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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-06-17, Page 3DIRECTOR AT THE BAT — Nteryone in attendance at Sunday's Fun Day at Mt. Carmel separate school participated in one event or another. Above, Huron-Perth separate school director of education John Vintar is at bat with Jack McCann, a member of the board handling the catching duties. T-A photo Course starts under college, Manpower Usborne Central's senior choir in action tuesday at Ontario Place Mr: a'airaga&AnOW Holiday issue is day early Okay chlorination "Every head counted", says Huron-Perth representative — Continued from front page The pony group have moved their races to Zurich over a fee squabble with RAP and had been asked to return the grounds to their original condition. The letter stated the pony club had no further use for the track or the fence and RAP could dispose of it as they see fit, While RAP members were of the opinion the pony group had promised to restore the grounds Hydro — Continued from front page Kempston, Clinton. Walter Palmer, Clinton area manager, pointed out the three men had 57 years' total ex- perience in the utilities business and told the utilities officials present to "treat them as members of your own staff". Signing the agreement for Exeter were chairman Ted Pooley and manager Hugh Davis, while chairman Herb Turkheim and manager Doug Armstrong did the honors for Zurich. Palmer and regional manager George Currie signed on behalf of Ontario Hydro, Currie assured those present at the dinner meeting that Ontario Hydro would put all the resources necessary into the new marketing program to make it a success. Exeter PUC chairman Ted Pooley termed it an ad- vancement in hydro and said it would play an 'important role in providing more liaison between the utilities and their customers. "The better contact you have, the better off you will be," he said. Under terms of the contract, the utilities pay a fee to Ontario Hydro to have their sales staff handle all marketing programs within the utility. • VERDA PAGE Verda Page, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Page, Grand Bend, passed away at Strathroy Hospital, June 13, 1971. She was predeceased by two 4 brothers. The T. Harry Hoffman Funeral Home arranged the funeral which was held at the Gospel Hall, Grand Bend, June 15 with Robert Booth, Toronto, of- ficiating. • Pallbearers were W. Johnson, H. Webb, Lyman Gratton, Murray McNabb, L. Turnbull and J. Gardiner. WILMER 110WATT Wilmer Howatt, husband of Anna Christina Gardiner Howatt, • passed away at Victoria Hospital, May 20, 1971, in his 70th year. He is also survived by his daughter, Mrs. Mac (Helen) }lodger t, Usborne Township and sons, James and Gordon of Hullett Township, and John of Stratford. The funeral was held at • Arthur's Funeral Home, Auburn, with interment in Hope Chapel Cemetery. • To the Editor: We Kinsmen are a service club, Our motto is "Serving the community's greatest need". Our Exeter Club is working toward an objective this year of $2,200.00 so that we may purchase • an ice scraper for the local arena. Any surplus funds at year end is to be donated to our National Project, namely the drive against Cystic Fibrosis. As you know, Cystic Fibrosis is a disease confined to children. Through research and a great deal of hard work over the past few years, the life expectancy of a child stricken with C.F. has been doubled to almost 17 years. Through more research and work it is hoped this disease will be eliminated. We Kinsmen want a • part in that hope. Our latest project was the sponsorship of the Mid-Western Quarter-Horse Show, held at the Exeter Fairgrounds this past Saturday, June lath. The project was a resounding success and several votes of thanks must be • extended. Len and Noel Veri were the backbone of the entire exhibition. Their dedication to the project cannot be praised too highly. Fred Darling did a very capable job with the microphone. Dalt Finkbeiner was the man in the • background with the broad shoulders, Last but not least, THANKS has to go to the people of Exeter and district. Your donationt and inspiration, your whole hearted support spelled the difference between success and failure, Thank you everyone. We Kinsmen would like to issue an invitation to any young Man over the age of 21 who cares about Exeter to attend our meetings. It would be our pleasure to see you. Best wishes to the people of ottr town. Yours truly, Harry Stuart, President Elect Exeter Kinsmen when they were given permission to erect the track, they decided it wasn't worth fighting over. They'll have the fence removed and the land restored. "'They've been a thorn in our side since they started," com- mented Lee Dobbs when discussion centred around some of the problems RAP had en- countered with the pony group. Bob Pooley, an ardent hor- seman, added some levity to the situation when he told fellow members he'd be glad to buy the track if they could move it to his residence. At the meeting, Pooley presented initial plans for the proposed addition along the west side of the local arena. The ad- dition would consist of a recreation office, referees' room and four or five new team dressing rooms. Pooley said there were still "a lot of things up in the air" regarding construction of the 10 foot by 150 foot addition and RAP members agreed to hold a special meeting to approve final plans before tenders are called. Members also agreed that it would be necessary to discuss the addition with property owners whose property backs onto the arena before anything was finalized. The construction of the new rooms is necessary to facilitate an ice-making machine being donated by the Exeter Kinsmen. The machine would be kept at the north end of the arena in the present dressing room area. Small drop in GB taxes Taxpayers in the village of Grand Bend will find a small reduction in their 1971 tax rate. At a special meeting Thursday night, council set the total mill rate for residential property owners at 107.9 mills, a decrease of a half mill from a year ago. The commercial rate was set at 115.5, a reduction of 1.5 mills, The general Grand Bend municipal rate remains the same at 30.4 mills. The secondary school levy is down 1.7 mills while the elementary rate is reduced by 7.5 mills. To cancel out most of the decreases are a rise of .8 mills in the Lambton county rate and the provision of a 7.6 mill rate for the Ausable River Conservation Authority to pay for the recently completed bank erosion control along the banks of the Ausable River in the village. Fire protection charges remain at 4.2 mills. By Marit McLennan and Linda Marshall As you might know by now, the Senior Choir, from Usborne Central School was invited to sing at Ontario Place. Tuesday all pupils from the choir excitedly boarded an "Exeter Coach Lines" bus and started out for Toronto. Coming in on the west side of Toronto, we found we were on Lakeside Street which led us right to Ontario Place. We crossed a narrow gravel road, which was built up from the water, which ended up as a bus park. Here, tents were put up for changing rooms. The time was now 12:50 p.m. and we had more than an hour before we sang, Two o'clock came fast and we were now heading up in single file, to the forum. This "forum" was an open building with a roof for shelter. We sang for half an hour with people going in and out all the time. The microphones sent our singing throughout most of Ontario Place. Tired of singing we trotted back to the tent, got changed into comfortable clothes and headed out in three different groups. The "cinesphere" was our first stop. By the way this building The Huron Centre of Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology opened its first course under the Manpower Training Plan in the Clinton Public Hospital today. The class which now numbers 15 ladies is studying to be Certified Visiting Homemakers. Plans for putting the training into effect were formulated by Miss S. Malabar of the County Health Unit. Herman Appel of the Canada Manpower Centre, Goderich and Mr. Ross Milton, Administrator of the College Centre. The principal instructor of the Course is Mrs. Gail McKenzie of Seaforth. Mrs. McKenzie graduated from the Huron-Perth School of Nursing, Stratford in 1961 and comes to the college with over eight years experience as a registered nurse interspersed with some teaching time. Future employment for graduates of the course, for the most part will be made through the County Health Unit as part of its extensive home care program, although some of the ladies may seek employment with private agencies, Trainees on course at present looks like a globe, a bright-gold in colour, with a couple of doors in which to enter and exit. A dark passage led us to the interior, in which we saw a great screen. Seating ourselves in the comfortable seats, much like a theatre, the projector turned on, lights went off and a title "North of Superior" showed on the screen. This movie was "fantastic" in other words "neat". You pictured yourself right in the middleof the film. In one place there were kids going down on a gigantic toboggan hill, on a tractor tire tube, and it felt as if you were on it yourself, this is just one example of the film. Next stop was the exhibit building. Here they showed the creation of the earth on giant plastic footballs. The projector moved pictures across the rough background which was quite interesting although I didn't understand what was going on. In the same building we found a PLAN SAIL PAST Hundreds of spectators are expected to view the third annual Sail Past in Goderich Harbour, Sunday afternoon, June 20. are: Mrs. Elsie Murrell, Mrs. Kathleen Falconer, Mrs. Helen LeBeau, Mrs. Ceacilia Edgar, Mrs. Estelle Wise, Mrs. Genny Valkenburg, Mrs. Mary Nelson, Mrs. Selina Boshart, Mrs. Grace Pepper, Mrs. Beatrice Storey, Mrs. Vera Priestap, Miss Rita Duncan, Mrs. Amelda Reynolds, Mrs. Ida Evans, Mrs. Anne Kennedy, There are two seats still available for the first course and anyone seeking to join the course should get in touch with Miss Malabar of the County Health Unit and the Canada Manpower Centre before Monday next to be included in the present course. The course is 12 weeks in length and comprises a learning ex- perience which is more practical than theory in such subjects as the care of children, personal care of adults, care of the elderly, household duties, food and nutrition, budgeting, care of the mentally handicapped and general home management. Because of the nature of her work, the Visiting Homemaker may be called on to work in close co-operation with: doctors, public health nurses, social workers and physiotherapists, dark room with a screen on each wall, it showed what people did in the earlier years. Following on we came in contact with huge cloth cylinders, which looked like a punching bag. In fact some pupils did either punch them or barge through them. On these cylinders there were films which were related to history. With not much time left we hurried and scurried throughout the rest of the building. Finding four television sets we quickly skimmed the above list, for the film our grade 4 class con- structed. Mr. Taylor pressed a couple of buttons and soon the group was enjoying the film, although it was only 4 or 5 minutes long. A telephone booth was found among the exhibits in which the pupils could pick up and listen, for good information about any subject. Continuing on, we again came in contact with fresh air. Our group was led back to the buses and if we wanted we could use the "JOHNNY ON THE SPOT". In case of curiosity this unusual name refers to a "portable toilet". The other groups were not back yet, so we took off to the Snack Plaza to find french fries, Tom Webster, Grand Bend, regional office representative for Huron-Perth Dominion Bureau of Statistics, told the T-A, Wed- nesday, "I believe we have counted every head in Huron- Perth. I'm sure it's the best census ever taken," The census got off to a bad start when area residents became confused by information given SS board hires staff Mrs. Bernadette Perron of Zurich, who has been acting principal, was appointed prin- cipal at Ste Marie School at St, Joseph, effective September 1, 1971, it was reported by John Vintar, Superintendent of Education at a meeting of the Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board Monday in Seaforth, The appointment of Lawrence Cook as principal of St. Mary's School in Goderich was also reported by Mr. Vintar. He replaces Brian Morrissey of Goderich who has resigned to take another position. Mr, Vintar reported that a total of 26 appointments have been made for 1971-72 to replace staff who are leaving, the addition of three itinerant special education teachers and one itinerant music teacher and three additional staff — two for St. Michael's School in Stratford and one for Precious Blood School in Exeter. Mr. Vintar was authorized to write to the premier of Ontario and to his minister of Education concerning the lack of a decision being made on extending support to the catholic schools to the completion of Grade 13. Trustee James Morris, for the personnel committee in the absence of the chairman, Ted Geoffrey, reported that salary negotiations with the teachers was continuing satisfactorily. He said the board has offered a proposal to the teachers which is under consideration. A letter of apology was received from the Mayor of Stratford when a protest was sent to him when the separate schools were not included in the in- vitation along with the public schools to attend the opening ceremonies of the Shakespearean Festival. Trustee John McCann of Ailsa Craig, chairman of the building and property committee reported the tender of Goderich Electric for $250 was accepted for the installation of lighting fixtures in the gym at Kingsbridge School, and paving the parking area at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School was awarded to Towland Construction of London for $500. The two religious consultants for the board, , Miss Frances Conway and Sister Bernadette, outlined the religious training in the schools when they attended the meeting to give the board members a report. Sister Bernadette and Miss Conway described the Canadian Catechism as to its origin and how it is constantly updated. They explained the philosophy and psychology of the program and the activities. They explained the child is helped to re-live in his own way the message that has been transmitted to him and how to interpret the Word of God in terms of his daily life. This is done through dramatization and mimeo, art, such as clay modelling, drawing, collages, posters, banners and creative dances; discussions; personal research ) interviews, films, records, field trips and celebrations. hamburgers, hot dogs, and eggrolls, Running back to the bus, we saw the other groups returning. We climbed aboard the bus immediately and started for home. out on Bill Brady's Open-line program on CFPL radio, Mr. Brady, referring only to London residents, told his listeners to mail back their forms. However, this directive did not apply to the people in Huron-Perth whose forms were being picked up by the census representatives. Mr. Webster said after the confusion had been straightened out the census progressed "very well". "Huron-Perth has really come through," he stated. "Eighty- nine percent of the forms have been picked up, which is a high rate compared with many areas. It is now a matter of getting the other 11 percent to sit dawn and fill out the papers," He said, however, the census had not been without problems. "There have been pockets of complaints about 'invasion of privacy', While the Dominion Bureau of Statistics acknowledges this, Mr. Webster points out, "There is no other way to find out the condition of the country, The income tax department cannot release in- Donkey bait — Continued from front page player on the field as he not only chased the ball on many occasions but was forced to drag along a very unwilling partner. The easiest %tore of the night befell first base rivals Jack Ford and Bill Chandler as their donkey was probably the laziest of the night. The four-legged first sacker refused to move even for a base- runner and drew many calls of interference from the opposition ranks. The only time the animal moved was between innings. His riders were able to relax while sitting sideways, frontwards, backwards or in any direction. While many rules of the game were misused by some of the competitors, Bill Masse had to be the most honest player on either club, Masse, from his outfield position rode his donkey every step of the way in chasing a ball. Paul Watson gets the prize as the most proficient rider of the night, He was as stubborn as the donkeys in staying in an upright position. Operators of the game, Bud Smith Enterprises of Stouffville are still attempting to find out which club sprinkled the second base area with salt causing the donkeys to congregate in that vicinity. — Continued from front page the gratuity allowance as of September 1, 1971 is in effect a breach of faith, even when used as a bargaining item. "The fact that its rein- statement was offered the teachers in the last meeting with the conditional on their ac- ceptance of the board's whole offer, did little to restore the confidence of the teachers. "These are some of the main issues at stake. Whether or not teachers' salaries generally are too high or too low is irrelevant here because, in order to give our children equal educational op- portuity, we must offer salaries comparable to those in other counties if we wish to attract and hold good teachers. "In spite of continuous efforts by the chairman of the com- mittee and the director to per- suade the committee that this approach must be taken in negotiation, the committee, with the support of the majority of the board, took the stand that by holding the line on salaries and resisting the insertion of any $500 increments in the schedule (Huron is the only board in Ontario without them — many have $600 and $700 increments) they are registering a protest against the ruinously low prices being paid for agricultural products. "However it is precisely because Huron is a low income area that we enjoy an almost 70 percent education- grant. The specific aim of this grant is to provide equal educational op- portunity. We cannot have this without good teachers, "Many undesirable results have accrued and will accrue if the board persists in using the educational system to fight the battle against inflation, high taxes and low incomes, "The advertisement inserted in the county papers June 3 has presented an incomplete and unfair picture to the ratepayer. It has iofiamed public opinion against our teachers at a time when, because of a mistake in some bureau in Queen's Park we appeared to have lost our mine grant, This mistake has since been rectified, There WAS in fact no increase in the -education levy HELPING SINGERS — Students presented a musical program at night. Caught during a practice Esbroeck, Patricia Berensen and K in the town of Goerich this year and we can expect a com- pensating decrease in our levy for next year. Meanwhile the teachers have been blamed unjustly. "Pupil-teacher and board- teacher relationships are at an all-time low. Whenever we are able to reopen the schools we will have to equal or surpass the salaries being paid elsewhere — at a cost in quality, confidence and rapport whose effects will be felt for years. "Since virtually all the teachers have resigned we have no way of knowing until Sep- tember how many or who have taken positions elsewhere. "The question also arises as to the liability of the board to pay the tyuition of all children who wish to attend classes not provided in the county. "By behaving in this irresponsible fashion the Huron County Board is inviting the department of education to take control out of the hands of local trustees and centralize it in Toronto. "It is time that the Huron County board of education stopped attempting to sacrifice its school system as a means of protest against low farm prices and high taxes and got down to the business for which it was elected. The Times-Advocate wishes to give advance notice to its readers, contributors and ad- vertisers that the first issue in July will be published one day earlier than usual. Because the July 1 holiday falls on a Thursday, our normal publication time would Mean a delay of one day in having the newspaper reach readers. It will therefore be available Ott Wednesday, June ;AO. Deadlines for news and ad- vertising copy will be advanced One day to enable the Staff to reed the earlier publitation day. TitnepAdvocate, June 17 1911 Page. • • Usborne kids see movie after singing engagement formation on incomes and the census is the one way to ascertain where the low income groups are situated." He said many people wondered why they received the long form when their neighbor didn't. He explained, "The census employs a sampling technique. Two out of three households received the short form while the third received the long one which asks questions about housing, education, income, etc," The sampling is entirely fair, according to Mr. Webster, and is Nomination set for Huron NDP At least two candidates will be in the running for the New Democratic Party nomination to be held at the Central Huron High School Auditorium in Clinton, Wednesday night, June 23. Herb Klopp of Zurich, NDP provincial council member for Huron said this week he was unable to disclose the names of the prospective candidates. The guest speaker will be Kenneth Bolton, Ontario MP for Middlesex South. An added guest may be Derek Blackburn who recently won the Brant by-election for the New Democratic party. Klopp said interest in the party is high with a record number of memberships in Huron, Wilfred Glazier of Clinton is president of the Huron riding. Other area men on the executive are Dave Leader, Hensall and Philip Walker of Grand Bend. arbitrarily applied to all households in the country. "It was just by chance if your household was given a long form," The regional representative stressed that all responses are kept strictly confidential by PBS, "Generally speaking, there has been little difficulty for the census representatives in Huron- Perth. They usually found the person who barked the loudest when the drop-off was made, to be co-operative once the reason for census, and the questions asked were explained to them. "There have been no dog bites or shot-gun refusals as reported in other areas." He praised the commissioners and the census representatives who he said have 'worked hard'. Asked if he thought the census takers were happy with their rate of pay, he said he had no way of knowing. "I doubt that any of them have made their extensions yet." He said besides being paid for the drop-offs and pick-ups they were paid for the training period and for their mileage when taking the training, He said they certainly wouldn't "make a million" but he thought most of them would be satisfied. Census taking is not without humor. In answer to the question, "How many cows and heifers did you milk yesterday? one far- mer's tart reply was, "Them that needed it." The cows evidently weren't producing too well on another area farm, The question asked was, "How much milk was produced yesterday?" Answer: "Enough for breakfast." "As a result of this crucial state of affairs we, the elected representatives of the town of Goderich, hereby give notice of the following motion which will be presented at the next regular meeting of the board on Monday, June 21, 1971 at 8:00 p.m..: "Although the Huron County Board of Education has acted with sincerity and conviction in using the present salary negotiations with its teachers as a protest vehicle to publicize the economic and taxation plight of the farming profession, this board now believes that this was the RIGHT BATTLE but fought on the WRONG BATTLEFIELD and apologizes to the teaching profession of Huron County for any ill will and misunderstanding that has arisen. "The Huron County Board of Education re-affirms its belief that the teaching profession of Huron County is the equal of its colleagues in the surrounding counties of South Western Ontario and therefore merits a salary structure based on parity with its rural county colleagues. "Therefore the Huron County board of education hereby resolves to conduct salary negotiations with the teaching profession of Huron County now and in the future on the basis of achievement and maintenance of parity with the surrounding rural counties and that this resolution become policy of the Board. "We regret to inform the public that if this policy is riot adopted by the Huron County board of education, then in our opinion the Secondary Schools will not open in September and the trust and co-operation between board, teacher and ratepayer will be non-existent, "This motion will only succeed if every responsible citizen goes to the board meeting at Clinton Secondary School on Monday, June 21 at 8 p.m. and demands that the board alter its course. Whether or not a settlement is reached with OSSTP in the meantime, the principle con- tained in the motion needs your support as shown by your at. tendatice at the meeting. "We your elected represen- tatives cart do no more for you, It is up to you of Precious Blood separate school Exeter United church, Tuesday playing recorders are Lucy Van athy Giffin. T-A photo Say board irresponsible