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The Huron Expositor, 1974-01-24, Page 1,. ir.•.,, � .,; . , ,,... d •,, .n... .., .. , ..w. � .. r,„ 1 rA.F,.A .. .: ✓" I,. 'ht• Ila 't, x 7 Palmerston. in the B series Some of the $100 prize money �j^ the hopes of the Seaforth number of snowmobiles along Listowel's team was the final for the floats went to the first 1 •► �' �' "�" ; `' ri " Optimist Club of winding up Victoria and East William Streets winner;;over Zurich with a 3 - 2 place winners,, Brussels Optimist ' ,,_; another successful winter carnival to the arena. Family skating at score. Club for comedy, the Huron Plowman's Association (which is s the arena followed, also a dance hall. In the final series the most valuable for Mitchell was seeking the International Plowing Wihlo01e No. ;r52A 114th year SEAPORT -Hp h . - 101 THURSOAT, JANUARY, ► x.974 - 116 PAGE' �,1�f V / jnnBrly p " if , Ohl* U n, � AVO,C ng rain Gy, ,Freo.,-zi w0ith' carnival, hydr'o r F tf Seaforth was hit with a severe it's just too big a risk", he said, PUC, addkng that the thawing tonight", he added.. ice storm Sunday when freezing adding that bad weather might' weather later on Sunday and On Sunday aftetnoon trafFxc'on ei rain forced cancellation of the again be a problem. Monday prevented even further the north road into Sjeaforth was Optimist Winter Carnival Seaforth PUC crews worked on damage as wires were really bent moving on only one lane•of the snowmobile races and brought -Sunday from 1 in the afternoon down by the weight of. ice. highway as fallen icy tree limbs tree branches and hydro wires to until 10 at night, restoring service Hydro was off in many Seaforth blocked the other lane. Branches come down all over the area. to Seaforth homes and removing homes, intermittently during were down at the south end .of Winter Carnival chairman' hazardous downed wires, . Sunday and in Dublin and Staffa town near the Optimist grotMds Wink Teall said Wednesday that according to a PUC spokesperson- until Monday morning. Some and on the road between Clinton the races will not be held again From 10 until 3 a.m. the Seaforth rural areas supplied by Ontari, and Seaforth, until next year. "With the PUC men worked in Dublin, Hydro were still without power on 'town of Seaforth employees' amount of money we, -have to where they provide hydro,service. Tuesday afternoon, Mr, Phillips' were still busy on Wednesday {; invest and the problem of getting "I've never seen ice so thick in said. "And they'll (Ontario Hydro cleaning up the debris of falWo everyone's enthusiasm up again, my life", said Tom Phillips of the crews) be out working again tree limbs and branches Optimists can Sunday races A freezing rain over south- start Friday night with a final winner with a 5 - 4 win over Grounds. western Ontario Sunday dashed torchlight parade by a large Palmerston. in the B series Some of the $100 prize money �j^ the hopes of the Seaforth number of snowmobiles along Listowel's team was the final for the floats went to the first 1 •► �' �' "�" ; `' ri " Optimist Club of winding up Victoria and East William Streets winner;;over Zurich with a 3 - 2 place winners,, Brussels Optimist ' ,,_; another successful winter carnival to the arena. Family skating at score. Club for comedy, the Huron Plowman's Association (which is that afternoon. The seventeen -sanctioned by the arena followed, also a dance hall. In the final series the most valuable for Mitchell was seeking the International Plowing snowmobile races l .'i' r' the Mid -Western Ontario in the arena Saturday's events began with a player Jay Heinbuck; for Palmerston, Match in Huron in 1978) for `' ;,• ;. i i ( Snowmobile Racing Association curling bonspiel at 9 a.m., as well Jeff Sob; for Listowel, Gary Scott; commercial; Seaforth Public ; to be held Sunday afternoon were as an atom hockey tourney with and for Zurich, Robert Willert. School for schools; and the for postponed. At a,meeting Tuesday teams from Seaforth, Mitchell, The Seaforth District High Seaforth Snowmobile Club _ •\ night Optimist club members ' Wingham, Brussels, Zurich, School Girl's Trumpet Band led most original. j,' �' i decided the races will be Palmerston and Hanover off a colorful parade of floats A ladies team from Seaforth MW cancelled for this year, Bill Teall, participating. Saturday afternoon from the Genesco Shoe Factory outpulled carnival chairman said. In the A series of the atom Recreation Grounds along Main the Fullarton Township ladies w' The carnival got off to a gay hockey, Mitchell's team was the Street to the Agricultural (Qotttlnued on Page 4) Hospital a kfb�a confirmation from the Ministry, will handle $3,539.71 -- Ontario School chairman, of the board, Wilfred . I1, 12 and 13 of the Prefect �� / •� �~ r' , ,� \`1 ! .a1`.�-. fire calls Owen Sound. Fire calls to the Seaforth Fire �✓�``� he had asked for an explanation, March after Mr. Cochrane and his � k ' �r D b f t 1 '11 organization at Central Huron received due to his retirement at t . epartment a ore o0 ong wi bey handled by the Hospital switchboard operators. w •� + The Seaforth Community I� A confusion of ice and branches and rain was the Egmondville, split in two with one part landing on Hospital Board has approved a I scene everywhere in the Seaforth area on Sunday as Mrs. emamesroof nexoor. • Neighbours request from the• Seaforth 'Fire MThla James' f t dNi x. Y g Area Board for the service. The a severe -ice storm toppled tree branches' and hydro Betty Brady, left, Joe Gillespie and Ron Brady came service is being provided by the wires. Wei hed down b ice on its branches, this to•the'rescue with a ladder to investigate damage to Hos ital at a fee of $40 per ` huge tree in the backyard of'..Bob and Liz Watson in the roof. The roof escaped with fairly minor damage. mon h, Hospital Administrator Yap.= Gordon McKenzie said. Reeve John Flannery of� w u. Seaforth, who has been working m, efer ee i si o n o n 'r` -h t r' out the details with the Hospital administration, reported at the f re board meeting Monday, the ` phone and the siren switches The only spectators were the icicles as freezing rain torcea canceuatron Ot Seaforth Council at a special ft. deck and, 100 feet of road on structural steel. intersection of Centennial Drive have been installed at the Sunday's Optimist Winter Carnival events. MOSRA sanctioned snowmobile races meeting Monday night deferred a each side is estimat ed to cost Council made no decision, on and .No. 8 Highway, and he felt Hospital. y g y decision concerning construction $37,500 and the road from the 100 the project feeling that further council should consider installing were scheduled for Sunda at the race track but Carnival organizers said the Hopefully, with the exception realized by early Sunday morning that track conditions were impossible. of a bridge over Silver Creek to ft. point at the west side of. the discussion was necessary before a flasher light at this point. r of a few misoon details, the system ' provide access to a recently bridge to Main Street is estimated tenders could be prepared. He said a number of accidents, soon will nodbe operation, tem established industrial area. at $34,600. The engineering firm is to get some of them quite serious, had Flannery said. • The project estimated at Of this total of $72,100, ; grants the project ready for tender and taken place at this spot and felt He said the Hospital board has : $72100.00 will come up again at of approximately $45,000 could be council will make a decision at council should try to do requested that a recorder be Crash send two drivers t o f February meeting of council. available. their regular February meeting. something to help eliminate the Ken Dunn of B.M.Ross and In further business a letter was problem. this wilredl to record the calls and When the project was designed this will be installed as soon as Associates, Goderich, project read from Mrs. June Martene Mayor Sills said it would be Seaforth Community,hospital in 1972, estimated costs were statin a meeting was to be held necessary to et permission , possible. engineers, discussed the details g g Y g P $62 900, including $32,900 for the in St. James' School auditorium from the Department of Trans- proposed rans- Cleave Coombs of of the construction of the P ro osed Birch ,Street road and bridge and access and $30,000 for P Y P Egmondville, was elected Gail Nolan, 19, of R.R.2, car truck collision. Seaforth in front of the h os ital. at 8 m. on February 7 for all ortation and Communications ` P P the road. chairman of the Seaforth Fire p` brio e. persons interested in a child care before a flasher could be Dublin was admitted to the Margaret Nolan 9 a passenger g " The resent esti'mat a reflects program. installed. Council agreed the idea Area Board. He succeeds John g p g P P g g Seaforth Community Hospital The accident occurred at 5:12 in the car driven b her sister, The project was originally an increase of $9,200 which Mr. Councillor George Hildebrand was good and requested the clerk Flannery. Y P Y Mrs. Wayne Ellis has been With lacerations to her forehead Tuesday afternoon on Highway 8 escaped with a broken tooth. approved by council in March of Dunn suggested was mostly told council an accident had to write to the department for and bruises as the result of a on the eastern outskirts of Ronald Burnside 36, of 35 1972. The bridge which has a 28 because of the increased price of occurred late that sfternoon at the permission. hired as secretary -treasurer, replacing Mrs. Earl Dinsmore, Main Street, Campbellville, who resigned.driver of the transport owned'by i Seaforth curlers advance n Barlin Construction, Toronto, was treated for lacerations of the scalp ntario cuts ue ersmit roa su si OCC Gravenhurst series and allowed r- go home. '�¢��, The tractor -trailer which was westbound, jack-knifed on the Tuckersmith Township will because of the extra five miles of Gerrit Wynja, Jack Van maintaining it. Two Seaforth men are part of a was defeated by Belleville in a snow covered road when the request the Ministry of Transpor- urban roads council must Miltemburg, Hibbert Township Requests for building permits, " rink competing this week in the closely fought &,- 6 game. driver braked to avoid a car which tation and Communications to maintain this year. Clerk -Treasurer Charles Friend were approved for John Fraiser, Ontario Curling Championship in On Wednesday morning the h4turried out from the hospital provide additional subsidy due to Thirteen ratepayers affected by and Hibbert Road Egmondville, for a porch addition Gravenhurst. Dave Cornish is Seaforth rink defeated PickeringdTiveway. The tractor -trailer + the acquisition of five additional the Big Drain attended the Superintendent; BEd. Chappel. on house, and for Larry; f slop and John Patterson is and was scheduled to play skidded into the path of the miles of urban roads at Vanastra. council session for the report on Court of Revision was held on McClinchey of R.R,5, Clinton, for vice-skip-sfthe Seaforth Curling Brantford and Burlington. eastbound car, driven by Gail In 1973 the township received a the drain by Engineer Henry the DeJong drain. There were no addition to house. `�� Club rink wfiich has defeated Nolan. road subsidy of $74,000 for its 101 Uderstadt of Orangeville. They appeals and tenders will be called Council authorized the tax sale some• of the better teams in this The round robin The 1973 car was a write-off miles of roadway. This year the were: Cor Dorssers, Hugo in the spring. listing of properties with 1971 area. championship ends today, with while damage to the Ministry of Transportation and Menheere, Martin Guichelaar, , Brian Flannigan, chairman of arrears. Other members of the rink are the winner from among the eight trgctor-trailer was estimated at „ { Communications has offered 'only Lambert and George Lubbers, Seaforth Lions Park Committee, Council did not endorse the 0 Dick Dixon, lead and Cliff Parker, competing rinks representing approximately $12,000.00. $53,000. This 20% drop in Gary Finlayson, Orval Cooper, presented a report on the park resolution from the Village of second, of Clinton. In the first Ontario in the Canadian final in The Seaforth Police investi subsidy is made more serious Jack Patrick, Preston Dallas, and asked for a grant toward (Continued on Page e) CLEAVE COOMBS round of play the Seaforth riyk Saint John, N.B. next month. gated. Huron Board grants learns Province reduces school construction tiY The Huron County Board of allocation the tender price was the Ministry asking that the cut evaluation and accountability; committee, were appointed board Board. The purpose of the trip is Seaforth District High School, will students to and from their homes Education was informed Monday discussed by telephone with be reconsidered. programs and facilities; representatives to the Trustee- to improve the skiing skills of the be placed on the permanent staff and the Reeional Centre of at a board meeting in Clinton that Ministry officials and given The report on the school personnel and the public image of Teacher Administration Liaison students for the up -coming as of February S. the approved cost, on which the approval. visitations made by Mr. Hill and education. Committee. competition which is on terrain Hearing Handicapped in London i Ministry of Education pays grant, Mr. Cochrane said when the Mr. Cochrane in the fall will be I The Board will pay Mr. Cochrane; R.B.Dunlop, similar to the Muskoka area. The resignation of Orville due to the sizable increase was reduced by $14,000 for the reduction was made 'in written discussed at a special meeting at membership fees totalling Business Administrator; and vice- 30 Ser;-- Oudents from Grade Welsh, . custodian at F.E.Madill requested by Brooke Trailways in a $277,435 addition to the Exeter confirmation from the Ministry, the end. of February or early in $3,539.71 -- Ontario School chairman, of the board, Wilfred . I1, 12 and 13 of the Prefect Secondary School, Wingham was Owen Sound. Public School. he had asked for an explanation, March after Mr. Cochrane and his Trustees' council fee, $2,024 and Shortreed, will attend the organization at Central Huron received due to his retirement at The Board set due dates for D. J. Cochrane, Director of and was told it was made when it staff have completed a study on Ontario Public School Trustees' provincial salary conference held Secondary School, Clinton, on an the age of 65. education tax installments -- 50 Education, said the $14,000 will reached an official "higher up". '''Board the ten proposals in the report Association $1,515.71. by the Ontario. School'Trustees' overnight excursion to Toronto in -The Board will sign a contract per' cent on June 30 and have to be picked up in operating E. Cayley�� Hill, and decide which item hats Approval was given by-laws Council in Toronto on February 1 the near future as a reward for- the with the Turnbull Elevator remaining 50 per cent_ on budget or deleted from the Chairman, said: Unless there is priority over another. dealing with. rules of order and and 2. excellent supervision which the Division f6r the maintenance and December 15 for 1974. p wl' contract. a very good reason for doing this, The report concerns class size, motions at board meetings. Two field trips were approved prefects carry out at school inspection of the F. E. Madill The `leacher Refflinghaus Construction of I don't think it's right., It is an teacher -pupil ratio, opportunity The vice-chairmen of the -- 10 students from the Cross dances, during regular school 1 Secondary School elevator at a Salary y Goderich was awarded the tender unfair exhibition of poot business classes, special education, standing committees, Clarence Country Ski Club at South Huron hours, and at other evening monthly fee of 528. Negotiations will be conduLited for the addition at the, end of to be led to the trough, then cut curriculum deve1opment, McDonald, Exeter-, management District High.School on 'a two-day activities. There is no cost to the this year as they wete last yi December. In order to have the off." budgetry matters, professional committee, and Mrs. Mollie excursion to Gravenhurst on Board. The Board will re -tender the with Mr. Hill and fdur trustreg work , included ink the 1973 Mr. HUI was directed to write development, organization, Kander. Seaforth, education February 9 • 10 at no cost to the Ivan Csrter, custodian at weekend transportation of five chosen'by`hirim. ' - 1 l , p n;