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The Huron Expositor, 1968-03-21, Page 1Whole No. 5219 109th Year ,r17, A SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSbAY, MARCH 21, 1968 — 12 PAGES $5.00 CoPlOgi 12 COP; Year AONIMOO , SDHS Students Are Visitors Students from Grade 11C and D -of the SDHS were, visitors at the Expositor Friday and spent an hour watching work being processed. Here Jim Scott and Fred Knetsch explain de- tails of an offset press While the class teacher Wilson McNabb (front right) and students look on. (Expositor photo by Haley.) 1500 Crowd Arena to See Beavers Down Huskies 11-3 , (By J. Scott) The largest crowd this sea- son, close to 1,500, watched the, Seaforth Beavers dump the Durham Huskies 11-3 here on Tuesday in the fifth game of a best of seven series. Durham currently leads the series three games to two. The Beavers, playing hockey the way Ontario Champions should play, completely out - hustled the visitors. Seaforth fired 58 shots at Gord Becker At Goderich Group SeOks Answer On. 5cho41. Changes . - Seaforth StOden „ . (By Shirley iSellar).; assets and liabilities within the jams lc monism, 6.sirikt county and across county bona - superintendent of the On 0 daries. This part of the plan will not become effective until 1970 although reports of arbi- trators will be requested by the department of. education by the end of 1969. "Municipalities within the county will share costs on the basis of provincial equalized as- sessment," Theinsen advised. "And since the school board is to be elected it is proposed that boards will issue their own de- bentures with some policing by the Ontario Municipal Board." "The tax bill in 1969 will have to indicate clearly how much goes for school purposes and how much goes to the municipality," the education of- ficial warned. "It Will be done by the municipal clerk and I suppose it will go out in the same envelope. There is no in - (Continued on Page 6) Department of Edneathiji- foifitid himself under severe question- 1970 by the 180 municipal, *le- gates at: (Odertell 4st TiletY' -assembled to ,dip%**1,7 V9019, al government, Men 'and woinen irnal Iluron, Perth, WelJingtbfl, Grey, W4400 and, MixiclIttses g4 (144449-11 after. C14egtign, at the educational executive who gave a special lecture �n the re -organization of school 's- dictions. The one -goal edge was all and Hetherindr ssistsgton ew a, . the lift the Beavers needed. • . Durham 3, Seaforth 2 •Paul Rau converted a pass It was another story in Dur - from brother Wayne two min- ham Friday night as the Bea- utes later to bring the crowd vers dropped their third in a to their feet again. „ row in the series. The Beavers took a 1-0 lead suit Ken Doig so at 11:39 he A 2-0 lead wasn't enough to in the first period when Bob stretched it to 3-0. Jack McL1- Beuttenmiller scored on a pas - wain assisted. sing play from T. Dick and Don Wayne Rau scored the Bea- Morton. ver's fourth goal at 14:40 from The Beavers continued to Paul Rau and Frank Hagan. press the - Durham sguad but ' With three minutes remain- strong goal -tending by Becker ing Gary Vaughan put the Hus- kept them off the scoreboard. kies on the scoreboard and The second period followed ' back in the game. Vaughan the same pattern with Becker jammed in a goal -mouth pass frustrating the Beavers with for the score. Hetherington and his spectacular saves. Finally Allen combined for the assist. Seaforth counted their second In the second period, Sea- goal when Jack McLlwain scor- forth carne on strong. Determin- ed on a hard drive from in front ed not to let up, they hammer- of the net. Ken Doig and Jim ed Gord Becker with 24 shots Dick drew aSsists. while controlling the play con - When the third period start- sistantly. - ed the Beavers were taken com- , Ray Henderson started things pletely by surprise by a rejuv- BILL McLAUGHLIN Scores three for Beavers Well-informed in the 03 rs of education in the preld ce, quick-witted and clever, r. Thomson made use of eV ry second of his time with he municipal minds assemb d. t Many persons commented at Mr. Thomson's presentation ad been the most valuable of the entire day. In clear; concise form Mr. Thomson set forth the implica- tiong of the new county school board system coming into ,ef- feet on January 1, 1969. 'There will be one board,. of ' education for a county," he stated. "In Huron there will be 14 members, likely 13 from ,the public school boards and one from the separate school boards." "It will be the responsibility of the county council to dikfti- bute county municipalities," Thomson continued. "Wienn • certain limits, representation will be determined by residen- tial and farm assessment .Por instance, if you have 20 per- cent of the residential and farm assessment, you would get: 20 percent of the representation. Provision has been made for appeal to the county judge who may approve or reject." He went on. "There will be biennial elections. Nominations will be held in the municipality with the largest reSidential and farm assessment and the elec- tion will be held on that mun- icipality's regular election day. Thomson explained that boards of arbitratibn will be set up to settle the matte*, of rolling when he converted a enated Durham team. Before goal -mouth pass from Ken Doig the surprise passed however, and Ed Dolmage at the one- Durham struck for two goals, minute mark to make the score 36 seconds apart. 5-1. Aitkens got ,the first one un- Seaforth struck for four more assisted and Parker added the goals before the -period ended. second from Hetherington. Bill McLaughlin scored twice A regrouped Seaforth team from Beuttenmiller and . T. fought back hard to recover Dick, Jack McLlwain got one their lead, but once again it . from 3. Dick and Ken Doig and was Becker who kept them off 'Bob Beuttenmiller scored from the scoreboard. Henderson and McLaughlin. Finally at 18:13 Durham broke Durham _opened the scoring the tie as Parker jammed in a in the third period when Bev. loose puck in front of the Sea - Allen scored - on a pass from t, forth net. Aitken. Seaforth, in a desperate at- ' • tempt to even the score pulled Seaforth countered with two Gar Baker for an extra forward more. Ken Doig scored his sec- but to no avail. Durham kept d J Dick and McLlwain th B ti d until 'the and Bill McLaughlin scored his game ended. in the Linrham net while Gar Baker turned aside only 24. • Bob Beuttenmiller Rut the Beavers ahead 1-0 at 3:55 of the first period. He slapped in a pass from Tom Dick. on from J. e eavers e up hat trick with T. Dick and B. Beuttenmiller assisting. Dur- ham rounded out the scoring at 12:58. Orky Kerr beat Gar Bak- er, on a break -away. Vaughan . , Detail Changes In School System Hon. William Davis, Ontario Minister of Education, was in Seaforth last week to officiate at the renovated SIMS. During his remarks Mr.,Davis outlined details of change arising from elimination of local school boards next January. He spoke as follOws: It is interesting to note that we are opening this school within a few short weeks of the date Seaforth was incorpor- ated 100 years ago. Much of the early history of Huron County and of 'course Seaforth can hardly be separated from the hiStOry of the Canada Company, the builders and deirelopers of this area over 100 years ago. Developed in a planned • and organized way not unlike sub- division land development to- day, except then whole counties were opened up on a grand scale without all the modern present day machines and equip- ment. Residents of Huron and Perth Counties are fortunate eat so much of the fine arch'. te,cture and building design of that great era' is still standing today 'aesthetically enriching the towns and'rural community. • . When the Httron Road was put through in l828 the site of Seaforth was regarded as unde- sirable swamp, worth nothing to the land -hungry influx of settlers which the new road would bring. Ten years later, when Harnurhey and Egmond- ville were already started as: settlements, all you could find in present day Seeforth was a signpost, pointing to other places, and the corner was commonly known as "Guide Post Swamp". When the rail- way went through in the 1850's one could truthfully say that Seaforth was a suburb of Har- purhey and Egmondville. Yet twenty odd years after it was incorporated as a tewn. ' The contribution of Seaforth in the area of education has been tnore than ordinary and It is indeed remarkable to con- sider the number and calibre of men- who hay& risen to high positions in the field of educa- tion on „leaving this school. (Continued on Page 3) C of R Considers Appeals Seaforth Court of Revision meering Monday evening consid- ered two appeals with respect to business tax assessmentsas well as a number of adjustments of an accounting nature. A reduction of 50% was al- lowed on the 1967 business tax payable by London Paeking Co. Railway St. when the firm poin- ted out it had not okrated dur- ing the year. Eve -Mar Stores ,which i clos- ing its business here on, March 31 had an adjustment made in the tax payable to reflect the period it had operated. Additional items dealt with by the court — Sjit in number — had been referred by Clerk - Treasurer E. Williams and in- volved routine adjustments of anaccounting nature, •William Thompson) 17, of Mc- Killop, received injuries that doctors say can result in paraly- sis from the neck down late Monday afterneon when be feU eight feet into a mow of hay. He Is in the intensive care unit at St. Joseph's Hospital, London. A member of the tast- ily said Wednesday afternoon doctors had said his condition warferious. The lad, a student in grade 10 at Seaforth District High School, was playing with a friend, Douglas Crawford, 17, Goderich, in a barn on a Thomp- son farm, lot 33, con. 6, McKil- lop. The two were swinging on ropes when a rope broke eatu- pulling the Thompson youth a distance of eight feet into a pile of loose hay. The accident oc- Former Resident Marks 100th Birthday Mrs. Stephen Orville Jones, (nee •Ida Dickson) reached her one hundredth - birthday on • March 9th, -068. Born in Sea - forth, Ontario, only one year later than Confederation; she recalls having talked with Sir John A. MacDonald on two sep- arate occasions duririg lier high school days. She is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dickson of Seaforth, her father having been among the first postmasters in Seaforth, serv- ing from 1865 to 1913. She married Stephen Orville Jones, who left service as Pur- ser in the mercantile marine to become manager of a spice business in San Francisco. She and her husband decided to. move north and inland to Can- ada. They deliberately chose to come to Fort Saskatchewan. This was just before the forma- tion of Alberta ir. 1905. In Fort Sagkatchewan Mrs. Jones and her husband took ac- tive part in the development of the town which was then a gar- rison centre for the Royal Can- adian Mounted Police. She re- members pioneer conditions which required that visits to Edmonton be undertaken by horse and buggy, and the trans- portation of goods and equip- ment by river boat. Mrs. Jones was one of the first passengers out of Fort Saskatchewan to Edmonton on the Tewly estab- lished Canadian Northern Rail- way. Over the years Ida Dickson Jones and her husband estab- lished a family home which be- came a pentre for hospitality among many friends and rela- tives. Mrs. Jones transformed (Continued on Page 7) Classified From Newfoundland curred about 5 o'clock. Members of t he Thompson, family were absent when the accident occurred and the Crawford youth -Aran to the neighboring Dorrance farm for help. Ed. Dorrance called Dr. N. Malkus, Seaforth who immed- Ceremony Switch to A single ceremony at 2:01 a.m. Sunday morning in Dublin marked the end of an era in telephone service in the dis- trict. The Bell Telephone Co. re- placed service which for sixty years had been provided by the McKillop, Logan and Hibbert Co. with a modern dial system. Bell bought out the local com- pany nearly three years ago. Appropriately for the Dublin location, changeover took place on St. Patrick's Day, March 17. At cutover time Russell Brock, McKillop, Logan and Hibbert linesman pulled plugs in the 'local office on Dublin Main St. and at the same time the new Small classified ads in the Expositor bring results as hundreds of area users' realize. Every week phone calls come to the office from an increas- ingly wide area from people. Who have something to buy or sell or trade or rent. This Nyeek the calls included one from an advertiser in New- foundland. 4. D. Malone had a farm to rent and he knew the best way to do it was to adver- tise in the Expositor, so like advertisers nearer by he reach- ed for the phone. Mr. Malone a native of Mc- Killop and an employee of the Bell Telephone has been in Newfoundland for two years on loan to the Avalon Telephone system which serves the island province. Air Force Major Killed IN Crash Maj. -Conrad D. Perrier, 47, of Canadian Forces Base, Clin- ton, was killed Friday night , when his car struck a bridge abutment on ' the county road leading from the PMQ area at the Base to No. 8 Highway. He was given artificial res- piration and taken to the base 'hospital, but was pronounced dead on ..arrival by Clinten or - Weeklies Visit ,Prime Minister Representatives of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association attending the semi- annual CWNA board meeting in Ottawa last week accepted an invitation to visit Prime Min- ister L. B. Pearson in his Centre Block Office. Present to bring gre6tings to Mr. Pearson from weekly publishers across Canada were (left) A. Y. McLean, The Huron Expositor, Sea - forth, Arvid W. Lundell, CWNA president, The Revelstoke (B.C.) Review, Mr. Pearson and Ellin McIntosh, CWNA viee-president, The N orth Battleford (Sask.) llews-Optimist. (Photo hy Van's Studio, Claims.) oner Dr. Raymond W. Flowers. ' Maj. Perrier was on his way home to Downsview when the accident occurred. Senior ad- ministrative officer at clinton he had been on staff there since last fall. He had intended moving his family to Clinton as soon as the school term was finished. A native of the Ottawa area he is survived by 'his wife, the former Mary Anderson • and two sons, David of Toronto and Bruce in school at Downsview. Maj. Perrier was well known in the McKillop area, hie wife being a daughter of ,Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Anderson of Renfrew. Funeral,. services were held from the Chapel at CFB Downs- view on Tuesday with interment following in Toronto, NEWS OF WALTON Honored lately had the injured Yeuth.Tfr moved to London liosVitel Box Ambulance. - Eis parents, Mr., and ,XTS. John W. Thompson who: had been in Detroit for the Me* end returned 'home iriOnePttfi' ly,on learning of the accident! Marks Dial, bert company and area munici- pal officials'. In a short program which fol. lowed the luncheon Mr. Hay- som, who acted as chairman, paid tribute to Mr. Murray and the ReePle; of the original cOnV jiany for the co-operation in making possible a transfer of responsibility. He described the., involvement of Bell and the ex- tensive investment including' land, building, dial exchange i and distribution system which: was necessary in order to pro- vide the expected degree of service. He emphasized that., with the new system free cil:t.q ling between Dublin and Sea -.7: forth, Mitchell and Monkton be. came possible, Mr. Murray on behalf of the., McKillop Company congratulat- ed Bell on the job which had been done and thanked the 13 ell (Continued on Page 10) Neighbors, relatives and friends met in Walton Com- 'munity Hall Saturday evening to honer Mr. and Mrs. Alex Dennis who now reside in Sea - forth. The evening was spent in playing progressive euchre with seventeen tables at play. The following were prize winners: ladftl', high, Mrs. Edward Mil- ler; ladies' low, Dianne McNich- ol; men's high, John Leeming, Jr.; men's low, Merton Hack - well; lone hands, William Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis were cal- led to the front and Mrs. Mer- t6n Hackwell read ,an address. Dena Wey and John Leeming presented the couple with an Instamatic camera and a baro - meter. Both Mr. and Mrs. Den- nis replied thanking everyene for their enjoyable evening. Rd- atives from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. William Dennis, Stratford; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gray, Stratford; Mr. 'and Mrs. Bert Dennis, St. Thomas; Mar. MISS MARY OfCONNELL Bell dial exchange on No. 8 Highway east , of the village, went into operation: Present for the event were president Matt Murray ahd dir- ectors and officials of the local company as well as district man- ager, William Haysomand oth- er Bell officials. 4 The first official call was made by Miss Mary O'Connell of Dublin who for 52 years prior to her retirement in 1962 had been an operator with the com- pany. Miss O'Connell phoned her niece Mrs. Mark Nelson in Ren- ton, Washington State. On Tuesday the Bell Company was host at a luncheon in Brown's Hotel, Dublin, to mark the transfer. Those present in- cluded directors and officials of the McKillop, Logan and Hib- . Prior to Discuss Freedom Of Man There is an interdependence of man throughout the wor151 in four spheres of human activity,. Dr. Charles Moya told members of the Seaforth and Bayfield Lions Clubs at a joint meeting-, of the clubs in St: Thomas" Church Hall. The spheres in.. elude tlios.e of a social, econot mical, educational and politV cal nature. Dr. Moya was introduced by Alex Finnigan. The meeting ws0, arranged by William Hart and; W. D. Stephenson and during,' the evening Mr. Hart discussed matters of historical concern it Bayfield about which he recent .,,fpmanie lyerhoaldttlnongbtained additional in out that while thE problem in each of the spheret differed as .between developed and undeveloped countries, Dr Mona f Moya asraeidthere under iyi Disease and .poverty -existed in both although there weix differences in emphasis: Edon oinic changes affected both - areas despite the fact undevell oped countries had an almoSt entirely agrarian based econts garet Hillen, London: and Jean Hillen. Oshawa. Win Euchre Prizes Twelve tables were at play at the progressive euchre party last:Friday evening iti the Wal- ton Community Hall, under the auspices of the Walton WI. Prize winners included: lad- ies' high, Mrs. Margaret Hum- phries; ladies' low, Mrs. Stew- art McCall; gents' high, Clifford Ritchie; gents' -low, Gordon Mc - Gavin; birthday nearest date, Mrs.•AlVin McDonald. Boundary Unit The 17th and Boundary Unit met at the home of Mrs. Clif- ford Ritchie with eleven mem- bers present. Mrs. George, Williamson open- ed devotions With a thought for the afternoon. "All people that on earth do dwell" was Sung ,with Mrs. Martin Baan at the piano. !es. Williamson offered prayer and Mrs. San Van Wet read the scripture. Shortages of trained people"– teachers, doctors, nurses, engin. eers -- apparent in developed countries were reflected gen- erally since this was the only, source for other countries. , In a political sense too, there was a similarity since in al- most every case established de- • veloped countries had under- gone periods of revolutions, of • shaking down: It was this ad- justment period that was today ' facing many of the under dev- eloped, countries. Moving Mr c 14.'illiamcln read a poem n d Mrs. Van Vliet gave a read., in. The topic "Country town minister" was given by Mrs. Van Vliet. Mrs. Bann opened the busi- ness with a poem. Mrs. William Murray gave the treasurer's re- port. Collectors for the Bible Society include Mrs. Roy •Wil- liamson, Mts. Clifford Thiegy, Mrs Martin Baan and Mrs. Ca ford Ritchie. McKillop Unit The McKillop I1CW unit met at the home df, Mrs. Glen Me. Nichol Wednesday afternoon,. with 18 ladies present. Mrs. Gordon McGavin preSinl, , ed for devotions, opening with O poem, "Faith". "Breathe on me Breath of God" VAS gm* with Mrs., Merton HaeinVelt. al the piano. UM Stewart MOO , road scripture, • The meditation oft sion and ItiMitite • Vhili Oxothlued OA Page