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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-02-01, Page 1i 1 election: March 15 Goderich has three candidates In race long wait is over. The ion for Huron County n called- for March 15 Successor will be named S. MacNaughton, the lean who retired from to spend more time is family. • erich will field three can- es in the upcoming tion meetings:. They are Such for the Progressive rvatives; John Lyndon e Liberals; Paul Carroll ie New Democrats. Ed. Independent Socialist, e's "interested"- but was dy' a t-nreesaime to issue. tement. Such will seek support PC nomination meeting entral Huron Secondary 1 Friday, February 16. A worker "for a lifetime", • is well known in the area. a chiropractor who has serving in Huron County July 1949. ormer reeve of the town of rich, Such has been active unicipal affairs and is ntly a member of the rich Area Planning Board of the Tourist Committee. s also a member of the d of governors of stoga College of Applied and Technology, a ion he's held for the past ears. ch and his wife Muriel six children, Jeffrey, ied and living in Kit- er; Mrs. John (Bonnie) ski, St. Louis, . Missouri; . n, University of Waterloo; h, GDCI; and Virginia Deanna, both at'Robertson orial School. hn Lyndon, manager of the Theatre on TIse Square in rich and, the Mustang e -In Theatre, came to rich in 1970. But he's not wcomer to Huron County. on was posted to CFB ton with the Royal dian „ Air Force in 1964 lived in the Hensall and field areas until moving oderich. rn in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on hasa baclZground in tonics. He and his wife have two sons,. Bruce, .26, is married and living in ton and Kirk, 22, who es at home. • e Liberal nomination is or Thursday, February 15. some issues which must be discussed including the growing concern about health care in Ontario, the autocraticc govern- ment in this province as well as Premier Bill Davis and his "two Conservative Parties". He and his wife Mary have one son, Karsten who is just 12 weeks old. OTHER CANDIDATES Goderich is by no means the only municipality in the Riding to have condidates in the, various races- •<, Tb& agre.ss iv e , - .C.Q n vative party here will have a wide choice of candidates, not the least of which is Don Sotthcott, formerly executive secretary . to C. S. MacNaughton. Southcott, a former editor and co -publisher of the Exeter Times -Advocate, announced some time_ago he will seek the nomination. Another candidate will be Bill Dale,'" Riding Association president who resides in the Seaforth-Clinton, area. He un- successfully contested the PC nomination won by MacNaughton in 1958. He's the , oldest of three avowed candidates for the Con- servatives in the Riding at 62 years and is a former Warden of Huron County having sat on Hullett Township Council for 11 years. Elmer Hayter, has bein men- tioned as a possible candidate in 'the PC nominations. In a. brief comment . Tuesday evening, •Hayter said that he had no statement on the mat- ter although he admitted there had been some "discussions" about his possible candidacy. Elmer Hayter did say that in his opinion, the by-election was Two other well-known Huron County residents have ex- pressed interest in the PC ° nomination. They are -Jim Hayter, a ,Goderich businessman and a former Warden of Huron; and Anson McKinley, presently Reeve of Stanley Township. Hayter said last week he was... "taking a good look" at the possibility of seeking the nomination for the PC party in the Riding. 1 McKinley, contacted Tuesday evening, claimed he was considering the nomination "seriously": He's the brother of. R. E. McKinley, MP for Huron, and a Stanley Township far- mer. McKinley said that no mat- ter who is the PC candidate in the Riding, he expects , "a good campaign". He said that since the Liberals and the New called quickly and would not give the candidates in all par- ties a great deal of time to "'prepare for nominations and the upcoming elections. It appears that one lady will be looking for nomination next month. She's Mrs. Jean Adams, Brucefield, who was also a can- didate at the Liberal nomination meeting before the last federal election when'. Charles Thomas, a Brussels., area farmer, was selected to carry the Grit banner. The outspoken Mrs. Adams said Tuesday she will be cam- paigning . for the Liberal nomination. She says s ie..: believes that women have a place in federal and provincial politics. Bert Sock ... PC Lyell.- ... Liberal i Pool Correll ... NDP ul Carroll will take a Democrats will be fighting for nd crack at . provincial the official Opposition status at ics in Huron County. The Queen's Park in the two up- Goderich Victoria School coming by-elections (there's by- , election in Toronto -St. George's to replace Justice Secretary Allan Lawrence); both parties will -be planning "an all out battle" to .win the her doesn't "anticipate' aey osition" at ' the New ocratic -Party ' nomination ting February 12. he former reeve of erich, Carroll said there favor' of the people. Id be a meeting Friday The Liberal Party, the of- ing to "firm up" plans, for ficial Opposition, now has 20 or. election which will be the Legislature's 117 'seats; the tly contested" by the NDP, NDP has 19. Another Stanley Township farmer, last year's warden arroll believes there are 126 YEAR— • oDerk THURSDAY, FEBRUARYS 1, 19'73 • The weather M Oerertoh le stere winter -Om this week, but last weak there was spring in the air, sunshine everywhere and pretty'giris on a park bench. Here (left to right) Valerie Hut- chins, Kathy MciVOr and Anne Wrayenjoy a mid -winter afternoon in 50 degree pleasure. Who needs to go south for the winter? (staff photo) After srmmerlike weather ... Winter With the return of winter weather, the number of minor accidents around town went noticeably upwards. ," The accidents during the past week all occurred on Monday, January 29. At 8:30 a.m., -William E. Mclsaac of " 151 Stonehouse Street skidded in loose snow. and struck a parked car owned by ,Robert Hall of RR 5 Goderich. The' accident took place on the ' Canadian Tire parking lot. Damage to the Hall vehicle was estimated at $250. There was no ,damage to the Mclsaac car. ' • kt 11:20 a.m., a car driven by SINGLE COPY 20c Wingbam entertainer says must save ja• il A well-known Huron County resident has expressed interest in the preservation of the Huron County Jail located at Goderich. He's Earl Heywood; popular CKNX artist and a long-time entertainer from the Wingham area. In a telephone interview Tuesday evening,• Heywood • said he is deeply concerned about the'possible demolition of part of the jail wall. hazardous 'Fred Miller of RR 2 Goderich collided with a"vehicle operated by Chester Finnigan of RR 1 Dungannon. The collision took place at the corner of Cambria and East Streets. There was $200 damage done to the Millar car and about $100 to the Finnigan vehicle. • Later on in the day around 12:30 p.m., a vehicle driven Ethel I. Rutherford had come to a stop at the Victoria-.. Hamilton traffic lights. A second car driven ' by John Elmer Hoebert of Sault Ste. Marie could not stop in time because of the icy conditions ler years of membership — ,thousands of $$ .. ;24.21 and struck the rear of the Rutherford vehicle. There was $200 damage done to the Rutherford' car and about $650 to the Hoebert car. Ethel Rutherford suffered minor whiplash. Also at 12:30 p.m. Ronald.E. Snowden of RR 2 Lucknow While attempting to pass• a. vehicle on the square, skidded 'and slid into the rear of a truck Awned by the Humpty-Dumpty Foods Ltd. of Rexdale. Damage to the Snowden car is estimated at $300 and to the truck l $200. There were no in- juries. ountyturns d�wnMD 8-2.1 uron County Council won't Mrs. Helen • Jermyn, deputy - supporting Midwestern reeve of Exeter,• claimed she elopm?t Council i 1973. was very impressed by a t decision was reached on a presentation earlier in the day rded vote which was 28-21 by Prof. John Harton of Kit- avor of a recommendation chener. She said it was a "very he Development Committee • crucial time" for Huron County to renew membershipin and said she "feared that by pulling out 'now, we niay be. hose voting against MDC stepping backward". e Roy Allin, John Baker, She urged county council to r Boyle, Allan Campbell, join MDC for 1973, to give the old Campbell, Frank Cook, . council additional support and it Desjardine, Joe Dietrich, to 'help them "put more 1 Elston, 'John Flannery, pressure on Toront ". gh Flynn, Joe -Hoffman, Bob Jack McCutcheoh shoed her sentiments. "Who goes to court these days without a defence lawyer?" asked McCutcheon. He said that Huron has spent a ery and Waron Zahn. great deal of money in MDC oting in favor of MDC were ---over the past few years' and lmer Cuthill; - -Lloyd : would be "throwing that money ilusen, R. Gibson, Gerry away" if it didn't support MDC n, Mrs. Helen Jermyn, Rub- now and let the council speak 'Lawrie, Walter McBride, fir Huron in, Toronto. k McCutcheon, Anson McCutcheon suggested inley, ,Doug .McNeil, Har- County ,Council make it ab - Mulvey,' Ed. Oddleifson, solutely clear to MDC what the ns, J.A. Mair, Everett Ilwain, Harvey McMichael, n McMichael, Roy Nichol, Warden Roy �Pat- n, Deb Shevrfelt, Erwin Girvin Reed • warned council doing too many of essentially "Yes they are• ," echoed Od that while membership in MDC the same things. dleifson. for 1973 would cost $9,300, Charles Thomas didn't "I'm wondering what in - council could well "pay more agree. Fie said that MDC had fluence 50,000 people will have than 9,300 bucks,. if you . lose become a "pressure . group" at the provincial, government," Walter Gowing and John Hor- whereas the county's develop- stated Gerry ton as spokesmen for the ment office was dedicated to Ginn. '1 think we should show county of Huron.." tourist and industrial develop- the provincial government we Ed Oddleifson, a. member of ment in the county.can get along with our neigh-, MDC lot year, said that "MDC , "It is important to speak to bogs. We should sell our ideas is a vehicle which we require* government in the strongest to them and then present them for a continued channel , possible voice," said Thomas. together as a unit." through which' we can express ' "Instead of speaking as Huron, Deb Shewfelt said, "MDC our own autonomy to the we should be speaking together. will not carry the fight . I see „government regardless of with our neighbouring counties. the handwriting on the wall. whether the government sup- It carries a little spore weight. Gentlemen, regional_ govern - ports them by a grant or not". The money has already been,,, ,, ment is corning. It is a new • Oddleifson said Huron spent and the program has ballgame. We must deal more should continue in MDC until been developed. The channels directly with the province." the government comes down within the government are "It hasn't been done," said with a plan the county can sup- there. The more times we start Bill Elston. "I don't know port. ' over, the more advantage the whether it can be done." "if we don't agree, MDC' is government has 'over us." ' Earlier in the day, Professor the vehicle to express our "We're not -getting otir , John Horton along with M disagreement," said. Oddleif- value," complained Bob Lyons. Director ,Walter Gowing an son. "I implore you not to "There's no proof they're going Jim Hayter, past president of throw MDC out the window .to get for us what we're asking MDC, made a presentation o until. the government has for." . , . „ county council. At that time, • proven it has something bet- "It's. one great big waste of Professor Horton urged county ter." money," said Derry Boyle. In council to give serious con- hairman of 'no way is MDC going to in- sideration to rejoining MDC for "It is foolish to destroy something that our forefathers put there," said Heywood. "'There's so much history in ' that place. It could never be •replaced once it is destroyed. It would be so useful for so many -things." n._P'rofit, Oi in.,Reed_:..C.._ __county�wanted.for the f�iture of . Ken McMichael, c fluence the overnrr�ent. I another year at least. not!, Charles Thomas,\l'ack Huron. He said that if Rulon the development committee ofg 11 elm, H..E .Wild and R. didn't support MDC in 1973, it county council, said that in his think some people are a little Professor Horton claimed lian►son. - _ - might, as�well "kick in the opinion there was too much afraid of losing ideas jobs.""et- there WAS the "Bureau dous g\He said that the "Some -of our g old:e.rvelbecn' the vote was sponge and say, well provinci -- overlapping. en at H dgovernment,u can do Development 'Officer Spence`` ting through to the govern- structure" in Ontario whit h roll Lobb,, ?cion;"kn yo .. whatever you want with us." Cummings and MDC were ment," said Thomas. - (Continued on page 14) Heywood said. he'd written a song about. the Huron County "jailhouse" sometime ago but had never recorded it. Another of Heywood's com- positions - an alburb about the Black Donnelly clan from the I,tgcan area - .has created con- siderable interest in that part of the country. He said Lucan and area people are delighted with the recognition the album has brought their area g,,and Heywood noted that "Donnelly Days" may become an annual festival in Lucan as a result of the record's success. He, stated that if the matter was "opened up" in Huron County, he weep anticipate ex- cellent public interest for the preservation of the jail walls. In Wingham, Heywob"d "stiid, "there's a lot of interested people". The jail, said Heywood, does not belong to -Goderich. It is a Huron County building and it is time the county was "preserving some of our old history". Meanwhile in Goderich, volunteers are busy circulating a 'petition which asks that the jail walls be left intact. What is described as "overwhelming support" for the petition has been discovered and workers are hopeful that several thousand names will be at- tached to the petition in Goderich alone. Persons who wish to sign the petition and have not been ap- proached to do so, will find copies in bah laundromats, the IGA store and Bygone An- tiques on the Square. The petition, however, is not appearing , in Goderich only. Workers are , being enlisted throughout the entire county 'and . the petition will touch every municipality in Huron in an attempt to get the opinion of complete cross-section of the ratepayers., Students, in all five high s hoots in the county are being briefed on the matter, and petitions similar to the petition circulated at GDCI and presen- ted to county council last Friday, Will be encouraged. Huron County Council owns the building• in which the present Huron -Perth Regional Assessment Office is situated. - The Ontario °government leases_ the premises from Huron, County and .present .over- crowding at the assessment of- fice has spade it necessary for the county to consider larger accommodations for the staff there. Plans are to cut away a•por- tion of the jail wails - the largest exercise yard to be exact - in order to expand the present assessment building to the east. Alternative suggestions have been made to county council. They are to purchase property to' the west of the present assessment office for the, ad- ' dition; to re -negotiate with the Town of Goderich for parking on Gloucester Terrace so that the addition can be bat to the north of the present assessment office; and to move several ' county departments into the present assessment offices and (Continued on page 14) MVCA takes 400 acres in West Wawanosh The Honourable Leo Bernier. Minister of Natural ' Resources and Murray Gaunt. M.P.P. for iluron-Brace. announce the approval of a provincial grant of $20.500. to the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority for the acquisition of some 400 acres of land in the Township of East Wawanosh. This property lies astride the Maitland River. with 300' acres on the east bank and 100 acres on the west batik. The land is.generally gently rolling with a strong-flnw.rng trout stream, one of the few in the watershed, crossing the easterly 300 acres of the property The Authority's purpose in acquiring this property is to provide the public with those forests, wildlife and land use benefitS which can be easily developed and managed in this parcel, in line with Authority ob ectives..11e ince detailed development plans have not as yet been for- mulated. but shall he completed during 1173. All member municipalities will bear the Authority's" share of the cost. 4 1 The Goderich Kinettes AbiNty Fund Drive came to a close last Monday night with final tallies being made.at the Victoria and Grey Trust offices. Shown hers is 'Helen_Hill, general chairman, ,and -Anne Doherty (right) making calculations while Victoria and Grey offloe manager Lyle Zurbrigg looks on. Donations totamng $1,019.00 were collected. (staff photo) eta ri 0. att 444