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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-10-09, Page 1Huron County Council Briefs A very brief report of a special "meeting of the Huron County Board of Health with county hospital and medical representatives was presented during the regular session of county council Friday, October 3 in Gode dh. Reeve E. W. Oddleifson, chairman of the board of health, said the primary purpose of the meeting was to get a feeling or expression concerning the appointment of a steering committee to consider the possible formation of a District Health Council between Huron and Perth. While the majority of persons at the meeting agreed that Huron County should be a District Health Council on its own, the formation of a steering committee was approved in principle. This committee would consist of the Chairman of the board of health, a representative of the administrative section of the county hospitals, a representative of the medical profession, two lay people, the Warden,'theMedical Officer of Health and one member of the nursing profession' from each county. + + + The Huron County Planning Board has hired two new persons. Malcolm J. McIntosh has been engaged as Community Planning technician with a salary range of $1•Q,660 to $13,910 ....over five years. Roman Dzuswasengaged as Rural Planner to replace Nick• Hill who left the county employ. Mr. Dzus' salary is $1.6,000 per annum with a salary adjustment for 1976 to be negotiated with the planning board. An, additional planner will be hired for the county in Janury. The proceeds of the. six 'Community Planning "Study grants approved across the county will finance this staffinember. The extra planner is required to speed up the•completion of secondary plans in Huron. -+- + -}- ` A new drug card system will make drug handling at Huronview easker and will reduce the amount of storage space required, county council learned Friday. A patient's monthly supply of drugs is sealed in plastic on a card, Chairman John Tinney of Hay Township explained. Exeter Pharmacy had been supplying the drugs under the old system but declined to change to -the new method when requested, council was told. Rieck Pharmacy in Goderich has agreed to install the necessary equipment to provide Huroitview's drug needs on the new system. The purchase cost of drugs for systems is identical. • County Council was told by Development Committee Chairman Warren G. Zinn of Ashfield that United Trails Inc. has received an extension to its Public Vehicle Operating Licence. The company will provide . a passenger, baggage and freight service soon between Toronto International Airport and Goderich, Holmesy'lle, Clinton, Seaforth, Dublin, Mitchell, Sebringville, Stratford and Shakespeare. , + + +, Requests for funds under the Federal Local Initiatives Program ( LIP) have been made by the county. An application has .been made for brush and roadside clearing and the museum has submitted an application for cataloguing and restoring artifacts. Approval has not been granted for either project to date. ++..+ A 'new' sound system Alas been installed in the council chambers to facilitate council members as well as visitors and the press beyond the rail. A .new amplifier, two additional speaker columns and a microphone mixer on the clerk's desk to control the volume • level have been installed, by Chisholm TV of Goderich. The press table,, located in the most distant point in the council chambers, behind the spectators against the back wall in the corner, still reports difficulty in hearing the council men whose backs are tho thhe press table. Durst and Vodden Chartered Accountants have been appointed county auditors for the year 1975: A. M.'Harper' who has been county auditor for many years, hasnow, become associated with MacGillivary and Com- pany, Chartered Accountants,of Listowel. Mr. Harper requested that MacGillivary and Company be , named ' county auditors, but council agreed Durst and Vodden of Goderich, also interested in the appointment, would be the choice. + + Ken C. Flett of Clinton will be the county representative on the new Huron County Housing Authority. Poker bandits charged. Police chief Pat King of the Goderich police- ,department said Tuesday That George Ray Capson, 27, and Timothy Jerard Schliech, 21, both of 61 Oliver Street 'in London,' were charged in connection with a"n armed robbery of five men in the early morning hours of May 26. formation, Sergeant George The five victims were in- Bacon joined forces with volved in a card game in a detectives from the London storage room of the Club Grill City Police department in - in Goderich when they claim vestigating the incidents. The the robbery took place. They case was cleared this week and reported to police that two men, the charges laid. R armed with what appeared- to � The names of the victims are be a knife and a sawed off shotgun,, broke through a glass being withheld at the victims' door and ordered the card, request. . players to lie on the floor while The trial date has not been they relieved them of the "pot" set. 1' v ,.4 128 YEAR. -41 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1975 SINGLE COPY: 25c Design at Britannia Road still in question Council votes Members of Goderich. town ,that the road is over one mile council voted 8-1 to proceed, long and the saving to the town with the. reconstruction of would be minimal compared to , Highway 21 from the point near the cost. Although she favored Victoria Street to the southern revamping the intersection of limits of town after approval of Highway 21 and Britannia a new plan to be -presented to Road, she opposed the widening the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Com- munication. Council adopted the motion that was engineered by the Works and Engineering Committee at their special meeting last week. The motion called for council, to proceed with the reconstruction of Highway. 21 from a , point on Victoria Street, at or about Picton, , Street, south to Britannia Road, east on Britannia Road to Highway 21, and then south to the town 'limits on Highway 21. The second part of the motion adopted by council will require B.M. Ross to prepare new design acceptable to the Ministry of Transportation and Communication for , the widening of the highway which will require the acquisition of the MacArthur property on the corner .of Britannia and Bayfield Road. Councillor Elsa Haydon said ' she favored the two motions in part but because of some doubt of certain clauses that she could not agree with,. she, demanded a recorded vote. The remaining eight councillors were in agreement with the motions as they stood. "I believe that the -widening is economically unsuitable and ' the amounts .in cash when they a •backward step," she said. severed their service. Con - "Growth is not measured by stable Ruxton had accumulated' • expanding asphalt and through ' about$3,000 of the benefits and the project the town would Constable Fortner about $5,000. mutilate itself at great ex- These figures coupled with pense." lawyer costs of about $5,000 Councillor' • Haydon added encountered during the Chief's bian endorsed by Commission to rebuild 21 South of the highway to the southern five years ago'and the urgency limits. of the project cannot be un- dermined today. He cited the Highway 8 widening project as an example»of citizens rejection for such projects but that today not one resident on the highway. Courticillor Leroy Harrison retorted that the Highway 21 project was long, long overdue. Hc• claimed it was necessary aff aha would want it back in two lanes. "The Whole project is long overdue and with the facilities that we have or will have along th h' hway such as the shopping mall, the,industrial e hi park, incoming tourists on the highway, ' apartment building and a new subdivision, the only conclusion is that it would be a safety factor to widen it," said Councillor Harrison. ges hard on local police budget The Goderich ,police tom- hearings of Constables John mission is going to attempt t� Hills and Thomas Fortner establish a reserve fund set tiirew the budget out about aside from their normal budget $13,000. to handle unusual costs' in- " Police Chief Pat King told the curred as a result of staff commission that some of the changes on the Goderich police expenses had been considered quite a number of court cases. The chief suggested that in order to play fairly with the motorists not expecting the hand held unit, a new sign should be erected at the en- trances to Goderich. He. suggested that. the sign should reed "radar in operation" with the line "hand held" in brackets under the warning. The new unit will cost the force. • when ' the budget had been • The suggestion to set up the • completed and that a reduced �� o "sinking fund"' came from payroll oil now realized by the lower rate of. pay of the new `� Commission chairman Judge, F. G. Carter at a meeting officers on the force reduced (possible Tuesday afe'r he told the three thQ unbudgeted amount to • man board that they faced a about $4,000. over budget situation Judge Carter told the corn- ° r p' vandalism O �v • commission $1,246 dollars and will bepurchased along with a one year service contract costing $120. The warning sign will be left • to town council's discretion, asa result of. recent—staff mission he was satisfied the police budget may not be xtramoneyspentbythe overspent this year but Commission was unavoidable stressed that if another man and had not been taken into left ; he force during 1975, or if consideration when the budget three men happened to lae in for 1975 had been struck in one year, .the results would be March. The amount, $4,000, had disastrous on the budget. He to be spent by the Commission saki that this' possibilityas a result. of the departure --of p� omoted the establishment of consables John Ruxton •and, the reserve fund. Thomas Fortner during the In other business the com- summr months. mission voted to purchase the The two men had ac- hand held radar unit that the cumulated sick pay and other Goder.ich force has been ex - benefits during their em- perimenting with for the past ployment with the Goderich few weeks and sell the unit now Police Force and had to be paid ownedby the departmentChief King told the com- mission that the new unit was exremely dependable and had ',oeeh recommended by several other departments using it. He said that it was perfectly legal to use and had been proven ' accurate when challenged in changes and the., contents of - their wallets, the total of which was $16,000. Police at that time had onlya vague desciption of one"of the robbers and a set of tire tracks. that idicated that 'a vehicle° was used for the crime. Working frm this in - Juveniles responsiblefor rash of incidents Thhe• Goderich Police Department is in the process of 'completing investigations and layig charges aainst six 'juveniles here that involve forgery, break and enter and theft. The department began the investigation in late September acting on information concerning the passing of forged checks. Constable Gerry Hilgendorf received information last month that led him to believe that three juveniles were responsible for uttering two forged docume and his subsequent. investigations uncovered three more juvenilesinvolved with 12 break and enters and 15 thefts thattotaled about $2,000 in hash and goods taken over a pe'iod old, three months. Working with� Constable • Larry Webb, Constable Hilgenddrf began his in- vestigation of the, forgeries interviewing three youths believed involved. Through the interview, Constable Hilgen- dorf learned that these three youths plus one other youth were believed to be involved in a cash theft from a Goderich service station involving $300 cash removed from a till. Working on the cash theft, the constable learndt'hat these. four youths plus two others were believed to be involved in 15 break-ins involving service stations and schools and 15 cases of theft. The investigation is not yet nd the police are • The town of Goderich has taken several steps this year to attempt to minimize or prevent what -some think is the annual carnage of windows and buildings that .takes pl ce on '''The Square on Hall we'en _ night:; In a special meeting called Thursday night by Police Chief Pat King representatives 'of minor hockey, service clubs, the businessmen's association and • the recreation board discussed several activities that could help to draw people from The Square to allow the police to keep a tighter control over acts of vandalism usually committed on Hallowe'en night. The end result of the meeting produced no concrete plans for October 31 but several possibilities were to be in - No nonsense on The Goderich Police Com- mission threw their support • behind their police department instructing them to adopt a "no nonsense" attitude towards acts of vandalism on Hallowe'en. The support was offered at a commission meeting Tuesday after 'Police Chief Pat King revealed to the three-man body his department's plans for handling vandalism and wilful damage on October 31. The chief . told the com- mission he had formulated several ideas aimed at curbing the vandalism as well as 'assisting the police department in maintaining a more com- plete patrol of the town's streets on Hallowe'en night. He said his plan involved several citizen's groups as well as more special constables sworn in for the evening and outside police help from the Goderich detach- ment of the provincial police. The chief told the . Com- mission .that he intended to instruct his officers to regard unusual items such as eggs carried by people on The Square' on Hallowe'en as potentially dangerous weapons, giving the officersreason to search the people and remove the items. He said that if a potentially dangerous situation developed on The Square due to a large crowd gathering, he intended to stop the persons creating the problem. He added' that if any situation worsened he would call on the OPP for- help and -as• a final measure instruct the mayor -to read the riotact. Chief , King explained to the Commission his ideas for patrolling the town and still maintaining effective police control of The Square. He said that he had secured the assistance of several citizen planning to interview more' groups to act as eyes for the juveniles believed to be linked police in strategic areas of the with the crimes and to lay town to report via two-way further charges in the matters. radio any possible problem to • the officers .He said that by doing this >r'he volunteers would be eyes for the force enabling them to concentrate their ef- forts on the downtown area: The chief added that he v, going to have a fence con- structed around the court house to keep people away from it removing the po's`sibility of fires being started in the window and 7 stair wells of the court house as well'. as the painting done by vandals on the county building. He added that by keeping people, away from the building anyone throwing something at a window would have their aim effectively reduced, making the chances of breaking a window less than without the fence. vestigated as potential' drawing cards for the people who do not commit acts of tprtdalism on Hallowe'en but just go to The Square to watch. Chief King explained to the • . group that his concern on Hallowe'en was not . for the vandals that use the evening as an excuse to do their titling, but rather for the spectators. He.. pointed out that very few of the youth °, of Goderich commit wilful damage during the evening -but their gathering on The Square provides the im- petus the handful of ''Vandals need to do something. "The idea of a special event to attract people is aimed at the .spectators, not the'doers," said the chief. "The ones that will commit the damage aren't interested in taking part in anything you provide and won't Hallowe'en '„ A final step taken by the chief is to have several members of the Goderich 'Fire department on duty during the night. By doing this'he felt that the small fires that were started in the past and had to be handled by the police, could be the responsibility of the firemen leaving the police to keep peace on The Square. Commission chairman Judge F.G. Carter suggested to the chief that he act now to name any special constables he may want to call on. He said that if the chief screened the people and had them approved by the Ontario Police Commission, he could swear them in im- mediately if they were needed. - • go anywhere but The Square_" _ _ The general consensus of the meeting was that a dance or concert involving, a popular band well known to the. youth of Goderich • would provide the best drawing power. The concert , would .hopefully be arranged and promoted by the teenagers with the financial support of the combined ser vice clubs in tow". By, having the special evening'organized by the youth the group felt that it would receive better support from the younger generation. They felt ' that if the evening was spon- sored and organized, by adults, the youth would have a ten- - Jency to back off . , , Rainford Jackson, president of the Goderich minor hockey association, stressed the im- portance of involving the youth in youth oriented activities. He said that he felt that there were probably a great many -"" teenagers that are aware of the problems encountered. on Hallowe'en and are as con- 'cerned about them as the -adults are. . He suggested that if the youth were asked to help to deal with the problem they would probably be able to make some excellent suggestions as wellas offering their much needed support in the issue. "If we transmit the idea tnat we want to control the•youth for the evening then we will have a problem because they . will (continued on page 7) JiNn 4* J � � k 4$ o- too ,....: . kaa.... ` :.. ¢ bah( as an unidentified Viking tilts low and 8111 Gainey (70) The GOO Senior Viking defence put a stranglehold on the F.E7-1Nadiii offence and dutch dna 'Wing am rst win of the re ular season. Here Fred Martin ('5a) puts the moves in to assist. The Vikings posted 49 points in the big victory. (staff -photo) came up kith their fi g n, w.rtx M. y:...