The Huron Expositor, 1970-01-22, Page 1SEAFORTI-I, ONTARIO, THWiSbAY, JANUARY 22,1970 12 P4OES
.Ross McPhail.
Perth Warden
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Whole No. 530
klith YEAR
Prepare for 3rd Ai
ptimist Winter Car
t
Still Seek
Bermu4a Winner
. • By press time on Wednesday the grand prize in the
Win - a - prize 1969 contest a trip to Bermuda for two,
had still .not been clatined. Two other $25.00 awards had
not been claimed either.. New numbers for .the three un- •
claimed prizes bave been drawn:and the lucky number that
will take two area people to Bermuda for a holiday is
31570 G.
The numbers for the $2,5.00 awards are 1993 E and
2274 E. •
Anyope holding one of these remaining winning-tickets .
has until Tuesday, January 27th to claim their prize, Ina
the event that the prizes are still unaaimed at that time,
a new draw will take place.
Above, Marlen Vincent (gentre) passes out $25.00 cheques
to area „winners, They are (left) MrS. Eric Matzold,
Seaforth: Allan Saijakige;' -Sealtirth; ,Doug. • 2,.
Seaforth; Mr, Vincent; Mrs. Matt .Kelly, R.R. 2, 'Seaforth
and Mrs. Walter Bewley of Walton. The other $25.00 award
was won by Judy Hulley of 'Seaforth.
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The Optimist-sponsored Sea-
forth Winter Carnival gets under
way this Friday night.
- The event has beeneenlarged
this year' to encompass , three
days rather than the customary
one day show of the past two
years.'
While last year's carnival was
a success and attracted more
than 1500 spectators, club offi-
cials are anticipating a crowd
upwards of 3000 for the weekend.
Heading the committee in
charge of the carnival are Wal-
ter" A. Scott, chairman, and Ken-
neth Coleman, Co-mhairman.
Kicking off the opening eve-
ning will be a torchlight parade
from the recreation grounds to
the arena, where a monster bon-
fire is planned.
More than 100 area snow-
mobiles are expected to parti-
cipate in the parade.
A mountain of Christmas
trees has been growing steadily
,at the fair grounds since Christ-
mastime and following the parade
the trees will be ignited under
the supervision of the Seafoith
Fire Department.
Next on the agenda -for Fri-
•day evening will be a moccasin
dance, on the ice, in- the arena.
This event has received wide-
spread publicity and is billed as
one of the highlights bf the week-
end. Music- will be supplied by
a Stratford trio.
During the dance, there will
be a brief program which will
include the introduction of the
Carnival Qneen centestants and
the crowning' of the Queen and
attendants. While balloting for
the Queen has already occurred,
the winner, will not be announced
until that night.
The contestants are Barbara
Bryans, Gail Doig, Cindy Eisler,
Karen Henderson, Sandra John-
to that.
He operates a farin located
at R.R. 2, Staffa. '
Discuss
Religion
In Schools
ston, Gwen McLean, Faye Mun-
ro, Patricia Ryan, Bonnie Town-
send and Christine Turnbull.
Throughout the Friday eve-
ning program a lunch of welners
and beans will be served in the
eiapce hall at the arena. Admis-
sion to the Friday night events
is $1.00 for adults and 25e for
children and lunch is included.
The Saturday afternoon pro-
gram , will commence at 1:00
p.m.
The highlight of - the after-
noon's entertainment will be old-
fasnioned horse and cutter races.
Twelve entries have been re-
ceived and these will be divided
into three races. ' • •
Also included on the Sat u r-
day program are a number of
i
novelty events. A 'ladies' tug-
of-war, pitting the wives of Op-
timst members against the Le-
gion Ladies' Auxiliary promises
to be a crowd-oleaser. Another
highlight will be a log 'Miring
contest, with chain and. -cross'
cut' saws.
Events for the .snowmobile#'•
include ' 'Western, pick'-up
a hay packing contest, Ogg'
relay- race, obstacle race, cross
country race and a land speed'
timing event, which will be timed
by radar.
- Throughout the afternoon and
on Sunday afternoon there will
be free skating and free chil-
,dien's snowmobile rides..
The Winter Carnival Dance,
always a big attraction, will fol-
low on Saturday evening., Un-
fortunately, tickets for the dance •
are already sold out. However,
n—rew of the recent influenza
epidemic, there May be some
late cancellations. Advance tic-
ket sales were, prompted this
year because of the larger, than
capacity crowd which packed the'
Continued on page 12 .
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Hibbert Reeve, Ross
McPhail, was acclaimed Perth
County Warden on,, Tuesday in
Stratford.
Mr. McPhai-l's acclamation
was a foregone Conclusion since
December., when.he was the only
county councillor to announce his
candidac),O
In his inaugural address, he
warned municipal , councils to
'be -vigilant',,, to „keep, their eyes..,
Hibbert Reeve Is
Elected Perth Warden
At the left, Robert R ad presents a $100, cheque, second
prize, to Mrs. Walter . Scott of Market Street, Seaforth.
--Mrs. Scott made the draw for the new numbers.
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Hundreds Absent front School
Seaforth Hard .:Hit As ,Influenza Strikes
date :or the 'event has been
announced. „ • '
The Seaforth", Chamber of
Commerce dinner and dance
planned for Wednesday night was
also cancelled as well -as the
The inaugural•meeting of Huron County CounCil was held in
Goderich on TueSday, January 20, and the new warden sworn . m. Usborne Township Reeve Roy Westcott is.shown receiVing
the chain of office from out-going Warden James Hayter of
Township, Township, The new warden was, elected by
acclamation and was nominated by Goderich Redve Harry
Worsell. — staff photo .
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Ac )aim -Westcott
Huron Warden Warden
The Bert Moggach farewell
party and presentation scheduled
for the SeafOrth And' Dislridi
High school on Friday evening,
January 23rd, has been cancelled
because of the hight incidence of
'flu in the area. . ,
announcement of the pre-
Sentation will be made at a.future
date,
Farewell
Postpone
A series of minor accidents
Wednesday morning kept Seaforth
police busy hopping from .one
scene to another.
__Within a period . of fifteen
minutes .the local police were
led to investigate three se-
arate incidents,' none of which
exceeded $300.. in damages:
The first call came at 9:00
arn ee when police were called to
the main corner where two cars
driven-by Dave Schenck and Rob-
ert Dempsey, both of Seaforth,
were involved in 'a collision. The
Dempsey car was northbound and
the Schenck car was eastbound at
the time of the accident.
Chief bf Police, Gordon
Hulley, estimated damages to
be $250.00, ,
Five minutes later the second
call-was received and poliCe were
called to the corner. of Side
Street and East William Street.
Two vehicles, a car driven by
Dennis Hodgert of Seaforth and
a school bus driven by Ina Mc-
Grath of Egrilanciville• were in-
volved in a minor mishap. Dam-
ages were set at $150,00.
At 9:15 a.m. the third call
was received. once again on Side
Street where' two ve)iicles were
involved.
A car driven by Kevin Kale,
R,R.5, Seaforth, was in collision
..with a car driven byJohn Holland
Influenza, in its various
forms, reached near epidemic
proportions in Seaforth and area
last week end.
While on Wednesday, a slack-
ening off trend in the area schools
was reported, the situation 'is
not yet under. control. -
AliSenteeism at Seaforth
Public School, which was hard-
est hit by the flu bugewas near
41Y% on Friday. The situation
was similar on• Monday morn-
ing but by Tuesday and Wed-
nesday the number absent drop-
ped from 105 to 95.
At St. James'Separate School
thP peak was on Monday when
47 were' absent, By Wednesday
the total was reduced to 41.
Seaforth District HighSchool,
which was hardest hit last week
when over 100 were absent, re-
porteddess than half that number
were absent on Wednesday. A
spokesman at the school said
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ACCEPTS RESIGNATION
County Board of Education since
July, 1969, has submitted 'his
resignation, effective Jan.3I., •
In committee of the whole
the county board here Monday
night agreed the vacancy left
1eyeli4r. Maloney should be shared
ty -two persons. Advertisements
will be placed for a purchasing
agent and transportation officer.
Mr. Maloney, who was bus!-
, ness administrator of the Clin-
ton District Collegiate Board
from 1933 to 1969, will move to.
Chatham, where he has been
appointed purchasing agent for
the Kent' County Board of Edu-
ation
In other business, the Board
adopted-a policy that schopi fact-
• lities will be provided for bene-
fit performances if the director
of education, the cheirMan of
the school board and the school
board member of the represen-
ting municipality agree to- the
performances.
The Beard darned that au-
thority to close any of its scholls,
thority to close any Of its
schbols,,in light of the recent In-
crease in 'flu oases, has to come'
from the ,,illriadtOr of the Huron
Countrifealtil unit.
Trustee D. *'Murphy of Go-
derich will represent the Board
at the official opening.of a five-
room addition to gt. Mary's de=
partiteschool, 4Oderieh, Feb2.
annual meeting -of -First Pres-
byterian Church on Monday night.
Several stores and businesses
On the Main street have been
operating with a minimum of
staff and a. few stores were
closed early in the week,'
of R.R.- 4, Seaforth. Chief Hulley
set damages at $250.00.
Damages eof $200., resulted
Thursday afternoon when a
stationwagon owned by The Ifhron
Expositor .4nd driven by Brian
Leonhardt, was in collision. rdith
a car driven by Dud Hopper.
The accident, welch occurred
on Main Street. was investig-
ated by Constable Sandy Haw-
kins of the Seaforth Police De-
partment.
Rabies Cases
Decline
While there has been a slight
decline, the number of cases of
rabies in Huron County in 1960
indicates they, are still a prob-
lem. says Dr. -W. ,1, Thompson
'of, the Health of Animals Branch,
Seaforth Office.
Dr. Thompson niated that ra-
bies cases are 'tending to move
sonthward . with an increase in
the Southern part of Huron and
in Middlesex. He cited the roam-.
ing of wild animals as the cause
for the treat, •
Of the 310 investig ions made
by the county -branel 89 were
positive. This figure is down
therefore, from the 1968 total
of. 92 cases.
Cases of, rabies -NT-none wild
animals numbered -47 last .year
foXes being rabid in 34 of the
_cases. Skunks accounted for 12
cases and there was one rabid
muskrat.
Cattle accounted for rl8 of
the 42 cases of rabies among
domestic animals. There were
eight cases among cats and three
each among dogs and horses,
persons having Oleg/ledge of
suspected cases of rabies among
domestic or' wild animals are
encouraged to report information
to the Seaforth office, phone 521
11170.
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one legislation affecting the
friunicipal taxpayer. He noted
hat, in" his home township of
iJabert•. property owners would
be paying out 'double. the tax
dollars paidin 1965, mainly be-
cause of an assessment factor
established • under provincial
assessment plans.-
fie --discussed pollution
• briefly, adding that it. was part
of progress. .
• Mr. of has' served as
'Reeve of Hibberte .Township for
the past three' years and was
councillor four-four -years 'prior
Re-elect
. S.
President
Mrs. John PolldiCk of Goderich
was re-elected president of the
Huron Preshyteriai of the
Women's Missionary Sqr 16.0; o f
the Pre.sbyterian Church in
Canada, when delegates from
eight Auxiliaries met in First"'
Church, ,seaferth. to review the
work and accept the reports.
Mrs. ,John Oollock• presided
fe”,the meeting which was opened
witlithe poem, „flelp Me' and the
hymn, 0 'ieed nor ,Help Aces
Past' with Mrs. A McGregor
as pianist. The president read
Psalm 121 and based her in-
spiring New Year's messaeo on
this psalm.
The meettee were approved
as read le, the Secretary eirs.
Ray Dyke of Goderich. The finan -
(dal statement was received ac
giVeri' by the Treasurer, Mrs.
Arnold McConnell of Godericle
She reported an increase in pc-
vines (luting the past iyear. Re-
ports of the various'sed•retanes
Were received. Mrs. Dale Nixon
Seaforth. Secretary for Adult and
Afternoon groups' reported on
the work clone throughout the
Presbyterial. Mrs. Gordon
Schwalm of Hensall reported for
the C O.C. and Explorer groups
and Mrs. W. Aradnock of Auburn
reported for the C.G,I.T and
Young Women's groups. Mrs.
Charles Kalbfleisch of Varha re-
ported for the F"riendship and
Service and Mrs. Harvey Hyde
Of Hensall reported on the work,
done among the Home Helpers.
TM Literature Secretary, Mrs.
Wilfred Sanderson of Auburn told
of her work and visits to the
Societies during the year. A re-
port prepared by the Glad Ti-
dings Secrelery, 'Mrs. John
COntinued.on Page 12
The third regUlar
'Huron-Perth Presb
'held' i neNorths ideetl•nit
Seaforth ‘„QII
by about 80 clergy and lay dele-:
gates.
"" Rev. Donald Deasof Mitchell
United Church conducted a wor-
ship. service.
Rev. William Bell of Listowel,
was nominated as a candidate for
the poSition of.Associate Secre-
tary .of the -Board of Home Mis-
sions in Toronto, .and Reg. Grant
Mills' of Fullerton was nominated
for the •ple-sitioif of Associate
Secretary of the Department of
Stewardship Services. The Pres-
bytery will 'submit these names,
for the election 'of the General.
coun'cil .of the United Church
to be held Inter this Spring.
A highlight 'of the afternoon
eession was the presentation of,
the report on Religious Educa-
tion in the Public -Schools from
the rartior recomtnendations of .
thee ..L. Keiller Mackay report
on the subject last year. Rev.
Morley' Clarke. Christian Ede-
Cation Field Secretary, 'Lohdon
Conference, led the discuSsion,
assisted by Rev. Bruce -Guy,
DashwOod. Opinions expressed
by the delegates ranged from
removal of the present form dyf
religious education to retention
of the-system.
Rev.. 'Clarke said these varied
opinions ware true Of any group
of United Churchmen discussing
religion in the schools. lie said
the United, Church does ant have
a positeha on this'- there is
only the individuai's position.,
A study-action group is- to
be established Icy the Presby-
tery - a committee on religion
in public education. The mem'cers
are to be named be the Pres-
bytery chairman, Rev. Harold
Currie of Hensel], and the se-.
eretary.7 R6v. Derwyn Docken
of W-alton. •
DDT Ban
In Effect
• Area residents are re-
minded 'that as of .January 1st,
197r the use of n D T. is banned
throughout Ontario except in
tobacco and apple growing and
then only on a permit basis.
Those with D,D.T. in their
posssession must not dispose of
it along with ordinary refuse ,Qr
flush it thto -drains or down wat-
er (closets (toilets). •
A disposal program arranged
by the Huron County Health Unit
in co-operation with the Ontario
DepartMent of Health has three
collection centres_ in the Sea-
forth area. They Are the Town
Clerk's office in Seaforth, Jack-
son's
-
son's Store in - Brucefield' and'
McCAvia's Farm Equipment in
Walton.
A check of the disposal
centres on Wthinesday morning
revealed that as Yet only small
amounts of the Illegal
have been received. •
l?oy Westcott, Ushorn Town-
ship Reeve for the paSt four
years, was acclaimed Warden of
Huron County at the inaugural
session of Huron Council in
Or-Jerk:1i on Tuesday,
In accepting ',the, -office,
Warden Westcott told county
council he expected an increase
in tourism for littron,„„..He pre-
dicted an eventual 30-hour week
in the United States would result
in more American tourists visit-
ing Huren's...lakeshore area for
relaxation.
Ile also told council he would
like to see more industry'settle
in t.he county.
Weetcott, choSen by
acclamation, su(C'epeds retiring
warden ,Jim I•layter of Stephen
ToWeship,• Who was chosen by
the same 'method last year.
The new warden, who oper-
ates a farm east of Exeter, was
Sworn into office by Judge R.S.
Hetherington. Prior to }worn-
ins reeve, four yeaM av;o. Mr..•
The Huron-Perth Separate
School' Hoard , at its meeting in
St. James' Separate School, Sea-
forth, on Monday night discussed
setting up the Board ,By-laWs
in' boriklet forri for the use of
the Board Members and especial-
ly for the use of new members
elected to future Boards. Vice-
Chairman, Howard ShantZ,Strat-
ford, was named to head up a
committee to draft a set of by-
laws. He will 'be aided' by the
following members: Vincent
Young, Goderich; Chris Wel-
raven, St: Marys and Arthur
Bald, Britton.
Diseitissiens were helit on
committees,, r'e'sponsibilities of,
committees, reports and retOiri.
Westcott was on Usborn Town-
ship cofincil• for five years.
The last warden from Usborne •
was Hugh Berry in 1948.
Retiring warden Hayter urged
council. to accept change through
regional governmlnt. He told .,
council that unless they were
willing to accept change they
would not be able to move for- .
ward, '
Emir new members were wel-
cOmed to council . They are:
Reeves Kenneth McMichael',
Turnberry Township; E, W, 0 d-
dleifson, Hayfield; Harold Lobb,
Clinton: and Deputy Reeve Eu- •
gene Frayne, Ashfield Towdship,
Clerk-treasurerJohn G. Bete.
ry said the county's surplus for
1969 '.,Weas $150,000 compared to .....
$129,231 in 1968.
Others' taking part in open-
ing the three-day session were
Rev. G. L. Royal Of Knox Pres-
byterian Church, Goderich, and.
Dr. Frank Mills, mayor of -
Goderich.
mendationS, communications
among mern`)ers, with Board Of-
fice, with Chairman, etc. Com-
mittee meetings are to be held,
on Mondays, when possible, be-
tween regular meetings which
are held every. second and fourth
Monday each month,
A booklet - Developing School
Systems - was discussed and
one is to be
was
for.each •„.
memher.
the meeting ended with the ,
four committees - Finance 6fid"
,Insurance, Personnel and Salary ,
stegOtlatlrig, Property „
tenande and ,,transportation...- :
meeting comillitA;
4.4s, . .
Fiuron County Board of Edu-
• cation Monday night authorized
the borrowing of $5,000,000 to
meet currente,expenditures until
revenue is received.
•1 Payment by the municipali-
ties of the educational levies will
be on a quarterly basis this year
with payments in March, June,
' September and December.
• In 1969, $100,000 was paid
in interest for the $9,378,037
the Board borrowed to operate
I, during the year. The single edu-
cational levy was not collected
until mid-December.
A resolutidri drawn up for
borrowing purposes by the Bank
of Montreal, from which the
$5,000,000 loan will be obtained,
listed the rate of interest at 8 1/2
per cent, per annum.
However, the Board changed
,the amount to read gat the Mini-
mum lending .rate' after the
Bearers vice-chairman, •Robert
M. Elliott pointed out that if
• the interest rate was lowered
during the year, the Board would
e be required to pay the 8 1/2 per
cent. interest once the agreement
was signed. -•
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L. IL Maloney 'of Hayfield,,
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manager of ptirchasing, service's,
and transportation With thellttrOti
the situation there was coming
under control,
Gordon McKenzie,. Adminis-
trator at the Seaforth Com-
munity Hospital, said restrict-
ive Measures governing visitiffg
privileges at the hospital will
-remain in fcirce this ;Week: Dur-
ing this .certailment of visiting
privileges only the' next of •kin
of seriously ill patients will be
admitted.
Mr. McKenzie said some
patients with the flu had
been admitted •to the hospital.
He also added that some staff
members at 'the hospital were
absent with ,the flu.
Several events planned for
this week in Seaforth have been
cancelled and this has been
attributed to influenza.
A farewell party for Mr.and
Mrs. Bert Moggach, planned for
Friday' bight at the S, D.H.S. ties
seen postponed: -No alternate
Huron Board Will
Borrow $5,000,000
Investigate Minor
Accident Series
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tang of
was .•
rear, —
attended
NamerCommittee to
Draft Board By-laws
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