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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-09-28, Page 1A CAMPAIGN KICKOFF event for Huron Liberal candidate • Charles Thomas of Brussels was held at Saltford Valley hall last Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are seen as • they acknowledged a demonstration of support by young "First -Time Voters" who were among some 200 persons attending the reception and banquet attended by representatives from. the north section of the riding. (Staff Photo) Youth vote could swa •balance of election An assembly bf Huron Liber- Minister's First Time, Voter.com- als, many from the Wingham mittee. Brussels area, were told the There ' was. no visible pre - "first time voters" could deter- ponderance of youthful voters at mine the outcome of the October the meeting, aside from an or - 30 election. The event was a kick- ganized demonstration, complete off rally for the Liberal candidate with placards. „The crowd o n Huron, Charles Thomas, 44, of -• ••Grey Township held at Saltford Valley half dear Goderich. The R binso speaer� �a��0Yt u , • ri Qi',- Ldidbd, whir heads the Priifie • ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian FISHERMEN UNHAPPY— Fishermen plying the lakes an streams of Lklorthern Ontari havebeen having hard times, re ports Police Chief Jim Miller, re centl`y returned from a trip through the Timmins, Elk Lake Shining Tree area: Pickerel were simply not biting and lake trou were hiding in the murky depths with poor luck being reported on all sides. Jim had a couple o good fakers on, but lost them with light tackle. 0-0-0 WOR• K PROCEEDS - Curb and gutter concrete and sidewalk work is almost com- plete on the Patrick Street re- construction job being carried out by Dempsey Construction Co. of • Guelph. Only the corners at Shute!, Street remain to be com- pleted before resurfacing of the street can be started. Heavy rains have been slewing down the project of late. 0-0-0 , MORE YOUNGSTERS— '"Wlth •15full-time youngsters and 30 on a part-time basis, Wingham . Day Care Centre *population is in the 45 child area, making for a very busy and complicated schedule. The base- mbnt play area has been put to good use in recent days, because continual rain eliminated outdoor play. ' 4-0-0 WE WIN AGAIN -- A hush fell over Josephine Street for a couple of hours Tues- ik day afternoon as residents glued themselves to TV and radio sets ,for the Canadian hockey victory in the 7th game against Russia. Yup, 4-3. 41/ oT-O--•0 SUCCESSFUL CANVASS— Wingham Kinettes held a suc- cessful canvass Monday evening on behalf of the Canadian Arthri- tis and Rh(eun atism Society and Wiph to thank all who generously • donated money, time and effort to make the campaign a success. .They are especially grateful to Kinette Mrs. John Green, Who opened her home to be used as about 200 banqueters was made up principally of the "old guard" party faithfuls. : ti ;.S, Vests ;at, the -ban- quet meet1n* ineltided Mi. and Mrs. Andy McLean of Seaforth, Mr. and Mrs.. Peter Keil of Gor- rie, who interrupted their honey- moon to attend the rally; Kathy Robinson of London, guest speak- er; Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Krauter, Brussels; Gordon McGavin, Wal- ton, president of the Huron Liber- al Association; Reeve Doug Mc - d Neil and Mrs. McNeil of Colborne o Township; Howard •Aitken, chairman of the Goderich Liberal - Association. • An informal "meet thecandi- • date" type of reception was held in the hour precedingthe banefet t meeting when wine was served. • In the course of the 'program entertainment in the form of a f sing -along was conducted by Beecher Menzies, Clinton lawyer, and A. ("Red") Garon, Clinton businessman: "The Young Four", a vocal group from Clif- ford, also performed• several times during the evening and were well received. Sitting Members d' Calvin ,Kreuter, who heads up campaign headquarters. Ap- proximately $735 was netted by the group. If you were missed and wish to contribute, telephone Mrs. William Ranula at 357-2405, ° m 4,pd she will arrange to pick up your donation. Thomas's campaign in Huron, was chairman' for the meeting and spoke of his long association with the candidate and his ad- miration for his personal quali- ties of ,drive and activity, and above all, his keen interest in people. He opined -that Huron has had "sitting members" long enough and that now is the time to elect a man who will get up off his seat and get something done for Huron. Reeve McNeil of Colborne Township.tendered a welcome to the gathering on behalf of his municipality. Gordon McGavin ,and Howard Aitken also spoke briefly, as did Andy McLean. ' As principal speaker, Miss Robinson told the meetingthat polls have indicated that the "first time voters are ast 50 • pet• cent in favor of Trudeau, and that they make up 20 per cent of the electorate and could have a • decisive influence on the outcome of the election. The committee which she heads • for the prime • minister has set out to organize the young votersand sway the in favor of the Liberals.. She note • that young people are not note for their active participation i elections and an important pa of her organization's -work will be an effort to get the "first -timers" into the voting booths. More Industry Ino his address, Charles Thomas, the candidate, observed that he would like to see more light industry in Huron, so that employment opportunities would be available to Huron • young people. He thought it important to improve airport and harbor facilities at Goderich to create more business for the area. He noted the development of a big in- dustrial area around Kitchener Waterloo and hoped Huron would benefit. His chief opponent will be Rob ert McKinley who represented Huron for the Conservatives in the last Parliament, and sac ceeded the late Elston Cardiff of Brussels, who held the seat for 27 years, an all-time record for the House. An NDP candidate was to have been named at a nominating convention at .Brucefield Wed- nesday of this week, and there is a possibility a Gdderich map may enter the contest as an indepen- dent socialist. m • .jail as mw,.e.0 mixed rece Although the Huron Nulty;, ong the Hurons is to the t7th Property Committee brought m n century French Culture in On - recommendation to turn the dor- Brio, or Fort Henry ash a "living -- met Huron County jail into a niu.- ,, fort'. seum of penology at last'Friday's "The Committee has been meeting, members of council fell.'' promised every assistance from they needed more time and mere:. , : the provincial government with information to make such a de- , regard tosupplying materials," cisidh. It was agreed that the : McMichael stated to council. "As Property Committee should ,well there is also the possibility come up with some alternate`pro- that display cases could be made posals in time for council's next .Plat a number of provincial institu- meeting. . . , bions ik'liich would again reduce According to Property Cann the cost. It is quite likely that this mittee Chairman Ken F. Af e,„,....:Project could come untler the Michael, reeve of Turnberry,,;, the;, `,`Winter Works Program and thus, project would cost an initiar $25,• ' Would save considerable as far as 000 for; alterations to the jail. cctf ” labor is concerned." course, there would be the regu-�'' ,; Changes Planned lar operating expenses to cony:', : The present plans call for the sider once the museum was fuse- ''kitchen area of the jail to be con- tional. • 'veered into a modern snack bar Plans for the Museum of Peno- - and t or enjr w - logy were impressive. A COM- '' cess gift to the outsidesouvyardshop. Suggesithac- Plans for the Museum of Peno- :,tion is to dismantle part of the logy were impressive. A come, 'outside walls between the "work prehensive report including a, :yard" and jail yard to provide ac- • written brief and a slide presen- ' ':Cess to the parking ,space which ,„_,.w tation showed the former jaih•. would be adjacent. house convered into a 'tourist at ' On the first floor 'would be a• traction for the future.., •livingroom cell showing, pris- "The Huron County jail in God- ,:overs (maniquins) dressed in erich is a building of pleasing Lip.. prison garb either eating or at pearance as well as an unusual . 'some recreational activity. Visi- example of prison architecture," 'tors would view this room the report stated, "and it would,` hrough the bars. be unfortunate to tear it down 2a {.. The jailer's office would be simply toprovide parking space., ;decorated . in a ponderous Vic - The building could serve a useful torian style to emphasize . the purpose and become, an asset to comfort of living, the hobbies and the community as a Museum or ::, -,personality of the jailer as com- Penology. With proper promotion ;pared with the stark and boring and development, it could be- jives of the prisoners. come nationally and interna-:' On the' second floor, the jail tionally noteworthy as an in- .'hospital, the• punishment hall, the terpretative centre using a theme (;turnkey's room. On the third such as crime, its punishment ' 'floor, more displays of a general • and prisoner rehabilitation to. 'nature pertaining to penology, of Canada." course. ' "It is true that the museum It is felt that a curator would would concern itself .with only one ' :have to be secured for the mu - subject,", the report continued. seum and perhaps oneother per - "However, it-tian it-tintriguing one Son on a full-time basis. Guides to the general public and could Would be -necessary for "special develop in stature. in the cent§ orPiak~ visitor 'tatter presentation of the subject, . of dance". • - penology..in a way that Ste Marie Discussion was heavy on the matter. Frank Cook, deputy - reeve of Clinton, started it off. "Personally, I say we already ave a museum to look after," aid Cook. "It would cost a for- une to set up this display, I think we should quit spending money, .I can't see us spending a whole lot of money on something like this." He went on to say that under to ►on day's laws, jails are not being 'used as much as they once were. Don McGregor, deputy reeve of Exeter,said the .costs for the project could be spread over four or five years. "lt youldn't change our budget very, much by going ahead with this," said McGregor. McKillop's Reeve Allan Camp - Janet DeBoer, Bluevale d Da.ryPrincess again again ' rt The :crown of Huron County Dairy Princess will be proudly worn again this year by Janet DeBoer, 17 of RR 1, Bluevale, who won, the honor for the second consecutive year at the 108th an- nual Zurich fall fair Monday. • Chosen over three other candi- dates, Janet will compete 'in the Ontario Dairy Princess finals next' year at the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition at Toronto. This year's Ontario Princess, Sherry Pollock of Ripley, offi- ciated at the crowning of , the Bluevale girl. Runner-up was l3ess Passmore, 18, of 'RR 3, Zurich. Others were Mary Ann _ Gielen•, 19, of RR 2, Crediton and Alfretta Versteeg, .17, of RR 2, . Cars stolen, recovered in matter of hours here Two cars were stolen here Sun- day and each recovered a short time later with the result one man is in custody and another charged. Others are still sought by police. A car owned by Paul C. Wads- worth of Toronto was reported stolen about 12:50 and was recov- ered less, than half an hour later in Morris Township by Prov. Const. Ricker, who laid charges against two men. In the second case a car Awned by Doug. Nes-; bitt of Carling Terrace was re- ported missing at 8:30 and 'was discovered at 4:30 p.m4 abandon- ed on an embankment on High- way 4 and reported to Wingham Police by some teenagers. Solve Break -hi A Sept. 9 break-itq at Beaver Lumber is considered solved by local police with charges laid against two men and a juvenile said to have been involved in the theft of $289. All but five dollars of the loot has been recovered. Two men are believed to have been in- volved in the -actual theft, the ju- venile getting involved when the stolen money was being counted. Fingering is being used ex- tensively and effectively by Wingham and Provincial Police in the investigation of thefts in this area, resulting in a high inci- dence ' of , identification of suspects: ' A man causing a disturbance at a high school dance here Sept. 22 when Ife was refused admission was charged with causing a dis-, turbance. A number of liquor seizures were made during the past week, mainly from erratic car` drivers carrying open cases of beer in the vehicles.Appropriate charges have bee laid. Gorrie. There was a better -than -aver- age attendance at the fair, owing to the weather which prohibited harvest work. Queen of the Fair was a Zurich girl, Ruby Beierling, with Sylvia - Wilder runner-lup. Overall winner in the saddle horse class was Mrs. Ron Alton of, Lucknow. ' Attend Fair Cheering on their favourite candidate for the Huron Dairy Princess crown at the fair were Mrs. and Mrs. Dick DeBoer and Mrs. Bill De Vos, Mrs. Alex Mc- Tavish, Mrs. Wes, Paulin, Bev. Brown and Jean Mooreby. '72 DAIRY PRINCESS.WINS AGAIN—Janet De Boer, 17, of RR 1, Bluevale, who won the Huron County Dairy Princess. contest last year at the Howick Fall Fair, won the same title Monday at the Zurich Fall Fair. She defeated three other contestants and will compete in the Ontario Dairy Princess finals next year at the Canadian National Exhibition in To- ronto. (Staff Photo) Area -residents in collision A two -car collision on Highway 0 just west of Walkerton Sunday resulted in injuries to four per- sons, with one driver unhurt, Mrs. Russell Ross and Mrs. Earl Caslick, both of White- church, were reported in satis- factory condition in hospital at Walkerton. Their husbands were transferred to Victoria Hospital at Londolr with undetermined in- juries'. Driver of the other car, Rey- nolds Blackman of Burlington, was unhurt. LOOSE ENDS WERE TIED UP at a meeting of Wingham, Howick and Turnberry P.C. party officials at Wingham Town Hall Tuesday evening of last week. Mrs. Roy Bennett of Wingham checks the list of poll officers while Harvey McMichael of Wroxeter, Howick chairman, and Robert McKinley, M. P. Huron, right, look on. Plans were made for events in the area leading up to the October 30 general election. (Staff Photo) u .e • Huron council may bigger Because the age of the voter. has been lowered, Huron County Council is facing an accommoda- tion problem. There could be sev- eral new deputy -reeves at County Council next year after the fall elections. • It was learned that if a muni- cipality has over 1,000 voters, a deputy -reeve must be named. Townships which could be af- fected are .Morris, Grey, McKil- lip, Hallett and Usborne. Second call!' , Again The Advance -Times asks information about the name and address of the subscriber who mailed two $5 bills to us two weeks ago. The envelope was postmarked at Clinton on Sept. 5. ,o bell saidtt he'd prefer tgt•get in a bulldozer and "clean the prop- erty up" Goderich Towitsl}ip• deputy, reeve Gerry Ginn was.afraid'that certain ..... personaiitfea, w+�1d,:hex called: thr mum-. most notably, 9f course, Steven Truhcott. "I'd hate to see.that .br life again,!' commented Ginn..., would be very' embarr asci. There roust be other uses fob ." jail. f don't think people would 'be interested in a museum of peno- logy.,, "It could •possibly be a deter- rent," said Reeve. Ed Oddliefson of Bayfield. "Pople could see how depraved a ~citizen can be- come." ecome." Oddliefson said council should • consider that some of the cost would be defrayed by admis- sion charges. • "-`We'll get lotsof moral sup- port," interjected John Berry, administrator, "but no money." Authentic disprays have already been promised by the 4rchiyes;pf Ontario. Reeve Derry Boyle of Exeter said he'd like to see"' the money. "spread around"- Reeve Pattison of East W.aWanbsh,said he could see some, value in the project and would like te,give it "more study". • Deputy -Reeve Anson McKIn1e of Stanley Township said that he couldn't support the recom- mendation •of' the committee bia- cause it hadn't looked, into any alternatives. - . "Certainly it would be a draw- ing card to our county," said Mc- Kinley,: "but to be.worthwhiile, it would cost " considerable money and I'm not prepared to commit our -county to this , kind of . ex- penditure now. There should be more study. There is no need to rush into it." ° m . Viugh Flynn, reeve of 1441,144 ° af'leoao°ti .MIVIte1 ` U• Firemen flan yule. affairs Wingham volunteer firemen undertook a review of the regula- tions governing the operation of fire• departments at the regular' meeting in the fire hall Monday evening and considered the duties and obligations of the vari- ous ranks as well as grievance procedure. Chief Dave Crothers, having returned from annual holidays, presided and Councillor George Carter of the town fire committee sat in on the meeting: Plan Events The social committee will hold an early meetingto consider sug- gestions from he meeting that Christmas be marked by a party for the families of firemen on a Sunday afternoon just before Christmas. Instead of the usual dinner catered by the firemen's wives the men will relieve the ladies of the work by "taking them out" to dine. At the conclusion of the meet- ing some pictures of the new radio communication installa- tions were taken for use in con- nection with publicity during Fire Prevention Week corning soon. Acclaim McKinley at PC nomination To hardly anyone's surprise, Robert McKinley, 42 -year-old Zurich farmer and businessman, and member of the last Parlia- ment for Huron, was chosen by acclamation Wednesday of last week by Huron Progressive -Con- servative Association to contest the general election October 30. There was a good attendance at the nomination meeting in Clin- ton which was at the same time the association's annual meeting. Clayton . Laithwaite of RR 1, Goderich was elected president. ' Guest sgeaker was Harold Dan- forth, Essex -Kent MP in the last Parliament. Mr. McKinley was first elected to represent Huron in 1965, suc- ceeding the late Elston Cardiff of Brussels who had held the riding for 27 years, an unmatched record in the House. Zurich is Mr. McKinley's birthplace, and it is near there that he manages Mc- Kinley Farms and Hatchery Limited, R.R. 1, Zurich. In accepting the nomination, Mr. McKinley cited unemploy- ment as being without doubt the most serious issue, and scored the Liberal government for infla- tion conditions and "unneces- sary" works projects being paid for by the taxpayers. He said the government's income through' taxation has doubled in the past seven years, "and I don't think any one of you feel we're better off now than we were then". He will be opposed by another farmer, 44 -year-old Charles Thomas of Brussels, represent- ing the Liberals, and a New Democratic Party representative who was to have been chosen at a nomination meeting Wednesday of this week at,Brucefield. Thee is also the possibility of an "In- dependent Socialist" candidate from Goderich entering the race. l• •i .