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Doris and Peter Unitt, well known students of Canadiana, were in Seaforth a year ago collecting
,material for, their recently issued book "Bottles in Canada". This picture, whichais reproduced in the book and which-shows them with Bill Hart and his bottle collection, appeared in the Expositor
August 26 of last year.
New book on Canadian
bottles features Hart collection
This is all that remains after fire levelled a barn on the farm of-Alvin Beuermann in McKillop
early Wednesday morning. Loss set at $30,000 includes about 60 pigs, a large quantity of grain an„ e'en ac mae.hinery and equipment. A• (Staff photo) a
Seaforth firemen answered. a call to Lot 24 Con. 12 McKillop late Monday morning when wires
on a combine overheated and began burning. The combine was in a shed on the farm of Harold
Hudie, R.R.#4, Walton. (Staff Photo)
Whole No. 500
1.13th Year . SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24,1.972 - 12 PAGES
The Honourable W.Darcy Mc-
Keough was on the hot seat at a
special session of Huron County
Council Monday afternoon
and ,the subject was regional gov-
ernment. -
• Accompanied' by Hon. C.S.
MacNaughton, MPP for Huron,
McKeough arrived later than an-
• ticipated by council and gave
members an opportunity to dis-
cuss what they believed to be the
implications of McKeough's June
statement on Design for Develop-
ment Phase Three. It also gave
members time to formulate good
questions which made for an in-
formative session.
• The main questions in the
minds of most county councillors
were whether regional govern-
ment was coming, when it was
coming and how it would affect
Huron County.
• McKeough told council mem-
bers he could nat' provide direct
answers to those questions at
this time. He said that his June
statement had covered three to-
pics - the regional development
program, reforming tax needs
and restructuring local govern-
ment.
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The Minister said that ,a tar-
get datetof 1975 had been set for
the completion of data -gathering
which would point the way to the
future.
McKeough's June statement
went this way: "It is our goal
that everyone in the province will
have a -Nod idea of the direction
local • government is going by
1975. I want to make it clear
that this does not mean it will
be possible to have legislated
all those reforms by that date."
McKeough told Huron coun-
cillors that a "restructured
map" of the province would have
• to be drawn up before any mun-
icipality can knew the possible
boundaries of their region. He
said it would be unwise to formu-
late tentative boundaries at this
point since there couldbe "areas
left over unless somebody devel-
ops a whole map."
He clici reiterate his plan to
develop five regions in the pro-
vince rather than 10. McKeough
said that during the past five
years, many, many politicians
and lay people throughout Ontario_
had come to realize that "the
world is bigger than our own
back yard."
Huron reeves press McKeough for
plans concerning regional government
loss at $30,000
A picture of ...early bottles
recovered in the Seaforth area
, is featured ott^ the cover of a:
new hard cover book "Bottles
in Canada" by Doris-and Peter
Unitt.
"Bottles 'Canada" is the
latest in a series dealing with
Canadian antiques, silverware
and glass which the Unitts, widely
known students of Canadiana,
have published.
o AMong those to whom the
240 page book is dedicated is
Bill Hart of Seaforth who is a
recognized authority on sealers
and crocks. Mr. Hart has been
a keel bottle. collector for many
years, and pleatographs of items
from his collection appear
throughout the publication.
A picture taken by Rob Brady
and which appeared in the
In the past, MdKeough said,
regional development eouncils
had been charged with the res-
ponsibility to . "develop- a com-
mon point of view." He said he
-saw the. five propesed regions
as a method by which to"streng-
then the role of local govern-
ment'jecause the 10 former
regions were to be replaced with
what he liked to term "the group
of 70" - 70 municipalities within
five regions.
A grant of $7,000 has been
approved by the Ontario Heritage
Foundation to assist the Van
Egmond Foundation with the
purchase of theV an Egmond home
in Egmondvllle as an historic
site.
James Doig, Van Egmond
Foundation chairman ,said an
additional grant of $7,000 has
been promised providing an
equivalent amount was raised
locally and, plans for restorat-
ion and administration had been
approved.
Tuckersmith a residents
affected by a township zoning
by-law discussed the impact of
the by-law at a public meeting
in Centennial School, Bruce-
field, Tuesday evening.
While there were many ques-
tions, those attending appeared
more concerned with obtaining
answers than in presenting oppo-
sition in principal.
The draft zoning by-law con-
cerns the "Base impact area"
of 'the township"-e' a triangular
area between Clinton Seaforth
and Brucefield which includes the
former Canadian Force's Base,.
More than 300 property
owners in the area were
notified of the by-law and pre-
sented with a copy of it, and then
invited to the meeting to discuss
Expositor a year ago shows the
Unitts as they visited Mr.l3art
and recorded details of his
„collection.
The picture on the cover is
of bottles dug tip by Graeme
Young, David Steffen and Colin
Young, who have become sere
ious collectors as a result of
the training and encouragement
given them by Bill Hart.
The Unitts include a picture
of .the youths at work in their
dig and in 'a chapter dealing
with the Hart collection des-
cribe their work.
"Graeme Young, David
Steffen and Colin yOung, theee
,student friends of Bill Hart, took
the authors to their own special
dig. This is a dump which Bill
and his friends have been ex-
cavating over the past few
"The largest single input into
the Design for Development pro-
gram, will corne'from this group
of 70, the minister said..
At this juncture, Mr. 'Mc-
Keepgh iediceted to council that
the government was interested
to hear from the "private sec-
tor" of citizens as well as "pol-
iticians retired politiciahs .and
defeated politicians."
Mr. McKeough touched on
the Toronto-Centred Region con-
• He said plans . for a take
over ceremony, which would also
mark the beginning of a fund
raising campaigna were being
,worked out. He said the Foun-
dation was considering a date
early in September, perhaps
September 9 and that a decis-
ion would be made at a meeting
of the board this week.
The Van Egmond home was
purchased from Mrs. Florence
Smith last spring through bank
loans of about $14,000.
Acquisition of the Van Egmond
it. About seventy men and women
accepted the invitation.
Gary Davidson, Goderich,
director of Huron County plan-
ning, attended the meeting . and
explained the need for the by-law.
He, said when the military left
the base it then became the
responsibility of the township.
° Mr. Davidson said: "The
by-law is required first, to meet
the conditions of the development
of the base as required by the
provincial government; second,
to protect future residents of the
area; third, to prevent future
problems; and fourth, to insure..
that the land,use problems assoc-
iated with the development of the
base 'do not impose financial
hardship on the general rate-
payers of the township".
months, after it had been closed
for fifty years.
"Small spade, wooden rake,
hand trowel, gloves, if you want
to protect your hands, and lots
of care combined with patience
are needed to dig successfully.
In a fairly short time several
bottles had been recovered, in-
tact 'plus the enamel bawl, var-
ious pottery shards and broken
dishes. The boys continued to
dig until they filled the bowls."
The authors went on the des-
scribe methods of cleaning
the finds and concluded , we were
pleased to discover some
Canadian bottles in the group,
also aqua, dark blue and. some
turning amethyst. So pleasing
did the line up look that we
decided to use it for the cover."
cept which is a • plan to divert
some of the congestion of popula-
titan as well as business and in-
dustry away from Toronto to the
'Kitchener-Waterloo, Barrie and
Port Colborne areas in particu-
lar. ' '-
The s Minister indicated that
such growth cannot take place
too far out of the Toronto district
because the Queen City is the
base for business and industry
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home as an historical site has
been under consideration for
several years. For nearly two
years the OntarioHeritake Foun-
dation has been interested in the
project and throughout had indi-
cated assistance would be avail-
able providing proper approach
was made and that there were
assurances the program would
be advanced.
In a ' letter to Mr. Doig,
Larry T. Ryan, executive direc-
tor of the Heritage Foundation
(Continued on Page 12)
Rejects bid
to 'share
facilities
The board of CalvinChristian
School in Clinton would like to
"share facilities" with the Heron
County Board of Education and
Calvin Christian board.Secretary
Cecil'" Bruinsma and Principal-
Ralph Schuurtpan appeared be-
fore Huron's board Monday even-
ing in Clinton to ask for free
_ bussing fox 23 of their pupils this
fall.
A recommendation before the
board from R.L. Cunningham,
transportation manager, sug-
gested a "transportation agree-
ment with the Clinton and Dis-
trict Christian School board for
a trial period of September to
Decetnber 1972"A and that the
Christian School board re-im-
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$1,182,993
contract to
Looby firm
Looby Construction Ltd. of
Dublin have been awarded an
Ontario MTC Contract _for
$1,182,993 covering road work
an two bridges on Highway 33
in 'the Belleville district.
The work involves 1 1/2 miles'
of road work in Frankfort and the
.instruction of two bridges over
the Trent River and over the
Trent Canal.
A second contract, awarded
the Looby firm is for $161,669 and
covers the construction of the
Beaverton River bridge on High-
way 7 near Sunderland.
Winner
Winner 'of the 19th weekly
draw for $25, in the Lions Car
Club. 11 was Milton Dietz, R.R.
#4, Seaforth.
Wm Teali heads
local Liberals
William Teall is the new
president of the Seaforth Liberal
Association. He was elected tq
succeed' Gordon Wright at the
annual meeting held in the Com-
munity Centre, Saturday.
Other officers elected are:
vice president, RobertNewnham;
secretary, Mrs. Brian Flannigan
and' treasurer, Donald F. Morton.
Elected to the executive were:
A. Y. McLean, Mrs... Douglas
Rowcliffe, 'Mrs. Donald Kunder,
Peter Kling, Arnold Stinnissen,
John Longstaff and Gordon
'Wright.
Pole chairmen are: Gordon
Wright, Elmer Rivers, Leon Ban-
non, Lloyd Bedard, Mrs. 'Jack
Case and Mrs. Alfred Beuerman.
Charles Thoteas of Brussels,
Liberal -candidate fpr the next
federal election, addressed the
hundred guests who attended'the,
dinner dance.
(Staff Plipte)
Mrs. Joseph Nigh, Ord
Street, Seaforth, displays
a cheque for $1,000 which
she won in a ,soft drink
company contest; see
details on page 8.
Set fire
' Fire of unknown origin des-
treyed the large barn on the farm
of Alvin Beuermann,
Dublin, early Wednesday morning
killing about 60 pigs trapped bit
the fast-moving flames. ' Loss
has been set at $30,000.
About thirty pigs escaped
when Mr. Beuermann opened a
-door into the barn and Mrs.
Beuermann was able to free one
Lose lives in
A 17-year-old Herisall teen-
ager was admitted to South
Huron District Hospital at
Exeter as the result of a single
car accident early Sunday
morning on Sideroad 5 - 6 in
Tuckersmith Township, east of
Kippen.
Robert Rowcliffe of Hensall
suffered head lacerations and
shoulder injuries when the car
was driving went out of control
at 2 a.m. Sunday and slammed
into a tree demolishing the car.
The accident was investigated
by Constable, Eric Gosse of the
Goderich detachment of Ontario
Provincial Police.
Two young persons died and
four 'were injured early Friday
morning when a late model car
went out of control on Ontario
Street? Mitchell's main street.
Dead are apedestrian, Joanne
plantenge, 18, of Zurich, and
Frank Rebel°, 20, of -Mitchell, a
rear-seat passenger in the car.
Driver of the • car, Roger
Bowes, 19, of Mitchell, has been
released from Stratford General
Hospital. He has been charged
with Criminal negligence.
- Thrown from -the car before
it came 'to rest at the Royal
Hotel were David Ritz of R.R,
2, Monkton, in serious condition
in London's Victoria Hospital,
and John Parson, 20, of 505
Albert St., reported in satisfaca
tory condition in Stratford
General Hospital.
-Taken to Stratford General
Hospital in satisfactory condition
and later released -was Miss
Plarttenge's companion, 'Arthur
Silver, 36 , of R.R. 4, Thed-
ford.
The car went out of control
'and hit several cars and a lamp-,
post before coming to rest.
A Hayfield area teenager was
struck and killed by a car as he
walked along Highway 21 about
two miles north of Hayfield about
9:00 p.m. Friday.
Dead is David Crawchuk, 17,
of R.R.1, Hayfield.
An unidentified female corn- •
pardon with him was treated in
hospital and released. .
Douglas Keys , Agricultural
Representative in Dundas County
for the past seven years has
moved to Hamilton where he will
succeed Harold Buck, as
Agricultural Representative in
Wentworth County. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Keys and fam-
ily will reside at 45 Allison
Cresdnt, Hamilton.
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$1,000 grant aids VanEgmond project
Query zoning implications
at. Tuckersmith meeting
A number . of the property
owners came to the meeting with
specific questions, worried about
restrictions in their farming
practices, about residential
areas being protected from in-
tensified farming operations,
about restrictions on selling lots
on a farm which are not suitable
for agricultural use; about main-
taining their present commercial,
.businesses and other general
questions.
Several corrections were
made of a minor nature to the
by-law. In this respect, Mr.
Davidson said that to his know-
ledge this was the first compre-
hensive zoning ty-lavis for an
agricultural area.,
Mr. Davidson asked that any-
one who had a complaint against
'the by-law put it in writing and
give it to the township clerk,
James McIntosh no later than
Monday, August '28. He asked
that in the complaint a person
state whether he was philoso-
phically opposed to land use
control or in favour Of the by-
law with specific changes.
After August,28 Mr. McIntosh
will forward the by-law and any
complaints pertaining to it to
the Ontario Municipal Board for
approval.
Approval of the by-law is one
of the requirements set out by the
provincial •ministry of finance
and intergovernmental affairs
before the ministry will approve
the 'plan of subdivision for the
area.
In turn the plan of sUbdivi-
sion must be approved and regis-
tered so, that legal titles"
to property on the base can be
cleared. Owners bf the proper-
ties may ,now take agreements
of sale, but until the plan of sub-
division is, approved and regis-
tered, they cannot give the new
owner the actual title, Mr.
Davidson said.-
In a business session follow-
ing the meeting with ratepayers,
council named fence viewers as
follows: William Kyle, Hensall;
Douglas D. Wilson, Brucefield
and Etnmerson Coleman, R.R.4,
Seaforth.
Henry Uderstadt of Orange-
ville will 'be asked to bring in
an engineering report for re-
pairing the Clark Drain as
requested by four ratepayers:
Ten building permits were
granted for a total. of $30,300
toe, Gary VanLoon, Jack Van-
Miltenburg, John Willems, John
VanDoornick and Martin Poel-
man, all ° of R.R. 4, Seaforth;
Leroy Oesch. R.R. 5, Clintora
Roger Layton, R.R.1, Bruce-
field; Robert McLachlan, R.R.
3, Kippen; James Montgomery
and Louis McNichol, both of
Egmondville and John Williams.
Council concurred ip appli-
cations for land severence to
Jack R. McGregor on Lot 41 on
Concession 1, and to Walter,
Armes for part Lot 8, plan 18
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Set plans for
band concert
For the first time in many
years a Seaforth Band will pre-
sent a concert in the bandshell
in Victoria Park. ,
Set for Sunday evening at 7
o'clock the program will be pre-
sented by the Seaforth Junior
Band. The band will be con-
ducted by the leader Dr. C.B.
Toll and will be assisted by local
instrumental aid vocal talent.
heifer tied in the barn. A grain
elevator was saved when Mr.
Beuermann pulled •it away from
the side of the barn.
Mr. and Mrs. Beuermann
were awakened about 2:30 ,a.m.
by a noise and discovered their
large 70 x 50 foot barn in
flames. Seaforth Firemen an-
swered the call hit lead to 'Stand
• 'helplessly by as the whole two-
accident series
Seaforth Liberals sponsored a dinner dance at the Community
Centre Saturday evening and following dinner held the annual'.
meeting. Shown at the head table are (left) Gordon McGavin,
President of the Riding Association, Mrs. Charlie Thomas,
Charlie Thomas, Huron Federal Riding candidate, Gordon
Wright, retiring president of the Seaforth Association, Katie
'reall, Secretary and Wm. ?reall, who was elected President.
(Staff Photo)
storey bare 'was. a mass of
flames -when they .reached the
farm located. on County Road 17
McKillop Township°, about eight
miles north east of SeafOrth. The
firemen cut the 'power line to
the barn.
Lost' in the blaze were a
thousand bushels of grain from
Jest. year's crop, ten tons of new
grain put la the granary on,.
Monday, a granary adjacent to .
the barn containing 2,000 bushels
of corn, a silo 'unleacier i . the
seasons hay crop and Other small •
.farm equipment.
• Fill, vacancy
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The directors of McKillop
Mutual Fire Insurance Company •
have named Kenneth C arnochan,
R.R. 4, Seaforth to fill the vacancy .
on the board which resultea•-om
the death of the late Aster
Broadfoot.
Ag rep.- •
moves to
Wentworth
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