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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-04-09, Page 2Cliitton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEW$-RE-PORP. AmAlgamated 1924 :lit U p .ponlisbed. every Thursday at the. Heart of HOW POMO( Clinton, Ontario --Population 2,985 AB p. -o • U A. .L, clat,eaUHQUN, Publisher — • • e V, 11.0 • WILMA D. PIN.NIN0 Editor SUBSCRIPTION- RATES: payable in advance—Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Atithorized as second class mail, Post. Office Department, Ottawa THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959 er year THE WHITE TRILLIUM SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill-) B. T, Smiley) The 8i&Ie Today The Austrian Bible CoMmittee is working on the first edition of the New Testament in the amba, language, which will be sent to the flambe, speaking people in East Central .Tanganyika as a gift from the Protestants in Austria, The translation was, made in Tanganyika by a committee .ap- pointed by the Lutheran August., ana Missions of America, while the original .suggestion 'to under- take this project came from 13i, shop Wind Berggrav, who was President of the United Bible Soc- ieties, Suggested Scripture readings -for next week, - Sunday, Apr, 12: 1 Sam, 10; 14-27 Monday, Apr. 13; Rev. 3; 7-22 Tuesday, Apr. 14: Rev, 4; 1.11 Wed„ Apr. 15: 1. Sam. 14; 1-15 Thurs., Apr. 16: 1 Sam, 14; 16-35 Fri., Apr. 17: 1 Sam. 14: 35-52 Sat., Apr. 18; 1. Sam. 15: 1-16 IRAR,WAY TIME TABLE. CHANGES Effoctivo Sunia'Ye April 26th, 1959 10 • I' ti ANNOUNCEMENT J. E. 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Investors grir cm dooFaa OP CANADA,liMITCD Head Offkot Winnipeg Offices In Principal Cities Business and Professional — Directory -- AUCTIONEER HAIR DRESSING From Our Early Files 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, April 7, 1949 Elmer Trick, RR 3, Clinton, loc- al mink breeder, recently shipped three live silver mink to the Isle of Man by 'plane, the first ship- ment to the United Kingdom of which he has any knowledge. He states that other orders can't be filled because the authorities have clamped down on shipping the an- imals by air. Mr, and Mrs. J. E. McGill and daughter Mary Jean, Windsor, sp- ent the weekend with the form- er'S parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. McGill. Clayton's Ice Cream Bar is like a breath of spring. It has just been redecorated with cascade blue walls and suntone ceiling, and modern washroom accommodation has been installed. Two new Plymouth sedans were recently delivered by Murphy Bros. to Cyril Cornish and Cliff Ashton. Apparently supply has not yet caught up with demand in the automobile field. • Canadian Red Cross Hospital Visitors make regular visits to patients in more than 100 hospi- tals from Newfoundland to British Columbia, They are all volunteers trenches worthy ' of Flanders Fields by the visits of the coal truck, * C * Aghast, he does the only sen- sible thing in the circumstances, He sits down with a pencil and paper and lays out a programme of painting, cleaning up and gen- eral improvements. He reads it triumphantly to his wife. He's so eager to get at it that she's really impressed. She's proud of him, A new leaf. First job he'll tackle is the front lawn. Then the cellar. * Half an hour later, she. discov- ers the new leaf is just the other side of the same one he turned over last year about this time. She catches him cleaning up the front lawn by chipping grape- fruit skins into the coal-truck craters with his No. 9 iron. They have words, She dons her rubber boots and assaults the lawn, ban- ishing him to the cellar with threats. When he doesn't show up for supper, she figures he's really buckled down to it, and goes down the stairs, feeling warm and forgiving to Call him to the table. And there he is, perched on the remnants of the coal pile, with his fishing-rod, practicing fly- casting into the large pool be- tween the vegetable bin and the stoker. And that's the kind of thing a mature man's fancy' turns to, What about the oldster, the codger? What kind of fancy does he have, come Spring? After dic- ing with death through a long cru- el winter, when the names of side- kicks were appearing with mon- otonous regularity in the obit- uary column, I imagine he's pret- ty pleased with himself, In fact I know he is. I talked to one the ether day, as he sunned him- self in front of the post office, 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 473 45-17-b RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU '2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO 50-tfb OPTOMETRY CHARLES HOUSE OF BEAUTY Cold Waves, Cutting, and Styling King St., Clinton Ph. HU 2-7065 C. D. Procter, Prop. INSURANCE INSURE Tall CO-OP WAY Auto, Accident and Sickness, Liability, Wind, Fire and other perils P. A. "PETE" ROY, CLINTON' Phone HU` 2-9357 Co-operators Insurance Association K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747; Res.' HU 2-7558 Salesman: Vie Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 JO E. HOWARD, Hayfield Phone Bayfield 58r2 Ontario Automobile Association Car Fire - Accident Wind Inenranee If you need Insurance, T nave a Policy TIES Me/eILLOP MUTUAL Pula INSURANCE COMPANY Read Office: Seaforth Officers 1958: President, nob- Seaforth; vice- pre- sident, Alistair Broadfoot, Sea- forth; secretary-treasurer, Norma Jeffery, Seaforth, Directors: Joim H, Mewing, Robert Atvhithald; Leen- /10dt, Bornholm; E, Trewarthap Clinton; Wm. 8, Alexander, Whi- tten J. L, Seafontli; .Har- vey Godeutch; 3, E. Pepper Ertteefickl; Alistair Broadfoet, Seaforth, Agents: Win, Leiper Lond. eishoto; 3. Praetor, Ilrodhagen; Selwyn Poker, Brussels; Erie Munroe, Seaforth, J. E. LONOSTAPP Hours: Seaiorth: 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 Ilan. to 5.30 p.M. Phone Hunter 2-'1010 (Anton PHONE 791 SEAFORTH O. B. CLANCY Optometrist-- Optician (successor to the late A, L. Cole, optometrist) F'or appointment phone 33, Goderleb REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Hoak Eatate and Ittleinesa Broker High Street Clinton Phone tit 2-001i2 04NND•VNA,144,0,144,1 MO 'TWO CLINTQN NEWS41..Eccdtri THURSDAY; APIU 9, 1.9;x9 SPRING FLOWERS are coming out -to greet the warming spring sun, and one of the loveliest is the white trillium, the floral emblem of Ontario. This has been accepted as the symbol of the Civil Service Association, and is the name of the magazine which the association publishes each month. Contributed by a member of the St. Thomas branch of the association is the follow- ing lovely poem, a tribute to Ontario's special' flower: Trillium graceful, Trillium white, Star of the woodland, Lady of light— Lo, how she proudly stands in the glade, Tri-sceptred sovereign, Queen of the shade. ORDINARILY, FIRST class means more ex- pensive, more luxurious, and bigger than second class, third class, and on up 'the line. Now the Financial Post comments on what it terms sec- ond class citizens in Canada, and we find that in this case, the second class. farmers are the biggest, the ones with the largest spreads, and ' those with assistance from commerical enter- prise. The financial paper comment's 'as follows: "Canada is supposed to be a democracy with all citizens entitled to equal treatment by the f6d- eral government. But that rule is- not going to apply to farmers. Here there are going to be first-class and second-class citizens so far as help from Ottawa is concerned. The discrimination started last year when WE'HAD the pleasure of lunching this week with a man from the tomato country near Leamington, who includes a flock of laying hens in his farming operation. He is the president of the Ontario Poultry Producers Association. This man is deeply concerned over the move toward vertical integration he can see in the poultry industry. Already, he and others in poultry have watched the broiler part of the industry fall into the control of the pro- cessor. He estimates that within 12 months, unless the producers act quickly, the same will have happened to eggs. Letting the broiler part of the poultry industry alone, for there is no possibility of saving it, this man believes it quite possible, if producers work now, and quickly, that they can, under the Farm Products Marketing Act, assume control of their product and keep it, If the producers do not look after their ow-R. product, predicts this poultry man, then they will end up without a job to do. Vertical in- tegration through contract farming, will end FOR SOME unknown reason, most of the editorial comments this week appear to be based on agriculture. However, we have one more Ob- servation to make on this agri-business. We have several times heard figures quot- ed, and again this Week, which go something like this: During the 12 year period prior to March, 1958, total government assistance to agriculture was about 100 Millions of dollars. For the ten year period prior to March, 1958, total government assistance to the gold mining industry alone, was 108 millions of dollars. The inference is that the people of agriculture get less money from government than do other TOO OFTEN the editorial columns, even of the "Home Paper with the NeWS" take on a grim aspect of serious subjects, To offset these, We are happy to present an essay written years ago by a ten-year old boy from the slums of London, England, after a brief visit to the farm: "The cow is a mammal. "It has six sides, right and left, Upper and below, inside and outside. At the back it has a tail on which hangs a brush. With this he sends flies away so they don't fall into the Milk. The head in for the purpose of growillg holes and so his Mouth can be somewhere, The horns are to butt and the mouth to moo Stately she rises, slender-stemmed, tall, Gracious response to spring's early call, Lifting three leaf-arms high from the sod, Gazing with pure face, up at her God. J. M. Jones Known also by the • expressive name "wake- robin," it chiefly native to North America, The leaves, petals and sepals are in threes — a mystic number — and the single flower is "borne erects or nodding from the centre of the whorl of leaves." Although the white trillium grows in profusion in remote places, it is a shy delicate flower and is protected by legislation from disturbance. .BY AM will hurdle the Atlantic in two hours. The flight from Goderich, to Toronto ,should take about an hour. The flight from there to London or Paris, about two hours. This leaves the slowest part of the journey, the 20 minutes from Clinton to Goderich, and probably the most dangerous part of it, the curves on the Blue Water Highway between Goderich and Sky Har- bour. The trip to London, England, then should be accomplished within four hours, even allow- ing for warm-up and taxiing time. the bonus ,payment to Western grain farmers was limited to $200 per farm. The man with 200 acres of grain got a bonus of a dollar an acre, the man with 2,000 acres, got 10 cents. Now in hog' policy Agriculture Minister Harkness proposes to extend that discrimination. In announcing a new and complicated system of co called "deficiency" payments, Mr. Hark- ness warns large-scale commercial hog producers that they need not expect any government gravy. The new method, he said, will "make it pos- sible to withhold payments from commerical or- ganizations and to limit payments to any individ- ual to a specific number of hogs delivered." That will mean that the biggest and most efficient op- erator is to be penalized and the marginal pro- ducer to be encouraged. up in loss of markets for the independent pro- ducer. The poultry farmer is faced with the prospect of becoming the hired man, working for the processor. "It is not only the poultry farmer who is 'threatened," stated the Ontario president of all poultry producers, "but also the grading stations —for with vertical integration, the processor would take over the grading. Also, the feed merchants, for with larger operations the feed companies would ship direct. Removal of a high percentage of farmers, the graders and the feed merchants, will have a direct effect upon the economy of the rural municipalities who depend on the farmer and businesses related to farm- ing. The end result will be a drying up of the communities themselves." ' Speed in the organization of the poultry industry seems most imperative. Meetings are being planned at present, according to" an ad- vertisement printed last week. Make sure you attend the one nearest you. types of industry. On the other hand, the budget for the Department of Agriculture for the province of Ontario alone, predicted for 1959-60, is 17.6 millions, compared with $6.1 millions for the entire Mining department. Browsing further.through the budget pre- sented (It consists of more than 50 pages of foolscap size sheets of double-Spaced typing) -we find that the budget for forestry totals $27.8 millions and for conservation $36 millions, We can't help but wonder if a better comparison could not be found than the geld industry, if agri-business wishes to indicate how badly off it is. with. 'Under the cow hangs milk, It is arranged for milking. "When people milk, milk comes and there never is an end to the supply. How the cow does it I have not yet realized but it makes more and more, 'The cow has a fine sense of smell and one can smell it far away, This is the reason for the fresh air in the country, "A man cow is called an ox, The ow does not eat much but what, it eats it eats twice So that it gets enough. When it is hungry it moos and when it says nothing at all it is because its insides are full Up with grass," 40 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, April 10, 1919 Mr. James Walkinshaw has re, signed as caretaker of the post Office, a position he has filled for over 14 years, and will shortly take up residence his own .bon, se on Maple Street. There is a fine garden plot in connection With this property which will serve to keep Mr, Walkinshaw as busy es he needs to be until the fall, and if he can take things easy in the winter he has. surely earned that right by a long life of industry. He is already one-year past the four score mark and ought to be taking things easy, but Mr. Walkinshaw is not built upon the take-it-easy plan. lie will be missed around the post office and grounds, which lie has al- ways kept- in perfect condition. T. Herman, son of Mrs Her- man arrived home from overseas and was met by the band and cit- izens. Frank Brown and John Levy, son of Mr, and. Mrs. James Levy, came on the late train. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fremlin have moved to their house on Huron Street, which they recently pur- chased from Mr. and Mrs, Mennen, 40 YEARS AGO Clinton New Era Thursday, April 10, 1919 Council decided to have a con- crete driveway laid from the cor ner of the Town Hall to the rear of the fire hall with a , cement curb on both sides. An effort will be made to complete arrange- ments with the telephone office, to allow the installation of a sig- nal bell for use in case of fire. Councillor Johnson reported that the fire engine had been sold for $300 and asked that the mon- ey be laid aside to purchase a suitable hose wagon and that the clerk be 'instructed to write for prices. The Clinton. Kiltie Band asked for a rebate of Hall rent for a recent band concert, owing to the poor financial gain. W. Fulford was in Hensel' over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs, C. E Jervis have sold their house on Huron Street to Mr. T. McCartney, Goderich Township. Mr. McCartney recent- ly had a qle of his good farm and stocle'and intends making his home in Clinton. We all know what a young man's fancy lightly turns to in the spring. But when you get right down to it, young men are vastly uninteresting, except to themselves, recruiting officers, and young women. * They lack the appeal-of a young- ster, the sensitivity of an adol- escent, the sophistication of mat- urity and the dignity and wisdom of old age. In fact, aside from a certain bullock energy and a strong dash of animal good sp- irits, they have little to recom- mend them. Except to young women. * * * So we shall ignore the fancy of young men this spring. Es- pecially Since it is lightly turned to the same sort of thoughts during the other three seasons, too. Let us 'examine the spring- time fancies of some of the more interesting age groups. * * Sole fancy of very small males, in the spring, Seems to be mud. Mud has for them the same fas- cination it has for small pigs. They like to walk in it, kneel in it, lie. down in it, eat it, push small girls down in it, and bring as much of it as possible home with them. Small girls are ex- actly the same, and this is the only time in their lives the sexes are in complete accord on any- thing. * * * Slightly older boys have a fan- cy, in the spring, for anything that is dangerous, foolish or ir- ritating. On the first day the temperatUre is above 40, they want to go hatless and barefoot. They build rafts that sink. They dig caves in the sides of crumb- ling sandpits. They cross swollen Streams on slippery logs. They walk railroad tracks, They fall in bogs, Or they Come home red- olent of leeks. * The mature, or married, man is stunned by spring, A few weeks ago, his home was quite attrac- tive, with that nice, white 'snow covering everything.- Suddenly, it's nothing but a big, fat eyesore, Paint peeling, eavestroughs dang- ling, cellar window broken and a potato sack stuffed in it. Front lawn littered with: tricycle, grape- fruit rinds dropped in February while putting out garbage; four empty wine bottles contributed by passerby; the rake and a pile of mouldy leaves from 1\l'avernber; and the whole thing tern into TRAVEL IMAGINE BEING only ,four hours away from Paris in the Spring ? or May-time in Eng- land? ,or any other country in. Europe at any time of the year? Conversation with the town's deputy reeve, who is a member of the airport committee at" county council, reveals that the hope exists for 'a daily flight from Goderich to Toronto and back again. Consideration of the Financial Post reveals that in the near future British and American plane makers will soon have new airliners which SECOND CLASS CITIZENS TIME YET TO RESCUE POULTRY SOMETHING UNUSUAL HERE THE LIGHTER TOUCH 25 YEARS AGO' Clinton NewsAfteeord Thursday, April 1934 Mrs, Alice Mason, who has been spending the winter at Romeo, Mich., returned to her own home last week, The local Odd Fellows Lodge held their annual At-Home in the fireman's hall on Tuesday even- ing, The first part of the evening was spent in playing cards. Mrs. C. Draper and T. Hawkins were winners of the five hundred prizes, Mrs. A. F. Cudmore being winner of the lucky chair Prize, • Mrs, R. H, F. Gairdner and daughter Betty returned to Lon- don after spending Easter week at their home in 13ayfield. Miss Evelyn Hall returned to. Toronto after spending the Easter vacation at her home in town. Levi Trick came up from Lon- don to the Centre • Huron Spring Stock Show last week, as is his usual custom, He likes to meet old friends and this is a good place to meet a lot' of them. The crowd was larger than usual this year, * * * He told me: "Didn't think I'd make it, back there in January, Flat on my back and gettin' weak. or every day. The old lady prac- lically had the insurance eoilec. tell and off to Florida. But," with an evil chuckle, "she got fooled, Caught the cold and I buried Yee the end of Vebruary. Have a snort now whenever I feel like it. Say, son, when do them tourists start to arrive? I'm going to spend the whole summer weal& them girls in their thorte. Figure it won't do them any harm And should do Me a lot of good," 411100000