Clinton News-Record, 1970-07-09, Page 1A used bicycle lot? No it's just the bank beside the swimming
pool where the kids leave their bikes while they are in for a
swim. The hot weather last week meant heavy use for the
swimming pool.
Twilight Crops Program at Kippen
They're off, end so is the racing season, Things went pretty smooth at the first of nine-racing
Meets at Clititoti raceway on Sunday eonSidering that Melly of those retuning the show had little
experiente with racing ProdedUre, —Staff pheto,
careaking for home these horses give it all they have in the last
quarter Mile, Clinton Raceway saw large fields of nap horSes
oil Sunday), including Many horses froin Western Fair raceway
In London which is dosed on Sundays. -.staff photo.
Last Week we showed a pictute of the betting booth at Minton
Raceway before it opened for butinesS. Sunday the booth %fat
the Setond busiest place at the Park, next to the refreShtnent
booth, as $30,000 in betting was done, —staff photo.
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Hunch-players at the Clinton
Raceway on Sunday should have
had a great time, On the fifth of
July'the Winners of the first two
races were number five.
Then in the fourth race which
horse should finish first but
Bread Herbert, co-owned by the
chairman of the Kinsmen
Raceway Committee, Frank
Cook, and Lorne Brown. No one
claimed foul on that one.
* * *
Those who don't read the
sports page regularly probably
don't know that Clinton's
baseball teams are having a good
year.
The Colts have lost only two
games, both to Thorndale. They
get their chance for revenge
tonight when they take on
Thorndale at the Community
Park at '6; 30,
Midgets and Bantams are
going along quite well too
although the Midgets did suffer
one loss this past week. The
Bantams squeezed by Listowel,
their toughest competition of
the season, by a 9-7 count this
week.
Meanwhile the ponies just
keep rolling on without a loss.
* *
The Huron County Soil and
Crop Improvement Association
is sponsoring a Crops Twilight
Program at John Hazlitt's farm
11/4 miles east of Benmiller on
Concession 2, Colborne
Township.
It will commence at 7:00
p.m. on Thursday, July 23.
A number of agronomists will
be on hand to explain the
various cereal and field crop
demonstrations.
* * *
Discussions are taking place
between recreation officials and
the town police on whether or
not to bar a group of youngsters
from further use of Community
Park.
The group have been constant
problems around the park for
some time, ignoring all rules,
doing minor acts of vandalism
and carrying on in such a way as
to endanger other, youngsters'
enjoyment of the facilities of the
park.
Parents, is your child among
them?
* * *
We're probably too late again
but we'll try anyway.
In case there is a mail strike,
local subscribers can pick up
their News-Record here at the
office. The last time we said this
the postal unions pulled a
surprise strike on us and caught
us with all the rural route papers
in the post office from the night
before, We're trying to be more
careful now but time will tell
just how successful we are.
* * *
It isn't exactly news .any
more but Clinton .has some
bright red and white garbage
containers now along the main
drag. Now there is no excuse for
litter on main street.
The boxes were installed
about three weeks ago and we've
been meaning to report the fact
ever since but it slipped our
collective minds here at the
News-Record.
Now, if you're from East
Elbow ,Saskatchewan or haven't
been on the main street for the
last few weeks you know the
thrilling news.
* * *
Our life line on sports, Bert
Clifford , is out of town for a
couple of weeks holidays so we
would appreciate receiving
reports of the baseball games
from any source possible.
* *
We're glad to welcome Maude
Hedden, our regular Hensall
correspondent back, Mrs.
Redden has been a patient in
South Huron Hospital in Exeter
for the last few weeks.
Readers may be a little
confused to see two batches of
Ilensall neWs in the paper this
week but got caught in the Mail
strike, The Hensall newt hi the,
first section is the regular news
for the Week.
June 30
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Rain .60" Rate ,85"
About 80 persons attended
the oJuly meeting of Huron
County Federation of
Agriculture to hear Gordon Hill,
president of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture,
Mr. Hill in his remarks
suggested that farmers withhold
the education portion of their
taxes. "For 20 years we have
been trying to get a more
equitable levy of school tax" he
said. "Education tax should be
based, not on property
assessment, but on income,
which is a true indicator of your
ability to pay."
The OFA backs the
withholding of the education
portion of the tax and Mr. Hill
went on to point out examples
of unfairness.
Mr. Hill also commented on
the issue of the importation of
A Twilight Crops Program
will take place at Jack Peck's
farm, 11/4 miles west of Kippen
on Monday evening, July 20 at
7:00 p.m.
There will be an oppOrtunity
to see and discuss the merits of
The great_ gamble of the
Clinton Kinsmen Club would
seem to be paying off, at least
after the first week.
Close to 3,000 persons, 2,000
paid, turned up under sunny
skies for the opening of Clinton
Raceway on Sunday. The crowd
was reassuring to club members
who had seen their club gamble
$20,000 in new buildings and
promotion on the hope. that
people would come to Clinton
for harness racing.
the powdered Milk from Ireland
and said the OFA is supporting
the Ontario Milk Marketing-
Board and, the Nation Farmers
Unipn in their demands that the
importation be stopped.
Mason Bailey, individual sales
co-ordinator, reported that sales
had risen 10 per cent over last
month and that there had. been
requests from three townsbips•
for sales blitz, as a result of the
successful blitz in Grey
Township, where over 1/3 of the
farmers joined the organization.
Other business, the directors
turned down the proposal for
five districts in the county
preferring to stay on a township
level.
The proposal, first made at
the May meeting of the Huron
Federation, would have broken
the county down into five
various oat, barley and winter
wheat varieties, and see the
white bean varieties, coloured
bean varieites and bean herbicide
trials-
Personnel from Colleges of
Agricultural Technology will be
on hand to answer questions..
Come they did and more
important they came to bet.
$30,000 went through the
raceway's new mutuels building,
Thousands crowded the
refreshment booth run by the
Dinettes. The large grandstand
and the long row of bleaches
were overflowed and many
stood to watch the horses.
They saw some of the best
horses available too, from all
over the western end of the
districts rather , than the
township federations as at
present. To be practical, the
system would have required
greatly Increased membership in
the federation. The districts
under the new set up, would
initiate all policies and the
county body would act as a
co-ordinator.
When originally suggested the
new proposal met with little
A decision on the possible use
of Canadian Forces Base Clinton
as an Air Services Training
School will not be reached at
Auburn boy critical
after accident
Larry Popp, 11, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lorne Popp of RR 1,
Auburn, was listed in 'critical
condition Monday night in the
intensive care ward at Victoria
Hospital, London, with severe
head injuries received' in a
Sunday night accident.
The boy was riding his
bicycle along Huron County
Road 25, about V.1 mite west of
Blyth, when he collided with a
car driven by Robert Gray, 19,
of RR 5, Wingham.
BY WILMA OKE
Allan Nicholson, Tuckersmith
Township Road Superintendent,
was presented with a certificate
by Reeve Elgin Thompson for
having successfully completed
the advanced surveying course
sponsored by the Ontario Good
John Barry Wild a 23-year-old
Clinton man, was sentenced to
seven months definite and 12
months indefinite in an Ontario
reformatory when he appeared
in court in Goderich on Monday.
He pleaded guilty on a charge
of assault with intent to wound
after he was charged in a
shooting in his father's Base Line
home on June 23. Wild
discharged a shotgun blast at his
province. Many fine horses were
available because the Western
Fair Raceway, one of the big
time tracks, is closed on
Sundays. Horses that race at
Windsor Raceway and Detroit
were also on hand.
With many inexperienced
hands and a mammoth problem of
co-ordinating an attair of sucn
size, problems could have been
expected, but for the most part,
things went off very smoothly.
enthusiasm from the
membership but none of those
who had made the proposal were
present at the meeting so the
decision was delayed fora later
meeting.
A resolution asking the
Canadian Pacific Railway and
Canadian National Railway to
maintain their fences in a
satisfactory condition was also
passed.
least until mid-summer.
This information was
included in a letter recently
from Minister of Transport Don
Jamieson to R. E. McKinley,
M.P. for Huron, in answer to Mr.
McKinley's letter on April 30,
Mr. Jamieson said, "Treasury
Board has requested that the
feasibility of joint
civilian-military air traffic
control training be investigated.
The decision on this matter
could have a major impact on
the type of training facility
required.
"Accordingly, " he said in the
letter to Mr. McKinley,
"consideration of your proposal
regarding the use of the Clinton
Base will be deferred. I expect
that a decision on joint air
traffic control training will be
reached by mid-summer. When
that is done, your suggestion will
receive full consideration."
Roads Association.
The course was given at C,S.
Anderson Road School at the
University of Guelph. The
presentation took place at the
Council meeting at Huron
Centennial School, Brucefield on
Tuesday evening.
Council gave third and final
•
brother William, 26, of RR 1,
Waterdown after a fight between
the two about one o'clock in the
morning. Three pellets from the
blast struck the brother and he
was treated in Clinton Public
Hospital.
Police investigating' at the,
time said a fraction of an inch
difference in the aim of the gun
could have meant death to the
older Wild.
The electric tote machines
helped to speed the calculating
of odds on the races and these
Hill sayi farmers should
withhold taxes to win reform
No decision before mid-summer
on base as training centre
Man gets 7-month sentence
in Clinton shooting
Perhaps when the new street
These signs on the east side
Galbraith.
work is finished on Albert Street, new signs will also be installed.
of Albert Street look a little the worse for wear. —photo by Al
reading to the bylaw to have
Tuckersmith Telephone
debentures issued. Authorization
was also given to have these
debenture forms printed.'
Two applications for building
permits for houses were
approved, one to Mrs. Cale
Doucette, RR 4, 'Clinton and.
one to Andrew E. Crozier, Rr 2,
Seaforth.
Tuckersmith Council
members will join with Seaforth
Council members for ceremonies
on July 23 in connection with
the opening of the recently
completed pavement through
Seaforth and Egmondville.
General accounts of
$44,200,25 were passed for
payment. This includes drain
accounts amuunting to
$32,156.51. Road accounts
totalled $5,507.10.
Council also authorized Allan
Nicholson to ask for tenders for
repairing the Township garage
roof in Egmondville. They
approved three tile drain loans .
for a total of $10,000.00.
Bayfield Council discusses
erosion of shoreline
A subsidy 'is to be applied for
on the Verlinde, Consitt and
?apple drains from the
Department of Municipal
Affairs,
At a previous special meeting
on June 16, council, accepted the
tender of Roth Drainage Ltd.,
Gadshill for $6,358.00 for the
Bay field Council met on
Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in
the Municipal Building Council
Chambers. Reeve E. W.
Oddleifson and all councillors
were present.
A discussion was held on the
advisability of joining one of the
conservation areas. It was felt
that this would make available
engineering advice that could
help in solving the lake shore
BY ERIC EARL erosion problem.
The council decided to call
for tenders on the maintenance
of the recently purchased
Bayfield Street lighting system,
The financial statement of
the village to June 30 was
presented by Clerk-treasurer
Gord Graham which indicated a
very healthy financial position.
It was noted that all
commitments have been met.
The 1969 Auditors report is
being prepared for publication.
Slavin drain at Kippen. A
request for an extension to the
Charters drain was accepted and
also accepted were two tile
drainage loans for $5,500.00 and
$4,000.00.
The Court of Revision will be
held on July 28 on the Sinclair,
McCully, Bell and Geiger drains,
were fed to the big board by
telephone.
With a fine showing in the
first week, the raceway is
expecting things to get even
better at the second meet this
week when the Clinton
Merchants' Stakes with a purse
of $1500 are run.
Tuckersmith road superintendent receives certificate
Sunshine, good horses bring big crowd to Raceway