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COUNTY OF OXFORD
Len Coles Fonds
Len Coles' Scrapbook Index
1972
Page 1 Newspaper articles re. open ballot history of past Warden elections, and Clair G. Minler
named Warden for 1972 (includes photograph of Clair G. Minler)
Page 2 Newspaper articles re. University of Western Ontario's grant request, Warden Clair G.
Minler, Council selects 1972 Committees, Judge Kenneth Y. Dick re-elected chairman of
Woodstock Police Commission, and appointment of the County Planning Board
Page 3 Newspaper article re. Oxford road grants
Newspaper photograph of Robert Nixon; Clair Minler; Keith Turvey, first vice-president
of the Federation of Agriculture; John King, president; and Wilfred Bishop, secretary
Page 4 Newspaper articles re. increasing UWO grant (includes photograph of Leonard K. Coles,
Warden Clair G. Minler and A.K. Adlington), Warden's inaugural speech, cut in grants
for road work (includes photograph of Clair Minler) and passing of Robert J. Forbes
Newspaper photograph of Staff Sergeant Douglas K. Ross
Page 5 Newspaper articles re. interim report released by the Oxford Area Local Government
Study Committee, administration of the county roads systems, rapid urbanization, police
system in Oxford County and Oxford County boundaries
Page 6 Newspaper articles re. Planning Board guidelines, future of the agriculture division of
Fanshawe College, and London's growth
Newspaper article re. Oxford Area Local Government Study Committee and County
boundaries — 3 February 1972
Page 7 Newspaper articles re. full-time planning director for the Oxford County Planning Board
and meeting of the Oxford Economic Zone Meeting and Ingersoll and Woodstock's
involvement in the County
Newspaper photograph of Wilfred Duffy and David Richards varnishing jury seats in the
Supreme Court Room
Page 8 Newspaper article re. Tillsonburg's centennial (includes photograph of Mayor Andy
Balazs slicing birthday cake commemorating TiIlsonburg's 100`h birthday
Page 9 Newspaper articles re. local government study and regional government, and Tillsonburg
and area officials support changes in the structure of Oxford County government
Page 10 Newspaper article re. construction of a water pollution control plant in Norwich
Newspaper photograph of Norwich Clerk -Treasurer F.C. Lowes and Reeve Kenneth L.
Pollard reviewing map of Norwich
Page 11 Newspaper articles re. study of local government and Oxford County taxes cut
Newspaper photograph of house formerly belonged to William Young on Light St.,
Woodstock prior to being torn down
Page 12 Newspaper articles re. County requests provincial funding to finish section of County
Road 6 south of Embro, and examination of the North Norwich Township intersection
following death of Mrs. Lulla M. Hellyer
Newspaper headlines re. County mill rate and roads budget
Page 13 Newspaper articles re. Tillsonburg support behind County reconstructuring and Tavistock
boundaries (includes photograph of Councillor James Frances speaking to members of
Oxford Local Government Study Committee at public hearing)
Page 14 Newspaper articles re. Thamesford suffering from lack of authority, meeting of the
Oxford Area Local Government Study held in Ingersoll (includes photograph of Mayor
G.B. Henry and others), and regionalization
Page 15 Newspaper articles re. Ingersoll and Woodstock should retain boundaries under new
regional government plan, regional government and the Ingersoll Public Utilities
Commission, and Ingersoll regionalization
Newspaper article and photograph re. passing of former Woodstock Mayor Bernadette
Smith (Daily -Sentinel Review — 24 April 1972)
Page 16 Newspaper articles re. J. Peter Atcheson assumes the duties of the County Planning
Director and Tillsonburg's future
Newspaper photograph of "grim reaper" sign at the intersection of County Roads 13 and
18
Page 17 Newspaper articles re. Norwich agricultural museum, maintenance program on County
roads planned, goal for establishing by 1974 an area government (includes photograph of
Reeve Ken Webster), and tree planting survey begins
Page 18 Newspaper articles re. Oxford zone of the Erie Economic Council and Woodstock's
growth, regional government for Oxford County, Fanshawe Agricultural School in limo
and erection of the crossing gates at the CNR level crossing at the Blenheim-Blandford
Townline
Page 19 Newspaper articles re. subdivision being planned for Beachville, Andrew MacKenzie
appointed Oxford County Planning Board representative to an Ontario Energy Board
hearing, and a "save the trees" bylaw
Page 20 Newspaper articles re. fire calls on Highway 401 and an area government merger
between Blenheim and Blandford townships
Page 21 Newspaper article re. death of Tavistock Clerk -Treasurer Robert Rudy (includes
photograph of Robert Rudy), Woodstock opposed rezoning of land for a shopping centre
in East Oxford Township and Ingersoll to invest in a solid garbage disposal (includes
photograph of Mayor Henry)
Page 22 Newspaper articles re. new Tillsonburg airport (includes aerial view of new airport) and
dismissal hearing for Terry Cowley, Oxford School of Agriculture supervisor
Page 23 Newspaper article re. anti -rabies clinic
Programme and invitation for the Warden's Dinner. — 24 November 1972
County of Oxford Handbook —1972
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