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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-12-10, Page 334 4 123rd YEAR .31 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17,1970 1 1I 1111111111011111pINl IN NINININ N 11 4ili1N##ig 111lIIINI#ilmmpuN111N1i111{glNl!#ommilimi l M #Ill#IIID#111illllli1111#IIilllillNl#IiNI1IaNHlll#lliNl#NINNIIIIIIII41{11!##1#II#MNI�IIIII#N#11111#III IIN# I #III#III... 1 I #Ilt {µNN .,.,........ VIII. illililMllN � �Illlg#1l,IIIIIIiItlFllllllll#I#gllNl}#gplll#IlIll!#Illlllultllllllll#llllli#Ilil##I#11II#III###i#11111#NI}#Illl#II {III#11114NIi14NItHII4IINUliN44M 4NI4MIMll Members of the Goderich Public Utilities Commission and. invited guests attended the sixth annual Christmas party on''" - December 9 at the Candlelight. Tavern and heard guest speaker William Curry of Ontario Hydro Western Region. From the left PUC Chairman George Filsinger gave the welcoming address at • the annual Christmas party of the utility last week and acted as MC during the evening's entertainment. With him in this photograph is Mrs. Filsinger of "Three Little Bears" fame from the last Christmas party. — Staff Photo CKNX sold to CFPL In a joint statement made last , week; W. T. "Doc" Cruickshank - of Wingham and Walter J. Blackburn of London, announced the sale of CKNX Radio and CKNX-TV in Wingham to the owners of CFPL Radio and CFPL-TV. �► Mr. Cruickshank, one of Canada's pioneer broadcasters is Chairman of the Board of'Radio Station CKNX Limited, licensee of CKNX radio and television. Mr. Blackburn is Chairman of the Board of CFPL Broadcasting Limited, 'licensee of the CFPL radio and television stations in London. In commenting on the sale, which is subject to the approval of the Canadian Radio -Tele- vision • Commission, Mr. Cruickshank expressed his confidence that under the new ownership, the Wingham stations would continue to broadcastthe quality of service that viewers and listeners have Grown to expect since CKNX Radio was established by Mr. Cruickshank in 1926. Mr. Cruickshank explained that because of the changing circumstances of broadcasting. and the ever .increasing expense involved in station ,operations, the decision to sell was necessary, to enable the service to continue and expand, Mr, Blackburn, a ' pioneer Canadian broadcaster in his own right, said he was particularly pleased that the purchase of CKNX' would permit the association of two long established broadcasting organizations serving Western Ontario for many tears. He paid tribiVe to "Doc" Cruickshank's enterprise. Starting with a radio repair shop in 1925, he experimented with v► are Dave Rolston, manager of the PUC; Mrs. Rolston; Commissioner Gerald Whaley and Mrs. Whaley; Mrs. Eilsinger; Mr. Curry; PUC Chairman George Filsinger and Mrs. Curry.- — Staff Photo r ::PUC holds Christmas party; awards presented The annual Christmas Party of the Goderich Public Utilities Commission was held - Wednesday, December 9, at the Candlelight Tavern and was its usual success. Chairman George Filsinger was the MC for the evening and • welcomed guests on behalf of the 'commission. Mr. Filsinger noted it was the sixth such event and was a milestone in the history of the local utility. Special guest for the -evening was George " Curry, 'of the Ontario -Hydro western region. Mr. Curry complimented Mr. < ' Filsinger and PUC manager Dave Rolston and described the local PUC as "...having one of the best records in Western Ontario." During the evening lineman certificates were presented to PUC workers ' by former Chairman Bill Mills. Receiving the certificates were Harry Crane, line foreman; Don Langridge, sub foreman; Mel Jacobs and -Evert Middel. • A special safety award was -accepted by Reg. Brindley on behalf of the- workers Entertainment was supplied by a trio of ladies: Doran" Rolston, Sharon Munro and Eunice Hoy. Messrs.', Walpole, Dermott and Ryan entertained with a musical trio and the ladies again entertained toward the close of the evening's activities. Highlight of the evening entertainment was ' the an amateur station which later became widely known as CKNX, one of Canada's first radio stations. Mr,Blackburn recalled that in 1955 the people. of Wingham and the surrounding area' were provided with the' newest form of ' communication. and entertainment when "Doc" oc" took the big plunge, _into the expensive medium of television: To many in the industry this appeared to be a hazardous move, as nowhere in North America was a television station located in a town the size of Wingham. Appreciation : was shown for the Cruickshank enterprise . by . .proclaiming Wingham "the radio and television town of Canada" and citizens of the area, who performance of Doug Romain who has appeared on the Wayne and Shuster show on CBC -TV. Mr. Romain presented a series of comedy routines that kept the audience pleased with his efforts. Legion hockey in Royal Canadian Legion Zone 1 hockey play, action has been piling up in the past few weeks with teams active in Novice, Pee Wees, Bantam and Midget. - Teams from Goderich are standing second in Novice, fourth in Pee Wee, fifth in Bantam and third ip Midget. '$1140:11 COP ` 1 Delay on sub -division cans road allowance recommendati Goderich council gave a must consider future costs if it further one week's delay to the .decided to pay these. He advised Krohmer subdivision last week " council to set a policy to control when it decided to make a copy spending on this type of of the file and a list of estimated development suggesting that, as posts available to all members of the town gets , larger the council and to developer Helmut distances that services have to be Krohmer. run will increase and the costs The move was made at the become greater. He said the suggestion of Coun. Ed present plan under consideration iGiesbrecht with the agreement ',for Mr. Krohmer should not be of Mr. -Krohmer to clarify a delayed because of cost finding, situation that was described by but should be proceeded with Coun. Giesbrecht as "...mass and then costs set. " "If this confusion." council acts as it has in the past The confusion in the issue it will approve the plan anyway arose over' changes in and then set the costs, so you administration and lack of might just as well not hold the communication in various man up now," he said. departments and companies Com. Giesbrecht, a member working for the town and it was of the town planning board, told decided Thursday that all council the board had approved, available information be given to the development and that was as each member of council and to far as the board was required to Mr. Krohmer so that the go situation could be clarified. Mr. Krohmer intends to Dr. Mills pointed out there construct a subdivision at the was no reason for council not to south end of town between make final approval;hat the South Street and Gibbons planning board coul make Street. At the South Street end a recommendations, but the town road allowance will be necessary was not compelled to accept in order to keep the town roads them. following'similar routes in the Coun. Paul Carroll suggested «,-,,, council had reneged- on its town. The present roan nil,na responsibilities in the matter' to the left. Property would be creating confusion and asked for required from a landowner there - council ` to agree to ' making fora road allowance. details available. Services to reach the site will Coun. Dave Gower reported cost approximately $44,000 and costs for the road allowance also as yet no one really knows who would be available for the next will or should pay these costs. Dr. G. F. Mills, mayor, warned meeting (today, December 17). Thursday night that council Town solicitor Ken Hunter Blind attend party BY MRS. CLAYTON EDWARD Eighty-two persons, of whom some half were blind, registered under CNIB, the others sighted escorts.. and members of Huron Advisory Board CNIB, enjoyed a sumptuous,,, Christmas dinner;. Friday, December 4. The meal was catered by the U.C.W. of Victoria Street Church Goderich. The head table included Larry Snider of Exeter, president of the Huron Advisory Board CNIB and Mrs.,. Snider; Norman McIntyre, Goderich, treasurer of the Board; Miss Emily Philpott, Rehabilitation Officer (Home teacher) CNIB; Jack Clements and Mr. Peter Corless, London staff members of CNIB for Western Ontario and Huron County. Also present, at the head table were Harry Leau of Blyth, president of the newly formed Huron -Perth Advisory Board CNIB and Mrs. Lear. During the dinner, favours were distributed to all guests and Qhristmas gifts to the blind guests. The Advisory Board • is indebted to many friends and in particular to Chas. Snell, manager • of Woolworth's Goderich fedi' these presents. • The country and western music of "The Country Boys", Geo. Balton, Jerry MacDonald, Dennis Fowler, and Hudson Warr was much enjoyed by the company. The remainder of program was heard in auditorium of otherwise would have had no Hensall and Seaforth' are television service, responded holding down • the top scoring warmly to the new station. spots ,in the Novice division Mr, Blackburn announced despite two 6-3 wins by that Murray T. Brown, President Goderich recently — one over and General Manager of CFPL Mitchell and one over Hensall. Broadcasting Limited, London, In Pee Wee action Goderich would also be President of Radio also picked up a win — 6-3 over Station CKNX Limited. Mr. Mitchell — and tied 4-4 with Brown said he was pleased that Hensall. Mitchell and Hensall G. W. Cruickshank had agreed to have the top scorers in that continue as a member of the . division. . Board of Directors, although he The lone Goderich entry in and John Cruickshank would be Bantam play hit Mitchell for a retiring from their. present 2-0 win with Zurich having the executive positions. The high scores in that division. operation of the radio and Goderich also came up with television stations would two wins in the Midget division continue to be the responsibility , defeating Mitchell 5-4 and again of the present CKNX staff. with the same town team 5-3. "It is a credit to the Mitchell' and Clinton, share the management and staff "of scoring honours there. , CKNX", Mr. 'Brown said, "that All of theses ndings are the Wingham• stations are current up to the end , of " recognized throughout Canada • November and things may have for the high calibre of their , changed a bit up to this/ time. broadcasting service and far tut the league is active and their close identification with • further'reports will be carried as their communities." they are received. Holiday �fficc ehours. The offices of' th&`Goderich Signal -Star will be dosed from 5 p.m. on Tuesday, December 22, until 9 a.m. on Tuesday, December 29, for the Christrnti$ holidays. a, •, the the the church. Laurine and Richard Madge, accompanied by the guitar. playing of Glen Rettinger, sang old favourite and Christmas Eight) (See Page has been making investigations into the purchase of land at present owned by Frank Pettus, which would be used for a road_ allowance. Ile asked .council by letter,. who would be paying for the land and this prompted discussion by members. Coun. Dave Gower said he had spoken to Mr. Hunter and Mso .had attended the last meeting of ..the planning board and was not certain himself who should carry the costs. Eric Krohmer, speaking on behalf of his brother, stated as his brother's survey slid not include the land required for a road allowance and so could see no reason why his brother should have to pay for "that land. Coun. Reg Jewell said he could see no reason for the subdivider to pay for • the roadway and Coun. Frank Walkom pointed out that in other instances the town had paid for road allowance. - Dr. Mills suggested the question was really who was going to pay for the cost of services and what policy with regard to payment should be made. Coun,' Deb Shewfelt suggested the first developrnent would be on Gibbons. Street asser rices were already there and, said perhaps Tcouncil . would find it ' hard td set °costs five years in advance and. perhaps council should set the costs for the one end of the development now and the rest at a later date. Coun. Carroll pointed out that it might npt be a 'very economical plan for M. Krohmer.. He suggested council see : the figures and notify Mr. Krohmer of the costs. He said it was "all very well to say the services won't be needed for five years, but costs are high enough today and nobody knows what they will be tomorrow. Council agreed to supply copies of the file and a list of costs. Education tax payment clarified to resident Goderich council last week decided a $6 " per month charge per unit for trailers at the Mitchell trailer 'park, south of town need no longer be paid due to a different method that will be used next year for assessment. - Mrs. Harry Mitchell' 'asked council if the amount still had to be paid in view of an increase in assessment on her property, from $200 to $1,300. Mrs. Mitchell said she believed the $6 fee had been for education tax. Council ruled this was now included in the assessment on the property Agricultural federation seeks county policy change BY MRS. C. A. TROTT Huron County Federation of Agriculture will request the county council to consider changing a policy recently adopted to retire all employees at the age of 65 years. Some 200 farmers who attended the annual federation meeting in the Hullett Township Hall here, were ' told that the . policy, as it now stands affects part-time employees Mainly affected would be the part-time librarians. Support was also given to a r. resolution presented that would request the Huron County Library Board at Goderich, to consider keeping the libraries at Cranbrook and Ethel in " Grey Township open. The resolution • credited them as "performing a real service to the farmers in the township". To help use up locally grown crops produced in surplus, the federation approved a resolution suggesting that commodity organizations notify the federation's office in Clinton when a surplus occurs. The meeting, which commenced with a dinner served at noon, saw a total of 103 nominated to fill six positions. Of this number 19 persons allowed their names to stand for election. Only individual service members were allowed to vote on the positions of president, first and second vice-presidents. Three directors -at -large were elected by any farmer present at the meeting. John Stafford, R.R. 1, Wroxeter, was re-elected for the second consecutive year - as president by acclamation, along with Mason Bailey; R.R. 3 Blyth, first vice-president. A farmer from the south of the county, Case Van Raay, Dashwood, won over four other contestants for his bid'as second vice-president. Mrs. John (Betty) Stafford, wife • of the president, was elected along _ with Bruce Shapton, R.R. 1 Exeter, and and would be" paid with the taxes. There appeared to be some confusion as to the authority for accepting payment of the $6 per unit fee and members of council suggested it . had been a " .. . gentlemen's agreement," for it to be paid. Mrs. Mitchell said she had paid the amount in* Goderich Township before her property became part of the town and continued to pay it to • the town afterwards. , Nobody seemed to know if the amount had been for education tax or for some other tax., Asked by • Coun. Paul Carroll if she had a business permit — with the suggestion the amount could be business tax, -•- Mrs. Mitchellsaid she had never had a licence such as that. . Alex Alexander, of the provincial assessment office, informed councile re -assessment -,.of trailer- courts had been initiated this year due to the increased number of courts operating in the, county. Mr. Alexander said it would be much fairer to people living in the trailers and would provide a way of assessing non-residents which had been difficult in the past. Mr. Alexander confirmed the education portion of Mrs. Mitchell's tax would be included in the $1,300 assessment figure. He said assessment of the property would depend on occupancy. Trailers occupied would be assessed at $150 and unoccupied units would be given' a 50 per cent reduction on the assessment. Russell Kernighan, R.R. 4 Goderich, as directors -at -large. Other members of the -county executive will be elected at a directors' meeting in January. Mrs. Stafford, who polled the most votes over 13 men for her bid as a director -at -large last year served as "lady . director". However the position was abolished earlier this fall when the county constitution was rewritten and adopted. A co-author of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture's brief to the House of Commons Committee on the White Paper, Donald G. M. Coxe, a Guelph_ lawyer, was guest speaker. "In its original form the White Paper spelled death to the family farm. If the House of Commons Finance Committee report on changing the Paper is accepted in full by the government, then farmers, who ' do careful tax planning can hope to keep their farm in the family"., said the speaker. (See Page Eight) The Ooderrch Elevator and Transit Co. Curling Jitney was held Thursday evening, Deceniber "10 at the Maitland Country Cluib with the team skipped by Maxine Martin taking home the trophy. From the left are Sally MacEwan; second; Maxine /may. M Martin, skip; Leis Vanston+e, vice and Joyce Pocock, lead. Second place winners were Phil burst, skip; Eleanor Erskine, Penny Peters and Lois Haines. -Staff Photo. Wrong truck! The caption below the front page photograph last week that contained the Santa Claus float - in the recent parade incorrectly stated - the truck belonged to "Goderich Manufacturing. The truck was loaned by- Guenther Tuckey Transport and was driver by a volunteer from that company. Our apologies for the error. C'hristrnas issue deadlines Deadlines for the Christmas issue of the Goderich Signal -Star - are as follows: Classified advertising, noon, Friday, December 18; Display advertising, 5- p.m. Friday December 18 and all, ne\rs items not later than 1.p.m. the same day, The Christmas issue w"ill,e on the news stands on Tuesday, December 22 and will be mailed to subscribers the same day. The final issue of the year . will be published on Thursday, December 31 with regular deadlines of Tuesday noon for classified advertising and Tuesday 5 p.m. for display ads. c- News copy trust be its riot later than Tuesday 1 p.m.