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Zurich Citizens News, 1967-10-19, Page 1,eve oea N No. 42—FIRST WITHE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1967 7 CENTS PER COPY acNaughton Easy Winner l Huron With 5,000 Majority Hon. Charles S. MacNaughton, Huron MLA since 1958, posted his biggest victory since he en- tered politics on Tuesday, when he came up with a majority of almost 5,000 votes over his closest opponent, Brigadier Morgan Smith, of Bayfield, Mr. MacNaughton polled a total of 8343 votes, compared to 3723 for Mr. Smith. The third candidate in the race, Rev. John Boyne, rep- resenting the New Democra- tic Party, picked up only 1340 votes in the contest. Bayne is a Presbyterian minister serving congregations at Exeter, Hen - sail and Chiseihurst, Mr. MacNaughton, who is 56 years old, took the lead with ship and Zurich, where at one time a Liberal candidate would receive a majority of up to 600 votes. In Hay his majority was 183 votes, and in the vil- lage of Zurich he had 55 votes more than Smith. In the last election Mr. MacNaughton had a majority of 26 in Zurich, so he more than doubled that mar- gin in this year's voting. There was a 72.2 per cent turnout at the polls in Huron, compared to 69 per cent in the 1963 election, when Mr. Mac - Naughton polled 8920 votes, compared with his opponent, Harry Strang, who had 4249. There was no third party candi- date in 1963. Mr. MacNaughton, first elect - EARLY VOTER— One of the first voters to cast his ballot Tuesday in the poll at the Hay Township Hall in Zurich was Seth Ammans, of RR 1, Zurich. He is shown here as he watched his ballot being deposited in the box by DRO Mrs. Neil Walker, while Mrs. William Baechler, poll clerk, marks down the name of the voter on their official tally sheet. READY FOR SHIPMENT — Zurich Wood Products are quite busy these days manufacturing knock -down crates for Standard Tube and T.I. Ltd., in Woodstock, who in turn use them to ship tail pipes and manifold assemblies to United States. The boxes are shipped from the local firm in the flat and are assembled in Woodstock. They meas- ure 72"x40", and are 41" high. This photo shows officials of the firm preparing a load for shipment. (Citizens News Photo) County Councillors Debate Expo Trip ,Clarence E. Boyle, reeve of Exeter, made a •determined ef- fort at last week's Huron Coun- ty council meeting in Goderich, to have $340 remaining in the 1967 bus tour budget turned back to the County of Huron or used in a charitable way. His proved to be a voice cry- ing in ithe wilderness as •on a recorded division, his proposal was flatly rejected by a record- ed vote of 34-1, Boyle's being the only negative cipher. The section of the warden's and personnel committee report involved ,adopted on this divis- ion; was as follows: "During 1967, two short bus trips were taken. However, there .are funds still available in the bus tour budget. The committee agreed and recom- mends to county council that any ;fund available from this budget allocation be used to offset costs in connection with the' trip to Montreal." The "trip to Montreal" proved to be a .trip to Expo 67 by most of the members of Huron Coun- ty council in the lather part of September. Everett McIlwain, Goderich Township, chairman of the com- mittee, defended the action of the 'committee in recommending that the balance left in the budget be used to help pay transportation costs of ithe mem- bers to Montreal He said that for years county council had budgeted $500 for .educational trips for council members and that the Expo trip ,came under this heading. Other years the budget had been used up in plowing match and university bus trips carrying members where they had been invited. Boyle started the discussion going after the report had been read. "What is the residue in the bus trip budget that you want to turn over to the Montreal trip?" he asked. Warden McKenzie, Ashfield, replied: "$340 carried over". "I favor turning it over to the county, treasurer for the benefit of the county rather than go to help pay for ,the bus trip to Montreal," Mr. Boyle declared, with some heat. At this juncture, it was de- cided to consider the report in committee, with Carl Dalton, Seaforth, in the chair. Leroy Thiel, Zurich, led off the discussion. He said he had been asked by the press to clarify a discussion which had taken place in county council at the June session when the matter of the trip to Montreal was brought up. He wondered if it was the right thing to do to apply the funds in the bus tour budget to the Montreal (Continued on page 4) Sranley Tek } ish p Council. Approves Chase t Two -Year Term of Office Stanley Township council passed a by-law at their regular October meeting authorizing bi- ennial elections. Clerk Mel Graham noted that a nomina- tion meeting would be held on Friday, November 24, in the Township Hall at Varna and an election, if necessary, on De- cember 4. No further nomina- tions or elections would be held until the fall of 1969, Graham said. Reason for adopting the two- year term of office is to keep in tune with other township councils in the district who have switched to the biennial elections. Most recent of these was Hullett Township who gave notification of this intention af- ter their September meeting. Graham also explained that a lack of interest in nomination meetings might be corrected by the new legislation, and added that some unnecessary expense to the ratepayers would be avoided. Delegations from Brucefield and Varna attended the meet- ing to request improved street lighting systems for the respec- tive villages. No action was taken on the matter at this meeting. The assessment roll was ac- cepted as presented by the assessor, H. M. Hanley. Total assessment in the township is $2,734,150. Court of revision is set for November 6 at 9 p.m. in the township hall, Varna. A by-law was passed pertain- ing to the Talbot drainage works and council accepted ap- plication for two more munici- pal drainage works from George Clifton, Cliff Henderson and the John R. Murdock estate and Jack Coleman and Earl Love. Another by-law approving the new polling subdivisions was passed. Polling stations in Stanley were announced as fol- lows: No. 1, Calvin Horton's residence; No. 2, Ted Robin- son's home; No. 3, Varna Town Hall; No. 4, the Melvin Greer house, and No. 5, Blake school. the report from the first poll and never lost ground. His ma- jority increased as the reports kept pouring in. Smith con- ceded the election to the pro- vincial treasurer just 55 min- utes after the polls closed. An indication of the popular- ity of the top minister in the Roberts government is the fact that he won a majority in every municipality in the riding, even in Bayfield where Smith was rated as a heavy favorite with his own townspeople. Boyne, in turn, was low man in every municipality, except Hensall. where it is figured members of his congregation back him. In his hometown of Exeter, Boyne, received only 137 votes, also less than the Liberal candidate. Mr. MacNaughton picked up the best Conservative majority in history in both Hay Town - ed to the legislature in 1958, has been minister without port- folio, a member of the Ontario Water Resources Commission, and served on the civil service commission. Before entering politics, he Henson Kins . e Provide Seating Hensall Kinsmen Club held their meeting at the Kosy Korner restaurant, presided over by president Bob Caldwell. The annual Hallowe'en par- ade and party will not be host- ed by the Kinsmen Club this year, but free skating will be provided for all on Hallowe'en night, October 31. was managing director of the Jones, MacNaughton Seed ' o,m- pany in Exeter. He is a life member of the Canadian Seed Trade Association, a member of the Exeter Lions Club, former chairman of the Exeter District High School board and a found- ing director of the South Huron Hospital board. Bayield _ __. _....... 28 102 88 Clinton __._._.____ 91 885 347 Exeter .__ _.____ 137 1183 165 Goderich . _ __ ._ 309 1637 673 Hensall _...... _._. 90 231 72 Seaforth ..__..... 59 542 341 Zurich _._ 17 196 141 Goderich Tp. ..... 61 395 191 Hay Tp. _ ____ 122 421 238 Hullett Tp. 36 310 265 McKillop Tp. 46 256 247 Stanley Tp. 62 386 167 Stephen Tp. .... _ 94 696 264 Tuckersmith Tp. 119 513 336 Usborne Tp. -. . 55 446 125 Advance Poll 14 139 63 Totals ... _ .1340 8343 3723 0 Celebrate' t ,1fli n oversary t Kippers Church St. Andrew's United heel h at Kippeu celebrated its teeth anniversary at special .Mar v ices held on Sunday, Oeteber 15. The church was filled by many members and former members, and friends coming from ac far away as Kinnaird, B.0 .. and from many places in Ontari- --- Belle River, Port Credit. Ham- ilton, Islington, Toronto, Wheat- ley, Glencoe, Owen Sound, Chat- ham. Paris. Guelph, Kitchener, London, Granton, Li s t,a w e 1, Grand Bend, Goderich. Strat- ford, Brodhagen. Londes. ro, Mitchell, Seaforth, Exeter,;ay- field, Varna, Brucefield, Hen- sall and Zurich, Rev. E. Donald. Stuart, min- ister of the church, -welcomed all present to celebrate this very important milestone. it the history of the church acid in- troduced the guest preacher for the occasion, the Rev S. F:.. Maine, MA, BD, PhD, formerly a member of the staff of the department of history'If the University of Western k' . io and director of the exte esion department of the university. Now retired, Dr. Man,: has served as a member of va :eus church and governmental com- missions. Explaining that his morning address was rmr n of a talk than a sermon, D:- r.aine based his remarks on "The Song of the Fathers" found in the Aprochryphal book of Eeelesi. anticus" Referring specifically to the (Continued on page 8) HEAVY LOAD — When a transport arrived in Zurich on Tuesday with this big brine tank for the Arena, workmen faced a problem i as to how they could unload the three -ton unit. Luckily, Des- jardine Auto Supply were able to handle the long object on the end of their boom., and in this photo the wrecker is seen swinging the tank into position to slide it into the door of the equipment building, It still took a few standing on the front of the wrecker to keep it fromjumping up into the air.