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THE .NEWS,,RECORP -75th YEAR THE NEW ERA---91st YEAR '
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any .and we're not only.
the ones to receive complimentary
and friendly letters, , Miss 'TAW
Woods, our BaYfield,eerreependellt,
and Champion in Ontario.. has:
heard frem, litre, Squires (laugh.
ter of the late Sarah Speneer and
Wallace Johnston, Innerly of
3Perfield) whale living at Corinne,
Sash. :and who is a subscriber
o the News-Record. ,. Mrs,
.Squires particularly onoYs the
stories about Bayfield, etnee. this
Was her home, She, mentioned
the story about the old boat, and
about the :old public .„ she
says, "I started my school daya -
there and left with the whooping
cough, and after that went to the
country school for .a while... my
first teacher was Flossie Stanbury
.and I was interested. to learn she
'is, living in Edmonton", . . Mrs,
Squires also mentioned the enjoy-,
anent she received from the Stan-
bury house story and renewed her
subscription', so she would not 13e
without the home news. , Men-
tinning the 100th anniversary of
fears in Hayfield, . . which will be
marked this summer in the lake
village . . , Mrs. Squires says,
"Would love to be with you for
that 100th birthday and maybe I'll
do" just that, . . it will be a real
event and I'm sure Bayfield will"
be lovely in October, „
The Proper Way to Cut Up Beef ShOw-xt at Clinton RCAF
THE VINE ART OF CARVING beef is demonstrated by an instructor of the RCA,F's School
of Food Services at Station Clinton for the benefit of two representatives of the Department of
Health and Welfare, Left to right above Miss Helen Sackville and Miss Dorothea Tripp, both
from the Ottawa Nutrition Division of the Department of Health and Welfare, Corporal J. II, (Har-
old) Barrett, 371 Arlington, Ottawa, a student at the school of Food Services, and Sergeant H. W. ,
(Harold) Harris, 23'- Edmonton Ave, Adastral Park, N00 in charge of applied training 4t the School
of Foods Service. The Health and Welfare nutritionists are examining RCAF cooking and instruct-
ional methods for application in courses to be set up at Saskathon, Charlottetown an Quebec City
to give assistance to cooks in institutions' such as Indian Residential Schools, Indiah gesiptals and
the small rural hospitals.
Cliniaxing the project of instal-
ling dial telephones 'in the Clinton
area, and the openirig of the near
dial exchange building at the cor-
ner of Rattenbury and Albert
Streets, here, was a friendly din-
ner presented by the Bell Tele-
phone Company to a-group of their
officials, and representatives of
civic bodies within the Clinton ex-
change.
W. W. Haysom, manager of the
area, was chairman for the short
speaking program which followed
turkey dinner in the Hotel Clin-
ton dining room. He -introduced
guests, and briefly outlined the
work of the Company in achieving
a faster more dependable tele-
phone system for Clinton.
Other speakers included George
Batchin, Lando,' darict manager,
who said that the *opening of the
Mrs. W. Shaddock
Wins $66.63 At
Appredation Day
Winner of $66.63 of the Apprec-
iation Day draw Saturday, was• Mrs.
W. Shaddock, when her ten per-
cent coupon was drawn from the
treasure chest drum. Being absent
herself, her daughter Ann picked
up the prize.
The steering committee of the
appreciation day had clarified such
a situation early in the `program
of treasure chest draws, They had
changed the rule which read: a
wife may claim for a husband,{ a
husband may claim for a wife, to
have this addition: -in cases where
either wife orhusband is deceased,
an-unmarried child living at home
may claim the award.
Next week a total of $682.19 will
be in the Chest for some lucky
Clinton shopper to take a share.
With a 50 percent coupon, a shop-
per may take home as much as
$341.10, and even a small five per-
cent win will' net the winner
134.11,
So far the participating merch-
ants have paid out $1,407.91 in ap-
preciation of busineas given them
by area shoppers, and the program
has yet some 25 weeks' to run:. ,
Mayor Miller Officially Opens the Dial Exchange Building
Officially tutting the- white ribbon and declaring the now dial exchange building opened, Mayor
W, J. Miller is aceorripanied by G. V. Batehin, London, dial:Oct manager of the London area, Hell
Telephone Company and at the right, W. W. Haysom, manager of the Goderich area, The cereniony
took place on Monday evening at 'the main entrance to the building. (Photo by lvt6Lareh's)
don city' schools. Donald J. Dale
will teach in Sarnia,
J. A. "Bert" Gray, who: has been
principal of the Blyth public school
for the past 22 years has been hir-
ed to fill the position of :principal
Are. His resignation at Blyth
was regretfully accepted, and he
will move to Clinton: with his wife
and daughters, Sharon and Glenda
ready to: commence teaching here
in September.
Mr, Grey has always taken a
great interest in his home town,
acting as player, coach and man-
ager for baseball and softball
teams, He took interest in the
progress of his pupils in both ball
and hockey. He is a past presi-
dent of the Blyth Lions Club and
a past district deputy governor.
In fraternal circles he is a past
district deputy grand master of
the Odd Fellows, and a member of
the Masonic Order. He belongs to
the Blyth United Church.
The new .principal began his
teaching career at Moncrieff
school, Grey Township in Septem-
ber, 1931. He' is a son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. William Gray and
was born on donoession 13, Hullett
Township.
Mr, Gray graduated from Blyth
Continuation. School, and married
the former Miss Jean McCallum,
also a graduate of Blyth Contin-
uation School and active in worn-
-en's organizations in that yillage.
Harry Nesbitt, who has been
teaching at Constance, also in Hul-
lett Township, has been hired to
teach senior grades in the Clinton
Public School. Three teaching pos-
itions: have yet to be filled for
school opening in September.
iety to acquaint the-general Pub-
lic with the author of this work,
Regrets was expressed over the
departure of Rev. R. M. P. Bul-
teel, who has been a valuetrreem-
ber of the• Clinton Society for
many years.
A social hour follOwed the meet-
ing' and Mrs. Lane served a del-
icious luncheon.
ZURICH POST OFFICE
ESTABLISHED IN 1857
Do you know? Zurich bad a post
office 99 years ago, in -1857 with
Frederick Knell as Postmaster. —
Zurich Herald.
and participating groups include
the farm supply co-operatives,
commodity groups: and county
Federations of Agriculture.
Each organization 'buys shares
in the program, and advertising
time is allotted to each of them ac-
cording to their investment,
Decision to participate in the
sponsorship was made at a meet-
ing in. Harriston last Thursday
morning. There are a limited
number of shares still available
and will be offered to interested
organizations that have similar in-
terestg and objectives to those or-
ganizations now participating.
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Night To Shop? Friday
Chosen By Shoppers
The experiment of opening Fri-
day nights for shopping in Clinton,
is being carried out with remark-
able degree of success. According
to the Retail Merchants Commit-
tee of the Chamber of Commerce,
the change to Friday night shop-
ping seems to be very well re-
ceived by the shopping public.
Spokesman for the committee
states that if the past two Friday
nights may be taken as an indica-
tion of what Friday night shopping
can be in the Town of Clinton,
then he feels that both business-
men and the shopping public will
Farmers Sponsor 0041X-TV Program
Nightly By Popular- Bob Carbert
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WHERE ARE ALL THE BAR-
loershop quartet songsters of this
area? . . . This is the season for
all members of the S.F.E.13.S.Q.SA.
to be tuning up for competitions in
local and provincial contests . . .
The Ontario finals are to be • in
Kitchener next Saturday . . . Now
it is our personal opinion that the
raw material for one of the better
barbershop quartets of the country
could quite well be found in this
area, yet 'we know of only one
real barbershop group, just off-
hand. . . The ladies, too, do well in
these contests of vocal skill, as
witness a report to this effect in
the news of Hensall this week.. .
What does S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. mean?
—(Confidentially, we had to look
it up, too). It means the Society
for the Preservation and Encour-
ageinent of Barber Shop Quartet
Singing in America, Inc. , . .
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SEEMS AS THOUGH THINGS
rarely go off just perfectly . . .
Keener ears than ours picked up
the error made by Geoff. Bingle
over CP:AL-TV on Panorama Mon-
day night. . . when he said, "Way
up in Bruce County in the Town
of Clinton yesterday. . people
were trying out dial telephones for
the first time, . . " Trouble with
TV is, you can't clip out the words
in black and white and say to the
fellow: "You're wrong . . you
city chap you . . don't you know
that Clinton is the Hub . . . THE
when
. . . of HURON county?" No,
when an announcer makes a state
ment like that . . . there's not
much to be done but ask our neigh-
bour: " Did you hear what that
man said over TV last night? and
if the answer is was eat-
ing my supper," well then you
can't just suggest that he look it
up when he gets home, can you?
STILL NO NEWS FROM THE
powers that be about. the 1956 tax
rate. And we can hardly expect
that no news- is- good news, eith-
er. . Apparently the auditor has
not found time to- squeeze in the
Clinton town books, among all the
other work which he found him-
self involved in at the first of the
year. . . and so everything waits.. .
Perhaps if it can be put off long
enough, the taxes can wait, too,
until perhaps 195? , . That would
lie a wonderful present to get from
the T of C. . . wouldn't it? No
taxes at all in 1956 . Oh, well,
we can dream, can't we? . . .
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THE DEATH OF MISS ISABEL-
la McDougall in Toronto last
week. . , was noted with regret
by many of the older residents in
Clinton, . Miss McDougall taught
English in the Clinton Collegiate
Institute for a number of years.. .
back in the 1920s, we under-
stand. . . According to those who
knew her, Miss McDougall was a
very capable person, much respee-
ted by all who knew her, . As one
friend remarked, "She stood for
everything progressive in the com-
munity" . What greater tribute
can be paid. . .
o
Ten Guides Pass
Nursing Course
Ten members of the Clinton Girl.
Guide company have been suceess-
ful in passing examinations on a
St. John Ambulande Home Nurs-
ing Course. Those passing the
tests sent out from headquarters
of St. John Ambulance were: Bar-
bara Jones, Dianne Campbell, Lin-
da Jervis, Darlene Stanley, Mary
Jean. Colquhoun, Sybil Castle, Ann
Trott, Than Sharp, Janet Sharp,
Christine Bridle.
Besides receiving certificates
the successful candidates will be
presented with a badge froth the
Girl Guide Assoelatiom
Aiding in the instruction •was
Mrs, K. McRae, Miss Barbara
Sauer, Public Health Nurse con-
cluded the examination.
The Weather
1956 1955
High Low 1-116 Low
April 12 59 29- 65 43
13 44 29 71 45
14 52 82 70 55
15 53 27 56 88
18 43 38 55 85
17 41 31 59 42
16 35 80 61 34
Rent .20 ins, Rain: 2- ins,
Jefferson Resigns;
Hired: Bert Gray.
The Public School Board here
last week received resignations
from five -of the teachers on the
staff, including that of veteran
school principal, George H. Jeffer-
son, Mr. Jefferson has been prin-
cipal of the Clinton school for 29
years.
His service to Clinton through-
out that time is immeasurable, and
it is estimated that well over 900
pupils have sat for his instruction.
Mr. Jefferson is a native of this
area, having been born in East
WawanOsh Township. He taught
at SS 13, East Wawanosh from
January 1, 1908 Until June 30 1911,
and after a year at Stratford, Nor-
mal School taught at Fordwich
from April 12 until June, 1927,
coming to Clinton in September of
that year,
He has taken an active interest
in the work of the community, and
is a past master, as well as a past
District Deputy Grand Master in
the Masonic lodge. He served
several years on the Public Library
Board, and is still a member of
the Clinton Hospital Board. He
is an elder in Wesley-Willis United
Church. At one aime he was presi-
dent of the Huron County Public
School Teachers Association.
Upon retirement at the end of
June, Mr. 'Jefferson plans to con-
tinue living in Clinton.
Others Resign
Mrs. M. Stroud,. RCAF Station
Clinton, also has resigned. Miss
Isabel Coleman plans to teach on,
the staff of Etobicoke Township
school, near Toronto. A. J. Gil-
lies will join the staff of the Lon-
Plans for a public meeting of the
Clinton Citizens' Horticultural So-
ciety were made at an executive
meeting Wednesday, April. 11, at
the home of Rev. D. J. Lane, with
13 members present.
On May 4, highlights of the 1956
convention will be given, Dr. E. A.
McMaster, Seaforth, will show
slides on his trip to Hawaii and
some 50 prizes will be given in the
form of roots and plants.
There will be four contests again
this year, These will be; for child-
ren, "A robins Shelter, and Poster
contest; for adults, an essay on
Wildflowers and a photographic
contest. The society voted to give
prizes locally for all of these—the
winners to be sent on to the dis-
riot Contest.
Clifford Epps has offered a prize
of $5 for each wiener of each class
in the- district contest,
It Was decided to purchase a new
flag for the flagpole in Library
Park,
Mr. Lane laid ,plans for a bus
trip to Hatellton for the members
some time in May,
Mr. Epps was asked to interview
the Chamber of Commerce and to
solicit their co-operation in spon-
soring a contest for the best decor-
ated homes at Christmas,
The secretary, Mrs. F. ringland
was requested to interview mem-
bers of the Hospital Board and
Public School' Board in regard to
I planting of shrubs and flowers
around these buildings, Mrs. L.
McKinnon 'was to bring the same
matter before the Library Beard.
The usual flower beds at the Post
Office, CNII, Station, Town Hail,
ate., will be planted by members
Of the aeciety.
A. Livermore was empowered at
have signs made for the various
beauty spots created by the aae-
More People Are
Using Classifieds,.
93 Last Week
More and more of our readers
Are using classified advertising 'to
get -their merchandising story
across to other people.
Last week was a record for the
News-Record for number of class:-
I.:fled advertisements published. 93
different people and organizations
Made use of the- well-read columns
of the "Herne Paper" to make,
their -offers for trading, selling or
buying.
Truly the -pages -of the weekly
newspaper are the district's mar-
ket place, How else can you tell
over 6,000 readers„ your merchan-
dising story for a minimum of 50
cents?
Good news for TV viewers in
the rural areas, will be the know-
ledge that the -farm organizations
in Western Ontario have under-
taken to sponsor the program
"Fecua on the Farm" television
program over CKNX-TV, Wing-
ham. commentator is the well
known Bob Carbert, and is a five
times a...week program, scheduled
for 6.45 to 6.55 each evening.
The counties of Grey, Bruce,
Huron, Perth, Wellington, and
probably Dufferin, will take part,
exchange here is another milestone
in Bell's long range planning. He
said that many communities, in-
cluding part of London, have yet
to receive the, dial exchange, hut
that it was necessary to put the
equipment in where it was most
needed first.
Mayer Miller congratulated the
Bell Telephone Company for bring-
ing in dial, and expressed his
thanks for the privilege of. putting
in the first official call. He said,
"Clinton leads the way in many
things, Our town was one of the
first to put in a waterworks sys-
tem; one of the first to put in a
sewage disposal system, and now
is - first in this area to have dial
telephones." The mayor said he
felt sure that all of the citizens
would appreciate the new dial sys-
tem.
A tour of the new exchange
building was- taken by those pres-
ent, Mayor W. 3. Miller officially
opened the- building by cutting a
white ribbon stretched across the
door, Mrs. Ryder, supervisor, as-
sisted in describing the work at the
switchboard, assisted by Miss B. J.
Davidge, London, while W. W.
Haysom and Mr, Hawken, London,
told visitors about the work of the
switches and other equipment on
the lciwer.floors.
Guests included the councillors
and reeves of Clinton; clerks and
reeves of the Townships of Hu]lett,
Goderich, Tuckersmith and Stan-
ley; representatives of the munici-
pal systems of McKillop and Tuck-
ersmith.
a
Local Man Earns
Trip To New York .
An all-expenses paid trip tar New
York city for two, the reward for
a year of high service to his com-
pany, has been achieved by Clar-
ence Neilans, local insurance agent,
Mr. and Mrs. Neilans will leave
Clinton on - Tuesday, returning
home on Sunday. While in New
York, Clarence will attend a con-
vention of the Canadian Honour
Club, a select group of insurance
men who have maintained a high
standard in their field during 1955.
Clarence has just become a mem-
ber of this club.
follow the modern day trend to
shopping on that night.
A survey taken of various places
of business, shows that many of
the stores in Clinton are doing
more and better business on Fri-
day evenings than they have done
Saturday.evenings during the past
two years,
Independently of the retail mer-
chants committee, T. 3. Riley, gro-
cer, has carried out a survey of
his own, to discover which of the
town's businessmen plan to be
open on Saturday night. His sur-
vey results- are published in this
paper. It is- noted that those plan-
ning to remain open on Saturday
(though what they plan to do Fri-
day night is not too clear) includ-
es six barbershops, six garages,
four farm suppliers, two pool-
rooms, five groceries, two cab
stands, two lunch places, and one
retail store (claiming neutrality),
as well as a miscellany of 11 re-
tail merchants.
Twelve of these 39 are business-
es which .are open six nights a
week. The six barbers have their
open night set by by-law, and since
they included Saturday night in an
earlier arrangement, they plan to
continue with this night open.
Twenty firms are planning to stay
open Saturday nights.
However, the rest of ,the busin-
ess firms (including the majority
of those also planning to remain
open Saturdays) will continue to
be open for business until ten
o'clock on Friday nights.
'
Dismisses Charge
Of Carelessness;
-No Blame Found '
Due to lack of sufficient evid-
ence to warrant a conclusion that
the driver was negligent, Magis-
trate D. E. Holmes dismissed a
charge of careless driving against
Gerald Whitaker, 19-year-old air-
man who was driver of the car
Which struck and killed Mrs, W, J.
Davidson, RR 5, Clinton, on High-
way 4, south of town on February
12, of this year.
After two and one half hours of
questioning and cross-examination
by Crown Attorney Glenn Hays: and
defence counsel Sam Lerner, Lon-
don, of the witnesses, Magistrate
Holmes said he failed to see that
the accused' could have done any-
thing to avoid the accident. He
said he didn't consider the driver
was going too fast, nor that he
failed to keep a proper lookout.,
Witnesses called were Albert
Jones, brother of the: deceased wo-
man; Douglas McDonald, driver of
the car from which Mrs. Davidson
stepped, seconds :before the fatal
accident; Constable J. C. Perdue;
Provincial Constables: Sims and
Vranic.
Sir E. McMillan
Retires From TSO
Farewell to Sir Ernest MacMill-
an, retiring conductor of the Tor-
onto Symphony Orchestra, was
said last Wednesday night by his
colleagues: during his final con-
cert after 25 years: on the podium.
Sir Ernest who is 63, has, been con-
ductor of the TSO since 1931. Sir
Ernest MacMillan was: born in
Auburn, the son a Presbyterian
minister and is one of the native
sons of Huron County who has be-
come world famous: far achieve-
ments outside of the county,
bably to Niagara Falls and the
Hydreaupply stations in that area.
Seaforth; John Talbot, principal of
the Seaforth public school; Miss
Eleanor Plueasteel, Clinton.
In summing up the good and bad
points, Mr. Scott adVised the stud-
ents to wait until they were
placed, before beginning to talk;
pick a subject they liked; use
props and gestures if they fitted:-
use quotations only if they could
get them across well. He com-
mented on the splendid composure
of most of the speakers, and com-
plemented the Legion on their
actions in- sponsoring such an
event. He said "This is one of the
ways in which people get a. "voice"
and in a democracy this is very
necessary."
Winners of this competition will
go forward into zone finals to be
announced in the near future,
3, Douglas Thorndike acted as
chairman for the evening, and also
introduced special items, including
a solo by .7-year-old Miss )3onnle
toyes, accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. Bert Hayes; piano solo by
Miss Kathleen Rathwell and vocal
solo by Miss Sylvia Carey .accom-
panted by Mrs. Rradforcl,
Mrs, S. D. Thornlike introduced
the speakers following their
speeches,
Birthday Club
Mrs, Agnes Consitt,_ Briteefieldo
marked her 88th birthday on Mon-
day, April 16th, with friends, in
Hensel
Horticultural Group To Buy
New Flag; Distribute Plants
Newranapal p • •
Bell Company Dinner For
Civic Heads; Tour Exchange
RCAF Public'School Pupils
Top Speaking Finals Here
441 'Poultry. Club
Needs Members;
Meeting April 23
Membership in the Clinton 4-II
Poultry Club• is being held open
until Monday, April 23, when the
Club will meat in the agricultural
office board room under the lead-
ership` of Al Junkin, agricultural
teacher at CDCI and Bob McKin-
ley, RR 1, Zurich.
Again this year the Clinton
Lions Club is sponsoring this 4-H
activity. There are eight members
signed up for the Club, but the
leaders are hopeful of having a
good many more than that when
the year's project begins Monday
night.
Either one of two agreements
may be accepted. If. the first one is
chosen, the 4-H member agrees to
pay cash for 50 or more birds for
the project eand agrees' to' turn ov-
er one dressed bird for the joint
'banquet held by the Lions Club
with the Club members after
achievement day. In the second
agreement, the Lions Club mem-
bers agree to loan the, sum of $20
to the 4-H member to purchase
50 birds, and this is repaid in cash
in the fall after completion of the
project and sale of the birds. No
interest is charged. One dressed
bird is turned: over to the Lions
for the joint banquet.
This Lions 4-11 Club chicken
banquet is one of the social events
of the season, as: far 'as 4-H Club
work ls concerned, Good food, en-
tertainment, and an interesting
speaker are arranged for.
Anyone, interested in joining the
Clinton Lions 4-H Poultry Club is
asked to attend the meeting next
Monday evening, or contact the
agricultural office before that
date, since the order for chicks
has to be made shortly,
The 4-11 Club has monthly meet-
ings, and this year one pf them
take the form of a train tour, pro-
Two students of A/V/M Hugh
Campbell Public School arid one
from Seaforth High School walked
away with top honours at the an-
nual public speaking contest held
in the Legion Memorial Hall, Kirk
Street last night, :sponsored by the
Clinton branch of the Legion,
Miss Sandra Doig, placed first
in the class for Junior high school,
with her talk on education, and
Gwen Shorey, student at CDCI,
was second with a talk, on "The
United Nations,"
Ie the senior public school class,
Miss: Catherine Welsh, daughter
of Mr. and Mra. Robert Welsh,
RR 2, Bayfield, and student at the
rici4F school, placed first with her
account of the United Nations.
Placing next in this class were
Sandra Reid, also or the Air For-
ee school; Judy Halward and Larry
Bertrand, Clinton Public School,
Miss Nicole (Nikki) Oatesi .won,
first place in the junior public
school class with her talk on Col-
onel Talbot. Next were Nancy
Dewar, A/VIM Hugh. Campbell
public school; Eileen Garrett, SS
4, Tueltersmith, Ann Shives and
Douglas Wilson, both of A/V/M
Hugh Campbell school,
Other contestants in the senior
public School class were Elaine
nail, SS 4, TWakasitiith; Patricia
Dyer, Verna Dewar, both of
/WM Hugh Campbell; Beth
udrnore, Clinton; Barbara Xing,
58 11, Goderich Township; Virgin-
ia Oliver end Susan Wightmari,
tlyth public school.
Judges were James R„ Scat,