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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-02-03, Page 1Single Copy Not Over 25c Wingham, iOntal i Thursday, February 3, 1972 • County road subsidy is cut by $100,000 Education, health and social services are biting intothe roads budgets all across the province, Huron County Engineer Jim Brit- .ne11 told county council last Fri- day, and Huron's subsidy allot- ment has been reduced by about $100,000. "That's a little more than ,we expected," admitted Britnell. "The pinch in the budget is in road construction," he said. "There are'severe limitations on road construction 'in 1972. Foe4a long, long time we got everything we asked for .. what we could afford to match. Now we ban build less than half what we know is deficient." Britnell's year-end report from 1971 showed a $8,337.80 deficit in county funds. "It should be noted that our county fund deficit of 1.1 per cent was encountered mainly due to N the high winter control costs for 1971 and because our bridge. work, which is subsidized at 80 per cent, was .completed under the estimates. This means that a higher percentage of the total budget was paid by county funds in order to utilize our full, allot- ment of Department df Transpor- tation and Communications suI iM sidy. It should also be noted that the County . Roads Department had a surplus of county funds in excess of $10,000 in 1970," Throughout 1971, $447,209.60 K,1 `two require treatment at Wingham hose. Norris Shoemaker, 31, of Wroxeter required treatment at Wingham & District Hospital last Tuesday for an injury to his left knee -received when he was thrown from a snowmobile. The accident was ' investigated by Prov. Const,. Robert Wittig. David Ablett., 41, of Wingham, WM driving east on the .county road between Auburn and Blyth Friday and was following a'snow- plow. Due to snow blowing from trees. the visibility at times ' was poor and during one of these per- iods Mr. Ablett struck the rear of he plow. He received lacerations to the chin and required attention at Wingham & District Hospital. , The accident was investigated by an officer from the Goderich de= tachment of the provincial police. Ai l�ll� ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian ('KNX ROUNDUP— An excerpt from a recent letter enclosed with Bob Carberl's sub- scription renewal will be of inter= rest to many here: From time to time we keep running into some of the old friends from Wingham, and particularly CKNX who are now located in' Toronto. Talk about every week on so to Bob Lewis; Vin Dittmer and Eliza- beth live in Toronto and we get together from time to time; •we are very close friends with Rod- ger and Mary Schwass who are located here; Don Hildebrand and Jack Mitchell are both in ♦ Toronto, and many of the people up there will be interested -to• know that Karl Krug is now act- ing as a consultant with the Department of Social and Family , Services. 0- 0-0 THANK YOU, LADIES We have received a few more shirts for Pakistan from individ- uals and a parcel of the garments from the Belinore United Church Wofnen. Our sincere thanks to all. . PAGE CAPiSTRANO- 6 Rev. H. L. and Mrs. Jennings , have had a surprise visitor at ' their Carling Terrace home—a red -breasted robin. 0--0—o EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS -- Among the items discussed at da:y,.- nigb.t. eetang_o.Ltla Business and Professional Women's Club was pollution and the group had a speaker to stress the need to.control pollution. 0-0-0 WIDER iNTEREST— Teams from Brampton, Tor- onto, Owen Sound, Waterloo and London will be added to the en - a tries for the Lockridge Memorial •Midget Tournament along with known teams from Ottawa, De- troit and Barrie. was 'spent on road construction; $194,840.76 on bridge construc- tion; $528,524.03 on road mainten- ance;—and $2,822.41 on bridge maintenance. Overall expendi- ture for roads in Huron County amounted°to .$1,901,870.63 in 1971. "Our grants are being cut but the -regional., government grants are being increased," advised Bill ,Elston, Reeve of Morrwis Township. Reeve Elston speculated that the provincial government may be attempting to make the re- gional concept more•attractive to municipalities and Count-ies by dangling favorable grant struc- tures as a reward. He said that much the same tactic had been employed by government to en- courage county school boards. County Council approved an annual $500 increase (2.4 per- cent) for Engineer Britnell. It was also pointed out that the county vehicle supplied to Brit- nell for business and personal use will now be regarded as an asset under the new income tax regula- tions and it was estimated that Britnell would pay an additional $500 per annum for income tax because of it. It was Reeve Hugh Flynn who questioned • council concerning Britnell's car privileges. It was learned that the county road en- gineer in Huron has had a new car about every three years since 1920. "It is a county policy which I didn't know about until I became' a member of the road commit- tee," admitted Bill EIston. ' All hourly rated county ,road employees will receive an addi- tional 20 cents per hour (7.5 per- cetrt) this year, `and the salaried foremen have been granted an in- crease of $500 per annum tsix percent). Stormy conditions cause accidents An estimated $1,900 damage, occurred -at --8:25 a.m. Friday on Josephine Street north when two cars collided. Road conditions were reported -to be slightly hazardous. Richard J. McNamara of Strat- ford was driving a car owned by Richard °O'JVlalley, Rh 2, Tees-, water, and was coming out of a private ' driveway when the ve- hicle wall struck by a vehicle driven -by Nancy Anne Thompson of Teeswater which was travel- ling south. Police Chief James •Miller was at the scene and the investigation is continuing. " v " A collision at the intersection of Patrickand Josephine Streets at 9:50 a.rrr . Sunday resulted -in $250 total damage. Frank Brobenberg of Hutton- ville was proceeding south on Jo- sephine Street when Arthur G. Laidlaw of Boland Street, Wing= ham, attempted to go through the intersection and his car was struck by the Brobenberg • vehicle. Visibility was poor at the time and Mr. La.idlaw'said he failed to see the other car which was light '• in color approaching. The acci- dent was investigatd by Const. Ed Daer. THE YOUNGEST compdtitor in the Talent Hunt show Thursday night was Carol Wheeler of RR 5., Brussels, who presented Highland dances and the Sailors' Hornpipe to be chosen one of the four winners. She received her prize from- -Lloyd Casemore. —Staff Photo. Inclement weather curtails program A baker's dozen braved the i;. winter elements last Tuesday to attend the annual meeting of the Wingham `Horticultural Society. The ' meeting was held in the council chamber with president, `Ed Fielding conducting the pro- ceedings. The minutes of the last annual were - read by the secre- tary, Mrs. M. Cretier, and busi- ness arising from,sarne was dealt' with. George Thomas read the fi- nancial statement, as signed by the auditors, and showed a good balance on hand to start the sea, son's activities. ` Correspondence. was also dealt with. This included a letter from the postmaster, Gordon Sutcliffe, in reply to one sent a week or so -earlier endorsing the thoughts contained in -an editorial appear- ing 'in The Wingham Advance - Times of 'late December regard- ing plantings and parking "at the post office. The society awaits a further, reply -from .the Public Works Department, in this -,re gard. The directors responsible for memberships projects, show and refreshments presented their yearly reports. The nominating committee presented their report and with no further nominations, the following were elected for the coming year: President. Ed Fielding; first first viceteres., Colin Campbell; second vice pres., Mrs. Wm. Con- nell ; one-year directors, Mrs. M Cleland, John' Donaldson, Mrs. Ed' Fielding, Miss M. MacLeod, Roy Bennett; two-year directors, Mrs. I. E. Morrey, Mrs. Jim Meyer, Miss,,.Z. Hopwood, Wm. Harris, Stewart Beattie; audi- FI,RST SEC, Iptil Larger staff needed for county planning office.. As some members shook their heads with concern, it was re- vealed at last Friday's session of Huron County Council that the • staff in the year-old Planning De- partment will,likely have to.be in- creased in 1972. Indications 'are that another person will have to be added to complete the "tremendous in - :crease ' in volume of work due to land ivision matters". It was. show that if county planner Gary Davidson is to be able to get on with the job he was hired to do. padditional per,onnel will have to be.secured to relieve Davidson of :"his land dividing, duties. In his report. the chairman of ,Y Tthe Land Division Committee, ' Ian McAllister, Hay Township; '$id his committee had expected about' 120 applications in the first year. To date since operations began August 1, there have been 4' 138 applications including 65 ap- plications completed, 69 pending • and four files closed. About 400 severances will likely be request- ed soon in connection with the hydroline going through Huron County from the.., Bruee power station. "We are several: weeks behind," said McAllister who ex- plained to council the time-con- suming procedure which must be followed in every severence. Speaking only briefly to coun- cil, Garry Davidson said there have been some problems; in ad - tors, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ella - cot t. The'secretary and treasurer will .be appointed at the first meeting of the new board. • The prize list for the flower show, to be held later in the year, was formulated at an open meet; ing last Septem ber ' and was rati- fied at. the' annual meeting. These lists will be printed shortly and' distributed. The membership• 'cominittee hopes .to be formed shortly and will be endeavouring, • to increase this aspect of the so- ciety's activities. The appointing of delegates to 'the District annual to be held in Hanover and the Ontario Conven- tion in Kingston were left. to a later date. It is hoped to have some entries in this year's photo- graphic contest: The member- ship is also looking forward to at- tending several' garden club shows scheduled for later this' month and early spring. , Owing to , weather condition's the guest speaker. Dan Webster of the F. E. Madill Secondary School staff was unable to at -tend: Mrs. Wm. Klie, district director of Hanover, was also unable to be present. It is hoped -to have an open meeting at a later date when both Mrs. Klie and Mr. Webster. - can be present.. ' The ,committee in charge served refreshments. —Mr. .and Mrs. Brian Caslick of • London .were weekend guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Caslick. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Alexander left on Sunday for a two-week va- cation in ,Florida. KAREN SUTCLIFFE, the Snow Queen, presented awards to Jack Gorrie, lett, and to Don Carter after the snowmobile rally on Sunday. Jack accepts the trophy for Rainbow Ranch', the club with the highest number of entrants in the rally. He was also the winner of the second position prize in the class for machines with driver and passenger. (No spired() meters—on the machines, of course.) Don Carter accepts the trophy and cheque for first place in the crass for snowmobiles with cutters, the trophy being donated by Howard Tur ner, Goderich, local Bardahl distributor. -Staff Photo. Snowmobile destroyed when ,has tank burns Early 'Saturday evening the lo- cal fire brigade was called to the resident of Allan Harrison at the corner or "John and Catherine Streets; where his snowmobile had burst into flames. Sitting close to the house, it was feared for a few minutes that the flames would engulf the building as well as the machine. The gas tank had been filled a few minutes earlier and when the owner turned .an the ignition it is believed that some of thefspillage, took fire. Allan says the snow machine is a write-off but. happily for him, was insured. • 22 entries in snowmobile' rally Sunday Competition was keen among the 22 "snowmobile drivers and heir passengers who partici- pated in a rally on Sunday. The event, was,a•postponed feature of the Kinsmen's winter carnival and was organized by Murray McLennan, as chairman. Similar in general style and purpose to a car tally, the snow- mobile trek was -a test of driving ability, map reading and alert - is ness, rather than a timed race. The machines left the Legion ,building, travelled through Lower Town and then north to the 1 Line and on toward the Alps, The track, only part of which was !narked, look them through woodlands, across fields and ,along country roads, only four miles of which were, plowed. The total run was a distance of 25 miles and the average time for most entrants was two hours. Sound snowmobile safety prac- tices were the basis of a portion of the questions asked each driver at the various checkpoints along the way. The chairman of the event had made prepslrations for consider- ably more entrants than actually showed up for the rally, but it is felt tifat when more followers.of the sport become aware of the ex- • ci.tement and zest to be enjoyed, future events of this kind will see !ouch larger turnouts. . . Allan Harrison was the over-all winner of the meet as well as win- ner of the class for machines with speedometers, having only 29 points charged against him. Marc Forrest placid second with 34 points and David Cam- eron third with 37 points penalty. In the class without speedom- eters, William" Rintoul came first with 31 points against him, fol- lowed by Jack Gorrie, 39, and .Les Kaplin was third with 41 points. Winner of the class of snowmo- bile'with cuttter was Don• Carter. ministering the official plan for Huron" County but adjustments in the plan will be made as soon as possible. Davidson also urged all munic- ipalities to have zoning and build- ing bylaws which would give power to local committees of ad- justment. In other business., it was learned that approval has been' received from the Province for two projects under the Winter Works Program tobe conducted at the Huron County Pioneer Mu- seum. The initial project for $10,- 050 is for a clean-up program and other required maintenance work. 9The second project is the reprinting of 'the museum booklet and also recataloguing exhibits as they exist at the present time for record and insurance pur- poses. It was also anrlou eed that ver- bal approval had baen received. from R. E. McKinley's Ottawa office for a program in the amount of $22,520 to clean out brush and weeds along Huron. County roads. THIS TRIO, Ruth Whitehead, Lois Wall and Janet Whitehead, check one of ,their songs with pianist Ruth Anne Leahy moments before appearing before the audience Thursday night in the Lions Talent Hunt. —Staff Pihoto. irst Lions Talent Hunt, top notch entertainment The Wingham Lions Club Tal- ent Hunt was held last Thursday night and everyone was a winner. An audience of close to 300 en- joyed every presentation, par- tieip.ants in the 12 acts gained ex- perience and had fun performing and the back stage crew was. de- lighted with the , way master of ceremonies Jim Swan made everything easy for them. As announced, tour winners were chosen, not in terms of plac- ing first or otherwise. They will appear in the grand final in April to compete for major prizes of cash' and an opportunity to ap- pear on television. 'Chosen to compete in the final show were The Good Intentions of - Teeswater, a singing group of girls and boys; Card'1 Wheeler, 'a Highland dancer of RR 5, Brus- sels; soloist Linda Wilson of Brussels and Paul Orescan and' Demerling, and, from RR 2, Clifford. The judges were Mrs. Mary . Lou Johnston, Brussels; Mayor DeWitt Miller and Jim Ward of Wingham. Colin Campbell, Rob ert H. Armstrong and Lorne Car- michael recorded the readings of the applause meter and tallied the judges' sheets. *• Other contestants were pianist Catherine'Chandler, RR 3, Wing - ham ; Vincent Lee, folk singer of, .,Wingham; soloist Mary. Anne Al- ton, RR 2, Lucknow; pianist Doug Thomson, Wingham; harmonica player Robert , Soloman, RR. 3, Wingham, a girls' trio drawn from The Good Intentions,' Com- prising Ruth and Janet 'White- head and' Lois Wail, with Betty Anne Leahy accompanist; soloist Gail Traviss of Walton and a wes- tern band, The Fordwich Ramb- lers, composed of Brian, Bob and John Siefert and Bill Simmer - maker', with Mary Siefert at the piano. Kendra Donaldson, Lynne Hill, Allison Smith, Claire Halliday, Dale Sewers, Alan. Grant, Laurie Hill along with the trio and their pianist made up. the group from Teeswater. Contestants were judged, on ALLAN HARRISON received a trophy and cheque from karen Sutcliffe, Wingham's Snow Queen. The presentation was made Sunday afternoon following a snowmobile rally sponsored by the Kinsmen Club. Allan was the winner of first place in the class for machines with either one or two aboard (without speedometers) and the over all winner of the rally on a basis of points awarded. --- Staff Photo. poise and personality, appear- ance, appeal to the audience, plus the overall impression of the jud- ges. • Co-ordinator of the Talent Hunt was Jim Gregg and Archie Hill, stage manager, had Fred Snow and Gil Shepherd assisting. Lions Club president Lloyd Casemore welcomed 'the audience and in- troduced Jim Swan. Mr. Case - more presented cash prizes to the successful contestants at the end of the program. Auxiliary plans hockey night The Mother's Auxiliary to Wingham's Minor Hockey Aso- ciation held.a Meeting last Thurs-, day at the hoine of the president, Mrs. Sharon Skinn. Plans were formulated for a "$25 Green Hockey Stick" draw, the proceeds of which will aid to- ward a "Minor Hockey Night" planned for early spring. Mem- bers are hopeful that those who have boys and girls involved in Minor Hockey will give their sup- port to this "project. Further discussion was held on the' Minor Hockey Night and it is hoped plans will be finalized shortly: The ladies plan to meet again, Monday, February 14, again at ,•.• !the home of Mrs. George Skinn, Jr., Blitz nets $656 for fund The Ability Fund canvass Mon- day slight by Wingham Kinettes and helpers resulted in $656.00 being collected. Co-chairmen of the campaign, Mrs. William Han- ula and Mrs. "Mac" Ritchie said there were 29 canvassers. The Kinette Club will conduct the September campaign on be- half of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society. Mrs. Hanula expressed apprec- iation to the citizens for their sup- port of the Kinette project Mon- day night, also to -diose who came out to assist the members. Mrs. Cal Burke, a former member of the Kinettes. opened her Shuter Street home for use as the" cam- paign headquarters.