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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-01-24, Page 1• The Huron , cy ROOrd : Education was *firmed 'Monday. at a meet > in Clinton that .the -nye d cost, on w Ministry of Udueati94 Pays grant, was reduced by SHAM for tbeS2n, 435.additiOnto the Exec ter bio School. lD, d. Cochrane, director of education, said the. 44000W hare'to be picked up In 'ating bndget or deleted from the contract, Refainghatsi Construction of Goderieb was awarded the con- ,.. tract for the addition at the_ 'aid of December. In order to have the work included in the 1973 alb**, 00n lla cia- tion the tender price was dis- cussed is-ct ed by telephone with Minis. try officials asundgiven approval. Mr. Cochrane -said when the reduction ,was made In written. - coffirtnation from :toe Ministry, helad asked for an explanation, 'and was. told It was MI* when it reached an official "higher up". E. Cayley Hill, board chair- -. man, said, "Unless there is a very goad reason for :doing this, .1 don't think it's right. It is an. unfair exhibition Of poor business to be led to the trough, then cut off." q,. Mr. Hill was,directed to write the Ministry . ming that the cut be reconsidered. The report on• the- school visitai;- tions made by Mr. Hill and Mr. Cochrane in the fall will be dis- cuased at a special meeting at the end of February or early in 'March after Mr. Cochrane and his staff - have completed a study on the ten proposalsin the report and decide which item has priority over another. The report concerns cleft size, teacherpupil ratio, opportunity classes, special education, curriculum development, b uigetarY matters; pr e*sicoal devetopent, . ergahization, evaluation and ate. ty; prOgrems and Citi ; person, nod 'and... .' . 'the �c image o • atlon. '. The -'board will pay member- ship, fees totalling /3,039111 .71: On- tario :School Trustee.•.council feel $3,024 and Ontatio sic • School Tronteea ' . Au ociationit 515,71, Approval. was given by-laws#. dealing with rules of order and motions at, board meetings. The vice-chairmen of the. standingCommittees,. Clarence McDonald,. Exeter,- management committee, and Mrs, Mollie Kunder, Seaforth, education committee, were appointed • board representatives to the Trustee -Teacher :Administration Wilson Committee. Mr. Cochrane, R: B. d Dunlop, business administrator and vice. chairman of the board, Wilfred O ALON : THE MAIN. � N DRAG telos ABILITY FUND DRIVE -- It won't be long until the Wing - ham Kinette Club begins. collect- ing for the ' March of Dimes Ability, . Fund: Kinettes and volunteers will begin their can- vassing • Feb. 4. 0-0-0 PAPER DRIVE— The The Wingham Cubs and Scouts would like everyone ' to start saving those old newspapers. On March 30 they will be conducting a paper drive and canuse all the old papers and ' magazines they can get. 0--o-0 DOWN IN THE DUMP— It would seem that the town dump has been getting ,a lot of publicity lately. Word has it that the dump, behind the Firestone store on Josephine St., has been ordered closed by health , of- ficials.�. 0-0-0 THE RACING STORM— The ice storm we suffered through on the weekend has 'finally passed but while it was here it certainly played havoc. with hydro service, busing schedules and public gatherings. But have cheer, there are only 57 days until spring. 0-0-0 CAR FIRE— , , The latest in what seems to be a rash of car fires around town • happened outside Bob Middle - ton's home on John St. Fire Chief Dave Crothers reports that the fire started in the car's wiring system. . s Sh oitreed, will attend, the Ovid* Cia l awl conference to be held by the Ontario Ste' Trusteel'. 'fid In Toronto On February 1 and Two field trips were a oved and .. student* from* Cross Country Ski Club at South Huron DistritrictHighS.. of ona two-day excursion to Gravenhurst on Few l 44 at no cost so the board: The per' of.the tirlp `11 .toimprove theskiing,alsktJl ofthe' Students- for the up -Coming competition which is on terrain similar to the Muskoka area; . Thirty senior students from Grade 11,12 and 13. of the Prefect organization..at' Central Huron Secondary Sc, Clinton,' on an overnight excursion to Toronto. in the near future as a reward for the excellent supervision which the prefects carry out at echeel dances, during, regular school hours, be „placed. on the : permanent staff as of February 5. The rwlwenoo of Orville Festival of Vplues . Kick-off dinner bring 1 1,3 .out for safes tal Welsh, Sec� Sob* . received due to the age 000. The board will sign a a►itt► ,the Tarots*Elevator' lien ,for the nu as and inspection of the . mildill Seeentlary col a lev. ,, is fedof The ,o , willweekend tranSportation students to and fain the and the onsi ing capped . to the sizable by Brooke; TrallwiyaTrailways in, 0Won The 'board set due dateflor education tax Instalhn per cent on, June 30 and Slain? ? ing 50 per eee* on Decemb for 1974. The teacher Salary negatie tions will be conducted this ,year 'as they were last year wit's. Hill and four trustees choab►y him. 11 1 1 One of the largest turnouts of Wingham business people in many .years gathered at the Tnrnberry Tavern on Thursday evening to enjoy a delicious roast beef dinner and take part in a re-- tail sales seminar. One hundred and thirteen guests attended. -The event was sponsored by The Wingha}n_ Advance -Times as the kick-off for' "Festival. of Values", a mid -winter promotion in which no less than 35 local' stores_ and businesses are parti- . •, ,Wengeir, publisher - o� JyLN �.�v Tint .n....W`y • .:: f. .publisher !afithiier; 'acted , as.. chairman for the gathering' and welcomed the owners. and•staffs. of most . of the participating firms;. He also explained the pur- pose behind changes in the pub- , lishing of his newspaper which have taken place ,during the 23 years of his'ownership--particu- larly in the past ten years since the swing to offset printing and conlrputer typesetting. Main speaker of the evening was Mack Dort, of Owen Sound, an internationally known consul- tant in retail selling. Mr. Dort *graphicallytrated the pit-. itA1 97 1.Y v ♦ and clerks ma f 'il -- y a diose w ` ch are Alch CHRIS GOSLING, never a man to pass up an opportunity, receives a dollar bill from Festival of Values speaker Mack Dort, Owen Sound. The hand-out was a practical demon- stration at the Thursday evening retail sales seminar spon- sored by The Advance -Times. (Staff Photo) bound to lose customers ftr,,any. business. He•"went on to' demon - . e on- • strate the many ways- in people engaged in -retail self; can assure goodwill and repeat business., He termed' . the. real field as "the people business". people doing business with people. During ,the six weeks of'e Festival of Values over ' 100 worth of merchandise prizes .will be given, to shoppers who have filled out entry tickets, in the p r- ticipating stores. The stores by alla‘4retid7oaelii: vi }Miff 1 a<' 4�N-.��re ,, . • ads ads each week in the paper. Draws will he . made• each , Thursday afternoon and the :prize. winners will be notified.by tele- phone at once. The prizes include electric gun -type hair dryers, carving sets, ladies' shavers and cologne, beer ' steins' and utility knife sets. There will be 35 prizes in all over the six week period. The Advance -Times will re- quest winners, wherever pos- sible, to set a time before the weekend when they .can be in town for a picture. Participating merchants and businesses are: Triangle Dis- count, Sunrise Dairy, Miller's Ladies' Wear, Wingham Service Centre, Wingham Sunoco Ser- vice, Bill- Tiffin, Imperial Esso agent, McDonald's Bridal Bou- tique, ou tique, Callan Shoes, Rac and Break Billiards, Hodgins - McDonald Lumber Ltd., Read - man's Texaco Service, Burke. Electric, Wingham Drive-in Cleaners, Wingham Firestone Stores, Bridge Motors, The Decor Shoppe, Jenny Wren Shoppe, Warren House, Middleton's Home Furnishings, Stedman's Vance's Rexall Drug Store, Gemini Jewellers, Daugherty Pro Hardware, Chris Gosling, Chev-Olds, Stainton's Hardware, McGee Auto Electric, C. E. Mac- Tavish Fina Service, Harris Sta- tionery, Lewis Flowers, Hayes Family Clothing, Walter's De- partment Store, Hanna's Mems and Boys' Wear, R. A. Currie and Son Furniture, Readman Clean- ers, Bennett's 5c to *1. -THE HOWICK LIONS'burned the mortgage for the swimmialg pool they constructed in Gorrie last year. Rev.'George Sad'', Bev Currah and Gordon gdid'honors the. 9 �hR Edgarthe a� Lions' meeting held:on Monday evening. Mr. Currah was , the Howick ° Lions'• . Popo committee chairman and chose Rev. Sach and Mr.'.Ed ar to help burn the note because 9 they were also i flstrumental in working on the project. (Staff `Phgf o) tepiten Lewis visits F.E. Provincial N.D.P. Leader Ste- phen Lewis paid a visit to some of the students at 1 E. Madill Sec- ondary School on Friday and at- tended -a question , and answer period. - . Mr: .Lewis told 'the students,. when • asked about the energy - $, Wdfeifows w11 urchase .e, eye .maclilne Huron District No. 8, Independ- ent Order of Oddfellows, is mak- ing final plans for the purchase of a machine to be used by the Huron County Health .Unit for the treating of preschool \children's eyes. This was one of the main items mentioned when District Deputy Grand. Master Alex Meikle of Exeter made his of- ficial visit to Wirlgham's Mait land Lodge, IOOF, last Thursday evening. DDGM Meikle also spoke about the "Youth to United Nations' public speaking contest to be held February 27 in Clinton and spon- sored by the district. The contest • be open to Grade 9 and 10 . dents, two from each secon- dary school in the county. The top prize will be a trip to the 'United Nations. The speaker was introduced by Past District Deputy Grand Master Harry Gerrie. He brought greetings from the Grand Lodge, Toronto, of which he is district representative. He spoke on var- ious ways of improving the Or- der, and stressed greater out- reach and, more fellowship with- non-members. ith-non-members. Noble Grand Rev. H. L. Jennings welcomed the dis tinguished visitor and two visit- ing brothers from Exeter. • Following the meeting, a social time was enjoyed. Hydro to give Kincardine, Pt. Elgin grants George Gathercole, chairman of Ontario Hydro and Darcy IVIcKeougli, the province's energy sister arrived at a press con- ference •at the Bruce Nuclear rM Power Development, near Tiver- ton, bearing gifts but local poli- ticians were not impressed. Mr. Gathercole told last Thurs- day afternoon's press conference that Hydro wanted ' to demonstrate its good faith to the communities surrounding the $1.3 billion project. Therefore Hydro proposed to make grants of 4250,000 each to Port Elgin and Kincardine with no strings at- tached. They Would, however, be taken into account after an im- pact study which is looking into the strain put on the facilities of the area as it grows due to the projects Another grant of 475,000 was earmarked for assistance in re. building roads in Tiverton and the townships of Bruce, Kincard, ine, Saugeen and Greenock that have deteriorated due to in- creased traffic since the Bruce Development opened. The mayors of Port Elgin and Kincardine were both grateful to get such grants but told Mr. Gathercole that they would come nowhere near meeting the costs their communities have had to bear. The chairman tried to ex- plain that after the impact study reports, more may be given to each municipality affected by Bruce. The mayor of Southampton wanted to know why Hydro made grants to Kincardine and Port Elgin but not to his town. After all, he said, Southampton is ex- periencing a strain on ifs facili- ties as well. 11+0. Gathercole explained that Hydro made the grants because Port Elgin and Kincardine are most directly affected. Again he stressed that after the impact study is completed more commit ments may be made. A representative of the Bruce County, Board of Education asked Energy Minister McKeough if there would be additional grants forthcoming to aid expansion of educational facilities in the coun- ty. Mr. McKeough replied that he had heard of none but said he would take the matter up with Education Minister Tom Wells. Mr. McKeough said the impact study would play a part in deter- mining such spending. Concern was also expressed, by local councillors that the Bruce station is having a negative effect on local industry by luring away workers. Some°towns, •they said, were losing industry because of the project. The Energy minister was asked if incentives to in- dustry could be initiated. He an- swered that nothing specific has been done about incentives but he thought that it would be a good idea for the Ontario Development Corp. to look at the possibility of encouraging industry associated with the project to locate in the county generally, but added development may not come quickly. Mr. McKeough was asked how much the heavy water units Hydro is buying from the A.E.C.L. would cost. He replied that units one and two would cost $250 million, then the next two units would cost an; other 4250 million and the last 'four would cost 4500 Million. A total of 41 billion to be paid over thirty years. The Bruce development, which will meet the power needs of about 1.5 million homes, will be completed by 1978 and is part of an expansion plan by Hydro that will extend into the mid -1980's. By 1984 Hydro hopes to have an additional nuclear station in Pickering, one in Jiawmanville and another statiat Bruce. These stations are expected to produce 8 million .kilowatts of power a year. Mr. Gathercole said these are the only firm commitments Hydro has for the next 10 years but he added that only time will tell whether further projects will be initiated. Energy Minister Mc - Keough said some thought has been given to expanding into Northern Ontario, and although five sites are being investigated, no firm plans have been made. honors and set els the nota. The swimmiag pool was to the plc .last- alb aced t ithinasak year .400 bee* color P y' Paid .for• • As Vis, ,tea' se the .venture waw'.sou- ceasfui that the Uotst werearm donate 1000.worth tI p!oj aarxilfial 'foeCOM d .tom floitiek,Community Ventre and the Kurix011e *TIM fund. Each groupreceived 411 r , gUelat sia+e+�l�asir ung wa• Com`, .Automatic reeding� 0001e, ,who 'showed sliides'of his trip to 'Africa with a government trade mission • t October. The .covered trips through► - ca, Lesotho, Pertu . :England- `1., Mr. Keil South •c>� �;A_� beef. Brie r t,, plained,18 that ve sot veloped good far} 'sOcssetho ` ` for ti>seir cattle. e'aadd thaw, Staple eat refit, mUttoh .' guest :'cities 4's n.' '«'mss•*. title , which crisis, ,that he felt the.crrisis was precipitated by large oil concerns in the. U.S. and that it wasn't a matter of low • oil reserves. He' said there is as -much oil .in • the `U.S. now as there was last year at this°time, The N. D. P. leader told his au- dienceGhat he with. the WO.; xo awl` out and eali'' 'the government's Bill 274 a "bad" Bill. Mr. 'Lewis said. teachers have always had' the right to resign en masse arid. the Bill violates their rights. He went on to say that while teachers 'have always had this right they have only usedit three times in 30 years. Mr. Lewis said the teachers were not just fighting for money but were concerned with the quality of education. He told the audience he also applauded. a stu- dent walkout in one Ontario city and said •his party did so even though it was an unpopular stance ' . M. Lewis was asked if he would like to change the educa- tion system in Ontario. He ans- wered that he dreams of doing so and couldn't begin to tell the au- dience all the reforms he would like to make. He did say he sup- ported the idea of having core subjects such as English being taught to everyone. Then stu- dents could build on such core subjects by choosing other sub- jects that interest them. When a student asked if he thought Prime Minister Trudeau was a good prime minister, the N. D. P. leader said he thought the PM was a very intelligent man but that he always seemed to con- sider himself above the �er habitants et the , murky eters" of politics. Mr. Lewis quipped that he always felt mortal when in Mr. Trudeau's presence. After all,- he said, his children were born in May and July, , Mr. Lewis- said : hoe that that. .r,said �'rce -volved t • ydrb seasndtiL lie he thought it was a matter of poor political judgment and 'testified to the inefficiency of Hydro. The speaker also pointed out that 'a trend has . developed, - whereby major projects are bound by "gentlemen's agree- ments" and not set down on paper. This, he said, means there is no record or hard rules that could be used as'evidence in the case of wrongdoing. He said that such a way of conducting busi- ness concerns him because it doesn't allow for any account- ability' to the public. When .the N. D. P. leader was asked what he thought of a recent editorial by Gordon Sinclair about the "glories" of the U.S., he answered that it was preposter- ous. When asked if he believed any of it, Mr. Lewis -said that he didn't and that there were "per- verse instincts" in American political life. -Jamie Smith read the Epistle during the 8:30 a.m. service Sun- day at St. Paul's Anglican Church. Assisting during the 11 a.m. service was Harry Brydges who read the Second Lesson. • —Frank Howson has left for his winter home at Daytona Beach, Florida. li 4 Programa �l?'. at s- Four Y.st s 1 A Ultimo!, youth is Ina hospital and three • other were treated in Wingham ARTHUI(MEIGHEN, a representative of the Oniario Treasurer and Minister of Econo- mics and Intergovernenental Affairs John White, and Ontario's Energy Minister Darcy McKeough listen to questions from local public representatives from the Bruce County area at a press conference held at tha Bruce Nuclear Power Development last Thultday. (Staff Phbfb)