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CLINTON 14EWS;RECORD 714URSDAY, JANUARY 4 1979— AGE 15
May: Lack of interest may cancel CUSS music course
May4,1978
Although no decision
has been made, the music
course at CHSS may be
dropped in the future.
Unless more students can
be enticed to sign up for
the course, the .'Huron
County Board of
Education may remove
the subject from CHSS's
currieulUrn.
Gord Phillips, principal
of •CHSS, explained that
the major reason for the
possible „ elimination of
the subject 'is due to lack
of enrollment in the
program,
Presently, there _are
approximately 40
students taking part in
the program. At -the
beginning of the school
-year, only seven students
registered for the first
year program while the
minimum initial
registration figure is
supposed to be 25.
Clinton's town hall is a
IP building of impressive
--"Tr'and unique design, and its
restoration could make it
one of the finest examples
of our architectural
heritage.
This was the message
of Sheila Larmer of the -
ministry of culture and
recreation, who ad-
dressed the newly formed
Clinton .LACAC at its'
meeting on April 26.
Huron County's high
school students will have
an extra four days to
study for final exams
after a _ move by the
Huron County Board of
Education Monday to
make up time lost due to
the recent 31 -day teacher
strike.
The board picked up an
additional week of in-
structional time on the
school calendar by
delaying final exams
until June 22, what would
have been the second last
day of exams under the
old school calendar. •
It was hard to believe,
but most Clintonians
dragged out their winter
garb earlier this week, as
May came in like a lion,
complete with record
breaking cold tem-
peratures and a light
snowfall.
Tony Chir of the
Goderich weather office
says that April, like
March and February this
year, was colder than
normal, and „much colder
than last year.
However, April 1978
will go down as a sunny,
very dry month with only
about half the normal 63.5
mm of precipitation and
Tony
says
warmer,
wetter weather is finally
on the way td relieve the
near drought conditions
in some of those newly
planted fields of spring
grain.
Goderich site
May 11,1978
With letters from
Exeter, Wingham and
Seaforth 'supporting
Goderich ,as the central
location for the proposed
police communication
system in Huron, Clinton
-Council decided to go
along with the majority.
"It looks like, duet° the
dernocrataic process that
this particular
municipality should go
along with the others,"
Mayor Harold Lobb
advised the members of"
council.
Although Clinton had
hoped to house the cen-
tral site and the council
had agreed to ac-
commodate it, the other
municipalities «weren't
willing to accepf the
offer.
"We agreed to hire
another man to give 24-
hour service and we
would have extended our
police station to make
room for the system,"
Mayor Lobb explained.
Exeter had initially
given their tentative
support to Clinton if there
would be a savings in
costs to locate there.
"1 don't know where we
failed," Mayor Lobb said,
"but somewhere along
the line we went wrong
even though there would
be a saving on the system
here just on the phone
lines alone."
Rabies are on the in-
crease in Huron County
and already this year a
record number of people
have had to receive
rabies shots.
For the first four,
months of the y'ear, there
have been 15 cases of
rabies diagnosed in
animals. Ten people who
have come in contact
with these animals are
undergoing treatment, a
series Of 14 shots in he
abdomen.
The incidents are
unusual. Five cattle have
come in contact with the
rabies virus, nine foxes
and one horse. Seven of
the ten people involved
with the cases came in
contact with the horse.
The party's over for
Clinton and area
automobile drivers, as
the six-month gas war
came to an abrupt end
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(May 11) - The crew that are taking down the old
Bayfield arena are finding out just how well built
the old structure is. The demolition began last ,
week, in preparation for a new $350,000 arena that
will be built this year. (photo hy Milvena Erickson)
April: Board backs away• • .
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have returned to haunt
the board for the past
three years, contain
language that is "filthy"
and consistently, refer to
sexual activities ac-
cording to the CWL.
Excerpts from the books
were sent along with
about 200 letters that
went out to board
thistees, members of
federal and provincial
p-arliament, township
councils, county 'council,
minister of education
Thomas Wells and area
churches.
Clarice Dalton,
spokesman for the CWL,
said the novels, The
Diviners by Margaret
Laurence, Catcher in the
Rye by I, D. Salinger and
Of Mice and Men by John
'Steinbeck were ob-
jectionable and.should be
remoVed from the list of
books used in the county's
five secondary schools. -
'The women bolstered
their requeSt with letters
of reply from
Huron -Bruce MP Bob
McKinley, MP'P's Jack
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Riddell and Murray
Gaunt and Stephen and
Tuckersmith Township
councils. Both township
councils endorsed the
resolutions, to have the
books removed from the
curriculum and of the
politicians, only Gatiiit
spoke out against the
novels.
Dalton said the CWL's
strongest support came
from Gaunt. who in a
letter to the director of
education John
Cochrane, said he was
"really shocked and
offended to read some of
this stuff." Gaunt said,
"Of- all the crap I have
ever heard, that hs to be
it, and I can tell you that
if that material is going to
be taught in Huron
County high schools when
my children go' to high
school, they won't be
going to the public
system. •
"If we continue to sow
this kind of, stuff in the
minds of you'rig people we
will sow to the wind and
reap the whirlwind," he
said.
last week. Gasoline
prices shot up 10 cents a
gallon in one day from
82.9 to 92.9 cents;- 'the
same as in most centres
in this part of Ontario. °
There are still some
pockets of resistance
such as Hensall where
gas is 85.9 an Goderich,
where, it was selling
earlier this week for 87.9
cents a gallon. As usual in
most gas wars, oil
company executives
were silent on ths sudden
se.
Beepers bought
May 18,1978
Within the next four to
six weeks, the members
of the Clinton fire
department will be
carrying a new accurate
and sophisticated
communications device
to alert them when the
fire alarm is sounded.
With the, specifications
and costs from three
tenders, the Clinton, Fire
Board accepted an ap-
plication from Motorola
to supply the Clinton Fire
Deparemtnt with 21
beepers at the cost of $343
each, plus an encoder
costing $660.
The beeper system is
now widely used in many
municipalities and it
consists of pocket -sized
radios carried by each
fireman and are used to
page them to the fire hall
when the alarm is
sounded.
A little Initiative
channelled in the right
direction can go a long
way.
The Stanley Township
Recreation Committee
along with the . Huron
Centennial Public School
and the Huron Board, of
Education' have made
elaborate plans for a
creative playground in a
park -like setting.
The concept of the
creative playground at
the school began with the
students, who had
complained there was
little activity on the
playground.
The playground will
include an arrangement
of climbers, posts,
swings, tires and slides
designed to be fun, safe
and to be used by several
children at the same
time. .
Kinsmen win—service
award
May 25,1978
The Clinton Kinsmen
Club received special
recognition last weekend
when they won a major
award at the Kinsmen
Distrid One convention
at Sarnia.
The Sinclair Service
Award is presented to
only'one club out of the 85
Kinsmen groups in the
district for a project
depmed by' the Kin
organization to be one of
the greatest needs of the
community,
Kinsmen past president
Paul Kerrigan presented
a resume of the club's
major serVice projects
last year, replacement of
Clinton's grandstand in
the community park.
Kerrigan outlined to
those at the convention
June: Town merchants can market
June 1,1978
Clinton's Farmer's
Market was turfed out by
the businessmen this
summer following a
majority decision from
the town's merchants.
A. mandate sent out to
some 80 members on the
Clinton Businessmen's
Association , by the
market committee were
returned with a definite
nay response to' the'
proposed summer
market.
Despite some changes,
the market, which was to
run for the second year,
received no votes from
some 22 merchants while
only three yea replies
_ were sent in to market
chairman, Heather Ross.
The major complaint
the merchants had about
the market was the un-
necessary competition it
would bring. Merchants
were even more con-
cerned' with the prOblern
this . year since the
market committee had
hopefully planned to lift
vendor restrictiOns,
allowing more vendors,
with a variety of mer-
chandise and allowing
those to participate
outside Huron County.
Clinton's newest Queen
of the Fair is also one of
Canada's"neweSt citiiens.
•Mary Lou Lourenco, 19,
of "RR1 Btucefield
received her crown from
last year's queen Jan
Divok of Clinton on
Saturday, May 27 at a
special dance. Mary Lou,
who beat out two other
candidates, came to
Canada from Portugal
in 1968 and in Mar h of
this year received her
Canadian citizenship..
Mary Lou's duties as
queen were to preside
over the Clinton Spring
Fair events which Were
held June 2, 3 and 4.
Three years of life were
relived in some 36 hours
for Ernie, and Mary
Cooke when they
returned–Tfo see Mr.
Cooke's station at the No.
31, Radio School, RAF,
Clinton.
Mr. Cooke and his wife
spent three years at the
base, from 1941 to 1944
and Mr. Cooke was a
radar instructor in one of
the biggest "hush hush".
operations of the second
world war. So secret was
the whole undertaking
that even the members of
the first contingent did
not _ know until they
arrived, that Clinton was
the destination. ,
• However, when Cooky
arrived back for a.day, it
was no secret this time
and many of hi old
acquaintances during his
time in Clinton were
visited during his brief
reunion.
Closing out
June 8, 1978
It was learned this
week that some 36 em-
ployees of: the Sherlock
Manning Piano Factory
in Clinton may be out of
work in. the near future as
one of the town's oldest
industries may be
closing.
William D. Heintzman,
president of Sherlock:
Manning said that the
Clinton manufacturing
facilities may be moved
to Hanover and con-
solidated with the
Heintzman and Company
Limited of that town.
Last week the two
companies were
amalgamated ' and the
resulting company is
running under the name
of Heintzman .Limited
with its head office in
Hanover.
Heintzman..,/ ,said
manufacturing
operations will continue
at both the Clinton and
the Hanover factories,
pending consolidation in
Hanover.
The Huron County
Board of Education was
told Monday it should,
trust the judgement of its
teachers when deciding if
literary pieces to be .used
in high school classrooms
are fit for educational
purposes.
Three .delegations
attending the Monday
meeting explained to the
board at considerable'
length why three ,English
literature textbooks
should not be banned
from secondary 'school
book lists. The books,
Catcher in the Rye by J.
D. Salinger, The Diviners
by Margaret Laurence
and of Mice and -Men by
John. Steinbeck were
considered blasphemous
and obscene by agroupof
parents from
Kingsbridge who started
a campaign to have them
banned from school book
Dr. Tom Collins,.
chairman of'the English
department at the
University of Western
Ontario, told the board
that the threebooks were
-not all blasphemous or
obscene but rather were
of "superior quality". He
said the books, all had
excellent educational
value.
Despite nearly ideal
conditions4ttendance at
this year's l'24th Spring
Fair was down, with
about 5,000 ,peojile going
through the gate at the
three-day event, com-
pared to an estimated
8,000 who saw the fair last
year.
Officials of the Huron
Central Agricultural Soc
iety are blaming com-
petition from other
events in nearby toWns
and cities for some of the
loss of fair -goers, but
were at a loss to explain
County in Show at the Spring Fair lait
( some light showers-, the Huron
weekend was the biggest ever. The rain stopped
Friday afternoon, and despite the beautiful fair
weather on Saturday and Sunday, attendance at
this,year's fair fell 3,000 to 54000. Here Ray Royce of
Breslau takes shelter under his umbrella while
watching the Holstein Show. (News -Record photb)
(June 22) Flam 6 Wete visible for miles around early last Saturday morning
when the Clinton Liv stock Sales barn burned to the ground. Fire raced
through the structure s fast, that the building was completely gutted within 30
minutes: (NeWS-Recor ploto)
the whole decrease.
Fairholme Dairy in
Clinton has announced
that their home delivery
service for milk and
dairy products will be
discontinued , as of June
13. -
Jerry Holmes ex-
plained that rising costs
and, new regulatons set
forth by the Department
of Health was the mhin
reason for the dairy's
decision to give up the
delivery that they have
offered for nearly. the
past 40 years,.
Barn, burns.
June 22, 1978
The buginess com-
munity of. Clinton suf-
fered another setback
early last Saturday -
morning when the Clinton
Livestock Sales barn
burned to the ground in a
spectacular fire.
The auction barn,
which has been the centre
for livestock sales in the
area for several decades,
usually attraetedeveral
hundred area farmers
every Friday night and
the building had only
been empty for a few
hours., when fire raced',
through the structure.
The fire,' which caused
an estimated.,damage of
$75,000 was discovered at
1:03 a.m. It was com-
pletely out of control
when the Clinton
volunteer fire depart-
ment arrived several
minutes later. Leo
Glavin, the owner of the
buildin-g- is ,not sure
nwoht.ether he will rebuild or
Optimistic smiles and
planning for a bright
future yvere,the common
themes of the Clinton
Public Hospital's annual
meeting held -In Clinton
last Monday night.
The hospital, ordered
closed by the Ontario
ministry of health two
years ago, has fought
back and now board
members - expect there
will be a community
hospital in Clinton for
some time to come.
Last Friday evening,
the Colts snapped a three -
game losing streak by
drubbing the London
Athletes, 1,3-6. It was only
the Colts' third victory, of
the season against five
losses. Colt rookie pit-
, Otert, Danny.. , Proctor,
gained his second win of
the season.
Midwestern Ontario
has acquired 'a , new
organization. Fourteen
weavers and spinners
from Bruce, Huron–and
Perth counties met
recently in Blyth to form
the Huron Tract Spinners
and Weavers Guild.
Ruth Knight of
Goderich, the first
president of the fledgling
organization, said that
the purpose of the guild is
to promote an increased
awareness and
knowledge of the value of
handcrafted spinning and
weaving to the. Public.
'Weaving; .is an old
handcraft' . in the Huron
Tract. One of the best
known weavers from Old
is Saniuet Pentlanii, who
arrived in Huron county
In 1845 and whose work is
still On display at 'the
Royal Ontario Witisetim In
Toronto.,
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the circumstances behind
the project and detailed
the outstanding con-
tribution of the citizens,
contractors and Kinsmen
of the area.
The Wesley-WilliS
Nursery school in Clinton
is planning on making
further advancements by
becoming a,parent co-op.
Through this, . the
parents will become
actively involved, not
-t only in the administration
but also in the -actual
classroom work and
organization.
Presently there are two
fulltime teachers at the
nursery, Sally McNichol
and Nancy Wise.
However, their workload
-and responsibilities have
become too great and
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extra help is needed.
Shirley Weary, com-
mercial teacher at 'MSS
says that board of
education administrators
were biased when they
turned down her ap-
plication of promotWn to
vice - principal at the
Clinton high school.
According to Mrs.
Weary, the fact that she
is a woman, her active
involvement in the NDP
party and her recent
prominence in the high
school teacher strike
probably out -weighed her
ability ,and qualifications
when the promotion was
decided by the board.
Weary said she wa5....
concerned that any one of
the three factors may
have worked against her
but suggested that it may
have been a combination
of the three.
She felt that she had #
"reasonably good
chalice" of getting the,job
when she applied adding
that she felt her resume
contained some
background 'the other
candidates did not have.
She said she had ex-
perience teaching, had
the necessary
.qualifications for the job
and had proven ex-
perience in ad-
ministration.
Tom Fox. head of the
history department at
CHSS was the board's
choice for the position of
vice principal.
(June 1) - Maty Lou Lourenco, centre, was crowned the new queen of the fair at
a dance last Saturday night. On the left is Marilyn Van Altena of Clinton, who
placed third, and on the right is Bonnie Van Ftlesen ef Clinton, who was second.
The. new Queen will preside over the Fair, which opens this Friday, and runs
until Sunday. (News -Record photo)
Books publicly tliscussed
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June 15, 1978
Close to 500 people sat
through an emotion
charged public meeting
in Clinton Tuesday night
to hear arguments for
and against the use of
three English literature
novels in the Huron
County high schools.
In a public meeting
organized by a concerned
group opposed to the
recent campaign to have
.the novels banned from
the srhools, parents,
'students, grandmothers
and authors debated for
almostthree hours on the
merit of the novels or the
reasons they shad be
removed from the list of
approved high school
textbooks.
People came from the
four corners of Huron and
from areas outside its
boundaries. Many came
'simply to witness the
debate but became
deeply involved as the
audience ran. the
emotional gamut.
Some wept openly.
pleaded for cool heads' to
pre•vail. Some argued and
one man asked the
audience to settle down
and listen to their hearts
as he pray,edy
The meeting„ was
arranged by a group
opposed to the removal. of
the threelliovels - The
D-ty iners by Margaret -
Laurence, Of Mice and
Men by John Steinbeck
and Catcher in the Rye by
J. D. Salinger - and to
support their cause
imported- four noted
Canadian authors to
defend the books. -
June Callwood, a non-
fiction writer, Alice
Munro, a fiction writer,
Janet Lunn, a children's
writer and Steve
Osterlund, a poet,
composed a panel that
keynoted the debate and
each was given 10
minutes to outline
reasons the books should
not be removed from
approved lists of text-
books.
Residents of Hullett
Township who own '
swimming pools will now
be required to make sure
they are adequately
fenced, according to a
township's new by-law
which was approved last.
week.
Nearly 800 people
turned out for roast beef
and dancing at the
Kinsmen and Kinettes
barbecue last Saturday
night in the Clinton
arena. The affair realized
nearly $4,000 in profit for
• the grandstand fund.
Sixty-two years ago
„Albert Horner and Violet
united in marriage on
June 6, 1916 at the home
of the bride's parents by
the „Reyr. Daniel Johnston
of .Varna -i Presbyterian
Churchi:
Mr. Horner is the son of
the late John W. Ho er
and the former Bert
Hey of Drysdale.
Mrs. Horner is the.
daughter of the late John
Rathwell and the former
Sarah Reid of Varna.
Along with once owning
the general store in
Varna, the Harriers
farmed on the eastern_ __ —
outskirts of Seaforth. In
1960, however, the couple
retired to the home that
they still occupy at 62
East William Street in
Seaforth.
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Riddell sued
June 29, 1978 , -
Huron -Middlesex MPP
Jack Riddell is being
sued by the United Auto
Workers over alleged
comments -he made over
the strike at the Fleck
Manufacturing plant in
Huron Park.
The committee has
been holding a hearing
into a complaint by
Riddell that his privileges
as an MPP have been
May Rathwell were, Turn to -page 16 •
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(June 22) -.Where only several hours before 150 people watched the *Friday
night livestock auction sales, only charred rubble remain d following a fire
e
arLy fast Saturday morning at the Clinton Livestock Sal s barn. Thd fire,
which raced throughthe structure in 30 minutes, is' being blamed on careless
smoking. (News-ReCord photo)
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