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Representatives of Ontario
Hydro's regional office, Lend,
on, met with Members of Town
Council, heads of several God-
erich industries and the 'town's
PUCexecutive Monday:. night,
to discuss the town's present
and future hydro -electric power
service.
W. J. Mills PUC chairman,
in �a brief speech, welcomed
delegates to the meeting and`
introduced the 'main speaker,
Dalton Smith, Ontario Hydro
regional consumer service sup.
erintendant. Mr. Smith outlined
Ontario Hydro's plans to in,
stab additional high voltage
lines lrom Stratford to Sea•
THE GODERICH, SIGNAL*STAR,. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961
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plans for . future hydro •'elect town's southern limits dbe,en
ric service to Goderich.
Several questions were' dir,
ected at the speaker by relive. -
sentatives of Town Council,
town industries and PUC mem.
ber's,
A second spokesman for On.
tarso Hydro, Jack Young, con.
sumer service engineer at the
London regional office, assisted
Mr. Smith in answering clues.
tions from the floor.
Councillor 13. R. Robinson
was first to question the On.
tario Hydro authorities. Mr:
Robinson pointed out that God.
erich was still "dangling at
the end of the line" since the
forth. -town's power was still fed --by
; ldfi�~ .ones - f rhe dual
-power ` l'ine's; +e'aaeyli ti res
,11i�
aa
K.V,'s would be completed.
A second 115,000 K.V. line
would •be finished by 1969; both
lines would be mounted on steel
towers. At Seaforth, a "Jones"
transformer station, operated
by remote control, is scheduled_-.
.for completion by 1969 which,
4 stated the Ontario Hydro super -
only one primary source, that
re ::..sti fttng3 'q ` `.. m, •,
work. It was pointed out by the
Goderich councillor that the •
town's power supply was par.
ticularly vulnerable from Sea,
forth to Goderich, a distance
.of 23 miles where only a sin.
pie 115,000_ K.V. line existed.
The' Ontario i1 rdro•,repres•1--
entatives admitted this' was the
case but stated that Goderich's
intendant, will provide Gode-
rich with much more stable
hydro -electric power and re.
' .--duce .,the- y.amaunt:af -power. Win: :.
terruptions occurrfngalongthis-
circuit.
A number of charts. -illus-
trated the• number of power fail."'
ures occurring within the past
18 months, the length of the in.
terruption and the cause of each.
Longest power failure occurred
• last April when power was off
for over 19 hoursyfollowing the
tornado which swept through a
section of Hruon and Perth
.,counties:.
Following his address, the
Ontario Hydro spokesman in.
vited delegates to ask . ques-
tions pertaining to the proposed
Dr: Helen Abell
To Speak
completed in 1965,
Later, H. . G. Muir, manager
.of Domtar Chemical's SiftoSalt
Division Mine, asked the hydro
engineers what chance there
w.s of. Goderich obtaining a
secondary electric power sup.
ply from the Douglas Point
thermonuclear generating sta.
tion.
The Ontario Hydro spokes.
man explained that the 230,000
K.V.'s generated. by the Doug.
las Point station, was being fed
eastward and tied .in with the
Western Ontar'fo electric power
grid near Hanover. It was not
economically justified to bring
a power -supii'ly to Goderich
-the present electric power
needs of Goderich homes and
industries did not, justify the
expe`fise of "constructing the .r
necessary lines, lowers and
step-down transformer.
At the close of the meeting,
the ,Ontario Hydro engineers
assured the Goderich delegates
that they would continue work -
electric power supply had ing in .their behalf to bring; im-
greatly improved since the new proved hydro service to the
,tranettoriner station:. ,..11ie o v
OFU Mead Warns
Against : "Dust Bowl''
uWestern • Ontario coma De. tie -particularly singled out the'
come a dust -bowl if one recom•. split the report calls for in the
mendation of the Smith Report assessment of farms. The re -
on taxation is carried out;'saye '• port says . the farm should be
Charles Munro, president of the assessed in two parts, as a
Ontario Federation of Agricul. residence and as a "Working
fore. Farm."
He made . the comment fol. - It suggests that only the part
lowing the release in .Toronto of a farm that is actually used
of the ,provincial royal corn. in production shot}ld be clas.
mission report on taxation. On sed rest as a should working be ciassified as
a recommendation that exemp•
tions for tree cover included residential property.
in the Assessment Mt and the,
Trees Act - should be revoked.
The Assessment Act'says up
The OFA president said he
welcomes the recognition that
the farm is both a production
to 10 acres of a farm may be unit and the farmer's home.
exempt from taxation if used "The farm unit is different
.r;.--°for..'Crew:°metre'T°re+ rgetn°11�3w° tuLtee ,i2th ,kin ia.of..property,''
a township Council to.exemptup he said, "and we are glad the
to 20 acres, if they are being commission has seen this."
reforested under anagreement. • Mr. Munro said the coma.
Mr. Munro - disagreed with ' mission '`was wise to recom
the -report's statement that re. mend that farms not --be sad -
forestation in Ontario "is not dled with a business tax. (The
.being greatly aided by exist. report made the analogy be.
ing tax considerations." • tween applying the tax to food
"This is just not true," he production, and applying the
said, "as a long-time resident sales tax to food. There is no
of South-western Ontario, I sales tax on food in Ontario.)
know that without the tax incen.-• - He said all society wouldben-
• efit from tax laws that aided
a cheap food policy.
Mr. Munro said it is "ironic"
that the commission• has not
been able to come up with a
definition of either a "Farm"
or a "Working Farm".
"This is one of the things
we have wanted in the Asses.
srnent Act for a long time,"
'he said. -
'UBURN ..- The First Proving
Conference of the Junipr
titutes of Ontario will be
-"field this weekend ,in the Aub.
urn Community Memorial hall
on Saturday, September 16th.
The Junior Director. of the Pro-
vince of Ontario, Miss Barbara
-Watkins of Clinton has been in
charge of arrangements. Dele.
• gates are expected from across
the province and are being bil.
letted by the Huron County Jun.
for Institute members. :
Dr. Helen C. Abell, Ph.D..
professor of, Sociology, of the
Department of Georgraphy and
' Planning at the University of
Waterloo will be the guest
speaker, Also speaking at 'this
°day long session will be Miss
Helen McKercher, director of
Home Economics for the De.
partment of Agriculture and
Food, Miss Jean Scott, direc.
tor. of Junior work in the pro.
wince,' Mrs. Everett Small, pre.
sident of the Federated
Women's Institutes of Ontario
• of Essex, Ontario.
The Provincial Directors of
F,W.I.O. of this area will also
be present to assist these dele.
tie* Face At GL.CI%
, FIRST OF A. • SERIES -
A num6er of new teachers have been.added to the staffs of GoderiC L'
schools this year, This week we areplea.sedto, tn, troduce 10 new staff -
members to the teaching' staff of •GDCI, In the next few weeks we
hope to be able to present the new- staff members of our other
schools. p =o
tives it just won't be worth,
while for farmers to keep part
of their land in tree cover.
4'I can see a big dust -bowl
in Western Ontario in a few
years if ' this `recommendation
is followed."
Mr. Munro said the farmers
of Ontario• wouldbe a lot hap.
pier with some of the. other
recommendations in the report.
Golf Finals Slated
For Maitland G.C. Sat.
Saturday, September 16, is
the date set by Maitland Coun.
try Club officials for playing
the finals, of several local golf
matches.
gates, Mrs. Stanley Bride, A men's championship, feat.
Fordwich, Mrs. DonaldMcCoslr, uring the two Bedard brothers
Ripley, Mrs. Gowan Young,,St. "Izzy" 'and Tony, will be one
Thomas, Mrs. Wes Bradnock, oy the highlights of the day's
Auburn and F.W,I.O. public re, golfing agenda. Their's will be
•
latiens officer, Mrs. "Clarence
Diamond- of. New Hamburg, as
, well as the DistrictPresidents
of the County.
The meeting begins at 9 a.m.
and all girls in the district
are invited to hear these speak.
ers and there is to be a ban.
the only match which will req..
quire the competitors to play
36 holes; other play-off mat•
ches will be -18 holes. .
For the senior men's cham-
pionship 'match, there are' six
qualifiers. The Men's. Club
championship match, expected
quet at 6 p.m. when Hon. W.A. to draw the largest number of
Stewart is expected to be =a entries, is a handicap event,
guest. The Junior Farmers of based on the season's scores.
the County are entertaining at The Men's Night champion.
a, dance in the hall in the even. ship match is restricted to 12
ing. contestants who qualified by
playing "Men's night' matches
for nine Mondays throughout the
summer.
The Maitland Country Clob
ladies Will be playing cham-
,,,pionship golf also. Maxine Mar.
tin, ladies championship win.
$15,000 Fire
Damages To
Local Barn
An estimated $15,000 damage
was caused when firedestroy'ed
a one -storey frame barn on'the
farm of Howard' McCullough,
R. R. 1 Goderich, last week.
Mr. McCullough said he and
his family were awakened be.
tween 4 a.m. and 4:15 a.m. by
the barking of their dogs. They
w the reflection of .the fire
the windows of the house.
est • in the fire was 1,000
ales of hay, 80Q bales of straw,
milking equipment and water,
pumps.• Three Calves Were re.
scued from the barn.
Mr. McCullough said heplans
to rebuild the barn. .The loss
was partially covered by insure
ance.
A south 'wind blew flames to.
ward the house, 300 feet away,
but Clinton an4 Hayfield vol.
unteer) fire departments eon.
fined the blaze to the barn.
IODE Hord
Septi "Meet.
.1
The members of Maple Leaf
Chapter, IODE convened at the
summer home of Mrs. Frank
Currie for their September
meeting.
Mrs. R. Breckenridge, re.
gent, presided, Mrs. H. Bet.
tger, read the minutes in the
absence of1[rs. G. McManus.
It was announced that the semi.
annual nie'eting will be held in
Kingston on October 18 and
19. Yearly letters pertaining
to National were read.
Mrs. Rayner thanked thehoe."
tess ,Mrs. Currie, for her hos.
pitality. The regent announced i
the October meeting to be held
at the home of Mrs.'1l. 1ettger.
Mrs. Warren Robinson Warrerr•Robi-n•sonw"
Goderich Collegiate this year has a main -wife team on its teaching
staff. They are Mr. and Mrs. Warren Robinson, whose home town
.. j. Sudbury M 7...Robinsonr.a..graduate. of Queen's University, 1964,
- • taught: Lw¢ years- ah elle-s"c4ndary anion year mk L.e -;�
District High School before coming to GDC:. Mrs, Robinson, who
graauated from ,Laurentian University in 1966, put in her first
year of teaching at the Leam;ngton High School.
ner at present, will be wait-
ing to play the winner of a ladies
club handicap match_ between
Doris Paquette and Marie Huff.
Dennis Lassaline, junior club
champion, will play the winner.
of the Junior handicap contest
between Bill Wilkinson andJohri
Pirie,
Tee -off time is set for 9
a.m. - for the fust . match and
during the morning, the course
will not be open for anyone but
competitors in the Na.rious mat.
ches.
A dinner is scheduled for
6:30 p.m. at which time, prizes
and trophies will be awarded.
Later in the evening, there will
be dancing to the music of the
""Bluetones".
d left is Huron Liberal` candidate Dr. G. D. Morgan
ux' ,,+Scriith, Bayfield while on the extreme right is
the Liberal incumbent from Owen Sound/Eddie
e Sargent, MPP.
Provincial Liberal Leader RobertNixon, secon
from the right. was greeted at Sky Harbour
Airfield last week by party supporters and
Goderich Mayor Dr. Frank Mills. On extrem
Robert Bondy
Robert Bondy; attended Strati.
ford Central Collegiate and
graduated from Waterloo Luta.
heran University in 1966. Mr.
Bondy, who will be teaching
history at . GDCI, ,, taught '- for
a year at St. Michael's Junior
High, Kitchener. _
Miss Georgina Swanton
• Miss 'Georgina Swanton,. who
hails from Woodstock,graduated'
last year from' the University
of Western Gln '.
t A graduate
of Ontario College of Education,
she will be•teaching English at
Goderich, Collegiate: .
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Rebate fn Sight
A carry.over of one million
bushels of 1966 crop surplus
Ontario winter wheat coupled
with a very weak demand for
wheat of allkindsin world mar-
kets has resulted in a delay in
the• rebate normally sent • to
Ontario producers at this time
_ of year, says a release issued •
by the Ontario Wheat Producers
Marketing Board.
The Board said it anticipates
a rebate on the 1966 wheat crop
but this cannot be calculated
until stocks of wheat have been
sold.
The announcement was made
following a board meeting held
in Toronto on Thursday, August
31st at which an 'audited state•
ment of the . board's 1966 --lire;
cal. year's operations was re.
.viewed.
__Of the 2,837,000 bushels of
:..•:. .pi is " 196.6-cro rieat-pttit
chased by the board, one mil-
lion bushels of it has not been
sold. This condition is not nor.
mal for the Ontario board, as
it has always" been possible in
the past to clear out all cur-
rent year's stocks of wheat by
the crop year end, June 30th,
said the release.
This year, the boardhasbeen'
hard pressed to find overseas
buyers. Interest for Ontario's
type of wheat, of the soft white
Mrs. Dorothy" Hamilton
1.
Mrs. Dorothy Hamilton, who
received her education at ALC M
London, England, taught last
year atStr'athroyDistrict Colle-
giate. ,°She will teach com•
mercial and music at GDCI.
W. ' Garrow, who,. will Abe
• teaching G,,rade 10 science and
Grade 11 physics at GDCI,
graduated from the University
of Toronto in 1961. From then,
until this year, he taught
science at a St. Catharines
high school.
winter'` varie
cake and pastry flour, has been with other feed grains moving
'extremely slow on export into eastern Canada ' unless
markets. freight assistance is made
About the only significant available on Ontario wheat on a
sales made out of last year's similar basis as to that paid '
surplus owned by the board in. on western feed' grain moving
volved a total of 771,000 bushels • ,into eastern markets.
shipped to Pakistan • and Tur. The board has made initial
key last October under` federal studies of the eastern feed mar -
food aid programs, ket situation including requests
Last year producers paid the to the recently established E ast.
oard a 17 ;cent per bushel ern Canada Livestock Feed
stabilization fund deduction on Board for serious consideration
every bushel of wheat sold by of feed freight assistance.
them. The funds are used to
ty used mainly for Ontaerto-wheat eeantrot°'compete~ •
eat into ex. The board official pointed
move surpius wn out that this is • the first year
port markets. At the present in- which the board has faced a
. time the funds •are. tied up in large carryover and it will
the "surplus' unsold stocks of probably mean a. very ,serious
wheat and it is for this reason
that Mr. K. A. Standing, sec- reassessment of the board's
retary-manager of the Ontario marketing procedures in the
Wheat Producers' Marketing
.� ,,„. Boar � ska#.m., o s tion-Pf •( tutee'
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the rebate money can be --made
until the carryover stocks of '
last year's wheat are sold. In Accident
The board of directors in •
session issued instructions that
as soon as the carryover stocks - Again,
are sold, the amount of rebate
be calculated and that cheques
be sent to growers as soon as
possible. "
In addition to last year's
carryover 'wheat, the Ontario
Wheat Board has .purchased
about two' and a half .million`
bushels of 1967 crop wheat and
this is now in store in coun-
try elevators and in terminals.
Mr. Standing said the board
is continuing, to make a con.
• certed effort to sell wheat over-
seas and is initiating a pro.
gram to sell' wheat for feed
in Quebec and Maritime feed
markets. The board decided
that it would request the On.
tarso Federation of Agriculture
to assist the board in its study
of the situation and obtain the
solutions to some of the pro.
blems of moving the wheat into
the eastern livestock feed mar.
ket.
One of the major obstacles,
f Mr. Standing said, is that
Liquor Charges .
Bring Four
$300. In dines
Murray C. Robinson, 18, and
Myles E. Little, 19, both of
Bayfield, were each fined $100
and costs for having and con.
suming liquor while under age
at Magistrate's . court, last
Thursday. ,
Also fined under the Liquor
Control Act ,of Ontario, were
John Harold Johnston and
Gerard Bedard, both of God.
erich ,who paid fines of $75
and costs, of $25 each, for
having liquor while under age.
Sentenced to 30 days in jail
for "breach of probation, were
James William Salisbury,. of
Strathroy and Garry Overholt
. of Centralia.
The four youths paid a total of
$300 for liquor offences,
Magistrate R. J. Graham, of
Toronto presided in theabsence
of Magistrate 'H. Glenn Hays
who is in Goderich Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital.
After a year teaching public
school in Windsor, Mr. Redman,
who took a winter extension
course at Althouse College of
Education, will be teaching
mathe atics. His hobbies
include reading, electronics and
ham • radio, operation for which
he holds license,(VE3GAX).
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Nazareth Salibian
Napreth Salibian graduated
from high school. in Beirut,
Lebanon. Upon graduation, he
entered the business world and
for a time, worked for an oil
company in Kuwait. In 1959
he entered the University of
Detroit, where he majored in
modern languages, French and
Spanish,
Mrs. Francis Armstrong
Frances tArmstrong, formerly
on `e staff of the National
Emp oyment Office here,taug5t
commercial for the past four
years at W Ingham District High
,School. She will conn ue to
teach commercial of the
O.oderich Collegiate.
A. Wright
A. Wright is the automotive
teacher at the Goderich District
Collegiate Irls'titute this year.
He is a graduate of Althouse
College of Education, London,
and is a native of the Windsor
area but has spent a number
of years rs in the Toronto, `Owen
-Sound" and Stratford areas.
Museum Visitors
Top 21,000
Mark In '67
The number of visitors who
toured the Huron County
Pioneer Museum • topped the
21,000 mark for the second
successive year, it was reveal-
ed by Curator James Chisholm.
However, about a month ago,
attendance figure - howed a de.
crease of about 5 as com.
pared with the numb • 'that had
visited the museum that
time last year.
It was not until th •our
Day holiday weekend that reg.
istration of visitors at the mus-
eum showed a substantial in-
crease. The attendance figure
stood at 21,102 as of Monday,
September 11.
A check of the registry book
indicates that people from ail
parts of Ontario toured the
pioneer museum located on
North Street, off : the town
square. Many others were reg.
istered who had come from the
Maritime and Prairie pro.
^vinces, as well as those who
had journeyed from bordering
American states.
Museum Curator, James
Chisholm stated that a two-
storey, 142 -foot long addition,
constructed at the east side of
the former brick school build.
ing Had just recently been com.
pleted. The new section will
provide storage and workshop
space for restoring newly ac-
quired antique pieces before
they are put on display.
Exhibits at the Huron County
Museum whose original 'foun.
tier was Honorary Curator, . H.
Neill; have now reached a total.,
of 11,528.
Less than five hours after be. '
ing awarded $30;000 as settle.
ment on a court action arising
out of a 1965 accident in which
she lost her right eye,- Linda
Riley, 19, RR 1.--Londesboro
was pinned beneath her car
after the vehicle had rolled
through a ditch about one :mile
east of her first encounter with
disaster, two and one-half years
ago.
Miss Riley *as reported in
improved condition in Clinton
Public Hospal early this week.
Ontario Provincial Police
Constable Ray Primean, Sea.
forth detachment, who invests.
gated both mishaps involving the
Riley girl, said the Goderich
court proceedings had en-
ded about 11 a.m. last Wed.
nesda.y•morning. Constable Pri.
meau was called to Concession
8 and 9 of Hullett Township
about 4:40 p.m. the same day.
Alec Riley, father of the in-
jured girl, and a neigh.
bor, James Howatt, RR 1 Lon.
desboro, lifted the car from
Miss Riley while Mrs. John
Shepherd and her three teen.
.
aged children, also of RR' 1
Londesboro, pulled the young
'lady free. She suffered head
injuries but was reported by
Clinton hospital officials, to be
Pup and about" bn Monday.
At the Supreme Court fall
assizes in Goderich earlierlast
Wednesday, settlement was
reached with John Anderson,
44, Seaforth, and Seaforth Far.
-mens' Co-operative, Seaforth.
The girl's lawyer, J.R. Cas.
key, London, told the , court
Miss Riley had received se.
rious facial lacerations and lost
her right eye in the Hullett
Township crash involving a car
driven by her father and a truck
owned by the Co-operative.
In' addition to the $30,090
to be held in trust until Miss
Riley reaches age 21, her father
was awarded $5,000 "out of
pocket" expenses.' '
WAWANOSH
The regular September sea.
sion of Council for the Town.
ship of WestWawanoshwasheld
on Tuesday evening, September
5 with all members in atten.
ciance, and, Reeve Lyons pres.
iding.
The Auditor's report for the
year 1966 was examined by
Council and a budget presen.
test by the treasurer-. Atter
cdreful study and•consideration,
it was felt the mill rate for
1967 could be left at the same
rate as 1064. A motion to set
the rate for 196`7 at 45.2 milts
' for farm and ' residential $1114
17.2 mills for commercial; was
moved and Carr.edd,