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Clinton News-Record, 1975-04-03, Page 1110th Year - No 14 29 20 33 23 40 32 19 38 32 • Rain .15, Snow 8/ ; ; -- Rain 1.2" Brucefield out, Chalon in? Tue kerinith investigates fire. needs A huge increase in his insurance bilis prompted Vanastra businessman Rus$.: Archer to ask Tuckersmith council to loOk, into having commercial properties at Vanastra served by the Clinton Fire Department, rather than the Brueefield one which answers fire calls there now. "I'll have to pay $1,700 more a year for insurance as long as we have the Brucefield Fire Department", Mr. Archer .said, explaining that because Brucefield is more than three miles away; the insurance on one of the buildings he owns at Vanastra which houses a woodworking business, a high fire risk, has gone up by a huge amount. "The rate could be cut by 30-50 percent if Orange hen lays blue eggs Mrs-. Lewis Dempsey of Holmesville may have trouble selling her eggs in the near future. Now that may be perfectly un- derstandable considering that consumers may be buying less eggs due to escalating prices but Mrs. Dempsey has a problem -of a different color. The eggs are blue. But more interesting is that the hens and roosters on the Dempsey farm just outside of Holmesville, range in colors from blues and golds to oranges, reds and purples and • Mrs. Dempsey can't wait 'to see what colors might be produced when some of the eggs are hatched. For those wlio are inclined to be skep tical in nature, and take a `I will believe it when I see it' attitude the eggs are not of •,• the hard- boiled variety left over from Easter and the chickens are itot escapees .' roe a nt=by-number faetdry; p::: " 21' The chickens are. Auracana and originally come from Chile, South America. Mrs.- Dempsey estimates that -they have been in Canada for about five years now but the numbers are scant and widespread. She knows of a farmer in the village of West Lorne wj,th Auracanas who claims to have pink, blue and green eggs. Mrs. Dempsey purchased six day-old Auracanas in Durham one year ago. She purchased the chickens more for a hobby BY JEFF SED1ON Minor Soccer -registration did not enjoy an overwhelming success last Saturday and will be going through the entire procedure again this weekend. Those in- terested in signing their children up for the sport should see the ad carried in the inside page of the News -Record for details and a registration form. +++ Clinton as well as the rest of Canada is now on the Celsius system of temperature readings. The weather carried at the top of the page is not in the new fangled system and is just the way it reads, 32 degrees is 32 and has since raised six more bringing the total to 12. The chickens were originally purchased for pets but' the Dempseys intend to build another coop this summer and raise more. The original hens are now laying eggs and they intend to sell some chickens next year. The eggs laid by the hens are bluish - green in color and Mrs. Dempsey admits that anyone who has seen them has acted rather strange but soon realize they are no different than other eggs. The eggs have been part of the Dempsey breakfast menu on occasion and Mrs. Dempsey.; claims that they are no different than other eggs ex- cept perhaps that they are low in chblesterol. Also the shell is a deeper blue <on theinside. Perhaps more astonishing than the egg color is the coloring of the hens and roosters. Every chicken= has its own distinct markings and coloring and like snowflakes, no two could look alike. Mrs. Dempsey explained that the hens each have their own color and the roosters would vary from blue, gold, orange and red. "I am going to experiment with them," Mrs. Dempsey said. "It will be interesting to see what colors they will be when they are hatched because you simply have no idea of what color with." However the Auracanas become • even more mysterious just after they have been hatched. "Until the feathers come it is impossible to tell what color they are going to be' Mrs. Dempsey explained;(."It takes abojt six weeks for the feath4rs1.o grow in arid until then the colors are a mystery." Although the Auracanas are from a more tropical, climate in South America the` seem to have adapted well to , e Canadian climate. Mrs. Dempsey is gtjte pleased with the progress of the chickens e plaining that they are a hearty breed and you could come up we had the Clinton Fire Department", which is less than three miles from Vanastra, he said. "It's 'hot a case of the Brucefield Department not being as good as Clinton's, it's mileage", Mr. Archer said. Reeve Elgin Thompson commented that the present set up is working well and Deputy Reeve Erwin,Sillery said a change would make quite a difference in dollars to the township. "How much is it?" Mr. Archer wanted to know and he said that he would meet with other Vanastra businessmen to see if they are having the same problem with in- surance costs. He suggested that businessmen might be able to go together themse1 and pay the additional costs es without passing it on to the taxpayers. "Residential rates aren't affected by this over three mile distance, only commercial and industrial." Leroy Oesch, who rents the building for his woodworking business from Mr. Archer, said the additional cost of fire protection is more than the rent he presently pays. Insurance on this building has been raised from $292 to $2142 because of the distance of the Brucefield Fire Department, the two men said. "What is needed eventually is our own (Vanastra) fire department, if there is going to be more industry in there", Mr. Archer said. Reeve Thompson said that would cost a great deal. "Firemen even get paid to sit on committee meetings now", he said. Mr. Archer said that he is "bugged" at having to pay $168 yearly for recreation in Vanastra and $400 a year for water "when we flush the toilets maybe four times a day." "When I'm paying for all these other experienced no problems in adapting, , things, I'm willing to pay for my own However another variation with the leprotection and reduce my costs." AuragaMEISi,. tat the hens are sli lt; - . Reeve Thorinpsgq said. thatya change in shallot" iii size btitlKe rooster does gkow to Are protection *mid proba ly"1ave' to be an acceptable level. In fact, large enough= to roast. Mrs. Dempsey would like to learn more about the Auracana but simply can not find any information on the chickens since they are relatively new to Canada. It is also frustrating for her to talk about colored eggs and chickens since no one knows what she is talking about and simply passes it off as a ludicrous joke. But the Dempseys will continue to raise their Auracanas and try to sell their blue eggs and if worst comes to worst, they would always be a big seller- at Easter time. Students roll for Twenty-eight Clinton high school students bowled their way to Montreal last Friday in a marathon series of games at the Clinton Crown Lanes. The Grade 12'and 13 students at Central Huron rolled their first ball down the lane at nine Friday morning and knocked their last pin over at 1:30 Saturday morning $1,500 richer. The money is to be used to finance the students' trip iplanned for later this month. • The trip is an annual venture by the degrees, not zero. Tuesday was a fine day , senior students who devote some of their in Clinton with the temperature hovering - social time during the school year to around the four degree mark (times ten for policing the dances and other functions Fahrenheit) and the . days when it is 43 held in Central Huron, Prefects at dances made for houses at Vanastra too. "It won't affect their insurance, but if they want to help pay for it, okay," Mr. Archer said. Councillors agreed to investigate and Mr. Archer will ask his insurance man to come to the next council meeting on April 22 and explain the problem. Meanwhile, Mr. Archer said, he is going to talk to other businessmen at Vanastra. Council learned that the Ministry of Social and Community Services will ap- prove payment of $33,910, half the cost of the Vanastra Day Care Centre, with the other half of the amount to be paid when the project is completed. The township will *1500 game bowled and some for each hour bowled. The cost of the trip is estimated at $125 to $130 a head for the 32 students, four of whom couldn't make the bowlerama. Despite the large number of games bowled some of the students did not suffer from fatigue, at least not outwardly. Gerry' Lobb bowled 50 games for the day's high and Alex Harritt took advantage of the day long practice session to get in some 300 and up games. Thi the first fund raising project the students have sponsored in aid of themselves. They held a prefect work day about a month ago but weather curtailed most of their success. They manned phones all day waiting for calls from Clintonites for someone to come to take care of one of those nasty jobs that are put off and put off. No specific amount was requested for the work, just a pay -as -you -please proposition and after the day long effort only $36 had been raised. sisno 4 . Bounty reinstated ilegreesitititheishade npaymot-bet fafrof i~� r le.-..take-gb rr. way ermg, Thriftier, ier, floor, through the washroom and around the school making sure their fellow students are not getting themselves into trouble. , More than just the efforts of the students went into making the bowlerarrla a suc- cess. Clinton merchants donated Ig prizes for the more energetic bowlers that secured the largest sponsorship or bowled the most games during the 161/2 hours. Items ranging from gift certificates to lamps and clothes were given to the prefects to distribute amongst themselves. A few hundred games of bowling can make a growing student hungry and the parents of the fund raisers rose to the call and carried huge, steam ing pots of stew and chili down to the lanes to give the bowlers the energy needed to complete the project. The lunch was washed down with 28 pints of chocolate milk donated by Fairholm's Dairy. Joe Atkinson, the owner of the Crown Lanes, helped the cause out by donating sole rights to six automatic 1p.nes to the students for the entire day. He had to curb their zealousness •at 1:30 and send them home to keep there from going after the all time bowling record for consecutive hours played. The top money earner fir the day will receive a $25 check donated by the five school bus lines that ferry students into Central Huron from Goderich, Blyth, Exeter, Seaforth aid Clinton. Each of the students had a sponsor, some for each +++• The Clinton branch of the Royal Canadian Legion responded to the call for financial help from Huronview recently and combined their efforts with their fellow ;clubs in the county to raise money for the Huronview Pub, The call for help was for funds to furnish the pub and was to the tune of $1,800. The Legions raised the required sum and are waiting for someone from the pub to come and spend it. +++ The man who went to the top of the recently completed CN tower will go down In history for his achievement. The qualifications for the job were one skinny fitter for high work, one time in the history of man where a 98 pound weakling (no offence to the man who did the job) could do what no other man could do. That is not to say that a woman could not do the job but if one applied she certainly could not be very well endowed. + L+ My short stay in Clinton was much to my enjoyment but also thoroughly confusing. It is difficult to come to a town with little knowledge of what is news and cover everything in the mar ' r the readers are accustomed to. I hop.: Jim Fitzgerald enjoyed his vacation with his wife and am somewhat gratified that he decided to take Only one week off from the typewriter rather than. two. Wolves a Wolves at one time were seemingly extinct in Huron County but recent action by township councils within the county indicates that the animals are increasing in numbers and becoming a problem. Herb Clark of the Ministry of Natural Resources in Wingham stated that the ministry has received several resolutions from township councils in Huron County to reinstate the wolf bounty. He also an- ticipates that all of the townships will eventually ask for the reinstatement of the bounty. However Mr. Clark said it has been proven that the wolf bounty does not alleviate the problem of damage to livestock. Farmers may collect a bounty but they are not compensated for damage to livestock. Under present legislation the Ontario government does pay damages to a farmer but only if the farmer can prove that a wolf did the damage. If the bounty were reinstated the person who kills a wolf would receive payment but farl'ners would not be compensated for any damages done. A wolf bounty system was in effect in the Cotmty but was abandoned about two years ago. . Mr. Clark believed that the bounty system is a burden arid Or an added ex- pense to the taxpayer. He has not received .tuaroih3tMW'��.at.:t.TG9tiveNfYPY�'"�•iiMi concern act as general contractor on the day care centre construction and agreed to Ministry requirements that they hire a competent construction supervisor and open public tenders when any sub contractors are needed for the job. The Ministry of Transportation and Communication are doing a study on street lights at the three intersections in Harr purhey and will pay :.he full cost on the most westerly one and half the cost of installing the other two, councillors learned. Council will wait to see the MTC report before taking any action them- selves. A $500 bank account for bar expenses at the Vanastra Community Centre was approved. The official opening of the in- door pool and recreation facilities there is scheduled for Saturday night. The deadline for purchasing dog tags in the township has passed with not a great many being sold and councillors decided to contact someone who would be willing to sell the tags around the township and get paid so much per dog. A meeting with the assessed owners will be held to disc ss changes planned in the Nott Drain at the April 22 council meeting. There were no appeals on the Horton Drain and council agreed to go ahead with the $1017 project. A building permit was issued to Bruce Coleman for -an implement shed. An ap- plication for severance from Leen Re Horste who wants to separate 28 acres of cedar swamp and rough pasture from the remaining agricultural land on County road 31 was approved. Accounts passed for the month were general $36,841.49, roads $7,486.64 and Vanastra Recreation Bars and Community Centre Board, $22,917.99 for a total of $67,246.12. Homecoming shapes up The Centennial committee responsible for this summer's homecomingmet last week to keep. the projects planned for the festivities rolling along. They heard reports from their various volunteer workers and the overall impression left from the meeting was that things are shaping up in fine style. The signs welcoming tourists and ex residents home for the centennial have been erected and according to Roy Wheeler need only light installation to be put into operation. Several new developments have resulted in more camping areas for visitors staying in town four a few days. The Fish and Game farm will be available for parking trailers -and the Legion parking lot is available for trailers and campers if some washroom facilities can be provided in the vicinity. The decorations for the main street lampposts are now available from Mitchell and as soon as the painting is completed here they will be erected. The program brochure is now un- dergoing its final draft and Mrs. M. Batkin assured the committee that the Historical Book is nearing completion and printing. Publicity chairman Bob Mann reported that the Centennial Store will be put into operation very soon. The committee is now turning its at- tention to discussion of the location of the midway and the operation and duration of 'the' concessions to be operated along with it. Aquatic director hired The Vanastra recreation committee announced recently the appointment of Harold Whitlock as aquatic director of the indoor swimming pool setting the stage for the opening of the site to the public. Construction" workers are finishing up the deck area of the pool surface while contractors work furiously to srriooth the wrinkles out of the water heating system in time for the scheduled opening next week. Mr. Whitlock joined forces with the pool staff this week and immediately began the mammoth job of enrolling students in the complex's swimming instruction courses. The classes facilitate all ages of students as well, as all levels of swimmers or non- swimmers. "We have students that are still in diapers and elders that want to learn to swim and are still relatively healthy for the rigorous exercises," said the director. The diaper class referred to in the pool's list of swimming instruction has attracted mothers with babies that cannot yet walk. The youngest enrolled in the course is about three months old and will be in- troduced to the water next week when the pool opens. Age has little to do with learning to swim and Mr. Whitlock confirms the "never too old" theory with his experience. One of the students he had occasion to instruct eve nt Y alta. = -•4.1%0 ..Old...._.S r Esi 'taw` bwrr-rMl.Wwv ..-u ...ar_ s woman who had never learned to swim a stroke prior to enrolling in his course. The new director of the aquatic program comes from the Stratford YM -YWCA where he was executive, and aquatic many reports of damage in the Wingham director as well as special program area but there were seven claims for director. damages in the township of East His involvement with swimming goes Wawanosh last year. back 45 years when he was a ten year old in Mr..Clark is confident that the ministry's Hamilton. A serious leg injury forced him present legislation on wolf damages is into water therapy and he has been in - more beneficial to farmers. Since the volved with swimming ever since. -recent changes the townships have .now A one time record holder Mr. Whitlock appointed evaluators to evaluate wolf has been involved with provincial and damage, to the livestock. A claim form is submitted by the evaluater to the township . and then processed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Colborne Township Reeve Doug McNeil submitted bythe evaluator to the township been very frtunate and there has been no damage caused . by wolves of 'which he is aware. Goderich Township Reeve Gerry Ginn stated that there have been definite wolf problems in that township and the council has approved the resolution and sent it to the Ministry of Natural Resources, Mr. Ginn clainied that incidents involving wolf damage have increased within the last year and that the once almost extil`ict animal; is now on an upward trend in the county. national swim teams and was a member of the junior, intermediate and senior Canadian Water polo championship teams. The one time swimming speedster has not been involved with professional or amateur racing since the second world war although he still spends a great deal of time in the Water. His last race was overseas during the war, and his last competition Was in 1939 in Detroit where he was swimming for the McMaster University swim 'teach. The event was a 100 yard sprint against Peter Flick, then the world record holder, and the Vanastra director finished in a dead heat with Flick. About 500 students have eneolied in the classes Mr. Whitlock oversees at Vanastra. Programs like synchronized swimming, diving, water polo, fitness and cornpe. tive The resolutions rendered by the townships sWiniming have attracted people from councils will be forwarded to the Ministry. Blyth, Brussels, Exeter, Clinton, Goderich, of Natural Resources head office in Seaforth, Mitchell an V ttrg ni. Toronto.- The ltmiedlite task facing Mr. Whitlock is to meet his staff requirements for in- structors. He has about 15 applications on his desk and as soon as the pool is operational he hopes to rate their ability in the water and interview them. "All the qualifications in the world may not get them the job," he commented. "I want capable people to teach the courses but I also want good teachers." His definition of a good swimming -'in structor is one who puts his students at ease in the water but still maintains results. His own experiences have involved people with a great desire to swim but a nearly uncontrollable fear of the water. "A lot of the classes involve young people and they don't have the rationale to realize that the instructor has knowledge they want to know and despite the fact that they dislike him they must listen to what he says. That is why it is important for an instructor to be able to work well with people," said Mr. Whitlock. Harold 'aV'hitYoe: