The Huron Expositor, 1971-04-22, Page 1WILFRED D. TITFORD
Vf~tii ale No' 5380
112th -Year
• School Surplus
Reduces Taxes
Tuckersmith
Firscapetion, Pages 1-8 Second SEA.FORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 244,, 1971-14PAGES
rucefield Congr
Wares New Church
have been sifting the rubble of
the old chUrch and have come up
with several interesting finds.
The cornerstone was located
and opened last week and con-
tained pertinent relics of the
church and community. Found in
the stone were an old communion
token, a 1906 fifty-cent piece,
1907 twenty-five cent piece , a
1907 penny, which is the size of ..
today's quarters, a 1905-dime and
a five-cent piece dated 1907,
which is smaller than today's
dime. The cornerstone also
contained a copy of The Huron
Expositor -dated June 12, 1908
and a Seaforth News dated-June
Miss Vicki Miller, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G6brge
Miller, Goderich Street, Seaforth is crowned 1971 School
Queen by last year's winner, Gail Doig. The crowning of
the Queen was the highlight of this year's S.D.H.S. Formal
which was held Friday evening. Miss' Miller, a Grade 11
student, was elected by the students of the school from six
candidates. More pictures of the Fdrmal are on page 9.
(Staff Photo)
Area Campaigns
Gain Assistance
mad "things are not the same in
rural Ontario."
No one should' be fooled by
publicity from the Conser-
vatives that the election would
be a two-Nay fight between the
Tories and the NDP she warned.
As evidence, she offereda number
Of examples 'of hotly contested and
very' well attended Liberal
nominating'meetings.
"The Liberals are the only
real alternative to the Tories"
she said. "Especially since the
selection 0? Stephen Lewis as
leader of the NDP, H* is not
acceptable to' the people of
Ontario becauSe he is too rad-
ical":
Mrs. Steele:who is a member
of the. Ontario Campaign Com-
mittee, told the meeting of the
enthusiasm apparent at Liberal
'convention meetings. Excellent
candidates are coming forward
and keen contests for nominat-
ions are the result, she said.
While agree ing that no one
could predict with certaintywhen •
the election will be called, Mrs.
"Steele concluded by .urging the
association "to get on with the
campaign".
Appreciation to Mrs., Steele
was expressed by Mrs. Ian Mc-
Allister while .A. Y. McLeat1.1
Southwestern Ontario Region
president, thanked the members
of the Hensall Legion Auxiliary
Who catered for the dinner.
John Broadfoot of Brucefield
chaired the meeting. The pro-
gratin included greetings from
Reeve John Baker of Hensall
and visiting reeves, John Flan-
nery, Seaforth and Elgin
Thompson, Tuckersmith, Wm.
Elston, Morris and Hugh Flynn,
Hullett, in his remarks Reeve
Elston, who is president of the
Huron Bruce Liberal Associa-
tion brought greetings from
Murray Gaunt, MPP.
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Offices
While the township general
rate has -been increased from
. 18 mills to 18.6 mills, Tucker-
smith tax payers will find taxes
on the whole will be lower this
4 year.
A township resident with a
$3000 assessment *Ill pay
perhaps $20 less this 'year.
The tax reduction is a one
time situation and will not occur
in 1972. Clerk J. I. McIntosh
said it reflects a reduction in
the secondary-school rate which
in tan was made possible for
this year only as a result of
surplus money on hand when the
county board was formed in 1968
which was turned over by the for-
mer area boards.
The tax rate
New 1.030
Manager
A new manager has been
appointed to the Liquer Control
Board store in Seaforth. Wilfred
D. Titford will succeed mel ,
Clarke who retired this month.
The appointment is effective this
week.
Mr. Titferd, who is orig-
• inally from Cobourg, Ontario Is '
married and hopes to move his
wife to the Seaforth area"just as
soon as he can lOcate a suitable
home. The couple have no child-
ren.
He is a veteran of the R.C.A.F.
and served in Europe: with 434
squadron, sixth grqup bomber
•command during the second
World War.,.
Following the war he settled
in Toronto and for the last ten
years has worked for the Liquor
Control Board in the Thorncliffe
Plaza store in that city.
His appointment in Seaforth
is the first managerial job „he
has held with the board.
Liberals Elect
'Faced with keen contests for
every office, Huron Liberals -at
-a dinner meeting in Hensall
-Wednesday' elected John -La
Porte, R.R..2, 2 urich , president,
In all, 16 candidates contested
eight offices.
In a race for executive vice
President , Mrs. -Da+, Adanis,...
Brucefield, won Out over three
men, Dr. Morgan Smith, Hay-
field, Paul Steckle, Zurich and
Rob Brady, Seaforth.
Nine candidates stood for the
five positions of area vice presi-
dent. Successful ,candidates
were, Peter Stinnissen, Seaforth,
Paul Steckle, Stanley Township,
Dr. Morgan Smith, Bayfield, Neil
McGasin, McKillop Township and
Northside
Calls New
Minister
Rev. Mervyn E. Reuber, 58,
of Elmira has accepted a call
to the two- p oint pastoral charge
of Northside United Church, Sea-
forth and Cavan United Church,
Winthrop,14fective July 1.
He succeeds Rev. J. Clifford
Britton who is retiring from the
ministry. •
Mr. Reuber graduated from
liarriston High School and from
the Evangelical Theological Uni-
versity of Illinois in 1941.
He has served at Kitchener,
Credttat;" New Hamburg, Strat-
ford and Elmira where he has
been living since 1964,
Mr. and Mrs. Reuber have
a daughter, Anne, a teacher in
,Stratford for three years, and a
son, Paul, .in his fifth and final
year in architecture at the
University of Toronto.
Attend OFSC
A number from Seaforth were
at Wasaga Beach over the
weekend attending the annual con-
vention of the Ontario Federation
of Snowmobile Clubs. Among
'
those attending were Mr, and-
Mrs. Wm. McLaughlin, Mr. and
Mrs. Don Muir, Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Chesney, Mr. •and Mrs; •
Don0Florne, Mr. and Mrs. Don
Mathews and Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Kling.
Mrs. Muriel Murphy, Goderich.
Mks. Murphy was tied in the vot-
ing with KenHunter of Goderich
who withdrew in her favour.
Howard .Aitken of Goderich
was acclaimed to a further term
as secretary of the Association
and Mrs. Ian (Shirley) McAllister
of R.R.#1, Zurich was elected by
acclamation as treasurer.
Guest speaker for the banquet,
which preceded the meeting was .
Mrs. Jan Steele, of London, exec-
utive vice-president of the
Liberal Party in Ontario.
Mfrs. Steele, who was intro-
duced by Paul Steckle, was born
on, a farm in the State of Vermont
and received her Canadian
citizenship in 1961. She has a
With contributions in excess
of its $1200 quota the annual
Red Cross , campaign is in its-
final stages according to' carli-
paign committee chairman Jan
Snushall. The response was par-
ticularly good he said.
Gifts to the Crippled Child-
ren'g campaign continue to' come
in but a substantial number of
contributions are required, if the
quota is to be met, 'according,
to Clair Campbell, who headsl.he
Lions 'Club coMmitte in charge
of the campaign.
Master of Arts degree in Political-
Science and is currently serving
,her second term as vice-
president of the Ontario Liberal
Party. She was recently
appointed by Prime Minister
Trudeau to chair a Liberal Party
Committee assessing the
recommendations of the Royal
Commission 'on ,the Status of
Women.
Pointing out that the sitting
member in fluronp Hon, Charles
MacNaughton, could be 'defeated,
Mrs. 'Steele said that "in this
election year, I 'bring a message
of hope to the Liberals of Huron
County". She went on to
emphasize that while Premier
Davis was spending money like
The Congregation of
Brucefield United Church
approved the architect's plans for
a new church at a special meeting
held in Kippen United'Church on
Sunday.
The new church will be guilt
a-replaAe the Brucefield United
Church which was destroyed by
fire in November.
The new church, to be built of
red brick, will seat 250 persons
in the nave and includes a semi-
detached church hall. The arch-
itects estimated cost,, for the
building is $118,000. Another
prominent feature of the. design
is a modern bell toter, seParate
from the one storey Church, but
connected to it by a covered
walkway. Other features InClude
a kitchen, church school rooms,
a nursery, minister's study, and
meeting rooms. Rev, Donald
Stuart, Vastor of the Brucefield-
Kippen charge, said that pro-
vision has been made in -the
design to allow additional seating
by adding a balcony in the nave
should the need arise in the
future.
Final approval for the con-
struetion—of --the...church-OH-1St
first be obtained from the Huron-
Perth Presbytery. It is expec-
ted that' this approval will be-
given at a presbytery meeting to
be held Tuesday in Walton.
With this approval, t archi-
tects, Kyles, Kyles and Garrett
of Stratford will tender for the
construction work which is ex-
pected to be 'completed by the
end of the year..
" Since the November fire, the
congregation liaa been worship-
ping in the -Kippen United Church,
which is also served by Rev.'
Stuart. '
In the meantime, workers
Vote for,
Ausable
Taking part in an informal
vote in an effort to reach a
consensus concerning' the Con-
servation Authority, they would
join, representatives of 12 mun-
icipalities located in the Hay-
field River -watershed area, voted
eight to four to join the Ausable
River Conservation Authority.
The meeting was held in Goderich
on Thursday.
ReeVe Elgin Thompson of
Tuckersmith, vice chairman of
the Ausable Authority said the,
next step would come when de-
partment of resources manage-
ment would schedule a meeting
when a formal decision would be
taken by the municipalities con-
cerned. The decision just taken
was in effect a straw vote but he
felt the formal vote would result•
in no changes.
If the Thursday decision is
confirmed Huron County 'will be
split In two for conservation
purposes, half in the, Ausable
Authority and half in the Mait-
land Authority.
Last October the municipali-
ties turned down a Seaforth
proposal ,to join the Maitland
Valley Conservation Authority
by failing by one vote, to reach
the required two-thirds majority.
Thursday's vote took only
one hour with the: villages of
BaYfield and Zurich, the town
of Clinton and Hay, Hibbert, Md-
Killop, Stanley and Tuckersmith
townships voting' in favor of the
Ausable resolution, proposed last
fall by Hay Township.
Voting against the -resolution •
and for joining the Maitland
Valley authority were: the town of
Seaforth, and the townships of
Goderich, Hullett, and Logan.
Clinton and McKillop Town.-
ship changed, their votes haying
supported union with the Matt-
(Continued on Page 8)
C.Westcott
Is Davis
Assistant
In an annoucement concerning
the reorganization of the admin-
istrative arrangements in the new
Ontario Premier's office,
Premier Wm. Davis said that
Clair Westcott, who had been a
special assistant to him while
Minister of Education., would con-t
tinue in that capatity in the
Department of the Prime Minis-
ter.
Mr, Westcott, a native of
Seaforth, is a frequent visitor
here. A graduate of schools in
SeafOrtium is the son of Mrs.
J. -A. yirestcott and the tate Mr.
Westcott,
Giffs to date total a little
over $1300 against ,a quota of
$2000 he said.
The area cancer campaign
got under way last week wh_
S.D.H.S. students began ,their
canvass of homes in the dis-
trict. While some returns have
been received, they are notsig-
nificant, J. R. Spittal, campaign
chairman said and added it would
be another week before' results
of the canvass would become
apparent.
special meeting of council Tues- /
'day night.
Rates are as follows with
the 1970 rate in brackets. Town-
ship rates ,are 18.6 mills (18.0)
for farm. and residential and 22
mills (22) for business and corn-
mefcial and will raise a"levy of
$57,994.
The county rate is 20.4 mills,
unchanged' from last year's rate,
for a levy of $69,367. The School
board rates for HuronzPerth
County Roman Catholic' Separ-
ate School Board are farm and
residential 22.0 mills (21.6) and
business and commercial 24.6
mills (23.6) for a levy of $9,278.
Rates for Huron County Board
of Education, primary, 21.0 mills
(21.6) and business and commer-
cial 23.0 (23.6) mills for a levy
of $55,271; for secondary 13.0
mills (19.4) and business and
commercial 14.4 mills (21.4)'
fora levy of $40,062.
It was announced the Huron
County Municipal officers will
meet in Londesboro on May 18
with Hullett Township as host
for the meeting,
Keen Competition for
• Members of the executive' of the Huron -Liberal Association ,(Provincial) who were eleccted,
at an enthusiastic dinner meeting in Hensall, on Wednesday. They are (left) Paul Steckle,
area Vice president, Mrs. Ian McAllister, "treasurer, John La Porte, president, Mrs. Don
Adams, executive vice president, Howard Aitken,. Secretary, Dr. Morgan Smith and Peter
Stinnissen, area vice presidents. Absent were two area vice presidents, Mrs. D. J, Murphy
and, Neil 1VicGavin. S (Expositor Photo)
11, 1908. A handwritten note
explains that the two newspapers
,,represeht the Liberal and Con-
servative viewpoints in the com-
munity". Several 'Church public-
ations, including the1.907 church
annual report, the May1908 issue
of the Presbyterian Record and
the June 1908 issue of The
Presbyterian were also included
along with a handwritten history
of the churCh.„
The large IR11., whichjell from
the tower, was also found in good
condition. Rev, Stuart expressed
the hope that it and the corner-
stone would be incorporated in
the construction of the new
church.
AU that was found: 9f a
old and valuable cOMMtielen Set-
owned by the church Were,eeVeral
soot incrusted plece$ of silver
which had been melted bythe heat'
of the fire and now .reSS*1:4e
cinders from a furnace. •
Nothing else has • 13e*-
recovered which is recognizable,.
The church, which was 410",
troyed, was built in1998 of brtdic4-,
from a still older church on the
same site. One member of the-
building committee for .that
church is still alive; be is DWI*.
can Aikenhead of Seaforth.
(Continued on Page 5)
The Huron-Perth County
Roman Catholic Separate School
Board at a special meeting in
Seaforth Friday night decided to
hold the line on the mill rate in
Stratford. There will be no In-
crease in the mill rate which will
remain at last year's level of
31.72 mills residential and 35.24
mills commercial with th,e total
leVy for Stratford , amounting
to $.103,086.
The purpose for maintaining
the mill rate was to pick up the
1969 and 1970 underlevies of $240
and $3862 respectively in Strat-
ford, arid thus allow the board to
break even in the 1971 operation
within the municipality.
The board also approved the
rates for the remaining 44
municipalities of which '20 will
have a decrease, one will remain
the same and 23 will have an,
increase over last year's levy
which was the same as the public
Reflect Surpluses
HPRC Tax Rates
PROPOSED NEW aRutEFIEth UNITED CHURCH
Rev. E. Donald Stuart points out a feature on the architect's 'elevation of the proposed new
Brucefield United Church. The new church, when completed, will seat 250 people and include-
-a large church hall; The estimated cost of the church is $118,000. Tenders will be callecf.a.S
soon, as the plans are approved by the Presbytery and it is' hoped that the structure will be
completed by December. (Staff Photo)
school rate. ' •
Jack Lane, Business 'Ad-
ministrator, reported 'that the
reason for not. following the
public school rates this year is
that the Department of Education
specifies that all surpluses frpm
former school boards prior to
county formation be returned to
the municipalities in 1971. - As
a result many municipalities will
receive refunds
Certain municipalities within
the public system 'have surpluses
whereas the Huron-Perth Board
may have had a deficit in these
municipalities on amalgamation
with the county system, conse-
quently are unable to remain with
the public school mill rate.
It is anticipated that in some
'areas where' the public school
mill rate has been lowered this
year the mill rate will be in-
creased next year to meet local
requirements.
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Mrs. Joan Chesney, R.R4-57-
Seaforth, was among those who
graduated from StratforitGeneral
Hospital School of Nursing on
Saturday. Folloviing the cere-
monies in Stratford, Mrs.
Chesney entertained at a
reception in the Seaforth Curling
Club. (Jensen Studios)
Seaforth Beavers' captain;' Bob BeutteriMiller (right) accepts the trophy emblernsitie ot
the OcIA Intermediate championship from 011A representative Johnny Brent while HeaVeii. Ken Doig looks on. The Beavers won the trophy by defeating Cheltenhard HarVetterti lbtilc
games to one. The last game, Thursday night, was an exciting cotne-froni-behind nOttgi'y fOr Seaforth. • (Staff pliato:
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