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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-08-21, Page 14 4,64".41 ,ri.t , 4 110ter:clwnis • Hydro plant 10qt4edit 0,34nr2,.. Progressive Conservative candidate for Huron - Middlesex, Jim, Hayter kicked -- off his 1975 campaign Thursday with a press conference in Goderich. Mr. Hayter said the purpose, of the conference was not to issue any formal statement or platform .for the September election but rather it was an informal discussion with the., media representatives. The:candidate said he wished to that with the reporters to try , to get abetter idea or what the issues were here and what the voters wanted from their - 'provincial representative. The formal -.party, 'literature, statements, policies and platform 'will be revealed later in the campaign. - The PC candidate did touch lightly on a number of issues on trial in the election. The most widely discussed subjects in the , riding - industrial growth; reduction of agricultural land through development, hydro ,projects andthe business life in small centeres - were glanced over in the one hour con- ference. Rumors for an Ontario Hydra heavy', water Plant or nuclear power -generating station for Huron County were squelched by. Mr. Hayter who produced a" letter from Hydro to him stating that no 'plans, short.or long range, had been made for establishing a hydro, plant in Huron County. The letter said that a list of plans for Hydro's expansion until 199Ddid not include any sites in Huron. It added that any plans the provincial hydro supplier had for , expansion• would be publicly scrutinized by the 1?erter Commission before they would be allowedto take shape. • Mr. Hayter said thathe was not against Hydro expansion . here but added that he was not for it. He said the commodity , was important to the province as well as the County Of Huron but added -that , its exact ',Iv' at. p,n,"41,14,•441 IrinIVOt a ..... location would be up to the local_ residents. "Any decision to build a plant in Huron County 'will not be made. in 'Toronto.' It will be made e," said Mr. Hayter. He . • a,ed that he, as a representative or member of the progressive conservative asSociation, would sponsor a public survey to ascertain the feelings of the residents for the riding and then act oh those findings . „ Industrial growth of the Huron -Middlesex riding must be encouraged but controlled, according to the candidate. He said he felt that the municipalities in the ridi„rig should Promote their industrial parks and with provincial help encourage industries to establish here. He said new industry would be welcomed but that he personally would rather see the expansion of already' established companies in Huron -Middlesex. "Keep inclUstry cOnfined to industrial parks in the towns Jim Hayter 1.28 YEAR -34. Developers dispute mall drainage p THURSDAY, ,AUGUS1 21,197-4 . an Goderich Town Council and Suncoast Estates finally came to terms on the shopping plaza agreement for the mall being constructed on Highway'21 south of town. In a •marathon bartering session Monday night the two parties established their responsibilities and financing of drainage., lighting, land- scaping and access of the new mall. . The major stumbling block in the agreement now about a year late, was -drainage of the parking lot. The lot had been tiled to allow for drainage but • no sewer outlet had been in - Lewis here Monday Campaign activities 'for 'the He will be met by candidate Huron -Middlesex New Paul Carroll at the Goderich Democrats will be launched on -harbour where he will officiate • Monday, August 25 with a visit at the christening of „a 26' to the Riding by Stephen Lewis sailing sloop and respond to an in support of the local can- appeal by the Canadian didate Paul Carroll. ' Yachting Association Lewis, the Party leader, will Following the Vvaterfront arrive at Sky Harbour Air activities, he will attend a '. Park, ,Goderich, with his tour ., luncheon at the home of Mary party shortly after 10 a.m. and -Paul Carroll, 196 Wilson - Monday on a chartered DC -3. Street, Goderich, to Which the . He will be met by local Party general public is invited to officials. '4 attend. and fill them up," said 'Mr. Hayter.- "There's no heed to. allow them to„spring up helter .skelter." , . A, 'closer relationship with ' (continued on page le) 1 Rustlers re -activate OPP cattle patrol Traditionally the lowest. brand of thief in a rural area, the mistier, has struck in Colborne township. Goderich OPP reported this week that 11 head of cattle were stolen from the farm of Douglas McCann east of Bogie's Beach and about three quarters of a mile from „ Highway 21. - The police have no doubts SignaI-Starwin awards at ,C(Nk.c.:Onveinion • Mary 01,tman Reddock,-- Whitehorse,. Yukon, won .$400 and a gdld medal for speaking her rnirid.about the press.Mrs. Reddock lived in Kincardine a - few months ago and wrote her statement about, The, Kin- cardine'News, a'publication of• Signal -Star Publishing Ltd., Goderich. She topped hundreds of en- tries from all over Canada in an annual journalism ,awak•cl which seeks to let the readers say just what "the -hometown paper" Means to them... CAS workers ratify contract to avert strike Three members of the Canadian . Union of Public 'Employeer-fatified" a new contract agreement that averted a strikeat the Huron . County Children's Aid Society, • (CAS). The threes members of CUPE Ittepted 'Wage increaies per cent and more than 19 per cent over a One year contract. The three CAS employees wet* in a legal strike position on' Xtiguit 16 following a break- down in their negotiations which began in May. The new one year contract with a 17.9 per cent increase for the secretary stenographers amounts to $1,260 ,while the more than 19 per cent increase for the clerk -typist amounts to an additional $1,000. Madeline Anderson, a national representative of CUPE, said the workers con- sidered the pact tb'be less than satisfactory but accepted the increases to avert a„ ,strike. Under their old one year, contract which,e*pired 3une 30 the two secretary stenographers earned $7,000 and the clerk typist earned $5,400. Earlier this month the county had offered theempliciyees a 12 percent increase of $1200 while they were seeking an increase of 25 per cent or $1800. Presentation of the medal and prize, money, sponsOred by Dominion Textile Lirnited, was a feature of the Canadian. Community , Newspapers Association annual convention, opening at the Lord Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. , Judge of the award for this year was Senator Keith Davey whose senate committee five 'years ago studied the mass media of Canada. In his. comments; Senator Davey notod that all entries were excellent and that community newspapers of the country today are "better than ever".. He said he was impressed "With the way • in which most weeklies seerned to have In- volved their subscribers in a one on one relationship. The ,commitment to Canada, which is so much a part of this that the cattle wert stolen from the farm which has no honse on it, just the barn in which the 'cattle were housed. Tracks from a dual -wheeled truck show that the rustler came in from the ' east to the barn, backed up to the building loading half df the McCann herd and then droveoft east again.' The theft • occurred sometime between, 6 p.m. August 17 and 10 a.m. August 10. • - The cattle taken consisted of , five holstein heifers 800 pounds each; two black, white-faced steers, one with four inch horn stubs, weighing 1,100 pounds each;. two long horned holstein steers weighing „ 1,100 pounds country's weekly press, was each; one black, white-faced also apparent". steer weighing 700 pounds; and It was. accidental 'fbut one black, white-faced heifer at perhaps appropriate" that 'in 700 pounds. this International Women's The OPP reports that the Year the four best submissions incident, the first Of the ,year, were all by..yvomen readers the ,,has encouraged the police SeliatOr repOiled. -*tattle patrol to be,reinstated, Mary Reddock's assessment stressed that with world news containing "so . Much destruction, so much injustice, so much terror and death, So much utter despair" the Weekly newspaper dame ,as , a great relief, bringing news about things of immediate concern which are "of a positive, constructive nature at least as often as those that are not". " News reports served readers of the community newspaper as "our .diary':,. a documentary record of the functioning of the readers as a "community, she 'said. Shrier of The Kin- eardine News also received a cash award and a gold medal as publisher of a rieWspaper with the calibre to .win such un- derstanding from its read r - ship: He Was similarly honed itt 1972 when Sim Kingsley was the winner of the award for the Goderich,Signal-Star. At the convention, the Signal - Star tied for third spot for gendal excellence -1 -in Class Three, newspakers with a .circulation of from 200 to "99 Winner was The Acton Free ,Press; second was the Collingwood Tittles; and tied for third with the Signal -Star Was the Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle fOr -Ladysmith,' B.C. There. were 31 tiewspapers entered in` the classification from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Another Signal -Star publication, The Clinton News - Record also placed third for general, "excellence in Class Four for newspaper S with the circulation Of 1,500' to 2,499. Winner, was the Penetanguishene Citizen and second. was The Elmvale Lance. There were 14 newspapers entered in this classification' from all across Canada. • 11. act still not $1 ne stalled to carry water away •from the site tothe lake. When the mall went under construction council was in the 'process of widening Hi gliway 21 to four lanes and 'hoped to. provide a sewer line from the mall entrance to the recently completed Guth Storm Sewer to provide runoff. Plans to widen the highway vanished, leaving Suncoast iivith a parking lot to drain and nowhere to dump the water. Works and engineering chairman Dave Gower told the developers that he would like to 'seoversized sewer line laid north along' the highway to the sower line at Suncoast Drive. Town engineer Burns Ross supplied _Mr. Gower with 4t, New paliceffian Gerald Hilgendorff, 34, began duties With the Goderich Police Department on Monday. Constable Hilgendorff is a ten year veteran of the Essex Police Department and Is an addition to the force that .was authorized by the Goderich Police Comtnission earlier this year. (staff photo) Police are asking -residents of rural, areas to be on the lookout tor a dual wheel stake or stock truck and to report any unusual activity at strAnge hours near a field of cattle. They are also asking fatmers to discourage the thefts by counting their cattle more of ten' to ensure none are missing and by trying to keep them in fields not eaSily accessible korn any roadways. • r costing for the line estimating the. oversize pipe would cost $29,900. He pointed out that a normal sized pipe would cost about $22,550 and 'that the difference of $7,350 would be necessary for the large sewer to handle the waterflow from the plaza. The engineer advised council that his costs were based on the , reconstruction of the highway and that he .estimated ,the project would cost 50 percent more if the highway was not widened at the same time. "If the work (total .project) started now we may have it finished by next fall depending on the availability of provincial money," said Mr. Ross.,. He pointed out the provincial CPU personnel supervisor •Mr. R.F. Bryant, Goderich Psychiatric HpSpital Administrator has‘„atmounced the appointment of Robert „Furanna. as Personnel Supervisor, effective July 14. 'Mr. Furanna was born in London, Ontario and 'graduated from Clarke Road Secondary High School' in 1961. He ob- tained a. PerSonnel . Management certificate from Fanshawe College, Londonand hai—, been "iietained by , several industrial firms in the capacity of Pe rsonnal-,Direc tor. Mr. Furanna is married with two children and will be situating his family in the town of.Goderich. subsidy was only available on the premise that the high:Way widening' project go ahead as planned. The subsidy is paid by the Ministry of Transport to municipalittes for widening connecting' links of provincial highways, but no money would be available from the province at this time fqr the sewer only. Mr. Ross said that if Goderich had applied for the money for the., highway (continued on page 10 ' • Evaporator strikers, can't disrupt mine DomtarSifto's 50 evaporator plant employees entered their 13th Week' of strike action against the company following a breakdown in contIract talks on May 25.. The employees, members of 682 of the International Chemital Worker's Union (ICWU) were seeking a- wage package totaling $1.87 per hour over a two year contract while the company had offered $1.48. - The dispute mainly deals with wages' and a three hour mediation meeting Monday in Tororito with Ontario Ministry of •Labor conciliator Mr.' 0: Mancini produced no results. Employees who earn an aVerage wage of $5.39 per hour are now seeking increases of approximately $2.00 per hour in stages in addition to cost of living allowance and. other wage adjustment. The com- pany tould not offer a com- promise position. Since the lieginnipg 0, the strike: -evaporator plant workers have set up picket lines at the DomtarSifto mine on six separate oCcasions which were honored .by* 'mine em- Twisting,turning hydro line looks like "blood mess" The town of Goderich must decide in the -near future whether they would like economy or, good looks to govern the development of housing in the south end of town. The matter inyolves a hydro line that now skirts the residential section of Suncoast Estates, but if the line is not soon moved to the town limits, it will be plunk in the centre of ,t_he next stage of the developer' 'subdivision plans. The line is the main power line installed by the town's Public Utilities Commission about seven year ago to -modernize hydro service in Goderich and prepare the PUC to handle future growth here. It was constructed on what was ,then a street allowance, 'but now according to the latest subdivision plan accepted. by the Goderich Planning Board the line stretches through the centre of a park proposed for the housing area. ' 14.n64ast Estates, developers ofWie-,lefid, requested that the town, `the utility and the developer ,share the costs of Moying the line 300 feet south to the town bOundary, con- structing it on what will be a stre.et in the new subdivision. The :move was requested to iMprove the, aesthetic value of the property, make use of the street „ allowance, keep the hydro poles and lines out of the proposed park ,and allotv the street plan for the subdivision to.be slightly more practical. "If I was only going to be „ here a couple of years then I wouldn't care, But, I 'Want to live here and I don't want to see a mistake allowed to stand that will stick ,out for a long; long time," said Bert Alexander of Suncoast Estates. - Ken Hill:thins, also ,.of Sun - coast, pointed out to ,council at a meeting Monday night that what the town was permitting was a subdivision to be fitted around a hydro line. He said the twisting and turning would possibly save a few dollars now (continued on page 14). ,,,,a,Ag,e•esalAWeirettAVN•goki. 4x4 -A, Go derich team besI1f 1 , The GoderichSwim Team captured first place honors in the Lake Huron ZOne swim meet held in -Listowel onAugu.si 16. Goderich amas,sed 368 poihts to take the top place over the 12 teams entered in the event and mark the first time Goderich has won. it. The team manbers are (front row. left to right) Barbara 'Conlon, Helen Conlon,, Brien Shewfelt, Jeff Denomy, Andrew Telford, Kevin Telford and Peter Conlon; (second row, left to right) Lpuisette Richard,, Michael Madden, Steve Walters, Theresa Osborn, Janet MacLaren, Margaret Conlon, Jennifer Harper and Nancy Chapman ;-(third row,left to right) Ri -Lassaline; Susan More, Anne Marie Lassaline, Sherri M cLaren, coach .Sandy Freeman, coach Mary Harper, Kim Btichanan and Patrick Madden; (fotOth row, left to right) D nny Boyce, Jim Clement, Jacques Richard, Mike lieynold:s, an1Piana Freetnan. staff photo) ployees. An injunction handed down by the Ontario Supreme court Monday has prevented further picketing of the salt mine. Evaporator plant employees had set up picketdines to the entrance of the minedisrupting several shifts of. the -mine workers who are alscr.members of Local 682 of the•union. Elevator workers still out Employees of. the Godericir, Elevator and Transit Company rejected a recent company offer of a $1 an hour raise plus a 15 cent an htur bonus over one year followed by an 85 cent ari* hour additional increase ,over .the second year. The workers, members of Local 23736 of the Canadian Labor Congress, rejected the company offer by a vote of 2-1-7. The einployees are seeking an increase of $1,75. an hour over a one year contract. The employees, who rejected the offer last week, willbe entering their sixth week of.' strike actionagainst the company. The one year con- tract demandwould mean g 40 per cent increase while the company's last offer was. 22.4 per cent. The two year contract ex- pired on March 31 and, em- ployees went on strike July 17 when conciliation efforts broke doWri. The , 26 full-time and 19 part-time employees earned an average of 34.41 under the old contract. New film' 'principals coming here • Murray Markowitz producer -director of the Mai Recommendation for MercY will be in Goderich Monday afternoon at the Park Theatre on The Square to promote the movie Whith will open at The Park September 12. With Mr. Markowitz will be Andrew Skidd who plays the - leading role inthe film. Recommendation for Mercy is based on the book The Trial of Steven TrUScott written by Isobel LeBourdais. Theati-S manager John Lyndon says Mr. Markowitz . and Mr. Skidd will be available todiscuss the film with anyone who is interested. The two Will be interview,ed for ,CKNX television later in the same day, Mr. Lyndon said. Arrest man for bombing , Goderich OPP have arrested a Goderich area man in con- nection with the dinamiting of an outhouse at Lochalsh last month, - Charged with theft and damage by, explosives is Bradley JOhn-MactCenzie, 19, 3Goderich. MacKenzie will appear in Goderich Provincial Court September 15. The Goderich OPP are stili - investigating the incident, Kincardine OPP ex0 ct to lay charges soon regarding the bombing of two mailboxes in the Point Clark area. •