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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1964-11-19, Page 1• • Whole 'No. 5047. , SEAFORTR, ()NT:NW°, •TRURSDAY, 1'101/EMBER 19,1964 — 16 PAGES 105th Year • a • • '4 • Ask Province to. Seaforth,-• South If the Province accepts the. recommendation of Huron County Council, Road 31 from Seaforth toBayfield, will be rebuilt to provincial highway standards by 1968 or 69. ComMenting on the action taken by the county road com- mittee, Huron Engineer J. W. Britnell said Wednesday, under prime conditions and assuming there would be no delays, a portion of the road could per- haps be completed late in 1966. This would depend on pre -en- gineering being .put in hand. late next year; Concern that the development road program be carried south from. Seaforth arose with com- pletion of County Road 12 from Seaforth to Highway 86. The road, which now terminates at! Seaforth, would provide a more direct north -south route than, is now available. In addition, need for early action has been stress- ed. by Tuckersmith, because of. the condition of the .county road through Egrnondville Reeve Archie. Etheringtqn, of Usborne, mentioned complaints about road 6 being rough. "We have heard various opin- lons4, said Mr. Britnell. "Some say it is as good surface as we have laid for years. It was one of our cold mix jobs, and you will remember that in August • Announcement of the Huron • decision was made at county council. Involved is 16 miles of County Road 3 from Hayfield through Brucefield and tg-; mondville to Highway -8 at Sea - forth. The department pays the full cost of development, road, constructed by the county, and $400,000 was received or will be, as direct aid this year. Announcement that the route mentioned had been chosen by the road committee was author- ized by chairman Joseph Kerr, deputy reeve of Wingham, af- ter county engineer James Brit- • nell had concluded reading the committee report. "The section we have asked for," Mr. Britnell said, "is ap- proximately -16 miles long. The ICippen-Seaforth mileage, con- sidered , previously, was six. It was felt if we are ping to get • a designatieh—and the develop- ment road fund 'pay be decreas- ing—we, would ask for the larg- est one that would be consider- ed by the minister. To those who may have favored the Kip - pen plan, I would say that it would be constructed under by- • law within the next two et three years. We would be "re- ceiving almost five times as much money to construct the road we have asked for than tq construtt the road previous- ly considered." $4.00.a Year in Single Copies, 10 Advance s it rained about every other day, and we were lucky to get it down; however, the committee will -look at it and give -surface treatment if necessary. In some counties they do this automa- tically, but we have cold mix pavements that have had no surface treatment in 20 years." Who Has A,Xmas Tree? Who has a Christmas tree? —a great big, nicely balanc- ed tree? —a tree to which everybody can point with pride as it stands gaily decorated in front of Seaforth Town kali? • - that is the kind of tree R. Houssey and John ,Cardno, of- :the Seaforth Christmas Committee; are looking for, and so far without success. They would appreciate any suggestions. THE HONOR of making the first phone call through the new dial exchange at Seaforth went. to a former chief opera- tor. Mrs. Foster T. Nowler, of Mitchell, the former Minnie. Habkirk, served in the Seaforth exchange from 1912 to 1938. Her -call Sunday morning was to a cousin, Mrs. Minnie Miles, in Edmonton. (Expositor photo by Phillips). • Last Chance For Snow Queen Vote Step Up, SOO A bylaw has been prelfare4;_, increase the speed lipiit-rfle 50 to 60 mph on County:,Boad 25, from Highway 21 to *IV, .f except in the police yl,liag,C4 Auburn (30 mph), tbcylwo of Blyth (35 mph), 010.0rit7i (35 mph), stikl on County ad 12 from the north Unlit ,ar Aaa, 1: forth US Highway 86, except; 2500 feet at Winthrop(35 mph) Walton (35 mph) 4 .0:,o, vil- lage of Brussels (30 mpli)r,:fnpR' two roads are -built to a modern standard arid the 60 -mile limit is in keeping with Department of Transport warrants. The 1964 budget will be raft* ed as follows: county levy, $522,000; rebate of retail sales tax, $10,000; surplus, $16,500; provincial subsidy, $656,500; di- rect aid (development road), ,$400,000; tOtal, $1,605,000; Main item 'of road construc- tion was '76 miles on Road 16 in Morris, $230,000 for grading, gravel and _land. Principal bridge job was a 19foot three - span bridge on Road 31, north of Varn'a. The committee's maintenance bill was $352,060, of which gravel cost .$112;000. Awards At SDHS Total $6,700 eeaforth District High School Robert Munn, Karl c• Campbell and Richard Muegge. Other Winners Other award winners include:. Ruth Ritchie, $150 from Wom' en's .Auxiliary of Scott Memor- ial Hospital; Dorothy Dalton, $250 Teachers' College award; Judith Earle, $50 Legion award; Karen Dolmage and James Rap- son, $50 Elmer Larone memor- ial bursary each; Joan Reynolds, $25 Alumni memorial bursary, presented by W. M. Hart; Brl, an Traviss, $25 student council citizenship award; Dorothy Dal- ton, $20.00 in books, biolbgy award. ' . Grade 13 students who re- ceived $100 awards are Mary. Buchanan, Mary Lou Coyne, Torben Haarbye, Barbara Hol- land, Allan Patterson, Peter Sil- lery and Gerald Van Den Hen - gel. students received scholarships and bursaries valued at $6,700 at the annual commencement exercises Friday evening. Robert Muegge and Mary Crich received $1,000 each in bursaries. Robert, valedictorian One Million Plus , Work on development Roads 669 and' 670 on ,County •Road 12, from Highway 8 in Seaforth north to Highway 86-22 miles now complete. "Total cost was in .excess of one million dollars," the report stated; "the cost to Huron County was less than $40,000." Pre -engineering and design is under way on ;Development Road 759 on County Road 4, from Crediton east, westerly to Highway 81, 10 miles. Tenders for grading the first. five Miles will likely be 'called early ' in 1965, and for the second five miles later in the year. With' little more than a week o'clock Friday night, Nov. 27. in , which to complete arrange- In, attendance will be the two ments,. the Seaforth Christmas runners:up in the contest, as program committee is working well as two Snowflakes, chosen overtime to have everything ,in from the Public and 'Separate readiness for Santa's visit here Schools. . on November 28. Committee Every indication points' to a chairmen have been holding bigger and better parade, ac - weekly meetings to work out carding to committees looking details foTr the event. after that feature. Voting for the 1964 Snow A special feature this year Queen ends 6 ,p.m. Saturday will be "Puff the Magic Dra- night. Ballots which have been gon, and again the guest of deposited in Seaforth stores honor will be Big Al, of CKCO, will be collected and counted Kitchener. by Dave Cornish and Don Steph , There will, be at least 10 enson and their committee over Bands, the band committee the weekend. The •winner of promises, headed by the SDHS the Snow Queen title will be Girls' Trumpet Band. announced in next week's issue. A slight change has been The Queen will be crowned at made in the parade arrange - the Seaforth Women's Institute merits this year to avoid a long dance being held in the Legion traffic disruption on .1\Torth Main Hall, . when Desjardine's orch- Street. The parade will form estra will provide music. on Chalk Street from .the Arena The Seaforth Women's Insti- to the High School and proceed tute, who had made arrange- along Franklin Street to North ments for a dance in the Legion Main and then south *along Hall on the eve of the parade, Main . The parade will turn off have co-operated with t h e Main Street at the Legion Hall Christmas activities committee and have offered to share the prOceeds .oPthe dance, as well as provide an opportunity for the. crowning of the Snow Queen. Desjardine's orchestra is playing for the dance. The crowning ceremony takes place in the Legion Hall at 11 of: the graduating class, and Miss Crich each won a' $500.00 D minion - Provincial university bi4rsary and a $500 Bruce Scott r4morial bursary. A bylaw has b,een .prepared to add and remove small sec- tions of old Highway- 21 in re- lation to the county system. The largest piece, is part of old Highway 21 from Saltford to Dunlop's tomb. The bylaw re- verts a section of old Highway 21 north of the railway tracks to the Township of Colborne. corner, but Santa • will distri- bute his treats from in front of -the big tree at the Town Hall. While there have been as- surances of a large entry of floats, Brian Flarinigan's float committee, chairman, , said the committee could make provi- (Continued on Page 4) Bobert; a son of Mr. and Ms. Gordon lquegge, of Sea - forth, also. 'tvon the R. S. Box avbard for highest marks in up- per school English, and the Irwin Hardware award for the highest award in upper ,school mathematics and two sciences. Be is now attending the University sif., Waterloo. 'Tit. Lt. Gerald R. Smith, training standards and, devel-. oPment officer at the radar and cdmmunications school, RCAF Station Clinton, addressed the graduates. He was introduced by. A. K. Shepherd. The speaker warned the gra- duates that it was no light teak that lies before them. "You who are entering on your life's work -or who are at the foot- hills of your 'chosen profession, will find there is little sense of security, or stability in the world into which you are go- ing. There is something im- mensely challenging in a world that has to be shaped anew. There are endless possibilities in a civilization that \is evolving new patterns and there are boundless opportunities f o r those who have a sense of per- spective." Announce For Warden There will be a three-way race for Warden this year. Announcements made at Huron County Council Wednes- day indicated the candidates would be: 'Cliff, Dunbar, reeve of Grey; Glenn Webb, reeve of Stephen; and Morgan Agnew, reeve of •Clinton. to -op .0pens New Store Seaforth Farmers Co-op have completed plans for opening a new retail division on Thurs- day afternoon. A ribbon -cutting cereniny, with T. W. McMil- lan, one of ,the founding direc- tors officiating, is set for two o'clock. See pages 8, 9, 10 and 11 for details of the event. AP. SEAPORTH TEEN TWENTY membera donated $300.00 to the Seaforth Community Hospital Building Fund at a short ceretnony on Friday, 'The donation was received by John E. Longstaff (centre), a member of the hospital board. Joanne Elligsen received the G. A. Whitney award of a cedar chest for scoring highest marks in examinations during the .year. The C. M. Smith memor- ial trophy,' also for the highest marks in the year's work, was won by William Morris. ' Eighteen students received their secondary school honor graduation diplomas for com- pleting Grade 13. • Have High Resolves "When we leave high school, most of us g� out into the world with high resolves. We believe that. the world is wait- ing for us, and so it is. But in the course of the years we must beware lest we part from these resolves, lest we bury 'diem one b'y one, until there is nothing left of the form of the person we Meant to be. My wish for you at this time is that you may never, never part from that ideal of yourself, 'that beckons you out into the world beyond these school walls." The acquisition and posses- sion of a higher education en- tails great responsibility, and F/L Smith urged the students to never rest on their laurels, but continue their efforts to scale further heights, and at- tain the utmost that individual talents will allow., Other winners of $500 Bruce Scott memorial bursaries were: Brian Traviss, Bruce Whitmore, Shown pr4senting the gift is Teen Twenty treasniet, Bruce , Whitmore, while Allint, Patterson, vide -President 'Pamela Pow'ell, secretary, and president Ben Aker look on. (Ex- positor photo by Phill113S). Merchant Is Speaker At Winnipeg 4,4 tg,t. GRADE XIII graduates werd honored at SWIS Coln- mencement Friday evening, when secondary school honor graduation diplomas were presented them. Shown here • (left, front) are: Judy Earle, Dorothy Dalton, Geraldine Den- nis, Joyce Brown, Mary Elisabeth Flannery and Joan Reyn- olds; (rear) Richard Muegge, Bob MunitibM1rian Traviss, Bruce Whitmore, Judy Thompson, Bob Muegge,.. Mary Crich, Karl Campbell, Ken Papple, James MacRae and Tony Visser. ' TOP STUDENTS among graduates at SDHS Commence- ment Friday were Robert Muegge and Mary Crich. Each received $1,000 in bursaries. Robert Muegge delivered the valedictory address. (Expositor phdtos by Phillips). Crash Claims Lives Of 3 McKillop Residents Northside UniteeChurch was filled- Monday when a jqint funeral service was held for PATRICIA GAIL:. McCLUSKIE • three victims of. an accident early Saturday morning, when the car in which they were rid- ing crashed into a bridge abut- ment near Londesboro, on J. 3. Wilkinson, of Wilkin - son's IGA, has returned from Winnipeg, where he had been invited to take part in the Mani- toba Swine Improvement con- ference. Mr. Wilkinson discussed car- cass quality from the stand- point of a retailer and consum- er. In his remarks he empha- sized that there was a definite requirement for pork and pork by-products, which represent over 20% of all meat . sales. In concluding, he reminded the conference that the Inter- national Playing Match would be held .in Seaforth in 1966, and Invited those present to Olt, the Plowing match. tt4 Changes In Numbers Test Citizens County Road 15, Killed in the crash w,ere Don- na Jean Gordon, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Gordon, RR 1, Seaforth, and Gordon Ross Driscoll, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross E. Driscoll, RR 4, Walton. Patricia Gail Mc- Cluskie, daughter of - Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd McCluskie, Win- throp. died in Clinton Public Hospital shortly after the crash. A fourth man in the car, John yVilliamson, 27, 1f RR 4. Walton, remains in fair condi- tion in Clinton Public 'Hospital with extensive head injuries. The bodies of Mr. Driscoll and Miss McCluskie were at the R. S. Box funeral home until It has been a rough week for Seaforth people who until now miver realized how much their day-to-day operations depend on numbers. First, it was the post office, where alterations have resulted in entire new banks of mail boxes, each with a new num- ber. Instead Of 576 boxes, there now are 765, and boxholders who had had a particular num- ber, in some cases for three generations, found themselves faced With trying to remember an entirely new number. De- spite the best efforts of Post- master Orville Oke and staff, there were problems, Express- ing appreciation to the public for co-operating, Mr. Oke said it would help if addresses con- tained box numbers. ,As though the problem of re- membering a new post office box number was not enough, the Bell Telephone people add- ed to the difficulty, over the weekend when a complete new list of numbers was i troduc- ed. No longer is it plai now it's 527-0241, and e most frequently made ea quire frenzied searching through unfamiliar lists. 141— en the Irigr DONNA JEAN GORDON were buried in' Maitlandbank cemetery, and Miss McCluskie was buried in ElmaCentre cem- etery,. Pallbearers for Miss. Gordon were Ken Papple, Win. Camp- . GORDON' ROSS DRISCOLL bell. Mac Stewart, Les Camp- bell, Douglas Shirk and Bruce Smith. Flowerbearers were Keith and Bruce lVfalcolm. Pallbearers for Gordon Dris- coll were Jim and Jack Ryan, Bill McGavin, Harold Hudie, Donald McNichol and Gibson Willis. Flovverbearers were Gar- ry McNichol, Jack Powell, Nel- son Ryan and Tom Somerville. Pallbearers for Miss McClus- kie were Ronald Little, Ronald McClure, Ronald Campbell, ;Mervin Pepper; Glen McClure Fl arers 11 a.m. Monday, while that of Miss Gordon was at the G. A. Whitney funeral home until the same tinie. The triple service was conducted «by Rev. J. C. Britton, minister of Northside and Cavan Churches. Miss Gordon, who is survived by her, parents and a brother, Barry, was a graduate of SS 4, McKillop, and • SDHS, and .re- cently had been employed in Clinton. She was active in 4-H activities. Mr. Driscoll is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ross E. Dtiscoll, of RR 4, Wal- ton, and brothers John, of Lead - bury, and Ronald, of Seaforth, and a sister, Barbara, Mrs. Ches- ter MacDonald, Goderich. He attended school at SS '7, Mc- Killop. . Miss 1VieCluskie is survived by hegintrent and g brother, Polar of Hamilton. She was ban in Listowel, and after at- tending SDHS graduated to a business course. She was em- ployed in London. Miss Gordon and Mr. Driscoll ! and Alex Hill: owerb e were Paul Betties and Bert Den- nis. The accident is being investi- gated by OPP Jack Burdon. Looby Firm Wins Contracts Recent contracts awarded to Looby Construction" Limited, of Dublin, by the Ontario Depart- ment of Highways, includes: ColvertsInd two bridges for Glen Lawrence Construction Co. Ltd., of Kingston, Ont., near Ganano-que, Ont., on !. Highway No, 401, approxiate value $166,- 000.00; three bridges for Dib- blee Construction Co. Ltd., Ot- tawa, on Highway No. 401, near Morrisburg, Ont., approximate value $170,000.00; bridge on Farran Point Rd. at Dighway No. 401, East of Morrisburg, for Dibblee Construction CO. TAdti Ottawa, approximate vale $5046 000.00.