Clinton News-Record, 1972-07-13, Page 11linton, Ontario
Second Section
Clinton News-Record
hursday, July 13, 1972
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cKinley in the House ••.
Ode to John
T'was 14 years ago--back in "58"
A young bachelor made a decision that shaped his fate.
Teaching was his game,-and JOHN was his name,
But t'was to Goderich Township that he came.
In S,S, 4 school house on the 16th
grades and 23 pupils were beneath
His rule and his instruction,
A wonder it wasn't his destruction
As he tried to teach the "Golden Rule" n'
Readin' n' Writin' n' Rithmetic.
He USED a strap instead of the hickory stick.
Eight pupils of this school. Liz, Wendy and Len,
Susan, Ivan, George, Tom and Don
Started and years later ended their Public School Days with teacher
JOHN,
In 1960 our Goderich Township School Area started,
And was with a few regrets that John departed
As a teacher from the little old No. 4
To become a principal as he opened the new school door.
With two new shiny classrooms and School No. 3
There was little time for John to be free.
But Mrs. Powell was there to help him through
When all the confusion made him blue.
The year of "62" saw many things changed,
An office and 3 more classrooms were arranged;
Bringing more students and teachers under his thumb
We sure were lucky that John wasn't dumb,
T'was in that year of "62"
Love hit our John--Hard and True.
And by the year of "65"
Things really came alive.
John a fattier did become
And at the school-more building had begun.
An auditorium, 5 classrooms, staffroom and kitchen were completed.
All of the students now would be treated
To a bus ride each day of learning
While for holidays they were yearning.
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Now all the little township schools
Are under one roof and one set of rules.
This was the year of "66", John's family grew to four
First a son and now a daughter, who could ask for more.
Centennial year will long be remembered by all,
The wild confusion-from spring until fall.
Students planting and watering trees without complaints
Weren't they a bunch of "Dear" little saints?
A very large celebration was planned,
T'would he held on the new school's land,
Displays of antiques filled several classrooms
With treasures as precious as found in old tombs.
Was such a shame it had to rain
But all the hard work was not in vain.
We had a parade, barbecue and a dance
And then on Sunday, were given a chance
To have lots of laughter and fun
When the men played ball and things came undone.
Would take hours for one to remember it all
Have you noticed our AWARD PLAQUES in the hall?
During the next years several changes we saw.
A larger schoolboard became the new school law,
French and New Math our children are taught
And kindergarten started--BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
By now the paper work is doubled and piled in John's road
So "J,J,'' or "Tiny the Typist" came to help lighten the load.
The year 1970 brought two joys John's way,
Son Ian was born and he got his "B.A."
"71" had one BIG event to regret,
NO student or teachers will ever forget
Those three horrible days of learning to cope
With hardship and hunger and keeping up HOPE.
From 96 the attendance has risen to 325
With many new problems as each day arrives.
The intercom saves many steps down the hall
But that "thing" doesn't solve all.
With parents, teachers and students it's hard to know
Right or left, which way will we go?
Of the 36 teachers who've walked thru that door
We have "old timers'- but only four.
k Carroll and Castle and Powell and "Serts"
Now John is leaving and it really hurts,
Words can't be found to express how we feel
So by our presence tonight we hope we reveal
You have our BEST wishes for joy and success
And throughout the years--every happiness.
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At the Orange Parade last Saturday in Goderich
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It was June 29 that the Farm
redit Act was presented in the
ouse of Commons at Ottawa for
he third and final reading. During
he debate which followed and
efore the bill was passed,
uron's MP Robert E. McKinley
elivered the following speech in
the House:
"Mr. Speaker. I thought last
night that perhaps this bill might
pass and there would be no further
debate on it. However, I would like
at this time to bring to the
attention of the House some of the
difficult problems that
agriculture faces, The fact that
the government has brought
forward this bill is an admission
on their part that there are
serious difficulties in agriculture
and that, provisions must be
brought in to assist people who
engage in the production of
agricultural products throughout
the country.
"On second reading we moved
an amendment which was turned
down by the government. It was
brought forward in an attempt to
provide incentives for young
farmers who become involved in
agriculture, to initiate better
programs to enable young people
to get started, and to assist those
people whom the government is
trying to remove from the farms.
We believe that incentives should
be given to young people to stay on
the farm.
"This bill provides a little
more money. The amount of $56
million has been increased to
$566 million in the financial
resources of the Farm Credit
Corporation. I believe this was
done in recognition of the fact that
more money is needed to help
young people stay on the farm and
to assist those engaged in farming
to carry on. The bill also provides
that loans will be granted to
facilitate efficient operation of a
farm. Under the present act,
loans are available only if the
money is necessary for efficient
operation. I must admit that this
is a move in the right direction—
away from negative, last resort
aid, to more positive help. This
seems to be action taken before
last-ditch efforts become
necessary, Any move in that
direction will, I am sure, be a
good thing for the agricultural
industry.
"Also, under this bill loans will
become available to persons
under 21 years of age. Previously
they were not able to obtain loans,
but this legislation brings the age
requirement down to 18. In
addition, farm improvement
loans which are available through
the banks can now be obtained
without a prior commitment from
the Farm Credit Corporation.
This seems to be reasonable and
will provide money to those
engaged in agriculture. It will cut
down the ,,,red tape which so
frequently ,exists in these
matters.
"Then in this bill the appraised
value of land will include the
productive value of a second non-
farming enterprise that might be
carried on by the same individual.
I suggest that this provision may
not be all bad: it will be possible to
get an increased loan on a smaller
parcel of land. The amendments
in this bill are good but in our
estimation they are not good
enough. We would have liked the
bill to include a provision for
partial non-repayment of loans
when young farmers meet certain
performance standards. Before
anyone in the NDP jumps up and
says young farmers would have to
be perfect before qualifying, I
would point out that
-`performance standards''
simply means meeting the
payments they agreed to meet
when they obtained loans.
"We also would have liked a
provision in the bill that interest
paymen;:s in the initial period of a
loan could be delayed, so that a
new enterprise could show some
results in a financial way before a
farmer had to repay large
commitments. However, the
government majority voted
against us on that suggestion.
"Some government members
suggested that we would not
support this bill. This is not true,
Mr. Speaker. They seem to enjoy
preaching throughout the country
that we oppose for the sake of
opposing rather than for the sake
of being constructive. This is not
true. The measures proposed in
this legislation are not that had,
but we say they could be a lot
better; and at second reading,
committee stage, report stage,
and now on third reading, we have
endeavoured to improve the
legislation. In the House of
Commons our aim is to improve
legislation. If government
members complain that they have
trouble getting legislation
through the House, it is because
government legislation has often
been hastily brought forward, ill
conceived, and has not served a
purpose satisfactory to the people
of the country,
"I am disappointed that the
government stood fast in
upholding clause I of the bill,
giving them all kinds of power,
without offering any real
explanation of how that power
would be used. We voted on that
matter last night. I am happy to
say that I registered my vote
against it,
"There are all kinds of
precedents for providing
incentives to new borrowers.
CMHC has provision for partial
non-repayment of loans. During
the last four years incentives
have been provided to various
businesses to start operations all
across the country. The Financial
Administration Act gives the
government power to forgive a
tax, penalty or debt, in particular
cases. If housing and business can
receive these incentives, why
cannot agriculture have the same
privilege? It is often said that
what is good for business is good
for the country. This was
preached by the Minister of
Finance (Mr. Turner) in his last
budget. I suggest that what is good
for the farmer is also good for the
country.
'The major industry in the
constituency of Huron is
agriculture. As agriculture goes,
so goes the economy of Huron
county. So long as I have the
privilege of being a member of the
House of Commons, agriculture
and its betterment will be one of
my first priorities. It is
disappointing that the Minister of
Agriculture (Mr. Olson) did not
see fit to accept some of the
amendments put forward by the
hon. member for Mackenzie (Mr.
Korchinski) and the hon. member'
for Vegreville (Mr.
Mazankowski). Had he done so,
this would be a much better bill.
"The government seems to
think that those engaged in
agriculture are to be used only to
produce cheap food, so that in turn
industry may have a chance to
export industrial products to
other countries. This is not
acceptable. If farmers received a
profitable return for their
products, it would have an
expansionary effect all across the
country. If the primary producers
had dollars in their pockets, they
would become purchasing
consumers of the industrial
products which provide jobs.
"We also urged the provision of
open-ended loans, that loans could
be increased without going
through all the red tape involved
in obtaining the original loan, One
report shows that of the $115.2
million in loans approved during
1970-71, $36.4 million went to
repay existing loans. We do not
disagree with the provision of
additional money for loans to
single family farm operations, up
to the amount of $100,000; but if
the government had listened to
our suggestions this would be a
better bill, We have offered good
suggestions but the government
has not listened to us.
"We have offered suggestions
of the type that would make the
Liberal party popular, but they
seem to feel that they know all,
control all, can do all and are the
only people who ought tolovern, I
suggest they had better start
listening, for before long they will
discover that what they think is
not true.
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Several awards for long service were
presented to county employees at the June
session of county council.
All for 15 years of service to Huron. they
were presented to Mrs. Rita Dales, Clinton, a
seamstress at Huronview; Len Westbrook.
Goderich, a court house caretaker: Jack
Lowe, Brussels, of the bridge construction
crew; and Murray Underwood, Wingham, a
truck driver with the Wroxeter Maintenance
Patrol.
The road report for June showed that 1972
winter control to date had cost $146,103
compared with $147,053 for the same period
last year.
"We expect the year end cost will not exceed
the budgeted amount of $180.000." said
William Elston, reeve of Morris and chairman
of the road committee.
The report also noted that the road
department is "feeling the pinch of
government restraints" and urged ratepayers
to be "a little more patient since we simply
cannot improve our road system as quickly as
we would like to".
"We still feel confident that our proposal to
C.S. MacNaughton. suggesting a revised
system of allotting subsidies will be
implemented in 1973 and thereby give us more
freedom in setting our budget." said Elston,
County engineer Jim Britnell noted that
county is asking that the province consider
grants with "no strings attached" and giving
the municipalities the opportunity to spend the
money as they see fit.
A special guest at the meeting was Murray
Gaunt, Liberal MP for Huron-Bruce. He urged
counties to consider their own
"restructuring" and to present their plans to
the provincial government for assessment.
The Mayor of all five towns in Huron were
invited to the session. Only Clinton's Mayor
Don Symons was unable to attend: Also present
was a number of past wardens of Huron.
Moira Couper, Hensall, co-ordinator of
Children's Recreation in Huron, gave an
interim report on her work. She is in Huron at
the expense of the, provincial government,
conducting this pilot project to determine the
need for recreational activities other than
sports.
• From talking to people in the communities
it would seem that they have a real need for
greater opportunities in art, crafts, theatre
etc.." said Mrs. Couper. "Many of the new
programs which will be established this
summer will be of this nature and I believe that
people would like these to continue through the
year."
• am finding great resources in our county
and believe that with a little organization,
more people could become involved, both as
participants and leaders," continued Mrs.
Corier. "There could be greater contact one
with another in Huron County towns and
villages and much wider exposure to arts.
crafts and theatre could take place."
She had a new idea which caught the
imagination of some of her listeners.
"I personally, have been doing some work
involving the men in the Huron County Home
for the Aged," reported Mrs. Couper. "They
have made some weaving frames for the
children in craft programs to use. Groups of
children with whom I have been working with
crafts have visited the county home with me
and worked with the residents. I suggest that it
would be for the well being of our senior
citizens in these homes to have closer contact
with children in the community in this way."
"I should like to recommend that county
council give serious future consideration to
the establishment of some permanent
program in the areas of recreation not
covered by sports," concluded Mrs. Coupon
Miss Heather MacAdam, of Clinton, who was chosen "Miss Huron
Central Fair" recently, will compete with 55 other rural fair
queens from across Ontario. The contest will be held on opening day
of the Canadian National Exhibition and is the first time in 94 years
history of the Exhibition that a "Miss CNE—Sweetheart of the
Fair" has been chosen. Miss CNE will fly non-stop DC-8 to the
Calgary Stampede as guest of Air Canada. She will also receive
$1000 from the Sweetheart Soap Division of the Purex Corporation,
co-sponsor of the contest, and many other prizes.
Long service awards presented
Huron County playhouse
Looking forward to busy season
Community support and
involvement with the new Huron
Country Playhouse grows daily,
reports managing Director',
James Murphy. Season ticket
sales are selling even faster than
expected. This is due largely to
the iniative and enthusiasm of the
people in charge of the drive.)
Board members, Mrs. Griffin
Thomas and Mrs. William
Schlegel are heading the drive in
Grand Bend and have set up ticket
locations at Thomas Furniture
and the Havasu. In Exeter, Mrs,
Mel Gaiser is in charge and
season tickets are on sale there at
Jack Smith Jewelry; Mr. Gary
Knapp is handling Parkhill and the
ticket location there is at
Charlton's Ladies Wear. In
Goderich Betty Etue is Playhouse
representative, and in London,
Words and Music is carrying the
season tickets.
In addition, there are many
people who are involved in
assisting the playhouse in other
ways. For example, Mrs. William
Harwood, along with daughter
Cathy and her friends, have set up
a "branch office' in her Oakwood
cottage where they work on a huge
Mailing list. Other young people
have formed a volunteer' crew to
travel With promotion man Jamie,
Hamilton of Ilderton on his trips
to distribute posters,
Still others, like Grosse Point
contractor, David Willison, who
has his cottage in Southcott Pines,
brings his power tools on
weekends and pitches in on
building repairs. Many others
come for a few hours workvothers
drop in simply as spectator's or
well wishers. It is part of a very
vital community spirit, says
Murphy, that seems to indicate
that many people of this area like
the idea of having their own
summer theatre here, not only for
themselves, but for the tens of
thousands of visitors who come
here every year.
This week, designer and
technical director Dale Melsness
arrives with stage designs for all
the shows as well as the
dimensions and plans for the
Under the direCtion of Mrs.
Moira Cooper, co-ordinator of
children's recreation for Huron
County, and Fanshawe College
graduates Rick Pritchard, Donna
Taylor, Ken Roulston, Jim
Pletcher, Laurie Kretowki and
Bill Mills, a leadership training
course for playground leaders
was held at Clinton last week. The
College students are graduates of
the Recreation Leadership
course.
Thirty.five persons registered
stage itself, The stage platform
will have to be constructed and
ready to go up when the tent
arrives on July 22nd, Lights will
be trucked in from Toronto;
chair's will come from London.
Special lighting pylons and
electrical lines are being
installed.
A bulldozer arrives on Monday
to clear' the area that will become.
the parking lot. While this activity
goes on in the theatre site,
director Bathsheba Garnett is
calmly putting her actors through
their paces inside the barn loft,
Downstairs young theatre
aspirant, Jim Thomas from
Wallaceburg is sanding the beams
and cementing the walls of what
will become the theatre lobby—
for the course coming from
Exeter, Huron Park, Zurich,
Hensall, Seaforth, Lucknow and
Goderich.
On the first morning the group
participated in craft sessions and
a hike to experience different
types of leadership, These
activities were followed by a film
dealing with the different
leadership styles and how they
can affect the success of a
playground program,
hopefully in time for opening
night.
Also, the Oakwood Inn is
sponsoring, along with the
Playhouse, a' special bargain
price "dinner and theatre for
two" package. It offers a sirloin
dinner and choice seats at the
show for two for $12,00. Also, on
Monday, July 24th, Mrs. Walker
will be hostess at a tea at the Inn at
which the press and friends of the
Playhouse can meet the members
of the theatre company,
All is geared to a gala night at
9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July
26th, The new Playhouse is
located one mile east of Grand
Bend on highway 81, and one mile
north on the B Line. With a 100
foot tent, you can't miss it,
In the evening, MI's. William
Batten and Mrs. Jack Roeda of
Exeter came to take part in the
session on pottery, macrame and
creative drama, John Park of the
recreation staff at Goderich also
gave a short presentation on first
aid,
The final day involved the group
With problem solving sessions,_
setting up programs and•
evaluation as well as group
dynamics.
Course for playground leaders held