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CLINTON NZWS,R•EC ORD
THURSDAY, NOVE•i 't R 12,1;9'53.
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THE CI.INTON NEW ERA
!First issue Tutee 6, 1865
THE CLINTON NEWS*RECORD
First ;Owe Huron hews -.Record)
January 1881
Amalgamated 1924
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1953
Choose Your Candidates Nov!
IIF3ERE ARE ONLY 42 DAYS or so before
Santa Claus will be distributing his gifts
to the young fry, and before that time comes
mothers and fathers will have to complete some
pretty important planning themselves in regard
to Christmas morning gaiety.
But to the parents in many municipalities
throughput the province there is a much more
serious and important duty -to attend to first.
Between now and nomination day, which in
Clinton is on November 20, the electors of
Clinton must make preparation to select for
councillorship in 1954, the best men and women
which the town can offer.
The job of our town's council is to assist
in the administration of government. That is
the definition given in one dictionary of the
word•'`Council". Somehow that seems to be a
very pertinent description.
Originally the idea of a democracy is tha• t
of government by the. •people. Each individual
can not so arrange his own life that no conflict
arises with others. Thus the idea of men ap-
inted od of
• was ay natural e peootgrowth le to work for the Small bodies of
men from small areas look after the local
problems, slightly larger groups govern the
county area, while larger bodies of men chosen
from over the province are in charge of mat-
ters pertaining to this larger area, and again,
federally, another large body of men is entrust-
ed with the safe -keeping of the nation itself.
But regardless of how far away the govern-
mental bodies may seem from the individual,
and certainly there seems to be little effect that
one person nay have in the federal government,
each one of us has the opportunity to help
form the whole, which is representative of the
wishes of the people.
Here in Clinton, the wishes of the individual
and the opinions of thinking citizens are quite
apt to have an immediate and noticeable effect
upon the government of the town. It remains
with the electors, and with them only, to see
that the men they want either are returned to
council, or are placed in that bod,'.
Nomination Day is the time to present your
chosen men or women before the voting public.
Give this all important matter some serious
thought, and upon November 20, give it some
action.
Are You Going to the Royal?
SHIRLEY THOMAS, 18 -year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, C. T. Thomas, Ottawa, is
the first girl to ride for Canada in international
jumping team events. She will be demonstrat-
ing her skill at the Royal Winter Fair, which
opens this Week at the Coliseum in Toronto's
Exhibition Grounds. This is but one part of the
large winter fair to which a great many of us
go each year. Saturday Night gives a bit of
-detail ori the growth, the traditions, the diffi-
culties, and the aims of the Royal.
" Royal's horse show, the biggest thing of
its kind in North America, is the financial
mainstay of the Winter Fair, but wisely the
people who do the planning and organizing have
not let it overshadow the whole magnificent
spectacle that is Canada's annual display of the
wealth and vigor of the nation's agriculture.
"We have a 'farm first' tradition," one official
told us. "The Royal has never been much of a
money-maker and probably never will be. It
goes in the red now and then but has averaged
a small net profit in most of the postwar years.
When it does show a profit, some of that is
usually plowed back the next year into increased
prizes for farmer -exhibitors."
"The Royal depends for a balanced budget
riot only on gate receipts but on grants from
Federal and provincial governments, the city of
Toronto and various farm and breed associations
throughout the country. The agricultural groups,
154 of them in all, are the solid foundation of
the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Association
—the fair's official title. Each year they choose
287 of their members' to represent them he the
Fair Association; Federal, • provincial and civic
governi:!ents name 95 officials—ministers of ag-
riculture, deputy ministers, livestock commission-
ers, city controllers and so on—to bring the
number of representatives to 382. This group,
at an annual meeting, elects a board of 98
directors, representing each division of the. fair.
The directors, in turn, elect 18 of their number
to be an executive committee, the Cabinet of
what has been called the Parliament of Canad-
ian agriculture.
"The Royal has outgrown its accommoda-
tion: Until more space is added to its 26 acres
of buildings, it is pretty well frozen to its
present size,• -for both attendance and exhibits.
We learnt that plans for a new wing have been
mulled over for some time, but the coolness of
the Federal Government towards making a
grant has held up the project; the Ontario
Government and the City of Toronto have both
agreed to share the cost, estimated at $3 million,
if Federal help also is given."
Joy Meets Boy
By Robert P. Tristram Coffin
FARM after farm, the school bus stops
And out the proper schoolboy pope.
While his feet are still in air,
Joy flies out and meets him there.
For every ink -scarred, book -worn boy,
A furry bolt of four -foot joy
That darts and hurls him from his feet
And turns him up all shouts and seat.
Collie, Scottie, bull or hound
Or dog that is all hands around—,
It makes no difference to the fun,
Dog meets boy, and they are one.
They unite, none can say which is
Hide and hair or skin and breeches,
No one can tell, for laps and grins,
Where dog leaves off and boy begins.
For every boy, but never, never
For any girl, how nice soever,
Comes the frenzied pounding tail;
This evening song is wholly male.
Dog after dog, the country wakes,
Boy after boy, the country shakes,
Boys cleave to dogs in naked trust,
And all learning falls to dust.
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From Our Early Files
40 YEARS AGO
' The Clinton News Record
Thursday, November 6, 1913
William Glen, •who has been the
careful and efficient reeve of Stan-
ley Township for several terms,
will again stand for re-election.
James Livermore has rented his
bone in the south end of the town
to Arthur Wooley, night watch-
man at the piano factory, and has
bought James Dunford's cottage
on Station Street. The movings
take place next week.
While engaged in Mackenzie's
factory on Monday, William Slo-
man's right thumb came in con-
tact with a saw and was split up
the centre. The surgeon's services
were required and William is now
going about with the injured
thumb tied up. He expects to go
to work in a few days,
Under the superintendence of
W. J. Paisley the work is being
pushed ahead on the new rink
and it is expected the iron roof
will be on this week. Hiram Hill
made a quick and good job of the
cement foundation.
The Clinton New Ere
Thursday, November 6, 1913
Walter Morris and family have
moved to the rooms over W, 1-1.
eieilyar's jowellry store.
T. McKenzie's mill is being wir-
ed for electric lights,
Our citizens had a good taste of
winter last Thursday evening and
Friday when a foot of snow fell.
Miss Blanche McAllister, who
has been a nurse at the Clinton
hospital for the past five years,
was united in marriage to William
McAllister, of the Parr Line, last
Wednesday.
James I. Carter, donor of the
Carter Collegiate SchoIarships,.
and a former resident of Seaforth,
died, in Sarnia last week.
Inspector Johnson was in Brus-
sels this week on business.
25 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News -Record
T'hur'sday, November 8, 1928
W. Brydone and Col, H. T.
Rance have presented to the Col-
legiate library a set of Chamber's
Encyclopedia and Chamber's En-
cyclopedia of Literature, and Mrs.
M. D. McTaggart has presented a
copy of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary.
Mrs, C, S. Hawke has returned
from a visit with friends at Col-
umbus, Ohio,
Miss Marian Gunn left last week
on a trip to Vancouver, 13.C. She
will visit friends at St. Paul,
Minn., enc route.
Rev. J. E. Hogg, Dr. 3, C. Gan-
dier and R. C. Manning were in
Toronto yesterday inspecting some
modern churches, for information
in regard to church organs, and
fittings, for use in Wesley -Willis
Church, which is being rebuilt.
A meeting of the Local Council
Deanery of Huron AYPA was held
in St. Paul's Rectory yesterday
evening. Seven parishes were rep-
resented and they elected Stewart
Taylor as president.
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News -Record
Thursday, Noveinber 11, 1943
W. L. Johnson will move his
grocery into the store on Albert
Street, which, was formerly occu-
pied by Match Bros.
While out walking on Tuesday
evening, Bert Kerr, well known
figure in this town, was struck by
a car and as a result is in hospi-
tal where he is suffering from a
badly broken leg •and serious head
injuries.
Leonard McKnight, son of Mr.
and Mrs, J. T. McKnight of town
has been promoted to the rank of
Captain in the Canadian Army and
is stationed at Woodstock,
L/Cpl. John Cree, Sydney, N.S.,
is on leave and is visiting at his
home in town, that of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Cree,
Mrs. Green (nee Grace Hellyar)
of Corpus Christi, Texas, is visit-
ing her father, W. H. Hellyar.
Messrs. Thomas Churchill and
3. Lel3eau are hunting in the
Parry Sound District.
A very pleasant evening was
spent at the Forester's Hall, Con-
stance,
ornstance, on Monday for Mr. and
Mrs, G. W. Nott, prior to their
leaving the community for their
new home in Clinton.
BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
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Chiropractic -Drugless Therapy
Foot Correction
Office Hours:
Commercial Hotel, Seaforth
Monday, Thursday
Afternoons and Evenings •
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Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co.
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Head Offlee: Sea>porth
Officers 1953: President, J. L.
Malone, Seaforth; vice-president,
J. I=I. •McEwing, Blyth; manager
and secretary -treasurer,' M. A.
Reid, Seaforth. Directors: S, If.
Whitmore,, Seeforth{• C. W.Loon-.
hardt, Bornholm; •Cir 3. Treetrare
the, Clinton; Robt, Archibald,
Seaforth; J. It lefavvitig, Blyth;
3. E. Penner, Brueefleld; WM. S.
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OPTOMETRY
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REAL ESTATE
What Future For the Par;
This summertime view of the -
fountain in Library Park gives a•
good idea .of the park area imp
mediately adjacent to the Town
Hall, on Clinton's main street.
Just to the left of the pictured
area is the tall flag pole which
until this summer daily display-
ed a large flag to lift joyously
in the breeze, or fall gracefully
against the pole on calm days.
Between the flag pole and the
fountain above, are planted the
three peony bushes which were
presented to the town by the
Prince of Wales, (now Duke of
Windsor) when he visited Can-
ada in his early twenties.
This is the park where the
bandstand once stood when Clin-
ton boasted a town band. On its
green lawns townsfolk Fray find
coolness and peace on hot sum-
mer evenings. It is a pretty
little park in the middle of town
where everyone may enjoy its
beauty.
If the municipal offices of the
town. of Clinton are moved to
their present location in the old
public school, two blocks away
from the town hall, and the
town hall is razed fol• erection
of business structure, then will
the Library Park suffer? Al-
ready this fall, the workmen of
the town, centreing their :activ-
ities around the old public
school, have neglected the up-
keep of the lawn at the park,
and allowed it to become litter-
ed with paper and refuse.
PETER, of the BACK SHOP
The weather outside may' be
frightful, but snug in the Back
Shop, we rather expect the hu-
midity to remain more or less con-
stant. There's enough hot air
blowing back and forth throughout
the day to keep the evenings dry
and the nights the same. (Ouch,
fellas, which of you tossed that
slug?)
But late last week this mouse
thought the very end of the
world must have come. 'Twas
Saturday morning that the de-
luge struck. Without the slight-
est warning the ceiling sud-
denly began to rain.
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We were chatting with Millicent
at the time, and cogitating over
the fact that apparently we were
not going to be able to vote on
this mighty question, "Send the
councillors to school, or not?"
which is coming up on December
1. We had just emphasized that
we felt it was a darn shame, and
Millicent far the tenth time had
stated that it was time we bought
a house of our own instead of sub-
letting from the News -Record,
when suddenly we were both all
wet,
C 0 0
Always there has been peace
and solitude atop the big press,
Even through our early courting
days, we could depend on com-
parative quiet there except on
Thursdays. .Now there we were,
caught in a veritable cloudburst,
without any warning.
a o
Something had gone wrong in
the upper story. It can happen to
the best of People they say. And
there's is no reason for alarm. An
can be made right and the world
goes on as before. One good thing
came about because of this drip,
and that is that the particular bit
of floor upon which the drip drip-
ped is a great deal cleaner than
before. Of course it's not exactly
clean yet, but even a little layer
less is a help.
leEMEMBRANCE
The Editor
Clinton News -Record
In Old London a few days ago
the rhyme "Remember, Remember
the fifth of November" was be-
ing repeated, Guy Fawkes Was
again hanged in effigy, and a gen-
eral celebration of the discovery of
the plot to blow up the parliament
building beforeit succeeded was
carried on. A. company of 12
yeoman of the guard. in their red
and gold tunics descended into the
cellars of the house of commons
before the opening of parliament,
and return to report all clear.
Thus the English perpetuate the
frustration of the plot that
Fawkes and his associates staged
to take place on the fifth of No-
vember, 1605, three hundred and
forty eight years ago, and keep
alive memories of one of the high
points of their history,
To come back 'that that bit
about Millie and ourselves not
being able to vote on December
1, concerning the public school
versus town hall problem, we'd
like to make a correction, We'
were just out on an evening
sortie down the back alley, and
over to Library Park, and we
hear tell that that is not the
case. 'The councillors have seen
fit to change their by-law, and
we, with all electors in the town
will be able to get in. our sig-
nature's worth.
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Millie says that X on a ballot is
not a signature, but we just told
her it sure was. That's the way
our poppy mouse signed his name,
and its the way our grandpappy
mouse signed his name, and by
holly, what was good enough for
those mice, is good enough for this
one. So there.
Crop Reporit
"The appearance of snow and
colder weather this past week," G.
W, Montgomery, agricultilral rep-
resentative for Huron County re-
ports, "saw more livestock stabled
or brought into the home farms.
"There were 33 4-H CIub beef
calves and 14 commercial battle
from this county at the Walkerton
Christmas Fair, Thursday, with a
sale average of 223, cents per
pound.
"One hundred and seventy five
persons enrolled in ten courses in
the Rural Community Night
School which opened in Seaforth
last Thursday."
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Canadian railways rates are
comparable with those of any
other country in the world despite
the fact that there are so few
people to support the vast systems
Did you know that since 1949
July has displaced June as the
most popular month for marriages
in Canada?
which was cast up pa the beach
ar+d remained there during the
season. It was said that .after the
storm there was mourning •for
sailor husbands,. sons and brothers,
in every port on the lakes end
Georgian Say,
At that time also there was:
much political unrest in Europe.,
Et, tints were leading up to their
culmination in the assassination of
Arch Duke Ferdinand of Bulgaria
which supplied the spark for the
declaration of war by Kaiser Wil--
iiRm of Germany,. in August, 1914,
Which has since been known as
World War X. In memory of
those gallant ..nen of Huron who
gave their lives in that war and
the one which followed later, the
35th anniversary of Remembrance
Day was observed on the lith.
--H,, E. ROI . *'
November 9, 1958
Clinton, Ontario
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How many of the residents of
Clinton and vicinity remember the
terrific storm on the "Great
Lakes" of November 9, 1913, just
exactly 40 years ago? The date
and tragedy is etched on this writ-
ers memory by circumstances of
that time.
On the eve of the storm., which
had its greater force on Lake Hu-
ron, a family birthday party was
being held and while fun and good
cheer was being enjoyed, within
doors, the storm without was so
fierce as to shake house timbers
and make windows rattle, Having
spent the past summer months at
the Iake shore, thoughts were dir-
ected to the portions of the beach
frequented by us and we wondered
what it would be like with that
gale blowing,
On the following day the extent
of the loss of life and shipping
began to he known. It was be-
lieved that over 200 lives were lost
and eight or more staunch freigh-
ters foundered. The foIiowing sum-
mer as we ,were camping at the
beach, wreckage from some of the
vessels was washed up including a
life boat of the "Charles S. Price"
Quick Canadian
Facts
1. What city was Canada's first
national capital?
2. What noted author became a
Governor-General of Canada?
3. Of the nearly seven billion clot -
lam to be collected in taxes
this year, will the municipal
governments, the provincial
government, or the federal
government take most?
4. How many radio stations are
there in Canada?
5. Is the average hourly wage in
Canadian manufacturing $1.12,
98 cents, $1.36?
ANSWERS: 5, At July 1, 1953,
average factory wage was $1.36
per hour. 3. Ottawa will take
about three quarters, other two
groups will about equally divide
remainder. 1. Kingston, Ont. 4.
139 private stations, 19 CBC. 2.
Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan) ,
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of Quick eanadian Facts, • the
handbook of facts about Canada.
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