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It's almost 18 years since Jack and Beatrice
Hayes moved to town with their family to
retire, but the family got into the clothing
business and Hayes Clothing Ltd. remains
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The sign over the 222 Josephine St. store
says that medium priced quality clothing is
what is for sale inside and that's what the
store is all about.
There are places where clothes can be
bought cheaper at times, but the quality of the
men's and boys' clothes and man's footwear
on sale at Hays;' remains high and at a fair
price, Mr. Hayes said recently.
The store caters to working people — there
is no carpet on the floor to get dirty when
someone goes in straight from work. The
large selection -of work clothes is all Canadian
and includes boots, gloves, hats, pants and
shirts.
Jan Benninger, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes's
daughter, works in the store and says if there
is something a person needs, they try to get it.
"We're old fashioned in that sense."
If the store doesn't have an item and they
think another of the town's clothing stores
might have it, they send them to the com-
petition too. The idea is to keep the customers
in town.
Owners of the town's clothing" stores
compete on a friendly rather th a cutthroat
basis, Mr. Hayes says. Each h specialties
And knows they can't capture the whole
market.
MEDIUM PRICED quality clothing is what Hayes Clothing Ltd. has been selling since One thing Wingham's stores, thing
the Jack Hayes family bought the store in 1%1. -Mr. and Mrs. Hayes and their daughter, stores in particular, can offer custome is
Jan Benninqer, are shown behind the counter of the 222 Josephine St. store. knowledge of the products they sell,
Hayes notes. Stores in larger centres oft
have a large staff turnover and the revoly'
staff members don't have time to develop a
WinghtAm. • • knowledge of what they are selling.
In contrast there has been very little staff
turnover at Hayes Clothing Ltd., though Mrs.
Hayes has now retired and Grace Hodgkin -
in -its
son, an employee for about 15 years, is
�presently away on sick leave.
Longtime Wingham residents may recall
the unusual cash system in the stare early in
the century. The office was an i4,. raised
platform near the centre of the stare and
there were overhead steel lines ruming to the
office from the sales floor.
When a sale was made the clerk placed the
sale hill and the cash in a metal container and
passed it along a line to the office. The cashier
rang up the sale, marked the bill paid and
sent it and the change down the line again.
A list of owners of the building from 104 to
the present is in the Wingham history book
'One Hundred Years of Memories' produced
by the Wingham I{inettes.
Owners since 1845 have been Norman
Welwood, Athol Purdon, W. J. Gordon and the
Hayeses.
The store retains an old fashioned flavor.
Some city people have admired the old
staircase, the time worn wooden floor and the
old fashioned ceiling and have asked how the
effect was created. The owners laugh and tell
them the effect wasn't artificially created in
recent years, it's just that the decor hasn't
been changed substantially since the old
days.
"We're so far out, we're in," Mrs. Ben-
ninger says.
Many of the local patrons appreciate the
store's setting too, because there are 80 -year-
old ladies who go to the store and remark they
remember climbing the staircase to the
second floor when they were children, Mr.
Hayes said.
PERSONAL TOUCH
One thing patrons do get at Hayes Clothing
Ltd. is a personal touch. Some people come in
and want something like a work shirt and
don't know their size. They may stand by the
counter and wait for a store :... pl , •, : , to fill
out their order, Mrs. Benninger says.
Sales help at the store know at least 80 per
cent of their customers by their first names.
The personal touch given at Hayes Clothing
Ltd. has been rewarded with good customers,
Mr. Hayes says.
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. Huron boardMcQuailgives energy talk
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budget is up
iL. ,;- �_o Mons and uest farmers
Public school supporters in
Huron County will be paying an
average of 8.4 per cent more in
Tony McQuail, guest speaker the Canadian Candu plants are "'
R�' 1979 for education taxes.
at the annual farmers' night of merely different, not safer than The Huron County Board of
the Lions Club of Wingham, the American plants, Mr. Education passed. a S23,622,085
warned the Lions and their McQuail claimed. Canadians budget at its meeting last
guests that people should start on needn't worry about the par- Thursday, an increase of 13.3 per
an individual basis to conserve ticular problems, other than cent over 1978 expenditures.
energy and to seek alternatives human error, which caused the It will mean an average in-
to petroleum and nuclear based dangerous situation at the Three crease of $18 to $20 to the average
energy supplies. Mile Island plant, but the Candu
No one seems to know how reactor has its own weaknesses, Huron taxpayer.
quickly petroleum resources are some which may not be found Last year's 31 -day strike by
running out but even before they until a mishap occurs, he said. secondary school teachers saved
do; prices will rise out of reach of Arun Ghosh told, the guest a the board about E38,685, which
ill be alied against the
some sectors and "it will be very speaker that the electricity wpp
disruptive for our society." produced by nuclear reactors is Huron
uron municipalities. The
total the board requires
Conservation will play a large so badly needed that at some GUESTSPEAKER from Hu
role because it reduces the int society might have to ac remaining 68 per cent a board s
Po g Tony McQuail was guest education expenditures comes
demand for all forms of energy, cept associated risks, much the speaker at the Lions Club of from the province.
whether the most widely ac- same way society accepts the Wingham meeting last week Instruction costs will increase
cepted or the renewable types risk of car crashes by using and told the Lions and their 15.6 per cent to $17,260,045 and
• like solar, wind, wood and automobiles. farmer guests the way to re- plant operation and maintenance
biomass, he said. The Lions Club will tour the duce energy consumption and will cost $2,093,000, an increase of
Mr. McQuail described his talk Bruce Nuclear Power Develop- to rely less on non-renewable 17.9 per cent over the 1978 budget.
to the Lions as "not very funny" ment in a few weeks to see for energy is on an individual Other 1979 expenditures are
and said virtually everyone has itself the nuclear generating basis, rather than calling on expected to be: business ad -
become dependent on energy plants and other components of
provided through centralized the system. government and big business ministration $342,640, up 3.6 per
to do something about it. cent and transportation $1,966,-
systems like transmission lines, 658, up 9.2 per cent.
pipelines, refineries and huge
electrical generating stations.
Use of renewable energy when
possible, like home heating with Township federation
wood, passive solar energy and a
backup heater; using windmills
io pump water and generate
eholds annual meeting
produced energy for larger scale
operations. Members of the East members.
When asked by one farmer if Wawanosh Township Federation Bill Crawford, UFA field -
'hat meant producingless food, of Agriculture are so satisfied worker, noted the government is
ylr. McQail said using, withtheir executive they helping finance student ems}
ecologically sound farming returned virtually the same slate ployment by offering a subsidy of `
methods without commercial for another term when they met 51.25 on wages paid. Farmers are
fertilizers (which take a lot of in Belgrave last week. eligible for this subsidy program. s
energy to produce), large im- At the annual meeting, held in Gary Davidson of the county
plements and herbicides the Women's Institute Hall, planning department asked the
generally does produce slightly Walter Elliott was returned help of the federation in
Control the foxtails, fall panicuand crabgrass— lower. yields than that produced unopposed to the chair of arranging line meetings to
m Rick Gibbons
in corn and soybeans—with Lasso® herbicide by by modern methods. On the other president after Les Caldwell discuss the East Wawanosh
Monsanto. Lasso® is now also registered for sup- hand far fewer resources are declined the nomination. Mr, secondary plan which is being "State Farm has
required to produce the crops, for Caldwell was acclaimed back to prepared this year.
pression of yellow nutsedge. See your dealer today. a larger net gain. his position as vice president and Guest speaker for the meeting11
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"I'm not saying do what I've Peter Chandler was returned was Dr. Bruce Hunter of the LIFE nsurance,
done," Mi. McQuail told the unopposed as secretary. University of Guelph's crop
Lions. He and his wife work a 100- When it came to the directors' science department. Dr. Hunter too! Call me
- acre farm without electricity positions, a motion was made gave a slide presentation on his
— with the use of horses and small that the whole slate should be two years spent in Ghana, West for details:'
machinery and live in a passively returned to office and this was Africa, with a group of teachers
solar heated home, using wind carried with only one change: and researchers.
mills for water pumping and Jim Hallahan nominated Frank
' wood for additional heat. Hallahan to take his place on the
g "I'm saying we are on the top board. Other directors are GORRIE
of a very artificial bubble of Adrian Vos, Ed Franklin, Bob
energy use." Taylor, Doug Walker, Cliff Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Taylor, Liken pilid seiobw,
Bill Cruikshank questioned Mr. Laidlaw, Wallace Norman and Cheryl and Laurie of Hawkes- $vtt F2rmisthm.
Monsanto McQuail on his beliefs on the Barry Mason.
ville, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jac
ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW THE i;" - --'' cafetyof Canada's Candu nuclear in other business at the quer, Jennifer and Amy of Wal-
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LABEL DIRECTIONS FOR f.A.480. � �� .-..__ _•-,�' reactors versus the safety of the meeting Merle Gunby, president kerton; Bruce Harkness, Leland � A t.
Lssaos ie a registered trademark of
Toronto, Montreal. WinniDe�}. Vancouver Three Mile Island nuclear of the Huron County Federation Harkness and Linda Harkness of
MonaantoCompany. : �•w.,�p,.u� ZlMonsanto Company 1Q79 reactor which is still cooling of Agriculture, reminded McIntosh; Daryl Walker of Wingham
LC -79-8 down after serious radioactive members of the medical health Wingham; Mr. and Mrs, John x7-40s"Mm
leaks near Harrisburg, Perin- plan offered by the Ontario Jacques, David and Rachel of RR W1
sylvania. federation. The plan offers ex- 2, Clifford visited Sunday with e.,,.a,.,M.eaorae..SIM
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Two U.S. studies indicate that tended health care coverage to Mrs. Lloyd Jacques.
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