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THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Amalgamated 1924
Publlshed every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron•GoLinty
Clinton, Ontario — Population 2,985
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1959
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WHEN WE send our children out to play,
our first thought is that they be safe, and re-
turn safely. o their homes at the next meal time,
or at bedtime, That is the intent of all parents,
When the municipality puts - up a building
for the use of children, it is built to specifica-
tion, with safety as one of the prime thoughts
behind it, or at least it 'should be.
Possibly in the case of some such public
buildings, the original plans are for just about
the safest structures possible. Then the budget
is considered, and in some cases, adjustments
are made which seem small at the time, but can
lead to dangerous building. In the future these
"small adjustments" can mean the difference
between life and death for the children of our
families, •
Perhaps it is not initial carelessness which
leads to disaster, but a continuing neglect. When
a building such as an arena is built, and the •,• public begins to use it, the place is accepted
as part of the community. Most people cease
to regard it as anything but an ice surface and
dressing rooms, where skating can be done, and
where there are warm rooms to get the chill
out of ones bones.
Public huildings need regular inspection by
qualified persons. They need to be observed by
people who are not affected by the money in-
volved if a building should become unsafe, And
the advice of these inspectors should be heeded
to the letter.
WHEN SMOKE HAS CLEARED
WE HESITATED last week to print any
of the many statements which were being made
by the supporters and non-supporters of the Hog
Marketing plan, until some of the smoke had
cleared away, and we could more properly eval-
uate the situation as it now is.
Unfortunately the situation is not much
clearer now than it was then.
The government, in the words of the Hon.
George Goodfellow, minister of agriculture, sta-
tes that the .plan is valid, as approved in 1949.
The farming industry is a wide-spread one.
In almost any other enterprise—such as knitt-
ing mills, the manufacturers can look at a map
and point out to you just where each of the
other mills in the province are, and probably
are on speaking terms with someone in the
management at each of the mills. In farming
there are thousands of people actually in the
management seat of the business. When the
farm safety survey was set up, over 7,000
people had to be instructed in the mere job
of reporting accidents in their own area. Each
one probably covers 25 families. That is some
idea of the immensity of the farming industry,
just in Ontario.
Then when it comes to a task such as or-
ganizing the hog marketing plan, the project
of education is a huge one. And while the educa-
tion of all these thousands is in process, in many
cases through the pages of farm magazines and
weekly papers, they are continually bombarded
witli opinions and ideas from the trade (which
seems to, have far too much influence for the
good of the farm industry), from novel farm
groups attempting to gain recognition, and from
diehard individuals with an axe to grind.
This 'is as it should be in a democratic
country. It is good for the people to know all
sides of the situation.
But it does make it difficult for the farming
industry to progress smoothly with their organi-
zation, and to do so without getting the repute--
tion of being grumblers.
Contrast it with •the labour scene: Donald
MacDonald, leader of the Ontario socialist party,
feels that a legislative committee suggestion
that companies should be 'allowed to tell their
side of the story when their workers are being
organized would be a bad thing. In fact, we read
that he feels such permission would make it
"extremely difficult" for unions to expand. '
Apparently then, unionism cannot survive
and prosper under attack from employers or any
one else. Surely theil the unions must be bad for
the worker and bad for the community.
On the farm scene the farmers are doing
' their organization in the open, and true, they
are receiving criticism from all and sundry. But,
when they finally sort out all, their difficulties
and achieve the ends to which they strive, they
will of necessity have, moulded an organization
which will be •acceptible, and good for those con-
cerned.
We suggest to those men who are striving in
the farm groups to achieve a position where the
farmer has control' of his product until he is
paid for it, that they do not give up in their
struggle. They have the support of thinking
men everywhere. They are doing a good job,
and if they manage to keep their heads, when
all about them men are losing theirs, the end
product will be something of which they can be
extremely proud.
UNREMEMBERED DAY
ONE OF THE problems of government in
trying to create employment is that architects
and engineers seemingly are wedded to the idea
that if it's imported, it's bound to be better.
A great building now in course of construc-
tion seems to require, according to plans, that
certain materials be imported, although this
type of material has been produced in Canada
for a couple of hundred 'years. The quality is
likely as good as any produce elsewhere and
there is a moderate customs duty.
But the specifications of the building made
it almost imperative that the Canadian menu-
lecturers, who (architects and engineers and
government officials may remember) are em-
ployers of resident Canadians, could not have the
business.
This is only one illustration of what seems
to be happening 'to undermine stated government
policy. After all, the government officials who
direct these 'affairs in behalf of the ministry are,
'almost without exception, people, who were on
the payroll prior to June 10, 1957. Apparently
they have decided, perhaps even unconsciously,
that nothing happened on that day nor on March
31, 1958. —THE PRINTED WORD.
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SAFETY AT PLAY
40' YEARS AGO
Clinton. New Era.
Thursday, March 6, 1919
Private Joseph Silcock. who en-
listed with the 161st Battalion, ar-
rived here on Tuesday night from
overseas. He was in the big fight
and was wounded and has been
some time in England, He was em-
ployed with J. limes on the 2nd
of Stanley before enlisting.
Bert Fitzsimons was appointed
Chief of Police. Council decided
to enter into negotiations with the
Dominion Government regarding
an addition to the Clinton Post
Office,
All returned men are invited to
become members of the Clinton
Khaki Club, whose comfortable
club rooms, well heated •and light-
ed, are to be found in the McKay
Block. "Unity is Strength" and
the club's aim is to see that the
men who served their country are
given a -square deal, Similar clubs
are being formed in Goderich,
Wingham, Seaforth and other
towns in the country.
The medical expert of the Lon-
don Times has estimated that at
least six million were 'flu victims
during the last three months of
1918: The estimated fatalities of
the war of 41/2 years are placed
at twenty millions.
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, March 6, 1919
Mrs. George W. Layton and
Mrs. Fred Pepper, London Road,
are visiting this week at the home
of John Layton, Peterboro.
March came in like a lion, when
a violent storm of thunder, light-
ening, wind and rain passed, over.
The winter of 1919 has already
broken all records and we are not
a bit surprised to see a thunder
storm in March.
The Clinton Girls' Hockey Team
went to Forest to play a return
match with the Forest girls. The
ice being found too soft for the
game, an impromptu dance was
held. By two o'clock in the morn-
ing, the ice was hard and the
Clinton club, which is usually
game, offered to play the game
then, getting it over in time to
leave for home,;by the -early train.
But their hostesses refused. They
had- probably never heard of a
We took young Hugh down to
the city to compete in the big
music festival last week, The
idea was that it would be good
experience for him to come up
against some topnotch talent. It
didn't seem tot affect him one way
or the other, but by the time we
got home, his mother looked ten
years older, and I felt exactly as
I used to feel at the end of a sev-
en-days leave when I was a young
and foolish fighter pilot. * * *
Taking a kid to the city for a
music festival compares, I should
think, with taking a ride in the
pouch of a lady kangaroo who is
going at full gallop. It's hard on
the pocket, you get a very fleeting
view of the world about you, and
you alternate between airy flights
and jolting returns to earth. • * *
Music festivals, as all parents
of performers know, are among
the most gruesome tortures devis-
ed by Canadian society This one
was no exception. The gloomy, ill-
lit church. The hard seats. The
mothers of performers, hair askew,
eyes wild, madly gnawing off their
lipstick. The little girls, giggling,
fidgeting and flipping their pony
tails about. The little boys, sol-
emn and silent, desperately knead-
ing their knuckles.
Then there's the sheer nervous
terror of the ordeal itself. You
alternate between pity and delight
when the other kids make a mess
of their piece, Then the sudden,
savage twist of your stomach as
your own marches up, white as a
ghost. And the black despair when
he falters, the flare of hope when
he finishes with a flourish. * *
Then the let-down, while the ad-
judicator scribbles his notes, and
parents hiss back and forth, as-
sessing and guessing and trying
to reassure each other that their
prodigy isn't really in the running
while they secretly hope for a
miracle,
* * *
Then the sudden seizure of heart
as the adjudicator asks a few of
the kids to play over again, and
yours is one of them. The horror
as your genius makes a blotch of
his second performance and the
others all play it better than they
did the first time,
The mounting tension as the ad-
judicator begins to speak. The
Mesmerized trance with which you
watch as he weeds out the losers,
with kindly advice The controll-
hockey game at such arruneartbly
hoUr, • so the game did not come
off. Mrs. H. 13. Combe accompan-
ied the young ladies as chaperon.
25 ' YEARS AGO
• Clinton News-Record
Thursday, March 8, 1934
, Paul Hovey, formerly of Clinton
and brother of Mary Hovey of
town, has arrived safely in Shang-
hai, China, being engaged to teach
commercial aviation to the Chin-
ese. There's an adventure, surely,
for a young man.
Mrs. Milton Wiltse was in Gode-
rich last week to attend the funer-
al of the late Mrs. Amos Fisher.
The Young People's Society of
Wesley-Willis Church were guests
of the YPS of Brucefield Church
and provided the program for the
evening. Misses Kathleen Cameron
and Viola Holland gave Bible rea-
dings; Miss Isabel Lindsay gave
the topic; music was provided by
a quartette, Misses Agnes Camer-
on, Dorothy Corless; Ellen Cheri-
esworth and Viola Holland with
Jean Andrews at the piano.
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, March 3, 1949
A proposal was made at last
week's Chamber of Commerce
meeting that investigation be made
into the possibility of erecting a
community recreational centre in
Community Park, including an art-
ificial ice arena. We understand
theie are plenty of government
grants available for the purpose,
and everyone knows Clinton badly
needs some sort of recreational
centre in• line with those possess-
ed by other towns.
Donald Palmer, Toronto, spent
the weekend at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Proctor
Palmer, Holmesville.
As the 75th anniversary of the
incorporation of Clinton as a town
will take place in 1950, there is a
move on foot to celebrate this
occasion with an Old Home Week.
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ed hysteria as you realize your
own might, just might, make the
grade. And the wild delight as
you watch the little guy march up
and get his certificate for first,
second or.third place,
* * *
Then the great relaxed feeling
when it's all over. And you're
chattering like a psychopath. And
you feel like a piece of damp cello-
phane. And you keep assuring
each-other, and- the kid, that win-
ning is not really important. And
you really feel sorry for all the
kids who didn't win. And you're
as hungry as a cougar.
* * *
Oh, they're great institutions,
these music festivals. But we're
used to them, and it wasn't really
the festival that got me down. It
was keeping track of that kid in
the city. He was much more in-
terested in riding escalators, ele-
vators and the subway than in
playing the piano.
*
We went into a big department
store to buy some books. I wat-
ched him like a hawk—He darted
around like a hummingbird. I
took my eyes off him for 30 sec-
onds, to pay the clerk. When I
turned 'around, there was no sign
of him. I nearly went straight
through the roof, We didn't have
much time to get to the festival
hall. * * * •
I grabbed his mother, planted
her as a buoy, told her not to dare
move, and went searching for him.
I ran all over the floor 'we were
on. About 4,000 other people were
there I went back to the buoy.
The buoy's hair was beginning to
stand on end with rage. Off I
went again, murder in my heart,
Just as I was about to either call
the police or jump down an elevat-
or shaft, he emerged from behind
a pillar. He'd been riding the es-
calators.
When she was four years old,
Carol was stricken by poliomyel-
itis. She survived the disease only
to face a life in a wheel chair.
Her parents literally smothered-
her with affection and attention,
They failed to realize that this
was a course that could have ser-
ious results because too much at-
tention could take the form of not
permitting Carol to develop her
own personality and self-reliance.
By the time she was nine years
old, Carol was a problem child, a
bright intelligent, but embittered
youngster. When officials of the
Ontario Society for Crippled Ch-
ildren, whose nurses and therapists
had aided her, suggested she go to
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first insisted she should accomp-
any Carol.
Finally Carol went to camp, Her
first days were bed, yet within
a week she had seen other young-
sters far more seriously handicap-
ped than she enjoying life. By the
end of the camp term Carol was
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work and wap eager to go to
school when she got home, Practi-
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crippled children. The campaign
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000 and lasts until Easter Sunday,
March 29.
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A feW minutes later, as we hur-
ried up a narrow street, he slip-
ped' on the ice and would have
gone beneath the Wheels of a car
if I hadn't grabbed him by the
scruff of the neck. Next year,
when we go to the festival, I'm
taking a set of handcuffs.
*
I don't think I've ever been so
glad to get hate, even though the
pup had made a complete shanibl-
es of the utility 'room, and the 20-
foot icicle on the front of the house
had dropped, smashing the window
in the storm door,
Carol is an eleven-year-old, who summer Camp her parents recoiled
today has a happy wholesome out-
look on life despite the fact that
the radium of her young world
is confined to the sights seen from
a wheel chair. Yet only two years
ago, Carol was unhappy, a worry
6 her parents and potentially a
serious loss to society.
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