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Clinton News-Record, 1978-12-07, Page 1• N r . Santa Claus was in Clinton last Friday and Saturday, and will be back for the next two weekends taking requests from area children. Here Susan Bell, 5, of Goderich, is all smiles after telling Santa what she wants for Christmas. (News -Record photo) Polio clinics now on Although its been nearly four months since the initial polio scare hit the area, its impact had enough force to have vaccination clinics set up, according to the Huron County Health Unit. Clinics which began in the summer came to a halt in August when vaccine was used up, especially in Oxford and the surrounding counties where polio victims were discovered. However before the clinics were temporarily stopped, nearly 2,000 people were given shots at the Clinton clinic alone. The supply of vaccine has now been replenished and the health units throughout Huron are again holding a series of clinics. A November 6 clinic in Clinton immunized 251 people. Another clinic has been scheduled for December 12 from 2 - 4:30 p.m. at the health unit's office on Shipley Street in Clinton and another one is expected to be held in January. -g1 urse at 1 She -.--.444-4K041,14 the Clinton of i ice expla ned, "We thought we'd have three clinics in a row because people who have never had polio vaccine shots are supposed to have three separate ones, a month or so apart." Although three clinics have been scheduled, she said that, most people have had previous shots, when they Parking, si More off-street parking, improved sidewalks; the town hall renovations .Id more industry were the concerns expressed by Mayor Harold .Lobb and several Clinton councillors at the inaugural meeting held last Monday night. Most councils held their inaugural meetings this week for the first time over the traditional first week in January, after a change in election date by the provincial government. • Mayor Lobb told Clinton council in his inaugural address that he hoped a decision could be made on the future of the town hall as soon as possible, and "make a good job of it." "But there's certain things I want to know before we spend large sums of money, maybe $1/2 million," Mayor Lobb said. He also said that council should re- new their interest in getting more off- street parking behind the town hall. Council had the lot engineered, but ran into snags with a near -by property owner who wouldn't give up several feet of land to complete the lot. "I'm upset about the vandalism in Weather 1978 1977 mi 10 HI La Nov C C F F 28 . 1 r.6 31 23 29 3 •9 30 11 30 3.5 > 5 36 18 Dec. 1 0 6 52 35 2 +1 .5.5 37 32 3 6 : 9 35 28 4 .5 .. 6 29 17 Rain 20.0 Rain .56 Snow 21/2 in town, and I wonder what cgcn be done to eliminate that," Mayor Lobb asked council. But Mayor Lobb confessed that past councils had failed to keep their sidewalk rebuilding program moving, and now some were in bad condition. "We did some, but we've slipped -up badly," he said. Mayor Lohh agreed with suggestions from new eo»neillnrc .Toe tk.lnspla+aud Chester Archibald that the town needed.. new industry. Said Councillor Atkinson, "I've served before and enjoyed it, but I've been concerned about sortie things and I want to get back in the ball game." "We need more industry in this town to have somewhere for our young people' to work," Mr. Atkinson said. Police charge five youths, clean up area vandalism The Goderich OPP reported that several area teenage boys have been charged following incidents of van- dalism on November 19. An 18 -year-old Dashwood boy and a l9 -year-old Hensall youth have been jointly charged with mischief after damages of $95 were received to Ross Scott Fuels in Brucefield. The vandals broke through the company's gates, damaged the fuel pumps and the depot. On the same night, the two teenagers along with a 17 -year-old Goderich boy and a 19 -year-old Crediton boy and a 19 - year -old Brucefield boy were jointly charged with mischief after a fertilizer spreader was taken from the Agrico Fertilizer Plant in Brucefield and thrown in the Bannockburn River, east of Varna. Damage to the spreader was set at $64. The Clinton Police are still in- vestigating incidents of vandalism on the night of November 19 when 42 stop, yield and street signs were broken off throughout town, causing $1,300 damage. n Councillor ArehibaId, wi,ho will retire Mgt .. year from• his post as ad, ministrator at Huronview, echoed councillor Atkinson's thoughts. "I appreciate the co-operation we've had from council in the past," said Mayor Lobb. "Hopefully we can keep the mill rate down as that keeps people in the town." In other business at their short first meeting, council picked Mayor Lobb, Reeve Royce Macaulay, and Deputy - Reeve Ernie Brown as a striking committee to set up the new com- mittees. Clerk Cam Proctor was asked to bring in a new procedural by-law. "We do get a little carried away at times," Mayor Lobb said. The old dog problems and bicycle licensing problems are coming back to haunt the new council, and despite a meeting between Clerk Proctor and Chief Lloyd Westlake, no solution has been found. In other business, council agreed to pay expenses to Councillor Roy Wheeler to go to Toronto as director of the Association of Municipalities' fiscal policy committee. 113th year -No. 49 Thursday December 7, 1978 35 cents were younger, and only require a 1 •booster shot now. Adults should have ountgives senior staff booster shots every four or five years �raises she explained. The first polio shot is usually given to babies when they're three months old and the first booster when they're 18 months old. The clinics being put on by the health units are for adults, 18 years of age and over. Children and teenagers are treated by the health unit through yearly visits to the public and high schools. Mrs. McHugh explained that children who don't get their booster shots in school can go to the children's clinic at the health unit office, although it is primarily for pre-schoolers. "We're not going to run out of vac- cine she said.. The _ Dece er .clin _ .he mb a o- 1 � w..�4P. lit . bring out approximately 200 adults. Similar clinics will be held in other Huron County towns on various dates. Further information on these can be received with a telephone call to the local health unit branch. • BY JEFF SEDDON Catch up • wage increases given Huron County supervisory staff at Thursday's county council session resulted in pay increases for the 10 county department heads ranging from 1.5 percent to 15.2 percent. In a report to.county council from the special committee given the task of negotiating wage packages for the county administrators council was given a salary schedule to'be followed for the next three years that is -designed to give senior administration wages comparable to neighboring counties. Warden Gerry Ginn, chairman of the special dommittee, to'%1`countil 1 h"t the '* committee "believed" the county must "keep up to date if it was interested in good young people" and to keep up to • date it must "pay decently". He. said Huron county supervisory staff had been victimized by Anti Inflation Board guidelines and had fallen behind in wages during the three year tenure of AIB. - Ginn said the committee had checked into wages paid comparable staff in neighboring counties and had attempted to bring Huron county staff. up to parity with those counties. He explained that in some cases the in- creases needed to bring some staff to parity were too great to be given at once and the committee had drawn up salary schedules designed to spread the increase over one, two or three years. The average increase was about seven percent -but' some- staff* -were given more than twice the average and some nowhere near the average. The county development officer, Spence Cummings, was awarded a 1.5 percent increase while C. A. Archibald, ad - Day care, dogs discusses by Tuckersmith by Wilma Oke Tuckersmith Township council approved a 1979 budget of $54,767 for. the Vanastra Day Care Centre Tuesday at the inaugural session. The budget has to be approved by the ministry of social services'.' Karen McEwing, supervisor of the day care centre, said the centre has a projected income from fees of $20,000 for next year, compared to income this year of $18,000. She said at the present time there is an average of 19 children at the centre five days per week, although there were 33 enrolled, some half days, perhaps three times a week. Of these about 21 are from Tucker - smith, mainly Vanastra and the rest outside the township - Seaforth, Townships of McKillop, Goderich, Stanley and Ashfield and also Town of Clinton and Village of Bayfield. The rates are $6 per day and when two children from one family are registered for the full day the rate is $50 per week. There are three full time workers and one working half days. Miss McEwing said salaries for 1979 are estimated at $31,667 with benefits. amounting to $2,500 compared to $30,000 this year with benefits of $2,100. The deficit this year amounts to $29,850 which will be reduced by an 80 percent provincial subsidy of $23,880 leaving $5,970 to be paid by the residents of Tuckersmith. In 1979, the deficit is expected to be $34,767 with the province paying a subsidy of $27,813.60, resulting in a cost to township ratepayers of $6,943.40. Council approved paying Harvy Hammond of Brucefield $105 for the ither the Department of Nationa Revenue knows something we don't know about the possibility of another mail strike, or they are trying to rush things a little. Yes, it's true, taxpayers in the area last week received their income tax forms and the year isn't even over yet! It appears likely that within the next year, or so, cross country skiing will sunpass snowmobiling as the most popular sport in the snow belt of Huron County. The sport, which requires from $50 to $100 per person to get involved in, versus $1.500 to $3,000 for snowmobiling has really taken off in the area, as Huronites from three to 83 years of age take to the coun- tryside. So,as a public service to area cross country buffs, the News - Record this week is starting a weekly column of cross country skiing. Look for it on the sports page. Although the ground still hasn't sufficient snow cover for good cross country skiing, winter is definitely here and according to Graham Campbell, one of the 4Keeper-of-the- Records at ^the Goderich Weather station, came,' i like lit ' reading, just short • of an all-time record, while the mean for the month was, 3.84 degrees C, slightly warmer thn the average 3.1. But the real icing on the cake, especially for area farmers was precipitation of only 47.4 mm, about half the normal 88 mm, and the extra 100 hours of sunshine. Only 10 cm of snow fell, compared to the normal 25 cm. • + ++ In that story in last week's paper on the swimming pool, there was an error. It would cost $3,600 for the two summer months to bus the kids to Vanastra, not $5,240 as was repor- ted. + ++ It was indeed an honorable gesture, and one that should help further good relations with, the surrounding municipalities, to have the reeves and clerks and their wives invited to the town of Clinton banquet last Saturday night. ' It's also pleasant to see all the unpaid 'volunteers on the half dozen committees honored for their year's work behind the scenes. -h++ The 1979 .calendars are arriving,; with their Isubtlo rentlndie' r A abo Would find the to dothethings a- thin s you put off last year, loss of 10 of his geese by a neighbour's dogs. Witnesses saw some of the geese being carried off by the dogs, he told council. Mr. Hammond and his wife Margaret, outlined their problems with these dogs over the past 18 months. "We're losing geese," he said. "We have lost a calf. They're plaguing me and they are plaguing me bad. Why do I have to put up with this?" Mr. Hammond said he had seen a pack of 18 to 20 dogs. Earlier in the spring he estimated there were 42 dogs and 20 were known to have been killed on No. 4 highway last year by traffic. He said they have been seen to be cornering horses in the fields as well as his cattle. "We are concerned for the children in the area, especially in Brucefield." "Are we going to have a kid in the village hurt by these dogs? The area is uptight about this. We know they are being fed. Feed is carried in there. We know they are being harboured there (on a nearby farm) ." Mr. Hammond said the dogs have been seen running west into Stanley township and deep into Tuckersmith. "Do you want to wait to investigate until somebody is mauled? A child, an older person carrying meat from the store?" he asked. Bill Ross of Brucefield attended the meeting to add his complaints and concerns to council. "If you are wondering if you have a dog problem, you have a dog problem. I've seen the dogs at the cattle. I've seen the dogs at the horses, at the Turn to page 3 • etiting Deputy. eeve 'rank Cook left' lots .prese ► tion ,oil the Clinton town banquet hgnorl n seri' and' workers last Saturday night. COOK, Who; se4 Ias'g+ en a,seroil by Reeve Royce Macau16y. (Noi is.Rec ministrator of Huronview, was given a 15.2 percent hike. Ginn explained that Archibald's increase was given because the administrator is one year away from retirement and would not be working for the county long enough to have his increase spread over a number of years. He added that the committee .decided not to award the development officer an increase because it was not certain the county needed the position and wanted to review the work of the development officer before deciding on a future wage. Ginn said he understood that the -development Officer -had- -worked4rard - on the International Plowing Match held in Huron County this summer but pointed out that such an event will not happen again here for another ten years. He said the committee wanted the development office looked at to "justify its existence". The warden told council that Huron County is one of three counties in the province with a development office pointing out that it was very difficult to find a comparison wage. He said the committee just wanted to find out if the county really wanted the office kept operating. Morris township reeve Bill Elston did not buy the committee's reasoning and told Ginn that there may not be another International in Huron for ten years but there would be other things going on. Elston said he had worked with Cummings on the plowing match and felt that the development officer did a "tremendous amount" for Huron County. He said Cummings had "brought a lot of dollars" to Huron and that he felt the job was necessary. He added that what the county paid Cummings was another thing altogether. Bill Morley, reeve of Usborne. township, did not like the reasoning used by the committee. He said that despite the need to review the job done by the development officer the com- mittee had "jeopardized" the job by giving Cummings only a one percent increase. He said the man still worked for Huron County and deserved the same as other employees. He said the committee can't justify giving one Arena fund hits $5i3OOO Even though area hockey players and figure skaters are eagerly looking forward to the re -opening of the Clinton arena, the influx of donations to • the fund has slowed to a trickle. The total climbed only $1086 this week to $51,360. Here is the list of givers for this week: Frank Chapman 25 Mr. and Mrs. John Watson 50 Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Chambers 10 Mr. and Mrs. Bert Evans 50 Harold Lobb 250 Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shaddick 50 Lloyd Westlake 50 Jack Holmes 100 Budd Boyes John Taylor Ray Cantelon Jack McGregor Trillium Social Club Total to date 50 50 20 100 50 $51.360 Name only: Mr. and Mrs. Doug Bylsirna, Mr. and Mrs. Vic Taylor, Doug Coventry, Bob Van Riesen and family,,. Earl Lawson. C. ttuipbr Sr., orothy.Mutch,,;.Bert Garrett,. Mrs, Edarquhar,,; Mel ' Graham, Don McGregor�,'Fred'and Ann Glbs+lott employee 15 percent and another one percent suggesting that the increase could have been awarded comparable to other staff and then the job reviewed. "He's still a working man in this county and this treatment is very unfair as long as he is an employee of this county," said Morley. John Flannery, reeve of Seaforth, told council he felt the increases given Turn to page 3 • r •90 000 *75,000 •60,000 45,000 Arena .floor canvass 0 •35,000 `22,000 10,000 ti