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THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS-13E00FM)
Amalgamated 1924
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario — population 2,985
• 11,A WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor
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THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1959
HEADACHE FOR POLITICIANS
A. 1- GOLQUHOWN, Publisher
•
NATIONAL WILD Life Week is cele-
brated in Canada during the week in which
the birthday of Jac Miner fall's, April 5-11,
This is an educational week designed to help
awaken public interest in conservation of bird
and animal life, and all natural resources. April
13 is Nature Sunday. 1
This is the time of year when wild birds
are returning from the south to nest and raise
their young. The .Miner Bird Sactuary at Kings-
ville has become a very well known part of
Canada, with visits from both sides of the U.S.-
Canadian border. "The wild goose flight at the
'Miner Sanctuary is to me the best wild life
show in the country," sates Dr. y. H. D. Clarke,
the supervisor of wild life management for Ont-
ario, in 1952.
SPRING
SPRING CAME officially on Saturday.
With the good weather a strange breed
of men and women will be abroad—they are
already showing themselves at the doors of
households in near-by towns, possibly even in
Clinton.
These are the people who believe the old
saying, "There's a sucker born every minute",
and enjoy going about the country proving the
truth of it.
One style of salestalk they have is that
they can sell you something cheaper than you
can get it anywhere else. Then, when you take
them up on the offer, they either leave a shoddy
piece of merchandise with you, or they go into
the second part of the spiel, which runs down
the first product, and substitutes a more expen-
sive one. Too many people seem to think that
because they approved purchase of the cheaper
model, they are honour-bound to pay for the
with a deficit of 241/4 million pounds. Since
then, The Manchester Guardian estimates, the
accumulated liability of this nationalized indus-
try has soared to around 75 million pounds,
The political dilemma posed by this state
of affairs for the British Government is formi-
dable. If the Coal Board continues to accumulate
staggering deficits at this rate, a financial crisis
of major proportions will fall upon the backs
of British taxpayers. ,If the eighty thousand
miners are laid off, and production geared to
market needs, the Labor party will seek to
make political capital out of the situation.
Nationalization and other schemes for
meddling with the market can be mighty em-
barassing politically. For no matter what policy
a Government may follow with regard to a
publicly-owned industry, some segment of the
electorate is certain to be offended. That is why
even the British Labor party now appears to
feel that nationalization and public ownership
are things which it is better to shun,
FTH YEAR
000 women.
This newest military service used by man-
kind (the use of air power) has developed
greatly over the years. The -great strides taken
during wartime due to competition and pressure
of necessity, have at the same time hastened the
development of the air for peacetime pleasure
and business.
The past 35 years have been studded with
accomplishments for Canada's Air Force. It is
a great pleasure to congratulate the force on
its birthday (April 1) and to wish best of luck
to the men who built, 'fly and service Canada's
air power.
E WEEK
Jack Miner received great honour in 1956,
when 33 official .delegates from the United Na-
tions, With interpreters and secretaries made a
special trip to Canada, to visit Kingsville and
the sanctuary.
This spot in Southern Ontario is within
one-day driving distance of this area, and would
be an excellent goal for a family who decides on
a week-end motor trip "to some place different".
We are all apt to be like the chap in To-
ronto, who had lived there for 20 years, and had
not yet visited the zoo, or the museum. We in
Southern Ontario should take advantage of the
lovely places to visit that are within easy travel-
ling range. It's inexpensive, a good deal of fun,
and is educational to the young as well as the
older members of the family.
GYPSTERS
more expensive item.
The other style of salestalk is the one
that suggests some sponsorship by the govern-
ment. These Men generally say they are govern-
ment inspectors, and go on' to inspect a chim-
ney or a roof. Then they decide it needs repair,
and they say it has to be done at once. They
extract a cheque, or cash from their victim,
do a poor job of repair (if they do anything
at all) and then vanish.
Either of this type of "salsman" or "in-
spector" is dishonest.
Don't you be a sucker!
Deal with the/ people you know. Buy
from the merchants established in business. If
anything goes wrong with the job after it is
done, you will be able to find them in the store
where you are accustomed to shop.
Guard your hard-earned dollars and buy
wisely.
NATIONALIZATION and public owner-,
ship can pose some knotty problems for poli-,
ticians.
Evidence that this is so is found in the
dilemma faced by the British Government with
-regard to the country's coal mines, nationalized
when the Labor party was in power just after
World War IL
Despite a costly modernization program-
me, the British Coal Board which runs the mines
has gone deeper in the red every year. Worse
still, rising wage costs in the nationalized in-
dustry have driven the price of coal so high that
Industry is turning to other and more economi-
al of energy. Right now, according to
The Manchester Guardian, millions of tons of coal
are being mined for which there is •no market.
Some eighty thousand miners are being paid
'to get coal out of the pits only 'to be dumped
back into empty quarries.
The British Coal Board began the year
THIRTY-FI
ALTHOUGH 35 YEARS have passed since
the formation of the Royal Canadian Air Force,
Canada's first military air unit was formed Sept-
ember 16, 1914 and „consisted of two officers
and one- plane—a Burgess-Dunne purchased for
$5,000 from the U.S.A. This was the Canadian
Aviations Corps.
Four years later Canada had graduated
3,135 pilots and 137 observers. They flew as
part of the Royal Air Force until the formation
of the RCAF in 1924. Initial strength was 65
officers and-200 airmen.
During the Second World War, strength
of the RCAF grew to over 58,000 men and 17,-
WILD LIF
40.10"114k
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, March 24, Ma
' Who ever heard of a couple of
boys going swimming in IVIarch,.
with the snow still an the .ground?
Jack Moore, 13, .and Bill Maw-.
Ilan, 14, did just that after school
An Monday, thus ushering in ap-
ring. The lads tried out the old
swimming hole in the Bayfield.
River, just east of the bridge sou-
th of town,
During the past few days, met-
or traffic has not been very kind
to the asphalt surface of the main
street, in the business section, and
it has crumpled up rather badly
in spots. No further evidence is
needed that this street must be
'paved this spring—or there won't
be much surface left, '
Miss Helen J. Lobb has accept-
ed a position with the Bell Tele-
phone Company and commenced
her new duties this week.
Mr, and Mrs. Alex Aubin and
family, Brucefield, were Sunday
visitors with their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ful-
ford,
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CLIIN11'ON IsIZWS-RECOrtp RAU 'TWO THURSPAY) MARCH 26, 1909
40 YEARS,A.GO,
Clinton New Era
Thursday, March 'AI, 1919
Charles Whitehead, former resi-
dent of Clinton who helped build
the Goderich .& Buffalo railway
line, died in Winnipeg. His father,
Joseph Whitehead, was a pioneer
in railroading. He was fireman on
the Rocket, the first locomotive,
built in England in 1825. Just as
the father had a share in intro-
ducing the first locomotive in
England, so it was fitting that his
son ,Charles should bring the first
locomotive into Winnipeg on Oct-
ober 8, 1877, introducing the "iron
horse" to the prairies where he
made his home;
• Ernie Townsend, Goderich
Township, was . plowing on Friday
of last week. He was the first
to get on the land hereabouts.
Mrs. James- Nott returned to
her home on the London Road aft
er spending the Winter in Clinton.
•
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton. News-Record
Thursday, March 27, 1919
S. B, Stothers, Agricultural
Representative, has purchased the
Stothers homestead near Luck-
now, which is considered an ex-
cellent piece of farming land,
J, H. Barr, Toronto, son-in-law
of Fred Lockwood of town, is
working up a good butter and
egg trade in connection with his
store on Jones Avenue in the
Queen City, having recently put
Saturday ,the 21st of March
was the first day of spring. Would
anyone care to join me in em-
itting a short, sardonic bark of
laughter? Just try not to let
it get away from you and turn
into a peal of maniacal mirth.
Spring is birds and bunnies,
Easter and daffodils, baby-carria-
ges on bare sidewalks, little girls
skipping, little boys getting wet
to the tail, the smell of mud, the
kicking off of overshoes, the feel
of warm wind and sun.
•-a;'* *
It is not the growling of an
overworked second-hand stoker in
its lair below-stairs. It is not the
howling of a blizzard about the
house. It is not the scowling of
a housewife just about at the
end of her tether. Nor is it four
feet of snow and ice piled up
against your front door since
New Year's.
Something went haywire this
year. At least it did in this part
of the country, We've had more
than 12 feet of snow and four
months of solid winter without
a break. Even the old pioneers
have ceased their clap-trap about
the big winter of ought-twelve
or whatever, and admit ruefully
that this one "sure has been a
corker."
*
Everyone is shabby, disgruntled
and completely brassed off. Eld-
erly folk are holding their brea-
ths, fearful they won't make it,
this time, until the sun warms
their bones again, Even the kids
are surfeited with skating and
horsing around in snowbanks, and
are getting owlier every day. *
As for the average househol-
der, he's a wan shadow of his
a produce rig on .the road.
,Lew Johnston has arranged to
work for Norman Ball, Simmer-
hill, ..for the summer,.
Privates Harold prandon and
Louis McLeod, Bayfield, returned
to their homes this week from
overseas,
The recent drive in aid of the
hospital netted $876,60, with a
further $138$0 subscribed but not
yet' paid, making a total of $1015.
40,
25 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, March 29, 1934
MrS, C. Lovett has returned
home after a lengthy visit with
her brothers and sister at Aub-
urn.
Miss Ruby Churchill left yester-
day to join her sister in Toronto
and they will spend the Easter
vacation in Bermuda.
Monday's snowfall, one of the
heaviest of the season, came as a
surprise. To those confidently ex-
pecting spring, a ten or twelve
inch snow fall in a few hours
comes as a shock, But now per
haps it will open up and the extra
moisture will not come amiss,
An inspector from the Post Of-
fice department, in town a few
days ago, sent in a recommenda-
tion • that Huron Murch, who has
been in charge of the post' office
during the illness of the late post-
master, Mr. Scott, be left in temp-
orary charge untill a new post-
master is appointed. His work is
completely satisfactory and he is
to be congratulated on this temp-
orary appointment.
normal self. He walks with a
perpetual snow-shovel stoop. A
perpetual cough racks his enfe-
ebled frame. He has. nothing to
show for the winter but the loss
of his health and good nature.
Ahead lie the Scylla and Chary-
bdis of a monstrous fuel bill and
a poisonous income tax return,
* *
The only thing that kept some
of us going through March was
watching the cowards, who spent
the winter in Florida, arriving
home. All tanned and rested, and
busting to tell us what a grand
winter they had, they got back
to find roofs caved in, windows
broken by icicles, water-pipes
burst and a raging blizzard in
progress. We peasants who had
held the fort could scarce for-
bear to smile.
Canadians should have a dif-
ferent calender from other people,
One with 13 months on it. That
would give us a chance to stay
even with the rest of the world.
It would take that extra month
to earn enough to pay for our
fuel bill. If we cut all the months
down to 28 days like February,
we'd have enough left over to
make that extra month. It would
also make November, January and
March three days shorter each,
which would put new heart into
us. * *
But we'd still have one day
left over, out of the 365. I would
designate it, under the new calen-
dar system, as a national holiday,
about the end of January. It would
be known as All 'Flu's Day. It
would be a day for all Canadians
to take that full day in bed which
they are suposed to do when they
catch the 'flu, and never have time
to. *
However, don't sell a winter like
this one short. It is not a com-
plete loss. For one thing, it is a
great moulder of rugged Canad-
ianism, It makes us tough, re-
sourceful and mean, like New En-
glanders.
Anybody who hasn't had a heart
attack has got tougher than a
sixty-cent steak, wielding that
snow shovel. Resourceful? I
didn't know I had it in me, some
of the things I've done. Like my
broken cellar window. Lots of
soft, easy-living people would have
put a new glass in smartly. Not
me. Not this winter. I've got the
opening blocked up as neat as you
please with an empty beer case,
held in place by one of those mas-
sive boulders left in my cellar by
the excavators, * 4, •
Mean? I can sit there at the
kitchen window and watch my mo-
ther-in-law struggle over a four-
foot snow bank, wade through a
foot of loose snow, and nearly
murder herself on the icy steps,
trying -to get to the house, with-
out stirring a finger or feeling a
qualm,
* *
Well, one of us has to give, and
I hope winter cracks before I do.
The kids eye me warily these days,
The dog cowers when I approach.
But I didn't know how mean r was
getting until I went out to chop
some ice off the steps the other
day. Went to come in and found
my Wife had locked the door, She
wouldn't open it until I threw the
axe into a snowdrift.
Quick Canadian
Quiz
1. What is a "shinplaster"?
2. How many of the world's St-
andard Time Zones cross Can-
adian territory?
3. Of the six million Canadians
with jobs, how many .are em-
ployed in farming, in retailing,
in manufacturing?
4. What is the origin of the name
the Peace River?
5. Succession duties provide what
proportion of federal govern-
ment over revenue?
ANSWERS: 5. In 1957-58 suc-
cession duties provided only $71
million of Ottawa's $5,047 million
of revenue. 3. In farming, 800,000;
in retailing 500,000; in manufact-
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The Bible has been referred to
as "The Book that Lives," It
es because it speaks to men and
women in their living language.
The ancient texts of Scripture
have been translated into 1,127
languages and dialects of current
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The Book, distributed by the
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Suggested Scripture readings for
next week:
Sunday, March 29, Luke 24; 13-43
Monday, March 30, John 20; 1-18
Tuesday, March 31, John 20: 19-31
Wednesday, April 1, John 21; 1-14
Thursday, April 2, 'John 21: 15-25
Friday, April 3, I Cor. 15: 1-28
Saturday, April 4, Rev. 1: 1-20
uring, 1,500,000. 1. The "shinplast-
er" is the 25-cent paper note for-
merly issued -in Canada. 4. Name
of the Peace River comes from a
point of land where the Cree and
Beaver Indians made a treaty of
peace concerning their Claims to
adjacent lands. 2. Seven Standard
Time Zones cross Canadian ter-
ritory:
Material prepared by the edit-
ors of Quick Canadian Facts, the
pocket annual of facts about Can-
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