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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-06-13, Page 1Wingham, Thursday, June Y� sure y n can vote in July t fuderul electio�r'� Alt1.h you may have voted ill every pot election,. unless YoUrnatne aPPears on the of tial Pasted fiat, yoiLwill not be eligible to vote in the upconiing July 0. federal election. 4.. If the May 20 to 25 enumer- ation, which is used to compile the preliminary list, somehow missed you, then it is up to you to contact the enumerator to make the appropriate.change by June 19. the rural voter (which in- cludes all area resident and towns, since an area with a popu- lation 'of less than 5,000 is con- sidered rural) will be able to vote July 0 even if his or her name doesn't appear on the preliMin= ary list if they are vouched for by a registered elector by the June 19 deadline. If you wish to take advantage of the June 29 or July 1 advance poll, you must be on the official list" by June 19 at 10 p.m. The advance poll is for any +il ified'veter, who Or any Tea- sea, ea-sc , cannot cast their ballot on July Oth. If.,in doubt as to who your enu- meratoris, Bell Telephone will be able to give you the returning Officer for your riding. He in turn will be able to :direct you to your enumerator in your particular area. Since there are over 190 polling stations just in the Perth- Wilrriet riding, an exact address must be given. A phone call to any of the candidate head- quarterswould also. lead you to your enumerator. The candi- dates' offices which have already opened, are listed with Bell Tele- phone. To be eligible to vote, you must be at least 18 by July 18, and a Canadian citizen. If you are not a Canadian but are a British sub- ject, you may vote if you have been residing continuously in Canada since June 25, 1967 and New standpipe should be finished by, October 30 Wingham is almost assured of and the terms of the agreement having its new standpipe in with company. .operation by the end of October. Canadian Gunite has given the Last month the Ontario PUC a firm price on every item in Municipal Board gave the Wing- the contract except the cost of ham PUC the permission to steel . However, it is expected borrow $100,000 in debentures for that the steel costs will only rise a the project and assign the con- minimal amount. The new struc- tract for the standpipe. ture will cost almost $130,000. At the PUC's monthly meeting The commissioners accepted last Thursday Burns Ross, both the plans and the contract consulting engineering, met with and have returned them to the the commission to go over the company for their. acceptance. plans submitted by the Canadian In the superintendent's report, Gunite Company, the firm that Ren Saxton told the commission has been granted the contract, members that the PUC had re-. ceived part of its radio equipment from the Motorola Company. The antenna is the only item they haven't received as yet. Mr. Sax- ton reported that the Wingham PUC had installed 300 feet of six repairs inch water mains in Teeswater as ' ., a ;.:-fix. rho . es i well a .talijjng a hydro service - '�t'�ttsypoftetliiti and.i i - v"14 on a fi a #t - ttiUilistoc �I? ii Communications, has announced the award of a Contract for im- provements to Highway 86 to Cox Construction Ltd., of Guelph, for $296,241. The project will include hot mi paving, cable guide rail and d waterproofing on Highway 86 from Wingham east limi s, westerly to Lucknow east limits 11.6 miles and from 9.5 miles east of Wingham east limits easterly 6.6 miles at various° locations. Work is slated to begin mid- June, with completion scheduled for late August,- this year. • Contract let for ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By Th,• I'+drariun POOL OPENING= Recreation Director Jim Ward has informed• us that due to delaysin making pool repairs the "swimming hole" won't open as planned this weekend. However, the delay shouldn't ' last more than a few days or so. Mr. Ward is sure the pool will be open before the end of next week. 0-0-0 GUEST PREACHER The Wingham Salvation Army Corps will be featuring a special guest speaker on _Sunday. Cap- tain William Clarke, who has travelled all over the continent in his capacity as National Evangelist, will be speaking to both the 11:00 and 7:00 services. If you attend I don't think you'll ever forget the experience. 0-0-0 LACROSSE— Wingham's • three minor lacrosse teams will be playing exhibition games tonight (Thurs- day) at the arena against the Novice, PeeWee and Bantam entries from Kincardine. Why not come down and watch the games. They begin at 7 p.m. sharp. 0-4-0 CLEAN UP— Well you are probably wonder- ing what those workmen were doing on the main street 'last week. Even if you didn't I'm go- inQ. to tell you anyway, they were cleaning up the sewers under Josephine St. 0-0-0 ELECTION '74--- We hope all you voters out there have been following all the election promises and issues be- cause in just about three weeks you're going to have to make a choice. You owe it to yourself and your neighbors. to cast an educated ballot. We'll see you at the polls. drant there. In Lucknow WIng- ham n ` -ham workers had finished a pole line and had done some work on • street lights. • MCA sponsors Jef frey Carson The Maitland Valley Conserva- tion Authority is sponsoring a lo- cal student again this year in the Junior Conservation Program; Jeffrey Carson, i'i, of Gowans - town has been chosen as a member of a group of students who will work under the program which is provided by the Con- servation Authorities Branch of the Ministry of Natural Re-" sources. were* least years -old on that date Any error is the listing of your name, address or occupation, should be corrected with your en- umerator to avoid the frisk of losing your vote. The returning officers are: for Pert .Wilmot, John Walsh in Stratford (273-1920) ; for Huron, Garnet Hicks in . Exeter (235- 1700); for Wellington-Grey-Duf- ferin-Waterloo, John Black in Markdale (946-3421); and for Wellington, Fred Hamilton in Guelph (821-1530). If your name is on the prelimin- ary list, you are assured of a vote. The preliminary list assembled following enumeration and the statement of changes and ad- ditions following revision com- prise the official list of electors. About 230,000 people.. share the responsibility of ensuring effic- ient operation for the July 8 vote under the direction of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Jean Marc Hamel. About 13 million Canadians will \be eligible to, vote at nearly 63,000 polling divisions across the country. The lists, which are used for only one election and then dis- carded, are the direct responsi- bility of the returning officers \in each of the 264 electoral districts. It is estimated that approxi- mately 98 per cent of all eligible voters are registered for each election in Canada. MRS. VERA MILLAR Mrs. Vera Millar graduated from St. Mary's School of Nursing, Kitchener on June 6, 1974. Ceremonies were held at Fairview Cinema, Kitchener. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Angus MacDonald, St. Helens. A family dinner was held at the Bavarian Inn near Elmira. This is the last graduating class from this school. Comm ittee .. "...en. iirspac ofo .irer pia"! A committee hail been fell' in Huron county be coMMOdit ' and urban organisatlona to alfa the impact of :a power plant'o* *e county. The committee, 'ropes- senting thousands of familial, plans to look into a possible - tribution to increased food prieeal the effect on agriculture and the ecological impact, , At the organizational mem last Thursday, in the board rote of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, it was decided to focus fact finding, so a convincing,Case could be put forward either form against a power plant in Huron'a agricultural area. The committee expressed the wish that organs-, ations and individuals who 'are interested and who wish to con- tribute some input, contact the co )mittee, Adrian Vos of Blyth w elected as chairman. Investigate four 2 -car accidents Two area men escaped injtc last Thursday when they were in volved in a two -car collision tha did nearly $800 damage to th cars. Melvin Jermyn of RR Bluevale and David Rann of Brussels collided with each other on Sideroad 15-16, south of Con, cession 2-3 in Morris Township Mary Templeman of Gorrie and Delbert Clegg, also of Corrie; were the two drivers in a two -car collision on Wellington St. 'in Gorrie on Friday. Neither 'driver was injured and investigatin OPP officers estimated the total damage at $160. r There was a $200 property damage accident in the Village of Blyth last Friday. Robert Vincent of Blyth and Donald Carter of RR 3, Blyth were involved in a two - ear 'collision on Mill St. in that village. According to OPP of- ficials there were no injuries as a result of the collision. On Saturday David Caesar of BR 1, Dungannon carpe out of an aecide unscathed after 1 smashed- into a tree on- the nor' , sidle of Highway 86, west of the Maitland River in Turnberry Township. Damages in the single car mishap were estimated at $850. A Stratford woman, Helen Sproule, and Albert Nesbitt of Blyth were involved in a two -car collision on Highway 4, south of the CPR crossing in Blyth. There were no injuries and damages were approximately $225 to both vehicles. Seven charges have been laid over the last week by members of the Wingham OPP detachment as well as 18 charges and 16 warnings issued under the High- way Traffic Act and 42 investi- gations resulting in two charges under the Criminal Code. t etr Towne players to present comedy Following a reeet general mpatina the Win'ham Towne Players have selected a humor- ous three -act comedy, 'Butter- flies. Are Free' as the play for their major production to be pre- sented this fall. The play, to be directed by Rick Finwoehtpr inei,dAs a east of four — two men and two women --working from one set. The local little theatre group reported their spring production of three plays was most suc- eessfi,l and after meeting all commitments, they realized a small profit which will help with the fall production. Further information with respect to 'Butterflies Are Free' casting, sets, props etc., will be discussed at future meetings. All members and interested parties are asked to watch this news- paper or contact Towne Players president Rod Wraith in Wing - ham at 357-2586. Police solve 2 cheque frauds Wingham police solved two fraudulent cheque cases over'the past week and Constable Doug Foxton was instrumental In both cases. In the first incident a man was questioned after he reportly passed a bad 'cheque in payment for almost $400 worth :, of finer- chandise from a Wingham store. After the ,constable got in . touch With the culprit the merchandise was returned to the store and no charges were laid. In the second incident Cons- table Foxton questioned a female suspect who had tried to buy a set of license plates with a bad cheque. In this case again charges were not pressed. Wingham police declined to°name the two individuals involved since charges had not been laid. On J>ne 5, police investigated a �,. rtv from Mrs: • G. l th 444.11 she had seeij a prowler on her property. She told -police she had seen a long-haired youth in a white T-shirt crawling around her garden. Police found no one fitting such a description during a search which followed the report. Constable Foxton was respon- sible for finding a car which had been stolen in Teeswater last week. The constable had just been given an alert on the vehicle when he found itparked in the parking lot of Lloyd Doors' John St. plant. He was advised that the car, a 1965 plymouth, had been sitting on the lot for some time. The owner, William Collison of RR 3, . Teeswater was contacted and he later claimed the vehicle. No charges have been laid in the case as yet) THE BELGRAVE TYKE hockey team recently received two trophies they had earned during the past hockey season. The boys are, front row, Graham Taylor, Timmy Darlow, John Smuck, Darren Evans and Bradley Shobbrook; second row, Bradley Cook, Scott Stevenson, Gord Jamieson and Gordon Taylor; third row, Bill Haines, Paul Coultes, Randy Nixon, Steven Bridge and Robby Gordon posed for our photographer with the Tri -County Tyke Championship trophy and the Blyth Minor Hockey Tournament Tyke "B" trophy. The two rather large Tykes in the picture are coaches Blake Evans (left) and Wilf Haines (right). ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY of last week. Wingham Public School held its field day. These boys are from the Intermediate division and are participating in the standing long jump competition. The event was eventually won by David Douglas who went on to be- come the Intermediate Boys' champion by placing first in seven out of 11 competitions. (Staff Photo) (apt. Wm. Clarke to sp at Salvation Army Cited A highlight of Sunday worship services in Wingham this week • will a be special services in the Salvation, Ariny Citadel, Edward Street, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. when JANE ELIZABETH BATESON • Jane Elizabeth Bateson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. John Bateson, Wingham gra- duated from Fanshawe Col- lege with a diploma in the Early Childhood Teacher Education Program. Convo- cation exercises were held on May 31 at Alumni Hall, Uni- versity of Western Ontario. Her family and grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, at- tended the exercises "and a dinner party was held after in her honor. Centennial sign dedicated in St. Andrew's The Presbyterian Church in Canada is observing its cen- tennial from June 1974 to Decem- ber 1975. The theme of this cele- bration is "Remembrance, Re- newal, Response". A very impressive service was conducted on the front lawn of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at 10:45 June 2, to dedicate a cen- tennial sign erected on the lawn. Rev. Robert Armstrong con- ducted the service. After the call to worship, Mrs. Ted English, a .co-chairman pf the local centennial comntitt, read the scripture from Psalm 90. After prayer by Mr. Armstrong, the sign was dedicated and was unveiled by R. H. Lloyd, a senior member of the congregation, assisted by Billy Cameron, one of the younger members of the Sun- day School. The Doxology was sung and the congregation entered the church for the communion service. Other special events will be held throughout the centennial year. A number of the congregation attended centennial services at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Kitchener on Sunday .,evening. This was the official opening of the centennial cele- brations. Rev. Hugh Davidson of Toronto is the new moderator, elected at the General Assembly which of- ficially opened Sunday evening. e d kpa Howick' vote Contrary 'to what some people may think, especially senior citizens, a "yes" in the Howick 'liquor vote on June. T7 is not a choice to have an area that allows drinking 24 hours a day, accord- ing to the Howick Community Centre Board. • The vote is to determine whether the residents are in favor of dining lounge privileges, which means that liquor can be obtained only through special occasion permits that require the serving of food. The board said the permits will only be applied on an occasional basis, and liquor will not be available at any other 'time in the community centre. The board also said that revenue from functions would offset operating costs of the centre, and without liquor privi- leges it is possible that the com- plex would operate at a loss requiring the taxpayer to make up the deficit. Some other advantages ac- cording to the community centre board would be a decrease in abuses of liquor laws; facilitating local clubs and organizations; and hosting groups that would otherwise look for a hall with liquor privileges. The board said it is evident that dances draw a larger crowd with bar facilities and are more profit- able. The four dances held to fund the centre have brought in (bar receipts in brackets) : Ostanek, $2,400 ($1,300) ; Thornton, $1,300 ($700) ; Mann, $610 ($250) ; Mann, $670 ($275). Total is $4,980 ($2,525). The board concluded that these figures make it clearly evident that these fund-raising ventures were more profitable because of the bar privileges. Captain William Clarke will be the guest speaker. Captain Clarke, in his capacity as National Evangelist, Visits communities large and . smal, proclaiming the Christian gospel in musict.'ongUnd me He a�► i4fts, ' .K cost ,and al ;vii . k4 1 T rti� �.1 *an ted°°S t What makes Captain Claire and his ministry unique is . the fact that lie carries on this work in spite of the handicap of almost total blindness.' He has three per cent viision\ in one eye only. He manages to get around and can read a fair amount of ink print with the microscopic low vision aid that he wears but most of the time he reads Braille. . Captain Clarke has been handi- capped from early childhood and was educated at the Ontario School for the Blind at Brantford, Ontario. He has been an Assistant Field Secretary with the Cana- dian National Institute for the Blind for five years in Windsor where he provided counselling for blind people and co-ordinated rehabilitation services which the CNIB provides. In spite of his handicap, he spent five years in charge of Salvation Army Corps in Ontario -and the Maritimes. He, his wife and their four children live in Hamilton, Ontario. Captain Clarke has been engaged in this work for a number of years, from 1947 to 1953 and since 1964. In acdition to his gospel services, he is na- tionally known as an after-dinner speaker at service clubs and community groups and is a fre- quent guest on television and radio. Wherever possible he sprinkles his appearances with vocal stylings, accompanying himself on the piano, accordion or organ. Captain Clarke, as he visits Wingham this Sunday, will present not only a message of faith and truth for these troubled times, but an example of courage and' dedication in the face of per- sonal tribulation. • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR June 10, 1974. Wingham Advance -Times, Dear Editor: The members of the Cub and Scout Group Committee wish to apologize to the staff of the Wing - ham Advance -Times for con- veying annoyance re:, one inci- dent of an incorrect date ap- pearing regarding the paper drive. -, We are gratefully aware of the tremendous co-operation we have received from the Advance - Times in the free publication of all our events. This service has gone far beyond what could be anticipated from any publication. We, too, regret any incon- venience caused to householders but feel no blame should be placed on The Advance Times. We have the best Scouting movle- ment that Wingham has enjoyed in many years and we do not want our boys to suffer from a dif- ference between the members of the Group Commitee and a I that is vitally important to the success of their undertakings. Group Comtnittee Wingham Cubs & Scouts. A..