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THE .CLINTON NEW ERA
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THURSDAY/ APRIL 18, 1957
LET'S MAKE IT THIS YEAR
is
Tis was a tough week, My son
lost his appendix and my daughter
lost her chance of getting to heav,
en. My wife lost her temper a
couple of times; but there's noth-
ing unusual in that, so it has no
place in this chronicle. * *
If you haven't had an acute ap-
pendix operation in your family
yet, you've got something to look
forward to. There's a definite pat-
tern to the procedure. Your child
becomes sick, vomits steadily for
two days and complains Of a pain
in his stomach. Yea tell him he's
got that stomach' flu that's going
around, complete with cramps.
You try to smother your annoy-
ance because his illness is pre-(
venting you from going to that
show or hockey games, or bridge
party. *
Our tyke is one of those kids
who suffer in silence. He can burst
into tears if his mother says the
wrong thing, or his little sister up-
sets the checker board in the mid-
dle 'of the game, which she is prone
to do, like all women, when she is
losing. But when he is sick or in
pain, he sweats it out all by him-
self, in a private little world. * *
I don't know where he gets this.
It's not from his father, who
wheezes around looking as though
somebody should hang a crepe on
him, every time he has a touch of
the flu. It's not from his mother,
who can turn a slight headache
into the last stages of cancer in
the time it takes to tell you about
it. ''K * ,
At any nate, the poor little beg-
gar. kept going for almost forty-
eight hours crawling oat of bed,
shakily and painfully, at all hours
of the day apd night, to heave into
the basin, taking the utmost care
not to get a drop on the floor, as
if he didn't want to be skinned
alive, even if he was dying.
Sunday, he was flushed and in
greater pain than ever. Like all
stupid parents since time immem-
orial, we couldn't understand why
he wasn't shaking off the stomach
flu, which 'we knew he had, be-
cause we'd- told him that's what
was ailing him.
Finally, it permeated even the
iron bound heads of the home diag-
nosticians that it might be his ap-
pendix. The doctor rubbed it in
by declaring that it was so:
Now you can say what you like
about doctors, and I'm just as
liable as not to agree with you. As
long as I'm not sick, and nobody
in my immediate family is.. But
Local Option 1956
During the year 1956 the On-
tario Temperance Federation gave.
co-operation in organizing 23 Local
Option contests. Fifteen of these
resulted in dry victories. Between
September 1956 and February
1957, nine out of 11 contests were
Won by the drys.
Nine votes were held from De-
cember I to December 12, Four of
these were on the seine day. Never
before had the O.T.F. beer) con-
fronted with a heavier day's work.
All four were dry victories.
The story of the vote in Georg-
ina Township, York County, sug-
gests ono of the secrets of success
in such contests. Every minister
in the area gave his support in the
campaign and signed a letter orgy
111 the voters to use their frarieh-
NO. The result was the best dry
victory for years, In Raleigh
Township, near Chatham, the dry
vote was greater than In the prev-
ious vote four years ago.
It should be noted that The.
Thule has learned to avoid bring-
ing on contests in any other than
ollaveigiowry.,
h6re they feel confident
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SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T, Smiley)
Twenty nurses working out of 13 district offices across the
province have a case 'load of more than 11,500 crippled children.
This' service is provided through the sale of Easter Seals. The
Annual Easter Seal Campaign which is sponsored by the Ontario
Society for Crippled Children runs 'til April 21 and has an
objective of $700,000 for the province. Locally the Clinton Lions
Club is in charge.
the plain fact is that most of us
would die of sheer horror, if the
doctor did not take over in an
emergency.
* * *
A Ittle more than an hour after
I had gingerly poked my son's
stomach, then run for the. phone,
they were wheeling the laddy off
to the operating room white, scar-
ed but silent, leaving in the hall
his father, white, scared, and
drawing deep on the first of fif-
teen cigarettes he was to smoke in
the next forty-five minutes. * *
Now I know why they call it
acute appendicitis. The acute fear
as you wait during the operation
is followed by acute relief when
it's over and all's well only to be
superseded by acute pain as you
realize what the whole thing is
going tie cost you. Not to mention
acute frustration because the little
dope didn't know enough to hang
onto his appendix for a couple of
years until the free government
hospital plan begins. * *
You'd think that would be en-
ough trouble for one day, wouldn't
you? It wasn't! That night, the
boy settled comfortably after his
operation, we were watching the
Shirley Harmer show, a parody of
the Cinderella story, Small daugh-
ter Kim was living every minute
of it. The two ugly stepsisters
threw some stuff on the floor, and
told Cinderella to .pick it up.
From beside -me on the chester-
field came a fierce treble: "I
wouldn't do it. I'd tell them to go
to hell!" That from a girl-child
who vigorously berates her old
man when he uses bad words like
"bum" and "bloody." * *
Trouble always comes in trip-
lets, they say. All I need to make
it a perfect week is for the Old
Lady to run off with a beer tra-
veller, leaving me alone with a
stricken son
'
blasphemous small
daughter and the dining-room ceil-
ing half painted. 0
OLD TIES UNCOVERED
Ancient railroad: Work on the
St. Lawrence Seaway has uncov-
ered remains of a century-old' rail-
road. Just across the St. Law-
rence from Montreal bulldozers
laid bare old timbers that were
Part of the Champlain and St.
Lawrence Railway, Canada's first.
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Thursday, April 17, 1947
Clintonl Town Council has struck
the 1947 mill rate at 55 mills, an
increase of 10 mills over 1946. The
jump being accounted for chiefly
by the cost of the sewerage pro-
ject.
A picked crew from: Clinton
trimmed a picked crew from Lon-
don by less than 100 feet in the
first Clinton-to-Bayfield boat race
on the swollen Bayfield River.
The course measured at 191/2 miles
was covered in a little over five
hours with time off at Varna
Bridge for lunch. Members of the
Clinton crew were Bob Campbell,
Earl Leyburrie, Don Epps, George
"Short" Campbell, Ellwood Epps.
President Gordon A. Miller has
called the annual meeting of Clin-
ton Baseball Club.
Misses' Eileen Sutter and Ruth
Potter, Mrs. Benson Sutter, Mrs.
E. Wenclarf and Hector Kingswell
assisted at a concert in Holmes-
yille last evening,
Albert Pearson has sold the 17
acre farm which he recently pur-
chased from W, Williams, on the
Base Line. Ten acres with build-
ings on it have been sold to John
McGuire, Goderich Township, and
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PACE . TWO
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1957
From Our Early Files
TO ALL THOSE interested in the better-
ment of things in Clinton, there still remains
one or -two major projects, which should really
have immediate attention. They are; erection of
street signs, and' numbering of houses.
Though. Clinton has been a town for well
over 100 years, we still do not have numbers on
our houses. ex
Back in the 1930s, when the population was
static, and everybody knew his neighbour, and
his neighbour's children, and their cousins and
all the in-laws, and every house remained in one
family from generation unto generation, numbers.
did not seem to be of very mu& importance.
Even a stranger in town had only to stop the
nearest pedestrian, and whether he were 8 years
old or 80, he could tell where anybody lived 'in
town.
Now, though, with folk in. residence for two
months, sik months, 18 months at a time., people
In Clinton oft-times don't know the name of
people living two doors down from their own
homes.
Pie-titre then the difficulties a stranger to
town has when he's trying to find a relative, or
a friend in town. The only mailing address is
Clinton. And so, he starts from there. If he
PRACTICALLY EVERY, organization in
Clinton and district has on their official execu-
tive, one person knewn- as the "press reporter."
Sometimes we find that person so framed, is at
a loss to know just what is' expected of him in
this position.
It •is the job of the press reporter to gain
publicity for his own organization. It is up to
him to tell the story of his group to the rest of
the people in the district, and abroad, so that
the group will be appreciated and honoured for
the good work it is trying to do.
Sounds simple, but to get right down to
cases' it is difficult for some to know just what
all this entails. '
Last week, a group of press, radio, televis-
ion and advertising officials met in London, for
the second annual Program Planners' Institute.
Some of the tips they outlined were on how to
prepare newspaper reports of club 'meetings',
arrange interviews. What they said should be
of great help to the part time press reporter:
"If a club or other service group has' invited
an outstanding speaker, the publicity director
should notify editors by 'letter, a few days 'or
weeks in advance.
"If the publicity director' is reporting. a
Meeting, rule one is 'to bring the information to
the news departments the same night, or early
the next day; not two or three days later. Every
news story must contain "the five Ws"—who,
what, where, why and when—plus a 'magnetic or
appealing feature which makes it •news'.
The speed at which social and
cultural conditions are changing
An Asia, especially South-EaSt As-
ia, surprised members attending
the United Bible Societies Confer-
ence in Bandung, Indonesia, re-
cently. One American was amaz-
ed to find on revisiting the area
after a gap of 18 mouths that the
position in some countries. had
changed in that time, almost past
recognition.
"Whereas our present annual
circulation (in the far East) IS
arrives in the daytime and thinks of it, he goes
to the town hall, or to the newspaper office, or
poet office, or the hydro office, and asks. Quite
often, if the familsy,he seeks rents a house, or an
apartment With a separate meter, then the hydro,
office is a great help, But if their living quar-
ters happen to be run off a shared hydro meter,
then that is no assistance.
Even if these downtown offices can be of
help, then consider the time given to sort out
addresses, places, might-be-homes', etc. And all
the, time the stranger to Clinton is thinking—
what a jerk town this is!
Not only is it a jerk town to the one time
Visitor—but it becomes a jerk town in the minds
of those hundreds of RCAF personnel who live
here a few months. and go on to their next post-
ing. All over Canada, and even into England and
Europe, the story is told of Clinton and the fact
that "they don't even put numbers on their
houses."
Let's grow up.
Let's ask the town fathers to do something
about it now. Let's tell 'them to go ahead anti
spend the money necessary to get the job done
right. Let's join the ranks .of forward-looking
towns in this respect, 'as well as in the many
other matters in which. Clinton leads.
"It is' not enough to report that your club
met. You must have something to offer of valid
news value."
There were other aspects of publicity get-
ting, discussed by the panel, including the de-
cision of whether to use press, radio or televis-
kin for a certain• type of publicity. This, of
course, is'a matter for the editors, and the man-
agement of radio and television to decide. It is
the job of the publicity director—or press re-
porter—however, ,to contact them and tell them
of the event in mind. They will be able to say
whether or not they can use it.
The job of press reporter can be ,an easy
one. Two of the prime requisites are: Do it
now. Don't keep your club's future activities
a big secret from the editors, (Let them have
Some idea of what is coming up. Quite' often
they are happy to' use advance material, and
suggest ways and means of doing it. If you
wish news kept from public view until a certain
date, the editor will ,respect your wishes.)
THY FAITH
By thine own faith learn how to live,
Learn not to hate, but to forgive;
Be strong in heart to do and dare,
'And if opposed, have little. care.
Follow thy star, go where it leads,
Be steady in aim, right in deeds;
Fear not to walk in Truth's own way,
And in thy quiet moments, pray.
—W. P, Roberts.
The use of the word "united," is
incorporated in the name of nat-
ional churches in the Phillippines,
South India, Japan and Thialand
especially.
In Asia there are 13,000,000 Pro-
testants. One person in every
hundred is an evangelical Christ-
ian. Roman Catholics in Asia
(mainly in the Philippines) num-
ber 20,000,000. Asia's total popu-
lation is approximately 1,300,000,-
000.
Suggested Bible readings:
Sunday Mark 11: 1-33
Monday Mark 12: 1-44
Tuesday Mark 13: 1-37
Wednesday Mark ,14: 1.31
Thursday • Mark 14: 32-72
Friday Mark 15: 1-32
'Saturday Mark 15: 33-47
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton - News-Record
Thursday, April 1,9, 1917
'W. Jackson, J. W. Nediger and
W. Proctor, propese to grow pota-
toes in the large field behind the
Motor Works,
Dr, W. J. Shipley, Calgary, son
of William Shipley, has been just
recently elected vice-president of
-the Calgary Medical Association.
T. McMichael and Son won first
prize for their handsome roadster
colt, at both 1-lensall .and Mitchell
last week.
'Clifford Epps who has been at-
tending school at Stratford, spent
the holidays at home,
Frank Keys who has been work-
ing at Sudbury the past six mon-
ths, spent the Easter holidays at
home,
Clinton New Era
Thursday, April 19, 1917
Judge Holt died in Goderich, on
Wednesday morning,
iMrs. Phil Potter had the inisfor-
tune to break a small bone in her
leg last week.
Miss Alice Fingland, Stratford,
spent last week at her home in
Londesboro,
Misses Hannah and Ruth Argent,
spent the weekend with friends in
Hullett.,
Mrs. W. C. Sea•rle returned home
on Wednesday, after spending the
winter months in London and Ex-
eter.
'Rev. Moulton is spending a few
days' at Brantford and London.
25 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, April 21, 1932
The death occurred at his home
in Brussels early this morning of
John Leslie Kerr, editor of the
Brussels Post, formerly editor of
the Clinton -New Era. '
T. T. Carter was the lucky win-
Huron County
Crop Report
(By A. S. BOLTON, assistant ag-
ricultural representative for
Huron County)
"Cold wet weather during the
past week has made it impossible
to do anything on the land. Growth
of grass and other plants has been
at a standstill for the same reas-
on, Cold nights and a little' sun-
shine during the day has prolong-
ed the run of sap making this
year a very good one as far as
that enterprise is concerned.
"Farmers report that a good
deal more of last year's poor qual-
ity hay and grain has been requir-
ed to produce a pound of gain on
beef cattle or a 100 weight of milk
from dairy cattle than teas' the
case a year ago.
"Local veterinarians report that
digestive troubles in livestock are
at a minimum this year which is
probably one of the few advantages
of a wet summer last year."
DR. N. W. HAYNES
Dentist
Across From Royal Bank
Phone HU. 2-9571
29-tfi;
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OPTOMETRY
G. B. CLANCY
Optometrist — Optician
(successor to the late A. L,
Cole, optometrist)
For appointment phone 83,
Goderich
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Hours:
Seaforth: Daily except Monday &
Wednesday-9 am. to 5.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Thursday evening by appointment
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Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard-
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5,30 p.m.
Phone Minter 2-7010 Clinton
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
ROY N. BENTLEY
Public AcCountant
GODERICH, ONTARIO
Tele. 1011 Box 478
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RONALD G. 101cCANN
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Rattenbury Street East
' Phone HU 2-9071
CLINTON, ONTARIO
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High Stretit'ae Clinton
Phone WU 24002
NOTE TO ALL PRESS REPORTERS
1,000,000, if we are really to 'do
the job, we ought to be thinking in
terms of 15,000,000 books each
year," This statement was issued
by the committee .on distribution.
A sense of urgency was apparent
in all the conference sessions.
"The movement towards Christ-
ian unity nowhere has greater im-
petus, and churches (in Asia) are
almost completely Asian in both
membership and leadership," repor-
ted one delegate, from the West.
J. E. (EDDIE) DALE
District Representative
The Confederation Life Assurance
Company
Phone Clinton HU 2-9405
14-tfb
ner of the first prize of $1,000. in
the .London Free .Press crossword
game, Mr, Carter won a $500
prize as did E. A, Fines, principal
of the Collegiate,
William Coats, Registrar of Deeds
fez, Huron County and a former
well-known citizen of Clinton, died
at his' residence, Goderich,. on Mon-
day following a brief•
Mrs. Morgan Agnew, who has
been quite ill, is now thought to
be on the way to recovery. Miss
Maude Torrance supplied for her
at the Wesley-Willis organ on Sun,.
day last, Mrs. (Dr.) Hearn the
Sunday before,
Miss Norma Glover of . the COI-
legiate staff spent the weekend in
Woodstock.
Business and Professional
Directory
DENTISTRY
INSURANCE
H. C. LAWSON
Bank of Montreal Building
Clinton
PHONES: Office HU 2-9344,
Res,, HU 2-9787
Insurance — Real Estate
Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co.
Insure the "Co-op" Way
W. V. ROY
District Representative
dox. 310 Clinton, Ontario
Phone Collect
Office HU 2-9642—Res, HU 2-9357
Be Sure : : 13e Insured
K. W. COLQUHOUN
GENERAL INSURANCE
Representative
Sun life Assurance Co. of Canada
Office: Royal Bank Building
PHONES
Office HU 2-9747—Res. 2-7556
s. E. HOWARD, Hayfield
Phone Bayfield 53r2
Car - Fire - Life - Accident
Windt Insurance
If you need Insurance, I have
a Policy
TIlE MeltILLOr MUTUAL MIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office: Seaforth
Officers 1956: President, W. S.
Alexander, Walton; vice-president,
Robert Archibald, Seaforth; sec-
retary-treasurer and manager, IV/
A. Reid, Seaforth,
Directors: John McEwing,
Robert Archibald; Chris, Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; E, J, Trewzirtha,
Clinton; Wrn. S. Alexander,Wal-
ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har-
vey Fuller, Goderieh; J. E. Pepper,
Brucefield; Alister Broadfoot, Sea-
forth.
Agents: Wm, Leiner Jr., tondes-
bore; J. F. Prueter, trodhagen;
Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Erin
Munroe, Seaforth.