Clinton News-Record, 1974-09-26, Page 1BY J.F.
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Thursday, September 26, 1974 109th Year - No. 39
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Stanley, Goderich .Tivp. natural gas way heat Tuckersmith homes
The summer of 1974 was the best ever
for the Clinton Kinsmen Raceway, accor-
ding to figures released this week.
Many new records Were either broken or
re-established in many departments at the
raceway in the 13 week program this year.
In the mutuel department, a total of
$834,090 was bet on the 13 programs, or an
average bet of $64,161 per program. Last
year, which was a record, $752,560, or
$57,889 per program was bet.
Attendance at.theaaceWay this,,year.was
&own very slightly, with 20,815 person
going through the gates, for an average of
1,601 per program. Last year, slightly more
than 21,000 or 1,623 persons per program
went through the gates.
New records were also established at the
Raceway for single day highs in both atten-
dance and handle. On August 25, 2,348 bet-
tors pushed a record $91,909 through the
machines.
Out on the track, new records were also
established, both on July 14th. Derby's
Gent, driven by Clinton native Norm Cam-
pbell, was clocked in 2:04:1 to set a new
pace mark, and the same day, Phil Mite set
a new trotting record with a 2:07:2
clocking. The pace record was later
Natural gas deposite, in Stanley Town-
ship and Goderich Township may soon be a
source of heat for Hurenview, Huron's
home for the aged just outside Clinton,
It was learned at last week's county
council meeting that Moffat Lake Ex-
Plerations Inc. has applied to the Energy
Board for a franchise to supply gas to
Tuckersmith Township and the company
has agreed to supply gas to Huronview at
95 cents per Met This price is guaranteed
to September 1, 1976,
Anson McKinley, reeve of Stanley Town-
ship, told council he hopes the deal with
Moffat Lake Explorations goes through.
"We had hoped to have it completed by ,
this fall but probably it will be next year
new", he said, •
The price of fuel oil for Huronview is
now 33.9 cents per gallon, an increase of
16.47 cents or a whopping 94 percent since
October 197 3.
Mr. McKinley also advised council that
the Huronview committee has become con-
cerned with the number of young adult
retardees admitted to the home in recent
months. He said there are a great many
other young adult retardees throughout the
county who will no doubt require care in
years to come.
"Our concern is increased since we are
operating at or near capacity and our
waiting list of senior citizens continues to
grow", said Reeve McKinley.
Chester Archibald, administrator at
Huronview, agreed the Home is near
capacity. He reported that 297 residents
presently live at Huronview with five more
in hospital at the present time bringing the
population at Huronview to 302. Capacity
is 310.
Mr. Archibald said that four more people
are scheduled for admittance to Huronview
in the near future.
"And this month the committee is faced
with the largest number of applications for
admittance ever", said Mr. Archibald.
Mr. McKinley told council of a recent
meeting with John Cargo, Supervisor of
Protective Services, Community Services
Development Branch, Mentally Retarded
There has been a good deal of discussion
in the last several weeks on the subject of
disposing of leaves this fall in Clinton.
Several suggestions have come forward,
and all of them merit consideration. First
of all, the Clinton Junior Gardeners have
offered, for a small fee, to rake and bag the
leaves, and maybe Town council can come
up with some help on how to dispose of the
bags. The anti-pollution committee of the
Clinton Environmental Improvement
Program are looking into the cost of a com-
mercial shredder that would turn the
leaves into a nice, rich, mulch that could be
composted at a site in Clinton, and Mrs,
Earl Collins of Clinton phoned us and
suggested that if you don't have too many
leaves, you can run back and forth over
them with a lawn mower, turning there
into a fine mulch that will fertilize the
lawn too,
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After a fine season, the Clinton Soccer
club play their last home game of the
season this Sunday in Clinton against the
Yugoslays. Clinton must win every
remaining game to finish in first place in
the league,
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The weatherman must have his dates
Mixed up, and think this is November in-
stead of September, Snowflurries were
sighted in the area Monday morning, and
many ardent gardeners, including yours
truly, were put out of business and forced
to hang up our spades for the year as a
result of frost on Monday and Tuesday
Morning,
For area curling fans, the curling club et
Vanastre may be opening again, but it
depends on the amount of interest shown
at a meeting to be held next week at the
former base. See an ad elsewhete in this
edition,
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Per these who asked: yes we do anew
lettere to be published in the News.Record
without being signed aS long As we know
who Wrote the letter, and it can be verified,
Division of the Ministry of Community and
.Social Services. Council. learned a .protec-.
Ow service worker is to be_ located in
ffilfon by April of 1975,
The Ministry feels .that mentally retar-
ded adults can best be cared for • in foster
homes in their own communities . rather
than being institutionalized. •
"The problem comes in trying IO find
Frost early Monday and Tuesday mor-
ning caused some damage in the Clinton
area, according to agricultural spokesmen,
but not in the million dollar range as
vegetable growers suffered in Norfolk,
Essex and Kent Counties.
Early Monday morning, with a few
snowflurries in the air the temperature in
Clinton dipped to the freezing mark, and
spotty damage was caused to the area's
corn crop, which •in some fields is tyvo to
three weeks behind in maturity. it
Mike Miller, -associate agrieeltural
representative for Huron, said that most of
the corn escaped damage in Huron, and the
white bean crop, which is being harvested
now, suffered very little damage.
equalled by Terry Parker on August 25.
Last Sunday, the final, day, temperatures
in the mid 40s and a raw wind kept many
persons at home, but nearly $60,000 was
pushed through the mutuels.
Overall, the Kinsmen said they were
pleased with the results of the Raceway,
and they would be applying for dates again
,next year. Slightly more than 100 persons
worked at the Raceway each Sunday, not
BY WILMA OKE
Seven of the ratepayers, of Tuckersmith
Township, who were prepared to have the
Dill Drain constructed, received a rude
shock at a meeting of Tuckersmith Council
on. Tuesday night. They learned that con-
struction costs had risen 10 percent over
the engineer's estimate.
For' the past several months, the land
owners affected by the drain, to be built
east of Seaforth, have been attending
numerous council meetings in an effort to
reach an agreement whether the drain
should be open or closed.
Engineer Uderstadt of Orangeville
prepared the original plan for the drain
which calls for 10,430 lineal feet of open
drain and 2,733 lineal feet of closed drain.
The landowners decided, to have more of
the drain closed.
In late August, the owners accepted the
revised drainage report calling for '18,495
lineal feet of tile and 2,733 feet of closed
drain. Court of Revision was set for Sep-
tember 24 and tenders were called for the
construction,
Tuesday, when the landowners heard the
tenders were 10 percent higher than
homes in the communities to take this type
of patient and care for them", said, Mr.
MOKinley,
"The committee can foresee the day
when this could be a major problem",
Reeve McKinley stated. "If 'Huronview is
the only place provided for these people, it
could deprive senior citizens of the
'facilities which have been provided for
Early Tuesday morning, another record
low ,temperature of 30 degrees was recor-
ded, daffraging a few vegetable gardens, but
causing little damage to the farm crops.
Mr. Miller said that the recent rains
have improved the quality of the bean crop
because the moisture content is up slightly,
resulting in less split beans,
With the price of beans unsettled at this
time, Hurons 60,000 acres of beans should
bring in about $11 million for Huron far-
mers.
The yield and quality of the corn crop as
grain is still not known, Mr. Miller said,
because it was still too early to tell, Some
fields in the Brussels area, and around
Harpurhey had been heavily damaged by a
including the- volunteer help of the Kin-
smen and the Kinettes.
This year, the driver awards presented
by officials of Molson's Brewery, went to
Art Abbott who had the high average of
.502 and Terry Kerr, who had the highest
point of 121. Each received a. silver tray
and. $50 from Molsons.
As well, thetop ten drivers were presen-
ted with gloves from the Old Mill at Blyth.
estimated, they backed down.
Reeve Elgin Thompson said it was
"Completely unreasonable to pay $16,000
for a drain on a 100 acre farm." as one
land owner would have had to pay.
The seven owners , present agreed to go
back to the original plan for a mainly open
drain. Court of revision was set by Council
for October 22 and tenders will be adver-
tised for the open drain.
Owners at the meeting were John OId-
field, Harry Arts, • Stewart Bannerman,
Lloyd and Matt Haney and Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbert Maloney. Engineer Henry Uder-
stadt was present to answer questions.
The former Logsdon Chicken Hatchery
property (building torn down) was sold to
Kenneth Coleman of Egmondville for
$3105. The township had the property for
unpaid taxes. It is located on the main
street in Egmondville at the Seaforth
boundary. It was sold for residential pur-
poses.
Jack Burton of Moffat Lake Ex-
plorations was at the meeting to discuss
supplying natural gas to Vanastra. With
Mr. Burton at the meeting was Paul
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them," -
"The next couple of Years may bring
some answers" Reeve McKinley went on.
"But it will take a ;little bit of understan,
cling on the part of society in general and.
oirrsehees as leaders to try to bring this
about,"
In other business, council appointed the
restructuring committee with Warden W.J.
record low temperature on September 4.
This year, there was an average yield of
spring grains, despite one of -the dryest
summers in 15 years, and the winter wheat
crop came off with above average yields.
Huron County was luckier than some of
the counties in the south, in the so called
"Banana belt" of Southern Ontario, where
temperatures at ground level early Monday
morning dipped into the mid-teens, causing
an estimated $4 million damage to
tomatoes, pepper and lima bean crops that
were still left in the fields.
The vegetable crops, along with some
late corn and soybean crops, were about
two weeks behind schedule because of a,
late, wet spring.
Marian Thompson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R,E, thompson of RR 2, Clinton, was
the big award winner at the Commen-
cement exercises held at Central Huron
Secondary School last Friday night. She
won a total of seven awards,
Two major issues are under study at the
present moment in the Huron County Plan-
ning Department.
The first issue up for discussion is a
uniform building permit throughout the
county with one set of rules applicable to
rural municipalities and another for urban
areas.
The second issue to which attention is
being given is the possibility of a Holding
Elston as chairman and John Baker of
Hensel!, Joe Kerr of Wingharn, Everett
Mcllwain of Goderich Township and Lloyd
R, Ferguson of Ushotne as members; ap-
proved the increase for fuel (25 percent)
requested by the Social Service Committee
oad budget
Jim Britnell, Huron County engineer,
holds out gloomy prospects where costs are
concerned for all road departments
throughout the county. He has warned all
municipalities to "look for trouble" in
many areas of the program to provide
roads for citizens,
"Your committee is experiencing con-
siderable difficulty in securing delivery on
many items which we use daily in our
maintenance and construction operations,"
Joe Dietrich, chairman of the Huron
County Road Committee noted in his
reOzt. "It is becoming increasingly dif-
Mult to call tenders or quotations on many
items of machinery, equipment and sup-
plies since most bidders are now qualifying
their bids and making them subject to price
adjustment at the time of delivery which
could be from six to 12 months away."
Marian Thompson, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robin Thompson, of RR 2, Clin-
ton was the top award winner at Commen-
cement exercises held at Central Huron
Secondary School in Clinton last Friday
night.
Miss Thompson, who graduated from
.'grade =13 last June, =.received. seven awards,
including an Ontario Scholarship, the Sir
Earnest Cooper Scholarship, and five W.D.
Fair Scholarships for having the highest
average in grade 13 at CHSS last year, and
for the highest marks in English,
Mathematics, two maths combined and
Biology.
Other Ontario Scholarships were awar-
ded to Sharon Brandon, David Inkley,
John Mommersteeg, and Jim Riddell.
A total of 92 invididual awards were
handed out at the Commencement, and
their total value was worth more than
$6,000.
Philip Street received the Bartliff Bakery
Zoning Bylaw to give local councils control
over development until such time as secon-
dary plans and zoning bylaws have been
approved in conjunction with Huron's Of-
ficial Plan.
,County Planning Director Gary David-
son told council there should probably be
one uniform building permit across the
county, expecially in the rural
municipalities with a wide variety of
building problems.
The case of Bridge Motors just outside
Wingham in Morris Township was cited as
a prime example of the type of problem
which can occur.
Bridge Motors constructed a new
building on the Morris Township property
where no building permit was required.
However, upon making application for ac-
cess to the highway, the Ministry of Tran-
sportation and Communications denied
Bridge Motors a permit to construct a
driveway since Huron's Planning Board
advised the MTC the Bridge Motors
operation was in tonflict to the provisions
in Huron County's Official Plan.
While there is still some dispute
The Clinton Centennial Committee at
their regulat monthly meeting last week
decided to have a contest to choose the best
design for 4 Centennial flag, with the
competition Open to all citizens of the town,
the high school and the three elementary
schools. First prize will be $25 and there
will be two $10 runner-up prizes.
The COrnrnittee also passed a Motion to
install signs at the entrances to town to
proclaim the town's birthday and
celebrations.
The signs, to be made by Reg Smith of
Clinton, will Measure two feet by eight feet,
and will be lighted. They will be installed
by tnichOctober.
The Clinton Ministerial Association was
AO represented at the Meeting, and
outfitted Plane tot a combined church Set-
Yite during Centennial week next year, The
for those persons on welfare in Heron.
County; and learned that the $220,000 ad-
dition to the Huron-Perth Regional
Assessment Office will be officially opened
November 14.
00 sg oomy
"While not coming right out and saying
it, some suppliers are indicating that if you
don't want to buy on our terms, there are
dozens of others who do and we really
don't need your business so badly that we
need to take a risk," the report said.
The County Engineer is in the process of
securing more information on this problem
from 'other municipalities and from the
province to see if there isn't some solution.
"If we cannot find a solution to this
problem it will virtually destroy the low
bid tendering system for many items we
must purchase," says Jim Britnell.
To be more specific concerning the kinds
of increases the county is facing, Mr. Brit-
nell spoke of the road signs used
throughout Huron.
He said there had been a 39 percent in-
crease in the cost of the raw materials to
produce the signs in the county's Wroxeter
office. This increase, Mr. Britnell advised,
is due to the increase in the cost of plastics
and aluminum which are used in the
production of the reflective materials of
which the signs are made.
He pointed out there is only one com-
pany — the 3M company — which
produce's these vital raw materials.
"Like Bell Telephone," Mr. Britnell ob-
served, "you either use it or do without it."
A stop sign now costs the county about
$25 to make up and install on a post in the
ground.
"Eight or ten of these are lost every
weekend," Mr. Britnell complained. He
charged that motorists deliberately knock
them down and mutilate them for the sheer
joy of being destructive. He told council of
one stop sign at Carlow at a dangerous in-
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Award for having the highest award in
Year 1, while Lorraine York received the
Fairholme Dairy Award for having the
highest award in Year 11. Linda Webster
took home the Anstett Jewellers Award for
getting the highest award in Year 111, and
Cheryl Webster had the highest average in
Year IV ,and received the, W.IX—Eair
. Scholarship.
The Clinton Town Council Citizenship
Awards went to Linda Overall and Royce
Laycox, and the CHSS Teachers Citizen-
ship Award went to David Inklev.
Eighteen students received their cer-
tificates• of training, 35 students received
their secondary school honours graduation
diploma, and 144 students received their
'secondary school graduation diploma at
the 80th Annual Commencement.
The Valedictory Address was delivered
by James Riddell, and Rev. D.J. McMaster
delivered the benediction.
surrounding the Bridge Motors operation,
Gary Davidson said the premises would be
primarily a car' dealership which is not
strictly an related enterprise as
was permitted by the official plan.
Warden Bill Elston, reeve of Morris
Township, said the Bridge Motors
operation was a' "Good thing for the com-
munity". He indicated the company would
deal in farm machinery, a much needed
service in the Wingham area, as well as
other modes of transportation.
Charles Thomas, reeve of Grey Town-
ship, asked what was wrong with the
Bridge Motors development and argued it
was as farm related as some other develop-
ments recently permitted on
agricultural land in Huron.
"It seems to depend where the
agricultural land is and whom it affects,"
mused Goderich deputy-reeve Stan Profit,
He recalled the uproar in that area regar-
ding the Hydro line crossing prime
agricultural land,
"Now they're saying Bridge Motors is a
good thing," Profit reasoned. 'qt may be,
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date is to be discussed with the program
committee.
Roy Wheeler reported that the
decorations had been picked up from Mit-
chell, and are in storage in Clinton. It was
felt that more decorations Were needed in
the core area,
Publicity chairman Bob Mann reported
that the bumper stinkers and change purses
will be distributed this week, and will be
on sale in at least 20 outlets in town,
Mts. Mervin tatkie of the Historical
Committee suggested that a monument be
promoted to honor Sir William Otter, and
felt that Something could be worked out
With the Huron County Historical Society,
Torn Feeney asked what decision had
been reached on the financing of the Cen-
tennial Band, and it was decided to send
representation to the next Clinton Council
Meeting,
Raceway ends, 1974 best year ever
uckersmith drain
Frost ,damages` area crops
The Clinton campus of Conestoga College unveiled a hew
plan for the secretarial science course at the Clinton centre,
during a press conference last week. The course will allow ahy
persons to start the courts anytime during- the year% Ldokleg
Over the facilitieS of the cottage following the conference ore
•
Exeter Mayor Jack Delbridge, left, Seatorth Reeve John Plan-
nerY, MP Bob McKinley, Conestoga president Kenneth Hunter,
and Clinton Centre science teacher Bernie BlIften, (News-
Record photo)
Goderich Township girl
is best winner at CHSS
Uniform County permit recommended
Centennial Flag proposed