Clinton News-Record, 1969-01-09, Page 1Mrs. Ron Horton a dDeborah
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Ontario tax rebate will
pay rent for five months
The provincial government's "It doesn't add up," in Mr,
decision to pay shelter tax Livermore's opinion, "it doesn't
rebates to occupants of public make sense." It costs $87 a
housing will mean more than month to amortize the cost of
five rent-free months for at least the housing units and pay the
one Clinton family, according to operating costs, he said.
John Livermore, town clerk.
Mr. Livermore, who serves as
manager and secretary-treasurer
of the municipal housing
authority, explains that one of
the dozen publicly owned
houses in Clinton rents for only
$11 a month on a
rent-to-income basis.
Nevertheless, he says, the full
$58.10 annual rebate will be
paid to the family in that house,
under terms of a policy decision
by provincial authorities.
The rebate will not be paid in
cash, Mr. Livermore said in reply
to a query from The
News-Record, but will be used
to reduce rents — or, in the one
instance, to pay the full rent for
more thaii,five months.
Rents for all the Clinton
houses are computed according
to income, with average, rental
being $48 monthly. The
minimum rent, $11, is received
from only one house. The
maximum rent is $82 a month,
though this is still shy of the
rent ceiling for the units.
Though Mr. Livermore
remains somewhat puzzled by
the reasoning behind the plan to
pay rebates to those in public
housing, his problems with the
rebate system overall have been
few.
"There have really been no
complaints," lie reports, "it is
pretty good in town."
Miss Mary Harrison
A new administration building for 'Huron Coultas,' Wee opened in Goderich on lificindey; January 7 by
county warden Calvin Kreuter, 'the building, lotated4iext to the Huron County Jail, Wilt house 'the
asseSsment offices for the County. The SeCond flab,'' Ot the building will be used for tater expansion.
Perfoernieg the traditiOnal ribbon cutting careineittY left to right architect Den Snider, of the
firm of snider, 1-tuget and March; Warden Kratitei,'IihifOr,11,1Ohteitli Moriteith-liiicarath general
eenteadteirS. In the photo at left, Mr, 'Snider shOwn pretenting a gold "key to the building to- Warden'
Kratiter who was accepting on behalf of the county.'-
`Innocent white cylinders with golden contents are killers,' says county health officer
County of Huron,
Canada, the IJ4S,A, the
United Kingdom and Western
Europe are in the grip of an
enideMie at present. The disease
is not diphtheria, is not
poliomyelitis, it is lung cancer
and its cause in the vast majority
of cases is, the cigarette.
The innocent-looking white
cylinder with the golden
contents is a killer, To those
who would regard this statement
as, an exaggeration or
over-forceful no apology is
made. The report of the Royal
College of Physicians of
England, later, the Report of the
Advisory Committee to the
,The unconvinced wilt and do
allege that atmospheric pollutien
is as, important A' cause of Jung
cancer as cigarette smoking;
after all, they argue,- factory
emissions, diesel fumes, the
exhaust from automobiles etc.
do contain noxious and irritant
materials.
Yet in the Royal College
report already referred to it was
shown clearly that even in the
most rural areas of Britain heavy
cigarette smokers develop lung
ewer 15.20 times as frequent[ y
AS non-Smokers.
It is a Matter o f great interest
when referring to Britain to
observe. that the latest figures
available, i.e, for 1967, give lung
cancer deaths as.. 28,000 and
road accident' fatalities as 7000,
Grave concern is expressed at
the slanghter that goes on on the
roads -of Canada, Britain and
-other countries, and it is right
a.nd proper that this should be
so, but where is there
comparable concern' over the
prodigious and increasing
slaughter as the result of the
cigarette.
The smoker will shrug his
shoulders when confronted with
the evidence against the cigarette
and say "So what, I've got to die
some way". Yet would the same
person deliberately step in front
of a moving automobile or truck
making the same comment.
The sober fact is irrefutable —
for every person who died on
the roads of Britain in 1967 four
died of lung cancer. Why?
Because 'they smoked cigarettes,
In Huron County, during the
week commencing Sunday a
concerted attack will be made
On the problem. The Huron Unit
of the Canadian Cancer Society,
The Tuberculosis and
Respiratory Disease Association
of the County and the County
Public Health Service are
co-operating in an intensive
campaign to bring the facts
fairly and squarely before the
people.
Needless to say the, main
force of the campaign will be
directed to the junior grade
children, and high achoel
studeots but itU not intended to
'overlook the adulbi. A good
example of this is the television
programme nn Tuesday, at 2:30
p,m, CKNN Wingham,
:Participating will be Dr. J. L,
Penistan, Director of Pathology
at Stratford General Hospital;
Dr, T, B. Weed, a chest
physician who works at St.
Joseph's and Beck 'Memorial
Hospitals, London, and Dr. Q. E
A. Evans, Huron County MOH.
The recent and very welcome
comments by the Honourable
John Munro, Minister of
National Health and Welfare
with regard to the cigarette and
its unquestionable perils
represent considerable progress
in the attitude of federal
government to smoking, mil
there is much that can be done
at the personal, family and local
community levels,
The individual, if a child or
adolescent, can and should
resolve never to start smoking
cigarettes, If he or she is an adult
and cannot break, with tobacco
completely then a drastic cut
should be made in cigarette
consumption or a less dangerous
form of tobacco indulgeece such
as a. pipe or cigars snould be
adopted. (It is worthy of note
that the pipe or cigars while.
more or less exonerated from
blame with regard to lung cancer
are still incriminated markedly
in the causation of other serious
diseases, notably those of the
heart and blood vessels).
The attitude in the family
group to cigarette sreoliing can
be a powerful influence for good
or the opposite. Parents who
give up cigarettes, or who have
never smoked them, and tell
their children why they do not
smoke can do much in
promoting A sensible view of
cigarette smoking among their
children,
Several years ago a writer,
Wayland Young, et the British
newspaper, The Guardian,' one
of the leading papers of the
world, commented that from
time to time parents should
remark to their children, at the
family is subjected to cigarette
advertising, thus: "These people
are liars; they want your Money ,
and they don't mind if'you,die,"
The community can help
also. Teachers, doctors, nurses,
youth leaders and others to
whom youth loolts for a Lead
should not smoke.cigarettes, or,
if they cannot achieve this, most
certainly they should not smoke
in the presence of children or
adolescents. The Did standby,
"Don't do as I do, do AS I tell.
you" makes little impression on
the young people of today, This
is excellent, but it imposes a
serious responsibility on the
mature adult,
The concepts of success for
the ambitious professional or
business men or an attractive
girl's glamour to eligible suitors
being contributed to by cigarette
smoking are in the same
category as Grimm's Fairy Tales.
It has been said before, but it is
worth saying again — The only
safe cigarette is the one you do
not smoke.
D. G. P., A. ,vans Surgeon General of the United
States Public Health Service and -medicet:Officer of Health , studies before- and aubeeqtient
OW reports prove beyond. th
_to
e
tionbi; of any reasonable and
reasoning human being that
those. who'snioke cigarettes are
risking .44 premature, and, in.
many instances, painful death.
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THE NEW ERA — 104th YEAR, NO. 2 CLINTON, ONTARIO THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1969 THE HURON RECORD — 87th YEAR — SINGLE COPIES 12c
A century apart
New. Year's bab
100th birthday
arrive same da
Huron school board
holds meeting here
The first
column
Several Hensall residents were
thinking of sending sympathy
cards to town officials on
Tuesday when a report of the
council's first 1969 meeting
appeared in the Western Ontario
obituary columns of the London
Free Press,
* * *
Dr. Paul Brady of Seaforth, a
county coroner, has announced
a change in the date of an
inquest to consider last week's
Clinton snowmobile accident in
, which Marcel Anstett of Windsor
suffered fatal injuries. Originally
set for January 31, the inquest is
now scheduled to be held at 10
a.m. on February 7 in Clinton
Town . Hall.
A recent article on the
Clinton Teen Town reported
that the high cost of
entertainment, coupled with
vandalism at the Community
Centre, pushed the group into
the red on several dances.
Some readers thought we
were saying the Teen Town has
an overall deficit, which is not
the' case. A Teen Town
spokesman reports happily that
the organization has about $500
on hand.
*
A Meeting will be held next
Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. in
the Department of Agriculture
Board Room, Clinton, for
Writers interested in learnieg
how to do the Ontario Farm
RecOrd took. Also, anyone
completing one for 1968 and
having prOblemS, it quite
welcome to attend,
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;now 4" Snow 2.81"
Mrs. George (Barbara) Picot,
RR 2 Bayfield, is reported in
satisfactory condition at
Alexandra Marine and General
Hospital in Goderich with a
shoulder injury sustained
Tuesday morning when a pickup
trncl; she was driving and ' a
Clinton Feed Mill truck collided
on the Cut' Line at Porter's Hill
in, Goderich Township.
The OPP'ss Goderich
detachment reports that the 'feed
mill truck, owned by Canada
Packers Limited, was driven by
Albert Boven of RR 1, Seaforth.
Mr. Boven was reportedly
uninjured.
Police Say Mrs. Picot's 1968
pickup was westbound on the
6th concession road in Goderich
Township, was unable to stop as
it approached County Road 18
Htiron County residents who
have been braving the, furious
rages of winter can identify
easily with the nineteenth,
century poet who wrote:
"Snow had fallen, Snow on
snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleat mid-winter,
Long ago,"
But romantic thoughts are
few when the snow is still falling
and not 'a memory of "long ago"
— especially when the December
solstice is barely past and
mid-veinter yet to come,
AS the clouds continued to
drop snow on snow on snow in
Clinton this week, there were
In a 287-page report that
concerns nearly everyone, the
special committee on farm
income in Ontario, predicts
there will be a "violent
upheaval" throughout the
"entire agricultural industry."
The report, which follows a
tWo-year Study that cost
$500,000, was presented
Monday to Agriculture Minister
Stewart at Queen's Park in
Toronto,
IlighlightS• of the report
follow'' and; elfsevVheM ill this
issue, Are alas publishing
longer Stirhinariet of several key
Clinton's first baby of the
new year arrived last Saturday —
and the same day marked the,
100th birthday of a district
resident.
Deborah Lynn Horton,
daughter of Cpl. and Mrs.
Ronald Horton, 243 Albert St.,
was born at 6:47 a.m. Saturday
in Clinton Public Hospital and
weighed seven pounds, 13
ounces.
Both Deborah and her
mother, the former Linda Murch
of Clinton, are said to be doing
fine.
Miss Mary Harrison, who lives
with Mr. and Mrs. John Beane
on their Stanley Township farm
on RR 2, Brucefield, was feted•
(the Cut Line) and skidded into'
the intersection.
The feed truck, westbound
on the county road, crashed into
the right side of the pickup.
Damage to the smaller truck was.
estimated at $2,500 while the
larger vehicle sustained an
estimated $500 damage or more,
police said.
An OPP spokesman reported
- Mrs. Picot's injury as a
compound fracture of the left
shoulder, but the hospital was
-unable to confirm the
information immediately. The
injured woman was driven to the
hospital from the accident scene
by Everett Ridder, who lived
nearby.
James Preszcator, 21, RR 1
Clinton, injured in a two-car
crash' on Huron County Road 12
reports that the fall this season
has already passed last year's
total accumulation.
On Tuesday night, Clinton
police were trying ,to find
accommodations for travellers
stranded by drifting snow which
piled drifts across roads and cut
visibility severely,
One couple appeared at the
pollee office to say they left for
Wingharn, but were turned back
by drifts as high as their car,
according to a town constable.
Polite said that most hotels
and Motels in the area posted
"no vacancy" signs by early
evening.
points, More of the Summaries
will be carried next week.
* *
Ontario fartnerS should form
One general farm organization to
act as their official spokesman in
dealing with 'the government on
all Mat-tort relating to the
agriculture industrY.
Partners should establith
comprehensive food production
and Marketing system under the
direction of a central association
called the Fetid Supply Agency,
Ontario's 22 marketing
boards should be trimmed to
by friends and relatives, received
cards, gifts and flowers fro'fOl
over the country and received
messages from Prime Minister
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Ontario
Premier John Robarts
Huron MP Robert McKinley
Deborah's arrival early
Saturday was well timed. Not
only did it make her the new
year's year's baby, but her father, Who
was away the last three months
at a Canadian Forces Base; in
Carp, Ontario, was home. on
leave, and had to catch a train at
noon to return.
Deborah Lynn will soon be
home with her three-year-0d
sister;----Wendi —TRe, and her.
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last Thursday, has been released
from Seaforth Community
Hospital where he was admitted
with head injuries.
He was a passenger in a car
driven by his brother, David,
who was not injured. Allan
Nicholson, Egmondville, the
driver of the other car, also
escaped injury.
Goderich OPP detachment
officers who investigated
estimated damage at $650.
On New Year's Day, a
two-car accident on No. 8
highway in Goderich Township,
involving cars driven by Ivan
Roy Pickett, Clinton and Allan
Ross Lightfoot, Clinton, resulted
in damage totalling $1,400.
There was also minor damage
to guard milt torn up when a
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One source reported that
several days ago a man with a
farm near Clinton went through
the terrifying experience of
becoming "lost" in his own
fields, unable to find any
landmarks or reference points in
the shroud of blowing snow,
In is said lie walked around
and around his tractor, trying to
keep warm while waiting for the
wind to abate, then finally made
an attempt to find shelter or a
road before the tractor's fuel ran
out.
He regained his orientation
when he came to the stubble of a
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seven to handle all produce. The'
new boards would be divided
into Meat, dairy, grains, eggs,
fruit and vegetables, tobacco and
miscellaneous.
Farmers must restrict entry
into their profession Only to
"those persons who stand a good
chance of Suceess."
Farmers Must find new
farmers and other alternative
employment to others,
To combat production costs,
a central warehousing system
should be established to handle
all farm machine* spare parts.
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The latest addition to Huron
County buildings in Goderich
Was officially opened on
Tuesday afternoon, January 7 in
a 30 minute ceremony inside the
building located next to the
Huron. County Jail.
Property committee chairman
Harry Worsen was MC for the
event and The Reverend G. L.
Royal gave the dedication.
Mr, Worsell in his opening
address gave a brief outline of
the events leading up to the
construction of the building in
Goderich stating the property
committee had toured similar
buildings in April, last year to
see how they operated, had then
toured sites in the area with a
view to possibly locating in an
existing building but it May
decided a new building would be
more feasible.
Mr. Worsell explained the`
architects had been instructed to
have the building ready for
occupancy by mid December,
and that the cost of donStructiOn
was $134,378. The mid
December date was later
changed to late December. The
building had fort-holy been
scheduled for opening on
Friday, Jahuoy 8, but inelernent
weather forced 'a postponenient.
The members of the
asSetatnent Staff had been
introduced by Roy Patterson
The new Huron County
Board of Education accepted a
Town Council invitation and
met Monday night at the nurses
residence in Clinton.
The residence, built in 1955
to house about 20 nurses, now is
occupied, by only one nurse, a
housekeeper,, a surgeon's office
and the county health unit
office.
The building has been
proposed for use as the head
office of the county school
system and Monday's meeting
gave the board members an
opportunity to inspect the
facilities.
Following 'a dinner with the
council at Hotel Clinton, the
`,school board . members "were
given a tour of the residenCe.
Bob Carimke4',,,,.,,,nramdt
ehaiririati Of the hospital beard,
said "it would be a pleasure to
see the building better used." He
told the school board that both
the doctor and the health unit
can find other quarters on short
notice, leaving the whole
building available for education
offices.
Joe Murphy, hospital board
chairman, said "We are ready to
make all .or any part of the
building available. We on the
' board have felt for some time
that the building was not being
used to the best advantage.
The school board was told
that the hospital owns adjoining
property with potential parking
space for 40 or 50 cars.
' A letter was received from
the Seaforth Town Council
inviting the board to hold its
next regular meeting in Seaforth
to consider several possible
arrangements for a head office
there.
The board agreed to hold its
January 20 meeting in Seaforth
at a location to be announced
later, Mayor Frank Sills of
Seaforth suggested that Seaforth
is a logical site because it is
likely that Perth and Huron
department, including former
Goderich assessor Ed. Jessop.
Members of parliament who
counties will be united under a
single regional government.
Three proposals were made
for board offices in Seaforth: (1)
a temporary location in an
unused factory building available
for one year; (2) several
individuals are said to be willing
to build and rent offices; (3) the
board could build its own office
on a 19-acre lot adjacent to the
Seaforth District High School.
Robert Elliott of Goderich
Township, vice chairman of the
board, voiced hope that the
board can reach a decision and
establish a permanent' office
soon.
D. J. Cochrane, the newly
appointed director of education,
is working out of the Ontario
Department of Ediication office
n Goderich for the..moment,latit,
a business administrator and
other staff will probably be
hired before long, making more
space necessary.
Goderich officials are also
interested in having the board
offices and it is reported that the
second-floor of the new county
assessment building has been
mentioned as a possible site. The
second-floor, left unfinished,
was originally planned to
accommodate future needs of
county agencies.
County schools
seek . administrator
Applicants for the position of
business administrator for the
Huron County Board of
Education will be interviewed at
a special meeting of the board at
the courthouse in Goderich at
10 .a.m. Saturday,
Thirty-one applications were
discussed at a closed portion of
the board meeting in Clinton last
Monday night. How many of the
applicants are to be interviewed
has not been disclosed; and it is
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had been listed to be present
were unable to attend due to the
weather conditions.
who said it was a red letter day
for the department. There are
now 18 persons employed in the
Woman hurt in collision on Cut line
Central Huron gets surfeit of snow
Province's farm income
co mmittee presents brief
County opens its new assessment building