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Clinton News-Record, 1969-04-10, Page 1tit 4th. Y.FAR— NO. 1.5 e first column. Clinton Ne CLINTON, ONTARIO— THORSPAY, APRIL 1Q, 1969 Central Huron :Seeondaty chool -students will be Ayassing Clinton for the net eek on behalf or the Canadian ancer -Society, The drive is eing sponsored by the _Huron minty society unit whose ffice is in Clinton. * The -Clinton Branch of the anadian Red Cross will held a ood donor clinic at OHSS eek from Monday. The high hoof students will donate ood during the day and adults e asked to give blood from 7-9 rn.• The Red Cross also plans a /Id -raising drive in May, Police were on the lookout r drinking around the Clinton ommunity Centre during last hursday evening's Teen Town nee and Chief Lloyd Westlake ys several teenagers will he arged with liquor offences, * * * Provincial police this week ant to remind motorists • to be etching for children on the iny days we'll be having now at spring is here. Remember, the OPP says, it's arder for the children to see ou. It's also harder for you to op on the wet pavement if a ild suddenly darts out in front f you. * * * Mrs. Cyril Bertrand, a former Linton resident now living in ichmond Hill, tells us that a tter of hers published recently• ntained a typographical error hich changed the name of two ther former residents from rant to Frant. Mr. Grant, a rmer CNR employee in linton, and his wife now live ross the street from Mr. and rs. Bertrand. * * * The Department of ighways' 1969 Northern ntario Road Map is now ailable. Copies may be obtained, free charge, from the Information ection, Department . of ighways, Downsview, Ontario, ,d at all Department of ighways offices throughout the ovince; the Department of urism and Information, 185 loor Street East, Toronto 5, ntario, the department's urist reception centres, at rder crossing points in uthern Ontario, and Service ntres on Highway 400 and ighway 401. Weather 1969 1968 HI LOW 111 LOW pril 1 40 24 40 29 2 40 29 56 27 3 45 22 54 35 4 54 31 67 46 5 52 3249 25 6 40 37 44 19 7 58 33 57 32 Rain 1.35" Rain .36" aH clubs await' chievement day = 4-11 hotnernaking clubs in uron County have been orking three months on their ring program, Meat hi the [enu, and now are prepared for :.hievement days which start a eek from Saturday. The first achievement day is pril '19 at Howick Central choOl, according to Susan eard, home economist for uron County, who said other thievetnent days will follow att ucknow (public school), April 5; Seaforth (district high :Imo°, May 3; Dashwood !ommurtity eentre), May 10 rid Btu cetield (Huron ententrial School), May 24. The girls will exhibit their ;c6\rd btoaks and recipe files and resent an afternoon program of cits, demonstrations and chibits. Over the Confab Of the regram the girls have studied its Of beef arid pbtk, learned to entify and locate the cuts on Carea.S.5 arid practiced ethods of cooking both the rider end less tender its bt !et' and perk, The girls tried many ileW cipes using Mainly the :onOmicaL fess tender cuts, ederd books and reelfilet we been kept during the 'Ojeet. The generation gap here seems to be between 10 and 11 years, with the 10-and-unders getting a bargain rate for pony rides in Bayfield. The entrepreneurs and equestrians (with a tricyclist Cars claim The Easter bunny blessed the Clinton Public Utilities Commission with a power failure early Sunday morning when an auto downed a utility pole -- the second such accident in just eight days. The car which toppled the pole on Kirk Street near the Legion Hall was driven by Ivan Roy Pickett, 21, of 353 James St., Clinton, according to police who charged him with careless driving. The crash took place at 12:55 a.m., police said. Mr. Pickett and two passengers reportedly escaped injury, but the car was damaged heavily— Damage to the hydro pole, a transformer mounted on it and cables on Kirk Street was estimated at $1,000 by Gus Boussey, PUC manager. Mr. Boussey and three crewmen worked until nearly 6 Chain buys thrown in) are, from left to right, Marvin Merner, Diane Garret, Joanne Mackie, Karen Gemeinhardt and Jimmy Mackie. — Photo by Bellchamber. two Hydro poles in 8 days a.m. before finishing temporary repairs. The PUC said that a high voltage line and a secondary cable touched and caught fire. They burned back to the highway where a fuse opened, cutting power to one of the three main feeders supplying electricity to the town. Hydro was out near the Legion Hall until 4 or 5 a.m., but was restored in other affected parts of town within about half an hour. The PUC hoped to have permanent repairs completed by today. The PUC is investigating the possibility that a $1,5000 transformer fire at the , Fred J. Hudie sawmill on Isaac Street was triggered by the trouble on Kirk Street. Mr. Boussey said a "bank of transformers at the mill caught fire and was destroyed •at the discount centre The Clinton Discount Centre, opened on the southwest corner of the town's main intersection last year, has been purchased from Orland Johnson of Clinton by J -L Vitamins and Cosmetics Ltd. of London, the company which has supplied merchandise sold in the store here. Maurice Lever, president of J -L which is owned and operated by Capitol Building Industries of London, confirmed that the company will take over the discouht•centre here and one in Seaforth on Monday. The present staff will be retained and more products added to the store's stock, said Mr. Lever who told The News -Record that J -L now owns 13 stores in Ontario" plans to acquire a dozen more this year. Besides outlets in Clinton and Seaforth, -J-L operates six stores in London, three in Hamilton, and one each in Brantford and Chatham. The discount centre in Goderich, also supplied by J -L, has not been acquired by the London corporation. Clinton's new fire engine went on its first run lett Thursday When tWo bales of SUM caught fire in a vacant chicken barn owned by 0, Variderhaar, RR 2, Bayfield, on the Bayfield Road, A faulty exterisitni COM Wat Wattled for the Smoky blate which dial little damage and Wes quickly put out. ttayfield's fire brigade was also �n the sane, Pilate by Fi00 Price. Same time the pole was felled, but the cause of the fire has not been determined. The Saturday before the Easter weekend, March 29, a car sheared off a utility pole near Central Huron Secondary School on Princess Street. That crash, at 12:45 a.m., knocked out power to about one-sixth of the town. This week's accident cut electricity to about 20 per cent of the homes in town, Mr. Boussey said. Police say they are investigating an alledged assault reported to have occurred on Albert Street about the same time as the accident and expecr* to lay charges in the matter. Also under investigation is an altercation and alleged assault at the Elm Haven Motor Hotel the same night, police said. An auto owned by Eugene McAdam was parked in front of Mr. McAdam's hardware store on Albert Street and was damaged by another auto at 12:10 a.m. Monday, according to police. The driver of the other auto, Kenneth B. Wright of RR 2; Seaforth, reportedly pulled out from the curb in front of the police office, made a u -turn and hit the McAdam car. Total damage was estimated at $700-$800. No one was hurt. Lions host farmers, talk about fishing "Some of the department's regulations even confuse me," confessed Roy Bellinger, Ontario Department of Lands and Forests conservation officer for this area, at the Clinton Lions Club's annual farmers' night, Tuesday evening in St. Paul's Parish Hall. The comment was made after a farmer guest asked if he could fish (without a license) on his own farm. The conservation officer's answer was "No," A farmer who has a river or creek running through his property, or who has made a farm portd and stocked it himself, must still have a $3,00 license to fish there. , Twenty-four fanners (or Coins girls find are loot taken in school theft Two Clinton girls found 674 pennies hidden near their Albert Street homes on Monday and police said the coins were a part of $13 lO Change stolen last week from St. Joseph5s Separate School. The girls, Louann Nitholson, 8, of 64 Albert St. and Kathy Whikie, 15, of 66 Albert St. e ailed Polite Chief Lloyd Weatlake when they found the pennies most of them wrapped in rells, hidden at the back of the J. W. Counter Builder? Supplies yard on Princess aired. The chief said that the $13 was repotted missing from the shoot principal'S office April 1. The theft reportedly took place over the March 29,30 Weekend, The schoOl's Outer door showed no signs or tampering and may have been left tinloeked, police said, but the principat'S office door appeared to have been forded, In another incident of theft pollee said they apprehended an Unidentified minor leaving Stedinanss" with a stOleri article recently, There was lib prosedutiOnt Wording to police. persons associated with farming) were guests at the dinner meeting, chaired by Lions President Don C. Colquhoun. Lion farmer Stewart Middleton arranged the farmers' part of the meeting. Mr. Bellinger showed a film, "Sockeye Salmon Run in British Columbia," and then answered many questions regarding the cohoe salmon that have been put into Lake Huron. These fish are now being fished commercially out of Bayfield and. Goderich. Mr. Bellinger said he sends cohoe to the department's research station at Maple, Ontario, to have them checked tor DDT Please turn to Page 8 PifiCe .PR .CQPY. 15c. lEarners'.union :chief debates GFO ot district. ..meeting here Philip Durand of Zurich, Huron -Perth district president of the Ontario Farmers Union, is remaining as a member of the Huron County Campaign committee for a General Farm Organization and in so doing is defying OFU policy and faces expulsion from the union's provincial board of directors and executive committee. Mr. Durand made his intentions known early Tuesday after a four-hour district meeting at the Clinton Community Centre Monday night. He is the second director to buck provincial policy. Guest speaker here was Walter Miller of Tara, OFU president. Earlier, Delmer Bennett of Forrester's Falls, in eastern Ontario,. joined the recently formed Ontario campaign committee for ane general farm organization a movement headed by Malcolm Davidson of Bnicefield. He was dismissed as a union director despite solid backing from his own district -- the counties of Renfrew, Lanark and Carleton. Prior to the meeting Monday, Mr. Durand joined the local G F Q campaign committee whose other members are George Smith, RR 3, Lucknow; George Robertson, RR 5, Goderich; Jack Stafford of RR 1, Wroxeter and Elmer Hunter of RR 3, Goderich, as chairman. Mrs. Faye Fear has been hired as secretary for the committee. She also serves as secretary of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture. Mx. Smith at Monday's meeting asked the district to back Mr. Durand and approve his joining the Huron GFO group, but the motion was tabled after nearly an hour of discussion. At the outset of discussion on the Smith motion, it was noted that approval would,. put Mr, Durand in the same position as Mr. Bennett who joined the provincial GFO campaign committee after his district backed the move by vote. Mr. Miller said that a provincial board meeting established policy by resolving that the union would not support the GFO campaign and that no OFU members could do so as a representative of the union. Mr. Miller reiterated after Mr. Durand made his decision that he faces dismissal from the provincial board. When Mr, Bennett joined the provincial GFO group, he said he was representing only himself. He said he did not feel he had gone against board policy since he was not representing the union. Mr. Durand expressed similiar sentiments and added: "I'm joining the county committee as an individual farmer." Mr. Miller countered by saying an OFU leader is representing the OFU 24 hours a clay, Mr. Durand 'said "at the present time we have a chance to build a strong farm organization in the Province" and he saki the OFU should be 'taking part in these eommIttees, should be attending every meeting, seeing that our farmers are well informed and making sure that whenever a vote is called that we get out to vote.„," "I believe," said Mr. Durand, "that there is going to be another organization whether we like it or not and this organization could be no better than our past organizations or It could be an organization able to do a job for us and I think we have a chance to build an organization that could do the job if we all get behind it." "I feel," he concluded, "that we should, be on this committee and making sure all the views we feel are right are hollered out across this provinee....I don't Please turn to Page 8 Bowness gets bonus from Peter Jackson A newlywed couple in Clinton recently received an unexpected gift in the form of a $1,000 prize 'coupon in A pack of Peter Jackson cigarettes. Canadian Forces Pte. Kenneth Bowness and his wife, Donna, were married a month ago and moved into an apartment at 93 .Huron Street. Private Bowness, from Prince Edward Island, has been studying at CFB Clinton the last two months. His wife is from British Columbia. Not long after they got their apartment here, the two returned from Collie's Red and White market with a pack of cigarettes holding a coupon for a $1,000 tax-free prize. Asked this week if they received the cheque yet, Mrs, Bowness said, "Yes, and spent it, It sure was a big help." Two local men hurt in crash Russell Archer of 56 Ontario St., Clinton, manager of the Beatty Farm Service Centre in town, and Murray Taylor, 23 North St,, Clinton, a Beatty employee, were both injured early Thursday when the car in which they were riding went off Highway 86 and rolled over in a ditch about two miles west of . Elmira. Both men were taken by ambulance to Kitchener - Waterloo Hospital, according to provincial police in Kitchener. Mr. Archer, driver of the car, sustained a back injury and scrapes, police said, and was released after treatment. Mr. Taylor was admitted to the hospital with chest injuries and head and face cuts. He was reported in satisfactory condition Wednesday. Police said the accident occurred shortly after midnight. The 1969 model auto, owned by W. J. Mills Motor Sales Ltd., Goderich, reportedly rolled over several times and was wrecked totally. Elgin Dale, another Beatty employee, drove Mrs. Archer and Mrs. Taylor to Kitchener and back Tuesday and brought Mr. Archer home. Mr. Dale said he understood Mr. Archer hit a patch of fog, missed a curve on the highway and plunged down a 15 -foot embankment, Police said both sides, the roof, front and back of the auto were damaged. Mr. Dale said it appeared the car had not only rolled on both sides, but toppled end over end. All the windows were smashed out, he said. Mr. Dale said the two men were returning from Fergus where they had been on business Monday. Mr. Taylor has worked for the company only three or four weeks, he said. Judge levies $100 liquor fine John Goldsworthy, 16, of RR 2, Clinton, charged with illegal consumption of alcoholic beverages, was found guilty in Provincial Judges Court here last week and fined $100 and costs, according to police. The youth was charged February 27 at the Clinton Community Centre. His case was one of six which came before Judge Glenn Hays in Clinton last Wednesday. Johannes Henry Leppington, 19, of RR 2, Clinton, and Albert N. Kyle, 21, of 384 Victoria St., Clinton, both charged with causing, a disturbance at the Meay Mee Restaurant on Albert Street in Clinton earlier this year, were found guilty after trial and sentenced to pay $60 and costs or be jailed for 10 days. Charges against four others allegedly involved in the incident were withdrawn. Gordon W. Pickett of RR 3, Clinton, paid $30 and costs for making unnecessary noise with an auto. George L. Aucoin of CFB Clinton, whose auto hit and damaged three others on Victoria Street last month, was fined $40 and costs for careless driving. John B. Wild of RR 1, Clinton, received a suspended sentence for assault. The charge stemmed from an incident last September. • ,* • Clintons police 'cruiser Was getting neW brakes On iVioncley and when Chief Lloyd Westlake was spatted with this two -wheeler, it looked like he was going back to. bicycle patrolS. Etit the chief Said neither he nor anyone else Was going to ride thit bike until the front "fork" was again shortened and proper safety 4.) Pt equipment — including lights and refiettarS Installed. 'the 061e Was one Of several he ordered off the Street this week bedauSe they created a hazard for the riders and motorists both, the thief asks parents to be sure their. children's bicycles are safe and reminds drivers to keep a watch for bicycles on the toadt.