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. 1 Clinton News -Record •
THE GL1NT()11 NEW ERA • T.HE CLINTON N aWs-R17co w
Amalgamated 1924
Published Every Thursday at
ciinton, Ontario,
at the Heart of Huron County,
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THURSDAY, DECMrER 12, 1957
RECREATION EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS
TIG CITIZENS o't Clinton, and along With
them, the councillors who actually make the
decisions, will very soon have to realize that
they have a responsibility in the field of re-
creation.
Never has our town, as a municipality, done
anything directly to assist the "business" 'of re-
creations :Small grants, given to serviceclubs,
have been the • total contribution so far.
We can foresee the time in the very near,
future, 'when the heed for actual participation
in the recreation'tprogrann of the town must be-
come the job of the municipality itself. Reorea-
tion is becoming a big business.
We are fortunate in Olinton, from a tax-
payer's point of -view, to have the Clinton Lions
Club, with their smoothly run arena. Through-
out the winter months, the arena fills a need,
and the 'youth and oldsters of the town benefit.
Of recent years therehas been an annual grant
to the Lions Club, given on xegtiest, and gen-
eraily with quite a bit of hesitancy on the part
of the town council.
GOD S
GOD MUST speak to men. Despite the
Barriers of language and dialect which separate
'nation from nation, tribe from tribe, God must
speak to men!
This conviction has long inspired the British
and Foreign Bible Society in its stupendous task
—to translate God's Word into' every tongue; to'
place the Bible in every land. ,
In 1,109 tongues God has now .Spoken to
men through inspired Scripture. In marble
.dt ler ~e'
This is understandable, when it is realized
that the council .has no policy' With regard to
recreation,, While other towns are spending two
to five thousand dollars each year for the purpose
of supporting all sorts of activities, our town
council sits back and "lets George do it", George
in this case, being anybody public spirited enough
to make the attempt.
In the last meeting of council, we witnessed;
an attempt by two councillors to 'discredit the
}fork of the one hoard in town which has any-
thing at all to do with recreation --the .'arks
Board, And we were .discouraged entirely, to
see it happen. The town has only one park,
and, it has a lovely setting, With a bit more
money, the, directors of the board could continue
to improve the landscaping, and the facilities
there. If the money they are entitled 'to, is
threatened, then of ,course nothing can be done
at the park and it will be of limited use.
We must waken up in Clinton to the need
for a -recreational program tailored to suit the
requirements of our town. There can be no
more evadii'ig of the problem,
PEAKS
cathedrals and mud huts the same timeless
truths are teed, heard, taught and discussed in
wards men know. And millions of Bibles, Testa-
ments and Portions 'of Scripture are being placed
in eager hands.
This is our triumph and our continuing
challenge -the countless Christians who indi-
vidually and through -air churches make possible
the work of the British and Foreign Bible So-
ciety. • ,
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CHRISTMAS TREES
SCOTCH PINE and BALSAM
Come and select your tree under cover
tat .
ELLIOTT'S (behind Clinton Arena)
Here's the low-down for BUSY SANTA CLAUS:
R. r
U fl * there's art easy way Of
beating that lastninute twit for Christmas
presents.eartd it leads straight to the l3 of M
branch in your neighborhood.
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▪ 40 Years go.
• Clinton New Era
TJ>'ursday, Deoeixi,ber la, 19X7'
The .Riltie Silver Hand, along
with' the reception committee and
a big crowd .of •citizens met the
Stratford train Friday night when
Pte., Al. Doherty, son of lVfr, and
Mrs. W, D, Doherty, returned from
overseas,
R. G. Taylor, Auburn, sold a
pig last week weighing 680 pounds,
which brought him $99.60,
call from the congregation of
Brucefield, in favour of , Rev. W'.
D. McIntosh, Nairn, promised a
stipend of $1,200 per. annum, with
manse and four weeks :holidays.
Margarine made its. bow in town
this week, so remember what You
don't know won't hurt you.
Christmas advertising, plus cold
weather, and no Coal until Wednes-
day, delayed the printing of the
New Era past the usual tune•,
The library will be closed three
days a week, owing to shortage .of
fuel,
Eastern Star Is
Holding Their
Christmas Draw
The Clinton Chapter, No, 266,
Order of the Eastern Star, is hold-
ing a turkey draw on Saturday,
December 28, in Newcombe's Drug
Store, at three 'o'clock. All mem-
bers are asked to please leave all
stubs and money at Newcombe's
by December 13. Proceeds of this
draw are to go toward an oxygen
tent for the Clinton Public Hos-
pital.
Where there's a
BofM
there's a way!
.., 5 ho�i2 t�ouh /aka Alloppiiiphot4Ar
If you are a busy Santa Claus with a
long list to take care of, be sure to in-
elude a visit to "MY BANK" on your
shopping tour. Here you will find a num-
ber of gift -ideas that are guaranteed to
give special cheer, to everyone on your
"what do -they -need?" list,
tetropk...
Youngsters rank high on ..
anyone's...list and there's an
extra, special gift that's
bound to make a hit — a
Savings Account, complete
with passbook designed to
appeal to the small fry. And
wait 'til you see the gay
yuletide passbook cover —
just right for the occasion.
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Per the head -to -choose -for,
festively -decorated cheques
that come in Cbristreassy
`f envelopes and folders pro -
'vide a shortcut to your
shopping problems, For out-
-af-towners, who like to buy
, for themselves, practical
13 of M money orders' enclosed• in holly
decked envelopes cart save you needless
worry and guesswork.
And •i} you are art etttployer, you cart give
your staff bonus a yuletide lift by using
special I3 of M Christmas cheques.
1ANK of Mor TUAL.
Mated Otatitift VVVLL1AM IVIOULOK, Minager
lfCk t! K i NI otitl esborougb (SuI..Agency) t Open Mon. Si Thins,
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25 Years Ago
Clinton News,Record
Thursday, December 1.0, 1932
,Clinton .eame fifth in the cigar-
ette wrapper contest, which has
been running for some tune. This
means the Legion will have 75
Christmas ,gifts, valued at 32 each
to distribute arnong needy child-
ren at Christmas tune, .
J, J Allen, formerly of Clinton,
has been elected mayor of Ottawa
for the third time. l lr .Aden was•
formerly 1VIess X. Jackson,.
altieseli Jervis has been appoin-
ted manager of a branch of the
Pletch hatchery of Stratford. The
branch is in E . Charlesworth's
Feed Store, next door to the Clip -
ton News -Record.
In the "Gay Nineties" column
it. was noted that the Good Pas
Committee of County :Council was"
concerned with 107 bridges within
the county,
Sutter -Perdue and Walker were
offering a 1933 radio at $69.40.
Well, here's the second instal-,
Ment on deer : hunting. What's
that? You thought it was finish-
ed? Your're hot interested in deer
hunting? Don't be ridiculous.
That's the first tin•:e in a couple of
years that I've been farther away
than the next' township, and
yo'u're going to hear all about It.
I have enough deer hunting mater-
ial to keep this column going un-
til spring.
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We. went deer hunting by boat.
I don't mean that We shot • only
those deer which were in 'swim-
ming, but we made the boat our
camp, sleeping on board: We were
a mixed bag; one farmer, one hair-
dresser, on car salesman; one well
driller, one editor, and our ubiqui-
ous skipper, guide, pancake maker
and whopper -teller, John.
.'
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By the time the hunt was aver,
the farmer was completely spoiled,
as he'd been sleeping in until 6
a.m, The hairdresser was so Whis-
kered and dishevelled youcouldn't
tell: whether you were talking to
the back of his head or the front.
The car salesman would have sold
you a perfectly good rifle, with
which he'd missed, three dear, for
8 cents. The well driller was ready
to crawl into a drill hole and pull
it in after him. The editor was the
acknowledged authority on Nov-
ember swims, following several
dunkings.ee ,
It was an interesting hunt; "right
from the first. On the way over,
those little waves with the cute
white taps on them, that we'd seen
from the shore, turned out to be
higher than the boat. There is
something slightly unnerving about
seeing a solid wall of cold water
corning at you, slowly at first,
then eagerly, like the tongue of a
great, grey monster, uncoiling to
flick you over for a look, before
sucking you into its maw.
* * *
First night at the, island, we had
company, three lost .hunters from
an aircraft parked in the next bay.
After four hours of tramping a-
bout in the; darkness, they climbed
aboard, soaked, exhausted and
near shock, with the joy of pil-
grims reaching Mecca. We were
glad to have them, but they put
quite a hole in our cough syrup
before bedding down on the deck,
4
When one of our boys got,up to
light the fire, early in the morn-
ing, he was somewhat mystified
to find himself standing in half
an inch of water. It seems some-
body had left the seacocks open,
or something, the bilge had approx-
imately 1000 gallons of water in it,
and we were sitting on the bottom.
It's a good thing the bottom was
not too far from the top at diet
location, or our guests would have
been floating.
L :h 'l
Two hours of chain -gang bailing
and pumping put us afloat again,
As the .buckets and saucepans pas-
sed up and down the line, I ven-
tured a mild witticism; "This neer
hunting sure is ,fen." It didn't go
over at all.
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Next day another silly thing took
place. Chap in the next boat. shot
a buck, with a nice spread of ant-
lers. He wasupa tree, trying to
hang .the. deer, A branch broke
and down he went, impaling him-
self, •through the rump,' on a need-
le-like point of the antlers. It
went in about three inches, • A
stubborn type, he hauled himself
off the prong, finished banging the
deer, stuffed some torn -off under-
wear into the hole, and tottered
two miles back, blazing the trail
with good, red blood, He made it,
lay in his bunk for five days until
healed, and went hunting again,
limping like a 90 -year-old, but
quite proud o!; his peculiar pierc-
ing. There's scarcely any need to
tell you what his nickname was
by, that time,
* a * *
A' few days later, one of our
dogs was shot by a hunter in a-
nother party, by accident, He was
nursed like a baby for several
days (in fact, the horned hunter
from the next boat claimed in-
dignantly that the .dog got far
more .sympathy than he did), but
it was no good, as he'd been crip-
pled.
* :s * 4'
A few more incidents like these
and some of us would have been
frogging it back to the mainland,
without benefit of boat, Fortun-
ately, the more 'timid souls were
deterred from such a step by the
fact that there was a 50 -mile -an -
hour gale blowing continuously.
When you stuck your head out at
one end of the boar, it was com-
mon practice to have a man sta-
tioned at the other end, to catch it
in case it was blown off. -
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Of course, we. were a pretty rug-
ged crew. I remember one day in
the bush, when I encountered two
other stalwart hunters at a cross-
ing of trails. One was barking
like a seal, Theother was wheez-
ing like a winded whale. I had the
earache. We started exchanging
remedies and comparing notes. A-
mong
inong the three of us, we had:
nerve tonic pills, cough drops,
tranquillizers, 222.'s, seasick pills,
laxative pills, sleeping pills and
stomach powders. It sounded like
a meeting of the Over -Ninety
Club.
x: 4' s+ a:
We had a fairly thrilling, trip
home, nosing across a shoal on
which the big seas were breaking,
at four o'clock on a black morn-
ing. It was nice to get back to
good old civilization, though, and
find the whole family in bed with
the 'flu, the furnace on the hum-
mer, the linotype operator depart-
ed, a pile of bills up to my waist
and the phone ringing irritatedly.
Just 4 reminder that there is but a few
days left before Christmas 'to order that
SPECIAL TURKEY for, your C RIS' MAS •
DINNER.
Don't leave it until the last minute. To
get the size and quality you wants order now.
There is a shortage of fresh killed turkeys in
the smaller weights, Insist on a fresh killed
turkey for your Christmas.
Orders will be filled in the
sire taken.
'4414RA $
STANLEY'S
order they
Red and White Supermarket
Phone.11 24447
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10 *Years Aga
Clinton News4Record,
Thursday! December 1L. 19¢7
Ralph G, Foster,. a farmer school
teacher, has been appointed by the
•Clinton Public School Board, as
its representative on the Clinton
Collegiate Institute Board.
Donald Miller, former reeve of
'teen town, is now Mayor of the•
organization,
Thomas Churchill received the
trophy from. the Huron Fish an.
Caine Club for catching the long-
est bass during 1947. It measur-
ed 18i4 inches, and was caught
t e'Maitland •i.
h N.[a Hand r vex
Dr. H. A, McIntyre has been
:chosen president of the Clinton
Branch 140, Canadian Legion.
Tuckerrmith Township passed,
the necessary by»law to authorize
erection of street Tights in the vile
lage of Brumfield.
Business aqui. Profess ,onoi
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Clinton
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FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Head Office: Seaforth
Officers • 1956: President, W. S.
Alexander, Walton; vice-president,
Robert Archibald, Seaforth; sec-
retary -treasurer and manager, M
A, Reid, Seaforth. '
Directors: 'John IL McEwing;
Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha,
Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Wal-
ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har-
vey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper,
Brucefield; Alister Broadfoot, Sea -
forth. •
Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr., Londes-
boro; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen;
Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Eric
Munroe, Seaforth.
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