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Clinton News-Record, 1968-05-16, Page 1E NEW ERA r, 11210. YEAR THE C IKON HEW5-10cPRP.e .THMPAY, MAY '16,1963 • THE HURON RECORD 67th Year 4ING)..E COPIES 12c. selected/ on. first :ballot Maitland Edgar, a 39-year-old high school teacher from Clinton, men who were unsuccessful in their attemptto win the nomination. has both arms raised in victorious salute after being chosen Left to right are Charles Thomas, of Walton; Goderich Mayor Dr. Liberal Party standard-bearer Monday night. The federal general Frank Mills; Mr. Edgar; the Rev. John C. Boyne, of Exeter, and election June 25 will be the second in which he has represented Dr. Archie Currie, of Parkhill. (Staff photo) Huron Liberals. Flanking the successful nominee are the four Bayftel , Stanley fire, agteement d A last minute meeting be. tween three representatives of •Stonley Township and three members of Hayfield F ire in en's Association, Friday, resulted in Patricia Sparks, Hayfield, a fire protection contract be. has announced she will be tween the two which will rim taking a Rebekah and Huron to December 31. IOOF sponsored trip to United The settlement came on the Nations. The 16 year old eve of . a threatened withdrawal Central Huron Secondary School of fire protection for about student won the trip in a re- 350 Lake Huron cottage and cent public speaking contestbut farm owners in the west portion was not certain she would be of Stanley township, The' able to make the trip, firemen boosted their fees to * * * Stanley by $500, to $800, per Agriculture Minister J.J. year in. December stating the Greene has announced the Agri- Increase would, allow them to cultural Stabilization Board has offer fire protection to a larger been authorized to support the area of the township. price of eggs at 34 cents per - The request was later re., dozen, basis grade A large duced to $500 for protection national average, for the 1967- of the township's western 68 year. The supportPriceinthe sector, plus an hourly rate of deficiency payment program is $80 for calls elsewhere in the approximately 98 per cent of the township. Stanley agreed to the national 10 year average. $500 charge but rejected the * * * $80 per hour. Postal service for Clinton on. VictoriaDay, May 20, will be curtailed as follows; there will be no wicket ,„ service or rural route" service;' the lock:.:„.„ box lobby will be open from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., street letter boxes will be cleared at 4:15 p,m. and, mail will be received and, despatched at 6;40 p.m. Postage may be purchased from the vending machines located outside the post office and the town hall. * * Apologies to Mr. and Mrs. arry Williams, Holmesville, or a slight mix up in the head- ng on their wedding anniver- -ary story. They were married 0 years May 4„ * * * Spring grain seeding is es. entialiy completed in Huron ounty. The backlog of plowing om the wet fall last year has eon practically overcome. arm weather and showers ould allow for first rate grow- g conditions for all crops, at McMahon ins legion p olf tourney Playing in adverse weather onditions at Oakwood Inn Golf Purse, (arena belle, on nun. y, May 5, Pat McMahon won e Clinton Legion annual spring If tournament and Clinton ews-Record trophy with a core of 79, Mr. McMahon usually shoots om seven to nine strokes over than this. Eighty-two Legionnaires and guests, out of 84 that registered, howed up for the tourney. Mr. cMahon also won the cash rize for putting his tee-shot Iosest to the pin on No. 10 green, In mid-aftern0on all com. petitors came back to the Legion for a buffet luncheon and a program of prize presents. Harold Black, chairman of the Legion's sports committee was chairman of the event. Using the usual handicap system for Legion tournaments, the next nine winners in the tourney were: Paul Draper, Web Martin, John Hartley, , Cliff Sosindereock, David Hallman, Clayton GroVeS, Doug Whit. more, Robert, DraPer and Douglas BartIiff. WEATHER ' 1961 1968 1 61 25 53 38 8' 70 42 42 30 9 69 54 41 39 10 59 41 46 26 11 60' 31 44 36 12 03 41 51 30 • 13 08 , 47 50, 29 Rain 42 Rain.43 A Mill Street couple,,Monday appealed to town council that measures be taken to bring a halt 'to the scinealing of tires late at night, but left with no assurances that anything could be done. They cornplained they were continually "awakened by tires screeching. at 2, 3 and 5 in the morning." They said the noise Was getting worse aS the weather Unproved. The couple; who wished to rem main anonymous for fear future tire 'squealing would centre On the area in Trent of their home, suggested the town Orel-lase another police cruiser and in- crease the finet for totivic- ton on a charge of making an unnecessary. noise., Mayor bon Symons said the town had considered using' a pollees' an's' private Car for police day, Councillor Cam Prottor said, "What happens in court is sometimes laughable, Hut they so mind your buSines s and We'll mind Mirs. A good stiff fine is heeded.' ' Several councillors said they didn't like tile court gfithig Sus- pencled Sentences and MoPting Elwood Mitchell, president of the 16 member private fire association announced April 27 the Hayfield brigade would stop fighting fires along the 13 miles township lakefront strip on Saturday unless the township came to terms, Township clerk-treasurer Mel Graham refused to reveal terms of the agreement Friday, but indicated Stanley residents will be informed at a later date. One person said the town• ship agreed to pay a little more than the original $500 charge. The extra hourly rate was withdrawn with the understand- ing part of southern portion of Stanley, which had been pro. tected by the Has/field associax tion will now be covered by the Zurich fire department. Protection by the Hayfield association will extend from the , village, at the northwest corner the "go home and be a good boy attitude.'' Mayor Symons said, "Per- haps the word is around we will not tolerate sereaching tires. This is not the first Erne we 'have heard of this." The councillors could not remember the last time a sum-- mons was issued for making unnecessary noise. Huron students reforest with 2,200 trees Students 'of Huron Centennial School Will plant a total 2,200 trees On a two acre area behind the school this afferhoOn. The tefereatation project, mainly the work of the school's forestry Clith, involves' the Planting of 1,800 coniferous trees and another 400 de- cidisous, The club got the saplings Prot h the Department of Lands, and Forests through aS22grant froth 'the board of edudation. of the township, down to the Hay Township, line, and from the lake to the Goshen Line, less than three miles to the east. The volunteer brigade at Brucefield, which is admin. istrated by both Stanley and Tuckersmith Townships will continue to protect the eastern part of the township, and the Clinton fire department will guard the northeastern corner. The Hayfield fire association, formed more than 20years ago, operates on annual grants from Hayfield council and donations from village residents. It has a pumper truck and a tanker. The men who reached the agreement were Stanley reeve Elmer Hayter, councilors Jack Scotchman and Anson McKinley, firemen's associationpresident Mr. Mitchell, firechief Russ Kerr and association treasurer Les Elliott. A public school principal, who has administered the education of thousands of young children, C.A. Trott, Clinton, will re. tire June 28 after 35 years in the teaching profession. Mr. Trott has served asprin. cipal of the A/M Hugh Campbell Public School, CFB Clinton since 1950. A, native of Seaforth, and a graduate of the Stratford Normal School, he taught ele. mentary school at S.S. No. 3 Stanley Township; the Egmond. vine Public School and was Four Clinton graduates The graduation of four Clin- ton scholars has been announced this week by Ryerson Polytech. nical Institute, Toronto, and Mohawk College, Hamilton. On Friday May IO, at core. Monies held in the Physical Education Building of McMaster University Harold H. Glazier, 76 North Street, and Douglas d. Mair, 120 Victoria Street both graduated from the in•i dustrial management tech., nology course. Graduating in convocation ceremonies held at Ryerson, May 8 to 10, were Bayne E. Boyes, 308 Ontario Street, a business administration student, and Priscilla A. Mar* tin, successfully completing a secretarial science. Tourist council elects directors The annual general meet- ing of the Mid-Western Regional Tourist Council was held Thursday, May 9 at 8 p.m. at the Victorian. Inn, Stratford. Elected to the board of dir- ectors of the tourist council for 1968 - 69 were: Dr. W.B. Coxon, Zurich; Mrs. Elizabeth Cardno, Seaforth; Ted Pritch- ard, Garafraxa, W. Township, Wellington County; Howard Aitken, GOclerith; Wilfred Trask, Nichol Township, Wel- lington County; Homer Gerber, Elora; Griffin Thomas, Grand tend; Cyril Taylor, Kitchener; F. P. Weadick, Pilkingten Township. Wellington County; Mrs. Marion Owens, PUSlinth Township, Aberfoyle, Ontario, and John Seotchmer, Stanley Township; Huron. County. President for the oerningyear IS Homer Gerber of Flora, and vice-Presidents are Wilfred Trask, Nichol Township and Mrs. Marion Ovitem, Aberfoyle. W, continues 48 secretary"-treasurer. Huron County Liberals. MO- day night Picked Clinton's Maitland Edgar; on a majority first ballot, to represent their hopes in this ridiog. Their cheice came after five candidates, including Goderich mayor Dr. Frank Mills, who was eXpected to give Mr. Edgar serious oppositiOn, had each delivered a 10 minute address to the audience,' estimated at 750. On the first ballot, which gave Mr. Edgar the needed ,majority, 347 votes were cast. The other candidates, Rev. Jack Boyne, Exeter, Archie Currie, an economist from Parkhill, Charles Thomas, Walton, an agriculturalist, and Dr. Mills, each pledged their support for Mr. gdgar to plaice the choice unanimous; In the address which won him much of his support, Mr. Edgar outlined a four point platform Which started with Prime Min- ister P. E. Trudeau. Mr. Ed- gar said the prime minister is the only man who can initiate the new'era of politics. Ile termed 'Mr. Trudeau a "federalist" who is "at home in both cultures. He supperts Two bursaries available for nursing supervising principal of the Tuckersmith Township School Area .No..1 prior to his appoint. , ment to-the Clinton Base. A graduate of the Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London, in the general arts, he also holds a Bachelor of Educe. tion degree from the University of Toronto. During his teaching career he has been active in the Ontario Public School Teachers' Federation, having served as president of the Huron branch and was a member of the executive of the P erth-Huron 15A. When Mr. Trott came to Clin- ton in September; 18 years ago, the education of a mere hand* ful of children of airforce per. sonnel was undertaken in several buildings at the station. A six room school was opened in September 1951 to be named alter Air Marshall Hugh Campbell, Chief of the AirStaff during World War II. Today a 14 classroom school is stuffed by 16 teachers who look after the' educational needs of 420 pupils. the philosophy of allowing members -of parliament more time with their constituents." The second point was labelled "the needs of Huron agri- culture still remains Huron's greatest single industry," Mr. Edgar voiced a. concern for the exodus of many of the young people of Huron County. He felt it unfair that the permanent residents were pay- ing the taxes for education and then when the students graduated they had to seek op- portunities elsewhere. 'Lie questioned if the port was being properly used, if the greatest number of tourist dollars were being attracted and if the county was getting its fair share of tourist dollars. He also expressed a concern for retaining the military 'with- in the county. His two final points were the suggestions that a young Liberal organization be started in the area, and Liberal oriented women's groups be encouraged. Dr. Mills stated his platform most clearly and concisely of the"candidates saying his opinions and those of Mr. Trudeau were consistent, with both wanting "a greater .degree of federalism „ ,,more support for farmers . , . federal• Con- trol of air and water pollution and any social legisla- tion which helps the populace." He emphasized there are no members of the medical pro- fession in parliament to give the doctor's opinions of medical socialization. Mr. Thomas relied on his agricultural background for support saying, "My education is the type you get first hand by experiencing problems and dealing with them first hand." He said there was a need to improve the per capita incomes of people in this area. Dr. Currie stood on his re- cord as an economist. "I would like to think with my knowledge of economics I could help solve some of the many problems facing Canada." He said he knew how hard farmers have to work and how poorly they are paid. Rev. Boyne, a New Demo- cratic Party candidate in the last provincial election,who said he "felt like a Joinny- come-lately" stated his change in allegiances was due to a "major shift, in Liberal Policy." lie placed emphasis on the liberal social policies - Medicare, Canada Pension Plan, and old age assistance. He finished his speech saying if he ran as a third party candidate he would split the vote in favor of the Conserve. tives. Mr. Edgar, 39, a Clinton re- eident who has taught at Central Huron Secondary School and now heads the geography de, partment at South Huron Dis- trict High School, will be tak- ing his second crack at the Huron riding. In 196,5 he lost to Robert Melfinley by 1,294 votes. A native of Morris Town- ship Mr. Edgar has taken an interest in athletics for a number of years. He was re- cently honored by the Western Ontario Athletic Association for his contribution to athletics. He is a district governor in the Kinsmen organization and a pioneer in the formation of the Clinton recreation committee. The first' column Couple complains 0 screeching tires The Clinton Public Hospital Women's Auxiliary is accepting application forms from students seeking bursaries to go into nursing courses. Two bursaries are available. A $200 grant is available for a needy student in the Clin• ton area who is accepted into a registered nursing course at a recognized school.Students taking a registered nursing as- , sistance course are eligible for the $75 bursary. Financial need will be a prerequisite for ac* ceptance of a bursary. Application forms are avail- able in the guidance office of Central Huron S econdary S chool and should be returned there before June 15. principal retiring after 35 years teaching The pride of Tom Leppington's life is flowers. Being retired he has lots of spare time and but doesn't use, beside his home at 177 Spencer grows them everywhere. Inside, outside, all over his lawn and even on the lot he 'owns, but doesn't use, beside his home at 177 spencer Street. Tulips are one of his favorites and be- fore Friday he had more than 1,000 of them, all gloriously blooming, in all colors, popping up from every corner of his yard. Waking up Saturday morning was a bitter experience be- cause when he looked out the window 200 of the tulips, some of them his finest varieties, had been broken off and strewn across the lawn. Some of the flower beds had been ruthlessly strampled and a bird bath and water fountain overturned. A neighbour said he saw three youths in the yard late Friday and chased them away. But Mr. Leppington isn't really concerned about who destroyed his flowers, he just keeps asking, "Why would anyone want to destroy such pretty flowers." The reasons for tho overflow of untreated sewage from 'Clinton's Sewage treatment plant may becoMe apparent when a consulting engineering firm cornpleteS its Study of drainage lrithe town. Mon- 06.3' night council approired the !Aligned k.V. Anderstdsodiates, Toronto, to do the study. When they will start and finish is still inideternlined but they have indicated the -c0St of the study Will' not be less than t55,606, The OntarioWater Resources commission has express CO-tern at the amount, of improperly treated Waste geing into the Rayfielci River. They did a. brief study, which showed the treatment plant Was overfloiving eight ttiotiths ot the year.