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' i a," 'cele R ^ " 'iWeieeieet ; i'eseM a '-!Ci rwteieeMV Christm t s Shopping IIS EASY AT ru OUR SELECTION OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS IS SUITED FOR FRIEND AND FAMIILY LET US HELP YOU WITH THAT PERSONAL GIFT GIFTS FOR HER COSMETIC SETS .. 1.25 td 13.50 (By Tiffany - Yardley - Tabu)' COMB, BRUSH and MIRROR SETi;- 3 piece - Double Mirror -5.95 up FRIENDSHIP GARDEN SET ..... 1.25 (2 Soap and Cologne) BUBBLE BATA CRYSTALS '.. 2.00 STICK COLOGNE 1.25 to 2.50 REVLON NAIL and LIPSTICK • SETS $1.00 up COMPACTS 4.011 to 7.50 YARDLEY SOAPS -Boxed ... $!.50, $2.50 MORNEY SOAPS -Boxed ... 1.¢5 to 2.25 • 4711 (Germany) SOAPS -Boxed/ .... 1.75 TIFFANY SOAPS -box ur each 50e ;9 3's 1.50 5' A !STATIONERY -Boxed ;'65c to 3.00 COLOGNES -By Tiffany - Yoeidley - Tabu 4711 i ... 1.50 up HAIR RUSHES 1.00 to 3.95 CHILDREN'S 3 -PIECE DRE Good Qu.alltg c GIFTS FOR HIM ELECTRIC RAZORS -Sunbeam 31.95 Schick 29.95 SHAVING SETS -By Bachelor - Yardley - Gillette - Woodbury ... $1.00 up SHAVING BRUSHES 1.00 to 7.50 BILLFOLDS $2.75 to $10.00 PLASTIC PLAYING CARDS -Singles $1.25, Doubles $2.50 KODAKS 3.30 to 47.00 PEN and PENCIL SETS 5.50 up PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS .... $1.00 to $2.00 PIPES - TOBACCO POUCHES --� CIGARETTE CASES - LIGHTERS $1.00 to $10.00 CIGARETTES -50c Always Fresh 82c SHAVING MUGS -Yardley Seaforth UTILITY CASES -Unfitted Fitted SER SETS - Just like mother's - Specially Priced Only RI - Old Spice $1.50 up $5.70 $4.50 up $1.98 TMAS CARDS Boxed $9to $1.49 Single Cards 5c to $11.00 RIBBONS - FAGS b SEALS - FANCY WRAPPING PAPER WE WILL CHI{tISTMAS WRAP YOUR GIFTS FREE OF CHARGE W..Neweoinbe,�Phm.B. Chemist and Druggist PHONE 51 . rBr92ZIZAVi3r babrao-laData-mr r + ` VIDOrO P4M2 Mr4T.04702. rla3rt l OMDIDM ilaINi rti ;p•A,OE TWO City IN NEW "RECORD THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1i Clinton News -Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA (First issue June 6, 1865 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD First issue (Huron News -Record) January 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Aa Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the Town of Clinton and Surrounding District Population, 2,543; Trading Area, 10,000; Re tail Market, $2,000,000; Rate, 4.5c per line flat Sworn Circulation - 2,126 Horne of Clinton RCAF Station and Adastral Park (residential) ]MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; Ontario -Quebec Division, CWNA; Western Ontario 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 trail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron County THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1953 Is Everything In Order? • AVE YOU all your present 'bought? Is the Christmas tree up? Did you order the turkey for the big dinner? Is the family all coming home for Christ- mas? Is the. Christmas cake baked and mel- lowing until the "day"? Have you planned every little last detail? You have? Then you've also arranged to attend the services in your own church during the holiday season. You've set up a creche of some sort, in a prominent place in your home. You've made the meaning of Christmas quite clear, haven't you? For without the "Christ" in Christmas you know you would be missing the core of the whole celebration. A birthday party without the guest of hon- our is a meaningless hodge podge, a rush of going and coming without the central theme. Christmas without "Christ" is wortli nothing at all. Perhaps A Ruthless Method THOUGH WE STRONGLY advocate the smooth, even and gentle manner of deal- ing with a situation, there are, we admit, times when swift and sure, perhaps ruthless tactics may be the only method. Recently it was deemed necessary by those entrusted with service to the public to depose a hard-working, experienced and faithful man from the employ of the public. Because this action was not taken earlier, the accomplish- ment of it now seems at best, ruthless. - Upon closer examination, however, there seems little alternative to the steps already taken. It may seem to some, entirely unfair that the vote of two men soon to be released from public service should be the factor decid- ing a man's job. But as long as Canada main - tams her ideal of democratic government, then a constant governing body is never assured nor wished for. Decisions made by any group of governing officials is liable for amendment by those who follow. Certainly we do not wish for a government afraid of action because some- one else may want to change its decision. We feel that the idea of retiring the PUC superintendent in favour of a younger man is sound. Also, we are greatly in favour of the present superintendent being kept on the pay- roll as an advisor. No one can step out of a position he has filled for 26 years without leaving a huge gap. The old apprentice system filled vacancies as they occurred. Now we send our youngsters. to school where a- book - learning entitles them to a degree and they are accepted as better educated men than their predecessors. Certainly our young folk may be. more learned. We are extremely doubtful if they are better educated. However, that is the present customary line of thinking, and in a society that believes in it then the situation we speak of is accept - ,able. There are many business places in town where an older man is working long hours try- ing to keep things up to date. A lot of the work is simple, but time-consuming. This is where the younger generation used to fit in. Now the youngsters themselves are encouraged to request wages tb high for their prospective employers. Many a man who could hire a youngster to train him in the business finds him too much of a nuisance for the work he accomplishes. Actually the ideal situation for a superin- tendency of a PUC would be a university grad- uate willing to start as an assistant to the superintendent with the promised future of be- coming the superintendent when he had learned local problems. However, wages for such a man would necessarily be low, and few young men could be persuaded to enter such an .agreement. The PUC has made a decision, which seems right at this time. If the man they have hired now does the good job ,he can well be expected to do, then they are well fixed for 14 years. Sometime in that period, it is hoped that steps may be taken to have a junior em- ployee trained to take over the task of superin- tendent. Our Team Is Winning TT LOOKS AS THOUGH the Clinton Colts are a winning team. They've formed the good habit of getting more goals than the other fellow, and that's a very good sign indeed. More than that, the boys are playing a clean brand of hockey, A lot of us would be happier about the game if there were less bruised heads, and fewer penalties. No doubt the Colts would be better pleased, too. But with the exception of a few spurts of ill - concealed temper on the part of some players, the game the Colts turn in is good. We would like to report that the fans are always equally good sports. But there's some- thing about a consistently good team that brings out the worst in the fans. Rooters should be able to give and take, too, and when the losing team has a bit of a good go, it is entirely boorish of the enthusiastic home fans to hoot and boo, and, (as happened in this week's game) toss objects onto the ice. That's bad form in anyone's book and can only manage to make the Colts ashamed of their home supporters. Dilemma (Tire Exeter VIS SHAMEFUL to admit, but we became a party to law -breaking this week. _It was a deliberate offense, too. Despite the fact we knew the selling of tobacco in any form is prohibited in Exeter by by-law, we sneaked across the street and de- manded to purchase some of the filthy stuff from a local store. In horror, we discovered a member of the police force was in the building. We were relieved, however, when he appeared not to notice our illegal transaction. (He was afraid to arrest us, we suspect, because he vas puffing on a fag himself.) Ah! 'tis a sad state when the gendarmes i Times -Advocate) ignore their duty. Our conscience is burdened because we could expose a great number of crimes committed by stores who handle the abhorred and wretched weed. Our police do nothing! Yet we ourselves are captivated by the habit and relish the reckless feeling of con- sistently beating the law. Unfortunately, we write this in the evening and hence we find ourselves leaning towards the opinion that the law is outdated and should be rescinded immediately. In the morning, however, the taste in our mouth may persuade us to campaign for stricter enforcement of tobacco prohibition. Let E s Know (Listowel THE MAN OR WOMAN who takes the trouble to write a letter to the editor can help to make a newspaper more valuable and serviceable to its community. This was indicated by Sydney J. Harris recently in The Chicago Daily News. Mr. Harris says: "A newspaper is tremendously sensitive to the needs and reactions of its readers. Editors hunt down errors of fact as ruthlessly as a housewife goes after ants in the pantry. No adjective is more damaging to a reporter than to be called 'inaccurate.' The public by far and Large is not aware of its responsibilities. It either meekly accepts o,~ hotly resents what a paper prints -but never Banner) thinks that editors and publishers are eager to get the response of readers, to correct misstate- ments, and to improve the quality of the product. "A few dozen cool, intelligent letters on a controversial topic would seem like a tidal wave to an editor. "A newspaper goes out into the great void every day, and unless some kind of echo comes back, an editor cannot be sure he is doing his job. "In a democratic society, the public has a responsibility to make its wishes felt; it has a right to treat its local newspaper as an integral Hart of the community and to insist that the facts be straight and the opinions honest." Time Wasted (Financial Post) FINISH HIGH SCHOOL AT 50. Graduate from college, years and years later. That's what would happen if every profess sional and specialized group in the country could put into high school and college courses all of the subjects which they think are necessary. High school halls would be filled with middle-aged men, and college campuses would become some sort of "Last Gasp" clubs, While we've hardly reached these extremes -yet-perhaps we've gone too far already in our public and high schools. • Today there are cooking classes to teach teen-age girls what their mothers should have taught them at home, long ago. And many a high school is throwing money away trying to teach farm boys how to be farmers --something they started to learn the first day they jogged along for a tractor ride on father's knee, And these are only a couple of examples. Every day more and more are added with little regard to whether the students have ever been taught to read or write -let alone think. It's expensive -not just in money -but in wasted time, The problem comes from confusing schooling and education. In Alberta the other day, d. K. tJV. Shortreed, an Edmonton public school board member, outlined the distinction, "Education means to learn to think," The crafts, the op. tion courses, are sehooling but not edUcation, He added, "learning crafts . does not teach children how to think. One who has been taught how to think could learn crafts in less time than is spent learning them in the schools!' Wouldn't the taxpayers' money go further, wouldn't the educational system do its real job better, if it returned to its primary responsibil- ity -that of teaching young people to think? Christmas Bells T HEARD THE BELLS on Christmas day Their old familiar carol play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men.. And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep; "God is not dead, nor doth .he sleep; The Wrong shall fail, "The Right prevail, With peace on earth, good Will to men!" -Longfellow il4 APPRECIATION AF: k '502,: ete sit/' __._..,„n•� .'ICE.Y 111,*,z•.l-H J. ..4p ,./I.a•. f7.. r. 11i. .�'8!I* REACH HITHER THY FINGER, AND BEHOLD MY HANDS .,. BE NOT FArVHLE55, BUT BELIEVING..." JOHN 20;17' From Our Early Files 40 YEARS AGO wings at Hagersville last Friday was Keith Dale of Clinton The Clinton New Era Thursday, December 18, 1913• Dick, Noble has returned from Manitoba where he spent several months. Tommy Leppington has joined one of the hydro gangs. He likes the pay, the association and the work. H. B. Combe was in Toronto last week, and while there secured ad- ditional help for the knitting fac- tory. Every evening at the rink, Trainer Dick Tasker has the hoc- key boys running to get in shape for the hockey season. Most of the boys are fast rounding into shape. A. T. Cooper and Fred Jackson will fight things out for the may- or's chair in 1914. Bert McEwan, former owner of the Corner grocery and who has been in the west is renewing old friendships in town. He looks as if the west agrees with him. Dr, and Mrs. Gandier attended the wedding of the latter's broth- er, Dr. Christian to Miss Kathleen D'Espord. The Clinton -News Record Thursday, December 18, 1913 William Arndsen, a member of the office staff of the Piano Com- pany, has rented Mr. Eames' house on Ontario Street and expects his wife and family over from Philad- elphia about the New Year. Mrs. W. H. Farquhar of Staple- ton, while engaged about the yard the other day, fell and had •the misfortune to fracture her wrist. J. A. Sutter represented the Clinton Hockey 'Club at a meeting in Stratford last Saturday after- noon, at which the hockey schedule was drawn up. The board of re- ferees for the Intermediate series includes Harry Twitchell and Ray Rumball of Clinton. W. S. Hale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Hale, Hullett, returned last week from Liberty, Sask., where he spent several months. He will remain at home for the winter. Fred Forrester was in Blyth last week supplying at the G.T.R. depot in the absence of agent Mc- Taggart. , 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News -Record Thursday, Deceinf er 13, 1929 The mild weather this week has put a damper on the expectation of early skating. Mr. and Mrs. Beadle and family have moved to Goderich, where Mr. Beadle is employed. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Sloman have moved into the cottage which they recently purchased on Fulton street. The residence recently purchas- ed from Mrs. Beadle, Huron street, by the Presbyterian congregation for a manse, is being improved by the installation of modern conven- iences before Rev. C. E. and Mrs. Dougan take possession. The Hydro Electric linemen in- stalled the street lights in Londes- boro last week. There are lights at all main corners. They are very much appreciated. District Representative Paterson took his judging team to the Win- ter Fair at Guelph, where it came ninth in the intercounty competi- tion in a class of twenty-five. 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News -Record Thursday, December 16, 1943 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cook have received notice that their only son, Flying Oficer William F. Cook, is in Canada and will arrive at his home on Saturday. Since joining the RCAF at the age of 18, Blond - ie .has had a full share of exciting experiences and has had many hours of operational flights over enemy 'territory. Miss Joyce Kearns has accepted a position in Dr. H. A, Mclntyre's office as dental assistant. Miss Eileen Atkinson has accep- ted a position in the office of the selective service, Goderich. Pte. Harold Johnston of Camp Ipperwash spent the weekend at his home in town, LAC E. W. Colquhoun, Calgary, Alta., is spending leave in town with Mrs. Coltiuhoun and family. Among the pilots to receive their urr M6LIN .S I I(L' !::'I' John "Mac" Cameron, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Cameron, Huron street who is a recent recruit in the active army at London, was a weekend visitor at his home in town. On Friday last the wind took on blizzard proportions and car- ried with it a snow storm and cold temperature. Friday night the temperature dropped to zero and each night since it has been about that except for Sunday night when it was five below. 0 CATTLE WILL WINTER AT LOW COST "Fine weather has been very much in favour of Beef Cattle Feeders in the County this past week," H. R, Baker, assistant ag- ricultural representative, reports, "and most farmers feel that they are wintering their cattle very ec- onomically at the present time. "On December 8, the Huron Hereford Association held its a nual fall sale and 31 lots brought $10,450 or an average of $337. This average is $12 higher than the average of the 1952 Fall Sale." Story of Success Has Other Side DurIn open deer During an P deer season in these parts, a carload of hunters, armed to the teeth, returned jub- ilantly whence they came with a .magnificent buck skinned and hamstrung over their car. They lead had a wonderful rewarding day. The old farmer who lives on a back concession watched them de- part feeling very sick indeed. Liv- ing in a heavily wooded area, near a beautiful river, he was attuned to the wonders of nature and liv- ed harmoniously with her creat- ures, For more than one season, one of the highlights of his day was seeing a huge buck emerge from the dark forest and approach and use the cattle's salt lick. The farmer was gradually dim - finishing the constant distance be- tween himself and the wary deer, Perhaps by next fall he "night even pat him, He was a magnifi- cent specimen. Who indeed would harm such a lovely one of God's, creatures! During the deer season this farmer felt very uneasy. His trust- ing friend would be an easy mark. So the spectacle of a large party of men, aimed sufficiently to hunt man-eating tigers, blasting away at this defenceless one filled him with fury, and disgust, Heartsick, he watched his old friend being speeded to the city as a proof .of prowess, But in a world where man kills man and beautiful relationships are broken deliberately and with- out impunity, who could protest the xnurder of one lone deer! PETER of the BACK SHOP We're fast approaching one of the hardest evenings possible in this mouse's lite. You see, we have a great tradition to live up to. Ever since that worthy rever- end gentleman took pen in hand to write, "The Night Before Christmas," and it has since be- come to be the hand -book of all those studying correct deportment on the night of nights, mice the world over have had to watch themselves. EEE 'Tis in the second line of that epic, that mice are adjur- ed about the practice of "stir- ring". Now if there's anything in a mouse's usual creed about this matter, it certainly gives hint the freedom to stir at will, especially in the night. Now, along comes this up- start of the nineteenth cent- ury, and says that on the "night before Christmas, not a creature was s t i r r i n g, not even a mouse". So what can we do? Surely we cannot upset the whole evening by moving so much as a whisker, can we? E®o The thing reminds us of a story we heard. (It's all right Millicent. There's nothing wrong with tel- ling it.) There. By holly, you've made us forget the laugh line. By• the way (and speaking of stirring), we had a most stirring experience the other day. We were downstreet, ad- miring the various displays of electric trains in the store windows, and wishing hope- lessly that we were a boy and could grow into a man, and buy one for his little boy. E E E Finally we came to the most stupendous display of them all, where a real rooty tooty train travelled by various tracks, through a tunnel under a moun- tain, past a farmyard and through a city. The bells rang, and the lights flashed, and the thing was as realistic as could be. Before we knew it, we were through the door, and trying to get a good place to view the whole scene at our leisure. We clambered with pot exceptional skill, up on the counter behind the display. and had just found a seat on a shiny white bowl affair, when suddenly things began to happen. E EE In the first place, the train was de -railed, and things were so exciting over yonder, that we lost our balance and slip- ped. Before we could get caught up again, there we were in the midst of the most confusing whirling bit of mechanism, man has ever seen fit to manufacture. Sure, we know now, that it was nothing more extreme than a food mixer (that Men expect their wives to manage without dif- ficulty), but at the time, we thought the whole store had turned on us. E EE In the back shop, now, we can heave a big sigh of relief. Maybe "not stirring" on Christmas Eve won't be so hard after all. 5 T'L.L PUT THIS FUNNY FACe ON AND FOOL MOM AND DADDY/ WELL! HOW DO VA LIKE ;THAT? By JOE DENNETT GEE WHIZZ! A RING TAILED MONKEY COULD WALK IN, AND Ti-1EY'D CALL. HIM 'SON!" die 0 "YewMNY ll tr