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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1967-08-03, Page 1a Whole. No. 6187 108th Year, ?k? 1•, SEAFOR111 ONTARIO), THURSDAY; AUGUST 3, 1967 Time For . Recollections Former Huron County Wardens found the annual County Council picnic at the. Lions Park, Wednesday -an excellent"opportunity to recall previous associations. Here 1967 Warden •Don McKenzie (left) is shownwith W. J. Dale, Hullett, Art Nicholson and -Ivan Forsyth, Tuck- ersmitti and Glenn Webb of Stephen. Picnic Time Is Laugh .'Time There is no indication as to the.. joke which McKillop. Reeve Ken ,Stewart told but it brought laughs from Huron Clark" John G. Berry (left) and Perth County Warden Wilfred Seebach. Reeve Joe Kerr, Wingharir, smiles in the background,. at 'the Huron County Council picnic. , Ready Ta Register ' Former Warden George Armstrong, now of Hensail, signs' the register while Ttiekersmjth Reeve Elgin ,Thompson waits his turn at the annual Huron County' •Council 'picnic at the Seaforth Lions 'Park, Wednesdays (Expositor photos. tare pare Report .on i Sewage Requirement Is • The Ontario 'Water-hesortrees iy. — Commission has engaged engin- eering consultants to prepare a design re port on sewage works, requirements ,for the Town of Sehfor th, it 'Was announced^ this Week by Hon, C. S, MadNaugh- ton, Ttirotn The firm, of James F. Mac- La'ratt°' , luted, of. and Tor- onto will Undertake the design. Seaforth 'Coune l• was advls d : its would meeting at the work would de . ; h txt~ 'upon receipt of the report the OWRC will proceed to de; velop a rate based en usage and submit a proposal to the town for a Provincially financed sewage Works system. • The report will include the' Provision for construetion, of n seasonal retention lagoon, out). WI Sewer .and major, Connect.. I'ng _ facilities to the treatment worn. • Council`' Picnics At Park No matter what disagreements county. councilors may have when they sit around the coun- cil table they are forgotten when it comes time for the annual picnic. - Members, past and present, of the Huroa i . County council and their families and friends gatb• ered last Wednesday at Lions Park for a picnic and general social get-to-gether. Setreral past wardens of the county were present and • local 'members of parliament drop= ped~ in to extend best wishes. Games and contests kept the party rolling along. Results for the races, etc., were: Boys, 7 and under *Hugh Han- ly; boys 9 and undre, Hugh OHan- ly, Steven Corbett; girls, 9 and under, Barbara .Empey, Janet. McKinley; boys, 11 and under, John. Hanly, Larry Carter; girls, 11 and under, Marie •"Empey, Ann Stewart; boys, 13 and un: del', Floyd Allan, Tian, Bunker; girls, 13 -and under, Cathy Car- ter, Mary-ElizabethStimson; county count>illors' tinned walk- ingrace, Joseph Kerr; ex -war- dens' tinned walking race, Ken- neth Stewart; ex -wardens' wives timed walking race, Mrs. Jack Armstrong; county councillors' wives timed walking race; Mrs. Anna Stirling; girls' kick the slipper (under 21) Betty See- bach, Doris We ladies' kick the slipper (21, and over),, Mra. Wm. Dale, Mrs. W. Seebach; log rolling, Donald McKenzie, R. S. McKinley; boys' . draw Cunder 15) Hugh Hanly, terry arter; girls' draw (under 15), Kathleen Kreuter, Lynn Nichol- son; current year's county coun- cillors' draw, Kenneth Stewart, Roy' Pattison; current year's county councillors' wives draw, Mrs. Dorothy Talbot, Mrs. Mel- ville Allan; men's draw prise (15 and over), 1? 211is ''9t oy, (Continix n oto. Crashes H.. awse It payys.to take -a vacation as the Eginoedv-rlle family; of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mero will Test. The -family occupieshouse across from the junption'•of Hur- on County Roads Nos. 3'and 12, just south' of Eginondville bridge. They were eitjgying a holiday at Chesley Lake when a carproceeding east missed the turn early Saturday . morn- ing, sheered off severa�guard rails hurled 30 feet ,through the air, caromed off the¢side of a large maple tree sant ended up in the house, The cr went through the ' side of the.' house and toppled part of a brick wall on a bed usually occupied by Mero children. Cleave Coombs,-who,was first ion the scene estimated .the bricks weighed five or six huni dred•pounds' '•Police said the drive•of the ear was Mary Catherine? O'H an, ,22, of Josephine St; Wit hath_ She had a • p4enger, Brian MacDonald, 18, ti.f CFB Clinton. The crash awgke Mr. Coombs at about 2:20 a.m. He dressed and rushed to the scene. "The fog was so thick I had to shine my lights down in beside the house for -some time before could see. .,anything, ", ,Coombs said: "Then I saw a woman°"" staggering around. I put her in my car amiwent down- to get the man out. The 'car was halfway in the house. 3 found the man and , thought die was -dead at first, but he was only' unconcious.' MacDonald :and Mrs. O'Hag an were removed to Seaforth Community Hospital by Box (Continued on Page 6) Named County Coroner Dr. P. L. Brady, Seaforth, has been naine'd a coroner fop Hur- on. The announcement was Made by Huron MPP, Hon C. S. MacNaughton this week. Also named were Dr. • Ray- mond W. Flowers, Clinton and Dr. G. F. Mills, Goderich. ' Already serving as coroners for the county .are Dr. J. C. Goddard, 'Hensall, Di:. "N. C: Jackson, `Goderich, Dr. E. A.. McMaster, Grand Bend and Dr. J. C.•• IylcKim, Lucknow,t Mr. - MacNaughiton indicated the additional appointments will insure that sufficient coroners are available in the county. to allow for. vacations, illness -Or an unusual number of inquests. in any particular area. 10 PAGES Award $30,611. Drain Program: A contract for the first phase of what is -expected' to, be a town -wide storm sewer pro- gram was awarded -by Seaforth Council at a special meeting Tuesday night. - The successful bid was that of Yundt-McCann Construction of Stratford for' $30,611.54, It was the lowest bf six tenders received. Other bids were: Continental Contracting, Pres- ton, 34,360.56; Ed Johnston Construction, Sarnia, 36,970.89; Gaffney Construction, StratfoPrd, 38,881.50; Fred Van Busse' & Sons, Ltd., Lucan, 33,181.85; and C. A. McDowell, Centralia, 33,- 763.17.' The work involves the area of West William; Church, Cen- tre and Janies Streth. Included are trunk lines running to the new .Lawrence Dram outlet west of Church' Street. Comple- tion, is set within -12 weeks of contract being checked by the 'department of • Highways and the supervising engineers, Burns Ross and associates. This check will take several days the meet- ing .was ,told, • a: • Silver ' Creek The drainage repair ,program that will involve the ` widening and deepening 'of . Silver Creek Tuckersrnith Pays $61,0 0 in Accounts Tuckersmith Township Coun- was set for September 22. • .cil meeting for the first time in their new home, the Huron Cen- tennial. School at Brucefield, ap- proved payment of . a whopping $61,000 in accounts on Tuesday 'evening. As usual gains were .he main topic of discussion. Of the total of $61.,000 paid out, $38,000 went to drainage payments. An additional $6,000 of road expen- diture.,represented work on drains. • . The Archibald report on Sea - forth Drain No, 2 (Silver Creek) was read but council was con- cerned•that certain areas in the township had been omitted. Councillor Alex McGregor• was sent to Seaforth where the re: 'port' was being read to Sea - forth 'Council to"). present com- plaints before the Seaforth body. Tuckersmith was dissatis, fied with the method of assess- ment. It was contended that in certain cases owners receiving benefit from the drain in the Tuckersmith area were not as- sessed. • All ratepayers' of ,the township would be .paying an added load for the benefit "to some owners. • Another land owner Jean Scott was 'being included for 20'aeres in the new drain When she .had already been assessed for her whole property. A third compraint was 'that assessment in Egmendville was by streets instead of lots. Coun-' cillors felt individual oWners.of village lots should be indicated, The Davis -Logan Drain plan initiated by Hay Township was presented. Owners assessed were to be notified and reading df' the report will take place at the next meeting, September 5. Date for ' collection - of a ac- counts on the Henderson Drain Recalls Experiences (By Barbara- Bryans) , .Girl Guides from towns . in Huronia Area arrived in Owen Sound on' July 13 where they were billetted over night. The 'reason for the short stay' was to meet a bus at 7:00 a,m. at Mar- tin's Bus Lines depot whieh- wo+uld transport the girls, be- tween 13.17 years of age,. to Morrisson Island 'in the St. Law- rence River. On this islaa and its neighbor, Nairne Tad, Guides gathered for National Heritage Camp. Nairne Wand is- being used for Administra- tion purposes and -the. hospital. The .carrtp acted as hostesses to our International guests from Sweden, Denmark, France, • Is- rael, U.S.A., Ireland, ' Finland, Gdrmany, Great Britain, Ice- land. and,Japan. There also were guides from each province and territory of Canada, When we arrived on the site at, 4:00 p.m.„ Friday, we noticed' the sparkling water,,of. the St. Lawrence all around us and our campsites were divided in- to sub -camps, (A -Pacific, B -Up- per Canada, _C -Lower Canada„: D -Atlantic, E -Far North, F -Prai- ries.). Since our patrol of eight girls were camping in C area our bus driver dropped us off at the Lower Canada site, • There, our camperaft is to learn weaving, Some girls in,the past few day have been making Colorful piarernats on the looms,. Other interesting crafts include, rughooking, totem pole carving burlap painting, quilting and more: ' On Jtrly 15 'our official -open- ing teviltplacs•in the large arena area with all 1,400 girls plus atiift•In attendance. Official din a � e. Ar . ailes o With the completion of the centennial project, the gates at Lions Park, Seaforth, council agreed to apply for the centen- nial grant-. The clerk --was instrueted 'to apply for a subsidy under the warble fly program. Coma. learned the Forrest Drain was complete and ' applied for sub- sidy. A petition for repairs to the Elgie Drain was accepted. Later in the meeting when 'Councillor McGregor had re- turned from the Seaforth meet- ing he said the parts of concern had been discussed with Sea - forth council arid' the engineer, S. W. Archibald. Seaforth was accepting the report he said since Mr. Archibald had -indi- cated changes could be made at the court of revision. Coun- cil agreed, . representations would .be made at that time. o Paper ext eek There will be no issue of the Huron Expositor published next week, Aug. 10th. The next issue will be dated Aug. -17th. It's vacation time and mem- bers of the mechanical' staff will be on holidays.' • ' Howeverr the business office will remain open during the week and orders for commer- cial printing, advertising and office equipment may be arrang- ed as usual. ide Participation at from. - Seaforth through to the Bayfield River at- ••Egniondyill was advanced a• stage Tuesday: night when council accepted the report of Engineer S. W. Archi- bald. The special meeting. of council heard first reading of the re: port and d,1scussed with'.MreA: ohibald and a number of o. payers affected by the work, 4ee- tails of theprogram:' • The drainage program is • de- signed to• provide an outlet for the eastern and southern part of town not drainiyig into the Lawrence Drain, It will also -pro- vide increased capacity to move surface water which enters Sea - feral from , McKillop through the town 'to its •outlet in the • ayfield River 'as well as en- larging the outlet capactiy for water originating in Egniond- vilid and parts of Tdckersriiit'h. Urgency has 'risen 'since Sea- forth and area municipalities understand that the county is to .proceed with a development road program from No. 8 High- way through Seaforth and Eg- mondville early next year and for this to proceed it. is neces- sary to obtain additional storm drainage capacity. When the report had been Tee d unci tOr Alex M reg sir of Tuclieriitlt, who attend , Oft ' the meeting, said :Titckkexk !: smith was concerned because the report Tasted only the' Stri eta in _report and not abut- ting property, owners. geinch+ cated his eoundil also consider ed 'Certain other ' propertyy as benefiting and that these preop. ertiei should be included. • He raised a question of a property b owned ,'Miss Jean . Scott- Harpurrheyy assessed in th ..new drain and 's ready assessed in the Lawrence and Crozier Drains. • Reeve Carl Dalton of Sea - forth told the meeting this was • acceptable and property could obtain benefit from each of sev- eral drams. Answering a query as .44 whether the additional TWA - down. :shoul%"5e�roidedinEg_ mondville, Clerk Ernest, Wil Hams said that insofar as • the Lawrence drain was concerned' , he had done the work frir Sda; forth and :it. had not been in eluded. in the Lawrence drain" report:He felt,- however, that this properly was a responsi- bility of the engineer and not of the clerk. Answering a query (Continued on Page 6) Area Youth Selected•. For Travel Program Don McKercher, Route 1, Dub- lin, Ontario, Canada, has been selected to take part .in the 1967 Yoftth: Program of the 39th an- nual national farm'business con- ference of the American . Insti- tute of Co-operation at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., Aug. • Don McKercher Qts Tour 6-9, when he will serve as a participant for a panel_ discus- sion on the topic "Are Coops `Tops' in My Community?" " ' Theme of the tnree-Gay meet- ing will be "Co -operatives -Pace- setters," according to Dr. Wal- ter Jacoby, A.I.C. Director of Youth Edl}cation.• ' p The conference is the largest annual gathering op farm busi- ness opportunities, techniques, •.. and problems; drawing over 3;500 leaders of farm; business, credit, marketing, agricultural , .. extension, and .rural education inclnr ing , an., expected 1,000' - farm youth and young farmers who Will. participate in .their own discussion and tour pro- grams. rograms. ' . , Youth. delegates % ill•'engage in panel discussions on way to. be successful in 'farming. and" other careers in agribusiness and• on how to utilize the ler- vices of farm purchasing , and marketing organizations They will study ..the Americancon- • omie System: and the. future,,' 01. co-operatives in the private eh. terpnise System. They will take. a -never-to-be-forgotten tour in the Lafayette area of farms and agricultural research Centres. They will meet heads of U.S.,'......• Puerto Rican, and Canadian rur- aI youth groups to swap person- - al experiences, The Institute is chartered' as a "University" in Washington, D,C., and is the educational and research organization for farm-, er co-operatives. It meets each, ' summer on the campus of a rominent Land -Grant College. Guide Canip girls joined them in song. Somej countries. We learned a coal trade crests, • inoney and of the staff have been teachink I fniner's dance .from Japan. At 4 from other lands. us folk dances frohi different 'the canip we have a chance to i Our National' Heritage Swaps Camp Guides 'Gather From 1.2 Countries • Among the 2,000 girds from. 12 countries camping under canvas , n the er at the National heritage Cainp of the Girl Guides° sSuLaCanad are thesetjiese girls #torn tjiis area At � ewriter Is • Charlene � Genets — Guides du Ca'rtada .are harlene Jones, 1st , Pape C raker Girl Guide Canto paw*, Wiarten; behind heti left, Darbai''a tt 'ail •, 1St eafor it' britt ' uide t '' _ ...bmflant, -.'right Wiatthis: ;Coi'rki .•gr�r �,Cliti on.:Guide ., t nteatio. yi a ; went so welt that I- am sure it has been a great feat for Can- adian Guides, and has Ieft a good impression ora uides all over the world. Plan for- -Labor Day 'oram The Centennial. Parade com- mittee of the C of C met with the Centennial committee Tues- day night to co-ordinate .Labor Day activities, The White E1ee phant Sale arranged by a com- mittee headed by W.. R. Staith, 'cleared $200. • The Parade committee is look- inf forward to a good crowd 8t the' softball game.to be held Sat- urday evening, August 26th, to add to parade funds to help de- fray parade costs of bands and prizes. Parade chairman Elmer Larone said definite progress is - beieg made and he anticipates an excellent parade. ' Details of the Labor Day pro.. gram :were worked Out. As teno tatively agreed, the parade will move off at -2 p..m. and a' ports - program and reunion gathorlh.g - will follow at 3 P.n't. A beef. barbecue is scheduled :rani 5• " o'clock- to. 7:34 with . upenln, ' .. ceremonies ;fn eolmcctleit ho Seaforth centditttial , ..Iii and military salute ingaat �E�lldtwiig'. at 8 pan, The evenin as plannedd. td0.144e6A'with• .uroitrs,t. inat.