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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-08-04, Page 1• Clinton, Ontario ,25 cents T Crsdax , August 4, 1977 112th Year -No. 31 eather 1977 1976 HI 10 HI 1.0 JULY_ 26 72 48 83 54 27 74 40 80 61 28 78 51 81 53 2.9 7,6 58 71 62 30 73 58 78 56 31 85 57 79 56 1 Aug. 72 , 60 71 . Rain .84 Rain .44 e e own police a Along with an accident over the long Kuiper, 253 Victoria Street. A screen had weekend, the Clinton Police force have been 'removed from a window and taken in a report of assault and several someone had entered the house, but break and entries. nothing was stolen. The police learned that on Monday, According to Chief Lloyd Westlake, August 1 at the all night show at the probable reason for the break-ins Brownies Drive -In, an alleged assault was for money. He advises that anyone occurred. Scott Siemon, 16, of RR 1 seeing a suspicious looking vehicle or Bornholm said that he was at the show persons around homes or businesses with some friends and late in the evening should report their findings to the he went to the back fence of the drive-in Clinton Police office immediately. to sleep. He reported that he was While the Goderich detachment of the awakened by a couple 4of young men who OPP reported a quiet holiday weekend, were punching and kicking him. He the Exeter OPP were called to an ac - managed to get to the last row and his friends took him to Clinton Public Hospital. He was later sent to University Hospital in London for observation. Between July 29-30 Steve Steep, 172 North St., Clinton, reported that his home had been broken into while he was away. 1 -Ie' returned home to find six rifles, two belts of ammunition and a ' unting knife taken after the thieves oke in through a window: IP Ball and • Mutch Furniture.. on Albert Street was the victim of a break-in sometime between July 31 and August 2. Owner Clarence Denomme reported that ,the rear door had been broken by force but upon checking the store he saw' that nothing was disturbed. Between the same dates a similar incident occurred at the home of Mrs. C. • cident in which four people were injured Collins and one of his passengers, near Hensall. Doug Sproul, 19, of 131 Stonehouse St., The four are in satisfactory condition Goderich were taken to University in hospital following „the Saturday Hospital in London while another evening accident which sent one of the passenger, Karen Graf, 14, of 126 Brock vehicles spinning- some 200 feet into a St., Goderich is in South -Huron Hospital cornfield. in Exeter. A car driven by Steven Collins, 154 Essex St., Goderich was southbound on The Hewitt vehicle, which ended up in County Road 31 when it was in collision the cornfield, resulted in Hewitt being at the intersection with a westbound car treated in hospital .and released. His 22 - driven by Ronald Hewitt, 27, of Peter- year-old wife; Darlene, is reported to be borough. The Hewitt car was travelling in satisfactory condition in University on Highway 84 at the time. _ Hospital. sx�eed chase urecks C4th cruiser By Wilma Oke A high speed chase along highway 8 early Saturday morning resulted in injuries to three Seaforth men, a wrecked car, and a wrecked brand new week-old Seaforth police cruiser at the eastern limits of Clinton. The trouble started at 2:20 am Saturday when Glen Malcolm, 20, and Glen Allan Dale, 19, both of Seaforth, were standing at the main intersection of Highway 8 and Main Street in Seaforth. A car with four men from the Goderich area stopped and three men got out of the car. The driver of the car, Steven Carman, 17, is said to have assaulted Malcolm, causing ,pevere lacerations to his mouth and nose. Prior to this, the men were said to. have been driving around town, shouting a.tr..p.ersons they saw. Dale' noted the licence number of the Goderich car and gave it to the Seaforth Police who commenced looking for the car which was seen travelling west on Goderich Street (No. 8 highway) toward Clinton. The Seaforth Police radioed ahead to Clinton and asked them. to set up a road block. L 1� . - Robert Schenk, 20, of Seaforth arrived Joe Murphy at the main intersection and saw Malcolm injured and bleeding ,- Schenk • • dies took it upon himself to follow the ,lWell-known Goderich car, accompanied by Malcolm. citizen Travelling ata high speed he got ahead of the Goderich car and stopped it at the Kinburn corner, halfway to Clinton. He walked to the passengers side but the byWilma Oke Road, attended the Tuckersmith Goderich car took off toward Clinton and Douglas Morgan of Clinton, owner of a Township Council meeting Tuesday in being hit. he had to jump to the ditch to escape Brucefield. Morgan has been trying for small mobile home park on the Vanastra g months to get permission to expand his ;`":�yt '',. "•`f.• park site to 72 units. Tuckersmith Township council has been behind his expansion program but the Huron County Planning Board has 'turned him down. His property was zoned residential in, the county plan until last October when it was changed back ,to agriculture, when Tuckersmith passed its zoning bylaw to cover a triangle bounded by Brucefield, Clinton and Seaforth. Np one on council could explain how or why the change was made from residential to agriculture. Three of the councillors are new members since the election last December. Morgan •said he would like the new council to reaffirm its approval of him expanding his park. Morgan said he was told at a recent Ontario Municipal Board hearing in Brucefield on the Tucker - smith zoning by-law that the official plan is now law and the only way to change it is to ask Tuckersmith Council for an amendment to the plan. 1-4e said he is awaiting to see if the OMB report will contain help for him. Councillor Frank Falconer asked why the township let Morgan fight the problem alone while the township hired a lawyer on two previous occasions• when zoning problems arose. .Reeve Ervin Sillery could give little explanation but said it had never come up in council. A resolution was passed by council Athat the township solicitor be authorized ';`€ to ask the County Planning Department Neih bo r I f lbw &Y . hpark Morgan'sat Lot 45, Concession 2, was changed from residential back to '4 hel o - agriculture in the township planning by - why p law. Neighbours and the Bayfield firemen are credited with tinguished by firemen, and then hauled away in manure Steve Ward of Mitchell, was given saving two district barns over the holiday weekend after spreaders. Jack Merner, left, behind tractor, a Bayfield permission to extend cable -TV into the wet hay in the structures started to smoulder, and to be fireman, watches as Ted Dunn forks out hay to young David removed. -The hay was pitched out by neighbours and ex- Erbtownship in the Seaforth area, when he attended on tractor. (photo by Milvena Erickson) attended the council meeting with that request. Neighbors, '�' . �� �.,��' Fred Green, Princeton, of the Cowan ve tv�o Stan Insurance Company and local insurance fi re m e n s aDonald Eaton of Seaforth, were at agent, By Milvena Erickson forks through huge holes"cut in the sides quite a loss was sustained.in regards the council session to review all town - Bayfield Firemen, farmers, neigh- of the barn. to the hay; however, Mrs. Campbell ship insuranee coverage and make a few .. bours, men women, and young people Neighbours rallied around like a big remarked "we still have our barn, which small changes. The township premium answered a call to the farm of John family and several hours later had is a great deal to be thankful for." Some at this time is .$6,800, Clerk -Treasurer Campbell on the Bronson line on Sunday, removed all the hay from the barn. of the volunteers became ill from the gas John McLachlan reported. when the hay in his barn became ex- The women made coffee; sandwiches rising off the hay. tremely hot.and food to feed the volunteers. Food and Monday morning, almost everyone assistance poured in from all over the had fairly well recovered, when they The firemen kept pouring water on the area (it was rumoured that some pies received a call for assistance to the farm hay while farmers with their tractors that,arrived at the Campbell farm didn't of Richard Erb on Highway 21 south of and manure spreaders, and front end get onto the table they had been made Bayfield. loaders lined up to remove the for.) (Mrs. Steible's son said he didn't He too was encountering the same smouldering burning mass as farmers mind though), problems as John Campbell had done the forked it out of the hay loft with ensilage The Campbell barn was saved, but day before. Within minutes of his appeal, firemen, Storm itsower outfriends.and neighbours that had assisted CampbeltfErbs.Twithmanuespreader 'and frond loaders were lined up and methodically one after the other were by Wilma Oke the Grove. loaded with smouldering hay by farmers It was cold supper for the cottagers at The shorting of• the hydro wires in the hay loft forking out the mass. Elliott's' Grove north of Bayfield Sunday resulted in a spectacular "fireball" Women were preparing and serving afternoon when high winds accompanied display which caused some anxious ,food to the volunteers and keeping the .,by a severe thunderstorm swept through moments among the cottagers. A cot- coffee pots full of steaming hot coffee. the area about 2:30.pm cutting hydro and tage owned by Mrs. Bessie Falconer of "Love Thy Neighbour" was certainly telephone services. Clinton was narrowly. n missed by the evident on both Sunday and Monday. It Hydro service was disrupted for about failing tree topwas heartwarming to see so many eight hours when lightning is believed 'Water service was also lost with the people rally around to help their neigh - responsible for the topping of a large' loss of hydro power. A 1 'ydro work crew bours and it gives ne a great feeling to tree which fell across the hydro line in restored the service at 10110 pm know he luras iti,0116 a CdMnlunity. One of Clinton's best known citizens and businessmen, Joseph Murphy died after a lengthy illness on Tuesday, August 2. He was 60 years old. Mr. Murphy who was born just outside Clinton; was a well-known figure around the area, th1btr li"his business, Murphy's Garage and Bus Lines which he owned for over 30 years and as a volunteer in many organizations. _ Mr. Murphy- was an active member with the St. Paul's Anglican Church here in town and was the Chairman of the Clinton Public Hospital Board for many years. He was also a member of the Clinton Lions Club and took part in the Huron -Middlesex PC association. Joe, as he was known to many friends, is survived by - his wife Mary, four daughters Dianne, Mrs. Dean (Linda) Reid, Mrs. Chris' (Ruth)Percy, Mrs. Brian (Cathy) Westbrook and one son Bill. Clinton and area has finally had some relief for the drought we've- been ex- periencing, with a gentle rain on Friday, and a real vicious thunderstorm on Sunday afternoon that dumped almost 30 illimetres of rain in 45 minutes. The A and was so dry though, that an hour , ter 'the rain everything was dry again. +++ The storm also knocked out power in some areas including the northeast corner of town and the racetrack for an hour, and is believed, lightning is responsible for a television fire at the W.J. Pinning home on Isaac Street. Damage was kept to a minimum, though, by the Clinton fire brigde,who got to the fire without the siren going off. Seems the gals manning the fire phones were on the ball and contacted the firemen quickly, preventing a disastrous fire. One thing we did notice during the storm was the wind -speed indicator on our local cable TV channel. Even with the trees practically touching the ground, the indicator on the screen only measured five mph! +++ And 1-+-1- And speaking of showers, next ursday, Friday, and Saturday we, and most of the world will beexperiencing a shower of another kind, according to the scientists, when the earth will ex- perience numerous falling stars, UFOs or meteor showers. Best viewing time is from midnight to sunrise. Only one question: how come a guy that watches for meteors isn't a meteorologist? +++ For those who participated in or saw O' the "Farm Show" a few years ago and missed the filming of the show at the time, the Blyth Festival will be screening the movie on the show called the "Clinton Special" this Sunday August 7 at 8:30 p.m. +-I-+ Our piece of wisdom this week is of- fered without comment: "The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, this present worse than it is, and the zfuture finer than it will be." He is also survived by one brother Tom and four grandchildren. Mr. Murphy is resting at Ball Funeral Hor-be in Clinton and funeral services will ire held on Friday, August 5 at 2 p.m. k The Seaforth police cruiser driven by Constable William Streaks followed behind to make sure the Goderich car did not turn off onto a sideroad. Reportedly driving 100 miles an hour. the Schenk car overtook the. police cruiser and the Goderich car and at the eastern outskirts of Clinton Schenk lost control of his car which crossed over the southbound lane and struck a tree. Malcolm was knocked unconscious when his head struck the windshield and went through it causing cuts and bruises. Schenk received cuts as well. The car was demolished. The Clinton police stopped the. Goderich car with the roadblock. The Seaforth police cruiser arriving at continued on page 3 ColorfuI experience The kids got a chance to get back at their leaders during"paint the leaders" day at the Clinton play.sand eshowed g t dea en- thusiasm for their task. Here leader SuanneRider ofClinton tsthe colorful treatment. (News -Record photo) kickersmith appra�s pirk expansion In his report to council road superintendent, Allan Nicholson, said at least 16 road signs were stolen or damaged last Friday night: The signs included were STOP',` CONCEALED INTERSECTION, YIELD AND RAILWAY CROSSING. Requests for building permits were granted to Ben Bridges of Vanastra for improvements to home; and Robert Walters, RR 3, Kippen, feed room. Tax refunds were approved for George Romanik"for two properties, $134:40 and $65.33; and John Henderson, Brucefield, $70.70 because of the recent fire which destroyed his barn. Passed for payment were the following accounts: Vanastra Day Care, $4,711.89; Vanastra recreation, $7,699.11; roads, $17,886.85 and general, $21,934.20 for a total of $52.232.13. Presented with huge fill -line maps taken by airplane Council will request more information from the Ausable- Bayfield Conservation Authority before agreeing to carry out flood plains and fill rules and regulations. Reeve Ervin Sillery said he has received complaints of dogs in Brucefield. Council will be presented Wednesday night with the report on the fire protection needs in the township which has been completed by Don Owens of the Ontario Fire Marshal's Office. Reeve Sillery said the report is to be, given to council at a committee of the whole meeting in camera but will be discussed at a public meeting later. Council accepted a letter of resignation from Carol D.ixon of Vanastra as janitor at the Day Care Centre. Council approved a request for land division from Anthony DeJong for ten acres. A motion by Councillor Robert Drummond, seconded .by Robert Fotheringham, was made that the road superintendent grade all the roads in- cluding those with calcium, was defeated. A discussion was held on the merits of grading roads with calcium and,some thought it was not a good idea.. Road superintendent Nichlson said that calcium roads shouldn't be graded and was supported by'the members of Tuckersmith council. Lions Carnival big success By Milvena Erickson Despite the rain which - hampered many from constructing floats and decorating vehicles for the parade for the Annual Lions Frolic on Friday, the Frolic was a definite success. N • This year it was a two day event with the Parade on Friday evening, led by the Ipperwash Cadet Band. In the Agricultural Grounds were rides for the children, games of chance, turtle races and the ever popular hot dog stand. A share theAwealth bingo was in full swing inside the Arena and at 11 p.m. the draws were made for the money .prizes offered by the Lions Club. Lucky win- ners were: Harold Erb, Bayfield $200.; and five $10 prizes were won by Glen McNeil, Goderich; George Willits, Bayfield; Bob McKee, Zurich; Ken a Freebairn, Bayfield and Lorna Merner, Bayfield. On Saturday afternoon, the Agricultural Grounds was busy again with ball games,, rides, games of chance and the food booth operating. Inside the Arena a hospitality, booth and Fish Fry were in full swing. The Fish Fry was a delicious meal with all you could eat for $4. and $2.50 for children and included coffee and chocolate milk. There was talk of this becoming an annual event and for those who enjoyed the meal, about 500 people, I'm sure they too would welcome it annually. On' hand both nights to entertain, was the Bayfield Lions Goodtime Band. The Group had also toured the Trailer continued on page 3',