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The Huron Expositor, 1976-05-27, Page 1. Whole No. 5649 117th Year A NEW BIKE BRIGADE IN SEAFGRTH? No. — The bikes belong to a group of 36 young Mennonites from KItcheneIr who camped at the Optimist park on Sunday. Outspokin', the organization that sponsored the young peoples' bike tour originates In Indianna. They offer tours all over the United States and Ontario that range from three day to three month excursions. The cost of a tour includes a bike, all. meals, accommodation, and special events en ropte,The group, stopped at the. Welton Community Park on Saturday. (Staff Photo) 4 I mo, $1940 TeAr.in Advance • single copy 25 cents Seporotp school boOid vot against management -stud. beard, was authorized to attend a counsellors conference i Thunder Bay. Trustee Teahen. questioned .the value of th0= conference to Mr. Innes compared to the cost of going but, in a• vote on the motion for him attend eight trustee supported it and four voted against. The board gave approval to batik diamonds being installed at' 8t: Joseph's School ancf St. Ambrose School, both in Stratford. There will be no cost to the board for the 'I diamonds which will be installed , by Yundt Bros. for $593 each for the Stratford Lions Club and the Recreation Association. Howard. Shantz said the location of the (Continued on Page 3) (By Shirley J. Keller) Huron County Council' was unable to decide Thursday exactly where school electoral boundaries should be placed and referred the matter back to the executive committee for further study. Nevi. boundaries must be established in Huron County for school election purposes. Since there are now two separate school , trustees on the 16-member Huron .County Board of Education, the (-•' public school trustees must be reduced 'by one to 14. Executive committee chairman, AllanCampbell Bait it is a county council responsibility to delegate school electoral boundaries befo'r'e Septeiliber 1, 1976—and” prior to the fall electionS. The report from the executive committee also adViSed 'that the board of education was satisfied with the proposal for the (By Wilma Oke) No action was taken Tuesday • night by the Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate Board on a motion to hire a firm of management consultants to assess the administrative needs of the board but was tabled until. the June 14 meeting. The motion , made by David Teahen and seconded by Howard Shantz, both Stratford trustees, had originally asked to hire the firm to invatigate the duties opf ter the administrative -staff, and to . establish the requirements. •As Mr. Teahen and Mr. Shantz both stated the firm of consultants approached by, them had indicated it would benecessary to interview five trustees to evaluate the job description its well as the five members, of the administration involved in order -to-be-fair.. —. • . Mr. Shantz said, "Trustees should have input as to what is needed. With-joe (Superintendent of Special Education Joseph Tokar) quitting we have a golden opportunity to assess the position." When, it became evident that the motion would not be supported in its narrow outline, the two trustees agreed to reshape, their motion that the firm be hired to assess the administrative needs of the board. Joseph Looby of Dublin said: "With soinething to cost $5000 to' $6000, we should have more time to find out-what kind of report the firm would provide." • Mr. Teahen replied that a spokesman from the firm had mentioned a cost of $4,500 with he promise that some further discussion could be held on the 'cost. On Mr. Looby's motion to.table the motion a' recorded vote was requested by Mr. Teahen resulting in the motion to table being supported by Michael Connolly, Joseph Looby, Ronald Marcy, Francis Hicknell, 'Vincent Young„ Mickey Mickey Vere and Ted Geoffrey arid opposed by David Teahen, Howard Shantz, 'William Kinahan, Gregory Fleming and John Q'Drowsky. A presentation on Special Education was' made by Superintendent Joseph Tokar and consultants Mrs.Gladys Talbot and Miss Mary Flannery. The presentation which took an hour and a half tovered the whole program provided by • the board which has five full time itinerant teachers, four part-time teachers and one special class in Stratford covering it, backed up by psychological services in Stratford, Goderich and London. These teachers do remedial work arid teach Now learners and those with specific learninP disabilities. 145 pupils in the system at the present time require special education. Mrs. Talbot said the earlier the child's difficulty is detected, the better the prognosis .is for the child. Mr. andrs. David Teahen, , Mr. and Mrs. ed Geoffrey, M r. and Mrs. Michael Connolly and Giegory Fleming will attend the Canadian Catholic Trustees Association meeting in St. Catharines on June 2, 3 and 4. William Innes, Stratford, attendance counsellor for the separate school electoral districts. Basically these two ' districts comprise everything south of a line bounded by Goderich Township, Clinton and Tucker- smith in one, and everything north of that line in the second. Each district would elect one representataive. The number of separate school supporters in the northern portion is 1,746, where' the equalized separate school' 'assessment is $15,523,672. In the southern half there are 1,636 separate school supporters, representing , an equalized separate school assessment of $15,203,462. The clerk of Hay Township will .be responsible,tfor nominations and, elections in. the ..southern portion while the clerk of McKillop will have that responsi- bility in the north. It is the public school electoral districts which 'are causing the problems. Some remain unchanged - Stephen, Exeter and Usborne are still one area; Hay, Zurich andHensall remain together; Ashfield and West Wawanosh, Goderich Township and Colborne, and the Town of Goderich still form three electoral districts. - The resLare changing - and some are -Content with the proposed alterations. Clinton and Tuckersmith have been' placed together for the first time and Stanley and Bayfield have been paired up. These changes are not in dispute. Seaforth was previouSly lumped ::with Tuckersinith, • Stanley and Efa Id 'for school, purposes with than area electing two representatives. The new proposal would put Seaforth in (Continued on Page 18) • (By Susan White) • Town halls have been in the news lately as Exeter town . ouncil and that town's Heritage Foundation argued over what to do with theirs. Clinton's town hall too has been .the_ subject of controversy, ,with some residents, wanting to restore it and others to tear it down. All was quiet about Seaforth's town hall. But when several pounds of bricks fell froth •the peak of the building a few weeks ago people wondered if Seaforth's " town hall , had been quietly, decaying. Seaforth's council has budgeted $5000 for 1976 to be spent on making repairs to the' building. It's_ the first time . in several years that money has been set aside for this and Cotincillor Jim Crocker, who heads council's finance committee says th6 idea is to keep the building from getting any worse. 'It probably won't look' any better, but it will be", he says about plans to install two I beans to support the building's upper Seaforth youtgsters shouldn't have a hard time finding things to do this summer; not with the summer program the Seaforth recreation committee has lined up.' The committee decided at its rneeting 'Thursday night that it would again run a seven week playschool for children ages three to si. The school, which will start July 5 and run to August 20, will cost $15 this year, ten dollars - more than last year. According to Clive fluist, recreation director, the increased cost is clue to the withdrawal of the. OFY grant that covered, the salaries of the playground instructors. "It is still a bargain at that price," said Mr. Buist. • A drive that he had taken many times ended in tragedy Friday noon for Alfred ,Joseph •Malone when the pickup truck that he was driving was hit by a train just a mile 'and a quarter from his Hibbert home. • Mr. Malone, 33, of R.R.2, Dublin was travelling south on thc Iiibbert-Tuckersmith - '2V2 miles east of Seaforth when his truck colli ded with a west-bound CNR freight train. The train, according to OPP Officer 'JIM McLeod, was 'travelling about 35 miles per walls. Smith Construction Ltd, is doing the work and Mr. Crocker says there will be some repair work done in the basement too. The dirt floored basement looks like the grimy basement of any other 82 year old building. The town hall was built in 1894 for $10,000. The present town council got involved in doing something about the condition of the building last August when Stratford' architect Brian Garrett told them that he thought the basement was a fire trap: Mr. Garratt said the third floor needed some work . but the building was structurally solid and architectually worth preserving.,Cbtincil applied for a LIP grant/fate, last' summer to finance some repairs but agreed that work on the arena would have to cone first. The arena• work got a grant and the town hall didn't. Later councillors asked town building inspector Wilmer Cuthill to recommend ways to stop deterioration of the building. Mr. (Continued on Page 9) , • t There will also be a playground program this summer running seven weeks for children ages 7-13. Mr. Buist said that many special events had been planned for the program AO as "play day" on July 14 when about 800 youngsters from other areas will be in Seaforth for a day of outdoor games. Mr. Buist said that he is now in the process of hiring, students to help in the programs. The cost of the playground program will be $10. The recreation committee is also considering setting up a tennis program this summer. The program, if it goes ahead, will include lessons three days a week, PA hours long in the (Continued on Page 18) two • A LARGE CRACK IN THE CORNER — Seaforth councillor Jim Crocker Is dwarfed by the,high ceilings in the empty, unused auditorium on the third floor of the town hall. town council plans to spend °'$5000 this year to" keep the building from deterioratingany further. The crack between the walls and ceiling is about an inch and a half high. (Staff Photo) County delays vote on changing school boundaries How does Seaforth's town hall shapeup ummer recreation' programs low cost .,...,.. _,.\— MAN KILLED IN CRASH —:- Alfred Malone of —Ontano Bean GrOWErrs —C-o-operative-.--The impaet-----, R.R.2, Dublin was killed in a crash Friday noon when threw the truck up into the air.Seaforth Coroner Dr. the pick-up truck he was driving collided with a CNR • Paul Brady says an inquest may be held. (Staff Photo) train on the Tuckersmith-Hibbert town line near the , Alfred'J. Malone Killectintmain,,trock'crash hour. The truck was thrown 46• feet where it landed facing north-east on the north side of the tracks. . Mr. Malone, who was thrown clear from the truck, was rushed to Seafaortb Community Hospital by _ambulance where ' he was pronounced dead on arr ival. - Huron County coroner, Dr. Paul Brady said that he planned to talk to the crown-attorney about holding an inquest. He said that he wanted to hold an inquest" "to clear up the facts" on questions like whether seat-belts could have been a factor in saving the man's life and whether further protection is needed at that railway crossing. ,The ace ident was seen by an unidentified passerby travelling east in a pickup along highway eight who stopped at the farm of Joe Devereaux, R.R.4', Seaforth to report the accident. Mrs. • Devereaux notified police. The motorist told Teresa Devereaux that he saw the pickup hit the train and fly up into the air. The freight train, according to the OPP„ runs through' the area daily, but 'not--at a regular set. time. Mr. Malone was returning home to his farm with a load of seed corn in the back 'of his truck when the accident occurred.. He is survived by his wife, the former Audrey Joyce Kemp, secretary at St. James' School in Seaforth, to whom he was married September 22, 1962; two sons, Robert J., 12; Gary .1., 11," and a daug hter, Anne Marie, 7, • all at-homey He is also survived by his parenti, Mr. and Mrs, Emmett Malcpe of Seaforth. Alfred Joseph Gerard Malon was born in Seaforth attended school in St. t Columban. Hefarmed for •some time and had been a truck driver. • Funeral service was held at the St. Col,,:riban Roman Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Monday, with Rev. P.A. Oostveen officiating. Interment followed in St. pCa7lilubnle abraellr s w' eCreem James ete ry m :c; ah der e y, Theo Melady, Bill Morris, Louis Rowland,. pat Shaeffer and William Murphy 6EAFORTH—, ONTARIO,THIABDP*,-MAY 27,s 1976 — 20 PAGES a.