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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-05-22, Page 1. HI. 1.0 HI 1.{J - MAY 13 70 34 48 40` 14 67 49 73 43 1516 g970 5236 65663355 52 39 17 75 41 48 18 7$ 55 66 44 19 85 56 3$ Rain 0" Rain 3.09" Thursday, May 22, 1 5 LOOS, like "John Lawson was out to give Elvis Presley some competition last week as he performs a tune on his guitar for a group of adoring fans behind the scenes at Clinton Public School's production "Memories." The fans, clockwise fro J the bottom left are Lynn Armstrong, Sharon Ducharme, Stephen Boussey, John Morgan, Jeff Taylor, Danny Stanley, Paul Stephenson, Sandra Skinner, Karen Cooper and Nicole Senechal. (News -Record photo) Londesboro family loses all in fire A Londesboro area family of six was left homeless last Sunday sgefcoe destroyed their tw ryar°huseon Concession 8 and 9 of Hullett Township. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Kennedy and their four children, who range in age from one year to 10 years, escaped the burning house with only the clothes they were wearing. School show travels through time By Chris Zdeb Clinton's Centennial flag made its first public appearance last week in the finale of Clinton Public School's show, "1VMemorieh;" and Town Councillor Roy Wheeler was on hand closing night to praise the grade 6-8 students who staged the show for their Centennial spirit. 'Service clubs help.. • The show's director, teacher Dom DeGregorio, said the Centennial o£ the theme in to the show as p of the Time Machine, which carried students Joey Lawson and Jane Coventry from the turn of the century, through the present, to the future. All of the 260 upper class students and 10 staff members worked over the last month Pool badly needs repairs A monster bingo to run on 15 nights during the summer, will donate all proceeds to the renovation of the Clinton swimming pool. Bingo Chairman Stew Taylor said he hoped the games would 'raise a total of $15,000.: Parks Chairman Bill Crawford estimatedpool repairs to cost $37,000-$40,000 and said the provincial; government ceuld account for 25 percent of the total. Major renovations to the pool would not be made until fall or next spring, Mr. Crawford said, and would include a new deck, new dressing rooms and new eae to come up with an original script which ,included Miss Olive Johnson's closing song, "Happy Birthday Clinton." A rural school scene featured one line jokes from vaudeville days, but the em- phasis of "Memories" was on dancing and music. The Time Machine carried the audience through the fabulous 50's and the twisting 60's, and the senior choir carried it back further with its rendition of "Five Foot Two." The lighter moments of the show were provided by a reluctant Prince Charming having tos s Snow White in a at d teacher trying to teachschool lay andfru a They lost everything in the blaze which levelled the frame structure on their farm about six miles north of Clinton. The Clinton Volunteer Fire Department Were called to the blaze about 1 p.m., but when they got to the scene, the house was engulfed in flames. Firemen believe the fire at the RR 1, Londesboro home started from a trash pile behind the house, spread to an adjoining • filtering equipment. French class. The pool was built by Clinton service • In the final number, cast members sang. clubs about 20 years ago and Mr. Taylor- the --birthday song and waved the Cen- said they adopted the pool's repair as a tennial flag as b al ownon the audience.. s released from the project at;;January meeting. ceiling shoe "It detiends on our funds, whether we Lack of proper sv ventilation could go beyond repairs to afford a closed- auditorium the some discomfort for wasn't always in swimming pool," Mr. Crawford said. the audience;heard; and delays were caused "The outside pool stays open July 1 to clearly September 1 which means it's used only between scenes because the cast had to eight weeks of the year. enter and exit through the same door but The first bingo game.will be played at the despite these ominor problems "MemOrndance'with arena on June 2 with the last game provided thepeople some great entertainment. scheduled fot''September 8. By Ross Haugh The 1975 salary agreement between the Huron County Board of Education and secondary teachers was ratified at a special board meeting in Clinton Tuesday night. The overall increase from a year ago is 29.9 percent. Clarke Teal of Goderich District Collegiate, teacher negotiator, said "this includes 3.5 percent which is a natural increase due to ad: ancement on the old agreement." In making the recommendation to the board, trustee Cayley Hill of Goderich said, "Negotiations were very amicable. The costs of settlement, while higher than usual are in keeping with the times. Our costs in Huron will be in line with any in the province. When other boards settle their negotiations we will find we have had a satisfa tory form of settlement." Dire for of Education D.J. Cochrane said the overall 29.9 percent increase in- cludes,all fringe benefits. h• .,,, pav1ii*e He added, "In coming up with this figure we took all our costs as of March 31 of this year and projected what they will be at the same date in 1976." In benefits, the board will now pay 100 percent of OHIP premiums and 85 percent of drug plan premiums. Under the current contract the board paid 75 percent of both premiums. A cost of living clause is also included in the new contract: It will be paid in April, 1976 and August 1976. The April, 1976 cost of living allowance would be based on one- third of a salary multiplied by the per- centage increase in CPI from November 1975 through March, 1.976. The settlement will cost the board $5,273,621 in the 1975-76 school year com- pared to its current expenditure of $4,058,990. The total budget for the board is about By Jim Fitzgerald It seems the News -Record reaches far and wide, and illicits responses from a long way off, but not from the local area. At least, such was the case with the Cen- tennial Talent Competition. Seamus tty._repDJ ts. that he .received a reply from California, but none from the Clinton area. There must be more talent evident in the area than that. Come on kids, let Mr. Doherty know you can sing, dance or play a musical instrument. + There seems to be a great deal of con- fusion on the ballot we ran in last week's paper on a senior citizens recreation centre for Clinton. We've been del stied with replies, but many pe they weren't in favor of a new building but would back conversion of another already existing structure in town So, to dispell the fog of confusion, we are running the ballot again with a slight change, asking if you're in favor of a new building. +++ In a story in last week's paper on the eight Clinton girls who will face each other .on the baseball diamond, we incorrectly .gave the number of years Junior Ball xperience several of the girls have. Pattie ay and Sandra Fremlin have played three years each with the Milverton Millwrights, while M Marlene. Cunningham Jennie has two years pence Luckham is in her first stt year. You still have until Tuesday to get your entry into the News -Record's, "Hometown 4ews,paper's Award Contest". Judging by the high quality of the entries published so far, Clinton has a good chance of winning this national award, and the staff is going titiaund here with swelled heads. $15.8 million — a 17.9 percent increase from 1974. high Under the agreement, starting g school teachers will earn from $10,400 to $12,400 depending on qualifications. earnTeaches experience will fros wto $ 10 21 900, depending on from $17,100 experience. The board's five principals will earn from $ will vice- principalsto from about $25,000 to $27,400. The salaries of board administration members also are geared to the salaries of the teachers but are on a calendar year basis. Education director John Cochrane will receive $42,924 in 1976 while superin- tendents' salaries will range from $32,193 to $36,792, depending on experience. shed and then leaped otal damage could exceed $50,000 and Mr. Kennedy Said the loss was partially covered by insurance. Neighbours and friends came to the rescue last Sunday , afternoon, rounding up some clothes for the he family would gladly welcome donations of more clothing and furniture. The family is currently staying at the • home of Mrs. Kennedy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Duizer, and at press time there was. no plans for a new home for the Kennedys. - It is the_,second time this year that fire has struck,in the area. Just a mile west, a fire last March levelled a chicken barn on the farm of Dirk Westerhout, causing an estimated $50,000 damage and killing 8,000 broiler chicks. IoIaIlg destroyed ed the blaze with only thesix escaHomeThe Kennedy family of p With flames and smoke still rising from the ruins, Wayne clothes they were wearing. The fire, which started in a trash Kennedy of R. R. 1, Londesboro searches through his burned pile behind the house, caused an estimated $50,000 damage. freezer for any edible food, following 'a fire that levelled his (News -Record photo) home on Concession 8 and 9 of Hullett Township last Sunday. • public o Ouestionnaire to test By Wilma Oke Tuckersmith Council said last Tuesday that it will send out a questionnaire to the 973 property owners in the township to determine the feeling on a proposed in- crease in the to ilrecreationrate for the purpose programs ofn contributing programs The Hospital Tea was highlighted by a fashion show of nurses' uniforms dating back to 1914 with Mrs. K.S. Wood as com- mentator. Back row left to right are: Martha Corrie Craig, in a 147.0 student nurses' uniform; Madelon Mason Yeats, in a 1943 Clinton Public' Hospital uniform; Jean Sjaarda Baker, in a uniform from the Netherland -s; Donna McBride Wood, in a 1950 nurses in training uniform; Jay Herd Ball, in a 1937 Clinton Hospital in -training uniform. Middle row ate: Margaret Middleton Counter, in a Nurses' uniform worn in the Royal Canadian 'Army Medical Corps in World War 11: Kathleen other towns used by the residents.r atepayers in mind Members to ser4e on Meeting in Baced onthe rate cil sai oral, if 2e levy wouldbe placed 3 percent of the forms returned were in favour of the increase. The need for a quesmondv lle and naire arose when ratepayers from Eg ,.. . Har- purhey protested to Council last month that they had to pay a surcharge to use Seaforth's recreation facilities because te Township had refused to help h with a recreation grant. Seaforth Council had recreation preation ted a recommendation made by its committee to pass a resolution which levied $15 per person per year for use of the Seaforth Arena. Tuckersmith Co ncil had refused a grant to Seaforth saying it would likewise have to make recreation funds available to facilities Clinton Township a serve Hensall which parts of the Deadline for the completed question- naire was set for June 30. the In other action, Council approved sending ofn„,,^resolution to the ministryiof the environment requesting a $1,000 with- drawal from its reserve fund to on for suspected wa er leaks cond in an spect the Vanastra Water System• will A Vanastra fact finding committeethe general be established to study operations of the water and sewage system keeping the view_of lowering costs to the Elliott, in a uniform worn by nursing sisterin World at rldthe Winton ar 1; Vnnette Sinclair, a former supervisor of nurses Ilospital and now retired in Seaforth, in a 1920 Clinton graduate uniform; Rubby Potter Haddy, in a Red Cross Volunteer uniform; Marjorie Campbell- SpiegebergI;n a uniform from the ' 19311's. rent are Margaret Glidden Draper, in a graduate nurses' uniform from the 1960's and Joyce Haney of Seaforth, ;m RNA, who modelled todays practical and acceptable nurses' :II fire - the pant suit. (photo by Muriel Trott ) the committee are: Russ Archer, Ted Gozzard, Rev. Karl Boersma, Scott Luckham, Ken Schmidt and Richard Lehnen. Tenders for sub -contracts for the Vanastra Day Care Centre were approved subject to approval by the ministry of social services. Council also approved the building of a parking lot for the new centre. Labour wages totalling $1,181 Centre were construction of the Day Care also approved. Brenner M awarded a $2,998hanical c tors of Goderich wascontract for the heating system and a $2,485 plumbing contract. Pfaff Electrical of Exeter was awarded tender for a $3,128 contract for an elec- trical system, and Carroll's Landscaping and Gardens Centre of Vanastra receive( tender approval for $4,235. Other Vanastra business: Letters will be sent to three Vanastra property owners asking for the removal of old motor vehicles from their properties. Council approved Glen„ oith s request fora building-perm•it-€or-a tool shed.onhis_ Vanastra property (lot 58, plan 22), and an application submitted by Ronald Hopper of Harpurhey to place a c'hobile home on his property. Farmers up on seeding By Jim Fitzgerald What started out as a poor spring, following one of the wettest and coldest Aprils in 30 years, has blossomed into one of the nicest Mays in 10 years, according to Huron County agricultural specialists. Farmers have been able to get on the land and most have now caught up with their spring chores. Mike Miller, associate agricultural. representative for Huron, County, said late Tuesday afternoon that all of the spring grain in the Central Huron area has been 75 per cent sown, and there is aboutof the corn crop now in the go d spring after all,” "It's been a fairly g Mr. Miller said. "It wasn't the best for seeding grain, but it was the best in quite a few year's for seeding corn." Last year, many farmers didn't get their corn in until June because of heavy rain- fall. a "We could use a good inch of rain, Mr. Miller said on Tuesday, "followed by more sunnyu gheer." said,ome of and sohe grain me of theas not corn sprouted, , seed beds are dry. The acreage sown in grain in Huron will likely be up about 10 per cent this year, Mr. Miller said, and the corn acreage will be about the same. Because of the increase of grain acreage, the bean production is expected to drop in Huron this year. Low prices for last year s crop is one of the main reasons cited. Many farmers are now working their bean ground, and- Wein$ any -floods, the first of the crop will be sown next week. The winter wheat in Huron survived the winter "reasonably well," Mr. Miller said, and total production is expected to be up' about 10 per cent. It too could use a good . rain.