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THE CLINTON,NEW$-RECORD
P.irst issue (Huron. News.Record)
January 1881
41 Persoai luvitation From
Amalgam ated 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
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Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON', Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron County
THURgDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1953
Air Force Day
REALLY THERE IS LITTLE MORE to be
said for this outstanding enterprise of
Canada's Royal Canadian Air Force, The.whole
of our newspaper tense week bears evidence of
an effort to place before you some idea Pf the
work. the RCAF is doing.
We would like to draw your 'attention par-
ticularly to the words of welcome from the Com-
manding Officer .of RCAF Station Clinton, which
appear on this page of the News -Record. We'd
like also to suggest that you bear particular
attention to the article on page three concern-
ing the ground observer corps. This is an es-
sential part of the future planning of the RCAF
and it is a part of the air defence of Canada
in. which you may have an active part.
The Clinton News -Record would like to
thank all those airforce personnel who had a
part in planning this issue of the paper. Their
co-operation was invaluable. It is our hope
that it will be of assistance to Station Clinton,
and to the people of Clinton and district as a '
step towards greater understanding of the prob-
lems of the RCAF.
Now this Saturday is Air Force Day and
therefore it is a day for the people of the air
service. But it is also a civilian day. Let's
all attend the programs at Station Clinton, and
help make it the biggest day of its kind any-
where.
To Sell, To Use, or Just To Keep
THAT IS ..THE QUESTION.
The disposal of the building at the corner
of Ontario and William Streets now known as
the old Clinton Public School is under discussion.
Since the school board presented the deed to
council with but one string attached, and for
the ever popular sum of one dollar, this dis-
cussion naturally has its centre in the town
council.
We have heard several suggestions for the
use of this building. The latest of these, pre-
sented at the last council meeting, was that it
be used for a church.
The most pertinent of suggestions is the one
which proposes moving the municipal offices up
to the old public school. This would include
the offices of the town clerk, the assessor and
tax collector, the police office, the offices of the
PUC, eventually the fire hall and in fact all
municipal services. The plan has merit, in that
a centralization of town interests would results
and the cost of caretaking, building rentals, etc.,
would be diminished. It would be a benefit to
the town financially to have all its offices and
services in one spot.
But we are suspicious of such a plan. It
seems to us to be born of desperation in the
face of what seem insurmountable difficulties.
arising because of inadequate planning through
the Iast years, and in fact through the last few
rnonths, rather than through long range thought.
Suddenly after a period of years of increas-
ing difficulty with the heating system at the
town hall, when everyone was aware that some-
thing must be done about it, the furnace in
the basement of the town hall requires several
hundreds of dollars repairs. This is brought to
council for action in the midst of one of the
coldest September weeks in history, six months
after it was known that the furnace would not
see another season. A new heating system
proposal, though promising to be adequate for
some years, would require an expense of over
$3.000 to cover costs of heating this winter.
Tee town does not have the money.
Another apparently huge problem is the one
of: Where can we house the truck, gi'kder, and
other tools this winter? The parks board has
control of the shed at Clinton Community Park
which the public works committee has been
using for a garage during the summer. The
turf club apparently has permission from the
parks board to house horses in this shed at
the time of their scheduled race days and this
makes it unpleasant for a man to do any work
on the town's equipment, and anyway the shed
in question is not warm enough to be used for
a' garage in the winter months. Therefore the
town needs a garage. It would appear that the
councillors feel, and rightly we think, that it
would be cheaper to build than to rent. The
extra space near the old school does look in-
viting for the building •of such a garage and
possibly for a new fire hall, But such building
could not be done in time for this winter's use.
Certainly the question needs a good deal
of long range planning. And no doubt council
will give it that. It is just possible that some
of the municipal offices could be moved there
temporarily this winter until something can be
done about the heating system at the town hall.
At any rate, something will have to be
done with the old school. A vacant building
is so apt to become a white elephant. And
when a council finds that happening it is apt
to be disposed of for that magnanimous sum of
one dollar. The tax payers of Clinton must
see that this does not happen, Here again is a
need for sage counsel to our council. If you
hove any suggestions concerning what to do
®with the old school, or about the sadly, decrepit
town hall, your weekly newspaper will be glad
to publish them. If you prefer to take your
ideas to the council then Mayor W. J. Miller
has signified his willingness to accept them and
present them to council.
For goodlaess sake, if you have something
to say, thengetit said before action is taken.
The old saw about locking the barn door is
never so applicable as in a case of civic
betterment.
To Accomplish The Most
(The Ingersoll Tribune)
TT WAS SUGGESTED to us the other day,
that this would be an ideal time to recom-
mend in these columns, that about fifty per cent
of the meetings in Ingersoll be abolished. Ac-
tually, we believe, the idea was to do away
with some of the organizations in our admit-
tedly over -organized town.
No one could be more aware of the num-
ber of meetings each week than those of us
of the newspaper who are expected to cover
rnany and to publish reports of all. There are
times when three or four face us on the same
evening. There are, we admit quite honestly,
rooments when we would gladly do away with
every and all meetings.
Yet, what would we do without these organ-
izations? Where would we start to weed them
out? We would not like our town to be with -
cot any of the fine services they render,
Vita 1.44
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No, we don't think we could do away with
them; but could we "amalgamate" some? Is
there not a great deal of overlapping in the
aims and ideals of some groups and even in
the methods of attaining those aims? Is it
not possible that we are dividing our strength
so that the greatest good is not accomplished
after all.
Now, as all organizations are starting the,
fall term, might be a good time to think about
this. It is a good time for us as individuals
to consider how we will spend our strength too;
to decide whether we are going to belong to
everything and be too busy to DO anything,
or whether we will belong only to the organiza-
tions to which.we will be able to give our best.
We are starting a busy season. Let us hope
it will be one of accomplishment and not merely
one about which We say Went to five meetings
this week!"
Quotable Quote
"WHAT ITAS HAPPENED to our people
are we becoming less able to earn our
living, to manage our own finances, or to care
for our young, our aged, and oUr sick? And
Canada, it is said, is experiencing the most
prosperous and highest economic era of its
history. One may ask is it social security we
are getting or a mild creeping form of social-
ism?" -- Shawinigan (Que.) Standard.
Now there's an idea which we would have
gladly used ourselves if only we had thought
it first. We are deeply aware of our Quebec
friend's concern about the growing government
services Canadians, Ontarians, Huronians and
Clintonians are requesting.
One of our earliest regrets in this regard
was the centralization of schools. We feel that
for a country c ountry with Can -
it is a backward step
ada's proud heritage, when its people lose int-
erest in their children's education to such an
extent that parents no longer will take the
trouble to administer their school's business
leemselves.
Cow Was a Cow
(Ottawa. journal)
IN T1fII OLD DAYS a cow was a cow and
milk was milk, and that was that. A farmer
the didn't need to know about specific gravity
or tocopherol content or the Reichert-Meissl
number or even the Polenske number. Ile fed
his cows and milked them, and sold the milk
or made butter tut of it, and it at the end of
the year he had enough money for his taxes
and the mortgage he figured the eows had done
Pretty well by hien that _year.
Now it's all changed. Farming is not only
ri business but a science, and the things the
et enter roust know would have astounded his
grandfather. '.tCy continue to astonish us.
This steadily growing attitude of most peo-
ple that the "government" should supply them
with so many services is not to us a "mild
creeping form of socialism" but an insidious
and voluntary request by Canadians that their
liberties be reinoved. The time to stop this
march toward national failure is now.
Rel -Member
(Anonymous)
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Are Y on. an active member—
one that would be missed?
Or are you quite contented if
your name's on the pay list?
Do you make friends with others
and mingle with the flock
Or just sit back at your own job
and criticize and knock:'
Do you take an active interest --
do you help the work along--•
Or are you satisfied to be
the kind that "just belong"?
Do you ever, voluntarily,
keep on ,ram five to six• ---
Or leave the work to just a few
and then sneer at "the cliques"?
When the "office Crowd" goes out for fun„
do you sit home 'alone?
Then try this simple remedy—
don't just sulk and moan
Smilingly co -operate ---
help with hand and heart --
Don't be "just a member"
take an active part!
Think it over, rnetnber,.
and cheek -the if I'm wrong --
If you work with your fellows,
they won't let you "j,tst belong"
C.O., RCAF £tcttion Clinton,
To Attend Air Force Day
HIS SATURDAY at RCAF Station Clinton is Air Force
ee Day. From one o'clock in the afternoon until mid-
night your Air . Force Station is bolding open house so that
you may see some of the results of your investment in
security. Air Force Day is something like a stockholders'
meeting. Your investment, through taxes, in the country's
defence is displayed to you to give you an opportunity of
seeing how your "company" is being operated. Every big
business, and the RCAF is big business in Canada, holds its
annual stockholders' meeting, and at that time a report is
made of the health of the company. The RCAF on Air Force
Day gives you, the stockholder in security, a report on its
health,
This is the seventh annual Air Force Day in Canada. In
past years the people of Huron County have come out in large
numbers to see the show. We expect past attendance records
to be broken ;this year because the Station is "letting down
the barriers", By that I mean that the whole Station belongs
to the public and the public's desire is our comniard. New
buildings will be open for inspection, the classrooms, the lab-
oratories, the housing accommodation; all of these will be
jopen to the general public. This is a° departure from previous
ars in, which it was net possible to permit access to all
actual training facilities. The entire Station will be open and
the personnel of the Station will be your servants.
Your Air Force Station at Clinton has played a very large
role in the defence of the free world during the past war and
its present and future role may well be one of the deciding
factors in any future conflict. The introduction of almost
any new piece of equipment, whether it be a gun, a plane or a
ship, means an increase in the electronic devices which have
to be used with or against that piece of equipment. The
present trend in all weapons and in warfare itself is toward
speed and accuracy; speeds and accuracies in fact which are
in excess of human 'capabilities. The role of electronics in
modern warfare is increasing out of all proportion to advances
in other more spectacular fields.
It is the special problem of RCAF Station Clinton to
train the men and women of Canada in the operation and
maintenance of these most complex devices.
When you visit your Air Force Station you will see how
this is accomplished.
In the Fighter Control Operator Section you will be shown
bow the enemy bomber formation is detected by radar, An
actual plot of the "enemy" force will be shown to you and
you will ,hear the Fighter Controllers issuing directions to the
fighter aircraft in order that a successful interception may be
accomplished. You will' also hear the Radar Operator giving
a running commentary of the battle to the plotters who will
lay out the plan of battle on the plotting table.
The electronic demonstrations being presented at Station
Clinton are too numerous to mention in this short space, but
we are certain Mr. and Mrs, Canadian Citizen will find the
show not only informative but one of the most interesting of
their lives.
The show at RCAF Station Clinton will feature ground and
air electronic developments but the exhibits will by no means
be all confined to the inside attractions.
I am sure all of you have read lately of the Lancaster
aircraft which crashed in Northern Canada. The airmen who
made up the crew of that aircraft are typical of the courag-
eous, confident type of aircrew now operating with the RCAF.
In accordance with RCAF training received they had made
camp beside the small lake where they crashed and made all
their arrangements to stay at least a month. The survival
equipment carried by the aircraft coupled with the know-how
through survival training were their stock in the future. This
equipment and the rigorous training necessary to use the
equipment intelligently will be shown to you on Saturday.
A typical sea survival exercise will be carried out in the
Station swimming pool. Here you will see how a normal
Canadian airman apparently performs miracles of survival.
In the air over the Station the aircraft of the RCAF
will show you what, they can do. Chipmunk and Harvard
trainers will perform aerobatics. Ground support Mustangs
and freight -carrying Dakotas will show the role they carry
out in modern war. The hit of the show, we feel sure, will
be the jets. Crack teams of Vampire pilots will vie with sleek
T -33's and CF -100 "Canuck" fighters. You will have an op-
portunity to talk over a radio to pilots flying jet aircraft.
You can operate many of the telecommunications exhibits
yourself; you will have an opportunity to win a free airplane
ride. For the "Buck Rogers" elements you will see electronic -
controlled and operated guided missiles, including German
types used in World War II.
There will be continuous movies both for kiddies and
grown-ups; in case the afternoon interferes with your regular
golf game you can even play miniature golf between visits
to the various attractions. There will be food and refresh-
ments available to maintain your vitality until the dance which
is being held in the evening from 9 p.rn to midnight.
This will indeed be a show of Canada's airborne resolve
to carry out its pledge to maintain national security thl'ough
air security, and it is seldom that the shareholders get an
opportunity to secure an accounting under such interesting
and entertaining conditions
We of RCAF Station Clinton invite you to attend this
stockholders' meeting. It is your Air Force. It io your day.
Make it a success by(Signed) your attendance.
WC H. C. ASHDOWN, MBE,
Commanding Officer RCAF Station Clinton
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PETERS of the BACK SHOP
The best laid plans, they say, of
Mice and Men, gang aft agley.
So, certainly seem the plans of
this mouse.
El M
When we were about to set
forth upon a leisurely saunter
down main street Tuesday
evening with yon spouse, Mil-
licent, we practically were
swept swirling (and you might
expect, squirming) clear down
to catch basin.
E E E
This mouse was confused, and
Millicent kept insisting that we do
something about it. What, can we
do, said this mouse. And we point-
ed out the hordes of People out-
side. It was just the time of
night when the moviehouse across
the street was changing reels, or
whatever happens between pic-
tures, and a lot of the People had
decided to go home. There was
Confusion. Those behind couldn't
See that it was raining and wanted
to get home to stop sley-rocketing
baby' sitting fees. The fellows in
front were wishing they'd brought
the car instead of walking, and
meanwhile cluttered tip the door-
way refusing to budge into the Al-
bert Street canal. There ish't any-
thing this mouse can do if those
People can't do anything about it,
we said to Millicent.
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There is a mighty lot of ac-
tivity in the back -shop• this
week. Seems the boys and
on ls aa in
blue a shogoing
n ut at put to e
Station on. Saturday. And the
sum and substance of all that
is. that there's quite a bit more
work than usual in and around
the Snoozin' Record shop. All
these air photos In the paper'
have been sitting about for a
week or so, and sometimes it's
hard to tell whether a mouse
is up in the air or not.
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We never advocate getting up in
the air over anything, for as sure
as either mouse or man. does he
is apt to get his come-uppance.
Pride goeth before the fall, saith
the old philosophers. That is sur-
ely how we've found it. We were
striding along over the type cases
the other day, just as if we knew
our way around the back shop,
when suddenly we were surround-
ed by sky. When we looked down,
we could see nothing else but sky.
erlan, were we terrified! Just
imagine how it felt, to think we
were standing on a bit of sky,
and down below was the ceiling
of the News -Record office. Just
got to thinking we were really
some mouse, when Millicent let
out a shout to come to dinner,
and we fell off that bit of sky
and nearly skinned a shin on a
column rule.
At any rate we'reoing to
try to get out to RCAF Sta-
tion Clinton on Saturday and
see what goes on. We might
even be lucky and get a free
ride on an aircraft. If we do,
we may never come back to
Clinton, for it looks like a
dangerous
erousspott o live.Have
o
you et of the pigeon
shoot to be held here next
Wednesday? Pigeon slaughter,
we think they call it. A body
never knows what people will
think up next. Could be a
war on mice is the next step.
From Our Early Files
40 TEARS AGO
The Clinton News Record
Thurrlda , September 1i1, 1913
Messrs. E. G. Courtice and J. B.
Hoover represented Clinton in the
Scotch doubles tournament in To-
ronto last week. They won down
to the finals, Guelph at last out-
scoring them.
The marriage took place in To-
ronto on Wednesday of last week
of Helen Constance Christian of
Toronto to Dr. J. C, Gandier of
town. After a honeymoon spent in
Muskoka, Dr. and Mrs. Gandier
will take up their residence in the
cottage on Rattenbury Street lat-
ely occupied by Dr. Gunn.
Josh Cook is having a verandah
built across the front of his resi-
dence on Ontario Street, an addi-
tion which will add both to the
appearance and ;comfort of the
dwelling.
The Clinton New Era
Tltursilay, September 11, 1913
Mr, and Mrs. Edward Kemp of
London, formerly of Clinton, and
who spent over a weekend recent-
ly with their son, Mr. S. Kemp, on
Labour Day, observed the 52nd
anniversary of their wedding day.
Messrs. Fred Gillies, W. S. R.
Holmes, James Paxman and Jones
composed an auto party which
took a run down to St. Marys on
Tuesday to witness the lacrosse
match.
Wilmer Wallis, eldest son of C.
J. Wallis of town, now holds a
position in the sporting goods de-
partment of the Eaton Store, To-
ronto.
I. Rattenbury, Mrs. J. Ratten-
bury, Miss Hattie 'Holloway, Miss
Davidson and Miss Mercer made
up an auto party to Grand Bend
on Sunday.
After a hard struggle to get
members present, the regular
council meeting was held on Mon-
day evening of this week.
The voters' list for the town of
Clinton was first posted' up in the
Clerk's office on August 30. There
are 88 names on the list.
evening when members of tale
,chair, Sunday School staff and the
AYPA met to present Miss Edna
Wise, in view at her approaching
marriage, with tokens of goodwill.
Little Master Douglas, son of
Mr. and Mrs, Frank Andrews, had
the misfortune to fall downstairs
on Sunday last, breaking his right
arm near the shoulder..
10 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News -Record
Thursday, September 14, 1943
Council gave the first and sec-
ond readings of the sewerage con-
struction by-law No. 12 at a spec-
lal meeting of council on Tuesday
evening.
Mel Crich has purchased the cot-
tage on Rattenbury Street from
Lloyd Ferguson,
Mrs. Fergus McKay recently re-
ceived a letter from her husband,
who is now serving with the forces
in France, The letter was written
on German paper with a German
pen,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Andrews re-
ceived a letter dated July 4 from
their son, AB Douglas F, Andrews,
from India.
Several graduates of the Clinton
Collegiate have enrolled f qr cour-
ses in university. Miss Lois Drap-
er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Caryl
Draper, Ontario College of Art,
Toronto; Miss Jean Morgan, dau-
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Morgan, occupational therapy, Uni-
versity of Toronto; Miss Jo Anne
Cienninghame, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Cuninghame, fine arts
course, University of Toronto; Miss
Ruth Hearn, daughter of Mrs. Per.
siva) Hearn, College of Optometry,
University of Toronto; Miss Eliza-
beth Middleton, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Fred Middleton, mathe-
matics and physics course, Univer-
sity of Western Ontario.
25 YEARS AGO
Clinton News -Record
Thursday, September 13, 1928
Jack Mutch is learning tele-
graphy in the CNR office at the
station.
W. A. Holmes, formerly of Clin-
ton, lineman at Goderich, has been
appointed local manager of the
Bell Telephone at Listowel, and
has moved with his family to that
town.
The new paving on the Ldndon
Road was completed on Tdesday
and Contractor King and his gang
have gone to Midland.
According to the figures of the
assessor, Clinton has 365 children
of school age.
Exeter baseball team gave the
Clinton boys a pretty bad beating
on their home diamond on Tues-
day, in the finals for the Huron
County championship, the score at
the conclusion of the game being
18-3 in favor of the visitors.
A happy little gathering' was
held at St.Paul's rectory yesterday
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Quick Canadian
Facts...
1. Which province leads in total
value of agricultural output?
2. Of the thousand children born
daily in Canada, how many are
bornin hospital?
3. How many Canadians are 65
years of age and older?
4. What percentage of Canada's
forest resources stand on pub-
licly -owned Crown lands?
5. In 1939 federal government
spending was $553,000,000. What
will it total this year?
ANSWERS: 5. About $4,500,000,
000. 3. About 1,100,000. 1. On-
tario. 4. Ninety per cent, 2.
About three-quarters.
Material supplied by the editors
of Quick Canadian Facts, the hand
book" of facts about Canada.
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On May 6, 1948, at Clinton, the
first post-war wings parade was
held for 13 officer graduates who
received the new double -wing
badges for radio officers and radio
navigators.
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