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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-01-18, Page 1a' NEW CHAIRMAN-=-C"tarles E. Webster of • Lucknow, left, is congratulated on his eIec tion as chairman of the Huron -Bruce. bis - trice, High School 'Board ,by the outgoing echairmari, .Ross' MacRae of Culross Town- ship. Mr. Webster will likely be ,the last chairman of the board as all; school boards in Hurgn are slated to be dissolved at the end of the year'and-education in the coun- ty will come under the .jurisdiction of. a Huron County Board' of Education: Advance -Times Photo. Lucknow man heads Huron- Bruc.e: . B. . Charls E. Webster,, a Luck - , 'hardware merchant, was" elected chairman of the !fut- on -Bruce Dietrict..High School Board at the organization's in- augural meeting last Thursday evening. ' Mr. Webster' • moves • up ` from the vice -chairmanship to replace Ross MacRae of Culross Township. 'In his thanks to the board for its. expression of confi- dence the 'new chairman said it- is a privilege and, honor to head the board, and" hoped. that the nieinbers can alt work to - arm nas was . o y, the ° Case lase Ire. e - Fleeted vice-efigirnian was John Taylor of East Wawanosh • Township, -who has headed the transportation committee for the past ,year. .. The secretary -treasurer. Miss ,,. r. Yvonne. McPherson, acted as chairman for the election,, of the new chairman and 'coiled '. • on Rev. C. M. Jardine' ON Wingham, for Scripture ` Tread= ing and prayer before the in- augural got under way: Mr: Jardine brought greetings from -the Wingham Ministerial As- sociation .and area clergy. He• 'said it was an opportuity to express ' gratitude to the board 0 and staff for - the fine calibre of work" and teaching ,at the II, school. 7 - • COMMITTEES - The new chairman named Ross MacRae. John Taylor; Dr. Less ' than $100 total • damages • •Wingham town :police in- vestigated a minor traftic hap at the intersection.of Jo- sephine and Patrick Streets. shortly after noon on Monday. .Cars driven by Mrs. Gla- dys Yeo and Ray Meyer; both of Wingham, were involved. The Yeo vehicle was travelling south on Josephine -and the Meyer car was attertipting to enter Josephine off Patrick, when it Was -forced to 'enter on-, to the 'road to see past a park- ed truck, _. Constable Ron Zimmer who• investigated said road and weather conditions were poor at the time; No charges were laid. Damage amounted to less than $100. M ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian <�t1 MIDGETS WIN ---- 'Cacl Mowbray led the ° Wingham Lions Midgets to a 5-2 victory over Ripley on Tuesday night with 'a two- goal,efforf. Single goals were scored by Don Hastings, Dicky Kennedy and Jack McPherson. 0--0t,- 0 BUT BANTAKi8, NO --- Wingham Kinsmen Ban- tams were downed 4,1- by Kin- cardine on Tuesday night in Kincardine. Kincardltie led 3- 6 ,at the end of the second and scored another, early in the third to lead 4-0 before Jeff Lgckridge clicked fat W'itighatn," asfisted -by Dave Hodgins. chool W. A. McKibben, William Hun- ter And Murray Cardiff • as a striking committee to • bring in a slate of committee members for the coming' year. The following list of corn- ° mittees, - as drawn up by . the striking : committee. was ap- proved by the board. The first , named is chairman. Transportation; Taylor, Mc, Quililn,Hunter, Hedley, Moir, Ackert, Brewer. Rathwell; ca feteria, Craig, •Hunter,1 Moir: , Ackert; property, Worrell. Mc- Kibboin, Wenger, King, Hedley; finance eii`d insurance. For- tune,: ortune " Kin ��ott. McQuillin,uillin rg, MacRse. Mr - Kibbon, Fortune, and Cardiff; Management, Cardiff, • Rath- well, - MacRae, Brewer. -.Two- new Twonew committees- were estab- lished. Elliott., -Moir, Taylor' 1F4IVDA.Ls BREAK, TWO -WINDOWS - Senseless damOge by van- dals`cost two local people the. windows in their storm doors on Friday night. About 9:30 'some- one threw an object through the door at the home of Richard Campeau on Shuter Street, and „about an hour later the same stunt cost Mrs. Jim ,`Hardy, of Francis Street;a new window, Police are in'vestigating.. OQrC and Hunter were named to, a joint board -teacher committee= and Wenger, Fortune . and Mac= Rae to a committee to deal with the establishment of a cburtty board of education. Board members named' to the vocational' advisory committee were Webster. Brewer, King, Hedley, Ackert, and Craig: Lloyd Ackert was welcomed to the board as the 'new mem- ber from' Kinloss, replacing Jamieson Pettapiece. The' board appoipted 'Richard Le- Van of Wingham to " the advis- ory vocational committee to -take the seat vacated' by Her- bert Feller The secretary -treasurer, •Miss •Yvonne McPherson and assis- tant; Mrs. Isabel MacKenzie, were,- re -appointed to their re- spective 'positions, as, -were at- tendance officers James Mil- ler and William Hunter. The chairman, -along with George .Elliott and Robert " Wenger.' were appointed sign: ing officers for the board. REPORTS •.' . In his- repnrt Wingham grin- cinal F. E. Madill recommend- ed e Pd acc pt rrb�c .. of a maintPn- - ance contrac%.,fo►eral copy- ing machines anis was done. He said average daily attendance in December was.-, 910, down somewhat becauae of student illness. Ile reported that the build - Please Turn to Page Nine THE FIR Ti SESSION of a children's tittle Theatre program, was staged et the town hall last week under the auspices ,of the Recreation Committee. Ronnie Vienneau and•Monty Norman were two of the over 100 youngsters who appear. ed at the hall: They' ire 'shown es they acted out, *air parts Ina wee skit. A.T Photo. • • y/ end ranch Member* of Branch 180 Roy-. -al, Canadian, Legion, Wingham, were on hand at the Legion Home on Friday evening, for an impressive installation ceremony- which saw °the 1 officers -installed -to their new positions. The cerenonfee were car - rigid out by George ' Inglis; of Belmore, a past, president elf the Howiek Branch, and an in- stalling. team from the Hoevick branch. Mr. Inglis is also„a. former service bureau ,officer for the Ontario "Provincial Command. Members of the local branch Installed at the ceremony were: -past president, Willis Hall;, president, John- Strong; vice-presidents, - Bill. Walden and Tom' Russell;” financial • ° secretary, Ian Edward; record- ing secretary, Ken Simmons; w j treasurer, Doug Rathbun; chaplain DeWitt Miller; ser- geant-at-arms, Hugh McKague; assistant, Vernon "Dutch" Du=„ charme; service lepreau offic- er, Lloyd . Carter and executive. cornmittee, Cy Robinson, Dave Crothers; Glen Sinnamon, Keith, McLaughlin and Harold , Remington. Q AUXILIARY ' Officers of the Ladies' Aux • - iliary to the branch were also installed. Taking the oath of office were past president, Mrs. Keith McLaughlin; preii- dent, 'Mrs, Joe King; vice -pre- -sideets. Mrs. ,Ed Rich and Mrs.' Andy Scott; recording secre' tary. Mrs. Don Farnell; 'Corres- ponding secretary; Mrs. Jahn Strong; treasurer. Mrs, Bill; Renwick; sergeant -at -arms, Mrs. Robert Irvin;' and execu- tive committee; Mrs. Lloyd Elliott.- Mrs. Vernon Ducharrne, Mrs. William 'Walden, Mrs. Cy Robinson, Mrs. Dave Crothers . and Mrs. Peter Vath. • Brussels reeve is new .warden of Huron County Calvin Krauter, reeve of the village of Brussels,. was elected. warden of the County of. Huron in a 22-17 vote over Goderich' Township reeve Grant Stirling. Nominated by Borden Cook, reeve' of Blyth., the 53 - year old Krauter had announced last January at the opening ses- sioh of countycouncil that he would be a candidate for the wardenship in 1968. •He was presented with the chain of office and the key to the -county by Centennial Year Warden Donald -McKenzie of Ashfield, who ins sine'tired from municipal politics. • The new warden was sworn in by . Judge R. 5. Hetherington; a long-time friend of Mr. Krauter, The judge commend- ed Donald McKenzie'"ftr his, untiring.efforts on°behalf of the county during his year as warden and reminded Warden • Krauter of the "'great and tre- mendous burden"his new office „wduld,entail. ' • Rev. J. D. 'MacDonald, Goderich, urged Council to do its best to serve the people. of� •the county. - • Other speakers included R. E. McKinley,- M. P. for Huron; Murray Gaunt, . P, P. for Huron -Bruce; Mayor Frank Mills, Goderich; Councilldr ,Laurie Cousins, 'Brussels. In addressing the council before the vote, Reeve Stirling said that if people were not . 'ready to stand ip 'and fight -for local government, it would disappear within the next ten years. . "I think'that would be a serious mistake," declared Stirling. If there was any part of the opening session of Huron County Council for 1968 that concerned people more than the election of the .warden, it was the growing number of comments about the probable swing to regional government within the next few years. 'Past Warden Donald Mc- Kenzie warned council it would have many new decisions to reach in 1968 with a possibility of tremendous change affecting it and theitpeople it serves. , Judge R. S. Hetherington d observed that only tittle would tell whether the trend to muni- cipal government, and more particularly, provin&lal re - . IJRSDAY, JAI4,IJ,6RY 18, „1968 411 departraentd show increased traffic „ ospital board decides to, postpone annual meeting of association• At the January meeting of the directors of the Wingham and District Hospital on Fri- day, evening ,# was decided to ,postpone the annual meeting , of the Hospital Assoeiation from .early February to March lst. The same action' was taken last year: The delay will permit Auditors,, to complete the . fin- ancial statement in- ancial'statement intime for the meeting. Vice-chairman Barry Wen- ' ger presided at last Friday's j,I.I.H11 HUM INNN.NN.N meeting in the absence of the chairman, R. B: Cousins, who was confined to hospital fol- lowing surgery. Mrs. I. E. Morrey read the admirtistra- tor's report which showed 186 admisaio1ns during December. There were seven deaths in the' same period. ' One hundred and five ' Operations in the month -brought the total for the year to 1416 compared with 1170 in 196Q; outpatients, 326 in December, 3039 for the year and 2075 in the ,previous year; x-rays,,.429 in December, 4427 `for the year and 3832 for the previous year; 31., blood transfusionsin the ,month to 'make a total of '146 for the year . and only 46 for the pre- vious year. , Laboratory proced- ures for the month amounted to 6071, to make a total of 51,Q27 for the year atyd 29,636 for the previous year; 50 el- ectrocardiograpluc examina- tions in December, 592 for the Y .NINI..I.NI..N.N.tI NN.i./ NoNHINNN..H..NN.•, _PEW C. M: eJARi INE' of 'the' Wingham United Churc iis.:- `vrr: t emb rs of the executive of the Huron -Perth Presbytery of the United Church following his elec- tion as chairman of that body at the first meetiffTof the new presbytery held Tues- day in Seaforth, With. Rev. Jardine, who- is Gar skids on turn Wintery ryweather conditions - were blamed for an accident which took place on Josephine Street -on Sunday afternoon when a crxr driven by'Jirri Haye's went out of control while mak- ing a, turn onto Alfred Street. Police Chief Jim Miller said the' Hayes vehic-le,was welling north and was attempt- ing a left turn, but slid into the- second car driven by Robert G'iaof R. R. 6, Wingham, which was parked at the time. Approximately $17.5 in damage was inflicted` to the two cars' involved. Chief Miller said driving: conditions were .quite hazar- dous at the time and no charges had been laid. Cars collide Qat school corner - p„ • A two -car collision,,, i,the Intersection of John and Francis Streets caused an estimated - $300,darriage on Thursday morning ab t 9:30'o_ Gars dri- ven by Roy anuel and Stan Chadwick, oth of Wingham, were involved: ' ' • Police said the Manuel vehicle, travelling south on, Francis Street, stopped at the sign and proceeded, striking the"CkNX vehicle which was travelling'west on John'Stre,et. Condit ons atthe time of the accident were quite hazar- dous and Police Chief Jim' Mil • ler, `who investigated, said• no charges would be laid. fSir sponsibiiity .for estice was the answer. "Naturally°we hate to see it go." he added, "but the decision for change' is not ,reached without a great deal of es study and th'ought on the part of representatives to govern ment." Goderich Mayor Frank Mills asked that all munici- palities -in the county present a untfi;ed front •° ° second from left, are Rev. Douglas T. $loen ibf " MainStreet United,-'rn Mitchell,' who was 'chosen, vice-chairman;,. Rev. Currie Winlow of. `Central United Church in Stratford, who was named sec- retary ec r ar r et y and° M . J. A. Snider of Goderich, the treasurer.—Huron Expositor Photo. fi Rev.' C. M. Jardine elected Chairman of new presbytery Rev. Cecil M. Jardine, • minister of the. Wingham Uni- ted Church, has been elected 1 to an office of singular ,impor- tance -and honor as chairman of the newly -formed, Huron -Perth Presbytery, The election took plaee* at the meeting of the ' new Presbytery in Seaforth's - Northside United -Church on Tuesday. • This. is a significant year - in the life of the church in this area, for the two former Pres* byteries of Huron Land Perth have been joined to form a single .unit. In addition, the several churches of the Evan- gelical United"Brethern denom- ination, which recently be- came .a part of the United 'Church -of Canada, are also in- cluded. In all, 97 churches and their congregations are in- eluded in the Huron -Perth Pres- bytery. N�chcmge in Library hours The members of commit- tee of the Wingham Branch of the Huron County Public Li- brary met Monday, at 5 o'clock for the annual meeting. Mrs, Mary Cleland was re- appointed as chairman o the - somrrmittee, which was n- -,changed from last, year S. Beattie, Richard -Campeau, Miss Doris Fells, A. D. Mac - 'William, Mrs. F. A. Parker, Rev. J. G' Mooney and N. J. Welwood; librarian, Mrs. W. Harcourt; assistant librarian, Mrs. Kate Mundy; secretary - treasurer, Mrs. Harcourt. After discussing the matter it was decided to advertise that the Library hours will remain unchanged, that is, open on Mondays and closed Wednes- days, until further notice. Mrs. Harcourt reported the circulation of books last year was 26,618. an increase of •• 1600. • Rev. D. T. Sloan of Mit- chell was elected vice -chair-, man; Rev: R. Currie Winlaw of Stratford, secretor and J; "A - Snyder of Goderi, treasurer. Mr. Jardinelwas elected chairman of the Huron Presby- tery of the United Church Last year. He has been minister of Wingham United 'Church since 1962.. -1 • Youngsters show great interest in children's theatre It was evident on Wednes- day last at the town hall that there .are 'many youngsters,in the community; who have ideas"' in 'the acting world. Jim. Ward, recreation director was pleas- antly'_Sufprised at the enthusi- asm of 105 children who -how- ed up on such short notice at the meeting. O ' "Miss Judi Small very capably demonstrated with the budding -actors what to expeit in the' coming weeks. With so many present at the first Meeting it was next to impossible to satis- fy -the needs and desire's of everyone there.. The group is so large that it isdhecessary to divide irtt15 smaller segments,." with these sections meeting sep- arately. • Since the original meting Mr. and Mrs. Rick Welw6 d have also indicated that they , would like -to .{apart of the .team to help these enthusiastic juniors. More leaders are need- ed for these little folk. If you are interested please call the recreation office immediately, 357-3550: With the zest shown by the youngsters and with the number of people involved in ' the Towne players it is hoped that many will volunteer to aid these young citikeris.• r.. year• and 531 for the previous year; 56 patients at the cancer clinic brought the- year's total to 726 compared with 745 in 1966. 'Daily average of " patients under care in. December was. 93 as compared with 83 the ,r, year before. The chairman .of, the :finance. committee, Roy Hunjter, read the list of invoices paid during the month. M.AlseAGEMUNT Barry Wenger, reporting for the management committee, said that a change itt pay . ,. schedule has been advised, the staff to receive their cheques on the 3rd and '15th of each month, rather than every sec- and week. Another change ad- vocated was that the . payroll ,be handled through the bank The report also:, included the recommendation that applica-, tion be made o , the Ontario Hospital Association fof group disability insurance `coverage.' The plan, which has been un- der discussion for some time, would cover participating staff members for both short Illness- es and long-term absences from work. • A► inalority of the staff .had indicated their, desire to . have ,the plan put into . ef- feet. . So far it has not been 'pos- sible' to secure the ;services of a ..permanent trained person' to take charge of the ambulance °department, but .,it is expected • :that: a man will be available shortly. This' .job can be, filled only _by a' man who has gradu ated from the government- sponsored training course. The "report: also stated that approval has been received from OHSC fee, a total- nursing staff of 93• fu iime''e pie r . "'tea, ees, 'somewhat more than' bu` et: gentle- :ecgp)�S?yed, _ � Thud , a jproval'` will `b autritatic" if'::'. the present stafr can be en- larged. A letter was` also read from .a source in London, Eng., indicating that co-opera- tion would be ° available in thee. local hospital's effort to locate nursing personnel. in, England. Another recommendation in the report was 'that all , charges .of under $5.00 be paid- ' directly byre tl'ie patients, rath- er than 'the hospital collecting from the various insurance companies. The office staff has found that the bookkeeping and correspondence entailed in ° the collection of these small accounts . is too costly. This recommendation was passed by the, board on a three-month trial basis. PROPERTY F.' E. .Walker, chairman of the property committee, report- ed that the ambulance garage is ' well under way and the ve- hicles have been housed in the new building for,, several weeks. The. floor in the gar- - age area reniaine to be poured ' when weather 'permits. 'Furth- er problems 'have : been .expel-• .. ienced with the ventilation system. in the kitchen, Where freeze controls were installed. The fens shut off"when• the trrnperature of the outside air drops and thus odors from cooking are not removed. Con- sideration will be given ^to manual controls. Mrs. Morrey reported on a 1 visit • made by, the chairman ° and herself to the College of Nurses and the OHSC in To- ronto to clarify some' of 'the details in regard to floor space for the new training school building which- is cur- • rently, in the , planning stage., Dr. ° Pe Leahy reported that the medical staff is working well and there are no major problems in that department. A motion was passed . to ° grant consulting privileges to Dr. Bruce .of London., who- wishes to set up a periodic eye, clinic in the hospital. He „is a licens- ed ophthalmologist andthe doctors agreed that such a ser- vice should be of benefit to pa- , tiennts in this area. Mrs. English reported that the Auxiliary .had awarded prizes for tile' best decorated windows at the Christmas sea- son and had presented" a cup to the New Yeer's baby. Mrs. Morrey said that there had been 42 ambulance calls during December. Expected revenue is `977.15; expendi- tures (including some building costs 'on the garage). 12294. it is expected that the ward rate for 1068 will be $31.35. The extra charge. for semi- private accommodation is S4 50 per day acid for private, sy.oe. t/.