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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1953
C1I•nton' News -Record
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
First issue June 6, 1865
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
First issue (Huron News -Record)
January 1881
Amalgamated 1924
An Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the. Town of Clinton and Surrounding District
Population, 2,543; Trading Area, 10,000; Retail Market, $2,000,000; Rate, .04 per line flat
Sworn Circulation — 2,126
Home of Clinton RCAF Station and Adastral Park (residential)
MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; Ontario -Quebec Division, CWNA;
Western Ontario Counties Press Association
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livered by carrier to. RCAF Station and Adastral Park -25 cents a month; seven cents a_ copy
Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa ,
•• . blished EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron County
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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1953
Councillors Did It Again!
AGAIN, A SMALL BOUQUET to the wise
ouncillors of the Town of Clinton. We echo
he words of the spokesman for the ministerial
ssociation appearing at Monday's meeting when
e expressed approval of action taken to restrict
.peration of a social club within the town. "The
ecorded vote of all councillors unanimously in
avour of refusing to issue a permit for the
lub, settled once and for all any idea that
ne member of council was in favour of the
lub."
Our councillors are not always wise, nor
•o they always make the proper moves at the
roper times. However, they did move swiftly
o enact a restricting by-law, in time to have
ome basis for their refusal, to issue the social
lub's building permit. Three cheers and a
iger!
You realize that our municipal officers are
having quite a large share of problems to settle
his year, and throughout it, all, their hands
nof funds. are firmly tied by want un s. h Tey have
their own personal weaknesses, and ambitions
which no doubt influence some of their actions.
We do believe, however, that in this instance
especially, Clinton is fortunate in having public
men who will stand by the spirit rather than
the letter of the law. Some of the other muni-
cipalities in our county have not been so fort-
unate, and we understand that Clinton is the
only town in the area under the CTA act\which
is not yet "blessed" by the presence of a social
or "bottle" club.
And again we say, three cheers and a tiger!,
A word of warning though. There is no war-
rant that those persons attempting to establish
a "bottle" club here will not buy land immed-
iately adjacent to the town for their purpose.
This is big stuff. There's big money in it. And
the lads who can afford expensive suits and
flashy cars are not going to give up easily a
project which will bring. them more dollars.
Mothers! ,This Is Your Business
WHEN FEMALE SUFFRAGE was being
,campaigned for it was said "Let the women
have the vote and there will be no war. They
will vote against sending their sons to battle."
This has not been the case. Oh? You say the
enemy did not have female suffrage, nor any
kind of democratic vote, and since dictators
.asked for war, we had to fight? Oh.
Then, consider this. On a small scale we
have a battle in Clinton. It has been observed
for some time that youngsters under 18 years
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of age, even ten and 11 -year-olds, boys and
girls, are purchasing tobacco in Clinton stores
and are smoking in private or in public. This'
practice is against the law. You mothers have
the power to stop this practice. Are you going
to?
You may have another problem to face.
If, as has been suggested, there is a "bottle"
club opened near Clinton, there may be temp-
tations for your children to face. Are you going
to do something about that?'
Safety Campaign in Month of May
SAFETY HAS BECOME big business. So
-much so has it become big business that auto-
mobile industry in Canada combined with var-
ious service clubs, chambers of commerce and
safetygroups across Canada have joined to-
gether in the first nation wide safety campaign
yet staged.
We refrained from mentioned safety
month in these columns last week, mainly be-
cause we were afraid of the ineffectuality of
words on the subject. It seems probable that
a safety month can mean little more to the
reading public, than a national cat month, be -
kind -to -the -animals month, education week, etc.
Suddenly last Tuesday we were faced with the
results of an accident at Adastral Park, which
resulted in the death of a little boy. It was
:certainly an accident. There seems to be no
article of blame to be placed on any one
rson.
.
But surely there could have been some way
to prevent that accident, and looking into the
future, we wonder if there could not be some
way of preventing any similar accidents occur-
ring. Any one condition among several could
have prevented this accident. If there had only
been a fenced yard; if there had only been no
other truck the driver could have seen better;
if the boy had only run the other way around
the truck; if some adult had only been present
to restrain the lad; any of these, or probably
one of a dozen other conditions could have
saved his life.
We would like to impress all those who
read this with the need for increased vigilance
in preventing accidents to themselves and to
others. A moment's carelessness, an instant's
thoughtlessness may mean someone's life or in-
jury. Now, in the Spring, with all things of
Nature budding into new life, we should take
care to promote the safety of our fellowman.
Want An
Economical Holiday?
(St. Mary's Journal -Argus)
RANGING IN AREA from one-half to 390
cres, the Ontario Department of Highways
ns and operates 62 roadside Parks suitable
or camping, and more than half of them are
ocated on the 1,432 miles of road which are
eing developed to form Ontario's section of the
ans-Canada . Highway.
Concentration of free tourist parks suitable
or tents or trailers on Ontario's portion of the
ans-Canada Highway is designed to attract
any additional thousands of tourists from the
United States each year, while offering econom-
ical north -country holiday centres for Ontario
people and visitors from other provinces.
Most of the Ontario Department of High-
ways' free Roadside Parks are provided with
outdoor fireplaces for camp cookery; sturdy
picnic tables often under shelter; deep wells
and other amenities. Many have good bathing
beaches and s6me of them have bath houses
with showers. For people who want an econom-
ical, healthful and different sort of holiday the
use of these parks would be ideal.
A Great Queen --- Tall With Dignity
VICTORIA DAY, celebrated this year on May 18, is an
.utgrowth of the Queen's Birthday, celebrated on the 24th in
honour of Queen Victoria, Now Victoria's great-granddaughter
is Queen of England, and the House of Windsor is continuing
to hold firm the ideals we instinctively associate with royal
families.
No place within English speaking nations is Queen Eliza-
beth's family unknown, for even without the advent of her
Coronation, pictures and news items were being eagerly read
'by those in her realms. Though our neighbors to the south,
perhaps wisely, broke from the stern rule of George III, to
enter upon complete self-government, they look with envy upon
us who have remained within the Empire. Their radio broad-
casts, newscasts, magazine stories, newspaper stories, all show
great interest in our Royal family and particularly in the com-
ing celebration.
We have found among the welter of poems, and articles
which were published following the death of wonderful Queen
Mary, the little bit of verse published here. Surely no greater
honour could come to our new Queen, than that sometime in
the future, she should be remembered in like terms. There
is something very wonderful in being the one to place a
feeling of proud joy in the lives of "us kids".
IN HUMBLE MEMORY
OF A GREAT QUEEN
I saw her once
when I was little
maybe seven or eight.
It was in Liverpool •
and she had come with the
King to visit
but I don't remember why.
But I do remember their
carriage passing
and that even though
she was sitting down
sheseemed taller
than anyone else in the world.
Tall with dignity
and nobleness
and the character that made
you glad
she was your Queen.
And I recall that she and the
King
waved to us kids
and that we ran all the way
home
cheering and yelling.
Not saying anything you might
understand.
'Just cheering and yelling
with a proud kind of joy.
—Phil Stone
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
CHIROPRACTIC
D. H. McINNES
•Chiropractic -Drugless Therapy
Foot Correction
Office Hours:
Commercial Hotel, Seaforth
Monday, Thursday
Afternoons and Evenings
INSURANCE
Insure the "Co-op" Way
W. V. ROY
District Representative
Box 310 Clinton, Ontario
Phone Collect
Office 667 Res. 324J
LOBB INSURANCE AGENCY
Cor. Williamhone R6ate bury Sta.
1W
-- GENERAL INSURANCE —
Representative:
own. of Canada General (We)
Hoickok Farmers' Mutual Fire
Insurance Co.
J. E. HOWARD, Hayfield ,
Phone Hayfield 53r2
Oar - Fite.. Life - Accident
Wind Instiranee
if yoti heed Insurance, I have
a hellcya
Be Sure : : Be Insured
K. W. COLQTJHOTJN
GENERAL INSURANCE
Representative:
Sun Life Anumnce Co. of Canada
Office: Royal Bank Building
Office 50 - PHONES - Res. 9W
H. C. LAWSON
Bank of Montreal Building
Clinton
PHOIJES; Office 251W; Res. 251J
Insurance -- Real Estate
Agent: 1Viutual Life Assurance Co.
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Ilead Office: Seaforth
Officers 1953: President, J. L.
Malone, Seaforth; vice-president,
J, H. McEwing, Blyth; manager
and eecrotary-treasurer, M. A.
Reid, Seaforth. Directors: S. H.
Whitmore, Seaforth, C. W. Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewar-
tha, Clinton; ltobt. Archibald,
Seaforth; J. H. McEwing, Blyth;
J, Er Pepper, Brucefield;' Wm. S.
Alexander, Walton; J. L. Malone,
Seaforth; Harv. Fuller, Goderich.
Agents: J. P. Praetor, Brodhag-
on; Wm. Leiper, Jr,, Londesbbre',
Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Eric
Munroe, Seabee/1.
H. E. HARTLEY
Life Insurance
District Representative:
Canada Life Assurance Co.
North St., Clinton — Phone 454W
OPTOMETRY
A. L. COLE, R.O.
Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted
Goderich Phone 33
'GORDON R. HEAR'tN
Optometrist
1028 Danforth Ave., Toronto, Ont.
J. E. LONGSTAFF
Clinton and Seaforth
HOURS:
CLINTON: Tuesday Evenings,
7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
SEAFORTH: Weekdays except
Wednesday, 9 a.ln. to 5.30 p.rn.
Saturday, 9 a.m, to 9 p.m.
PHONE 791 SEAFORTH
REAL ESTATE
LEONARD G. WINTER
Real Estate and Business •llrolterr
SLOAN BLOCK, curvroN
Phone: Office 448; Res. 599
From Our Early Files
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton News -Record
40 YEARS AGO News Record ....
Thursday, May 15, 1913
The Town Council has offered
H. B. Chant the position of super-
intendent of the combined water-
works and electric light systems,
the salary to be $1,200 per annum.
George Swarts has sold his
house on Rattenbury Street West,
to C. S. Lowery of Medicine Hat,
Alberta, who bought it for his
mother, Mrs. Lowery of town, who
will shortly occupy it.
Bert Langford has bought a
brand new five -passenger Ford.
C. Hoare of the music store has
been making a number of sales of
pianos in the vicinity. Among the
purchasers being Messrs. J. K.
Wise, George Roberton, T, Thomp-
son and Pearson. Mr. Hoare
makes a specialty of the fine new
Dohert iano
Mr, and Mrs. Charles Lovett
and family, life-long residents of
the Base Line, moved into town
last week, taking up their resi-
dence on Princess Street West,
are now citizens of Clinton,
The Clinton New Ero^
Thursday, May 15, 1913,
The Clinton baseball team ex-
pect to have the Hyman's baseball
team of London here on May 24.
The team has beenplaying with
the London professionals so will
be in good shape.
Fred Nott suffered a severe loss
on Wednesday, when his imported
stallion, Viking, died suddenly in
Colborne Township at the farm of
Mr. Durst about five o'clock: It
is expected that the bursting of a
blood vessel was the cause. The
horse was valued at $3,000, and
was insured for $1,000.
Under the new Health Act, any
butcher found guilty of buying
from a farmer or any farmer
found guilty of selling to a butch-
er, a veal calf under four weeks
old, for eating purposes, is liable
to a fine of $50.
John May took over the inter-
est of Mr. Atkinson in the furni-
ture business and °the new firm
will go by the name of Dunford
and May. •
Joseph Silcox, of Bayfield Road,
spent Sunday with friends near
Londesboro.
prize, won in chapter four of "The
Bookshelf" competition conducted
by that periodical.
Huron Murch has taken a posi-
tion in the local post office.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Kaiser and Mrs.
Paxman and little son have re-
turned from Royal Oak, Mich.,
and are again settled in their own
home on King Street,
Victoria and Ontario Streets are
all torn up in preparation for
paving.
Rev. L. C. Harrison, rector of
St.Paul's Church, is attending the
Synod meeting in London this
week. Sheriff Middleton is the
lay delegate.
The fire alarm sounded on Tues-
day, fire having been discovered
in L. Cree's barn, Mary Street, It
was soon under control however
and little damage was done.
Charlie Johnson, sen of W, L.
Johnson, brought an egg into the
News -Record office.The
egg
when weighed upon Sheppard and
Co.'s scales weighed exactly six
ounces. When it was broken it
was found that 'a well -formed egg
of a large size, with a perfect
shell inside.
25 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News -Record
Thursday, May 17, 1928
Mrs. Harry Fremlin is receiving
the congratulations of her friends
upon the receipt of a substantial
cheque from "MacLean's Maga-
zine", in payment of the tenth
.certificate in 1Vi:urphy Lode last
Tuesday evening, ,having been a
member of the lodge since 1.885,
The presentation was made by
Garnet Cornish.
On the late train Wednesday
evening, Captain H. McIntyre of
the Canadian Dental Corps and
Signalman George Carter of the
8th Army Field Regiment arriv-
ed home from overseas, after see-
ing active service for the past two
years. It is expected that Serg-
eant Cecil Holmes, also of the
Canadian Dental Corps, and son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. R. Holmes,
will arrive home either today or
the end of the week. These are
the first men of Clinton to come
home as yet.
Almost 17 and a half million
pounds of salted and roasted pea-
nuts were produced in Canada in
1952.
10 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News Record
Thursday,' May 20, 1943
W. J. (Bill) Counter, only son
of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Counter of
town, last week received his com-
mission as a Sub -Lieutenant in
the RCN.
Tel. T. A. Steep, wireless oper-
ator on HMCS Digby, is home on
a month's furlough.
AC Bill Finch of the RCAF,
Lachine, Quebec, is on a short
leave.
L/Cpl. Jack West of the
RCAMC at ' Vancouver, B.C., is
home on leave.
LAC Stewart Cook of the
RCAF has been transferred to
Nova Scotia.
Among Me 18 nursesto grad-
uate at the Guelph General Hos-
pital School for Nurses on Thurs.:
day, May 13, was Miss Margaret
H. Middleton, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Middleton, Goderich
Township. The special prize for
operating room technique awarded
by Dr. J. M. Savage, was received
by Miss Middleton.
F. D. Robert Aldwinckle, RCAF
Eastern Air Command, spent a
few days with his parents,. Mr.
and Mrs. H. Aldwinckle.
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Counter
are in Halifax, where they at-
tended the graduation of HMCS
King's Naval Training College.
J. P. Sheppard was presented
with an honourary membership
PETER
of the BACK SHOP
Seems we just become accust-
omed to the wierd sounds in this
place, when the Men, (being Men)
become dissatisfied with things as
they are, and get a new machine.
Again, since they are Men, they
are not satisfied with- getting a
peaceful sort of mechanism, which
would purr (if you will pardon
the word) us to sleep.
*
No. This last machine howls
in a high pitched crescendo.
It wavers and quavers like a
dyspeptic hound dog — and
when we're trying our nerv-
ous best to leap swiftly over
the typewriter keys and get
this copy up, it certainly is no
help.
* *
'Tis named a "router". Its pur-
pose is to rout out metal which
otherwise would ride higher than
it should and show up as a blur
where there should be white
space. In the advertising world
white space is as important as
many words, and the ire of an
advertiser when blurs show up in
his particular bit of white space
is pretty strong.
The "router" has an electric
motor (itself responsible for
the erratic whine we've al-
ready complained of); an ad-
justment on one end of the
arm for height, and several
different blades for routing.
The Men have a lot of fun
with it.
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We mice, who already must put
up with the big old press cutting
into our Wednesday night's slum-
bers, now have to forego even the
daytime naps which made life
bearable. To be a man or a
mouse. That is the question.
Whether it be better to spend lazy
hours listening to the noises, or
be busy running the machines that
make the noises. Sometimes we
think we should go to Slobbovia
and be changed into a man the
way Li'l Abner became Li'l Anya.
`LEi:TERS�►: EDITOR.:
ate`
Mr. L. G. Winter
Chairman, Industrial Committee
Clinton, Ontario
Dear Mr. Winter:
On checking our Municipal Bro-
chures I find that our supply for
your community is just about ex-
hausted and if you have addition-
al copies in print, I would apprec-
iate receiving about 20 copies in
order that we will be in a position
to do your community full justice
during the Trade Fair.
Sincerely,
J. E. TURNBULL, -
Municipal Division,
Trade and Industry Branch,
Department of Planning &
Development.
159 Bay Street,
Toronto 1, Canada
May 6, 1953
Ed. Note: H. E. Hartley, presi-
dent of the Clinton and District
Chamber of Commerce, was pleas-
ed to be able to supply this year's
printed copies of the brochure of
the Town of Clinton.
Some Fields Still Wet
Sunny Weather Helps
"Warm sunny weather speed
up seeding operations in t.
county this week," G. W. Mont-
gomery, agricultural represent-
ative fel—Huron County, reports.
"Some fields, however, are still
quite wet and will not be ready
until next week,
"Some cattle were put on pas-
tare in the county this week but
because of poor growth condi-
time, this will not be general
practice for a week or two. Old
meadows, stands of new seedlings,
and fall wheat have all made
growth during the past week,"
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Independent stores did three
quarters of all retail business in
Canada in 1951; chain stores ac-
counted for 16.3 per cent and de-
partment stores for 8.6 per cent.
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Quality
Service
Special In Writing Pads
Giant Size Foldover PAD and ENVELOPES
Reg. Price 40c — Special Price 29c •
TRY
The New
HUDNUT
:Home
Permanent
$1.'75
NOXZEIVIA
kin Cream
5c
65c
89c.
$1.69
BATHING CAPS .... 25e - 49e
79c - $1.25
Water Tight
BILLFOLDS—reg. 1.50 for $1
Black and Brown with all
round zipper.
SUN GLASSES., 25c to $2.98
NOXZEMA SUNTAN
CREAM 39e, 75e
SHAVING
BRUSHES
NYLON
BRISTLE
Reg. $3,50
For $1.50
HUDNUT LIGHT and
BRIGHT $1.75
TONI HOME PERMANENT
$1.75
NYLAST for Nylons 49e
NESTLE COLORINSE or
COLORTINT 39c
CLEARASIL--for Pimples
69e
KODAKS—Printing & Developing—FILMS
SMILES 'N CHUCKLES CHOCOLATES
GREETING CARDS
W. C. Newcombe, PhntB.
Chemist and. Druggist
PHONE 51
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The Huron &Erie Mortgage corporation
"Older than the Dominion of Canada"
Head Office -•-• London, Ontario
District Representative -- H. C. Lawson, Clinton
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