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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1959
YOUR HOUSE WILL HAVE A NUMBER, TOO
EVER HAVE a inferiority complex, when
your cousin in the next town talks about living
at 7 Cambria Street, 10 Winnipeg, or 63 London
Road and you can brag only about being a resi-
dent on Pugh's Terrace, with no number at all ?
Ever spend five minutes telling a relative,
or a grocery store clerk, just which house in
which' block on which street you live? Ever
wish heartily for a_ chance to say, 10 Victoria
Street and have done with it?
Well your wishes will soon be granted.
Our town is coming out of the stone age—
and through the efforts of the Kinsmen Club of
Clinton, we will all soon,. have a number for our
house, our business, church and' store.
Preliminary surveys ,have been completed.
Within two weeks, maps of the entire town will
be finished, and a number assigned to each res-
idence and business building within the town
limits. Then the Kinsmen are going to take on
the job of putting the numbers up on each
building, Your co-operation in this matter is
requested.
Combined with the street signs, which the
Town Council has ordered put up at every
corner in town, Clinton will become one of the
best marked municipal areas in the country.
WHO'S GOING TO PAY?
'AH, THERE'S a good question?
Who is going to pay for putting up these
house numbers? Well, the Kinsmen Club has
offered to sponsor the project. It's going to cost
in the neighbourhood of $2.00 for each residence
and business building.
When the Kinsmen call at your house,
they're going to speak to you and although they
won't want to ask for money, don't you think it
would be a really nice thing to contribute your
share? Maybe even a little more to make up
for some person you know is a bit short of cash.
This house numbering project won't cost
anything in the long run—it will pay every per-
son who lives in Clinton now, or will live here
in the future.
WATCH GROCER'S SHELVES
"CONSTERNATION, disappointment and
downright anger" are the emotions felt by the
Ontario Milk Producers Coordinating Board,
when they heard that support price on dry
skim milk powder had been reduced from 15
cents to 10 cents; and complete removal in
September. -
We can understand their feeling.
They realize that Agricultural Minister
Harkness' intent is to lower the price to the
consumer: They are also extremely dubious
that this will actually be the result.
This will be an interesting point,' Let us
all watch the shelves of the grocery stores
where we buy, and see if the price to us goes
down that five cents per pound. The change is
effective immediately, so that the, change should
already be evident on the grocer's shelves. Then
it should go down another ten cents per pound
at the end of September.
OPERATION FRIENDSHIP
A PATIENT. who has been discharged from
a mental hospital was asked: "What was it
that did most to help you recover?" And the
ex-patient's answer was "Friendship—the friend-
ship of the 'doctors and nurses and social work-
ers and attendants—the friendship of the vol-
unteers who came to visit and work with us
each week—the friendship of all my friends and
acquaintances who let me know that I was
not alone." •
Friendship is indeed a powerful medicine,
but there are thousands of mental patients who
do not have it, who are in need of it.
During Mental Health Week, April 26th to
May 2nd, the people of Ontario will have an
opportunity to visit the patients in this province's
mental hospitals, and to prove to them that
the rest of the world does care. These visits
are being, arranged by the Canadian Mental
Health Association as part of the nation wide
pilgrimage called "OPERATION FRIENDSHIP",
in which the effort will be made to bring to
the nation's mental hospitals, as visitors, 70,000
people—as many visitors as there are patients
in the mental hospitals.
In Ontario's mental hospitals, there are
over 20,000 mental patients, so 20,000 visitors
should be a goal for the people of this province,
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1. Where is the most southerly
point in Canada?
2. The next federal election must
be held before what date?
3 The first census of the Dom-
next week:
Sunday, May 3, II Sam, 8:1-18
Monday, May 4, II Sam. 7: 1-17
Tuesday, May 5, II Sam. 7: 18-29
Wed., May 6, II Sam. 11: 1-21
Thursday, May 7, Luke 24: 44-53
Fri., May 8, II Sam. 11: 22; 12: 15
Saturday, May 9, I Kings 1: 5-21
25 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
(Thursday, May 8, 1934)
At a meeting of the executive
of the Temperance Federation of
Huron County in Clinton, it was
decided to hold mass meetings in
Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth, Hens-
all and Exeter to ascertain the
feeling of the Temperance people
as to the advisability of placing
a Temperance candidate in the
field in the coming provincial el-
ections. An effort will be made to
secure at least 2,000 signatures
of electors pledged to support at
the polls a temporary canditdate.
Mrs. G. D, Roberton returned
home after an absence of two mon-
ths and a half, when she visited
her sister, Mrs. Charlesworth of
Grand Forks, N. Dakota, and also
with her son and his bride in
Winnipeg,
Sherriff C. G, and Mrs. Middle-
ton motored to Toronto over the
weekend. Mrs. A. J. Morrish ac-
companied them and visited with
her daughter, Mrs. H. B. Manning.
Clinton News-Record
(Thursday, April 28, 1940)
Clinton Clean-up Campaign is
now in full swing. Following the
proclamation of the Mayor, publi-
shed in last week's issue of the
News-Record, various groups in
town have co-operated fully with
the Town Council and Clinton and
District Chamber of Commerce in
arranging fpr a drive this week and
next,
A tightening of all regulations
pertaining to sanitation and clean-
liness is slowly but surely bring-
ing about improvements in living
conditions in all urban community
centres such as Clinton. Hence
the establishment of a health unit
under the direction of Huron
County Council, naturally follows.
This will be brought into force
at the next sitting of the said
council. As the citizens of Clinton
have recently completed an up-
to-date sewerage system and sew- '
age disposal plant, it is only right
that Clintonians support to the
limit a Clean-Up Campaign.
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CLINTON NEWS-RECORD ' THURSDAY, APRIL :30, .1.959
All this adulation was not
sought by the pilots. They were
brave, but not braver than the
next man. They were skillful, but
THUMBNAIL. 110GRAPHY OF THE COON MAN
A newspaper article suggests
that, in view of the changing.needs
of national defence, the Canadian
fighter pilot will soon be dead as
the dodo, as extinct as a sailmak-
er's apprentice. * *
If it is true, and I suppose it is,
I'm glad. The Canadian fighter
pilot had a brief but glorious hist-
ory in two wars. It is better for
the species 'to vanish with its
glamour intact than to degenerate,
with the rapid change in aerial
warfare, into a mere adjunct to
a push-button.
A peculiar breed, the fighter pil-
ot was spavvned,,almost by accid-
ent, during,- -tict. War. I. Pilots
doing reconhaiaiance patrols start-
ed taking' pot shots at each other
with revolvers. Next thing you
know, the sky was full of death-or-
glory types fighting incredible .
duels, creating fantastic legends.
4. *
It was about this time that the
fighter pilot began thinking he was
a hot-shot. With the Poor Bloody
Infantry bogged in the mud and
being slaughtered by the thous-
ands, the newspapers of the day
looked around for something col-
orful to relieve the grim reality
of the annihilation.
a *
Suddenly the fighter pilot found
himself the darling of the press,
the toast of the folks at home.
Unable to assimilate the carnage
of the front lines, the public im-
agination fastened on this gallant,
dashing knight of the air, forever
tackling insuperable odds, running
up his score of kills, and generally
presenting a romantic picture of
war.
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40 YEARS AGO
Clinton New Era
(Thursday, May 1, 1959)
Over 60 members of the Inde-
pendent Order of Oddfellows at-
tended divine service in Ontario
Street Church to commemorate
the 10th anniversary of the Order
in America. Many visitors were
present from Brucefield Lodge,
The service was bright and cheer-
ful and the message delivered by
Rev. J. A. Agnew was most appro-
priate,
A Toronto man, Professor J. C.
McLennan,. who was a resident
of Clinton while a small boy, is the
perfector of helium, a wonderful
new gas for airships, Working in
great secrecy at the British Ad-
miralty since 1915, with a staff
of 30 other young Canadian scien-
tists under him, Professor McLen-
nan has led the world's scientists,
all working under war pressure, in
the development of helium for the
purpose of aviation, and has won
a distinction among the scientists
of Britain second to no other.
Bandsman Morgan Agnew came
home on Wednesday evening. He
went overseas with the 33rd,Batt-
alion and later transferred to the
2nd Battalion band in France.
no more so than a good artillery-
man. But they were young, and
human. Placed in the limelight,
they adopted a certain swagger,
a consciously casual dress, a
slightly swashbuckling air, and
gradually, the opinion that they
were an elite among the uniform-
ed hordes. They never got over it.
* *
The whole business was .accent-
uated, between the two big wars,
by a great deal of romantic tripe
written about them, and eagerly
devoured by schoolboys, of whom
I was one. Ah, it was heady stuff:
the white silk scarf; the brandy
bottoms-up; the empty glass dash-
ed into the fireplace; the gallant
little Spad climbing into the dawn
to meet the Hun.
* 4'
So, when the next war came
along; every Canadian youth worth
his weight in War Aces or Wings,
wanted to be a fighter pilot. The
very small proportion te, make the
grade naturally assumed that they
were The Chosen. They believed,
without any evidence, that they
were very special people, a cut
above a bomber pilot, three cuts
above a naval officer, and at least
six cuts above a pongo, or- army
officer. * * *
This attitude was infuriating to
others, but, like all snobbery, ra-
ther pleasant if you were one of
those doing the snobbing. Fighter
pilots were a closeknit company,
despite the fact that they were
widely scattered. They kept tabs
on their friends through the con-
stant changing of squadron per-
sonnel. They lived aloof from oth-
er fighting men, sought the com-
pany of none but their own. They
had their own private language,
almost incomprehensible to others.
*
They even looked alike. Top but-
ton undone, no buttons polished,
hair worn long, hats bashed in,-un-
iforms slightly shabby, and a mou-
stache, if possible, the bigger the
better. They affected silk scarves
while flying, and wore half-Wel-
lington boots. 'Their interests were
flying, beer and women, in that
order.
Looking back, they were a col-
lection of rather foolish young
men, with little to recommend
them except a certain skill at
guiding a few hurtling tons of me-
tal through the air, and the abil-
ity to aim and fire guns at objects
in the air and on the ground. * * *
Yet they WERE romantic, how-
ever realistically we look at them,
They had a flair for living. They
had the dash and spirit of cavalry.
Laconic Cossacks, they were, And
they were likely the last fighting
men the world will see, to seek out
the enemy and engage him in
single combat.
They were no braver than other
men, but they had a great pride.
Typically, even their deaths, and
they died in their hundreds, were
dramatic: tumbling down in a ball
of fire; blown to bits in midair;
cleaving deep and straight into
the cold sea; smashing hard and
true into the earth. * *
If the Canadian fighter pilot is
on the Way out, let's tot shed any
tears over him. Let's just be glad
he was around when he was. And
if that stoutish, balding fellow,
pushing forty, happens to tell you
that he Was a fighter pilot, don't
feel sorry for hint. He had his
day, and it was a good One.
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The Bible Today
Thirty-three African languages
now have the Bible in the vernac-
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have the New Testament in the
vernacular; and parts of the Bible
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People all over India are enthus-
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inion of Canada was taken in
what year?
4. Are there 80,000, 100,000 or
185,000 federal civil servants?
5. What has been the increase in
the average hourly manufac-
turing wage in Canada over the
past ten years?
. ANSWERS: 5. In 1949 average
factory wage was 99 cents an hour,
was $1.71 an hour in January of
1959. 3. In 1871, 1. Lake Erie's
Middle Island. 4. At most recent
count, 185,000. 2. Prior to March
31, 1936.
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Canada.
40. YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
(Thursday May 1, 1959)
The habit of riding bicycles on
the sidewalks is one that has been
growing in Clinton and while there
is a, by-law forbidding it nobody
has insisted on its strict enforce-
ment. Chief Fitzsimons, however,
informs the News-Record that he
is going to enforce the by-law and
warns bicycle riders, to keep off
the walks. People find it hard en-
ough to escape being run down
at the crossings and they should
be safe on the sidewalks,
Amongst those who returned
from overseas last week were: Ol-
iver Cole, Cecil Cooper, Byard Hill,
RO.SS Forrester, Lloyd Wilken and
Morgan Agnew.
Mrs. A. 0. Pattison and grand-
son, Master Edgar McGuire, are
spending a couple of weeks with
friends in Buffalo,
Mr. Frank Gibbs and family re-
turned Saturday from a trip to
the west„ Mr. Gibbs' mother, sister
and three brothers reside within
a radius of six miles of Briercrest,
Sask, Mr. and Miss Gibbs and Mrs.
B. Shortland accompanied them as
far as Moosejaw.
From our Early Files
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Public Accountant
Office and Residence
RattenbUry Street East
Phone HU 2-967'7
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