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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1965-01-07, Page 1• a 4 4 • • t Whole No. 5054 106th Year SEAFORTH, ONTARTO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1965 -- 10 PAGES SEAFORTH COUNCIL held its .inaugural meeting Mon- day morning, and that evening held the first- business meet- ing of the. year. Shown here following the swearing-in cere- mony are (seated, left) Reeve N. C. Cardno, Mayor John SDHS Names • Officers Seaforth District High :School.. Board, meeting Tuesday eve- ning, named John A. 'Cardno chairman. He succeeds E; C. Dearing in the .office. The meeting discussed ,prob- lems arising from the inflow of surface water to a . sanitary sewer, with Deputy Reeve Carl Dalton and" Clerk Lyle Ham- as a ,tem- porary. ,remedy -to take the JOHN A. CARDNO, SDHS lagoon overflo \e into a storm sewer,—providing• periodic checks will pass Cdunty Health Unit standards. Other appointments approved by the meeting include: Vice- chairman, Kenneth McFarlane; secretary - treasurer,. W. E. Southgate; committees: finance, D. C. Cornish, C. E. Dearing, F.. C. J. Sills; executive, J. A. Cardno, C. E. Dearing, F. C. J. Sills, H. Craig, K. McFarlane; bus: H. Craig, K. McFarlane, C. Martin, John Broadfoot, Oliver Anderson, C. E. Dearing; teach- er -board relations: C. E. Dear- ing, F. C. J. Sills, C. Martin; property: F. C. J. Sills, H. Craig, D. C. Cornish, John Broadfoot, R. T. Bolton; supply: Q. An- derson, D. C. Cornish, C: Mar- tin, R. T. Bolton; attendance officer: C. A. Barber; advisory vocational committee: C. E. Dearing, J. C. litclntosh. Complete. Plans For •Christmas Tree Burning 1; The Christmas' season will come to an end here Saturday' when Seaforth Firemen will prepare a giant bonfire -of, dis- carded Christmas trees. Planned for a vacant field in the area of SDHS and near the ;corner of Duke and Chalk Sts., the bonfire party is expected to be under way at 8 p'.m. The fire will be cinder supervision of Fire Chief ' John F. Scott and Seaforth Firemen. During the evening the firemen plan re- leasing some fireworks. The trees will be collected Saturday afternoon by Boy Scouts and Firemen, and in or- der •to have trees picked up it Will be necessary that they be left near the streets. Firemen will supervise piling them ready for the fire. -• Details for the ,event were worked out at a meeting of the brigade Tuesday night. • • The meeting eleeted officials as follows: Chief, John F, Scott; foreman, Ron Dolmage;, assist- ant, Ron Broome; secretary- • treasttrer, 8. J„ Boussey; sot iaal *Ohtani ..01a ton .1 tj tong.„: Flannery, Deputy Reeve Carl Dalton and Clerk Lyle Ham- mond; (standing) Councillors Walter Murray, Brian Flanni- gan, Wilmer Cuthill, Rev. H. Donaldson, Ernest Williams and James Kelly. (Expositor photo by Phillips). Council Will Consider Salary Increase Bids Seaforth-Council willConsider cussed with the SDHS Board, the Maitland Valley Conserva- tion Authority_ K. Bruce .MacMillan, to the Scott Memorial Hospital Board, and Hugh Thompson to the Pub- lic Library Board for a three- year term. John A. Cardno is the town's representative on the Seaforth District High School Board. On the Community` Centre Board will be William D. Smith, Leonard Ford, Mayor Flannery, Deputy Reeve Dalton and Coun- cillors Williams, Donaldson and Flannigan. ,requests for salary increases when the 1965 budget is con- sidere. Holding 'the first business meeting of the year Monday evening, • members • heard re- quests fromemployeesof the public :.works' department and, from the,: town assessor.. Public works employees who now receive $1.45, $t,55” and, $1.25 an hour, asked :, for an across the board increase'' of 15 cents an hour, as well as time and a half for overtime: The staff works a 48-hour week. • Deputy Reeve ' Carl Dalton, PW chairman, commended the staff for the job they were doing. He said the conyinittee would study the matter before budget time. Asking how the present rates compared with other comparable situations, Councillor E. Williams wa's told the comparison was very fav- orable. and the rates were high- er than most industries were paying. Seaforth assessor, Donald Haines, in asking for a . salary review, said there had been no change since he took the. posi- tion at $1200 three years ago. In that time, assessment had increased from $1,774,896 to $1,966,711, which in turn had resulted in a revenue increase of $15,045 .at.present tax rates. Councillors agreed the asses- sor was doing an excellent job. "Best assessor probably we ever had in the town," Reeve Cardno commented. He is very fair, Deputy Reeve Dalton add- ed. • An account for $10.50 from the PUC covering tree trim- mingat the SDHS was refer- red to the school. The work had. not been authorized, and in any event the town staff could have done the job had it been asked. Council approv- ed a $25.00 ad in the SDHS year book. Councillor J. Kelly commend- ed Reeve Dalton on the clean- up job which had' been done at a property on Side Street. The work had been done at the request of the owners at a cost of $100, for which the town was reimbursed, • A bylaw authorizing the bor- rowing of an amount up to $170,000 from the Canadian Im- perial Bank of Commerce was approved. This represents 70 per cent of the estimated._xev enue which is the maxirt um which_ may be borrowed. Clerk Hammond explained that in re- cent years there had been no requirement for heavy borrow- ing, and at year's end a loan of only $25,000.00 was orftstand- ing. Seaforth no longer will 'enter into a formal arrangement with a solicitor. It was explained that neither St. Marys or Clin- ton appoints solicitors. ' The solicitor in the past had re- ceived $150.00 per annum as a retainer. • - Reporting. for ' •the public. Works committee, Deputy Reeve' Dalton said a number of trees had been cut down and street Work carried out. . Difficulty with storm 'water from the MS : area gaining . entry into a Senna"` ..,se he said. Council endorsed action tak- en copeerning a ratepayer who had neglected to pay his second instalment of taxes on time. He had forwarded the amount, plus one per cent penalty, but council agreed the penalty, • ac- cording to the governing by- law, should be two • per cent. Appointment ,toe: -,boards• and commissions included: Councillor E. Williams to the Midwestern Development Asso- ciation, and Reeve Cardno to 17,000 More Feet General C ac Plans Expansio Jack C. Clayton, general man- ager of General Coach Works of Canada Ltd.. Hensall, has an- nounced the awarding of a con- tract to Pounder Bros., Strat- ford, for the construction of a 17,000 squate foot addition to the Hensall plant, at .present the largest plant of its type in Eastern Canada. • Raise $4,100 For. FAME Huron,County shareholders, of Farmrs' Allied Meat Enter- prises Co-operative Limited Wednesday night of last week voted support of FAME's board of directors in trying to raise $1,506,000' needed to keep it from losing control of a Bur- lington - based meat packing plant. Following the meeting, the shareholders raised $4,100. Present at the meeting were Alex 11tacGregor, chairman of the Huron committee of FAME and . Tuckersmith Township committeeman, who said in all $30,000.00 had been raised in Huron ; Malcolm Dav- idson, Stanley . Township com- mitteeman; and Ross Love, Huron County committeeman - at -large. Work commenced this week and is expected to be complet- ed by the last of February. General Coach Works is a sub- sidiary of Divco-Wayne 'Indus- tries Incorporated, the foremost builder of mobile homes on the continent. Mr. Clayton stated that 1964 production exceeded the previous year by 60 per cent. The new facilities are re- quired to meet an anticipated 50 per cent increase in busi- ness over 1964. he said. The company is Canada's largest producer of mobile homes designed ;for permanent housing, travel trailers and, in the commercial line, has pion- eered in the design of mobile classrooms, offices, laboratories, bunk houses and industrial dis- play units. lnau ural Seaforth I nau ur •lte'eailing that he was - the fourth generation to be con- cerned in the progress of Sea - forth as a community, Rev. J: - Cliff Britton told members of. Seafprth Council at the inau- gural meeting Monday morning that they, had a particular re- sponsibility to plan, to look ahead, -- 174-cif is so 'easy to drift into: picayune politics, into petty de- tail, rathier than to take the long-term view. Too often we waste our time on detail when we should be raising our sights and seek to achieve new goals," he said, and added, • "we can. only .do that if we plan and look ahead." Preceding the meeting„mem- hers of council were sworn in by Clerk Lyle Hammond. Recalling there were many fields in which council could take the lead to thet benefit of the community, Mr. Britton said. there was a necessity 'to keep in touch with changing condi- tions and abreast of new devel- opments. He referred. to ,the plowing match in 1966, the need for local senior citizens accom- modation, control of ribbon development, and provision. of educational facilities geared .to the demand of today. Mayor J. F. Flannery, ••in- ad- dressing council, expressed ap- preciation to Mr. Britton for reminding 'council of the future that could be in store fpr Sea - forth. He agreed council must keep its sights in proper per- spective. The decisions taken today can result in progress tomorro*, he said. Warning there would be oc- casions when it Would be nec- essary tqmake, a decision' be: Moen need and, de " ,--7 tayor_ Flannery urged cart foil and moderation. He welcomed the new Mem- bers' andreminded them it was not his responsibility to' make decisions, but rather to achieve decisions that represented the individual opinions of the mem- bers, Led by Mayor Flannery, coun- cil visited Tuckersmith council, meeting in another area of the Name Members, To , Committees, Committee appointments ap- proved 'by Council at its in- atlgural meeting Monday are (first named to be chairman): Finance and General Govern. ment—H: Donaldson, N. Card - no, J. Kelly, W. Murray.. Protection to Persons and Property—E. Williams, B. Flan- nigan, W. Cuthill, W. Murray. Public Works and Sanitation —C. Dalton, J. Kelly, W. Cuth- ill, B. Flannigan. Welfare, Recreation and In- dustrial—N. Cardno, W. Cuth- ill, J. Kelly, W. Murray. Court of Revision—C. Dalton, N. Cardno, J. Flannery, H. Don- aldson, W. Williams. Seaforth Rink Wins First • Two Games A Seaforth rink won its first two games in the Southern On- tario Ladies' Curling Associa- tion playdown, District 5, A - Division, which began at Sea - forth curling rink Wednesday morning. Curling against an 'Owen Sound rink in the first game and an Exeter rink later, the Seaforth rink, skipped by Mrs. R. MacD.onald, included Mrs, A. Y. McLean, Mrs. R. S. Box and Mrs. • F. Slade. Exeter rink received a bye in the first round, in which Walkerton defeated Paisley 12- 9„ Play concludes on Thursday. 1 building, and exchanged greet- ings. Following adjournment, mem- bers of the council, town of- ficials and department heads and the press, together with their wives, attended a lunch in the Commercial Hotel. T arc ersinith Members of Tuekersmith Council were sworn in at the inaugural meeting Monday by Clerk J. I. McIntosh. Rev. Alan Scott, of Egmond- ville United Church, ctnducted a short service and addressed council prior to the .opening THERE WERE two New• Year's babies•at Scott Memorial Hospital this year, born ap :,hour. and ..a half apart. • The first arrival Was at 3:05 p.m.,. when a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gary A'exander, of Seaforth. Mrs. Alexander is th"e former Karen Talbot, of Brucefield. The next was• Kevin Drager, son of Mr, and Mrs. Ronald Drager, of Seaforth, born. at 4:35 p.m. Mrs. Drager is the former Dorothy Regele, and Kevin is their fifth child. (Expositor photo by Phillips.) McKiflop Voters Elect Trustees McKillop voters on Monday elected a five -man school board. The new township board as - 1 sumes responsibility - for town- ship schools which until now have been administered by boards in each of the sections. In alight vote that saw slight- ly over 40% of those eligible to cast ballots, Murray • Dennis, with 240 .votes, headed the polls. Others elected are John Henderson 215, .Arthur Bolton •194, ' Harold !George Rock Pryce 190, and 177. The Vote 1 2 3 4 Total A. Bolton 15 55 68' 56-194 M. Dennis 12 61 85 82-240 W. Drager 11 38 24 17— 90 J. Henderson' 16 87 52 60-215 W, McClure 5 86 22 59-172 H. Pryce 15.63 53 59,.-•190 Geo. Rock 14 34 0 37-177 C. Wey 3 41 59 73-176 Consider ReCommencIatjns On Child Welfare Regional welfare authoritiesi to be given jurisdiction over Children's Aid Societies, home. maker services and other func- tions, now organized on a coun- ty or other local basis, are re- commended by a committee on child welfare which has report- ed to Hon. Louis P. Cecile, On- tario Minister of Public Wel- fare. This committee, headed by Charles J. Foster, after two years' investigation, has report- ed bn legislation, auspices • and administration, finance, staffing services, protection services and child care. The department's press re- lease states that the report, now under study by a departmental .committee, "will lead to a new Child Welfare Act," which the minister hopes will be ready for the coming •Legislature session. The "welfare authority;' set- up proposed is not specifically but would appear to be one of the more important changes, along with removal of child guardianship from Children's Aid Societies. This, according to one passage in the volumin- ous committee report, "will be placed with the sovereign auth- ority, the province, who' in turn will delegate responsibility for care and custody to a local or regional, welfare authority." This sedans to mean new duties for the official guardian, F. L. Watson, Q.C., in Toronto, who is an official of the attorney general's department, not wel- fare. Elsewhere in the report are indications of co-ordinating activities now within the health department. ' Miss Clare McGowan, local director of Huron County C. A. S., has not found time to get all the way through the bulky report, and points out recommendation; the forthcom- ing bill, will provide, safer ground for comment. "I imagine," Miss. McGowan said, "the first thing will be to make the wardenship provin- cial, and then it will be for the authority to delegate the responsibility, .if so desired, to the Children's Aid Society to find foster homes and supervise child care. "Our board has not met since this report was made, but I can say that we have always given our co-operation to the Depart- ment of Public Welfare, and will continue to co-operate to the best of our ability." The report contains several examples of what might be constituted a welfare authority. In two of them, Huron is link- ed with Bruce, 'Grey and Perth. A third alignment is Bruce, Mimi art ' erth, ith region - The intent that such an auth- ority would govern welfare ser- vices generally is indicated in reference to a "child welfare board" which might be set up by a' regional authority. In• such case, members of C.A.S. boards "would be among the persons most likely to be selected from the community at' large" and representing 40 per cent of the personnel. A "child welfare board" would comprise seven to 25 members, "of whom at least half would be Members of the municipal council and at least 40 per cent qualified by special competence and titer - est in child welfare." 1t is proposed that a welfare authority may "buy the service of a Children's Aid Society,". but "the number of children's Aid Societies would be reduce, e'4." A welfare authority would include , all tell 'font i ;d'ehoin3tial-• C.A.S. in Toronto, Hamilton and Windsor." A "severe shortage" of gra- duatesocial workers in Ontario is a matter of concern, Hon. Mr. Cecile Says in his press re- lease. Teen Twenty Elects Officers The annual elections for the Seaforth Teen Twenty execu- tive were held at Teen Twenty Saturday night. A large crowd was on hand for the voting. Pam Powell, secretary of the past executiye, was returned as president. Other officers; are; Jim Scott, vice-president; .,cadet of the business session ThCoomupncisonl nasam.ae 'r re ent e4474 Reeye,lg i ona the Atlsable V ' er! Cd s( vation Autority, and Cook to• the'.; Exeter.-1?,tfitxk! High School Board. Problems arising ;n, eq. tion With ' the creation township school board r will discussed at a meeting to, arranged with Inspectorsc:Bu rows and Kincaid. Counil u provedexpenses of. $100 0 Reeve' Thompson covering...:AW duties as welfare- officer 'for 1965. Possibility of a small pals being provided in Egmondviile, west of the cemetery, was seen as council considered corres- pondence from A. W. Si lexy,: '; the solicitor of the owner, 'Mrs; Vera Pierce. Discussionscove ering the type of -park and main:-: • T tenance will be held when Mrs. Price visits here later in the...>'i` year. In'the meantime, the pro pertyis being cleared. Clerk J 1- McIntosh was in strutted' to contact Department of Highways officials to Merin - ane implications of minimum wages as they may affect road employees., Necessity for additional •-road staff was raised. Councillor. Ross Forrest inquired concern- ing availability • of a second. grader operator, and. it . *as agreed . to advertise: ;r Reeve ._'Thompson in vi to d %' members to attend coun council on the opening. :d , Clerk McIntosh was instruc to take steps to provide for. a tax 'sae There are 23 propeg� ties .acted,.. compared witi ' , 7; last Year.... • •t.. Reviewing. problems sable Authority was hang providing financing for the Parkhill dam, Reeve Thompson told council that even if work was stopped, there would be an expenditure of $300,000. While Tuckersmith was too . remote .to receive direct benefits, at the same time the assessment against the township was mini- mal. The township's share of' the increased cost was $245.70,' and council agreed ;to ask the Municipal Board for approval to spend this amount. _ I The extent of work to be done at . Brucefield cemetery will depend on advice from' the Department. of, Health, council decided, and instructed the Clerk to inquire the steps `to be taken to improve the ceme- tery. Possibility that there will be department of highways, assist- ance towards installing street lights in Kipped was seen; as council told the Clerk to obtain details. Barber Since '23 Retires Well-known Seaforth busi- nessman, Sid Pullman sold his business this week and on Monday, with Mrs. Pullman, left for a Florida holiday. The new owner of Pullman's Barber Shop is Gordon Tyndall, of Clin- ton. Mr. Pullman began his trade in 1923 when he: learned , bar- bering with Walter Robinson, in what is now Savauge's Jewel- lery Store. A year later the shop was moved to the old Dominion Bank building, and in March, 1926 Mr. Pullman and , John Dennison took over the business from Mr. Robin- son: In 1928 he bought Mr. Den- nison's interests and has been on his own ever since. When the bank building was demol- ished in 1960, the shop was moved to -the Regent building. Gordon. Tyndall, who has tak- en over the business, has been employed in a strop at RCAF Station Clinton for nearly two years. During that time he has assisted weekends at the Pull- man shop. In announcing his retirement, Mr. Pullman said he had en- joyed every minute of the time he had • spent in Seaforth Main Street. While he would no longer own the business, Re' said 'he hoped to be around tite street for a long time yet, 1' said he was indebted many people he had co a kno ' ' dti`"y ill(, hi ; ear ne t but.'p i ulilir •