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The Huron Expositor, 1976-07-22, Page 1rr • Apparently Mr. McCullough cut the truck off when he tried to avoid collision with an eastbound vehicle driven by Wesley Coombs of A.R. 2, Seaforth and all three vehicles INere'involved in the crash. Mr. McCullough and Mr. Barber were taken to hospital for treatment. (Staff Photo) $10.90. a Year 13).A.:cit.caapc Single copy • cents SEAFORTH, ONTARIQ,THURSDAY.JULY 22. 1976 — 20 PAGES Whole No. 5657 117th year istry wants town to Offer new sewers. WELCOME TO HURON — Huron Warden and Reeve of Brussels, Jack McCutcheon, right, escorts newly elected Progressive Conservative leader JOQ. Clark and his wife Maureen McT,eertiown the stairs and into the crowded hall at Vanastra Monday night. Mr. Clark told the crowd that the PC's need to pick up 47 seats in Ontario to win the next federal election. (Staff Photo) PC leader here MUOi viii Ontari :Clark ION .-Huron prepare itself for government, he said. "People don't want. to know what we are against, but what we are for,— Clark said. "We have a great capacity to build a country of which we can be proud," he said. "But we need to work with ybu to build a . government worthy of this country." Mr. Clark and his wife Ma.ureen McTeer were at Vanastra Monday as part of 'a CRASH CAUSES $24,000. DAMAGE A three vehic e crash on .hrghway 8, sic miles west of Seaforth Thursday morning blocked the road until noon and caused an estimated $24,000 damage and sent two people to hospital, The accident occurred in heavy fog when Robert McCullough of RAI. 20 Goderich attempted to pass a truck driven by Gerald A. Barber of A.R. 1, Mount, Eibin heading west. sion. But the commission felt that. everyone who wanted reconnected should pay. At- one point the PUC uconsidered charging a disconnection fee also but this idea was dropped when commissioners felt it might be very difficult to collect because people, would be leaving town when they disconnected. "1 think it is a valid charge," said Mayor Betty Cardno. "There is no reason the ones that live in The long established Mitchell Advocate has been purchased by Signal Star Publishing Ltd. of Goderich. The transfer is effect- ive the end of July. The Advocate appeared this week with a new ' layout. Stacey Bros. Ltd. of Mitche who had purchased the Advocate business and the building from former owner Wanda Monteer, have retained the building, Ontario will be the "battle- ground" for the next federal election, Joe Clark, federal P.C. leader, told a packed crowd of nearly 400 Tory, • faithful at Vanastra Monday night. "1 am a realist and the reality is that' the battleground will be Ontario," he said. Mr. Clarle*idihaf,111-6 Conser- tatives might be able to make narginal gains in the West and ktlantic Canada and win some ;eats in Quebec on economic ssues, but "the fighting grpund will be here." he said. Speaking in the 30° heat at the Vanastra Orange Shillelaghe with e•standing, Town., only,...Mr-.. Clark. told the attentive and perspiring crowd that he would need their help to win the next election. "Without a major change in Ontario, we can't form a national government," he said. . Steadily warming to his topiC," Mr. Clark gave special attention to Eugene Whelan, federal agriculture minister, who is credited with switching many rural ridings in Southwestern Ontario from Conservative to Liberal in the last 'federal election. "Although Mr. Wise, the Con- servative agriculture critic, isn't as colourful as the minister, he carries more weight with his colleagues. Mr. Whelan doesn't have very much influence with those arqund the cabinet table," he said. The P'.C. party now faces two challenges, the leader said. The easiest challenge was the 4 Liberal party which 'sat across the house. Clark said that ' the great strength of the Liberal Party in the past had been its ability to stick " together, but that under Trudeau, they had lost that and had broken into bickering with each other. "The government is literally falling apart," he said. The second challenge of the Conservative Party was to The responsibility for the maintenance of the <new. sewers may rest with the town and not the province, depending on what council decides at its next meeting. The matter, which was, ,brought up at the Sewer Liaison Commit- tee meeting Thursday, originated from a request by the town for the Ministry of the Environment to take over the 1954 sewers. Last year the . Ministry took over responsibitility for the 1964 sewers. Ministry representative, Mark Bell, told the town repre- sentatives that ' the ministry needed a formal request, but suggested that the town take over the ministry's sewers instead. The town could operated and maintain all the sewers, Mr. Bell, said and the ministry could pay the town for the costs. "It seems like the logical way to go because •the town has some . equipment, some men, and some experience. By operating our own we would only be duplicating them," he said. The decision, which would involve the hiring of another man, was left with the council repre- sentatives to take to town council for a decision at their August' meeting. The S,ewer Liaison ComMittee decided at its meeting that residents on the 1963 • sewers could not be billed at the rate of the new sewers. Some residents have already been billed on the new sewer rate even though they had already been paying sewer bills for 13 years on a thirty year project. The new sewers are a forty year project. Reeve John Flannery raised the issue of poor'street restoration to the committee. ' "They've had a grader, why don't they use it?" he asked. "We've been running it twice 'a week," replied Bill Graham, engineer on the project site. "Well you must have been running it with the blade up," said Reeve Flannery. • Peter Sawyer, engineer in charge of the project, pointed out that the longer the streets were. left before restoration was made,' the better they would be able to settle. Mr. Sawyer said that restoration would be started by the end of July. Provincial representative Mike Latta reviewed the complaints from the previous meeting and found that many of them were still to be acted upon. The town had still not received 'copies of the sewer connection diagrams as had been promised at the, last meeting. Bill Graham was instructed by the provincial representative to have them completed and 'copies made for the town by the next meeting. The town needs these diagrams in case anybody disputes where the connections are to be made. -An improper sewer connection reported by town foreman Harvey Dolmage last meeting was reported investigated but had not yet been rectified. Also a Complaint of a shifted manhole cover, raised by Reeve Flannery PUC ups deposit, to $100 In a move to eliminate arrears on' utility bills and offer some protection to landlords, Seaforth's Public Utilities Commission increased the' required deposit by over 100 percent to all new customers. The utilities deposit, now 545 , was raised to $100. effective September 1 at the PUC's regular meeting last Wednesday. The deposit increase which is subject to Ontario Hydro approval, was made following the commission- ers' discovery that they would not have to pay interest, of deposits over $50. as they had previously believed. At the last regular meeting, commissioners expressed concern over the large number of accounts in• arrears. At that time an increase in the deposit was considered, but no action' was taken. PUC chairman Ed Daly suggested the PUC should check and see if they' could legally charge landlords for' their tenant's arrears. It was since found out that this was possible and the PUC immediately moved to bill landlords on the last Town of Seaforth tax bill-. However, an angry reaction from local landlords and repre- sentation to Wednesday's meet- ing •by Lloyd Eisler, led commis- sioners to increase the deposit as well. By doing this there will be more money to cover an account in arrears and therefore legS for a landlord to pay, the PUC hopes. Mr. Eisler, who was there to complain about being billed $86. for a tenant's arrears, told the (tontioued on Page 3 ) Residents of Seaforth who have their „hydro cut off and want it reconnected will now have to pay $10. on regular working hours and twenty dollars for any overtime work, the Public Utili- ties Commission decided at its meeting last Wednesday afternoon. At first the Commission • considered raising the reconnec- ' tion charge only from $5 to $7.50 during regular working hours, and double for any other time. However, Commissioner Dr. Rodger Whitman disagreed. "Why fiddle around and move it to $7,50 when it will cost us a lot more? We can't stay in business and work for less than cost. We should be getting back as much as much as we pay out at least," he said. Previously the PIJC did not charge a reconnection fee, except only when someone had been disconnected for having his PVC bill in arrears, PUC manager Walter Scott told the Commis- • - between the time of the complaints and when the tests were carried out, "the ground had the advantage of heavy rains to pack it." he said, In the progress report, Mike Latta told thecommittee that over a quarter of a million dollars (Continued on page 10) town. here all the time have to subsidize those who move in and out of town all the time." The PUC also decided that during any time when electrical servicep is discontinued ,to a dwelli6g, water and sewer charges will be discontinued if requested by the -owner. When electrical services are left on, all sewer and water charges will be applied, unless water service can be disconnected separately. although the new publisher will continue to occupy it for some months. The Advocate, which was established in 1860 by, the late W. R. Davis, has been published and edited by Mrs. Monteer Since the , death of her husband in 1941. The Monteers had purchased tile Advocate in 1933 froin 0 D. Davis, a son of the founder. Graham told the committee that the tests had been carried out by an outside agency and therefore were unbiased. "My only concern was to get the complaints on the record," said acting clerk Williams. Peter Sawyer pointed out that a couple of months had elapsed week long tour of Southwestern Ontario. Earlier in the day they had visited Kincardine and Goderich. "We are in danger of losing the idea of people going out and looking after themselves," Mr. Clark said. Big programs didn't work, the ,leader"told the tiudienee. "We need encouragement of the enterprising spirit." Clark said that it was a (Continued• on Page 10 ) I WON — There is no doubt on George Colville's face that the- heel was spinning right for him at the Dublinfest on Saturday, but other players weren't so sure about their luck. The crown-, and anchor game along with the dunk tank were main attractions at the Dublin Lions Club pork barbecue on Sunday. (Staff Photo) at the last meeting, was also not fixed. Bill Graham reported that compaction tests carried out on Jarvis Street as a result of a complaint by Ernie Williams' tested 97 percent and 100 per- cent. On Chalk Street compaction tests shotwed 95 percent. Mr. IN FLIGHT — Kids taking part in the Seaforth recreation department's track meet on Monday were flying through the air in pursuit of places in the Lake Huron Zone track meet in Owen Sound later this summer. Steve Henderson, was one of them. ,Results of the meet are on the sports pages. (Staff Photo) Hydro reconnection charges are also rising Mitchell Advocate sold