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five generations meet
A happy oocasion occurred this week in Clinton when five generations of William
Pitkett farrlily Were united for the first time at Clinton HoSpital, where Mr. Pickett is
a patient, back row are Gordon Murray of Hull, P.O„ a grandson, and Brenda Lee
Auger, a great-granddaughter, Front 'row are Wt. Jim Murray of Varna, Mr,
Pickett's daughter, and On Mrs, fvfurrey's knee is eight-rtionth ,old Tanya Auger, Mr.
Plckett's great-greatrenddaughter, (Newa,-Flecaard photo)
Heat is ofioehool closed
Thursday, October 3, 1974
Reward offered
109th Year L No. 40
About 600 :pupils at Clinton,
School got an unexpected holiday this week,
because. the school is without heat, and
with the nighttime temperatures in The low 30s, the ,tichtioVia cold,
A new boiler and chimney flue being in
:stalled at the school weren't ready for use
when an unexpected cold enap hit the area,
and the children have been told to stay at home.
The children missed Tuesday and Wed-
nesday afternoon, and Thursday afternoon
of last week, and will likely miss all of this
week....
John Cochrane, director of education for
Huron County, said the ,situation was
-Caused by a ,parts shortage because several.
manufacturers- who produce parts for the
.new boiler have .been on strike and the
local contractor, Fred McGregor of -
0)140,001d hasn't boon able to complete his
work, •
The new gas boiler was tendered for last
spring, Mr. Cochrane said and the heard ,
Was assured., it woald, be installed by the
,start of the 1974 fall heating season, The
boiler replaces an old boiler that was con•.
verted to gas from coal three years ago.
The teachers at the school decided to use
up one. of their professional development
days and studied in a cold school all day
Tuesday,
Vandals burn Constable's cap-
The private car of Clinton Constable
Wayne McFadden, was stolen early last
Sunday Morning frinn in front of the Town
Hall and was found an hour later burning
on the north end of the Clinton Racetrack.
— The 1970 Chrysler, worth $2,300 was
completely gutted.
The attack on Constable McFadden's car
was the fourth such incidence against Clin-
ton policemen this year. The police station
has also been broken into twice in the last
nine months, end three police revolvers
have been stolen and never recovered.
A group of Clinton citizens, who wished
to remain anonymous have offered a
reward for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of the vandals
responsible for the incident, and already
nearly $800 has been pledged.
Any other citizen wishing to pledge
money is asked to phone 482-3435 with
their pledges. Any amount is suitable.
Clinton Mayor Don Symons said
Tuesday night that council will hold' a
meeting on the situation and said "I hope
council will also add to the reward."
Mayor Symons said the incident is ie
reflection of• a permissive society of today
that is perpetuated in the lenient attitude
of the courts, "right from the attorney-
general's department dowri."
Several other Clinton citizens also ex-
pressed the thought that a vigilante com-
mittee should be set up to patrol the town,
but the News-Record wasn't able to verify
the actual existence of' such a force.
Last Sunday morning's incident started
about 4:15 a.m. when Constable McFadden
was called out of town to assist the,Ontario
December, the door was smashed in and
Constable Clarence Perdoe's revolver was
stolen. Again in August, the police station
was entered, and the revolvers of Chief •
Lloyd Westlake and Constable McFad,den
were stolen.
It has been a rough week for the Clinton
,Police Department. Besides the vandalism
incident, the police department is without
two .officers,
Last Friday, the Police Committee
dismissed Constable Don McDonnell from,
the department, saying only that it was for
personal reasons. Constable Clarence Per-
due is also off sick, being confined to Clin-
ton Hospital.
And to top it off, they have been swar-
med in the last several days by throngs of
newsmen and photographers from most of
the major newspapers and television net-
works in Ontario.
an incident in Clinton last Sunday morning
when vandals stole a private car belonging
to Clinton, Constable Wayne McFadden.
The car was found an hour later gutted by
fire at the Clinton Race Track. It was the
fourth such incident of vandalism against
the Clinton police department this sum-
mer.
Mr. Gaunt said hea will make the request
of the government when the, Legislature
reconvenes later this month.
Dr. warns of health report
gutted early last Sunday morning when it was stolen from in
front of the Town Hall and set on fire at the Clinton racetrack.
Damage to the car was about $2,300 and the car is a complete
write-off. Huron-Bruce MPP Murray Gaunt has called for an
inquiry into the justice system of Huron County. (News-Record
photo)
Tuckersmit -may vote on plebiscite
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BY WILMA OKF
Almost 2000 Tuckersmith Township
Residents may have a vote on a liqUor
plebiscite in the municipal elections on
December 2nd.
Rod Doig, of the Seaforth Golf and
Country Club, and. Fred Ginn of Vanastra
appeared before council Tuesday, night
with a petition for a liquor vote in the
unicipal election.
Mr. Ginn was to take the petition to
oronto on Wednesday, seeking approval
f the Liquor plebescite from the Ontario
iquor Control Board.
The plebiscite will ask for a ruling on
ur liquor issues: Government stores for
e sale of liquor; sale of beer and, wine
nly, under a diningroom licence for the
onsumption (with meals); sale of liquor
nder a dining room licence (with meals)
ad the sale of liquor under a lounge
cence.
An Egmondville resident was told by
uncil that it would cost over $800 to have
water line laid to his new house which is
nder construction at this time in the
mlet, This price includes the installation
eta into the house,
Jim Etue had expected to pay only the
stallation cost of $200 and was under the
pression that the Egmondville Water
tern owned by the Township would lay
e necessary pipe line to his property.
Reeve Elgin Thompson sympathized
ith him but said it would not be fair to
k the other patrons of the system to pay
r the pipeline. He was told that several
her Egmondville residents were refused
ter because it would cost the Township
much money to bring the water line
g distances to their 'residences and an
eption could not be made in his case.
e was told these ratepayers either
ght water from a neighbour with a well
o would be willing to supply thein or
lied their own wells, or paid the con-
BY J.F.
he Clinton Centennial Committee will
distributing Centennial bumper stickers
change purses later this week, and they
be oh sale at various outlets in mown.
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he show fell the other night and
ough the snoWthobilers will be happy
uch an early winter, the farmers aren't.
as been the coldest September in the
t 15 years, and combined with a late
ng and a dry summer, it has Made for a
er poor corn crop in ,'some areas.
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a very heartening to see that the
Kinsmen are financially backing the
motion of a Cub pack in town, and once
in the young lads Will have some outlet
their youthful steam.
Provincial Police investigate a motor,
vehicle accident. When he returned to
patrol town, Constable McFadden
discovered his car burning on the Clinton
racetrack, about 4:45. He called the Clinton
Firemen, who quickly extinguished what
was left of the policeman's car.
The incident was the third against Con-
stable McFadden. Last June, vandals
smashed out the windshield of his car
when it was parked in front of the Town
Hall. On July 7, vandals broke 13 windows
at Constable. McFadden's private home at
Vanastra,
On August 28, vandals broke the front
and rear windows out of the private car of
former Clinton, Constable Don McDonnell
while he was on duty.
The police station has also been broken
into twice in the last nine months. Last
Huron-Bruce Member of the Ontario
Legislature, Murray Gaunt said on Wed-
nesdaylhat he will ask the Ontario Gover-
nment to launch an inquiry into the justice
system in Huron County.
The request for the inquiry comes after
police chiefs in Clinton, Goderich and
Seaforth.:Complained this week that the
court, is too lenient and the court system is
too slow.
The chiefs' complaints were sparked by
'Struction costs.
Walter Palmer, manager of Clinton Area
of Ontario Hydro, presented a map to
council of the lay-out for street lighting at
Vanastra at the present time and the
proposed street lighting to update the
BY WILMA OKE
' Dr. Paul L. Brady, a Senile-d general
practitioner, told 161 delegates to the an-
nual Fall Conference of District 2, Hospital
Auxiliaries of Ontario held in Seaforth
Monday that he is alatmed by proposals in
the controversial Mustard report on health
4are servicest:,
',1!rip*OC4he'lprincipalc,1_e„porninendations,,
in this report is . that the provihce be
divided; into nine district health councils.
These "'would' be further sub=divided into
district health areas and to me it is rather
alarming to read of the powers suggested
for this chain of command", Dr, Brady
said,
He criticized the proposals which would
give a district health council authority for
health care service planning, but not
responsibility to authorize expenditures.
"To me this dichotomy between
authority and responsibility is potentially
disastrous."
Dr. Brady said that the proposal would
wipe out the Ontario Hospital Association
and the local hospital boards as the district
health council would perform the functions
of these boards.
He said, "It is easy to forecast the demise
of the small community hospital. With
nearest hospital facilities 20 to 40 miles
away, you will soon find an exodus of
family physicians from all communities to
be replaced by community centers staffed
by one or two doctors who will be too busy
co-ordinating and directing the para-
medical personnel to supply much in-
dividual attention to the patients. It will be
indeed a reversal of the role which the
College of Family Physicians of Canada
has striven to, establish over the last 20
years. I find it very alarming."
Dr. Brady said that "unless we of the
medical profession and you the consumers
of medical service can approach the Gover-
nment with a clear voice and logical
arguments this proposed scheme is going to
be rammed down our throats. Already
county councils across the province have
rejected, in no uncertain terms, the
suggestion of large district health councils
embracing ridiculously unwieldy areas.
The medical profession, through the On-
Clinton records
first snowfall
Winter has come early to Clinton this
year, as one-half an inch of snow fell over-
night Tuesday night October 1, and tem-
peratures dipped into the high 20a in some
locations.
The snow followed three days of heavy
rain that broke a three month drought.
It was expected that heavy frosts on
Wednesday night (Oct. 2) would finish off
what's left of the corn crop that Was hard
hit by a frost last week.
As for the white bean crop, Don Pullen,
agricultural representative for Huron
County, said on Wednesday that only 20
percent remained to harvest and the frost
wouldn't likely hurt them.
Mr. Pullen also said that some of the
corn crop that was intendeOfor grain will
only be suitable for silage, but with the
peer prices being paid for fed beef cattle,
and the lack of suitable feeding facilities,
many Huron farmers may end up plowing
the corn into the ground.
tario Medical Association is preparing
representktion to Government."
Dr. Brady 'suggested that auxiliary mem-
bers "organize and present their views on
the Mustard report to the government
before it is too late."
He also spoke about the comeback of the
family doctor who only a few years ago
seemed destined to disappear forever,
atir8A4e(1 tiW 1:954
medical school on the continent a depart-
ment of family medicine, no hospital with a
teaching centre with family medicine
department and few, if Any, general prac-
titioners on staff of any teaching hospitals
in Canada or the U.S.
Today, however, he said family
physicians are an integral part of every
'hospital staff in Canada "with a voice
equal to the specialists."
Mrs. Beecher Menzies of Clinton
presided over the daylbng conference and
gave a detailed report of the district. She
said there were 6,307 members in the 20
auxiliaries in the district which stretches
from Cambridge to Goderich and from
Mount Forest to Tillsonburg.
These members raised $167,143 of which
$5,700 was spent in bursaries and other
education funding and $145,122 on
Paper price
Effective with this issue, the Clinton
News-Record will be increased to 25 cents
a single issue from 20 cents, and a subscrip-
tion in Canada will be increased to $10
from $8.50, A subscription outside Canada
Will cost $11.50.
News-Record manager J. Howard Aitken
said that inflation and skyrocketing costs
made the price rise necessary.
"Nearly every facet of our business is
Community college teachers across On-
tario are preparing for "militant actions"
next Tuesday to back up demands for a
contract settlement with the Ontario gover-
nment, But the mood at the Clinton Center
of Conestoga College of Applied ArtS and
Technology is reluctance to jeopardize
students.
"We don't want to go to extremes," Jane
Rolston, teacher spokesman there said
early this week,
Teachers generally feel that a strike,
illegal for them in Ontario, would not be
wise but they plan meeting this week to
discuss possible actions in support of im-
pending province-wide protests at com-
munity colleges, she said.
The Clinton Center is small and a strike
would harm students and teachers.
Students , would lose in education and
teachers would lose public support, she
said,
' A source on the executive committee of
the Conestoga teachers' association said
that the committee would meet Friday to
decide on precise actions teachers should
take to back up their demands.
He suggested that a strike would not
happen although last week a member of
the teachers' negotiating team said
teachers Were prepared to take such action,
The source said teacl.P... would probably
stage work slow-downs, ihey would arrive
at colleges hut would not teach or they
hospital equipment.
The morning sessions dealt with the
various aspects of public relations,
programming and publicity discussed by
Mrs. M.L. Stewart, director of public
relations for Hospital Auxiliaries
Association of Ontario and the editor of
the "Volunteer"; Mrs. M.J. Smith,
treasurer,
O
Kitchener-Waterloo, ,Hospital;
acid f; .Susan Whjtet,,,geaferith, assistant
editor iiiron't'iiiiolitn;*and the liOnssels
Post.
Mrs. Stewart told the delegates to
remember that "public relations is per-
sonal" and that they should not be left to
the experts but be the responsibility of
every member of the Auxiliary.
Mrs. Smith spoke on programming,
giving suggestions on' skits, special
speakers, panels.
Mrs. White said that publicity is only a
tool -- a tool that helps you get public sup-
port, the support without which no hospital
auxiliary would last She outlined what to
put in a • newspaper story and what to omit.
Mrs. White suggested that the press
reporter for the auxiliary get in touch with
the newspaper, whether weekly or daily, to
ascertain how they preferred the story writ-
continued on page 15
increased
costing us more this year than ever before,
Everything from ink to labour costs have
gone up and we can't afford to absorb these
increases any longer," he said.
He said that even at 25 cents, the paper
was still a bargain, considering the TV
Signal is included free every week with the
paper.
Advertising rates and classified rates
have also been increased slightly.
would call in sick, he said.
Teachers at community colleges have
worked without a contract since Septem-
ber, 1973.
The latest government offer satisfies
salary demands the source said, but
working condition guarantees for teachers
have not been settled yet.
Teachers are asking for reasonable
guarantees of continuing employment.
They want salaries and benefits for
librarians and councillors to match those
be teachers.
Bomb scare
clears CHSS
A bomb scare at Central Huron Secon,
dary School in Clinton on Tuesday after-
noon cleared the school of nearly 1,000
students• and staff, but police and school of
ficials found no bomb. The threat was
phoned in.
A few minutes later, another prankster
pulled the fire alarm and the school was
again evacuated,
Last Monday night, a telephone miler
told the Korner Recreation on Isaac Street
that there was a bomb planted Inside, No
bomb was found,
system. He said there were several poles on
private property.
He asked Council to go to Vanastra ,to
check out the poles and decide which of
them should be removed. Council was
continued on page 15
• • P wants tnqutry: . Car totellg burned
The private car of Clinton Constable Wayne McFadden was
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Teachers don't want strike