Clinton News-Record, 1974-07-11, Page 1•4,vi•-v• :Mn
The voters choice
The exhausted victor using what little energy he has left to celebrate with his
happy supporters, Bob McKinley pauses for a television interview with. a CFPL
reporter. The re-elected member of Parliament plans to spend a few days with his
wife Audrey (at his side) and his family and enjoy his 24th wedding anniversary
which was on election day. (staff photo)
Environmental members picked
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Clinton, Ontario
Thursday, July 11, 1974
20 Cents
109th Year - No. 28
Weather
104 1973
JULY
McKinley easily wins local election
The Clinton Environmental Enhan-
cement Committee is gathering more steam
as dozens of citizens have volunteered their
time to work on one or more of the commit-
tees that will;be presenting in December an
improvement and restoration scheme on
the whole town.
• The action committee composed of Ken
Flett as chairman, Rita Ryan as vice-
president; Clarence Denomme from the
Retail Merchants Association, and Gordon.
Duern an interior and architectural
designer will co-ordinate the whole
research plan which has been broken down
into six committees.
The committees are pollution, census,
public relations, traffic and parking, funds
Three charged
after scuffle
Three Brucefield men were arrested in
connection With a disturbance at the Clin-
ton arena 'early last Sunday morning.
r•Gregory Hargreaves, 19, and Douglas
Swan, 20, both of Brucefield were charged
with assaulting a police officer during a
disturbanee at the arena in which several
officers of the Goderich detachment of the
OPP were called in to quell.
Bradley Hargreaves was charged with
intimidating a police officer's property in
connection with an incident about three
hours after the disturbance at the arena in
which 13 windows at the Vanastra home of
linton Constable Wayne McFadden 'were
smashed.
Sunday morning, Clinton police and the
PP staged a raid on an apartment
building on Victoria Street in. Clinton and
two persons were charged with possession
f marijuana.
Also earlier Sunday morning, three men
ere charged in connection with a break-in
t Debbies Custard Cup on Highway 4. The
en were discovered in the building by one
the owners. The OPP Detachment in
oderich investigated. No names were
eleased.
Clinton Kinsmen Raceway secretary
rank Cook said that area race fans are in
r a real treat this Sunday as the
.H.IELA, -Belvedere Stake comes to town.
ne of the top horses, Derby Gent, who has
time of 2:00 minutes, will headline the
enth race and will be driven by Clinton
ative Norm Campbell of Thorndale.
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For those of you who missed the Passe
uraille's "The Farmers Rebellion" when
t was in Clinton last, May, this outstanding
banadian play may be back, this time in
he newly opened Huron County Jail in
oderich for five days in August. But its
return to Huron County is conditional on
.he Jailhouse Board selling at least 250 ad-
vance tickets. Watch this paper for further
ietails.
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Weekly newSpaper readers just love to
•ead the comings and goings of local
vople, but we, can't print what we don't
(now. So if you have visitors, or are
risiting someone, or have any other news,
Alone Peggy Gibb, our Town Talk colum-
fist, at 482.3448,
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Don't forget the junior girls' baseball
earns Car wash thin Saturday at the arena.
anytime (torn 10 a.m.- to 4 p.m.
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The July meeting of the Clinton Coiled-
dal Committee will be held next week July
at the Town Hall at $ pan, We
lesperately need Mote help,
and grants, and horticulture. As well, a
design committee will also be in operation.
Mayor Don Symons and Gordon Duern
will be members of all committees and full
reports. of all committee meetings will be
given to the action committee, and all com-
mittees may add more names if required.
A meeting was held last week of all the
committee chairmen and vice-chairmen to
formulate their direction.
The 'committees are composed of the
following persons:
Pollution: Ken .Wood - chairman,
Marlene Cunningham - vice-chairman,
Evelyn Galbraith, Anne Cunningham, Jim
Cunningham, Margaret Coventry, Francine
Sors, Lorinne Denomme, Diane Freeman,
Jo-Anne Palmer, Ruth Roy, Reg Thomp-
son, Mrs. Ron McCann, Florence Pullen,
Jane Groves, Doug Coventry, Rosamond
Garrett, Carol Bowker, Lorie. Corrie, James
) ;4'itzgerald ,;•
Census Committee: Rita Ryan - chair-
man, 'Helen Bartliff - vice-chairman, (ae4"
ditional names to be added. ,
Public Relations: James E. Fitzgerald -
chairman, Muriel Trott - vice-chairman,
Carol 'Bowker, Lnrie Corrie, Marlene Cun-
ningham, Lorine Denornme, Jim Cun-
ningham.
Traffic and Parking: Bob Campbell -
chairman, L,A. Westlake - vice-chairman,
E. McAdam, Ruth Roy, Bill Counter,
Elwin Merrill, Helen Tench, Arnold Riley,
Clarence Denomme.
Funds and Grants: Larry Daw - chair-
man, Al Mathers - vice-chairman, Clarence
Denomme, Joseph Murphy, Don Kay,
Spence Cummings, Beecher Menzies, Carol
Bowker, Lorie Corrie, Lorine Denomme,
Jo-Anne Palmer, Dianne Freeman, Doug
Conventry,
Horticulture; Jane Groves chairman,
Florence Pullen - vice-chairman, Mrs. Ron
McCann, Mrs. Clifford Epps, Harvey
Howard, Dorothy Johnson
Ba
BY MILVENA ERICKSON
Several property owners were present. at
the regular Bayfield Council meeting last
Wednesday evening and addressed Council
regarding erosion along the Lakeshore,
Council was sympathetic and agreed to,set-
up a meeting with Roger Martin of the
Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority,
as Council had previously asked the
Authority to do a study along the
Shoreline.
Mr. R.J. Larson was also present and
requested Council to look into having the
weeds cut and the rubble cleaned up on lot
30, adjoining his property. John Lindsay,
town foreman, is to check into the com-
plaint and report to the next meeting of
Council on July 15. Stan McGratten ap-
proached Council on fencing his property
on the Old Clinton Road. Thia matter was
referred to the Town Solicitor,
In correspondence, a letter was read
from the Town and Village Section of the
A.M,O. with respect to a Conference on
Constitution Restructuring to be held at
the Royal York Hotel Aug, 4 to 7, Two
voting delegates are allowed from Bayfield
A letter was received from Spence Cum-
mings County Development Officer, with a
summary of the 1973 Recreation Costs in
Huron County. It was noted that a total of
8459,305,00 had been spent on recreational
programs.
A letter was read from the ministry of
natural resources requesting the list of
summer theatres; recreational facilities,
tennis courts, nature trails, arenas etc,; in
the immediate area, The ministry is co'r'n
piling lists within a 125 Mile radius of
Kornokst for bibliographic research, A
resolution from the city of Nanticoke, to in-
stitute a Provincial Lottery to take care of
disasters, was filed,
Most residential taxpayers in Clinton
will get another tax break this year as for
the second year in a row, 'the residential'
tax rate was reduced slightly.
However, the tax rate for those on' com-
mercial assessment will take a jump of
nearly 15 mills for a public school suppor-
ter, and a 21 mill jump for a separate
school supporter.
At Clinton council last Thursday night,
the mill rate was set at 135,188 for this
year, compared to 135.904 for a public
school residential supporter, The commer-
cial rate was set at 163.365 compared to
147.809 last year.
Separate school residential supporters.
mill rate was up this year to 143.509 from
139,363 of last year. The commercial rate
was set at 172,607,• up from last year's
151,651.
This year, Clinton will be working under
a $763,912 budget compared to a budget'
last year of $604,067. Last year there was a
deficit $49,082.
The county rate for the town set earlier
this year by county council, is $95,270,
compared to $64,837 levy last year. The.
public school' levy this year is $61,382,,
down from $67,720 last yer..The.separates-,
school levy for 1974 is $2,834, compared,to
-$2,901 last year, and the-secondary school,
levy is $63,085, compared (.0 $54,589,1ast
year. '
This year's administration will cost the
town $34,521, compared to' $24,7:45 last
year, which was $4,000' under projected
budget. The fire budget this year is $11,000
compared to an actual budget of $19,062
last year, $3,000 over budget..
The police budget. for 1974 was set at
$79,814, compared to $68,718 last year,
which was $8,000 over budget.. About the
same amount, $15,000 was set aside this
year for street lighting as last year.
The public works budget for 1974 was set
at $199,243, up from $154,747 spent last
year, which was $13,000 over budget.
About the same, $20,000, will be spent.
this year on garbage collection and
disposal as last year. This was $2,000 un-
der budget.
The parks and recreation budget for
In other business, Council discussed
•standing water on Susan St.; a "stop
ahead" sign on the Old Clinton Road, and
instructed the clerk to write to Charter-
ways Bus Company requesting their con.
sideration. in stopping somewhere else in
the Village to pick-up and disperse
passengers rather than,on 21 Highway at a
very dangerous curve where, they are
presently stopping.
Council discussed at length the drainage
system to be instituted in July or August as
soon as dry conditions permit, They also
discussed the dog bylaw with regard to
charging persons who do not keep their
dogs confined..
,No new construction or renovations will
be permitted in the commercial zones of
Clinton unless approved by Clinton's plan-
ning board and the environmental enhan-
cement committee, town council decided
last Thursday at their July meeting.
Council made the move after they
received a request from the Clinton Retail
Merchants Association asking for a
restraining order to be placed nn Clinton's
core area while a restoration scheme was
worked mit, Construction and renovations
on exteriors will be permitted during the
temporary six month freeze it t he planning
hoard and the enhancement committee ap,
prove. The restraining order will be in ef-
fect for six months.
In' other business, council received a
petition from 12 residents' of "Little
Englandrasking that Wayne rupee be per-
mitted to tear down an old barn near the
new sewage plant and construct a new one.
Council will have to apply to the Ontario
received 17,204 ,votes, compared to 01f,
Liberals John Lyndon, who collected,
10,039 votes and the New Democratic
Party's Shirley Weary, who collected 1,752,
Huron-Middlesex returning officer, Gar-
net Hicks of Exeter, said that 28,995 of the
38,041 eligible voters, or 76 percent, turned
out to the polls. In the last federal election,
29,716, or 80 percent of the 36,851 voters
cast their ballot.'
In the 1972 election, Mr, McKinley
received 19,131 votes to Liberal Charlie
1974 was set at $77,610, down from last
yearl $84,107, which was $12,000 over
budget. An extra $5,000 has been set aside
by council for Clinton's Centennial
Celebrations next year,
Total assessment in Clinton this year is
$2,940,630, of which$720,735 is commer
dal. Taxes this year will raise $464,044,
compared to $401,875 raised last year.
The difference between taxes and budget
will be raised for grants, etc. This,year the
resource equalization grant jumped to
$93,894 from $66,601 of last year. The
general support grant is up to $9,322 from
$5,380 of last year, and the Ontario High-
way grant is up to $86,100 this year, com-
pared to $60,203 of last year.
Ratepayers of Stanley Township face a
tax rate increase this year as council
passed their 1974 budget last week.
Taxpayers who support the public school
will have a mill tate of'100 this year, com-
pared to 91.05 last. year. On an assessment
of $7,000, this means an extra $59.50 on
top of last year's payment.
The mill rates are as follows with the
1973 rate in • brackets: township, 28,35
(22.68); cotntnercial, 32 (25.46); county,
24.15 (21;76); elementary, 22.45 (25,21);
Municipal Board for a spot zoning change
because the area is zoned residential.
Council endorsed a resolution from the
regional municipality of Peel calling for the
Ontario government to draft legislation
defining the powers and duties of crossing
guards.
Two ditches in Clinton will he cleaned
Out at a total cost of $1,500. One is on the
Robert Gibb property on the Bajfield
HRapvt Motor
Hotel.
a t he o t r is inside the Elm
The recreation committee was given per-
mission to set rules and standards for the
training of horses,, on the Clinton Track.
The move was made to protect those who
are crossing the track to the infield.
Building .permits passed include: David
Coldough, alterations, $6001 Earl
Hilderley, house, $45,000; Tom Pletcher,
alterations, $3,500; Paul Draper; storage
shed, $129; and Frank Cook, pool, $6,000.,
Thomas's 8,631 and NDP Shirley Weary's
1,869,
Mr. McKinley, .a Zurich area chicken far-
mer, said on Wednesday that he was very
pleased that the people of the riding had
put him back in for another term.
He said that, he and his wife were taking
a couple of days off, but his office in Zurich
would remain open for any constituent
inquiries.
'A meeting with the Conservative caucus
was likely in the next couple of weeks, Mr.
McKinley said, but. he would not venture
to say if he would ,.be Conservative whip
again in the House.
He said that it was possible that the
voters rejection of Mr. Stanfield' was
possibly due to his wage and price freeze
policy,'"Ies pretty hard to buck a national
trend", Mr. McKinley said,
The results of the vote according- to
municipalities are:
L. Mc. W.
Ailsa Craig' 109 185 15
Ashfield 288 41d 15
Bayfield 67 228 24
Biddulph ' 410 333 69
Blyth 104 298 13
Brussels 138 349 23
Clinton 416 902 71
Colborne 197 398 54
Exeter _493 1138 95
dotrefia 1279 1899 255
Goderich Twp. 302 521 46
Grey 282 444 66 , -
elementary commercial, . 24.70 (27.73);
secondary, 22,45 (19,10); secondary com-
mercial 24.70 (21,),
The Stanley budget, increased from
$408,000 of last year to $464,000 this year.
Most of the increase in the township rate
was attributed to Stanley's $30,000 pur-
chase of land for a sanitary landfill site
(hat will be developed in (he near future.
That sum added 10 mills to the township
rate.
Also included in the township rate is an
extra mill to prepay the school (axes and
1,6 mills for the Ausable-Bayfield Conser-
vation Authority, The separate school rate
is slightly higher, at 100. 17 mills.
In other business, council accepted the
application of Greg Armstrong of lot 19,
A young Bayfield area bay died last
Saturday when he was struck by a car as he
rode his bicycle along Huron County Road
3, known as the Varna Road, about two
miles east of the Village.
Armin Josef Krohmer, 14 and the son of
kathe and Erich Krohmer 'of RR 2,
Bayfield was struck by a car driven by
Olgertis Minicits of Guelph, who was just,
driving through the area. Both the boy and
the eat were west bound at the time of the
accident, according to the Goderich detach-
ment of the OPP who investigated the ac-
cident,
The Krohmer boy was ft graduate of St.
Mary's Separate School of St, Joseph, On.
Lark. The family had lived in the area for
about a year after coming from London,
Howick „„ ........ „.. irn
Seaforth 403
Bullet 261
Lucan 216
MORTIS ...., ........ „ 248
Tuckersmith ,.., 494
Usborne 212
E. Wawanosh „ ,187
Hay 334
MCGillivray 353
Maillop .... 314
Stanley 174
Turnberry • 248
Wingham 667
Hensel ,..„.. ,,,,, „, 141
Stephen 562
W. Wawanosh „„211
Zurich 172
Advance Poll , 392
599 61
424 32
205 83
481 45
t3 5 35
7,57 97
511 , 42
339 31
575 22
302
334 20
751 101
454
881 142
323 se
292 ta
879 67
240 14
364 b2
44
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Totals .. . ........ 12204 . 1752
New Varna minister
inducted on Friday
BY MRS. IVAN McCLYMONT
Rev. Alexander Taylor was inducted last
Friday night at a ceremony at Varna
United Church.
Rev, Ure Stewart of Seaforth conducted
the induction, while Rev. Harold Snell of
Exeter, a former Londesboro native,
preached at the service.
Rev. Donald Deas inducted the new
minister, who replaces Rev, Murdock
Morrison, who retired recently.
concession 10 for a municipal drain 'and.,
appointed C.P. Corbett to engineer a study.
Council endorsed two motions, one from
the regional municipality of Peel calling for
Ontario government action on crossing
guard regulations, and one from the Town-
ship of Pittsburg'calling for an increase of
the penalty on overdue taxes.
Council also agreed in principle to a sub-
division plan submitted by Lakeshore
Developments ,of London for a 99 lot cot-
tage development on lot 9, Concession
Lake Road West.
`. The tender of Don flunking for 12,000
cubic yards of pit run gravel at 72c pet
yard was also accepted. It was the only ten-
der submitted, The gravel will be used on
the Babalon Line.
Ontario, They operated the Bavarian Inn
in Bayfield,
He was born in tllinggen, Germany on
June 4, 1960. Besides his parents, he is sur-
vived by two brothers, Tieter and Tilo at
home; one sister, Rosita, also at home; and
his grandmother, Mrs. Martha Krohmer of
Germany,
Funeral services were held from St,
Peter's Catholic Church in St. Joseph on
July 8 with Rev, J. Bensette officiating. Till.,
terment was in St. Peter's Cemetery. Bert.
tie Funeral Hattie of Clinton were in charge
of arrangements.
Pall bearers were Claude Tetreault,
Joseph Wild, Tom Hill, Jeff Mayrnan, Paul
Payne', and Frank Von Aakeri.
Robert McKinley and his wife Audrey
celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary
„And Mr. McKinley was given one of the
biggest presents of all, another fo4r years
in Ottawa, as the voters of Huron-
Middlesex overwhelmingly gave Mr.
McKinley their support in spite of a.
national trend that gave Prime Minister
Trudeau ii.Liberal majority government,
In the Huron-Middlesex vote, Mr.
McKinley, who was first elected in 1965,
teld hears of erosion
Clinton taxes up and down
Restraining order approved
There is an easier wag
Jack Bell of Kippen has invented a way. to beat the back-
breaking task of weeding first-year strawberry plants on his
farm. Called the 'wee wiggler' the machine is a modified Allis
Chalmers four-horsepower riding lawn mower and can
cultivate between the plants. Mr. Bell steers the machine with
his feet. He said it cost about $550 to build, compa,ed with a
much larger and cumbersome $1,500 factory built
machine.(News-Record photo)
Stanley Twp. tax rate increased
Boy killed near Bayfield
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