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Zurich Citizens News, 1966-03-31, Page 1No. 13—FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH,, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1966 7 CENTS PER COPY Request Judicial Inquiry Three students from Central Huron Secondary- School, Clinton, last Saturday presented Huron MP Bob McKinley with a petition signed by 196 students, asking for a judicial inquiry in the case of Stephen Truscott, serving life im- prisonment for the murder of Lynn Ilarper near Clinton some years ago. Left to right are: Sohn Powell, RR 3, Clinton; Steve Cooke, Clinton; Mike Sootchmer, Bayfield. and Mr. McKinley, as they look over the names on the pe- tition. The manuscript read as follows: "We the under- signed students at CHSS, have taken into consideration the information available from news media and the book, `The Trials of Stephen Truscott', and wish to collectively voice the mutual opinion that Stephen Truscott should be granted a judicial inquiry." Mr. McKinley promised the youths he would present the petition to solicitor -general Larry Pennell to further deal with the matter. On Tuesday a report from Ottawa said that' the Huron member had presented the petition, and was advised that the matter would be dealt with as soon as possible. County Joins Mid -Western Goderich — Three recorded votes and one show of hands punctuated a crowded one -day session of Huron County coun- cil last Friday. A record budget og $3,138,375 (including provin- cial grants) was approved, a grant to Blue Water Rest Home at Zurich turned down again, an arbitrator appointed in the Tuckersmith school case, and a number of salary increases OK'd. Closest vote of the afternoon —19 to 18—authorized county membership in Widwestern On- tario Development Association at a fee of $5,350, which covers the local municipalities. The amount was added to the al- ready presented 1966 budget. Councillors did not like the idea of trying to called from muni- cipalities not in favor of join- ing. Midwestern membership came up in a report of the warden's and personnel committee, which made no reoommendation. At suggestion of Reeve Grant Stir- ling, Goderich Township, the report was taken clause by clause, with Reeve Stewart Procter, of Morris, presiding over committee of the whole. "What are the benefits for a rural municipality?" enquired deputy reeve Delbert Geiger, of Hay. "We are trying to broaden out our program," replied W. G. Urquhart, general manager of MODA, "and make industrial and agricultural benefit more meaningful for the four -county area. The federation of agri- culture joins us at zone level, and has two official represen- tatives on the committee to ad- vise on agricultural matters .. , governments are coming to use the development associations more than in the past. Nearly everything is becoming region- al. Legislation is coming • along, but we are asked not to say it publicly at present." Reeve A. D. Smith, Turn - berry: "I think they are trying to do something by the back door they could not do by the front. Our township has never belonged, doesn't want to be- long, and I think municipalities should be able to belong or not as they wish, I don't think my municipality sent me here to force them into it. It is like a closed shop." Mr. Urquhart: "I am working for you and for this area, and T aim doing the most effective job only if I work 12 months trying to promote development in the area. The time spent in going around soliciting revenue is really wasted in the total job. We are trying to cut this to :a minimum so as to get on with the job. Reeve C. E. Boyle, Exeter: "We feel these associations are a must, not only for urban but for rural municipalities, and we have joined the Lake Erie Association as well." Reeve Smith: "Is there any authority to join in the first place?" Mr. Berry: "Oh yes, we have authority to join," Reeve Minnie Noakes, Hen - sell: "My municipality dropped out of it, but I feel, especially with the International Plowing Match coming up and Huron being in the limelight, we should be looking for economic development in the county as a whole, not only municipali- ties." Reeve John Corbett, Hay: "Two members were not pres- ent. It was a pretty slim vote." A member: "So was the County Home vote." The committee reported that it was "concerned with the monies being spent on the Emergency Measures program, not only in our county but throughout the province. It recommended establishment of a committee to study the feasi- bility of the program as it af- fects Huron and report at next session. The committee: the warden, chairman of the EMO committee and chairman of the warden's and personnel com- mittee (deputy reeve George Woneh, Clinton, and deputy reeve Elmer Hayter, Stanley). "There was quite a little dis- cussion that we are not getting value for our money," said Mr. Hayter, "It is no fault of Mr. Forbes, who is doing a good job, but whether or not it is of any value to the county we are asking a committee to study." Increase Salaries Adopting the report, council increased the salary of Dr. R. M. Aldis, MOH, to $12,500 plus $1,000 car allowance, and that of the deputy ,clerk -treasurer, from $6,300 plus $300 car al- lowance to $6,500 plus $600 car allowance. Clerical categories for the staff are eliminated, and a single category estab- lished, with salary range of $2,400 to $4,400, The warden is to get $800 hereafter. Ses- sion pay for councillors will be $20 .a day plus mileage, instead of $18, and committee pay also $20 plus mileage, instead of $15, both effective April 1, 1966. No Change Council decided against any change in the method of elect- ing the warden. Reeve Duff Thompson, Clinton, had pro- posed at January session that (Continued on page 8) Rest Home Campain Reaches $50,000. The first milestone on the Dashwood, 4; Exeter, Henson, road to success for Blue Water and Stephen Township, 3 each; Rest Horne passed this week — Bayfield, Clinton, Goderich, and with announcement that $51,- Tuckersmith Township, 1 each; 645.15 had been raised to date clubs and sundry, 4. in the campaign. An objective The next goal for the cam - at least $100,000 has been set, paign is $75,000, which they There have been 173 gifts of hope to reach by May, when a $100 or more to date, including cornerstone ceremony is plan - 15 over $500 and 14 over $1,000 necl. The committee appreci- each. Everyone who contributes ates all the untiring efforts $100 or more qualifies for mem- that have been put into the bership in the corporation. At campaign, and is now tirgiiig the present time me;tnbership all canvassers to complete their represents the following areas: job as quickly as possible. Zurich village, 85; Ilay Town- Meanwhile, construction at ship, 25;; Stanley Township, 22; the site is moving ahead rapid - St. Joseph, 12;Grand Ilend, 8; ly, and within the next couple of weeks the contractor hopes to have the steel roof in place. Many people have stated that the building looks much larger than they had expected, so this is an indication of 'how large a project Blue Water Rest Home actually is. The campaign committee re- minds people that there are still many fine opportunities for memorial gifts, such as furnishing rooms, equipment and the like. Any person in- terested in donating memorials should contact J. R. McKinnon, manager of the Hank of Mont- real, Zurich. Lucan nyirm Wins School o tract Frank VanBus`se1'-& Sons Ltd., who built Goderich Township's public •school at Holmesville, Clinton's federal building and is now completing an addition to the Zurich Public School, has been awarded the contract for the new 16 -room school being planned at Brucefield. The board of Huron School Area No, 1 met at SS 10 Stan- ley Township (a mile west of Brucefield) 1 a s t Wednesday night, to open tenders, led by chairman Vern Alderdice, RR 2, Kippen. Other members of the board are W. D. Wilson, Brucefield; Bruce Keys and Jack Taylor, Varna; Brigadier Morgan Smith, Bayfield. J. E. Caldwell, Henson, is secretary -treasurer of the board, which has jurisdiction over the elementary education facilities for the townships of Tucker - smith and Stanley, the village of Bayfield, and the hamlets of Varna, Brucefield and Eg- mondville, Goderich — County council at its March session approved grants. to the University of Western Ontario totalling $2,200, including $1,000 for its build- ing fund. The University of Waterloo will get $1,000 in bursaries and $200 for scholar- ships. For Waterloo Lutheran University $200 in bursaries was approved. Guelph Univers- ity will get $300 for scholar- ships and Western Ontario Agricultural College a $100 scholarship. . "The time has come," said Reeve C. Boyle, Exeter, chair- man of the legislative and edu- cational committee, "when we have to take a look at these university grants, because every year more are trying to get on the gravy train. We have to determine which is our home university, and I think the con - census of the majority of the committee was that the Uni- versity of Western Ontario and the University of Waterloo will serve this county fully in all phases of education—engineer- ing at Waterloo, law and medi- cal schools at Western. We did not give Waterloo Lutheran or Guelph University any building fund money, because we feel this is about as far as this county can go." The finance and executive committee obtained approval for eight grants and listed six requests for support which were refused. One of the latter was from Blue Water Rest Home at Zurich, for which a grant had been sought, unsuccessfully, be- : mmittee recom- 'zended that "in view of the tent . trr which we are com- :it.ted '' field of care for v'ior c t ; at Huronview, no grant be made to the Blue• Water Home, "We feel we have been over- looked again," protested deputy reeve Delbert Geiger, of Hay. "You must realize what this Blue Water Rest Home is going to mean to Huron County. When it was first mentioned about the addition to Huronview we had planned 100 to 125 rooms. This was brought down to what they are building now, and I feel we should remember that whatever we spend at Huron - view is entirely the taxpayers' money. In our district we are trying to avoid that. We have been asking for some help, and I gather from this report there is no help forthcoming. "1 would like council to take another look at this building, still under way, when complet- ed will be entirely out of the taxpayers' hands. The found- ers of this home deserve a lot Edi Again :;:e a+ix"IR uef ater ¢,, est Home of credit for their courage in starting it, and I would like to suggest to council it would not be any more than fair if the county would make a gift over five years, or however they see fit, 1 would not like to see it go entirely without assistance. We have so many of an age now, with fixed incomes, who are going to find it more diffi- cult to carry on their own housekeeping, that we are go- ing to need many more of these homes throughout the county. I suggest a donation of $10,000 to this home, spread over three to five years." Reeve J. H. Corbett, of Hay, supporting Mr. Geiger's view, said: "We are giving lots of money and grants outside the county which comes from our taxpayers. Don't you feel we are entitled to some of it in our own county. By the time this home is finished, will there not be enough to fill it? The committee has done a lot of work to get this home going. We are going to need it, and 1 would like to go along with Mr. Geiger's suggestion, rather than have one or two members of council decide it." Reeve Leroy Thiel, Zurich: "I feel deeply disturbed about the recommendation of the finance committee. Although this home does not lie within the bounds of Zurich, we are closely con - (Continued on page 8) Stanley-Tuckersmith School Dispute Will Be Settled By Huron County Judge Goderich — With "prelimin- ary approval" already given by Stanley council to a $698,622 tender for construction of a Tuckersmith-Stanley central school in the Kippen area, county council sent to arbitra- tion a petition of certain Tuck- ersmith ratepayers who favor Egmondville, Harpurhey and northeast section of Tucker - smith forming a union school in Seaforth. Judge R. S. Heth- erington was named arbitrator in a report of the public school consultative committee. "Since the committee is aware of the fact that any de- lay will cause concern to the trustees of Huron County School Area No. 1," the report stated, ".t is requested that a decision be reached on or before April 12." The consultative committee comprises Reeve Carl Dalton, Seaforth; Reeve Wilmer Hardy, Colborne, and deputy reeve Everett Mcllwain, Goderich Township. In company with Inspector James Kinkead, they had wrestled with the matter on two days before county council meeting. Reeve Hardy I told council: "Until the ques- ' tion is settled, the departments of education and municipal af- fairs will not grant permission to build." "There is only one way to handle this," declared Reeve Clarence Boyle, Exeter. "We are going to have to have a board of education in the coun- ty. The sooner council mem- bers get down to thinking in broad terms, the sooner they will have all such questions resolved." "Some members," said Reeve Hardy, "appear to think the committee has pulled the rug from under their feet but we have had it rough and heavy. This is a great injustice to the children, and those townships which already :have the prop- erty and have spent a large amount. No matter who wins it is going to cost Tuckersmith a great deal. Even the minor- ity has rights, and the judg- ment of the arbitrator is not final, it may go to a court case. This is only a delaying action, which may be fought over again next November. In coming to the decision to appoint Judge Hetherington as arbitrator I feel it is the quickest way to settle this." "If a petition is not acted upon by (the local) council". said Mr. McIlwain, "a petition is sent to county council, which has power to appoint an arbi- trator. With the propaganda going on, it would be a prob- lem to get anyone unbiassed." Reeve Talbot, Stanley: "I should like to say for publica- tion we have not approved the debentures yet, only prelimin- ary approval." Warden Stewart: "We real- ized we had to bring in some report today. This looked like a solution that would be car- ried. In letting a contract for the school there is a time fac- tor, and tenders might have to be withdrawn, and the school board or Stanley would lose a lot of money." Mr. Berry said he would no- tify Judge Hetherington first (t.a*tinued on page eight) Renovating Township Hall Workmen this week began the big task of renovating the Hay Township Hall, located in the village of Zurich. A. new lower ceiling sbeing constructed along with a number of other minor c a17ges„ which should add greatly to the appearance and comfort of the building. Shown here are a couple of members of the Zurich Builders' Supply firm, who are in charge of the project, as they work on the new 'ceiling. Left is OrIan Schwatzentruber and on the Iett is Norman Fleischatter. New lighting system will also be installed, and new chairs are to be purchased as well.