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THE CG1,.INTON NEW gitA TH.E CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Amalgamated 1924
010 ^ y Pub1100 .every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clintters, Ontario w Population 2902
A, COLQUHOUN, P.U4.11ther
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411:11,#1 D. DINNIN, Editor
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THURSPAY, NOVEMBER 20, 195B
year
THREE CHOICES?
From Our Early Files
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton New Era
Thursday, November. 21, 1918
Roy East, who started his bank-
ing career in the Royal Bank
Clinton, has been making rapid
advancement in banking circles.
As the Royal Bank is now going
to open a branch in Vladwostock
Mr. East has been selected as one
of the members and will leave in a
week or so for that Eastern port,
George McLennan was in Lon-
don recently attending the West-
ern Ontario Liberal Convention.
He was one of the delegates from
South Huron,
Miss Kathleen Quigley, Toronto,
is visiting the parental home,
Malcolm MoTaggart returned to
Ridley College, St. Catherines, this
week.
The R. B. Bell Munitions Works.
Seaforth, has been instructed by
the Imperial Munitions Board to
cease work on all shells in initial
operation at once. A number of
men have already been released,
but the firm expects to absorb a
large proportion of them in the
manufacture of farm machinery.
Over $24,000 monthly has been
paid to employees, the largest sum
being $32,000.
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, November 21, 1918
Huron County showed its pat-
riotism, its faith in Canada, and
also its sound business sense by
over-subscribing the Victory Loan.
The news of the brutal murder
of Plairielothessnan Frank Will-
iams by a desperate thief in To
ronto was a chock to the citizens
of Clinton and vicinity, where the
young man was well known. He
was the youngest son of Mr, and
Mrs, Chas. Williams, Sr., Goder-
ich 'Township, and had attended
Clinton Vollegiate, afterwards be-
ing employed in the office of the
piano factory, He had been on the
Toronto Police Force for about
four years, He had been engaged
as a police detective and was in
the performance of his duty, en-
deavoring to arrest a couple of
thieves, when one of them delib-
erately shot him, He was in his
26th year and unmarried.
5, G. Castle is moving his meat
market from the stand next to the
News-Record office to that next
to the Princess Theatre,
25 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, November 23, 1933
The regular meeting of the
Home and School Club was held
in the Public School. The prizes
for the highest marks obtained in
the entrance, gold pieces, were
presented by Mrs. W. Plumsteet
to Clarence Swan, Fred Axon and
Madelon Murch, The program, in
charge of the Public School staff,
included: a harmonica solo by
John Hawkins; a chorus of girls
from Miss Wiltse's room, Jo An-
ne Cunninghame, Ruth Hearn, Mil-
dred Lobb, Lois Draper, Barbara
Scott and Margurite Cosens, ac-
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Auto, Accident and Sickness,
Liability, Wind, Fire and other
perils
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Phone HU 2-9357
Co-operators Insurance
Association
H. C. LAWSON
Hotel Clinton Block
Clinton
PHONES: Office HU 2-9644,
Res., HU 2-9787
Insurance — Real Estate
Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Oa.
K. W. COLQUHOUN
INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE
Representative;
Sun Life Assurance Co, of Canada
Phones:
Office HU 24747; Res. HU 2-7556
Salesman: Vic Kennedy
Phone Blyth 78
IL E. HOWARD, Bay-Reid
Phone Bayfteld 58r2
Ontario Automobile Associatitut
Car - Fire - Aceldent
Wind Insurance
If you need Insurance, I have
a Policy
THE MeliILLOP MUTUAL
VIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office: Seaforth
Officers 1958: President, Rob-
ert Archibald, Seaforth; vice- pre-,
tit:lent, Alistair Broadfoot, Sea-
forth; secretary-treasurer, Norma
Jeffery, Seadorth.
Dirceters: john Tl. IVIcEwingo
Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon
hatch, Bornholm; E. J, Trewartha,
Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Welk
ton; 3, L. Malone, Seaforth; Her
voy Fuller, Goderich; J, n, Pepper,
Brucefield; Alistair Broadfoot,
Seaforth,
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FADE TWO
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-MINTON .NEW$-RECORP,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 19.08
For the ghoulS and gossips, of
course, the ideal weekly would
carry several columns of court
cases, hints of wife-beating, sug.
gestions of teenage orgies and al-
lusions to all manner of like delic-
acies, No names, of course. But
everyone would know who was
Meant, when the paper ran an item
like: "The garbage collectors are
complaining because the garbage
cans at the home of a certain pil-
lar of the church who lives on
Maple St., are se loaded with em-
pty whiskey bottles they can hard-
ly lift them."
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For avid readers of the "pers-
onals," of course, the ideal weekly
would have a new approach, No
more of this dull "Mr, and Mrs.
Peter Salt of Westvale called on
relatives in town this week." That's
not news. The ideal personal item
would pack a lot more punch and
convoy a lot more inforaintion, It
would read something like this;
"Mr. and Mrs. Peter Salt: (nee
Jennie "Red" Pepper, daughter of
Mrs. Malachi Pepper and the late
Malachi who used to live in the
old Squagh place till it caught fire
in that lightning storm four years
ago and Malachi was burnt up,
trying to tot eentrat on the line)
Treasurer's Sale of
LANDS FOR TAXES
Corporation of the County
of Huron
TO WIT:
By virtue of a warrant issued by
the Warden of the County of I-lu'
ron under his hand and the seal
of the said corporation bearing
date of 12th day of August 1958,
sale of lands in arrears of taxes in
the County of Huron will be held
at my office at the hour of 2.00
p.m. in the Court House on the 9th
day of December 1958 unless the
taxee and costs are sooner paid,
Notice is hereby given that the
list of lands for sale for arrears
of -Wads Was published in the On-
tario Gazette on the 5th day of
September 1958, and that copies
of the said list may be had at my
Saida.
The adjourned sale, if necessary,
will be held at the above office on
the "18th day of Deoembery 1958.
Treasurer's Office this lath day
of August, 1058,
(Signed)
J. G. BERRY, Treasurer
38t50=b
of Westvale, where they have been
living since Peter ( a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Rockfield Salt, former
residents here before they moved
to the County Home) took a posit-
ion there in the undertaking par-
lours after some years employed
here in George McLean's body re-
pair shop, visited this week with
Jennie's mother, and called on her
'sister Annie, married to that new
German fellow on the tenth con
cession." See what I mean
You've got to get some life into
those personals.
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In the ideal weekly, the sports
fan too, would be looked after.
No more of this dull chronicling
of who got how many hits or scor-
ed how many goals, There'd be
more of the real, roaring excite-
ment of the game, like: "In the
third period, responding to the
pleas of the fans. Joe McDrool
rose to new heights as he picked
up the puck behind his own net,
circled with the speed of an ex-
press train, started up the ice like
a jet plane, and had he not had
the sheer bad luck to run into one
of his own defencemen at the blue
line, would undoubtedly have gone
through the opposing team like
spit through a tin horn, and
scored." There'd be columns and
columns of this behind-the-scenes
colour for the sports enthusiast. 0 a 0
Our ideal weekly, of course
wouldn't neglect important social
news, like weddings. Instead of
the present fashion of limiting
wedding write-ups to a mere, bare
curt outline about three-quarters
of a column long that gives only
the most brief and perfunctory
iescription of things, the idee'
wedding write-up would have sortie
meat on its bones, It would give
a full description of the bride's
costume, instead of a skimpy
couple of parapraphs, It would
carry a complete list of the wed.
ding gifts and the wedding guests.
And it would carry in full the
many charming and witty toasts
proposed at the reception.
THIS WEEK the people of the Clinton
Collegiate Institute district have been presented
with facts and figures showing the great need foi.
more accommodation at the collegiate, The total
cost will mean 2,4 mills on the taxes of every
land owner in the district.
For an assessment of $5,000 this would
mean $12 per year, for the 20 years required
to retire the debt,
The choice before the people is this: give
their municipal leaders the nod to continue with
plans now in progress, and get the job done;
or, say no, and see the school board search for
more classrooms, possibly in church basements,
in the town hall, in which to hold classes; or,
stop sending their children to school.
WE OFTEN think of the influence upon
our own choice of words in any given situation,
Which our teachers must have made when we
Were young.
For instance, the word "wending" is one
we avoid quite strenuously, and we trace our
feelings toward it right back to a day when an
English teacher in high school frowned upon it.
Similarly the word "rendered" is stricken
from any story or report we edit. Quite often
this word is used to say that someone sang a
song. We prefer to state this simply, and leave
the "rendered" term to discuss what happens
to animal fat when it is being made into lard.
Still again, we avoid the word "very".
It was while studying university English that this
one came under fire, Our professor stated in
no uncertain terms that any essay was better
if all the "very's" were left out. He's right,
too.
WE CAN'T help but feel that Clinton is
missing the boat insofar as civil defense is
concerned.
We read this week' about a course taken
by 87 Canadian mayors at the Civil Defence Col-
lege at Arnprior. The topics on the agenda
include survival in the nuclear age, continuity of
government in an emergency, armed service
in civil defence and evacuation and reception
procedure.
The mayors who attended appear to be
those from the urban areas particularly. In
those areas evacuation is perhaps the most vital
concern—after survival, of course.
Now we don't want to intimate any lack
of knowledge on the part of our urban municip-
al leaders—but they all seem to consider that
"out in the country" (and that means here, in
and around Clinton) there is all sorts of space,
all sorts of food, and all sorts of accommodation
for them to evacuate their people to, if need
arises.
WITH A general shuffle on its way in
council—it might be a good time for some new
men to be introduced.
If such a man is looking for a good
election platform—we have one to suggest: the
idea of a recreational director for town.
We need a director to plan all sorts of
activities. Why? Well look about you. The figure
skating club is non-existent—everyone's going to
Goderich for classes. Last summer one of the
It would seem that neither of the last
two, are probable for the people of this area,
Clinton Collegiate has always had a fine
record of achievement, Her famous graduates
can scarcely be numbered. The good which has
resulted from the fine teachers employed there,
even among those students who did not graduate
cannot be estimated.
With the proper space, and tools to do the
job, the teachers and board can continue to
provide instruction for the increased numbers
of students, and can continue sending young
people out into the world, equipped to meet life's
problems well.
Really there is no choice for us, but to go
ahead and provide the classrooms which will be
needed.
Listing these three small examples of
changes made in our vocabulary because of
teacher influence, has reminded us again that
it is important that children receive the best
instruction possible in their school rooms. What
they are taught there, remains with them.
Young folk should have the best in Eng-
lish—instruction from persons who know English.
They should have the best in French instruction
from persons who know French. They should
have instruction in all subjects by experts in
the field, and in addition their instructors should
all have a basic knowledge of the English lan-
guage,
Our ability to express thought aloud and
on paper, is the platform upon which all our
other knowledge is based. Without that plat-
form we can never be as good at anything, as
we could be.
A man is what he makes himself. More,
he is what he is permitted to become.
Regardless of the fact, that we'd like to
keep our bit of Canada the same as it always
has been, we are going to have to face up to
the fact that IF thousands of people have to be
evacuated from the cities, they have nowhere
else to go but into the country. WHEN they
arrive here, what's going to happen?
We think we should be ,getting ready for
such a time, by having some of our people in
possession of the facts about what we are apt
to encounter in such a situation. We can't afford
to do anything else.
Certainly we would not advocate the idea
put forth in Bruce County of defending the pen-
insula from stone walls, with pitchforks—you
may be sure that if the city folk want to come
to our part of the country to live they will jolly
well do it, and we might just as well make the
best of it.
BUT, there is an ever-growing need for
us to know more about civil defence, and in this
area, to know what to do with thousands of dis-
placed persons.
minor ball teams fell by the wayside for want
of better supervision. The badminton club has
faded away; some are going to Exeter to play.
The only inter-town sport other than hockey or
baseball is five pin bowling. We have a lovely
community park—and outside of baseball and
swimming what use do we make of it?
Truly We think a man who campaigned
seriously from this platform would do very well
in Clinton.
Cempallied by Miss, ()Amore: a
talk by Miss Cudincre on her
cent trip to the World's Fair; a
quartette from Mr. Jefferson's
room, Gertrude Holmes, Joyce
Dugan, Helen Lavis and Muriel
Perdue,
Ian McLean, son of K. M, Mc-
Lean, publisher of the Huron. Ex-
positor, $eaforth, is now in the
law office of Mr, Frank Fingland,
Clinton.
The big snow plow came up
Highway 4, Monday morning, It
has been going up and down
Highway 8, piling up the soft
snow, which is being drawn away
to the vacant town lot on Mary
street.
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
One of -the better-class and more
recently constructed homes in
Clinton, that located on Ontario
street and owned by Gordon Hor-
ner, has just changed hands. The
purchaser is Miss Luella Johnston,
of the Clinton Public School teach-
ing staff, Another real estate
deal was completed recently when
Robert G. McCann, who resided on
Albert street, purchased the pro-
perty of John W. Nediger, on the
southwest corner of Rattenbury
and Raglan streets.
A prince who may some day
rule over the Commonwealth was
born to Princess Elizabeth in
London, England, on Sunday, Nov-
ember 14.
Council approved action of
Chief of Police James Thompson
in forbidding two youths playing
badminton in the Town Hall on
Sunday afternoon.
Customers of Union Gas Company, in the
TOWN OF CLINTON
AND VILLAGE OF HOLMESVILLE
Kindly pay Gas Accounts
at the
BANK OF MONTREAL
Clinton, Ontario
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OPTOMETRY
I. E. LONGSTAFF
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
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That's what makes it so diffi-
cult. You just don't find too many
people around with all those at •
tributes rolled up in one hide, You
get one fellow with a brain like
a polished blade, and he hasn't
the guts to do any slashing with
it. You find another editor with
the furious courage of a wounded
wild buffalo, and just about as
much insight. Still another wil t
have a pen like a whiplash, and
spend all his time flogging dead
horses. * *
Admitting, then, that ideal
weekly editors are non-existent.
what would the ideal weekly paper
be like? First of all, it would
have an editorial page that always
took a strong stand. Never mind
what stand, as long as it was
strong. One week, for example,
it could come out solidly in favour
of higher salaries for teachers, and
lower necklines for women. The
next issue could carry a resound-
ing attack on the rising cost of
education, and a demand for a
firmer attitude toward indecent ex-
posure:
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So often am I aware of my own
failings as a weekly editor that I
can't help pondering, on the make-
up of the ideal editor. He, of
course, is the editor of the weekly
newspaper that pleases all its sub-
scribers,
0 0
I have yet to see the issue ap-
pear that pleased more than a min-
ute portion of my readers. If the
teachers aren't after me, the prea-
chers are. If the temperance peo-
ple aren't gunning for me, the ho-
telkeepers are roaring with pain
over some fancied slight. If the
dog owners aren't urging me to
partisanship, the garden lovers
are down on me for not demand-
ing an operesseason on canines.
* * *
The ideal weekly editor would
have to combine the forebearance
of St, Francis with the raw cour-
age of Joan of Arc, the perspicuity
of Plato with the cunning of Mach-
iavelli, the eloquence of Demos
thenes with the foresight of Moth-
er Shipton.
*
I have more, many more, ideas
about what the ideal weekly
should carry. But I ant so sensi-
tive about my own shortcomings
as an editor that it is too painful to
go on. And I know my fellow pub
Ushers are hanging their heads in
shame, too. Or is it horror?
WORDS ARE SYMBOLS
MISSING THE BOAT
SUGGESTED PLATFORM
Mr, and Mrs, Milton Wiltse
spent the weekend with friends at
Medford,
Charles W, Thompson, who Is
with the Rural Hydro Electric at
Kitchener, spent the weekend with
his parents, Dr. and Mrs, F. O..
Thompson.
The Bible Today
In the Middle East the old and
new, contrast sharply. In odst-
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Lebanon, half Christian, half
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In Iraq scripture distribution has
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Jacob, of the Great Prophets and
of Jesus, supplies a need in this
land of contrasts. The offering of
the old, yet ever new Bible, evokes
a response from followers of both
the ancient and the modern way.
Suggested readings for next
week:
Sunday, Nov, 16 Matthew 13:1-30
Monday, Nov, 17 Matt. 13: 31-58
Tuesday, Nov. 18 Psalms 65: 1-13
Wednesday, Nov. 19, Psms, 67: 1-7
Thursday, Nov. 20, Psalms 73: 1-28
Friday, Nov. 21, Psalms 107:1.43
Saturday, Nov. 22, Psalms 1: 1-6
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