Clinton News-Record, 1977-09-15, Page 1Beautiful
boating
Clinton is fast becoming known as the boat building capital
of southern Ontario, as a new company Woodco Boats has
started into business and last week were reading their first
hand crafted boat for the Toronto Boat Show this week.
Owners Dave ' Woodman of Clinton, and James Cook. of RR
1, Clinton, say they hoped to produce the 29 -foot sailing
sloop, valued at $50,000, at Vanastra, but excessive in-
surance rates may force them to move to Goderich. Here
James Cook puts the finishing touches to the stainless steel
railing. (News -Record photo)
�«akrena ice rentals rise
It will cost more to rent the ice at the the Central Huron Secondary School
Clinton Community Centre for football teams use the soccer field at the
everybody but the minor hockey system park this year, as the highschool's field
and the figure skaters, the. Clinton is torn up for reseeding,
recreation committee decided last
'Thursday night.
The rental fees for minor hockey and
figure skaters were left at last year's $12
per hour rate after an appeal from minor
hockey association members Gerald
Hiltz and Lowell Barnes, who made a
presentation to the meeting.
However, in -town -users will pay $20
per hour, up from $18 of last year, and
out-of-town users will pay $24 per hour,
an increase of $4 from last year's $20.
"Let's give the minors a break,"
"suggested committee, member Ray
Garon ,after hearing the minor hockey
officials.
Hiltz told the committee that the
association was carrying a large deficit
from last season, and said they could be
another $2,000 in the hole if the ice rental
rates were raised again.
The minor association has planned
fund raising dances to try and overcome
the deficit.
Arena manager Clarence Neilans said
that Clinton's ice time for minor hockey
was still one of the cheapest in the area.
He said Exeter charges$18.75 per hour;
Seaforth, $14; Wingham, $15; Goderich
$10; Blyth $22; Vanastra $30; and Mit-
chell, $32.
The rec. committee ,also raised rates
for the rental of the arena floor and the
auditorium.
The arena floor will now cost $200 a
day to rent, or $175 if cleaned up to the
manager's satisfaction, up from $175
band $150 respectively of last year.
It will now cost $125 to rent the up-
stairs auditorium or $100 cleaned up $25
each from the old rates of $100 and
In' other hockey business, the rec
committee agreed with a proposal from
manager Clarence Neilans to sponsor
the Bantam hockey tournament again Judge H. Glenn Hays, successively
this season. Crown Attorney, Magistrate and
The tourney will be held on January Provincial Judge in Huron, died sud-
19,20,21, and 22, with the finals 'on the denly last Sunday in Kitchener, in his
weekend of January, 27,28, and 29. The 64th year. At the weekend he had taken
* trophies from last year's cancelled event his younger daughter, Roberta, to enroll
will be used this year, with Len Fawcett at Wilfrid Laurier University. Judge
helping stage the event. Hays had suffered from heart trouble for
he rec committee also agreed to let, some years.
He was appointed Crown Attorney in
1948, continuing private practice in
Seaforth until 1956, when he became
Crown Attorney full time and removed
to Goderich. He held that office for more
than eleven years, then in 1959 suc-
ceeded the late Dudley Holmes as
. With the cool weather upon us, and the magistrate and judge of the Juvenile and
+ trees changing color, it appears that fall Family Court for Huron, In July, 1968, he
is once more upon us, and rather than was appointed a Provincial Judge.
fight it, I guess we'll just have to accept In Goderich, Judge Hays has been
the inevitable: winter's not far away. active in many organizations working
But true to the hardy Canadian spirit, for the ,betterment of the community,
we should get the most out of it, and and was an elder and member of the
that's what many of us do, including the board of managers of Knox
hundreds of'hockey players in our midst,
Which brings us to the swift realization
that the hockey season is only, a few
weeks away now, and the planning is
well under way. The Juniors open camp
...._.,, xt Tuesday, while the minor hockey
stem are having their registration this
Saturday, September 17, and next
_Saturday, September 24, from 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. both days under the grandstand.
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For all those males out there who don't
wear a suit regularly, and hence find it's
out of style by a couple of years, and is
used so infrequently, that it looks like
you slept in it, take heart. According to
the latest male fashion stories out of
Paris, the baggy, poorly fitted, rumpled
suit is now in vogue! Gee, I always knew
I'd eventually be in style some day.
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This week, marks the return of the
Central Huron Chronicle to the pages of
the News -Record, with Phillip Street of
Blyth as the new editor. The students
hope to keep everyone informed on the
latest 1hppei Ings at the local -high
sbhool, but as with every newspaper,
need more help. Any "scoops" around
With nothing to do?
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Clinton, Ontario
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Town Hall restoration has merit
The Clinton Town Hall definitely has
architectural merit worth saving, but
whether the cost would be too high will
have to be determined.
That basicaly is what town council and
potential members of a local branch of
the architectural conservancy branch
were told last Wednesday during a tour
olz the 90 -year-old structure by,,, two
membeL s of the Heritage Foundation. •
The two men, including Stephen Otto,
told the tour that the old town hall had
many distinctive„Canadian architectural
features, about it including the. mansard
roof, as•opposed to many other Canadian
buildings, t which are copies of some
other country's.
It could be restored into a very nice,
multi-purpose building, but restoration
• would depend on cost.
In 1974, a London engineering firm of
McLaren and Associates estimated it
would cost $400,000 to fix up the old
building, but the Heritage Foundation
members told the tour that they should
get another study done.
The group, which included Mayor
Harold Lobb, councillors Ernie Brown,
Rosemary Armstrong, and Ron McKay,
as well as interested citizens Gerald
Fremlin, •Heather Hunter, and Clerk
Cam Proctor, were told that should it be
Lconomical to fix up the hall, then
Clinton would be eligible -for a number of
grants, including a Heritage Foundation
giant, Wintario, Performing Arts Grant,
and Ivey Foundation grant°, to name just
a few,
Mr. Otto also suggested.that the group
look at town hall restoration projects in
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Petrolia, Exeter, Simcoe, Paisley,
Kingston, and Coburg.
Town council will now have to decided
whether another engineering study
should be carried out, and meanwhile,
councillor Ron McKay is hoping that
more people' come forward and volun-
teer to join a Architectural Conservancy
Branch, that town council decided to
form last month':
"So far we've only had three volun-
teers,"1VIcKay said last week.
Fund -raisin- to start
A fund raising steering committee, to
collect money to help pay for a newfloor
in the Clinton Community Centre, was
formed • last Thursday night at the
meeting of the Recreation committee.
The steering committee will attempt
to get enough area citizens interested' in
getting a fund raising committee going
to help finance replacing the floor,
estimated to cost between $100,000 and
$125,000.
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Thursday, September 15, 1977
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Rec board member Ron McKay told
the committee, that the town needed
about $35,000 in non -tax dollars before
the town could get any Wintario grants.
The floor of the present arena, built in
1967, is cracked and leaking coolant, and
arena manager Clarence Neilans said he
hoped the floor lasted the season.
"If we're going to do anything next
year, then we should start now (raising
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Clinton hospital o Ices steps in renovation plan
The Clinton hospital, once doomed by
the Ontario ministry of health and or-
dered closed last year, is fighting back
and last week made a major first step on
the long road to recovery.
At a meeting last week in Seafo,th, the
Clinton hospital board was given first
priority • by representatives of seven
other hospital boards to go ahead with
renovation and updating plan.
The meeting was called by Dr. R.
Khazen the ministry of,,health's'area co
ordinator. ' ••
Khazen, was appointed to look after
the Huron -Perth area, after local of-
ficials in the two counties turned 'down
the District Health Council idea earlier
this year.
Khazen, along with R.W. Davis, senior
administrative consultant with the
ministry of health, had called the
meeting to discuss submission from all
the hospitals in Huron and Perth, and
after a secret ballot was taken, Clinton
was listed as the top.hoye'pital to go ahead '
with an expansion program.
But there are still many hurdles to go
over yet, according to Clinton hospital
board officials.
Bob Campbell, .public relations officer
for the Clinton board, said that the
representatives still had to go back to
their individual boards for approval, and
the ministry of health in Toronto has to
give their approval yet and supply some
of the funds.
•E ven if all those approvals are given,
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construction wouldn't even get started
until next April, 1978,
Basically, the renovation plans would
call for the moving of the emergency
department and the X -Ray department
from the overcrowded 100 -year-old wing
at the north end of the hospital, and
relocating them in the south end of the
hospital, built in 1862, now used as ad-
ministrative offices and board rooms.
Eventually, over a period of several
years, the old wing of the hospital would
Separate board calls pornography "cancer
by Richard Shaw
"Pornography is like a cancer and
we've got to start somewhere to stamp it
out.”
These were chairman Mickey Vere's
words at Monday night's meeting of the
Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic
Separate School . Board. Vere was
referring to a letter, which was sent to
all the boards of education in the
country, from the Periodical
Distributors of Canada.
. The letter suggests that the issue of
availability of pornographic material to
children should be left in the hands of the
courts and that the boards should not
interfere,
Director of Education, Bill Eckert said
that • the letter is a public relations
document that is full of contradictions
and accusations.
The availability of pornography is an
issue which has raised much discussion
at recent O.S.T.C. meetings. The Huron -
Perth Separate School board also
received a memorandum from the
executive director of the Ontario School
Trustee's Council concerning por-
nography: The memorandumsays that
"As educators we must be concerned at
the ,pouring of ,millions of dollars into
publications for marketing, which give a
distorted impression of social ac-
ceptability and normalcy of sexual
deviation" and the availability of these
publications to children.
Judge Glenn. Hays dies in Kitchener
Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his wife, the former
Roberta Johnston, and two daughters
Mrs. Samuel W. J. (Sarah) Lawlor of
Burlington, and Roberta J., at home.
The 'funeral took place Wednesday.
The casket, after resting at the
residence, remained in the narthex of
Judge Hays
Knox Church from 1 p.m. until the time
of service, 2:30. Britannia Masonic
Lodge 170, of Seaforth, of which Judge
Hays was a life member, held a service
at the residence on Tuesday evening.
John F. Butson is master.
Rev. R.C. McCallum, assistant
minister of Knox church, conducted the
service, at the church and Maitland
Cemetery. Pallbearers named were
Paul Parsons, David Parsons, Scott
Hays, - Frank Gardiner, Brian
MacDonald and Henry Albert. Honorary
pallbearers: Harold Bettger, Judge
Francis Carter, L.B. Graham, Gordon
McManus, Beecher Menzies, Donald I.
Stewart, John K. Sully and Dr. John
Wallace.
Stiles. Funeral Home was in charge of
the arrangements.
Harry Glenn Hays was born at
Egmondville, in Tuckersmith Township,
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Broeze's 20 years in milling ends
By Mary Chessell
After almost 20 years in business in
Varna, Henry (Dank) Broeze has sold
his feed mill to Franklin Roth of RR 3,
Kippen, and the new owner to take over
on Sept. 15. Mr. R o+h at present has a
five -acre farm where he raises pigs.
The building where the mill is located
was erected by Josiah Secord in 1875
(according to Floyd McAsh's "Varna in
Review"). Mr. Secord came here in 1854
and was the man who named Varna
after the Bulgarian seaport of that
name.
In 1855 he opened the first store and
post office here: In the 1890's there was a
tailor shop over the store. A coal -heated
iron known as "the goose" caused a fire
one Sunday morning which nearly
destroyed the building.
In 1901, Thos. McAsh became post-
master, and two years later rnoved the
post office into his new home, where he
MO sold a few groceries. The building
on. the corner was a general store until
1920, when John 1vicAsh purchased the
stock.
From 1924 until 1933 the Standard
Bank, then the Canadian Bank of
Commerce were located in the building.
In 1935 Wm. Reid started the chopping
mill business using a big Rumely tractor
for power, threshing with it in the
summer, then using it to power the mill
in the winter.
After his death in 19, Wilson McCar-
tney ran it for two winters, also using a
Rumely tractor.
In 1943, John Aldiston of Cromarty
bought the mill and rebuilt it. He in-
stalled a feed mixer and Ruston one -
cylinder engine which is still in use.
Norman Smith, who worked for John
for several years, says they find many
strange things on the chop screen. John
nearly always founda cerin or two; Norm
found things like a spoon, an orange, a
live mouse z--- but never any money.
In 1957, John sold the mill to Mr.
Broeze, who had worked at Cann's Mill
Trustee Arthur Haid said "It's not only
magazines and written material, but
movies and television also go un-
censored and are available to children."
Haid went on to say. "There's nothing
that takes a hold of a child's mind like
that T.V. set."
Chairman Vere suggested that
trustees write their local aldermen,
members of the legislature, and
member of parliament.
be torn down, and a new wing built.
The hospital board has asked the
Stratford architectural firm of Kyles,
Kyles and Garratt to come up with a cost
estimate of carrying out the plans, first
drawn up in 1975, but shelved when the
hospital was .ordered closed last
February.
Two other plans, to build a new boiler
room, and add a floor on top of.the 1962
addition, have been scrapped. .
Clinton must come up with a cost
figure by today, September 15.
Beecher Menzies, chairman of the
hospital board, said he was very sur-
prised at the , reaction of the other
hospital boards at the meeting last week.
"It's an indication of the co-operative•
attitude that the hospitals in the local
area are now assuming," he said. •
"The significant thing about the
meeting was the other hospitals voted to
go ahead with Clinton's (renovation)
program," Menzies said.
Menzies admitted, however, that the
main stumbling block to the program
was the attitude of the' Ministry of
health, who are still fighting a court
decision that said the government
couldn't close the Clinton facility.
at Whalen's Corners for the previous six
years. He installed grain cleaning and
treating equipment, and bulk grain
receiving equipment. A few years later
he added a molasses mixer.
One of Hank's customers, remarked
recently that Hank provided the kind of
service you can't always get these days.
He would order and deliver things such
as wire for a farmer, and deliver small
orders to people who have only a few
acres.
Mr. Roth has purchased a bulk feed
truck for the busines9, and Norman
Smith, who has been assisting Mr.
Broeze since his illness a couple of years
ago, will continue to run the mill for Mr.
Roth. Wed like to wish Mr. Roth much
success in his neyv venture.
We are pleased that the Broezes are
remaining in the village, and we will still
hear Hank'§- cheerful "Good Morning"
and hatre the services of Mrs. Broeze,
who is an excellent seamstress. We hope
they will fully enjoy their retirement. ,
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Had his fill '
After 20 years in the feed mill business, Henry Broeze has sold his mill to Franklin
Roth .of RR 3, Happen. Henry stands out in front of his mill, on Huron, Road 3 in
Varna, (photo by Maty Chessell)