Clinton News-Record, 1973-07-26, Page 1108 Year . No. 30
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Clinton News-Record
Are the police having a party and checking out their stock? No, they won't get to
see one drop of this collection of liquor and beer. It's all part of booze seized
during the last several months and Chief Westlake and Constable McFadden
check over the bottles before It is taken to the appropriate store in town and
dumped down thei...Orall under' the watchful eye of a liquor inspector from
Toronto. (News-Record phctoy .,‘„s
tanley raises '73 tax rate
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Senior citizens club
formed in Clinton
Clinton has a new senior -citizens club as
the result of an inaugural meeting in Olin.
ton last Thursday night.
Mrs. Mae Hopson of Toweaend Street in
Clinton was elected resident of 'the new
Club by 24 senior citizens who attended the
meeting.
. The dub became a reality after a
meeting earlier in July established there
was a need for the club, John
Brotherhood, a summer worker with the
Ontario iniiiistry of community and social
services, assisted Mrs. Hopson in the
project. There are an estimated 100 people
in Clinton who are 65 years or older.
Mrs. Hopson told the News-Record that
she Was 116 stranger to'enior -citizen clubs
as she hed helped from the hayfield Senior
eititena club in 1965. She WAS president of
that club for lout years before she moved to
Clinton,
The new club is Ioolcing bor new twinhers
And tees are $1 to join and $1 per year
dues. They will meet next Wednesday,
August 1st at the Town Hall at 7:80 p.m.
Many Clinton residents who, booittoo of economic or phyokot Oolvdtttotto, Ina
unable tOttO malty Nobs around their UMW*, are finding much *hided *SO from
slit dilitlOntarte Who him* acquired an Opportiinitiali fOricoilth 'grant from the
Paideiral Govoromoot. Nora DoMaltIO Sr -+ Olt tlitddite and 141011 f.AiS41x11 buoy
pointirig the how.. of Mrs. lisle Van Ahem on Abed (tiototimaocord
photo)
Evangelist to visit
Meryle Dolan, 9110 of Canada's best
*newt) evangelists, will be coming to Clin-
ton this coining Sunday for two services.
Sponsored. by the First Baptist Church of
Clinton, Mr. Dolan will be preaching, at the.
11 a.m. and 7:30 pm. services. Seth ser-
vices will be held at St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church in Clinton, The Bap-
tist congregation has moved over to the
Presbyterian Church far the summer mon-
the for joint worship.
Mr. Dolan is president of the Meryle
Dolan gy4ogpliAtic Association of Canada,
Whose base is Beaverton Ontario, • .
Born in Peterborough, Mr. Polite trained.
for the ministry et ,McMaster University
and McMaster Divinity School. He is an
accredited Baptist minister in the Baptist
Convention of Ontario and titiebec.
After -12 years of pastoral experience in
two churches; Mr, Dolan is now in his
ninth year of evangelistic work. He has
Conducted crusades in many parts of
Canada and the United States.
Inspector to look into Vanastra policing
Stanley Township taxpayers face a slight
increase in taxes this year as the result of
an increased county, secondary and public
school levy. Council set the 1973 mill rate
last week at a special meeting,
Total 1973 budget for the township was
estimated at $408,136 up from last year
when the budget was $359,885. They had a
surplus of $11,000 and combined with
provincial grants totalling nearly $7,000
the township was able to save the
ratepayers two mills but overall the tax
rate increased to 91.50 mills from last year
when it was 89.0 mills on a residential
assessment.
On a commercial assessment, the 1973
rate has been set at 98.70 Mills, up from
last year whets it was 96.34 milli).
On a farm assessed at $7,000, the in-
creased tax rate will Mean an additional
$17.50 in taXes.
The tax rates for the township for 1973
As this telumn is being written, Clinton
and area are receiving a much needed rain-
fell. The reel will break a draught that hes
lasted nearly four Weeks in this district,
although areas to the north arid south of
Clintoit received rain tetently,
The 1:'re-Centennial Pace sponsored by
the town of Clinton will be run next Sun.
day, August 5 at the Clinton Kinsmen
Raceway, Carrying a large sure of $1,000,
the race will kick off Clinton's Centennial
Celebrations arid should see some top
pacing talent as well. As well, the Winner
will receive a blanket from the town arid a
silver tray from I.A. Kay of Clinton. The
race will run each year Until 1975 when the
trend finale worth $2,000 will be staged.
a a
'the Clinton Colts play their last regular
Cason game next Wednesday August 1, at
he local diamond. This high calibre of ball
as not always been watched by as many
MS as it thotild be. Play-offs start the
snowing week,
a * *
'or those of :you who like snowmobile
rage, the air-tooled machines will be
taring up the 11 /8 strip at Hully Gully this
anday beginning at 2 p.m.
with the '1972 rates i brackets are as
follows; township esidential, 22.68
(22,86); township ornmercial, 25.46
(25.60); County levy, 1,96 (21,94); elemen-
tary residential, 25.21 (23.8), commercial,
27.77 (26.5); secondary residential 19,1
(17.9), commercial, 21.0 (19.8); separate,
22.62 (20.62).
Stanley also added a special one mill
levy to the tax rate to cover interest paid
on money which had to be borrowed to
prepay part of the Huron County Board
levy,
BY WILMA ONE
The Huron-Perth Cquitty Roman
Catholic Separate School hhard will accept
the one-year renewal privilege in the
current lease for its board office on Main
Street in Seaforth when it comes up for
renewal at the end of January 1974.
Trustee Joseph Looby of Dublin presen-
ted the recommendation at the board
meeting in Seaforth Monday for the lease
renewal with R.S. Box of Seaforth, the late,-
(hotel, on the same teems and conditions.
The hoard also approved the ream-mien-
datioe that an option for the renewal for
tone additional year be requested from Mr.
Box. The rental fee amounts to $390 per
month.
Mrs, Mime Thompson of Stratford, was
hired Ihaif time) for the _kindergarten class
ji, at St. Patrielea School in Kinkora.
Trustee Gordon Ball f St. Marys repor-
ted the sewer outlet to oly Name of Mary
School in St. Marys had been completed
but the exact cost will not be known until
the bill is received. it had been estimated
Herman Reeve John haker is in im-
proved condition in St. Joseph's Hospital
London and is out of intensive care
following art accident on July 13- at Hyde
Brothers Farm Equipment in Hefisall,
where he is employed.
Mr. Baker, 41, 'suffered na frattured
pelvis, a ruptured bladder and litoken
bones in his face when a new 8-ton self-
propelled cornbitie he was servicing sud-
denly lunged forward and ran over him.
Hensall -Clerk Earl Campbell told the
NewS.Record Tuesday night that Reeve
taker was greatly improved arid was
totting along fine, Mr. Campbell said that
Mr. Baker was cheerful end expected to be
in hospital for several More Week
Nineteen ratepayers of Hullett Township
are upset over an unlicensed dump near
Londesboro and presented a petition to the
Township council last week asking council
to close the dump.
The dump, on the property of William
Little, of Lot 24, Concession 10 is used for
dumping garbage collected from Vanastra,
which is in Tuckersmith Township. Nor-
mally, Tuckersmith garbage is dumped in a
co-operative dump in Goderich Township.
Mr, Little has the tender for picking up the
Vanastra garbage,
Hullett found they had no by-law on
their books against the dump but instruc-
ted Clerk Clare Vincent to write to Tucker-
smith telling them that Mr. Little has no
license to operate a dump in Hullett Town-
ship.
In a night filled with debates, Hullett
also received another 15 name petition
Police nab yegg
Clinton Felice arrested four men Mon-
day afternoon after a three hour stakeout
on about $800 worth of goods which were
stolen from the Royal Canadian Legion on
Kirk Street early Monday morning.
Constables Wayne McFadden and Frank
Draper were responsible for the arrests af
ter they watched four men loading the
stolen loot into a car in Tuckersmith
Township Monday afternoon.
Police have charged four Stratford men
with break enter and theft and possession
of stolen goods, which included a color TV,
and cigarets.
The Clinton police also recovered some
other goods which are believed to have
been stolen from several stores at
Vanastra. Both the Goderich Detachment
of the OPP and the Stratofrd Police will be
laying more charges against the foursome.
to cost $9,291, with Board paying 50 per
cent of construction costs.
Trustee Howard Shantz of Stratford,
chairman of the ad hoc building projects
committee, reported the construction of the
addition to Holy Name of Mary School in
St. Marys costing $315,000 is going along
smoothly with the work ahead of schedule.
Mr. Shantz aid he believed the construc-
tion of the addition at St. Aloysius School
in Stratford, costing about $200,000, is
behind schedule. The Board will write to
the .architects, Kyles and Garrett of
Stratford, expressing displeasure with the
slow progress and saying that they hope the
architect will pursue this matter on behalf
of the Board, The architect will be asked to
report to the Board by August 10 on
progress being made.
Trustee F.J. Vere of Stratford, chairman
of the finance and insurance committee,
handed out balance sheets as of May 31
arid these will be discussed at next Meeting
on August 20.
The Board approved the agreement
proposal for use of St. Michael's School
gym in Stratford in return for the use of
sWinuning facilities at YM-YWCA in Strat-
ford, Fourteen of the 14 separate schools in
Huron and Perth Counties use the "Y"
pool. The swimming is taught to the Grade
4 classes in these schools. They receive ten
hours of ewitnining instruction over a ten
week period. Of the 14 schools, there are 18
classes in Grade 4, amounting to 180 hours
at $19 per hour for a total of $3,420,
YM-YWCA time at St. Michael's for
various gyre activities amounts to 498
hours at 06 per hour for a total of $2,988,
'this imbalance amounting to $432 in
favour of the Huron•Perth Separate School
Board is waived in that terms were
arranged mutually acid beforehand to the
satisfaction of the boatel and YM-VWCA.
Joseph Totter, Atsistant Superintendent
of Education, reported a latter had been
received froth the co-ordinator of the Ur-
ban-Rural Exchafige where a 12 to 15 year
old student from the city will eperid
one Week oh. a farm itt July or August,
from Vanastra merchants that police
protection at the former base was
inadequate.
Mr. Riddell said he was informed by
Russ Archer of .Archers Sales and Service
,and Addle Jutzi of the Base Factory Outlet
Store that narly a dozen break-ins had oc-
curred at Vanastra during the last several
weeks.
"I told him (Mr. Gartner) there wasn't
enough policing at Vanastra in light of the
number of break-ins there during the last
Accident takes life
Gerald Barry, 20, of Egmondviile, was
killed early Friday when the car he was
driving went out of control on Huron
County Road 12, two miles from Seaforth.
He was pronounced dead at the scene by
Dr, R.W. Flowers of Clinton.
A spokesman for the Ontario provincial
police at Goderich said the car went up an
embankment after leaving the road, struck
a hydro pole and rolled several times. The
victim had been thrown from the car, the
spokesman said.
followed by a week-long visit with the city
family for the rural boy or girl, The co'
ordinator, Miss Diane Fines, thanked the
staffs of the separate schools for their in-
terest and kindness in permitting her to
meet with the students to discuss the
program in the spring.
John Vintar, Superintendent of
Education, said he hopes enough school
boards will support the Ontario School
Tettstee's Council resolution which dells
for support of the private member's bill c-
143 with a view to having the Federal
Government enact it, The Board did ap-
prove the bill which will give school boards
a free hand, without cost, ih the use of
(cOntinued on pave 1{)
,two or three weeks," Mr. Riddell said.
Sgt. Tom Redpath of the Goderich OPP
said that they "have the situation under
control and we have increased patrols in
the area,"
Sgt, Redpath said that the rash of
breakins and vandalism runs in"waves and
stops almost as quickly as it starts. Clinton
police arrested four men Monday during
investigation of p breakin in the town and
said there woul be charges laid against
the men in connection with the Vanastra
burglaries.
Sgt. Redpath conceded that no extra men
had been hired for the 24 man staff since
the former base was opened up to develop-
ment. Nearly 1,000 persons now live at
Vanastra, which, as an air base, was under
the eye of the Military Police.
Tuckersmith Councillor Vince Fowlie,
who lives at Vanastra, said that he has
received dozens of complaints about the
In what is believed to be a first for
Huron County, Stanley Township will pass
a by-law next month to control the aban-
doned cars in the township.
Clerk Mel Graham said the council is
studying a draft of the by-law to determine
the final wording of the law but they have
been thinking about the subject for some
time.
The Stanley move comes on the heels of
an announcement by the Ontario govern-
merit that it will attempt to clean up some
of the 500,000 abandoned autos in the
province.
Basically, Mr. Graham said, the new On-
tario legislation only applies to someone
with three or more wrecks on his property,
but the new Stanley by-law will apply to
those with one or more.
Once passed, the by-Ipw will require
anybody with an abandoned auto on his
property to fence the vehicle in with a
seven foot fence and to be licensed by the
Township,
Mr. Graham said that enforcement of the
new by-law will be possible under
provisions of the Municipal Act and those
policing of Vanastra, particularly in their
slowness in answering tolls,
Sgt. Redpath said that the Goderich
Detachment has nearly 500 square miles to
police, which comprises an area of five
townships and another three townships
which are patrolled 16 hours a day plus
holidays when the OPP constable at
Seaforth is off duty.
Fred Ginn of Vanastra Developments,
the base developers, said that he has had
100 per cent co-operation from the OPP
and couldn't cite any instances of com-
plaints.
"If there are any problems, it's because
they don't have enough men. You can't
establish a large community in the middle
of their (OPP) territory and still expect to
police it with the same number of men,"
Mr. Ginn said.
"Personally, I have no complaints," he
said.
not complying will be taken to court.
Mr. Graham said that there are two or
three persons in the township that have-
more than a dozen cars abandoned on their
property.
Stanley has also decided to set up a new
by-law to control dogs in the township after
several sheep were killed last Spring by
loose dogs. Stanley pays compensation for
animals killed in such a manner.
The first male or spayed female will cost
$4, $20 for the second and $30 each for the
third and successive dogs. Females will
cost $10 for the first dog, $25 for the second
and $30 for the third and successive dog. A
kennel license will cost 425 and will cover
any humber of dogs. +,74 +. otner fitislttes8, council gave per-
mission to the Huron Plowmans
Association to sell tickets in the township
for a raffle on a side of beef. Accounts of
general, $69,024; roads, $40,582 and incen-
tive program of $1,363 were ordered paid.
Stanley will collect the money back for the,
incentive program from the federal govern.
meat.
Hensall Reeve better
after bad accident
An inspector from the Ontario Provincial
Police will be sent to Huron County next
week to determine if the policing of
Vanastra, the former Canadian Forces
Base, Clinton is adequate. The area is un-
der the jurisdiction\ of the Goderich
Detachment of the OPP.
Jack Riddell, Huron Member of the On-
tario Legislature, said Tuesday that he was
assured by Deputy-Commissioner Gartner
of the OPP that an inspector would be sent
to investigate the policing of Vanastra after
Mr. Riddell received several complaints',
•
Hullett ratepayers upset
over Vanastra garbage
from residents on the outskirts of Clinton,
in Hullett, objecting to Henry Bauman
erecting a 35 head sow barn in the area.
The residents objected saying the
operation would create a stink to the
nearby houses. Mr. Bauman had obtained
a certificate of compliance from the
ministry of the environment to go ahead
with the barn.
Council rejected the building permit and
decided to ask the Huron County planning
board to rezone the area for residential
purposes. Presently, it is zoned as far-
mland.
In other business, Hullett appointed
Gamsby and Mannerow Ltd. to prepare
plans, specifications and costs of a
drainage works petitioned by John Beane
and others. A tile drainage loin of $7,000
was also passed.
The following building permits were also
issued; John Rapson, steel granary;
Florence Pullen, addition to barn; Donald
Pickard, steel granary; Wayne Kennedy, e drive shed; Gordon McGregor, sow and pig
barn; Ronald Gross, grain bin; M, Hulley,
trailenhorne; arid Sperling's- Propane CO.
Ltd., bulk storage tanks, truck barns and
office. Council also approved several lot
severances.
Separate board renews office lease
Stanley to control wrecks
with new auto by-law