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Clinton News-Record, 1963-11-21, Page 1---Both Occupants Lived! A Clinton couple, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Homier, miraculously escaped death when their 1958 Pontiac was completely crumpled when it went out of control, smashed into a tree and stump and rolled over several times near RCAF Clinton on highway 4 shortly after 5:00 p.m., Friday., As this photo shows, no part of the wrecked car comes up any higher than the waist of Clinton Police Chief H. R. Thompson, Mrs. Hopper suffered severe scalp lacerations and contusions, while her husband has a fractured jaw and shoulder, facial lacerations and .bruises. He was transferred to London hos- pital from Clinton, where the couple were first taken for treatment. (News-Record Photo) Local Kinsmen Set Up Committee To investigate Possibility oF Arena No. 47—The Hama Paper With The News 94INTON, ONTARIO.. Ti. NOVEMBER..21X.1 63 ..". $4,00 Per Year _-10 cents Per Capy,-12 Pages. ecor THE HURON RECORD YEAR THE NEW ERA 97th YEAR Are You Sure He's Dead? That appears to be the question "Sandy" a small Chihuahua, owned by F/S Russ Bush, wants answered as he turns his head from the remains of his erstwhile enemy, the Owl. teMpted to fly away With a Meal—the small Chihuahua owned by the Bush fondly. spread of this large owl and the hockey stick with which he scored his "goar:-.—killing the bird. The "penalty" was banded out Wheh the bird at- FM Russ tush, Adastral Park, displays the four and a half foot wing Owl Pays "Penalty" NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Approve Post Office Site Clinton's long-awaited $145,000 post office took another step closer to being a reality this week! Royce Macaulay of Ball-Macaulay Limited, re- ported the department of works had informed the local firm that the purchase of their property had been authorized by the treasury department. The information was received on Friday, and added that further. word would be coming "in the near future". Last summer, Elston Cardiff, Huron MP, re- ported plans and specifications were being drawn up at that time and tenders were to have been called in October. He also said September 1964 was the target month for the project. O 0 0 0 Woman Seeks Mayoralty After a stint of only two years on council, councillor Alice (Mrs. Fred) Thompson has signified her intention of seeking the mayor's post and will have her name presented at the Clinton nomination meeting, Monday. At the present time there does not appear to be any definite- opposition to Clinton's first female coun- cillor, as Mayor W. J. Miller reports he is still un- decided, as is councillor Don Symons, who has in- dicated he may seek the top post, Mr. Miller informed the News-Record he was seriously thinking of stepping down from the post, but, may' ,Consider,,,running for; council. Speculation is that he will step aside if Symons, a four-year vet- eran, will oppose Mrs. Thompson. Reeve Morgan Agnew and Deputy-Reeve John Sutter both said they would seek re-election for their posts, while councillors Elliot, Wonch and Livermore are expected to allow their names to stand. George Rumball, finance chairman, indicated he would not return for a seventh term, but has not made up his mind as, yet, O 0 0 0 OPP issue Warning To Girls Sgt. Harry Barker, head of the Goderich de- tachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, issued an urgent warning this week following complaints of a male person attempting to entice young girls inta his car in the area. He said police are presently investigating two such incidents at present where a man' has been re- ported following school girls along township and county roads. "These are very serious matters," he pointed out, and emphatically urged that all parents and school teachers warn the "children against accepting rides. He also explained that children should try and secure the license number of any cars which appear to be following them and telephone the nearest OPP office immediately. "It's important that' they get the license num- ber," he noted, adding that police would soon find the car if they knew.its number. O 0 0 0 Hay Champ Here Again" • Brucefield Still has the best hay growers in the world! Proving it this year was Russell Dallas, RR 1 Brucefield, who w,on'the World Hay Championship at- the Royal Winter Fair, now in progress in Toronto. On Tuesday night, Mr. Dallas received the Cock- shutt Farm Equipment Ltd. trophy, as well as a $100 cheque and a $100 watch from the same firm. When the 1963 champion's name is enscribed on the beautiful trophy, it will be placed right under- neath the name of another Brucefield area farmer, Robert P. Allan. Mr. Allan won the championship last year, dupli- eating his win of the coveted prize in 1958. Mr. Dallas, along with his son, Jack, operate a 100-acre farm one and a quarter miles east and a mile south of Brucefield. Newly Named Marching' Royals Appear In Santa Claus Parades The newly namecl Clinton hall sharp at 7:00 a.m. and all equipment and members must be oh the bus no let& than 6:45 a.m. for roll Ball. The colour' party are asked to' be at the camp custard stand also at 7:60 a.m. ClintonThe Marching Royals Will also take iii the newly ad, ministered Seaforth parade on gatorday, N-oveinber 30 end all metribers are to take note of this date and to be at lerac flee Wednesday next week, Marching Royals, majorettes and colour party will compete for honours on Saturday in the great London Santa Cats par- ade, Approximately 25 band merit- berg, seven Majorette§ and 41 colour party of eight will march with nine other western Ontario bands. All inerithere are asked take note that the -.I ,gt T phy bus will leave the, town. ' a speech by F/L J. "Gibby" Gibson, an instructor of the School of Instructional Techni- que and Public Relations Of- ficer at RCAF Clinton. His talk was on the art of public speaking, and the ener- getic and witty Officer not only provided the members and guests with some well-founded hints, but also gave- them an object lesson through his own speech making abilities, He emphasized the need for "speech construction", which he •noted was designed to avoid the obvious pitfall of being in- adequately prepared and to pre- vent the necessity of reading a speech. No one with ,less talent than Sir Winston Churchill can hold an audience when reading, he stated, and he also said a per- son must have an infallible me- (By RCAF Public Relations Department) A large white owl, measuring four and a half feet from wing tip to wing tip, paid an un- welcome visit to the home of SI( Approval For `Stop-Gap Solution' Effort To 'Postpone' CHSS Addition. 4:M4 reading the news re- leeee sent in by ,);aele Dietrich Of the *Wen County Numis- matic .Club last week, we start- Rd to ponder the value of same of etze old coins, especially in view of the fact 'that a 1921 half dollar that was to be dis- played Wes valued at close to $5,000 You can tinning our elated feeling when we dug out our 1864 ;Upper Canada penny, along with e few other coins of approximately the same vintage. After all, if a 1921 coin was worth that much, there was no telling what our money waited be worth ... So, wrapping it up carefully and having it pinned to our BVDs We headed out for Clinton from Exeter . with an air of excite- ment and anticipation of the great wealth that soon would be ours . . In fear of creating a stampede among the collect- ors at the Clinton -.Show, we" walked around as nonchalantly as a fellow .can with a few thousand dollars pinned to his shorts, and slowly wended our way over to the stand where some of the local members were evaluating coins, , SPOTTING an old friend from Crediton behind the table, we commenced a trivial con- versation so he wouldn't be set back too much by the treasure we. were about to produce for his eager eyes to view With a typical Elliott Ness glance over our shoulder to en- sure we were not being watcb- ed 'hr.() closely, we unpinned the package and slid it casually across the table-, making sure we still had a firm grasp on the coin, realizing that even some friends can't be trusted too far with such valuable treasure . . It was with some dismay that we noted our evaluator's eyes failed to light up similar to a small boy's on Christmas morning, but we quickly realized that his cool- ness was probably only an act he was putting on in an .effort to buy the coin for a few thousand dollars -less than it was worth, from this sucker across the table. HOWEVER, he slowly leafed through the pages of the coin collectors' "bible" until he came to the page where the- prices were listed for 1864 Upper Can- ada- pennies „ . Slowly his finger followed. along the col- umns as our 'heart beat-faster and faster and as his digit came to rest we were sure our heart would too . , However, (Continued on Page 12) mory and the skill of Sir Law- rence Olivier if they were to succeed with a memorized speech. PAL Gibson outlined the me- thod of constructing a speech under the categories of survey- ing the problem, building the speech, preparing the delivery. He—emphasized the import-, ance of rehearsing" a speech'. aloud before delivering it in public. . Interjecting considerable hu- mor into his' own talk, the PRO also gave a brief outline of steps to follow in preparing and presenting various types of formal and informal speeches. He concluded by reporting no person could become a speaker by merely listening to someone speak, land it was necessary tp take every opportunity to speak (Continued on Page 12) Flight Sergeant and Mrs. R. W. Bush, RCAF Clinton, over the weekend. The owl obviously dropped in for a meal, Thursday, much to the disgust of the Flight Ser- geant, as the prospective snack was the Bush's pet dog, a four- pound Chihuahua named "San- dy". Mr. Owl pursued the dog right up to the front door, and When Mrs. Bush took exception to his manoeuvre, he made a wing-threshing attack on her. Mrs. Bush wisely retreated behind the door, making sure "Sandy" was safely inside as well: ni Nextght, "Russ" Bush took a hand in the proceedings, or perhaps we should say a hand holding a hockey Stick, When "Sandy" was released to make his nightly inspection tour of the local trees, the great Owl swooped down to gobble him up, The doughty Flight Sergeant, true to Air Force tradition, promptly attacked the enemy. With ferocious swipes of the hockey stick he clobbered the feathered predator and dowried him permahently. Eddie Shack himself would have been proud of his Work With the hickory. Mn Owl is now cooling off in a deep freeze and his earthly remains, Stuffed, (but not with Chihuahua) will serve at a retie- cot for a Brownie Pack at Adastral Park, Clinton. ES;aetly 'five days after open- Mg the 81,5(10,000 addition to CeOtra Huron. Secondary Sole:Ol t the hoard initiated :action in an effort to postpone a large-scale building program, Meeting Wednesday, the loc- al hoard .accepted the recom- mendation presented to them by the advisory vocational com- mittee to ask the other three high schools to retain the grade nine studeene in the four and five-year courses next year. The eropoeal was termed a "stop-gap"• solution and will have to ,be approved by the boards at.Exeter, Goderich and Seaforth, Agreement will have to be unanimous. Enrolment at the school this year is 1,238 and the design capacity is only 1,250. Principal Hospital Board Report Concern Over Finances GODERICH "Financing of the ne'v addition is still a major concern," said Beecher Menz- ies, county representative on Clinton Hospital Board, in re- porting to Huron council, "Apart froni federal and pro- vincial and county grants we have raised $38,000 and have $26,000 yet to find. This cur- tails other capital expenditures, and may have the same effect in the coming year. The addi- tion added 20 new beds to our rated capacity of 60 beds and 12 bassinets," be said, "We have a new cafeteria and kitchen, new laboratory facilities, a new work room for nurses and new operating theatre. "We had 1,497 admissions in the past year, 281 births. Pat- - deOctlays... totalled 17,309, e'en approximate percentage of oc- cupation, of about 85, in the bassinet area- 38 percent. The laboratory handled 12,284 units, and 'there were 1,226 opera- tions, major and minor." Twenty-eight or 30 percent of patients are from Clinton. The ward rate for 1963 is $17.40, and our projected ward rate for 1964 is $19.74, not yet approved, School Report W. Norman Counter, accom- panied by business. administra- tor L. R. Maloney, reported for C en t r a l Huron Secondary School, He mentioned that $3,377,000 insurance is carried, at an annual premium of $5,864. There are also student accident policies and Workmen's Com- pensation coverage. There are two transportation contracts; one covering opera- tion of six routes, the other three. The first (Murphy) cov- ers 428 miles, carries 391 stu- dents at an individual cost of 44c, yearly cost of $34,890. The Elliott (Blyth) buses carry 143 pupils at a cost of $1,389 per month, $13;894 per year. Total cost of transportation, council was told, is $48,784 per year, for six Clinton buses, five froth Goderich, three from. Sea- forth, three from Exeter and three from Blytli. When they converge on the school it creat- es a parking problem, There are 61 teachers, six clerks or secretaries, seven full-time custodians and two temporary, also one engineer. Monthly pay entitlement is $65,283. Estimated average cost per pupil is $2.29, The breakdown as to• origin: Clinton 693, RCAF Clinton 74, Goderich 202 (all vocational), Seaforth 112, Exe- ter 141, Centralia 16; total 1,238. 0 Area People Pay Fines In Two Courts Area persons Were given penalties on a variety of Char- ges when they appeared in Magistrate's courts in Exeter and Goderich last Week. On Thursday, Robert Leslie PaPple, 18, Egmondvilie, driver of a ear in which Alexene Wl- lie/11km, 16, RR, 3 Walton, was fatally injured June 21, pleaded guilty to careless driving in Ooderieb. He was fined $25 and costs and had his driver's Iidensc stisPereled for nine months, Pantile was hospitalized for 1g Weeks after the accident and Miss Willimneon died in Vie. twee HeSpital, tendon, two days after the a.ceident. ldontitined On page 7) D, John Cochrane estimated at- tendance would jump to 1,414 next year, "This is a bit beyond our capacity to handle," corrunept- ed Del Philp, Blyth, chairman of the AVC. "We hesitate to recommend a large-scale building program,". he added, "We hope to wait for at least a year." The .AVC predicted that if the recommendation was ap- proved by the other three boards it would reduce enrol- ment to 1,314 for next year, This would be above aepaeity, but it is felt the school could cope with it. D. W. Scott, London, area in- spector, attended the meeting and pointed out no one had any idea that the school would meet with such outstanding success. He noted that the "tough part" of the initial agreement among the boards had been in deciding the minimum number each would send to Clinton, He commended those- respons- sible for building the school so big in the first place when there was no guarantee or even any indication that it would prove so popular, Mr. Scott declined to answer a question of when he thought a building program at CHSS would be necessary, pointing out many facts had to be con- sidered by the boards. The recommendation was ap- proved with' haste by the local board in an effort to give the other three boards vas much time as possible to plan for next year. Garnet Hicks, South Huron representative of the AVC re- ported they would have a building program regardless of the action taken. .At the conclusion of the dis- cussion, Mr, Scott informed the members he considered the lo- cal school "second to none". Cafeteria Losses At the regular meeting, L. R. Maloney, business administrat- or, informed the board that the net loss in the• cafeteria until October 15 had been reported as $457.93 by Beaver Food Ser- vices, However, Maloney explained that it was not, as bad as it sounded, as over $300 of the loss had been due to the fact there had been trouble with the refrigerators and consider- able food had been spoiled. He was authorized to take action through the contractor (Continued on page 12) 0 Medical Group Have 'Good Year Rename Executive Wilson C. McCoig, Chatham, past-president of the Co-oper- ative Medical Services, Feder- ation of Ontario, spoke at the 16th annual meeting of Huron Co-operative Medical Services held in the Council Chambers, Clinton, on Wednesday. His topic, Recent Develop- ments in Prepaid Health Care Plans, was fact-filled and time- ly, providing the members with a valuable insight into current progress in the planning of a Government-sponsored Medical Health Plan. Mr. McCoig, who is secre- tary-manager of Kent Co-oper- ative Medical Services, repre- sents the Medical Co-operatives on the liason committee set up to study Ontario's medical care needs. Members voted approval of new coverage added during the Past year, which included the addition of chiropractic care ef- fective June 1, 1963, and a new Comprehensive Medical Care Plan instituted August 1, 1963. Re-eleeted for a three-year term were: president, Fordyce Clark, RR 5, Goderich; direc- tors: Mrs. O. G. Anderson, RR 5, Wingham; Lorne Bodges, RR 1, Goderich; Kenneth Johns, Woodham. During the year, the Major Medical Plan paid claims total- ling $17,983.00 and the Improv- ed Surgical (with In-Hospital Medical) paid a total, of $55,003.00 in claims. Current assets are $148,519.00 and total liabilities are $123, 721.00. Will Appoint New Executives At C of C Session After a lengthy delay since being re-orgenited early last summer, the Clinton and Dist- elet Chamber of Commerce will hold its first meeting in the' Clinton town hall Thursday (to- night) at 8:00 President Antoine "Red" Gen% repotted this week that over 125 members have joined the organization and they have $600 in membership. One bf the first Orders of business will be to name re- placements for two positions on the executive. Secretary, p`ini Leib hat mov- ed to St. Thomas and Garon iediceted that treasurer Cook has asked that be be re- lieved of his duties. Discussion Will also be held on projects to be undertaken fer the coming year, At their annual Civic and Press night, Tuesday, Clinton Kinsmen named a committee to investigate the prospects of building a new arena to replace the present deteriorating struc- ture. Don Kay and Gord Grigg were named to the committee to contact the other service clubs in Clinton and the local Recreation Committee, as to their ideas and support. Highlight of the meeting was Photos By Roy Clynick BUT IT WAS CLOSE! Snowy Owl Foiled in 'Snatch' Attempt The 'Weather. • 1.063 1'00 Illeh tow -nigh LOW oV, 14 41 15 45 .84 -45 36 15 58 41 .42 32 17 59 48 .34- 22 18 58 43 al. 19 Jo. 49 34; 40 20 20 51 33. -38. • Rain: IV' .31Yi