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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1953-09-17, Page 10CLINTON Ngws-RECORD TUPTirSDAY, $EPTI✓M 3 R 47, 185a CftntonNews 1 THE CI.INTON NEW ERA Il+'#ist Issue Ane s, 1565 Reeord THE CLINTON,NEW$-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 Sworn Circulation — 2,126 Home of Clinton RCAF Station and Adastral Park (residential) MEMBER; Canadian Weekly Newspapers. Association; Ontario -Quebec Division, CWNA; Western Ontere) Counties Press Association SUBSCRIPTION 'RATES; Payable in advance—Canada and Great Britain; $2.50 a year;. United States and Foreign; $3.50; Single Copies Six Cents Delivered 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 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 eere( 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) v m 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 ..1• . '10+4, . . .. 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. 0 0 - 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. 0 D )] 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 0 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. 0 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. T P a d.. THINK ABOUT YOUR VITAMINS Kew is the time, to Prepare Yourself !against Winter Colds im SAVIEI SAVE! IR U NOW! over th,ty gDisc NewMEDICATED Way $ To $'rave "Painlessly" DlG 10 OZ. (ECONOMY JAR ..:' N $iierS SIZE rwasisie 894 6 „> I 31114/Share I 1 A DA°"" di "X2l,,,A $ b®isio®ranisme Here are ,a IFew Suggestions: NEO C lEMIiCAL FOOD CAPSULES 50's—$1.65 —100's—$2.95 250's —$6.00 NEO CHEMICAL FOOD LIQUID 24 days—$1.$5 72 days•—•$3.36 144 days—$5.90 PLENAMINS $2.00 — $0.00 ]ILODAKS — PRINTING and DEVELOPING -- FILMS 10IAGAZLNES — — GREETING CARDS SMILES 'NI CHUCKLES CHOCOLATES C. Newco be, Phm.B. Chemist and Druggist PHONE 51 OFF MAIN STREET .I HITA HOMER! 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