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The Huron Expositor, 1966-06-09, Page 1Whole 1Vo Bin , 107th Year $EAFORTH, ONTARIO, TI TJBSDAY, JUNE 9, 1966 -- 16: RAGES Single \ Cbplea, '10 Ceti $4.OQ/*Yoar in Advice ice Lions • Annual Suggest. Never FOOti F"or ��,st Ca�rniva�" The ' 31St annual. Lions Sure- mer- ummer- Carnival,- which _ha be- come one of the 7iighlig is of the summer'seasbn.in Seaforth, will run .for three nights, start- ing tarting Wednesday', June 29th and will, conclude on Dominion Day, • Friday, July lst. In addition to special enter- • ainmetreatson each of t nt h the three nights, last year's features that proved so popular on Dominion Day are being repeat- ed. Representatives of our mum. • s 1 -• 1 Warn of 9 Rabies Advance A free rabies vaccination clinic in Seaforth, Friday, is one of seven clinics which will be held in the area in the com- ing week. The clinic 'will run, from 1.30 to 5:30 • p.m: At this time of the .year the disease is usually relatively dormant. However, , Dr. J. C. McLennan of the Department -of .Agriculture warns ' there could be 'an .increase in the number of cases of rabies in ensuing months. • Since April .est, tett cases of rabies .have been diagnosed throughout the county. In Tuck ersmith, one skunk and five ho- e/Ines-were discovered.'to• have the disease. Grey, and Morris each had a rabid fox. in ;Turn berry, one bovine andA in Col - bourne, one skunk :Were diag- nosed as having rallies: The if h»�:of SkidAnimals-. dive- sn liratteh,of the, Agriculture Department 'Sail, ,it .;inmost be 're- membered that for every rabid fo pr„ skunk brought to • their attention innumerable others1 cold,�'e of .rabies, n the .bush undetected. Here is a. list- of other free clinics scheduled in the area: "'-Constance, June 10, 10.00-a:m., to noon; Beechwood, June 13, 10:00 a.m., to noon; ,Moncrief, June 13th, 2:00' to 4:00 p.m.; Brucefield, June 14, 10:00 a.m. to noon; Varna, •June 14, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.; He-nsall, June 16, .1:30 to 4:00 p.m.. icipalities will compete for the ;log coning, championship in the afternoon . one Dominions Day; while the beauty contest finals wi11 be a crowd pleaser 'Ft1*at; evening, according to club of - Wednesday evening, the RCAF Clinton band will be.' performing... The other attrac- tion on the opening evening will be Ron Leonard and 'lefty Green, who will provide songs, magic, puppets and stunts. Miss Green, who was born in Lon- don, has worked on CFPL tele- vision and radio. Hostess ° of "Ladies Pay" for two years, she is also a trained singer. Mr. Leonardhas twenty years ex- perience as a puppeteer, mas- ter of ceremonies ' and come- dian. On Thursday night, the spot- light will beon versatile Billy Meek. This exciting performer from Scotland has displayed his show -stopping technique. on the banjo for over 20 years. As well, he is also a comedian. His refreshing approach. to comedy features his original "adult" bedtime story songs. Another attraction on the same night is the SDHS girls' trumpet band, under the leadership 'of' Nancy Berger. Friday afternoon when most of the townfolks will be at the park to celebrate the Dominion Day holiday, there will be plenty to do and see. The log; rolling contest will .highlight the day- as well as the prelim- inaries_. to _.the- beauty cenfest with the finals scheduled . for Friday evening. Another highlight on the fin- al 'evening -of the carnival; will be the performance of the Ban- nockburn . Pipe Band.. As we],1, there .will be the admission tick- et dra* icket-draw for prizes, worth $1,600 which includes a color televi- sion. In addition to the special en tertainteent` heli uteri Itirw:eaclir evening, there will be the long time favorites, including mid- way, bingo, penny sale and a wide choice of games" Proceeds • from the carnival assist in providing for main- tenance of Lions Park and pool. General chairmen of the car- nival committee this year are G. A. Whitney and Orville Oke. Mr., Mrs. A. Horner Observe Anniversary WAYNE McMICHAEL, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McMich- eel, Walton, received his de= gree of Bachelor of Applied Science, Saturday, at the Un- iversity of Waterloo gradu- ation. He is a graduate of SDHS and the Ford Trade School, Windsor. Miss. Jean •WNaughton, daughter of Mr:' and Mrs. James McNaughton,. RR 2, Kippen, was awarded the 'de- gree of Bachelor- of House- hold Science, at the annual Spring Convocation exercises et the University of Guelph. Slteeis4a. graduateeofeSDH&,,, P -:resen �Q' S wards Hank Scott was presented with the Sill's trophy as 'the; outstanding male athlete S.eaforth District Hi h School' awards day, Thursday. Principal, L. 'Plumsteel.' Prey" rented, awards to the students, for;;academie, sporting and otii-• er achievements. He 'toW--the students, ,awards were present ed:on=three different occasions, during year: t h y a r: t he Conn •mencement in the fall, the hon- or banquet which was held or Wednesday night and awards day. Other trophy winner were: Debbie Miller, who received the Duncan Cup as the highest scoring junior girl in the field day; Eric Ross, who got the Barber Cup, for being the highest scoring senior or inter- mediate boy; and Jim Dalrym- ple, who won the Ballantine Cup, as the highest, scoring junior boy. "" Bill McGrath won the shield as the outstanding student,, in agriculture. The shield was donated by a former board ,member, Gordon McGavin. . Joanne Eiligsen won the Smith trophy which goes to the student with the highest marks in the school. Mary Bew- ley, who had the second high-' est marks won a cedar chesk donated by G. A. Whitney. The_ ;chest is supposed to go 'to the stfident with the highest marks' but since a student can win it only once, the chest- went to; Mary because Joanne won it - two .years ago. If a boy has the highest marks, he receives a. writing desk. Margaret Whyte was the.. third highest in marks Brian Hodgert was the top boy, Student council' presented gifts to the four teachers who are leaving. They are .Mrs. Pul- len, Mr. Slattery, who has been at the school since 1942, Mr Richards and Mr. Manbert: Other award winners • in grades 10 and.11 were: greatest ntrib co ui ton to arts or -drama atthe school, Lorraine Huard; ;greatesi•�contributiibne to -antler Joanne Elligsen; athletic ' at, tainment,, Debbie Miller, Pat Bannon, Mary Ann . Phillips, Nicholson; contribution to school in general, Sharon Mr. and Mrs. Albert •Horner, Seaforth, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday, with an open house at their home, which 150 persons at- tended. Saturday night they attended a family dinner in their honor at the Dominion Hotel, Zurich. They received congratultt- tions from Gov. -Gen. Vanier; Priine Minister L. B. Pearson; Hon. John Diefenbaker; Robert McKinley, M.P. for Huron; and Hon. Charles MacNaughton, Ontario Minister of Highways., Mrs. Horner is the former Violet Rathwell, ' daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Rathwell, of Stanley Township. Mr. Horner is the... sort Of the late Mr. and Mrs. 3. W. Horner, Hay Township, The'.• Were Mar- ried at the hatethf the\'bride's parents, June 6t14,1,61.6; by the' late Rev. Daniel Johnson, Of Varna. r,• Mr. and 1Vtrs, •Ho'rner took tip residence in Varna, Mr. with was f partner with "'his brother in4aW Alfred Ings aenerhal store in the Village; In 7920- the sold their .tock in the store to Mr: John 1VIcAsh and bought the McKenzie farin one half chile East of Varna, Where they farmed until 1948, when they sold the farm and moved to Exeter. In 1950, .they purehased the Milton farm, just east of Sea - forth, where they farmed un- til -1960, when they:. sold the farm to Scott , Memorial iiospi-. tai Board and mbved to their present residence on East Wil- liam St: They -.have two children, Gor- don, of Kitchener and Marion,... Mrs. Frank Ruston, of Strat- ford. They have five grand children and one great grand- child. On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Pearl Case and Miss Marguerite. McDonald, both of London,` pottredwtea.:1n the evening, Mrs. Eleanor McAsh and Mrs. Doro- thy Ostrutm handled this chore, with Mrs. Keith Horner, Grand Bend and Mrs. Shirley holden, eirhnton. , - 'Guests attending the open house front a tri tante Cablefrom, Detroit,' Louden, :ttel'ien' est, Stratford; Clinton and Vail'., Patricia Ann Smith, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Smith, North Bay and grand- daughter of Mr. and Mirs. John Regier, Seaforth, has graduated from St. Joseph's . chool of Nursing, London. Clinton Fair Is Success Area residents took part .Sat- urday in many of the events at the 112th . Annual Clinton Spring Fair, which was held under blue skies and in 80 - degree temperatures, G. W. Montgomery, Agricul- ture representative for Huron County, from 1951 to 1957, op- ened the fair. He saiu a nation- al agricultural policy is needed for the •country. He tgld the crowd of more. than 3,5Q0, in the future farmers will regtiire (Continued on Page 4) Tuckersmith Buys Road- Maintainer Tuckersmith council agreed suited to their needs. Reeve El - to accept the tender of the L. W., Manufacturing Company, Paris Ont., for a new road grad- er, after an hour and twenty minutes of discussion at Tues- day night's meeting. The tender which council ac- cepted was the lowest of the four received. Council will pur- chase the 160horsepower Adams 660 $ grader at a cost of $22,683.15. Council had asked for tenders on the grader after the" May council meeting when they agreed . the 1961 grader Honor onor they have was not capable of doing all the work, especially in winter. For a time, council was un- deeided which of the two ten ders submitted by L. Wi anu- facturing' they should'adept. The company's other tendr was aft Adams 777 grader which was $1,500 more than the 660 B. Councilman Alex McGregor felt the 777'was worth the ex- tra money because he had seen both machines: -Ire also said he had' heard, from other owners the more expensive grader was better. - Councilman Ross For- rest also fevered the 777 at first. Perth Cashwell, .a salesman from L. W. whowas present at the meeting said the more ex- pensive model was- basically the same as the Silt) B. I•t'e said 'the 777 vitas intendedmere for eonatrttt tion work end the lest expensive %ode, . 'has' better (Geed ut d en age 4) gin Thompson told council they would receive a government subsidy only on the basis of the lowest'tender. Councillor McGregor said he did not agree with the govern- ment's ' law on subsidies but since he could not change the rule, he would agree to buy the 660 B. Road superintendent Al - (Continued on Page 4 Former President Ross Savauge, Seaforth, was one of nine former chairmen of the Mid -Western Ontario Devel- opment Association, honored at •a tenth anniversary celebration in New Hamburg, Tuesday. Three other Huron County men have. been president of the four -county organization. They are P. S. MacEwan, Goderich, Murray A. Greene and tithe late Willlain McKenzie, both of Exe- ter. Brian Flannigan, was elected Huron ,zone vice-chairman. Each county is considered.a zone and the direeters are elected in their hone x itlnlelpaltties, 0th. v inners Strong, Mary Sills and Murray Hull,•ey. • The following second and third, year students won school drests for obtaining an academ- ;ie::standing of 75%, Joseph Ball; .Mery Bewley; William Heliinga;. BrianHodgert; Murray Hulley; +$oie Kerslake; William Per- riep Carol • Shortreed; Margaret :Whyte; William •> Henderson; Ste en Brady; Joanne Ellig- gen• Leonard Jamieson; Karen Kat • Vida Malkii,MonicaMonie Mc Curdy; Jack Vanden Hengel; and Elizabeth Pennington. In grades 12 and 13, seven students received their senior letter for obtaining a 75% av- erage. They were: Barbara Ches- ney; Sally Cosford; Susan Mc- Lennan; William Morris, Bryan Stewart; James Traquair and Janet Turnbull. Other senior students who won awards were: greatest con- tribution to art, music or drama Linda Staples and Patricia Har- ris; leadership and contribu- tion to school in general, Eric' Ross, Mary Barnes and Diane Finlayson; athletic achievement Roba Doig, Alice Bannon, Jack McCall and Bryan. Stewart. Jobs in y uron Increase General employment oppor- tunities the- Goderich area and thro0'ghout most of Huron County continued on' the up- ward trend during the month -of May, according to figures released today by C. M. Jutras, manager of the National Em- ployment Service at Goderich. -At the end of May, 1966, 96 male and 87 female workers were actively registered with pderich- office,- eoptpayed a„ total of 292 at. the end of April, 1966. Mr: Jutras saki this steady decline in unemployment can be -attributed mainly -to ed contruction throughout Hur- on - County and to continuing stable employment in the man- ufacturing industry. A total of 202 vacancies were listed with the. Goderich Office during May of whish 153 were for male workers. Placements totalled 145 'during the past month. The Department of Tourism. and Information . will erect a plaque in the. area of the: •SONS to honor the former • Social Credit premier of Alberta, Wil- liam. illiam Aberhart. • Mr. Aberhart was a graduate from Seaforth Collegiate Insti tute. The SDHS board at a recent meeting acted on a request of the Department and agreed to provide a site for the plaque. It will be unveiled at a cere- mony being planned for this fall The plaque is one of a series being erected throughout the province by the' department, acting on the. ,advice of Arch- aeological 'and Historic. Sites Board of Ontario. Since this continuing program was inaug- urated in 1956, 430 historical markers have been erected: Born in Perth County in 1879, Mr..Aberhart- received his ear- ly education at S.S. No. 7, Hib- bert. At Seaforth Collegiate In- stitute , he was r a good athlete and played for the SCI football team which won the. Hough Cup in 1897. He later played on the 'famous Hurons, Canadian champions of the late nineties. He had planned to train for the Presbyterian ministry, but after graduating from SCI and Hamilton Normal School he be- came at teacher in Brantford from 1900 to, 1910. He earned his .B,A. by - extramural work taken from Queen's University. In 1910, he went to Calgary, where he became principal of first a public school- and then a high school.. Possessed of a magneticper- sonality and an ability to handle people, he turned _a Bible class of 60 members into a class so large that a building costing $65,000 had to be built in 1927 to hold the crowds. When the radio was still in its infancy as far as home use was concerned, Mr. Aberhart realized its possibilities-andllie- gan to broadcast. his Sunday lectures on Bible prophecy. The venture was an instant .success. Peer _he _was lit outside of Calgary. Then he ac- cepted the invitation of the Alberta Legislature, to prepare a plan of social credit for Al- berta and in August, 1935, was swept into ' the premiership of his province. Although leader of the Social Credit party, Mr. Aberhart was not a candidate in the election, A Minister who' had won a seat resigned in Ab- erhart's favolr, ' His religions fervour led Mr. Hon. Allan J. MacEachen, Minister ' of National Health and Welfare, who will speak at . the Annual Dinnermeet, ing of the Western Ontario North Liberal Association in Listowel, on Friday. - Cubs Win District Honors Seaforth Cub Pack was awarded the shield as the best pack in the field events at the annual eCubaree in St. Marys, Saturday. Over 200 cubs and 25 lead- ers from Milverton, Monkton, -Mitchell, St eViatysrKirkton and Seaforth attended. The Field events took place in the morn- ing, In the afternoon there was a parade down the main street, o owed by a circus••• -.with the cubs dressed as clowns . and other circus performers. Blazers and . Crests for each Assistant cub master Jim Montgomery ' was presented with his honor badge. Following supper, events concluded with a camp fire on the river flats. . Aber•hart's politicalopp2 but to brand his theories as ev- angelical . economics'" ',aind, to criticize..the'$Ocial.-Ciefilt,PO4. ty for -using religious by eria to . advance its own ends. 1V r, Aberhart .often said ]ie disliked politics'. and . was. brought' into that sphere. "'by the,. poverty of the people of. Alberta": Speaking in Seaforth during a short visit to his mother, shortly after assuming the pre- miership, he said, "There are children in Alberta who have not taSted butter or milk in the last three years, although they live on farms. Their fathers have to sell *all' the .milk the , cows produce to live, I can find no answer to this but the philosophy of Social Credit". !nitiate 55 KofC Candidates Father Stephen Eckert Coun- cil, Knights of Columbus, of Seaforth and District; were hosts en Sunday when 55 candi- dates received their major de- grees.. Candidates and. Grand ° Knights were present frena -Delhi, Simcoe, London, Strat- ford, Stratford, Goderich and Seaforth. For the .conferring of the third degree, William Killian, Peterboror was -the__ muster sof' the ceremonies, assisted by his Peterboro team. Preceding . the, exemplification of the third degree, . members within Dis- trict 31, conferred the second- degree on the candidates..' Following the ' exemplifica- tion of the degrees, 184 ICnights attended a banquet in ,the eve- ning at the Seaforth • Legion e Hail, which w:,:.£nte'get4, kY the Legion Ladies''•Alndhary: In charge of the arrange- ments was District Deputy, Cecil Tufts, Stratford,. of Dis- trict 31, __which _includes Strat- ford, Goderich and Seaforth councils. The candidates and guests were welcomed to Fath- er Stephen Eckert Council by Grand Knight, Charles Rau, who was introduced by the chairman, Cecil Tufts. The can- didates were congratulated' on (Continued on Page Town Honors Champion Beavers Seaforth paid tribtite to Sea - forth ' Beavers, Ontario Inter- mediate "B" Hockey champions Saturday, when over 200 per- sons crowded the Community Centre for a dinnerand dance in their honor. After dinner, master of cere- monies, Frank Sills suggested a sing sbng and aided by Bob Doig, he led everyone in "Hang up your old kit bag". Dr. Brady led in `Daisy" with a second verse solo. Ken Willis, Gar Baker and Glen Chesney fol- low. d with "Sweet Adeline" and"I Want a Girl". Mayor John Flannery said he enjoyed these banquets so much thpt perhaps it should be an annual event regardless of whether the teeth wins or loses. The mayor extended warm con- gratulations to the team on be- half, of council and the arena board. He said since the play- ers had so much energy and de- sire to win that maybe_ when a few players retire they would consider running for council where energy and desire are a constant requirement. Aformer Seaforth hockey grew, Joe SiIIs, visiting here from. Baltimore, recalled events of past hockey seasonsas he presented Beaver Captain Ed Dolleage with the trophy em- blematic of the Ontario Inter- mediate "B" OHA Champion- ship, Mr. Sills said he had been asked to do this same job 25 years ago, when Frank Sills played on the championship team. Today his son, Jim, was a player. Mr. Sills reminisced about . his first game as an in- termediate and recalled a re- cent letter which he had writ- ten to the Expositor 'about a third game in Sarnia when it had been suggested 'Seaforth had sold- out. However Seaforth did win and also received $200. Mi'. Sills was disappointed that he never won any kind of championship* with Seaforth. He was With Minneapolis when they Won the itY.S. ampion- ship and had such,treats oh the team. ss' Ching. Johnston, Taffy Able, tonne. Wriliery and Billy Boyd. Mr. Sills extended his con- gratulations, to the team and to Seaforth, which -he said has al- ways been a good sports town. Mr. Dolmage thanked Mr. Sills and all the fans for their support over the. year and to 'the arena commission for the use of the ice and the good condition it was always in. Mr. Dolmage suggested that if Mr. Sills wanted to be on a cham- pionship team here, he could get his skates -oil and come 'out next year when he predicted Seaforth 'Wotlid again take the cup. • Mayor Flannery announced the town's gift for each .mem- ber of the team would be a blazer, made possible through co-operation of the council and arena., commission who also joined in sponsoring the dinner. On behalf of the team, mana- ger Ray Anstett thanked the town and arena board for their support and gift. - The chairman presented each member of the team with -a medal from the OHA. Members receiving medal were: Dr, P. L. Brady; Bob Beuttenmiller; Bill McLaughlin: Jim Dick; Gar Baker; Ray Henderson;, Cliff Petrie, (top goalie in league); Don Morton; Ed Dolmage, (captain); Ken Doig, Jr., (stick - boy); Tom Dick; Ken Doig, Sr., (most goals scored); Bob Doig; Bill Teall; Larry Dale; Jim Collins; Ray Anstett, (manager);. Jack.. McLlwain, (most valuable player); Harry Cumings; Jim Sills; Joe Murphy; Ron Dris- coll; Wayne Rau; and Roy Mc- Gonigle. "For They are Jolly Good .Fellows" was sung, fol- lowed by the trio of Terry Ford, Bill Campbell and Jim Scott, who sang "Frog went a Courtin", "Go Tell it on the (Continued on rage 4) t. MEMBERS OP BRUSSELS Legion, bit Mot day evening, honored chariermeixtb'ers 4f the branch at a special banquet} in the new Legion Hall. Shown here, from left in front rtlty they to, t:clward Gestalt' Witltani tI ,nnd ltey ThueIlr .Pock rote, Williatti IIW Stiles, 't`itrOld' Philips and S; I3e'vin Elliott..*(Expealtor ,photo by l ti1fllps):