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Clinton News-Record, 1970-07-30, Page 1Major F. A. Golding takes the salute from the parade after taking command of CFB Clinton at ceremonies Friday afternoon at the base. His first order was a stand down for the afternoon. —staff photo. Housing loan approved start could be soon After a week of rainy told weather, Clinton Merchants struck good weather'for their sidewalk sale held Thursday, Friday find Saturday, (Merchants reported Sales were good' and shoppers reported plenty of bargains. -,staff photo. 0 5 10 scale 5 15 20 miles MIDWESTERN ONTARIO DEVELOPMENT REGION JOURNEY-TO-WORK From Hamilton Area From Brantford Area 0-25 26-150 151-500 _ 501-1500 COMMUTERS From London Area REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BRANCH, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY AND ECONOMICS Manufacturing Journey-to-Work Centres 0 Other Centres Regional Boundary Figure 28 The first phase of the regional plan for Midwestern Ontario was released in Listowel on Monday night. The 175-page report is chuck-full of facts and figures, graphs and maps, most confirming things people already knew about the area. The diagram above shows the path of commuters of manufacturing employment. Note the lack of traffic into Clinton. Mac Naughton releases phase of development plan The men of Canadian Forces Base Clinton gave blood for the cause recently in a blood &min clinic held at the base, COL KC. Fullarton here gives blood under the watchful eye of Assist. Yvonne Hawley.. About 100 persons donated. WSJ ecord CLINTON, ONTARIO -- THURSDAY, 4ULY 30, 1970 105thYgAR No, ?1 PRICE PER cQPY 1.5c uui um ul 111111! 1411 111 l 111 11 1111! l ll 1 1111 111 I l 141 II Col. E.W. Ryan watches as his pennant is lowered from the mast at the closing of ceremonies at which he relinquished command of Canadian Forces Base Clinton to Major F. A. Golding. —staff photo. A brief ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday ushered in a new commanding officer at Canadian Forces Base Clinton in the persOn Of Major F. A. Golding. Major Golding, the 11th and probably last commander of the base, succeeds Col. E. W. Ryan, base commander since July 1967. Col. Ryan, a native of Kitchener, will begin a course at the National Defence College, Kingston, on August 31 while his wife and family" remain in Clinton. Major Golding takes command of the base with a little more than a year remaining until it is phased out in September 1971. He expressed concern for the future of the Design for Development: Midwestern Ontario Region, was unveiled Monday evening by Provincial Treasurer and Huron M.P.P., Charles MacNaughton in Civilian employees of the base in his speech after taking command in the Ceremony. He pointed out that many of them had worked at the base for long periods of time and would find 'it hard to get other jobs once the base had been closed. "Everything will be done to secure employment for them after the base is closed," he promised, Three platoons of instructors formed the parade for the hand-over ceremony. Following a general salute, Col. Ryan inspected the parade and presented decorations. In his farewell address to his men he acknowledged the special contributions of several a meeting in Listowel, The report, a study of the problems and advantages of the Midwestern Ontario Region made up of Huron, Perth, Wellington and Waterloo counties, is the first step in the forming of an overall scheme for development in the area. This scheme in turn will be co-ordinated with plans for the other 10 regions in Ontario. The report held few surprises. For the most part it confirmed with facts and figures what most residents of the area had realized for some time. Such statistics as the fact that between 1951 and 1966 Huron County grew only 1.2 per cent in population while Wellington greWIll. 2, Perth 5.2 and Waterloo 22.6 were not new. The population growth across the province during the same period was 11.6. The level of educational attainment for the region as a whole is generally close to the provincial average. Nearly 80 per cent of the grade nine students in the region continue through grade 13, compared with the provincial average of slightly more than 30 per cent. However the survival figures vary widely front 32.6 per cent in Waterloo to only 23.7 per cent here in Huron. The report said the prevision of hoSpital services in the region compares favourably with the rest of the prOvince, There is a greater concentration of doctors km the more Urbanized areas of the region a fact which the report said could result from the members of his staff in the past. Following the address Col. Ryan and Major Golding in turn Signed the handing-over certificates and the Colonel's pennant was lowered from the base mast, folded, and PreSeleted. to him. The new commander then took the general salute and watched as his pennant was raised. His first order, at the conclusion of the address to his men, was to call a stand-down for the afternoon. Before assuming command, Major Golding had been. Base Administration officer at the base. He is a native of Seaforth, the son of the late Senator and Mrs. W. H. Golding. He professional nature of these occupations and the specialization within them which requires local services and consultation. The region stood up well when compared with the rest of the province in the area of public safety and Huron County headed the region in this area. The report showed the ratio of reported crimes to population in Midwestern Ontario is only about three-fifths that of the province as a whole arid Huron County had the lowest ratio of the four counties in the region. Manufacturing in the region accounted for One-third of all employment but nearly 90 per cent of this employment was concentrated in the so-called Golden Triangle area comprising Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Galt and 1-lespeler. Retail and service employment in the region lagged behind the rest of the province during the early part of the 15,-year survey but had picked up toward the end of the survey period in 1966, especially in the Golden Triangle, Trucking costs and the length of time taken to travel by highway to such major markets as Toronto ranged across the region. Cogs ranged from 30 cents per 100 pounds in the kitchener area to 50 cents- per 100 pounds of freight in the north weStern areas. In summary the report said, social and economic conditiOnS in the region compared with the rest of the province ranged front grad u ated from .Seaforth Collegiate Institute in 1941, Be . joined the RCAF in that year and since that time has served continuously in the RCAF and the new united Canadian Armed Forces. He received. his ,commission in 1955 from the rank of ,Flight Sergeant and since has held administrative positions at Lachine, • P.Q.; Chatham, New Brunswick; St. Hubert, F.Q. and Trenton. Before • coming to Clinton, he was Staff Officer, Personnel Administrative Branch of Air Transport Command Headquarters, Trenton. He and his wife will live in Adastral Park, average to good. The greatest single problem appears to be associated with the rapid movement of people out of rural areas and into larger cities and towns, especially those closest to the Toronto megalopolis. The report said that population growth and employment opportunities in slow growth areas were likely to become important policy decisions. The first column Civic Holiday is set for Monday so we can all take a day off. Stores in Clinton will be closed on Monday but will remain open on Wednesday next week for your Convenience. At the post office there will be no wicket or rural service but the lock-box lobby will be open as usual. Street letter boxes will be cleared at 4:15 p.m. and mail will be received, and dispatched at 6:30 p.m, Somebody was looking for some hard work on the weekend. They sawed a lock off a Bartliff's Bakery truck then proceeded to take five dollars worth of bread, buns and other baked goods. We know unemployment in the area is high, but surely not so high people have to steal food. * * * Police were kept busy this week. Early Monday morning someone broke into Art's Supertest on Albert Street and carried off stereo tapes, tape players and odds and ends amounting to $800 to $900. * * * Some of the details of the Design for Development report are contained here in the News-Record but it is impossible to give much of the detail of the 175-page report in a newspaper. If anyone in a position to do something about the situation is reading, we'd suggest that'copies of the report be obtained for all libraries in the county so that everyone will have a chance to peruse it and make their comments. New car stolen off Brown's lot Sometime early Saturday morning a car struck a utility pole on Maria Street, near the intersection with Victoria Street in Clinton but the driver didn't stick around to report the collision. The car, owned by David Becker of Galt was found abandoned outside town with about $400 to $500 damage. Mark Andrew Nightingale of Stratford has been charged in the case. ' The- same man was also charged 'in' connection with the theft of a car from Lorne Brown Motors. A new Chevelle Malibu was stolen from the lot early Monday morning hut was later recovered near Hills Green, south of Varna. Another accident on Saturday sent a 13-year-old girl to hospital. A car driven by Peter Cameron hit a pole on Whitehead Street about 4:45 p.m. Damage to the car was light but Mary Jane Cameron, a passenger in the car suffered lacerations to her forehead which required stitches. Weather 1970 1969 HI LO HI LO July 21 68 49 83 59 22 76 47 82 57 23 78 50 86 58 24 81 53 85 62 25 84 57 79 58 26 86 64 75 59 27 87 66 74 58 Rain .10" Rain 1.96" Golding takes command of CFB Approval of a loan for the building of a senior citizens' apartment in Clinton was announced last week by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Ottawa. The loan which will assist Ontario Housing Authority to construct the 18-unit, two-story building at James and Maria streets. The total amount of the loan is $157,178. , A • ;e. A A • Contract for -..the'„building, the units had been already let to Harold Freure Construction Ltd. of Kitchener subject to thee,. approval of the loan. Projected cost is $153,306. The project will have nine units on each floor. 'Each" unit will have one bedroom and an area of 619 square feet. Rents will range upward from $32 a month, depending on the income of the occupant. All ground floor apartments will have separate patios while each second floor unit will have a balcony. Each floor will have a garbage room. Their will be a lounge or common room on the main floor. With approval of the loan, construction can now begin any time. The , interior of the building is hoped to be completed by the end of the year with final outside work such as landscaping to be finished in,the spring. Rental of the units will be carried out through the Clinton Housing Authority beginning two months before the interviewed and point-graded as to need. Rent includes electric heating, electricity, hot water, stove, refrigerator and use of a common television antenna. Government report Region lends in production The report of the provincial government leading to the eventual overall plan to the Midwestern Ontario Region comprised of Huron, Perth, Waterloo and Wellington counties shows that the region has some of the best agricultural land in Ontario. Approximately 50 per cent of the region is class one agricultural land the Design for Development report released Monday by Charles MacNaughton pointed out. This acreage amounts to 24 per cent of all class one land in the province. Some 20 per cent of the area is class two and, about 10 per cent of all such acreage in the province. This the report said, added to the 12 per cent of the region that was class three land, amounted to 43 per cent of the best agricultural land in the province. Such rich land amounts to four-fifths of all the land in the region. However, the report said, the intensity of current agricultural production falls below the latent potential capability of the land in many parts of the region. The report showed that there are fewer and larger farms in the region than elsewhere. Over 40 per cent of all commercial farms gross more than $10,000 in the sale of agricultural products, well above the provincial average of 27 per cent. LAN