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The Huron Expositor, 1968-03-14, Page 9• Are High School. In 1: (By Keith Roulstoe) Area ploeeers were conscious af the need foc education. Us- ually one of the first buildings to be raised In a community was the familiar one -room schoolhouse. SeIlt first of logs and later of brick these schools provided primary education for pion,eer children. But as time passed there grew up a esire for children to have a better education: The , people of Seaforth first began to want a high school in 1872. A meeting of interested rate payers was held but it was •un. successful in gaining a school • for the villa The ball really began to roll in 1876. Even "then it was a quiet beginning. The first men- tion of a high school in the Ex- positor was in a June 9 report ofa Council meeting. "A' pea - tion askieg for Ole establish- ment of a high school in Sea - forth, was left over for further consideration." Thus the issue was eh,elved Lor over a year. It didn't 'show up again until the November 27, 1877 meeting of council. The minutes of the meeting read: "Moved and seconded, 'That in view of the municipal year being so near its close, inaug- uration steps to procure or esta- blish a High School in Seaforth should be left.over for the con- sideration of the council soon to be elected.' Moved in- amend - Campaign ,Opens This Week • The twenty-second annual Easter Seal Campaign opens this week in Ontario and for 16,000 crippled youngsters, this means that one day, many will walk unaided Without a fear of Obstacles or barriers in their path. , - • The campaign is sponsored in the Seaforth area by the Sea - forth Lions Club. The ,coirunittee is headed by W. D. Stephenson. The summer is not too far off, which means a camping ever- iece for 1,200 crippled kiddies who will attend all five camps owned and operated by the On- • tario Society for Crippled Chil- dren. Aside from fresh air and Sunshine, twot of the most im- portant benefits of a health -giv- ing vacation, there are the rec- reation programs which hold many therapeutic values for in- firm little bodies. Baseball, swimming, tennis and shuffle- board assisted with a little fishing and the home cooked meals make the Easter, Seal Services .program in your com- • munity all worthwhile. The Beater Seals which. will arrive at area •homes are for use on letters and parcels to itenind others. Equally impor- tant is to return the convenient Pink 'envelope so- the Lops e Club • can continue the impor-, tant work of helping erippled children. II• ment, 'That in accordance with . the petition of ratepayers ref- rence to a High School, the clerk be instructed to cemmunicate with the Educational department - to securp a visit of the High School inspector to this toein, bet a the same time the council do net feel disposed to express an oplitiOn On the subjeet or in any way comMit itself to the. proposed high school scheme." It. was the next siunmer that the first Positive steps were tak- en. The Expositor Of. June 14, 1878 states. "Aswill be seen by the proceedings of the last goun- • ty couneil, that body at its last session passed a resolution gran- ting Seaforth permission to ea- tabIish a High School and, the following gentlemen were ap- pointed trustees thereof: Messrs. A. Armitage, S. G. McCaughey, - and Thomas Kidd. At a meeting of the Town Council subsequent - ler held, Messrs. Dr. Gowielock, D. Johnson and Dr. Vercoe were appointed trustees by that heft', in addition to those named above It now remains with the people of. Seaforth to say whether or not they are prepared to incur the expenditure which the estab- • , New Shop At. SDHS In eluded in the newly reconstructed building officially opened Tuesday, is a .new industrial arts classroom. Shown here are two SDHS students operating some of the new machinery. (Expositor photo by lealeY.) • Guests Theme of Varna 4-H Group , The Varna 4-11 club "The Club Girl Entertains" met at the home of -Mrs. -Alan Hayter on Tueeday evening. Entertain- ing a guest, being a guest and invitation and thank -you notes were discussed. Mre. Hayter demonstrated how to pack a weekend bag. The next meet- ing will be Wednesday after- noon, March 20th at Mrs. Dow - son's. A flower arrangement demonstration will be held 'for the Zurich and Varna 4-11 clubs on Monday evening at Goshen. • The. theme for the. Varna UCW meeting held • Thursday at the church was "We Will Build Our Church". The presi- dent Mrs. Reid opened the meeting with a poem and pray- er. Hy= 164, "The Church's One Foundation" was sung with Mrs. Bev. Hill as pianist. Mrs. A. Muetard led in prayer and Mrs. Grant Webster read the scripture, Matthew 16: 13-20. Mfs. Harvey Hayter gave the meditation and Mrs. Roy El- liott received the offering which was dedicated by Mrs. • S. Keys. A film "A Half of One Percent" was' shown and discussion followed on life in Japan today. Thank -you notes were read • from Mrs. John McAsh, Mr. and Mrs. Art Hunking and the Ex- plorer group for the help the ladies gave them' at their pan. cake supper. Reports of the Presbyterial held at Seaforth were given by Mrs. Hireey Hayter and Mrs. ' Bill Dowson. It was decided to buy a slide and film strip pro- jector for - use by church groups. Several sick and shut- in calls were reported made during the past month. Mr. and Msr. Wilmer Reid and • Debora Stephenson are holidaying in Florida. ••• 1968 "Timmy", Kevin Lahti, tested his new artificial leg today by kicking off the month-long Easter Seal Campaign. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children in association with 231 Easter, Sea1. itervice clubs must reac h a $1,400,000 goal if all 16,000 crippled child- ren are to he helperthis year. . lishment!and Maintenalte0 if a High SchOol here will entail". The vote was taken Jule' 22 and the Eel:miter Of that ,Week stated "The byeaw for the pule - Pine of raising MOM for the er- ection of a High School bending was voted on en- Monday. last,and! was carried by Malerity of 78. There was a very small vote cast, there being only 100 for and 22 against the by-law. This is less than one-third the votes available. Next came the site for the school. The August 2 Expositor reported, "The trustees; at a meeting held on Tneeday .even- ing last, decided, to purchase, as a site for the new High School buildings, three acres of land from Dr. Coleman. The land is situated tag of Goderich; and easrof N Main Sreet. It has been pur ased for $359- per acre." ' Later in the year the -first principal or master of the school was hired. He was C. Clarkson, who graduated from the Univer- sity of Toronto. His salary was $1,100. The school opened in January 1879. The Expositor carried the names . of those attending the school. They were F. Anderson, F. S. Beattie, Neil 'Bethune, G. W. Dent, Alfred E. Dent, Lafay- ette D. Dunlop, Arch M. Dewar, Geo. A. Dewar, Geo. Edwards, Robert Evans, Frank Ewing, Jas. Fischer, William Hunt, Duncan Johnston, James Johnston, R. L. Marsales, Chas. MeKaY, William McKay, Joseph McNaught, John H. McFaul, Lucas Ross, 'Thomas (Continued en Page 10) , • Usborne •Council Council • met in their regal monthly session in the Eli vine Hall, March 5th. The f lowing motions were carried: That the Town of Exeter requested to stipulate that dogs identified by tag as beton Ing to .,Township of Usborn residents be turned over 1 mediately to one of the IT hornerdog pounds, if caught dog control officers in Exeter That the interested ratepaye be notified and the Elimvil drain 'report be read at th special meeting to be held o March 28th next. That application be made '' the Minister of Lands and Fo ests for approval .�f a by-/aw t proclaim the Township of Us- ° borne a --Regulated Township for hunting. That the road accounts am- 'k ounting to ' voucher • of $8,173.10 be passed for payment as presented by the -Road Sup- erintendent. That the general 'accounts amoueting to a total voucher of $2,894.97 be paid as" presented by the Treasurer. That tenders ,be - called for truck according to Dept of the supply of a yew lie ton Highway e specifications for the Road Department. That the Road Supt. be in- structed to prepare road expen- diture appropriations to pro- vide for the purchase et a new road maintainer in 1968. That by-law No, 3 providing for an appropriation for norm- al road 'expenditure for 1968 of $62,30800 be- passed subject to the approval of, the Dept. of Highways. • • That A. Fletcher be appointed as warble fly inspector at. the rate of $1.75 Per hour plus mileage and that 'F. Cooper be appointed as warble fly inspec- tor at the rate of $2 per hour. ' ,,eeireeieee' e et.ee „.• • Officially. Open Reconstructed Schiicit This is the new Seaforth District High Sehool as it ap- and includes new administrative facilities, lib,pears following completion of the iNeconstruction program. arts and home economies rooms as well as Several new elalis- ' The new section repiaced the original school built in 1887 rooms. (Expositor photo by HdeY.) HJ 1i SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1968— Second Section, Pages 9 to 16 akingliockey History.. A recent article in the Strat- ford Beacon -Herald accredited the Seaforth Beavers with mak- ing hockey. history. The article recorded.. the ma. • jor events in the history of the hockey club. It follows: "One spring, a few ar years ago, a small fire smoked m- • away unmolested in one of the a many backyards in this town. For the most part, the blaze be went unnoticed. But one face an tor was peculiar. Fuel for the g- fire was a pile of sweat -stained, e rpernory-filled hockey equip - m. Ment. The cause of most of the e.•sweat and the principal in ma - by UY of• the memories walked a- . way dejected.' rs That was the year Ken Doig le was going to stop chasing pucks e around arenas all over the n province. The fire, he thought, • was the end Of the annual in- to ward struggle that always heft r - o East ,Wawanosh Council met in Regular Session at 1 p.m. on March 5, in the- Belgrave Commun- ity ,Centre with the Reeve, •presleting and all members present. • The correspondence was read. Motions carried as follows: That the Council accept the gravel tender submitted ' by Joe Kerr' Limited, Wingham at 96c per cubic yard for supplying, crushing and haul- ing of 12,000 cubic yards of % gravel on the roads of the Township of East Wawanosh to the satisfaction <0 the Road • Superintendent .and also 60e per Cu. yd. for the stockpiling of approximately 1,000 cubic yds. in the pit. That Council accept the fol- lowing' Warble Ply Tenders. Inspector, George Walker at $1.50 per hour, Operator, Frank Cooper, at $2.00 per hour. Helper, Bruce Currie at $1.75 per hour. • That Council ;accept a re- quest re clean-out of McGow- an Municipal Drain where necessary. That the Council of East • Wawanosh accept the Tender of G. A. Gibson & Sons Ltd., Wroxeter, at $19,652.00 for General Contract on the Mc- Lean Bridge, Lots 39-40, Con. That the ,Township of East Wawanosh veil/ accept from the Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, the charge of $290. 00 as a flat rate for work requested by the Tivp, at Mc - Leans Bridge. That the Roads and Gener- al Aedounts aa presented be passed and paid. That By -Law No. 5, 1988 be read a third time and fin-; ally pegged. him dubious ab out 'go ng back ing, someone else on the Sea - for just one more 55Sfl 0It fbrth Beavers is. Because the was the end, too, of a domestic Beavers, you see, are the win - spat that always arose In the hingest intermediate club in fall. the Ontario Hockey Associat- 'My wife was after me to ion. quit, shuckeled Doig recently, to one day I just loaded up all "Own" The Title • the stuff, took it out to the They first wore. the ORA '13' backyard, threw a gallon of crown al, the close of the 1964 - gas on it, tossed in a match, • 65 season. Since then they have walked away and let 'er burn. let no one else near it Three I saved my good skates though,' first -place finishes three he , added with an even wider grin- • ' But the retirement: probably, the most 'dramatic m hockey, never really took effect. 'It didn't do any good because I just went out the next year and bought new stuff.' • And the 'new stuff', the `good skates' — and Doig — are still in the game. The combination is getting as many goals as it ever did. When Doig isn't sew - Ontario championships. And there is no 'sign of a letup. - But because new hockey en- tries arent known for being in- stantly successful, the Seaforth club toiled courageously through three preceding — and soinewhat leaner — sea- sons, before striking it rich. The team Was actually found - .ed in 1961, reviving intermed- iate hockey 'after a lapse of about 12 years. Seaforth Teen • Town purchased the sweaterii and socks, and the Towners reg- istered in a league called "The Big Nine." They lost in the triest playoff round. In 1963 things started looking up. Doig eand Jack efeLlevain returned from "Stratford's sen- ior Brevet and the :team wade it to the provincial finals, but lost to Uxbridge. - la 1964 Elmira put them out in the first round ofgrobp ' playoffs. At ,$ity ,Anstett_ charter meinlie.e 'the af ere% puts it, "That's the year We lost our legs." Twin brothers . Tom and Jim Dick went th Marys to play junior "B". Tt Was also the year the lured Ed Dohnage and Charlie Westtnan un from efltchell. :nage, a good-natured but rtig7 ged defenceman, is still play- ing. That was the year thee" (Continued on page 14) .• CONGRATULATIONS to the Seaforth District High School Board on the Completion of their Reconstruction Program - • We are proud to have been selected as sub contractors for excavating, grading, sup- plying and placing of fill and granular „ materials. G. Heard Construction Company 1 EXCAVATING and GRADING LOADING and HAULING LAWN ROLLING ASPHALT PAVING SAND, GRAVEL, FILL, CRUSHED STONE, TOP SOIL Phone 527-0307 R.R. 2, Seaforth 1..