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Clinton News-Record, 1963-01-03, Page 1TovinciA Park .For. Huron High on List: MacNaughton into TEbt jtrint 4CO1U11111=== THE NEW ERA 97th YEAR. THE HURON. Rgeogp— $4,00 Per Yepr.,'10 Cents Per COPY'-'4 Pages No. 1 —The Home Paper With the News coNToN,f ONTARIO, `THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1963 (Py W. 13- D.) THESE "TEN WISE WISHES" are the words of Walter Reid Hunt „ . but if we had the skill to formulate such a list, we could have said it no better . We find them particularly appropriate to this time of year; A few friends who under- stand me, and yet remain my friends. Work to do which has real value, and without which the world would feel poorer. An understanding heart. Moments of leisure. A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed. A sight of the eternal hills and the unresting sea, and of something beautiful the hand of man hes made. The power to laugh, Nothing at the expense of others. The sense of the presence of God. And the patience to wait for the coming of these things with the wisdom to know when they come. • * * WE MADE A LARGE OMIS- sion last week in our annual year-end review of important happenings in and around Clin- ton . . . We neglected, in some unexplainable way, to mention the Clinton Spring Show . . . Actually, looking back over last year, we find that particular day one of the more important ones . . . MORE THAN BEING A show- place of the best in modern day livestock as it is raised, tended and sold in Huron County . . Clinton Spring Show is in all probability the best horse show this side of the CNE, and the Royal Winter Fair . . . Held in June each year, the show has been growing in variety in re- cent years, and now includes a pet show, and a band demon- stration by Clinton's own con- cert band . . . • * * CLINTON SPRING SHOW marks the beginning of sum- mer and is a preview of agri- cultural fairs across the prov- ince . . . It is put together as a labour of love by the stalwart directors who each year face the fact that the Show is im- possible, and then go ahead to prove that it can be done, and done up well and properly . . . That a good deal of the direc- tion comes from Adam J. Mc- Murray, secretary-manager of the fair for many long years, and a year round booster of the affair, no one will deny . . . He has the experience of dealing with the men and women who display animals in the ring and they are each year cajoled into bringing their show horses and ponies, sheep, etc., for many miles so that they can be ex- hibited here . . . * * IF CLINTON SPRING SHOW is missing in anything, then we could admit that more partici- pation by local farmers would be a good thing . . . but this is being encouraged, and the cat- tle classes most certainly are made up of local exhibitors . . The fact that the show is in the spring, eliminates the build-up of 4-H club competitions being held to any large degree . . . However, the competition for County Dairy Princess is a popular one, and increases the• importance of the fair, and of the interest shown in it . . Hon. C. S. MacNaughton, minister of highways, reported in Clinton, Friday, that a pro- vincial park for Huron w a s "high on the . priority list", of parks under consideration by the department of lands and forests. "It's not top", he added, "but it's certainly encouraging", MacNaughton reported the information had .been passed on to him in a telephone conver- sation with Hon. Kelso Rob- erts, minister of the depart- ment of lands and forests. The Huron MP stated the call had been made to his of- fice shortly before Christmas and added, "it was a good, Ch- ristmas present". RCAF — Several promotions were announced on December 27 at RCAF Station Clinton by Group Captain George J. Mathieson, Commanding Of- ficer at the Station. Guided Missiles Detachment To Centralia Base RCAF — The Guided Mis- siles Detachment at Radar and Communications School, RCAF Station Clinton is being moved this month to RCAF Station Centralia. This is one of many detach- ments joining the Central Of- ficers School which has been set up at the Centralia Sta- tion. ° ' Squadron Leader R. R. Wat- ers, Zurich, who is officer com- manding of this detachment, and his staff will be moving to Centralia, effective Janu- ary 21. Peter Hathaway, 286 Town- send Street, was re-elected president of the Union Separ- ate School Board of Clinton The Weather 1962 1961 High Low High Low Dec. 27 23 0 32 21 28 27 19 33 18 29 34 17 17 0 30 22 -4 19 12 31 8 -5 24 11 1963 1962 Jan. 1 19 -8 26 10 2 19 0 26 14 Snow: 2 ins. Snow: 4 ins. MacNaughton hinted that the proposed site for a perky Would be north of Goderich, although he outlined no fur- ther details.' The suggestion of a provin- cial park in Huron was raised by county council at their last sitting and has been endorsed by most of the councils in Hu- ron as well as other civic gr- oups. MacNaughton made the an- nouncement at the annual meeting between area govern- ment members and heads of the ' commodity groups in Hu- ron at a meeting sponsored by the Huron Federation of Ag- riculture. Included were promotions to Squadron Leader of former Flight Lieutenant F. E. "Betty" Bell, officer commanding the School of Food Services. Also Squadron Leader E. A. E. Ire- land, who is in charge of basic training at Radar and Com- munications School here, and has been an acting squadron leader, received his promotion. Two men were promoted from Flying Officer to Flight Lieutenant. These were Flight Lieutenant C. W. McGillicudy, in the guided missiles detach- ment of Radar and Communi- cations School and Flight Lieu- tenant H. Bally, the station education officer. There are three new Flight Sergeants. Flight Sergeant R. R. Barr, (known across Can- ada as Sergeant Electro), who is a technician at Radar and Communications School; Flight Sergeant A. Deslauriers who is in charge of re-selection and release, (and acts as French interpreter for the public re- lations officer) and Flight Sergeant Kowalchuk, a trainee at Station Clinton. and RCSS 2, Hullett, last Thursday night, following the annual meeting when the five- member board was named by supporters of the school. Other members of the board are Mac LeBeau, RR 1, Bruce- field; Roger Powers, 170 Al- bert Street, Clinton; Lloyd Medd and A. L. Shanahan, both of RR 1, Clinton. Victor Finnie, 364 Base Line, Clinton, was re-appointed sec- retary-treasurer. He has held this post since the establish- ment of the separate school board, and until now has been also a member of the board. Won't Stop Small Butchers Murray Gaunt, Liberal MP for Huron-Bruce, commenting on the new Meat Inspeetio/i Bill passed by the provinciHi government, said it Wouldn't put ;the small butcher out .of business as some have feared. Although the new legislation has very stringent regulations regarding the abattoirs, he said they were flexible enough so the small operator would not be forced out of business by, being faced with costly ini4 provements to their buildings: "The main part of the in- spection is for the meat," he reported. The young member also told the members present there would be a two-year adjust- ment period for all concerned to meet the new regulations. He contended that the only persons who would be forced out of business would be "th- ose who shouldn't be in it any- way". This thoughts on the sub- ject were backed up by Mae- Naughton whO pointed out the regulations were passed to pick up the 20 percent of the butchering outlets and facilit- ies that do not come under the control of the federal regul tions. However, some concern ovdr the new system was expressed by Lorne Rodges, who reported that the butchers in Goderich had joined together to estab- lish a modern abattoir a n d the result had been a four-cent increase per pound of meat tb (Continued on page 5) 0 Bouncing Baby Boy Wins Hospital Race First baby to be, born in Clinton Public Hospital this year, was a bouncing boy, sca,,4' of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dietrich, RR 3, Clinton. The baby was born yesterday afternoon, Jan- uary 2. There were no arrivals on New Year's Day. This was the first annual meeting of the combined boards of the former Hullett Township school and St. Joseph's separ- ate school in Clinton, The Rev. S. E. McGuire pastor of St. Joseph's parish in Clinton and St. Michael's parish in Blyth, was chairman for the meeting. Mrs. Clarence A. Trott was re- cording secretary. Father McGuire named an honourary board, from whom he suggested the school board could request direction at their discretion. Members include Arnold Dale, Thomas Feeney, Clarence De- nomme, Antoine Garon, Clif- ford. Parker, Frank Cummings and Gerald Brown, all of Clin- ton and Bernard Tighe, RR 1, Clinton. All of these men have had previous school board ex- perience. 0 Council Names Striking Group Clinton council took their oath of office Wednesday night and named their striking com- mittee at the inaugural meet- ing. Named to the committee which will appoint the various acting committees for the corn- ing year are Reeve Morgan Ag- new, councillors Don Symons and George Wonch. Mayor W. J. Miller is an automatic member of the com- mittee. Only other business transact- ed at the meeting was naming the night for their next meet- ing and, they altered an earlier decision and decided to hold it on Monday, January 14 instead of January 7, as was previously announced. 0 Private Ronald Clifford, of the Central Army Ordinance Corps, is holidaying with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Reg Clifford, Matilda Street, after spending a year in Egypt with the United Nations Emergency Force. Ron will be attached to 27 Central Ordinance Depot, Four area members of the provincial and federal govern- ments listened to reports and suggestions for improvements in farm legislation when rep- resentatives of 13 commodity groups met with them in Cl- inten, Friday. The annual informal meet- ing was again sponsored by the Huron County Federation of Agriculture, with president Elmer Ireland,., Wingham, in the chair. Present at the meeting were Elston Cardiff, MP, Huron; Marvin Howe, MP Wellington- Huron; Honourable C. S. Mac- Naughton, MPP Huron and Muray Gaunt, MPP Huron- Bruce. One of the main topics of discussion at the meeting was the plight of the dairy pro- ducers, who Cardiff noted, "are in a kind of. a sorry place." He said he regretted the fact "they couldn't get their own house in order", referring to the recent breakdown in the proposed marketing sch- eme. "I don't know what we are going to do about it", he told the members present, "but we Clinton's Public Utilities Commission has been informed by the department of high- ways that they have no alter- native but to pay the major cost of relocating a four-inch water main at the proposed site of the widening of the highway at the north boundary of the town. However, at their meeting Thursday, the members agreed to contact Hon. C. S. Mac- Naughton, in an effort to deter- mine if this is a standard pol- icy of his department. "It doesn't seem right", May- or W. 3, Miller commented, "but if it's policy, I guess we'll have to ,go along with it". Although the department will pay the complete cost of wid- ening the highway, they will only pay 50 percent of the labor of relocating the water main. Superintendent Jabez Rands reported that the project could cost the PUC over $1,000, not- ing that it would probably be cheaper to install an entirely new line in the 573-foot section, Although the old line has only been in existence since 1952, he pointed out it would take considerable time to dig it up and then they would have to put the road-bed back in good shape before the highway construction began. Charles Brown stated it would probably cost the PUC as much to pull out the old line as it would to construct an entirely new one, "It's not even a fair split", Hal Hartley noted. "They should at least go 50 percent On the entire job". He pointed out it was unfair in his opinien because no Muni, cipality Conk' plan far enough I., 4 016414 num work to certainly can't continue to give them grants". The veteran PC member not- ed that the lowering of the price of butter had helped to some extent• but added that the only solution he could see was for farmers to get rid of some of their cattle. Market in Germany? However, MacNaughton re- ported the Canadian govern- ment had perhaps missed an opportunity to sell some of their surplus butter to Germ- any due to an agreement be- tween the government and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. As a ,member of an Ontario trade mission last summer, MacNaughton said he was "amazed" to learn West Ger- many had allocated a butter quota to Canada, but this country had failed to export the product because of some agreement between the Can- adian government and GATT at Geneva. "The price offered was very close to the support price", he stated, and suggested there should be a continual program to re-adjust Geneva terms. take into consideration what the department of highways might do in 20 years. "We just kiss a $1,000 good- bye for them to change the highway", he added. The main, which presently runs on the shoulder of the east side of the present road will have to be changed as the department plans to add a third lane on the east side which will be used for north-bound traffic. The present northbound lane will be used by motorists wish- ing to turn left onto the-Base Line and the improvement will facilitate other traffic to go around them if they are forced to wait for oncoming traffic to pass before making their turn. Discuss Overdue Accounts The Commissioners held a (continued on page four) 0 Levee at Station Welcomes Year On Friendly Note Concluding the feetive season at RCAF Station Clinton the traditional New Year's levee was held in the Officers Mess where Group Captain George J. Mathieson, Commanding Offic- er, received guests in the after- noon. Representatives of area goV- erpment, civic and service gr- oups were in attendance as well as representatives from RCAF Centralia and the Army bases at London and Ipper- wash.: After an enjoyable "social hour between the guests and the officers, a smorgasbord lone While he pointed out, t h e proposed quantity was small, it would have opened the door for Canada to have been put on the allocation list for fur- ther exports. The minister of highways al- so reported England would purchase five times as much cheese from Canada if it was available. "This is an unfortunate par- adox", he noted. "We are using our milk to' produce- surplus butter and we could be using it to produce needed cheese". This fact brought a question from Carl Hemingway, Brus- sels, who, said he heard that Canada had 2,000,000 pounds of chese in storage and the Ontario producers couldn't get hold of it when Great Britain wanted it. "Is this true?", he asked of Cardiff. "I never heard of that", came the reply, "but I will certainly check into it", Lorne Rodges, representing the concentrated milk group, said the government should take steps to get chese pro- duction up to where it should be. He also stated that a sub- sidy should only be paid up to a certain amount of milk, pro- duced by farmers, and not on all they produce. • Government Should Act Although he noted the fluid milk producers "sat uder the umbrella of the government", Simon Hallahan, Blyth, sug- gested the government should step 'into the unsettled argu- ment among milk producers, and set up a board. "We certainly can't agree a- mong ourselves", he added. When questioned by Cardiff Hallahan said he felt all the milk from the various groups should be pooled. Andy Simpson, RR 1, List- owel, representing the cheese producers, also agreed that such a scheme would be feas- ible, but Cardiff noted that the fluid milk producers would- n't agree to such a scheme. Simpson, who reported it had been a good year for cheese producers, noted it was hard to expand the production to any great extent. Martin Baan, of the United Dairy and Poultry Co-opera- tive, pointed out that England wanted only summer cheese produced and there weren't enough factories in Ontario to fill the need. Returning to the surplus but- ter question, Cardiff stated that as long as the government supported the price at 64 cents "we're going to be saddled with a surplus". Horace Delbridge, RR 1, Woodhani, representing the butter a it d cream producers, noted that separated cream Was only used for 50 percent of butter production and . sug- gested it would be a good idea to subsidize separated cream. Need Advertising Campaign Delving further into the milk issue, Marvin Baan crit- icised the Ontario government for allowing the sale of two Perdoilt Milk. "It is a very had Mistake", he. stated. HoWever, MacNaughtori con- here ves t •• the milk in larger cities where the producers had done an extremely good selling jab on the low content product. He suggested they were able to sell it because people were becoming conscious of eating to much fat in our '"diet-con- scious society". This brought up a lengthy discussion on the harmful ef- fect of animal fat or cholestrol. "There's no conclusive facts that cholestrol from, animal fats is harmful",--Baan report- ed, and he was backed up by Vaughan Douglas of CKNX who said it was not as injur ious as people believed, basing his statement on reports by nutritionists. "Cheap margarine is injur ious to children", he added anc this brought a question iron Carl Hemingway, who wantec to know why the home econ omists in Ontario high school used margarine exclusively anc promoted it if it was injurious Although no one answerer the question, Marvin How pointed out the farm group should consider a better ad vertising campaign to compar their products with others. "If there's more cholestro in cheap margarine, then yo should tell t h e people", h pointed out. Lorne Hodges added that all the ingredients of margarine should be printed on the labels so people will know if they are buying "lard or fish oil". Past president Warren Zur- brigg concluded the discussion on the milk industry by re- porting the proposed board had failed because the Ontario producers were the only ones doing anything about the pro- blem. "Some of the other provinces should be brought into line", he contended. He pointed out it was of lit- tle value for Ontario produc- eds to attempt a solution if the producers in other parts of (continued on page eight) 0 Announce Change In Post Office Hours For Mail Postmaster Art Ball an- nounced revision in times for the arrival and departure of Clinton mail which will become effective on January 6. Mails for despatch to Gode- rich and points north to Wing- ham and Kincardine will close at 11.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m.; for Seaforth, Mitchell, Stratford and points beyond at 4,40 p.m. and 6,10 p.m. and points south to London and beyond at 3.30 pan., 4.40 p.m. and 6.10 p.m. Letters for registration must be posted half an hour previous to the time for closing the mails. Mails are due to arrive front Mitchell, Seaforth, Stratforc and connecting points at 5.3( arm and 11.55 a.nt.; south to London and connect ing points at 5.30 a.m, and 9,31 a.m.; points north to Winghan and Kincardine at 4 p.m. an 5.15 p.m. and front Goderid .40 m Promotions Announced Station Clinton Personell Separate School Board To Serve in 1963 The new five-member board of St. Joseph's Separate School, Clinton, took office at the first of the year. From the left, seated, A. L. Shanahan, RR 1, Clinton and chairman Peter Hathaway; Clinton; standing, from the left, Mac LeBeau, Brucefield; Roger Powers, Clinton and Lloyd llifedd, RR 1., Clinton. Election of the board members took place in the, parish hall• of St, Joseph's Prnyinn Catholic Church on Thursday evenhq December 271 P. Hathaway Chairman St. Josephs School Board PUC Still Fights Cost On Highway Relocation Farm Leaders Present Reports to Government Officials The four area members of the federal and pro- vincial governments listened to reports from the heads of the 13 farm commodity groups in Huron County when they attended the annual informal meeting staged by the Federation of Agriculture in Clinton, Friday, Some of the officials are shown above and include, from the left: Alec McGregor, RR 2, Kippen, representing FAME; Elmer Ireland, president of the Federation; Elston Cardiff, MP Huron; Honorable C.'S. MacNaughton, MPP Huron; Lloyd Lovell, Kippen, representing the sugar beet growers. (News-Record Photo) Position Of County Milk Producers Main Topic At Farm Meeting