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With only a week left until the ling day.
the Christmas rush is really upotrus now
with everyone participating in the wild
scramble. Although the weatherman
hasn't promised a White Christmas yet.
several oldtimers tell us that the
thunderstorm we had last Sunday night
it a sure sign of bad weather to come.
Record warm December temperatures
were set last Sunday and early Monday
morning. with a high of 56 degrees F
being recorded here in town:
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The Christmas rush has hit us here too
at the News -Record. as we attempt to
get our Christmas edition to bed. and to
top it oft everything has to be done one
day earlier, so we are asking for the co-
operaatieen of all our correspondents and
advertisers.
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Jim Gillies% one of the betterrk
candidates for the Progressive
sc rvaative leadership. will be maki
brief visit to Clinton today (Thurs
from 2:30 to 3:30 at the Hotel Clinton
ea fair. about a dozen and a half persons
seeking to succeed Robert -Stanfield.
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Here is a last minute gift suggestion
that will fill any Christmas stocking and
be unique at the same time: why not buy
a Clinton Centennial souvenir, now
available in great quantities at the Town
Hall. There won't be another Centennial
celebration. - or bicentennial • for
another 700 years. so you can bet they
ea 't be on sate again next year. The
Ores office is open from 9 to S p.m.,
Mnttdaay toFriday;
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in an cF end we
One winter morning, � ma
know heard his neighbour t fires un-
suCeessfully to start her eaj
outst a and asked, "Did you try
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"no, but�sura�e�i.liko*
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gO to town council for naoattty to either
repair the..oer buil: no* ono,
The poet
lost about WOW this year
because of deereased usage. blamed on
severat factors, including the, new
covered € nd treated pool at Vaa+ els:tra,
and the fact that the Clinton pool is very
cold because of a teak.
Pool chairinan Bill Crawford said, he
triedet
tr to g a meet%ng tvgatlCer on the
I but no one showed up, He said that
they rec. committee can't apply for a
Wintario grant until they- have some
fi ores down in blaek and white.
stimaatcs on repairingthe pool or
buildin a new one range rona 535,000 to
51.00Q g
and ordered , tem pletely scrubbed
down every two wee
in ether.aetaa the committee t
no action en n request from 4,eel;
and George Titempsen who ea .
5th tnenter Clinton team Wit.... _.
Town easketha 1 League- , Teams p1
One gamer n weeek until IMarech,.
The committee deferred until next
year's budget a motion to install a
carbon diukide sprinkler system over
the deep fryers at the arena.
Chairman Len Fawcett informed the
committee Et the -B
Bantam hockey
Tournament
is being held earlier this
year. an January 9, 10 and 11 endlan.1?
and 18. He said that 35 teams will be
present.
The rec. committee. will also get The committee also pasted a motion
estimates on tiling the foyer and all the that all employees have their holiday
dressing rooms at the arena after they schedules into the arena manager by the
were told by arena manager Clarence end of May. after agreeing to pay Gary
Neitans that the uron Helth Unit has Meet his holiday paythis year, with no
found the rubber mats to be unsanitary time off.
They QM soy the croft severity ratio,
for a typical eye moonily shevkt not he
iess .than the tell wing approgtmete
err i haeme: kr every 55 pearsonal injury
crastiea, there slwuld be no roore than
one fatal crash. For every 306 property
damage crashes. there should be no
Huron-Pert.h Separate teachers
refused cost of lIving raise
Ey Wilma Oke
Due to the anti-inflation guidelines. a
cost of living allowance cannot be
considered this term for the elementary
teachers under the jurisdiction of the
Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic
Separate Schaol:Boaird.
Stratford trustee Howard Shantz,
chairman of the personnel committee,
told the board members at a meeting in
Dublin Monday night that his committee
had • discussed with the salary
negotiating committee of the Ontario
English Catholic Teacher's Association
in uron and Perth, the directive at-
tached to the 1975-76 agreement signed
last May.
He said the two committees agreed no
• further action can be taken to explore
the feasibility of a cost of living
allowance as called for in the directive,
in the present agreement.
An increase of 33 cents per hour, the
maximum allowable under the wage
guidelines. was approved for the office
clerk -typists in the various schools. The
increase, retroactive to September 1,
1975 will raise their wages to 53.63 per
hour.
Board chairman, David Teahen of
Stratford, informed the members that he
and John Vintaar. director of education.
would be attending a special meeting in
Toronto on December 18, called by the
Minister of Education Thomas Wells.
Mr. Teaaheen said that the meeting is to
be Attended by board chairman and
directors of education across Canada but
that neither he nor Mr. Vintar had been
given any indication as to what the
meeting is about.
The inaugural meeting will be held on
January 5, 1976.
Huron board elects state
Herbert Turkheim of Zurich will be the
chairman of the Huron County board of
education for 1976.
Turkheim, why was vice-chairman for
the past year, defeated the present
chairman, Wilfred Shortreed in a two-
way vote at a special meeting of the
board in Clinton on Monday. night.
The new vice-chairman will be
Charles Thomas, who represents the
village of Brussels and the townships of
Morris and Grey. the same_ area as
Shortreed.
The new vice-chairman is completing
his third year as a school trustee for the
villages of Zurich and Henson and the
township of Hay. He is the former
publisher of the Zurich Citizens' News
and currently production manager for
that newspopo► uu.t the Exeter
I ndependent News.
In gainingthis position of vice-
chairman, harles Thomas defeated
Mrs. Molly Kunder of .Seaaforth, who
served this year as chairman of the
education committee.
The education committee chairman
for 1976 will be John Elliott who
represents the vi11►a e. of Blyth. the town
of Clinton and the townships of Hultett
and McKillop.
Taking over from Clarence McDonald
of Exeter as management committee
chairman will be Ken Cooke, a florist in
Clinton.
The first meeting of the Huron County
board of education far 1976 will be held
Monday, January 12., at 3 p.m-. at the
Board offices in Clinton.
Liberals pick delegates
Delegates to represent the Provincial
and federal ridings of Huron -Middlesex
at the Ontario Liberal Leadership
convention, in Toronto January 23-25
were elected at a joint meeting of the two
Colouring contest
winners chosen
The popularity of the News -Record's
Annul► Christmas coloring Contest in-
creases every year, with a record 300
entries received this year, making it
extremely difficult for the News -Record
judges to come up with the winners.
'Atter several hours of deliberation
owever, Stephen de Boer. 11. offs 2.
linton was deciareed the first prize
winner of SIG.
Second prize ,of 57.50 Will be presented
,fulte -Henke. 5, tor coloring 'olorin her way
*wind t, and Andrea Has
nogt,
Ethel take home for her third
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Thursday evening.
Ian McAllister provincial riding
president reviewed reports of the' Sep-
tember 1 provincial election. ' which
returned Jack Riddell as Liberal
member in the riding.
Plans for a - theatre night in mid -
J aanuary sponso''red by the Federal riding
were outlined by riding president John
Brradfoot and John Lyndon of Goderieh.
Delegates elected in the provincial
riding were: J. Bernard Began, RR 3
Liman; Ozren Zivkovic, 149 Huron
Street, Exeter; D. J. Murphy, Q.C.
Goderich; Ken Duncan, Kirkton:.lames
Love, RR 1 Zurich; J. Howard 'Aitken,
Goderich; J. Bruce Williams, RR 4
Clinton and Mrs. Jean G. Adams, 113
Lighthouse Street. 'oderich.
Alternates are: Mary E. Lee oin'ee, 210
Road
xderiwh,Christopher
Re
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HalSttr E. Beecher Mot -ales, V. , .,
C ntan: Lawrence G. �it�or,LUc
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any d .51 g 'ding it
system f+r the hamlet of
llle . made* Tu ckersmitb
p eouneil will mail a
vire to the LT0 property owners
hey aro in favour- of it.
meeting et council at Brucefietd
`l tesday= nights Reeve ev+w lg_in Thompson
saidhe would like to see it shelved for
the spread time bein , .'1 don't think the system
is necessary for lace as out as
Bemondv l! at ." p
Councillor -Cleave Coombs, an
Egmondviltee resident. said he would like
to see a vote taken by the residents.
Reeve Thompson agreed a vote would
be .a good idea to know how the people
thought about it.
Dea uty Reeve Ervin Sillery said he
pp "Get the
woad recommend a vete,
ai�go of ' the residents. lt.'s their
rreune3�."
Clerk James McIntosh was instructed
to send out the questionnaire -- "Are you
in favour o.f the proposed sewage system
in Egmandville? Yes -. No
1.4
Included in the letter is to be a brief
report of the cost to each ratepayer in
the hamlet of the system expected to
cost about 51 million. The average cost
o conduct q
for each would be 5:185 to 53le a year over
a 40 -year period. The sewer would be
connected to each property line and the
homeowner would be responsible to have
it connected from the property line to the
house if a house was located on the
g.r
mondvillee's share of the sewers.
which would he owned by the ministry of
the environment. would be about
5225.000.
The need for the sewage system arose
when tests .made by the ministry found
the Rayfield River was being,polluted by
raw sewage. in some cases, being
dumped into the river from Egmandville
drains.
Theuestionnait will be mailed out
after Januar 31. when the new
assessment roll showing owners would
be available, and returned in ten days.
In o
th�r 1u
siness.
Council approved a
Liqtw xttilldlkp
vingston for a new house on part south
half of Lot 26,_con. 3. L.R.S.
Council amended the township's dog
control by-law. The by-law includes the
following charges: First male dog. 55 or
first female dog, S10; second male, 520 or
second female, 535; and for each ad-
ditional male or female dog kept at any
one time in any one household or on any
one premises. e'sn
more tr n< r D
OPP s that for Lb.
ceramimity within
meat Stands at th0
one fatal, a:rola fear e
in;j vy crashes. and nM
every 56 property damage,
For this yecra , 1975, these figures wilt
bar even worse, police soya.
To date there have been one fatal
crash for every 15 personal injury
crashes omit one f tel crash for every 2S
property damage clashes.
Council approved the by-law eovering
the agreement with the London Humane
Society making it the poundkee _ .eer and
la
animal control elffieer for the township
for a one year period beginning January
1; 1976.
Passed for .payment were accounts
totalling 555.696.4. including general
accounts, amounting,to 537,263.61; road
accounts. 52,437.14;aanastra. recreation
centre, 513.4.19.53; Vanastre Day' Care
Centre, operating costs for month of
November, $1 ,490.00 and balance of
construction costs. 51,085.85.
The Engineer's report on the Sinclair
Drain will be discussed on January 20 at
8 :15 p. m. with the owners.
Council discussed the preliminary
plan of subdivision for the Dolg sub-
division in Egmondvilte reeyeived from
the (*tanto ministry of housing, in -
a uestionnairee~ ea Aho,proieett
eeatrtcl wftLirtsttuct the township lawyer
to prepare a subdivision agreement.
A request from the Hensel' Recreation
Board again will be held aver until the
new year for a decision when other
centres requesting aid will be dealt with.
The meeting adjourned at 12;15 a.m.
Wednesday until the inaugural meeting
January 6, 1976,
New chairman elected
Herb Turkhelm• of Zurich, left. was elected the new
chairman of the Huron County board of education at an
organizational meeting In Clinton Monday night. Talking
with Mr. Turkheim are Charles Thomas of Brussels, the
new vice-chairman; John Elliott of Blyth, the education
cha►irmarn; and Ken Cooke of Clinton, the management
chairman, (News -Record photo)
Farm incomes predicted to fall in 76
Farm incomes are ex-
pected to decline in 1976
following record highs this
year. according to a Statistics
Canada report to the
Agricultural Outlook Con-
ference Monday.
Economists predict next
year's gross farm income
could decline to 59.4 billion -
from this year`c 59.8 biltfan.
Net farm in;ome may be
down about 25 percent next
year to SI billion. Farm
erperating expenses are ex-
pected to increase by more
than nine percent during 1.970.
Fred grain prices are
cexpccted to hold at november
L(Weis thrnuith the winter
months. but next year's
prides' depend on the size of
crops in the northern
hemisphere.
1976 prices of beef will
hover close to the 1975
average of 547 per cwt., ac-
cording to the report. The
site bf the Canadian herd
should stabilize but beef
slaughter cattle will remain
high.
Caanadlaan hog producers
should receive firm, high
prices through the first half of
the year but increased sup-
plies should deflate prices by
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y Production of milk has the
►t'ential tor an increase next
year, but government
restraining measures are
expected to offset such an
increase.
World oilseed demand may
recover in 1976 but export
supplies will remain high,
Statistics Canada predicts. A
price increase is unlikely,
Consumers can expect
larger supplies of beet pork
and poultry. according to
Agriculture Canada
economists.
Beef and
ee�f poultry farmers
can expect prices to remain
reelaatively stikady but pork
prices should gradually drop.
Egg
marke tin first
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three-quarters of 1975 were
about the same as the same
period in 1974 with production
down slightly, according to
the economists. in the final
quarter, production is ex-
pected to be down by seven or
eight per cent compared to
last year.
The decline is expected to
ntinuee into the first halt of
1976. In the first quarter of
next year. Agricultural ex-
perts predict a 10 percent
dap and a. four to five per-
cent drop in the second
quarter.
Overall, experts say egg
supplies
ou
sshould int tart
et
In line with demand.
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