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y Shelley McPhee
Murder -suicide has been maned the
cause of two tragic shooting deaths in Clin-
ton.
The bodies of Alex Inkley, 74, and his
wife Isabel Margaret, 73, were discovered
in their 160 Queen Street home in Clinton
on Friday afternoon. Coroner Dr. Ray
Flowers reported that the couple had died
approximately 48 hours earlier of shotgun
wounds.
Clinton Police Chief Lloyd Westlake said
that Acting Sergeant Wayne McFadden
was called to the home Friday afternoon at
12:45 pm by concerned neighbors who
noticed that daily newspapers that not
been collected. Neighbors feared that the
couple had been asphyxiated by a gas leak
reported earlier in the week by the In-
kleys. However Chief Westlake noted that
the small leak that been repaired by Union
Gas. When the leak was discovered on
January 24, the couple stayed overnight
with neighbor until it was repaired the
next day.
When Sergeant McFadden and neighbor
Bob Campbell went to the home on Friday
they found it securely locked and Sergeant
McFadden was forced to break into the
residence. They discovered the bodies of
the husband and wife, killed instantly by a
16 gauge shotgun. Dr. Flowers determined
that the deaths occurred on Wednesday,
January 26.
In their investigation the local police
learned that Mr. Inkley had been depress-
ed, however they have not determined a
cause for the murder -suicide.
The community was shocked to hear of
the deaths of the well known Clintoriscou-
ple.
Mrs. Inkley was a Clinton native, 'born
on September 19, 1909 to the late Wilfred
Track CI'cZSit
injures man
A Clinton area man received minor in-
juries when the truck he was driving went
into the ditch striking a road sign and a
by d o pole.
The Goderich OPP reported that Lloyd
Weber, 53, of R.R. 2, Clinton was west-
und on Highway 8 on January 30 when
the accident occurred just west of Clinton.
Damage to his vehicle is estimated at
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and Pearl Pickett. She received her
elementary education at local schools and
studied at the Clinton School of Commerce.
Mrs. Inkley was the bookkeeper for the On-
tario Street United Church Women and
was a member of the local Rebekah Lodge.
Mr. Inkley was born in England on
March 7, 1908. his parents were A.S. Inkley
and E.E. Drayson.
After immigrating to Canada, Mr. In-
kley lived in Listowel and Stratford before
movinc to Clinton were he worked as a fuel
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oil dealer.
On March 1, 1928 he was married to the
late Mary Alma Camp 1I. 1 -le married his
second wife in November 1965 at Ontario
Street United Church.
He is survived by one daughter Mrs.
Grant (Ardyss Marie) Daniells of Kit-
chener, eight grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.
Mr. Inkley is also survived by a brother
Bill of RR 5, Clinton, one step -sister
Margaret Thorndike, and four step-
brothers, Charles, Ernest, Lorne and Per-
cy Brown, all of Clinton_
Mrs. Inkley is survived by two sisters
Ruth Plumsteel of Seaforth, Helen Hughes
of London and a brother Ken Pickett of
London.
Funeral services were held at the Ball
and Falconer Funeral Home in Clinton on
January 31 with Rev. Norman Pick from
the Ontario Street United Church of-
ficiating. Spring interment will take place
at the Clinton Cemetery.
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�.�y Stephanie Levesque
Criteria for Ian site, as handed down
by the Ministry of the Environment, are
not practical for rural municipalities says
Grey Township Reeve Leona Armstrong.
Municipalities are attempting to make
the ministry aware of their concerns and
seeking support from Huron County Coun-
cil and the Rural Ontario Municipal
Association ( ROMA) .
Reeve Armstrong said representatives
of the towns ;. of McKillop, Morris,
Howick, Turnberry and Grey met on Jan.
10 to discuss the Ministry's criteria.
".They're (Ministry) telling us - they're
really pushing - that we can't burn
anymore," said Reeve Armstrong.
Besides not being allowed to burn
anything but wood -related materials, the
refuse at the landfill site is to be com-
pacted and covered with dirt.
"They don't realize the costs," noted
Mrs. Armstrong.
She pointed out heavy equipment would
have to be purchased to compact the
refuse, the public would have to be
educated to separate garbage and it isn't
feasible to cover the refuse with dirt in the
winter.
"From experience, if we don't burn, the
dump will be overrun with rats," com-
mented Reeve" Armstrong.
Another criteria that has just upset
municipalities is that test wells on the
boundary of the site have to meet drinking
water levels. in Grey Township, the
nearest well to the 7.5 acre site is a half
mile away and there have never been any
complaints regarding the water there or
On January 26 more than 20 Auburn ladies held a , •y -long quilting bee at the Knox United
Church. They ti ii and quilted nine coverings, which will be sent to hospits, needy
faaw9i➢i::;, a home for anew ,s' mothers and the World Outreach Program. M°ureen ::e,n,
She's 90 ye
By Shelley McPhee
Hard work, a good sense of humor, a
loving family and a real zest for life are the
special ingredients that keep Elizabeth
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column
Here it is, February already. An old
Farmer's Almanac describes this
month as, "Getting cloudy, then wild
and rowdy. Wet every which way. 111
winds blow rain and snow. Sunny thaw
slides to wet and raw. Warm? Just
teasin' - it's sore throat season."
However this year winter season has
not followed the usual standards, and
even the old groundhog is all mixed up.
This year when the little fellow peeked
out of his hole, he didn't see any
shadow, meaning that spring is coming
soon.
I won't complain, but I have a
sneaking suspicion that we'll pay for
this tropical winter weather - probably
in mid July.
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o With February everyone gets back
into the swing of things. The Clinton
Optimist Club is getting ready for the
Winter Carnival and the Blyth Figure
Skating Club is set to present a special
show. Local Guides, Brownies, Cubs
and Scouts are preparing for an active
month in honor of lord Baden-Powell
and February is also known as the
month for hearts.
Along with Valentine's iDay,
February is also the month when the
Heart Foundations in Canada, the
United States and many other countries
conduct their annual Heart Fund
campaigns to help finance research and
education programs. Local campaigns
will be getting underway in this area
within the next two weeks.
February is also the time to think
about buying licence stickers and
preparing those income tax forms.
The Mama Street Wit says this is the
last time he's going to file a tax return.
Next year he's just going to point to his
,pockets and let the government fight it
out with his kids.
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Ralph Cherry, farmer of the year
from the Haldimand district has some
financial advice that's helped to keep
him in the black, 'If you try to do it all
at once, you'll be out of business before
you start."
Rent, lease. pay cash - do anything,
he says, to keep the finance charges
down
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Jean MacFwan of RR 4, Goderich
was the winner of the Junior (' - 300 Club
Booster Draw for .January She gladly
pocketed $100.
Eunice Arthur and Marilyn Verbeek join in the work, conversatioand ➢wench. The
work was part of '''e UCW's emmissio program, an annual project that Auburn worsen
began more than 20 years ago. (Shelley McPhee photo)
rs old and still
McGregor happy and healthy.
On January 21 this well known
Brucefield lady celebrated her 90th bir-
thday with a grand party at the local
United Church. More than 100 relatives
and longtime friends came out to honor
Mrs. McGregor at the afternoon reception.
By North American standards,
celebrating a 90th birthday is a special
milestone, but for Mrs. McGregor it was
just a nother year passed by. This lady
simply takes each day at a time and even
though she is filled with youthful en-
thusiasm and leads a busy life, she has
briefly considered starting to act her age.
"My daughter-in-law says 1 never sit
still long enough," she noted before
dashing off to bring out a sample of the
quilts she has made for her children and
grandchildren. Then she was off again to
gather up her latest knitting project.
We had a look at her family gallery of
photographs, the fine china tea cups she
dearly loves, her collection of more than
100 souvenir spoons, and then studied the
latest book she's read, about Margaret
Trudeau.
Despite the snow covering and crisp
temperature of a January day, we peered
out the back door and Mrs. McGregor
described her summer flower gardens.
She admitted that along with many
flowers, she also has many weeds, havinf
been advised by her doctor not to hoe.
A glass of orange juire and an afternoon
strong
rest each day help to keep Mrs. McGregor
in good nealth, but she remembers early
days when such things would have been
considered luxuries.
"1 thinned a whole field of turnips one
year and i drove the horses and hay fork,"
she recalled.
Born and raised just north of Brucefield,
the former Elizabeth Aikenhead studied at
the Clinton business college and went on to
work as a bookkeeper in London for
several years.
A special birthday cake honored her
early career, with shorthand symbols and
a typewriter decorated in icing.
"i can still write shorthand," she said,
"but i can't read it so well anymore."
While in London the young Elizabeth
starting dating her late husband Gregor
McGregor. She remembered, "He used to
toot me around. We'd go to shows and out
for ice cream."
The couple married on April 21, 1923 and
settled onto a farm north of Brucefield.
Today Mrs. McGregor lives comfortably
in her modern Brucefield home. Though
people have come and gone over the years,
she's still related to many in the village
and keeps a close watch on the community
happenings.
Most importantly, she enjoys a close
relationship with her son Fred and his
wife, two grandsons, granddaughter and
two great granddaughters. They keep her
busy and young at heart.
410 farmers claim bankruptcy
Toronto - The Ontario Federation of
Agriculture ( OFA) has come up with a
three-point program to help stern the flow
of farm foreclosures and bankruptcies.
The program was announced at the
January meeting of ()FA's hoard of direc-
tors.
The program calls for working towards
setting up a group of farm experts to help
farmers with their finances, right -to -farm
legislation, and long-term affordable
credit.
Ralph Barrie, president of the OFA, said
OFA must deal with this complex problem
because, "more and more farmers are
packing it in. They're turning the key and
walking away from farms that have been
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anywhere else in the township said Mrs.
Armstrong.
Muaeici�:. hies are currently in the pro-
cess of aieveloping Jan.: ill site develop-
ment plans which have to be submitted to
the Ministry by July 1. The Grey Township
reeve said the Ministry allotted $4,000 to
her township to develop the plan, but
because of criteria changes, it has cost the
municipality over $10,1 Is I .
Mrs. Armstrong would like to see the
Ministry break away from one blanket
policy regarding the Landfill sites and, as
the rural municipalities have sites away
from urban centres, "we're trying to get
the government to not be so strict".
She foresees the small dumps being clos-
ed down if rural municipalities have to
comply with the Ministry's regulations.
Also if residents are made to travel
another 20 miles to a landfill site, refuse
may be dumped in woodlots or places
other than the landfill site, noted Mrs.
Armstrong.
The Grey Township reeve expects the
letter seeking support will first be dealt
with by Huron County Council's executive
committee, of which she is a member, and
then brought before council as a whole at
its Feb. 3 meeting. She added that Howick
Township will bring the matter before
ROMA at its upcoming convention.
Blyth to apply
for permit
By Shelley McPhee
In Blyth the council will apply to the
ministry of environment for a permit, to
allow the burning of refuse at the waste
disposal site which serves both the village
and Hullett Township.
At their January 3 meeting, council
studied the government regulations. Filed
under the Provincial Offences Act they set
standards for waste disposal sites.
Offenders to the regulations, council
learned, may be fined up to $300.
Operating standards at the Blyth site
include no burning without proper permit;
supervision when the area its open to the
public; control of windblown material on
surrounding properties; refuse com-
paction and covering every two weeks;
segregation of wastes for domestic refuse,
scrap metal, scrap wood and brush.
A copy of the Blyth waste site operating
standards and application to burn refuse
was to be sent to the ministry of the en-
vironment for approval.
The operating reg ations came out a
few months after a hydrogeological study
was conducted that the local disposal site.
In July, council reluctantly authorized
the study, which cost over $4,011. The
money was reimbursed to the village and
Hulett Township through a government
:.. igraPtee
Clinton looks at
Ausable future
y Shelley Mc "hee
The Ausable Bayfield -Conservation
Authority (A : CA) is setting up an ad-
visory committee to study watershed
planning in the future.
Clinton has been invited to have a voice
in this future and council will ask and
ABCA representative to speak on the plan
at a future meeting.
To be completed by June 1984, the study
will include a long range work plan for the
next 15 years. Councillor Jim Hunter hopes
that it will include plans to build a
recreational future at Clinton's Sloman
Park, which runs along the bank off the
Ausable River.
Zoning application
Council has recommended a spot zoning
change at 169 Ontario Street, allowing a
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