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Clinton News-Record, 1980-04-10, Page 1• r r� 10, 'sir 1980 1979 4.11 ht 14l 1. APRIL 1 .8 •1 4.5 Q� 3 "0. z 9,6 . „1. 3 - 7 w2 5. '5. 10 4 •3 1 3.5 1 5 11 4.1 5, 2.2. 6 14 w2 0 0,8,5 7 16 3 d2 ''7 Rain 28,0 mm Rama 10 trim Snow 10 om 'ounciZ to save old By Sheller McPhee i Structural restoration , willbe carried out on the Clinton town hall, ---but—tout eii-,-hasn-'t•—ruled out—the possibility of constructing new offices in the future, • In a.45 -minute discussion Tuesday night, Clinton council, in a recorded vote, agreed to accept the tender of Cobrell Construction Limited of London to complete the work at a price .of $46,611. • However, a second amendment to the motion also called that a reserve fund for a=new municipal building. or • • • further restoration of the present one be set up. In 1980;42%000 will be in- vested in securities that will mature in hot morel awli ears- Coune l is also recommending to future councils that they set aside similar amgpnts of money for the fund. , The amendment, moved by Reeve Royce Macaulay and Councillor Rosemary Armstrong, was carried with a deciding vote by Mayor Harold Lobb. The amendment defeated a previous amendment presented by Councillor Chester Archibald which WE tat, 4,. Residents Bayfield are ,still trembling after these large bunny tracks were spotted early Sunday morning near the municipal building and" rounded the corner down Howard Street"toward the lake before disappearing. No giant eggs were found, either. (photo by Bud Sturgeon), of No firm leads on body The Ontario Provincial Police have no firm leads in their attempts to identify the body of a woman found in Ashfield Township March 25. The charred remains of an unidentified female were found -off ,Horizon View Road in Ashfield Township, one kilometre west of Highway 21, by a "neighbouring far- rier. Last Tuesday the OPP investigation team, headed by Inspectors Ron\ Roberts and Charles Judson, released - a composite drawing of the woman in the hopes of soliciting public response. The drawing was circulated to newspapers across Canada and in parts of the United States. Constable Jim Renwick said the public response to the description and composite drawing was good for the first few -dans and that every lead was first column checked out by the team. "We had a very good response from the public but the calls have dwindled over the last; fewdays," he daid. "We received calls from all over Ontario and many from this area. Every lead was checked and all missing persons were cleared." This week the police were issuing a picture of the wedding rings for distribution- in the hopes of gaining further leads. `.,..•.._.Cons.table Renwick said there was no conclusive evidence to indicate the woman was an American but that it was simply a suspicion. Anyone having information that may lead to the identification of the woman is asked to call the Goderich Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police collect at 519-524-8319. All calls , will be held strictly confidential. Gee 1.1 Dse . holiday weekends sure go fast: -Why, here it is early • .Wednesday already, and I'm just getting around. to writing this column, and there "ain't a'terrible lot to say this week." • The Easter weekend, by in large was an enjoyable one. Our family enjoyed the company of family and friends here in Clinton and. in Listowel and except for "the kids getting up at 5:30 am on Easter Sunday morning, it was fairly quiet. + + A story in last week's paper on the cardiopulmonaryresusitation may have left the impression that the course on May 12 was open to the general public. Not so. This first course is for firemen and policemen, and the organizers hope to teach the course" • 5 the public this fall. + + The Main Street Wit was pretty anxious to take the CPR course and try his technique, until he found out the Rusi-Anne was only a plastic, life-sized doll, •and not the name of one of the good looking looal nurses. We have had several .readers / by jim Fitzgerald wonder why the local students don't start up a clean-up campaign _in town to raise funds, particularly with the mess the town is in. It would sure improve things for -the Shriners visit to town in May, That course of action would make the students more money than they could get. selling chocolate bars, or recipe books, or flower seeds, or oranges, where the biggest percentage of the money spent goes to the promoter. + + + The Main Street Wit has heard that workers at the Royal Canadian Mint are-talkingpf going on strike. Says the Wit: "It'll be the first time that any union has walked out becuase they thought they were making too much money." -f- + + Spring has really sprung, and the warm, balmy breezes of the last couple of days (it snowed on Good Friday) have stirred the blood in all the local roto -tillers and it won't be long before this agent will be planting again. And around our house this spring, the stork will also be delivering a little bundle of joy, so we'll.be reaping the harvest earlythis year. 'own Hall called for the fund to be set up for a "will come down over my dead new building only. body." "I want th''` for a new municipal Councillor Ron McKay, another —office and -rat not---interes.tedz in . sup • - ' - t e r spending one more penny on this , reminded council that the engineers building. Future councils can change_ estimated costs for the structural this and we .aren't forcing them to put restoration near $80,000 and the money in," Councillor Archibald tender price they 'were considering stated. was only $46,600. He added, "This building is not a "Before council- said it couldn't be thing :of beauty. It's not practical to . done for $80,000." he noted. 'Perhaps re -do the upstairs and we're not in the we should listen to the architects position to rebuild a new town hall now." because of the high interest rates. .He also told council that he had We're in a bind and I'm afraid we been talking with C.A. McDowell, one have to go ahead with this phase,but I:; of the contractors who tendered for can't see putting another penny into the restoration and Mr.: McDowell this." said to Councillor McKay, "When I Councillor Frank Van Altena looked at the building I was surprised suggested, "Instead of wasting a•lot of , it was as sound as it was. money, why not wait another four . Councillor Van Altena noted, "If it years when some money is saved and was the library I'd fight -for it. I like build a new town hall. This is an .:,old buildings to have class and style." eyesore in the town." He explained that he likes heritage "If someone could assure me that and history and suggested that the this building,would standanother five bricks from the present town hall be years I'd go. for Councillor Van used in a new building to give it an old Altena's suggestion," Councillor look, Archibald added. Councillor .Archibald noted, "I love Reeve Macaulay salmi that he 'feM 7 me ol'd-buildings; l ti:t ibis one s nod' the struetur•aC=;changes._ were,.auttf-u17 w necessary • as preventative main- - In a -recorded vote, council agreed tennance but didn't agree that money to accept the lowest of five tender bids should be set -aside to - specifically to complete the- first phase of build a new town hall. restoration which includes. securing Mayor Lobb agreed with Reeve the walls and foundation and Macaulay's amendment, noting _that repairing cracked walls and restoring it would give future council's .a the brick face. The motion to accept broader choice and the present the Cobrell tender to repair the building could be kept. foundation at a cost of • $39,651 and Councillor. _Robb. Parr supported restore the brick at a cost of .$6,960 Reeve Macaulay's amendment and sal , there was a need to save the present town hall as a historical buildi`pg but noted, "Its usefulness as municipal offices is limited." o He Suggested that future growth in was voted in favor by Councillors Armstrong, McKay, Parr, Deputy Reeve Brown, Reeve Macaulay . and Mayor Lobb. Councillors -Archibald, Van Altena and George Rumball voted against it. the town would mean a need for,;rrs, The .acceptance of the Cobrell bid municipal offices Councillor, was recnmmendedlby Hill and Borgal ar `also noted that ' the col hetet " : `nd other ° bids:; ., Mclti"ded : Smith restoration program planned by Construction, $.51,340 Don•Riehl, New architects Hill and Sor' gal needn't be Hamburg, $56,541; Robinson Con - carried out but he supported ` the struction, $69,131; C.A.McDowell, structural restoration. $61,917. All the prices were lowerer Councillor Armstrong was in full than the costs of repair estimated in present 100yearoldn ownthall and The Cobrell sport. ,_,support retaining the engineers' ell -application says that ,stated, "You'll have a lot of people the work can be completed in 56 days down on your heads if you don't and Councillor Parr pointed out to restore it and. I won't be party to council that another tender C.A. Councillor Archibald's motion." McDowell said he could complete the "This town hall," she stressed, job in close to 100 days. Will lose Clinton numbers ullett residents upset over phone c. updating the Blyth exchange since Bell tookin over in 1978, and plan on spending another $86,000 this year. Residents along the concesssion are upset about the move because they say they do most of their business with people in the Clinton exchange and will now face long distance charges. One of those who will lose ,their Clinton phone is Albert Buffinga, who said it will be like being "cut off from the world." Nearly the whole student body of Central Huron Secondary School walked out Wednesday morning to protest an invasion of Mice In the school, The 700 or so; students walked down the the board offices to protest the rodents takeover, and returned to class 40 minutes later. (photo by Verne Sawyer) Mice e t nts Shouting "No more mice," and o "We hate mice," the entire student body at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton walk out of the_ school on Wednesday morning, April 9 and marched two blocks to the Huron County Board of Education office on Albert Street where they milled around for 40. minutes shouting slogans and singing songs like "Three blind mice." The 700 or so students- were protesting--what--they -call . an --in ..'` . .asi.on.._o£...mit ce , the.. school- and - - claim the little creatures•, are getting into their lockers, eating their lunches, chewing their -gym cloths, and ruining their notebooks.. The mice got into the school in the fall and live in the walls behind the banks of student lockers, nesting and raising young there. There have always,been mice in the school, but this year they seem *to have gotten out of hand and have been prolific breeders until the numbers have become,a problem. Most of the blame for the run- away. •problem is the students themselves, says principal Gord Phillips, because the students who bring lunches to school throw them into abandoned lockers, and don't bother to'eat them giving 'the "mice sornethingto_feed on. The mice get into the lockers through small ventilation holes inside the lockers: The mice live in the hollow space behind the lockers, • in 'the brick walls and are impossible to get at. The problem has become so bad, that the mice now get., into a student's lunch between the time; he throws it in the locker in the OF morning and the few hours later when they return to get it to eat. Mr. Phillips said he advised the students to either put their lunches in metal containers, or carry them with them to their classes. The custodial staff have set out poison bait, but so far, the mice have the upper hand and Mr. Phillips said he may have to ask the board officials to hire -professional -exterminators to ease the-.:Iarobiem, Mr. Phillips said the school has, had problems the last few years with mice, but said they -were particularly bad this year.. He said. none ...of the students would be penalized for the walkout, "They were just expressing their frustration withthe problem." He said he ordered a general clean-up ' of the lockers' on the 'students' return ,..and assured them an exterminator would be at the school tornorr �(Thursday).: rr Despite petitions, letters to their Member of Parliament and several meetings, 10 telephone subscribers in Hullett Township with Clinton telephones will likely be getting Blyth phones in the near future and they're not to happy about it. The subscribers, on Concession 8. and 9 of Hullett between the Auburn Road and the first sideroad west of the Kinburn Road, lots 15 to 34, were informed in January by Bell Canada that the company was straightening up their geographic boundaries, and ' the 10 subscribers on the copcession who had 482 Clinton phones would be put in 523 Blyth exchange. This would mean long distance charges to other exchanges that had previously been free. The concession is currently served ' b.y..both exchanges 'with phones of the Vandalshit local store twice Clinton police say that it was only a strange coincidence that Groves Electric on Huron Street was broken into on, two separate occasions over the weekend. On April 4 at 9:40 pm a plate glass window valued at $500 was smashed and two Petrolia area men have been charged with wilful damage. On April 7 at 1:30 am the glass in the front door was broken and three London men have been charged with break and enter with intend to commit an indictable offence, The two incidents were part of a weekend rashof vandalism and wilful damage reported to police. A 22 -year-old ' Clinton man was charged with wilful damage after an incident in the Elm Haven Motor hotel on April 3. Two` tables, one chair and four dozen glasses were broken and a, pop machine and fire ex- tinguisher were damaged. On April 3, a 1975 1iorida Chic car belonging to Cheryl Ann Thornspon of RR 4, Seaforth was stolen from the parking lot at the Clinton Legion. The car, completely, gutted' by fire. was Turn to page 3 + two exchanges being randomly located on both sides of the roads. The Blyth exchange was owned by Maitland Teleservices until 1978 when Bell Canada bought them out. Bell wants to straighten the boundaries out and put the whole concession on the Blyth exchange, update the system and install new cable. According to Bell area manager, Peter Croome of Stratford, the company has already spent $100,000. •WVe do all our business with people in the Clinton exchange, and our fire protection, hospital, and doctors are in Clinton," he said. With the Clinton number, they are able to phone toll free to half the county, including, Clinton, Bayfield, Goderich, Hensall and Seaforth. "With the Blyth number, we'll only be able to phone Auburn and Brussels without paying a long" distance charge. • Turn to page 3 • Danny Morgan, 2, was an engergetle entertainer for the geriatric• patients at the Clinton Public Hospital during p . -" g m. The Easter (party, is only their s.. eclat Easter Pro ra one „of several activities planned by the staff and the hospital auxiliary In a newly developed Stimulation Program for long4ternt patients. Thursday afternoon's Easter program Included tea and desserts and Danny and patient Jenny Wise enjoyed a visit. (News -Record photo) .