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Zurich Citizens News, 1970-01-08, Page 1cru© No. 1—FIRST WITH THE LOCAL NEWS ZURICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1970 0 CENTS PER ,COPY NEW YEAR'S BABY - The honour of having the first baby of the New Year at South Huron Hospital fell on Mr. and Mrs. Ken Parke, RR1, Varna, with the arrival of their son on Friday, January 2. With the honour comes a host of gifts donated by various merchants in the Exeter area. The happy parents are shown here with their new arrival. Hay Township Let Contract At their regular meeting this week, the ceuncil of the Town- ship of Hay awarded the contract for supply of fuel oil and gaso- line to Ross Scott, of Brucefield. His tenders were as follows; fur- nace oil, 15.9 per gallon; stove oil, 20¢ per gallon; regular gas- oline, 20.7¢ per gallon; diesel fuel, 18.4 per gallon. The Scott firm is to supply all necessary pumps and other equipment needed with the con- tract. In other business at their first meeting of the new year, the council set rates of pay for var- ious officials; road superintendent $2.40 per hour; grader operator, $2,40 ler hour; other full-time help, g2.20 per hour; casual labour, $2, 00 per hour; assist- ant to cleric, $66. per week; clerk- treasurer $3300 per year. Councillors left thbir own sal- ary at the same rate as last year, but increased their rate of pay for special meetings by $3.00 per meeting. All other rates of pay for appointed officials in Hay Township were left the same Discuss Education Wednesday Night To determine the "Aims and Objectives" of education in Huron County, meetings will be held in all the elementary and secondary schools under the direction of the Huron County Board of Education. In this re- spect meetings will be held in the Zurich and Hensall Publf.c Schools on Wednesday, January 14, 1970, at 8:00 p.m. It is hoped that a variety of contemporary topics will be discussed by parents, senior students, . teachers and other in- terested people. To ics such as community use of schools, disciplinary procedures, and the need for Oral French, religious instruction, examinations, etc. will be debated. All Ontario is currently in the midst of a spree of educat- ional investigating and reporting. Perhaps its time for YOU to get on the bandwagon. Attend the meeting in your area, as last year. Numerous grants were made by council at the same meeting. These include; St. John's Amb- ulance, $10; Salvation Army, $25; Huron Soil and Crop Im- provement Association, $15; South Huron Agricultural Society; $40.; Canadian Cancer Society $50.; Zurich Agricultural Soc- iety, $150; War Memorial Child- ren's Hospital, $10; Huron Plow- men's Association, $10; Zurich Chamber of Commerce, $10; Each member of a 4-1-1 Calf Club in Hay Township will re- ceive $4 for showing his or her calf at a fair. Membership was approved in both the Ontario Good Roads Association and the Ontario Ass- ociation of Rural Municipalities, and delegates to the annual convention of both organizations will be named at a later date. 0 Huron in Favour Of Amalgamation The Huron County Board of Health is not opposed to amal- gamating the Iluron and Perth health units into a single health district. The board's pposition was re- stated last week'by Dr. G.P. A. Evans, Huron medical officer of health, who said the board as recently as December 22 reiter- ated its stand-- one it has been on record as maintaining for some time. "Huron County Board of Health said Dr. Evans, "is prepared to continue meetings with its count- erpart in Perth County to work out details and arrive at con- clusions and recommendations which it can place before Huron County Council and the Perth board inay present to the coun- cils to which it must report in the matter. "These discussions, the Huron Board is of the opinion, must be on the basis of equal represent- ation on an eventual joint board and a central location in the two - county area fox the headquarters of the proposed Huron -Perth Health District. It Offer New Course at South Huron in -Fall (by Shirley Keller) On the advice of the Advisory Vocation Committee, the Huron County Board of Education has agreed that a Grade Nine Boy's Occupations Course be establish- ed at South Huron District High School for the school year 1970- 1971. Indications are that the occup- ations courses at Central Huron Secondary in Clinton will be overcrowded next fall. South Huron High School has the space and almost all the equipment to establish such a course. The occupations courses were described by Gordon Moir as "probably the best thing that came out of the Robarts plan for education." This course is for students who have not graduated from elementary school but be- cause of age and ability have been promoted to the occupation classes. The board also has given ap- proval to the establishment of an occupations department at Central Iluron Secondary School' with George Cull as department head. This will be on a trial basis for one year retroactive to September 1, 1969. The board learned that tea- chers involved in the occupations course have felt that too little time was devoted at staff meet- ings to the unique problems they encountered, and desired that the occupations course be- come a separate department with a department Bead t� c0- ordinate planning and beneficial discussions. • The board also adopted a policy not to pay travelling expenses for night school instructors. Appointments to the teaching staffwereapproved: Miss Lynda Lucky Draws at Zurich Stores Various business concerns in the Zurich area conducted lucky draws at Christmas, and to date the following have reported the names of their winners to the Citizens News; Doerr's Superior Store; Mrs. Pat Regier, Earl Reichert, Mrs. Carol Arthur and Joseph Denomme; Westlake Furniture, Mrs. Robert Taylor, R.R.2, Hensall; Zurich Pro Hardware, Irene Frayne and Fred Mommersteeg. Guest to LA, D. McCurdy Public School; Mrs. Joan -Martin, Wing.- ham ingham P, S. ; Mrs. Marion Pullman, Seaforth P.S.; Mrs. Jean Mc- Gregor, Seaforth District Iligh • School; and Gerald H. Martin- son, South Iluron District High 'School. "These are the last of the replacements, " remarked Dir- ector John D. Cochrane. Part of the board meeting time was spent in hearing a presentation by Grade 13 geo- graphy students from Goderich District Collegiate Institute who have completed a study of their town, past, , present and future. Hensall Council Holds Inaugural Session On Monday;, Okay Fire Truck Purchase (by Min ie Noakes) No in .er i' al speeches were forthcon'r ng at the first regular meetinf the 1970 council of the v age of Ilensall. The routine Busino`ss was immediately entered into , the reading and •; 3 of the minutes of the . pre ous meeting. n being asked for his report, avpstated ha had plowed tided sidewalks when the thankedcouncil iiad` Vied at `rice for7, . the ei .-CoV • Dais:; .: rubbis the floor spa of old re had wall librar an nfoozed that ht a considerable lane disposing of he basement of and filling in t by the removal rs, also that he he walls in the soon as the ceiling vi11 proceed to paint D y ortecl that Frank Par- sons :,' e responsible for snow blo g;.a 'the dump ground. Wl<l,c ! asked if he has sufficient sand for the streets, Davis re- pled he hada The problem of dead limbs on trees was brought forth and Davis was instructed to survey the trees in the village for dan- gerous dead limbs and hire a man to carry out removal of same. Council brought to Davis' attention the fact that three of the shorter streets in the village have not been ploughed this winter, therefore he should con- tact the necessary party and have the plowing carried out. Arising from correspondence, council learned of several con- ventions and will send delegates to the Ontario Rural Municip- alities and Huron County Muni- cipal Officers Association meet- ings. The reeve told council he wishes to attend the Mayors and Reeves convention and would like to attend the Urban Munici- palities convention, also. Council is to set a meeting date in February with a repres- entative. from the Ontario Fire Marshall's department, to have Mutual Fire Aid explained in detail. Once again fire agreement came up for discussion and fol- lowing the advice of Hein Roose- boom and John Baker, the fol- lowing motion was passed "That the reeve and clerk be author- ized to sign the purchase order and fire protection agreement between the village of Hensall and the Township of Tucker - (continued on page 11) 0 Re -Elect Chairman Of Huron Board (by Shirley Keller) John Lavis, Clinton, was re- appointed Monday evening'as chairman of the Huron County Board of Education. The nomin- ation was made by Bob, Elliott, • also of Clinton who was later re- appointed as vice- chairman, and secondedr,by Dan Murphy, Goderich, In making the nomination, El- liott told board members he felt Lavis deserved another year as chairman of the board. Elliott said Lavis had served during the first and most difficult year and needed another term as chair- man to utilize the experience gained. "IIe may have made mistakes, Elliott remarked, "but a chair- man can't make those mistakes alone. The whole board is right behind hien. " In a very brief acceptance speech, Lavis thanked the board members for their confidence and indicated his intentions to serve diligently through 1970. HENSALL COUNCIL TAKE OFFICE - The newly -elected council of the village of Hensall held their inaugural meeting on Monday morning, and concluded their session in the even- ing. Back row left to right are Len Erb, village foreman E.R. Davis, Paull Neilands and Hein Rooseboom. Front row left to right are clerk -treasurer Earl Campbell, reeve Oliver Jaques, and councillor John Baker. They meet on the first Monday .of every month.