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Clinton News-Record, 1963-11-28, Page 148,—;Tho Home Paper With The Now cu, TON,. ONTAR10;,TWASPAYK. NOVEMBER 28, 1904 $4.00 Per Year---10. Cents Pe.r .Copy-12 Pages THE HURON RECORD-830 YEAR THE NEW 97th YEAR Crashes Cause Injury, Damage, Drivers Charged Two Clinton area drivers have beenshaeged with, differ- ent violations following a two- car crash, on highway 8, about five miles east of Clinton, early Saturday morning. Lorne Edwin Lawson, RR 1, Clinton, has been charged by OPP at Goderich with having no 'taillight on his 1949 Dodge panel and Alan ,Bell-Chambers, 308 Townsend Street, Clinton, faces a charge of careless driy- ing. Lawson was proceeding west on the highway shortly after midnight and had slowed down to make a right hand turn when he Was struck from behind by a car driven by Bell-Chambers. The Lawson vehicle went in- to the ditch and rolled over and was completely wrecked. He suffered lacerations to his head and was treated by Dr. Stapleton, Seaforth. Bell-Chambers, and his two occupants, George Balser and Everitt Hamilton, both of (Continued on Page 7) cation costs would soon become a burden to the tax payer. McEwing pointed out that while the townships appointed school board members, the costs showed that it was becoming a case "of the tail wagging the dog, rather than the dog wagg- ing the tail." "The costs bug me," com- mented Vincent, who questioned if the people who were in charge of education shouldn't themselves be receiving Scene education. To explain his point, he noted that Thompson's report had shown that the architects had received $53,000,00 to draw plans for the new addition at Clinton. He questioned why it would Local Cub Pack Reaps Reward from Card. Sales Persons looking for eeergetic salesmen would tipparently do well to contact members of the Clinton Cub Peek. The lads recently completed their annual sale of boxed Christina§ cards and ended up with a profit of $215.00, ad- cotding to, MrS. Allah FAliot, who siipervised the project: She Said the boys Sold 600 boxes Of Om*. Proceeds from their efforts Will be put towards liripreve- Merits at the dub Cann, M Goderich T'ownsh'ip, With much of the money being used to dilate tin w mattresses, Does Research Robert F. Love, Hensall, has been awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship, worth $4,200, for continued study in mathematical research at Stanford University, Califor- nia, Mr. Love, who has stu- died at the University of Western Ontario and Tor- onto University, has received two previous fellowships since he went to Stanford in 1961. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Love. Astronomer Nod - Election, Another Nominal To Complete Town Council .P sitions Same manner in which he .con- ducted his own, One Ne0 ik 'fin - TT, F, 'Noonan, 'who retired to Clinton about one year ago from the foreign exchange branch of the Canadian . Bank of Commerce in Windsor, was added to the council slate along with returning members, Don Symons, George Wonch, Allan Elliot and Norm Livermore. He reported he had had no bounced his retirement. Reeve Morgan Agnew and Deputy-reeve John Sutter were also returned by acclamation, Although the Noonans are comparatively new residents in the area, many people will re- member his wife, the, former Ann Stewart, who resided at RR. 5, Clinton. She was a popu- lar singer during her earlier life here. (Continued on Page 12) should be given to the projects as it was a golden opportunity to have the work done with the government providing much of the cost. Reporting on seeing many trees and limbs blown down in Seaforth and Goderich due to last week's heavy wind,. Sy- mons said it had been fortunate that many of the older trees in Clinton had been removed dur- ing the epast few months, Suggests Radar Councillor George Wench was another in favour of an addi- tional man for the police force, and said he would also work hard on attaining a complete communication system for the police and a radar unit. The local band master said the communication system could be installed at a cost of $1,800 and reported the cost of a port- able radar unit at only $200. He added the police were do- ing the best they could with what they have at the present. Wonch also cited the need for a budget for council's industrial committee and called for a 100 percent effort to attract indus- try. Reeve Morgan Agnew, chair- (Continued on page 12) Four New Awards In $4,245 Total To Be Given At Commencement grade 1,2 student, William Tre- vena, The fund was established from monies donated to help pay for a trip to Europe for Mr. Jefferson. However, shortly after the community-backed fund had been turned over to him, he died, and his wife put the funds into the memorial scholarship. The award this year will be for $50, but in subsequent years will be for a value of $100 for a deserving student, The fund also provides for a prize for a grade eight student at the local public school. Another memorial scholarship will be presented by Hiles Car- ter in memory of his parents, Norman and Verna Carter, late of Clinton. The award is for the two top students in science on their combined grade nine and ten marks. Mr. Carter is vice-principal of the Forest Hill Collegiate in Toronto, and is also co-author of a grade nine science book. Two local businesses 'have al- so set up scholarships for mid- dle school mathematics and geography. The donors are Wal- ter C. Newcombe and Dr, D, B, Palmer. Other donors of Scholarships and bursaries are: The Gregory Photographic Studio, Clinton News-Record, Sir Ernest Coop- er memorial, E. A. Fines award, W. D. Fair scholarships, Canada Packers, Lavis Contracting Co, Ltd., Murphy Bus Lines, Wo- men's Auxiliary to the Clinton Public Hospital. Top Winner The student who Will be cal- led to the stage the most num-, ber of times will be Paul Bate- man, who topped the 1963 grad nating elass, and wile is now en- rolled at the University of Tore onto. A former president of the student council, and a member of the London Free Press Lead- (Continued on page 7) The Weather 193 1962 Hisrh Lo* nigh Low Nov. 21, 51. 33 45 38 22 58 47 42 30 23 58 33 80 31 24 85 , 31 38 32 25 38 29 40 27 26 50 82. 43 24 27 47 41 42 24 Rain: ,30 fn. Rein` .51 ire Legion .Offices filed Ey Election, Tuesday ,An, election at Clinton. Legion regular meeting, Tueeday, fit led all .Qffies for the 1.964 term. Many offices were ac- claimed at the October nomina- tion meeting. K, W, .Calquhoim • is the incoming -president On. Tuesday nearly 70 mem,' hers :Were -. on hand to elect R. P. (Pick) Frenliin ever Reg. Cudmore .for first vice-presi- dent; Ed. Porter over Stewart Freeman for second vice-presi- dent and J. D. Thorridike won the .color- sergeant post from LeaNiee. ' Election was also held for the eight-man executive committee, with the; following being the 'enceeeefiil. 'members: Harold Black, e Robert Hicks, Carman McPherson, Howard Tait, Hee Kingewell; Doug Andrews, Wil- liam Chambers and Reg. Cud- more. Officials for the voting were roue • Bayfield members of the branch: R, Roy Fitzsimons, re- turning officer, with Fred Wes- ton, Robert MacVean and Mer- ton Merrier as scrutineers. President Harold McPherson was in charge of the business meeting when many committee reports were heard. Garnet Harland had final figures on the November 11 poppy and wreath sales. The poppy fund, which is used en- tirely for assistance to needy veterans and their `families, realized over $600 from this year's poppy campaign. Hall rental for 1963 has (Continued on Page 7) not be more practical to have a standard design for all schools in order to eliminate this heavy expense. Vincent went on to note that such procedure had been fol- lowed during the war, when there was One set design for army buildings, and these were used over and over agaih, and the men knew exactly what type of buildings would have to be built when they moved from one location to another. Sees Relief Some relief for rural tax payers was predicted by the assessor, George W, Carter, who eXplained there were changes being considered whereby land assessment would not be the sole determining factor for the payment of education costs, "The education tax has got out of hand as far es rural ratepayers are concerned," he stated, adding that taxation on lend appeared to be, the wrong setup, He said the strong should help the Week, but pointed out that the present System looked like it was the Weak helping the strong. As an. example he cited a hypothetical ease Where a doc- tor or professional.. Man in a higher income bracket may be paying only $100 towards edu- cation if he lived in a town or city, White a farmer Who Wtts in the lower ineorite bracket, may be paying as Mueli as WO towards, education under the present eysterre At present, diseessiohe are being held to change the font of aSsesSinetit, . (Continued on Page 7) , Dr, Pete Bissonette, deputy district governor of re- gion 3, district A-9, Lions In- ternational, used a small candle to demonstrate his talk to Clin- ton Lions Club, Tuesday even- ing. The DDG produced a small two-inch candle and said it was of ver ylittle value. He then lit the candle and explained that it was now very useful, giving light and warmth, He likened this' to a service club, which must be lit up by some spark, He said, "the,president alone cannot provide the spark, but it must come from the full membership. He then confined the candle under a water glass and the' light went out. This would hap- pen to a Lions Club when their activities are confined. "A club, the same as a candle, needs a spark to keep it going," he said. He further demonstrated how outside influence dimmed the candle, and this could happen to a service club, too. "Warmth gobd feeling and leadership in every community comes from a sparked club," he said. The DDG spoke at length on two conventions next year, urging as many as possible to attend: District A, comprising Ontario, Quebec and Labrador, in Kitchener, and the Lions In- ternational convention in Tor- onto next July. This will be the largest convention ever held in Canada, and possibly the last Lions International in Canada, because of the inability of any Lion Official Makes Use Of Candle To 'Spark° Club To More Action Clinton's Newest Councillor Ken McRae, left, who has been Clinton's rep,-, resentative on the CHSS board for the past six years and who announced his retirement, Monday, is shown congratulating Clinton's newest public official, H. F. Noonan, On his acciarnation as a' councillor, Mr. Noonan retired to Clinton less:, than a • year ago after a lengthy banking career. One council spot remains to be filled. • • t he Sim .00101811q#7,7: AS IT 114$ throughout most of the past year, the weather continues to be one of the Main topics of conversations, as we are being blessed with unusual- ly fine weather , • , However, we doubt that some of the mers chants in the area look upon it with too much favour, as it certainly does little to. stimulate one to think of Christmas shoes ping and purchasing winter goods . But, lest we be lulled into a false sense of security, it should be noted there are ex- aetly 23 shopping days left until that particular glorious day ar- rives on the scene. And, if you don't happen to get around toe reading this column until Friday, that makes it even clos- er That may appear to be a rather ridiculous state- ment, but it does go to show that it is fast approaching . So, shop early and avoid the rush, as well as enjoying the best selection at the local stor- es, Yes, the LOCAL stores have all your needs and war- rant your patronage , . And, for those less personal gifts may we suggest 'a subscription to the local paper. It's a gift for which you will be remem- bered every week of the year, although some weeks you'll be thought more of than in others, EVERY once in awhile people (Continued on Page 7) 0 Businessmen List Plans, !fours for Christmas Clinton Retail Merchants Committee had one of their best attended meetings for some time, when 25 met to • discuss various business aspects of Christmas promotion in the council chambers, Tuesday. The members voted to pule chase additional Christmas street lighting to be erected on highway 8, east and west of the main intersection for a distance of approximately one block. The feeling was that this would make a more attractive setting to welcome visitors tra- velling into the town from these directions. A committee was set up to complete ,,,.arrangements, ,,,egee",a Santa Claus parade to be held in Clinton. Tentative date for the event was set as Saturday, December 14. Service clubs and merchants will be contacted for assistance in this regard and persons wishing to enter floats have been asked to contact Robert Campbell of Pickett and Camp- bell, A lengthy discussion was held on store hours for the coming busy shopping season and mer- chants will remain open on Wednesday afternoons , from now until, Chirstmas. To aid last minute gift buy- ers, the stores will also remain open during the evenings of Monday, December 16 to ,Mon- day, December 23, inclusive. Only exception will be gro- cery and food outlets, who agreed to remain open only dur- ing the evenings of Friday, Sat- urday and Monday, December 20, 21 and 23. The various elected and ap- pointed municipal officers in Hullett Township virtually sat around talking to themselves at the annual nomination meet- ing held in Londesboro Friday. ' Only 24 ratepayers attended the meeting and 11 of them gave reports, Reeve Tom Leiper and his foureman council of Clare Vin- cent Hugh Flynn, Donald Bu- chanan and James McEwing were returned to office unop- posed. While councillor Don Buch- anan decried the lack of inter- eet among the ratepayers in finding out how the business of the past year was conducted, George C, Carter, township as- sessor, pointed out the acclama- tion indicated the people trust be satisfied. "They must be satisfied or someone would be hollering,'? he stated. Education costs were the main topic of conversation and reporte of the Work of boards at' Clinton, Seatorth and Gode-, rich Were given by the respee- tive representatives, Robert 'Thompson, Oliver Anderson and Ted Vast. Thompson extolled the value of the new facilities at CASS and pointed out the vast arreeent of Work Undertaken by the Various boards and denunit- fees. The gigantit figures reported by the three Men in the various school's operating expenses drew comments frinn all four "Thesdre estobriclingev eaid Beehatien, who Predicted edit- Harry et Gitottets eon of Mr. and Mee. John Giietter, Clinton, received his IVLA: in Astronomy at ti fall dontio- dation at the University of TOronto on ii ridaY. He graduated fi'oin queen's in Aingstoit with his degree in science before moving to Tor., Onto; and is now wo'rk'ing at David Defilap, Obeereettoky, Clinton's voters will go to the Pone Monday to choose their mayor for the coming year, and Will: then have to attend an- other nomination meeting on TbUrsday to choose one more coneeillor, ' Mrs, Alice Thompson, a coun- eeler for the past two years, and Clinton's first female offic- hi, I, has challenged incumbent William J. Miller for the top peee on council, Mr. Miller has been mayor of Clinton for a total, of seven years, and has also acted as reeve, deputy-reeve and a councillor. His length of ser- vice to the community adds up to 11 years. Thera is no particular issue at stake in the election, and Will be a "personality" vote. Neither candidate listed any particular projects for the corn- big year, although Mrs, Thomp- eon said at the nomination she Would like to see another con- etable added to the local police force She also cited the need for a radio for the police cruiser .in an effort to end vandalism, which she termed,. "distressing arid disturbing", "I would like to have the mayoralty," she stated, "and I hope some of you think I would be capable." Mayor Miller gave a detailed financial report of the town's business of the past year, and explained the pending construc- tion work on highway 8 and the ensuing drainage job, said he felt the town should go ahead as far as finances will warrant. "We have a good town here arid I've been honoured by be- ing your, mayor in past years," he told the audience. He said he always tried to do what he could for the town and conducted town business in the Medical Group Names President From Directors Directors of Huron Co-opera- tive Medical Services, meeting in regular session on Monday, named Gordon Kirkland, RR 3, Lucknow, as president' for a three-year term, to succeed M. Fordyce Clark, RR, 3, Gode- rich. Bertram Klopp, Zurich, was named vice-president to fill the office formerly held by Mr. Kirkland, M. Fordyce Clark, having successfully completed his third term as president of the Co-op- erative, retires from the execu- tive position at his own re- quest. He will continue to serve as a director for another three- year term. The editor of this newspaper came in for sharp criticism at the annual Tuckersmith Town- ship nomination meeting in Sea- forth, Monday afternoon, at which Reeve Elgin Thompson and his four councillors, Art Varley, Victor Lee, Ervin Sil- lery and Alex McGregor were returned by acclamation. Referring to a report of the November meeting in which it was pointed out McGregor and Varley had read magazines dur- ing the session, McGregor said "it's eerie of his (editor) busi- ness what we read". Varley also admitted the councillors read magazines dur- ing the business meeting, but explained they were magazines brought to the meeting by the cleek, 'James McIntosh, and which eontained things of bene- fit to council, We are not bringing girlie Magazines and cornics, he point- ed out. Varley indicated that fear of being ottoted hi the paper on Some aspects of township busi- ness, ciertailed diecession on seine of thiS iisinesS. McGregor also agreed with this, adding that discussion was generally better "after the man leavee. "Ilis main. Purpose is to cre- ate trouble," MeGregor added. Ae was also 0.'1110.1 of the report Which had noted one \tie- itet to council had been Ushered IMO a seat 'beside the Conrail table and there was no bint given to the press-repreSent- ing the Ptiblie—as to what the distussion McGregor said the reporter should 'Olean out his 608 or. ONLY 24 ATTEND AT HULLETT Education Main Discussion of our cities to accommodate such an event, The city of Tor- onto will spend over $100,000 on decorations and entertain- ment for the affair, which will feature a four and one-half mile parade. It is estimated that over ten million dollars will be spent in Ontario by the delegates, DDG Bissonette is a veterin- arian at Ripley and has ten years perfect attendance in Isionism. He was introduced , by Ken McRae and thanked,: by Joe Murphy. e. The DOG officiated at tfies In- duction of ,four new Lions. Dur- ing the invitation he said,' "Be- ing a Lion can pay big divid- ends on the small amount of money invested." The four new members are: William G. MacArthur ,head of the commercial department at (Continued on Page 7) intention of standing for coun- cil when he decided to attend the meeting. However, with time fast ap- proaching the conclesion of the allotted hour, he was added to the slate. One more person will have to be secured to complete the six-man group. The two vacan- cies arose when Mrs. Thompson decided, to run for mayor and councillor George Rumball an- RATTLE FOR MAYORALTY Clinton voters go to the polls on Monday to choose between Mrs. Alice Thomp- son and William 3. Miller for the mayoralty. ' Polls will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m, Councillors See Major Highway Job, More Police As Upcoming Projects move closet' to the, council table if he was unable to hear what was being discussed at the pub- lic meeting, Varley took exception to the fact the news story had stated the meeting was a‘ general Indications from Clinton's no- mination meeting are that coun- cil will consider adding both personnel and equipment for the local police force and will un- dertake the mammoth re-con- struction of highway 8 and the drainage of neighboring land. However, o n e councillor struck a sobering thought that could well mean no attempt at the formation of the much needed zoning and planning committee. While he said he was defin- itely in favour of the commit- tee, Don Symons questioned where the active people would come from to work on it. "If we can't get six citizens to act on council, where do we get people for such things as zoning?" he questioned. He pointed out he was proud of Clinton although he had been a resident for only a few years, but exclaimed that town plan- ning was needed badly, because with an active Chamber of Commerce, industry could be enticed into Clinton. "We can't exist as a resi- dential town," he informed the ratepayers at the meeting. Symons said he was also in favour of an extra trained man on the police force and termed the highway project, "a step in the right direction". He said every consideration "shambles" and pointed out it was no different than any oth- ers he attended in the past sev- en years as a councillor. "Elgin (reeve Thompson) does a wonderful job of keeping the meeting in order and no one has the right to call it a shambles," he stated, and called for an apology from the editor, Councillor Ervin Silleey also attacked the press, but less strenuously, when he noted his name was never mentioned in reports of the meeting. He noted this Often got him "in hot water" at home be- cause he could not show proof that he had actually attended the meeting. Noting the editor was a bach- elor, he pointed out this was perhapS the reason why he (editor) did not realize the dif. ficulties. Answers Attack At the conclusion of the meeting, Frank Falconer asked that the News.Record represene tative stand so everyone could see hine as during the meeting he Was sitting at the front of the room and had his back to the audience. On permission Of clerk Mc- Intosh, Who was named chair- Man of the meeting, the editor was granted'an opportunity to answer the triticisni: Batten apologized for using the word 'shambles" to de- seribe the Novenaber Meeting, but added that while the word had been 'too seVere, still 'felt the meeting had not been dm- ducted in a proper parliamen- tary mariner. It was noted as Weil that the (Continued 'on page 7) A total of $4,245. in cash and merchandise scholarships and bursaries will be presented at the annual CHSS commence- ment to be held at the school, Friday. Included in the long list of awards are four prizes which will be presented for the first time. A memorial scholarship for the late George Jefferson, form- er principal of Clinton Public School, will be presented to a TUCKERSMITH OFFICIALS RETURNED Tress' Receives Scoiding Area Firemen Back Campaign Against, Disease From now until Christmas, area residents are being asked to contribute towards a $400,000 research campaign in an effort to find a cure for muscular dystrophy, known formerly as "creeping paralysis", Which ie invariably fatal and most ser- ious where children are vic- tims. The fire brigades at Clinton and. RCAF' Station Clinton have placed containers in Various local stores and atenoet of the messes at the RCAF Station: Gard Dalgleish is again heeds hug the local campaign, while Bob Burke is In charge of the Air Force effort, About 20,006 Canadians in all walks of life are associated und- er the banner of the association to find a cute for the dread disease and to Make life more cOmfertable for its Many Vie' 'the problem medical scien tists Rice is difficult, but a1- ready their investigations have increased the understanding of nuiscultd, dystrophy and With gellefOLtS Support, hope to find the elite.