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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-05-01, Page 1-4) tr # e 4 Teens 11*own thing". at United Church ServiEe,. According to St. Matthew, at the ascension of our Lord, "they worshipped, but some doubted". A similar experience took place in the Wingham United Church last Sunday when the church Teen Club took charge of the service. They worship- ped, but some doubted. The teen set did their own thing and emphasized the need. to communicate in modern day terms. "Nineteenth century hymns, sixteenth century lang- uage and ang-uageand thirteenth century architecture do not turn us on," ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian RUNS IN THE FAMILY -- Some people inherit red hair, thers come up with blue eyes from their parents --but young Tim Henderson has apparently inherited his father's .ability to catch fish when every one else gives it up for a bad job. You'll see the results of his powers in a picture in, this edition of the. paper. AD 0--0--0 DITION TO STORE-- • A sizeable addition is being erected at the rear of the Red Front' Grocery on Victoria St. Of cement block construction, the new room will house a walk- in refrigerator. . JOB UNDER WAY-- Mnwbra y Construction_ has commenced the excavation for a new sewer line along Diagon- al Road, starting at the east end. When the sewer job is complet- ed the street will be complete- ly rebuilt. The construction work will be largely paid for by .. ...the; Depart ens ,pf Highways as a part of their agreement to put the street in top shape before turning it back to the munici- pality. 0--0--0 WHY SO LOW? -- • OW?--• Several boating enthusiasts have been wondering why the boards have not been replaced in the Howson Dam, now that the spring run-off is over. They have, a natural, inclination to get their crafts out of winter storage so they can tune up mo- tors and put everything in shape for thewarm weather. A high- er water level would do much for the appearance of this beauty spot as well. said Marilyn Strong, who gave one of the three sermonettes. The service commenced in conventional fashion with Mel- anie Harris giving the call to worship and announcing the first hymn, "Rock of Ages". Paul Guest led the congregation in the prayer of confession and the responsive reading. As Paul concluded, Barrie Conron stood up in the congregation and challenged the relevancy and meaningfulness of what had hap- pened thus far. From this point, the mood of worship was altered drastically. Barrie approached the pulpit and made a stirring appeal for con- structive change. He doubted that a third of the town of Wing - ham attended worship on any given Sunday morning, and less than .10°10 of the teen-agers. The Stonehenge instrumental group swung into action and breathed life into the mjtsic as the chorus sang, "Is There a Reason Why?" . ' Then the con- gregation joined in "Wonderful Love" to the tune of "Kingston Town". Brian • Miller humorously made the grown-ups somewhat uneasy as he made abundantly clear thethe trouble with teen= agers is that they follow the bad example of the adults. With voices blending delight- fully, Sheila Crewson and Judy 'McDowell performed a duet, accompanied by Miss Anne Old- field on the organ. After Pam Walden led in a• timely prayer and Mari l y n Strong delivered her serrnonette, • the servicewas concluded with everyone singing tp the tune of "Yellow Bird ", "Jesus Calls, He Wants Us All on His Team". NamedJoLHuron.r Changes in personnel have been announced by the Depart- ment of .Agriculture..and. Food which affect staffs of the dis- trict offices. S. H. Bradshaw, 1969 grad- uate of the University ofGuelph will become agricultural engin- eering assistant in Huron. Coun- ty, succeeding b. G. Holmes, who moves to Carleton County on June 9. :Garry Howes, a 1969 gradu- ate of Kemptville College of Agriculture;has been named extension assistant, in agricult- ural technology for H u r o n 'County. Four treated in hospital after 2 -car col_is on A two -car collision,. on High- way 4, at-Belgrave, on Friday afternoon at 3.45, resulted in four persons being admitted to Wingham and District Hospital for treatment. The accident occurred when a southbound vehicle driven by Ernest Michie, 70, of Belgrave turned left into the path of a northbound .vehicle driven• by Robert Roland Marks, 28, of Blyth. Damage to the vehicles has been estimated at $2,000. The accident was investigated - by Const. H. B. McKittrick. Mr. Michie received facial lacerations and suffered shock. His passenger, Mrs. Elizabeth Michie, 80, of Belgrave, suf- fered shock and contusions. Robert Marks received scalp lacerations and his. passenger, John Wilson, 46, of Blyth, had an injured right knee. All patients received first aid and were discharged from hospital the same night. TREATED IN HOSP. Keith Johnston, local garage operator, received first aid for a lacerated left hand at Wing - ham and District Hospital early Saturday morning and was re- leased. Mr. Johnston received the injury ' while towing away wreck- age of one of the cars involved ° in the accident northof Holy - rood on Bruce County Road 5. Mb Car lands in • river near Port Elgin Alexander Blair, 20., of R. R. 1, m toHo Belgrave, . was, taken to South oljoi�' P single car�accident on" H fence posts and landed in river. He was released from Southampton Hospital Mo morning and examined b hospitalized atWingham District Hospital the s a morning. He'had an i.n ju the right eye. The accident was investigat- ed by the Walkerton 0. P.P. detachment, a way 21, about three miles south of Port Elgin. The mishap oc- curred curred about ll: p. m. Sunday. Mr. Blair said he fell aseep His car went out of control, struck a hydro pole and twothe the nday ut not and me ry to. WINNERS,OF THE poste sented with cash awa mission of the Childrei production held in the contest were pre- rds during inten- t's" Little Theatre town hall. First prize went to Karen,Smith and second prize was won by ,Mrlene Foxton. Rec- reation director Jim Ward presented prizes.----A-T Photo. BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Although there were 15 votes for deficit financings at Friday's session of Huron County Council„ 24 votes were cast in favor of, a budget which will increase the county mill rate this year by 3.25 mills. The budget calls for $3,268•,,.- 353.00. Although health, li- brary and children's aid 'costs are up and a new item, county planning has added $20,000 to the expenditures, the main hike is due to the, new assessmentde- ., partment budget of $197,425 and the final payment of the.. administrative building of $100,- 000. ' It should 'also be noted that the general account is set at 12.25 mills bearing the entire. mill rate increase, and the road budget remains steadyat 10 mills for a total . county mill rate of -22.25. Clerk -treasurer John Berry predicted. a "brighter financial picture" for 1970 when assess- ment costs would be taken over • by the province. In addition to the fact there would be no furth- er payments to make on the ad ministrative building, the build- ing, would in 1970 be revenue producing since, theprovincial government will leasethe en- tire building for assessment pur- poses. As well, reported Mr. Berry, Mrs. W. Armstrong r e n Ing cruise Mrs. Wally Armstrong, who has been spending the winter in . Florida, will spend . May a n d June on a cruise which will take her to several interesting places • She sails from Port Everglades in S. S. Hanseatic of the Ger- man American line to Puerto - Rico, Madeira, Casablanca, Genoa, and Malta, then through the Dardanelles and Sea of Mar - mora to Instanbul. The cruise will then take her to the far eastern .end o f the Black Sea where she will visit S -Ochi, U. S. S. R. , a greathealth resort. On. the way back s h e will call at Yalta in the Crimea, where Mrs. Armstrong hopes to get to Sebastapol or Balaclava. Then on to Odessa, the great seaside resort of the U.S.S.R. The next stop will be Con- stanta.in Rumania, an archeol- ogist 's delight, for it is: the placeof many Greek,and d Ro - man ruins: Constarfta also has manypicturesque synagogues and mosques. Passing •through the Darden elles• again the cruise will head through the Greek Islands. for Piraeus, the <port o f Athens, which she has .always wanted to see.. - When Mrs. Armstrong re- turns to Genoa.she will go b y bus to Milan, take a K. L. M. plane to Amsterdam and after five nights there return •to To- ronto. She expects to arrive in Wingham July 1. Permitted to retain streets BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER GODERICH--There was very little discussion on a road com- mittee report in Huron County Council Friday morning which permitted the towns of Exeter, Wingham and Goderich to re- tain the streets in each to w.n which the county had proposed to take over at the March ses- sion. The urban rebate of 4!' per cent will remain unchanged. Chairman Elmer Hayter, in speaking to the report, to Id council he hoped this would put an end to the complaints from the towns in Huron that the county was not doing much for them in regard to roads. "Things should' be quiet now, for a while, " ret irked Mr. Hay- ter. total of debenture on Huronview would paid reducing the costs there $70, 000. It was Stanley Reeve Elmer ittayter and his deputy -reeve Anson McKinley who spoke out in favor of deficit financing. Said Reeve Hayter, "Somebody's going to have to borrow t h e Money to pay this thing. Once PA the mill rate goes up we'll never get it back down. Mr. McKinley asked if the executive committee had con- sidered the possibility of spread- ing the costs out over a longer period of time. Clerk-treasur- " or Berry reminded council of the high interest rates which prevail. In support of the budget Mr. Berry said, "Our costs should be down' by about $370,000 next year. Surely our services will not go up by that much." Chairman pf the executive. committee A. D. Smith, Turn - berry, drew attention to the es- timated surplus of $54,372. 1111f111, SOME FISHERMEN complained about high water conditions at the opening of trout season Saturday, but most of them came back with a good catch. A sample of what was just waiting to be caught is held by Russell Farrier, Tim Henderson and Jack Henderson, all of Wingham. The largest "trout they - brought back was a 16" Rain- bow and by the smile Tim is sporting, we doubt if it was on dad's ' hook.—A-T Pix. Wingham girls are injured in four vehicle smash-up An accident early Saturday morning involving four cars on Bruce County Road 5, one mile north of Holyrood, resulted in four teenagers being taken to Wingham and.lDistrict Hospital by ambulance. • Cliff Robb of R. R;1, Holy - rood lost control of his car and hit a hydro pole. ,The hydro wires fell across the road. A second vehicle driven by Don- ald Barr of Waterloo which was • behind the Robb car -became in - 'volved when it struck the wires. The third vehicle, belonging to Ernest Ackert, was parked at the scene when at 1.30 a. m. it was struck by a car driven by Barry Haldenby, 19, of R. R.1, Holyrood, with five passengers. A call for the local ambu-lance' from Dr. Mel Corrin was cancelled when he received Huron mayors present for county council session. . BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER GODERICH--It was. Mayor 's Day at Huron County Council Friday, something new initiated this year by Warden James Hay- ter. Mayors from Exeter, Sea - forth, Goderich and Wingham sat in on the,session of council to see, first hand, the workings of county government. During the day, long -service awards were presented to Dan McPhee of Auburn, Reg Watson of Wroxeter, Ed S t e w a r t of Wroxeter, George Haggitt of Zurich and Jim Glousher , Au- burn, all 15 -year members of the Huron road crew; Harold Kaake, Wroxeter, a 20 - year man with the road crew; 13i 11 Empey, chief public health in- spector, 20 years; Harvey John- ston, absent because of illness, 20 years; Mrs. .Mildred Simpson, secretary to the clerk -treasurer, 20 years; and Clerk -Treasurer John Berry, 20 years. In other business, Mervyn --Mr. and Mrs. John H. Kcrn- ighan of Goderich visited over the week -end with their cousins, Mr. ` and Mrs. Leslie H. Be irnes of Leopold Street. Cudmore, chairman o f the •county planning committee, re- ported that consultants from G. V. Kleinfeldt and Associates Ltd. would be meeting with all local municipal councils during May. "Here's your opportunity to pose questions, "said Mr. Cud - more. The cost of the appraisal in Huron will be $1 to $1.2 5 per capita spread over 18 to 24 months. It is expected that the wage agreement with the Service Em- ployees Union at Huronview will be ratified soon. The pro- posed wage increase for 1969 is eight per cent plus $10 per month for the female employees in the low category of each de- partment with 18 monthsor more service. This will make the maximum in these categories $13348.24. Effective. January 1, 1970, all categories will re -. ceive a further Increase of sev- en per cent. Donald Graham has been hired as a fourth class engineer. The assistant administrator at Huronview has resigned and a new administrator will besought immediately, due to the illness of the present administrator, Harvey\,Johnston. word that the Kincardine.am- •bul.ance was taking charge. The patients arrived at the hospital in the Kincardine ambulance and .a car driven by Ross Irwin of Lucknow., Barry Haldenby suffered shock, contusions, facial lacerations and an injured leg. He was given first aid and discharged. Douglas McEwan, 17, of R. R. 1, Holyrood, son of Donald Mc - Ewan, had scalp lacerations and contusions to the right shoulder and left arm. He was admitted to hospital and was reported in satisfactory condition. Marilyn Ross, 15,, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W illia ni Ross of R. R.1, Wingham, suffered skull injuries, fractured nose, shock and multiple contusions. Her condition is fair. • Linda Cerson, 15,. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Cerson of Wingham was reported in satis- factory condition. She suffered shock and concussion. The other passengers in the Haldenby car, Bill Moffat and 'Duncan McEwan, were examin- ed and released from hospital. O. P. P. Const. Andy Burgess of the Kincardine detachment investigated. Charges are pend- ing. Four pass music exams BELGRAVE--Pupils of the On- tario Conservatory of Music tried their Grade III exams on the Hawaiian guitar on April 16. Re- sults were: First Class Honours, David Colley of R. R. 4, W inghant and James Ritter, Wingham. Honours, Tommy Barger of R. R. 3, Lucknow. Pass4 John Scott, 1141 R. 1, Bel - grave. The teacher is Mr. Zatarzan of Clinton. "We'll have all theaeihinma for this year and. a surplus. 'be- sides," he pointed, out. In., the recorded! vote, ttoe voting in favor of the budget were Jack Alexander,, Mel Al- Ian, Jim Armstrong, Cordon Boyd, Deny Boyle, AllanCa- bell, Borden Cook, R, B. Cousin Mery Cudmore, Joe Dietrich, Bill Elston, Wilmer Hardy, Joe Hoffman, James *rex', ''Lloyd Hendrick, Gordon I°Iets Oliver Jaques, Gordon Lawson, Bob. Lyons, Frank McFadden, Roy Pattiso , A. D. Smnith,, :Elgin► Thompson and Roy "S 'estcott. Those opposed oft? Ci* the budget and in favor �of. deficit financing were Wilmer :Ct tb ll, John FI - nery, Elmer Hayter,; .W. ins, Alex McGregor, Everett Mcllwain, Anson McKinley, .Gervin -Reed, Harold Robinson:;, Walter Sheardown (2) Charles Thomas,, H. Wild and Harry- . Wbrsell (2). In connection wlth,the get, Mr.. McKinley drew at - tendon to Huron's• disappoint., merit that the county •will re ceive only a 50 per cent grant of the health unit expenses when a 75 per cent grant had been expected at the time the health., budget was approved. Perth.' �. County has qualified for the 15' per cent grant. . "I •.don't :Mink we are getting a 1 ware .deal, Mr. McKinley observed. "Perhaps we should' scale down expenditures. That would be a backward step but not as backward as the decision of the provincial government. . Ie,reported that ,a,lettet•d be forwat+ded litx�l tth+ v► .. Dymond regarding 'lie Matter and council haS been in tonal with Hon. C; S. MacNaughton provincial treasurer. Exeter Reeve Derry Boyle said the province had given Huron an opportunity to get in on the 75 per cent grant, but Huron turned it down when they did not amalgamate with Perth County for health purposes. "We didn't turn down a 75 per cent grant," retorted Mc-• Kinley.. ' "We turned down.amal. garnation. We are being refut- ed the grant because we didn't do as we were told. " In his budget report, Clerk treasurer John Berry said he • would like to see a "much closei relationship and planning pro- gram between the provincial government and the local mu- nicipalities". Said Mr. Berry, "I feel a prime example of this lack of planning has been in the take- over of the assessment depart- ments. If we at the local level are going to work towards a bet- ter municipal government for our area, then we must have the co-operation and trust of the provincial authorities in planning and preparing for our future. " Ina report of the special committee on regional govern- ment, Chairman Frank McFad- den, Bayfield, said that in two meetings with representatives of the provincial government there had beeii "not much by way of gpidelines. " "It is time we got off our apathy and got a few ideas of our own, " added Mr. McFadden, His committee i s sending a questionnaire to all local Muni- cipalities requesting their ideas and suggestions for better gov- ernment for the people pf Huron, "We're in a listening mood," interjected Warden Hayter. In the 'meantime, a brief was submitted to the Hon. W. Darcy McKeough, Minister of Munici- pal Affairs, when council was in Toronto on March 26. Three main points were stres- sed in the brief; the future of the assessment department and the use of the administrative buildings; a definite plan for • • establishing regional govern- ment in Huron as to area, popu- lation, and timing for change; . and the possibility of Huron be- coming a region unto itself with legislative authority to properly carry out the functions of region- al government. The brief was well received, council noted.