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SINGLE COPIES 12cTHE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1967
seen Close call
for Adastral
youngsters
ents, and has been useful for
Grade 1 classes, opportunity
classes and in one case, teach
ing English to three children
Who spoke only Danish.
About .3,529 school children
streamed into Clinton and area
halls of learning Tuesday to
begin another year of study.
Largest enrolment of course
was at CentralHuronSecondary
School in Clinton where an esti
mated 1,060 students were ex
pected by Principal Robert Ho-
muth and his staff of 67 tea
chers. This number is about the
same as last September’s en
rolment of 1,054 and with the
completion of the new addition,
classes will be more ideally
sized than they have been for
many years.
High schoolers were dismis
sed before noon on Tuesday to
permit staff meetings and dis
cussions by department heads
during the afternoon.
HURON CENTENNIAL SCHOOL
Principal Arnold Mathers and
the 22 teachers at Huron Cen
tennial School just south of
Brucefield - serving the town,
ships of Stanley and Tucker
smith and the village of Bay-
field greeted 650 boys and girls
exactly 100 more than predict
ed as maximum enrolment by
the survey-takers of two years
ago and 59 more than last year’s
number of students.
Kindergarten enrolment at
the school is 83 compared to 60
last year. Mr. Mathers said the
Teenagers
donate - to
preservers
At the regular council meet
ing in the village of Bayfield
on Tuesday night, Miss Monica
Gemeinhardt, representing a
large group of teenagers, pre.
sented $25 to council to pro-
ide life saving equipment. The
reeve accepted and expressed
appreciation on behalf of coun
cil. _
Tf “ was’*suggeste"3 by ‘Coun
cillor Oddleifson that a suit
able plaque be placed on the
equipment stand.
A recent request of council
to the department of transport
asking that life saving equip-
ment be provided and main
tained on the Bayfield harbor
and pier, brought a reply from
the department which was read
stating that the practice of such
installation had been discont
inued. Experience has shown
that such equipment was often
wantonly destroyed and not
available when needed. The de.
partment regretted the recent
loss of lives and had no object-
ion to the installation of life
saving equipment by the mun
icipality.
A special rate of five mills
was set by council to provide
funds for the purchase of the
former Bayfield school. The
residential assessment for 1967
is 17.5 which did not change;
the county rate is 17.9, up from
17.3 in 1966; public school rate
is 11.95, up from 11,8; the high
school is 19, up form 16.4 The
special rate is five mills. The
toatl mill rate is 71.35 mills
up from 63 mills in 1966.
Nicen straight
Installation of the army of mechanical parking attendants began
laat week in Clinton. Workers used airhammers to Cut the
concrete sidewalk before the pipes Were burled in cement to
the •. ihOterdd heads Which began collecting pennies and
ticking off parking minutes early this Week.
By Tuesday morning, several parking meters had fallen prey
to the angry advances of motorists seemingly ''bent” on des
truction. This victim Stood sadly slanted just Outside the News-
Record Office although Still bravely timing the seconds for a
car which Has already departed.
biggest increase in enrolment
is at the kindergarten to Grade
5 level. The added number of
students is posing some pro
blem for the staff which was
expecting between 625 and 630
children op Tuesday morning.
Seven new teachers are work
ing at the school this year.
They are Mrs. Joyce Monteith,
Morley Desjardines, Miss
Marion Treibner, Mrs. Marilyn
Taylor, Mrs. Dianne Jeffery,
Mrs, Caroline Hunter-Duvan
and Miss Helen Dravacek who
will instruct the new French
course at Huron Centennial.
Two teachers returning fol
lowing a leave of absence are
Mrs. Shirley Smith and Mrs.
Shirley Carter. *
Beginning this year as well,
an ungraded system from
.Grades 4 to 8 will.be inaug.
urated for the ’‘four r’s” -
reading, spellingandarithmetic
only. Mr. Mathers explained
there are ten levels with each
child working at the level of
which he is capable, regardless
of grade. It is therefore pos.
sible for
instance,
a Grade 5 child, for
to be working at the
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These five-year olds are experiencing class
room confinement for the first time in their
lives. They are in the afternoon class of Mrs,
Williams, the popular kindergarten teacher
at Clinton Public School, and are extremely
for their size and years. Here theygrownup
are joining in a fun song with their teacher
who was just getting acquainted with the group
which she will see almost daily until next
June.
Hullett
Ratepayers in Hullett Town,
ship will pay more taxes this
year due to a general increase
in expenditures at all levels.
Mill rate of 16 residential
and 18 commercial was set at
Monday evening’s ‘ sitting of
council with only councillor
Charles Scanlon absent. This
represents an .increase of. two
mills over last year, reports
clerk-treasurer Clare Vincent
who also explained that a high
same level as a Grade 7 child,
in pne particular subject.
For the rest of the day, added
Mr, Mathers, the students are
on a rotary system with special
teachers assigned to instruct
different subjects.
New, specialized equipment
at the school includes a ^lan
guage master” which has been
especially useful since Tuesday
for the instruction of one child
who speaks only French. The
machine combines sight and
sound to teach words to stud
CLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOL
There are 518 students enrol
led at Clinton Public School,
a figure slightly down from last
year. Principal Bert Gray said
fewer students at the kinder
garten level had arrived as of
Tuesday morning.
Biggest news at the school,
of course, is the start of French
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er county rate, additional
school costs and mounting ex
penses in the township accoun-
ted for the hike.
Beginning this fall, the reeve
and councillors inHullettTown
ship will be elected for two
year terms, Council passed a
bylaw approving the biennial
elections because it was felt
that the annual nominations and
elections were both costly and
Two 16-year old youngsters
from Adastral Park, Canadian
Forces BaserClinton, were in-
> yolved in a one-car accident
about a quarter mile north of
the base on Tuesday afternoon,
Susan Russell, daughter of
WO2 and Mrs. Ben Russell
and Jim Furneaux, son of F/L
and Mrs. R. V. Furneaux re
ceived only minor injuries in
the crash which sent their car
hurtling through a ditch and a
fence to land upsidedown in a
field.
The couple were travelling
south on Highway 4 when the
accident happened. It is thought
that the driver lost control of
the vehicle.
Both were released from
Clinton Public Hospital shortly
after being admitted. Miss Rus
sell suffered a few cuts and a
minoi- neck injury and Mr, Fur
neaux complained of a* sore
shoulder.
Constable Garnet Wray of the
Ontario Provincial Police, God
erich detachment, investigated.
time-consuming for busy res
idents,
“Council also agreed,” noted
Vincent, “that members would
have a better chance to be
come acquainted with the work
ings of council if the term were
extended to two years. The
Act provides for three year
terms, you know, if council
so desires,”
Although Reeve Hugh Flynn
and his four councillors will
This was the car from which two Clinton area teenagers
miraculously escaped virtually unhurt-last Tuesday afternoon.
Susan Russell and Jim Furneaux, both 16 years old, were travel-
ling south on Highway 4 about three-quarters of a mile out of'
Clinton, when their car ' left the road, crashed through a deep
ditch and a wire fence and came to rest on its side facing
north. Neither was seriously injured. Both live with their
families in Adastral Park, Canadian Forces Base, Clinton.
Ontario Provincial Police from Goderich detachment are in-
vestigating.
Two CHSS students spent summer
with scout service corps at Expo
Rover Kelvin Davis, 18,
a Grade 13 student at CHSS,
Clinton, worked atExpo67from
August 29 to September 4, help
ing Scouts from across North
America stage a giant “good
turn” at the world’s fair.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Davis,
11 Regina Avenue, CFB Clin,
ton, are Kelvin’s parents. The
youth was Troop Leader of
his group. Another CHSS
student, Bruce Woodraw, was
among the group of scouts at
Expo this summer. Bruce is
WG^adell.
The teen-age boys were part
of the Scout Service Corps,
a 150-member group which car-
ries out special duties for the
fair as well as staffing the
fair’s Scout pavilion. In the first
16 weeks of Expo, the Corps
put in 29,000 hours of work
— all at no charge to Expo,
The Service Corps members
raised and lowered the main
Expo flags and the colors of
several pavilions, served as
ushers or messengers for half-
a-dozen pavilions, and made
i
ofmeet with the ratepayers
Hullett in a nomination meet
ing set for this fall, it is un
likely that another public meet
ing will be scheduled until 1969
unless one is requested by the
voters.
Council did plan a special
meeting for the reading of the
report on the Nesbit Drain by
Engineer E. H. Uderstadt, and
appointed Councillor Don Buch-
anan to attend a meeting with
the Seaforth Fire Brigade to
discuss the purchase of new
fire fighting equipment.
Robert Dalton, Londesboro,
met with council regarding
routes and wages for the snow
plow operator but no final de
cisions were reached at Mon
day’s meeting.
Some discussion was heard
on the completion of the Lime
Kiln bridge and approaches and
on the shouldering of some
“built-up” roads in the town-
ship.
The possibility of using a fall
program for Warble fly control
was also discussed.
Total amount of accounts paid
was $3,105.72.
Accident
victim
satisfactory
Authorities at Clinton Public
Hospital said Tuesday thatS tew-
art Steenstra, 16, of R. R. 3
Clinton was in satisfactory con
dition following a traffic accid
ent last Friday evening*
The youth had his left leg
amputated at the thigh after the
motorbike he was riding collid
ed with a truck driven by Donald
Colquhdun,'46, Clinton.
Ontario Provincial Police*
Odderich detachment, said no
Charges were contemplated*.
ColquhdUn Was travelling east
on Gdunty Road 13 and Steen
stra Was proceeding west When
the head-on Crash took place
On a duhve about one mile
west of Clihtdh* The accident
happened about 5:45 p.m*
Parents of the injured youth
are M r. and Mrs, Mar tin Steen,
stra*
attendance counts at Canada’s
pavilion, the fair’s largest.
Many handicapped persons
had their wheel-chairs pushed
by Scouts. Several groups of
* blind were given tours of the
* fair.
. Dressed in bright red jackets
and blue neckerchiefs over their
regular' uniforms, the Service
Corps Scouts took part in all
the special ceremonies honor
ing countries with pavilions at
Expo.
By the end of the fair’s six-
month run, 4,000 boys will each
have served a week in the
corps. During the spring and
fall the corps is drawn from
Liberals' Nixon hits
Provincial Liberal Leader
Robert Nixon Wednesdaygot off
to a flying start on the elec-
tion campaign. He flew into Sky
Harbour airfield at 12:30 p.m.
and was on his way to a meet
ing in Windsor two hours later.
In an interview he said that
after being 24 years in opposi-
' tion he was Certain the Lib
eral partyzunder his leadership
would win the election. He was
not prepared to predict how
many seats the party would
carry, but said he had been
encouraged by recent opinion
polls which showed the Liberals
with .40 percent support in pub
lic opinion while the Tories
and NDP each had 30 percent
in public favor.
Asked what his stand was on
the Home Ownership Made Easy
program ‘(HOME)V he felt the
'government hadn’t made as
much progress with it as he
had thought it should have. He
said “I feel that the benefits
derived from< this program
should be made available tc
people in areas such as God.
erich and my own city of Brant,
ford rather than have it con.
fined to the large metropolitan
areas like Toronto*”
He said if elected he would
convene a meeting of reeves and
A recent arrival in this area, Flight Sergeant
J. L. McKehna (left) receives the Certificate
of Outstanding Achievement from the Base
Commander, Group Captain Ek W. Ryan, CD,
The award whs made id recognition of his
Outstanding work as administrative supervisor
for the Current Operations Stanch, Defense
Division, Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force In
Ramstein, Germany.
the Province of Quebec; dur
ing the summer, the boys came
from all the other Canadian
provinces and from Canadian
armed forces groups in Europe,
about 2,500 Scouts in all, plus
about 400 from the United
States.
In Montreal, the Scouts live
in a 100-acre Hospitality Camp
which also is used by groups
of Scouts who are just visit
ing Expo. The camp could pro.
vide bunks in tents for up to
1,000 people a night, and has
been set up especially for the
fair.
At Expo the Corps operated
from the International Scout
get their
the imp-
new tax
county wardens to
recommendations on
lementations of the
recommendations before the
tabling of a white paper on the
■Smith Report on Taxation.
As for the recent $50 ease
ment for homeowners this was
little more than a “political
plum made on the eve of call-
ing an election,” he said.
During his brief stay in town
Mr, Nixon met with Dr. Mor-
gan Smith, Liberal candidate
for Huron, and party officials
to plan local strategy in the
upcoming election October 17.
Spring grain
yields only
average
The farmers in Huron County
have been taking advantage of
the good weather, and have the
harvest of spring grains well
under way. In the county as a
whole, 65 percent of the spring
grain harvest is completed.
Yields are down somewhat in
the southern part of the county,
but are average in the north.
Some white beans have been
pulled and will be ready to har
vest within the next few days.
Centre, an open-air pavilion
dominated by a 30-fooUhigh yel
low wigwam.
Sing-songs and displays took
place in the tent; around it
clustered demonstrations of ty
pical Scout activities — con
struction of signal towers and
monkey bridges, experiments
with electronics, campfires,
scuba—diving, rock—and—roll
bands. In the swimming pool
the boys demonstrated water
safety, canoeing and
sports.
The International
water >
Scout
Centre is sponsored by H. J.
Heinz of Canada; the Scout Ser
vice Corps by die Rubber As
sociation of Canada, which in
cludes most of Canada’s major
rubber companies.
Although pavilion activities
and Service Corps duties kept
the boys busy, they get time off
to tour the 1,000-^acre fair and
visit the pavilions of more than
, 60 countries plus industrial and
special displays.
Highlights of the summer so
far have been the International
Scout Sporting Events, held July
24-26, and International Scout.
Guide Day, July 28.
The Sporting Events attrac
ted boys from Canada, the Un
ited States, Great Britain and
Australia to Montreal, to com-
pete in five sports — swim
ming, canoeing (held at Expo)
archery, sailing and marksman
ship.
On Scout-Guide Day, more
than 8,000 young people in un
iform took part in a colorful
array of ceremonies at the
fair. Lady Baden-Powell, widow
of Scouting’s founder, was their
special guest.
The Weather
1966
Aug.
Sept.
1967
30
High Low High Low
68 52 83 60
31 65 42 81 59
1 68 38 79 55
2 71 42 81 62
3 74 43 67 61
4 73 43 75 56
5 74 45 72 52
Rain: nil Rain: 1.26”
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