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Clinton, Ontario
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Clinton News-Record
Thursday, May 10 1973 ' 108 Year - No. 19
Girl Guide Cookie Day was a huge success In Clinton last Friday as the local
company completely' sold out their stock. Here Mrs. Charles Wallace of Clinton
buys a package from Gina Radiey, left, and Wendy Bell. (News-Record photo)
Bowling marathon
to help Crippled Children
In an experiment that is pernaprunique
to Canada, Clinton and area young people
will be holding a bowling marathon next
weekend, May 19 and 20, to raise funds for
the Bunny Bundle in aid of crippled
children.
The marathon will be held at the Clinton
Crown Lanes in Clinton where proprietor
Joe Atkinson has donated the use of his
alleys for the two days.
Using the theine "Youth Helping
Youth", the over 100 children who will be
bowling will be canvassing Clinton and
district to seek pledges for the number of
games played and the number of hours
bowled.
All the young people bowling will be
provided with free snacks and drinks, cour-
tesy of Frito-Lay, Coke and Fairholme
J airy.
Clinton and area merchants are also
kicking in numerous prizes for the best
single, best triple, most games, etc.
The marathon is under the sponsorship
of the Youth Bowling Council.
Says•Mr. Atkinson, "Some of the kids are
bringing sleeping bags, so it looks like it
may be an all night affair."
Bowling starts Saturday morning and
finishes Sunday night. ajor industry locates at Vanastra
By Wilma Oke
McKillop Township council Monday set
e mill rates for 1973 giving tax reduc-
ns for all township ratepayers.
Residential public school supporters will
taxed 59.6 mills, a decrease of 15.6 mills
m last year while the commercial rate
as set at 64.6 mills, a decrease of 17 mills.
Separate school supporters will pay a
to of 77 mills, 7.2 less than last year;
mmercial 84 mills, a drop of 7,5 mills.
A public school supporter with an
sessment of $5,000 will pay taxes of $298
is year, down $78 from last year. A
parate school supporter with the same
Column
BY J.F.
In case you missed the Passe Muraille
hen they played Clinton, they will be
resenting their last show of the road tour
is Sunday afternoon at the Stratford
hakespearean Theatre. Curtain time is
:30 p.m. and admission is $2 for adults
nd $1 for children under 16. This is the
rat time in 12 years that a Canadian writ-
en and produced play has been on the
tratford stage. * * *
There will be tryouts tonight for the ban-
m hardball team on the Clinton
iamond. All boys who are 13 or 14 are in-
ited to come out at 6:15 tonight (May 10).
* * *
Clinton and District Minor Hockey
airman, Robin Thompson tells us he ex-
cts to see a large turnout at the wrap-up
eeting of the association to be held next
onday May 14 at the Clinton Arena, star-
ng at 8 He tells us that at least 50
r cent of the 140 families involved in the
ockey program should be there.
* * *
Inside you'll find a new column on
hat's happening entertainment wise in
Anton and area in May. Written by Mrs.
na Fisher, the column lists all the in-
resting happenings in the district. If your
vent was missed, phone her and get in the
une listing.
* *
Let's keep the suggestions for a name of
linton's 100 birthday coming. Everyone is
igible for the prize.
assessment will pay $385, down $36.
McKillop will pay a levy of $63.101 to
Huron County, the same as last year. The
township will also pay $21,995 to the
Huron County Board of Education for
elementary schools, plus $44,785 for the
secondary schools. The levy to the Huron-
Perth Roman Catholic Separate School
Board is $19,093.
Council set a levy of 16.8 mills for
residential and 19.5 mills for commercial
to raise $48,194 for general township pur-
poses. Both of these rates are down 4.1
mills from last year.
In other business, council received ap-
proval from the Ministry of Transportation
and Communication for awarding the
gravel tender to Sandy Contracting Com-
pany Ltd. of Goderich to put 20,000 cu.
yards of crushed gravel on the 107.9 miles
of township roads at a cost of $1.25 per cu.
yard for a total of $25,000.
Land severences were granted to Mervin
Godkin of RR 4, Walton for 2.13 acres of
land for a residential lot; and to Douglas
and Gail Schroeder of RR 1, Seaforth for
about one-half acre for residential lot.
Council approved a tile drain loan of
$1,800; and issued a debenture for a tile
drain for $1,800.
Members voiced no opposition to the
proposed archery deer season for the
By Milvena Erickson
Bayfield Council learned 'at their regular
meeting Monday evening, May 7, that
street signs, yield and stop signs are being
turned around and tampered with, and
strongly suggested that this is a very
dangerous occupation. It was also drawn to
the attention of Council that the Local
Initiatives Program employees are
classified as casual labor, and therefore do
not qualify for payment for statutory
holidays.
Correspondence received included a let-
ter from the Association of Municipalities
of Ontario re- the Ontario Budget for 1973,
with copies of the same provided; a letter
from Mr. F. Muir, relating to the task
Force on Policing in Ontario, with
notification stating dates and places of
meetings for hearings to be relayed at a
later date; a letter informing Council of the
Vanastra Developments of Clinton, who
purchased the former air base a year ago,
have been successful in luring a major in-
dustry to Vanastra.
It was learned Wednesday that Glendale
Mobile Homes of Strathroy will be locating
at Vanastra immediately •and it could
mean up to 150 new jobs for the Clinton
area.
The company manufactures mobile
homes and tent campers and will begin
renovations of the Other Ranks Mess, to
provide 36,000 square feet of manufac-
By Wilma Oke
,Tuckersmith Township council hopes to
be able to call the tenders for the water-
works to service the hamlet of Brucefield
within two weeks. All that is delaying the
project is the final approval from the On-
tario Municipal Board. At their meeting at
Brucefield last week, the council gave
first and second reading to the by-law for
the system. The application was sent to the
Ontario Municipal Board last November
and apparently has been held up because of
four minor changes.
Council renewed for one year the slavage
yard permit for William Brown of Egmon-
dville.
Building permits were approved for
Allan Carter, RR4, Clinton for a silo;
George Townsend, RR 4, Seaforth, an im-
plement shed; Stanley Johns, RR 4,
Seaforth, addition to house; Max Carter,
Egmondville, addition to house.
Passed for payment were accounts
totalling $12,549.45--Roads, $8,854.38;
municipal drainage, $1,236; fire protection,
$840; general government, $844.55;
sanitary landfill, $200; tax refunds,
$285,20; Egmondville water, $346,32.
Reeve Elgin Thompson, RR 3, Kippen
and Councillor Vince Fowlie, Vanastra,
were named delegates to the Association of
Municipalities of Ontario convention to be
held in Toronto August 19 to 22.
Land severance has been granted to
Wingham district of Huron and Perth
Counties from October 29 to November 25.
Reeve Allan Campbell of RR 1, Seaforth
and deputy reeve Ralph McNichol of RR 4,
Walton, will be the voting delegates at the
annual conference of the Association of
Municipalities of Ontario to be held in
Toronto on August 19-22.
Passed for payment were road accounts
of $11,482.06 and general accounts of
$4,876.70.
Building permits were granted to James
Loughnane of Winthrop for an addition to
his mobile home of $2,000; and to Ken
Ryan of RR 1, Dublin, for a silo and ad-
dition to barn of $10,000.
Council will ask for a meeting with Grey
Township council over dump opening
hours which formerly were 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
in the summer but which will remain the
same as the winter schedule--10 a.m. to 5
p.m., without McKillop Township Council
being notified of the change in hours. The
two townships share the one dump.
Three members of the Huron Health
Unit were at the council meeting--Dr. G.F.
Mills, Huron County Medical Officer of
Health, J.K. McCaul, Chief of Health In-
spector; and Gerry Ginn, all of Goderich--
to discuss licensing plumbers and plumbing
and building inspection in Huron County.
Annual Conference of Association of
Mayors of Ontario to be held in Toronto,
August 19-22; a memorandum from the
Ministry of Natural Resources on Flood
Damage, and a letter from the Ministry of
Agriculture on the revised Weed Control
Act for Southern Ontario.
Approval was granted to Ontario Hydro
following a request to Council to approve
the extension on Sarnia Street to supply
hydro to Anthony Hutchings. After much
intensive discussion, Council shelved, for
the present, a by-law concerning Plumbing
and Building Inspection for the
Municipality of Hayfield, received from the
Huron County Health Unit, Goderich,
The Clerk will be out of his Office on
Wed. May 9 attending a Clerk-Treasurers
meeting in Belmore, and also on Friday
May 25, when he attends an Ontario Clerks
Meeting in Guelph.
(continued on page 11)
turing space,
The announcement was made jointly by
Glendale Mobile Homes president W.T.
Callahan and Vanastra Developments
president Fred Ginn.
Glendale currently has 12 plants across
Canada and a facility in Australia. Produc-
tion will start August 1st.
Mr. Ginn said .that the step showed that
Vanastra Developments was "now starting
to fulfill promises made a year ago."
Huron county Warden Roy Pattison said
that the new company was a welcome ad-
dition to Huron and it would be a pleasure
William Holland, RR 4, Clinton for a two-
thirds of an acre lot and house (parcel
three) on the Vanastra road, off Highway
8.•
Four members of council will attend the
annual meeting of Huron County
municipal officers, to be held in Belmore
on May 16.
By Mllvena Erickson
The bones found 165 ft. south of the
south pier at Bayfield November 18, 1972,
by Roland Kolter of Dearborn, Michigan,
while he and his wife were beach combing
in the area, are human bones and believed
to be those of Henk Halff and Neil Worm-
sbecker of Stratford, both 30 years of age
and natives of the same town in Holland.
Both were lost in a boating accident on
Lake -Huron October 22, 1967.
The men were last seen leaving Goderich
The Farm Show, a theatrical production
about Clinton and area people, was a
sellout for its two night stand at Corey's
Sales Barn in Clinton, Organizers said it
was such an overwhelming success, that
over 100 people were turned away last
Thursday and Saturday nights because
there just wasn't any more room to squeeze.
them into the improvised theatre.
The Huron Central Agricultural Society,
which sponsored the show, said that there
were 564 people at the show both nights
and the audience applauded the actors
back on the stage after each performance.
The show played to a packed house in
Wingham Friday night and was sold out in
Brussels on Sunday afternoon.
The show, developed around characters
and scenes found in the Clinton area, plays
in Owen Sound, Port Elgin and Hanover
this week and winds tip its tour on the
Stratford Shakesperean Stage this coming
Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
The Stratford show represents the first
time in over a decade that a Canadian
to have Glendale in the County.
Tuckersmith Reeve Elgin Thompson
said "this is one of the days we have been
looking foreward to for some time. We
must give Vanastra Developments a great.
deal of credit."
Mr. Ginn said later in an interview that
the deeds for the residential part of the
By Keith Roulston
The Huron County Milk Committee has
decided to rejoin the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture after an absence
of several years.
The decision of the committee, announ-
ced at the regular meeting of the HFA
Thursday last night in Clinton by Martin
Baan of Walton brings to eight the number
of organizations who have affiliated with
the HFA for 1973.
The others are the Seaforth Farmers'
Co-operative; the Huron County Develop-
harbour that day in a 20 ft sail boat. The
capsized craft was found later that evening
by a freighter about three miles north of
Goderich. Constable Harold Green of the
Goderich O.P.P. investigated the boating
incident.
Constable Lorne Carter of Goderich
O.P.P., who was in charge of the present in-
vestigation, said the bones found by Mr.
Kolter had been sent to the: Toronto
General Hospital and were examined by
Dr. Anderson, Associate Professor of
Pathology of the Utiversity of Toronto and
were a human rib from the left side of the
thorax and the other bone was a regular
written and produced play has performed
on the Shakesperean Stage. Tickets are $2
for adults and $1 for children under 16.
Following a summer's leave, The Farm
Show will be back in August at the
National Arts Centre in Ottawa, where it
will play to Canada's VIP's and inter-
Goderich Township council slashed its
1973 general tax rate by eight mills to 8.62
for farm and residential owners Monday
night.
The commercial rate was set at 12:02, a
7.8 mill decrease. The levy will raise
$26,927 for general township purpo'ses.
The decreases will mean a saving of
about $33 for both public and separate
school residential supporters on an
assessment of $5,000,
base should be through by the end of May
and homeowners could look forward to
their deeds as soon as a road allowance is
closed near Conestoga College.
Officials in Huron County, Tuckersmith
Township and the Ontario Government
said they would push the agreement
through as soon as possible.
ment Committee; the 4H Club Leaders
Association; The Ontario Egg Producers'
Marketing Board; the Huron County Beef
Improvement Association; the Huron
County Soil and Crop Improvement
Association and the Huron Holstein Club.
Mr. Baan, commenting on the milk scene
at present also noted that although the in-
crease in the price of industrial milk has
been announced as a 60 cent hike, in many
cases it will not because the floor price ex-
ceeded the old price. In most cases, he said,
the increase would be more in the line of 40
cents.
fragment of the maxilla (facial bone)
believed to have 'been out of the water
from two to three years.
From time to time bones have been
discovered along the shoreline and in 1969
Constable Bruce Crew investigated the
discovery of bones just north of Bayfield,
which were the remains of a foot. It is
believed that all the bones are linked to the
same bodies.
Constable Carter said the report on the
findings had just recently been received
from Toronto from Dr. Cotnam, Chief
national audiences.
Next September, the show will tour the
New England States. Many of those
present at the Thursday night show com-
mented on the realism of the show and
those characters who were portrayed in the
show and were at the performance, thought,
it was extremely well produced.
Additional educational levies will bring
the rate for residential public school sup-
porters to 70,12 mills, a decrease of about
six mills. Commercial public school suppor-
ters will pay 77.88 mills, down six mills
from 1972.
Separate school residential supporters .
will pay 69.82 mills, a drop of five mills.
Commercial separate school supporters
will pay four mills less, or 77.6 mills,
cKillop gives taxpayers relief
Vandalism Bayfield concern
Brucefield water coming
Milkers back in HFA
Discovered bones prove to be human
Passe Muraille Director Paul Thompson (foreground) tours
Corey's Sale! barn last Thursday looking for places to
squeeze in a few more people. More than 100 people were
turned away from the two Clinton performances. The show is
at Stratford this Sunday afternoon and tickets are only $2
for adults and $1 for children. (News.Record photo)
Farm Show wows Clinton
Goderich Twp. cuts taxes