The Brussels Post, 1978-07-26, Page 21Brussels Post
BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
107th Year - Issue No. 31
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1978
Separate school attendance
officer gets a raise
Three die in two car crash
Three people died and two others were
injured Friday as the result of a two car
collision on concession 1-10-11 at sideroad
39-40 of East Wawanosh Township,.
Richard N. Zehr of R.R.1, St. Agatha
and'two passengers in his vehicle, Edward
J. Whitby and Claudia Hynes both of
Wingham died as a result of the accident.
Richard S. McBurney and his wife were,
injured as a result of the collision.
The. McBurney vehicle was eastbound on
concession 10-1.1 and the 2 :nd vehicle was
southbound when it travelled through a
yield sign and was struck broadside by the
McBurney vehicle. Mr. McBurney had
been released from hospital but Mrs.
McBurney still in Wingham hospital.
In addition the O.P.P. report that
charges were laid under the highway traffic
act and 17 warnings were issued.
Four charges were laid under the liquor
licence act.
One charge was laid under the criminal
code.
During the week, there were six motor
vehicle collisions which caused an es-
timated $9,430.00 in property damages
`injuries to four persons and three persons
killed.
On. Friday, July 28, Kevin R. Van Camp,
who was riding his bicycle on #16 county
road east of Highway 4 received minor
injuries when he was struck by a vehicle
driven by Alice L. Jamieson of London.
Car hits Brussels house
William A. Pearson of R.R.1, Ethel has
' been charged with careless driving as the
result of an accident in Brussels which his
vehicle left the road and struck a parked
car owned by Wayne Lowe pushing it into
the home of Mary Lowe, Wayne Lowe's
mother.
The accident happened on Saturday
morning about 3:45. Damage to the Lowe
vehicle is $1,500, damage to the house is
about $200 and damage to the Pearson
vehicle is $2,000, according to Sergeant
William J. Skelding of Wingham O.P.P.
ESTABLISHED
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FREAK ACCIDENT — Luckily there wasn't more damage done when a car
driven by William Pearson of R.R.1, Ethel drove into a car owned by Wayne
Lowe pushing the car into the home (above photo) of Mrs. Mary Lowe,
Wayne's mother. The bottom photo shows more, of the damage.
(Photo by Lang loiS)
By Wilma Oke
The Huron-Perth County Roman
Catholic Separate School „Board gave a
25-cent•per hour increase to its attendance
officer, William Innes of Stratford at a
meeting in Dublin Monday night. This
brings his salary to $5.57 per hour. His
mileage will remain at 20 cents per mile.
As well as being attendance officer Mr.
Innes assists the assessment officer,
Edmund Rowland of Dublin, in securing
• additional assessment for the separate
board, and in forming new separate school
zones.
Spence Read of St. Marys will be hired
as custodian at Holy Name of Mary School
in St. Marys, beginning September 1. He
succeeds Thomas Kilgallin who resigned in
June, effective August 31.
The board approved selling its 1970
GMC school bus from Zurich for $725 to
Allan Nicholson of Wingham. It has been
replaced by a new 1977 60-passenger bus
bought in June for $15,600.
The work-load for custodian Frank
Jordan at St. Michael's School, Stratford,
is to remain at factor 1.15 or full time,
while Sparkle Maintenance will have less
time when a new contract 1s. drawn up fol.
;Continued on Page 12)
Brussels Post's new format starts this week
If you think your paper looks brighter
and more airy, or at least different this
week, you're right.
The Brussels Post, is switching to a six
column format which will give the paper
more room for news and ad copy.
Front page and most feature news will,
be set a little wider than usual, while other
news items will be set slightly narrower
than in the old paper.
In it's change to the new format, this
newspaper joins most other community
papers in Huron and Perth, as well as most
daily newspapers.
Comments from readers on the change
are welcomed.
IPM plans more for women
competition, which is for the best quilt
depicting the nature of IPM '78. Judging of
the quilts takes place at the Ministry of
Agriculture and Food office in Clinton
Sept. 18, so the winning quilts will already
have been selected by the time they are on
display at the match, Mrs. Armstrong said.
One of the big tents will be set aside for
fashion shows, with a seating capacity of
500 to 600, Mrs. Armstrong said.
Men's, women's and children's fashions
from clothing stores throughout Huron
County and even outside the county will be
featured.
The tent will house cooking demon-
Tho ladies' program ; which will include strations by marketing boards, and hair,
numerous activities and displays of interest styling workshops and an afternoon
to men, will be held in two 50 by 100 foot exercise class.
tents and a building' of the same size. The other tent contains hOrticultural
exhibits and seminars on care of cacti,
tropical plants, showing dried flowers and
live flowers and man other topics of
interest to all gardeners.
It will be the first time the IPM ladies'
program committee has had a horticultural
tent, Mrs. Armstrong says. Horticultural
Huron's
By Dave Dineen
If anyone thinks the International
Plowing Match is just for farm men who
like to look over new machinery, see
demonstrations and spend a day away from
the farm, there is a lot more to it than that.
A lot of activities, displays and compet-
itions have been organized to keep women
busy, ladies' program committee chair-
person Carol Armstrong, of R.R. 4,
Wingham, said recently. In fact, the
committee will probably have the largest
covered area in the entire 87-acre tented
city.
displays we're incorporated with other
displays in years gone by, she said.
District 8 of the Ontario Horticultural
Society will have about a quarter of the
large tent for its displays, while the
remaining space will be for shows by
groups which participate in the seminars.
Programs will be running continuously
in the horticultural area, and the proposals
are already getting so -well accepted that
committee members are getting "quite
excited about this'', Mrs. Armstrong said.
The committee started planning the
ladies' program juSt after IPM '76 in Bruce
County at Walkerton, Mrs. Armstrong
said. She was approached to chair the
committee 'before the 1976 match and
watched that area of the Bruce match with
great interest.
In October 1976, the committee, made
up of Joan Campbell, SeafortlA; Dorothy
Coutes, 13elgrave; Shirley McAllister,
Zurich; Betty Cardiff, Brussels', and Susan
Wheatly, Seaforth, met.
Thirty thousand programs for ladies'
program Activities will be printed, Mrs.
Armstrong said, but this may not take care
of all the visitors to the exhibits.
The committee expects "half of the
people who come to the plowing match to
come through our area", Mrs. Armstrong
said. About 250,000 are expected at the
Sept. 26 to 30 match.
Anyone who has gone through the
ladies' exhibits in past plowing matches
and thinks this one will be the same. is in
for a surprise, Mrs. Armstrong said,
because "each year the whole thing is
different".
One of the things that fall under the
committee's jurisdiction is the ordering
and sales of IPM '78 souvenirs. The
committee has plowing match charms,
pens, mugs, trays, frisbees, and T-shirts.
It won't just be committee members
staffing the three main areas of ladies'
program activity, Mrs. Armstrong said.
Women's Institute groups will provide
about 12 helpers each day andthere will be
scores of volunteers helping to provide
information and enjoyment for the 125,000
expected at the ladies' exhibits,
The building will house 40 to 50 Crafts
people who Will display their wares, and
will feature quilts made by Huron County
residents competing in the plowing match
quilting contest.
The ladies' committee organized the