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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-10-11, Page 1rainfall -0" rainfall ,57" 108 Year - No. 41 Thursday, October 11, 1973 20 Cents 67 42 73 49 70 54 67 52 60 50 51 35 57 34 Clinton, Ontario Weather 1973 1972 HI LQ HI LO OCTOBER 2 67 58 3 66 56 4 69 53 5 62 42 6 68 36 7 63 48 8 72 52 Clinton approves new apartment unit The ladies of the Morning Glory Unit of Wesley-Willis United Church ere plan- ning a Bargain Basement sale this Friday evening October 12 at 7 p.m., and have a display set up all week at a vacant store on Rattenbury Street. Here Mrs. Donna Wood, left, Mrs. Aileen Craig and Mrs. Peggy Menzies work on the display. (News-Record photo) Chichi lay* this cat who received her rable0 shot at the clinic In Clinton last Friday. Officials reported a good turnout at the rabies Clinics thus fary which and this Week. Officials with the ministry, Of land* arid forests are experimenting with a no* oral vaccine that can be adirilnistered to wild animals. (Plows+Record photo) Clinton council last Tuesday night gave their approval to a new 18 unit apartment building that has been proposed by Huron Pines Realty of Clinton and will be built on Albert Street just south of ' Whitehead Street. Council last year had rezoned the area for the apartment building from single family to multi-family use. Bud Kuehl of Huron Pines was present at the meeting seeking approval for the $200,000 building but no construction date start was given. Council also gave Huron Pines per- mission to start on three houses in Pinecrest subdivision on Townsend Street before the necessary services such as roads, hydro, and sewers are installed. Mr. Kuehl said at the September meeting that he needed to get the foundations for the houses in before the winter freeze-up, so his Men would have work all winter. Council stipulated that the houses were not to be sold before the necessary services were in- stalled. Council also passed a motion to accept Hullett Council decided last week not to issue a permit for a dump on'the property of William Little of Londesboro. As a result, Mr. Little has decided to close the dump and take the Vanastra garbage, which he collects under contract, to another dump site. Hullett Council had passed a new by-law last month making it mandatory for anyone operating a dump in Hullett to take out a permit from the Township, Final ap- proval of any dump, however, rests with the ministry of the environment in Toronto. Residents of Londesboro near the dump hedliresented witti- a 06tititi1SarlY this summer objecting to the dump and asking Hullett to close it. Any new dumps that are opened in the province must be approved by the ministry of the environ- ment after a public hearing. The dump problem caused a few hot words at Hullett's October council meeting last week. Mr. Little had some harsh words for some of the councillors and Londesboro residents during the meeting, who he claimed were "running the council". Mr. Little referred to a complaint turned into the ministry of the environment about burning at the dump, when actually the burning took place on a neighbouring farm, that of Deputy-Reeve Charles Scanlon. Mr. Little also charged that the person who made the complaint had also given Mr. Scanlon tires to start the fire, which Mr. Scanlon was using to clean up some old brush on his farm. Reeve Hugh Flynn reminded Mr. Little and some councillors that council was not dealing with past grievances on the dump, but rather to give approval to Mr. Little's application or not. After considerable discussion, council agreed to meet at the dump site last Wed- nesday afternoon where they turned down Mr. Little'e ennlication. ti Column BY J4F. Well, Thanksgiving is over for another ear and we can all look forward to nearly wo holiday-free months, which in the eweetiper business means not having to o in one day what normally takes two ays to do. The rush is over now and veryone has co-operated 100 percent. * * * We note with interest that one Hensel' man is finding it difficult to sit down after a shooting and robbery incident in- thing several men from that community Idle they were on a "trip' to Port Huron ast weekend. * * Len Fawcett dropped into our office ednesday morning to give us the Junior 'D" hockey Mustangs schedule and we ote that the 'Stangs open the season this .oming Wednesday at Clinton with an xhibition game against the New Hamburg unior "C" team. The local Juniors also pen the regular season here at home on ctober 19 with a game against Strathroy. The league is much the same as last year rid coach Bill Weber tells us that the tangs have lost a few good players and ained a few good players, 80 on balance, hey should be as good or better than last ear. Mrs, Vivian Roy informs us that the Ar- ritic Campaign carried out by the Beta igrna Phi Sorority and the Clinton Kinet- 8 was a success and brought in nearly 550, about the 'same as last year. an engineering study on a sanitary sewer for the•houses but deferred any action on the proposed storm sewer for the houses to a special committee. Council passed building permits Tuesday night worth nearly $350,000 to bring this year's total to nearly $943,000 in a little more than nine months. Most of that total is in new housing starts with the apartment building at $200,000 being the only major construction start. Last year, considered to be a good year, saw $635,220 worth of con- struction started, half of which was for in- dustrial, commercial and institutional buildings. There was $320,000 worth of construction started in 1971. Building permits issued include Huron Pines, three houses, two worth $23,500 and one worth $21,000; Huron Pines, apart- ment, $200,000; Joe Murphy, dwelling, $60,000; Fred Miller, sun deck, $3,900; Ken Deer, pool, $4,200; Keith Keys, repairs, $500; and Terrence Maguire, sun deck, $300. Council, in other business, were concer- In other business, council passed a by- law for the licensing of eating places and baking shops. The by-law was requested by the Huron County Health Unit as a way of registering all places in the county serving food so they can be inspected for proper health procedures. The council voted for a license fee of $5 for restaurants, mobile canteens, and bake shops, and $2 for refreshment' stands and snack bars. Those fees were greatly reduced from the annual fees suggested by Police are continuing their investigation into the death of a 93-year-old Hensall widow, Mrs. Jane Burton McMurtrie, who was found strangled to death in her Main Street home last Friday. Mrs. McMurtrie, who lived alone in the house with only two cats as companions, was found naked in an upstairs bedroom by neighbours. Police said there were no signs of struggle or violence and nothing was reported stolen from the house. An autopsy at Stratford General Hospital on Saturday revealed the cause of death and late Tuesday night no report was available on whether Mrs. McMurtrie had been sexually assaulted. Police were called in from the Sebringville and Goderich Detachments of the OPP to help the Exeter Detachment conduct a house to house canvass on Sun- day and Monday in an attempt to come up with any clues to Mrs. McMurdrie's mur- der. Police said there were signs of entry in two locations at the large two storey house that Mrs. McMurtrie has lived in the last 35 years, 11 of them alone since the death ned that local residents are burning leaves on the pavement. Several councillors and the mayor thought a by-law existed prohibiting the burning of leaves on pavement. Councillor Hall thought it was against provincial regulations to burn any leaves at all. Councillor Brown said people were destroying asphalt on the towns roads with the burning and especially the new pavement on Townsend, Raglan, and Queen Streets. Council accepted with regret the resignation of Norm Livermore who, due to delicate health, will be unable to work for Federal Agricultural Minister Eugene Whelan told about 400 Huron County far- mers and their wives last Thursday night that the government is attempting to find new ways of giving them security through the Health Unit. Reeve 'Hugh Flynn was appointed the townships representative on the new farm safety council being formed in Huron. H. Uderstad was appointed engineer on the Medd Drain. Council also learned that a total of 327 dogs are being kept in the township with 318 of those registered. Nine persons have refused to buy dog tags and the clerk was instructed to take the appropriate steps to enforce the township dog by-law. of her husband. She was last seen by neigh- bors last Thursday afternoon when she raked leaves on her front lawn. Mrs. Fred Vivian of 172 King Street, who made Mrs. McMurtrie one main meal a day, brought her groceries and helped with some of the housework, said she went to the house at 1:20 p.m. Friday and found the rear door unlocked. She said she was suspicious, went next door to telephone Mrs. McMurtrie, but found the telephone wasn't working. Police said the telephone to the victims house had been cut, but added that workmen had been repairing the line earlier in the week, Police and the victim's niece, Mrs. Stewart Bell of Zurich Road, said Mrs, McMurtrie's health was good for her age and although she couldn't walk very well, she was able to do many of the chores around the house and the yard and was a regular church goer. "She had no family, no children," Mrs. Bell said. "She had those two eats —they were barn cats— and they were her children." The Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority was given permission at last Tuesday night's council meeting to proceed with an engineering study and construction of the Bayfield River realignment near Clinton's new sewage plant. Roger Martin of the Authority was at the meeting and told council that the word emergency had cut through several years of red tape in getting the project approved by the proper provincial authorites. Earlier, the town thought of going ahead with the dredging of the river itself, but the Authority may be able to obtain up a 75 percent grant on the project if they engineer it properly. The realignment is necessary to prevent flooding of the new sewage plant. Mr. Martin also told council that the plant wasn't properly engineered before construction started and was too low accor- ding to past high flood levels. He also said that the plant is presently dumping raw sewage into the Bayfield River during the changeover from the old system to the new system. Council, in other business, gave per- mission to the Clinton Senior Citizens Club to keep a piano in the Town Hail for use by their club. The Seniors hope to get a Federal New Horizons grant to be a good used piano but needed permission of the council before they could ask for the money. Councillor Hall also told council that Clinton may be taking advantage of another federal grant program - the Local Initiatives Program - to do several projects in town including repair and construction of new sidewalks in town, Councillor Hall said that Clinton could get up to $75,000 to complet? any local im- Two separate accidents over the weekend near Hensall claimed the lives of two people and sent two others to hospital, Daniel Wayne Smith, 17, son of Mr, arid Mrs. Wayne Edward Smith of 81 Lorne Ave. in Hensall was killed about Il p.m. Sunday night when the car he was driving left highway 84, three miles west of Hensell went into the south ditch, swerved across to the north ditch et which point the driver Was thrown out. The motor flew out of the vehicle and the frame tore loose from the car body at the same time. Dr. R.W. Flowers of Clinton, Huron County coroner, pronounced the youth nounced in advance so farmers would know what the floor price was to be before going into production. Mr. Whelan also proposed a cash ad- vance payment system for all crops that can be stored and marketed later in the season such as the system now in effect for wheat, oats and barley grown on the prairies. The system, he said, gives the far- mer money he needs at harvest time so he can pay his bills without having to put his product on the market and glut the market. He illustrated the problem with the situation this year in the peach growing areas where the dry weather brought Canadian crops along early so they were on the market at the same time as peaches from the U.S. If the distress prices had lasted a couple of days longer, he said, the federal government would have been for- ced to act by imposing a surtax on U.S. peaches to protect the Canadian growers. Later in his speech, he reiterated this need for quick action saying: "This is an unusual time, and it will not last. Markets will settle down in the future. But, in the meantime, we must be prepared to act, and act promptly, to make sure that our far- mers can stay in business producing the food we all need, both in Canada and abroad." A third method of stabilization he proposed was a system of stabilization provement project. Mr. Hall said that he was still looking for ideas for projects to keep the men busy when the weather was unfit for building sidewalks. Council also agreed to construct 161 feet of sanitary sewer from Erie Street and Pugh's Terrace northward where it would be connected with a proposed subdivision sewer. Construction date for the new 70 home subdivision, being built by Goderich developer Don Sager, has not been announ- ced. Council also granted $13,000 to the Clin- ton recreation board who this year are already $6,000 over their $29,000 budget. Council passed a motion to accept the bid of Paul Kerrgan BP to install an un- derground gas tank at the public works Ely Wilma Oke Gary Birmingham of RR 5, Stratford, communications officer for the Huron- Perth Unit of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association presented early Tuesday evening to this representative of the press a copy of an "Introduction to Brief" which was to be presented later to the Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board at a meeting in St. James School, Seaforth with 125 teachers (out of a total of 154) under the jurisdic- tion of the Board. The teachers were present to back their salary proposal. The Board was invited to the meeting, which they did attend, making them two and a dead at the scene. OPP Constable Bill Lewis 'of the Exeter Detachment discovered the wreckage during his patrol. In the other accident about 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, Brian Mabon of New Westrninister, B.C. was killed when his car was in collision with a car southbound on Highway 4. Two Clinton women Mrs. Helen Brown and Mrs. Doreen Overboe were taken to hospital with undetermined injuries from the same crash, Constable Ed Wilcox and Corporal Ray Brooks of the Exeter OPP investigated the accident. Total 'damage was estimated at nearly $3,000. funds for specific commodities whereby the government would collect a levy when the"' cash income was high and pay out when in- come was low. He stressed the feature was cash income, not high prices. High cash in-; . come could come from either a large volume of sales or high prices just as low income could come from low volume or low prices. Mr. Whelan also proposed a livestock in- surance plan, similar to the crop insurance plan now in effect. He said this, together with the other plans, would be an incentive for farmers to stay in production or in- crease production. Mr. Whelan also reviewed the proposed national feed grains policy and said the plan would give farmer in Huron security by making sure they would have the grain they needed to feed their livestock. By guaranteeing feed grain producers a minimum price for every bushel produced, he said, they have for the first time in history, a guaranteed market for all they grow, This is important on the Prairies, he said, at. a time when the outlook is good for Other crops they might be growing if they were not guaranteed a good price for feed grain. Part of the policy, he said, is to en- courage feed grain production in the areas where it is used. "In the case of Huron (continued on page 5) garage on King Street. Permission was also granted to spend $2,500 on two coats of asphalt for the driveway at the garage. Clinton received a letter from Huron County Council informing them that Clin- ton's share of the people services tax was 4,7 per cent for next year. Mayor Symons said this would add $10,000 to Clinton's County levy. Council also approved the application of severence of Caroline Lobb of the Bayfield Road. Council was also informed by letter for the Canadian Transportation Commission that the CNR has been given permission to remove the station in several surrounding towns including Clinton. half hours late for their regular Board meeting that night. Mr, Birmingham told the press that the teachers' negotiating committee seemed to have reached an impasse with the person- nel committee of the board on salary negotiations for the teachers. He said the whole board was being invited to the teachers' meeting to clarify the teachers' position regarding negotiations to date. He said the teachers' negotiating com- mittee had made five presentations and the Board had made five presentations since March, 1973. He said the board's last offer on October 2 had been rejected at a meeting of 135 of the teachers. Mr. Birmingham said the board has of- fered 3.4 percent and the teachers are asking 9.8 percent exclusive of increment. Mr. Birmingham emphasized that it is the hope of the teachers that 'the negotiations will continue, with a date being set shortly, agreeable to both the teachers' negotiating committee and the board's personnel committee, The "Introduction to Brief" is as follows: "On behalf of all the teachers of the Huroo-Perth Unit of 0.E.C.T.A. I am pleased to have this opportunity to present to you, the elected representatives of the separate school supporters, this clarification of our position regarding negotiations to date, The men-theta of our negotiating team have met with your, negotiating team a total of 10 times since March 1973, During this time we do not (continued on page 5)' the town anymore. Council gave permission to the PUC to install four new fire hydrants which are already in place and noted that the PUC should ask council's permission before they install any more hydrants in the future. Clinton pays a yearly rent on each hydrant in town. •Clinton also gave permission to the Public Works Department to hire Joseph Whelan to replace Cec Hallam who resigned last month, Councillor McFarlane didn't vote on the matter. Hullett ends dump controversy Hensallwoman strangle • , price and income stablization. Mr. Whelan, speaking to the Huron County Federation of Agriculture's annual meeting at a packed house in the Saltford Valley Hall near Goderich, said something must be done to take the "yo-yo effect" out of farm prices. He said the problem of alternating high prices and low prices bothered not only him, but agricultural leaders everywhere, including those from Japan who he had met with that day. The minister said he had met with ministers of agriculture from the provinces and proposed various ways to bring stability into the farm markets. The proposals, he said, are designed to give far- mers more support and to let them know before they go into production that the federal government will not let the bottom fall out of the market for the product they are producing. Mr. Whelan said he told the provinces the government is prepared to make changes in the Agricultural Stabilization act under which the government must sup- port the price of cattle, hogs, sheep, eggs, d,bptter, cheese, and wheat, barley and oats outside the prairies at 80 per cent of the ten year average. He said the level of sup- port could be increased above 80 per cent or the average could be taken over a shor- ter or longer period than 10 years, He proposed that support prices could be an- Accidents claim, two lives Whelan promises income stabilization Authority to help flood problem Salary proposal rejected