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Clinton News-Record, 1975-01-23, Page 1P• Clinton NewsRecord Thursday, January 23, 1975 11, n 110th Year— No. 4 W.eather 1975 1974 HI (.a JANUARY 14 21 ,13 15 24 11 16 25 16 17 28 13 18 33 17 19 33 14 20 16 -7 Snow - 9" Hi 1.O 33 34 38 33 26 31 36 15,- 23 24 9 8 17 15 rain 1.33 Spring Fair may become larger "B" event Clinton stands a good chance of becoming a "B" fair next Spring, the Duron Central Agriculture Society decided at their annual meeting at. Holmesville last Thursday night. The Clinton Spring Fair would become only the second "B" Fair in Huron County and thus would be eligible for bigger 'grants and could increase their prizes. Seaforth has the other "B" fair. . The Agricultural Society decided last week to apply to the ministry of agriculture and food for the "B" status because their expenses had risen considerably in the past several years. The Society learned that 1974 was one of the best years ever in terms of exhibitors and attendance, and the annual deficit was the smallest in the past number of years. . This year, they are connecting the Spring Fair with taie Centennial Celebrations of Clinton and are plan- ning now for' the Fair, to be held -June 6,7,8. Elgin Thompson, Tuckersmith Township Reeve, was named the new chairman of the Agriculture Society, replacing Reeve Harold Lobb of Clinton, who served the past two years. Other officers elected were: William Flynn of Hullett, first dice -president; and George Colclough of Hullett, second vice-president. In the women's section, Mrs. Don (Dot) McLean of Clinton was picked as the new president to succeed Mrs. Jim Snell of Hullett. Mrs. Hill Dale of Seaforth was named first vice- president, Mrs. D. O'Connell of Clinton waspicked as second vice-president, and Mrs. Greg Brandon of Hullett was picked as secretary -treasurer. Stan Paquett, associate ag. rep. of the ministry of agriculture , from Clinton, was the guest speaker and he showed slides of a trip made by some Huron • County residents to the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Switzerland last summer. Other guests present included District director Mrs. McCowan of Seaforth, the Senior Citizen's Queen, Mrs. Walker from Goderich, the queen of the Fair,- Cheryl Webster of Varna, and representatives from the Cen- tennial Committee, the Lions Club, the Legion, and the ministry of agriculture and food. Canada's. "Pied Piper" may visit Centennial The possibility of inviting Bobby Gimby, the Pied Piper of Canada's Centennial Celebrations in 1967, to put on a show in Clinton during the Cen- tennial Celebrations ,was one of the many topics discussed at the Cen- tennial meeting last week in Clinton. Dr. Ken Woods of @'linton - told the meeting that good bands for the'parade would cost between $500 and $700 each, and the meeting voted to spend up to -$2,060 t� • invite Mr. Gimby to present a children's concert and participate in the parade Centennial Week, July 25 to August 4. Bayfield toget iarger .rnarina. Bayfield . is fast becoming the yachting centre of Huron County and With the announcement last week of a `Ora or --expansion of Dry -Dock Marine Centre Bayfield Limited. The company, which is loeated on the south side of the Bayfield River, just west of the Highway 21 bridge, received an $160,000 Ontario Development Corporation Loan last Friday, Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron announced. The loan, at eight per cent interest, will be used to expand and improve the present marina, adding 95 boat berths, a restaurant, a grocery store, and a marine accessories store. There will also be washroom and shower facilities, and a sewage pump -out system. The president of the Company Is -Paul Steacey. Work is expected to start shortly on the project. By Jim• Fitzgerald If you or your organization are having a special event this year con- nected with the Clinton Centennial Celebrations, give us a call and we 'will put it in .our Centennial Calender, which appears elsewhere in this paper. By using this calendar, conflicts of dates with other events can be avoided, +++ It's doubtful if Paul Thompson's Passe Muraille Theatre will be. bringing their new play to this area, . of reN sit _has r iyed 'lately. Called "I Love ` ou" y Blue", the show is a collection of pornography reminiscent .of 'stag film or a dirty magazine. What a change from the "Farm Show" or "1837". It gave me a warm feeling the other night at the Lions Club Robert Burns dinner to see the traditional Scottish Haggis carried in by an Irishman and an Englishman. No prejudice in these parts. For those music lovers in the area, the Clinton Centennial Band will be putting on that concert, which they had -scheduled for last week, this Friday, January_ 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Public Schoot.^� �TFie kids have been working hard for this one. Clinton Firemen were called . to an apartment' above 19 Albert Street last Friday morning about 7:30 a.m. to put out a mattress fire. The blaze ap- parently started when some children dropped a lighter • they were playing With. Damage was light. It's nice to see the Clinton nvironlnental I,Xnprovement Program ack in action after a brief hiatus,. We ure need them . , Decorating committee chairman, Roy Wheeler, reported that Mrs. June Boussey of Clinton submitted the winning entry in the Centennial Flag Contest and received $50 in 50 cent pieces. Mr, Wheeler said there were _40 en- tries in the contest and with a great deal of difficulty, the committee narrowed the selection down to six entries before Mrs. Boussey's winning entry was picked. The flag features blue strips on a red background with a gold Town of Clinton crest and the dates 1875-1975 in the corner. Flags will be ordered and it is hoped that Clintonians will also order flags` too. The meeting also learned that the Carlsberg team will not be available during Centennial week, but could be brought during the Spring Fair. The committee also hopes to set up prizes for the best decorated stores and homes this year, and final details will be worked out later. Eric Switzer, correspondence • • • chairman, reported that he is now mailing outArivitations at the rate of 35 per day and he is still looking for names of persons to contact. Joe Murphy reported that Air Force Weekend will also include a square dance at the highschool, and ways and means chairman Don Hall reported that half of the Christmas.., cards had been sold. Also present at the meeting was Larry Cousins of Glasprint of Canada, London, who gave details on souvenirs for Centennial items. The Centennial signs for the en- trances to town are now ready and will be erected shortly by the Public Works department and the PUC. Historical chairman Doris Batkin reported that she is still getting. pic- tures of the town's past, and hopes to publish a weekly column in the News - Record on the history of the town. The meeting also learned that there are 48 entrants in the beard growing contest, and another category will be added for those who started their beards before December 28. Treasurer Eugene McAdam's report showed revenues of $3,3378.53, with expenses , of $2,892.48. Three bills totalling $189 were ordered paid, and a $10 donation will be made to St. Pauls Anglican Church for use of their duplicator. Plant would Premier William Davis and members of the Provincial cabinet were told Wednesday that the proposed atomic power generating station in Huron county is not in the best interests of the residents of the county. The statement was contained in a brief presented to the cabinet as it met in a special session in London. The brief was prepared by the Huron Power Plant Committee, a committee made up of •18 farm commodity groups and several civic groups in the county. Chairman Adrian Vos of Blyth told the cabinet that Huron County is 90 per Tell -known couple wed 50 years BY WILMA OKE A well-known area, couple, Mr. acid Mrs. J.W. (Wally) Crich of 116 Fulton Street, Clinton; celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Saturday evening with a family dinner at Hotel Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Crich were married at the , Ontario Street • United Church parsonage in Clinton on January 16, 1925, by Rev. Clayton Moorehouse. Mrs. Crich is the former Lorna Marjorie Durnin, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Durnin of Lucknow and Clinton. Mr. Crich is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Crich of Tuckersmith Township. They have three sons, Murray, Paisley; Ted, Clinton; and David, London and one daughter Gail, Mrs. Douglas Fraser, Seaforth. There are 12 grandchildren. A daughter Betty died on January 1•, 1972. Following their marriage, they took up residence on Mr. Crich's home farm on the Huron Road (No. 8 Highway) in Tuckersmith Township. In 1967 they moved to the southern outskirts of Clinton where Mr. Crich and his son, Murray, had a poultry farm for five years until Mr. Crich's health failed and he and his wife retired toClinton in 1972. Active in community affairs Mr. Crich served as 'a ' councillor on Tuckersmith council for two ternis and served for 19 years on Tuckersmith school boards. He was a member of Central Huron Secondary School Board for the first two years of its operation. Mr. Crich was a member of the Seaforth Agricultural (Fair) Society for 30 years and was awarded a plaque for outstanding service. Besides his farming, Mr. Crich was a salesman for a number of years of CIL Celebrate Golden AnQiversary Mr.,.and Mrs: J.W. (Wally) Crich of Fulton Street in Clinton celebrated'their 50th wedding Anniversary last week with a dinner at the Hotel Clinton. The couple were married In Clinton on January 16, 1925 and -lived in. Tuckersmith Township until 1967 when they moved into Clinton. They have three sons, one daughter, and 12 grandchildren. •(ph"oto by Wilma Oke) and Chipman Chemicals and later was instrumental in locating the Harrison Fertilizer plant on his farm and was connected with the,. plant until moving to Clinton where the plant was taken over by Cyanamid of Canada. Mr.Crich enjoyed curling and was a member of the Seaforth Curling Club, is a former member of the Seaforth Lions Club, and was formerly on the executive of the South Huron Liberal Association. , Active in the Masonic Order for over 40 years, Mr. Crich is a past master of Clinton Lodge No. 84 and past principal of Malloch Chapter No. 66 of Seaforth. In 1957 he was Grand Superintendent of Huron District No. 6 when the Grand Chapter celebrated its 100th an- niversary. The couple many gifts messages. were and the "Take that, Uaggis" Dressed in Scottish regalia, Beecher Menzies of Clinton addresses the "Haggis" at the Clinton Lions Club's Robbie Burns night held at Holmesville last Tuesday night. For the first time, the Lions had their wives and the Kinette Club at the traditionally stag affair. The Kinsmen were also guests. Looking on while Mr. Menzies takes a stab, are carriers Joe Murphy and Dick Dixon and Kinette president Chrystal Jewitt. (News -Record photo) hurt Huron, cent agricultural in base and any development must be supportive of the main industry in the area: agriculture. "Clearly," the . brief said, "a generating development with its inherent transmission corridors, its supportive industry and additional building of service roads and highways is not supportive to Huron's main, in- dustry." While it has been argued, the brief stated, that the heavy consumption of electricity by farms. makes it necessary for more generating stations to be built, figures show, that the farming industry uses only two per cent of Ontario ,Hydro's . output while con- stituting five per cent of the population. "We are not intending to argue the need of electricity as projected by Ontario Hydro," the brief said. "What we are disputing is the , proposed location of the plants and particularly the Central Huron Plant." The brief pointed out extensive research which showed the damage caused by air pollution to white bean, pea, corn, potato and garden crops which could be' caused either by establishment of a fossil fuel (oil or coal) fired generating station or simply from the increased auto traffic necessary to service a large power project. Quoting the figures from the government's own ministry of agriculture and food, the brief stated that' the value of bean production in Huron county in 1973 was nearly $17 million. Corn, which is also susceptible to pollution, was worth $27 million to Huron county farmers and potatoes, recipients of which could also be damaged, meant congratulatory- $172,000 in the Huron county 1973 to Davis told The brief said that accurate figures for onions and . other garden crops grown mostly in the Grand Bend area near the proposed site were unavailable but said a conservative estimate of the worth of all crops that could be affected is $50 million. The brief also pointed out the potential loss of farm land caused by power corridors from the station. It dealt with the problems of finding farm labour in competition with the wages paid at the power plant. It spoke of the problem of higher taxation required to pay for the increased services needed by personnel building the power station. The brief predicted that industry setting up in the area around the power plant would also gobble up prime farming land. Mr. Vos 'minced no words in telling the. side of the farmers to the cabinet: • "When we as farmers have opposed certain developments in the past we .have been accused of trying to impede progress, but I ask you, what progress? Is it progress when land' that can feed thousands of people year after year, is , buried under highways and factories? I maintain that it is progress when we succeed in saving one acre of food - producing land from that process. By allowing Ontario Hydro to establish• their monster facilities in Huron County in particular, and Southern Ontario in general, the Ontario Government will impede progress and future generations in our country and present generations in many other countries will pass judgement on -you lgentlemen ' and I predict that the judgement will be severe." (continued on page 8) Bayfield agrees to business outlet By Milvena Erickson At the. regular Bayfield council meeting Monday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens were given permission to build a business outlet behind the library on : theirpropert~y,on I;ouniifi''als sippoi='teiJ" a` reso�iTirio"ii' rinfrom the Corporation of the Town of Watford regarding Court leniency, court fines and the curbing of unlawful activities. They also received letters from the Huron County Board of Health regarding regulations on added facilities in the Community Centre and from the ministry of treasury regar- ding a Municipal Administration Course at Fanshawe College in Lor>"don.. A progress report was received from the Bayfield Area Bluebird Society, stating that 82 young bluebirds flew from their boxes last year up 49 from the previous year. Several individuals and groups- are • now working in this endeavour, not only in the immediate area but from Goderich and Staffa and a cash donation from as far away as Safety Harbour, Florida and a pile of pine board ends from Dashwood Ind- sutries. The directors for 1975 are, Mrs. Library Building following inspection by Councillors McFadden and Warner, and snowmobilers annoying residents at "ungodly" hours of the night. Council gave serious consideration to dogs running at large following a ,G--,BTatr ' Mr ' `"" Fr'aii lt` Bc(rel eport,i w.spape . f-�at a<: 3� Tz n"bert ' � � �a.. ne tip �t re fla:C«�P�+�r: secretary), Pfttitp"'D'u ou%, -Percy ' nitt-boy- beitig-kitte by stray --dog irY-~-- Johnston, Harvey lyacDougall Saskatchewan and passed the following (president), Miss Jessie Metcalf, Mrs resolutions of committees of Council for 1975: Community Centre Board — Don Johnston, George Telford, councillors, Frank Burch, Frank McFadden, Milvena Erickson; Town Hall com- mittee — Frank Burch, Frank McFadden, Don Warner, Flory Oddleifson, Jan tozzard, Milvena Erickson; harbour committee — the whole cotcil; planning committee — the whole council. The Reeve is ex - officio of all committees with the clerk as secretary. Bayfield appointed G. H. Ward and Partners as auditors for the Village for 1975. Gwen Pemberton, Miss Dorothy Reinke (membership secretary), . John Siert- sema, and Brig. Morgan Smith (treasurer). There are 50 family memberships in the Society, but they are in need of more people both old and young. In other business, the Reeve will present, a brief dealing with . the Mustard Report on Wednesday, January 22 at 4:30 p.m. at the Cabinet Minister's meeting in London and council discussed the drainage program for 1975, the state of the County council forms new committees Huron County Warden Anson McKinley welcomed council to a new and prosperous year in his opening address at the first Official meeting of the County Council Wednesday January 15. The (County Council which is comprised of representatives from 16 townships opened the new year with 14 neW members. At the first meeting C°ouncil'adopted the report of the Striking Committee for 1975 which formed the following committee groups with the' first person listed to act as chairman. The road committee will be chaired by Ralph McNichol and will", include members Robert Gibson, Joseph Kerr, Robert Lyons and C. Kenneth Campbell. John Tinney will head the Huronview committee for one year formed by coun- cillors Harvey, McMichael and James Mair for two years and Thomas Consitt and Clarence 'Boyle for three years. Ed Oddliefson will ae't as chairman of the health • committee for a period of two years ,6.d.., will be assisted by Joseph Miller and Anson McKinley ot1e year, Williartt"Teale for three years and Jack Morrissey a provincial representative. The, County Library committee will be under the leadership of Norman Durst for two years with Elgin Thompson and George (continued on page 8) •