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Clinton News-Record, 1975-03-27, Page 1A Clinton. teenager has been charged with possession of narcotics and possession of narcotics forthe purpose the of trafficking after Clinton pollee made a large drug ',selxnre last,Saturday, The, youth will appear in Clinton Court next Wednesday to face the charges in connection with what is believed to be the largest sel ure ever , of marijuana, but „Clinton. police are waiting on confirnnation of „their find, . from- a .police laboratory, before therreleaso any details on the case,, In other police business, about 8800 was, caused to a parked car owned by Greg. Burns • of Clinton after it was, struck byra car driven by Robert R. Matheson of Oshawa early last Saturday morning, The accident occurred on Albert Street in Clinton in front of the Clinton. Commercial Printers. Two charges havebeen laid in. connection withthe'case. Huge blat.e destroos barn Fire raged out of control last Thursday in a barn on the farm of Dirk Westerhout, about six miles north of Clinton. on the Base! Line. The Clinton Fire Department arrived on the scene about 4:30 pm. last Thursday, but were unable to pinpoint the fire bee usO it 'had spread through_" dozens of partitions. By 5:45,, the barn was • 110th Year -'-No. 13 lRi8CB 30 36. 24 i9 '4342 36 33 17 20 40 32 34 15 21 34 24 31 25 22 40 32 36 23 f .23 24 44 32 21 l2 Rain -1.33" Snow 8" No sewage capacity No Fire levels area barn Fire late last Thursday afternoon completely destroyed a chicken barn on the farm of Dirk Westerhout on the Base Line Road, six raffles north of Clinton. The fire killed about 8,000 month-old broiler chicks, and'total damage could run as high as $50,000 to the barn and its con- tents. The Clinton Area Fire Department were called to the scene about 4:30 p.m. and only a small amount of smoke was visable at that point. But they were unable to halt the spread of the fire which had already spread to the partitions of the 50 by 100 foot, four storey barn. The fire broke through the roof of the structure at 5:45 p.m. and by. 6:15, the structure collapsed in a ball of flame. The smoke was visible six. miles away at Clinton. Fire Chief Clarence Neilans said no official cause of the fire was yet available, but the blaze was under investigation. The fire siren blew again about 9 p.m. the same ''night, but the call turned-Qut to be only a minor fire in the dash of a car parked behind the Century Restaurant on Huron Street. Youth dies in wreck Grant Laws, 19, of RR 1 Brucefield was killed and four other youths were injured in a single car accident on County Road 3, just west of Varna on Friday night. The accident, about 9:50 p.m. sent Joseph Fellowbar of Clinton and Frank Flynn of RR 5, Clinton to University Hospital in London where their condition is described as satisfactory. Two other youths, Richard McWilliam and Mark Harris, both of Clinton, are in improved condition in Clinton Public Hospital. The Goderich Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police said they believed the car was eastbound, and skidded on an icy patch on the road following a freezing rain storm that passed through the area Friday engulfed in flames, and by 6:15, it collapsed in a ball of flame. There is yet no of- ficial cause for the blaze, and the loss has been set at about $50,000, including nearly 8,000 chickens. Fireman Paul Draper (lower coiner) hoses down a propane tank to keep it cool. (News -Record photo) r-: ...,� �ti more growth allowed at There can be no more growth or in- dustrial expansion at Vanastra unless a major expenditure is made on a new sewage system at the former bases- Tuckersmith Township council learned at their meeting last Tuesday night. The current sewage plant is running at near full capacity of 100,000 gallons per day, and Neil McMullen, . an official with the Ontario ministry of the environment, said the Bayfield River near Clinton could not handle any more treated sewage anyway. He said that the river down stream from Clinton was a • very important trout spawning bed and even treated sewage during the spring runoff would be harmful to the. delicate ecological system. "We're up against *a.stone wall," Reeve Elgin Thompson said. "We can't let people 4By Jim Fitzgerald move in after everyone thought Vanastra could expand. The people have been misled by the developers," Mr. Thompson added. The sewage treatment questions were revealed during discussion of the Vanastra waterworks and sewage treatment budget with four officials of the ministry of the environment, who run these facilities at Vanastra. The only way that more expansion could be allowed at Vanastra is if a costly lagoon system was set up nearby, and the treated effluent sprayed as irrigation water on nearby land. Tuckersmith has already given per- mission to a developer to build an ad- ditional 36 houses, but in January ordered a halt to the conversion of the former of- ficers' quarters into apartments because they would overload the present sewage system. The water system of Vanastra is also antiquated and is costing Tuckersmith taxpayers $2,000 per month to supply the 600 residents with water, because the systernis full of leaks: Vanastra presently buys its water from Clinton at the rate of 50 cents per thousand , gallons of water, and Vanastra goes through about 140,000 per day. Because there are no water meters on many of the users, the environment ministry has no idea where all the water is going. Reeve Thompson wondered••if .it.would,be. cheaper to drill a couple of wells at Vanastra because of the high cost of the Clinton water, which he said the town needed to break even on the cost to pump it the three miles to Vanastra. Council also discussed the possibilities of installing water meters in the homes and Vanastra industries and billing the users for what they used rather than a flat rate. Tuckersmith tentatively accepted a sewage control budget of $35,360 up from $30,062 of last year, and a water budget of $22,340 up from $15,360 of last year. That doesn't include a $24,000 expenditure for water. The environment ministry will ' also attempt to collect $42,000 owing to them from the Base developers for repairs to the sewage system. In other business, council learned that ,_,,.,they. .have received approval for grant applications Of' $21,726.95 for the "Vanastra Community Centre from the ministry of the community and Social services. Building permits were approved to Robert VanDenNeucker for a sow barn, and to Peter Jansen for a new house in Egmondville. "Meals on Wheels" will start soon If more volunteer drivers can be found, then a "Meals on Wheels" program will be started in Clinton within three weeks. A steering committee was formed to get We're sorry to see Donald Armstrong of the project underway following a meeting, Clinton resign from the Recreation last Tuesday afternoon in Clinton which Committee. Don and his wife Rosemary was, attended by 24 . persons, many from e -dome i lot -for -sport and.,the_ Y.outir in . .oe cl rr towm .. _� .. r. , Clinton and area since they came here �eThe "Meals on Wheels" program three years ago and Don will be hard to delivers hot, nutritious meals to persons in replace: + + + town who are not capable of preparing Here's an idea: how about a- peanut their own and might suffer to a small ex- tent from malnutrition. butter manufacturing plant in Clinton? A , Mr. Bettyu Cardno of the Huron County joke? Not so if you can believe the ministry Health Unit, along with the Clinton of agriculture and food who have had great _,Hos ,Hospital Auxiliary have -started the ball success growing peanuts in an experiment nd ho e' to make it a general rolling and say it is now up to the town- dnate their time to drive the at Simcoe a p speople to 0 crop for the sandier soils in Ontario. Here in Huron we have lots of that, particularly along the lakeshore. Apparently, peanuts are worth more than corn or beans at this time, and all are now imported into Canada. + + + Tuckersmith Township wants to meet Good Friday comes early this year, on vglenon with the 160 residents of proposed sewage system ond- and March 28, and it means many different things for different people. Most of the treatment is t kens for the hamlet before a stores will be closed on Friday, but will be plebiscite re ort on the costs of the project is now open to 9 p.m. Thursday night. The post p office will also be closed and there isn't any being prepared by the ministry of the wicket or rural service, however, the lock environment, and will be ready in four to box lobby will be.. open. Service returns to six weeks. normal on Monday. Reeve Elgin Thompson balked Tuesday + + night at having a plebiscite for the Jeff Seddon of Goderich will be filling in Egmonddvil Clerk James McIntosh that the esidents when he was in - next week, as yours truly and wife Lois are forme by taking a week's vacation: cost of the vote would run between $100 and + + $500. Outthought for the week: 'Pollution has "All we need is an expression of opinion Changed so many things. It used to be that from don't need tthe o spend all thr. ispson moneyld. to kids were the ones afraid of water - now it's find out if they want the system or not." the fish.'• meals to the people. Mrs. Cardno said that about 35 drivers are needed and they would only have to' work one day a month. She said that the steering committee is also looking for a donation of $150 to buy disposable dishes and containers to transport the meals. She-.said..that each peal -would-cost.-the. benefactor between �$1 and $1.25.– Tfiey could have hot meal per day or every other day, which ever they preferred. The Clinton Hospital has offered to provide six persons with meals to get the program rolling, and Mrs. Cardno said that up to 20 persons in town could use the service. "Some persons, however, are too independent to admit they need the help," she added. ebtscite may be off evening. The car left the road and struck a tree. The 1965 model car, valued at $2,000 was a complete write-off. The accident was investigated by Constable Eric Gosse, assisted by Corporal Ray Primeau. Three more persons, in another accident early Sunday morning, escaped serious injury when a 1975 late model car, left the Bayfield Road three miles west of Clinton and was completely wrecked. The three persons in the 1975 car, all from London, received only cuts and scratches after the car went through a fence and plowed into a field, and the driver of the other car; Rosemary Horner of RR 1, Brucefield was not hurt. Constable Hal Clause of the Goderich OPP estimated damage at $6,500. Separate board sets priorities On the recommendation of their building and property committee, the Huron Perth . Roman Catholic School Board set priorities for renovations and construction for 1975 at, their meeting Monday night in Seaforth. First on the list is a general purpose room and change rooms at St. Patrick's ..,, u Kinkora, at an approximate cost of $90,000. Next the board plans a library resource room, change rooms, a health room and making an administrative area out of the existing resource centre at St. Boniface, Zurich, at a cost of about $102,000. If there is a sufficient surplus left after these •two projects are completed, renovations will be made to the existing main entrance at St. Patrick's Dublin, to provide a library resource area. Priorities were based on five year enrolment forecasts which show a declining enrolment in all the board's schools. At St. Patrick's , Kinkora, the forecast A steering , committee consisting of Douglas Coventry, Lena Cochrane, JoAnn Beukema, Wilma Baklaar and Ruth Johnston will'meet on April 2 and set up a starting date. Mrs. Cardno said that someone is also needed to take calls for the meals. A person volunteered her servic at the meeting shows enrolment going down from 203 in 1974 to 140 in 1979. At St. Boniface, enrolment may decline from 243 to 181. At St. Patrick's Dublin, the drop may be from 191 to 141 pupils. At St. James, Seaforth, enrolment may fron .-191. to 125 over five years while at St. tolumban School it may go from�100 to 68., The Huron Perth Separate School Board had an overlevy of $21,763 for 1974, ac- cording to the financial statement for that year which was adopted at the board's bi- monthly meeting in Seaforth Monday night. HPRCSS Business Administrator Jack Lane said that some municipalities were underlevied but to a total of only $4,400 with no one municipality over 81,000. - He said this compares very favourably to the board's first year of operation in 1969 when the net underlevy was $40,000. The (continued on page 8) Committee views planters The co - Improvement Committee met last prop Clinton Environmental to do some painting and repairs to properties in the business area, in co - Thursday evening in the board room at the operation-withandmerchants. agriculturepresentoffices. There were 21 persons This is . Chairman Gordon Duern detailed the plans for placement of a test pattern of planters along Albert Street. These boxes will be concrete, measuring 30 inches square. Each box will contain one tree, and a flanking ground cover. Estimated cost is $50 per planter. There will not be any visual obstruction to motorists or pedestrians. The trees will be eight, to ten feet in height, raised an additional 30, inches . or more by the plan- ters. The varieties of trees selected will be those with a light, open -spread foliage (such as the locust or mountain ash) which you can actually look through. The purpose of a test arrangement of 1 tern is to de t rrnine_whether they. Will but Mrs. Cardno didn't get her name. A present "ally obstacle- wf'en7+, ated• along - driver co-ordinator is also needed. Among the ' service clubs and organizations represented at the meeting on Tuesday were the Clinton Kinettes, the Kinsmen, the IOOF, the Wesley -Willis UCW, the Clinton Women's Institute, the Christian Reformed Church, the IODE, and the Hospital Auxiliary. the sidewalks. If they can be ac- commodated without problems, these trees will provide a pleasant cool greenness, restful to the eye — a relief from the hot summer pavement of main street. The meeting also viewed designs for two more shop face-lifts. Work on these will soon be under way, and many citizens will be amazed at the results. Over the last several months there have • been some great improvements in the appearance of main street. A few of these could not even picture in the mind's eye, but now they are recognized as examples of what can be accomplished ' by imagination and a genuine desire to better the things around us. Environmental planning reaches beyond .individual dwellings and stores -- it considers the responsibility to neighbors. The ideal is not exact uniformity; it is harmony and in- teresting contrast. Hopefully as time goes chargeon, more of Clinton's stores and homes will. to the township from $600 to $1,200 be made to complement one another. and the ministry of transportation anitL All merchants are reminded that the communications will commence work on advisory and design services of, C.E.I•f''• traffic control signs in the township in are available for the asking. The coin - June. mittee will be happy to help explore i here w u l be no tax sale in the township possibilities for rejuvenating any store this year as all overdue bills for 1972 have front. been paid, and council was told that the As part of the general program, a group assessment review court will be held in of studenOpportunities For Youth has made grant �ipp for an ey hope. Exeter on April 10 at 1:30 p.m, in Egmondville Tuckersmith was told by the ministry of natural resources that they are not going to reinstate the wolf bounty in the province because it has "not solved the problem." Tuckersmith last month had backed a resolution from the Township of Hullett asking that the bounties be reinstated. No date was set for another meeting with residents. Harpurhey will have to wait a little longer before any street lights are installed in the hamlet, council decided, until some better cost estimates can be fouid on lighting the,tbree intersections from High- way 8 into the hamlet. The cost of lighting the rest of Harpurhey would run close to $5,000, which council said would add 33 mills to resident's tax bills. In other business, Tuckersmith learned that their County levy for this year has jumped nearly 31 percent, although council wouldn't give any firm commitment, taxes in Tuckersmith are likely to rise this. year. The township has the fifth largest assessment in Huron. C.E .I.P. what Goderich did last year on the (continued on page 8) This is an artist's sketch of the propos tree planters that will dress up the 1lislness section of Clinton. Several of the planters will be placed on Albert Street this summer for a trial run.. They will cost the taxpayers nothing.