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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-01-25, Page 1• iS 4 • OT CTI N ey ' ' ingh am. Ontario, TbUr$d ay , Jan.. 26, 196E • Szz e Copy No mer Steen 'entsre. presentatives meet at Brucef eld ounty sol boards opposed to provincial plan for amalgamation Representative ' menbers from Huron County school boards met at the Brucefield- Public Sit:hool on Monday even; to 'consider the announced - intention of the Department of Education to bring in .legisla- tion to amalgamate all school bbards into county units. 42, According rto statements by authorities, the legislation HOWICK BRANCH 307 officers were installed at the Legion rooms in Gorrie Monday night by the installation team from Brussels under president Ted .Elliott. New officers for. the Howick Branch are front row: Gerald Galbraith, + 2nd vice-president; Robert ,Harkness, president; Hector • Hamiitgn.,..past president; Jim Vittie, 1st vice-president; back row: Jim Alcorn, executive; Harold Keil, executive; Alex Graham, secretary; Mel Allan, Branch Service Officer; Jack Clarke, treasurer; Tom Ritchie, sergeant -at -arms; Jim, Clarke, chaplain.---A-T Photo. to establish county boards is due to be brought in next Month. The new .boards are to take over their administrative duties at the first of net year. - County trustees met early in December and agreed at that time to have one member from reach board named as a repre- sentativero further meetings in Huron County to consider the • a' diqn native Mons speaker Lion Lorne McDonald peened the regular session of. the Wingham .Lions Club held at the Little Curran Inn on • Tuesday evening. Lion Presi- dent Fred McGee took over for the business session. The guest speaker was Mr. Miuj a, physiotherapist at the - Wingh•arri and District Hospital: He was introduced by Lion De- . Win .Miller. Mr. Ahuja gave a very interesting talk on his homeland,' India. He.to1d of . the problems facing his country Viand th.e varied customs of h,is.,.:4 people. His answers to ques- tions about India. by members of the club, provided- a' broad- er understanding of,the nation. tie was thanked by Lion Lee °jlance. A progress report on the annual Lions public speaking contest was given by Lion Lloyd Casemore. The contet will, be held the seeond meet- iig in. February. The club also ecided.to continue to„ sponso r . Ahata when the enter& ` the Miss Canada Contest to be staged later this year at Niagara Falls. Lion Pete Bissonette•of .F - Lucknow,• a past district gov= ' t^ tliP club about' plans pf Lion Tris Coffin, of Montreal, who is running for third .Vice-president of Lions International in thea 1969 con vention to be held in Japan. Plans were finalized fox the purchase of new sweaters forthe Wingham Lions Midget Hockey Team. Hap Swatridge entertained 'the club with se-vetal Scottish numbers in honor of Robert Burns birthday this week and, later led the club in sing -song. % MEMBERS OF THE. EXECUTIVE of the•Auxiliary. to. Branch J07 of •the Royal Canadian Legion were installed to their 'new offices on Monday' n.ight'at a joint installation held. at the Howick Branch roonis• in Gorrie. Officers are, front: Mrs. Harvey Bradshaw, 2nd vice-president; Mrs.. • Inspector explains 4+ 16 Jackk' Clarke, president; Mrs. AGeoroe Hamilton, past, presi- dent; Mrs Tom Leek; ,1st -vice-president, back row: Mrs, Jim Vittie,' executive; Mrs. William 'Austin, secretary; Mrs. Mel Allan;. treasurer; Mrs. Ken Underwood, sergeant -at-• arms.A-T• Photo: 9 Council will consolidate consultative c�rnmittee's Inspector J. H. Kinkead • addressed Huron County Coun- cil last Thursday afternoon ex- plained some of the mysteries'' • surrounding the probable .swing MAIN DRAG li^ ALONG'IN E� BY The F edcatria LATE SPORTS -- Congratulation to the Bantams who dame through• with a big win over Ripley Tuesday night., Final score 01 the game was 5-4. The Mid-' gets downed' W alkerton on the same night by a 3-1 margin: 0--0--0 CURLS IN QUEBEC-- • Jack Hodgins leaves Satur- day for Qtiebc City where he will enter into „the competition at the Quebec International .Curling Bonspiel. Jack took itt the same event last year as well. INIOR CHECK- UP - Don Reid, manager of tie Ideal branch Stedman Store, has, been confined. to Wingham and District hospital where he is undergoing tests,. Don hopes to be back at the otfict in the near future. 0--o--0 .1<INETTES PLAN CANVASS -- As advertised in this issue, 'the Kinettes will canvass the area on Monday, January 29, in aid cif the March of Dimes. Proceeds are used for the reha- bilitation of the disabled. .,Please have your porch light on to welcome the Kinette or One of their irfany helpers who will call orr you. to county school boards, now proposed by the government of the .Protsince'of Ontario. Although Mr. Kinkead wished to impress upon council that the consultative commit- tee's interpretations of state- ments by Preriier John P. Ro- •bats on November 14 had not yet been confirmed, he'did assure council that the commit- , _tee had every reason to assume that the report prepared was generally considered to be ac- curate. "It is assumed.- although, this must be an assumption- - that the boundaries of the, pro- posed school areas will corres- pond .with rhe county boundar- ies," said Mr. Kinkead. Pu= pals from this county who at- tend elementary and secondary' schools beyond the county'boun- •dafie"s will continue to attend these schools. Similarly pupils from 'outside this county will continue to attend these schools, Similarly pupils trom outside this county will continLe to attend the schools in which they are now enrolled. Tuition fees will be paid." "It is assurrtedethat the county school hoard will be res- ponsible for all phases ot edu- 'catibn including' dire'i.t'ion and all supervision,he continued. "It is assumed that Members ot the board will be elected. It is further implied that wards will be established front which a Member or members will be elected," "It Is assumed that all tong tracts made by the various boards for the school year 1668- 69 will become the responsibil- ity of the county board of edu- cation du-cationl at J Thuary I, 1969." " Mr. Patrick Street ' frome is 41c1 Frank Hbp;per trick Stt•eet Mrs. Bob �vlund who currently Josephine Street apart- ment Oddfellow and Mks. Mundell immediate pciss not set a moving has found recently sold her Pa home to Mr. and e11 of Wingham, live in the part- tr�ent 'over s' Ha1L ' Mr. ell will not take i essi'on , and will g date until Mrs.and other accommodation. Kinkead concluded. -There will include agreements.•with the members of the teaching sta.lf, the 'maintenance staff, transportation arrangements, etc." ENROLLMENTS + . ' Accompanying tigures • • h.qy,. showed that there were 8,832 - students enrolled in Huron Court ry elementary public schools; 1360 children enrolled in' ele- mentary Roman Catholic Sep- arate Schools; and 188 at Cal: vitt Christian School, Clinton. Huron County pupils at second- ary schools in,and out of the county number 3'736. Mill rates tor elementary school education range trom 9 in Huron County School Area' No. tato and Grey Township School Area, to 20.65 in the town o1Clinton. Debenture_. debts run. trout $785,•000 in Huron Couftty School Area No. One to $11,0. 000 in t...0 e town 01 . Seafortf - • In.' a later recommendation to council, the school c.opsul- tative commiittee suggested that the Public School Consulta- tive Committee and Secondary School Consultative Committee be amalgamated to forth a .'— county educational consultatietit committee under authority of the Schools ,Administration Amendment Act. Council agreed that a bylaw be passed to that effect. • No Parking signs. solve problem A possible.hazard has dev- eloped in recent weeks at the high school construction site, where cars have been parking on both sides of Victoria Street, east of Carling Terrace. Recent- ly police erected no parking signs on the.north side of Carl- ing Terrace and the congestion has' been relieved. Chief Jim Miller said :that ,the number of heavy trucks in the area, combined with the great number of parked cars, caused a hazard and could. have blocked emergency vehicles had they.beeri needed. Corps expanding. under guidance of t., Mrs. Ferris Th'e current' issue of The War Cry carries a picture of Capt.- Albert Ferris, the for- mer commanding officer of the Wingham Corps, accepting a gift of books at the Victoria Harbotir Light Corps in British Columbia. Several copies of "Good' " News for the. Modern Man" ,"`-a translation of the New Testa- ment rinto modern English, were presented to Capt.^Ferris by Bill Crabb of iliE ilarb ur LightCorps. • , The article stated—iffi r' "�` continued interest is being shown in the rehabilitation program at,the centre. Meeh ings are well attended, and this has necessitated' amen- • largernent of the facilities. The adjacent building to the centre hag been purchased and plans are underway for addi- tfonalliving and recreational areas ta beconne available in the new, premises. Cars collide at main street intersection. Charges are pending, ���•- 'ording to Chief -Jim Miller the Wingham Police, follow, g a two -car accident Saturday afternoon at the intersection pf Josephine and Victoria Streets in Wingham.. Driver., of the two cars involved were Robert W. Gray of R. R. 5, Wingham, and Leonard J. Courtney ot R. R. 7, Lucknow. ' Police said the Gray ve-° hicle was_travelling north on Josephine Street and rite Court-•- -ney car was proceed ,g east on, Victoria. Mr. Courtney stated that he, stopped at the •inter- section and proceeded atter stopping. He said he did not . see the 'Gray vehicle. Damage to thf two cars involved total' led approximately $500.h Preston Lediet, '.7, 01 Wingham, a passenger in the Gray car, was treated at the Wingham and District Hospital for an injury to his right knee and later released. Carbon monoxide is silent kilier Were in the season.now when carbon monoxide kills people'in their cars. Carbon mordxide seeps in as a result 01 some fault'in the car's exhaust system. a Guard against.this deadly air pollution hazard. Make sure your car`s.ex`haust systerh is fault -fret, and al!' Sys when the engineis running, keep a window open a couple of inches. U P, Q problems. At the Monday night meet- ing, each representative was polled to, deteril'iine the opinion of the various, countyschool boards. Fodtteen of the 21 boards represented indicated' opposition to a county board Some implied they would' not oppose the idea of larger ad- ministrative units based on the Mrs. Bondi learns family unharmed • by Sicilian quakes Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bondi . were• greatly relieved on Wed- nesday ed-nesday morning to learn that the tlatter's'fainily in Sicily had suffered no injuries or loss from, last week's earthquakes in that„ country. Mrs.. Bondi came to Cana- da from Sicily in 195 and shortly aftermarried Sam Bondi. operator and owner of Bondi's Mid Town Restaurant on Wing ham's main street. The couple have two .children. r"''''° Mrs. Bondi became colt- cerrled when- she heard reports of the disaster in .Sicily and on • Tuesday., January 16,. a tele- ' gram was sent to her father, Mr. Francisco Cancilla, who resides'in the small village of Trabia, near Palermo.. Also . . living. in the area are a sister and other relations. It was.an anxious week• for Mrs. Bondi as she waited for an answer to her wire. although -she realized that„communica tions might 'wen -have t een>dis-,,, rupted in the area. • ti Word received Wednesday; said that all was well with the . family and that the village had Seen 30 miles from the disaster Kinsmen hold advertising night The regular meeting of the -Kinsmen Club was heli at Danny's 'Restaurant on Tuesday. This was an "Advertising Night" and each of the._members had the oppo.tunity to promote his firm or business. - Plans were finalized for the Inter -Club curling, bonspiel to be held at the .Wingham curling club on Sunday, Jan- uary ^28. This is for all Kins- men in the, entire area and their wives. The Valentine Dance was discussed.. 'Arrangements have been made to have Neil Mc- Aully and his, seven piece 4wingin: Brass with Eric Shatte and the Tijuana Sound. existing high-school areas. As a result a Motion car ried to send a brief to the Min- ' ister of Education, and to the local members.* the Uegis a ture, registering objection to the county plan, but denoting support for the smaller unit based on high school' districts. Some of the representatives felt it was pointless tp protea as the premier has . stated the legislation is going to "go through regardless of objectiont«: However,', the motion to send in the brief was •supported almost unanimously. CODEI ,tCl3 M'AN. The group of trustees amed Caley Hill, ohaittnan of e Goderich' Public School ard, as chairman; Verri'A1-` derdyce of Huron School.No. 1, Brucefield; vice chairman arid, Morgan Smith of the same board as secretary. The group felt it was lrnore or les**pointless to hold further. meeting until a white paper" on the proposed .legislation is available for ,study. Attending the meeting, •, from this area were Scott Reid of the Wingham Public School Board, Les Fortune acid Roberr' Wenger of the -Huron -Bruce District High School Board. MASON ROBINSON of East Wawanosh Townshiphas been awarded a centennial me- dal for the excellent job he did last year as chairman): of the tower ship's Centennial Committee when E. Wawanosh celebrated its 100th birthday. Youth charged ae-r-Ct. Tit�: ' A 16 -year-old youth from ' Lucknow has been 'charg- ed under the Highway Traffid Act followings collision at.the ii terJeouou v i tai ii yr u .1 =�C ane. 86 on Sunday evening. Gerald R. Irvin of R. R.,,7 Lucknow and Donald W. Edwards were the two drivers involved in the mis-_ hap which caused an estimated $1'100 damage." ,.., __ .....y Investigating 'officer Con - 'stable Wilson of the Wingliani' O. P.'P. detachment reported ' :- that the Edwards car was .travel- ling south on Highway 4 and the Irvin car was proceeding west' on Highway 86-, • ' Donald Edwards and his passenger, 'Miss Nancy Abel, 21 of 'London were treated at the Wingham and District Hospital for minor injuries and released. The -former suffered scalp lac- erations. Miss Abelrhad chest .injuries and lacerations to her right eyelid. This is 'the first major ac- cident at the newly opened intersection of the two high ways. 4' Hanover boy 1968 'Timrny' A; nine-year-old Hanover' Ontario Boy; Kevin 'Lahti, has; been.selected "Timmy" for 1968;. He willmake his first ;appearance at the t , • Sports Writers. and •Sprotscaster's 17th annual sports celebrities diviner in the Royal York Hotel on January 25th. A great deal of attention f.,,.• e -,,t .,,,, rls.viti ac hp__ rubs shoulders with some of the greatest stars in the world of greatest stars J a.YY Sport. Of.e'ourse, all celebri- ties and patrons to...the dinner • will know that as, guest of hon- our for this gala occasion, Kevin is representing 16, 000 crippled 'children in Ontario who derive care and treatment from the proceeds given the Ontario Society. for Crippled Children. In 1965- Kevin. was stricken with a bonedisease known as Ewing's Sarcoma and one year ago, his right leg was amputate ed just above the knee. He is fitted with an artificial limb now ard eceives regular treat- ° ment at tlw Ontario Crippled Children 's.Cei r in Toronto. Asked about is javourite sport, hockey. an he sudden switch`of_allegianc from the Maple Leafs tb the Bruins he. replied simply, "Why Eddie Shack, of course!" ' , HOMO ., OFFI ERS ELECTED at thq annual meeting of the 'Wingham and District Hospital Aux- iliary •discOss the program for the.coming year. Seen are Miss Doris Fells, treasurer; Mrs., J. M. English,, past president; Mts. W. B. Conron, recording secretary; and Mrs. A. H. McTavish, president, Advance -Times photo.