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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1978-11-15, Page 1•) . , • FIRST SECTION Turnouts were fair r44:4"Tr it-F4IP!tif4Figf4ni . , , , • , Wingharn, Wednealr/ November 15, 1978 Not many upsets occurrea:calIy in Monday's municipal eI�i11 There were few- surprises locally in the municipal elections held Monday. Voter turnouts were fair to good despite chilly and rainy weather and in nearly every case voters delivered clearcut decisions. Not many positions were up for grabs, with most already having been filled by acclamation, and in those cases where elections were held incumbents generally came out on top. There was one upset for school board trustee, however, with newcomer Bert "" Morin ef Wingham unseating incumbent Jack Alexander, also of Wingham, for the second seat in the Wingham, Turnberry and Howick district. Murray Mulvey was returned to the other seat with an overwhelming majority. Further afield there were other upsets, with incumbent Deb Shewfelt of Goderich losing the mayor's position to former mayor Harry Worsen and Mayor Betty Cardno of Seaforth un- seated by former councillor John Sinnamon. WINGHAIV1 In the only election here for a seat on council Deputy Reeve Harold Wild handily turned back a challenge from Lloyd Gilroy to hold his position. Vote totals were 539 for Mr. Wild to 320 for Mr. Gilroy. Voter turnout in Wingham was 38 per cent, down considerably from the last election when 57 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls. In that election, however, the mayor's position as well as council seats were up for grab& All other municipal positions were filled by acclamation, with Mayor William Walden, Reeve Joe Kerr and councillors Jack Bateson, Allan Harrison, - Tom Deyell, Ray Walker and David Cameron returning. The only new face on council will be that of Gord Baxter, who was acclaimed to the positiim vacated by retiring councillor Angus Mowbray. HAROLD WILD SCHOOL BOARD Much of the interest in the election centred around the race for seats on the Huron County Board of Education, with four candidates seeking the two seats for the Wingham, Turnberry and Howick district and two can- didates contesting the seat for Morris, East Wawanosh and Blyth district. Murray Mulvey and Bert Morin were clearcut winners in the Wingham, Turnberry and Howick district. Mr. Mulvey, who was appointed to the seat left vacant by the death of Alex Corrigan early this year, had far and away the most votes with 1,220. Mr. Morin came second with 713 to 506 for incumbent Jack Alexander and 477 for Rev. John Swan. In the town of Wingham Mr. Morin polled 444 votes to 440 for Mr. Mulvey, 308 for Mr. Swan and 252 for Mr. Alexander. In the Morris, East Wawanosh and Blyth district incumbent John Elliott was an easy winner over challenger Lloyd Barth. Mr. Elliott polled a total of 973 votes to 248 for Mr. Barth. EAST WAWANOSH TOWNSHIP The municipal council here remains unchanged, with all positions filled by acclamation. Simon Hallahan continues as reeve while the councillors are Donald Dow, Neil Vincent, Ralph Campbell and John Currie. WEST WAWANOSH TOWNSHIP There were a few changes in West Wawanosh with the return of J. D. Durnin and Jim Aitchison to council after an absence of several years. Mr. Durnin topped the balloting with 385 votes while Mr. Aitchison came third with 330. Marybelle Cranston was returned to council with 341 votes and the fourth councillor is seph Hickey, who polled 317. A h candidate, Carl Seeger, Jai lobe elected -with 22ervotes. Former councillor 'Leo Foran , was acclaimed to the reeve's position following the resignation of Robert W. J. Lyons, who has moved to Lucknow and is no longer eligible to hold office in West Wawanosh. • •,,,) "„; DON EADIE TURNBERRY TOWNSHIP Incumbent Don Eadie was returned to the reeve's position for another term in the only election for a municipal position here Mr. Eadie turned back a 'challenge from John V. Fischer by a margin of 348 votes to 233. Turnout was a modest 45 per cent. Other posts were filed by acclamation, with Harold Elliott holding on to the deputy reeve's chair and councillors Ben Malda, Brian McBurney and Doug Fortune all holding their seats. HOWICK TOWNSHIP The only change on the Howick council is the return of Stuart Douglas following a two-year break. He was acclaimed to the seat vacated by Walter Renwick. ," , t,•• • LAINP444fik,.1R PACKAGE•T ' Busineaaar Oleasyra-.,•Oa • Ontaria atis' 29i4 Call Toil Free 1-800-20542 Single COPY Not ••• Returned by acclamation -were Hamilton to hang onto the reeve s Reeve Harold Robinson and-eePair. He polled 379 votes to 275 flor Mr. Hamilton. There was a 64 Deputy Reeve John Stafford as', well as councillors E. William -4r Cent voter turnout. Newton and Harry Winkle. efelincillors Ab Murray, Tom jdrew and Bill Crump were BRUSSELS The village of Brussels featured one of the most in- teresting election pictures • around this area, with every seat up for grabs, and it drew the. highest voter turnout at 75 per cent. Incumbent Cal Kreuter easily turned back a challenge from-. Coun. Tom Pletch, holding his. position by a margin of 425 votes to 164. There are two new faces on the Brussels council, with newcomer Betty Graber, a homemaker and registered nurse, polling the highest total at 512 votes. Second., was another newcomer, Gordon, Workman, with 491 votes. Mr. Workman is a plumbing and. heating contractor. . • George Cousins, who served, half of last term on council following the resignation of Frank Stretton, placed third with 425 votes while the fourth and final council seat went to in- cumbent Malcolm Jacobs with 305 votes. George Jutzi, ran incumbent councillor, went down to defeat with a 193 vote total while Mr. Stretton failed in his comeback attempt, polling only 172 votes. The two incumbents, Harold Bridge and Henry Exel, were returned to the village Public iltllities,Cominission 4,vith,,ta1lies of 473 and 455 votes respectively. Challenger Bill Smith was turned back with a 137 total. LUCKNOW In the village of Lucknow in- cumbent George Joynt beat back a challenge by Coun. Bud eturned by acclamation, with tievicomer Eldon Mann ac - aimed to the seat vacated by . Hamilton. WILLIAM ELSTON MORRIS TOWNSHIP William Elston, reeve here for the past 10 years, turned back a challenge from Coun. Sam Pletch to hold his position. Voting was 380 for Mr. Eadie to 277 for Mr. Pletch, with a 50 per cent turnout. The only new face on council belongs to Clare'Van. Camp, a farmer in the township who was acclaimed to the seat vacated by Mr. Pletch. Ross Procter and Robert Grasby were returned by acclamation to the other council seats as was Thomas Miller to the post of deputy reeve. Business Assoc. urged to seek aggressive leadership The Wingham Business Association needs dynamic leadership and should be prepared to look outside the business community to find it, members of the association were told during a meeting last week. Speaking near the end of the meeting, Nick O'Donohue, one of five co -presidents the association has had for the past year, told the group there is a need for "positive leadership and action". He challenged the members to keep their eyes open and try to find an "explosive executive" for next year. He also suggested members should be prepared to look out- side their own ranks for someone to lead the association. There are qualified professional people at the high school or elsewhere in the community who might be willing to lead the group, he said, and they should be approached. He asked members to try to find someone for the new executive by BERT MORIN MURRAY MULVEY the next meeting, scheduled for January. Although it organized the successful Wingham Business as Usual (WBAU) campaign during the main street reconstruction last summer, . the business association has been criticized in the past for the failure of its members to work together. At the meeting Thursday night Bill Crump, advertising manager for Crossroads, pointed out that even during a recent 'Midnight Madness' sale one group of stores held the sale one night while another group held it the following night. Mr. Crump suggested the merchants should respond to increasing competition from other towns and shopping centres by looking at Wingham itself as a shopping centre and working together to attract shoppers. "Promote Wingham and business will come to town and stay here," he declared. The association has also ex- perienced difficulty during the past several years in forming an executive, and (lhis was one reason for Mr. O'Donohue's suggestion to look beyond its own membership. He said an outsider would bring new perspectives and might be better able to plan coordinated campaigns. Following the meeting Mr. O'Donohue also remarked he has given some consideration to the idea of forming a Chamber of Commerce here to replace the loosely knit business association. However he added this would have to be looked into further. CENTENNIAL INVOLVEMENT Much of the meeting was spent listening to Bill Rintoul, chair- man of the Wingham Centennial Committee, give a rundown of the, committee's plans for next year and explain how the business association could fit into those plans. Mr Rintoul said Aug. 1-6 will be the big week, with lots of events scheduled including beauty contests, a centennial ball, barn dance, street dance and parade. Accident injures two Two persons suffered minor injuries in a single car accident in Howick Township Saturday evening. Susan Richards, 18, of London and Joseph Vella, 17, of Camp Borden were treated at Wingham and District Hospital and then discharged. A spokesman at the Wingham OPP detachinent reported Miss Richards was driving her 1978 Ford east along Howick Con. 12- 13 with Mr. Vella as a passenger when it skidded off the south side of the road and rolled over. There was about $1,700 damage to the car. Three persons received minor injuries in a freak accident at Belgrave Nov. 8. Mrs. Gladys Dwyer of RR 1, Mildmay, and Ronald and Valerie Dwyer of RR 3, Walkerton, were treated at hospital here following the ac- cident. Police report the mishap oc- curred when a stake truck belonging to James Coultes which had been parked on private propertyrolled onto the highway in front of the Dwyer car. The car struck the truck resulting in about $200 damage to the truck and $50 to the car as well as the injuries to its three occupants. Police said no charges were laid in connection with the ac- cident since the Highway Traffic Act does not cover cases in which a vehicle parked on private property rolls and causes an accident. He asked for at least two representatives from the association to be appointed to the centennial committee and suggested shopkeepers might want to decorate the main street and also decorate their own store Please turn to Page 2 ELECTION TIME—Ed Beard receives his ballots from Ruth King, a deputy returning,of- ficer, and Runa Wilkinson, a polling clerk; during the municipal election Monday. At polls for Wihgham were located in the town hall. • Lasge crowd at ceno • i • honors Wnghatn's war: The 11 a% in. gathering -Mils -40' Eastern—StW"W!'nghtb rWile 6 ‘i•n411 Ontario. years to the hour after World War I ended. Thirty-five Wingham area men didn't come home from that war. The memory of their sacrifice and the sacrifices of 13 area men who died in World War II took several hundred people to the cenotaph Saturday, Nov. 11. Main street businesses closed in honor of the war dead as mem- bers off Branch 180 of the Royal Canadian Legion paraded with members of the Legion Ladies' Auxiliary and with other groups from the legion hall to the ceno- taph. Legion President Clarence Oh- m was chairman at the Remem- brance Day ceremonies at the cenotaph. Wreaths honoring the dead came from groups including the town of Wingham, the Wingham Business Association, the F. E. Madill Secondary School student council, the Wingham Public School, the Rebekah Lodge, the Masonic Lodge, the Order of the Guides and Brownies, Wingham Scouts and Cubs, DOCIfelieY0, 'Winghani Kinsmen and Kinettes, the Salvation Army, WinglfaM Lions, Wingham Junior Citizens, the Catholic Women's League, Sacred Heart School, Turnberry Neil Armstrong - loses finger Neil Armstrong, the ex - astronaut who opened the In- ternational Plowing Match here earlier this fall, lost a finger in an accident at his Cincinnati, Ohio, home last week. Mr. Armstrong, who completed the trip to the moon and back without mishap, lost the finger when his wedding ring, caught in a\ door as he jumped from a thick. Surgeons report it will be several days before they know whether Mr. Armstrong will be able to use the finger, which was reimplanted. • • -...• '.....•'.40;•;:):•;-- • . • PRAYER FOR THE DEAD—Rev. Robert Armstrong gave the prayer at the cenotaph for those who died for their country in the two world wars. Shown from left to right are Wing - ham Mayor William Walden, Rev. Ron Baker, Rev. John Swan, Rev. Armstrong and Branch 180 Royal Canadian Legion President Clarence Ohm. Members of the local legion branch and ladies auxiliary to the legion pinned their poppies to a large wreath as a sign of their special link with those who died in the wars. Rev. Ron Baker gave the Scripture reading at the cenotaph from St. Matthew 5:1-12. The prayer for the deceased was given by Rev. Robert Armstrong and Rev. John Swan gave the benediction. Wingham Mayor William Walden read the names of Wingham area men who died for their country in the two wars. Those who died in World War I were: Maud Hanna, Gordon Adair, , Laughlan Aitchison, Wallace Aitchison, Harry Bark- er, Herbert Bond, Leonard Brock, William Buchanan, Robert Chettleburgh, Herbert Clark, William Darnell, Arthur Dovey, Grant Fetterley, Roas Forsyth, Herbert French, Paul Gillespie, George Hayles and Alex Henry. ' Other area men who gave their lives in the First World War were: Edward Helps, Joseph Holland, Richard Howson, Frank Johnson, Wilbur Johnston, Jack Mitchell, George Monk, Edward Murch, Thomas McDonald, Theo. McDonald, Chesley McLean, Oliver Pender, Harry Philcox, Alfred Pullen, Percy Snyder, Percy Vanner and Har- vey Willis. Those who died in World War II were: Leslie Adair, Percy Biggs, William Groves, R. McKenzie Habkirk, Carl Hart, William Kew, George T. King, Preston Lediett, George H. Lloyd, James McKague, William H. Pym, Clif- ford Taman and George Wheeler. The Teeswater Highlanders led the parade to the cenotaph, followed by the local legion color party and l color party from the veterans' group from Wingham's sister city, Standish, Michigan. Branch 180 of the legion follow- ed the color parties and the lad- ies' auxiliary to the legion was right behind. Other groups in the parade to honor the war dead in- cluded Wingham town council, the Wingham Fire Department, the Boy Scouts and Cubs, Brown- ies and Girl Guides and Junior Citizens. Civic Remembrance Day ser- vices were held Sunday, Nov. 5 in St. Paul's Anglican Church. Le- gion Padre Rev. Swan gave the sermon at the service, while the first lesson was given from Ec- clesiasticus 44:1-15 by Mr. Ohm. Legion auxiliary president Mary Wallace gave the second lesson, which was from St. Matthew, 16:24-26. 4 • •