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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-04-23, Page 2PAGE -TWO Clinton Ne..:.ws,A4tecord: THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS,RECQRt Am4104mated 1924. 4' SURSCITIPTIQN 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 pppartment, Ottawa THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1959 NEED FOR ZONING Published every Thursday at the Heart of Moron. County Clinton, Ontario — Population 2,985 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher WILMA 9 D. DINNIN, Editor THUIMIDAY, APRIL 23, 1959 AUCTIONEER ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small courteous and efficient service at all times. "service • that 'Satisfies" Phone 119 Doshwoo PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant GODERICH, Ontario Telephone 1011 Box 478 45-17- RONALD G. McCANN Pubic Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 2-9671 CLINTON', ONTARIO 50-tfb OPTOMETRY 3. E. LONOSTAFF Hours; Seaforthf, Daily except l‘Ionday & Wednesday.-9 ern. 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 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Phone fItInter 2-7010 Clinton PRONE 791 SEAFORTH G. Tt. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist)' For appointment phone 83, Goderich REAL Esurt IXONARD G. WINTER Weal Estate anti Business Broke High Street — OlintOn • Phone HU 2-6862 ecerkeseereoeseeNeNereseileeereeteeeNiesee4 HAIR DRESSING CHARLES HOUSE OF BEAUTY Cold Waves, Cutting, and Styling King St., Clinton Ph. HU 2-7065 C. D, Proctor, Prop. • INSURANCE INSURE THE 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 1 WIXIIIM•M=I••••••••••••••.,M01..... K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE. Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2.7556 Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 X E. HOWARD, Baytleld Phone Bayfield 68r3 Ontario Automobile Associationt Car - Fire - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I flay* a Policy THE McBILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCJE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers 1958: President, Rob- ert _Archibald, Seaforth; vice- pre- sident, Alistair BroadfoOt, Sea- forth; secretary-treasurer, Norma ;Jeffery, Seaforth. Directors: John H. II/awing, Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon- hardt, Bornholm; E. 3. Trewartita, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander,Wal- ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har- vey Puller, Godenieh; J, E. Pepper. Brucefield; Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth, Aghnts: Win. Leiper Jr., Lona- esboro; 3. v% Prueter, Brodiaagesi: SelWyn Baker, Brussels; Erie 1‘1,antoe, Seaforth. ...„).....i.,. Phone HU 2.9007 Dunlop Street Clinton, Ont. Investors clrgcruoiltio,mitlp OF CANADA, ttIMITID u1..4 (Atkin Winnipeg Off lcu lei Principe! Cities 16-b, "Fine , „I'll send them right home" Welcome words at meal-time! Usually a phone call, or two among the neigh- bours rounds them up. How many cold meals and frayed tempers and moments of uneasiness have you been spared be- cause your telephone was handy?... How many "man-hunts"when small ones have wandered off? The telephone helps make a neighbourly commu- nity—helps us all to live more securely, to get more things done, more easily. Yes, your telephone is a wonderfully low-cost, •wonderfully efficient servant. THE DELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA Business and Professional — Directory — From our Ear y iles 25 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, April 26, 1934 G, Rance Mackinnon, cording. at. a Moncton, N.E. paper, presented some little plays to a papacity, audience in that city re- cently... One of the plays, entitled "A STeeptng Beauty," was written by Miss Violet 'Frenelin of Clinton. Miss ViOlet has written quite a bit of verse, some of which has been published in this and other newspapers, She is only 13 years of age and may yet make a name for. Timer as a writer, The Home and School Club met Saturday evening. A striking committee composed of the follow- Mg: Mrs. W. J. Piumsteel, Mrs, E. Paterson, Mrs. C. .Ven,ner, was appointed to nominate .a slate of officers for the ensuing year Mrs. .Clara Rumball, who has been spending the winter with her 'her on and his wife, Mr, and Mrs. Ray Rurnball, Ottawa, returned' home Monday. SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. Tr, Smiley) THE NEED for active work of a planning board is continually more evident in town. With the addition of more residences in the north west corner of the developed part of .Clinton, this becomes even more urgent. The framework for a planning board is in existence, and has been for several years. The need is for public-spirited men, able and willing to take quite a bit of abuse from persons who think they are being discriminated against, and tar-seeing men, able to plan for Clinton's future. WE FAIL to see just why the Chamber of Commerce of an urban area should feel them- selves qualified to comment or to send briefs to the federal cabinet with regard to-farm subsidies and agricultural surplusses. In Quebec, there has been a submission made to government stating that since "neg- ligible results" have been obtained through farm price support legislation, prices be ,allowed to find their own levels. WE. NOTED with interest the following editorial clipped from the Exeter Times-Advo- cate, and we reprint it here, for it touches on a subject quite applicable to the local situation: In magistrate's court here last week, a man was fined for serving alcoholic beverages in a Legion hall. While the conviction legally was registered against an individual, it should be readily recognized that the actual offence was committed by the group of veterans who con- stitute the brunch, not a single person. It's illegal, you see, for members of the Legion to serve beer in their Own quarters in a C'I'A county like Huron: MUCH HAS BEEN written of. the changes taking place now and in the future to the family farm as most of us know it. More than one speaker has pointed out that the time is past when every city dweller had a close rela- tive on a farm which he visited on weekends, and came to understand the peculiar problems and pleasures of wresting a hying from the land. More recently economists and the "big'; farmer have volubly warned the rest of the farming population that the family farm is fast coming to an end. There seems to be an urging toward increased size in operations, and increased acceptance of financing from sources outside the farms themselves, One writer states in what seems like amaze- ment, "Somewhere in the past a large part of - the farm population has had instilled into it a horror of indebtedness, something it considered as a last resort." In this he is right, and we Cannot help feeling that the farm people are right in their attitude, Most farming people have relatives who experienced the disaster of the 1930s, when those who borrowed too heavily had their farms taken away from them. Loss of many businesses, means only that a State of bankruptcy exists. All is taken away, and he has to start again. This is bad enough. But in the farmer's case is the basic love of the land, the hours of sweaty toil over fields With which he develops a particular affection and knowledge. TO start over means not only further indebtedness, but in most cases, a be- ginning in another district where his knowledge of soil conditions, weather, etc., is of no use, and he must start to re-educate himself again. Thus, we can see that the farmer has a "horror of indebtedness", which apparently is A LOT of us have returned from a winter vacation, in the south, or recall our Summer, trip last year, and many of our recollections have been pleasant ones. But, do you remember Some of the bad moments, too? Do you remember that washroom that was not too clean? the restaurant where the food Was definitely not good? the garage where the attendant was sloppy and grumbly? the farm tractor in the middle of the road which nearly caused an accident and had your heart pumping fiercely for the next ten miles ? THOSE BOOZE CANADIANS ARE sometimes scolded for spending more money on liquor than on schools, says The Financial Post. Such exhortations are well-meant but of doubtful validity, Thereia a point that is usually overlooked by the exhorters. Deters spent on liquor arid dollars spent on schools are the same dollars. The framework exists. Clinton is a planning area. Maps of existing residences, commercial, industrial, etc, areas are on file in the clerk's office. It needs only the appointment of the Board itself, and co-operation from the citizens to assist in achieving a town plan, and zoning which would benefit all, in the long run. It's spring. The street sign project and house-numbering project are planned for this summer. Let's get a planning board at work, too, and make our town once again, the most modern in Western Ontario, We do not hear of farmers sending briefs to the federal government complaining of the cost of manufactured goods, and suggesting that import duties be removed, so that the prices can seek their own level. We are interested that the urban popula- tion is concerned over food prices, but they are concerned apparently mainly in having them lowered, regardless of the outcome to the man who makes his living by producing foodstuffs. These are the men who fought for Canada's freedom and the preservation of its democracy. And while they fought, the nation provided them with all the alcoholic beverages they wished to drink in the company of their comrades. Now, the war over, the privilege is denied them, They must operate illegally — subject themselves to court conviction — to enjoy 'the fellowship they fought to preserve. Yet, ironically, not ten miles away members of an armed service enjoy the privilege without fear of reprisal. What a silly situation! It is one which needs to be publicized in order to \make known the need for improvement, not felt as strongly by the city dweller. We would recall for just one instance the highly paid personnel at Avro, who bought on time to the limit, and then purchased their homes on the basis of overtime pay they expected to receive. Yet, when they lost their jobs, they could sell their home, sell their furniture, sell their car, and be ready to move to any other location to set up a similar type of operation wherever their services were required. They did not seem to have any "horror of indebted- ness", Yet, we are not as much amazed at the idea that present-day farming methods are soon to pass away, as some people seem to be. We read quite a bit of science fiction. It is interesting to recall, and to notice in reading new tales, that , there are quite a number of authors giving thought to what will happen to agriculture in the scientific world of the future. Suggestions include a world where a minimum of people raise food for the rest of the world, most of it based on pills and automats (right in the home), and in some stories the thought seems to be that when modern scientists finally manage to destroy civilization as we know it, there will be only farmers left in the world. We would certainly accept the idea that the only people left would have to be able to farm to live—and then the whole cycle could no doubt begin again. Agriculture is basic, Without food man cannot live. Farmers have never been greedy to keep what they grove Today they are striving for methods whereby they can receive their "fair share" of the plenty which abounds. And we feel it will take a Solomon indeed to sort out the many problems facing them. Everybody you met on your trip had a part in your day. Everything you saw had an affect on whether you enjoyed yourself or not, The same holds true in reverse when you get back home. Then you are the people that other tourists and holidayers are seeing on their holidays. Do you make an attempt to keep them happy and enjoying themselves? If you are pleasant, those tourists will be attracted back to this part of the country again. It is up to you. -CLINTON NEWS-RECORD. 40 YEARS AGO Clinton New Era TiniradaY, .April. 34, 1919 The Easter services in St, PaidIS church 'were even more impressiVe. and gratifying to all „concerned' than on former occasions, .rendOred more so by the presence of .'a,naw incumbent of St. Paul's, Rev.., Si B. .McKegney, wbp •preaclied! two excellent sermons.- The choir' exa celled, itself at both servleeS• and' reflect great credit o' M1Sse M`, Bentley, organist ,and lea& er, in her untiring zear tcoprevide choral services of so highlenaarder, Mrs. May Rance 1VieKitinon, and Mrs, Veitch took .special; parts; and Mrs. Pollick acted as; vielite companist. On Saturday of tklis week;, April 26, a century will be- reached by Oddfellowship this' of the Atlantic and preparations; have been made throughout -America to celebrate the Centennial! Tn Enge land the Order was; established 274 years ago. The- Geend Lodge of Ontario came inter being in 1855, In Clinton;. the Order was established on Jr.anniary, 1.6, 1872, 47 years ago. 40 YEARS AGO Clinton News-Record Thursday, April 24, 1919 J. H, Wiltse, who sold his farm in Manitoba and with his wife and little son spent the winter at his home in Clinton, has gone into the real estate business in Winnipeg. Miss Mary Chidley and her guest, Miss Mabel Clark, Toronto, went to Seaforth yesterday and attended the Easter dance there, C. F, Lockwood was in Toronto during the past week. Fred Sloman and his sister, Miss Lottie, were up from Toronto over Easter. Miss M. G. Rudd is in Toronto this week attending the meeting of the Ontario Libraries Associa- tion and meeting her nephew, Lieut. J. R. Rumball, who is assis- tant adjutant of the 4th battal, ion, which was welcomed home to Toronto yesterday. On the local market: spring wheat, $2.00; fall wheat, $2.14; butter, 50c; eggs 42c; live hogs, $21.00. I started thinking about busts while I was watching Brigitte Bar- dot, the little French sex'-pot, in a film the other night, That may seem like a silly thing to say. It's like saying you started thinking about music while you were wat- ching an orchestra play. But it was merely a coincidence. And just to get things perfectly clear, I don't mean busts of fam- ous men, done in plaster. I mean busts on ladies. *.a,* The horrifying part of it was that I started thinking about busts in a clear, cold, analytical way. AS I say, I was watching Miss Bardot snaking her way through a movie, in which l'amour was treated in the boisterous Gallic manner so startling to us tittering Anglo-Saxons. * * It was my first view of the young lady. I understand she is the second citizen of France, after General De Gaulle. Certainly her pictures appear in the paper more often than his. And I'm here to tell you she is definitely better looking than the General, though somewhat shorter. I'm not blaming Mlle. Bardot for my lapse. She was all she was cracked up to be. She wiggled her behind, and jiggled her be- front, to the best of her ability, and she has alot of ability along these lines, utes with some interest, I became first embarrasSed, then mildly dis-• approving, then bored, then just plain sleepy. About halfway through this process, I had sense enough to say to myself: "Boy, either you're ready to be put out to pasture, or you need a dam' good spring tonic." * * It's pretty disturbing to a chap who has leered his way through the burlesque houses of Detroit's Woodward Avenue in the heigh. day of Scurvy Miller, eaten pea- nuts in the pit at the Casino in Toronto, and ducked out for a drink between rounds of pure art at London's Windmill Theatre, to realize that he is blushing slightly at the sight of a young lady who is not only not there in person, but has all her clothes on. * It is chilling to think that per- haps the young sap has been boil- ed down to an old fudge. When you know that you're supposed to be sitting bolt upright, wide-eyed and electrified, it hurts to know that you are slumped in your seat, mouth pursed, head shaking and tongue almost tut-tutting, in dis- approval, IS IT THEIR BUSINESS? QUEER CONDITION CHANGE IN THE FAMILY FARM KEEP THEM HAPPY DOLLARS The Ontario budget will illustrate. Last year the province took $66 million in liquor profits and spent $96,5 million on school grants. The people who spent that $66 million on booze would not have helped the cause of educa- tion by abstaining. On the contrary, They would have felted the gevertaneet either to reduce Its help to' schools by two thirds or to increase taxes substantially, * * It is downright disconcerting to find that you are craving for smoke in the middle of a big pash scene, It is disgusting to have And it is dismal to learn that you have nodded off, and your wife is driving you in the ribs, just at the point where the celebrated Miss B. is making a monkey of the censors. * It was -about this ,point, rudely awakened and rather crabby, that 'I started thinking about busts. Don't ask me why. What's with this bust craze, anyway? Mam- malians of mammoth proportions create headlines every time they take a deep breath, High school kids practically break their backs trying to stick their chests out en extra inch. * * So who's impressed? Other girls maybe? Not men. Men have been marrying women for thousands of years, and busts have nothing to do with it. In fact, back in the twenties, when I was a kid, busts were frowned on, and still they married them. * * Let tenderness, humour and sympathy show in your face, let goodness and pity and love shine in your eyes, and you'll get your man faster than if you had the biggest bust this side of Bali. Clinton News-Record Thursday, April 21, 1949) The tremendous importance of the use of radar and the atomic bomb in any future war- was stressed in graphic manner by William P. Roberts, Tuckersinith farmer and former chief instruc- tor at RCAF Station Clinton, to the members of Bayfield Lions Club at their regular dinner meet- ing in the Little Tnn, 13ayfield, last evening. Good Friday, a cold, wet miser- able day in Clinton, was marked by a Service of Worship in St. Paul's Anglican Church. The ser- vice was in charge of the Rector, Rev. R. M. P. Bulteel, and there was a fair attendance. Austin Nediger and his friend, Tony Galonski, Sarnia, were Eas- ter visitors at the home of the former's parents, Mr, and Mrs. W. M. Nediger. Misses Helen Dixon, Clinton, Alice Pfaff, Exeter, and Mary Goodman, liensall, are spending a vacation in Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, and other points. to give in to it and go to the back of the theatre to light up, just when the young temptress on the screen is launching into a discreet stripease, 10 YEARS AGO Profit from Canada's Prosperity Through a single investment in, lkoroslors MuluOt you can become part-owner a mom than 100 widely diversified "blue.chip" securities. rou'll get attractive dividends, income tax credits, and a share in. the growth of Canada. Thee yourself from investment worries through investors Mutual— Canada's largest inlit4ca fund. Harry I McEwn * * * Busts cause nothing but trouble * * I remember a girl I knew in col- No, the fault was mine, not hers. lege. Her name was Betsy. She After watching her for a few min- had a vast bosom. I always called her Busty to myself. One night I was dancing with her. We were talking and I inadvertently -called her "Busty" instead of "Betsy." Know what happened? You, got it, Mace She bust me. Right on the nose. * * * And maybe that's why I've been a little psychological about busts ever since. o - Quick Collodion Quiz 1. Canada's federal and provincial legislatures must meet how of- ten? 2, In order, name the five leading manufacturing provinces. 3. Who commanded Canadian gr- ound forces in action in World War Two? 4. Spending by all governments in Canada combined on social ser- vices amounts to $750,000 per week, $3.5 million per week, or $5 million per week? 5, Of Canada's 4 million occupied dwellings, how many are rented and how many are owner- occupied? AnSwers: 5. About 2.7 million homes are owner-occupied, 1.3 mil- lion rented. 3. General r1. D. G, Crerar. 1. The law requires them to meet at least once a year. 4, More then $5 Million per week. 2. Ontario, Quebec British Columbia, Alberta mid Mtinitoba.