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Clinton News-Record, 1973-09-20, Page 1Clinton, Ontario 20 Cents Rain .47" Rain 1.38" Thursday, September 20,1973 108 Year - No. 38 e•hviummoopeownwompolor Weather '973 HI 14) SEPTEMBER 1972 HI O 11 71 53 77 53' 12 69 43 79 58 13 69 40 72 62 14 74 52 $9 45 15 75 41 71 40 16 58 37 70 01 17 53 33 78 61 Hallett approves by-law to control dumps Famous Canadian chest expert Dr. Norman Delarue of Toronto spoke to a small crowd of 20 people at the "Smoke Brake '73" meeting held In the Clinton Legion last Tuesday. The meeting was part of the Huron-Perth TB and Respiratory Disease Association's week long campaign to help people to stop smoking. (News-Record photo) Few show at"Smoke Brake" Ltd. for a price of $3,945, Council instructed the road superinten- dent to apply for an additional 12,000 cu. yds. of pit run gravel on side road 4, 5 and 6, concession 13 and 14 and that he apply for interim road subsidy from the Ontario ministry of transportation and com- munications until the end of August.Coun- cil also approved two tile drainage loan ap- plications and ordered accounts of general $2,050; drainage, $2,214; and roads, $18,120 be paid, A grant of $500 was made to the Hullett Federation of Agriculture and building per- mits were issued to John Jewitt, Allan Merner, P, Youngblut, J. Middegaal, Robert McCool, Klass DeJong, Anita Kiss, H.L. Bromley and Laurence Taylor. New industry coming? A new industry, Schultz Manufacturing Company Ltd. of Burlington, are looking at Clinton as the possible site of a new plant that could employ at least 25 people in the next several months. The company, which manufactures tool boxes, automotive parts and chiropractic tables, would set up a completely new operation in Clinton that would involve the manufacture of plastic caskets, the first time such an operation has been tried in Canada. Terry Easterbrook, president of Schultz, told the News-Record that his company was 90 per cent sure they would move to Clinton. He was in town last Monday to look at possible sites for the plant. He said he would like to get started on construction before the winter sets in and he hoped to have manufacturing underway by January. In a meeting with officials of the town last Monday, company officials said the plant would require little servicing as it was not an operation that produced much pollution. Mr. Easterbrook said the Clinton Baptist minister Dwight Strain had guaranteed him employees for the plant. A Canadian owned company founded in 1906, Mr. Easterbrook said that marketing studies done on the plastic caskets showed it would have wide appeal and would sell easily. He said the present scarcity and high cost of wood, normally used in caskets, was overpricing the wood caskets. Reeve Harold Lobb and Industrial com- mittee member Ken Flett met with com- pany officials on Monday and they toured several pieces of industrial land in Clinton. Only 20 persons were present last Tuesday night to hear famous chest expert Dr. Norman Delarue of Toronto speak on smoking as part of the Huron Perth TB and Respiratory Disease Association's "Smoke Brake '73". Dr. Delarue told the small audience at the Clinton meeting that the anti-smoking campaign had failed because people were willing to ignore the facts in the face of the social acceptability of the habit. He said that the social pressures of smoking override the factual acceptance of smoking which every year kills nearly 300,000 people, Dr. Delarue freely admitted that the anti-smoking campaign had failed, especially in the teenage population because young people smoke because peers and adults they admire smoke. Efforts to halt the increasing number of people who smoke must be redirected he said. "Advertising is the most important factor in the increase in smoking," he said. He said that advertising of cigarettes must be halted because it depicts a virile young man and a beautiful romantic woman enjoying a butt in pleasant surroundings. This enhances subtly but ef. fectively, the enjoyment of smoking, he said. The second important factor, Dr. Delarue said, in eliminating the developed countries' worst health problem is to have people in the community set exemplary -examples. Most children begin smoking because they are following the lead from adults and people around them whom they admire. If adults set an example and stop smoking, then many children would never start. He said that teachers, athletes, and etc. should set an example and he cited the case of the medical profession where a few years ago 60 percent of the doctors smoked heavily and now only 22 percent are BY J.F. The Clinton Centennial Band received the go ahead and $4,000 backing from the Clinton Kinsmen Tuesday night and the green light is on. As a result, all those children who sent in applications to play in the band are to meet in theupstairs room of the Clinton arena on Monday night September 24 at 7 p.m. Dwight Strain, who is organizing the band, said that the parents should also be present as instruments will be picked out and practices will begin immediately. The new band will, hold their first concert at Christmas. * * * Commencement exercises et Central Huron Secondary School will be held ^on Schedule this Friday in the school's gym despite the lack of heat in the school. With the large number of people expected, it shouldn't be long before the gym heats up from all the people present. Student attendance at the school, however, will be decided on a day to day basis by Principal R.J. Homuth, depending on the weather. Heat to the school should be restored by Tuesday or Wednesday. smokers. There is already legislation written that would ban all advertising of cigarettes, Dr. Delarue said, but the legistlation has never made it to the House of Commons. We must pressurize our MPs into bringing that legislation forward and having it passed, he said; marking the first step on the road back to clean lungs and longer lives. He said many people would gladly stop smoking if only they knew how. He said that group programs to help these people should be started to help them break the habit. The Huron County Board of Education at its meeting in Clinton Monday afternoon approved the use of the Veneral Disease teaching kit in the teaching of health in the schools under the board beginning with students in Grade 7. Mrs. Marion Zinn, chairman of the education committee, who made the motion for Approval, explained that the kit has been desgneci jointly by the ministry of health and the ministry of education, and the board will receive a complimentary She said that Dr. G.F. Mills, Medical Of. ricer of Health for Huron, had attended the committee meeting to present how the slides, tapes, transparencies, books, etc. could be used by the physical education teacher who will use the kit. She said Dr. Mills will set up a workshop to assist the teaching on V.D. Mrs. Zinn reported this subject is not new but has been on the secondary sehool program for Some time. She said students do riot like lectures on morals, hence kit IS for treatment rather than prevention, Mrs. Zinn said that Dr. Mills was asked if V.D. WAS prevalent in the County but he stated doctors do not report cases and that a visit to a doctor by a student is kept con- fidential. John Henderson asked that during the Church survey set Volunteers from nearly all religious denominations will canvass Clinton and Vanastra between October 1 and 6 as part of Clinton's participation in Key '73. About 90 volunteer lay people of the United, Baptist, Presbyterian, Anglican, -Roman Catholic, Christian Reformed, and Pentecostal Churches will be blitzing both Clinton and Vanastra, conducting a survey to determine the church habits of the' people and to give them church facts such as church locations, service times and ministers' names. George Laois of Clinton is chairman of the Christian Visitation project and with the help of Paul Xerrigan, Mrs, Hazel Clif- ford and Mrs. Gwen Homuth, the 90 volunteers will try and determine where the communities' church leanings are- and to educate them to what services are available, Spokesmen for the group stress that the volunteers will not be looking for donations, just information. At a special meeting of Hullett Township last Monday night, council passed a new by-law to restrict and control dumps in the township. The new by-law was passed after a dozen residents of Londesboro objected several months ago to Bill Little of Londesboro using his farm as a dump site for Vanastra garbage. Mr. Little has the contract for removing garbage from Vanastra. Basically, the by-law states that anyone operating a dump in Hullett Township will be required to get a permit from the town- ship and the dump will have to be inspec- ted every six months. Failure to live up to the letter of the by- law could mean a $50 fine. Council also instructed the clerk to send a letter of thank you to the Village of Blyth thanking them for reconsidering the arrangement the township has with the About 950 students of Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton received some unexpected holidays this week when the recent cold weather caught the school's heating system off guard, CHSS Principal R.J. Homuth decided last Monday to let the students out of school Tuesday and Wednesday because classroom temperatures had dropped into the 50's and 60's making some rooms un- comfortable for teaching. The boilers at the school had recently been converted from bunker "C" oil to natural gas but delays in putting a new gas main and meter into the school have left the boilers without a fuel source. Robert McVean, plant superintendent with the Huron County board of education, said on Tuesday that Union Gas officials had been desperately trying to get the new pipes anti-:meter but strikes in the steel in- dustry and the railways has delayed ship- ment of them. Mr. McVean said that the gas probably wouldn't be connected until next Tuesday or Wednesday, "Normally, the weather would be warm enough to permit the school to function, but this unusually cold weather has made year, any time during the year, that one of the teachers attend a Board meeting and "go through a regular lesson just as if before students". He said, "I'm afraid a lot of the board members do not know what is going on. I feel that what is being taught about sex, in- stead of helping students, is hindering them." When asked if he wanted the initial lesson in the kit, or a middle one, Mr. Hen- derson replied, "I want one they think would be real interesting." Clarence McDonald asked why V.D. teaching Would start in Grade 7 end Mrs, Zinn said she had questioned this too, She reported that she was informed Grade 7 students Would hot get the same lesson as high school students but on a level suitable for their age group. The Board denied a request from John Ball, geography teacher at Seaforth District High Sehool, for assignment as a teacher with the department of national defence schools overseas for a twolear term, on the grounds that due to declining enrolments in Huron County schools it is becoming more difficult to release teachers for such two-year terms and hold their position open for their return. The board reversed its decision re Paul Johnson of Goderich and he will be permit- ted to enrol in Central Huron Secondary School in order to take the subjects of his choice. It was the feeling of the education eommittee that board polity really left the decision On this /natter to the discretion of the administration. The recommendation from the management committee was approved to accept Ross Scott Limited of Bromfield, authorized Sunoco Distributor, as the fuel supplier for 16 schools and Sterling Fuels of London for two schools. Theirs were the lowest tenders. The request for easement for the Town of Seaforth to construct about 600 feet of drain along the nottherly boundary of Seaforth District High School for the pur- poses of a better drain outlet for the Seaforth Community Centre area was ap- proved subject to the condition that the playing field be returned to its original con- dition after construction of the dtain. The board approved the increase from $25 per room per month to $35 per room per month to the Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Sepattite School Board for the use by Queen Blizabeth School for Trainable Retarded of three classrooms in St. Peter's School, Goderich, for the period July 1, 1973, to June 30, 1974. village. Hullett currently shares the cost of the dump with Blyth on a 50/50 basis, but. Blyth wanted a 60/40 sharing basis since, they said, Hullett used it more than they did. Council issued building permits to M. Hulley, R. Buffinga, Wm. Bromley and M. Durnin, Earlier, at their regular September meeting, Hullett issued a building to Henry Bowman to construct a sow barn on lot 26, concession 2 of Hullett Township. Council earlier this summer had received a petition from several homeowners around the proposed barn site objecting to it, but the Huron County planning board advised the township that the land was zoned for agricultural use and a sow barn was per- missible. Council also awarded tenders for the Nott No. 2 Drain to Brickman Construction the schools cold,'' Mr. McVean said. Vice-principal Dick Whitely said that Mr. Homuth would make day to day decisions on student attendance, depending on the weather. Mr. Whitely said the commencement exercises scheduled for this Friday evening would proceed as normal, because under normal conditions, the gym heats up rapidly when filled with people. By Milvena Eritkion Bayfield Council members received copies of the Construction Safety Act, 1973, at their regular meeting Monday evening, and discussed pertinent parts of the Act relating to the Village. They were advised by the Clerk of Huron that the Construe- tion Safety Inspector for the County had as yet not been named. A letter received from the International Joint Commission regarding the Great Lakes stated that degradation of the Great Lakes may be slowed down if funding for control of waste and pollution of land waste is adequate both in the United States and Canada. A request from the Middlesex Historical Society, who will be touring the Village on Saturday Sept 29, for the use of the Municipal Building for lunch in case of in- clement weather, was granted. A report from the Committee of Adjustment to allow Mr. W..1. Ferguson a minor variance setback of 20' rather than the regulation 25' was recommended, The 1,1,11, program was discussed and was felt consideration should be given to repairs and additions to the steps leading to the beach, litter cans, clearly marked and placed in strategic location ie, along Main St., around the arena and agritultural grounds, around 'Clan Gregor Square, and the North and South sides of the River, and also tree planting and pruning arid rehabilitation: Other ideas to be brought forth at the next meeting. Mrs. Jo-ann Sullen approached council regarding residential property being used as commercial with no change in the zoning by-law, and asked what protection residents had in a residential zone. It was stated that the particular property to which she was referring was given tentative per- mission on a yearly basis by council until such tithe as re-zoning could be heard at a public meeting with those residents affec- ted within 400' of the proposed re-zoning voicing their opinions. Council at this point adjourned to fotm the arena board commission, with F.E. McFadden in the chair, and members of the board, Ted Gozzard, Don Warner, Gor- don Orabarn, Don Johnston and B.W. Od- dleifson, to heat a delegation of ap- proximately 25 ladies question the reasons behirid the sudden closing of the arena for roller skating. The Chairman explained that the man who had been hired to look after the 'roller skating had resigned after a series of episodes in which three or four young fellows had 'generally acted up and made it impossible to operate the roller skating by interferring with the younger skaters, using'vile language end becoming abusive to him. The ladies felt that the majority of the children were being cOntinued on page Large stake ends racing A three.horse entry from Dave Wail's ▪ stable from Kincardine has the chance of • taking home nearly 90 percent of the $6,000 final of the Ontario Harness Hor- semen's Association - Belvedere Pacing Stake being raced at Clinton this Sunday. Horses from the Wall Tyme Stable have won eight divisions of the stake, which has been raced on various "B" tracks this summer. The final leg at Clinton brings together the eight top money winners of the divisions and will also mark the end of racing at Clinton this summer. The Wall entry includes Peppy Wall, who has a mark of 12:04.4, Fair Cruiser who has stopped the clock at 2:04, and Arrochat Wendy, a two-year-old filly with a Mark of 2:07.1. Peeing this tough efitty will be 'Cowan's Girl Sonny Direct, Teddy Crooks, Derby Lee, and Sale Time. Board approves VD kit Cold closes CHSS Competition was leis intense at the 1073 Huron County Plowing match, held on the farm of Howard Deters north of DishwoOd, On Saturday. Only 35 competitors turned Mit to compete for more than $1,000 In prise money put up by the HurOn 0ourity Plowmen's Association, organizers Of the event. Good Weather kept many farmers at home on their own land resulting In a smaller than usual Crowd of spec- tators as well. The HurOn County Plowing match he* been held every year sinCe 1024. (staff photo) Bayfield may get LIP grant In '73