Clinton News-Record, 1972-02-17, Page 1Thursday, foloroory 17, 1972 107' Year - No. 7
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After a good start, attempts to light a huge bonfire from Christmas trees stored since early
January in the park fizzled out. Those in charge had the fire going but the snow accumulated in
the I imbs of the trees kept the fire from getting a good start. Even when the trees were douced
with oil they refused to burn. Fina lly attempts were abandoned and some unlucky soul will be
stuck with cleaning up the mess in the spring. Here, during one of its brighter moments, the
fire reflects on the faces of onlookers.
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Bargain World Salute
to Mr. and Mrs. Consumer
bigger and better values to pass
on to you. These firms are proud
of their merchandise. They pride
themselves in that they can offer
identical items in Clinton that you
can find anywhere and in most
cases for less money.
To put a bit of spice into the
action which you will find in
Clinton stores for the next eight
weeks, a total of $200. in
merchandise vouchers will be
handed out to six lucky draw
winners. All you have to do is visit
any of the participating places of
business and obtain a sales slip or
entry form and deposit it in any
one of five locations,—which are
as follows for the first week: J.T.
Murphy Ltd-Motor Sales; Haugh
Tire Supply; Lorne Brown Motors
Ltd; J.W. Peck, Auto Electric:
and Scruton's Tire and Auto
Service.
You can shop in Clinton with
confidence. The shopkeepers
here are your friends. Their
purpose is to supply you with the
best quality merchandise, at the
lowest possible prices.
The Clinton News-Record
serves as a messenger to bring
the buyer and seller together. We
respect your shopping habits, and
are proud to join the following
merchants in a •'SALUTE TO
YOU" Mr. and Mrs. Consumer.
The progressive Clinton
merchants making this "Bargain
World" include: Aiken Brothers;
Archer's Sales and Service; Ball
and Mutch Ltd: Beattie Furniture;
Lorne Brown Motors Ltd: Clere-
Vu Auto Wreckers; Clinton
Electric Shop; Clinton Farm and
Garden, Centre; Clinton Knitting
Centre; Clinton Public Utilities
Commission; Del Mac Fruit and
Variety; Fabian Furniture Mfg.
Co. Ltd; P.J. Goldsworthy Motor
Sales; Haugh Tire Supply; Ivan
and Mickey's Gulf Service
Station; Jervis Sales-Aluminum
Products; Kum-In Restaurant:
J.T. Murphy Ltd Motor Sales;
J,W. Peck Auto Electric;
Priceguard Patent Medicines;
Randy's Sunoco Station; Scruton's
Tire and Auto Service; and
Clinton News-Record.
The log Sawing contest proved a trowdpleaser this year at the Saturday afternoon activities
of the Clinton Winter Carnival. Here starter Bill Jenkins gives a tittle advice to two of the
contestants
Bayfield man hurt in accident
BY WILMA OK g
A Hayfield area man is in Clinton Public
Hospital following a truck-bus collision on
Highway 4, about two miles north of Hrucefieldl
after four o'clock Friday afternoon.
John Marks, 59, R.R. $ Hayfield, is reported
to be in satisfactory condition with head and
leg iniuries.
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With the fourth annual Clinton Winter
Carnival just over already Preparations are
being made for next year.
All interested parties who have suggestions
for a bigger and better carnival for next year
are invited to meet at the town hall Feb. 24 at 8
p.m.
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Recreation director Doug Andrews said he
enjoyed working on the Winter Carnival this
year because of the hard work put into the show
by Carnival Chairman Bill Crawford. Many
others agree that Bill did a first rate job.
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The rather dull wet weather of Sunday
afternoon didn't do much to deter the
snowmobile enthusiasts from coming out to
the snowmobile races;but it sure hindered our
photographer. The dull skies and steady fall of
either snow or rain made it impossible to get
good pictures of the races which explains why
there are few shots in this week's paper,
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Help! Your editor is drowning under a sea of
reports and picturei of the winter carnival.
Unfortunately, the amount of material that
has been turned in for use in the paper this .
week has been so great that even with Marg
Rudd and Peggy Gibb pressed into service as a
reporting staff, we have just been unable to
keep up, If you have a news item that doesn't
appear in this week's paper, please
understand our situation. We promise to catch
up and get it in for next week.
As of press time, there were still some
results of carnival events that had not been
turned in. We hope to have the missing reports
in time for next week.
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The arena staff is taking a bit of a breather
this week before plunging back into the fray
next week with the first weekend's activities in
the three-week-long Bantam Hockey
Tournament.
This year, Doug Andrews tells us, there are
62 teams entered playing 57 games.
Watch next week's paper for further details.
Robert LeBeae, 33, of RR 1, f3rucefield,
driver of the school bus, had, just finished
taking students home from Huron Centennial
School, Brucefteld. He had stopped the bus on
the highway to make a left hand turn into the
laneway of his home when the bus was stritck:in
the rear by the truck.
The truck was demolished and the school
bus owned by Murphy Bus Lines of Clinton was
extensively damaged.
Constable George Hiles, OPP, Goderich,
investigated the accident.
Cable TV
contract signed.
Clinton came one step closer to getting
cable television service Monday night but it is
still unknown when such service will be
installed in town.
Council signed an agreement granting
permission for Ronald Gary McIntosh of
Goderich to install a cable system in Clinton.
Mr. McIntosh presently operates similar
systems in Stratliroy and Goderich.
But Mr. McIntosh told the News-Record that
he has no idea when cable TV could become a
reality in Clinton. The Canadian Radio
Television Commission must first grant a
licence for Clinton and as yet a hearing on an
application for Clinton has not even been 'set
up.
Mr. McIntosh said Robert McKinley, M.P.
for Huron is working on the problem in Ottawa.
Clinton also seems to he no closer to getting
a memorial for Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Cooper. In
a letter received by council Monday night,
Willis C. Cooper of England, son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Cooper, informed council
that their suggestion of an all-purpose building
in the Community Park to serve the elderly
and the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements
sounded too "nebulous" for him to proceed
with the project, He said he had hoped to be
sent clippings from the News-Record and a list
of the proposals submitted by the public. He
suggested it would perhaps he better for him to
wait until he could visit Clinton himself.
"I can see how he'd be cautious",
commented Reeve Harold Lobb. He suggested
that council write a letter inviting Mr. Cooper
to visit Clinton if he was in Canada.
A survey to determine the need for more
senior citizens' housing in Clinton is to be
carried out in the near future.
Council had requested the Ontario Housing
Corporation to carry out the survey and OHC
had replied to council that it would send
questionnaires to be mailed out to all senior
citizens in the town.
:VIcKillop Mutual' re-ports
fire losses of $267,908
The consumers of Clinton and
area have made this community
one of the finest shopping centres
in this region. Your shopping
habits and buying skills have
thrown the spotlight on Clinton
and area and have caused other
communities to cast envious eyes
in our direction.
As a method of saying "Thank
You" 23 merchants in the Clinton
area have teamed up to present
eight full weeks of special values
in "Bargain World", a special
section in the News-Record whei.e
their appreciation of you, the
consumer, will be demonstrated.
These specials will be
advertised by Clinton merchants
who are constantly looking for
The cost of the proposed extension to the
Clinton sewerage system has jumped from
$420,000 to $510,000 in the past year, Clinton
town council learned Monday night,
The starting increase was revealed in a
letter to the town from Dryden and Smith the
consultingfirm which has prepared the plans
for the extension,
Four reasons were given for the increase in
cost. One was that further features, equipment
and piping had to be added. The size of the final
settling tank has to be enlarged, an air grit
tank has to be provided and aeration must be
provided in the digested sewage.
Part of the additional cost was due to a
request from the Public Utilities Commission
that the depth of the Osbourne St. Pumping
station be increased,
The final reason was that tenders are
expected to be called this spring, a year after
I3Y WILMA OKE
Stricter regulations for the operation of
school buses were approved Monday by the
Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate
School Board.
The regulations were introduced by Arthur
Haid, R. R. 4, Listowel, chairman of the
transportation committee, based on the
findings of the coroner's jury on January 12,
1972, investigating an October 26 fatal bus
accident near Moorefield on Wellington
County Read if, which recommended stiffer
Controls Over bus equipment and operations.
A Seveft-year old girl, a passenger in the
school burs when it left the road and ran into two
hydro poles, was killed, and eight other
children received minor interim and on the
following day the drivel' of the bus committed
The jury ruled the girl died of head injuries
after she was thrown against a steel crossbar
on the back of a bus seat. •
A breathalizer test taken by the bus driver
three hours after the accident, had shown a
concentration of .08 per cent alcohol (the legal
limit)or higher, estimated at the time of the
accident to be 91/2 ounces of alcohol in the
blood stream.
The new school board regulations call for
the installation of padded coverings for the
steel crossbars on all buses carrying
separate school students. The padding is to be
installed on the five board-owned buses
intmediately.
organizations in town asking if they would help
canvass to town to raise funds for a fireworks
display.
Walter Armes, who runs the rough
carpentry course for Conestoga College at
Central Huron Secondary School appeared
before Council and said his class was available
to do any carpentry work the council might
require, He said the 16 men taking the course
need practical experience and that they will
undertake work for government bodies or
service clubs.
Deputy-reeve Frank Cook said he
understand the Kinsmen club needed some new
facilities at the Community Park and that he
would put Mr. Armes' offer to them in a
Meeting Tuesday night. Council also said it
would look at it's own needs to see if the
students could be given work.
Contract bus operations have until
September 1, 1972, as a deadline to have this
precautionary measure taken to have the
crossbars on the back of all seats covered with
padding.
Other regulations are:
Board transportation committee members
will make personal visits to all bus drivers on
a regular basis.
Copies of all school bus drivers' licences
(for board-owned lmses) be made available to
the board office, updated with renewals and
change affecting the licence.
Copies of school bus certificates of
mechanical fitness to be made available to the
board office by all independent contractors
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Town council
• reorganizes
to bring
efficiency
Clinton town council Monday night seta time
limit on the length of council meetings.
From now on council meeting will adjourn
by II p.m, at the latest unless a special motion
is passed to allow the meeting to go longer.
The time limit was part of a plan to
streamline the workings of council. The
streamlining also calls for all meetings to
start on time.
A new committee system was also
introduced which will see only two nights a
month used for committee meetings unless
special meetings are required. Four
committees, police, protection to persons and
properties, industrial and sanitation and
waste will meet on one night under the
chairmanship of Reeve Harold Lobb. Included
on the committees are Clarence Denomme
(head of industrial), James Armstrong (head
of sanitation), Joe Atkinson (head,of protection
to persons and property) and Mr. Lobb.
Deputy-reeve Frank Cook will chair the
other meeting which will include public works,
with Russ Archer as chairman; finance, with
Bill Crawford as chairman; general
government, with Norman Livermore as
chairman and by-laws with Mr. Cook as
Chairman.
Councillor Armstrong who headed the
committee in charge of reorganizing the
council, said the committee had tried to have
two heavy committees and two with a lighter
work load on each of the nights.
Reeve Harold Lobb said lie was very pleased
with the work of the committee, He had been
advocating similar steps for a long time.
Parade
biggest yet
One of the biggest winter parades in many
years was seen by a large audience under
brilliant, wa rm sunshine on Clinton's main
street oil Saturday afternoon.
The long Winter Carnival Parade had 48
entries and was marshalled by Jack Reid.
Awarded first prize in the parade was the
Fish and Game Conservation elub's float on
preventing pollution. It featured members of
the Girl. Guides and Brownies.
Second prize went to the kindergarten cla ss
of Clinton Public. School under the leadership
Willett' teacher, Mrs. Ken Williams. The float
featured a huge snowman.
Third prize went to the Med° float.
honourable mention was given to the floats of
the 'Clinton Skating Club and Grades one and
two float from Clinton Public School with Mrs.
Taylor as teacher.
BY WILMA OKE
Fire losses covered by the McKillop Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, Seaforth, totalled
$267,908 in 1971 it was announced Friday at
the company's annual meeting.
Mrs. Keith Sharp, Seaforth, secretary-
treasurer of the company, said this figure is
about four times higher than last year
($76,000).
Profits in 1971 for the 95-year old company
were $8,908. Net insurance at the end of the
year was $43,864,194, an increase of
$1,591,332 over 1970,
John T. Moylan, R.R. 2, Dublin, was re-
elected vice-president and Mrs, Sharp,
secretary-treasurer.
Re-elected to three-year terms as directors
are Alister Broadfoot, R.R. 2. Seaforth, and
W. R. Pepper, Brucefield, and Mr. Archibald.
the original estimate was made and prices
/have risen,
The increase in cost required council
amend its by-law which was passed last year to
cover the initial planning for the project.
Council passed the amendment without
comment.
Council laid plans at the meeting for a
community fireworks display. Councillor Joe
Atkinson of the Protection to Persons and
Property committee raised the subject, He
had received an assurance last year that the
fire department would run the display if
someone else raised the Money. Time ran out
on council efforts to find someone to canvas
the town for donations for the display, so this
year Councillor Atkinson said he wanted to
start early.
It wasdecided that Councillor Atkinson's
committee should send letters to service
Council promotes fireworks display
Huron-Perth separate school board
introduces tougher regulation for buses