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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1965-07-29, Page 1V ;A • , • • Whole No. 5083 106th Year -• SEAFORTH, 0NT44,19,. TiliJRSDAY, JULY" 29, 1965 — 10 PAGES f, A • most.) 'so Modern Facilities , House Road Equipment WHILE SNOW and storm may still be problems for Hibbert Township road' . maintenance people, many of, their winter •maintendiree difficulties will be solved ' with • the new townshipshed opened Saturday by Hon.. Charles" MacNaughton;, Ontario Minister of Highways. The new build- ing contas modern facilities and can accommodite largest equipment. Here, Reede Earl Dick (right) discusses the road • program with Hibbert road superintendent, Ed. Chapple. • Hibbert Opens Modern Equipment Accommodation Hibbert ToWnsiiip's $30,000 road maintenance buikling was opened officially Saturday. While the building had been in use since late last year, it wasn't official until Highways Minister Charles MacNaughton cut a ribbon across one of the large doorways. The ceremony took place before an inter6t- 'ed gathering of township resi- dents and area municipal offi- cials. • Arrangements for the event • were worked -out -by ReevelEarl Dick and township councillors Auguste ' Ducharme, Charles Roney; John Drake and Ross McPhail. Reeve Dick, who was chair- man,. recalled the township be - Set Date For Police' Hearing • Differences between Seaforth council and members of the Seaforth police force regard- ing rates of pay and terms of employment will go to "arbitra- tion. Judge W. H. Fox, of London, has been appointed by the At- • torney -General to act as i'arbi- trator. He will hold hearings in Seaforth on Sept. 8. Discussions have been going on between thecouncil and , police since last year. An offer of council, submitted in June, has been refused "and the re- quest for arbitration followed. The arbritation hearing will precede another action concern- ing police and council, in which. Constable E. McNeil is seeking to have a motion of council rescinded. The two matters are not related. • The motion adopted last March 'terminated Constable a McNall's services. Heard 'or- iginally in June, the action comes up again in London on Sept. 17. In the meantime, Constable McNeil has joined the Exeter police force. ganto create the present mo- dern road maintenance depart- mentin 1941, when thefirst motorized grader _was purchas- ed. It was during the term of Reeve. William Kay, that a shed costing $570,00 was erect- ed to house the new machine: Jack McDonald was road super- intendent,' for which he was paid 45 cents an' hour. ' While in the interval there had been relative1Y little change in assessment.-_-the1964 assess- -merit was $2,006;10-Otaxes had reflected increasing demands for schools, roads and public services, and had risen from $30,908.00 to $138,569.09. Reeve Dick said planning for the new shed—a large concrete block structure, located on the cOunty road north of Staffa— began in 1963. It was designed to provide other services, such as a council chamber if need arose. •Mr. MacNaughton congratu- lated the citizens of Hibbert and particularly Reeve Dick and members of council for their foresight in planning for fu - Copy Early. For Holiday . Little but local mail was be- ing moved through the Seaforth Pest Office this week, as the mail handlers' strike continued. While ' workers ' in Stratford •and smaller area centres..con- tinue on duty, no mail is mov- ing out of Toronto or other major centres. In some •cases courier service has been established by private concerns to move business docu- ments between Toronto and area branches. Ask Co-operation Because of the mail strike and the Civic Holiday that oc- curs ,on Monday, it is neces- sary to have- correspondence and advertising copy for next week's issue of The Expositor in the office earlier than usual. All material to make possible delivery .here must either be brought by hand or mailed as first class, matter. Second Instruction Series Arrange The second series of instruc- tional lasses gets under. ,way at Lions Park pool on 'itt1601W August 3. on The same iristructit will be in- Charge of dally T'es•rt 4' pit{ , sons. Classes will , include "the fol- lowing students and will be held' dallY at the times indi- cated: Seniors — 9:00 • 9:35 Teacher—Ross Howay. Paul Patrick, Hank Gtoothius, Jiin Dalrymple,. Bill Boussey, Elizabeth Van Der Fon, Margie Whyte. Beginners — 9:Q0 - 9:35 Teacher -t -Peter Stinnissen. David Brady, David Broome; Debbie Dorssers, Sharon Glen- , Terry Dale, Peter Kostenink, vine, Gary Spurgeon, Terry t Stetlhepsom;• Lai:4)A Janke SehdOck, 'fan ture needs. "Road •,equipment today is costly and it is only common sense to provide facilities for -proper maintenance and accom- modation," he said. Exceed Projections He pointed out demands for highway services were far ex- ceeding proj•ections; and • told' of steps his department was taking to ensure adequate ser- vices would he available as the, 'peed • arose. Mr. MacNaughton was intro- duced by Fred Edwards, Perth MPP. A representative of the con- tractors, Moffat & White,. pre- sented a key of the building to Reeve Dick, who in turn gave it to Road Superintendent Ed. Chapple, Mr. Chapple recalled the problems of maintaining heavy equipment in winter •weather in inadequate facilities. • "You can't imagine the plea- sure it is to work in here, after what we were used to," he said. Councillor Auguste Ducharme introduced •members of coun- cil, Mr. Chapple and Mrs. Ann Burchill, • the township clerk. • John Nagle, supervising trus- tee of Dublin, referred to in- creasing. costs of providing mo- dern equipment. It was not so much the cost, as ensuring that one got value for one's money, and he was satisfied that this was the case .here. Robert Dawson, Stratford, en- gineer who designed the build- ing, commented on the high degree of co-operation that ex- isted between the owner S and builders and all concerned with the project. . "As the middleman, my task was easy," he told Reeve 'Dick. William Venn, municipal en- gineer with the department, of highways, represented t h e Stratford division. The building was dedicated by Rev. Bert Daynard, of Staffa, and Father Remi Durand, of Dublin. Others who were -introduced include Warden Rudolph Bauer, of Perth; Reeve Elgin' Thompson, of - Tuckersmith; (Continued on Page 4) Caravan Is Set for Seaforth The Centennial 'Caravan Will be in Seaforth ,for one day 'in June, 1967. A representative of the Cen- tennial Commission at Ottawa was in town last week and:con- ferred with Mayor J. F. Flan- nery and. Clerk E. and said the tentative °date for the Seaforth visit was June 13, 1967. - 4, The caravan will be, hased•at Lions Park, and wilrbe open to the public throughout the day. • Designed to • depict the growth and development of Canada from the earliest days to the present, the caravan is a na- tional project of the Centen- nial Commission. It brings to major towns across' Canada the same type of ' exhibit that the centennial train will bring to Canadian cities. Seaforth is ane of the few towns in West- ern Ontario which the caravan will visit. While final details are being worked out, officials advised that the caravan will include seven exhibit vans, each fifty feet in length. In addition, there is i servicing van, since the display is self-contained, Elmer Feature The second picture in the Ebner the Elephant summer safety contest appears on page — •of The Expositor. Lnstruc- lions accompany the picture. The contest is sponsored by the Ontario Safety League and a number of Ontario daily. news- pape to make children con- scious o afety practices. The second picture deals with El- mer's third safety rule: "Ride your bike safely, obey all signs and signals." - . Deadline for sending entries to the Ontario Safety League, 208 King St. West, Toronto, is August 4. However, the Safety League has announced that it will withhold judging until the mail strike is settled and en- tries received. August Swimming Beginners 9:00 - 9:35 Montgomery. Leb"s• Bell, Cheryl Peckitt, Charll:tewart, Marian Smale, Gail y, Elaine Hopper, Jo kape• Schenck; Ctuthia Dors- nteiniediates —'9:45 • 10:20 Tea`cher—Rosa Howay. , Pamela Patrick, Barbara Brady, tJanny Cornish, Nancy Phillips, John Moore, Brenda Dietz, Bruce Malcolm, Bill Whyte', Marilyn Dnrat. Beginners 945 - 10:20 Teather—Peter Stinnissen. Brian Dietz, Nancy Dietz, Jane Dietz, June Williamson, Ricky Hulley, Thomas Pullman, Kev- in Kerr, Bobby Schenck. Beginners — 9:45 - 10:20 Teacher—jim Montgomery. ' • Tracey Carter, Ellen Stewart, Doug Reynolds, Mary Jayne Ppllinan, Gayle Munro, Lynn MacDonald, Cheryl Peckitt, Lee Bell. -Junfors — 10:30 • 1105 Teacher—Ross Howay.# Donna Malkus, Debbie Cum- ing, TOny Akker, Jerry Feeney, Mary Ann Segeren, Marlene Turnbull, Joan Hopper, .Eliza- beth. Ball, Cathy Stewart, Bet- ty MacDonald, Beginners 10:30 • 1h05 Teacher—Peter Stinnissen. Janice Klaver, Patrick Row- land, 'Colleen Rowland, Mary Margaret Rowland, Melissa Mac- Lean, Mary Anne Klaver, An- thony Segeren, lo -Anne Prim - eau, John Primeau„ Barbara, Joanne and Caroline Maloney. Beginners — 10:30 - 11:05 Teacher—Jim' Montgotiteri. Helen Smale, 'Steve Kosterz- ink, David Kostenitk,Ted Petkitt,.. Linda Redgert, Debbie Classes Boshart, Ronnie Pullman, Lu- anne Rowland. Juniors --- -11:15' • 11:50 ' Teacher—Ross Howay. Kevan Broome, Monica Mal- kus, Dwayne Cornish, Anne Hopper, Beth Broetne,' Garry Groothius, Rosemary Ne wn- ham, Bradley Finlayson, Bren- da Finlayson, Danny Carter, Joe McLean. Beginners — 11:15 - 11:50 .Teacher—Peter Stinnissen. Cathy. McCue, Colleen Marie Gordon, Ronny Kennedy, Cam- eron Doig, Susan Kunder, Brent Schenck, Jeffrey and Jane Al- lan. Beginners — • 11:50 Teacher—Jim Md1tgomery. • Elizabeth Johnston, Lori Ken- nedy, Paul Carter, David Dal- rymple,- Don Melady, John Peekitt, Elizabeth and Karen bavkison. , • Single Cppies W 0e stoo a Year lo 4:40*.a. ducation Chart choot Sales in' Mc • •Attracted hrilte aubtioneer's hammer,' former pupils of three McKillop schools Wednesday paid their last yisit to the buildings in which they had seined their education. They relived events of past years and spoke of teachers and fel- low students long gone. With them were area resi- dents as well as antique en- thusiasts, ,attracted by the fact that in many cases the 'School buildings e and furnishing had been in use many* years: Passed over and no longer re- quired in a. modern education system_ in which the one -room school 'hasno place, the build- ings, were, declared surplus by the McKillop School Area Board. The oldest of the buildings, that of the former USS 1, Mc- Killop, Tuckersmith and Hib- bert, was located on No. 8 Highway, two miles east of Sea - lo rth Built on land acquired a hun- dred years 'ago, the 'building has served succeeding genera- tions of students front the three townships. It had been closed for more than' 20 "Years.' A deed conveying school board land is in the possession of William DevereauX, who as a boy at - 'tended the school 75 years The trustees at that timla were •Michael McQuade, John McCann and John Carlin, .and -the half -acre of land was pun - chased by Bernard Burns for $20.00. The land is now own- ed by Mr. Devereaux.. The lot had been reserved' for school purposes in the original Can- ada Comp -any deed to Mr. Burns. • The other schools involved were ,SS 12, one mile north and a hall mile west, of Winthrop, and SS 13, at Roxboro: north- west of Seaforth. Each .of the schools was of frame congtruc- tion, The USS.No. 1 School, wood- shed and land was sold to` Louis Nolan for $500. The property included a drilled well. A hand bell went to A. Brisson for $3.75; seats and desks went for $1.50; each; a cordWood stove' brought ' $1.50 and an outhouse, $5. Ed. Row- land purchased a phonograph and records for $12.25. . The sales brought in 'a total of $2,558,75. Auctioneer was Harold Jackson, Seaforth. SS 12, has been in opgation more than 75 years and Is be hag 'absorbed . into McKillop • School Area No.- 6 and` 7. Eight pupils will be taken by bus to No. 6 School and five more will go to SS 7. Miss Jes- sie Little, Brussels, who had taught in that school for the, past 15 years, will also trans- fer to No. 6 School. The first No. 12 school board was formed in 1889 and in 1899 the' school was built. Of frame constructidn, it cost '3850, and furniture and equipment was valued at $275. In 1946 a reno- vation program was carried out to improve the lighting. The entrance was moved from, the front to the end and these are the only major changes made to the original huilding. Since the school. opened in 1890 there have been 25 teach- ers, the first teacher being Miss Annie Simpson, • who taught there for only one year. . Henry Boven, of McKillop, bought the schoolhouse Air $350. The bell sold for $15 to Arthur Brisson, Bayfield. The bell and turret at SS 13 was sold to Foster Fowler for $20. Mr. Fowler, a former school teacher, was raised within hearing distance of the bell and it was the first school bell he rang when he acted as a supply teacher for his sister, Tillie Fowiet who taught there " for 13 years. San: Solt, RR 2,', Seaforth, bought' the 144 and, school building for $1,500. The property includes a drilled WOlbr".' an almost new oil furnace,' pressure system and toilets arid ^ an acre of land adjacent to his farm. The ;awl was b▪ uilt ill 1890 for $609., It had been closed previously from 1941 to 1956, when it was reopened to ac- commodate 22 pupils. The first teacher was Miss Isobel Dick- son, whose yearly salary was $250. • MRS. JOHN DEVEREAUX and William Devereaux stand in front of the school Wild: ing of USS No. 1, McKillop, east of Seaforth, before the building was sold. It was one of three school •buildings sold byMcKillop Area School Board. Mrs, Devereaux, 78, Who bought a rake as a memento, and her brother-irelaw, who is six years older, attended the •school as children. •(Expositor Photo by Phillips). • Poultry Producers Talk Egg. Quality, Marketing The theme, "The Egg—a Quality Product," featured a panel discussion in the Sea - forth Community Centre- Wed- neddaY evening, sponsored by the Huron County Committee of the Ontario Egg and Fowl Producers' Marketing Board. The meeting followed a large. ly attended chicken barbecue held in the Arena. - At the same ,time, Miss Linda McMaster, Hydro twine econo- mist, held a cooking demonstra- tion, featuring eggs and poul- try, at a gathering in SDHS.. Discussing feeding for qual- ity at the Community Centre meeting, Dr. J. D. Harvey, nutritionist at Topnotch Feeds Limited, said the hen practical- ly never lays anything but a grade A egg. - What is important is econ- omic quality—the laying of the largeft-number of eggs at low- est cost and low expense and with the. highest market value., Dr: Harvey warned that va- lue must- not be confused with market price, "I assume no re- sponsibility for the market price of eggs," he said. G. S: Moggach, Seaforth, Hu- ron County Agricultural En- gineer with the Department of 'Agriculture, discussed building requirements for poultry, and P,fessor H. L. Orr, of the Po iltry Science Department 0.A.C., University of Guelph, talked about retaining egg qual- i0+. C. A. Loomis, -Toronto, sec- retary -manager of the Poultry Marketing Board, provided in- formation on the function of the marketing board. A' PANEL DISCUSSION which emphasized the impOrtanee 'of egg quality was a feature of the Egg Day program, sponsored hire by the Huron Committee of the Ontario Egg and Marketing Board. Taking part in the discussion were; (left) Dr. J. D. Harvey, of Top eh Feeds Limited; C. A. Loomis, secreta0-manager of the Marketing Board; G. S. gOggaeli, Huron Ag Engineer, and Prof. H. L Ott of the Poultry Science DepEttnent, OtieIPh. (04mMtor photo by Phillips). • " • ; Hospitai Project Resu mes Work was resumed Monday . in most deoa•rtments at the new • Seaforth Community Hospital, as carpenters called off their three -week-old strike, However as carpenters re- turned. plumbers indicated they were awaiting outcome of dis- cusSions, with London, Builders Exchange before they would come on the job., In the meantime, tho general centra' -tor, W. A. McDougall Ltd„ is reassembling crews „so that work nn. the almost com- pleted buildine can he speed- ed un 'Many of the tradesmen who had worked on the lob for months. moved to other -employment when the strike be -an Joie 5. A bout three y•?eks' work re- mained 'hen the strike was ,-ntipd. but. row it •is expected tve, inet•e !o the new building will not he nossilile until late in August, offitials said. It will be several days' before a definite moving date will be decided on. Plan New. Features For' Fair A Junior and Senior Uome- maker award will be one of the highlights of the ladies' section of Seaforth Fall Fair this year, according to the vice- ' president, Mrs. J. M. Scott. To , be fligible, the exhibitor must exhibit at least three entries• in each of the sewing section, bak- ing and canning, and. at least '!y one entry in the arts and To be eligible for the Antler prize, the exhibitor tntiSt jo between the ages of , • feinititilieiii eirt 4•4Y'e.1. +