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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-03-12, Page 2NewsPolltecord THE OLINTQP4 NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS,RE00110 Amalgamated 1924 POfished 0Yery Thursday .at the Heart of Huron county Clinton, Ontario — Population 2,985 A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher CV L/14 WILMA P. DINNIN, Ed!ter 81113SCRIPTION RATES; Payable in advance—Canada and rent Britain: $3,00 a year United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents A110101140 as second class mail, post Office Depart.rnent, Ottawa THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1959 NOTICE The March 'Session of the HURON COUNTY COUNCIL will be held at the Court House' Goderich, on MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1959• at 10,00 am. All communications and accounts to be in, the hands of the Clerk by noon, Friday, March 20, 1959, JOHN G. BERRY, Clerk-Treasurer 10,b 11 Business and and Professional — Directory — With trouble in Africa, the Ar- row cancelled, and the Berlin sit- uation looming up, it seems as good a time as any to give a pro- gress report on. Playboy. For those who came in late, Playboy is, the black spaniel pup we bought for the kids at Christmas. A charming, fat bundle, he was as cute as a Koala bear cub, The youngsters were enchanted. * * * Christmas, with its sentiment, is long gone from us, and we are battling the bitter winds of March. And that sweet, little, roly-poly puppy is long gone from us, and we are battling a great, rangy, hairy, leaping, chewing animal whose mere presence in the house keeps my wife in a constant state of near-hysteria. * * We tried. Oh, haw we tried to bring him up properly. We'd never had a dog before, and we knew the first couple of weeks would be quite a strain, until we had him trained to use the papers, stop crying at night, and do everything he was told. We thought it might even take a month. * * a: But I must' confess that there are a few comblaints. For example, when he eats out of his dish, his ears hang down into his mush and milk, After 'the stuff dries, it gives him the appearance of a dirty old man whose tabooed juice has dribbled Out both corners of his mouth into his beard. * * * And he smells. Thanks to Feld- webeI Hermann Muller, I haven't been able to smell anything since October 15th, 1944. But my wife assures me that he stinks. We tried chlorophyll pills in his food. We brushed hirn, We gave him a bath (and I don't even want to talk about that). He got stead- ily worse. $'inally we gave up, and now the kids, from fondling him, smell just like hint, so we're sort of used, to it. C * * We got a big shook when I took him to the vet for his shots. The pup had been scratching himself Wildly since we got him. We'd sprinkle him with flea powder, but he kept on biting and chewing and flailing himself with his foot, My wife said he Was lousy, X scoffed at the idea.. Anyone knows that all pups scratch thernSeiveS. And besides, how could he be lousy when he was a thoroughbred/ * 4 ' Anyway, the Dec rolled hint 1-'11 of lice as 'you'd want to see. When I told the Old Girl, she nearly broke down, I got her calmed down, and we sat there, nervously scratching ourselves. It dawned on both of us about the same time, that one of the favourite tricks of the kids was setting the pup on top of their heads, holding him there and walking around the house that way, pretending he was a fur hat. * * * The real problem, however, and we might as well face it, is No. 1 and No, 2. We spread the papers down, and after his meal, I hold him there for about ten minutes. He reads the headlines with inter- est. When I get a crick in my back and release him, he trots straight to the nearest patch of bare floor and makes a mess on it * * * Oh well, these things can be expected in the best of families, and we were still fond of him. He had so many endearing little tricks. Like running between my legs when I was staggering out with a big load of ashes. Or jumping frantically when you were putting down his bowl of food, knocking his head on it and send- ing it all over the floor. You couldn't help but love him. * * * But he nearly got the axe last week. We'd been out somewhere. My wife, as women will, had worn snowboots, and carried her shoes in her hand. They were extra-spee- ial shoes Those sleek, spiky Italian affairs, the beat and most expensive she'd ever had. She told me she'd had to search for two days to find a purse to Match them. * * t When we came in, she put them on the floor, in the hall, and was whipping around the kitchen in stocking feet, making some tea and yakking. The pup was playing around. ,81.1e went into the hall. Next thing I heard was a piercing scream, followed by a yelp, then wild sobbing. He had eaten both toes off her imported shoes, * * * It took the combined strength of thigh and I to hold her, while Kim scooped up the pup, ran With hint to his room, and shot the bolt front the inside, For the next 24 hours she alternately wept over her shoes and threatened to murder the dog. She didn't even appreel. ate my suggestion, the next day, that she cut the toes of the shoes off cleanly, knock the spike heels AUCTIONEER ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY " Public Accountant GODERICH, Ontario Telephone 1011 Box 478 45-17-b OPTOMETRY J. R. LONGSTAPP Routs: Beafortht Daily except Monday & Wednesday-9 a.m._ to 5.30 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.tn, to 12.30 p.m. Thursday evening by appointment Only: Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard- ware.---IVIOndays a.m. to 5,30 Phone Minter- 2.7010 Clinton PHONE '791 SEAPORTH Gt. O. CLANCY Optometriat Canaan (successor to the late A. to, Cole, optometrist) loor appointment phone 38( Goderich REA S ATE LuosAgb 0, vitimit steal Itstate and Onsineint Hinitet MO Street ton • RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence ' Rattenbury Street East Phone SE 2,9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO 50-tfb HAIR DRESSING CHARLES HOUSE OF BEAUTY Cold Waves, Cutting, and Styling King St., Clinton Ph. HU 2-7065 C. D. Proctor, Prop. •4114141,4,14~......".1.44144.411.10 INSURANCE INSURE THE CO-OP WAY Auto, Accident and Sickness, Liability, Wind, Fire and other perils P. A, "PETE" ROY, CLINTON Phone Mr 2-9357 Co-operators Insurance Association K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones:- Office HU 2-0747; Res. HO 2-7858 Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 J. H. HOWARD, Hayfield Phone Hayfield Sr2. Ontario Automobile Assoelation Car - Fire - Aecident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I havi Policy. THE 11IcIt/LLOP Mt PIJAL FIRE INS-CitANCM CO1VIPANY Read Office: Scatorth Officers 1058: President, Rob. ert Archibald, ,Seaforilt; vice. pre, ident, Alistair Proadtoot, Sea- forth; secretary-treastwer, Nor tna Soffery, Seatorth, Directorat JOhri H. MeEtving, Robert Archibald; Leon- hardt, Bornholm; E..1. Trewmitlitt, Clinton; Wm, S. Alexander, Walt ton; I. L. Malone, SealOrth; Har. vey Fuller, Code:deb; I.Porpet, Brucefield; Alistair Bret4fobite Seaforth, Agents: Wm. telper 3n, Lot& eshoten 3.F, Piteter, Brodita SeIWYtt Baker, , From our Early Files 40 YEARS AGO Sillutupk New lra Thursday, ignrch. 13, ino The box Social in .connection with Bethany church, held at the Misses Mcbongell's in .Goderich Township, was. a great succes$, A good pro#401 .was rendered and .afterward the boxes were put at auction by a•arnes I2. .Stirling. The boxes brought 870,00, The Clinton School .of Commer- ce held their Annual at home, They were joined by the students of the .Goderich school. Manager Manning of the Prin- cess Theatre informs the New Era that he has secured "The Better 'ole" to be'shown here on April 23. Smaller one cent .Canadian coins are coming to 'take the place of. the larger copper cents now in: circulation. Ed Morrison,and family of St- anley are now ettled in their new home purchased from Mr. Rath- well on Huron Street, '25 YEARS AGO mum News-Record Thursday, March 10, 194 The Public School concerts, put on annually under the direction of W. A. Anderton, musical instruct- or, and the auspices of the Home and School Club, grow better ev- ery year. This year two operettas, "Under The Sugar Plum Tree" by the lower rooms, and '"Little Red Riding Hood" by the older sttl- dents, provided two pleasant even- ings' entertainment. Between 'the operettas Misses Betty and Ena McEwen gave an exhibition of the Highland Fling, Miss Ellen Charlesworth at the piano, and were so well received that they were obliged to respond to an en- core. ' A new wing will be added to the hospital in memory of the late. Dr. Gandier. It is expected that it will cost ten or twelve thousand dollars; it will add twelve rooms and make possible an elevator, which has been needed ever since the hospital was fitted up. 440 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News Record Thursday, March 10, 1949 Clinton Town Council at its March meeting voted each of its eight members a $50 salary for services for 1949. Both Clinton and Brucefield Fire, Departments responded to a call at the farm residence of Adam Stewart, concession 4, Stanley Township, last Friday morning. The Clinton crew, numbering six, under Fire Chief Grant Rath, used chemicals and the other crew had its pumper using water from a well. However they were unable to save more than the kitchen and a portion of the house. A defective chimney is blamed. N. W. Trewartha, chairman of finance, predicted a "sunshine" budget for 1949. Some reasons are a surplus of more than $5,000 from 1948, a higher assessment on which to base the levy, and increased government grants. The official opening of Bart- liff Bros. modernized store and restaurant takes place Saturday, March 12, with many special fea- tures. Clinton News-Record Thursday, March 13, 1919 F. Bruce Medd, who has been conducting a creamery business in Exeter, will move back to a farm near Clinton. On Tuesday morning when care- taker Smyth went up to the Pub- lic School to look after the fires he found three men comfortably settled on some sacks in the base- ment before a roaring fire, where they had evidently spent the night. Mr, Smyth advised them to get out of town if they wanted to ay-. oid trouble. 'Later it was found that they had extracted ten dol- lars from the' till in the railway station ticket office, apparently making entry by means of a skel- ton key during the agent's abs- ence in the freight shed. The last meeting of the CCI Literary Society was in the hands of Form 1. Following a debate "Resolved that Party Government is the only Government for a De- mocratic Government" Willis Van- Egmond gave an instrumental solo and Nesbitt Cook and Bert Slo- man gave 'readings. SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) • 14.06- 17110 Sie1011-51111i111.W. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS i -EXTERIOR MOLISE PAINTI LOOKS BEAUTIFUL 14 AND LASTS FOR YEARS Ii SWP House Paint stands up against drenching rains, sand storms, and relentless heat. SWP colors are formu- lated, controlled and tested to give sparkling beauty to your home tau years. You can paint your own home easily and quickly —see your local SWP dealer for fru*. information. Ball & Mutch LK& Hardware Phone HU 2-9505 Clinton, Ontario SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS I 1 THE WOKS SPEAKING TO the farmers assembled on 'the final day of Huron County's seed fair here last Saturday, a practical farmer told his listen- ers that the worst culprit among farmers today is the chap who has not taken advantage of the many programs made available by the Ontario government, but complains and gripes continually about what the government should do for the farmer. He said he had no sympathy for the man who did not take his opportunity to make use of the information and experience that the De- T CULPRIT partment of Agriculture makes available to him. These, however, are the men who comprise the "kickers" who oppose farm plans, of various kinds. They ask for government intervention on behalf of the farmer. They plan "marches upon Ottawa," with the attitude apparently, that the nation owes them a living. But, we would wonder if these same men have taken advan- tage of the opportunities for learning and in- formation \about management which are avail- able foi their use? Shoes We Can Never REALLY Fill iteorixted Iron The ondott Pro Pros I hAAtitit, r16.yo, PAGE Two =VON 1 'VWs4tEcono Tkp,,IRSDAY, .MARCH 12, 1959 PROBLEMS OF THE TOWN qlri IP of Goderich residents are fated with a problem arising out of modern day developments. The population of the township is increas- ing, and apparently tends toward eongestion in three different sections: near Holniesville; near Goderich; and, near Bayfield, • With the increased population comes demand for more school classrooms, Two of the one- room schocils are over-crowded now. In three • sections the township is faced with '(or soon will be) the matter of transporting children to other school buildings. The alternative class-rooms, where up until now some more space has been available, are rapidly becoming filled. When a section can with its own children fill the school in that section, then they can no longer accept children from a. neighbouring section. For some, time Goderich Township has sent heildren, into Bayfield school, That is no longer possible. They sent children to the graded school at RCAF Station Clinton. This is no longer possible. There is no surplus of space in Clinton Public School, even with the addition completed last month. What then, is the township to do? The suggestion for a consolidated school system is not so far-fetched as it appeared when first we contemplated it Goderich Township has Long been known for its progressive thoughts politically, and the successes of children which attended school in that township are known to the people who reside there. PLANS FOR our town in 1959, have includ- ed a Kinsmen-club sponsored campaign to num- ber all of the houses, and install numbers on each, in accordance with a master plan which will be devised to accommodate new housing areas, and more streets where they should be built. . Other plans include a council-sponsored er- ection of street signs at each corner throughout town. Both of these things will cost money. In the case of the latter plan, we are aware that increased costs• in removing snow through this especially "bad winter" has reduced the streets budget considerably. In addition, extra' costs of both our schools will require an esti- MODERN DAYS If by putting up two or more larger selaools, with two or four rooms each, the township can improve the type of education which its children are receiving, then that is the thing they should do. It is well known that teachers with the opportunity to teach in the city schools generally do so. The reason seems to be mainly for the better conditions offered by a "graded school." The job of teaching eight grades divi- ded among 40 pupils, is a much more difficult one to face, than the job of teaching three grades made up of ,the same number of pupils, If by entering the consolidated school idea, the township can reduce the size of its classrooms to the model 30 per room, then the teachers will be even more attracted to stay with them. Yes, but transportation is a problem, Of course, it is. But is it not a problem that cannot be met. The people of Goderich Township have had their share of experience with 'transporting pupils. Many of them are' quite happy about the idea of having the youngsters picked up at the gate and taken ,to their school. Most of the children, too, are happier to get a ride than to brave the wintry winds which we've been having this winter, and most of the winters in this snow belt have their full share of "bad winter days." We feel the situation should be well talked over, and considered in all its aspects. Then the problem should be put to the people for their decision. It is not right to ask the Councillors to accept the full responsibility themselves for the decision which must be made. N IN 1959 mated four mills this year. Our considered advice is that if the mill rate has to be raised, it is better to raise it, and get the jobs done which the people are requesting. Education must be paid for, But it is 'not right that we should let the cost of education reduce the funds set aside for other parts of municipal responsibility. We should not rob from the gen- eral fund, to pay for eduaction. More and more the provincial government is accepting financial responsibility for education. We feel that this is right. But, we should not permit the educational burden which is left to the municipalities reduce entirely the amount set aside for streets work, improvements in our street signs, etc. FOR CLINTO