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109-Year No-51
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ROdigtib4tion irks some area 131Ps
A happy- winner
Wow! That describes In one word the expression on the face e Mark Johnston, 9,
of Maple Street in Clinton after he was informed he had won the grand prize of
$100 in the News-Record's "Spot the Merchants contest. The contest had an over-
whelming response with thousands of entries received. (News-Record photo)
Clinton boy wins $100
A proud crattsman
Displaying his artistic hand-cut woodwork at the Christian Reformed ladies bazaar
last Priday was Case Kuiper of ViOtOrlia Street, Clinton. Mr, Kuiper, a retired farmer,
says there Is 580 separate cots In the shipsceipe, made from one piece of wood
and baOkIlt with a lamp, The artidies were auctioned off at the end of the bazaar,
Which raised over $2,000 for Bangladesh children, (News-Record photo)
A living tree
There was a living Christmas tree at the Christmas concert at Clinton Public
School last week, as the grade one class took part in the annual event. The
auditorium was packed to overflowing for both performances. (News-Record
photo)
Hullett renews garbage contract
Judy Dixon of Pugh's Terrace, Mrs. Don
Crich of Princess Street, both in Clinton,
and Kevin Buurs of RR 1, Londesboro.
Each had correctly identified the pic-
tures as belonging to Ball and Mutch
Home Furnishings, Ball-Macaulay
Building Centre, Holland Shoes, and
Aiken's.
Last week's contest was the last in the
series, and judging' by the number of en-
tries, organizers say it was an outstanding
success.
There will be at least six classes an en-
trant may participate in all the way from
the bushiest beard to the scruffiest one.
Interested men may register at Arnold
Riley's, Walter Gardiner's, Frank Van
Altena's or Frank Chapman's Barber
Shops.
In other Centennial business, service
organizations and groups are reminded to
have the history of their organization into
the historical committee by January 15 in
order to be included in the Centennial book
which is planned.
Dou)n with razo blades r
A young Maple Street, Clinton boy,
Mark Johnston, 9, took home the $100 as
the grand prize winner in the News-
Record's "Spot the Merchants Contest."
Mark's entry was picked from the drum
holding the thousands of entries that had
poured in during the six week contest. He
will receive four $25 gift certificates to any
of-the stores who participated in the con-
test.
, The three weekly $5 dollar winners were
Many Clinton and area men will be
retiring their shaving kits next week as the
Beard Growing Contest, sponsored by the
Clinton Centennial Committee gets under-
way - or should we say gets growing.
The Contest, which is one of the many
celebrations for the Clinton Centennial
next year, starts officially on December 28,
1974 or any time after that and judging
will take place during the Centennial
celebrations after July 25.
All men who are entering the contest
must register at one of the four local bar-
bers on or after Dec. 28 and must fill out
an official entry form which will be
available at any of the barbers. They must
be certified clean shaven at the start by the
barbers.
By Jim Fitzgerald
The Christmas rush is nearly over for
most of us, except those like myself who
haven't yet done their shbpping. The News-
Record, however has one more issue to go
before Christmas, and so we are asking our
correspondents and advertisers to co-
operate with us on this venture. Last
deadline for copy is Saturday afternoon,
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We compliment the Auburn Women's In-
stitute for the absolutely beautiful meal we
enjoyed at the Auburn Hall last weekend
at a Christmas party. Those country ladies
sure know how to get to a man's stomach.
• * *
Perserverance will be the watchword for
the next couple of weeks for husbands and
wives as Clinton Centennial Beard
Growing Contest gets underway. There's
sure to be a lot of itchy faces on men and
rashes on the ladies' faces,
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Here's a last minute gift suggestion for
the man, or woman who has everything.
Penicillin.
*
It has always been a little depressing to
newspaper, journalists to think about What
people Might be using their newspapers for
after they are a day or two old, The
thought of all those lovingly crafted senten-
ces being wrapped around what's left of the
fish, or pushed hurriedly under the puppy,
was just too dismaying to contemplate, ac-
cording to the St. Marys Journal-Argus.
But in this area of Western Ontario, it
cannot go without comment that govern-
ment researchers in Japan have come up
with a new wrinkle for old newspapers.
They Our molasses over them and feed the
mess to Holstein milk cows to provide a
sixth of the animals' daily food. So far the
cows are still yielding good milk,
Of course, How could anyone have expec.
ted otherwise?
Many, members of the Ontario
Legislature are not happy with the planned
changes in the electoral boundaries,which
are being sought by the Ontario govern-
ment before the next prOvincial election
sometime next year.
If the redistribution bill is passed by the
Ontario Legislature, vast 'changes would
take place in the Huron riding currently
held by Liberal Jack Riddell.
Voters in Hullett Township, Tucker-
smith Township and McKillop. Township
as well as Seaforth would find themselves
A Clinton boy faces 11 separate charges
in juvenile court as a result of investigation
by the Clinton Police .departm'ent last,
week.
The boy, whose name cannot, be
published under the Juvenile Act, will face
two charges of arson, and nine charges of
break enter and theft.
The arson charges result from an in-
cident last Thursday morning at Hummel's
Feed Mill on Mary Street in Clinton. When
employees came to work, they discover that
someone had.hroken into the Mill during
Recount dale set
Friday afternoon at 2:30 p,m. has been'
set as the time for a recount in the recently
held Clinton council election.
Huron County Judge Francis Carter of
Goderich will he in charge of the recount to
be held at the Clinton Town Hall.
The recount was ordered by Helen.
Tench, who finished eighth in the race for
the six council seats. She was five votes
behind seventh place finisher Bill Staut-
tener.
in Huron-Bruce ridinry now represented by
Liberal Murray Gaunt.
The riding of Huron would be extended
to cover a sausage-shaped area from
*Goderich on the north to Strathroy on the
'south, and would include, besides the
remaining south Huron municipalities, the
Middlesex County municipalities Of Bid-
' dulph, Mcgillivray, East 'and West
Williams, Lobo and Adelaide Townships
s and the town of Strathroy.
The riding would be over 60 miles long
from Goderich to Strathroy.
In addition .to acquiring the four
the night and set two fires, both of which
fizzled out before they could do any
damage.
The break, enter, and theft charges result
from'a series of break-ins at Clinton homes
/over the past month or so where small
amounts of money were taken.
The boy will appear in juvenile court in
Goderich later this month.
Clinton police, along with the help of
Eric Collins, apprehended'a man in E and
M Outfitters on King Street early Wed-
nesday morning.
Police say the man had broken into the
store and was about to make off with some
goods when owner Mr. Collins discovered
him, and held him at bay with a gun until
police arrived.
Ronald Fraser of Vanastra has been
charged with break, enter with intent to
steal, and dangerous use of a firearm. He
will appear in Goderich Court on Dec. 19.
from,Goderich before the passengers could
continue their journey.
Clinton police also report that they
recovered a stolen car last Saturday and
arrested a man for the Wingham OPP. The
car was stolen from the Wingham area.
the News-Record has changed its
publication dates,
There will be the regular edition
published next week, December 19 with all
the deadlines the same as usual, but the
Christmas issue of the News-Record will be
printed on Monday, December 23 and
distributed Tuesday morning, December
24. There will be no paper on Thursday
December 26.
In order to facilitate the composition of
the Christmas issue, advertisers and
correspondents are advised to have their
copy in as early as possible, with the
classified ad deadline being 5 p.m. on
Friday December 20.
The last deadline for news copy will be
Saturday December 21 at 12 noon.
The New Year's edition will be printed
on Monday December 30 and distributed
on Tuesday morning December 31. The
deadlines will be December 27 at 5 p.m. for
classified and Dec. 28 at 12 noon for news.
We sincerely hope that our advertisers
and correspondents will help us get over
this difficult period.
Bayfield harbour
to be repaired
Repairs will be made to the north
retaining wall in the harbour at Bayfield,
Ontario, under a $46,308 contract awarded
to C.A. McDowell Ltd., Centralia, it was
announced last week by the minister of
public works Canada, the Honourable
Charles M. Drury.
The successful firm submitted the lowest
of four bids received in response to a public
call for tenders. The highest bid was
$127,286.
The concrete-rapped retaining wall, 670
feet long with a timber crib substructure,
will be strengthened with the addition of
stone berm against the vertical outer face.
The repairs will reduce wave and surge ac-
tion in the harbour as well as correcting
wave damage to the wall. The work, which
should be finished in mid-January 1975,
will require 1,300 tons of six inch core
stone and L500 tons of large armour stone.
Plans and specifications were prepared
for Environment Canada under the super-
vision of P,J, Does of Public Works
Canada, Project manager is E, Wurts of
the Ontario Region office of Public Works
Canada in London,.
Seaforth area municipalities, the Huron-
Bruce riding would' be extended north to
include' Southampton,
The riding of Perth, represented by
Liberal Hugh Bdighoffer, undergoes little
change. It includes the County of Perth and
the City of Stratford.
Originally in the report brought down by
the three man commission, St. Marys, Mit-
chell, and ,the Townships of Fullerton and
131anshard were to join Huron, but because
of opposition, the move was scrapped.
The commission, which consisted of Mr.
Justice Campbell Grant of London,
Legislature Clerk Roderick Lewis, and
University of Western Ontario professor
Garbage was the topic of discussion at
the final meeting of the year for Hullett
Township, held last Monday in Lon-
desboro.
Council decided to renew the contract of
Gordon Chamney for '1975 to pick up Lon-
desboro's garbage at a cost of $150 per
month for Hullett.
The price is higher than last year
because of increased operating costs. Mr.
Chamney will be paid monthly instead of
twice yearly,
Garbage was also the subject of a
resolution from the Town of Seaforth that
Hullett backed. The resolution asks the
ministry of environment to end their
discrimination against smaller
municipalities on grants for garbage
dumps.
Council also gave backing to a scheme
for Tuckersmith Township to sell share-
BY WILMA OKE
Wilfred Shortreed, a 60-year-old Walton
area farmer, was acclaimed chairman of
the Huron County Board of Education at,
an organizational meeting held in Clinton
Monday. Fle succeeds E. Cayley Hill of
Goderich,
Mr, Shortreed, who represents the Town-
ships of Grey and Morris and the Village of
Brussels, was vice-chairman last year.
Herbert Turkheim, publisher of Zurich
Citizens-News, was acclaimed as Vice-
chairman.
The 1975 board members, including
three newly elected members of the board,
were sworn in by County Judge Francis
Carter of Goderich~ The new members are
John BIliott, Blyth representing the Town.
ships of Hullett and 1V1cKillop, Town of
Clinton and the Village of tlyth; Robert
Peck, RR 1, Zurich, representing the Town-
Robert Sansom, recommended that the
number of ridings in the province be in-
creased from 117 to 125. Three of the new
ridings are in Metro Toronto.
Jack Riddell of the present Huron riding
indicated last week that he will speak
against the bill that has incensed some
people, including the mayor of Strathroy,
who says his town has little in common
with Huron County.
Agriculture minister Bill. Stewart, who
will see much of his riding disappear to.
Huron and London ridings, said last week
he was "very disappointed", Mr. Stewart
had indicated last year that he will not
seek re-election,
the-wealth tickets in Hullett. The money
raised will be used to cover the swimming
pool at Vanastra,
Hullett didn't, however, endorse a
resolution from the County of Grey on sub-
sidizing farm labour.
At an earlier meeting in December,
Council agreed to purchase ,the athletic
field from the Auburn Athletic Association
for $1,200, and agreed to grant the Hullett
Recreation Committee $2,000.
Council passed several tile drainage
loans, and a severance granted. Building
permits were issued to John Beane, barn;
Grant Spading, shed; William Shaddick,
,shed; and Rita Kelland, barn,
December accounts passed for payment
include; general, $11,925; drainage,
$20,594; roads, $39,546; education,
$76,928; county, $67,483; and PVM taxes,
$888.
ships of Tuckersmith and Stanley, Town of
Seaforth and the Village of Bayfield;
Charles Thomas, Brussels, representing
Townships of Grey and Morris and the
Village of Brussels. The only trustee not
sworn in was Jack Alexander of Wingham
who is on a three month holiday in Florida.
An ad hoc steering committee was ap-
pointed, chairman Wilfred Shortreed; Alex
Corrigan, AR 1, Bluevale; Clarence
McDonald, Exeter; and Mrs. Marion Zinn,
RR 2, Luckrow. They will divide the beard
members between the education and
management committees.
A. M. Harper of Goderich was re-
appointed as board auditor for 1975 and
1976; D.J. Murphy, Goderich, was re-
appointed as board solicitor for same
period; and Kyles, Kyles and Garrett,
Stratford re-appointed consulting architect
for next two years.
Because Christmas falls on a Wednesday
phis year, and Boxing Day is on Thursday,
Youth charged with arson
There were no injuries on Tuesday after-
noon when a Goderich-bound bus 'and a
truck were in collision on Huron Street
near Shipley Street.
• The bus, owned by L and H Coachways
Mrs. Tench has paid a deposit of $100 'of Simcoe was lightly damaged, but the
and Judge Carter will assess the total costs truck, driven by Duncan C. Allan of RR 3
after the recount, k Goderich was heavily damaged.
Each -councillcandidate will be allnwelar ,511he buskwhictrba d :just stapped,intelirw
to have one scrutineer present during the / tons, had to be replaced by another Vehicle
recount.
Even if Mrs. Tench does move up to
seventh place, there is no written law that
states council must, upon the resignation
or death of another councillor, appoint the
first runner-up.
Christmas paper coming
Board picks new chairman