Clinton News-Record, 1969-02-13, Page 1NEW ERA -- '1D4th YEAR, NO. 7
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CLINTON, ONTARIO THURSDAY:, FEBRUARY 1S, 1909 THE.. HURON RECORD -- 88th YEAR • . ,SINGLE COPIES 12c
The Clinton postmaster has
ounced that new wicket
rs will begin Saturday when
post office is open only half
ay.
The new Saturday hours will
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
ry week, Wicket service
nday through Friday will
end from 8:30 a.m. to 5:45
closing 15 minutes earlier
n at present.
Outgoing mail schedules are
hanged, but mail will arrive
be sorted here only once on
urdays.
It is expected that the post
ice will soon announce plans
open the lock box lobby 24
rs a day, seven days a week.
ective the first of this month,
k box rental rates were
bled.
* * *
More than 250 boys enjoyed
day .of outdoor activity last
k when the Calvinist Cadet
rps Clubs in this region held a
gramme at the Allan Finch
m on Concession 6, north of
nton. Clubs from Woodstock,
cknow, London and half a
zen other places participated
toboggan racing, 'obstacle
urse races and other games.
* * *
An inquest into the death of
cel Anstett of Windsor,
eduled for last Friday, has
en postponed indefinitely
cause Crown Attorney W. G.
chrane of Goderich is in
ronto for a trial.
Mr. Anstett was killed last
cember 29 in a snowmobile
ident at Central Huron
condary School.
* * *
Anne Sharp, daughter of Mr.
d Mrs. Keith Sharp, Seaforth,
s the only girl to complete the
Mario Forest Technical School
urse at Dorset in 1968. She is
w employed at' the Ontario
nds and Forests Research
ntre, Maple. She is a qualified
hnician in forestry, biology,
h and wildlife, parks and
reation.
* * *
Seven area schools have
tered contestants in the
inton Winter Carnival Snow
ng and Queen contest to be
Id Saturday afternoon as part
the one o'clock parade and
ening ceremonies to follow.
The kingand queen will be
osen from the following pairs:
inton Public School, Joyce
Band and Ray Lobb; Clinton
lvin Christian School, Alice
Ikenburg and Henry Damsma;
inton Separate School, Mike
cNichol and Dorothy
ynsbergen and Air Marshal
gh Campbell School at CFB
inton, Jo Ryan and Eugene
.hwab.
Also, Hullett Central School,
tul Chamney and Sylvia
trigille; Holmesviile Central
.hoot (Goderich Township),
arnie Middleton and ihnmy
nn and Huron Centennial
hoot at Brucefield, Mary
Redden (Bayfield) and Gary
sler (Egmondville).
* *
Ontario Hydro workers were
i strike at the Clinton regional
'flee again Monday, but three
male office ernpioyee, all
lion members, were on the job
spite the union no -work order,
cording to Don Symons, local
award.
* * *
Your Heart Fund is the
amber One Defense against
art and blood vessel disease,
inada's Number One health
emy. Give generously..
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Miss Dominion of Canada will ride in Clinton's
Winter Carnival parade down Albert Street at 1
.p.m. Saturday and will then officially open the
festivities in a ceremony at the arena. She will
also crown the snow king and queen and later
Carnival schedule and
will draw prizewinners at an Ontario Hydro show
at the Legion Hall. She will be entertained for
luncheon by Mayor Don Symons, Col. E. W.
Ryan and their wives.
news on pages. 6-7
Lions .induct five
new members
Five new members were
initiated into Lionism at the
regular meeting of the Clinton
Lions Club in St. Paul's parish
hall Tuesday evening.
The five now belong to the
largest service club in the world,
with nearly 800,000 members in
nearly 100 countries.
The new Lions are James
Doherty, a teacher at Central
Huron Secondary School; the
Reverend Robert. 1J. MacLean,
minister of St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church; William J.
"Bill" Mutch, who recently
retired from Ball and Mutch,
Ltd.; Edward Reynolds, a retired
armed forces officer and Roy
Tyndall, a retired farmer.
The initiation was run by E.
Beecher Menzies, a past club
president, assisted by Maynard
Corrie and Ken Flett, both of
whom are also past presidents.
Don McConkey, a member of
Kitchener Lions Club and past
president of the North I3ay
Lions, was guest speaker.
Ile reviewed the Canada
Pension Plan which was
inaugurated in 1965. $ince it is a
relatively new programme, he
said, both contributors and
administrators are learning. Mr.
McConkey, a CPP employee,
said that he or someone from
the Kitchener office is at the
federal building in Goderich
every Wednesday to assist
employers or pension plan
contributors.
Introduced by Mr. Corrie, the
speaker was presented with a gift
and thanked by Royce
Macaulay.
Lion Larry Tobin of the
Oromocto club in New
Brunswick (near CFB Gagetown)
now stationed at CFB Clinton,
gave the local club a Lions
banner from his home group.
During the business session,
Clinton's Lions voted to
purchase 50 banners for
members to present to other
clubs when they travel.
George Levis who recently
spent his winter holiday at
Pompano Beach, Fla. and
attended a Lions meeting there,
told of his conversations with
club members in the sunny
south:
Collect $495 in court fines
Fines collected in Provincial
Judge's Court in Clinton last
week totalled $495, Judge Glenn
]lays levied the stiffest penalties
for minors consuming alcoholic
beverages.
Those pleading guilty to
alcoholic beverage violations
were: William Hr Boshart, 20,
Seaforth, $75 and costs; John
Goldsworthy, 16, RR 3, Clinton,.
$75 and costs; Philip Sheppard,
19, Clinton; $50 and costs; and
John Shanahan, 10, of 142
Joseph St., Clinton, $80 and
costs.
The Shanahan youth was also
fined $25 for careless driving
and $10 for Unlicensed driving,
The traffic charges stern from an
auto accident on lieeetnber 26.
St., paid a $15 fine for careless
driving.
Paul B. Felker, 22, Seaforth,
was fined $75 and costs for
causing a distrurbance at a Teen
Town dance in the Legion Hail
last December 21, Francis R.
Worden, 25, of Laindon, pleaded
not guilty to a similar charge and
the case was put over to March
5.
]Edward Spencer of Dunlop
Street, Clinton, was fined $60
and costs for impaired driving
and received h nine•Morth
suspension of his driving
privileges.
Paying $15 apiece for failing'
to yield the right-of-way were
Robert C: McMichael, Clinton,
and Hugh M', Lightfoot, RR 5,
LEROY OESCH, a member of
the Clinton police force, has
been promoted to sergeant,
effective immediately: The
promotion was contained in •a
salary bylaw passed by Town
Council this week. Salaries for
town employees were increased
about six •per cent, as
announced previously.
18 apartments planned
Town gives OHC green light
to build senior citizen housing
After an Ontario Housing
Corporation researcher reported
this week that Clinton needs 18
apartment units for senior
citizens, the Town Council voted
immediately to ask OHC to have
the apartments built as soon as
Possible,
To expedite the project, the
,council directed its special
committee to begin a search for
potential sites and to look for
builders who may be interested
in putting up the apartments.
Miss Mary Batzold, OHC
research analyst, appeared at
Monday night's council meeting
to present the long-awaited
results of a housing needs
survey.
She recommended the
erection of 18 one -bedroom
apartments with rents geared to
income and said they could be
ready in from six months to a
year or a year and a half.
Based on, incomes of 43
persons who responded to OHC
questionnaires and 31 who were
interviewed, a typical rent for a
couple here would be $58 a
month on a rent -to -income
schedule, according to Miss
IlaLzolci,
Clinton, she said, has a
higher proportion of persons 60
years of age and over than does
Ontario, and this group ' is
increasing both in actual
numbers and in percentages.
• The 20-59 age group is
decreasing, as is the 0-4 group,
Miss Batzold said, indicating a
decrease in the birth rate and an
out -migration of single persons.
There has also been an
in -migration of senior citizens
from rural areas, she noted.
Clinton, the OHC survey
shows, with 15.4 percent and
Huron County with 15.8 percent,
have a larger proportion of
senior citizens in their
population that the overall
Midwestern Ontario Economic
Region with 12,8 percent and
Ontario with 11,7 percent.
The statistics show that the
70 -and -over age group is
becoming an increasingly
important part of the senior
citizen segment of the
population and from this group
will come the majority of OHC
senior citizen tenants'.
OHC says Clinton has a high
percentage of single family
homes than the province, but a
Clinton councillors listen as Miss Mary Batzold, research analyst for
Ontario Housing Corporation, presents report showingneed for
senior citizens apartments. — Staff Photo.
lower percentage of typically
rented multiple dwellings. The
proportion of rented dwellings is
lower than that of the province
as a whole.
In general, the report said,
"dwellings in Clinton were
judged to be in poor condition;
only a small proportion was less
Town blasts county government,
calls Goderich a "dead end"
Several Clinton town
councillors this week assailed
Huron County Council's recent
recommendation that the new
county school board locate its
head office in the county's
aclministrat.ive building in
(loderich.
Councillor -Cameron Proctor
Said `"Phis is like putting it at the
end of a dead-end street, at the.
farthest end. With regional
government in the offing it is
even more ridiculous.
"Pulling the county hoard in
Goderich is as sensible as putting
the town offices at the north
end of North Street in Clinton."
Reeve • James Armstrong
suggested that the county always
intended the administrative
building's second floor to be
used for the school board and
planned the building for such
use.
"It was all cut and dried last
fall," he said. (The
administrative building was
erected for the new centralized
county assessment department
which occupies the first floor.
The second floor was built for
future expansion of county
agencies, county council said
when plans were approved)•
Councillor Clarence
Denomme asked rhetorically,
"Why would the county build a
building and put a roof on it
without use?"
"Is it true," asked Councillor
Proctor, "that only two men run
the county government, Berry
enri Rritnei,1? (County
CIerk-Treasurer John Berry and
Engineer J. W. Britnell) There is
a dictatorship in this county."
When Councillor Denomme
asked Reeve Armstrong if he
foresees any county need for the
empty second floor in the
Goderich building, the answer
was "no,"
Councillor Proctor said that
the county jail in Goderich will
close, but Councillor Denomme
said that plan was stopped when.,
Goderich objected.
"Do you want to bet?"
retorted Councillor Proctor.
"Only the people in Goderich
will benefit from this (putting
the school board offices in the
county building). Only the ones
at the far end of the line."
• "When you get up to County
Council," said Reeve
Armstrong "you see just how
fruitless it is. I have never been
so disillusioned about an elected
government."
Centralia school plans open house
BY LINDA FIRBY
Student, Centralia College
Centralia College students
and staff will be hosts at the
second annual "Open House" on
February 18, 7 to 10 p.m. and
February 19, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The year's program centres
around the theme "More Bread
with Education." Over fifteen
student prepared exhibits and
demonstrations as well as a
fashion show, will interpret the
theme in the areas of agriculture
and home economics,
The home management
display will feature
demonstrations of work
simplification in the home.
Other displays will iillustrate new
trends in fashion selection and
care of materials and clothing,
selection and cooking of meat
and meat dishes. Beef stroganoff
will be prepared in one
demonstration. Menu planning
will also be• featured. The
fashion show, on Tuesday at
8:30 p.m. and on Wednesday at
11 a.m. and 2 p.m., will present
"A Day in the Life of Edna" —
with college coeds modelling
clothes made during classes.
In the agricultural section the
business management display
will show how wise use of credit
can lead to increased profit.
"From Farm to Plate" is the
theme of the livestock exhibit
with calves, hogs and poultry
and carcasses of beef, pork and
poultry. The agronomy display
will Show how education and
advanced technology has led to
the development of a multitude
of human and animal food
products from crops such as
corn and soybeans. The modern
farmer makes use of many new
engineering techniques; these
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entries in- the snow sculpture Contest for creation Of three Eleown children, Sharon, 20,
Clintons Winter tarnivaL It stands in front of Robert, 14 and Ricky, 8. Staff Photo,
the home of Mrr• and lVfrs, Percy F rdwn oh
will be demonstrated by the
farm engineering division.
The public is invited to take
this opportunity to meet the
staff and students of Ontario's
newest college of agriculture and
home economics at Huron Park.
CFB Girl Guides
at council session
A contingent of Girl Guides
from Adastral Park gave
Clinton's Town Council an
unusual full house for its regular
meeting Monday night:
A11 members of council were
present. Mayor Donald Symons
welcomed the girls and said
jestingly that he briefed the
councillors on their dress and
behavior ahead of time.
The. mayor stopped
occasionally during the course of
business to explain actions being
taken and to give the Guides a
better understanding of the
procedure.
Farm show cuts
Plans for the 1969 Farm
Show in London are well under
way with several significant
changes in this year's
progranime,
Perhaps the most noticeable
change is in the seed judging
area. In the past, seed grain,
beans, tobacco and potatoes
were an integral part of the show
in judging and auctioning. This
year, the conlpetition has been
deleted in favour of more
emphasis oh panel discussions,
dialogue and educational
features,
The ladies; however, will All
engage iii their baking
competition with two classes
being offered *" adult and junior,
The farm show poster contest
has adopted a new theme this
year ' "Where Town and
Country Meet," ''hit contest IS
than 10 years old. Most of the
respondents were found to be
living in very old homes. The
remainder,were renting
apartments ipoor repair."
OHC found rental housing to
be scarce in the town, with little
new apartment construction
foreseen, Most of the
homeowner respondents
indicated willingness to sell their
homes if Ontario Housing
accommodation is available.
There is an active resale market,
01-10 believes.
The housing report says that
of the 18 senior citizen
respondents contacted and
found to be "very interested and
needy," four would pay less in
Untario Housing, one would pay
the same or within five dollars,
and nine were homeowners who
indicated interest in selling their
homes if Ontario Housing were
available. This makes a total of
14 potential tenants, or 45 per
cent of all contacted
respondents.
Please turn to Page 5
Council states
industry dinner
next Friday
An "industrial dinner" a
week from tomorrow will give
Clinton Town officials a chance
to present their new industrial
report to federal and provincial
representatives.
Ontario Treasurer Charles
MacNaughton and Huron MP
Robert McKinley are among the
50 or 60 expected to attend the
dinner at Hotel Clinton.
Mr. MacNaughton has been
asked to be ready to answer
questions about grants available
for industrial relocation and
expansion. Mr. McKinley will be
questioned about the future of
CFB Clinton among other
matters, according to Mayor
Don Symons.
The new brochure, to be
distributed to industries
interested in Clinton, has a deep
blue cover with black lettering
and a design showing the radar
antenna donated by CFB
Clinton and scheduled to be
erected at the town's main
corner. Clinton is identified on
the cover as the home of radar in
Canada.
The brochure is designed with
a plastic spiral binding which
will allow revisions of individual
pages. An initial order of 500
has been delivered,
seed contest
designed to encourage boys and
girls, both rural and urban, to
depict on a poster 18" x 20",
their impressions of places or
situations under Which they feel
people from the town and
country are given an
opportunity to meet.
The annual farm princess
contest wilt be held again this
year and is open to any girls 16
years of age and not over 21
years Of age at the time of the
show, married Or single, and
residing in the eleven counties of
Western Ontario.
Talent shows, square dance
competitions, filth features, and
floral competitions will round
out the exciting four-day
programme scheduled for March
4 tb 7 in the Progress Building
and Annex at the Western Fair
Glr"ound,