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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-03-20, Page 1cents er 1975 1974 HI LO 141 1.0 MARCR 11 31 0 41 21 12 38 17 33 25 13 34 11 " "'28 13 14 25 12 34 12 15 35 4 ..40 24 16 37 18 33 25 17 40 2i 29 20 110th Y (sr- No. 12 Rain .95" Snow 4" Grand 01 ow •sweet it is! The warm weather of the past several days has brought up the sap, and area maple syrup producers worked overtime some nights to keep up with the run, described as one of the best quality -wise in some years. Here Eric Schilbe checks the critical temperature as he drains off a batch of syrup at the Albert Schilbe bush at RR 2, Bayfield. (News -Record photo) . h Tu kersmit C ' Seaforth . added back .to new 'Huron ridin Another report on changes in the provincial Electoral Boundaries Act has been tabled in the Ontario Legislature that uts half of Huron County in Jack Riddell's Riding, anthe-MI-them Halrin Murray Gaunt's. Riding. Both are Liberal mem- bers. The new bill would see voters in Tuckersmith and Seaforth returned to the Huron Riding, after objections were raised Over a report last December that placed Tuckersmith and Seaforth in• the Huron - Bruce Riding. The Huron Riding will lose Lobo Township and Strathroy from its Southern end. They will be added to Middlesex. The new Huron -Middlesex Riding will include the Towns of Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth, Exeter, and the Huron County Townships of Goderich, Stanley, Tuckersmith, Hay, Stephen and Usborne; the Middlesex Townships of Adelaide, Biddulph, East Williams, McGillivery, and West Williams and the Towns of Parkhill, Ailsa Craig, and Lucan. The reWiainder of Huron County, in- cluding Blyth, Wingham and tho . Town- ships of McKillop, Hullett, Colborne, Ash- field, East and West Wawanosh. Grey, Howick, Morris, Turnberry and Brussels will be in Huron -Bruce Riding. Jack Riddell, the Liberal member of Huron -Middlesex, may be running against By Jim Fitzgerald There are many older folks here in town who have trouble looking after themselves, but are not totally incapacitated. They're the kind of people who would best be served by a "Meals On Wheels" program that the present Conservative Agriculture Minister, Bill Stewart, who loses his riding, partially to Middlesex and partially to Huron. �`117tr: 'S ewart; who ha`s`1ie'eiii "tcultUre minister for 14 of his 18 years in the Legislature, is under party pressure to return to the legislature in an election expected either this June or in October. Mr. Stewart said he will not contest the Middlesex riding . which now becomes Conservative MPP Bob Eaton's.. If Mr. Stewart does run in Huron - Middlesex, he.will be contesting a ridingin which he doesn't five,, because his farm is in London Township, which is \in the Middlesex riding. He had indicated last year that he would not seek re-election. The changes in the electoral boundaries was an effort by a three-man commission to make the ridings more equitable in the' province. The Commission consisted of Mr. Justice Campbell Grant of London, Legislature Clerk Roderick Lewis, and University of Western Ontario professor Robert,Sansom. The commissions' final report, which was tabled in the Legislature on Tuesday, increases the number of seats from 117 to 125. Six of the eight new seats are in Metro Toronto, and the other two are in Kitchener and Ottawa. It has been confirmed by phone that Jan *Howard, a member of the Grand fold Opry, will.. , headline the Saturday evening grandstand show at the 121st version of the Clinton Centennial Spring Fair, which will be held on June 6, 7, and 8th. Miss Howard has been voted the T Female Country Singer in the U.S.A,1.:, has a number of hit recordings for De Record's such as "Missing You"i "Kiss An Angel Good Morning", "Try a Little Kindness", "Let It Be", plus many more. Miss Howard now lives in Nashville, Tennessee and she starred on the Bill Anderson show for two years, seen.coastto coast in the U.S. She has had a number of performances in Ontario, the closest being London and all to sell out crowds. Backing Miss Howard will be "The Jubilaires" which includes the Meyer% Brothers from Chatham, one of the befit five piece bands in Ontario. Also returning this year will be tlae Ontario Championship Spring Jersey Shove with breeders from all parts of Ontario showing. Opry star.. The format of this year's show will be ),changed slightly, with the official opening %dieing Moved to the Friday evening. Burt "w`1obb will head up the entertainment ,,committee for Friday evening. This will feature a local talent show plus the Queen of the Fair competition and the Senior Citizens Queen. Johnny Brent, formerly of CKNX, will emcee this show. A new class.has been added to the parade for this year - the best float with a Cen- tennial theme. It is the wish of the Directors that they have good participation in the parade, so start planning your float now.. If further information is required about the parade contact Eric Switzer ,at 482-9942. In an endeavour to cover the ever in- creasing cost of running a fair, the Society is running the Stanley Cup draw. Tickets are $1 each and are available from any director. Prizes totalling $700 will be given away. Concessions in the arena are now on sale, with a number already spoken for. Prices remain the same .as last year, $20 for a to headline Fair space ten feet wide and 12 feet deep. Anyone wishing information regarding the inside concessions should contact Ross Lovett, 482-9802. Another new feature will be a historical contest sponsored by the Huron County Historical Society. Classes will include: historical architecture, historical buildings, an early industry, business, store, church or farm, early life in a community. early farm machinery and any other historic theme. Requirements are labelled black and white or coloured pictures with a brief description. Anyone wishing any information regarding any aspect of the fair, please contact president Elgin Thompson, 262- 2633; the secretary R. M. Gibbings, 482- 7502; ladies division president, Mrs. tot. McLean 482-7801; secretary Mrs. Greg Brandon, 482-3129. County jumps budget by whopping 20 percent County council approved their 1975 budget at a special meeting Tuesday which shows the total expenditures for the year to be $7,244,142. The 1975 budget required an additional levy of $505,000 over the 1974 budget - an increase ,of 20 percent with expenditures to be $7,144,152 plus a planned surplus of $99,990. Again county roads were the major culprit in the budget increase with a total of $2,561,000 being allotted to the public works department. County library ex- penditures will total $261,800; planning department budget will total $93,690; the social services budget will total $386,300; the budget for the Children's Aid Society for the county of Huron will total $135,905; the Huronview budget will total $2,013,300; the Huron County Health Unit budget will total $505,350; while general maintenance for county buildings will cost $125,425. Based on the formula, the following levies will be charged (with previous year's levy in brackets). Towns: Goderich, $351,149 ($280,226); Clinton, $116,142 ($95,270); Exeter, $155,844 ($119,831) ; Seaforth, $82,278 ($63,427) ; Wingham, $139,612 ($107,957). Villages: Bayfield, $34,391 ($25,279); Blyth, $30,205 ($23,423) ; Brussels, $35,215 ($26,570) ; Hensall, $45,600 ($36,039) ; Zurich, $30,401 ($24,197). Townships : Ashfield, $105,597 ($90,600) ; Colborne, $71,856 ($58,969); Goderich, $112,923 ($82,587) ; Grey,. $21,094 ($74,442); Hay, $121,901 ($103,919); Howick, $124,496 ($100,096) ; Hullett, $87,398 ($67,483) ; McKillop, $79,108 ($65,659) ; Morris, $71,828 ($56,794) ; Stanley, $89,830 ($76,550) ; Stephen, $172,434 ($144,238) ; Tuckersmith, $134,765 ($102,720); Turnberry, $60,576 ($46,836) ; Usborne, $80,499 ($67,140); East Wawanosh, $53,531 ($43,791); West Wawanosh, $49,327 ($38,957). est fish taken at Bo A 22 -pound -4 -ounce Rainbow trout pulled out of the Bayfield River last November has proven to be the largest of its kind caught in North America last season. The fish, which measured 301/2 iriclte- long with a girth of 191/2 inches, was caught by Lynn Williams of London last November 19 in the river, about a half -mile upstream from the No. 21 highway bridge. r The fish was confirmed as a rainbow by a conservation officer and won the Molson's award as the largest rainbow for the seasons, holds the distinction as the largest fish of this type ever entered in the contest, and also won the 49 -year employee at Silverwoods the Field and Stream award as the largest rainbow taken in Canada and the United States last season. Mr. Williams said he had been fishing by ield himself in the Bayfield for a couple of hours when the fish struck. He was fishing fast water along anoverhanging bank when the fish took his silver No, 5 Mepps lute and ran downstream into a pool. Mr. Williams said it took him more than . half an hour to land the brute. Surprisingly, Mr. Williams never had the fish mounted. "I thought somebody would get One bigger," he said. The fish was one of nine rainbow caught last season by Mr. Williams, who has been fishing for 45 years. He normally uses spawn sacks as bait, but had only recently switched to hardware because of poor success when he' caught the record -breaker. Mr. Williams ambition now is to break his own record. raceful skaters As part of their contribution to the Clinton Centennial this year, the Clinton Figure Skating Club presented a concert "Happy Birthday Clinton" last Sunday at the Clinton Arena. Among many of the well -produced numbers was this ,pair§ skating by Pat Anstett right and Lynn Simons of the Stratford Club. There was a good crowd on hand. (News -Record photo) Clinton Hospital hopes to update facilities The Clinton Public Hospital could un- dergo a rejuvenation and be updating if a three to five year plan being studied by the board of directors is implemented, it was revealed at the annual meeting of the Hospital board last Monday night. Retiring president Bob Campbell made the prediction but could give no firm details because plans haven't yet been finalized, and all plans must be approved each day delivers a nutritious, hot meal to by the ministry of 'health, which is on a belt their doorstep. Betty Cardno of the Health tightening course at present. Unit is trying to get such a program going They are just ideas and dreams now," Clinton, but they need lots of much of a back seat to any of the bigger ap ranee'a Mr. Campbell said. "But we -don't take too in in on, volunteers. at~ "Meals__=meeting next- Tuesday Mara- 25 =--i bs15it ls; eelwa bri in new at the Town Hall at 2:30 P.m. + + + "It may be a man's world all right, but according to some statistics, it's mostly in the woman's name." Our quote of the week. + + + Tom Feeney of the Centennial Com- mittee told us the other day that he was extremely pleased with the number, of persons who have volunteered to help in the Clinton Centennial Souvenir Store, but he still needs some more help. If you have a few hours you can spare each week, phone . Tom at 482-3333. + + + Don't forget the Environmental Improvement Committee meeting tonight at the agriculture office. They have ,some good ideas that should be carried out in town. And -while we're on it, there are a few merchants in town who haven't heard of either a snow shovel or a broom and the sidewalks in front of some stores is a disgrace the year round. +++ We hear by the grapevine there is a pair of boxing gloves missing in town. Anybody know where they are? +++ All local baseball nuts will be glad to see the Colts kicking'off the season this Sunday at a meeting in the arena at 3 p.m. See you there! equipment and updating our facitities where possible." Mr. Campbell said that 1974 was a very busy year for the'hospital, with a bigger -turnover of patients and a decreased length of stay, "as ordered by the ministry of health." Statistics released by Douglas Coventry, the hospital administrator, showed the number of adults and children admitted to the hospital last year had climbed to 1,856 from 1,770., but the number of patient days had declined 14,422 last - year from 18,164 of 1973. The occupancy rate- had dropped to 73 percent last year, compared to 83 percent in 1973. Out-patient physiotherapy . treatment zoomed to 4,423 last year from 3,520 of 1973, and out-patient visits to emergency climbed slightly to 4,653 from 4,539 of the year before. The number- of births at the hospital, however, declined to 88 from 97 of the year before, while the number of X -Ray examinations rose slightly to 5,569 last year from 5,121 of the year before. The financial report revealed that the hospital had only a deficit of $940 on ex- penditures of$4061,878, while the hospital Art Aiken of Clinton was picked the new chairman of the Clinton Public Hospital board at their annual meeting on Monday. He succeeds Bob Campbell of Clinton (photo by Carsh of the News -Record) pumped over $717,000 worth of wages and salaries into the local community. The financial chairman, ..Mrs. Lawson, also revealed that the tentative ward rate for this year was set at $54.25 per day, with an extra $5.30 for semi -private, and $8.30 for private. The meeting was also told , that the hospital was now doing all its own laundry, resulting in.a saving of $1,000 per month, and the new hospital incinerator is now operating very well. Mr. Campbell told the meeting that the hospital board was one of the few public boards left who work for nothing. __._..Mrs.,..__Ted. .,_Dayjes,_ reporting for the �p tUrAtIx ii'amy h ; had a balance apt the year pend of $4,415' and a membership of 1,018 of which 20 regularly attended meetings. She said that last year's Penny Sale receipts of $1,219 was the largest ever, and theAuxiliary had given one R.N. bursary and two R.N.A. bursaries in 1974. Mrs. Davies said that Bell Telephone has said it was not possible to install phone jacks so a portable phone could be used in the patient rooms. A.M. Harper of Goderich was reap- pointed as auditors and a revision of the medical by-laws was approved. Art Aiken of Clinton was named the new chairman of the board to succeed Bob Campbell who served for the past two years. ,- Elected directors for two years were Mrs. Lawson, Joe Murphy, Bill Counter, and floh Campbell. Farmers told to fight Hydro plant George Underwood, a long time op- ponent of Ontario Hydro, urged Goderich township farmers to stand up and be counted in their fight against nuclear power stations and power corridors. The Turnberry township beef and poultry farmer urged the farmers to organize a strong land use policy for their protection in the future. He said the plan must be operative rather than loosely worded guidelines and must he supported 100 percent by the authors. "Agriculture is big business in Huron County," he boasted. "We shouldn't be afraid to stand up and fight for it." f'l'ing figures prepared in 1971 M'r Underwood told the members of the township federation of agriculture that Huron produced more than $100 million worth of. goods not including beans; broilers, potatoes and peaches. He added that the farmers own over $50 million worth of machinery purchased in the (continued on page 2) pnew piano for Uronview The residents of Huronvie% had cause for two celebrations last Monday. First they celebrated the traditional St. Patrick's Day but they also officially celebrated the presentation of a new piano by the Klnette Club of Clinton. Kinette president, Crystal Jewitt made the presentation on behalf of the club to Mrs. ElsieBerson formerly of Brucefield, who is one of the regular key thumpers at the home. (News - R ecord photo)