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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1968-06-13, Page 1A • • • • • 0 Whole No. 5231 1.09th Year SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THIMSDAY;JUNE 13, 1968 — 12.PAGES e Cent. •4 Tear, 14 Adrinve, Silver Creek Program -Underway A power shovel digs into Silver Creek as it widens the river to provide an increased out- let for Seaforth storm waters. At some points the river is being deepened as much as four feet which will ease theflow of water lute the Bayfield River. Here work is under way ad- jacent to abuttments for a new, bridge which will carry traffic to the Seaforth dump. Contrac- tor for the testimateci $29,000 project is Robert Nicholson Construction of Monkton. (Photo by Cantley). Vicious Storm Lashes Out; Raises Roof, Cuts Power Everyone knew the record hot humid weather which• had been a feature for several days was going to end SO6r1 hut no, one realized the end was to have such a damaging effect as it had on Seaforth Tuesday eve- ning. _ The storm, which hit approx- imately 6:15 p.m: with hardly a moment's notice and left just as suddenly, carried with it heavy rain and high winds which tore a portion of the roof off the Cardno Block on Main St. Two businesses, Say- auge Jewellers and Stedman's, both reported extensive water damage to materials within the store. Employees were busy Wed- nesday cleaning up and asses- sing the damage. W. J. Betts, district manager for the Sted- man's chain, could only estimate "several thousands" worth of damage as each thhe something was cheated out, they would uncover damage they ,hadn't thought of, he said. Volunteers, quickly gathered together by Ted Wilbee, were quick to volunteer aid and with the PVC worked to coyer areas of the roof that had bben strip- ped to keep flooding 'to a min- imum. '"It • was running from the ceiling like you were standing outside," said Mrs. Freeman of Clinton, tbe local manager. She was summoned" from her home when it was knOwn that Sted- man's was one of the hardest hit. Water at one stage was sev- eral inches deep on the floor according to Tom Wilbee, one of the volunteers. Water was drained into the basement as holes were drilled through the floor. Volunteers used canvasses and tarpaulins from A. J: Wright Transport Co. to cover up the roof after the tin covering had rolled off "like an orange peel". There was extensive damage to materials stored in Cardno's Hall, the largest and one of the oldest halls in the area but which no longer is used for pub-' lic gatherings. The storm did not confine it- self to the Cardno Block as it knocked out Power in different parts of. town and ripped branches off trees which in turn fell on wiring leaving highly dangerous live wires in the open.' The PUC was kept busy' throughout the night and Wed- nesday restoring power to a portion of Main St. as well as private homes. ' .Market and Sperling Etreets suffered considerable power damage as the Storm blown limbs and debris damaged trans- formers and downed primaries. Live wires lay on the ground at Ken Ready's on Centre St. and his residence was one of the places left without power for the whole night. Huge limbs lay on the ground all over town when ancient trees found difficulty withstand- ing the near gale strength winds Rain water dumped on the town also produced minor dam - Nationalism is "Romantid" Scottish (By Susan McLean "People Were Ndriving their cars on the wrong side of the road and thelr steering wheels were on the wrong side of the cart" This was the first startled reaction of Anne Caldwell, a member of the Young Farmers organiiation in Scotland, when she arrived in Canada. Anne, who is 21, and works with her mother and two broth- ers on her family's 170 -acre dairy farm in Aryshire, in the Southwest of Scotland, is spend- ing a week in Huron County with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Camp- bell and family in .MoKillop,* as part of an exchange program with the Ontario, junior Farm- ers. 'She is one of ten visitors from the British Isles — ft:our from Scotland, four from Eng- land and two froM Ireland; who are spending two weeks in sev- eral Ontario Counties. Anne will visit five counties and stay with two different families in each. "It's like becoming a &ember of ten families," 'she said. "Ev- eryone has been really nice and rve made se;inany friends. And Ws interesting to, smiler. Who yont be 'Staying With next." Girl • reerway ..Race for Votes in - With. age to the high school's newly seeded lawn. - The entire southwestern On- tario area was hit by the storm which produced a few tornadoes in the Windsor area and raised general havoc with farmers who are anxiously watching their crops grow. , If the storm did have its good side, it was the cooling down effect which the people were hoping would finally come. Hellyer to Visit Perth Transport Minister Paul Hell- yer will visit Perth riding next Wednesday fi and Will speak at a rally in New Hamburg Com- munity Centre in support of Perth Liberal candidate William Somerville. The 9 p.m. rally will follow a parade and band dem- onstration. A crowd of over 600 is expected. In other Perth campaign ac- tivities, Perth Young Liberals held an organizing rally Friday. About 200 teen-agers willing to canvass and campaign for Perth Liberal candidate Bill Somerville attended a Somer- ville Swing -In in Stratford on Friday night. Somerville, Perth MPP Hugh Edighoffer and Ron- ald Rollo, president of the On- tario Young Liberals talked to the young people. Huron riding voters -viill • have a choice of three candidates when they east their ballots on June 25th as a result of the last minute nomination of an NDP candidate. Nomination papers on behalf of Liberal and Conservative candidates had been filed for some time with Returning of- ficer Garnet Hicks of Exeter. While there had been indications earlier of an ND? nominee, in recent days association officials had indicated the party would A not t ontest the election in Hur- on. Rev. John Boyne of Exeter, who was NDP candidate in the provincial election last fall was a contender in the recent Lib- eral nominating convention and has announced he is supporting Malt Edgar the Liberal candi- date. Mr. Edgar lists his oc- cupation as teacher in his nom- ination — the same designation as When he ran in 1965. • He teaches at South Huron District High School, Exeter. The Conservative candidate Minute. -Entry by -NDP Tuckersmitll Gats Road, Drainl Tenders A special visitor wandered in- to Tuckersmith Cduncil's regu- lar June meeting, studied the. proceedings and left as quietly asit had come. It was a rabbit. While council carried on its regular business, a rabbit, one of the Huron Centennial School's pets, entered the meeting room as if to raise a point but left when Council could not fit him into its agenda. by the Department of Highways. It was the lowest of four ten- ders received. Being the only tender receiv- ed, council accepted the tender of Robert Nicholson Construc- tion, Monkton, for the open "work and the tender of Parker and Parker Construction, Hen- sall, for the closed work on the Hugill Drain.. The ,open work would, cost $500 and the .closed $2,749.80; Both tenders were Well above the engineer's es- timates. Council agreed to accept the tender of Roth Farm Drainage for $21,771, for the Layton Drain on the closed work. Council reopened tenders for the open work and also re -op- ened tenders 'for the Rogerson Drain. Council read for a third time a bylaw setting an interest rate at 8% for tax arrears. Due to wet conditions,dn his property, George Turner was .granteci an additional $500 al- b:hyalite in lieu of the nece8- sary change in drain construc- tion on his property. Complaints were heard about the delay of the deliverance of the township's new truck which Allan Nicholson, Road Superin- tendent, said was overdue by a few months. Discussion was raised regard- ing the sign reading "50 mph Begins" just west of Egmond- ville. Councillor Coombs remark- ed that the location of the sign was in a dangerous spot as it was too close to Egmondville. Reeve Thompson said he would look into it at the next county council meeting. Council had to contend with .. a heavy agenda- of gravel and drain tenders, reports and loan requests at the meeting. The tender of G. Heard Con- struction, Seaforth, to supply. and deliver 10,000 cu. ft. of granular B gravel at 39 cents per cu. yd. and 4,500 cu. yds. of granular A gravel at 1.05 per cu. -yd. for township roads was accepted, subject to approval McKillop Considers Repairs McKillop council is .consider- ing repairs and improvements to Grieve's bridge and has ask- ed for an engineering study. The bridge which now seryes. traffic on a township road, re- verted to the township when the • new bridge was constructed to serve the rerouted No. 12 Coun- ty road several years ago. . A schedule ofrental for use of the new township hall at Winthrop provides for a pay- ment of $25.00 per year for the Seaforth WI and $5.00 per meet- ing for other MA of township organizations. Council approved grants of $15 to Seaforth Fire brigade, $250 to Seaforth Community Hospital and $400 to Seaforth Agricultural Society. McKillop's share of deben- tures issued by Seaforth on be- half of SDHS was paid but council "withheld payment of $42.53 levied by the town which claimed payment was in arrears. Returns in connection with the sale of township history books revealed 273 books • had been sold. Cs ( Seaforth *Man - Injured in Fall Frank Phillipsr Seaforth phot- ographer, is in Seaforth Com- munity Hodpital following an accident in which he fell from the roof of his George Street East residence Monday evening. Rendered unconscious by the fall he was removed by Box Ambulance to hospital where he is progressing satisfactorily. Mr. Philips was painting his house when he slipped and fell onto a lower verandah and then to the ground. Visits Huron Junior Farmers • Anne arrived in Montreal in farmers. early May, after a six, and a half They have 170 head of cattle, day boat trip. from Scotland — including 70 milking cows. ',`We "I was sea sick the first two dais" — and will be in Canada for three months. Alter their farm visits are completed, she and several other young people from Britain, hope to rent a car and drive through Western Can- ada. They leave Canada on Aug- ust 3rd. The _Young' Farmers contri- buted only about $200 (Anne quickly converted' pounds into dollars to supply this figure) and the 13oat fare alone was $450, so the visitors pay most of the cost of their trip them- selves. ' Although the 'weather in Scot- land is quite similar to,the cold, wet conditions we are familiar with in Huron, Anne said the farms in this area are different from those at home. "We have many separate buildings on .the farm, opera- tions are spread out with one barn for hay and another which houses the cows. Our cow barn I s Called a "byre"." The Cald- wells tont their land ,as do about 50 per cent 'Of &Wand's ANN S CALDWELI:- varies," Her family's farm is on- ly ten miles from the sea coast, which has a lovely beach and the Southwest area is a holiday and tourist centre. There are only two express- ways in all of Scotland and the tourist traffic causes quite a problem on the narrow winding country roads. "Of course our cars are a lot smaller than the ones in Canada," Anne said. Scotland has no drive-in movies or restaurants. "When we go to the pictures, we sit inside," Anne said. Scottish young people have dances like ' In Canada but their sports in- terests are different. Baseball is unknown but soccer and golf are extremely popular. Mauchline, the nearest town to the Caldwell farm, has about the same population as Seaforth but not nearly as many "enter- prises", Anne said. Robbie Burns, - the Scottish pod, spent as great deal . of time...Iry Mauch - line which has a'conpIe of pub- lic houses, several shops and churches. The only inditstries in lifauchline are a stone works and are Always selling and buying," a creamed% . Anne' Wit', "eso the' tnisiber Only a few of the newer houses in Scotland have central heating,-accorditig to Anne, us- ually electric heat. Her house is heated, by coal fireplaces in most of the rooms, a coal cook- er in the kitchen and electric heaters in the bedrooms. Anne, explains that the climate is mild — "never really cold or really hot". ' Anne says that the Scottish Nationalist movement which is organizing in her homeland is "a good idea", but doubts that it could work. "We are' too tied to England to be economically independent," Anne says. "I'd like to think of myself as a Nationalist." She added that this ' was probably a romantic notion, not a practical one. , Anne, who is friendly and talkative, expressed apprecia- tion ''for the warm hospitality shown her by residents of the area. Included among the sou- venirs she has collected in, the last month are a silver broach from the Huron County Junior Farmers, a copy of Isabelle CsiMpbell's "The History of Sea - forth" and large picture pos- ter of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. is the sitting member Robert E. McKinley, Zurich, who lists himself as farmer and business- man. Mrs. David (Shirley) Weary who teaches business and com- mercial at Central Huron Sec- ondary School, Clinton, was nominated as NDP candidate. She is a resident of Goderich. Mrs. Weary, 33, with four chil- dren, has taught school for four years. She said she is running for the NDP to give citizens who don't want to vote either • Liberal or Conservative an alter- native.' Official agent for Mr. Edgar is Gordon 1VIcGavin of Walton, while Mr. McKinley's agent is Kenneth Parkes, RR 1, Varna - The agent for Mrs. Weary is a student, Grahame J. Bealchnst, 152 Lyon Street, Ottawa. New Sign for Liberal Rooms Seaforth Liberal committee rooms, on Main Street now sport a large red and black iden- tifying banner installed by workmen Wednesday. Progressive Conservative , campaign head- quarters have been established at the corner of Main and John Streets. (Photo by McLean). Council Takes Steps Urging Property Owners to Clean-up Complete disregard of pleas by Seaforth council's" clean-up committee by a few property owners to spruce up their lots in time for Seaforth's 100th birthday celebration has forced council to talcia further action. Meeting Monday night, coun- cil in an effort to avoid legal action and at the the same time get' results agreed to request property owners concerned to attend a meeting to discuss with council members ways of cor- recting the situation. Council members said they didn't want to take drastic ac- tion unless necessary as they felt they should work with the owners of • the unfavourable areas to have them ready fdr the reunion and the visitors. A by-law authorizing Mayor Frank Kling and Clerk Ernest Williams to sign the contract enabling paving and reconstruc- tion of West William St. and Duke St. to begin, was read a third time and passed. Reeve Carl Dalton reported on the work being done by the public works committee. He said progress in gravelling town streets, stump removal, citing of trees, grading and oiling streets has brought up few prob- lems. He was particularly hap- py. with the oiling being carried out which has helped keep the dust down. He also discussed with coun- cil the possibility of obtaining ashphalt chips, to fill„ holes on the streets. Councillor J. C. MacLennan said the chief ,of police has been asked to assist the town in con- trolling the number of dogs running loose and those with no tags. Council members agreed the situation was becoming un- controllable in some areas. "One lady asked how old the dog must be before she has to get a tag. I told her after it Was born," laughed Councillor Mac- Lennan. Councillor Betty Cardno re- ported on the planting of shrubs .in Victoria Park. She asked council to approve addi- tional costs for fertilizers and labour up to $200. Mrs. Cardne, who had attend- ed, a meeting of the Mid-Weste- ern Ontario Tourist Council, told ef brochures whichpromote tourist attractions throughout the area. Council, on behalf of the Town of Seaforth, agreed to purchase and donate the already published story of Seaforth to the National Museum of Science Huron Young Liberals Elect New Executive " Liberal candidate Mait Edgar and Action Trudeau speaker Fred McDonald from Ottawa were guest speakers at the Hur- on Young Liberal organization- al meeting and rally in the Clin- ton Hall, Frid-ay evening. Over 60 young peonle from every corner of the newly en- larged Huron riding attended the affair as the slate of offic- ers was introduced by chairman John Elliott of Blyth. Paul Steckle, BIt 2, Zurich, was elected president., secretary Is Bert Clifford, Clinton and James Stott, Seaforth Was nein- ed treasurer of the gfoup. Also elected were ten vice-presidenta 'and five directors who are dis- tributed evenly throughout the riding. Mait Edgar received a stand- ing ovatipn and expressed a special Welcome to representa- tives from two of the new areas added to Huron riding --.Lu- can and Winghani. He gave a brief outline of the Liberal platform and told how the yolnig Liberal, many of thein under the voting age, could help in the campaign. He mentioned' such things as put- ting up posters and handing nut Ilterattirs. Mr. McDonald spoke on the (Continued on Page 8) ,...,-- request was made by the and Technology in Ottawa. The mu- seum. A letter was receil'red thank- ing the Seaforth town council. for hosting the Huron County Area Municipal Officers Associa.. ti onpaymmeeenttin gf 0. r tbe A. B. Dick duplicator recently obtained by council to the amount of $524 was ordered paid. All council members also agreed to attend a meeting June 20 regarding the control of fires in townships in the Sea - forth fire area. The meeting is to discuss the possibilities of an inter -council committee be- tween the town and the sur- rounding area. The PUC co-operated with the Chamber of Commerce to erect flower pots an' flags on alternating street light - poste along Main St, employee laelt Muir begins his destent after'hanging one of the flower pots.