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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-03-15, Page 1Stephen Lewis, Ontario NDP leader was in Clinton Tuesday to tour the Sherlock- Manning Piano Plant and to canvass on behalf of New Democratic candidate Paul Carroll. Later they had a press conference in which Mr, Carroll accused the government of holding up final approval of Vanastra subdivision plans. Later, PC candidate Don Southcott said the delay was in Clinton not Toronto. (News- Record photo) New industry to build in Clinton Clinton will have a new industry that -could employ up to 15 people, it was leann Eyed at Clinton'council's meeting last Mon- day night. Council passed a by-law to sell nine and a half acres of Clinton's industrial land on the Bayfield Road to Marcon Ready Mix Company of London. Clinton received $500 per acre in the deal. The company plans to start to build 00 the land, located between Joe Cory's Sale Yards and the CNR over pass, sometime near the end of April and hopes to employ from six to eight men in their initial operation as a concrete supply firm. Later, the company hopes to receive an Ontario Development Corporation Loan to build a cement block plant that could boost employment to about 15. Industrial Committee chairman, .Bill Stauttener, said that credit for luring the new industry to Clinton belongs to former councillors Bill Crawford and Clarence Denomme, Mr, Denomme was the In- dustrial chairman last year. In other business at council last Monday, council instructed Clerk Cam Proctor to write to the Ministry of Industry and Tourism in order to have Clinton included in the "equalization of opportunity" grants for 1973. The program grants money to various tourist's projects. Council also looked into the possibilities of erecting a lighted sign in Clinton that would have a lighted colored map of the town and or a coming events sign. The sign would cost the town nothing and would be paid for by the erectors, Cham- pionship Displays, who would sell adver- tising around the sign to local merchants. Council also passed a by-law making Clarence Neilans the town's Fire Chiet The move comes from a recommendation of the Fire Marshal 's report, which has not been made public. Up until Monday night, the town clerk was legally the fire chief, Council also agreed to enter into an agreement with the CNR on the force sewer main that the town is putting under the tracks at Matilda Street in Clinton, The agreement is signed when any line or pipe passes under the CNR tracks, "7,11‘•114110•=111 Clinton, Ontario Thursday, March 15, 1973 20 Cents Weather 1973 1972 hi/ LO HI LO 108 Year - No. 1 1 MARCH 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Rain 2.18" 60 54 50 47 45 60 59 36 44 34 29 35 46 37 Snow 2" 21 44 37 35 8 20 36 11 4 0 30 5 22 11 Jack Riddell, Liberal candidate in today's by-stet:Alan had help from Liberal MPPs who canvassed in the riding this week. Talking with Dick Smith, centre, MPP for North Bay, are Beecher Menzies and Jiggs Labeau, both of Clinton. (News-Record photo) Parties have vigorous fight for vote eather proves unusual The unusually warm weather that Clin- ton and area residents have been enjoying the past couple of weeks has set records for high temperatures this early in March and has many old timers searching their memories for a March that has been as mild. According to the Dominion Weather Bureau at the Norman Baird farm near Brucefield, the temperature soared to 60 degrees last Wednesday (March 7) and again last Sunday. This is the highest tem- perature ever recorded in the first 12 days of March in the last ten years. The highest temperature recorded during March of last year was a cool 46 degrees and in 1971 it made it up to 53. The almost total lack of snow on the ground during March is very unusual, ac- cording to many of the older residents of the town, Arnold Colclough of Osborne Street in Clinton told the News-Record last Monday that he "never saw a winter like this." He said he couldn't remember in all his 76 years a March that was as mild as the 1973 version. Mr. Colelough, who farmed near Kinburn for 65 years before he moved to Clinton said he has never seen a winter as open and as mild as this one, but he st Column There will be an exhibition hockey game this Sunday in Clinton between the Junior Mustangs and the Petrolia Juveniles. Game time is 2:30 p.m. * * * For all Clinton parents who are won- dering what to do with their offspring during the Spring break next week, check Mike Stephens column on the sports page this week. It could keep him or her out of trouble. * * * If the advance poll is any indication, then the vote in todays by-election will be a heavy one, Across the riding, 459 people voted in the advance poll, nearly double that of the 1971 election. Clinton had 86; Seaforth 78; Goderich 129; and Exeter 166. * * * Inside you will find the fourth piece of the News-Record "Guess Who It Is Con- test" and if you can put all the parts together, send your guess to Box 39, Clin- ton -Ontario, First prize is a complete din- ner for the winner and his family at the Hotel Clinton. Second prize is a year's free subscription to the News-Record. could remember a winter back in the 1930's when little snow fell. Mr. Colelough cautioned though, that there would likely be some more winter before the end of March. He said that based on 'his observations of nature there would be a storm before March was out, To go along with the mild temperatures, Clinton and district has received nearly three inches of rain in the past week and Don Pullen, Huron County Agriculture Representative, said that although many winter wheat fields in the immediate Clin- ton• area were soggy, most of the wheat pulled through the winter in good con- dition. "It will depend on what type of weather , we get in the next few weeks that will affect the wheat," Mr. Pullen said. "A hard frost would be very detrimental now that there is no snow cover and the wheat is greening up." Mr. Pullen added that fields are still too water logged to take off the remain corn and commence Spring plowing. Some corn was harvested in January in the southern part of Huron County. Elsewhere, home gardeners are heeding the call of nature and throughout Clinton and area seed and fertilizers outlets, business was reported brisk. "We've never had seed sales this high this early in March," said Mrs. Ida May Durst of Durst Farm and Garden Centre in Clinton. Other outlets have reported an in- creasing demand for fertilizer as homeowners seek to ready their lawns for summer use. Many of the garden supply outlets have been caught off guard and 1973 stocks have not arrived yet, Usually fertilizer is spread in mid-April at the earliest. Ba Clinton Council last Monday night authorized the clerk to write to the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority to see if they will clean out the Bayfield River and channel it where it passes near the new sewage plant. The move came after a recommendation from Clinton's engineering firm, R.V. An- derson and Associates who said there is danger that the dykes protecting the new pollution control plant could he swept away in a spring flood and that the tree filled flood plain could cause an ice jam during spring breakup and flood the new plant. Cost of the work has yet to be deter- mined but Clinton said they would bear 100% of the Authority's share of the project. Also related to the new-sewerage system being put in Clinton was a petition received Voters of the Huron riding, who go to the polls today (March 15) to elect a successor to retired MPP, Charlie MacNaughton. have felt like the proverbal fish in the bowl during the last three weeks. Nearly anybody who was anybody in the political scene in Ontario, came to Huron to woo the voters to the various party can- didates. Visitors to the Clinton area included the from 47 residents of Dunlop and Erie Street asking the town to repair and pave Dunlop Street to Erie and Erie Street to Mary. Currently the street is in bad shape following installation of sewers and recent heavy rains. Council decided to table the matter because paving would be impossible this year until the street settled, they said, Last month, council approved a feasibility study to drain and pave parts of A list of campaign con- tributions totalling $4,417 for the March 15 by-election was disclosed last week by the Huron New Democratic Party, The largest of these was a $2,000 donation from the On- top three in Ontario politics: Premier Bill Davis, Liberal Leader Bob Nixon, and NDP leader, Stephen Lewis. Along with the noteables came five provincial cabinet ministers, a number of Liberal MPP's and several NDP. members of the legislature. The politicians were making so many charges, counter charges.) statements, visitations, tours, press conferences and hand shaking, that the News-Record repor- Raglan, Townsend and Queen. Streets. No estimated costs of the project have been released yet. In other business, council authorized the mayor and the clerk to sign the final agreement with the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation for the money the town is borrowing for the new sewerage works. Council passed for payment expenditures of $40,504,90. tario Federation of Labor. The provincial wing of the NDP donated $1,200. At the party's provincial council meeting held in Goderich last week, about $376 was raised mainly through the sale of food and (continued on page 9 ter said he could have used the services of a dozen reporters and photographers to keep up with the deluge. By the time many of you faithful readers glance at this article, the results will probably be in and the last dog hung. Highlights of the last week of cam- paigning included mainstreeting and a Huronview tour . by Liberal Leader Robert The Ontario Bean growers' Co-operative plans to erect a $500,000 processing plant near Seaforth, according to Charles Rau, RR 2 Zurich, Huron County director of the co-op. Mr. Rau made the statement to clarify recent news stories which suggested that the plant could not be built because of lack of financing. The Co-op never applied for an ODC Loan, he said. The proposed plant will have an initial capacity of 100,00 cwt., or the production of about 8,000 acres. Capacity can be doubled by adding storage facilities. The plant will be erected just east of Seaforth, on the border of Huron and Perth Counties. It will provide a convenient market outlet for bean growers in the area, particularly those north and west of Nixon, an afternoon visit to Clinton by On- tario Agriculture Minister William Stewart, and a tour and press conference in Clinton by NDP Leader Stephen Lewis. A crowd estimated at between 3,000 and 5,000 journeyed to the Pineridge Chalefin Hensel( Monday to meet Liberal candidate Jack Riddell, Bob Nixon and various other Liberal notables. Seaforth where marketing facilities have been too distant for fast, efficient handling of the crop at the critical harvest stage, From six to 10 new permanent jobs will be created, according to Mr. Rau, Financing of the plant is being arranged from private sources, as well as from the Co-operative's Loan Branch, A number of institutional lenders have agreed to provide funds for the project, on the strength of, the co-op's excellent profit record in recent years. At the present time, the co-op's London plant handles about 10 1 /2 percent of the Ontario crop with a market value of over $2 million. Construction will commence as soon as approval is received from governmental levels. 'field River has to be straightened NDP, Liberals, release costs New bean plant to go east of Seaforth Auctioneers Hugh Filson and Richard- Lobb take bids on a calf at Joe Cory's Sales Yard last Friday while three more prestigeous observers look on. Wat- ching the sale with interest are Charlie MacNaughton, Agriculture Minister Bill Stewart, and PC candidate Don Southcott. (News-Record photo) Lewis: Tories ignored Vanastra This is an Sir view of Highway 64 west of Mental, about 6 p.m. last Monday night as more than 3,000 noticed to the Pineridoe Chalet to munch beef and meet Liberal Candidate Jed( Riddell. Later in the evening, the line oh the road stret- ched fot a Mile in either direction. (News-Record photo) Huron New Democratic can- didate in today's election Paul Carroll severely criticized the situation of property deeds at Vanastra, the former Clinton Armed Forces Base, during a joint press conference with NDP Provincial leader Stephen Lewis in Clinton on Tuesday morning. He said that deeds to homeownerS on the base would likely be held up for at least several months yet. Fred Ginn of Kitchener, one of the project owners, was later quoted as saying the deeds would be available soon and probably within the next week. "Who the hell is this guy Carroll," Ginn asked, "and where the hell is he getting his information? He isn't an MPP and even I as an owner have not heard of any delays," In his statement to the press Mr. Carroll also noted that provincial planning officials had indicated to him that no relief was in sight for the home owners at the base. Mr. Carroll said he had been involved with the Vanastra situation from its beginnings in 1971 through his membership at that tithe ort the Huron County Planning Board and County Development Commit. tee, The NDP candidate pointed out that %%hen he had ruh during the last provincial elec- tions he had called for talks oh the local, provincial and federal levels but that the call had gone unanswered, "Now in 1973 the economic outlook for the area is hot the brightest," he said "and Vanastra residents daily question where their land titles are and why they are being stalled?" The candidate said that during his campaign he had visited 'very home on the hale (continued on page 9)