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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1956-04-19, Page 1Home Pew With the News 0,INTON, 'ONTARIO* 'THURSDAY, APRIL 190 TM 7 cents a copy — $3.00 a. year ec THE .NEWS,,RECORP -75th YEAR THE NEW ERA---91st YEAR ' Zbt Strot w. 1D. p.).- • rAN lous. xS WNWOM AT 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. 0 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 * * 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. , . . * * 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? . . . * 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,