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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1967-09-07, Page 1102nd Year THE HURON! RECORD 86th Year 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 « *®Sk< flIB F ||dflIK n -J * 1 ■ 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 (continued on page 9) 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” 111 H