Clinton News-Record, 1974-12-05, Page 1A man of spirit
A man, about whom it can be safely said, contributed more than any other man to
the spirit of Clinton and area, N. Douglas Freeman, retired last week from his post
at the LCBO Store in Clinton. Mr. Freeman worked at the liquor store for eight and
a half years and previous to that, he worked at the Canada Packers plant in Clin-
ton for 25 years. Mr. Freeman said last week that as much liquor is sold now as
was when the Air Force was in Town. (News-Record photo)
Burt Lobb
youngest member
in history
By Jim Fitzgerald
Happy birthday Clinton!! According to
the News-Record of December 3, 1874,
Clinton was officially declared a town on
or near that date by the Lieutenant Gover-
nor of Ontario. That fact was discovered
last week by our researcher, Lynn Flowers.
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Clinton saying it collet be restored, one
from engineer James F. MacLaren of Lon-
don saying it would cost $400,000 to
restore it, and a proposal from London Ar-
chitects Tillinann and Lamb saying it
should be taken down and a new complem
set up at a cost of $800,000.
The future of the old Town Hall sparked
a great deal of controversy and is believed
to he one of the prime reasons that there
was a heavy turnout at the polls,
Contest entries mount
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Election draws heaviest vote \in decade
Married 80 gears
A Bayfield oouple, Mr. and Mrs" Ray 'Schell, celebrated their 60th Wedding An.
rilversary on the weekend and were hollered at an opeh Muse In IM Village on
Monday when dozens of friends arid relatives Mailed them Well, (photo by. MilVena
BefolOOn)
Upset the ward in some area electios
A five-year-old, RR 4 Clinton girl, Tena
Jacqueline Van Spengen, daughter 'of Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Van Spengen was killed
last Thursday morning (Nov. 28) when she
was struck by a car as she crossed Highway
8, about a mile east of Clinton.
The eastbound car. was driven by John
Barker, fit.', of RR 2, Goderich. The ac-
cident occurred about. 10 a.m. according to
the Goderich Detachment of the OPP, who
There no end in sight in the strike
of 285 workers at the Bendix Home
Syetems plant in Hensall as the strike
nears the end of its second week.
A union spokesman on Tuesday night
said that there have been no meetings bet-
ween management and Local 3054 of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America who struck the plant on
November 25 after voting 222 to 45 to
strike.
The Union spokesman said Tuesday that
two meetings had been scheduled between
them and management - one on Monday
and another on Tuesday - but Bendix
management cancelled both meetings.
Pickets are on duty outside the plant. 24
hours a day, and none of the men have
received any pay for two weeks. A small
strike paycheck for each union member is
expected next week,
The only staff crossing the picket lines
are the office workers and the foreman.
The union is asking for a $1.35 wage in-
crease in a two-year contract as well as a
Don't forget the Winter Carnival
meeting tonight at the Arena .at 8 p.m. If
not enough interest is shown tonight, then
the whole thing will be called off for next
ear. * * *
After the liquor plebicite in Tuckersmith
ownship on Monday, you'll be able to
ave whiskey when you order a hamburger,
t not a glass of wine or beer which seems
little silly, Isn't it about time the Ontario
averment straightened out these 19th
entuey liquor laws so people wouldn't he
confused when they have to vote on the
atter, and say yes to one proposal and no
another?
here is a joke floating around now with
price of sugar being worth its weight in
d, that from now on when you order ca.
in a 'restaurant, the coffee is free but if
want :sugar, it'll cost you a quarter,
v'en though there hasn't really been
ugh snow yet to haul out the
mobiles, the Clinton and District
wmobile Club is active again and next
slay, December 10, they are meeting in
ton Town Hall• at 8 p.m, One of the
e interesting items will he a discussion
ed changes to
cost-of-living clause raising wages one cent
an hour for every 4-cent increase in the
cost-of-living index effective in November,
1975.
The company has offered a $1.30-an-
hour wage increase and has agreed to the
cost-of-living rise but wants a 10-cent-an-
hour maximum on the two-year contract.
Other outstanding issues include the
wording in a, health and welfare benefits
agreement, as well as the questions of
seniority and management rights.
Basic wage at the plant, which produces
mobile homes and recreational vehicles, is
$3.38.
Stuart Craine, chief shop stewart in the
Oxford Street plant, said that "With the
last contract we lost money. If we accept
this one we will still be down without a
cost-of-living clause.
"We're talking of buying power."
Mr. Craine added that under previous
owners: (Bendix bought the Hensall plant
By more than a two to one margin, Clin-
ton voters last Monday night in the
municipal elections were solidly in favor of
saving the old Town Hall as they voted 887
to 410 in favor of restoring the old Town
Hall
The results of the ballot, which was stric-
tly an opinion poll, will be used by council
to decide the fate of the 94-year-old struc-
ture.
The council had three reports on the
future of the Town Hall facilities in the
last year, one offer from Gordon Duern of
There will be two new faces on the
Huron County board of education from this
area, the voters decided at the polls on
PUC welcomes
two new faces
The Clinton Public Utilities Commission
will have two new faces for the next two
years as businessman Joe Atkinson and
school principal Gordon Phillips were elec-
ted along with the two incumbents, John
Wise and Flat Hartley,
Both Mr. Wise and Mr.-Hartley had no
trouble in the election as they were both
well out in front of their opponents.
Here is a poll by poll breakdown of the
vote:
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:303 216 239 187 1025
218 228 180 174 816
190 199 176 130 709
208 174 1,30 122 -060
Thompson 14 1(30 130 1 74 404
A 00 1 to 19'7_ 94 , AAA
There will be a large number of new
faces on collnells, in some municipalities in
the Clinton area following the municipal
elections last Monday, '
Hullett Township
In Hullett Townsliipe Reeve Hugh Flynn.
was ousted by John Jewitt by a five to one
Margin in an upset in that township. Mr.
Flynn received '148 votes while Mr, Jewitt,
a councillor .for the past seven years,
received 679.
Hullett will also have .a new Deputy-
Reeve as newcomer Joe Honking defeated
Charles Scanlon 478 to 213, Mr. Dunking
was defeated two years ago in a similar
fight With"Mr: Scanlon,
Greg Brandon will be the new face on
the three member Hullett council .as he
received 478 votes, Incumbents. Tom
Duizer and Milt Dale were returned,
receiving 549 and 532 votes respectively.
Defeated candidate Ralph Buffinga
received 391 votes,
Hensall
In Hensall, all four incumbent coun-
cillors were returned with Murrev %Icor
topping the polls with 254 votese Next came
While many other municipal elections
suffered from a lack of voters, such was not
the case in Clinton, where 60 percent of the
voters turned out Monday to elect a new
in 1972; previous owners were Boise
Cascade and General Coach Works of
Canada). "This was the hest-paying aa;
best operated place to work in the area.
But it's getting progressively worse.
There's a big turnover of employees and
very low morale. We aren't fooling around
anymore ..."
Other Bendix mobile home plants in St.
Jerome, Que. and Amherst, N.S., have
recently struck and received cost-of-living
clauses in their contracts.
The two Hensell facilities are the only
ones in Ontario; there are three more in
Western Canada. All are subsidiaries of
Bendix corporation, a multi-national firm
with headquarters in Southfield, Mich,
Another mobile home manufacturer,
Glendale Mobile Homes in Strathroy, set-
tled a seven-week strike with its employees
in early November, finally giving them a
cost-of-living clause.
Hundreds upon hundreds of entries con-
tinue to pile up each week in the News-
Record's "Spot the Merchants Contest" as
Monday.
In Clinton, Blyth, and the Townships of
Hullett and McKillop, newcomer John
Elliott of Blyth topped the polls with 1,295
votes to defeat incumbent John Henderson
of McKillop Township, who received 1,200
votes.
Ken Cooke of Clinton retained his seat
by garnering 1,265 votes. Mrs, Margaret
(Peggy) Menzies received 786 votes.
Mr. Elliott picked up the lion's !there of
the vote in Blyth as he had only :3:32 from
Clinton, compared to Mr, Cooke's 928 and
Mrs. Menzies 565.
In the battle for the other two seats in
Seaforth, Bayfield, and the Townships of
Tuckeremith and Stanley, incumbent Molly
Kunder of Seaforth topped the polls with
1,039 votes, while Bob Peck of Varna, a
newcomer but a former member of the
Stanley 'Township school hoard, grabbed
the second seat with 532 votes.
Robin Gates of Vanastra was next with
532 votes, while Dr. Morgan Smith of
Hayfield, who topped the poll in that
village, received only :371 votes overall.
Harvey Hammond of Vanastra Wits last
with 139 votes.
Incumbent' John Westbrook of R,R,
Goderich, easily won the single seat for the
Townships of Goderich arid Colhortie got.
ling 523 votes to defeat opponent Doetrld
eAeleee, et leemillee who got 187,
Harold Knight with 251, Paul Neilands
with 222, and. Leonard Erb with 205.
-Defeated candidates Janis Bishack and
William Fuss received 188 and 86 votes
respectively,
Goderich Township
Former councillor Grant Stirling retur-
ned to God.erieh Township as the Deputy-
,Reeve as he defeated councillor Wayne
Horner 396 to 193 votes.
Incumbents Garnet Wright with 433
votes and Jake Reder with 419 votes were
returned to council, while newcomer Joe
Fritzley got the other seat with 3:30 votes.
,liainford Jackson received 305 votes.
Tuckersmith Township
There will be one new face on the
Tuckersmith council next year as
newcomer Bole Bell from Kippen 'topped
the vote for council with 558 votes. Incum-
bents Cleave Coombs, who received 472
votes, and Lambert Branderhorst, who
received 421 votes, were returned to coun-
cil. Addle Jutzi of Vanastra received 160
votes,
Tuckersmith voters were split on four
liquor questions on the ballot, approving
mayor, six councillors, a PUC and board of
education, and give their decision on the,
fate of the old Town Hall.
For the first time in at least a decade,
there were line-ups reported by some
deputy-returning officers at several polls in
Town. In fact, the vote was so heavy that
there were few results until 10:30 p.m.
nearly 2 1 /2 hours after the polls had closed.
The battle that caused the most interest
wae for the mayor's cheir, which saw a see-
eea'eve teettleeeel eight' wish inewtbetiteMayo r
Don Symons winning his sixth term by a
slim 44 vote margin. Challenger Terry
Maguire said on Tuesday that he "may call
for a recount."
There' will he two new faces on Clinton
Council as the voters returned four of last
year's council. Bill Stauttener, who had sat
on council for two years, was out of council
by 62 votes.
The view faces in the council chamber
next January will include Burt Lobb, son
of Reeve Harold Lobb, and the youngest
councillor ever elected to Clinton Council
in its 100 year history.,
School teacher Jim Hunter, who cam-
paigned on a platform of more honesty and
openness on Council, was also elected,
easily taking down five spot.
Returned to their seats were incumbents
Ernest Brown, who topped the polls, Don
the contest 'gets near to its conclusion.
All the entries for each week are put
together and three lucky $5 winners are
picked.
Then all the entrants will have a chance
at the big $100 prize to be drawn at. the
conclusion of the contest.
Entries have been pouring in from all
over Huron County, including Clinton,
Vanastra, Bayfield and Brucefield, Blyth,
Hensall, Kippen, Varna and Auburn.
This week's winners are Louis Hoy
Vanastra, Mrs, Margaret Fremlin of Vic-
toria Street in Clinton, and Louise Gib.
bings, also of Victoria Street. Each will
receive a $5 gift certificate.
The answers to last week14 questions
were Clinton Crown Lanes, Debbies
Custard Cup Restaurant, Groves and Son
Electric, and Newcombe'e Drug Store.
Look elsewhere in this edition for this
week's contest, figure out what merchants
the pictures liclowt to, and send your entry
to the News,Record ;is soon as possible.
SY MILVENA ERICKSON
Mr. and Mrs, Ray Schell of Bayfield
were honoured by their family at open
house On Monday, Dee, 2, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs, Norman Talbot in Bayfield
on the occasion of their 60th wedding An.
niversary,,
Mr, and MrS. 8(.1)6114, were married in
Regina, Bask on Dec. 21'4914 and lived in
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Hay Township
In Hay Township, there was an tip* for
the reeve's chair as .John. Tinney; who was
deputy-reeve on the last council defeated
incumbent Reeve Joe Hoffman by a 479 to
424 vote,
Incumbent .cooncillors Lionel Wilder and
Lloyd Mousseau were returned to council
with 663 votes each, while Tony Bedard.
took the other seat with 460 votes. Donald
Geiger received 416 ,votes.
investigated the accident.
Besides her parents, Jacob and Jane, she
is survived by three sisters, Ann, Christine,
and Linda, all at home.
Funeral services were held from the Ball
Funeral Home in Clinton on November :30,
1974 with Rev. Alvin Beukema offidiating.
Interment was in Clinton Cemetery.
The pallbearers were Louis Lise, Henry
Meyer, Jim Greidanus and J, Kolkman.
Hall, Mrs. Ruth Rov. and Roy Wheeler.
The following are the perliminary results
by poll for mayor and council:
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Mayor
elytnerree 9 :.199
Maguire 15 174
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199
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Council '
Brown 17 296 287 237 186 1023
Hall 14 232 215 164 157 782.
Roy 8 213 204 171 132 728
Wheeler 9 220 197 156 136 718
Hunter 14 202. 187 160 112 675
Lobb 11 154 159 130 106 560
Stauttener 9 159 132 110 88 498
Tench 11 143 140 117 82 493
Okahashi 9 100 90 90 78 367
Switzer 11 97 85 94 55 342
Mrs. Tench said that if one of the other
elected councillors should have to be
replaced in future for some reason, then
custom dictates that the persons who
finished next in line on the ballot would be
moved into the vacated seat.
Candidates have two weeks after the
election in which to order a recount by a
county judge, and they must deposit $100.
After the recount then the judge decided
who, and how much the recount costs
would be.
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two and turning down two others. Liquor
plebicites need a two thirds majority to
pass.
They approved the sale of liquor under a.
lounge licence, and the sale of liquor under
a dining lounge licence with food available,.
but said no to the sale of beer and wine un-
der a dining ,room licence with food,
Available, and no to the establishment of a
government liquor store in the Township.
• Two defeated candidates for posts on
Clinton council told the News-Record on
Wednesday that they will order recounts of
the results of Monday's municipal election.
Terry Maguire, who lost .to incumbent
Don Symons for the mayors chair by 44
votes, says he will ask for a recount of the
entire mayorality vote,
Helen Tench, who finished eighth in the
race for the six council seats, says she will
order a recount because she was only five
votes behind seventh place finisher Bill
Stauttener.
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PUC
Wise 20
Hartley 16
Atkinson 14
Phillips 10
No break yet in Hensall strike
Two new faces on board
Town backs saving old Town Hall
13uyftelcl couple
mark 60th
Young girl, 5, is killed
crossing highway near home
Candidates order recounts