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Clinton News Record, 1945-01-10, Page 1WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED 'THE CLINTON NEW ERA No. 2 -68th Year; 'Whole°No. 6183 CLINTON., ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1945 The Home Paper With The News Heaviest• Municipal Vote Polled .in History of Clinton T own Council In Action FINAL ' 1945 MEETING Mayor M. J. Agnew presided a the final regular meeting of the 1945 Town Council in the Council Cham- ber, Tuesday evening with all mem- bers present. • * "THANK YOU" LETTERS Two "thank you" letters were re- ceived and read—one from Mrs. R. II. Johnson expressing appreciation for the free use of the Council Chamber at the time of a bazaar, and one from Dr. R. P. Douglas, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Toronto, expressing appreciation for the invitation to be present at the reception for returned members of the armed forces. PROPERTY ASSESSMENT A letter from Flank Fingland con- cerning certain property assessed to Charles Lindsay, was read and re- ferred to the assses*sor. GASOLINE VENDORS A letter was received from the De- partment of Municipal Affairs in re- sponse to an inquiry re the control of gasoline vendors. This was read, discussed and ordered filed., The De- partment appeared averse to prohibit- ing or limiting. * * * WATER IN BASEMENT In the matter of a letter . from H. G. Meir concerning a complaint from A. Husty as to water in the base- ment of his dwelling, Coun. A. J. McMurray stated steps had been tak- en to determine the origin. of the trouble, and also stated he would en- deavour to have a. man go down on the morning following the meeting. M.O.H.'S. REPORT Dr. F. G. Thompson, M.0.11., pre- sented his 1945 report, which was a 'comprehensive ttatement ..of the past year's activities of the Local Board of Health in general and the M.O.H.'s report in particular. Dr. Thompson reported the immunization of several hundred pupils of the school and spoke in high terms of the able assistance of the School Nurses under tho supervision of County Health Nurse Jean Falconer. A motion of appreciation was passed by Council. * * * FEDERATION FIELD DAY Coun. G. W. Nott introduced the matter of making some concession to Huron County Federation of Agri- culture to hold its annual Field Day in Clinton in June. Members were all agreeable to doing everything in their power to eo-operate, but desired a little more information. ACCOUNTS, PAID Coun. N. W. Trewartha gave the report of the Finance Committee re- commending the payment of accounts to the end of the year. * * * GRANT TO COMMITTEE Council approved paying the Wel- come Horne Committee $27, being cost of orchestra for evening the town entertained the returned per- sonnel * * * TAXI REFUND A motion was, passed to pay Reg. Shipley $6.66 as refund of taxi licence cancelled December 31, 1944. • * 5 CIGARETTE LICENSES. Council approved the cigarette licenses issued to Frank Heins, Nor- man Lever, Harold Emmerson and application for same from J. R Butler. * * * MOTION .OUT OF ,ORDER After considerable discussion, the Mayor ruled out of order a motion of Reeve V. D. Falconer "that $2,000 be paid to the treasurer of Clinton Park Board that they may,in turn, re-imburse Coun. McMurray for the same, amount which he loaned the Board to pay the contractors, Rad- ford and Levis, for work approved by Council." The matter likely will be dealt with by the 1946 Council,. 0 BASEBALL IN JANUARY( A baseball game in January is really something to remember., Scholars from S. S. No. 3 Col- borne accepted an invitation to S. S. No. 1 Colborne on 'Monday afternoon, when a friendly game was played. No. a were the win- ners. William 3fcQreath is teach- er at No. 8 and Mr. Hall at No. 1 0 Phone interesting personal or local items to NEWS -RECORD' - No. 4. The Week's Weather High r Low Jan. 3 32 16 Jan. 4 35 32 Jan. 5 43 33 Jan.7 55 34 Jan. 8 3'1 31 Jan. 9 '43 31 Rainfall for week—.56 inches. Two New Councillors Elected in Tuckersmith Mayor -Elect A. L McMURRAY Who was elected Mayor of Clinton for 1946 ban a majority of 258 in Monday's municipal election, defeat- ing N. W. Trewartha 589-331. Alfred Warner Re-elected Head Yorkshire Group Alfred Warner, Goderich Township, was re-elected president of Huron County Yorkshire Breeders' Associa- tion at the annual meeting in the Board Room, Agricultural Office, Clinton, Tuesday afternoon, with a fair attendance. Other -ail -ion are: Vice-president,' Alvin' Betties, Bayfield; secretary. treasurer, F. K. B. Stewart, Clinton; committee—William Turnbull, Ross Henry, John Howell, Wellington Brock. President Warner opened the meet- ing by asking for appointment of a chairman, William Turnbull being selected, Mr. Warner outlined the Associa- tion's 1945 program, mentioning that two •Swine Olubs had operated during the year. He stated that the Inter- national Plowing Match in Huron County in the fall of 1946 should have an exhibit. Following a discussion on sales, a motion was adopted to have a purebred sale at Clinton Spring Fair, with a limit of two bred sows. Each consignor may put in a boar, with a limit of six boars and six open sows. These are to be culled, W. P. Watson or R. H. Graham to do the culling. Breeding dates and age limits are to be as in Clinton Spring Show catalogue 1945. Pigs must be free from disease. A special committee, in connection with this show, was named consisting of William Turnbull, Ross Henry and Alfred Warner. Membership fee was set at $1. Advertising is to be done in conjunction with Clinton Spring Fair. By motion, Bert Lobb, Clinton, was appointed, along with the presi- dent and vice-president of the As• sociation, to consult with Clinton Fair Board. 0 COURT DATES ANNOUNCED The list of court sittings in Ontario for the winter assizesboth jury and non -jury courts was released Monday at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. Mr, Jus- tiee Makins will preside over the non -jury court in Goderich, May 20. The judge who will preside over the jury court in Goderich on February 18 will be announced at a later date. Tuckersmith Township held its first polling for Councillors since 1935 en Monday, when a heavy vote was cast. Two new men—G. Richardson and Roy Pepper—headed the polls, while two 1945 Councillors—Charles Mac- kay and Harold. Jackson—qualified for seats. Roy Bell ran fifth, 'and two 1945. Councillors—J. W. Crich and Angus Robertson—brought up the rear. For two vacant seats on the Town- ship School ,Atea Board, John Mc- Cowan and James McIntosh were elected. George Falconer failed of election, ' Arthur Nicholson previously had been returned Reeve by acclamation after serving for two years. There has not been an election for Reeve in the Township since 1939. 0 Ten New Men Are Elected To Huron Council Huron County Council will have ten new members in 1946 out of a total of 28, or more than one-third, as a result of Monday's elections in var- ious municipalities in the county. The new men and the municipalit- ies they represent are as follows: Cecil Johnston, •Ashfield; Franklin Bainton, Blyth; R. B. Consius, Brus- sels;' G. W. Nott, Clinton; R. B. Turn- er and G. G. MaeEEan, Goderich; Elmer Famish, Howick; Roy Rath and Arthur Amy, Stephen; Walter H. Wood, Turnberry. Members of the 1945 Council who either retired or were defeated at the polls included Dr. Gilbert Frayne, Ashfield; W. H. Morritt, Blyth; R. J. Bowman, Brussels; V. D. Falconer, Clinton; W. J. Baker and W. C. Attridge, Goderich; D. L. Weir, How - ick; Alonzo •McCann and Thomas Love, Stephen; Harold Moffatt, Turn - berry. Following the November 1945 Ses- sion, three members of the 1945 Conn- cil were prominently mentioned for the 1946 Wardenship: V. D. Falcon- er, Clinton; W. H. Morritt, Blyth; and R. E. Shaddick, Hensall. Messrs. Falconer and Morritt both lost out in their own municipalities, and Mr. Shaddick was re-elected by acclama- tion. During the past few days another name prominently mentioned is Hugh Berry, who was re-elected reeve of Usborne Township by a large majority. What will happen in the election of the new warden next Tuesday re- mains to be seen; all that is known is that it is a "Conservative" year. Personnel of Council Members of Huron County Council for 1946 have been elected and will take their places at the opening of the January •Session at the Court House, Goderich, next Tuesday, Jan- uary 15, New nienibers this year are marked '" ASHFIELD—*Cecil Johnston BLYTH—*Franklin Bainton BRUSSELS-'kR. B, Cousins . CLINTON—*G. W. Nott COLBO:RNE:: Aleck Watson EXETER—B. W. 'Tuckey •GODRRJCH (town) k— R. E. Turner (reeve); G. G. Mac - Ewan (deputy). GODERd,CU TOWNSHIP --George Ginn GREY Alexander Anderson (reeve); Stanley Machan (deputy) HAY William Haugh HENSALL—R. E. Shaddick HOWICR-John Winter (reeve); Elmer Parrish (deputy) HULLETT—John Armstrong McKILLOrP—N. R. Dorrance MORRIS -Cecil Wheeler Graduate of Clinton Collegiate Named Ontario Minister of Health A native of Teeswater and a grad- uate of Clinton Collegiate Institute, Hon. Russell T. Kelley, MLA. for Hamilton -Wentworth, in Toronto on Monday was sworn in as Ontario Minister of Health in the Drew Gov- ernment. He succeeds Hon. Dr. R. P. Vivian, Port Hope, who becomes director of the Department of Health AM Social Medicine at McGill Uni- versity', Montreal: • At the same . time, Hon. William A.. Goodfellow, MLA. for Northumber- land, was sworn in as Minister of Welfare, and Lt. Gol. G. Arthur Welsh, MLA. for Muskoka -Ontario, as Minister without portfolio. The new Health Minister was born 66 years ago on a farm at Teeswater rn Bruce County, attended public school there and collegiate at Clin- ton.' Thirty-three years ago he, or- ganized an insurance company at Hamilton and shortly after formed• the Russell T. Kelley ' Advertising Agency, now known as Russell T. Kelley Limited, 'Hamilton: He is President of the United Nations (Continued on Page 8) } HON. R. T. KELLEY eludemt III MAYOR McMURRRAY, A, J. Trewartha, N. W. REEVE NOTT, G. W. Falconer, V. D. st. St. Andrew's James' .. 168 166 65 87 ,Majority St. St. John's George's Totals 138 117 — 589 96 . 83- 331 :for McMurray — 258 .: 115 134 102 110 — 461 111 118 131 84 - 444 Majority for Nott - 17 COUNCILLORS BROWN, Ernest 161. LIVERMORE, C. J. 151 (BUTLER, J. R. 111 EPPS, C. H. 104 ISHADDICK, Albert 94' AGNEW, M J 89 Hattin, R. Y. 87 (Crich, Melvin 87 QVIlddleton, C..G. 57 —Brown, Livermore, Butler, PUBLIC UTILITIES PERDUE, W. E. 120 Hawkins, Hugh R. 106 PARKS BY-LAW FOR ... ... 186 Against 33 BOARD OF EDUCATION FINGLAND, Frank McINNES, D. IL OAKES, Dr. W. A. 183 157 162 154 • 105 107 106 97 127 98 88 99 89 102 94 77 66 64 Epps, Shaddick, 123 --'621 122 — 589 101- 42.1 86 — 393 73 — 392 89 — 365 81 359 77— 335 59 - 246 Agnew, elected 117 139 100 — 476 134 97 99 436 --Majority for Perdue — 40 140 177 40 45 Majority For (acclamation) McMurray Mayor; Nott Reeve; Bylaw Passes Elected Reeve 148 — 651 G. W. NOTT 38 156 Who on Monday was elected Reeve Bylaw — 495 wiof th Clinthtoen sifortting 1946Reeinvea, close D. battleFal- coner. The count was 461-444, a margin of 17 votes. POLLS located as follows: St. Andrew's Ward—Town Hall St. James' Ward—Bert Gliddon's Shop St. Join's Ward—Ed. M unro's Barber Shop St. George's. Ward Russel Jervis' Office sommor 7�Gi�f'4 '�IFLIt �+� •.fd�[SfGPi�% Qe1 REEVE (acclamation) NICHOLSON, Arthur COUNCILLORS RICHARDSON, G. PEPPER, Roy MACKAY, Charles JACKSON, Harold Bell, Roy .Crich, 3. W. Robertson, Angus —Rich' SCHOOL TRUSTEE No. 1 No.2 No.3 No. 4' No. 5 No.6 Totals 80 63 55. 101 52 68-419 .. 53 53 81 96, 43 61-387 .. 84 65 36 78 42 .78-383 .. 107 132 23 28 29 21-340 32 25 26 63 75 62-283 -53 39 72 14 19 29-226 27 14 6 11 31 16-105 ardson, Pe pper Mackay, Jackson, elected Area No, 1 McCOWAN, John MeINTOSH, James .. Falconer, George POLLS located as No. 1—Mary No: 2—S. S. No. 2-5..S. No. 4--•S. S. No. 5—S. S. No. 6—S. S. No. 1 No.2 No.3 No. 4 No. 5 No, 6 Totals 72 93 37 10 .. 5-217 73 88 36 3 .. 11-211. 21 19 75 10 .. 5-130 .--McCowan and McIntosh elected follows: Kennedy 's 'house, Egmondville No. 8, Egmondville No. 4, • West End No. 3, )3rucefield No. 1, Tiensall No. 9, Red School. C. R. Crossman Body Shop Now Open for Business The latest addition to Clinton's growing list of business firms is the. C. R. Crossman Body Shop, which, specializes in automobile and truck body and fender repairing. The stand is located' on Rattenbury St., West, just west of Bartliff's bakeshop. Mr. Crossman possesses first-class experience along ' this line, having been engaged in this work for the past 14 years, mostly at Exeter, from which place he conies, SEAFORTH—J. F. Daly STANLEY—J. E. Pepper STEPHEN— Roy Rata Arthur Amy ' TUOKERSMITH —A. Nicholson TURN1BERRY—* W. 11 Wood USBO,RNE--Hugh Berry WAWANOSH, EAST -J. D. Bee- croft WA.WANOrSH, WEST — Brown Smyth WINGH'AM—J: J. ]vans. COMING EVENTS 3c a word Minimum Charge 59e Annual meeting,: Bayfield Agri- cultural Society, Town Hall, Bayfield, Wednesday, January 16, at 2 p.m. 2x I.C.O.F., No. 83, Thos. Wildie anni- versary, special meeting, Tuesday, January 15, 8 p.m.. Good address, recitation, cards and lunch. 2-p C. C. L Dance in aid of British War Victims' Fund, Collegiate Aud- itorium, Friday, January 11. Clif Gordon's ,Orchestra. Admission 75 cents. 81-1-2-x Euchre and dance in Varna Hall, Friday, January 11, sponsored by Orange Lodge. Music by good five - piece orchestra. Ladies please bring lunch. r 2-p Alfred Butler Attending U. of British Columbia Alfred Butler, son of Mr, and -Mrs. 34. J. Butler, Bayfield Line, who has been on active service for past four and a half years, first in RCAiF, and later in 'Merchant Navy, has returned to Vancouver, $,C., and receiving his discharge, is enrolled in Veterans' Course at University of British Col- umbia. Alfred is a graduate of Clinton Collegiate Institute and before en- listing had taken First Year Science at Queen's University, Kingston. Bayfield Electors Choose Three New Village Trustees (By oar Bayfield Correspondent) • Electors of the Police Village of Bayfield went to the polls Monday to elect three trustees for 1946 from six candidates who offered their services. Results of the palling were as follows: LLOYD SCOTCHMER .. 75 WALTER WESTLAICE .. 78 JACK CASTLE 72 Melvin Davison ... , 45 Jack Howard 35 Jack Cameron 21 Lloyd Scotchmer, in a few well chosen words, thanked his supporters. Jack Castle also thanked his support- ers. Both pledged to discharge their duties of office to the best of their abilities. J, Howard thanked his su8- porters and also his non -supporters. The retiring trustees were J. Howard, J. Cameron and George Blair. ENGINEER S REPORT ON NEW 'SEWAGE SYSTEM IN CLINTON Orders should be placed at once for supplies of pipe and other mater- ials and equipment for the new sew- erage system and sewage disposal plant, Town Council was informed Monday evening in a communication from Armstrong, Anderson and Company, Toronto, consulting en- gineers for the project. An estimate of the cost of sewage treatment dquipment showed that it would be $15,000 higher than pre- viously estimated, but it 'would be in every respect,to the standards re- quired by the Ontario Department of Health. The engineers gave it as their opinion that costs would not increase. They also said that Dr. A. E. Berry, Chief Sanitary Engineer, Ontario De- partment of Health, had given it as bis opinion that no further vote of the people was necessary. 0 Advertise your livestock in The NEWS -RECORD. One cent a word, each insertion. Every Man Did His Best for Town, Retiring Mayor Tells Council Mayor M. L Agnew, before laying down the reins of office next Mon- day after a two-year tenure; ad- dressed a few closing remarks to his colleagues at the final meeting of the 1945 Town Council in the Council Chamber Monday evening. His Worship declared it nad been a pleasure to work with the other members during the past year and that they had been a very good Coun- cil. They were on a long way on the road to finishing up what they started to do. "I take this opportunity of extend- ing congratulations to all the success- ful candidates," uccessful•candidates," he 'declared. "There was quite a run, and quite - a vote." The Mayor continued: "I believe that every man. I ever, served with did his best for the Town." Paraphrasing Tennyson's poem, His Worship laughing stated: "Men may come and men may go, but Councils go on forever." 0 Let The NEWS -RECORD quote 8n your next printing requiretnents. MAYOR M. J. AGNEW Polling the largest vote in the history of the town, Clinton electors on Monday chose Coun. A. J. Me- Murray, . Mayor over Coun. N. W. Trewartha by. a count of 589-381, a 1 majority of 258. The winner had rbig leads in all four polls. + They also elected Coun. G. W., Nott Reeve over the sitting Reeve, V. D. Falconer, by 461-444, a margin of 17 votes.' Nott led in three of. the four polls. St. John's Ward go- ing to Falconer. Although defeated, the sitting Reeve secured 50 more votes than he had ever received in any election previously. This would indicate the extent of the vote. Brown Heads Council In the race for six Councillors, Ernest Brown headed' the poll with 624 votes, heading a11' four polls. C. 3. Livermore was second with 589, corning second in all four polls, J. R. Butler third with 424; C. H. Epps fourth with' 393; Albert :Shad - dick fifth with 392; and the retiring Mayor, M. J. Agnew sixth, with 365. Defeated were R. Y. Hattin, with 359; Melvin Crich, with 335; and C. G. Middleton with 246. The new Council will have two new members—C. 3. Livermore and C. H. Epps. W. E. Perdue retained his seat as Public Utilities Commissioner for a two-year term defeating Hugh R. Hawkins 476-436, a majority of 40. By-law Passes Well The by-Iaw to establish a Board of Park Management carried by the im- pressive majority of 495, the count being 651 in favour and 156 against It was a clear expression of the town's opinion on the matter. Heavy Vote Polled The heaviest vote was' cast for the Mayoralty, a total of 935 ballota being used, of, which McMurray re- calved 589, Trewartha 331, and 19 were spoiled.. Other 'figure; were: Reeveship 905 and 26 spoiled; Councillors -926 and seven spoiled; Public Utilities Commissioner -912 and 17 spoiled: by -law -857 .and 48 spoiled. Most of the spoiled ballots were unmarked, 67 Per Cent of Possible Indicating the heavy poli, 935 vot- ed for 1Vlayor out of 1,406 eligible, or nearly 67 per cent. This was con- sidered a very high average. News -Record Service The election night service provided by The NEWS -RECORD apparently was greatly appreciated, as 174 in- coming calls were made to this office, First returns were received from St. George's Ward about 7,30 p.m. and all results were available shortly after 8.30 p.m. Intense interest was indicated by the electorate. Holmes' Drug Store Robbed Cash Taken Police are still investigating the robbery of W. S. R. (Holmes' Drug store, Clinton, early Friday morning last. Loot consisted of about $25 cash and two packages of cigarettes. Chief of Police James Thomson, stated that entry was made between midnight and. 2.65 and, made, osten- sibly by two men, by breaking a pane of glass in the rear door of the store, and entering the building. The money was contained in a cash box. He said it was the first robbery locally) since he took office in A.priI, 1945. Creamery Entered For the second time within six months, Seaforth Creamery was entered by safecrackers early the same morning, A. half-wn safe, containing $600 in cash, was earried away. The safe and cash box which it held were. located southeast of Seaforth by police investigating the robbery. The time of the robbery is believed to have been between four and six o'clock. William -Bradshaw, a milk delivery man, discovered the front door had been smashed when he arrived at the plant for work about 5.45 a.m.. He found that the door of the creamery had apparently been pried open with crowbars. Night Constable John Currie said he had last visited the creamery about 4.00 a.m. and found nothing unusual at that time. A SMILE FDRITDDAY It'll Be the Sound The prospective customer was look- ing a little dubiously at the battery radio set offered for sale in the second-hand shop. Noticing the trail- ing wires she meekly said: "I should think onemight get a shock from it." "No lady," confidentially replied; the salesmen. "At least not until you've heard a few programs."