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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-03-23, Page 8• Mtge~ Rte, Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, March 23, 1972 t on borrowedone concerns Huron -Perth board Concerned about paying in- terest on money borrowed from the bank, Trustee Howard Shantz, Stratford, told his fellow members ;of the Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board at a meeting in Sea - forth last week that the board should request each municipality to pay its school levy four times a year, rather than the two pay- ments now made by most munici- palities. Mr. Shantz said Stratford rate- payers pay their taxes in four instalments. • Chairman of the board, James Morris, Stratford, agreed: "We are entitled to the money and 1 think we should collect it." Mr. Morris suggested that Jack Lane, business administrator for the board who was not at the meet- ing, should be asked to bring in a report at the next meeting on "how much it is costing us by not collecting the taxes four times a year and the regulations covering the payment of the levy." Neither Mr. Shantz nor Mr Morris agreed . with the sug- gestion that the separate school boa ' '. follow the policy of the public school boards in ac- cepting the levy twice yearly from those municipalities who collect taxes in one or two yearly payments. Mr. Shantz had another sug- aestion for the board to consider. He asked if the board should be considering the vacant convent of St . Joseph's parish in Stratford as a board office in view o1 the posR sibility that the present board of- fice in Seaforth would not he large enough soon for its needs. Trustee Joseph Looby of Dublin disagreed vigorously with the suggestion of moving the board BOB 'MIDDLETON LEADS new member Bob Walker through an initiation ceremony at -the Kinst ren meeting last Tuesday night. —Staff Photo. ', Students are touring, `1 Wathingtn, New York A group of students of F. E. Madill Secondary School bought $90_worth of fun and education a few weeks ago and left last Satur- day to get their money's worth. Participants in a tour engaged by Lloyd Ackert and his wife Helen met at his Holyrood farm to board a bus scheduled to 'rive at Toledot a 6:30On p.m. their ,. way they stopped at. Detroit to visit Greenfield Village andy4the Henry Ford Museum. '• Sunday they headed for Wash- ington, and on Monday and Tues- day spent most of the time visit- ing the Library of Congress, Jefferson Memorial, FBI head- quarters and 'other wlaces im- portant in the life othe United States. Atlantic City and a tour of many of •the attractions of New York 'Thursday and Friday will complete the tour, the travellers leaving New York about .' a.m. Saturday with arrival home at 8 pin. after a brief stop at Niagara Falls. • Those selected on the basis of Kin welcome new members The Wingham Kinsmen Club's official roster. increased con- siderably last Tuesday night when 12 new members were in- iated at the dinner meeting held at Danny's Tavern. Added to the serious side of the welcoming of the new members was a session of' slapstick where they were blindfolded and led into the room "to experience a "horrifying" series of tasks given them to perform. The new members are Grant Maclntyre, Bob Walker, -Elliott McMillan, Al Harrison, Don Car- ter, Bruce Green, John Green, Tom Deyell, Andy McBride, Le- roy Jackson, Ron Shaw. and Ray Bateman. ' ,. Among those at the head table participating in the ceremonies were Murray Taylor, Calvin Burke, Doug Layton, William Ranula, Bruce '.MacDonald, "Mac" Ritchie and Vern Red- man. early application were Linda Brooks, Susan Brooks, Sherry Stewart, Ferne Aitken, Wendy Busby, Carol Visser, Bonnie Nicholson, Agnes Conley, Nancy Walden, Debbie McCall,, Donna Walker, Ann Ackert, Dyanne Jagelewski, Bonnie Lorenz, Lois Moffat, Linda "'Walden, Sharon 1 Courtney, Jim Walden, Pat C urthe Yt Perry McDonald, David Colling, Duane Currie, Jim Moran, Alvin Moore, Donald Walker,, Devin Voisin," Russel •Foxton, Peter Crowe, Ivan Dane, Murray Rit- sema, John de Boer, Alex Adams, David Lougheed, Allan Robb, Murray Simpson and F aul Ackert. All, of the students were pro- vided with alist of rules, govern ing their activities while away from home, information concern- ing clothing required, suggested additional money for individual personal spending, their re- sponsiblities . to 'the group, to. leaders, to American people with whom , they ,would be in contact, also an outline of how, to maintain individual and group safety while on the tour. Former resident gains promotion WHITECHURCH — Mr. and Mrs. Russel Gaunt received a newspaper clipping from Harold Gaunt, paper inachine foreman who was promoted and trans-' ferred, effective Feb. 15; He will assume the duties as paper machine superintendent at Port Townsend in British Columbia. Mr. Gaunt joined the company in 1964,as senior engineer in main planning and has since served as supervisor of painters and masons, converting • technical assistant to the paper machine 'superintendent. Harold"grew to manhood at the home of grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gaunt on the second concession. He will be remem- bered by many having attended S.S. No. 10. Special for Thursday Nan, Cabbage and v Scalloped Potatoes $i.25 All You Can Eat "English Style" Fish and Chips French Bread Pot of Butter Lots of Good Toffee $1 .29 FRIDAY FROM NOON UNTIL 8 P.M. "MEET ME AT THE MANOR" MANOR MOTOR HOTEL, WINGHAM r MRS. WINNIE LOTT of 55 Patrick Street West won $75 in. merchandise vouchers in last week's Bazaar of Values draw. She was presented with her certificates by Ron Tout hav- ing made her purchase at Rem•ington's IGA Store. —Staff Photo. Five schools participate in competition The Maitland . Valley Conserva- tion Authority is again sponsor- ing the Conservation Scrapbook competition in the Grade rand 8 classes in a numbet ,of elemen- tary schools in the Maitland River Watershed. This year, -the competition is being held in co- operation with the Huron County Board of Education. This will be the sixth such competition sponsored` by the kutliority. The students will be concentrating on the flood con- trol, fprestry, wildlife, land use and recreational aspects of con-. servation. - The scrapbooks will be judged • by the Conservation Authority and prizes awarded to students in each school. The competition -will • closeat the end of April of this year. • the Blyth Public School, the Brookside Public School, the Brussels Public School, the East Wawanosh Public School and the Robertson .Memorial Public School. Conditions and General Information 1. The scrapbooks are supplied by the Conservation. Authority. 2. The entries must be the student's own work. 3. The entire book must be filled. , 4. The winning entries will become property of the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority. 5. The work contained in the books should be divided into the following categories: (a) Flood Control; (b) Forestry, Land Use, and Wildlife; .(c) Conservation Areas (recreation). The participating schools are • 6. The teachers will review the Icy roads :cause four collisions Damage was assesed at $1,500 last Sunday when, Neil H. Camp - ..bell of Bluevale lost control of his vehicle' on a slippery section of • County Road 12, struck a snow-» bank, rolled and came to rest on its roof. James A. Barnes, RR 2, Listo- wel, was travelling north on County Road 19, Grey Township, last Monday when a car driven by Olive A. Sproul, RR 1, Ethel, travelling south, skidded en the icy road and struck the Barnes' vehicle on the left side. Total damage was estimated at $900, but no injuries were reported. Another collision Wednesday caused $1,400 damage but occu- pants of the vehicle escaped in- jury. Jean-Ahn Kerr, RR 1, Listo- wel, was travelling east on Con- cession 4-5, Howick Township and while making a right turn, the ve- hicle skidded on the icy road and struck the left front of a vehicle driven by Samuel Newton, RR 1, Fordwich. - Nancy G. Guest of Wingham was proceeding south on Mill Street, Blyth, last Wednesday and seeing a vehicle driven by Joan B, Cooper of Blyth travelling east on Drummond Street, applied her brakes but the vehicle skidded on the icy road surface and struck the Cooper ve- hicle. Both escaped injury and damages wereestimated at $150. POLE VAULTER --..A motorist travelling north on Jose- phine Street -December 12 happened to have his camera be- side him when the car in front made this sudden manoeu- vre. Perhaps the smell of food at the Drive-in prompted the driver to make a hasty change in direction. This also proves that snow had not yet started to pile up, two K -eks before Christmas. scrapbooks and- submit only the best five from each class. 7. The prizes for each school are: First $15.00; Second $10.00; Third $5.00. • 8. The judges will be two Authority members and the resources manager. • 9. The contest will end on April 28, 1972. office to Stratford as he said it should be centrally located in the Huron -Perth district as it is now in Seaforth. Mr. Looby said this was the decision of the Interim Separate School organization committee when the two -county board was formed in 1968. Mr. Shantz is to investigate the avail- ability of the convent. John McCarroll, physical edu- cation consultant for the board, presented a summary of his pro- gram m the nineteen board schools. He explained that in the program of studies ten per cent of school time is suggested for physical and health education. This amounts to about half an hour per day but most schools are programmed for two forty -min- ute periods each week and a period of health in the senior level, while in Grades 1 to 6 at least three half-hour periods per week should be devoted to activ- ity lessons with additional time allotted to health education. Mr. McCarroll -used a movie he has made to demonstrate to the board members one of the tumb- ling and climbing classes as an example of the activities carried out in the school term program, which includes touch football, floor hockey, swimming, skating, ice hockey, basketball, volley- ball, tumbling, soccer and soft- ball type activities, running and jumping, rhythmic activities and folk and creative dance and health education Approval was given for J. A. MacDonald, London, to supply and install soundproof tiles for a wall in a classroom next to a general purpose room at Im- maculate Conception School in Stratford for $559 and for Bud Steel Services to repair about 190 lockers at St. Michael's School in Stratford at $2.00 per locker. Trustee „Arthur Haid, RR 4, Listowel, chairman of the trans- portation committee, reported that Lee Regier, Zurich, has resigned as regular driver of one of the school board owned buses to St. Boniface School in Zurich, effective June 30; but will con- tinue as custodian at St. Boniface School. He said he would be willing to drive the bus for extra curricular activities at the school during the' day. His position as bus driver will be advertised. THE LADIES of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church held a St. Patrick's Gingerbread Tea Friday afternoon and Presi- dent Mrs. Len Phillips greets Mrs. Irlma Casemore, one of the many attending the event. —Staff Photo. Bowling COMMERCIAL LEAGUE Just one more week of regular bowling. Running neck and neck are the Mutts with 101, and the Retrievers with 97; the latter, having taken total° points the last . two weeks, have jumped into second place. Coming on strong, but lacking enough time, are the Boxers with 91 and far below are the Newfies with 73, the Beagles 70 and the Collies 67. Special mention must be made of last week's excellent bowling by Rod Hickey -who had two high singles of 294 and 221, ending with, a high triple of 809. Joyce Gaunt had high triple of 700 for the ladies and Barb Dauphin the high single of 266. This week Joyce. Gaunt was back again with high single and triple for the ladies with a 240 and 636 respectively, while Lee Grove topped the men with an outstand- ing 361 single and a 769 triple. Thanks again to spares Gloria Thomas, Wes Simmons and Earl Young. Rec. Leaps hcccy,, fhsOs LAKELET—Last week's game saw Fordwich win over Lakelet 3 to 2. Scoring for Fordwich were Don Watson, Jim Taylor and Norm Wilson. Rod Wright and Randy Sangster scored for Lake - let . The fourth game will be played when ice is available. Weekly euchre BELGRAVE — Nine tables were played last Wednesday eve- ning at the weekly euchre with winners as follows: High lady, Mrs. S. Pocaluyka; low lady, Mrs. Cliff Purdon; novelty lady, Mrs. Margaret Foxton; high map, Mrs. Edgar Wightman _Lplaying as a man) ; low man, Gershom Johnston; novelty man, C. R. Coultes. She is a • human dynamo— charging everything. OUR SINCERE APOLOGY. The Huron Federation of - Agriculture expresses regret for the absence of the NORTHERN GENTLEMEN at the Wingham Legion Haw Saturday, March 18 This -matter has been corrected and all future bookings have been verified so such incidents will not reoccur. Thank you very much foryour tolerance and we seek your patronage for further dances. • All covered by the Buyer Pratec' fan et YOU CAN DRIVE THESE CARS FOR ONE YEAR OR 12,000 MILES AND IF ANYtIIING GOES WRONG, AND IT'S THE MANUFACTURER'S FAULT, IT WILL BE FIXED all-inclusive buyer protection plan this �ti FREE! 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