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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1967-06-15, Page 1A e • ✓1 e • • 0 4 Whole No. 6180 108th Year SEAFORTii, ONTARIO TIIURSb UNE 15, 1967 CrowdsAt The Caravarr. A steady stream of visitors await their •turn 'to tour the Centennial Caravan at "Lions • Park, Monday. The crowds were large but organization was such that no one had to wait long ' , About eight thousand streamed through between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m.. Below. Mayor Kling and Dr. J. 0. Turnbull, chairman of the Caravan cominittee, study the large crowd. Two of the area women dressed in Centennial costume who helped register visitors were Mrs. Neil McGavin and 'Mrs. Bill Campbell, (bottom). 8,000 Visitors See Caravan Here °Large numbers crowded Lions Park Monday as the Centennial Caravan came to town. Around 8;080 crowded through the seven trailers . that made up the caravan. But there were no long lines as everything was handled `efficiently. Dr. J. 0. Turnbull was in charge of the organization ' for the Caravan and Reeve Ken Stewart. of Mc - M ni° Honor Beavers The town of Seaforth is plan- ning a celebration to honor the Seaforth Beavers, three time winners of the Ontario ' Inter - Mediate "B" championship. Friday; June 23, has been set aside .for the Beavers. A dance and smorgasbord are to be held at the Seaforth Community Arena, beginning at 8:30 in the evening and ending at one. The Beavers are the only team in history to win the title three years in a row and a large crowd is expected to show ap- preciation of this feat. Admission is $2.00 and tick ets are. available from Seaforth merchants. • Killop'Township was in charge Of parking. Official welcome of the Cara- van took place at 7:30 p.m. with Reeve Ross McPhail, Hib- bert; Mayor. Frank filing, Sea - forth; Reeve •Ke1Iy Dalton, Sea - forth; Reeve Ken Stewart, Mc- Killop; Reeve Elgin Thompson, Tuckersmith; Robert McKinley,' MP for -Huron; Dr. J. 0. Turn- bull, Caravan committee, chair- man and Frank Sills, chairman of Seaforth Centennial commit- tee welcoming the Caravan. Er rol Jordan, in charge of the Car- avan; thanked the group ., ani complimented them on the beautiful Lions Park site:.chosen for the Caravan. Rev. D. 0. Fry was irecharge of a program which included the Atwood band the Seaforth Public School choir, a local singing trio and the Huron Centennial choir." Mayor Kling•sounded the Cara- van horn to declare it open. Members of the caravan staff were guests of Seaforth Branch 156, Royal Canadian Legion at a Veterans' Week party held af- ter the closing of the Caravan. Subseribers of •the Mellop Municipal Telephone System,xe- Versed an 'earlier decision Mon- day evening and approved the sale of.. the system to • the Bell Telephone Co. The agreed price is $80,000. • At a,meeting in February sub- scribers agreed to a proposal to°arfalgamate with Brussels and BIyth systems to• form a new company with 53 in favor and 32 opposed, At that time no al- ternatives were considered Following the meeting the commissioners entered into dis- cussion with McKillop council and it was agreed to determine whether alternatives to the am- algamation were available and if go to have such alternatives considered by subscribers. The meeting Monday night resulted. • Subscribers considered two proposals. The first — that of. Bell — and a proposal by Mait- land Teleservices Limited. to Wreckage' Reveals, Name,' An associationwith a Sea - forth school building extending over 65 .years was recalled this week- when Walter Murray found his name inscribed on. one of the timbers uncov''ered as the older section of Seaforth District High Schifol was being demolished. ,Mr. Murray attended - what was then the .Seaforth. C,elleg- iate Institute from 1902 to 1905. In 1938 he was employed in the construction of the last pre- war addition and it was during this project that he autograph- ed the timber that now has come to light. - Mr. Murray is 80 and working every day one house he. is re- odeling. Welcome Rector, to St. -Thomas- Church St, Thomas' Anglican Church, Seaforth; welcomed a new rec- tor . Tuesday night with the in - Urges• 'Ontario Action on ARDA The provincial' government musr initiate ARDA projects to avoid the waste of millions of dollars in federal grants avail- able from the agricultural re- habilitation and development act, Ontario Liberal" Ieader Ro- bert Nixon told the annual meeting- of the Western. Ontario - North. Liberal Association in Walkerton Friday night, The meeting was proceeded by the association's annual dinner. He said that only 5% per cent of the $10,992,500 alloted in 1965 for Ontario by the fed- eral goyernment has been spent. He said the province lost $8,- '500,000 in :federal grants be- tween 1962 and ;1965. Since 1965 Ontario has had a $5,058;000 -..per - year -allotment. More than $1,000,000 was spept in March when an election was being considered, Mr. Nixon said , Mr. Nixon said ARDA was designed to promote more ef- fective use of land, conserve and develop soil and water resour- ces, retrain rural people, im- prove living standards- and de- velop employment opportunities. He said 40 per- tent of the federal funds are used by New- foundland and Prince. Edward island and Quebec uses about 54 per cent. ' Mr. Nixon saw a properly ad- ministered programas the most effective way to correcting dis- parities between many rural areas and the remainder of the province. The government* should start (Continued on Page 4) 'Veterans.- Parade Area Veterans Mount 'the steps to Pint Presbyterian Chuan, Sunday, en their wa o the a mitral Veterans' Week Service., The Veterans took part itt a march to and . e chureit and h brief Service at the Cenotaph following the ehuruh service when, wreaths the nix wi°e th i ee a s Were a d � � ��eve . C ` ,: �' ail ri�ton, airtt 1�giait�' p�'e�idQdt l;i. ",r: Case . �' ,; ,�►•, eic `C:htirelx a new carillon oi' WeWW. ' nae$ the set el y d at�un Of ' 1~'3z'at .... � , � �� � ably special��: duction of the Rev. Stanley Sharples, M.A. Mr. Sharpies was educated at the University of London, Eng- land. He came to Seaforth,frorri Delhi where he served thirteen and a, half years. Previous to that he was two years in`'Dur- ham. . The Rtey. H: Appleyard, Bish- op of Georgian Bay, performed the induction. Clergy from the Deanery of Huron were present along with special guests, Rev. Lawrence Owen, Simcoe, Rev. David Rose, Church of the Re- deemer, London and Rev. Ostler of St. Andrew Memorial Church, London, Guest preacher , was the, Ven- erable Roy D. Mess, Archdea- con Mess 'won the Military Med- al in the First World War. lie gained his Doctor of Divinity at Huron College and has seen all his ministry in this diocese. Shriners and Kot C Hold -Slag A stagand buffet dinner spon- sored jointly by the Knights of Columbus and the Bluewater Shrine Club was held Saturday night with the proceeds going for work with crippled children. The event ,featured a draw for '$1,000 in prizes. Only 500 .tickets were sold. The first ticket and every 25th ticket drawn won $25 and- the final ticket "drawn won $500. Winner of the $500 was Earl Soldati of Henan. The only Iocal winner was Ed Boyce of Egn'rondyilIe who won $25. Other "`winners of $25 were A, N. Martin, 'St. Thomas; IJ. Mathers, Exeter; Roy Brock, Hensall; W. T. Lu y,. -code. rich; Roy. Mann, .Clinton; G. Walker, London; Norma Val- lance,, London; Kaz Brudnicki, Goderich; IL G. Duckworth, Goderich; Bill Wisser, Goderich; va Ed' Boyce, Egmondville; Stew 'o Laurie; 'Lozidb'ti; Lloyd'Garland. t Godet'ich• J. Sturdy, Goderich; f+x 0lon, Price, Clinton; Alton Is- nat, • RR 1, Ciandeboye;' Irvin SC leiettert, Clinton; Robert Al- eoek tendon; r c�AXi . s Stuart Fomes>: Goderich. 10 PAGES.. hone ystem for single Cope 42 Q SOX a Year ifX 4l Y purchase the system by delivery of 6,4$5 shares of stock in Mait- land at a par value of $10 a share. Both offers would be effee- tive December 31, next. The of- fers were read to the meeting by P. D. McConnell commission solicitor. . Reeve Ken Stewart was nam- ed chairman.. The meeting ori- ginally set for the township building at Winthrop,, was held Honor 10 . Years Service Members of the Seaforth Dis- trict High School board recalled ten years .service of former board member John A. Cardno at the annual students' honor banquet $ week ago when they presented him with a gift:- Mr. Cardno, Who had represented Seaforth on.the board, retired at the end of last year. Frank C. J. Sills, a former board chairman, recalled Mr. Cardno's contribution and on behalf of the board presented him with a gift. - Area Man a r Inured in Fall Oliver Wright, RR 2, Seaforth, is in`improved condition in Vic- . toria • Hospital, London, . after being badly injured in a fail last Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Wright was helping to move a granary on the farm of William McDowell, RR 2, Sea - forth, when he fell. from on top to the floor below. Working with him at the time were Mr. McDowell and Jack Carter. He was rushed to Seaforth Community Hospital and then transferred .to. Victoria Hospi- tal, London, with a brokeir right wrist and fractures of the left arm and shoulder. He was tin- concious for some time but now is feeling much better. Couple Mark 40th Wedding outdoors in the. hot June weath- er when attendance far exceed- ed the capacity of the hail~ W. J. Leeming, commission chairman and Harry. Smell a former chairman, answering a query • from Harold Storey. said it was. considered necessary -to sell because -the system was too small to operate economically - Mr. Snell said he favored the Maitland offer since this would result in control 'remaining in the area. Under Bell there • .would be no- exchange -ith Blyth' ori -Brussels •wliiel! would .be provided by Maitland, at theeoerall -den bt of Maitland w . inquired ha6 and Don Young, Maitland spokes- (Continued on Page IQ) ' Judges Fate Tough Job . There is going to be keen competition when Seaforth area citizens':meteh beards at -the Seaforth Lions Carnival Centennial championship. Some of the contestants pietu ed .as they . checked each other are (lower 'left) George Kruse, John Segeren, Ken Coombs, D'orlean� Sills, Bill Brugger, Jim Sills, (rear) Bob Read, Brian, Flannigan, Ken Moore, Gurdon 'Miller and Art Devereaux. - _ Ie.a.r Proposa1ti Provide Iazers for Fire Brigade Seaforth• Town 4Jounctl, Mon- day night, voted a grant of $100 to the fire department toward the purchase of distinctive jack- ets. • The jackets are to be firemen's green in color, with a Seaforth name crest on them, :Councilr for George Hildebrand said the jackets would be worn by the firemen at official functions arid at Mutual , Fire Aid meetings where it would make the Sea - forth brigade' stand `out from the rent. Each of the firemen is i pay ng part of the cost'himself. Mr, Hildebrand also wonder- ed if there was some way of distinctively marking firemen's -cars. ,"Often," Ije said, "they 'have a hard time getting to the fire if they don't ride on the truck. They _are often de- layed by police along with the rest of the traffic. Distinctive `markers would .help eliminate this." After considerable discussion council Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bolton the Boy ScoutdFunto d for tive he our- Of00 McKiliop celebrated their' chase of a hall for scout and 40th wedding anniversary . on girl guide activities. Councillor Tuesday. The occasion was marked when their two sons, Arthur, who lives on the, home farm and Malcolm of Perth, Agricultural Representative for Lanark County,.,_. along with their wives and four grandchildren, entertained them to dinner at the Clinton Hotel, After dinner they took them • for a drive to their old school, SS No. 6, Mc- Killop where their relatives and friends: were gathered for at so- ciaL ,evening. A.n address was read by Dyke Wheatley' and presentation .of a pole lamp was made by Gor- don' Pryce on. behalf of their neighbors, Mrs. Arnold Jamie- son and Harold Belton present- ed a clock, bedspread' and.rel- ash dish from their brothers and sisters and their families and a record cabinet was presented by their immediate family: Mrs. Bolton is the former Ed- na Johnston, daughter of the late Mr, and Mt's. William A. Johnston and Mr. Bolton, son of Mrs. Scott Bolton and the late Mr. 1361ton, were married at the McKillop Manse, on June lath, 1927, by' Rev. J. A. Fergu- son. They farmed at lot 14, Concession 9, McKillop ..Town-- ship until 1959 when they mov- ed to la 23 where they now reside... -. Mr. Bolton has taken a promin-, ent part bi'the community and county, For a number of years he was president of the Ontario - Wheat Board and has served in riotts capacities• with the Hur- n Federation of .Agriculture, he'i•Iuron Medical Services Sea- rth•• Agricultural Society and the Seaforth District ° High hoof beard. Its is returning off e er sir. .�. 6 ,the riding of 1iurion. Both . Asch Mrs.- Bolto0,t 7' nret �11'nst 8cti* :" ntIi Cis .Control Stray Dogs sA new solution to•the peren-i tits of used building material Betty Cardno thought the groups should make better use of ex- igting facilities.- Mr. Hildebrand' pointed out that the scouts needed someplace , to store equipment. "Each patrol in the Cubs, Scouts, Rovers, Brownies, Guides and.Rangers has almost a steamer trunk full of equip- ment. They can't leave these he public buildings and it's too much to carry around." • Councillor J: C. MacLennan' wondered how much a building used only by the scouts would be in use. Councillor James Kel- ly assured him that at the pre- sent time aotivitye goes on' five nights and two afternoons a week, With the fund still shy of its goal council decided' a donation of .$100 was not out of the way. Curtail Fireworks Council also gave final reading to a by-law that will allow a fine of up to 350 for anyone. care- lessly setting off fireworks. The new law forbids the use of fireworks on streets and high- ways end in public places. It is- expected to be heavily en - n problem of straydoge. was unvieled Monday night when Seaforth council approved an arrangement whereby public works employees will be ap- pointed animal control officers .and remunerated on the basis of the number of dogs caught. The schedule of payment.i agreed on is $3 per dog while � carrying out their ordinary du- ties and $5 if the dog is' picked up after hours. The payment will include care of the animals while in the pound. - Reeve Dalton Who presided in the absence of Mayor Kling who had been galled from town,- suggested the problem coftld be solved with a .little more CO -operation. Citizens complain about dogs but won't -do anything to clear the situation. • , "They tali up and ask , what to do," Clerk Williams said, "and''' I teII them to call the police and lay a charge. Then they say 'but I can't do that. Its my neighbor's dog'." • Councillor Robert Dinsmore reported 'on the clean-up pro- gram he is /leading, said letters had gene to the owners of some 20 properties which required cleaning up. Re is having a fur- ther cheek made this Week to determine progress being made. Council diserrsse4 area ad, 0 it dlr,_1aett tO'•S1!)HS .wtr'h'i v a4 ritinek was stored apparently pending sale. - Mayor Kling• was 'instructed to sign an offer to purchase a storage building on Railway St. for $4,200. The building, offer-, (Continued on Page 4) Trade Cats for • White most of the complaints about stray animals centre around dogs, Councillor George Ilild€brand told council ho has a different probl m, Council, Mond was in a discussion over -the. dog tax and the hiring of a dog - 'catcher when Councillor Hi1des brand asked if, there couldn't be a tax on eats too. Ile said they had no problem with dogs in his neighborhood but you could hardly find the backyard for cats. - ' • Deputy -Reeve Wilmer Cuthill had the tolution • "Nitwit to get rid .tai,th cats i Oeor e„i. he ask, forced around holiday times such as May 24 to keep down improper use of potentially dangerous items The Public Works coma ittee reported that tar and .chipping operations were carried out Monday. Approximately 2.8 miles of streets were treated.. Most' attention was given to gravelled streets' but'some pav- ed streets that . had been patch- ed were tarred to '`seal" the patches and prevent heaving; Reeve Carl Dalton, -chairman of the committee, also informed council that fifty trees : have ,been planted and that parking zones are in the process of be- ing repainted.. , Final reading wads given to the by-law setting up a recrea- tion committee when ,approval of the plan was received from the department of-Eduatiop, Betty Cardno, chairman` of the Welfare and Industrial com- mittee, stated that- work is to go ahead, 'as soon as town work - Men are free, en the- painting of the bandshell. Men from Sea - forth Manor have been keeping the grass ,cut in• -the park. A re -assessment of town lots has been proposed by the Fin- ance arid General Government committee of the council as a way of lowering the • mill rate and yet maintaining the tax revenue. Deputy Reeve Wilmer Cuthill stressed the reassess- ment would be on land only and not on buildings. "It will bring the assessed value more in line with the actual present day value of land. At present the highest assessment of a lot is ` $20Q " . GAVE ELLICTT, • daughter of Mr. and Mrs. car-...... don S. Elliott„graduatesi from Victoria iitispital Setiooi'' Nursing recently. She attend( Oct tiintfOn t iitriet Wieoiatet •