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Clinton News-Record, 1972-01-13, Page 1Weather 1972 HI 1.0, 1971 HI LO Jan. 4 27 19 23 -7 5 19 4 31 19 6 18 9 19 15 7 33 18 18 10 8 30 12 21 5 9 37 30 20 -5 10.. 36 24 30 19 Snow 0" Snow 41/2" Thursday, January 13, 10.2 107 Year - No. 2 f or, . Orr f a rio 20 eeo f tot Clinton News-Record BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER Elmer Hayter, the 53-year old Reeve of Stanley Township, was elected Warden of Huron County in a two-way contest which 'left challenger Roy Pattison, East Wawanosh Reeve, trailing by 24 votes, After members of county council had voted, the tally showed a score of 32 votes for Hayter and eight for Pattison, an over-whelming victory for the Stanley reeve who lost out to Jack Alexander last year when Goderich Reeve Paul Carroll broke a tie by casting a deciding vote for Alexander. Hayter was nominated by Everett Mcillwain for the post after nine years on county council and service on many maintenance study for the road committees. Pattison's department of Huron County. nominator was Bob Lyons, reeve H e said wages and of West Wawanosh. administration costs are rising Present in the large audience but allotments from the on hand for the election was the government are not. Warden's wife Norene; his three Discussing the official county sons, Allan, Gerald and Robert plan, Warden Hayter said there is and their wives; his eldest need to keep the plan flexible daughter, Donna McBeath and and "not create hardships for her husband; and his youngest those who made this county daughter, Anne. what it is today". In addressing council, the He brought a chuckle from Warden said that he hoped that the audience when he explained signals at railroad crossings that the property committee of would become a concern of county council would likely council. Hayter noted that four have a "large stone house for level crossings already have rent" this year. He was signals but said there are 10 describing the jail, which, he• more to be equipped. said, could well become an The new warden also historic site in this county. suggested a managed The oath of office was WARDEN ELMER HAYTER REEVE. ST NLEY TWP, Hluron. County Council representatives from Goderich (Standing) loft to right, Deputy Reece, Dave Gower, Reeve, Paul Carroll and Mayor, Harry Worsell extend their 'best wishes to Warden Eimer Hayter of Stanley Township following his election to that seat on 'Tuesday, Mr. Hayter was officially sworn into office following his election and occupied his new seat during the first regular meeting of the year the following 4 4V, -Staff photo Clinton gets snowmobile by-law after debate Clinton now has a by-law which regulates the use of snowmobiles. The by-law most of which was prepared by the Clinton Snowmobile Club, was passed by council after a great,deal of discussion. • The by-law makes it illegal to drive machines on sidewalks or boulevards. Snowmobiles are prohibited in town from midnight to 7 a.m., unless the operator is returning home from outside the town limits by the most direct route. Use of private property without prior permission of the owner is prohibited and excessive noise near the hospital, senior citizens' apartments, schools and churches is now against the law. Use of highways 4 and 8 within the town limits is prohibited. The town agreed that in cases of extreme emergency (such as last year's big storms), the by-law could be waved. After long discussion the council threw out a clause which would have kept the speed of snowmobiles to below 15 miles per hour in town. There was some doubt about the legality of this clause, Those found guilty under the by-law are liable to fines of $20 to $100. Mayor Don Symons said he hoped that the by-law would curb some of the behaviour on machines which has caused many complaints from residents of the town. He stressed that the council did not want to have to ban the machines from town. A committee comprised of a member of council, a representative of the snowmobile club and the chief of police will be set up to investigate the possibility of having all snowmobiles in town registered with police. Each machine would have a large number placed on it so it could be easily identified. It was pointed out that pOlice will have a hard time enforcing the present by-law because they are often unable to catch offenders and cannot identify them because they wear bulky clothing and helmets, In other business, council will send a letter to the Department of Transport and Communications asking that the. present speed limit inside the town limits at the west end of town remain the same. The department had informed council it felt the 45 mile-per-hour zone on Highway 8 was too long and should be shortened from 2,400 feet to 1,500 feet. This would mean shortening the zone by 200 feet outside the town limits and 700 feet inside the limits, approximately to the corner of Erie Street. Council was in favour of shortening the zone outside the limits but not in town, because of the Elm Haven hotel and the number of cars turning there, and also because of a slight rise in the road at this point. Mayor Symons told council he thought something would have to be done to improve Townsend Street this year, Deputy Reeve Frank Cook agreed saying the street has really been neglected. He said there are large pools of water lying in several areas.,, Other councillors suggested work on other streets but the mayor and deputy reeve felt Townsend had been waiting the longest so should be the first to get action. Huron Federation to set up, office with full-time staff An experimental realinement of the Huron Federation of Agriculture was approved by the directors of the federation when they met in Clinton Jan. 6. The system will see a regional office set up in the county with a full-time secretary-fieldman and part-time office help. The proposal will use money saved by abolishing the present county office, rebates from the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and money saved from discontinuing the present OFA fieldstaff to finance the new office, expected to cost about $15,000 a year. The plan for such regional offices was first introduced at the OFA convention in Hamilton in December by the membership committee, one of whose members was Mason Bailey, president of the Huron federation. The committee felt that the OFA could not hope to provide proper service to its members and recruit the new members it badly needs through the present system of voluntary canvassing by members and part-time office staff. It was also concerned over the fact 1150 members across the province had not renewed their membership. This, it felt, was a sign proper service was not being given. Grant Wallace, of the OFA staff, who had been working in the county during the week selling memberships and listening to farmers' problems, said the OFA would like to see 20 such regional offices set up in the province. Each region would have at least 3000 farmers. Mr. Wallace said he had made calls on eight non-members of the organization and sold four new memberships. He said he had also visited 46 former members who had let their memberships expire and succeeded in getting 25 of these renewed. Of the 21 who did not renew, he said, 10 were no longer on the farm and nine were unhappy with their service. He, said that most did not seem to know what was going on in the organization and some complained of lack of service. A full-time staff member, he said, would help cut down on this problem. He pointed out that the present field staff of the OFA is, spread too thin and actually spends more than 50 per cent of its time driving from one area to another. There are at present 947 members in Huron, the largest number in any county in the province. There are 8258 paid up members across Ontario. Asked how soon the regional office could be in operation, Mr. Wallace said he thought if approval was given by the federation the office could be set up by mid-February. A committee composed of representatives of all township federations was also set up at the meeting to come up with ideas of deciding who should be classed as farmers for commodity referendums for marketing acts. At the recent annual meeting of the OFA a motion was discussed which would bring about licencing of farmers. Several sets of criteria as to who would be eligible for a licence have been discussed. Mr. Wallace pointed out that a similar move was also discussed by the National Farmers Union, a long-time bitter rival of the.OFA. "At least we agree on something," he said. After 11 years in bUsiness in Clinton the 0altirian family are closing their store, Keith's Family Clothing. Here Lorne Salzman (background) and his son Keith put up the sale signs for their closing sale. The family will continue to live in Clinton until the spring when they plan to move to their cottage on Lake Huron for the summer. Printing firm changes hands Farm courses Stanley's Hayter elected planned by ODAF st Column The warning of a police crackdown on cars parked overtime on meters in Clinton should be heeded, our editor tells us. He got two tickets in an hour and a half on Tuesday afternoon. * * * You will be having the same garbage collector for the next three years as you have had for the last. Tenders for garbage collection were opened at Clinton town council meeting Monday night and Clarence Neilans had the lowest tender of five received, The tender was for $11,000. * The annual meeting of the Huron County Beef Improvement Association will be held in the Londesboro Community Hall, Thursday, Jan. 20 at 12:30 p.m. Guest speaker for the meeting is Harold Schroeder — Vice President Marketing, from the Ca!drone-Curran Corporation, Grass Lake, Michigan. Tickets are available from township directors and the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food office, Clinton. Larger area won't cost subscribers more Enlargement of the Clinton free•calling zone to include BIlith arid Auburn will not cost telephone subscribers in Clinton any extra money, it was reported Thursday night by the telephone committee of the Huron Federation of Agriculture. The committee was set up by the federation during the summer to fight for larger toll-free calling areas in the northern part of the county. The committee met with representatives of Bell Canada in December and the committee said the company tried to scare them with figures of how much it would cost to increase the calling areas. It will cost the company $25,000 to $50,000 to increase the calling area a spokesman for the committee said, The committee reported that the cOrnpany 'had been very impressed with the thousands of names on petitions asking for the larger calling areas. The actual cost to subscribers has been announced by Bell Canada and now must be taken back to the Weal municipalities for approval and then back to Bell Canada. Cost of the proposed enlargetnent will Vary from nothing in Clinton, to 20 cents in Goderich and Seaforth to 40 cents in Winghain on a two-party line, Clinton Commercial Printers Limited of 56 Albert Street has had a change of ownership. Thomas H. Colquhoun and , John E. Robinson have purchased the printing plant from A. Laurie Colquhoun. The firm is engaged in offset and letterpress printing and during the past summer was engaged in the printing Of race programs for Clinton, Goderich, Orangeville and Woodstock race tracks. The new owners are former employees of the printing plant and no staff changes are anticipated 'at present. New equipment including a camera and dark room equipment for offset work and a new stitcher have been purchased in the past few months to give better service and plans call for more specialized equipment in the future. An office and stationery line will be carried in the section formerly occupied by Clinton News-Record. BY KEITH FIOULSTON The literary club of Central Huron Secondary School recently published its first collection of poems and short stories • silhouette, and did a fine job of it. Most of the 52-page book is taken up by poetry but 15 pages are allocated to short stories. Some of the poetry is startling in quality from high school students while some is not, but on the whole, the book is very good and pleasing to look at' with interesting pen and ink illustrations by Rosanne Middleton.. As with most books of it's type, Silhouette is of uneven quality. Much of the difference between the best and the worst seems to be in the lack of discipline, Some of the poets obviously Worked hard at their task and disciplined themselves to give, if not rhyme, at least rhythm to their poetry. Others, have used the free form of modern poetry as an excuse to call anything a poem whether it makes sense or has rhythm or is just a hodgepodge. These have trouble communicating their ideas to the reader while those who disciplined themselves do not. Thankfully, there are more of the former than the latter in Silhouette. Among the mast pleasing poets is Grace Benjamins, who also edited the book, An eXample it this short poem called IVIetarriorphosis: Why don't we grow from our indifference And blossom into real living As a dormant root grows front darkness Into a thing of beauty? One would think the discipline would be shown by the older of the writers but one of the best examples of disciplined poetry came Winter courses are being offered at the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food office at Clinton and the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, Huron Park. Courses at the ODAF office in Clinton will cover herd health and management, production economics, feeding nutrition, etc. for dairy, swine and beef producers. Other courses offered at Clinton will be on Profitable Corn Production; a Cucumber Clinic; Marketing of Farm Products, Tractor Maintenance, Farm Machinery Economics and Practical Welding. The above programs vary from a two day clinic; six and eight half day sessions to 21 two-hour programs in the welding course. Most courses start in January. The Centralia Courses are two day short courses with overnight accomodations for those requiring it. The Swine Course is offered Jan. 19 and 20, the Beef Course is offered Jan. 25 and 26. The Weed Control Course is set for Feb. 1 and 2, Forage Production and Handling is March 14 and 15 and Business Arrangements and Estate Planning is booked for March 1 and 2. from Joanne Van Drunen, a grade nine student who was also one of the few who triecV to 'use rhyme in her poetry. Her poem was 'called The Secret: "What is the real good?" I asked in a musing mood. "Order," said the law court, . "Knowledge," said the school, "Truth," said the wise man. "Pleasure," said the fool. Then within my conscience Softly this I heard: "Each heart holds the secret; Kindness is the word." Many others also displayed skill, talent and mature thinking many adults would not expect from teenagers. They would be wise to read the book to know a little more about how today's teenagers think. The short story writers showed the ability to put together a plot arid stick to it and they also showed a good sense of humour. Their mistake seems to be that made by most young writers in that they refuse to write about What they know and concentrate on writing about other parts of the world or beyond. If these 'young writers stick to subjects about which they have a good fund of knowledge, they will produce impressive work. All in all, though, Silhouette it an interesting little book that should be read by everyone in the community. We often forget that we have talented people in our own area and that the big cities don't 'have a monopoly on talent, If only we could keep some of that talent here. warden administered by Judge Robert S. Hetherington and Rev. G.L. Royal officiated for the brief dedication service. Mayor Harry Worsell brought greetings from the Town of Goderich and Tom Consitt, a councillor from Stanley Township, spoke on behalf of • the new warden's municipality. After thanking those who had worked with him in the past year and noting the improvement in the weather in Huron since he took office, Jack Alexander retired from the Warden's chair. The Striking Comittee consisted of Joe Hoffman, Harold Robinson, Anson McKinley, Eugene Frayne and Allan Campbell. Literary Club publishes book of verse and fiction