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Clinton News-Record, 1975-07-24, Page 1:.w Centennial Week' starts . totsiorMW when Clinton welcomes belt former personnel for an Air. Force Weekend hoste4 by the officers and members of Clinton Branch No. 140 of the oyalCanadan Legion. Mr Force reunion co•drdinator Joe Murphy said base members from all over Canada and around the wdrldare expected to return including a number of the com- manding officers who administrated the base from its beginning in 1941 until its close in 1971. Group captains Patrick, McGowan, Ashdown, and Gordon Mathieson as well as . Brig -Gen. Keith Greenaway, Col. Pat Ryan, and : Maj. Frank Golding, the final CO, are all ex- pected xpected to attend the weekend festivities, Mr. Murphy said. . A wine and cheese party -and buffet at the Clinton Commthiity Centre and Arena, arranged by the Clinton Legion Ladies Auxiliary for ladies returning *for the reunion as well as 'for ladies of the earn-, munity' kick-off the weekend at jive tomorrow: A ball tournament has been scheduled to take. place on the diamond outside the arena. Saturday features a parade which will leave the Legion Hall at 1:30 to march to Iue Nt L $44 Jule `$ 6 17 86 C2 73 4 18 83 64 ' 62 19 01 63 79 62 - 2o 8,• 67 70 444 21 71 5 Rain .83". Ram 4» o be i elcoine: back -Procession. l a.m. Tickets re $5 per person ofRci�l . opening' Sun it Library Park for. Afterioa►on and evening activities con- • ienns to be followed by a memorial tinue with a recelition at the Legion Hall church services. -Harness racing at the . Service le ,orisdian, A ceremonies. Lille Forces Hand •fin and the radar bait at the Clinton Com- Clinton Community mucal variety Raceway ghtla 8�t1�at t at C 'The Bor enfe Armed munity Centre and Arena featuring the 1:45 and Cann) party. featuring d musicians and a uric of the- Chris Black orchestra. evening will see the Air Force weekend lout' party; a massed pipe band and , � . _ . veral brass hands will highlight the Dancing begins at 9:30 and continues until come to a close. r e a Sunday, July 27 begins with special lots et curves. at tti novel. slow- cb baseball game Thom r� � , Of "curves.'" ti�C COW, a t Friday n 'sheathe Clinton Lions Club bathed the Brodhaen' cher on • banditti' .. , -XRT is, autY, alias Hugh Flynn of Huihett, coa first base. We don't know who won, but there were a lot of laughs. -Another encounter is planr> d in August. (News -R+ `d photo) _._...--_. b. tinton's Birt For some people. it's about time that. Centennial got under full swing, but• for *hers who have been working behind the Scenes makingpreparations, tomorrow's Air Force Weeend and the start of Cen- te.nn.ial Week has come alt too soon. The Centennial Committee continues to urge all 'Weal residents to register at the Centennial Store before the centre is swamped with Visitors. There's still a little tinie left to spruce up Your house and commercial businesses for j the judging of the best decorated homes in the day, and in the -night and for the best decorated commercial building. Judging - sakes place this Saturday. Judges, arck: Riddell Seaforth Mayor Betty no and Kitchener Mayor Mrs. A. ay Party editi-on - ins Macintosh begin driving through the 10 with Centennial Hospitality continuing streets of Clinton for the judging at 5:45 in the arena from l0to 1 am. andwillcontinueuntil9. Thurday .will be shared by the young Prizes to be awarded to the winners are and the old. A perirmance of• the Live on display in the window of the Cancer Ce i ata esd n eatthre [ram Gratim d B nwill ill Society office onAlbert Street. FiWith the close of Air Force Weekend this Huron Secondary School at 3 p.m. The Sunday the hectic pace of Centennial music continues with the senior citizens" contines Monday with a golftournament at musical evening in front of the Community 10. Entries are accepted when you register Park grandstand. or aply at the Clinton Legion. While the Friday's ball tournamentis followedbe a golfers take to the greens, the ladies are" teen dance at the high school, and far the offered a chance to take a mystery tour. All more nostalgia minded, thereis the "Down are invited to take a chance at the monster Memory Lane" Costume Ball. You dress in bingoat 8p.m. in the evening at the Arena. the costerne of your favourite era f r thea Tuesday is Centennial Honky Tonk ballroom dant gHospitality Night at the Arena which Orchestra provides the music for the event begns at 9 and continues into 'the early which costs 55 aticketornirig hours. There's still more in store, but fr thA talent night is featured in front of the ctime being Clinton's, Centennial birthday grandstand at theCommunity Park from 8- celebrations are off andrunning • . Plaque to be unveiled On August 1, an historical plaque marking the founding of Clinton a century ago will be upveiled on the lawn of Wesley - Willis United Church. The plaque, which will,be erected by the tario Heritage Foundation under the newly created ministry of culture and screation, wilt be ,unveiled by Jack Gibbings of Stratford, a great-grandson of Jonas Gibbings one of the earliest men to settle in Clinton, and the son of Ben Gib- • b+ings who served as the town's mayor from 1912 to 1913. MPP Jack , Riddell. MP Robert McKinley. arfd Prof. K.C. A. Dawson an associate professor of anthropoptogy at Lakehead University. representing the Ontario Heritage Foundation, are all ex- pected to attend the 2 p.m. unveiling ceremonies. - ... • The- erection of the historic plaque will recognize the joint efforts of Muriel Trott, Jerry Ftemlin. Doris Batkin and Kay, Lockhart. who were a driving force behind the project. The nevi plaque will be the fourth to be placed in the Clinton area. A cairn on the lawn of Ontario Street United was erected in memory of Clinton's pioneers; while an historical' plaque at the same site recognizes The contributions of Horatio Emmons Hale (1817)1896) whose intensive study of the languages and customs � of the' Six Nations ofGrand we "An compiled into the classic 'book, Iroquois Book. of Rites" which , was published in 1883. A final historical reminder in the form of a cairn on Highway 4 near Huronview honours Major-General Sir W}Uiam Dillon Otter, whose distinguished military ser- vice spanned the Fenian Raids of 1866-1870 and the Boer War (1899)1902). He served as Chief and Inspector General of the Canadian General Staff before he retired with the rank of General in 19:0. • Vilkige :talks animal- control By Milvena Erickson.. Bayfield Council, at their, regular meeting, Monday evening, welcomed Mr: Ross Knight of ' the London Humane Society, who . outlined a comprehensive plan for animal control for the village. Council were very favourably -impressed with all aspects of the Plan. In the correspondence read by Clerk Gordon -Graham, the Ontario Association of Rural Municipalities outlined tax structures, planning, social implications, impact` on iggest ever! By Jim Fitzgerald This special Centennial souvenir edition of the Clinton News -Record not only commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the incorporation of the Town of Clinton, but is also a record breaker for a News -Record. or for any newspaper ever published in Clinton. - This edition, which is 112 pages: is not only the biggest paper ever published in Clinton and will also havethe biggest circulation - 4,800 __ of any newspaper out of Clinton. Included in the mammoth 112 page paper is a brief but in- teresting history ..of the town and surrounding area, liberally sprinkled with pictures from our past. It also includes messages from our many business, and commercial establishments. But Clinton's Centennial edition wouldn't • be possible without _the help of many persons. First and most importantly are the people who gathered the • material and pictures and history for this edition, Gerald Frenilin and Doris Batkin. Without , their absolute -dedication and long hours, and just pla ""1 work,{ this paper would never have 'made the street. We hope that this paper will compliment the already fine history book that Mrs. Batkin and associates have now on sale. Dedication too, cote from , our staff at the News -Record” plus, the dozen or so hard working souls at our Goderich printing plant. Working all those nights, . holidays and weekends 'was well worth it and very much ap- preciated. y 1 communities and construction standards in respect to mobile homes; noted that the annual conference of the Association of (continued on page 11) bgistrattone_ns � Registration for Clinton's Centennial' is now under full steam, and helpers at the Centennial Gentry on Rattenbury Street will have their hands full. Jim Margeson of Ottawa registers with Brenda Fee with Mildred McAdam helping, (News -Record photo) Beef barbecue a "meaty" About 650 people were on hand at the• Clinton Arena last Friday- night for othe Centennial Sweepstake Lottery eef Barbecue that kicked off the town's bir- thday celebrations. • of Clinton had to Rosemary Armstrong endure the suspense of the entire evening but when Centennial Committee chairman, Russ Archer drew her ticket, Mrs. Arm- strong found herself an instant winner of 'the $1.,000 prize. An e*cited and tearful By Jim Fitzgerald • Mrs. Armstrong said she would use the What a week this has been! First we at , the News -Record put out the biggest -edition of our history - l 12 pages - but yours truly had to take spouse Lois to London money to make a trip home to Scotland to visit her mother. Jessie Jones of Londesboro won S750: Ernest Crich of Clinton won S500 and Cam Addisrna of Clinton took, the S250 share of the total 3,350 in prize money that was given away. won S50 Seventeen other lucky people Ted each With the firsi-amount g iiing McCullough of New Hamburg as the holder of the 50th ticket drawn. The following peopge also held winning tsrkotc• Rhea ,_Innes Don Petti-place. aff4ir 1=reaa acnoennais. Dave Corrie. R.D. 1� i'r.�rnlin, Hub Reynolds. George Yeats. and Walt Oyster of Clinton: Kay Pyke'of R.R R.R. 5 Clinton: Margaret J. Maddock of (Oakville: Eleanor Lipinaro of R.R. 4. Walton: Mike Murphy of Arva: Marne Newton of R.R'. '' Gorrie : Hank Westerhout of Hanover: Cec. Lewis of R.R. 2, Lucan and John Bigney of Vanastra. • Procee& T he barbecue, totalling about S3.000 will be used to finance the August 'Centennial Parade. lbo's to pay for field ,trimmps. wee we had an addition also. This time to ', - a Joseph looby, l3tnbtin, said it would be the family. Little Andrea Frances arrived By W`llma flke better to do it. • ' Tuesday night at 11:10 p.m. right in the The Huron -Perth County Roman "I'm m for it if the is to get rid of -all worked of news deadline. Everything has ' Catholic Separate Sthvol Board at a this soliciting by estudents ideadoor-to-door for worked out well and here we are on the meeting in Seaforth Monday night deferred mossoy. for school activities. 1 door-to-door o if r ,street with the paper. and mother. baby .. action until more information is available ddadare,doing well. a that the Board pay one dollar good idea. You have no idea the number of .,.� ,� + -1-_, on proposal times the students are after parents for per student per day extra to a class par- money. T students tS many after pare from It'sm quite a thrill to e rascal the delivery tin in an extended outdoor program room when the young rascal arrived.,i ticipa s pg, rents." thoughfinance committee was asked to Director of education John Vintar said t I might as well see things to the • �►bovethe amount allotted for field tri s would have to raise ©art of the end as 1 was there when it all started. 1 The the students + + + arrange a meeting with lousiness ad- . It was incorrectly stated in last week ministratot Jack Line to prepare a ifir Bingo concnittee • financial statement on the amount of ' to ear • don't, the arena committee just trips and on w Ronalis spent. ntZ`'iarey Hullett Township Council accepted a night donation of arena Stratford trustee T makes a $I00 Pete 8h proposed the extra fee to assist classes in report on the. McGregor drain from tterviees. rams such as the engineer Henry Uderstadt and set the" + + + extended outdoor • p b irdo of the beard growing Grade class front St. h'lichael's SchoolatCourt of atvLondesboro g oI4aut tsyJHall • Ruth Lombardo would like all• Stratford which spent the week of June meeting contest (she's not tntered) T Mt.Marcy wanted to Mr Udri�tadt. who went over the report in these contestants to phone here as soon as �.0 at Camp Bimini. and i rcferrabte, at 492- encourage such worthy programsdetail cruse ei`ing questions and expla.inmg p($ssible, ih evenings P make it easier for the teacher and students complicated points. met with n . serious objection fromi Countil. ,�- + + to pian One. " ' a The r ram had' cost the 33 students Meanwhile. the drainages!complaints ommissioner tiSe orf the a deadlines, we didn't set week'sp .08 r Paul Z burro 82x50 which lzas bt n asked to lookdrat tato mit on tyre entries for Inst eed and raised he i y efforts a their has a forward by Winston a p` on t�`ir �.puzzle. So if you haven't filled it •they raised by fir own g provided by ilio Crosswordmr. Mar ehy said _serty ct~ that was toeing p phzttce' until next Tuesday rt000,.. hispregular field tri money in yet, al would hay() given them an s eenstra drain, July 29 to et r wirer into the 1 eves; his p v�aitd'havehadttaaraise Council passed a by-law to imposes 'iii" d they " paper that the Monster ing for the arena out of their profits money available has to pay hat the.money 11 it ((Ewe Is MCC • L - money. said he does not feel the board should give the fullamount chores to-do tosand earn that they should have some of the money. Mr. Looby` asked: "Working? Not begging!" Mr. Vintar said that when everything is given to children they have nothing to do. That's where vandalism and such gets started. he said. (continued on page 111 rPgor��wa[n report, ni which noney.is borrowed under the Tito ..Drainage Act. An'olher by-ia`e will provide for a drainage works in the Township and for horrowi ng on the creat of the cor- poration. an amount of up to S19,650 for completing the work. . A bylaw has 'c1 to be prepared an a ,iesi00 application for a tile drain loan on lot 9 cnncessEon 6. Still with • drains. Council mo'p'ed that •4.1.50 he distributed to the Gibbings and Italian dins f.r�mm the proceeds df the Roth hid cheque which was witireld: and accepted Larry Jobnstor s application„Cur W a clean-out of the W t"t wncr di ain (continued fedi') page 11) t d; hath+ a couple of eXcifg extra � n Special annual drainage 'ratesupota • tit es. the rest. teartui winner *roes itit of tsars of happiness. iR+�narArmstrongis.coratuiatei b hry nf►f Chaiinen Russ Archer, Wends after was announced she VASS the et SIAM at the Centennial beet 'r,etaheld -last Frid%yat is visit It parents . NOS, At; eitstre said she would wall* money tom. (liurs.iterd 00101