Clinton News-Record, 1959-06-04, Page 2V.,44E'TWO
Clinton News-Record
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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1959
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TAPS ARE for turning off . . . especially
on busy highways! •
Taps on the brake pedal give warning flash-
es to the ears behind. Coupled with turn in-
dicators and/or hand signals they give un-
mistakeable indication to slow down and turn
off the highway.
There is nothing in the law to require
a motorist to give this additional warning. It is
just a matter of common sense and self-pro-
tection. And it is also something else that is
very important . , it is a matter of courtesy.
A driver should make his turn off a busy
highway with all reasonable speed. A leisurely
turn can back up the line of traffic unnecessarily.
But firm braking at the last moment may invite
a rear-end collision if the car behind has not
noticed, or has not believed the turn signal.
That is why warning flashes of the stop light,
operated by light taps on the brake pedal,
are always worth while when high speed traffic
is following close behind.
Such signals are public evidence of a man
who is driving well. A driver who is thinking
ahead, thinking behind and thinking to the side.
A driver who wants to keep out of trouble him-
self, and Wants to help the man behind to do the
same,
Business and Professional
— Directory —
KINDERGARTEN CLASSES
Parents are requested to register all
children eligible to attend KINDERGAR-
TEN CLASSES, commencing September
8, 1959.
To be eligible for kindergarten enrolment, a
child must be five years of age orrkor before Decem--
ber 31, 1959. Register by letter not later than
June 12, 1959.
On day of enrolment in September, definite
proof of age must be submitted to the principal of
the Public School.
(Signed) on behalf of
CLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD
H. C. LAWSON, Secretary,
Clinton, Ontario.
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OP CLINT ON
534% DEBENTURES
DUE: July 15th, 1967 to, 1979
DENOMINATIONS: $1,000,00
PURPOSE: Addition to Distria High Sthool
PRICE: 100 & Interest
Por particulars Contaet:
K. W. COLQUHOUN
REAL ESTATE, and INSURANCE
Phoyie Htl 2.9747 Clinton, Ont.
THE CLINTON Spring Show has won ac-
claim throughout western Ontario for the fine
livestock display presented each year. The horse
Show is particularly outstanding, and has estab-
lished a reputation . for presenting a thrilling
display. The four, six and eight horse hitches
are tremendous exhibits to watch.
All through the years the cattle, sheep and
swine shown at Clinton have 'been of top calibre,
and more and more emphasis has been placed
each year upon this aspect of the fair.
This year, strong emphasis ha's been placed
upon the junior classes, encouraging young
people to take part in the showmanship part of
agriculture. Special classes have been added for
youngsters in the four townships surrounding.
Clinton, and of course there are open classes,
and 4-H Club competitions as well.
A ferris wheel, games of chance, candy floss
and hot-dogs, all are included on the grounds of
the Spring Show to delight the Fair-goer.
The idea of a Fair is particularly pleasing
at this time of year, for the seeding is over, the
haying has yet to start, and the farm folk have
a little more time for fairs than at some other
seasons, To urban people, the Clinton Spring
Show marks the open door to summer and the
warm pleasant weather ahead.
To all of us, young and old, the Spring
Show means a tine for fun and something really
interesting to do on Wednesday afternoon off,
Come to the Fair!
MAY RE.ESTABLISII BAND
A RESIBENT bandmaster seems to us al-
most a necessity to the success of a band.
Though with effort, a band may be run and
operated wisely with leadership from out of
town, we feel that only when someone who lives
in a town, and is interested in the well-being of,
that town's cultural life, takes hold of the organ-
ization of a band, that true success can be
achieved.
Clinton now has promise of the services
of a resident bandmaster.
It would appear that this is an excellent
opportunity to give support to a local band, with
the hope that a true Citizens Band will emerge.
There is the nucleus of a performing band
in existence. Bolstered by the old-timers who
played in the former Clinton Citizens Band,
and kept buoyant through the enthusiasm of
young musicians, the new Band should easily be
a success.
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
TAP THE PEDAL
In the past, a yearly grant was made by
town council toward support of the Citizens
Band. We feel that when progress can be noted
among the young bandsmen, and true support is
given by the band members and their parents,
'then it will be time for the town as a whole,
through the council, to contribute some funds
each year for Band support.
With the exception of the Public Library,
which we feel to be one of the best in rural
areas in the province, our town does not spend
any money in building up the cultural aspects
of our town. Through the Band, will come
opportunity to bolster this aspect of the' com-
munity's life, keeping pace with the support be-
ing given sports, and the continuing progress
toward well-paved streets, hydro, water and
sewerage services, and other aspects of com-
munity life,
This week I received a letter
that made my lip curl like a corn-
flake. It was notification that the
Class of '49 will be holding a big,
jolly, 10-year reunion in Toronto
next October. * *
It will be complete with football
game, banquet, dance, and no
doubt, class "yells" and songs, Just
a real swell get-together of that
grand bunch of good guys and
great gals that made up the best
little old class that ever graduated. * e
Before we go any further, let
me make it crystal clear that I
would not (a) touch with the pro-
verbial ten-foot pole, or (b) be
found dead at, any such gathering.
The very thought of it gives me
the green shudders.
In the first plate, I should have
graduated with the Class of '44,
But a war, followed by a year in
hospital, forced me to take my
degree with the Class of '49. Their
wide-eyed adolescences did not en-
dear my classmates to me. Nor
did iny greying hair and austere
manner endear me to them, * *
In the second place, I was al-
ways a pallid imitation of a col-
lege boy. Organized cheering al-
ways brought me out in goose
bumps of embarrassment, School.
"yells" Made me wish desperately
to be someplace Oleo. And when
classmates sang the good old col-
lege song, tears of emotion prac-
tically spurting froze their eyes,
I would stand about in a state of
silent, acute unease, cold chills of
distress cruising my spine. * *
I am not citing this reaction as
being admirable or unique. It's
just the way I respond. Lots' of
people get a wonderful feeling of
togetherness when they stand,
arms around each others' should-
ers, bellowing puerile words to a
borrowed tune. All I say is, let
them stay together, as long as
they include me out.
* *
A third reason I would never ap-
pear at a class reunion is that I
woudn't dare. One of my real
college friends, as opposed to class-
mates, might hear about it, and
laugh, himself into a state of chron-
ic hysteria. * * AIA
The crowd I hung around with
at college was scarcely the clean-
cut type that went to school danc-
es, sang school songs or cheered
school cheers. They were much too
busy for such wholesome antics. AAA *
They were too busy trying to
borrow a clean shirt from each
other. They were too busy gather-
ing empty beer bottles, so they
could raise enough money for a
box of full ones. They were too
busy looking for new rooms, be-
cause they'd been evicted. They
were too busy borrowing notes,
from the Student& who did go to
lectures,
* * *
Some of them were veterans,
and when their cheques came in
they lived high, wide and hilarious
for a week. After that they went
back to beans, bread and borrow-
ing for the rest of the month. * * *
Today perhaps they'd be called
Beatniks, and would be self-consc-
iously proud of their sordid exist-
ence. But in those days self-pity
and scraggly beards had not come
into fashion, and my old sidekicks
just enjoyed life in a thoroughly
robust fashion. *
Whenever one of them received
a little windfall, they'd visit us.
In fourth year I was married
and we lived in a crumby, three-
room apartment, with a small
squalling boy. Of an evening, there
would be merry voices approach-
ing, a thumping on the door, and
in they'd troop, anywhere from a
couple to half a dozen of them, * *
One would be tottering under a
carton of suds. Another would
be bearing a guitar. A third
would produce a rye loaf and hunk
of salami, probably purloined in
a delicatessen, Another would
bring forth eggs from an overcoat
pocket, A fifth would be clutch-
ing an empty cigarette package,
on the back of which he'd written
his latest poem.
*
There would be ballads and caly-
psos and food and drink and good
talk -long into the night, until a
call from the landlady suggested
we "get them noisy bums outa
there", • *
• They were irresponsible, aimless,
lazy, a nuisance to the other stud-
ents, a trial to the professors.
They were obviously destined for
failure, every one of them. *
The other day, my wife and I
were telling the husky 11-year-old
who was the baby then, about
some of these old, friends. We
went over them, one by one. The
guitar-player is a CBC producer,
The salami thief is a chartered ae-
countant, The poet is a better
poets and a professor of English
into the bargain. Others area a
top newspaper reporter, a theat-
rical director, an economist, and
two university professors, * *
Nope, X think skip the class
reunion, the cheers, the college
songs and all the honest fun of the
Class of '49, and :just remember
what it was really like,
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, June 5, 1919
Much interest was taken in the
flight of two aeroplanes over the
town on Monday afternoon on
their way to Blyth for Tuesday's
celebrations. We heard of one man
who was in the barber shop hav-
ing a haircut when the word went
around, He rushed to the door
with the job half done and his
neck still swathed in a snowy
towel. Clinton has not had the
privilege of seeing many aeroplan-
es, being situated so far from the
training bases during the war. The
airmen did some interesting st-
unts, flying so low as to be quite
visible, and almost everybody was
out to see them.
"Tommy" Leppington returned
home from overseas on Monday
evening. He spent several months
in hospital some time ago but is
quite recovered. He went over-
seas with the 161st.
Mrs. G. M. Elliott attended the
Blyth celebration on Tuesday and
while there treated herself to an
aeroplane ride. A number of people
went up, Mrs. Elliott being the
fourth and, so far as we can learn,
the only woman to take the trip.
It was rather an expensive form
of amusement, one dollar a min-
ute being the charge. It will be
interesting when travelling by air
becomes common for Mrs. Elliott
to recall that she was the first
woman in Huron County to take
an aeroplane ride.
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton New Era
Thurslay, June 5, 1919
Sir John Willison, well known
writer and journalist, and presi-
dent of the Reconstruction Associ-
ation, addressed the Board of
Trade on Tuesday evening in the
town hall. Sir John, who spent his
early life on the Parr Line, bound-
ary of Hay and Stanley town-
ships, remarked that Huron was a
good county to live in and in his
travels in Canada and the United
States always met someone who
came from Huron and were hold-
ing positions of trust in their var-
ious communities. He told several
stories of his boyhood and recall-
ed the day when he walked 14
miles to Clinton and back again to
get a dollar's worth of yellow
backed, novels, "The bookstore
man threw in an extra dime novel
on account of my taking so many
and I trudged home tired and
dusty with my 11 novels,"
1VIrs. William Leppington and
babe arrived in town from over-
seas and joined her husband here.
We welcome the new arrivals to
Clinton,
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, June 7, 1934
J. A. Addison, only son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Addison of town, has
finished his arts course at West-
ern University this year. He in-
tends going on with the medical
course. He received his degree
yesterday.
One of the worst results of the
past cold winter was the killing
off of the beautiful vine on the
Royal Bank. It seems to have
been pretty badly frozen, as it is
only putting out a few leaves here
and there, Usually at this time
of year that south wall is a solid
mass of green, which remains un-
til fall, when the leaves turn a
brilliant red before falling off,
J. L. McKnight has opened a
groceteria in Goderich, which he
will •rnanage in connection with
their grocery store here, It is not
the intention of Mr. McKnight to
leave Clinton, however.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Manning
are in Toronto for the graduation
exercises in connection with the
University of Toronto, when Miss
Helen receives her degree. -
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, June 2, 1949
Clinton Citizens' Horticultural
Society sponsored an essay contest
for the pupils of Grade 8 at Clin-
ton Public School a few weeks age,
and the winners have been an-
nounced. These are "Ricky" El-
Hat, first, and Lorine Garon, sec-
ond. The essay was written on
the subject of "Preservation of
Wild Flowers", and the children
did not know until the results
were announced that they were
taking part in a contest. Some of
the essays were considered to be
of a very high order.
More than 100 visiting delegates.
of the International Federation of
Agricultural Producers from 41
nations of the world, now in Can-
ada attending the annual confer-
ence of the organization at OAC,
Guelph, witnessed a wonderful
parade of livestock at Clinton Sp-
ring Fair Friday afternoon last.
Entries of horses, cattle and swine
shown numbered 620, and the Fair
proved to be the largest in the
45-year history of Huron Central
Agricultural Society, Weather was
ideal, chilly enough for a topcoat
but just lovely.
Everyone Reads
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Wednesday-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Thursday evening by appoithinent
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Ito it Estate and Business Broker
High Street Clinton
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Liability, Wind, Fire and other
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Phones:
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Salesman: Vie Kennedy
Phone Blyth 78
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cadent, Alistair .Broadifook Sea-
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Jeffery, Seaforth.
Diroeters: Sohn R. III slung,
Archibald; MAI. 1-4011" hardt, Bornholm; E. 3. Trewattbk
Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Wn
ton; ,t L. lqalone, Seaforth;
vet Gocitech; 1. E. Peppet,
Brucefield; Alistair Erwidfoot,
Seaforth.
Agents.: Wm. Leiper Lond-
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Selwyn Taker, Brussels;
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