Zurich Citizens News, 1970-09-03, Page 2PAGE TWO
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS .
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1970
Mrs. Percy Bartlett, of Thames -
ford, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Bartl-
ett, of Belmont, spent Sunday
with Mr. Stewart McQueen, and
Mr, and Mrs. Harry Snell.
Miss Ann Plantenga has return-
ed after a months vacation with
relatives and friends at Gronging-
en, Holland. She took the trip
by jet,
Ray McKenzie , of Vancouver,
B. C . is visiting in Hensall with
relatives and renewing acquaint-
ances.
Mrs, Elizabeth Riley and Mrs.
Mary Taylor returned Saturday
from a five -week's vacation in
Vancouver, B. C , and other places
of interest, and at Red Lake, Ont-
ario, visiting with Mrs. Riley's
brother and family. Mr. and Mrs,
William Taylor. Mr. Taylor is
in very poor health,
Mrs. Bill Knights, of Blenheim,
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Snell. Stewart and lane Knights
returned home with her.
Mr. Sim Roobol received a
cablegram from Holland, Satur-
day morning, August 29, inform-
ing him of the sudden death of
his father, Mr. Jacob Roobol,
of Oud-Beyerland, Holland. Mr,
Roobol, 93 years of age, died
Saturday morning. Although he
was blind for over twenty years,
he had been in perfect health.
Mr. Roobol visited his father two
years ago.
Mr. Carl Payne spent a few
days in Victoria Hospital, London
last week, where he underwent
eye surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. Hank VanDyke
returned to Holland by jet from
Kennedy Airport this Thursday,
September 3, after a three months
visit in Canada with Mr, and Mrs.
Sim Roobol and other relatives.
HENSALL W. I.
At the Hensall Women's Inst-
itute meeting, which will be
held on Wednesday, September
9, at 8:15 p. m, , the guest speak-
er will be Brother Bob Mittelholtz,
of Zurich, speaking on his work
in India, Visitors are welcome.
Huron County Will Operate Planning
With Full -Time Planning Staff
When the time comes, the
people of Huron County will en-
gage a fulltime planning staff
rather than consultants who are
available on a somewhat random
basis,
In his report to Huron County
Council last Friday, Anson McKin-
ley, chairman of the planning
board, said that no steps would
be taken to hire staff until 1971.
He added, however, that it is
rather important to make the
decision now to hire a staff in
order that further programming
can be determined.
The planning staff will be en-
gaged with the understanding that
the staff will be available to any
municipality in the county subject
to the descretion of the board.
It is also understood that the
administrative costs of the plan-
ning staff would be a direct charge
to the county through the county
mill rate.
It was learned that progress is
being made on the Huron County
plan by the county present con-
sultant. It is expected that a
report will be tabled concerning
the findings of study at the next
MARKET YOUR
regular meeting of county coun-
cil in September.
In the meantime, the planning
board has recommended that the
establishment of any additional
local planning boards be deferred
until a decision is made as to
who will be responsible for future
planning functions.
It is the opinion of the planning
board that the planning function
be centralized on as large an
area as possible, ideally on a
county basis with the local input
being provided by committees of
council of the various municipal-
ities,
"In five years time we will
have regional planning, "observed
Harold Lobb, reeve of Clinton.
0
Wins Silver Medal
St. Thomas Summer Skating
School ended last weekend with
Miss Troyann Bell passing two
silver dances, and received the
"Silver Medal" for solo free skat-
ing. Troyann is the daughter of
, Mx. and Mrs. Stewart Bell.
Engineer Reports on Damage To
Several Highways in Huron County
County engineer .Tames Brintnell
told members of Huron County
Council meeting Friday morning
in Goderich, that three roads in
the county road system are develol
ing fairly extensive pavement
cracks despite the fact that all
three projects were constructed
in accordance with the best known
road construction methods and
practices using acceptable mater-
ials.
Britnell advised council that all
three roads were constructed in
1968 and paved in 1969 with a one
and a half-inch lift of hot mix
pavement 20 feet wide in accord-
ance with revised department of
highways standards for road surf-
aces,
The Brucefield- Varna road
(county road 3) was constructed
by contract as Development Road
899 by George Radford Construct-
ion Ltd. , and was under constant
supervision by the DHO and con-
sultants staff during construction.
County Road 12, (Wroxeter
South) and County Road 30, (Ford-
wich South) were constructed in
the same years by county forces
with county supervision,
The first signs of cracking were
noticed in November of 1969. The
pavement cracking became worse
as the winter went on and was of
two types - a longitudinal crack
running along the pavement from
six inches to 24 inches from the
edge, and a circular crack 12 inch
to 24 inches in diameter mainly
in the wheel tracks,
"At our request the DIlO mater-
ials and Testing Branch carried
out extensive testing on all three
projects in the spring and summer
of 1970." Britnell explained to
council. "The report states that
in their opinion the main reason
for cracking was frost action on
the pavement since no other
reason for failure could be deter-
mined in all the exhaustive tests
carried out."
"Senior engineers have stated
that they would not recommend a
single change in the depth or the
type of material or the construct-
ion method used in 1968 and 1969
if we were starting to build any
of these three sections today, "
concluded Britnell,
Reeve Ed Oddliefson, of Bayfielc
suggested the narrower pavement
width determined by the depart-
ment could have something to do
with the increase incidence of
cracking.
"Also from a safety standpoint "
said Oddliefson, "a narrow road
is not quite as safe. People have
become used to a wider road. All
of a sudden we harrow it and I
think we're increasing the possib-
ility of accidents."
Anson McKinley, Stanley,
wondered if the road bed was also
narrower or if it was only the
road surface that had been narrow -
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