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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1957-08-01, Page 2PAM 'TWO CLINTON NEWS RECORD THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1957 • Clinton 14ews4Iecord 'THE .0 INTON t`TF,(W FRA THE • =WON NEWS -RECORD Amalgamated 1924 ,, se4O A ' .E4 , q. Publiehecl Every Thursday at Clinton, Ontario, at the heart of iiuron County, Population -2,86e Q C % A. Laurie Coleuuhoun, Publisher v L Al SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Payable $r advance --Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a Year;; United States and Foreign; $4.00; Siegle Copies Seven Cents Authcasized as second Class mail, post Office Department, Ottawa Ikk THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1957 :STILL A PROBLEM SOME PLA.C. ES EDITORIAL COMMENT in the weeldies Woes Ontario still is 'based now and then on the whys+ and wherefores of the Friday ver us Saturday night openings, Our neighbour to the east, The Huron E c- positor, comments that Seaforth (pop. 2,089) is right in line with the majority of similar sized towns le preferring the traditional Saturday night. A survey 'coandoeted by the Ontario Chamber of !Commerce, ,sh G that in towns olf up to 2,000 population, .75 of them, prefer Sat- urday, while •only 17 prefer the Friday night opening. As •population jumps into the 2 to 4;000 ;group, 22 towns prefer Friday, 25 are holding to Saturday night. Then in the group from 4,000 to - 10,000, 33 towns! prefer Friday, to only five on Satux+day. And in the next groups from ten to 55,000 population, only one spicks to Saturday while 24 towns and cities! open Friday nights. Tn. Huron County at present, Goderich (pop. RAILWAYS A GRADUALLY the Canadian railways are backing out of. fertile Western Ontario, at ,a time' when the area is becoming more thickly„ populated, most prosperous, and mlore active in all .types of production. They are giving up, in the take of the gasoline engine, and are back- ing out of the "heartland of Canada". All over this' pant of the peorvince, we read of the service to passengers being cur- tailed. In Wingham, the citizens are facing the stopping of passenger' service entirely. This of eowrse goes for all towns along the route into Toronto. We fail to undersrtand why, when the have to be kept in repair anyway, why it is. not economical to provide passenger tservice in some light type of car. If there are only a dozen people going to use the service — why not supply a small vehicle, with small sized motor, and two men to operate it. Certainly it deesnf t male much sense to use a heavy engine built to pull 60 to 100 heavy railway freight cars, .to' work on a passenger line, carrying only*a few travellers, with a half dozen CNR em- ployees to make the trip. But why do these' big financiers• at the head of the big railroads fall to see and at least attempt to develop their business• into this area? In Clinton we are fortunate. We can still manage a trip to Toronto and hack in one day, by train. We have to get onboard 5,884) ; Clinton (pop, 2,902) and W'ingliam (pop. 2,745) are maintaining their stand, of stores open Friday nights only. In Exeter (pop. 2,568) there 'seems to be, some doubt about whildh is' right, and some stores are staying open both nights. In Hensel]. (pop. 842) they are staying open both nights. Brussels (pop, 803) and Blyth (pep. 741) have not yet tried' the Friday night idea, It would look from this survey that Clinton is perhaps trying the new idea a little soon, if statistics have any bearing. 'With only 2,902 people, we're still within the bracket which shows a majority, preference for, Saturday night. However, When "greater Clinton" is considered (this: area takes in RCAF Station Clinton and the permanent marred' quarters there) then the populati;onn figure soars over the 4,000 mark, Arad shows that the decision of merchants here is well in line . with other similar towns'. After all, what can statistics prove? They roan show a trend, and the trend is definitely toward Friday nights. RE QUITTERS about six in ,the morning, and we doret .get home until eleven .o'clock •at night, but the trip scan be nvaniaged. Let us•.hope that the CNR doesn't decide to stole that service. Blew:erver, there are. apparently, moves being taken to stop passenger service here, as weld, Early this summer when one of our traveling lady citizens! was+ returning from a visit in East- ern Canada, she found that down East they would only book her ticket as far as Stratford:. "Oh,' you can't ride all the way to Clinton. There's no passenger service! there," the train! station officials said. She argued, but gat no - Where. The officials knew better,' Again in 1VLoritread, and even` in Union Station Toronto, they. told her the same thing. "Oh, you can't get any further than Stratford," they said. Of course, when our lady teaveiller 'arrived in Stratfdrd she found the passenger train ,stiJ1 running, as it had when she left Clinton a few weeks before. But, it would seean that the passenger ser- vice into Clinton may be just hanging on by the skin of its teet has it were. There, again is a silly thing. If the CNR is running a passenger service into which, they most certainly are= -then why don't they tell, their station official's. across Cana da, so that they can book traffic over the line into. Clinton? Surely they are not discouraging tragic inten- tionally, so • tihey can argue that there is not sufificient 'traffi'c to warrant keeping the service on! What goes on, anyway? A NEFARIOUS DEAL (The Wiarton Echo) IF ONE single factor more : t"han another brought about the Liberal debacle in the Juane federal election, it was the gag rule unposed by the. Howe -led forces and the stifling of free speech in the House of Commons over the natural gas pipeline issue. It now materializes that Mr. Howe and his associates had good reason to , choke off critic- ism of the deal which turned over a sizeable share of Canada's eat;ural gas resoerces to Multi- millionaire American ,promioterts, reports The Sinvcoe Reformer. An arltiele in Time magazine declares that the paper profits on the Trans- Canada pipeline project have amounted to ap- proximately $300,000,000. According to this article, three key nten in the Trans -Canada deal got personal options to pay $1,160,000 for stock now worth $6,235,000. A Vianeouver oilman is, credited with: having par - ]rayed an investment of a mere $300 into a booty at $750,000. An EdImenrton man is repotted! to barye paid $5,000 for holdings now worth about $2,000,000. ' Such is the unsavory outcome of the trans- action for which Mr. Howe and his Liberal col- leagues throttled Opposition in the House of Commons. It has resulted in a plunder on a colossal scale of Canadian resources by a group Of unscrupulous American and Canadian promrot- e1s. The fate of Mir. Howe in his Port Arthur riding as well as that of his many defeated colleagues can be attributed in ne small measure .to this noisome deal. Prime ,Minister Diefen- wbaker would be justified in establishing a Royal Commission to investigate the whole Trans- Canada pipeline deal and to determine who got the spoils. This is the sort of thing that makes the average Canadian taxpayer bail and wihieh ;gives impeltus to the claim. of Socialist parties that the country'sr natural resources, which be- long to the people, should be developed by publiclw-,owned ageaiccies. • BY POPULAR REQUEST (The Hanover Post) One • of these weeks (When we want an extra bit of holidays') we're going to run a front page box in which we will 'say, in part: "By the unanimous request of hundreds of our read - ere, we are repeating last week's issue, and we trusit you wild: gain as mucin pleasure from this rte -run as you did the fleet time it came ft= the mail." Welles the editor of the Prescott journal. Whet would be the reaction of our readers? Well, yes, you guessed it. We'd stilly be hiding a year from how. But that is exactly what goes on the tel- evision screen night after night this season of the year: One settles downy bo a half hour or so of exlpeetant pleasure, and some one pipes up ailanost immediately, "That's an old one: I saw that . . . " The television people can get away with •stdh a. practice, We supposes because viewing is free, aside frompaying for the set. A newspaper you; buy ---even if you do pay orgy a few !cents for it. NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING PAYS (Lions • Gate Times) W110 IS that intrepid sail, who deigned to say 'that advertising doesn't pay? Well, let him read the following: In 'the April 26, 1956, issue of the Wesit Branton. (;Iowa) Times, there appeared a 2 col- a », uam _ 1s/z inch adv. which read-: "Wanted•• Genema• Soaping Rain, Please• Rush — Cliff Perkins," The add eoet Cliff Perkins $2.45. '11h West Branch Tiuiee April 26 issue tame out on that morning, By supper time that evetting, it was'arainang; and It rained off and on for the next tWo'We<.,ti5", breaking a 'dry slpell, that paid lasted for seven or eight rnonthss Now, don+t let any skeptic try to tell yuiu that this was purely coincidental, r BEWARE OF PARITY farm prices, warns The Fanner's Acicovate. They "would restrain coatsurcnrptioit in many lines=, enetour- !ge imports, stimulate production and result in Brushing, unmanageable surpluses, It is unlikely the Government will be pressured to adopt such a policy, Mr the Liberals have oppo5e!d full parity prices and if can-. slatent ht opposition w411 help Mr. Diefen. baker to shun so dangerous a remedy." From Our Early Files 40 Years Ago Clinton New Era Thursday, August 2, 1017 Weather last .Sunday was a "rip- per", Monday was hotter still and so was Tuesday, but hope is for cooler weather s'aom Mises Lucille Galant, who took her paintings out west some weeks ago, has swept all, prizes' at the Brandon Fair, She no* intends to show at other fairs in the west Word is that the Huron and Bruce road will soon be electrified•. A picture by Master Jabez Rands, 14 year old son af, Mr, and Mrs.. J, Rands, is exhibited in the window of W. D. Fair and Co. A pastel of a winter scene, the the picture promises a bright fut- ure for the young man in the world of art, The Salvation Army will hold its annua'i picnic in Trick's bush. The Morrish Clothing Co. ad- vertises two piece men's suits for $5, each. Western Fair in London, an noueeed their 50th anniversary, with mammoth, prize list of $32. 000. And the J. E. Hovey drug store -was offenin+g Kodak or Browhie cameras for $1.00 and up, guaran- teeing good results' from develop- ing and printing. 25 YEARS AGO Clinton News -Record Thursday, August 4, 1932 Clinton Knitting Co. staff held their annual picnic at Bayfield. Spouts were nun off by John Liver- more, T, Churchill, A. Steepe and T. Morgan. Miss Sybil Coirtice leaves next week to return to her duties on the mission field of the United Church. in Japan. Assistant Scoutmaster C, Rozell and Sam Castle were' in charge of. a week long camp held by the 'Clinton Boy Scouts on the Charles William's farm on the bank of the Maitland. A church parade to Eb- enezer church in full uniform, and u . game af baseball with the Eb- enezer team were included in the busty week. „ A Centenary picnic was held in Kincardine to celebrate the arrival of the Cosens family in Canada in June, 1832. The family came from Dorking, England. The News -Record is enjoying the lovely gladioli planted by Mr, Inkley across.. the street in what was berfore a vacant lot. During 1957 and 1958 Canadian industry's need for engineers is expected to increase at an aver- age annual rate of 11.4 percent. 1(1 YEARS AGO - Clinton News -Record Thursday, July 31, 1941 Huron farmers attended the first graasiancl field day to be held in Canada, at the fawn of Thomas R. Dent, MLA for Oxford, at Wleodstock. Gordon Heard, Bayfield, nar- rowly escaped injury while out on hie milk route on Sunday, Just as he was about to .enter Bob Penilale's gate, a lightning bolt struck a Maple tree about three feet from him, ripping off the toe cap and sole of his right shoe, and knocking him over the hedge. The milk bottle he was carrying went off in the other direction, Clinton Citizens' Band is spore soring a monster band' tatoa at the RICA,F Station G1intdn on August 20. A dance will follow in the drill hall. Exeter has increased the num- ber of wartime houses it intends building, from 42 to 50, The village of Blyth is planning to install a waterworks system, Esitianates on cost are about $100,000. • Lebbe Self Serve Groceteria advertises grapefruit, 5 for 25'e; oranges, 19;c a dozen; bananas 14c a pound and coffee 45c a pound. Quick 'Canadian Quiz L Who originated Canada's., game of ice hockey? 2. In Canada what persons are disqualified by law' from seek- ing election to the House of Commons? 3. Of the 3,410,160 Canadians• who paid income tax in 1954, what percentage were in the $15,000 -a -year and over income group? 4. What species of fish, a major catch on both Canada's At- lantic and Pacific coasts, is the fish most widely used in the world' as human food? • 5, One out of four working Can- adians is now employed in manufacturing. *What proport- ion of the national income is directly provided by this in- dustry? ANSWERS: 5. One dollar aue of three of the national income. 3. Less than one percent. 1, Stu- dents at McGill University;. the first rules were written in 1879 in Montreal. 4. ,The herring. 2. Persons convicted of corrupt el- ectoral practices, government con- tractors, members of provincial legislatures, and certain public of - Material prepared by the editors of Quick Canadian 'Foots, the po- cket annual of facts about Canada. SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) There is something deeply com- 'tenting to the human soul in fire. Whether it's a log in the lireplace, dhucldlung cheerily or burning with a slow, dream -making flame, a bonfire on the beach throwing its clfalllemge inite the night„ or just the gleam and warmth from the kitchen stove, fire soothes and re- news the spiri* t. I'm writing this column by the tiniest flame of all, a candle. There's been a hydra break and the lights have been out for Nouns. With the warm, yellow glow of my candle besiide me, I don't care if they never come an again. Art the moment, and in my present mood, I would not trade this one candle for all the lights on Broad- way, all the power that pours over the falls at Niagara, and a light bulb _ personally autographed by Thos. Edison. * * * * It's a brave, little, red, candle, left over from Christmas. Only about three inches of it are lett, and in a couplet oif hours it will be just a burned -out candle,than which there is nothing more dead. But right now, it brings me com- fort, 'companionship and memories, Its flame brings back the nights of Wondrous .coziness, as a child, at the cottage. Snuggled in bed with my younger brother, I'd watch the flames from .the fire- place fl.iek terrifying.. shadows across the bare rafters. But there was no real terror in the weird, leaping figures, On elle other side df the partition my parents talked in low, peaceful voices of people half -he -mused , by an 'open fire. The coal -oil lrianlps cast, a sturdy arlange glow that chased the jump- big ump-ib g shadawss. The whip -poor -will on the hill behind the cottage cal- led his cheer ttl :goodnight. • And I drifted into sleep with a sense of security I've never had since. * * * * The candle flame reminds me of the tfirst time I fell in love. It Was a huge bonfire. I was eleven. After the marshmallows and the sing -song and the horsing 'around, we gradually grew silent, watching the deep red of the hebtest inside of the fire ansa it burned bower. This freckle-ifiaced girl with the brown eyes and the white teeth and the golden amts was sitting beside Me. She got a bit dopey, leaned against my shoulder, and fell a- sleep. * * * * 1 didn't atone, just sat there be- ing madly in, love. Neat day, proposed to her, believing it was Mutual. . She gave me a 'bloody nose, and I was years, off women for „ * * * My candle flame brings other memories: Prison camp in Germ- any, December 1944. The wind howls out of the Baltic: There is no light except that from the top of the crude stove. The only sound is "drip, drip, drip." Eigh- teen young flyers of many nations lie silent and watch the firelight dancing 'on the walls. * * * N, They are of single mind. Es, cape? Home and loved ones? A big thick steak? No. They're all, listening intently to that "drip, drip, drip" emanating from the home-made still hooked up to the stove, and wondering if the potato whiskey it's producing will be fit to drink in time for the New Year,s Party. • * * * Yes, fire is truly a wonderful blessing. Under its soothing light and warmth, even the chattering of women's tongues will desist. Raucous children are lulled into sleepy content. Business men who would sell their grandmothers into slavery if the net profit was right, wax imaginative and idealistic. * * * ,K We harve come a long way from the days when our primitive an- cestors (yes yours tad Mrs. Top- drawer), crouched before a fire in a cave, dimly wondering what was going an in the world. * * * We don't wear shins any more. We wear pedal pushers, strapless. bra's and Bermuda shorts. We don't kill people *With a club or stonesthese days. We can wipe thein out much more efficiently in hundreds of ,thousands, at one sltroke. We donut tear the liver out of the newly killed animarl and) eat it hat Mild raw and juicy. We get it cold and raw, warm it,and eat it dry and gristly, with onions, But firelight has the same magic for us, after all that progress, that it had for our many-times-re- moved any-thnes-re-moved grandfather, Slob the Cave- man. It can take the bitter lines from, around a wwoarian's mouth and give her the look of a Madonna in T -Shirt. It can put a look of hel- lery in an old man's eyes, as he looks into the flames and sees himself fifty .y*ears age. It Would be a sorry day for mankind if he lost, somehow, the great gift of fire, 1n the meantime, hoWerter, I feel like eating a fried egg sand'wireh, you can't cook oven a candle, and I with, the hydro boys would pull the pickle and gent the power on again. The Bible Today (By Rev. W, H. Moore) The general secretary of the Bpitish and Foreign Bible Society in Canada, Rev. Kenneth. 0, Mc- Millan, E. A,, B. D,, began his new work. :early this year. A native of Mount Forest, Ontario, lie has been minister of St. And: Crew's Presbyterian Church, Gee. ebb, since 1950, Ur. McMillan has had wide ex- perience in denominational work engirding the general board of missions of whieh he is at present the chairman of the overseas dee artment. As a member of the department of everseas missions of the Canad• - iran Council of Chinches, he will not fund interdenominational and missionary work new to huan. From past extperienee and personal. eult- look, Mr. M ' iilacM .n is well fitted to .oversee 'Bible Society alltairs which involve co-operation with ,ail protestant denominatuonst He will head the 16 auxiliaries of the society across Canada. The new general secretary is the first Presbyterian to fill the post singe the retirement of Dr, J, 8, Atrmour some years, ago. secretaries. of the auxiliaries who' will wonk with him represent var ious denominations, In each auxiliary almost every city, town, village and hamlet forms; a branch of the Bible So- cietiY where all reformed eomanun ions Co-operate in collecting funds used • to sub'sildize the sale of the Scriptures in their mission work at borne "and .abroad, Suggested readings for the week; ,Sunday ,I Kings 8; 37-61 Monday „ II Chronicles 7; 12-22 Tuesday ... Isaiah 1: 1-31 Wednesday Isiaialh 5: 1-25 Thursday Isaiah 6: 140 Friday Ezra 7: 6-10 Saturday ..,. Nelhemiah 4; 7-20 CHOOSE YOUR OWN TERMS ON ANY FARM LOAN over $540 at TRANS CANADA CREDIT Need extra cash for your farm? Then solve your financial problem with a loan from Trans Canada. Credit. Right now Trans Canada Credit is offering special terms on all farm loans above $1,500. Payments can be spread over as long as two -and - a -half years, and can be made in any one of these three ways: • 1 QUARTERLY 2 HALF -YEARLY 3 ANNUALLY REGULAR LOANS Loans of $1,000 and less are available on Trans Canada Credit's monthly payment terms. Don't let the lack 9f ready money prevent you from buying seed, stock, or any other farm requirement. Get the cash you need at Trans Canada Credit. THE ALL -CANADIAN LOAN COMPANY TRANS CANADA CREDIT CORPORATION LIMITED T67.16 148 The Square, Goderich Ontario Phone 797 Business and Professional — Directory DENTISTRY INSURANCE DR. N. W. HAYNES - Dentist Across From . Royal Bank Phone HU. 2-9571 29-tfb INVESTMENTS Get The Facts Call VIC DINNIN Phone 168 — Zurich • Investors Mutual Managed and Distributed by Investors Syndicate of Canada, Ltd. 'OPTOMETRY G. B. CLANOY Optometrist — Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone 33, Gir de lch J. E. LONGSTAFF Hours: Seaforth: Daily except Monday & Wednesday -9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Thursday evening by appointment only. Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard- ware—Mondays only -9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Phone Hunter 2-7010 Clinton PHONE 791 SEAEORTi3 PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone Hit 2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO 50-tfb REAL 'ESTATE�� LEONAitD re, WINTER Real Estate and Business Broker High Street -- Clinton Phone 1I11 2.6692 seeetereseetteserteresereeitteeernere Everyone Reads The, Classifieds 3. E. (EDDIE) DALE District Representative The Confederation Life Assurance Company Phone Clinton HU 2-9405 141tfb 11. C. LAWSON Bank of Montreal Building Clinton ' PHONES: Office„HU 2-9644, Res., HU 2-9787 Insurance — Real Estate Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co. Insure the "Co-op" Way W. V. ROY District Representative - Box 310 Clinton, Ontario Phone Collect Office HU 2 -9642• -=Res. HU 2-9357 Be Sure • : Be Insured K. W.00LQUHOUN GENERAL INSURANCE 'Representative Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Office: Royal' Bank Building PHONES Office HU 2-9747—Res. 2-7556 3. E. HOWARD, Bayyi'eld Phone Bayfield 53r2 Car! Fire - Life - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, 1 nave a Policy THE MeleILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY 1%ad ffice: Seaforth O Officers 1956: President, W. S. Alexander, Watton; vice-president, Robert .Archibald, Seaforth; sec- retary -treasurer and manager, M A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: ,Told H. McEwings,. Robert. Archibald; Chris, Leon - !larch, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Wal- ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har- vey Fuller, Gederich: 3. E. pepper, Brucefield; Alister Eroadfoot, Sea- forth. Agents: Wm..Leiper Jr., f;ondes- boro•, J. F. ?meter, Brodhagen; Selwyn Baker,, Brussels; Erie Munroe, Seaforth.