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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-10-30, Page 1A: '. There- was a boor Wait last week and linel2P stretched for We a >eatahe Ftemg.FeedMill in Clinton as area-.faurs0m brought theit bumper corm crop in for ByrBev i First rate, top qua Huron County forme this year.. Large, kerneiSf no mould aril : high .sbelweight- in, it age yiei . nrxrper crop af shelled corn f tl ss zea. Corn prices are fluctuating between $240 and $2.60 per bushel, which is about one dollar loWefr than last year's price, but last year, the yield of corn wasn't as good. This year the corn yields are 20 to 25 per cent, above average. One hundred bushels per acre is not unusual this year, whereas last year the average yield was 80 bushels. Some county fields have yielded up to 140 bushels. According to Mike Miller, associate By Jim Fitzzerah The News -Record, like just about everyone else in this great free country of ours, is hoping that the postal strike will soon end. The inconvenience and hardship that the strike is causing many people is unbelievable. Fortunately, the News -Record is able to get most of our papers delivered in the local trading area. but if yop live in town and normally get your paper at the Cl ntorf Fost Office, you must come down to the News -Record office on Albert Street for .it, Througha co -ow effort, we are also handling Seaforth Expositors and Goderich Signal -Stars. Our Rib -tickler of the week: "Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake. one of them continues to pay for it." +++ 11 you still have leaves to dispose of, don't forget the extension to the leaf pick-up program. The final collection will be held this coming Friday. October 31 The ghosts and goblins will be out this Friday night, along with the vandals, and most people are nervously waiting to see what trouble the older spooks will be getting into. In Clinton the Ml police force will be out with help from the20-man fire brigade, and the Vanastra Community Association has set up patrols of the rrner base on Friday and *aturday Those interested in -helping out at sera are to meet tonight, Thursday, to. at the V a1ec,e'n . u have a moment or two to spare esday afternoon, November 4, r to the high school and see the 1 Barron Senior Reclines battle in the Huron4Perth SOW - very good ball and this is the e Redrnen, as they are un - far able $ea. re have asked ter our t Ott:O lens Halloweett day'' night, but e' danger .anyone's munity by Men drying and. ;acing last week. Anovex-supply.t aSdepre%a4 prices for the crop, but a shlpn ent has . left Godericb, making mere storage space 'available, (Nevis -Record par00),. rues, ural representative [uron fall plowing is coming along pretty well even though the soil is a little dry. "Many people are still waiting for the corn to come off before they can start plowing, hgt the week* could. st few people wrapping., . quite a up corn," Mr. Miller Said. l`tv .,, Mr. Miller said the white bean crop turned out better than expected con- sidering the poor weather conditions. ed here Although the quality is not top grade, it is better than was anticipated. , "There will be a little more work at the elevators this year and the cleaning and sorting equipment will certainly be put tO use" Mr. Miller said. Mr. Miller also said that fall wheat r s meat is was a�+otnatg alg,.;�l�...ut aan� througktho Innd. "Another week of warm weather should see the wheat' in pretty fair shape." Mr. Miller added. uC tte. dove yet, at a • Doucette e *StIng large Vie. em on the new fire i said that costs to iota a police station ably more if an n, and tenders had date for new police , veoythe cooled!. lice wil also get a new +wiser s +cOmit decided to advertise for rnderson anew car. In other business, council defeated a motion to help Tucker pith Township ith any deficit with their day care e at Val Astra. eke smtttt. in a letter to Clinton, asked the town to help pay for any loss at the -centre, in a relation to the number of children attending from Clinton. Deputy Reeve Frank Cook was against to cost the '3[, o e he caw. +`" "we didn't any response fiorm,f ► 1pileashipsnnuw.00 :t. recreation costs ig three or four y�.s-ago, so why au> we t they would co-operate we could help teem.'' Mr. eek Harold Labb and Councillors acnes. Hunter Helen Tench and .Burt Lobb disagreed with Cook, and thought 10,000 Clinton should show the way to Weller township -town co-operation be helping Tuckersrnitb. The motion to help Tuckersncith was defeated by a 54 vote. Council also concurred -itb a resolution frol'n. the City of Orillia asking for a review by the provincial govern- ment ove n-ment into high wage settlements given police and firemen. on County corn is being.. shipped to Europe ' By Bev Clark Close to two million bushels of Ontario corn will be _shipped from the port of Goderich to Bale Comeau, and from there will be loaded into ocean-going ships tope taken abroad. "This is the first time that Ontario corn. has been shipped in this manner," said George Parsons, president of Goderich Elevator and Transit. One million, seven hundred thousand bushels of corn have already been loaded onto the boats in Goderich. "To say this corn is going to Russia, as is rumoured, is jumping the gun. Cer- tainly, Russia does buy Canadian corn, there's nothing unusual about that, but so do a lot of other countries," said.M-r. Parsons. Huron County's corn crop has been exceptional,is year, yielding 20 to 25 per cent above average. The average yield is about 80 bushels per acre. This year there were a lot of 1o0 bushels per acre and some county fields yielded up to 140 bushels. Corn not -being shipped out of Canada for export is sent to starch companies along the St. Lawrence. Inquest recommends better tents Two Toronto men may still be alive today if the tent in which they had been steeping had been fireproof. An inquest into the deaths of the two meo. Water Curry, 41 and David A. ingleftv, 44, was Goderich, Fari a , (iittiberl4 ,: woen had been sleeping in a m P g tent near Bayfield last July when their Council adds one more leaf pick-up Clinton residents were given an extra day to put their leaves out on the curb for collection, council decided last Thursday night. Council had already set up . two collection -days, on. Oct. 11, and 24, but because of demand, they decided . to, make this Friday, October 31 as thefinal collection day this year. A motion was passed to pay Randy Glew of Clinton 820 per hour to pick up the leaves - Leaf burning on paved roads was also condemned by several members of council as it softens and burns the asphalt. Council considered prosecuting, but decided that if Clintonians knew their taxes would be raised to pay for the road damage. thenthey would cease to burn them on pavement. Alter a short discussion, council decided to hire McGillivery and Associates of Listowel as the town's auditors for the coming year to replace A.M. Harper of Goderich, who is retiring. New Councillor Helen Tench argued that it would be cheaper to hire Durst and Vodden of Goderich, but her motion was defeated. An agreement has been reachedwith the Ontario Rousing Corporation over draining the site of the new senior citizen's apartment on King Street. Several nearby hornea wners had complained recently' that water; was provision. v Councillor James Hunter told council that the police have been asked to issue tickets to owners of any dogs caught running loose. This i an interim step until an animal control program can be set up. Council also set November 19 as, the town party: finalized their street lighting program of 18. new lights this year, including three new ones at the hosPital; and learned that a targe in- running onto their property and council dtry is . making inquiries about discovered there -was no drainage locating in Clinton. Fox was on Wesi Coast The ever elusive Fox was hiding in Victoria. British Columbia last week, and Mrs. Delores Lee of 209 Queen Street was the person whose name was picked as the winner of the $10 Olympic Lottery Ticket that could be worth $1,000,000. The Fox has changed locations again MIS Wee,45. tutu triticea as*, tvcation can be found in the ads of the merchants who are sponsoring the contest. if you know where he is hiding, obtain an official entry form from one of the participating merchants and send or bring it to the News -Record before noon. next Tuesday, October 28. Bumper crop hurt ripple growersface iou' priees kick of mur By Bev Clark Apple growers in the county had problems this year getting their bumper fruit crop picked, , Louis Cardiff of Brussels, who ruffs his orchard from Stuart Middleton, RR 3 Clinton, plans on applying to . the government next year tai see if he can get some pickers from the West Indies who want to come to Canada for a while and pick tobacco and apples. .. 'Mese people want to work," he said. 1 went to an employment office -to set if 1 could get some pickers. They sent toe force fellow who was on drugs in one hour he fell off adder three alines. You get trash from the em• ent of#lce,” saki Mr. l(f. • "'You know. if sotne+fitthese kid* 'had to go through the . pression, .things- might be erht*Things are just too "The best pickers are the 60 -year-olds, not the kids," Mr. Cardiff explained. Besides the labour problem. the price of apples hasn't gone up, which is good forthe consumer, but it's a different story for the apple farmer. "It's disgusting, the price of the product doesn't go up, but the cost of spray is up 20 percent from bast year. Eve got a family to raise as well,., ,said Mr. Cardiff. Mrs. Burgess. who along with her husband own Del Mac ' Orchards near Bayfield said: "We gave up on the + nrp1 ment-offite .. They sent us a fellow who wanted to get back to,nature. He had his BA in geography, but. he wanted to spend his summer com- municating with nature. Well, he picked two bushels In three hours and then sat under a tree and wrote a poem." "So many people are on 1 re s nd unentploym rvernmetit e intend hall their h+ w krk. get ahead at least $100 a month," Mrs. Burgess said. The Burgesses managed to get help by posting a sign in their Clinton store, asking for apple pickers: On weekends .they got about 30 high school students, who Were willing.to work and make some extra money. The Burgesses met them at the store and drove them to the orchards. What apples the Burgesses don't market through their store, they send to a St. Jacob's apple juiceplant. Art Bell of Goderich Township tries to target all about tabour. He doesn't even like to. talk about it "People who come and pick their tern are not much better," he added. Mr. Bell used to sell his apples by hiving the -buyers pack their own.Wedont do. that any more, we pick them and then sell them at the dao0. Fe le d they tand steeck l srtpi► o1Cr' ' tent was consumed by flames. Both were taken to Victoria Hospital, London where they died a few days after the July 21. fire. The inquest brought up the question of ' rov whyare there else! or federal no P m +era regulations -requiring tents and Slee bags to be dipped in The -retardant material. Also, why is there no legislation requiring manufacturers to warn tent users of the potential fire danger. Wesley Taylor, a representative of the tent manufacturer, John Leckie Ltd., told the inquest tents must pass stan- dards set under the federal govern- ment's Hazardous Products Act. Robert Kaufman, an inspector from the fire marshal's office in London told a jury at the inquest that an engineer at the Ontario Fire College had tested remnants of the tent that survived the blaze "and was simply amazed at the extreme amount of heat produced by the material." In answering a question from Huron County Attorney W.G. Cochrane, Mr. Taylor, said "the cost of adding fire retardants to tents wasn't prohibitive, but if there weren't regulations forcing all manufacturers to meet standards, we would be non-competitive by about SS andouldntt be able to sell our. The fur cri a ih with a series of recommendations strongly suggesting that the provincial and federal regulations be amended, compelling manufacturers to fireproof tents and sleeping bags. The jury also suggested' that records be kept of tent deaths. "The Ontario Fire Marshal's office plans to keep records beginning January 1." said Mr. Kaufman during the inquest. Coroner Dr. Michael Watts told the jury that the two dead men had burns to more than 80 percent of their bodies. "Their chances of survival, statistically speaking, were less than 10 percent" he said. The jury attributed the cause of the fire to careless smoking. people any more. "Some people think they have the God given right to do anything they please," . he said. • Fred ,McClymont, and son Ivan, who own McClymont Orchards in Varna say they don't have too -many problems. • He lets people come and pick their *own. What is left over his family will pick. "There may be some that go to waste, but then again a lot of people are tum busy to pick right- now so 1 imagi they will come pater," said. The Mc ymont's orch r is about 35 years old, a, they've been running orchard as b pick your o' aperatiorrfor ***time. • tut c les tat