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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-11-13, Page 9News of Auburn BY MRs, WES BRADNOCK .X526.7695 immoimarammosimpompopiemsnummionommomow Bride feted of shower Miss Jannett Dobie was, guest of honour at a bridal shower last . Saturday evening in the Sunday school room of . Knox Presbyterian Church. - The chairman for the program was Mrs. W. Bradnock. A sing -song led by Mrs. • Gordon Taylor with Mrs. Robert Phillips- at the piano was enjoyed. Miss Barbara Sanderson of Toronto gave a reading, "Advice for the Bride." • Miss Lorraine Chamney sang a. solo accompanied on the piano • by her mother,. Mrs. Gordon Cliamney. A contest on the counties of Ontario was conducted by Miss Barbara Watkins of Palmerston. Mrs.. Dorothy Grange was the winner. Another contest, a floral wedding conducted by Miss Watkins, was ' won by Mrs.. Kenneth McDougall. Miss Sheron Collins pinned a corsage on Miss Dobie and Miss Gail Seers pinned one on the bride's , mother, Mrs. Gordon O Dobie. They were escorted to a flower decorated arch with green streamers. An address of congratulations was read by Miss Watkins and gifts were presented by Misses Barbara Sanderson, Sheron • Collins, Gail Seers, Jen$ifer Grange and Shelley Grange. A decorated bow hat made by Miss Shirley Watkins of Londesboro and Miss Lynn Turner was placed, on the bride-to-be's head. Ont. scholar earns awards Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bolish, David, Rodney, Heather and Melissa of Niagara Falls visited last Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Raithby and other friends. .Beta Allison. of Alsia Craig spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs. Gordon R. Taylor, Sunday, November 16 will be the annual White Gift and Family • Sunday at Knox United Church. The gifts are to go to charity. All parents who have children in the Sunday school are invited to attend and sit as a family. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Trommer and. Connie of Hespeler moved last Wednesday into the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnston have moved in with her sister, Miss Laura Phillips, Members of the Blyth Legion marched to St. Mark's Anglican Church last Sunday. Rev. Keith Stokes, the rector, spoke ori the Remembrance theme, "The Great Peacemaker." Mrs. Gordon Taylor was the pianist. Congratulations to Miss Vera J. Craig 'of Lucan on being an Ontario Scholar at the Medway High School in Middlesex County the past year. She earned several awards at the annual commencement last Friday evening. Besides being an " Ontario it Scholar with an average of at least 80 percent in seven credits. of Grade 13 • examinations, she was awarded the Medway Key Club Award for the highest average in Grade 13 Mathematics A. sr Vera also received the Gold Key award - for being the recipient of three of the three major: Medway awards as well as the F/O Allan Smith and'William Couldridge Memorial award for all round proficiency. She was the valedictorian for the class. Vera is the daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. °Robert J. Craig '. of Lucan and is well known in this community. Attending the graduation was her grandfather, William J. Craig and her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Maitland Allen. 4-H Club Twenty-two Auburn 4-H girls are preparing for their Achievement Day next Saturday in the Auburn hall for their fall • project, needlecraft. ., The girls have worked hard on this project and .everyone is invited to attend the afternoon program and .see :what the girls have done with' -wall hangings, pillows, aprons, etc. • / t Mr. and Mrs. Fred Youngblut of Woodstock spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs. Wilfred Sanderson and Mr. Sanderson and other relatives in the village. We are sorry to report that Mrs. Percy Youngblut is a patient in Clinton Public Hospital: We wish her :a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Holtby of Belmont visited last week with his uncle, Ed. Davies and Mrs. • Davies. Arthur Youngblut arrived home Friday from a three week vacation in California. ' County 'workmen ealoy banquet r Goderich Harbour, or the mouth of the Maitland River at least, is developing ' another tourist attraction, but one that isn't really wanted by anyone. The river mouth is being closed by the formation of a sand bar that will take a lot of work - and money to remove. Town council had the bar brought to its attention recently by Dr., G. F. Mills, mayor, who urged council to contact the federal department of public works and federal department of transport about moving it. Dr. Mills said the sand bar could present a very dangerous situation if it isn't removed before the winter freeze up. Serious flooding could result, in the spring' and damage could be sustained by harbour _facilitie ..be aid. — Gerald Cover Photo. Robert G. Shrier, publisher of , Huron County Board Of The Goderich Signal -Star, Education and is the author of announces the appointment of "From My Window," * COMM -4"' carried - by ; many wee Y newspapers in western and southwestern Ontario, Mrs. Shirley J. Keller as Women's Editor of The Goderich Signal -Stara effective immediately. Mrs. Keller was born in London„Onfario, and moved to Clinton with her parents at an early age. She attended public school there and is a graduate of South Huron District High School, Exeter. She hasworked as a reporter with the Grand Bend Times, a summer publication; editor of the Zurich Citizen -News; a reporter and later editor of the Clinton News -Record and has been women's editor of the award winning , Exeter Times -Advocate for the past 18 months. She is a reporter for Huron County weekly newspapers covering County Council and the She is married to Kenneth K: Keller, an employee ,of Conklin Lumber Company, and they have three children: Randy, 13, a grade nine student at GDCI; Lori, 11, a`grade six student at Victoria School and Jimmy, 3. Mr. and Mrs. Keller and family moved to Goderich from Dashwood in mid-August and live at 15 Victoria Street. Mrs. Keller will be responsible for • all women's newsand associated nev s material and will' also be writing feature articles as well as handling general news stories. Proposed homemaker service would benefit - • Itlllllllttlttllllllllllllllllllllllll astilllll1111111111111111111111111111111111111111ItI1111111111111111f111111111J11111111tttt111111111111111111111111111111111gI1111111111t111111111Hlllllltllllllltlllllllm1111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIdI1111111111111111111QIfIglllltlllNl • n Schoolsealvin C • hristia� �� seeks aid of countt board The Calvin Christian School Society of Clinton, which owns and operates a six -room elementary school on Princess The Huron County Road Street, has requested assistance workmen and the officials held from the Huron County Board their annual banquet in; the of Education in . the use of Auburn Community • Memorial labral~ and gymnasium facilities hall with the dinner catered by and in providing student , the Auburn Women's Institute. transportation. John. Berry pronounced the Grace and the chairman was Harry Bakker, Londesboro, James Britnell, "Huron County and Gys Vanderhaar, RR 2, engineer. Bayfield, made . a strong • Warden James Hayter brought presentation of their case for greetings from the County+,, co-operation with the Huron Council. - County Board last week and The door prize was won by pointed out the difficulties Frank Riley. under which the school operates. Cards were played with the It has 203 pupils for whom their following winners: high -man, parents pay $12 per week, and Frank Riley; low man, Thomas receives' no government support. " Haggitt; high lady, Mrs. Ken After ' hearing the two Morris; low lady, Mrs. James delegates, the board referred the Britnell; most lone` hands, Mrs. requests to the Executive Ken Morris. Council . for --. study arid - The committee who planned ' .recommendation. the banquet and evening's Mr. Bakker, a young poultry entertainment were Robert producer of the Loridesboro McCabe, -Gordon Miller, Court area, said , that the Calvin Kerr and Robert Turner. Christian School Society of Clinton owns and operates the. Horticultural Society six -room school on Princess Street. It is non -parochial and non -denominational and its doors are open to the children of The Executive meeting of the all parents who 'want their Auburn Horticultural Society children to receive a distinctly was held in .the town hall last Christian education. • week with President Mrs. "I think there is a great Gordon Taylor in charge. misconception of our --school It was decided to give here," Mr. Bakker said. It is prenfiums -of a hyacinth bulb to called a private school, but we each member. believe it to be a public school, The president expressed her Christian in character." thanks to all who had assisted at The Clinton school with a the bake sale. It was decided to staff of six teachers and an hold the' annual fa ly .. night- ....enrollment of 200, - pupils with the W I. members and their families December 5 when the operated in 1968-69 on a budget of $66,357. The money was raised, said Mr. Bakker, through parents paying a $12 a week flat fee. A financial sheet presented to the board showed contributions of $37,113 plus church Collections . from Clinton at $2,250 and from Blyth at $88. Transportation last. year cost .the society $13,000, said Mr. Bakker. "Yet = many of our children live on existing public and separate school bus lines." Mr. Vanderhaar said there was a waste of driving in transporting children to schools. "There' are four to five buses that go around, my corner each day, with the buses only one half full," he said. He added that the Clinton school • is saving the Ontario government approximately $60,000 a year in grants. He said that across Ontario there is $900,000 in property taxes paid by families supporting society schools. "Why not send your children to our schools?". James Taylor, board .member from Hensall, asked the delegate. "Why not yours to ours?" replied' Mr. Vanderhaar. "We think -the grants should go where the kids go." John B. Lavis, Clinton board chairman, asked if all their children were attending the Calvin Christian school. Mr. Vanderhaar said that not . "many" were . attending the - regular public schools. Mr. Lavis agreed that. a Christian education was important in today'sworld. directors of the Society will , Schooi f the i ctors o are EIizaIwth meet the Queefl Women's Institute to plan the evening. Ed' Davies and Donald Cartwright will place Santa and his reindeer on Manchester Garden early in December. The slate of officers will be brought in to the December meeting by the nominating committee. Everyone is asked to decorate their homes for the coming Christmas season. This year's Christmas seals are. outgure .Eskimo "k The new ,1969 Christmas: Seals entry • is very distinctively were distributed to 27,700 area, Canadian. homes this- week as the 1969 "We think these seals are truly Christmas Seal Campaign got unique," said Mrs. Beryl under way for the 43rd year. Davidson, program secretary. This year's seal features an "Huron -Perth residents who use original • Eskimo design by the seals liberally will not only Canadian artist William George be supporting the fight against Parlane of Toronto. ,Different tuberculosis, emphysema and from any other seal in the other respiratory diseases but, history _of the Canadian will be making all their holiday Tuberc losis and Respiratory mail really attractive." Disease Association, this year's Couple' married S0 years A gala party Nov. 1 at the Roseville home of their son, • Harold, marked the - 50th v wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred McGregor of Warren, Michigan. Mr. McGregor is the son of the late Charles and Mary McGregor of Porters Hill.. Mrs.' McGregor, nee Della Walters, is the daughter of the late Charles and gmily. Waiters of Goderich. ro, Ma tied in Clinton, the celebrants have made their home in Macomb County, Mich.. for more than 30 years. Their family includes four other children; Charles and John of Warren, Mich; Ernest of East Detroit; Mrs, Raymond 'Weeks of Rochester, N.Y,, 13 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. moved to St. Peter's - The Queen Elizabeth School for Retarded Children, in Goderich will move from the municipally -owned McKay Hall to the former St. Peter's Separate School, the Huron County Board of Education decided at its meeting in Central Huron Secondary School Clinton, last week. On recommendation of the Advisory Conimittee on Schools for Trainable Rletarded Children, the board authorized the chairman'atrdI secretary to Sign a -- three-year lease with the Huron -Perth Separate School Board and/or the Knights of. Columbus, in the amount of $600 per year. for the rental of two classrooms and auxiliary - areas for immediate occupancy by the Queen Elizabeth School for Retarded Children. R. Archer, chairman of the Advisory Committee, presented a request from the Goderich District . Association for the Mentally Retarded in which the disadvantages of McKay Hall were outlined in detail. Rental of the.. new quarters will include heat,'hydro• electric power, water, and also the use of kitchenette 'and the boys' and girls' washrooms. Caretaking for the two rooms will be extra. J. H. Stringer, principal of Goderich District Collegiate Institute, wrote requesting an additional guidance counsellor on his staff to replace a previous man who resigned in May 1969. - The Board approved. To back up his request, Mr. Stringer pointed . out that Goderich District Collegiate should be providing 60 periods of counselling in a six-day cycle, but offering -only 33. He said also that at the present time, the guidance director does not have the time to establish effective liaison with the elementary school teachers. r Adviso ��������� tee -fink-ATcl'>lsses:"�fi T7-tis-1'retit5 V . , m � preferred • in other schools, he i said,•. with Wingham', 18.5 -to -1 month1�rmitinastx4 �, considered high. Ralph Arbuckle literally had a lucky "strike" last week when this 11 pound rainbow trot .took his .lure in the Maitland River. Mr. Arbuckle is from London and was spending a' week's hunting trip at his summer cottage at Bluewater Beach. He had taken the day off from hunting because of bad weather and was•fishing down stream from the railroad bridge when the fish took his Williams lure. It took 30 minutes to,land the trout by hand, and Mr. Arbuckle said it's the biggest' rainbow he has taken in 20 years of fishing in the area: , staff photo. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIllllllllllllltttflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllll b� den 5u er�n�en p arty residents A . 14 idea which *has been were not sufficient members in "b wing for sometime" has that town to undertake the plan, faced again in Goderich, this however. e with the proposed backing Miss McGowan recalled that o almost every service county council was approached organization and church group on the matter but noiaction was in town. taken. . o A group of interested Later, the town of Goderich Goderich citizens is. whipping up was encouraged to undertake the enthusiasm for a homemaker homemaker service' as a pilot service, first talked about in project in the county. Huron County about eight or • Mr. Murphy ' said he nine years ago. understood Goderich council One spokesman, Herb Murphy felt that details and restrictions said Monday afternoon a were too involved at that time: meeting will be held in the court Town clerk Sherman Blake house at 8 p.m. November 19, to recalls council agreed the matter get , some firm commitments should be handled at the county from representatives of as many level. organizations in .Goderich as The homemaker service as possible. outlined by several Goderich Therehas been suggestions citizens would provide someone °that a ,local citizens' body to/ take over in a home where working in co-operation with the mother has to' be hospitalized town's various organizations, for a while; where an elderly would sponsor the homemaker citizen requires assistance in.�the program: home; where someone is sick It has been learned, however, and in bed' with _no one to: tend that if the ' program his needs. } undertaken at the municipal '- Miss. McGowan said that just level, an 80 percent' government recently, soiree children had to grant would assist the operation be taken into care by the of it. children's aid while their mother -° was ill and in hospital. There are indications that "This is a dreadful upset for town council may, _ be the children,"she explained. approached to give some Sometimes the children's aid. consideration 'to the matter. is able to find a temporary Miss Clare McGowan of the homemaker to work in a home Huron County Children's Aid but it is difficult in most ° Society said the idea first made instances. the rounds about 1961. She said at that time it was usual that the program • be sponsored by a Red Cross Group. The only Red Cross organization in the county at that time was in Seaforth. There s fi • reports on schools J. W. Coulter, superintendent of schools, reported ' to Huron" County Board of Education at last week's meeting that a total of 169 classroom visits had been made this term. . He also ' 'said that all 1969 Teachers' College graduates and all but six experienced teachers hired in 1969 for elementary • schools had been visited;that 31 of secondary school staff hired in 1969 had been visited and that seven programme consultants from the regional office had visited the county. Evening classes' are underway in four secondary schools with following enrolment and classes: Ceriiral Huron, Clinton, R. Whitely, principal: 188 enrolled in ten classes; Goderich DCI, C. Kalbfleisch, principal: 160 enrolled in six classes; F. E. Madill SS - Wingham; `t Beard, principal: 106 enrolled in six classes; South Huron D"t-IS, Exeter: 326 enrolled in 14 classes. Courses run for approximately 21' weeks; fee for, a course is $10 or '$15, depending on supplies. "I hear pupils and parents complaining about some of the teachers," commented John Henderson, Seaforth, representative on the' board for Clinton, Hullett and Seaforth. "Do you think, Mr. Coulter, there are many in the county that are not good teachers?" . Eyebrows were raised as the, superintendent considered his reply. He said: "There ,are varying degrees of goodness in teachers." Miss McGowan admitted the matter of a homemaker service had been aired again at a recent board meeting. "I certainly hope it goes through," advised . Miss McGowan. Board chairman suggests change Pupil -teacher ratios in the five Huron County secondary schools were discussed at last week's board of education meeting in Clinton with board chairman John Lavis suggesting that staff could be reduced by increasing the number of students per teacher in several schools. Commenting on a report of September enrolment, F. E. Madill, assistant school stgierintendent, said"I think the type of operation in the school is important, based on numbers' He said he felt the Seaforth ratio of 20 pupils to each teacher was reasonable in. view of the fact that there are no Huron board On behalf of the honour students of Goderich District Collegiate Institute, Miss Anne Hopkinson forwarded la letter of thanks to Huron County Board of Education at its meeting in Central. Huron Secondary School, Clinton, last week, "for the wonderful trip to Ottawa." "Mobs of protesting youths were seen in front of Parliament Buildings demonstrating against the Soviet Foreign Minister, Gromyko," she said. "This unekpected incident was interesting to view but be assured that the behaviour of the students of GDCI was a credit to the community we represented." .ca The Advisory Vocational Committee of the Huron County Board of. Education has decided to hold meetings on the second Thursday of each month, it reported to the board in Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, last week. Gordon Moir, Gorrie, a member of the board, was elected - chairman of the committee, with- education director D. 1Cochrane as secretary with power , to delegate. On recommendation of the committee, the board set the scale of remuneration for art -time teaching assistants in the occupation courses at a rate of $30 per day for the school, year 1969-70, and the salaries ' 4 :`Why - • bring down the for principal`' ° of the. , hoard's night school programme at $500 each for the current school year. Robert M. Elliott, Goderich Township, questioned the increase from $24 to $30 and asked if a hairdresser should be paid $4.50 per hour. D. 'J. Cochrane, director of education stated that' some people who have done the work before, flatly refuse to do anything at the same rate as before. In -answer to a query, John B. Lavis, board chairman, said night school teachers were being paid $8 per hour or $24 for three, hours. "It's ' the old situation," commented Mr. Elliott. "Three wrongs- are making a rights" Wingham ratio?" he asked, "Why not bring up the others to the Wingham level?" In the report, Clinton's ratio was given as 16.1 -to 1.' Goderich was 17.5 -to -1, Seaforth 20 -to -1 and Exeter 17 -to -1. - .More students can - be accommodated per teacher in arts and sciences classes than in business and commercial or science, technology and - trades courses, it was said. Mr. Lavis. suggested that if the Wingham ratio were applied to the other ,schools, the Clinton'" teaching could be reduced from ' 63.5 , to 55.5 and Goderich District Collegiate Institute from 48 to 42, He said as many as 24' teaching"-postions-could -be -cut. With an average annual salary of rriore than $8,000, the potential saving could be more than $200000, the chairman said. Accept $22,361 tender for school insurance �* The Huron County Board of . of H. E. Hartley Con: ..1,.. ,1 s Education last week accepted • Ltd. of Scarborough. - the $22,361 tendera of W. H. "The tender introduce.► a Hodgson. Ltd. of Exeter for much broader insurance program insuring all board -owned and reduced the premium 44 per property in the county. ,Last cent," Mr. Hartley told the year's - insurance cost was board. "This extremely low cost $40,099, the board learned at will only be held if the Huron the meeting in Clinton. board's own losses , are controlled. We prefer to see the The tender was made on fire and altirisk insurance spread behalf of the Perth -Huron among a number of insurance Independent Insurance Agents' companies," Association which includes 29 of The six tenders, which include 35 agents in Huron County. The coverage for school buts, contract was awarded on advice ranged up to $25,461.