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Clinton News-Record, 1966-04-07, Page 1(Column The Home Poper With the Newsliked toe of the tlie * I weeks ago we’ three , university en- are We blues Free "They we think some thing could be rich and poor, good' and D.) 2 modern groups than appreci- ‘ old ear-drums just short per- * been enjoying the THE NEW ERA — 100th Year THE HURON .RECORD 84th Year(By W- L. Number particularly Chaser in the London Press on Wednesday: say there are two kinds of people- in the world —> the good and the had. The good decide which liis which." Sometimes sort of similar said about the instead bad . . CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1966 10c Per Copy —> Second Section —r Pqges 9 to 16 We've tertalinment groups which being booked in to the Elm Haven Motor Hotel , . . and are pleased to see the Mercy Brothers continuing their run with an encouraging - audience each nlighit . . . They’ve been playing for the past three weeks, or so . . . and popular demand must have something to do with-it ... It must be age . ; . but the noise which 1 achieve 'is less ated . . . The can take it for tods' of time . . . Some several watched the Lady Stanfiires at the Elm, 'attractive in silver ,stretch pants and scarlet jack ets styled like the Merry Men in Sherwood Forest . . . The girls pl[ay piano., guitar (doub ling on xylophone), and’ drum . . . jand a guest Tim Eaton sat in on the horn in credit able- style . . . Tim was with Bert' Nliosli and his band for aBert ‘ Nliosli and his band for number off years ... . -----------Q----------- Jr. Farmers Are Bob Fotoemingham', Seaforth, . presided for the meeting of Huron County Junior Farmers and Junior Institute last Wed nesday, Mlaireh 30 in the agri cultural office 'biolard Grace Mathers, secretory, the minutes. Don Pullen ■the tosaisurer’s report. Under discussion were Century Farin slfens, and the pant tHe”'group will in the International Plowing Miatch this October. Need'. for capable traatoredrivers was stressed. If interested contact M. Love, Exeter. Committees established are as follows, 'along with the chairmen of each:. Field day, Bill Campbell, Clinton; drama, Don Young, Auburn; public speaking and debating, Jim Spivey, Belgrave; sports night, Ross Veiich, Wing ham; annual meeting and meet ing improvement, Bob Fotheir- inghiam, Clinton; leadership training, Tom Cunningham, Au burn; special committee, Shir ley Jacques, Clinton; exchange visit, JoAnne Alton, Lucknow; A striking committee will be named for next year. Donald McKeTcher reported from the Guelph Conference. . -----------o—--------- Patient: My wooden leg pain ed me terribly last night. Nurse: Why, how could that be? Patient: My wife hit me over the head with it. room. , read gave tQie also play WAy Tax Increase in Clinton? Attend Town Council Munday, (By A. L. Colquhoun) , How is the mill rate set for Clinton? The same as the bringing down of the budget for the Dominion of Canada, the Province of Ontario or the County of Huron. Who sets the mill rate which determines how much - taxes we pay in Clinton? The minister of finance. In Clinton’s case it is .Councillor H. F. Pat Noonan with the assistance of the town clerk, the mayor and committee heads. For the Dominion it is the minister of finance — Mitchell Sharp — who works from budgets and estimates submitted by all government depart ments, • On Monday evening, .April 11 the budget for the town of Clinton will be, submitted by Councillor Noonan at the regular meeting of council. Everyone of us was interested in the federal budget ■two weeks ago. We should be even more interested in Clinton’s budget next Monday, 'Mayor Don Symons and his council have issued an invitation to all ratepayers to attend Monday’s meeting which starts sharp at 8 p.m, ♦ Yes, our taxes will be up this year. This was revealed by Councillor Noonan at the council’s monthly committee meeting, Monday of this week. If no new developments occur this week, Clinton’s ,. ■mill rate will be up 11 mills for both residential and com mercial taxation. This brings, the rates to: 89 residential and 99 for commercial, industrial and business tax. ; Main increase is due to toe municipality taking over toe ■garbage collection service in town. This accounts for four .of the eleven mill increase. Other increases are, county rate, and both elementary and high schools, Local taxpayers can get toe answers — a full explan ation of increases and why these increases — by attending the most important council meeting of the year. <■ No Dec ision Made Yet On Truscott Inquiry As the News-Record goes to press Wednesday evening, no word has been received con cerning a decision by Solicitor- General L. T. Pennell on whe ther or not- an inquiry will be held into the Truscott case, nor on what type of inquiry is being considered. On Tuesday, Opposition Lead er Joihn G- Diefenibaker urged the federal government to grant a new trial, provided examination indicates he may have been unjustly convicted. Author Isabel LeBourd’afe, who was in Regina, that d'ay, told a Canadian press reporter, "I hope Solicitor-General Pen nell will recommend a royal commission, but 'if he doesn’t, topublic opinion Will have force one. “What I fear most is a _ dliclial inquiry which could give the appearance of having made a thorough investigation with out doing so.” z Copies of Mrs. Le'Bourdlalis books are still in short supply locally although at least one Lond'on bookstore is advertising it for sale. A group of Metro Toronto high school students are at tempting to get 1,000 signatures of grade 12 'and 13 students on a petition asking for an in quiry. The Star Weekly, which, is circulated across Canadla, has (Continued on page 16) ju- History of Unique Service PC Director Is Weekly Newspaperman A former weekly newspaper publisher, Jaimes Johnston, is at 39, national director of the Conservative party in Canada, His appointment to this job on Tuesday, April 5 was announc ed by toe Hon. John G. Diefen- baker, Mr. Johnston’s father, the late Rev, A. H. Johnston, was minister at the Brueefield- Kippen Charge of the United Church in Canada for a num ber of years. Though Mr. Johnston has the title of “acting" national direct or, lindication is that the post may be permanent. He succeeds Richard1 Thrasher, a 43-year- old lawyer, who stepped down November 8 fed- Thrasher is now Windsor. following the oral election, magistrate 'in Holder of degrees, Mr, Johnston was- born at Malden, near Windsor. He got his BA in economics and political science from the Uni versity of Western Ontario, and added his masters' and dbetor- ates in economics! at United States' Universities'. He wrote for the. Financial Post, 'and then became assist ant to the publisher of the Stratford Beacon-Herald. Then he bought the Aurora Banner . and made it into a thriving weekly newspaper. He. sold the paper last summer and joined the party’s head office staff. During 'last fall’s election; Mir, Johnston was in charge of television and advertising. His job now is to run the organization and keep shape for elections'. His mother lives in ford, and a younger brother, Keith, is a doctor in London. -----------o----------- Site of Clinton $ New Community Centre This aerial photograph points out the location of Clinton’s Centennial Community Centre, more clearly than an on-the-ground picture could possibly do.' Entrance to the building will face the end of Mill Street, and access to it will be made from that direction. One of the buildings now on the site must be moved to accommodate the Centre, which will reach fairly close to the edge of the race track. Also Huron Favours Death Hot Life Imprisonment party it in The Weather March 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 April 1966 High Low 39 37 37 39 41 39. 38 Snow: 6’ 26 24 32 29 28 27 29 «• 1965 High Low 29 * 32 28 31 38 42 44 .... No Snow Rain: .12" -------------1 12 7 22 18 3 14 18 Clinton Was RAF (1941), RCAF (1943); CFB (1966) farm of Norman Tyn-The d'all, in Tuckersmith Township has had an impressive history of service to Canada, since in the summer of 1941 it became the siite^pf the first radar train ing establishment North America. Called No. 31 Radio School (RAF) the school was created ‘in a little over one month from May 27 until June 30 of that year. It was surrounded by secrecy, an etectrically-'charged fence, • and was' patrolled by armed guards1, for RDF (radio Pte I ;<>sw< ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE ■ ■'CLINTON in this picture is the Central Huron School, lower right, and the addition to _ . ___ ing is being planned to the far side of it (in other words, the north side, where the large parking lot is). It is expected that construction of the Com munity Centre will commence as soon as possible after Clinton Spring Fair on June 4. (Photo by Galbraith) Secondary that build- Huron County on Tuesday night voted in favour of retain ing the death penalty for mur der in Canada. Robert E. McKinley, Zurich, MP for Huron, voted along with 76 other Conservatives in 'favour of keeping the law as it now is. RCAF Station Gets New Name- spirit Of integration of toe Forces. Although the same admin* istfative peTsoimOl will re* ' irialirt in command, some of their titles have been changed. Group Captain I<. R. Greenaway CD, fe how “Base Commander" instead of “Commanding Officer”. Of ficers in charge of the three RCAF Station Clinton is nd mbrOj although the Train* ting Command Base is still very much in action. Its time honoured name has disap peared ‘into vapour trails, As of April 1, the new name is CFB Clinton, which means dahadliato Forces Base Clinton. This is in find new' CFB Clinton resident schools, (Radar and Communications School, Sch* ool of Food Services, and School of Instructional Tech nique), will continue to be known as "Officer Command ing". Passers-by on Highway 4 will soon see a new sign re placing the old one, which came down on Friday, April 1. , direction finding) or radar was one of the most carefully guard ed secrets of the war. In. 1943 foe station was tak en over by the Royal Canadian Air Force and became No. 5 RCAF Radio School. First com manding officer was Wing Commander K. R. Patrick, in formally known as “Pappy Pat". By 1945 TIME magazine was reporting that in four years 2,325 Americans and 6,500 Canadians had been graduated from R and CS here at Clin ton. After the war, the school continued its service on a peace time basils.'Radio Officer Train ing School was added: to the1 responsibilities of the Station, from 1947 until 1954. No. 12 Examination Unit was organized in 1951. The next year the brick and concrete school building which has 80 classrooms and laboratories of all types, theatres, offices and’ workshops, was built ,at &. cost of approximately two. million dollars. Even wiilth this, in 1962 one third of R and CS was housed in wartime tyulildings. No. 1 School, of Food' Ser vices, the first of its kind in the RCAF Was established at Clinton in 1954. This school .trains cooks and food1 service attendants for all the RCAF. School of Instructional Tech-, niques was moved from Tren ton to Clinton in 1962. Tills school (known as SlT) teaches those who 'are chosen to be in structors inf the Air Force, Navy, service, Department of Justice, Department of Transport, RCMP, Cite. It is similar to a civilian teachers college. There ere 220 housing units in Adastral Park, the perman ent married quarters at the station. The public school there has 12 rooms plus library. There is a bowling alley, curl* ing rink (1958) and skating rink (1961)v Voting was 143-112 in favour of retention. Voting for abolit ion were Prime Minister Pear son, Opposition Leader Dliefen- baker and NDP leader T. C. Douglas. Leaders of Social Credit and 'Creditiste parties voted for retention. Attendane at the House, and in the galleries is reported to be larger than for the Mun- ■ singer debate a few weeks 'ago. There 'had been three amend ments to the motion. On the last of these, which, would have introduced a five-year trial period of abolition, Mr. McKin ley voted in favour. Others in this area who favoured tills idea were McCutcheon (PC-Lamb- ton-Kent); Walter Foy (L- Lambton West); L. T. Pennell, solicitor general (L-Brant Hal- dirnand) and Paul Maritin, min- ister of external affairs (L- Essex East). Against this idea were Mar vin Howe (PC-Welllington- Hur on) ; J. D. Montieth (PC- Perth); Percy Noble (PC-Grey- Norfh); Eric Winkler (PC- Huron-Bruce); J. A. living (PC-London); and Justice Min ister Lucien Cardin. NDP leader Douglas had urged that Canada line up with other countries which have done away with the death penalty, “this relic of barbar ity." He salid he could "con ceive of nothing more immoral than to break one man’s neck as a deterrent to others." Solicitor-General Pennell, an • abolitionist, is reported to have looked grief-stricken, and to' be weeping, as the roll call, vote indicated the resolution would be defeated. Afterward he said “I'm crushed." Mr. Pennell has the responsibility of recom mending to Parliament whether commutation is to' be made- in each case of conviction for cap ital murder. Abolitionists say they .will continue to work toward having the death penalty removed from Canadian, law. ------------0------------ Holmesville OFU At Old School The Holmesville Farmers Union Local 219 will meet in the old school at Holmesville on Monday, April 11 at 8:30. J* J. Greene Announces Large Flocks Supported By Federal Government Details, of a new pr&ce sup-” port program for eggs was an nounced March 30 by Agricul ture Minister J, J. Greene, The program is for the 12-month period ending next September 30. Kairos To Hold Discussion on Truscott Case- be“The Truscott Caso” will •the ’ discussion topic of Huron Oodnty Kairois Young People when they meet in Brussels United Church ndxt Saturday Blight, April 16. All post-high school boys and girls are asked to be Weli versed on the case, both pros 'and cons, so that they may enter the discussion on it. The Haires group which is the young people’s organization within the United Church of Canada, met in Ontario Street United Church here1 with 25 present The interesting and argumentative discussion was ■based Oh the flilm, "The Church —-‘Form or Force?" and after bUzZ gbOUipis, Rec. Tschanz, Lon* desboro led hi the concluding session. Reflecting the trend to larg er laying flocks in Canada, the program‘provides price support for a higher proportion of Grade A Extra Large, Grade A Large, and Grade A Medium Size egg^ marketed by a pro ducer. The maximum amount of eggs foir which. a. deficiency payment may be made bias been raised to 10,000 dozen per pro ducer from the previous' ceiling of 4,000 dozen. Producers marketing a mini mum of 500 dozen eggs during the 12 months will be covered by the program .whiidh provides a support price of 34 cents per dozen for the first 4,000 dozen, and 31 cents for each additional dozen up to the maximum of 10,000, Egg prices have been sup ported at 34 cents per dozen for the past three years. Total coSt of a 4.3 CehltS per dozed deficiency payment for the 1964-65 support year is esti mated at $1.8 million, In addition to marketing at least 500 doZerf eggs, a pro ducer to be eliilgiibile for a de ficiency payment must be reg istered with, ‘the Agricultural Stabilization Board and must have soldi eggs through an ap proved grading station, or he a registered prodlUteer-grader selling directly to retail out lets. R. Roy Fitzsimons With Son A 1 >1- A 111 Kelso Fitzsimons repeats Scout Promise Seoul* Handshake with S/M Percy Renner Young Kelso Fitzsimons tokos three important stops required oi every boy Who enrols in the Boy Scouts: repeats the promise, receives his scarf and is -received via Scout handshake by his Scout master. He is now a member of the Bayfield Boy ‘ Scouts. (Bellchamber Photo)