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Ken Wood is spending the summer months at the Huron
County Board of Education offices in Clinton working on a
special computer program. (Shelley McPhee photo )
Four killed in Mitchell crash
MITCHELL - Four people
were killed and the other
seriously injured on
Saturday, July 4, in a two -
Boy dies
GODERICH - A six-year-old
Ashfield Topwnship boy was
killed on Saturday, July 4th
as he assisted his parents
with haying on their farm
near Dungannon.
. Jason William Culbert, 6,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Culbert of RR 1, Dungannon
died after he became caught
in an elevator mechanism
and was pulled under an iron
bar on the machine.
.stuck in
the middle
vehicle collision north of
Mitchell.
Dead are Earl Schweitzer,
41, of Bright; Christine
Schneider 20, of Rostock;
Theresa. Whalen 23, of
Stratford; and Michael
Muir, 25 of RR3. Thorndale.
The three other
passengers of the vehicles
were taken by to Stratford
Hospital' and later tran-
sferred to London hospitals,
including Myrtle Schwzer,
40, of Bright; Renate Mergl,
22 of RR 2, Gadshill; and
Debra Hemstock, .20, of RR
2, St. Pauls.
Sebringville OPP in-
vestigated the accident
What makes us so sure? What gives
us the idea that we can meet any
challenge and overcome it? What gives
us the right to change the course of
nature?
I should have been content, knowing
that I was producing a great crop off
mustard and bind weed. I should have
been able to live with that.
I should have accepted the fact that
July is too late to plant a garden, that
chances of a great bean harvest are
slim, and hopes of weeding the plot are
even less promising.
The endless colonies of ants, the dry
sandy soil, the rocks and boulders
should have been clear indicators that
this garden wasn't worth all the work.
The sunburned legs, the blistered
hands and the aching back should have
warned that this body was not up to
such physical abuse and over-exertion.
YPt for more than five hours, I
which occured at 4 :,30 pm on
Highway 23 at the in-
tersection of Logan 4&5
between a car and a van,
demolishing both vehicles.
Town needs
extra money I
MITCHELL - . Unless t1 e
town of Mitchell can per-
suade the ministry of en-
vironment to change their
minds on the funding of the
sewage works expansion
program `presently being
undertaken, the town may be
in positionof coming up with
over $100,000 to cover the
e'xpansion's cost.
shelley
Y mcphee
CLINTON NEWS RECORD THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1961—PAGE 3
Student says
summed job is ideal .
By
Stephanie Levesque
At least one student has a
summer job that he
describes as being so ideal,
he could not have designed a
better one for himself.
Nineteen -year-old Ken
Wood of Goderich is spen-
ding the summer program-
ming computers. Specifical-
ly, he is employed with the
Huron County Board of
Education office in Clinton
as an Experience '81 stu-
dent.
His first project was to up-
date the teachers' salary
grid used by the board for
salary negotiations. He is
currently programming the
total cost of teachers'
salaries depending on in-
creases allotted.
Ken is working his way
through university, having
just completed Grade 13 at
the Goderich District High
School with an overall
average of 96 per cent. In the
fall, he will be entering Har-
vard University in Cam-
bridge, Mass.
• In April of this year, Ken
received word from the
university that he had been
accepted. He will take
general courses for the first
two years and in his third
year he will decide his ma-
jor. His leanings are
towards math or computers.
With his overall average,
Ken was of course, an On-
tario scholar.
Ken said he chose Harvard
because there is no universi-
ty in Canada which allows
him to, take general courses
the first two years of univer-
sity. He added that looking
at the situation practically, a
Harvard degree would carry
a lot of weight.
When he is finished, his
four years at Harvard, Ken
would like to come back to
Canada.
lje was born in Manitoba,
but has moved around a lot
as his father is a United
Church minister, presently
at Victoria Street United
Church in Goderich. Rev.
and Mrs. John Woo( also
have three other children
and Mrs. Wood is a teacher
at Goderich District High
School.
Ken has been working with
computers since Grade 10.
He said because he was in-
terested in learning how to
work with computers, his
teachers allowed him extra
time with the computers.
Ken said the current com-
puter programs in the school
are advanced and noted the
students are learning, more
now.
Ken also has time to enjoy
the computer, as he has set
up a bio -rhythm program.
The program is not unlike
horoscopes and Ken refers to
the bio -rhythm program as
the "scientific version". He
adds they are about as
reliable as the horoscopes
found in numerous
newspapers and magazines.
Earlier this year, the bio-
rhythm program was used
as a fund-raising project at
Ken's school.
Other plans for Ken in-
clude sending articles into
computer magazines. He has
presently written two ver-
sions of a mathematical
simulation game called Life.
He has written one for the
TI -59 computer and one for
sweated, lugged, toiled' and tilled. With
only the aid of a miniature hoe and twe
dirty hands I accepted the challenge,
believing that I could conquer the
weeds, the bugs and boulders, that I
could create a green, lush garden.
It's been five days now since I planted
those seeds in the soil. I have diligently
watered and weeded the land, watched
and waited for the shoots to come
bursting through the ground. My six
quart basket lies ready and waiting to
reap the bountiful produce.
I am a farmer's daughter, I have
reasoned, my grandparents both have
extraordinary green thumbs, and I
should,,, have inherited some of that
talent, yet something has gone wrong,
things have not turned out the way I
planned.
Some things were not just meant to
be.
the PET conlnutex
He hopes to sell the games
to Software House, which
will in turn market the game
for Ken, while he receives
royalties.
Obviously enjoying the
challenge computers pro-
vide him, Ken refers to his
summer with the board of
education as "my kind of
job".
Separate board
names principals
The Huron -Perth County .
Roman Catholic Separate
School Board completed its
staffing of its school system
with the naming • of three
principals. One music
teacher at Stratford has yet
to be hired
Ray Contois will be the
new principal at St. James
School in Seaforth beginning
on September 1. He replaces
Sister Theresa Mader who
resigned earlier this year.
Mr. Contois, 32, lives in
Mitchell with his wife, Nan-
cy and two children,
Rachelle, 10 and Ryan, 3. He
has been principal at St. Col-
umban the past three years,
and requested the transfer to
Seaforth. He graduated
Stratford Teachers' co 'ege
in 1971 and has been with the
board in Perth County ex-
cept for one year as prin-
cipal of a school on a reserve
at Sandy Lake.
Joe MacDonald from St.
Mary's' School Hesson has
been appointed principal at
St. Columban School.
David Sharpe from Holy
Name of Mary School in St.
Marys has been appointed
principal at. St. Joseph's
School in Kingsbridge.
One of area's best-known
craftsmen dies suddenly
John Samuel Plumtree
An accomplished craftsman and a
gentleman in the truest sense of the word,
John Samuel Plumtree, died peacefully in
the Clinton Public Hospital on Saturday,
July llth after a brief illness. He was in his
73rd year.
Mr. Plumtree was well known in the
local business community and throughout
the area for the fine wood crafts he turned
out. While for nearly 30 years he worked as
a barber in Clinton, Mr. Plumtree was best
known for his fine quality woodturning
skills that gained him the reputation as one
of the finest craftsman in his trade.
Born near Clenavon, Saskatchewan on
December 20, 1908 he was the son of
Thomas F. Plumtree and the former Helen
McMillan. Mr. Plumtree is survived by
one sister Catherine (Kay) Plumtree of
Clinton and the family moved to this area
in 1934.
In Clinton, Mr. Plumtree apprenticed as
a barber and later opened his own shop
which he operated for three decades. In his
spare time, he was an enthusiastic
member of the band in which he played
saxophone and also played in dance or-
chestras. He was also a member of the
Wesley -Willis United Church in Clinton.
After retiring from the barbering
business in 1962, Mr. Plumtree began to
spend more time with his hobby - wood-
working - which soon turned into a thriving
One of the county's finest wood craftsmen and antique restorers, Jack Plumtree of
Clinton, died last week after a short illness, and will be missed by dozens of people, some
from hundreds of miles away. Here Jack is shown with some special turnings he had
made a few years ago to restore a table. (James Fitzgerald photo)
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"Able to work on own initiative."
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"Good spelling and command of the English language."
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business, and from his little shop in the
back alley behind Albert Street, he turned
out beautiful reproduction works and
repaired wooden furniture, gaining him a
large clientele of antique dealers and
collectors.
Mr. Plumtree lived a busy . and useful
life, making many friends through the skill
of his hands and the charm of his cheerful,
kindly personality. He will be greatly
missed by the friends and customers for
whom he made beautifully finished gift
articles and for whom he lovingly and
carefully repaired valuable antiques and
other furniture.
Old friends, new friends and neighbors
gathered on .Monday, July 13th at the
Beattie Funeral Home in Clinton for a
service conducted by Rev. Norman Pick of
the Ontario Street United Church Inter-
ment followed in the Clinton Cemetery.
Pallbearers Were cousins Robert
McMillan of Seaforth and' William and
Thomas Whyte of -RR 2, Hullett, Joseph
Graham of Vanastra, Samuel Scott of RR
2, McKillop and Mason Bailey of Clinton.
After the service friends gathered at the
home of Mrs. Margaret Whyte of RR 2,
Hullett.
The quiet man in the sawdust covered
smock and cap may no longer be with us,
but his ready smile and the furniture he
gave new life to will be remembered and
loved for many decades to come.
The staff of the
CLINTON NEWS -
RECORD wish to
thank all those who took
the time to drop in at
our Open House.
ALSO.. ..
We have copies of the
News -Record of July 2
still waiting for
subscribers to pick
then up.
There are also copies of
the
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