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Clinton News-Record, 1967-10-12, Page 1THE HURON! RECORD 86th Year „......... SINGLE COPIES tk > The first column BYSJK Got out to Huronview the other day to the bazaar and bake sale. The place was filled with people from all over the district who are anxious to support the trem. endous work undertaken at the home just outside Clinton. Actually, I made only one pur­ chase. It was a rubber door mat which had been made by Herbert Collar, a totally blind resident who eame to Huron, view in recent months from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, I was intrigued by the intri­ cate pattern formed by strips of solid rubber reinforced in steel and I couldn’t help think­ ing what an improvement this mat was over the general foot wipers you see in the stores. So I took one home and it is presently undergoing the tor­ ture tests that can be provided only by an energetic family such as ours with children and adults of all ages using the mat (hope­ fully) in all kinds of weather. I have little doubt that it will stand up for years and years and years ... so worth every penny I paid.♦ * * Mrs. Marion Andrews came to see me the other day to solicit my aid in a project which will ultimately benefit the whole town, Marion is asking that the women of Clinton and area save all their Canada Packers lables and turn them in to her. She will sort and count them, pack them and send them away • to be traded for countless kitchen items which . will otherwise need to be pur­ chased for food centre at Clin­ ton and District Community Centre. Mrs. Andrews also reported that two coffee makers had been earned at a recent plas­ tic ware demonstration held at the Centre, The lovely electric appliances will brew 150 cups at one time and perform a special service for most groups who use the facilities provided at the Centre. * * * Mac Thompson, Varna, is the author of a lively little book entitled “Centennial Concoction of Verse, Fact and Fiction”. The piiblicatfoh wasMr; Thomp-" • son’s personal Centennial pro­ ject although an injured back and some delays at the pub­ lisher’s place almost cost him the pleasure of accomplish­ ment. All of the poetry and prose in the book were written by Mr. Thompson and most of it is ex­ ceptionally good, put down with a special natural flair which is lavished upon only a few souls Iin each century. I particularly liked this poem called “A Tribute”. “Sometimes in mood of gloom I sit To meditate, and wonder why, Though I have searched around for it, The pot of gold has passed me by. 3ut then I reassess my wealth Ind speaking, thus address my­ self: Mark for yourself a thousand friends, U say, a million dollars each; Mark wealth that grows ’til it extends 3eyond a human being’s reach, !n fact it’s hard to comprehend The value of just one good friend.”♦ * * Clinton Community Credit Union Ltd. has provided me with a copy of their booklet, “The Cautious Twins”, Written in easy to read primary verse, the content deals with teaching children to practise safe habits when dealing with strangers. ' Here’s one example of many poems just as timely: “If Someone that you do not know should offer you a treat, remember how he looks and talks, but run fast up the street.” Mothers and fathers who would like to have a copy of bis book could contact the local Credit' Union for further inform- itlon about how to obtain it. * * Before signirig Off, for this ssue, let there be this reminder 0 get out to vote next ‘Tubs- day, October 17. It isn’t really anyone’s mSihess how you vote, but it s certainly everyone’s concern whether or hOt yoU vote. This Centennial Year especially, lon’t let anything or anyone keep ou home from the polls. The Weather Mrs. Arnold Hughes,Alisa Craig (lefthand Mrs. B. MacMath, Holmesville, were two ladies who took a great interest in the items for sale On the long tables in tlie auditorium atHuronview 1767 t966 High Low High Lbw 3d. 4 83 53 62 54 &72 47 56 41 6 51 39 56 35 y 53 32 63 40 a 65 43 74 47 y 58 47 7(1 46 to 49 43 48 1.03” Rain i.03”Raift last Wednesday afternoon, the occasion Was the annual fall bazaar and bake sale at which f esidents Sell the items they have Worked for so many montos to produce. Maintenance staff join union at Huronview county home Huronview, the Huron County Home for the Aged near Clinton, at the present time has 244 resi- dents, the highest on record, Superintendent Harvey C, Johns­ ton informed Huron County Coun­ cil at last week’s session in Goderich. Total is made up of 97 males and. 147 females. Approximately half the residents pay for full care, it was pointed out. Mr, Johston recalled that there were 184 residents five years ago and 96 residents ten years ago. Staff now numbers 125 as against 60 five years ago and 25 ten years ago, Sal­ aries now total $31,000 per month, as compared with $10,000 five years ago, and $3,200 ten years ago. Actual cost of operation in 1966 was $5.49 per day. The Board of Management re­ ported holding several meetings during the past months to negotiate contracts with the In­ ternational Union of Operating Engineers, local 944, and the Building Service Employees Un­ ion, local 210. Council, authorized the War- Another British firm comes to Centralia Another British manufactur­ ing firm has decided to locate at Centralia Industrial Park, Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaughton announced this, week. The A. H. Carter Engineer, ing Company of Tomworth, Staffordshire, England, has leased the base workshop at the park. The firm manufac­ tures car transport carriers and has been successfully esta­ blished in this field for a num­ ber of years. President of the company, Mr. Alistair H. Carter, has vis- ited North America on a num­ ber of occasions over the past World war I -veterans reunion World War One veterans from Huron County have been invited • to Clinton to take part in the first reunion of its kind in the area. Set for Saturday, October 14 in- the Clinton Legion Hall, the event will have Elmira’s O.W. “Mike” Weichel, DCM, CM, and former member of parliament for Waterloo North, as the main speaker. . Also taking part will be Jus- tice R.I, Ferguson, Toronto; Judge R.S, Hetherington, God­ erich; Warden Don McKenzie, Ashfield; Mayor Don Symons, Clinton; Al Nickolson, DDC, Egmondville; Ed. Bell, Zone Commander, Blyth; William Chambers, president of the Clinton Legion Branch. Reunion chairman is Doug Andrews, The public is invited to see the parade to the cenotaph at 4 p.m. when a wreath laying ceremony will be featured. The toast to the Queen will be made by Clinton Legion’s oldest member, George Wilson, Brucefield. Each Legion branch is making sure that all World War One veterans in their area know of the event and have transporta­ tion to it. Clinton Legion ladies are catering to the banquet.(continued on page 2, den and Clerk to sign a con-, tract with the Operating Engin­ eers for one year commencing January 1, 1967, setting wages of shift engineers at $2.15 per hour, representing an increase of nine cents per hour. Council also authorized sign­ ing of a two-year contract with the Building Service Employees, showing increase in minimum salary from $2,300 to $2,580 per annum. Increased salaries will cost the County of Huron in 1967 ap­ proximately $17,000, of which the Province of Ontario will share 70 per cent, In addition, an in crease of six per cent in all categories, is provided, effective ' Veenstra for the farm land, which January 1, 1968. Categories and salaries ap­ proved for start and one year: Nursing Department; RNA, $3,360, $3,600; charge nurse, $3,120, $3,360; ward attendant, female, $2,580; ward attendant, male, $3,360, $3,720; adjuvant, $2,820, $3,060; arts and crafts director, $2,580, $2,820; Dietary; cook, number one, $2,880, $3,240; cook, number two, $2,760, $3,120; kitchen aid, $2,580, $2,820; two years to survey the market and to study the North Amer­ ican requirements. He has ob­ tained an initial order for the Canadian market, and event­ ually hopes to produce his car­ riers at Centralia for export to the U.S.A. The company is also develop­ ing a new type of electrically powered automobile. It has al­ ready produced the prototype which has aroused considerable interest in both Britain and US. Because of his experience, Mr. Carter appeared in September before the US Senate sub-com­ mittee to give expert testimony •on the potential for electrically powered vehicles. The firm will continue its research into the new type of vehicle at Centralia, and plans to develop other types of new ’products. The company hopes to take over its new quarters at Cen­ tralia before the end of the year'. It will initially employ up to ten persons, with an even­ tual work force of milch great, er size. The Carter firm is one- of a number of British, American and Canadian com­ panies which have been negoti­ ating with the Ontario Develop, ment Corporation for facilities at Centralia. Appoint county Miss CarolynCroke, 32. pointe Claire, Quebec, has been appoint­ ed Huron County Librarian at a salary of $9,000 per annum for a six-months( probationary peri­ od, the County Library Board reported to Huron County coun­ cil at its session in Goderich last week. The new chief librarian, who holds university degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Library Science, will assume her new duties here on January 1, 1968. Mrs. Huffman, the present acting Librarian, will continue on the staff and is expected to be of great assistance to the new chief librarian. Duff Thompson, Clinton, chair­ man of the Library Committee, said that it had been most dif­ ficult to obtain the services of a Cleaning and laundry: domes­ tic, male, $3,360, $3,720; do­ mestic, female, $2,580, $2,820; Handyman; $3,480, $3,720. The Board of Management rec­ ommended that a bylaw be passed authorizing the Warden and Clerk to sign any contract between the County of Huron and the Inter­ nation Union of Operating Engin­ eers, local 944, or the Building Employees Service Union, local 210, when approved by the Board of Management. This was done in order that union contracts may He reported that average age be signed without undue delay Of men is 76, that of women, after a contract has been negO'- tiated. Rental agreement with A. runs out at the end of the 1967 crop year, will be renewed for three years on the same terms. In general operation of Huron­ view, the following have been dealt with: butter and ice cream contract, Bisset Bros., Goderich; garbage contract, c. Nellans, Clinton, at i$110 per month; 29 wardrobes for female normal care wing at $40 each, Square Deal Construction Co., Wingham; drapes, Irwin’s of Clinton, $590; comfort allowance for residents increased from $10 to $15 per month, and tobacco allowance dis­ continued, effective June 1,1967; roof of 1961 building repaired at $1,265, by Dobson Roofing Limited, Exeter. With regard to the Grand Jury’s unfavourable report, the In­ spector’s report showed cleaning Noonan resigns - ap ointed The ”esignation of Council­ lor H. . Noonan was accepted at Tuesday night’s council meet- ing just prior to his appoint­ ment as assistant tax collec­ tor and deputy clerk. The appointment was made to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of O. L. Engel- stad who is now business admin­ istrator at Clinton Public Hos« pital. Noonan’s resignation was, dated effective October 1. Coun- cil decided agi’inst holding u nomination for the vacancy on council since regular nomina­ tions to elect a mayor, reeve, deputy reeve, six councillors, two PUC commissioners and five public school board trus­ tees will be held November 23 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the council chambers. Election to fill the above pos­ itions will be held December 4. librarian qualified librarian as suchper- sons are very much in demand. “It is hoped that with the en­ gaging of Miss Croke, many of the problems eventually will be rectified and the County Library can continue to give the same high quality'Of service that was most evident under the former co-operative system,’’ Mr. Thompson commented. Mr. Thompson said that since January 1. 1967, the committee had had a number of applications, from as far away as Europe, Sodth America, Florida, Hong Kong, all of whom had been screened. Miss Croke’s application had come through the regional dir­ ector of Mid-West. She has in­ terests in the district. Her home and dusting program quite ade­ quate; beds washed weekly and more often if necessary. Alvin D, Smith, ’Turnbepry, chairman of the Board of Man­ agement, declared that this year ha$ been “a, very exciting one” for the committee, the highlight being the signing of the union contracts. Mr, Smith felt that the annual increase system was “for the birds”, HO himself favoured a cost-of-living bonus system. 80 years, with an overall av­ erage of 78.1 years. Biennial elections in Stanley Stanley Township council pas­ sed a bylaw at their regular October meeting authorizing be- ennial elections. Clerk Mel Gra­ ham noted that a nomination meeting would be held Friday, November 24, in the Township hall at Varna and an election, if necessary, on December 4. No further nominations or elec­ tions would be held until the fall of 1969, Graham said. Reason for adopting the two year term of office is to keep in tune with other township councils in the district who have switched to the biennial elec­ tions. Most recent of these was Hullett Township who gave noti­ fication of this intention after their September meeting. Graham also explained that a lack of interest in nomination meetings might be corrected by the new legislation, and ad­ ded that some unnecessary ex- pense to the ratepayers would be avoided, Delegations from Brucefield and Varna attended the meeting to request improved street lighting systems for their res­ pective villages. No action was taken on the matter at this "meeting. ’• The assessment roll was ac­ cepted as presented by the as­ sessor, H.M. Hanley. Total as­ sessment in the township is §2,734,150. Court of revision is set for November 6 at 9 p.m. in the township hall, Varna. A bylaw was passed pertain, ing io the Talbot drainage works and council accepted applica­ tions for two more municipal drainage works from George Clifton, Cliff ' Henderson and the John R. Murdock estate and Jack Coleman and Earl Love. Another bylaw approving the new polling subdivisions was passed. Polling stations inStan­ ley were announced as follows: No. 1, Calvin Horton’s Resi­ dence; No. 2, Ted Robinson’s home; No. 3, Varna Town Hall; No. 4, the Melvin Greer house; and No. 5, Blake School. These polling stations will be in oper­ ation for next Tuesday’s pro­ vincial election and will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Road accounts paid amounted to $4,991.99 general, $23,258.76; tile drains, $898.20. Tuckersmith hires grader Reeve Elgin Thompson and his council from Tuckersmith convened on their regular meet­ ing night this month and paid accounts totalling $38,588.75. Bylaws allowing for a tile drainage loan of $1,500 and for the Datars-Logan drainage works were passed. One rate^ payer came before council re- questing relief from a drainage problem and Engineer S. W. Archibald reported bn the Broadfoot and Rehorst drains. Two tile drain loans were ap­ proved totalling $10,000 and ap­ plication for subsidy on the re­ cently completed O’Bi'ien drain was made. Gordon Heai'd Construction was hired with a power grader for snoW.ploughingTuckerSmith Township roads this winter at a cost of $13 per hour, Sub. ject tb Ontario Department of Highways' approval. Retraction In last week’s Ciinton Nlagis- trate’s Court story, we reported that Albert Norman Kyie, 20, Kippen, Was in possession of a savings bond which he hesi. tated to cash for the purpose 6f paying a fine for noise mak- ing, We have;’been informed of an error in our reporting which Should have read that Kenneth John Hof fell, 19, London, Whs the holder of the savings bento We regret any embarrass, ment the mistake may have caused Mr. Kyle, In his final swing through the hustings of Western Ontario Liberal Leader Robert Nixon is seen xhere withDr. Morgan Smith Liberal candidate for Huron as they toured Seaforth’s MainStreetlast Saturday. Mr. Nixon proceeded to a coffee party at the Clinton Legion Hall where a hundred or so supporters heard him urge support of Dr. Smith. His Saturday schedule also included a short stop in Wingham and a full-blown political meeting Saturday night in Kincardine. Huron-Perth health union topic for county council The proposed amalgamation of toe Perth and Huron Counties Health Units was discussed by members of Huron County Coun­ cil following presentation of a report by Dr» G. P. A. Evans, MOH for Huron County, on be­ half of Huron County Board of Health to Council in sessions in Goderich last week. •At the suggestion of Perth County Council, which met in Stratford the previous week, a joint meeting of all municipal council concerned will be held in the very near future. This likely will be held in Seaforth, the most central location, In addition to the 37 members of Huron County Council, mem­ bers of Perth 'County Council, Stratford City Council, and St. Marys Town Council (not part of Perth County Council), will be invited. Warden Donald McKenzie es­ timated about 80 councillors would be eligible to attend the meeting, but, as far as he was concerned, he would leave it up to the members. When he asked for a show of hands, only one member was in Council Expo trip questioned Clarence E. Boyle, reeve of Exeter, made a determined effort at last week’s Huron County Council meeting in Goderich, to have $340 remaining in the 1967 bus tour budget turned back to the County of Huron or used in a charitable, way. His proved to be a voice cry­ ing in the wilderness as on a re­ corded division, his proposal was flatly rejected by a recorded vote of 34-1. Boyle’s being the only negative cipher. The section of the Warden’s and Personnel Committee re­ port involved adopted on this division; was as follows: “During 1967, two short bus trips were taken. However, there (continued on page | 2) Mrs. Wilfred Meilis, Kippen, (left) who is in assistant superintendent at Huronview, is seen Ohahge of the Craft Room at Huronview was hare as she bays for the purchases she has cashier at the annual fall bazaar and bake said made. Miss Zora Dixon assisted Mrs. Meilis held last Wednesday in the auditorium, Mrs. at toe desk and is responsible for many of toe John Nediger, Clinton,(centre) wife of a former lovely needlework items sold at the home, opposition to the meeting. Grant Stirling, Goderich Township, said later that he was opposed to amal­ gamation as it would lead only to an extension of bureaucracy in the administration of health ser­ vices in the two counties. Dr. Evans delivered a 45- minute report reviewing the present services of Huron County Health Unit and potential ser­ vices in the proposed Huron and Perth Counties Health District. Regarding the latter aspect he said: “It must be stated at once that what exists at present will continue ... The Public Health Amendment Act 1967 is a most welcome document; it does much to promote a concept of public health and preventive medicine which a dynamic and wealthy province, such as Ontario, should have. It is interesting to note that this concept has many re­ semblances to preventive medi­ cine as it is practised in the United Kingdom. “One cannot say, of course, that such a pattern of services could not be developed in Huron and Perth Counties existing in­ dependently for public health pur­ poses, but to develop them in this way would be most unecon­ omic and much less efficient. “Serving a population of at least 100,000 (Huron County’s population is about 50,000) facili­ tates greatly the work of toe Medical Officer of Health, and, paper drive next week The Royal Canadian Legion Paper Drive will be held next week. Legion officials point out that those contributing to toe drive should have their papers bundled at toe curb in front of theii* residence by 1 p.m., Wed- t nesday October 18. The annual Legion Paper Drive is one of toe ways the Legion raises funds for its projects. further, public health physicians duly qualified for and experienced in the specialty, are in very short supply. The potential covers many aspects of medi­ cine and allied disciplines.” Dr. Evans mentioned a few of the most important items in this regard. At the conclusion of the long report, Kenneth Stew­ art, McKillop, asked what the “big advantage” would be of amalgamation of the two health services; Dr. Evans replied that the main advantage was on account of deal­ ing with a larger population (continued on page 2) Election campaign winds up With only five campaigning days left before the polls open October 17, toe three candidates in the riding have been duly nominated and officially en­ tered into the election race. John C. Boyne, a young min­ ister from Exeter, will carry the New Democratic Party ban. ner into the contest with the support of his official agent Robert- E. McMillan, R.R. 2 Seaforth. Charles S. Mao Naughton, the present Pro­ vincial Treasurer in the Ro barts government at Toronto will again represent the Con­ servatives in the Huron riding with his official agent, Eugene H. Beaver, Exeter. Dr. Morgan Smith, running on toe Liberal ticket, has Robert Maloney, Bayfield, as his official agent. Going back to the 1963 pro vincial election, the Clinton News-Record reported at that time that Charlie MacNaughton, then minister of highways, pol­ led a total of 8,920 votes or more than twice as many as his lone opponent^Liberal Har­ ry Strang. Clinton backed MacNaughton by a majority of 607 in 1963 and in Exeter, MacNaughton’s (continued on page 2