HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1981-11-04, Page 1116th year —No., 44 Wednesday, -November 4 1981
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The Huron County Health Unit is bat-
tling more than 100 cases of head lice in
Clinton, Goderich and Seaforth and ac-
cording to Catherine Walsh Director of
Public Health Nursins, parents must
accept more responsibility in trying to rid
the problem.
Mrs. Walsh said that the Health Unit is
not having much success in controlling the
lice problem that is infecting many school -
aged children. Only immediate action to
treat the condition will ensure that the
child will not be re -infected and Mrs.
Walsh noted that parents must be
responsible by combating the head lice
infection in the home.
In the schools, children have been
examined and any child who is has the
infection known as pediculosis, is sent
home. If one person in a family or school
has pedicolosis, chances are that others
will be affected too, and for this reason all
school -aged children in the family are sent
home as well until the infection is treated. ,
Mrs. Walsh explained that parents
should not get indignant if their child
becomes infected, the problem has nothing
to do with dirt or with poor hygiene at
home. Head lice are more of an irritation
or an aggravation than an actual health
hazhard. Head lice do not carry disease.
She noted that at home parents should
check their child's hair each day and if any
live lice are found, treatment should be
carried out immediately.
To rid the head of lice and eggs (nits) the
following should be done:
1. Soak the head in pure vinegar for 10
minutes. This is to soften the'shell of the
nit.
2. Apply Para Lice (spray) or Kwellada
(shampoo) solutions which can be bought
at the drugstore, Follow the directions on
the bottle. Use a fine steel tooth comb,
separating each strand of hair and comb
very carefully to remove all nits. The
combing of the hair must be done strand
by strand until the entire head is free from
nits. It is much easier to comb hair and
remove nits when the head is wet. The
steel comb may be borrowed from your
local health unit.
3. All clothing should be washed in very hot
water; this especially applies to headgear,
scarves and bed linen. If washing is not
possible, then dry cleaning is an alter-
native or spraying with Para Lice spray.
Head liceinfection is an exclusively
huma$ problem that has been widespread
across the country and the United States
for the past three years.
The head louse lives on the scalp and has
an existence of approximately one month.
The adult female head louse lays eggs
(nits) which are whitish, oval shaped and
tiny. These nits cling to the hair shaft and
unlike dandruff, they keep on clinging and
cannot be shaken off; after about a week
the nits hatch into new lice. They puncture
the skin to obtain food and this causes the
itching and scratching which can cause
infection.
Mrs. Walsh noted that head lice are
usually transmitted from one person to
another by direct contact with the hair.
This can happen if you use an infected
person's brush or comb, towels, sheets,
blankets, pillows and clothing, especially
hats. These can all transfer lice from one
head to another.
While it's been 15 years since this area
has had a serious outbreak of pediculosis,
Mrs. Walsh stressed that only when
parents take full responsiblity for ridding
the lice and treating the condition in the
home can the outbreak controlled in the
schools.
Weather.
1981 1980
HI 10
OCT HI
27 12 8
28 10 2
29 7 0
30 13 1
31 14 5
NOVEMBER
LO
6 1
4 0
4 1
9 1
11 3
1 16 5 3 0
2 12 1 6.5 1
Rain 13 mm Rain 0
Accompanied by a large flock of seagulls, Harvey Stewart of
Hullett Township took advantage of the warm sunny weather of
the past few days to catch up on his fall plowing. The wettest fall
in over 100 years had brought all field work to a standstill for the
past several weeks. (James Fitzgerald photo)
Dry weather back, harvest returns
A week of sunny, dry, warmer than
usual weather has finally given Huron
County farmers the break they have been
waiting ,for and a mad scramble has been
on .to get the remainder of the county's
more than 200,000 acre grain corn crop into
storage.
But the farmers have attacked the fields
with such vigor, that all dryers in the area,
even working around the clock, have been
unable to keep up with the deluge of corn
that started to hit them latelast week,
when only about 40 per cent of the crop was
in. Most farmers like to have their .corn
harvested by November 1.
Many elevators were forced to stopped
taking corn for periods of up to a few days
while their dryers caught up with the crop,
which could yield in the 20 million plus
bushel range. Line-ups stetched .for
several blocks at all the elevators in
Clinton, Hensall, Londesboro, Port Albert,
Blyth, and at most of the custom, on-farm
dryers.
Don Pullen, Huron's ag rep, said 'this
week that the weather was just what
everyone was waiting for, and if it holds
out for another week, most of the coin will
be off.'
While waiting for the dryers to catch up
so they can have their grain bins back,
most farmers are working late hours
trying to catch up with fall plowing, also
delayed because of the wet fall in more
than a century, stretching back to 1878.
Mr. Pullen said the sunny weather has
also saved the winter wheatcrop which
had been struggling after being sown late
and laying in cold wet ground.
Although prices are down as much as 33
Hallowe'en quiet here Many projects supporting hospital. fund
Clinton Police Chief Lloyd Westlake was
happy to report most, spooks, gooks and
goblins were up to good clean fun on
Hallowe'en night.
Only a few cases of wilful damage and
vandalism were reported on the evening of
October 31st, the most serious involving
more than $900 in damages when windows
were broken out to the Maple Leaf Small
Engines business on Huron Street. Three
Goderich area youth are being charged in
connection with that incident.
One juvenile and two adults were ap-
prehended following the theft of money
from a car parked at the high school.
Others have been apprehended for in-.
cidents involving minor damages and
some have agreed to pay for the costs of
repairing any breakage.
In the Clinton area, the Goderich OPP
have been busy investigating motor
vehicle accidents.
Heavy fog resulted in a November 1st
accident in Huilett Township, when a car
driven by Roxy-Lou Maize, 27, of Lon-
desboro smashed into the rear end of a
transport truck. The truck, owned by
Beeline Carriers of Milton was parked on
Sideroad 8 and 9, east of Highway 4 when
the accident occurred.
Damage to the Maize car was set at
$2,000 and both the driver and a p .ssenger
Geraldine Johnston, 45, of Londesboro
received minor injuries.
'A two -car crash on October 31st resulted
in $2000 in damages when a car driven by
Edgar Stoll, 58, of RR 3, Kippen and a
second vehicle driven by Kenneth Moran,
25, of RR 4, Seaforth collided. The accident
occurred at a sideroad intersection in
Tuckersmith Township and both vehicles
received $1,000 in damages.
On November 1st, William Munn, 22, of
RR 2, Hensall was involved in a single -
vehicle crash. The car he was driving on
Highway 8, east of Clinton, veered into the
left ditch and struck some , guide posts.
Damage was set at $1,000 to the car.
In another incident, a car driven by
Adam Wilson, 17, of Brucefield received
$800 in damages while a second car driven
by Albert Hovius, 28, of RR 2, Hensall
received $700 in damages following a
November 2nd accident. The crash oc-
curred on Highway 4, just north of the
Vanastra Road.
Things are really jumping in the area
this week, in more ways than one. First
there's the mad scramble to get the
corn off before winter sets in, and now
that Hallowe'en is over, the mad rush of
the Christmas season is about to begin,
and of course, last but not least, there's
our miniature jumping friends, the lice,
who really have things jumping,
especially over at the public school.
Now everytime 1 have an itching
head, I have this feeling I may be
inhabited, as we have a youngster at
CPS. Now lice are more of an in-
convenience than a dreaded disease,
and having them is not by any stretch of
the imagination a sign of dirt and filth,
just like a cat or dog who has fleas isn't
considered a threat. In fact the number
of times you shampoo your hair has
nothing 'to do with the problem. They
like clean heads just as well as dirty
ones.
But the tiny little critters are a
problem and could be eliminated if
everyone co-operated and followed the
instructions of the public health nurse,
using the special shampoo, washing the
bed linen and head wear, checking for
nits (the tiny white eggs) in a few days,
and reshampooing again.
Pretending the problem doesn't exist
is not going to make it go away. See the
story elsewhere on this page for more
details.
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Says the Main Street Wit: "Even
though the weather's sunny and dry,
it's still lousy around here!"
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Thankfully we got through another
Hallowe'en hereabouts without any
major incidents, but once we cross into
November, thoughts of Christmas
suddenly leap into the forefront, and the
annual rush has already strarted in the
cities, with many stores already
decorated.
But before the rush gathers up full
steam, we . should all pause next
Wednesday, November 11 to remember
those who fought for us in the past.
Although all government offices,
schools and banks will be closed, most
retail stores will re -open in the af-
ternoon.
The News -Record will be published
oti Wednesday as usual, but because the
post office is closed, it will only be
available in the stores Wednesday
evening, while the rest will be mailed
out Thursday morning.
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And with Christmas really not that
far away, the Clinton Business and
Professional Association are having a
must meeting this Thursday night,
November 5 at 8 pm to plan their
Christmas promotion campaign. Try
and be there.
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Are you having trouble meeting your
mortgage payments, or can't afford a
car because you're going along with the
govenrment's plan to fight inflation
with high interet rates? You may not
have any money to pay off your
operating loan this year, but that
doesn't mean there's not plenty of
money around. Take the federal
cabinet, for instance, who sent three
cabinet ministers out to Winnipeg last
weekend on three separate government
jets, within three hours of each other.
Cost? Only $30,000. Keep working,
suckers!
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Don't forget, citizens of Clinton and
Bayfield, to leave your old newspapers
bundled and tied atthe curb this
Saturday morning, as the Monthly
newspaper collection will take place.
Two Lions clubs wil be doing the pls.--
up.
By Jim Fitzgerald
From kids turning over money raised
from roller-skate-a-thons, to senior
citizens quilting bees, everybody is getting
involved in raising money for the Clinton
Hospital Fund, which this week Crossed
the$125,000 mark.
There are literally hundreds of project
underway, from raffles of glass turkeys to
auctions, to dances, as everyone helps the
hospital to get nearer the $353,000 needed
toward the cost of the new $866,000
emergency addition.
The hospital board has been ordered by
the ministry of health to have at. least
$170,000 in the bank before they start the
addition, so .no tenders have, been called
yet.
One project by the Londesboro Lions last
week was a ' benefit auction where
volunteer auctioneer Richard. Lobb of
Clinton raised $750 towards the club's
$3,000 pledge to the fund.
The Londesboro Lions, like many other
Fire hits Flynns again
earlier.in the evening one son had checked
the home and less than an hour before the
fire broke out. her husband had looked in
to be sure a ll was safe.
Mrs. Flynn said that they wanted to take
precautions because the family had the
misfortune to be involved in two other
tragic fires in recent years. This past July.
fire destroyed the dairy barn on Con -
session 8 and !a• farm where the Flynn
family lives. The barn was only partially
covered by insurance and damage was
estimated at over $100,000.
The family also lost their belongings
when their home on the same farm was
levelled by flames on August 25, 1979,
Police are still investigating last Sunday
morning's fire and Mrs Flynn said that
neighbors thought they recognized some
cars seen at the house when the fire was
first discovered.
As members of the Clinton Fire
Department headed to the blazing Flynn
house, they came across a second fire. less
than a mile away. The rubbish fire burning
on Hullett Wildlife Area land was quickly
doused.
By Shelley McPhee
For the third time in little over two
years, the Hugh Flynn family of RR 1,
Londesboro has suffered from the
irrepairable damage and misfortune that
fire can cause.
Early on Sunday morning in what is
assumed to be a Hallowe'en "prank," a
blazing fire levelled an empty house on the
Flynn homestead on Concession 7 in
Hullett Township.
Neighbors spotted the blaze and the
Clinton Fire Department answered' the 3
am call but were unable to save the
flaming structure, which was levelled in
less than an hour.
More than 100 years old, the two -Storey
frame home was used for storage and
according to Mrs. Flynn, many valuable
articles were lost, including antiques,
personal items and all the history records
of Kinburn and Clinton.
"They just wiped out the past that Hugh
and I had," sheexplained.
The home had only minor insurance
coverage, and Mrs. Flynn noted that
clubs, still have More projects planned,
including a popular.pancake breakfast on
November 22, and their monthly paper'
drive the first Saturday of each month.
The Londesboro UCW is another
example of a hard working group, and
colorful blocks donated by Mrs, Ida
Durnin, have made a "Crazy" quilt that
will be raffled off, with all the funds going
straight to the fund.
Other individual donations listed this
week include:
Donations to the Clinton Public Hospital
Building Fund this week include: Mrs.
Eva L. Campbell, Fleming Feed Mill, Mr.
Howard Currie, Mrs. Jean Currie, Mr.
Frank McGregor, Mrs. Edith Turner, Mr.
and Mrs. Gerritt Klass, Mr. Stephen
Brown, Mrs. Muriel F. Rooth, Mr. K.
Kiezik, Mr. and Mrs. Gord Taylor, Miss M.
Doris Morrison, Mrs. Dora Warwick,
Mrs. Elizabeth J. Burch, Mr. Frederick
A. Clift, Mrs. Margaret Clift, Mrs. Joyce
Chilton, Tuckey Beverages Ltd.,_ Mr.
Robert Taylor, Mr. Cecil Elliott, Mr. John
A. McGregor, Mr. and Mrs. Goff Brand,
Mrs. Mary Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Forbes, Huron Trappers Association, Mr.
Herb Shannon, SS No. 4 Community Club,
Mrs. Irene Cantelon, Mrs. Mary E. Jervis.
Mrs. Kathleen Renner, Mr. and Mrs.
Gerhard Klomps, Mr. and Mrs. Donald
McGregor, Mrs. Berber Greydanus, Mrs.
Ann Cox, Mrs. Linda Reid, Mr. D. S.
Coventry, Mrs. Doreen DeJong, Mrs. Fred
Middleton, Mr. Carmen McPherson,
Goderich Township Women's Institute,
Mrs. Jack Irwin, Mrs. Margaret Thorn-
dike, Mr. Bruce Lockhart.
Mrs. Eldon Yen, Mrs. Faye Oakes, Mr.
Thomas Rathwell, Mr. George Heard, Mr.
C. Merner, Mrs. ' Ethel Poth, Miss Ida
Leiper, Mr. Ross Leiper. Miss Gladys
Leiper.
A Hallowe'en night fire completely destroyed a tvso-storey far-
mhouse in Huilett Township. The empty house owned by Hugh
Flynn, was a mass of flames when the Clinton Fire Department
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arrived on the scene. The house, filled with antiques and personal
items was only partially insured and no cause of the blaze has been
determined. i lames Fitzgerald photo)
per cent from last year, Mr. Pullen said
the excellent corn yields, some as high as
140 bushels dry per acre, should make up
for some of the high cost of production.
4. CLINTON ,
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BUILDING
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