Clinton News-Record, 1959-04-30, Page 1THE -NEWS-RECORD-77th YEAR
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THIS IS THE LAST PAY l'OR
firing income tax returns „ , * * *
HOSPITAL, DAY IS BEING OB,
served one week earlier than usu-
al in Clinton 'his is because
Of a conflict with. Mother's Sunday
on the usual date of the .Plerenee-
Nightingele Tea , This year,
May 3, this coming Sunday is the
special day , „ * *
THOSE WHO LISTEN TO THE
Cralgs. on the CBC Farm Broad-
cast „ will be interested to
know that this typical farm family
is celebrating its 20th annivers-
ary on radio . , on May 1 . „
The acto4s who play Thomas, Mar-
' tha and Janice are the same ones
who began in that job in 1939,.,
The program on May 1 will be an
anniversary broadcast , . .
A crowd gathered, and the Ball
and Mutch ambulance was called.
Dr, W. D. Munn attended, and
the injured man was removed to
hospital. Mr. Townsend fell about
ten feet to the ground littered with
shingles he had taken off the
roof. He suffered broken ribs and
cracked vertebrae, and was in
shock.
Although he rallied slightly, in-
juries were too great, and he pass-
ed away early Tuesday morning.
Mr, Townsend came with his
wife to live in Clinton about four
years ago. She was the former
Evaline Scott,
Service will be from the Ball
and Mutch funeral home, High
Street, Clinton, on Friday after-
noon, May 1, commencing at two
o'clock daylight saving time, and
interment will be in Clinton Cem-
etery.
Just four days previous, on Ap-
ril 21, George Wilson, Blyth, was
shingling a home in the next block,
when a fail resulted in instant
death.
NUMBERS BY MID-MAY
roof of the veranda at the home
of Mr. and Mrs, ROSS Merritt
just across from Don's B,A. Ser-
vice.
An unidentified Airman found
him first, and notified others. Mr.
Merrill had been unaware of the
fall, because he was working in the
shop at the back of the house,
Mrs. Merrill was in the kitchen
and did not know of the accident
until neighbours told her.
By the middle of May, Clinton's
many homes and business places
will have a number assigned to
them, and the Kinsmen Club me-
mbers have accepted the task of
making sure each household or
business knows their own number,
and has a set of numbers installed.
Cost of the project has been es-
timated at $2.00 per, building. The
Kinsmen Club is sponsoring this,
and will appreciate donations from
the householders, at the time the
numbers are put. in place.
Clinton was incorporated as a
town in 1875, but never, in its
84 years has any concrete step
been taken before this, towards
having numbers assigned to homes
and business places.
Technical assistance is being
received from Glen Rowe of the
Municipal Service Co. at Oakville,
Heave-Ho! and Another Kin Sign is Up
One,of the five Kinsmen Club signs which were erected on Saturday morning,
was this one at the entronce on Highway 4, Just in front of the . Cities Service garage.
From the left ore Donald Young, 011 staff of the Nil Telephone; George Peters,
Union Gas service representative; Donald Kay. of D. A, Kay and Son, painters; Jack
E.vans, Canada- Packers; Clarence Denomme,..Clinton Laundry and Dry -Cleaners and
Maitland Edgar, teacher at A/V/M Hugh Campbell Public School. The Kinsmen
Club has members from all aspects of -Clintanis business life, and ore taking a very
active interest in keeping their town one of the most modern in the country.
(News.Recorcl Photo)
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TO-MORROW, FRIDAY, MAY 1,
is the opening day for trout fish-
ing season , Good luck to all
you fishermen
ON DISPLAY AT THE STRAT-
ford Festival this summer will be
. Eskimo carvers and their .1g-
1oo in the Festival Arena .
They will be at work on soap-
stone carvings under public gaze
. . and'will have samples of Eski-
mo sculpture and art work • ,
This is sponsored by the Depart-
ment of Northern Affairs and
made possible through funds from
the Canada Council . .
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TWENTY - THREE YEARS IN
charge of the gardens at the Dr.
Walter A. Oakes residence, is the
record of Tom. Leppington Mr,
Leppington has a great many stor-
ies of early Clinton times . . . We
never knew until yesterday that
at one time Clinton had a water-
ing cart, with horse equipped with
straw hat, and a little flag at each
ear . . . and a standard route to
make through town each dry day
in summer . . . And the stores put
out a rocking chair on the side-
walk for a tired traveller to rest
himself for a while . . , Tom re-
members when the Oakes home
was the Whitehead residence, and
there was a high board fence and
board gate all the way round . .
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ANOTHER SIGN OF SPRING,
if we need any more . .. is the fact
that the Drive-in Window at the
Clinton Community Credit Union
is once more in operation .
Banking right. from the car win-
dow is a Modern concept which
came to Clinton when the new
Credit Union was completed last
year . . • *. * *
THIS IS NOT A PART OF THE
country depending upon the horse
raising people for any substantial
The Week's Weather
1959 1958
High Low High Low
April 23
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For the second time within one
week, a fall from a house top on
Victoria street, has meant death
to a man engaged in repairing a
roof.
Valentine Townsend passed a-
way in` Clinton Public Hospital on
Wednesday, where he has been a
patient since Saturday morning.
Mr, Townsend was working on the
Arthur S. Bolton
Resigns From
Dept. of Agriculture
Arthur S. Bolton, associate ag-
ricultural representative for Hur-
on County has resigned from his
position and from the extension
service, and plans' to farm on land
,he has purchased near Seaforth.
Mr, Bolton came to. Clinton
three years ago; succeeding Harold
Baker, who has since achieved
his Doctor's degree and is on the
staff of a university in Saskatch-
ewan.
Mr. and Mrs. Bolton have two
children, Carl and Janet, and they
live at Seaforth.
According to the news release
from the Honourable W. A. Good-
fellow, Minister of Agriculture,
Dan G, Grieve has been, transferr-
ed from Elgin County where he
has been assistant agriculture rep-
resentative, to succeed Mr. Bolton.
Mr, Grieve is a native of Middle-
sex County and is a graduate of
the Ontario Agricultural College
in 1955, He obtained his Master's
Degree from OAC in 1957. Mr.
Grieve is married and plans to
live in Clinton.
S$ 8 Goderich .Twp,.
To Reopen School.
The trustee -board of SS $, Code,
rich Township has decided to re-
open the elle . nail school near
Bayfield. and the Bluewater High-
way. This building has been. clos-
ed for about 13 years..
The board has advertised this
week for a teacher to begin work
in September and instruct the 19
pupils they expect. to enrol this
fall, The building. will be' entirely
renovated by that time, •
Town COUpcil Votes
To Keep Post Office
In Present Location
Clinton's promised new Post Of-
fice came one ni3Ore step toward
reality last ThUrsday evening,
when council met with represent-
atives of the federal Department
of Public Works in the board room
of the town hall,
On a vote, council ,voted six-to-
two for the present location. That
means they asked the Department
to do an they could to see that
the Post Office 'remain on the
point of land where it now stands.
According to Mayor Burton St-
anley, these representatives (who
live in Toronto) now will forward
a recommendation to Ottawa,
Plans for building the new post
office on that corner (the Dep-
artment is not iTerested in ren-
ovating the pr sent building),
could mean that the present
building could be torn down and
another one erected, Possibly, if
the Department is -able to buy the
service station back of the Post
Office the new structure could
be built there
A Landmark for Fifty-Eight Years
Photographed by thousands froth the United States, all across Canada, and many
of the NATO countries, the fountain in Library Park is no more. Some time dur-
ing the night of April 24, the tall cast iron statuary fell across the park lawn, in
sad disorder. NO one was near the site at the time, and it is miraculous that the
heavy metal piece did not fall while children played around the base, as they had
done just the day before, (News-Record Photo)
FAMED FOUNTAIN CRASHES
Bird on Water Fountain
Ruined in Fall Frorn Pedestal
With the shattering of the foun-
tain in library park last Friday
night, an old landmark has ^ dis-
appeared 'from the Clinton scene.
Ever since 1901, when the foun-
tain was put up, the silver statu-
ary and the bird With outstretch-
ed wings at the top has been a fav-
ourite background for photogra-
phers from far and near,
No one knows just when the old
fountain came down. Constable
A.. Shaddick, on duty that evening,
noticed it was on the ground, and
asking persons parked in a car
nearby, received the answer that
though they had heard it come
down, they had not seen anyone
near the fountain at the time.
First thought had been that some-
one had pushed it. .However, there
were no tracks to support this
theory.
The library park fountain was
'erected in memory of Sidney H.
Smith, a former Clintonian, and
was situated in the middle of the
park next to the Library and the
Town Hall at the corner of Al-
bert and R,atteribury Streets.
It consisted of a laege round
bowl shaped base, with a cast
iron peClesca: supporting another
bowl-shaped structure, and in the
centre was a large bird with out-
stretched wings, and a long open
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Over 80 Birthday Club
Mr. J. A. McGill, Shipley Street,
celebrated his 87th birthday on
Sunday, April 26. Old friends from
Blyth, Westfield, and neighbours
visited him to wish him many re-
turns of the day.
Measuring for House Numbers
First concrete progress in the matter of getting the
buildings in Clinton numbered, was the measuring of
all streets, and the charting of location of all buildings
and homes. Kinsmen president, Malt Edgar and
past president, Harry J. MeEwan demonstrate the de-
vice used by Glen Rowe, right, in charting the town,
Each turn of the wheel measurers four feet, and a
counter records each revolution. From this, distances
con be uniformly measured, and numbers assigned to
each building. Mr. Rowe holds the master map of
the town and the photo was taken •in front of Herb's
Food Market. (News-Record Photo)
SECOND FATAL FAI,L.
Saturday Tumble ofi Roof
Fatal to Val. Townsend
Rain: .98 ins.
63 20
56 32
74 44
63 34.
55 46
59 43
63 41
70 37
50 32
50 29
58 47
55 43
56 39
58 27
No Rain
Kinsmen Ready to Start to
Instal Numbers on Fjouses
who has assisted many towns from
coast to coast in Canada, with a
uniform measured house number-
ing system.
Mn Rowe has worked along with
the Kinsmen Club and the offic-
ials of the town, and on Monday
he completed his Measured sur-
vey of Clinton. With every build-
ing marked on his master map, he
will assign numbers to each, and
within two weeks, will be ready
for the Kinsmen to proceed with
the actual work.
Numbers will begin at zero at
the intersections of Ontario and
Huron. Streets; Albert and King
Streets. (That's Highway 8, and
the north part of Highway 4 and
the road to Bayfield). According
to the measurement from those
streets, numbers will be assigned,
Street Signs
To go along with the house-num-
bering project, council has decid-
ed to place street signs at each
intersection throughout the town.
These have been ordered through
the Municipal Service Co. as well,
and nearly 200 will be erected.
They will be mounted on posts
at a level to he eye-catching, but
not to obstruct the view of motor-
ists,
Cost of the street signs has been
figured into the 1959 budget, and
is expected to cost in the neigh-
bourhood of $2,000,
Keeping Up
This move to erect Street signs
and house numbers, will bring Cl-
inton up to date with their neigh-
bours. Goderich and Exeter are
the two other towns in Huron
which completed a similar pro-
ject within the last ten years.
In fact, this will place Clinton
a little ahead of all their neigh-
bours insbfar as Municipal im-
provement and services go, for Cl-
inton's sewerage disposal plant
and sewerage system is now more
than half paid tor, Neither Exet-
er, nor Goderich has this type of
Service.
Harold Nairn, 22-year-old Oran-
arty man is in hospital with a bad-
ly injured right hand, and lacera-
ted right leg, Employed at Goner-
al Coach in Hertsall, he was using
a saw on Monday, when the piece
of wood he was cutting flew, One
piece drove right through his arm
at the wrist, and was removed in
the operating morn at the hospital.
Another piece of wood entered his
right leg.
Frank Leishman, 12-year-Old son
of Mr. and Mrs, James LeiSinan,
ItR 2, Clinton, suffered a fractur-,
ed left arm on Aptil 26,
The walking blood bank came
Clinton Public Hospital News
Motorists on Highway 4 south
of Clinton were confronted with an
unusual sight in peacetime Wed-
nesday night and Thursday—an
RCAF Station patrolled by armed
guards.
The guards were part of an air
raid exercise being conducted in
succession at all stations in Train-
ing Command,
The exercise is designed to test
the operational readiness of Air
Force units and to assess their
preparation for defending their
personnel from atornis attack. The
exercises are similar to Civil De-
fence practices carried out from
time to time in many cities,
Results were assessed by a team
from Training Command Head-
quarters at Trenton headed by
Wing• Commander Tom Fletcher,
Staff Officer Supply.
The first warning was given to
the station at approximately 6.55
p.m. Wednesday, An armed cor-
don of guards was immediately
placed around the station and re-
mained in position until mid-after-
noon Thursday when the practice
ended,
The alert proceeded through
several stages according to plan
and concluded With all station per-
sonnel and essential Services, in-
cluding the civilian employees, be-
ing moved into safe areas
into use again this week, when
two donors were called to supply
blood.
Mrs, William Blake, RR 3, Wal-
ton, was admitted last Thursday,
April 23, with a. fractured left
ankle.
John Stewart, eight years old,
Blyth, is in , hospital with a frac-
tured left arm.
Robert Menzies, one-year-old
son of Mr, and Mrs, E. Beecher
IVIenzies was taken to hospital on
Tuesday, suffering e. very irritated
throat, The young lad apparently
swallowed part of the material
from a bath oil capsule, 1
Station Clinton
Holds Practice
Air Raid Alert
DST Changes Mail
Times at Local P.O..
With Daylight Saving Time in
effect until the end of summer,
times of arrival and departure
of mails at the Clinton Post Office
are different than people are ac-
customed to.
Morning mail arrives at the
same time, but the noon mail is
not sorted until 1.30 p.m., instead
of the 12,30 time expected dur-
ing the winter months. Afternoon
mail from Goderich and Wingham
is sorted one hour later, too, and
is not ready until 4.30 and 7,30
p.m.
Mails leave for Wingham, Kin-
cardine and Goderich at 6 a.m.
and at 12.$0 p.m.; to RCAF Sta-
tion Clinton at 7 a.m., 12,30 and
4.30 p.m.; to Stratford and East
(and all parts of Canada), at 2.30
p.m. and 4.30 p.m.; to London
(and Michigan), 4.30 p.m. and 7
p.m;
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