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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-04-16, Page 2ainton. 'News-Record ernment is an informed public, Such a state will remain but a dream if only 15 percent of Canadians over six years borrow books from' their public library (another government survey finding). This is not nearly good enough for a coun- try that is more than 95 percent literate, has more leisure time and a larger national income than ever before, The Canadian Library Week program should remind us of the relationship between reading and knowledge and our traditions of freedom. It should help re-kindle an interest in those of us who have lost touch with books; to open the way to new, worthwhile experience for others who have neglected the reading habit. Canadian Library Week is drawing support from leading citizens in business and industry, libraries, and publishing houses, newspapers, radio-tv, the educational and other fields. But it deserves—and needs— the full sup- port and active interest of all of us. There's poetry, too: Please, scientist, investigate And solve this quiz of mine. I think I know where Carbon-ate But where did Io-dine? Besides the usual kind of thing sold by nurseries, are a number of unusual ones, such as rolled oats: good for man or beast, If you want to be strong like a horse, eat our oats; cider vinegar: unpasteurized, unhomogenized, untampered with. Needless to say, the humour and happiness dispensed by the paper itself, has made the author and his nursery, well known even the world over—and he tells of sending plants to England and 'having them arrive in good shape. He has made use of his popularity and way of writing, to produce three books, full of plantlore, health hints, tales of life on the farm, philosophy and gardening advice. CO 1.10 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance—Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a year United States and Foreign: $4,00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa THE c LINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON lows-RECORD Arraigampto 1924 Il la Published every Thursday at the Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 2,98$ LET US LOCK ARMS THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959 WAKE UP AND REM) A. L. COLQUHQ• UN, Publisher WILMA b, DINNIN, Editor • LESS THAN one Canadian in every three Was reading a book at the time of the last survey by the Gallup organization. This is not a situation of which we can be proud; nor is the fact that only 61 percent of our citizens have ready access to public library service, according to the most recent govern- ment survey. Our reading record, by almost any yard- stick, seems to be about the worst among west- ern nations, save for the. United States. Whatever the reason for this dismal picture, we are fortunate that a move is underway to change it. Our first Canadian Library Week is to be observed from April 12 to 18. It is good to see public-spirited men 'and women from many fields tackling this problem in a practical way, For the question of reading should not be left entirely to librarians and educators. It is something with which, every one of us should be concerned, The key to our democratic method of gov- "BUT I F you love the land and believe and know that earth is essence, life; energy, vibrant and glowing with beauty and charm, then I say, "Come with mei Let us lock arms and heart and weld a friendship that will 'endure and grow until this vale we depart." This is an introduction to a unique publica- tion which. found its way onto our desk last week, published by a plant nursery at St. Cath- erines. It is not new perhaps to many of our readers, but it is the first time we ever saw "Growing 'Flowers". It was a pleasure. Besides advertising the product of the nurs- ery, the newspaper-style publication includes many little items written in a breezy style which would make people interested in the out-of-doors even though they had little interest before. For instance, did you know that the wing beat of the fruit fly is rated as high as 10,000 times a minute? And that next to him the housefly has a meagure wing beat of only 160 times a minute? ..4.1k." • .* • ' " A CHEQUING ACCOUNT FOR . PAYING BILLS ., ' HANG ON TO YOUR SAVINGS with the Royal Bankr2:Account Plan Here's one good way to keep a firm grip on your savings ... adopt the Royal Bank's "2-Account Plan".• It works this way. You open a Personal Chequing Account for paying personal and house- hold bills; keep your Savings Account strictly for saving. Having two accounts helps you avoid dipping into your savings ... gives them a chance to grow with regular deposits and the interest they earn. It's sensible, businesslike and you'll find it works, Try it. THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Clinton Branch ..,.... .................. O. L. Engelstad, Manager Goderich Branch H. G. Spring, Manager A SAVINGS ACCOUNT STRICTLY FOR SAVING AUCTIONEER ALVIN WAVER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood IINNP4NNNP••~•~04•04Nr••04PM•••~P PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant CODERICH, Ontario Telephone 1011 Bqx 478 45-17-b G. B. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone 33, Goderich REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Business Broke: High Street — Clinton Phone HU 2-6682 AN EXTRA *10,000 FOR YOU Letts say`you put one dollar a day into an Investors plan. These few dollars a week--, will grow into $10,000 in just 'twenty years More' than 100;000 Canadians are already malting their dreams come true through Investors Syniii- eats, and a plan can be tailored, tp quit your specific needs. Start ziow to build a substantial cash reserve. for your future. See your Investors Syndicate rep— resentative soon. Harry J. *Ewan PhOne HU 2-9007 Dunlop Street Clinton, Ont, HAIR DRESSING CHARLES HOUSE OF BEAUTY Cold Waves, Cutting, and Styling King St., Clinton Ph. HU' 2-7065 C. D. Proctor, Prop. INSURANCE INSURE THB 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 2-15511 Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 J. E. HOWARD, Hayfield Phone Ba3rtield 58r2 Ontario Automobile ASSOOlati011i Car - Fire - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I nave a Policy THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE, COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers 1958: President, Rob- ert Archibald, Seaterth; vice- pre- sident, Alistair Broadfoot, Sea- forth; secretary-treasurer, Norma Jeffery, Seaforth. Directors: John H. Megwing, Robert Arelethald; Chris. Leon- hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Wm. S. *Alexander, Wal- ton; J. L. Marline, Seaforth; Har- vey Fuller, Godeeieh; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alistaie Broadfoot Seaforth. Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr., pond- esboro; J. F. Prueter, Brodbiaigen; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Eric Munroe, Seaforth. STEM HISTORY began with incorporation in 1910. In the 49 years since then Stelco has: Made 34,422,000 tons of steel; Paid $933,000,000 to employees; Paid $244.00,000 to government in taxes; Spent $1,765,000,000 for materials and Services; Invested $330,000,000• in plant and raw material sources. The above figures show how Stelco has con- tributed to the wealth and progress of Canada. 11),TBWO,BMORP PAGE .TWO VIVASDAY, APRIL 16, 195 USE NEWS-RECORD CI,ASSIFIED ADS—IT WILL PAT YOU! Despite rain in the morning the day cleared up and. Clinton Spring, Show once more demonstrated that they excelled in exhibit of horses. There was a good atten- dance at the show and merchants report business as good as any day. Private F. W, Jones arrived home Saturday evening from Lon- don, He went overseas with the 161st Battalion and later was sent into the firing line, joining the 18th Battalion. He was wounded and has since been in England. Robert Craig has purchased Miss Zetta. Bawden's property on Mill Street, and will make some improvements before moving in. Commencing last week, Hensall has a newspaper, which will be knoVen by the name of the former one, namely, The Hensel]. Obser- ver, and under the management of the former publisher, Hugh G. Buchanan, in company with F. Wickwire. Both are experienced men and well and favorably known. Tuesday afternoon the town water cart was out on the main street to keep the dust down and at 4.30 pm. it was snowing, 40 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, April 11, 1919 Live hogs have surely reached the limit, $20.25 being the price paid on the Clinton market during the past week. This is the highest price ever paid here, and it seems to put pork in the luxury class, all right. Bacon and eggs. and buttered toast, which used to be considered' an ordinary breakfast, can now be indulged in only by the favored few, Frank McCullough, ethe slayer of Detective Frank Williams, who was awaiting his execution in the death cell of the Don Jail, Toronto, sawed through the bars of the window and escaped. At last re- ports he is still at large. Mrs. Milne, North Bay, a for- mer Clinton girl, better known here as Miss Mabel Detler, has been visiting this week with Mrs, H. E. 4orite,.Airs, Milne had been a delegate to the WMS Convent- ion at the Presbyterian ChurCh held in Guelph last week. Her father, John Detler, was a former well-known merchant in Clinton. For the past couple of weeks, the majority of Canadian women have gone through a harassing, be- wildering experience. Night after night, they have wheedled coaxed and threatened, trying to get small boys and grandfathers to bed at a decent hour. * * Night after night, they have re- ceived only faraway, uncompre- hending stares from their hus- bands, and received these only when they shoved the nightly TV snack into their hands. Night d- eter night, they have gone to bed, nerves twanging, eardrums still aching from the penetrating, ray- ous chant of Canada's favourite hockey announcer, * * But hold, ladies. Reck naught of the scowls of young Wilber, the snarls of Grandpa. Don't be fazed by the utter nothingness of your bitter half. Bear with them. N.H.L. playoff time is to them what" Paris is to a middle-aged teacher of French, *hat Stratford is to the large lady who helped paint the scenery for the Mudville drama festival, Stanley Cup time is a wonderful spring tonic. It irs Alice in Won- derland and Peter Pan for the males of your family, from eight to eighty. Where you see only a lot of large young men rushing at each other, they see a ballet. Where you see only brutality and bloodshed, they see the drama of a bullring. When you shudder at the bestial roar of the arena Mob, they are thrilling to the skill and gallantry of the gladiators. * * You see, girls, hockey at its best is poetry in motion, music in flight. An NHL goalie has all the grace and delicacy of a toreador, Rocket Richard, with the puck on his stick, is like no one more than Captain-Ahab, harpoon pOleed for a bullet-like thrust at Moby Dick. * Maybe we don't think about these comparisons, as we • sit on the edge of our theirs, watching the Leafs arid Canadiens battle it out, but we're aware of there. It's a national disease, pretty well ree- tricted to the male species, and it makes the so-called "fever" of the World Series or the Grey CUp game look like a :rind case of the sniffles, in comparison, • * __HOW _did we, set. WS way, Well,, Miss Dorothy Cornish, School of Commerce student, has been a- warded a gold medal by the Gregg Publishing Company, New york, for typing at the rate of 63 words a minute. Clinton's first amateur radiq transmitting station, VE3UQ, was built and set working by John E, Cuningharne, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Cuninghame, at his home on Rattenbury Street. It was first licensed September 12, 1,933, and shortly afterward it was put on the air as an experimental amateur station, broadcasting to ether amateur stations and receiv- ing messages in reply, on short OVaves, John has picked up mes- sages from a number ' of stations as far distant as California and Texas, and is busy building him- self a larger set, with which he hopes to carry on communications with such stations as Byrd's down at the South Pole, as the explorer devotes a day a week to receiving messages from short wave ama teur stations. 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News=Record Thursday, ApriL 14. 1949 Seeding is well under way in this section of Western Ontario, R. Gordon Bennett, Clinton, Agri- cultural representative for Huron County, informed the News-Rec- ord today. There have been a number of good sap runs this year, and, in general, spring has been kind to the farmers of the area. Clinton School Board passed a motion that the property commit- tee cooperate with the Town Plan- ning Committee of Clinton and District Chamber of Commerce with regard to a suitable location for a new public school. Reforestration is being under- taken by Huron 'Fish and Game "Club on the club's property, con- cession 4, Goderich Township. 17,800 young trees were brought from Stratford yesterday by W. A. Thurston, zone forester for Huron and Perth and with the assistance of William Jervis and other club members, they were stored in the creek and grounds. The trees will be plahted next week. a • It is estimated that almost two million Canadians serve the Can- adian Red Cross in some• volun- tary capacity. But 9 boys out of 10 in this coun- try are exposed to hockey early in life. And 8 out of 10 of them have, at one time or another, had a desperate desire to become a truly great hockey player. The urge might have lasted five years or five minutes, but it was so powerful it hurt while it lasted. * * * And about 90 percent of us know perfectly well that if it. hadn't been for sheer bad luck or bad (Continued on Page Five) J. E. LONGSTAFF Hours; Seatqrth: 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. 50-tn) INNIVINNAIVINI NPIN• OPTOMETRY Clinton: Above ware—Mondays 5.30 Phone !Muter PHONE 791 Business and Professional — Directory — RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO r CANA D I: T 11- D '; Hoed affirm Winnipeg Offices In Principal Cities Ach, investors Orindl(P¢Oftli' Hawkins Hard- only-9 a.m. to p.m. 2-7010 Clinton SEAFORTH T HE STEEL COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED MONTREAL GANANO011E HAMILTON BRANTPORD TORONTO Prom Our Early Files. 40 YEARS .AGO 25 YEARS AGO Clint:* New gra cilh400 NOVIIiitecordi, Thursday, April 17, 1919 Thursday, April 19, 1934 SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill B. T. Smiley)