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More than 125 million people across the world saw this
picture of Wat Webster of Clinton during telecast of the
Tournamerlt;gfRoses parade last Monday, January 2. Wat,
along wit , , L »`.:Linton Legion Pipe Band were part of the
giant Onto { -:Massed Legion Pipes and Drums band that
played in
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played It is believed that Wat was the oldest
marvJier i'i 'the band. The.band left Clinton last Saturday,
and flew out of Toronto on Sunday morning for Pasadena,
California. (News -Record photo) '
Only one accident from weather.
Over $4000 in damages Was received
' to a pick up truck and trailer driven by
David Urlin; 30, of RR 1., Auburn on -.
Girl saves family
An alert girl and quick action by the
Clinton area volunteer firemen last
Saturday morning preNented a serious
fire and maybe a loss of life.
. Firemen were called to the Lawrence
Young horpe just smith of town about
7:15 a.m.after ' one of the Young
children, Loretta, 13', awoke to find the
house filled with smoke.
The father, Lawrence-. quickly
evacuated the youngster Steven, 9, and
his wife Florence, and called the fire
department.
Fire Chief Clarence Neilans said the
house was full of smoke when they
arrived, and was caused when ashes
cleaned out of a stove the day before
started smouldering again 'in the
basement.•
.Chief Neiland said that there could
have been loss of life from smoke
inhalation if the family had continued to
sleep.
There was little property damage
from the smoke, as firemen ex-
tinguished the blaze with their portable
fire extinguisher.
' by Jim Fitzgerald
Finally it's all over. The holidays are
finished and we will have to go through a
long, long, stretch until there's another
one. In fact, the next day off isn't until
Good Friday, which is March 24 this
year. We seem to say this every year,
but wouldn't it make more sense to
spread out all.those Christmas holidays,
nd have one in late January, and
another in February? It seems to be •
feast or famine. Either we have too
many'off at once to enjoy them, or none
off when we really need them during the
dull boring months of -winter. ,
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But it certainly won't be boring around
the Doug Wise household, once they get
those New Year's twin boys home•from
hospital. To mark the occasion we've
composed a little poem at the News -
Record especially forDoug and Jeanine:
"Double your pleasure, double your fun,
having two babies is better than one."
Well, maybe, if• you don't consider
there's twice as many, diapers to wash,
and twice as many sleepless nights
walking the floor.
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The Clinton Legion Pipe Band, who
were part of that, massed band in the
tournament of Roses parade on Monday,
cerinly did the town proud . in
representing us. It's almost over-
whelming to think that about 125 -million
,people saw them on television.
It,.eems that one of the biggest dif-
"fitulties tamed by many in the first part
of any New Year is remembering to
change the date on one's cheques,
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To all those who -over -indulged at the
dinner table over Christmas We offer the
following: "Sign outside a reducing
salon: `Stop ! Look !'Lessen !' ".
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Further to' an identification line under
a picture of Dapper Dillon that appeaii►s
elsewhere in tilts edition, , we have
learned that Dapper has also made -the
most 'money' in 1977 of any trotterrating
solely in Canada. 1 At rest ,count,
Dapper had-aut$9E0 on his Card.
Tuesday after a single vehicle accident
-occurred on Highway 4, south of Blyth,
during a white-out
Urlin was travelling west when the
trailer jackknifed and the vehicle hit a
snowbank on the west side of the road.
Donald Vanderhaar, 21, ' of RR 2,
Bayfield received minor injuries
following a single car accident on County
Road 13, just east of Highway 21.
Gas war still on irt town
A quick informal survey by the News -
Record has established that Clinton and
Goderich enjoy the cheapest gasoline
prices in Ontario. '
In a survey of motorists returning
from the Christmas holidays, the News -
Record has learned that the 79.9 cents
paid by Clintonians is about the lowest in
the province for regular gas.
Both Ron's Sunoco, and Green and
Parent are selling regular gas for 79.9
cents, the lowest in town while Malones
Gas Bar is selling at 81.9. ,
The war, which started three weeks
ago, has dropped the price of gas 12
cents a gallon.
The war has also spread to Goderich,
where several dealers are also selling it
at 79.9 cents for regular. '
Ron's Sunoco also has the lowest price
for no-leadf at 84.9, and the lowest for
high test at 86.9.
However, ' Se4fortk . esidents are
paying 91.9 for regular, and up to 98.9 for
high test, with no lead going for 95.9
cents per gallon. '
"I don't know how they're (Clinton
dealers) doing it," a spokesman for
Wright -Taylor BP said on Wednesday.
"We have to pay $8.5 cents (wholesale)
for bur gas."
Stratford, the traditional cheap gas
town, is selling regular gasoline for 83.9
cents a gallon.
The best 'one can do in London is 85.9
for regular, while a chea,,pest in
Toronto is 86.9.
In some parts of the pro 'nce,,regular
gas sells for as high as $1,0 a gallon.
Dealers and distributors are being
quiet on the gas war' in Clinton .4n
Goi4erich, and no one would say whet4t
might end.
But 1 the meantime, Clinton.
automobile, ,drivers are enjoying the
cheapest gas in Ontario.
ulieU-M cKillop hire
building inspector
By Wilma Oke
McKillop and Hullett Townships have
jointly hired a building inspector Eugene
McAdan-, of Clinton.
His dutie's will commence in
February. A new building by-law with
changes in permit fees will be passed in
February.
Land severance was approved for
elson McClure for 100 acres for Lot 31,
oncession 4.
The by-law for the McDonald
Municipal Drainage system (B) at
Walton was given third _reading and
passed. This is a Grey Township drain
involving McKillop Township.
Machan Construction 'of Monkton 'has
been hired for snow plowing in McKillop
Township. This was necessitated by a
recent accident involving' the township
'truck -plow 'which is presently being
repaired. The firm will be paid at the.
rate of $21 per hour.
Councillor Harvey Craig of Walton
was appointed as representative to the
Blyth District Fire Area board. Reeve
Allan Campbell and Councillor William
Leeming represent the township on the
Seaforth Fire Area board.
Reeve Campbell will represent the
township on the Maitland Valley Con-
servation Authority and the Ausable-
Bayfield Conservation Authority.
A borrowing by-law for $140;000 was
passed, and Monteith & Monteith of
Stratford ` was named auditor for the
township for 1978.
For 1978, Reeve Campbell will receive
$1,000 per year, up from $900 last year
and the rest of council will receive $800
each, up from $700.
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ucersmith workers receive raise
The accident, which occurred on
Sunday, January 1 also resulted in $500
damages to the vehicle when Van- i
By Wilma Oke Road superintendent, Allan Nicholson
derhaar lost control while travelling east.. Tuckersmith Township Council at its , will receive $5.25 per hour for any ser -
on the road. He entered the north ditch meeting Tuesday night gave its full-time vice calls after hours for Egmondvllle
and hit a hydro pole. - employees a four percent increasA plus �(etc system.
50 percent of the fringe benefit package, ,Miss Karen •Mc'1✓wing, director of the
for a total increase varying from 5.1 to Day Care Centre and her assistant will
5.5 percent. This includes the clerk receive an extra $400 each in 1978
treasurer, road superintendent and his because they have attained certification
full-time staff, Vanastra' recreation status. .
centre manager and assistant manager Reeve Ervin Sillery, e.ieputy reeve
and director and assistant director of the Robert Bell and councillors Robert
Vanastra Day Care Centre. Fotheringham and Robert Drummond
will be , attending the three-day Good
Roads Convention in Toronto in
February and will be paid $75 per day
per delegate plus $29 registration fee
,r. each plus the additional registration fee
The Clinton Police , reported a quiet
holiday weekend with no accidents.
However, they learned of a theft when
it was reported that on Friday,
December 30-a tape deck valued at $125
was stolen from a vehicle- owned by
Robert McMann of Victoria Street.
More kids in care than budget
John Penn, director ofthe Family and
Children's Services in_ Huron County,
formerly the Children's Aid Society, said
costs in Huron were higher during 1977
than anticipated • and a supplementary
budget will have to be requested from
the Ministry. The 1977 budget was for
$473,000; the actual costs are $512,000.
Penn said a greater' number of
•children are in care presently than had
been expected when the budget was
struck. Case workers are busy, he said,
handling about 36 cases each = the
highest work ratio in South Western
Ontario and the fourth highest in
Ontario.
At present, about 170 family services
are provided per month. There are 80
children in care.
Penn expressed his disappointment at
the discontinuing of the Child Abuse
program. He said that in 1976, six
,families were involved in the program.
When the program was abandoned a
year later, 32 families were involved.
Family Court
judge .appointed
The Honourable R. Roy McMurtry,
Attorney General for Ontario announced
last week the appointment of John M
Gammell of Midland to the Provincial.
Court (Family Division). •
Mr. Gammell will preside in Gley,
Bruce and Huron Counties. 'His ap-
pointment is effective January 9, 1978.
He replace's Judge°`F.T. Egener wh
retiring.
Mr. Gammell, 46, wa0 bony'
treal and educated in Montreal, Torp
and Ottawa. After graduation from
Carleton University if 1954,.he entered-
Osgoode Hall Law.School.and waS called
to the Bar in 1958. He has practised law
in Midland since 1960. •
• Mr. Gammell has -been actiVi in a
wide range of comr1unity .and -legal
organizations, i�nciuding there idland
YMCA, the Midland Kiwanlf)}hb, the
Midland Chamber of Com ..ce",, the
Children's Aid Society of the Gotinty of
Simcoe, the Midland Law Association
and the County of Siincoe L400.1) Aid
Committee. „
His interests include swimming, and
skiing,, and "he, hasbeen active In
organizing and coaching these sports.
Mr. Gamirnell and his wife Ruth have
two children•rBetsy 14, and Traver, 11.
In other business, council heard a
report from Lynn Graham, program
assistant for the Rural Development
Outreach program which is operated in
Huron through the University of Guelph.
Funds totalling $577,000 are provided by
the Kellogg Foundation for a four-year
period - one year of which is just passed,..
About $40,000 has already been spent
in Huron for such% programs as
children's theatre in Wingham; a
drainage project in Turnberry Town-
ship; a Mobility Club which is expected
to be operating in Wingham by the
summer of 1978; and plans for a
Wingham museum as well as for the .
Wingham Centennial in 1979.
for their spouses.
Mrs. Marie Fitzsimmons -of Bayfield,
animal control officer for the township,
will be able to use the Seaforth
Veterinary Clinic or the Goderich
Veterinary Clinic facilities for im-
pounding stray dogs she picks up.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons will be paid $2 for
each dog tag she sells in the township - a
ratepayer with one male dog or one
payed female female on premises will be
charged • $5 per dog tag; for each ad-
ditional male or spayed female the tag
will be $20 for each; for female, if only
one kept on the premises, the tag will be
$10; for two female dogs kept on the
premises the tag will be $25 for the
second female; for each additional male
or female after two animals the charge
will be $30 for each tag.
Council' accepted the offer of the
Huron Federation of Agriculture which
shares the township office building "at
Vanastra, for $50 monthly for the last six
months, when the township took over the
rental of the building and will pay $100
per month for rental for ,the next six
months. The Bank of Montreal owns the
building.
Council passed a borrowing bylaw for
$600,000 to meet, the current ex-
penditures of the council until the
current revenue has been received. •
Robert Dempsey, Huron County .
engineer and Lee Auchier, Ministry of
Transportation and Communications,
discussed the Hensall road east of
Hensall which the township had asked
the county to take over as a county road.
This was refused on the grounds it did
not meet county standards. -
Passed for payment were the
following accounts: Vanastra Day Care
Centre,' $3,821.29; Vanastra recreation
centre, $3,177.04; general accounts,..
$13,972.21 ; roads, $19,035.44, for a total of
$40,005.98.
An application for a tile drainage loan
for $4,800 was approved.
Stanley and Tuckersmith Townships
will hold a joint meeting on January 31 at
8 p.m. at the Brucefield Fire station.
Elliott asks trustees for co-operation
R. J. Elliott, the Blyth school board
trustee, was elected chairman
Huron County Board of Education
Tuesday afternoon at the board's
inaugural meeting for 1978. Elliott,
On-
rer
Receiving the have
John Elliott of Blyth, left, accepts the"gavel kern Herb Tucrkheim of Zurich, after
he 'yyrascted the new chairman of the I-Iuton...County Board of education last
Ttiesda , anuaryy 3 at their inaugural meeting. Turkheitn had been chairman' for
the Past *years. Cklews.lteeord photo)
serving' in his fourth year as trustee, was said. "Our problem is to keep that in-
electedover Marion Zinn, vice chairman crease to a minimum."
of the board in 1977. 'He said the trustees will receive many,
Elliott, who is trustee for the village of suggestions on how to trim costs in
Blyth and the townships of East education but that they would have .to
Wawanosh and Morris, appealed to remember that their duty is to provide a
board members in his inaugural address . sound education system for children in
stressing a need for trustees to support , Huron. He said the board members
one another and co-operate during 1978. ,would have to weigh all those recom-
He said -the year would be a difficult one rrtendations and make a decision with
for the board and would require every teachers, students, parents and
member to devote all their efforts to ratepayers inmind.
their jobs. He said one of the ways the board
The chairman said the trustees faced a could achieve: 'success is through open
very difficult financial situation brought channels for communications,
on by a reduction in provincial gover- something he was giving top priority in
1978• He said the board would have to
nment grants for education and
declining enrolments. He said the board develop ways to ensure that everyone
does not know yet what the province will affected by a board decision has an
be giving school boards for operating opportunity to have some input into that
costs but pointed out that the grants are decision before it is made.
He added that the board should make
a
based on enrolment and fewer students
would mean less money no matter what 'n attempt to explain its decisions and
the reasons for them to aid in that
the grants were. communication. He said he planned to
"Education costs are goint up and'one visit schools and attend all public events
source of income is going down and he could to let the public know what its
municipalities in the county will have to school board is doing and to attempt to
'increase taxes to pay the difference," he - improve the board's image.
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Twins first babies of 1978
For the first time in recent One of the youngsters weighed in
memory, there are two New Year's at four pounds, 15 ounces, while the
babies in Clinton this year. other tipped the scales at five
pounds, 14 ounces.
The two new arrivals, named
Derrick William, and Darryl Gien,
along with their mother, are
reported to be doing very well in
the maternity ward.
The couple will be the recipients
of many gifts and prizes for having
the New Year.' ,babies,
Father Do 0 is a mechanic at
Lorne Brown Motors in Clinton.
The big event occurred on
Tuesday Morning, January 3 when
identical twin boys were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Doug Wise of 264
Townsend Street, Clinton.
The twins, the first born at 9:26
a.m. and the second born at 9:27
a.m., are the first Children for. the
Wises. She is the forger Jeanine
Jamieson: •