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Clinton News-Record, 1972-08-17, Page 1Weather 1972 1971 August Hi LO HI 11.0 8 66 55 85 53 9 64 52 87 57 10 65 41 93 67 11 71 47 68 52 12 80 58 77 44 13 82 59 • 82 62 14 79 64 77 60 A section of the barn owned by Leo Dykstra of RR 2, Clinton collapses during a fire that swept through the two storey structure and an adjoining one storey/ structure. About $80,000 damage was done by the fire and 15 caves were lost along with some farm machinery and a newly constructed milking parlour. (News- Record photo) Fire razes barn 1 st Column A. The pipe band Of Clinton Branch 140 of the Canadian Legion leads the parade down Albert Street during the Derry day celebrations held here last week, The Legion band took top honors as the best pips band. More than 5,000 people turned out to watch the parade, (News,Record photo) Derry Day celebration interrupted • Clinton council changes zoning -Clinton Town. -Council revised the .town's planning map Monday night at their regular meeting, The plan which is still waiting Ontario Municipal Beard approval, .was. altered by the council on recommendation of the town's solicitor Beecher Menzies and the planning board. The council rezoned the triangle hounded. by Victoria and William into a commercial zone from a residential zone. The change permits many uses including apartment buildings businesses and many types of stores and services. The building line for the commercial zone is on the street line and the owner is required to provide no parking space for people using his. premises. Also, no planting 6trins or green areas Are required in the commercial zone, No side yards are necessary in the zone either, Council also rezoned three lots. on Albert Street between Mill and Whitehead, Previously, the lots were zoned residential but they have been changed into a zone that provides for all types of housing and certain non-residential uses considered to be computable with residential uses, Council also changed the zone on Beach Street to accommodate the Huron Laundry, only. Late last month, Clinton Council had been called into a special session to consider whether they would change the William Victoria triangle after it was learned that an unnamed contractor wished to build an exclusive apartment building ,on Williem, Street. Council met with this planning board in the meantime and came up with a solution, Residents will have a chance to voice objectione to any of the suggested changes, In other business, council was told that :Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation is temporarily out of funds and it would be several months before they conk' loan Clinton the money to go ahead with a planned $770,000 sewage expansion plan, The C.M,H.C, was being asked to loan Clinton $513,000 and Clinton was going to issue 20 year debentures on the remaining $256,000: Council was told that Ontario Municipal Board approval of the sewage expansion would be coming any day now, The contractor, Maple Engineering of Rexdale, submitted the lowest tender and can back out of the contract if it is not signed by Clinton, The actual work to be done by Maple Engineering will cost $674,000. Clinton may have to find additional funds elsewhere until the C.H.M.C, loan comes through in October, Council also accepted Janice Herman, Clinton, as the new tape clerk at the town hell, She was one of ten applicants seeking the job. The mayor and councillors welcomed her. 20 Cents Clinton News-Record Thursday, August 17, 1972 More senior housing coming 107 Year - No. 33 Rain 1.10" ‘111111., ;14 Fire roared through two barns last Sunday afternoon on the farm of Leo. Dykstra R.R. 2 Clinton killing about 15 calves and causing an estimated $80,000 damage. The fire broke out about noon on Sunday while the Dykstras were' away visiting his brother-in-law. The farm is located on Highway 8 about six miles west of Clinton. First witnesses on the scene, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kreuter of Elmwood, said the fire started in the upper corner of the old part of the barn near the hay mow. "When the *fire broke through the roof," Mr. Kreuter said, "the air got at the fire and a ball of hot gas turned the rest of the barn into an inferno." By the time firefighters from Goderich arrived at the scene the barn was burning fiercely and there was little they could do, They called in the fire pumper and the tank from Clinton but were hampered by a lack of water. The Clinton tanker was put on a shuttle service between the fire and a pond about a mile down the road. Firemen had to also cut live wires leading to the barn before they could safely get near t. At one point several firemen narrowly caned injury when the burning timbers of the 30 foot structure came tumbling down. The older two storey barn was completely estroyed and a year-old one storey addition as about 90 percent burned. A new milking arlour and milk storage tank in the new ddition were complete write-offs. Firemen had to be called back later Sunday evening when fire broke out again and a wind change threaten to set the house on fire, The family's 50 head milk herd are being milked by neighbours and relatives. Mr. Dykstra hasn't decided yet whether he will rebuild. Firemen believe cause of the fire was spontaneous combustion. Plowing Match date is set Plans for the 45th Huron County Plowing Match were finalized at a well attended meeting held in McKillop Township Hall, Winthrop on Thursday night, The Match is to be held on the Wm, Steckle farm, 2 miles south of Bayfield, on Highway 21, on August 29. Coaching day was set for Monday, August 28 when expert coaches will be on hand to advise plowmen on the fine points of plowing. The Annual Horse Shoe Pitching Competition will be held in connection with the Plowing Match as well as a draw for a carcass of beef. Clinton Town Council passed a resolution Monday night asking the Ontario Housing Corporation to provide 20 units of geared-to- income citizens housing. The one-bedroom units will be built and constructed by OHC and the only cost to Clinton will be a 7 1/2 per cent levy of any operating losses. The OHC had been asked by council last Feb. to conduct a survey to find out the need for senior citizens housing in the town. The survey concluded that Clinton has a higher percentage of senior citizens than the provincial average and that there was a need for 21 units. The survey said the only rental accommodation was converted houses or apartments over stores. The survey also pointed out that Clinton has a greater percentage of both single family dwellings and owner-occupied buildings. Previously, the OHC built 18 one- bedroom apartments on James Street in Clinton. In other business, council decided to have the town see what it could do about the crime rate in Clinton. A special session of council is planned later this month. Council also decided to give $22.50 to the Ontario Municipal Association to help pay for its fight with Bell Telephone to keep low telephone costs. Council also decided to set up a committee, headed by Councillor Armstrong, to study the possibility of setting up new washrooms in the park which would be accessible from both inside the arena and from outside. Clinton Kinsmen have said they will pay half the cost because the facilities will be used by the race crowd during the summer. Council has signed a new fire agreement with Huronview that doubles the amount of money the Senior citizens hospital will pay Clinton. Council also agreed to have the Fire Marshal come in and inspect all of Clinton's fire equipment, procedures and agreements with other municipalities and to give a comprehensive report to the protection committee. The inspection is*free Council also accepted the resignation of a man from their Public Works department, Clinton will operate with two men only until later this fall, Outdoor service set for Middleton This Sunday will be the big highlight in 4St. Jame s Anglican Church Centennial Celebrations. A special church service will be held outdoors at the Park of Stewart Middleton instead of at the church, The service gets under way at 11 a.m. and the dress is strictly informal. The Rector, Reverend George Youmatoff will be in charge. Directly following the service a parish smorgasbord picnic will be held. The "padre" and church fathers are hoping for a large attendance. Friends and neighbours of St. James Church will please consider this a personal invitation. Please bring pot-luck lunch, chair, cutlery, and the odd table. Games, pony rides and boating will be the order of the afternoon. Let's make this a Sunday to remember. Nearly 200 people were left in stitches last Sunday when the Passe Muraille theatre company put on their play for and about area residents. Here Janet Amos does an impression of a mother about to have her daughter marry while the audience sit on seats made of bales. (photo by Keith Rouiston) Play thrills residents Clinton and area residents should make a point of attending the special church ,services to be held at Stewart Middleton's this Sunday. The dress is strictly informal and a picnic will follow. We've heard the Rev. Youmatoff will have to preach from a boat in Mr. Middleton's pond? XXX Residents of Vanastra (former CFB Clinton) will be sending the children to school in Clinton. The students, both public Ind secondary, will be bused in from the 'antler base. If the Clinton school becomes on crowded, then some students may have o attend Huron Centennial School at 3rueefield. X X X There is a big feature at Clinton Kinsmen laceway this Sunday when the half-mile val plays host to the fourth leg of the tHHA Belvedere Stakes. The stake will be in in three divisions and brings together >me of the finest racing talent in Ontario. xxx Residents of Vanastra are going to have ible TV shortly, Rodorea has worked out agreement With Core Cable of Goderich id Com has agreed to erect a temporary wer at the base until the Main feeder line brought in this fall. Until the main cable mes in, However, residents may tine the ble free. Most of the buried cable is ready laid. The annual Derry Day celebrations held in Clinton lest Saturday went off almost without a Witch. About 15 unidentified men tried to bretak up the drum competition in front of the rgrandstand Saturday afternoon and aucce ded 10 silencing singer Earl E ., Heywood o Wingham. Huron County Black knights and Toronto Branches are investigating the incident but offieials of the Huron Branch said the didn't have any effect on competiti ins, More than 5,000 people lined the parade route through Clinton, Saturday afternoon to view the two-mile parade of bands, floats, marching Black Knights, and Crystal Chapters, Derry Day celebrates the relief of Londonderry by the Protestant forces of William of Orange on July 30, 1689 during William's war with the Catholic forces of Charles II. The Royal Black Preceptory is a more advanced lodge of the Loyal Orange Order, founded by William's fordes after his eventual triumph at the Battle of the Boyne, The Crystal Chapter is the women's section of the Royal Preceptory. Results weret Clinton Legion Branch 140, best pipe band;_ best flute band, West Toronto; best drumtneronpaitide, Watson Webster, Clinton; best lady drummer,Mrs, McCallum, Belgrave; best fifet, Athol Bruce, Belgrave; beet float, Royal Batck Preceptor, Clinton; most years in order, Mrs. Blossorn Stewart, Hamiltone most years in Black Knights, Mr. Truman, Grand Valley; best decorated house, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lawson, 116 tag Street, BY LIZA WILLIAMS Clinton area residents are agog and are still talking about the recent play produced at the old Bird Farm by the Passe Muraille theatre group. Last Sunday afternoon the gravel road outside the farm and the long driveway leading up to the house and barn were lined _with cars representing a crowd estimated at nearly 200 people. Old and young, farmers and 'hippies' alike gathered with blankets to sit on and lunches to nibble. Many of the people in the audience came to see the play because the company had come to them asking questions about starm life. Since the subject of the play was rural Canadian life on a farm, and the group had come to Southwestern Ontario in order to research that kind of life and experience some of it first-hand, they had gotten to know many of the inhabitants of the Maitland and 16th Lines. Paul Thompson, the director of the group, looked around the crowd and judged that he recognized about a quarter of the people to be from the area, and a quarter mote to be from Stratford and Toronto, The other half were strangers to him, Everyone there, however, seemed extremely interested in what they saw on the makeshift stage, and the director and actors were thrilled with the tremendous reception they were shown, The play was held in the big old barn which the company had been using for rehearsals in the past weeks. Bales of hay were stacked nearly to the ceiling in steps and were used as seats, although some more daring souls climbed up onto the rafters for a better view. The audience was generously sprinkled with children, who had as much fun as their parents, laughing and clapping, With songs, poems, skits, interpretive exercises, and monologues, the three actors and three Actresses from Toronto bewitched their audience. When Miles Potter depicted what happened when he offered to help his neighbor with the haying, he nearly brought the barn down. The audience fell apart in glee to recognize the arduous job many of them perform twice a year. Janet Amos, As she stepped into an old- fashioned wringer-washer, became a frazzled housewife whose family's demands nearly turned her into a washing machine in the agitating cycle, Anne Anglin and David Pox crawled under two crates and did a delightful skit of a family in winter, Anne's voice Wag amazingly varied as she switched back and forth from mother to children. Fine Macdoneil's hands turned into swam and ducks as she nibbled imaginary grass froth Les Jowls' animal sanctuary.