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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1954-09-09, Page 1Zbe jfirt Column... sc... IS OPEN AND EVERY- thihg's in full swing once more. Not only are the young ones back at their books, but their parents are home from the cottage and ready to take part in club and town activities . . . * THE FIRST FULL DAY OF school at CDCI was opportunity for first arrangement of the Cadet Corps . . And the CDCI Band got its first work-out . . . Playing inertial music is one thing, but playing. it and walking at the same time 3S another . . But re- sults will be good if they show tbe same polish as last year's band did 011 Inspection Day • • • FIVE MINUTES TO FOUR o'clock at the public school and great activity takes place . The police cruiser comes round the corner at Highway 8 and the.Chief is ready to guide traffic and guide • the Patrol Boys onduty there ... Then the Patrol Boys come from the school swiftly getting into , sparkling white uniforms Then the sound of "God Save the Queen" sung by clear young voices . Then a pause and all the 500 youngsters come from both ends of the long, low building, full of talk and Action after a busy day — . The strangest thing to us is - the lack of school books — no book bags, no books . . WORD OF ANOTHEEt CLINTON boy Who made good . . . Thirty- one years ago a young man in, his 'teens came to Clinton to operate the projector in the theatre then located in the old Normandy Hotel and operated by Sam Cooper. . (This theatre, we believe, succeed- ed the Princess Theatre on Albert Street, which had been owned and operated by Jim Manning, our present assessor) . . . To -day this young man is in charge of the Christian Education Department of the Diocese of Michigan and is the Rev. G. Burton Hodgson . . . We hear that he remembers with • affection the "hice little town of Clinton" . . . 4, * WELL, FINALLY WE HAVE A good argument for the raise in postal rates to five cents „ We were always very conscious of the fact that ottr friends below the border could mail a letter and just stick on a three -cent postal stamp . . We felt very put upon to have to lick a five -center . However . . . statistics show that those same American friends had a post office deficit in 1950 of some 545.50 million dollars . . . sounds big doesn't it? Well in 1952 that deficit was 719.50 . . . And some fellow way out in Alberta (works for the Canadian Post Office department) . has divided that last figure by the population of the USA. . . about 140 •million, and comes up with a round figure a $5 . . . You see the post office deficit has to be made up out of other taxes . . . and other taxes come from people who send letters and of course from those who don't . . . So that means that the three - center people are each actually paying for about 166 letters that they don't post . . as well as •the ones they do . . and that means • every man woman -and 'child in the whole country . .. Guess we'll just hunker down arid pay our five cent fee and like it . . . intotit THE NEW ERA -90th YEAR • No, 36—The Home Paper With the News • CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1954 ec THE NEWS -RECORD --74th YEAR 6 cents a copy — $2.50 a year -Popular Local Sisters Have Double Wedding At a charming double wedding ceremony in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Clinton, Jeanne Claire Garon became the bride of Peter Joseph McCauley, St Marys, and her sister Marie Lorine became the bride of Clarence Dominic Denonune, Clinton. The brides are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Garen, Clinton. Mr, McCauley (left) is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. McCauley, Kitchener and Mr. Denomme (right) is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence Denomme, Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. McCauley plan to live in St. Marys following a wedding trip to New York City and Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Denomme,. who will spend their honeymoon in At- lantic City and Montreal, will make their home in Clinton. (Photo by IVfacLaren's) Clinton Legion Plans $1,900 Bingo on Sept. 16 'Clinton Branch No. 140 Canad- ian Legion will stage a monster bingo in the Clinton Lions Arena next Thursday night, September 16. This will be the bingo that lovers of the game have been waiting for, with $1,900 in prizes to be given to the lucky winners, There will be 12 regular games for $50 each; three specials for $100; and the big game for $1,000. The games will commence at 9.00 p.m. with the arena aliening some time earlier. Admission will be $1.00 with extra cards 25 cents, Special games are set at 25 cents each, including the 51,000 special. DST WILL END Plans were made at Tuesday evening's Town Council meeting for advertising, to Clinton••citizens the fact that the end of the period of Daylight Saving Time would come on Sunday, September 26. Charles Bartliff Captain Of Clinton Public School Safety Patrol Corps Once more the members of the Safety Patrol are at work Morn- ing, noon and night helping young- er children get across busy high- ways to safety on the way, te and from school, There are 14 members of the Patrol, and their duties are split, so that each boy has one 'hour of duty each day, in half hour terms, before and after school. Besides their- patrolling duties the boys meet every Thursday morning at the school with Chief Constable J. Ferratid. Captain of the patrol is Charles Ilartliffs.and Court Judge is Barrie McLaren. Patrollers are Kenneth Knights, Robert Jury, Gordon Ful- ford, Alvin Parker, Murray Mc - Ewan, Gerald Cox, Howard Ed- wards, Ray Gautreau, Peter Gar- en, Kenneth Engelstad, Paul Schoenhals, Larry Dew and Robert Eirmierson. Leoking especially trim at the etart of the season with their white caps (made and provided by the Clinton. Women's Institute), their white belts, shiny badge and carrying their orange and black signal bat (provided by the Clin- ton Lions Club), the boys are starting off on a good year's work. As a special touch, the canvas belts were laundered free by the Clinton Laundry and Dry Clean- ing firm. • MurrarMiller Hurt In Fall At Woodstock Injured in a 70 -foot fall from a construction seaffold at Purina Mills, Woodstock, MurrayMiller, 27, Clinton, regained' consciousness on Tuesday and was considered slightly improved by hospital of- ficials. Miller was taken to the hospital , with undetermined injuries Satur- day night and was still uncon- scious Sunday. Dr. W. S. Sedg- • wick.,reported that he had a bad concussion, possible fractured skull and possible other injuries to be determined by x-ray. o R. B. ROGERSON CELEBRATES 88th YEAR, AT SEAFORTH Robert B. Rogerson, formerly of Hullett Tewnship, has celebrated his 88th birthday. He was, born and lived in Hullett for ail his life except the leaf five years, when he retired to Seaforth. The Weather 1954 1953 High Low High Low Sept 2 83 60 92 '68 3 75 55 04 69 4 76 55 88 65 5 79 64 71 58 6 82 57 73 48 7 79 65 69 52 8 - 69 51 68 48 Rain: .24 ins. Ram: .36 ins. Half A Thousand Pupils Under G. Jefferson's Care Enrolment at the Clinton Public School yesterday was 497, and principal George H. Jefferson pre- dicts over 500 pupils by the end of the week. An the classrooms are in use, and there is not too Much room to spare in the school Four new teachers are at their jobs this term: Donald Dale, Sea - forth, teshing Grade Four; 1VIiss Margaret Holland and Mrs. Harold Wise, each with a Grade Two, and Mrs. Williams, who is teaching a Grade One. They are replacing the three teachers who left at the end of June and also make up the extra teacher needed for the extra classroom opened this tall. Mr. Jefferson reports 54 young- sters starting into kindergarten, this fall. • o Adastral Park Sends 200 Pupils To Public School Students from en provinces in Canada enrolled for another terrn at the A/V/M Hugh Campbell Public School at RCAF Station Clinton, on Tuesday. For. many of them it means picking up the business of ,"book learning" after a journey of many hundreds of miles. Their schools last year were scattered all the way from Victoria, B.C., to Goose Bay, Lab- rador. ' These much -travelled students are the young sons and daughters of airmen who are now stationed at Clinton and who live in Adast- ral Park. Two hundred of them enrolled Tuesday in Grades One to Eight. As in previous years, a number of them will mote on be- fore •the end of June, 1955. A year ago, enrolment was 187. The principal of the school, Clarence * Trott, said that Tues- day's enrolment, however, does not create a true picture. An increase is expected within the next few weeks, as a number of the'rnarried personnel with children of scheol age are still away on leave, and variona airforce postings are al- ways being made. The staff this year will include seven teachers besides the prin- cipal, one a replacement and two additional. They are Miss Grace Goodfellow, Teeswater (formerly of the Clinton Public School staff); Miss Helen Waflage, Flor- ence, N.S.; and Miss Kathryn McCarthy, Frankville, Ont, Two Bursary Winners' From CDCI Will Study Engineering at Queen's , . Keith Youngblutt, graduate of Grade 13 at CDCI last June, is the winner of the University Do- minion Provincial bursary of 5400, it was announced this week. Also a graduate of CDC/ Grade 13, Douglas. Yetingblut won the Mc- Lean Scholarship of $125, payable to students entering Queen's Uni- versity. Each of the boys were awarded an engineering bursary of 5200 from the Engineering So- t DOCGLAS YOTTNI1HLTY1 ciety, and both are iplanning to enrol at Queen's University this term, Donald Cornish, Clinton, is the winner of the Grade 12 Dominion Provincial Bursary cif 5100, and this fall is one of then25 members of the CDCI Grade 13. Photos of Keith and Douglas Youngblut used through the cour- tesy of the 1953-54 CDCI year book, "De Schola." Stewart Nirnmo Died Yesterday At Bracebridge Siswart Nommo, 20, son of Rev. and Mrs. Alex Nimmcs. Wing - ham, who was critically injured near Gravenhurst August 28, died at 2 a.m. yesterday morning in the Bracebridge Memorial Hospital. Nirnmo suffered critical brain injuries resulting from an accident five miles south of Gravenhurst, in which his friend, John C Han- na, 21, son of J. W. Hanna, MLA for 'Huron -Bruce, was instantly killed. It is believed the youth tailed to regain consciousness since the time of the crash. An emergency operation was performed at that time in an effort to save his life. The popular youth came with his parents to Wingham in 1944, when his father assumed the pas- torate Of St. Andrew's Presbyter- ian Church. His father was a padre in World War 11. Stewart attended the Wingham Public School and was a graduate of Grade 13 at the Wingham Dist- rict High School in 1953. Active In Sports At school he was active in sports and held office on the student& council, At the time of his death he was on the sales staff of the C. Lloyd and Son firm of Wing - ham and was working out of their Toronto office. He was a member of St. And- rew's Presbyterian Church. Sur- Eph Snell Wins • Top Honours For CNE Sheep Ephraim Snell and Sons, R.R. 1, Clinton, last week showed the champion ram and champion ewe In the Leicester class at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition sheep judging. Snell E6G was awarded. the champion ram ribbon and Douglas 20 won the, champion ewe first. viving besides his parents are one sister, Mrs. George Malcolm (Mar- garet), missionary to Formosa. COMING EVENTS 40 a word, rainhmun 750 Thursday, Sept. 16 -- Bingo in Clinton Lions Arena, sponsored by Clinton Legion. 51,900 in larizes. Special 51,000 bingo. 36x Dancing every Friday night- in Hayfield Pavilion during Septem- ber; Ken Wilbee's Orcheatra. Bay - field's favorite summer dance pav- ilion. For private parties and re- ceptions telephone 658r6 Seaforth or 684r31 Hensel". • 35-6-7-8-9b Every Friday night Is dance nite at the Crystal Palace Ballroom, Mitchell. Clarence Petrie and ,he Night Hawks in attendance. • 31tO39b Three Of County's "Bottle Clubs" Raided Last Friday Three Huron County "bottle clubs" were raided by provincial police Friday night, and seizures of beer were made in each in- stance, C'harges are pending against operators of the three establishments. • Provincial police from Goderich, Exeter, •Wingham and Stratford, headed by Sgt. Charles Anderson of• the Goderi6h detachment, par- ticipated in. the raid. Sgt. P. P. Seibert, •Constables Lloyd Weitzel and Harold Vogt of the Stratford detachment assisted, The :three clubs are the Crystal Club, Dunlop; Club 21, south of goderich, and the Hayfield Social Club, Bayfield.„ Search, warrants were executed at each place. The raids were carried out to investigate alleged. contraventions of the Canada Temperance Act. Clinton..Woman Wins Motorboat At Kin-:Karnival The Kinsmen Club of Clinton held its third annual carnival on the Legion Hall grounds on Mon- day, September 6. There was a good crowd on hand to take part in the fun and enjoy the games that made up the frolic., Mrs, Harold C.. Lawson, King Street, Clinton, was the winner of the 164aot' outboard motor boat that was the major prize of the evemeg. Kaye Harris will receive A special prize of 550 for selling the winning ticket. J. A. Craig, a commercial traveller, was the winner of the boys' or girl's bicycle. Winner of the doll raffled by the Kinette Club was Mrs. Har- riett Lawson, Dr. Ballard's famous mutt show presented a program and gave prizes to each and every. entry, Some of the special prizes includ- ed: Largest dog, smallest dog, best dressed dog, dog with the longest tail, shortest tail, and best tricks. The evening ended with a dance held ,in the Legion, Memorial Hall, Church Shed.At BrUeefield Is Beilig Lowered • . The big church shed at Bruce - field is finally being brought down. One of the few of its kind still in existence, late last week, work was begun on the corrugated steel roof, and yesterday the remaining expanse of metal was removed.. Russell Coleman, Seaforth, and his Son Emmerson, were organiz- lng the first stages of the job, since Emmerson has purchased the corrugated steel and the sheathing to use in putting up an implement shed at Ins farm. Working with them yesterday were Alec Hanna, 1Vlitche1i; Cecil Oke, London and Lawrence Hels, Seaforth, The remainder of the roof is now the property of the Seaforth Curling Club which proposes using it in the building of a new rink in Seaforth for the sport. Plans are to have the thick cement wells demolished and in time all trace of the old shed will be gone. Erected in 1920 for the purpose of • housing horses and carriages, the Brucefield church shed was built to last, and it was built large enough to accommodate any con- gregation that might come out to thechurch. Through the yeers it has been Used for many a church supper, and only half of the huge structure was needed for the serv- ing of fowl and all the good things that go with it. Lately there has been a quite satisfactory skating rink in the east end, and the young folk of the community have used it with natural ice to great satisfaction. However, last year here was so much good artificial ice fairly close by, that the shed was used hardly at all for that purpose. More recently still, the Young People's Union of the church has been using the west end of the shed to store waste paper. MONDAY EVENING SET • AS DEADLINE FOR DISPLAY ADVS. The pUblishera of the Clin- ton News -Record have set a deadline on all display adver- tising for the Monday evening preceding each publishing day. This deadline will be ef- fective immediately and all advertisers are asked to co- operate Welcome Visitors to Kin Bean Festival Welcoming visitors to the Bean Festival in Hensall Monday are, left to right: Harold Baker, assistant agricUltural representative for Huron County, Clinton; Thomas Pryde, MLA for Huron, Exeter; James Garner, director of Extension for the Department of Agriculture, Toronto; Douglas McKelvie, president of the Hensall Kinsmen; Elston Cardiff, MP for Byron, Brussels. , 344 Students Enrol' Renovations Incomplete Though Clinton District Colleg- the school since the end of last week. False walls will be erected be- tween the old and new sections of the school, and construction will go on as swiftly as possible, with the idea of being able to move in by Christmas. Meanwhile, shop work vvill be taught in two rooms of the ,olcl Public School, made available for the purpose by the Clinton rown Council. ' • The teaching staff this year in. . chides: Principal E. A, Fines; W. B. Olde (science); G. W. McGee ' (math and science); Mrs. J. Stein - burg (home economics); Mrs. John , Robinson (English); J. G. Pea- cock (commercial); N. Garrett (math. and guidance); K. E. Jam, : kin (science and agriculture); • Miss Jean Gilbert (English. and , girls physical training); Miss C. Haig (history and French); Miss ' Joan MeMurray (French and Spanish); William Craig (shop work); Miss Mary Madden (Latin and English); Ray Bieman (boys physical training; geography and history). - Classes are arranged this year as follows: There are four Grade Nines this year for the first time, made up of 64 boys and 68 girls. There are three Grade Tens (45 boys and 41 girls); Grade Eleven • Is a single grade, just 15 boys and 19 girls; Grade Twelve gen- eral has 22 boys and 23 girls, while the special commercial has ' two boys and 20 girls. Grade Thirteen is the small grade, with 15 boys and ten girls. late Institute opened on schedule on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, the 344 students and their 14 instructors found and are find- ing life just a little hectic. (There are 32 more students than enrolled in September 1953.) • The re -wiring of 'the pld school building is not yet complete, and changing classes between periods created a problem for electricians and' students alike, With a little shifting of scaffolding, and co- operation, classes did go on, and the work of the electricians went on, too. Predictions are that this phase of the work' will be done within a few days. There remains painting, laying of the floors in the halls and gym- nasium, and general re -furbishing, before the old section of CDC' can be considered complete. The new lighting fixtures in the classrooms, however, will be con- sidered among the most modern (when the hydro is turned on) .and the workmen are doing their best to have that accomplished soon. A ditching machine was at work on a drain on Tuesday, and a bull- dozer was busily at work on Wed- nesday afternoon. Certainly the work of Lawrence Denomme in getting the school in- to livable shape for Tuesday should be highly commended. The halls and stairways will 'not be really clean, as he puts it, "until we can wash them," however, what a duster, broom and elbow - grease will do, Mr. Denomme did and a transformation came over 19 Petitioners Request Council' Act Re: Livestock A petition from 29 citizens of Clinton on Tuesday night request- ed the Town Council to pass a by-law prohibiting the keeping of chickens, livestock, etc.,' within the town limits. Councillor Bert Gliddon, chairman 'of the by-laws committee, reported being in touch with the town solicitor on this matter, and stated that since the 1951 council had given permission for the erection of the building in question, the present council could not now have it removed. How- ever, he said they could make a by-law governing the erection of others, Deputy Reeve Crich. Has not the Health office inspected his building? Thee that report over- rules us. Reeve Nediger. To a point, only. To a point. This matter is all due to faulty town planning in the past. Mayor Agnew; We do need something with teeth in it in the way of a town planning act. Court Marlon; I would suggest limiting the distance. from resi- dences at which such a building could be erected: Coml. McIntyre: I Would like to see livestock and poultry eliminat- ed from town altogether. Perhaps four animals kept in one place in town is not too many, but certain- ly anything over 100 is. Damage Claim A claim for -damages of $500 from Walby Burton, supported by a letter from his lawyer, Freels Donnelly, Q.C. Goderich, was re- viewed. Reeve Nediger, hairman of the public works committee, re- ported the repairs which had been made to the area in question and suggested that a reply be made by letter from the clerk advising Mr. Burton that; the outlet of the drain crossing his property had been gradually filling up, as a result of the settling of tile that crossed the sewer system on King Street, the situation had been rec- tified and should not cause any more trouble. The damage that Mr. Burton suggests that he sus- tained seems to be entirely out of order and the Council feels that now that the situation is rectified, the matter should drop." Taxi By-law • An amendment to a section of the taxi by-law was made to elim- inate the payment of 51 drivers' fee by owners of licensed taxis within the town. William . Glazier and Melville Irving were granted taxi driver's licenses. • Coal Purchase Deputy Reeve Melvin Crich re- ported the standing of his com- mittee, remarking that the bal- ance usable until the end of the year by the general government committee was only $459.45. How- ever, he said that 5639 had been paid for the coming winter's sup- ply of coal. Mayor Agnew re- minded him that "stock on the shelves was as good as money." • Building Permits Building permits were granted to 0. Priestap, Dunlop Street, for garage, 5250; W. Counter, Or- ange Street, warehouse, 52,000; D, Bisback, Mary Street, garage, $250; R. II. Stewart, Albert Street, garage, 5300; G. 11. MnEwan Al- bert Street, storage, 5500; and IL Ashton, Victoria Street, su»porch (no stated estimate). 1955' Assessment An increase of almost 567,000 assessment for 1954 over the past year, was announced. The assess- ment in 1953 in Clintoe was 51,869,907.04 while this year the figure is see at 51,936,840.26 for land, buildings aed business. Eavetroughs Deputy Reeve Crich reported the need for 'eavetroughs on the Town Hall, but that the 5400 needed to replace thexn Was not available. He did suggest, how- ever, that it would be a good 'idea to see that the pipes at the rear of the building were connected, so that the water would be carried properly. New pipes also were necessary for the furnace the deputy reeve reported. Dump Coun. Norman Livermore re- ported on complaints from tax- payers over the excessive spending of money to care for the dump. .,Ratepayers had told him that with a caretaker at the dump it should not be necessary to send the bull- dozer there anymore. Both Reeve Nediger and Deputy Reeve Crich defended the present policy of operating the dump, stating that the cost this year was no higher than last, and that the dump was in pod Condition, Deputy Reeve Crich reminded council that there was only a small piece of land there, and if the fall were not protected, then they would soon lose the use of it as a dump. Queen Street Lengthy discussion was , held over how to treat the wash of driveways caused on Queen Street especially, but also on other steep streets in town, Reeve Nediger favoured placing more catch bas- ins so that the water. would be taken off the surface more quick- ly. Another suggestion made was . that the driveway approach be black -topped so the firm surface Would not be washed away. This was considered an unwise prece- dent however, since all residents In the town would wish equal service. Councillor Livermore favoured keeping the catch basins clear. He reported that they cleaned the one at the creamery, and it only took a short time. "I don't believe it would hurt anyone to clean the catch basin in front of his own property," said Mr. Livermore. Weed Cutthig Reeve Nediger requested elarifi- cation on what work the Council wished done by the town equip- ment. Requests had been made for the town Inower to cut grass and weeds on vacant lots of pri- vately owned property and the Reeve felt that such work was putting the machinery in danger of breakage. - Coutn. Stewart Schoenhals de- scribed the difficulty a private in- dividual had of finding anyone able and willing to cut weeds for thern—There just isn't anyone in town equipped for it." Revislen Court Court of Revision will be held in the Town Hall on Monday evening, September 27 at eight o'clock. Edgar Stoll Hurt In Car Crash Sunday Morning Thirty-year-old Edgar A. Stoll, Clinton, was released frorn Clinton Public Hospital/ on Sunday with minor injpries. He had been pin- ned in his car when it crashed into a telephone pole on Highway 8 west of Mitchell at 4.50 o'clock Sunday morning. Mr, Stoll was driving west when his car left the road, smashed into a telephone pole .just in front of the John A, Dawson farmhouse, then hit a culvert and finally end- ed, bottom sideup, on the north lane of the highway: The telephone pole was broken. The car, described as a total wreck, was later taken to Mitchell., The crash caused a blown fuse in the Dawson farmhouse. Mr. Stoll was pinned in the car, He sustained second degree burns to the right thigh and left leg, abrasions of the left knee, lacera- tions and multiple bruises df the scalp. It is reported the burns were caused by fire breaking out in the car as a result of a short circuit. Mrs. Dawson, however, res ported that the car was not on fire, Stoll told Mitchell Chief Con- stable Ralph Chisholm (formerly of Clinton Police Department) that he thought he fell asleep at the wheel of the car. Dr. J. A. Addison reported on Sunday that Mr. Stoll had been released from Hospital later Sun- day morning and that there was no sign 02 concussion or fracture.