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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-01-10, Page 1• `11 113 - • - N 0 0 3•• 1 • 7 _ .5** -4-,•;„; „ • .1.1nrietner..11•,.. werp':;44> • '..BYSIMROINI,DigTZ Three periple dledin an early Owning fire,. on the ,farM of Jiin Finle0n, Concession 8, West Wa*-anoSh, Township, Saturday morning . Ltreknaw;bistriet Firemen answered the call ,.•,:,4•4.1,44,5.-P1-41.-.444-4,44404.4664ggiug''' ten mfntesie twe;itoreyhick qr.:" uhouse was completely engulfed in flames. Dead .are- Isabella. (Jessie) Finleon, 67, her daughter:, Marlene, 213 and Marlene's son, . Robert, 5, Who lived iitthe home. • The fire was discovered by Mrs. Finleori's son, Jim, who lives Ina house -trailer, just east of the farmhouse, Mr. Finleon attempted to • enter the burning house, but was turnedback by intense heat and flames. He drove tq the • home pf a neighbourA John Durnin to call firemen. William Exley of the Ontario fire marshall's office, Ingersoll, is investigating the fire, but the cause has not been determined. Autopsies were performed Sunday in Stratford and Lucknow Fire Chief George Whitby said Monday, he presumes the victims 7diedof smoke inhalation. The Mount Forest detachment of the Ontario Provincial Pence conducted an investigation' and an inquest into the deaths is not expected. Lucknow firemen were called. to the scene again Sunday night, because high winds Were blowing embers from the ruins of the building. They remained on the scene for two hours. London.. • Robert James FinIPOWis survived by his .grandfather, Joseph Finleon, Clinton, aunts, uncles and cousins. A fu,nerat Mass was eId on Tuesday, Firemen sift through the ruins of a West Wawanosh township home early Saturday mornin attempting to discover the cause of the blaze which claimed -the lives of three people, sr 4A'sS, The farmhouse fire resulted in the deaths of Isabella (Jessie) Finleon, 67; her daughter Marlene, 28; and Marlene's five year old son Robert James. (photo by Rick Shaw) Isabella Jessie (Wiseman) Finleon is sur- vived by her husband, Joseph Finleon of Huronview, Clinton, 'four sons, Thomas of " Goderich, James of West Wawanosh, John and Alex of London and two daughters, Mary,i Mrs. Eldon Austin of Dungannon and Margaret, Mrs. Ray McLean of London, She is also sur- vixed by three brothers, John, Bill and Charles of Toronto and six grandchildren. Marlene Elizabeth Finleon is survived by her father, Joseph Finleon of Huronview, Clinton, four brothers, Thomas of Goderich, James of West Wawanosh, John and Alex of London and two sisters, Mary, Mrs, Eldon Austin of Dungannon and Margaret, Mrs. Ray McLean of 'January 8, '1980. from St. Angustine gc071,an Catholic Churp4 .at 11 q'oloCk. Interment followed in $t, Augustine Cemetery. MacKenzie and McCreath Funeral Hartle, Lucknow was charge of funeral arrangementt. -, • • fi •i; ri? • ovelopersoon uso BY JEFF SJEDDON Developers of a subdivision planned for Goderich •toWnsirip. lands. ,adjacent to the southeast. limits of Goderich were. confused Monday iright by council's treatment of an agreement in principle to sell serVices to Gc-id'erich township. Asked by a sub -committee consisting or representatives of the town and Goderich township ta indicate if the town was willing or unwilling to sell services to the township council again offered no comment. The sub -committee, set up to investigate the costs and ramifications for the town to install and sell services to the township, asked council in December for some indications of whether the town would sell services or not. The sub- committee, at the insistence of Goderich township representatives, felt it was pointless to continue studying the prapose4 if the town had no intention to sell services to the township. At a Dec -ember meeting of the .sub- committee, Gerry Ginn -reseated a township request for some sort of resilAnse from the town and succeeded in getting a recommetidation for council to consider. That recommendation was tabled until council's first meeting of 1980 to permit council members to acquaint themselves with the Matter. Monday night the matter was tabled again, this time indefinitely.' The move 'startled representatives of the Conklin Lumber Company, developers of the 96 lot subdivision the services will serve. The project has beenon the books for three years and. during that time the, town has waffled between selling services to the township or simply annexing the -area. Thatindeeision was still apparent Monday -,: night, Councillor Bob Allen, who recommended • to council that an 'agreement_ in principle be 1. given .in,December, told council there was rnech to consider before any answer could be, given. Allen said the decisions Goderieli faced were "major ones" and should not be made without all the'facts and all council members aware of what the decisidn means. Reeve Eileen Palmer agreed with Allen I, telling council the matter had never been . • discussed in a council, sessien. She said the move meant installing expensive services and expansion of the town's water treatment plant and .pollution control plant which all should be debated. She told council there were no'figure available to help council in the decisiori claiming "we would be idiots to move on that'' before finding out what it entails. • Councillor 'Elsa Haydon felt council indicate to .the township if it was interested in selling services without committing -itself tq any expense. She said she knew council needed more information but pointed out that the' township,"simply wanted to know if we will sell services". She Said it wasvossible to respond to that request with the'cTear under that many details had to be worked out at a later Turn to page 24 • otel purchase still in _works. •A newspaper- story. - published -.Wednesday- tnerning in the London Free Press Concerning a group of investors Considering purchasing the Goderith hotel in a flap. J.E..Sylvester, of Sylvester and Associates, a London based firm heading negotiations for the purchase of the hotel claimed information in the story was '`all out of whack". Sylvester said • the story contained "untrufhs,. misrepresen- tations and'misunderstandi4s". Sylvester. said he did not know who ..had written the Free Press story claiming.he was er• 132 YEAR -2 441.V.T0,911,", 15N THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1980 35 CENTS PER COPY :Cardiff to repi4(e BY JEFF SEDDON , Huron -Bruce Progressive Conservatives selected a 45 year old Brussels area farmer to replace the retiring Bob McKinley Tuesday night in a crowded nomination meeting in Brussels. Murray Cardiff, a 45 year old farmer frbm R.R. 1 Ethel, was chosen on the first ballot over ' • SA Murray ....Cardiff NDP have 19 Bruce Shaw, „ Barry Johnston and Mason Bailey. • Cardiff won an easy victory grabbing over half �f the 610 eligible votes . from PC association members in Huron -Bruce„ more than doubling the votes cast for runner up Bruce Shaw. Cardiff received 331 votes while Shaw received 142, Johnston 75 and Bailey 17. . More than 1,200 party supporters crowded into the Brussels -Morris -Grey • community centre for.the nomination, more thaniialf of them spectators. The Cardiff name is not new to old guard Conservatives in the riding. His distant cousin, Elston Cardiff, wonthe riding in 1940 and held it until 1965 when McKinley won his firstelection. Other candidates seeking the nomination were Brute Shaw, 37, principal of the Seaforth District High School and former mayor of -Exeter, Barry Johnston, 35, of Ilolyrood, a farmer and reeve of Kinloss township, and Mason Bailey; a 54 year old real estate salesman from Blyth. The nomination meeting was the first in a long time that the Conservatives have had to 'select a candidate. Bob McKinley, the 50 year old Zurich area chicken farmer that had a -- strangle held -on- the r surp ri &ed - party faithful announcing • his retirement. McKinley cited peescirtal reasons for leaving politics. He did not attend the nomination meeting. Cardiff had by far the shortest nomination ' speech telling supporters this riding needed government attention. in its main industries, tourism, farming and making use of shipping facilities, primarily Lake Huron port's. Shaw told the. meeting the candidate for the riding would have to be someone aware 'of the interests of both rural and -urban communities. He said Huron -Bruce was unique in that it was almost half urban and half rural and that. Ottawa would have to be- made aware of the special needs of this area. He said the area would have to be safeguarded from the affects of big business ur candidates The Huron -Bruce ND P Associatia may have as many as four candidates seeking the riding nomination at the January 14 meeting in •Clinton.: Philip Walker, a 45 year-old Stephen town- ship farmer announced Wednesday morning that he would seek the NDP nomination at next week's meting. Walker also contested the -riding nomination in the 1975 provincial elec- tionx_JosIng out. to Paul Carroll, then of Goderich. Also, Tony McQuail, a Lucknow area farmer, announced Wednesday he would seek the NDP nomination for the riding. Me.i, • McQuail said he carefully considered his decision for several weeks before declaring his candidacy. He said there are important • decisions to be made with regards to energy security and developing alternatives and he believes the NDP Offers a Mid alternatiVe in energy policy. "The Conservative budget was all stick and no carrot, penalizing lower and middle income earners and farmers," McQuail said. "The NDP offers the best long range opportunities for a secure energy base and therefore a secure economy base." There are also. two others who have ex- pressed an interest in seeking the N,111;,,,, nomination, Bernie Fansher of Bayfield'a- Carl Hem mingway of the Brussels area, neither has made any official declaration. • The NDP•maninatien meeting will be held in Clinton Public•§chedol Monday, Salivary 14 at 8 p.m. which swallawed up small enterprises, , big government which affected everyone's daily life and big labour which. leaned toward socialism, • Shaw said he felt the '80S would see the resolution of energy problems facing Canada and the world adding the country would have to • • . candidat resist temptation to gobble up its greatest resource, rich agricultural land, Johnston admonished the government op- ifosition for bringing about this election claii-ning it was, unnecessary., He said the Conservative budget was realistic and was needed for Canada. He said fuel consumption to page 2•4 • Craig acclaimed Liberal uron-Bruce candidate BY RHEA. HAMILTON Graeme Craig was acclaimed to the Liberal nom inatioxj in Huron -Bruce for the February 18 federal election in a meeting attended by about 360 people at Blyth's Memorial Hall. ,Craig, who was enthusiastic about the, erection.,, said Tory promises, like the shifting of the Canadian embassy in Israel, had affected ,the residents of Huron. He pointed% out ,that because of the threatened move, -Champion Road MachinerylcIst a large order and had to • lay Off workers. . This will be Craig's secon4federal election campaign. The 31-ye'ar-old farmer and United Breeders' technician was defeated by long-time PC MP Bob McKinley last May. With McKinley - not seeking the nomination .this time, patty faithful are confident of a Liberal upset in Huron -Bruce. A life-long resident of the riding, Craig has, farmed near Walton. since ' graduating ,fronj Ridgetown College -of Agricultural Teehnology. a director of the Huron Cattlemen's 'Association, secretary -treasurer of the• Huron Plowmen, past president of county Junior Farmers and of the Brussels Agricultural Society. He has been a 4-11 swine club leader for' the past 12 years. Craig said high interest rates had eroded the confidence of . people and that pre -Christmas sales indicated acutback in consumer spending reflecting that lost confidence. • "The refundable tax credit the Conservative government was promising would only cover 20 percent of the low income families," said Craig. • • Fugene Whelan, M.P. Essex Windsor, was gues,t speaker and came down hard on the budget and the minority Conservative government. , "We "(tne Liberals) know about minority governments," said Mr., Whelan. We had a minority government under Lester Pearson and Pierre Ti;udeau. And when you are a minority you take some of the other parties' Vilws and'consult them." Mr. Whelan said the Conservative govern - Ment only represented 38 percent of the. country'. • Everyone would have been affected by the budget commented Whelan. The Conservatives tried to sell the 'excise tax O'n fuel as a con- servative measure but this tax, said Mr. • 11, • Whelan would also affect public transportation as well as fuel for food production. "The budget meant slow growth and double digit inflation," he said. "The campaign shoulitt be an interesting one and will take a lot of work.'' Also at the convention, Huron -Bruce Liberal association treasurer Murray Elston reported on the campaign for contributions. He indicated thatinore funding would be necessary to -toyer the greater volume of -advertising that will be don e llo. Overcome the fact that on theroad, campaign may be cut short by winter weathei-. ,g Graeme Craig told second' hand that a reporter named Jane Foy was reiponsible. He said he did not know who --the reportet had talked to or where the ifnrorrnation carne from: Foy said Wednesday she had been given some, information about the purchase of the hotek and had been told that Dr. Mario Cauchi was one of the investors interested in its pur-. . chase. She said she called Cauchi on ' the telephone and was told he was not available. She said the person who awnsered the phone asked what the matter was about and when told identificed herself as Lorraine Cauchi, Dr. Cauchi's wife. ' • Foy said the woman indicated she was familiar with the information about. the hotel and commented on it. Foy said she did -not know Mrs. Cauchi and could not be sure the woman she spoke to was actually Mrs. Cauchi. She assumed when the woman announced she was Mrs. Cauchi that fact was, true. Sylvester claims Mrs. Cauchi called him and said a reporter had called her, confronted her with some information about the purchase of the hotel, and said she was publishing a story. She told Sylvester she had nothing •to do with giving the information according to the London bus in ess m an. Sylvester said contrary to the Free Press story no group had been formed to purchaSe the hotel but conceded that a collection of investors interested in its purchase had taken an option on the business. He said there was a number of people interested in forming a group to pur- chase the hotel but nothing officially had taken -- place to form that group. - He said the Free Prep story said a group of investors had been 'formed and was operating. Sylvester aid a number of investors had put an 'option to purchase on the hotel that held up until the end of February or early March. He said the option hinged on a number of things Turn 4.o page Pedestrian killed here One man has died and two other people have been injured as the result of three separate Cat- pedestriari accidents. in Goderich during the last three weeks. • c) On Tuesday, December 18, Ruby Young, 83, of 27 Elgin Avenue West, received major in- juries when she was struck by a car which was west bound on Elgin Avenue. The driver of the vehicle -was unable to stop her car in timeltt " avoid 'hitting the pedestrian because of slushy road conditions. No charges have been laid. Ar6, p.m. on Friday, January 4, Bill O'Neill, 71, of 215MacDonald Street, was struck by a car at the corner of Britannia Road and Waterloo Street. He , died in Urtiversity Hospital, London on Monday, January 7, No charges have been laid in this incident. At noon on Tuesday, January 8, a seven-year- old boy was struck by a car at the corner of . Huron and Britannia Roads. He sustained only Minor injuries. No charges have been laid. - • Since two of the above accidents occurred in the eVening, Goderich Police-Chiet Pat King advises people who are walking in the evening to wear' or carry something—HOC' Weather conditions combined With pbor lighting sometimes makes it difficult for drivers to see pedestrians.