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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1958-12-24, Page 4a ABOUT DR. RUTMAN "he Editor, News-Record, Clinton, Ontario. DEAR SIR: Thank you so much for your kindness in sending me the copy of the paper with the story of Dr. R u t ri a m receiving the Asian Award. I am enclosing a copy' of an airgram which I received in reply to a message of congratula- tions which we had sent her on behalf of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada. I do not know how many of your readers remember Dr. Rut- nam but as I travel about this part of Western Ontario telling about our World Tour to the A.C.W.W. Conference I do meet some. Anyone who might wish to send her a message could reach her at this address: Dr. Mary H. Rutnam, % Lanka Mahila Samiti, 10 Norris Road, Colombo, Ceylon. I am quite sure she would be int- erested to hear from the Clinton Branch of the Women's Institute. Thanks again and Best Wishes to you and your staff in 1959. Yours sincerely, (Mrs. George) ANN WILSON, Public Relations Officer, (F.W.I.C.). R.R. 6, St. Marys, Ont. December 15, 1958, A. * FROM CEYLON • DEAR MRS, WILSON: I thank you very much for 'your letter of good wishes received a few days ago. • Yes, I had a most interesting ten days in Manila. „It is a very beautiful city with Spanish style architecture. The people are high- ly educated—women as well as men. Many have had their higher education in U,S.A. and hold high positions. The person with was responsible for the big function of the awards and tours we made was a young woman, Miss B. Aboew. Every- thing went off smoothly. Another function we attended was a fare- well luncheon tor Mrs. T. F. Le- gard who has the honour of being the firSj; woman ambassador from the Philippines to Vietnam, She is an outstanding woman with a fine personality. About 1,000 wo- men were present. The Philippines have a branch' of the Associated Country Women of the World which is called Na- tional Federation of Women's Clubs in the Philippines. Their motto is the same as ours, "For God, Country and Home They are doing very fine work. I be- lieve Mrs. Merry (A.C.VV,W. presi- dent), visited them on her East- ern tour, My best greetings to any Can- adian friends who may remember me in the olden days. I was brim in Elora, Ontario, spent my girlhood from the age of three in„ Kincardine where my father, Mr, J. W. Irwin had a grocery business. Later we moved to Clinton where I had my higher education and later studied medi- eine hi Toronto. While in my final year I had a call to 1i/fission work in North Ceylon and have spent about 60 years here. Many experiences and opportun- ities have come my way-I-medical, Mission work and domegtic (four Sons and a daughter). To-day, I do little outside social work—have time to rest and dream of past diva and pray for the future of our fair island. (Signed) --MARY H. RUTNA1V1. Colombo, Ceylon, November 29, 1958 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, December 23, 1948 Fred Sloman, Capreol, well- known former Clintonian, has brought great honour to himself in winning third prize of $400 in Maclean's Short Story contest, re- sults of which are announced in the issue of Maclean's Magazine, dated January 1, 1949. Robert Hanley, University of Toronto, Ajax Division, is spend- ing the vacation period with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Fred Han- ley, Huron Street. Howard Brunsdon left Saturday for an extended visit in the Can- adian West He planned to spend Christmas with his daughter in Vancouver, B.C. Miss Marny MacKinnon, who is visiting her mother, Mrs. May Mac- Kinnon, delighted the members of St. Paul's Church on Sunday morning when she sang a number of arias from "The Messiah." Peace on earth to men of good will—in the street and on the road! ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwoo PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY Public AcCountant GODERICII, Ontario Telephone 1011 Box 478 45-17- RONALD 0. McCANN • Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone RU' 2-9871 CLINTON, ONTARIO 50- OPTOMETRY 3, E. LONGSTAFF Hours: Seaforth: Daily except Monday Jr 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 Muter 2-1010 Clinton PHONE 791 SEAFORTH B. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician -(successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone 38, Godarich REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Business Broker High Street — Clinton Phone 1111 2-6692 HAIR DRESSING CHARLES HOUSE OF •BEAUTY Cold Waves, Cutting; and Styling King St., Clinton Ph, HU 2-7065 C. H. Procter, Prop. The Bible Today "A Merry Christmas to • you" Will be repeated thousands of times this week. Of old time the Christians greeted each other ,with the t hope "the mirth of Christ" might be the daily portion of all who walked in the way of Christ. What if there were no more Christmas? What if you had never heard of Christmas? Well, there are people in our world who speak about 1,200 different languages and dialects who have never heard the Christmas story. The Bible Society is earnestly trying to overcome the problem by translating, printing and dist- ributing the Scriptures in ever in- creasing numbers of languages. A Merry Christmag to you! Thank God! Carry on! Suggested reading for next week: Sunday, Dec. 28 „John 4: 1-26 Monday, Dec. 29.,John 4: 27-42 Tuesday, Dec. 30..Heb. 11: 1-16 Wed., Dec. 31 Heb. 11: 17-40 Thursday, Jan. 1. ,John 14: 1-14 Friday, Jan. 2 John 14: 15-31 Saturday, Jan. 3, John 15: 1-17 The Chinese and Japanese liter. ally wipe the slate clean for the New Year. Research experts with The World Book Encyclopedia say they pay their debts and set- tle accounts before a new year begins, ' * * * 40 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, December 26, 1918 In many places women are tak- ing places on school boards. What do the Clinton women think about it? Counterfeit 50-cent pieces are reported as being circulated in Western Ontario. It is claimed that the spurious coin is being put out by a 'man who devotes his time to making five and ten-cent purchases and collecting the change. The bogus coins lack the milled edge. E. Rozell, of the Clinton Cream- ery, has purchased the building south of the Motor Works, which has been used as the boiler room, Mr. Rozell states that he will have more room there for his growing business. The Misses McCool, Phillips, Lyon and Cartwright are all Christmas visitors at their homes in Londesboro. A soap boiler's shop was among the things discovered in the ex- cavation at Pompeii several years ago. It is ,said that the soap found in the 'shop had not lost its efficacy, although it had lain un- der ashes for 1,800 years. Business and Professional — Directory — AUCTIONEER INSURANCE . INSURE THE CO-013 WAY Auto, Accident arid Sickness, , Liability, Wind, Fire and other perils P. A. 'TETE" ROY, CLINTON 1 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 Ceii, K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Representative: , Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office NU 2-9747; Res. HU 2-7558 r Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 a. E. HOWARD, Hayfield Phone Hayfield 58r2 Ontario Automobile Association Car - Fire - Accident ' Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I nave a Policy . . "TILE MoI4ILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers 1053: President, Rob- ert Archbald, SeaDforth; vice- pre- sident, Alistair Ba'oadfoot, Sea- forth; secretary-treasurer, Mama Jeffery, Seaforth. Bire,etors: John H. MOEWing, Robert Arebibeid; Ctiris. Leen,- hatrdt, Bonnhelm; E. J. Trevynntha, Clinton;. Wan. S. Alexander Weil:. ton; J. i.e. lVfalorte:, Seafort4 Har- vey Fuller, Godaraoly; J. E. Petrper, Brueefield; Alistair Broadifodt, Seaferbh. ,A.gents: Wm. Leiner Jr., Land- esbeati J. F. Praetor, Brodhagen; Selwyn Baker, Brttssels; Erin Munroe, Seaforth. wasawswo.k.wawvkiwikapa rso4ati . Letters To The Editor From Our Early Files 40 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, December 26, 1918 We had a white Christmas after all and it was just that much More enjoyable. A green Christ- mas does not seem to be quite the thing. for Canada. R. E. Manning went to London on Saturday and waited over for the funeral of his niece, the late Mrs. E. B. Nelles, on Sunday af- ternoon. The soldier boys are coming home on almost every train now. Recent arrivals were: Roy Chow- en, Theo Fremlin and Robert Fish- er, who came on Monday. On Fri day, Harold Biggins, son of Mrs. R. A. Govier, and Private Carman Hoare arrived on the forenoon train. All these soldiers; were welcomed by the citizens and the band, The teachers of the Public School treated the pupils to a pic- ture show on Tuesday, Mr: Man- ning of the Princess Theatre put:, ting on the pretty play, "The Seven Swans," for their benefit. The pupils came down in two re- lays, filling the Princess each time with a happy bunch of young life. * * 25 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, December 28, 1923 Master David Johnston was the lucky winner of the Candy Cane Guessing Contest at Wendorf's Bakery. He is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. David Steep of town. Mr. and Mrs. Garnet VanHorne were holiday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. George VanHorne. Mr. and Mrs. George Falconer had as guests on Christmas, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Rathburn, Kipperi, Mrs. Lindsay, London, Charles Lindsay, Clinton and Adam And. rows, CoUrtwright, Miss Ann Stewart Windsor, and Miss Billie Stewart, London, are with theit parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Stewart, over the Christmas holiday. Was Dorothy Dales of the On. ULM° College of Education is visit- ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. john Inn4_ IsTEWSAKORP PAGf FOUR WAPNgSPAY, Pg.OBWIFA24, IVO, • 4s.1 , • cits104 . „ ' News-Record THE. CLINTON NEW ERA r THE •CI,INTQ.N gW$.1:MPORP ArnalgatrAted 71924 1 f a Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron. County, Clinton, Ontario '","" Population 24992 •1110 A. L. .091,QUHOVN., Publisher 0 A Wit-MA D. DINNIN, Editor • SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Payable in advance—Canada. and Great $3,00 a year United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Seven Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottavva. ' WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1958 NOT ALWAYS LIKE THIS 0 FOR THE BENEFIT of those many people living in and around. Clinton, we would like to announce that the kind of weather we've been having this month, is not the usual thing, at all. In fact, it is so extraordinary, that oldsters in these parts are recalling the bad winters at 1871 and 1903. That 1903 year .seems to be just about the worst in memory, as folks recall snow was five feet deep on the level, and there was no let up in the cold until late April. Personally, our earliest memory of. a really bad winter was some time (hiring the "dirty thirties" when not only did no one have money WE HAVE MENTIONED, a two year term in this column, as a suggestion for the Clinton Council—but we're not so sure anymore that the idea would be pafticularly wise. Browsing through early fires reveals that way back in, 1918, the good people of Gocrerich Township decided to hold a vote on this very question. Then when voting they decided not to change from the one year term. Whether they would decide the same way now if the matter were on a plebiscite again, there is no way of knowing. Down in Aurora the council must have been very confident this year,' for they decided' IT IS HIGH TIME that a wordt be said for Things. It can safely be predicted that in 89 per cent. of the pulpits of the nation this e' Christmas, sermons will be preached viewing with alarm "the commercializing of Christmas." "Christians," it will be said, "should be more spiritual." On the contrary, we view with mild alarni this annual protest. To make everything 'spirit- ual" is to take the first step toward losing it.. When God created the world, He watched it, move, from spirit to matter with approval, and we attempt to reverse the direction of creation at our peril. It is our created destiny to express the spirit always in material terms; artists and scientists both know this, and only an excessive enthusiasm for "spirit" makes the religious man forget it. Yes, you say, but what about "idolatry"? But idolatry, we say errs by timidity: it fears to press on toward sacrament, to move' through CHRISTMAS IS MUSIC. The clear ceill of church bells and the clear young voices of children singing, "Silent Night". Christmas is a brilliance of lights—flickering light of trees, quivering lights of candles, warm= ing lights of hearth-fires, embracing lights of houses spilling over with family and friends. Christmas is the happy night in the year of grown-ups' once again child-like and the star, light in the eyes of children. Christmas is a welcome—the garland on the door, the welcome song on the threshold. It's the welcome wreath around our hearts. Christmas is Laughter—a special kind. We've all heard it, the season's laughter. It reaches out, comforts, and encompasses us. And, Christ- mas is a smile, a quick smile to the store Santa Claus, to the bus driver, to the shoeshine boy, It is an extra smile to our family. Christmas is a communion of spirit. Christmas is a hundred different fragrances all rolled into one. The pine boughs and the baking bread and the burning wood and the plum pudding. That's just the beginning. There's a smell of just waxed floors, and newly polished fttrniture, the fragrance of dozens and dozens of cookies. Did you ever see so many different kinds of cookies? Christmas is the help of clumsy little hands, decorating, then storing cookies in gaily-coloured tin boxes. Christmas is Giving the ever-so-many pack- Masters of a trade do not feel they have to advertise their supremacy on every occasion. A heavyweight champion dOeS not set upon a man who beats him to a parking spot. The pro- fessional poker player expects to be bluffed out sometimes When he has the better hand. Great musicians 'have been known to listen to the bagpipes with every appearance Of polite inter- est. Similarly,, a first class driver does not feel a need to be out in front all the time, He does not seek the limelight, because there is no ad- to buy clothes with to keep out the cold, but the cold was worse than it bad been for some years. We remember that the fence pests on our farm, which were poured cement, with round ;tops, barely peeked over the tops of the drifts, and the snow was packed so hard it was no , trick at all for even a heavy man to walk on top. For youngsters, it was fun, on the clear days, and a good imagination served to produce a good game of mountain climbing. However, maybe we're all looking on the dark side of things by suspecting this may be a hard' winter, and in a couple of weeks we'll have hardly any snow at all, that they would stay in for a two year term. They did not ask the voters if they were want- ed—they just stayed. It will be interesting to see what the voters do about it when they hold an election at the end of 1959. In Newmarket, next door to Aurora, the xoters decided against a two year ...term, even though they elected all of the council they had this year but one. As the Editor of the Aurora Banner states it, "They value their right to ap- prove or disapprove of their administration while memories are fresh and 'before the vagueness of time has clouded issues." That's probably the way folk in this area would feel about it, too. the image of the golden calf to all the glories that gold, transmuted by the imagination, can suggest, And 'so Christmas: it is a pink and purple tie ,from a beloved aunt, it is a cheap perfume for, mother,' bought in adoring ignorance. Let the stores riot with Things, let the wrappings glisten and the ribbon extend for miles: this is the stuff of dreams, and the fault lies in our- selves, not in the Things. The Wise Men were wise indeed; they ilnew the proper way to salute a God incarnate, and hastened to brighten the stable with gifts, 'even before the Child could play with them. May your Christmas be Merry and Holy, both at• the, same time, and may that large package under the tree, wrapped by small and trembling hands, be more than hands can hold. —From Forward Day by Day, published ..by Forward Movemerit Publications, and dist- ributed by the, Anglican Book Centre, Toronto. ages—to us and from us—and the excitement of the mail truck stopping at the front. door. There are brown paper covered boies and decorated tiny ones and giant ones and round ones and square ones, tinseled and glittering and gold-covered, or just plain white tissue-wrapped presents. And we sit in the middle of a moun- tain of holly paper and red ribbon and gum stickers and "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL . . ." Christmas is the importance of Mail — not only the packages but the hundreds of cards — the cards purchased from the child next door— the lists of names and addresses—Christmai is the weighted down mailman—the stringing of cards received in a bright red ribbon, or pinning them to the tree or perching them ort , the mantel'. Christmas is a wreath of remembrance carried by a four-cent stamp. Christmas is the Tree—a green tree, a pink tree, or a White tree or even a pale lavender one. A just-hut pine from a timber acre or a glittering fir from the florist in town, a miniature baby tree or one that brushes the ceiling. Christmas is Love—the message carried all through the centuries from the first Christmas gift of a tiny Babe. Christmas is the birthday ' renewed and celebrated all over the world,, Christmas is an expression of love for The Child born that day and' the love for His way. Christmas is "Peace on forth, Good Will Towards Men . vantage or attraction in doing so. He has the relaxed satisfaction of having extra Competence, that needs no display. The essence of good driving is inconspic- uous efficiency. And the key word is "inconspic- uous". Everything that attracts undue attention to the man at the wheel is tad driving, Competition has no Wee° in good highway driving, There are no world Champions. There is plenty of room at the top for everyone, —Ontario Safety League HRISTMAS" English, and "Xmas" is really a short form with- out symbolism, and without sentiMent As well, "Xinas" jars the eye, and can you imagine how it would Jar the ear if it could be pronounced, as "Merry Xmas," or some other monstrous hiss? By all means, let's keep Christmas. But let's toss, "Xmas" into the first toowbook, KEEP IT "C (the Aurora Banner) These are the days of Christmas plans, of merchants arranging displays and filling. thel- yes and windows, And these are the days when a lacy habit creeps back—using "Xmas" for "Christmas". Way back when, "X" did stand for " % TWO YEAR TERM? "LET THE. STORES RIOT WITH THINGS . ." CHRISTMAS IS! (By Louis Willert, Zurich) THE GOO D DRIVER ,ds fORCIET we TRAMS Foe A PAY— TV AERIALS AND UNGRATERIL SMALL, PRY; arf MERRY CHRISTMAS I THE sgAsows GREETINGS 10 ALL. OUR FRIENDS