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Clinton News-Record, 1967-12-21, Page 1No. 51 THE NEW ERA The Weatherw p.Hi tow Hi Low 137 32 10 38 33 14 29 16 34 28 15 34 24 23 25 16 36 33 32 25 17 37 30 38 22 18 36 18 44 c35 19 23 11 43 28 Rain ,22’1 Rain .52’ Snow 2” l«, * ■ . * The first column BY G.C., History notejFirstCanadians to fight on forelgr soil were not those Who battled the Boers . in the South African War, but Zouaves from Quebec who sail­ ed in 1868 to defend the Vatican from Victor Emmanuel’s invad­ ing armies. Although Victor Emmanuel won the battle, the 507 baggy-trousered Zouaves served with distinction. In Mont­ real, four battalions of Zou­ aves still fall in for military drill once a week and take turns as honour guards at church services, * * * For the letter carries’ black books: The first specially de­ signed Christmas card was printed in London, England in 1843, Charles Goodall and Sons of London, began printing the cards on a commercial scale in 1862 and they soon began to replace the handwritten notes people had exchanged earlier. * * Science - fiction department: A kitchen appliance expert says a laser beam for' every kit­ chen to zapp away garbage is ■ a probability within the next 10 years. “It won’t grind,” the expert says, “Itwon’tmulch it won’t burn in the sense we think of burning, It will simply utterly and absolutely disinte­ grate any substance placed in its path.” And presumably, it will be a great plaything for the kiddies. * * * It was probably inevitable, but Ookpik, the furry little fel­ low known internationally as a symbol of Canada, is now being manufactured in Japan. Jap­ anese-made Ookpiks are on sale in Canadian stores bearing labels that say “Souvenir, du Canada” and “Made in Canada?’ "and' “Original Canadian Ook- pik. Souvenir of Canada.” * . * * In these times of constant labor, management strife it’s pleasant to hear of a union that’ never kicks up a fuss, The International Union of Journey­ men Horseshoers of the U.S. dnd Canada had only 10 members in Canada at the last Depart­ ment of Labor census in 1965. This year, the department census takers have so far been unable to find any of them. ♦ * * From the “well-I-never” file: William A, Steggles, of the On­ tario Water Resources Com­ mission, reports that the farm animal population in Ontario produces an amount of waste equivalent to that from 45 mill­ ion people. He adds that a farm producing 50,000 laying hens, or 5,000 market hogs, or 1,000 beef cattle, or 500 dairy cattle annually generates a waste disposal problem comparable to a city of 10,000 persons. Clinton post office will be closed Christmas Day, Deo ember 25, and New Year’s Day January 1. On these dates, there will be no rural mail service. Regular hours and service will be resumed December 26, and January 2. PurULAT ON Seventeen members of class 10A of Goderich District Collegiate institute were weary but still enthusiastic as they arrived in Clinton during a 20-mlle trek from Goderich to Seaforth oh Saturday < The marathoh walk was one of several projects sponsored by students at the collegiate to raise rhdney fob Christmas gifts for wards of the Huron County Children’s Aid Society and adult member® of the retarded Workshop in Goderich (Staff Photo). 102nd Year SINGLE COPIES J2c ■a The Management and Staff 3J' Ties seemed to highlight the annual Detroit — Clinton event at Clinton arena Saturday even­ ing. After the Midgets tied 5-5 the Juvenile proceeded to tie the visitors 6-6. The He came with the as­ sistance of three over-age juveniles in the persons of Cam Colquhoun, Don McDougall and Larry Pickett. Detroit jumped off to a first New Legion officers by Mitchell Branch 128 team was hall with The 1968 officers of Clinton Branch 140 of the Royal Cana­ dian Legion and the Ladies Aux­ iliary were installed by an in­ stalling team from Mitchell Branch 128 at a joint ceremony in the Legion Hall Monday even­ ing, December 11. Regular business was cut to a minimum by president Wil­ liam Chambers. Each pair of officers piped to the front of the by Piper Hec Kingswell Alex Ellens of the Mitchell team acting as sergeant- at-arms. The sergeants-at-arm of Clin­ ton were the first to be in­ stalled in office and instructed in their duties by Bill Cornish; then the secretaries, by William Murphy; Chaplain Rev. R.V. MacLeah was not present for • installation;1 then the treasurers were installed by Norman Kemp. The Legion’s right-man exe­ cutive commi ttee and the Ladies Auxiliary six-member exe­ cutive committee we're installed and instructed by CliffNorman. The four vice-presidents were installed by Tom McKay, the 1968 president-elect of Mitchell branch and Clinton’s two out­ going presidents were in­ structed in their usefulness to the new officers by Floyd Clark. Lloyd Morrison, the 1967 pre­ sident of the Mitchell branch, who was in charge of the visit­ ing installation team, officiated at the installation of the new presidents of Clinton Legion, Conservationists present awards for school scrap book contests An educational program spon­ sored by the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority in pub­ lic schools of the region cul­ minated in the presentation of prizes to winners in scrapbook contests Wednesday morning. Prizes of $15,* $10 and’ $5 were awarded winning students at each participating school, by Authority member W. J. Kelterborn of Milverton, who explained to the pupils the im<< 'l as Clinton period 2-0 lead, the first com. ing while the locals were short- handed. In the opening period the Motor City squad showed great speed and good coaching . as they played their positions well. SikelkO and Martillia made the game look almost out of reach to Clinton as they scor­ ed goals three and four. Undoubtedly the score would have been much higher at this Stewart “Dick” Freeman for the Legion and Mrs. K.W. (Jean) Colquhoun for the Ladies Auxiliary. The presidents were paraded to the dias by colour sergeant J.D. Thorndike with Harold Black and Leslie Nice as colour bearers. Mrs. Clifford Norman, president of Mitchell Ladies Auxiliary assisted Mr. Mor­ rison with the installation of the Clinton presidents. The complete list of officers of Clinton Legion are as fol­ lows: president, Stewart Free­ man; past president, William Chambers; first vice-president, Percy Brown; second vice-pre­ sident, Harold Black; secre­ tary, Gordon Dalgliesh; treasurer, Cameron Proctor; Chaplain, Rev, R.U. MacLean; executive members, Harry Crich, Pat Dumayne, Gordon Ebel, John Deeves, StuartDick, Percy PUgh, Bob Burke, Len Arnston. The Ladies Auxiliary officers are: president, Mrs. K.W. Col­ quhoun; past president, Mrs. Don McLean; first vice-presi­ dent, Mrs. Dennis Bisback; second vice-president, Mrs. Milton Schreiber; secretary, Mrs. George Wonch; treasurer, Mrs. Robert Burke; executive, Mrs. Hec Kingswell, Mrs. Mar­ garet' MacDonald, Mrs. Jack Dietrich, Mrs. Thomas Lep- pington, Mrs. Harold Black and Mrs. Hartley Managhan. The outgoing presidents thanked all for their co-opera­ tion in the past year and both portance of conservation of the natural beauties and resources of the river valleys which now represent extremely valuable assets not only for recreation and enjoyment of nature, but utilitarian purposes are also protected. Mr. Kelterborn congratulated the grades 7 and 8 pupils on the high quality of the scrap books they compiled, observing point had it not been for the superlative goalkeeping of Den­ nis Fleischquer* Clinton finally got on the score sheet at 16:20 of the middle frame on a goal by Bartliff who was the out­ standing defenceman of the game. He scored on4 a pass from McDougall. In the final 20 minutes Clin­ ton jumped off to an early power play by McDougall as he banged home a rebound from installed were presented with past pre­ sident pins by the new presi­ dents. $700.00 GIFT To complete a successful year for the Ladies Auxiliary, the outgoing president, Mrs. Don McLean presented past president William Chambers of the Legion with a cheque for $700 to be applied to the Legion’s building mortgage. Zone Commander Al Nichol­ son of Seaforth closed the meet­ ing, after congratulating the Mitchell installing team and the new Clinton officers. Mr. Nicholson said that in future all officers of Legion branches must be officially installed into their office. He also reminded the Clinton branch that it still owed over $500 to the Royal Canadian ’ Legion’s Centennial Fund. Winners of the monthly draw prizes were: $30, Tom O’Con­ nell; $15, Fred Trevena .and $5, Mrs, Russ Holmes. Receives award The Fall undergraduate awards based on the academic performance of 1966-1967, have been announced by the Scholar­ ship committee of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the Un­ iversity of Western Ontario. Miss Nancy L. Olde of 99 Princess Street, Clinton was named as one of the recipients of the awards. that a great deal of painstak­ ing research had plainly been done in their preparation. Field Officer K. G. Musclow was also in attendance. At Holmesville public school between Goderich and Clinton, winners were Glenda Blake, Diane Tyndall and Helen Col- clough. Other school winners were: Clinton Public School, Patsy Elliot, Nancy Ann Parker, Kathy Grigg; Hullett Central School, Randy Miller, Paul Chamney, Brian Jewitt; Clinton Calvin Christian School, Grace Ben­ jamins, Christina Vanden Heubel, Winnie Balhenburg; St. Joseph’s Separate School, Clin­ ton, Greta Burns, Monica Flynn, Robert McMahon; Elma Town­ ship Central School, Susan Parkhouse, Wayne Schalk, Carol Ann Riddell. The panel of judges assess­ ing the hundreds of submissions consisted of Bill Miller of Clin­ ton, chairman of the advisory board; Carl Dalton, Seaforth; Mr. Kelterborn of Milverton and the field Officer, assisted by recommendations of the var­ ious teachers concerned. The officials expressed them­ selves as very pleased with the response to the educational pro­ gram and hope to continue and extend the project. Join executive of Huron F. of A. Directors of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture have appointed to the executive Mr. and Mrs.- Lloyd Bond, of Clin­ ton; Robert Broadfoot, of HR 1, Brticefieid; and Thomas Cun. nlngham, of RR I, Auburn, and Detr< a shot by Bartliff, Butch Fleet . " combined with Hohner to give Clinton their third goal at the 13:21 mark. Just as it looked as though Clinton would get into the game Detroit demoralized them tem­ porarily with goals five and six at 13:33 and 14:55, Moody and Geerts were the marksmen. Clinton had men in ihe sin bin for both goals. The teams started to rough it up considerably after this and there were several penal- ties including a free-for-all between Fleet and McGowan. With the teams playing five aside the locals began to score. The line of McDougall, Col­ quhoun and Pickett finally found out they were supposed to be playing together and gave the fans their moneys worth with some great playmaking. At this point the Juys were down 6-3. At 18:11 it was McDougall from Colquhoun, at 19:21 it was Colquhoun from Pickettandwith ■ just 12 seconds showing on the clock Colquhoun carried the puck up the ice, made a perfect pass to Pickett and he made no mistake at all as he slam­ med it into the top left hand corner. D. Piper of the Detroit de­ fensive unit was the Anstett Jeweller award and the Don Yeo Memorial Trophy went to Don Bartliff of the Clinton de­ fence. a commemorative certificate fromandMr. and Mrs, Erik Christensen, 422 VictoriaStreet, Clinton, were among a group of twenty-three Huron County residents to'become Canadian citizens at a citizenship court held i nursaay at tne county courthouse. Mr. and Mrs, Christensen, centre, came to Canada nine years ago from Aalborg, Denmark. Above,, they receive congratulations_ _______________ Mrs. Roy Breckenridge, Regent of Maple Leaf Chapter, IODE, who sponsored a party for the new Canadians following the court ceremony. At left is presiding Judge R. S. Hetherington, who presided at the citizenship court. (Staff Photo) New Canadians receive papers Twenty - three residents of' Huron County will observe their first Christmas as Canadians this year. They received their Canadian citizenship papers at a Special Citizenship court heidThUfsday evening at the Huron County cOurthoqse. ■ Ih bestowing what he Called the highest honour the country could offer on the g.t’oup, Judge R. R. Hethei’lngton urged the new CahSdihhS to take art active rdle ih the religious, social and political life of their new country. Following the hour-long cere- i MUSTARD NETS 4 . Stew Mustard paced the Clin­ ton Midgets with a superlative four goal effort as Clinton and Detroit battled to a 5-5 tie in their annual meeting. Mustard scored his first goal with just eight seconds showing on the clock. About midway through the period Detroit got back on even terms again with a long shot from the blue line. At 12:11 Clinton went ahead again on a beautiful solo effort by Mustard who stickhandled past three Detroit checkers and scored on the short side. In the second period Detroit evened the score at 2-2 This tally also came before a minute had elapsed on the clock. It was Cruciano of Detroit who finally beat McFarland after the local netminder had made two point-blank saves. Cruciano did not wait long to put his team in the lead for at 3:51 he potted another goal. Clinton was really behind the eight ball when Detroit pop­ ped their fourth goal by steal­ ing the puck from Greg Jervis as he tried to clear it from the front of his own net. Det­ roit scored number five be­ fore the period ended. The highlight of the middle stanza was the outstanding goal keeping of McFarland in the locals cage. It wasn’t until the 12:41 mark mOny, they were entertained at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. W. - Httghes, 20 Wellington Stfeet, by members of Maple Leaf Chapter, IODE. They Were presented with certificates commemorating certificates commemorating their citizenship by the groqp, and finished Off a sociable even- ing of tea and Christmas carOIs by singing a carol in Dutdh, native tongue of a nuniber of the new citizens. For some, Hie citizenship court Was a family affair. Eight marbled couples^ re­ ceived theft Canadian papers at WWW I Milverton r residents | petition 8^ A petition bearing signatures wa » of 518 Milverton residents was presented to the Mornington- Qa Milverton public School board asking that any new addition to wd asking that any new school build- ® ing be in Milverton rather than 2a an addition to Mornington Cen- trai School,2a Opened in September, 1966, w the Mornington school is on Highway 19, four miles north pf Milverton, Recently the board considered adding to the school but made no decision. .Reeve Walter Gerth of Mil­ verton led the delegation which presented the petition to the school board. I Milverton residents are send­ ing their petition to the educa­ tion department, of the final frame that Clinton could get on the score sheet once more. It was Mustard again on another 'solo flight, After breaking through the defence, he tucked the puck neatly under the sprawling goalie, Score Detroit 4 Clinton 3. For the next five minutes there were good chances at both ends and also several penal­ ties. i Finally it was Burns that connected for the fourth goal as he made no mistake on fin­ ishing off a play by Irwin and Proctor. Clinton kept pressing and 17:21 they got the break they were looking for as the visi­ tors, picked up a penalty. Coach Crawford put out his big scor­ ing line and it was Mustard again who came through for the locals. As he was moving quickly down the boards he let a hard shot go and caught the far corner of the net and there was joy in the Clinton arena then, This tied the game and it stayed tied as the final buzzer sounded. McFarland was again the star of the period as he held the visitors at bay again and again. The winners of the game’s most outstanding player awards were Clinton netminder Gary McFarland and Detroit’s B. Cruciano. the ceremony. ThreO sisters,' Mrs. Koert (Cornelia) Stryker, Mrs. Ber- end (Fos) Kolkman and Bouklna Knetsch received their papers together With their brother, •Gerrit Boven, Receiving their Canadian’ citizenship were Mr. and Mrs, Erik Christenseft, pf Clinton, formerly of Denmark; Freddy Bendt Larsen, of Goderich, also a former resident of Denmark as well as the following per- sons, from the Netherlands; “Koert Stryker, Cornelia .Jacoba Stryker, R. R. 1 God- HECTOR KINGSWELL Hector Kingswell, prominent Clinton businessman, was elect, ed president of Clinton Com« munity Credit Union Limited at a recent meeting of the board of directors. He succeeded A. “Red” Garon, who was presii dent since February 8, 1956. Appointed to' the board of directors in September, 1959, to fill' the vacancy left when Lawrence Haughton moved to Collingwood, Mr. Kingswell was elected vice-president in May, 1962, after Fred Gibson resigned to become manager. Mr. Kingswell operates Kingswell Welding at 247 Albert St, His wife is the former Lena Miller of Trenton. The Kings­ well s have two children, Elwin 20, and Brenda, 16. A past-president of Clinton Legion Branch 140, Mr, Kings- well is the pipe major of Clin­ ton Legion Pipe Band. He also acts on the Clinton Recreation Council. Mr. Kingswell isamemberof the board of stewards of Wesley- Willis United Church, and cap­ tain of Clinton fire department. He saw active service with the Royal Canadian Air Force dur­ ing the Second World War for five years, three of them over­ seas with the 482 “Ghost” Squadron. Ernest Williams, Seaforth town clerk, was elected vice- president of the credit union. He is well-known in- Clinton, having represented the RCAF on the board of directors from November 1961 until he moved to Ottawa. He has now returned to his civilian job in Seaforth. erich; Bouklna Ineke Knetsch, Egmondville; Gerrit Boven and Neeltje Boven, R. R. 1 Wood­ ham; Berend Jah Kolkman and ■ Fos Kiena Kolkman, R. R. 4 Goderich; Abraham Endenbutg R, R, I Goderich; Heerke Plantenga and Geertje Plan- tenga, Zurich; Mythajla Plisz R. R. 1, Lucknow; Roeiof Stry­ ker and Jantina Stryker^ R.R* 3,Seaforth; Gerrit Tjaden, R.R. 1 Goderich; GeOrt Sikina and Antje Sikma, R. R» 2 Wrox. eter; and Rudy Marihus Corn­ eils Snyders, R. R. 6, God­ erich. »