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sere and then mowed to Clinton at OA
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it ± years id eibt ,As well aas
'ice iu the 'AF from 1941 and priinter
ie wgs never very liar from a. community
ass. lie also worked as a president of
xe daily TJ`anaimo, B.C. Free
mss in ll `-. .
n September of` 1945, a week after
bmou S. Atkey and Herman
'n linson purchased the News -Record.
b,lrie "resumed his job as a linotype
o "erator at the paper. and assumed the
foremanship when Mr. Tomlinson left
he.paper in 1947.
He bought one-third interest in the
paper from Mr. Atkey in 1948, and this
partnership continued until 1952, when.
Mr. Atkey sold his interest to Frank
and Harry J. McEwan, and Laurie took
over full ownership of the paper in 1957.
On July 1st, 1967, he sold the paper to
Robert G. Shrier of Goderich Signal -Star
- fN, ablishing Limited. and the paper has
en operating from Clinton ever since.
1961, the paper moved from 63
rt Street to the former Rosy
etre at 56 Albert Street, and in
ember 1971, the paper moved to its
elle nt pubi.isher
so active in
Qns Clut
A. Laurie Colquhoun
p y eat' e*' f
baseball tarn from li
Besides. his mother.
lived, Laurie is surviveby (t
Jean (Mrs. Lenard 'Caldwell)
desboro, Audrey (Mrs.,
burn) of Toron, -Isabel
Theedom) of Clinton and Margaret
(Mrs. John Robinson) of. Zui icb "
five brothers, • Donald and loss of
London, Murray of Owen Sound, Tom of
Clinton and Hugh of London.
He was predeceased by his father
William, and a brother K.W.(Danny)
- Colquhaun, who died less than a month
ago, on August 6.
The funeral today at the Beattie
Funeral home will be in the charge of
Rev. E.C. Nelson, with interment in
Roy's Cemetery in Fullarton Township.
The pallbearers will be K. Laurie
Colquhoun. Allan Caldwell. Clare
Colquhoun, Don Colquhoun', Tim
Colquhoun. and Torn Robinson, all
nephews.
The flower bearers will be Blair
Coiquhoun, Jeff Colquhoun, • Neil
Colquhoun, and Paul Robinson, also
nephews.
25 -cents
etIther of the Clinton Volunteer ° Fire Department, Gerry Cox watches
helplessly as the kitchen of the Welk Holthuysen home is completely gutted by
fire. The house, six miles south west of Clinton en Concession 10 in Goderich
Township and owned by Bili Smith, was completely destroyed in the fire which
occurred Monday at noon hour. Fortunately, all the members of the family
escaped unharmed. Damages are esthnated at $20,000. (News -Record photo)
Fire strikes home
Thursday, September 1976
Goderich Township family loses everything
A noonhour fire on Monday has left a family up again and donors are asked to none of the contents were. Total damage
Goderich Township family homeless,
and destroyed most of their possessions.
Welk Holthuysen, his wife Marie, their
two. sons John 12, Harry, 9 and a
brother, Arnold, escaped from their
rented farmhouse of Lot 35, Concession
10, with just the clothes on'their backs.
, nApPea has been °iatluce4 to set t1
contact Blanche Deeves at 482-3383. is roughly estimated at $20,000.
The single -storey, frame structure,
owned by Bill Smith who lives just down
the road, was a mass of flames when the
Clinton fire :department arrived on the
scene about 12:20 and they were unable
to save any of the contents.
The house was -partially insured*, but .
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"This isn't a good show. said Art
Greenwood of Belmont, who judged the
adult exhibits at the Clinton flower
show, "it's an excellent show."
Despite the unpredictable and un-
desirable weather this summer, 29 area
gardeners brought out 320 exhibits this
year and 24 junior green thumbers
showed 102 entries at the Clinton Hor-
ticultural
Society's annual flower show
on Friday, August 27.
Mr. Greenwood, who has been judging
flower shows for the last 20 years, had a
difficult time placing the winners. but
was pleased with the imagination shown
in the arrangement classes and the
exceptional blooms in others. It was also
more difficult to place winners as the
adult classes had more than 100 ad-
ditional entries over last year's 226
exhibits and the children's 155 exhibits
which were up from last year's total of
102.
Mr. Greenwood put Jean McEwen in
the top position for the day. She received
By Jim Fitzgerald
It is always with. some sadness that we
report a death of someone who was well -
loved in town, but it especially grieves us
in the newspaper business when a
colleague such as Laurie Colquhoun
passes on. A dedicated newspaper man
and a devoted family man, Laurie set
*many printers and reporters on their
feet, and many left Clinton for greater
things. At the end of each story in the
news business we always write "30",
and now we must write "30" to Laurie's
stay with us.
raws
The Holthuysen had just immigrated
to Canada two years ago.
The cause of the fire is believed to be
an exploding kettle of oil in which one of
the youngsters was making French
fries.
I I Ith Year - No. 36
Weather
1976 1975
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AUGUST
24 81 53
25 80 50
26 81 59
27 85 64
28 81 63
29 68 42
30 62 36
Rain 0"
79 62
82 66
74 61
73 54
79 52
70" 64
67 70
Rain 1.04"
a trophy for obtaining the highest
number of p ints in all the classes. Mrs.
Al Barnett f RR2, Goderich received
the Clinton ews-Record award for the
second highest count of points, while
Mrs. Reg Cudmore won a bulb voucher
from Durst's for accumulating the third
highest number of points. Mrs. Jim Snell
took a prize from Anstett's for the fourth
highest number of points accumulated.
Charles Cook brought his prize dahlias
to the show, and won the Mrs. Brock
Olde prize for his green thumb efforts
and Mrs. Cudmore won Mrs. B.
Williscraft's prize for the best gladiolus.
Mr. Greenwood was especially im-
pressed with Mrs. Greg Brandon's
arrangement of cornflowers in a tea cup
and saucer. She took the Mrs. R. Feist's
award home for the best arrangement in
this beginners class. Jean McEwen won
a 810 gift certificate from Simpson -Sears
Ltd, for the top arrangement in the
show.
Mrs. E oroth Marquis and Charles
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We also bring to a close this weekend
our "surmrner" if one can call it that. The
fall rush starts this coming Tuesday,
with the kids back in school and most
activities getting fired up again for the
winter. Enjoy the Labour Day holiday
and please watch your driving, we need
all the readers we can get.
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Huron County bean producers will be
glad to know they are helping defeat the
energy crises, judging by a sign at Cooks
4111 in Hensall, which reads: "Eat more
beans. Canada needs the gas."
With school starting next week, our
summer help. Shelley McPhee must
return to her studies in her final year at
iRyerson in journalism. It has been a
perfect. productive newsroom with two
reporters to work with.
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But before we bid adieu to the sim-
mer, we can have one final fling at the
Bayfield Pair this Friday night and
of their Centennial
a+tuar`d�►y. The spirit o
elebratiorrs are stilt alive', so it should
be fin.
Cook had a busy time judging the tuning
entries. The Bank of Montreal gave
prizes of $2.50 each to Robert Snell in
the school age class and MichaelTultef
in the junior gardener class for ac-
cumulating the highest number of
points. Laurie Brandon in the school age
class and David Pullen in the junior
class won the Mrs. R. McCann award
for the second highest number of points.
and each took 51.50 for their efforts.
Brad .Tames in the school age class
and Mike W illiscraft from the junior
gardener class won a $1 each in a prize
donated by' Miss Margaret Sioman for
receiving the third highest number of
points. Mary Jamieson and Mrs.
Fingland gave 'a prize to Geraldine
McGee for the most effort in the junior
gardener class.
Mr. Greenwood was not only pleased
with the flower show itself. but when
driving into Clinton, he noticed several
exceptional gardens and planned to look
at them after he completed his judging.
at all' erai v'enr of the ll►ton Horticultural
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« Flower S`hd , u' fear ptrittte on the finer as c s of champloflship
tr Marigolds.
w held"last Friday in the CUSS cafeteria, was an
M>c�ri tits. The Plower Show,beautiful many varieties of beautiful flowers and artistically
h
r)utstttndirig� success with
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arranged fioral decoratto�ns. (News»Ricard photo)
There was plenty of laughs for the large crowd last Monday
night in Clinton when the Kinsmen battled the Lions in a
classic game of Donkey baseball. John Wise of the Lions,
right, and Don Armstrong, left, try to put the squeeze play
on Gary Jewitt of the Kinsmen at third base, during one
play, but Gary made it. The Kinsmen finally won the game.
Many in the audience had trouble telling the jackasses from
the ones they were riding. (News -Record photo)
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Gas, oiiprices rise in area
Clinton has only enjoyed gas prices in
the high 70 cent range for the past two
weeks, since Malone's Gas Bar opened.
When that self serve gas station opened,
the other Clinton gas stations lowered
their prices to compete with the 76.5
cents a gallon. Before that, most prices
were in the low 80s.
Now, the Federal government has
imposed another gas and oil hike. which
went into effect last Sunday at midnight
causing gas prices in Clinton (as well as
the rest of Canada, except for Nova
Scotia) to rise back into the 80, and 90
cent range.
In a recent News -Record survey, area
gas stations and oil -distributers have
complied with their company's requests
and raised the price of their gas and oil
by five cents. although some prices do
vary.
Lorne Brown Motors, a Sunoco dealer
din Clinton had received_. -tin wvord..frorrn
their distributor as of Monday morning
and their prices remained at 76.9 for
regular ;Ind 80.9 for no lead gas.
Carter's West End (.BP) has raised
their regular gas from 78.9 to 83.9 and
their premium gas from 85.9 to80.9 cents
a gallon; while McPherson's Garage,
also a BP dealer. has raised their
regular gas from 78.9 to 83.9 and their
premium from 83.9 to 88.9 and their no
lead from 82.9 to 87.9.
Murphy's Garage (BP) had received
no word and their gas remained at 77.9
for regular and 84.9 for premium, while
Goldsworthy's BP station has raised
their prices from 78.9 to 83.9 for regular
and 85.9 to 90.9 for premium gas.
Clinton Chrysler Plymouth (Gulf )
remained at 83.9 for regular and 87.9 for
no lead. as of Monday morning and
Harold's Shell Service had received no
word from their distributor and
remained at 78.9 for regular and 82.9 for
no lead.
Frey's Arrow Service went up from
79.9 to 84.9 rfor regular and 78.9 to 90.9 for
premium, while Ron Maine's Sunoco
went from 76.9 to 81.9 for regular and
82.9 for premium gas.
Malone's Self Serve gas bar had
received no word from its distributor ,
and as of Monday morning, was.still 76.5
for regular gas and 80:5 for no lead while
Vicki's North End (Texaco) is still the
same at 82.3 for regular al'1d 88.3 for
super.
The Bayfield Garage. which is a BP
dealer had received no word from their
distributor 'Monday morning and were
dispensing gas at 83.9 for regular. and
91.9 for premium while Rowcliffe Motors
in Seaforth was still selling their gas
(Esso) at 78.9 for regular and 83.9 for
super.
Malone's Petroleum in Goderich went
Light frost does little harm
What looks like a good corn crop in
Huron County this year could turn into a
disaster if a kilter frost strikes the area
in the next month.
A light ground frost on Monday
morning did little damage to any crops
in the' area except some white beam and
sensitive vegetable crops in low lying
areas, but local agricultural experts are
concerned that cool nights and maybe
even a hard freeze could cut grain corn
yields considerably.
Don Pullen, agricultural represen-
tative for Huron County, said the corn
needs at least three weeks yet of
warm
sunny weather to reach its full potential.
from 74.9 to 79.9 for regular; 85'.9 to .90.9
for premium and 83.9 to 88.9 for no lead,
while Wingham Sunoco Service went
from 79.9 to 84.9 for regular; 85.9 to 90.9
for premium and 83.9 to 88.9 for no lead
and Graham Arthur Motors, Exeter
(Texaco) had received no word and was
still selling at 76.9 for regular: 86.9 for
premium and 81.9 for no lead.
The furnace oil companies are also
suffering from the increase imposed by
the government and consumers are
being affected. Kerrigan Fuels (BP) has
increased their furnace oil from 43.4 to
47.9 cents a gallon and their stove oil
from 48.2 to 52.7 cents.
Mel Bogie, an Esso dealer, has raised
his furnace oil from 43.4 to 47.9 and his
stove oil from 48 to 52.5 cents per gallon.
while Ross Scott Fuels (Sunoco) is up
from 43.6 to 48.1, for fuel oil and 48.2 to
52.7 for stove oil ' and Scruton Fuels
(Shell) is up from 43.2 to 47 cents for
furnace oil and 48.7 to 52.5 for stove
oii.Sterling Fuels. a Champion dealer,
has raised their furnace oil from 43.4
tents a gallon to 47.9 and their stove oil
from 48.3 to 52.8 cegts a gallop.
Farmers are remembering the
disastrous crop of 1974 that was hit by
an early September frost, following a
cool summer much like this year.
Mr. Pullen said that little damage was
reported from Monday's frost, which
weather,
followed two weeks of hot, dry
but . with the weatherman predicting.
frost again on Thursday and Friday
morning, farmers are very worried.
He reported that some beans have
already been pulled'i'i the southern p
of Huron, but many tate planted fields
still need two weeks of warm. dry
weather to mature in time. Even without
the.f`roost. the crop is barely average.
Hospital not sure
of budget cut
Contrary to a report in last week's
paper. Doug Coventry administrator of
the Clinton Hospital does not know how
r tich . money 'the Ontario ministry of
health will put back into the hospital's
budget.
After a three-hour Meeting with a
health ministry! was last Wed-
nesday. Mr. Coventry ycon-
fident
fident that the original $225,000 budget
taut would ire reduced to a more
manageable level.
Meanwhiie, some staff has already
been given their termination notices and
Mr. Coventry hopes they may'be rehired
pending the outcome Of the further
budget review.
Four full-time employees have been
laid off, while 14 part,tim+e-staff alto
have been laid -off. A further 13 persons
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