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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-04-05, Page 1Mrs. Viola Nelson of Clinton, right, received a long service appreciation award from the Clinton Citizen's Horticulture Society last week in Clinton. Mrs. Nelson was presented with the award for giving 30 years service to the Society. Mrs. Florence Pullen, past president of the society, presented the award. (News. Record photo) Clinton, Ontario 20 Cents Weather Clinton News-Record Thursday, April 5, 1973 108 Year - No. 14 1973 HI LO MARCH 1972 HI 1.0 27 50 29 31 20 28 59 33 32 18 29 58 49 39 21 30 55 36 38 30 Al 56 36 42 27 APRIL — I 57 36 35 29 2 49 35 35 28 Rain 1.20" Ag. income not up conference told 11 4,K4EP i1 atikuvrta.• I I I\ ION 075 Bill Riehl of Gamester Advertising in Clinton presented a novel idea to Clinton's Centennial initial meeting last night in Clinton. Mr. Riehl, left, and Mayor Don Symons admire a license plate cover that proclaims Clinton's 1975 Centennial, An executive and committee were set up last night to plan Clinton's 100 birthday and make it the biggest celebration ever. (News-Record photo) JOhn and Greg Wile Of Clinton shoot Into the lead in the &Worth Optirnist's First Annual canoe Race down the Bayfield river last Sunday when the Wad time paddled by Nick and %lac Emit of Alyiner Olen ilear th fallen tree iptilt of ;Aimee. tee Wises won the Slimily Claes in the race that affected 110 entries. the iEnnsi uprighted their canoe and. finished the 18 Mlle race despite the bone-chilling waif. (Newt-Retard photo) Vanastra .residents question tax rates County taxes same as '72 BY WILMA OKE Twenty residents of Vanastra, including a delegation representing Vanastra homeowners and residents went home from a meeting Tuesday evening of Tuckersmith Council in a happier state of mind than when they arrived, Victor J. Evans of Vanastra, the, official spokesman for the group, spoke of the many questions the residents of Vanastra are asking and of their fears and of the rampant rumours. Mr. Evans presented eleven of the more pertinent questions mainly about taxes. First he asked what the 1972 and 1973 commercial and residential mill rates were for Tuckersmith Township and for Vanastra. Clerk James McIntosh assured him that taxes were set the same for the whole township and the residents of Vanastra would pay the same general mill rate as other residents. Mr. McIntosh said the homes at Vanastra were assessed last Year when the rest of the township was done, In answer to the question what the Average resident of Vanastra would be Assessed, be said that it would be about $1,400 to $1,600, When he asked when the township would initiate taxes against home owners in Vanastra, Mr. Evans was told it would be when the township took 'over the complex after the present owners had met the requirements, such as paying the 1972 taxes in full and the presentation of the final plan for registration to the township. Mr, McIntosh said he would be com- pleting the final mill rates for the township in about two weeks when he received the county's school board rates. He assured the delegation the separate school rates and the public school rates would be the same at Vanastra as in the rest of the township, In answer to other questions the delegates were told the Brucefield Fire Department was responsible for fire protec, tion at Vanastra and that if some of the hydrants were opt operative now then the present owners should be responsible; that one of the access roads to Vanastra, the most easterly of the three .access roads, would be closed on recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation and Com- munications; that the roads, sidewalks and parks would be maintained by the town- ship after the present owners had brought them up to government standerds. The delegates were told that the roads would be blacktopped; that there would be slight changes .in the street names of Vanastra when, streets are joined or extended only, so as to avoid confusion, No changes would be made for the sake of change; that copies of some of the by-laws would be given to Mr. Evans, the sub-division zoning by-law, the building by-law prohibiting dogs running at large, etc.; that the animal control officer is "running a regular patrol" at Vanastra. In other business council accepted the tenders of Harold L. Roth of New Ham- burg to construct the Clark drain for $3,500; the Dallas drain for $4,900; the Kinsman drain for $2,400, Mr. Roth's ten- ders were the lowest for all three drains and he specified that he would start work on them in May and complete them by July 30, Council gave second reading to a by-law for the ,township to issue debentures in the amount of $125,000 in favour of the Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System to make necessary changes in its outside plant to upgrade service to four-party lines, Before the third reading of the by-law. an- (continued on page 10) The March session of Huron County Council was a somewhat low-key meeting despite the fact that several increased budgetg in the county's various depart- ments were presented for approval. Although the 1973 budget has not yet been finalized, there was good news for county ratepayers in the Executive Com- mittee report. It was stated there is every indication there will be 'no increase in county rates this year. As well, the report promised that in the event the county enters upon a building program at the Huron-Perth Regional Assessment office, there will also be suf- ficient funds for this purpose without any increase to county ratepayers. When the budget is brought in next month it will show that $25,000 has been set aside in the Hospital Reserve Fund; an employee benefit reserve; as well as another $50,000 for the working capital fund. Several proposed budgets were approved in Thursday's session. All are up. The 'Children's Aid Society %Litt"' $297,087. Last year's budget was estimated at $291,906 and last year's County of Huron share was estimated at $91,847 ($91,678 actual). The Planning Board budget is up $25,214 to $72,150. Consultant fees for the study on Urban Development in Rural Areas (UDIRA) is one of the major reasons accounting for an estimated additional $8,000. The budget for the Huron County Library is up over $15,000 to $193,850: The Huron County Pioneer Museum budget is also up by about $4,000 to $39,000. The road budget is also higher this year 'at $1,987,000, but will be financed with the same amount of county funds, $738,000. Extra allotments from the provincial government was cited as the explanation. This year, the province is paying 62.9 per- cent of the total road budget while the county is picking up only 37.1 percent. The budget of the Land Division Com- mittee remains about the same as last year, made up of $27,200 from fees and $6,000 of county money. In this case, revenue will depend upon the number of applications and again this year, the committee is ex- pecting applications from Ontario Hydro regarding transmission lines which will be running from the Bruce Nuclear Station through the northern part of Huron. 1 Column BY J. F. The Clinton Girls Softball Team will be cleaning up on Saturday April 14. They will be doing it to cars however, not other teams, as they stage a car wash at the Com- munity Centre to raise funds for their team. For a mere dollar, you can have your car picked up, washed and delivered. Rain date is April 28. We're happy to report that the man, whose order for tools was lost by an Inger- soll firm after the Farm show in London recently, has been reunited with his tools. He spotted the plea for help in the News- Record last week and took prompt action. * * * For all you mothers and fathers who are wondering what to do with your boys now that the hockey season is over, send them out to play organized soccer this spring. Registration is this Saturday at the Clinton Community Centre starting at 10 a.m. The registration form can be found elsewhere in the paper. 44. Don't forget that you have until tomorrow (April 6) to answer the News- Record's "Guess Who It Is Contest," Send your answer in now and you could be eligible for some excellent prizes, According to the budget, 680 ap- plications at $40 each will total $27,200. • The museum budget showed that $11,200 is expected this year in admissions and sales. The County of Huron is expected to add the remaining $27,800 to the budget. Deputy-clerk Bill Hanly, acting in the place of Clerk John Berry at Thursday's meeting, said the committee had been "very pessimistic on the admission side". Museum curator Ray Scotchmer said ad- mission rates had been adjusted upward and should result in increased revenue for the museum. He also reminded council that he would like to see a souvenir stand in the museum and ,noted that any sales promotions the museum had attempted in the past had realized additional profit. It should be noted that included in the museum budget is $1,000 for maintenance at Dunlop Tomb where steps need to be replaced and some masonry work must be completed. Huron -Sports Council set Huron County has an interim Sports Council as a result of a meeting held in Clinton last Wednesday night, March 28. More than 30 persons from across Huron County attended the meeting to hear the objectives of the Council and elect a tem- porary executive to approach municipal and county governments and to study the feasibility of co-ordinating and funding all sports on a County-wide basis. There are presently four sports councils in Ontario, including Lambton, Waterloo, Brant and now Huron. Tom Love, co-ordinator of the Waterloo Regional Sports Council, and Murray Min- shall of the Youth and Recreation Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services were guest speakers at the inaugural meeting and told the gathering it would be much easier for groups to afford new and better sports programs if they were set up on a countywide basis. Mr. Minshall said that individual isolated sports groups such as figure skating clubs or hockey groups are sometimes ignorant of the kind and amount of funding available from the federal and provincial governments, "As a result," he said, "many of these grants go unclaimed," Mr. Love said that the Waterloo Council has resulted in much better communications between various amateur sport groups with the result that more people are involved and volunteer time is used to its best advatage, . In the Waterloo organization, the sports council involves both the University of Waterloo and Waterloo Lutheran Univer- sity, Conestoga College seven parks and recreation boards, the YMCA, the Waterloo County separate and public school boards, industries, various churches, service clubs, 25 sports groups and most of the radio, TV stations and newspapers in the area.. Mr. Love, who is the full-time paid Waterloo co-ordinator, said the Waterloo council organizes and promotes coaches' clinics and provides the various groups with the knowledge of the grants and fun- ding available from federal and provincial agencies, "It also provides a unified voice for the region in matters of concern to the epotting (continued on pig() 10) The municipal tax -rate for 1973 for McKillop Township will remain the same as last year; Council approved a tax rate of 20.9 mills for farm and residential property and 23,6 mills for cotnreercial at a meeting Monday. This will raise about $68,700. Assessment for the township is $2,02,660, Mrs, Kenneth McClure township clerk- BY KEITH ROULSTON Despite the latest increase in the price of fluid milk, farmers are still only about where they were a year ago, Huron County members of Parliament were told Satur- day. Ross Trewartha of Hullett township told the members gathered for the annual Mem- Hullett Council agreed at their Monday meeting to give Londesboro a weekly pickup of garbage and hired Gordon Chain- ney to do the collection at a yearly cost of $1,200. Affected homeowners in Lon- desboro will be assessed a special levy to cover the collection costs, Hullett council made the move after they were presented with a petition on Monday from Londesboro residents asking council to collect their garbage, In other business, Hullett Council agreed with a motion from Turnberry Township that Hullett farmers affected by the proposed hydro line are not receiving Suf- ficient compensation for damages and loss of value to their farms. Council also heard a report from Don Watson of the ministry of natural resoursee on the progress of the 5,400 acre Hullett Wildlife Area, Hullett also accepted the tender of Radford Construction Ltd. for the supply of crushed gravel for the township. The Hullett mill rate for 1973 has been set at 28 for residential and 31 Mills for commercial buildings. Building permits were issued to John, Radford for a new house, to Carmen Gross treasurer said the total taxes for township residents will not be known until the county school boards and Huron County Council have Set their rates, In other business, council passed a by- law licensing trailers in the township. The fee for the mobile home owners will amount to $12 per month, A statetnent on the, unpaid taxes in the Please tarn to Page 10 bers of Parliament dinner and conference sponsored by the Federation of Agriculture, that the increases have been almost en- tirely eaten up by feed cost increases, especially for high-protein feeds. Jack Armstrong of Auburn, chairman of the Huron County Milk Committee said he thought the consumer was getting stuck in the increases. He noted that the two in- creases to the farmer in the past year have amounted to about two cents a quart. The price had increased to the consumer up to five cents. He said he did not think that the other costs involved in processing the milk for consumption had risen enough to warrant such an increase. "We're getting a fair price," he said, "but the consumer is getting stuck". In the milk committee's brief, Mr. Arm- strong noted that dairy farming in Huron is a major industry with 930 farmers deriving their living from it. The brief said the recent increase to in- dustrial milk producers (those producing milk for the manufacture of butter, cheese and skim milk) was too low. The increase was 60 cents a hundredweight of which 20 cents is to be held back for export, leaving farmers with a net increase of 40 cents. He said the Milk Marketing. Board had requested an increase of $1 per cwt. and he said if something is not done to increase return to the industrial milk producer there will be fewer dairy farmers in Huron. Several briefs, including one delivered by Jim Williamson of Walton, president of the Huron County Pork Producers, called for re-examination of the government's decision to drop capital gains tax on tran- BY WILMA OKE sfer of the family farm to a son at death of the father. It was pointed out that this could mean a son would have to work for years for his father until the owner died. By this time, the son could be an old man too. Mr. McKinley said he had made representation to John Turner, minister of finance several times on this subject. He said he thought it was a token gesture by Mr. Turner. He said Eugene Whalen, Minister of Agriculture is also concerned over the present set up and had asked that the capital gains be waived whenever a farm is transferred from. father to son. "I've been watching over my shoulder ever since I heard about the change", Mason Bailey, chairman of the meeting quipped. "I don't take a chance on my ;sons being behind my back". The Pork Producers also lashed out at the removal of the tariff on import of meats, saying it puts farmers at a disad- vantage because other countries have not lowered their barriers too. The Huron County Soil and Crop Im- provement Association presented a brief that opposed the possible location of a Please turn to Page 10 McKillop holds tax rate Garbage collected atLondesbor for a new silo, and to David Middleton for a silo and a hog barn with liquid tank, Accounts paid included $4,571 for roads , $3,2931or conservation and insurance, and $857 for general accounts. Tony Kyle, 15, of Hensall, won the Pilgrimage for Youth trip to the United Nations at New York, when he topped four girls in a public speaking contest in Clinton last Friday night. Tony, a grade 10 student, at South Huron Secondary School in Exeter won tO all-expenses paid 15-day trip to New York this summer sponsored by the IOOF and Rebekah Lodges. Tony, one of 150 Grades 10 and 11 students across Canada and the U.S. taking part in the 24th annual pilgrimage, tir will speed six days in New York observing the United Nations in action, visit the Em- pire State Building, Rockefeller Centre, museums, churches, shopping and atten- ding Broadway plays. Oddfellow and Rebekah lodges located along the route extend hospitality to the Hensall youth wins trip at Lodges' speaking- night young people with meals, lodging, sight- seeing and other entertainment, Tony spoke on "Apathy" and gave an impromptu speech on "Flowers." Runner-up in the contest, sponsored by the Huron County lodges, was Mary Edith Garniss, 16, of R.R. 4, Wingham, who spoke on the Family Doctor." Other competitors were: Kathy Cook of Hensel' who spoke on "Canadian Iden- tity;" Toni Pennings of R.R. 1, Zurich, who spok eon"Indians of Canada;" and Flora Nabrotzky of Teeswater who spoke on "Smiles." Awards and certificates were presented by Harry Gerrie of Wingham, District Deputy Grand Master of IOOF, Huron District No, 8. Mrs. Keith Sharp of Seaforth, District Deputy President of Huron District No. 23, Rebekah Assembly of Ontario was chair- man for the event.