and Donna 14, Heather 12 and Brenda 10. In his remarks Mr. Riddell noted, "We in Hurtle tither send one more Tory to Queens For the second year in a row, Bill Riehl of Clinton has won the Spectus award for a distributor in Canada who promoted the best idea in specialty advertising in Canada during 1972. Mr. Riehl received the award during the Specialty Adver- tising Councillors of Canada's annual convention last week in Ottawa. Mr, Riehl is pictured with his two awards in his Gamester Advertising mobile display room on wheels. (News-Record phoio) Tuckersmih signs subdivision agreement with Vanastra Winter Carnival shows bigger profit The Clinton News-Record's "Guess Who t Is Contest," which was presented in four feces in the last four weeks, was won by rs. Beverley Williscraft of 45 Mohawk rescent in Clinton. She correctly pieced the four parts ogether and came up with the correct uess of Clinton Mayor Don Symons, For her winning guess, she will receive a ear's free subscription to the Clinton st Column BY J.F. Don't forget that Clinton's Fifth Annual Bantam Tournament starts tonight at the Linton arena as Clinton hosts 51 teams ho will play 43 games. Further details are vailable elsewhere in the paper. * * This weekend is also the annual Ontario eekly Newspaper Association convention ti London and members of this'paper will journeying to the Forest city to learn, have fun, and hopefully, bring home some of the Better Newspaper Awards, During the next week or so the News- ecord will be having an "intern" around o do various newspaper duties and to earn more about weekly newspapers. Our 'intern" will be Lee Alison, a second year ournalism student at the University of Western Ontario. You will be seeing her around Clinton and. district so help her out. * Police Chief Lloyd Westlake warns that after March first, Clinton police will crack down on all dog owners who haven't bought their 1973 dog licenses, Better get fido his tag or he could cost you extra money. News-Record. Response to the contest was over- whelming with 108 answers received. Correct guesses were put in a drum and Mrs. Williscraft's name was pulled out, Because of the overwhelming reader response, J.H. Aitken, General Manager of the News-Record, announced that begin- ning this week a new "Guess Who It Is Contest" will be started and the prizes for the new contest will be increased. First prize will be a complete full course dinner for the winner and his family at the Hotel Clinton, where Des and Helen Cassidy will act as hosts. Second prize will be a year's free sub- scription to the News-Record. Answers to the last contest were received from across Huron County and a few were even received from several cities and provinces outside the county. Mayor Don Symons should be pleased to hear that many people thought he looked like John Diefenbaker, Robert Stan- field, Charlie MacNaughton, President Richard Nixon, Clinton Reeve Harold Lobb, Lorne Brown, Frank Cook and even Golda Meir, Premier of Isreal. Retiring Huron MPP Charles MacNaughton's executive assistant Don Southcott won a landslide, first ballot nomination to represent the Huron Progressive Conser- vatives in the upcoming March by-election Friday. Mr. South- cott has worked with Mr. MacNaughton since 1967. The former publisher of the Exeter Times Advocate cap- tured the honor over three op- This year's Winter Carnival chairman, Bill Crawford, has called the 1973 version of Clinton's Fifth Annual snow frolic "ter- mendously successful': The final four days of the carnival were well attended and Mr. Crawford told the News-Record that the Carnival showed a profit of roughly $1,500, Final tallies will be known in a week or so when the commit- tee has their financial statement assem. bled. The profits will be used toward a useful recreational project in Clinton Mr. Crawford said, "The organizations and groups who par- ticipated in the Carnival will decide where the money will be spent," Mr. Crawford said, He said that profits from the 1972 Car- nival amounted to $800 of which $300 was donated to Clinton's Recreation Commit- Fred Sloman, a native of Clinton, who introduced the first railway school-car to isolated communities in Northern Ontario, died Wednesday, February 14, in West- minister Hospital, London in his 79th year. Mr. Sloman and his wife Cela Beacom, raised five children and educated them to grade twelve level while they lived and travelled in a railway car on the C.N.R. from 1927 until 1964. Their route covered 150 miles, and 13 stops each month, bet- ween Capreol and Foleyeh. The car was in- troduced' in 1927 with the co-operation of the CNR and the Ontario Department of Education Many of the pupils were children of In- dian parents and the rest were new Canadians whose parents worked on the railway, in lumber camps, in mines, and at trapping. It was the only opportunity for many of the youngsters to learn to read and write in the rugged north. As there was no elec- tricity, children studied by coal oil lamps around one small table, Don Southeoci (o run for Progressive Conservatives tee. In 1971 the Carnival operated at a deficit and needed help from the town in the form of a $200 grant. Mr. Crawford said that the success of the Carnival can be attributed to the dedication of hundreds of people. "A lot of people' worked real hard on the Carnival," The Carnival involved both young and old alike, Mr. Crawford said and he said special thanks should go to Mrs. Wilfred Colclough who ran the card party at the arena. This activity involved many of the older people who couldn't have become in- volved in the more strenuous activities, "Special thanks should also go to Steve Brown and the Kinsmen who did a terrific job with the Snowmobile Races. Everything went as smooth as possible,'" he said. Mr. Crawford also expressed thanks to The evenings were spent in adult education and in playing games with the parents and children, and in making out orders from catalogues. (continued on page 8) Racing dates final Clinton Kinsmen Raceway have secured their 1973 racing dates and learned recen- tly that they will be having both one leg of the eight leg OHH--I3etevedere Stake and the final leg, Racing dates for the raceway will com- mence on Sunday July first and every Sun- day until September 23. The Kinsmen also have the option of racing on September 30 if they desire. The Kinsmen Raceway will feature one leg of the Ontario Harness Horsemen's Association-Belevedere Stake on August 20 that will assemble some of the best of On- tario's three year-old pacers in an added (continued on page 3; George Campbell and the Legion who donated their building and time to the Car- nival, "They turned the complete profits, $266, of their bingo over to the Carnival committee," Clinton's Fifth Annual Bantam Hockey Tournament gets underway this Thursday night with 5,1 teams coming in to play 43 games. Action gets underway this Thursday night and continues on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Championship games will be played next weekend, March 2, 3, and 4. Chairman Len Fawcett promises some good, fast, hockey action and hopes that By Wilma Oke Tuckersmith Township Council signed a subdivision agreement with 260303 Holdings Ltd, of Kitchener, the owners of Vanastra, at a meeting at Brucefield last Tuesday night, Fred Ginn, of Kitchener, one of the owners of the company attended the meeting as well as William J. Dickson, President of G.V. Kleinfeldt and Associates of Kitchener (Planning Consultants hired by the company). Council discussed with the two men what requirements were necessary to be met prior to registration of the final plan for the subdivision. Park to add to an already over weighted majority, or we can send an energetic Liberal to assist in bringing accoun- tability back to government." "If we Liberals are going to win this by-election, and we can if we have the will, we need supporters all across the riding with the drive to beat the big blue machine." Mr. Riddell went on to say that the "Centralizing tenden- cies of the Conservative govern- ment must be stopped." He said that those policies threatened "The future existence' of small farms, small businesses, municipal govern- Tents and even public corn- Missions like the Public Works Cofnnlissioris (cotitittue'd on page 3) Plans are already underway for next Year's Carnival and the 1974 Chairman, Mary Divok, will meet with the different organizations in a couple of weeks to begin planning it. fans of Clinton and area will give the tour- nament the support it deserves. Teams will journey from Michigan, Oak- ville, Burlington, London, Etobicoke, and many other towns and cities in South- western Ontario. As well, there is a full slate of local teams. Teams are asked to register an hour before game time and a lunch will be ser- ved to every team following the game. ponents at the convention. He won all but 81 of the 293 votes cast in that first ballot. Mr. Southcott defeated Bert Such, a Goderich chiropractor who polled only 38 votes, Mrs. Betty Cardno of Seaforth who received 29 votes and Hullet Township farmer Bill Dale who collected 14 votes, Mr. South- cott tallied 212 votes. Mr. MacNaughton, who resigned last month as Ontario Education pioneer dies at 78 Huron PC's choose Don_ Southcott Dashwood farmer gets Liberal nod Bantam Tournament begins tonight In other business, council conditionally accepted the engineers' report for the repair and improvement of' the Clark drainage works. Clerk James McIntosh was instructed to prepare a by-law for the drain, estimated to cost $13,000. Engineer Henry Uderstadt of Orangeville was present at the meeting to explain the report and answer questions by three of the ratepayers affected by the drain--Ross Forrest, James McGregor and Nick Blom, all of RR 2 Kippen. A court of revision for the Clark drain will be held on Match 20. Mr. Uderstadt discussed the report of the Dallas drainage works with another group of ratepayers who will be assessed the costs of that drain--Jack VanMiltemburg, Preston Dallas, Gerrit Wynja and Jim Pap- ple all of RR 4, Seaforth. Unhappy with the amounts assessed against their properties, the owners required lengthy and detailed explanations from Mr. Uderstadt on the methods of assessing costs, benefits, outlets etc. Court of revision for the Dallas drain is set for March 20 when the owners will be able to have written objections considered if they so desire. 'renders were opened for demolition of the former three-storey Logsdon building on the dividing line between Tuckersmith and Seaforth, They are to be discussed with Seaforth Council before a decision is made to accept one of them. Council spent considerable time discussing the financial situation of the Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System. At the annual meeting to be held Wed- nesday (February 21) the Township will be asked to issue debentures for $125,000 if 100 subscribers of the system vote approval of this proposal, The money is to be used to provide cable and change the billing system. No decision was reached. The meeting Adjourned at 12:30 era, Wednesday.