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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1959
NUMBER CONSCIOUS
THE MODERN WORLD is complicate& It
Box numbers at the post office are import-
numbers, unemployment insurance numbers, tele-
remember. Size of shoes, size of hats, licence
complications is to become number conscious.
is becoming more complicated all the time.
Everyone has a great number of numbers to
One way we all can help to sort out the
ant. The sorting problem in our growing local
new name is added to the lists, We can help
the employees there, and ourselves, by asking
post office is becoming more difficult as each
those who write us letters to put the box num-
ber on each time, This will help us in getting
mail delivered earlier. phone numbers, house numbers, etc,
To avoid making life more complicated, we
Clinton people also recently got a new
should be'careful not to make mistakes in these number to use on their homes. It is a great numbers we use every day. help if these numbers are used each time a
In Clinton we recently received new dial
location is spoken of. Use your number to
telephone numbers. These are quite apt to be
direct your friends, and the business places who
with us for 50 years of more, and without
are making delhieries to your home. many changes in them. They are planned to
Become number conscious and help life in fit in with the five-digit number plan now being
our growing community become less complicated installed in the cities, and in many rural areas
and confusing. as well.
NOT TO BE MISSED
THE LITTLE GIRL, having attended her "Real Georgian, with embrocation all round the
sister's wedding the day before, was describing
imitation vermin."
bottom and her going away coat was lined with
the bride's ensemble to her playmates: Communication cloth have perils all its
"Her dress was beautiful", she enthused. . own . . —Industry.
TALKING POINT
to ten percent.
Tolls on some bridges are 50 cents per car.
On the Sunshine State Parkway in Florida the
toll is one cent per mile. The Tampa Skyway
charges 75 cents per car.
The only such charge in Canada is 15
cents per car in the Burlington Skyway Bridge.
Visitors to Florida estimate their daily con-
tributions in State and municipal taxes run at
least $2 for meals and other purchases. If a
U.S. vacationer spends $50 a day in Ontario the
discount on his money is only $1.50.
CARE
these accidents could have been avoided if
someone had been more careful, had used more
common sense and had refused to take a risk.
This week is National Water Safety Week.
The Canadian Red Cross Society, as it does
each year at this time, urges us to learn the all-
important rules of water safety.
It is for our own benefit that we learn
these rules so thoroughly we apply them auto-
matically. It could mean the difference between
coming home safely from holidays and not com-
ing home at all. This summer, vacation with
caution,
SUTTER-PERDUE LIMITED
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40 YEARS AGO
Oltatota New Era
Thursday, June 19, 19t9
Sergeant Morley Counter arriv-
ed home on Monday everilpg. He
enlisted with the 161st Battalion,
and was with the Quartermaster
department until the 161st was
disbanded, He was then attached
to another department at the
camp.
Private Ed. Greens got back
from overseas on Tuesday. He
was with a machine gun section
in France.
Enumeration for the coming re-
ferendum on prohibition is to be
commenced within the next two
weeks in the larger cities of the
province. Under the plan to be
put into effect, the Government
will be ready to hold the referen-
dum in October.
The UFO picnic was held on
Wednesday. The warm weather
was a good excuse for the farmer
and his family to quit work and
spend the afternoon at the picnic
in Fred Tyndall's Grove, on the
London Road.
The head of one of the boilers
blew out at the Doherty factory
and some of the workmen had a
narrow escape. Part of the staff
is off work until the needed re-
pairs are done.
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, June 19, 1919
The Clinton Mille and Silver
Band has almost every available
date booked from now until the
12th of July.
Clinton is to have greatly im-
proved street lighting, The street
committee is contemplating put-
ting in an extra row of lights along
main street and a fancy cluster at
the post office point.
There were between five and six
hundred people at the UFO picnic
in Fred Tyndall's Grove. A pro-
gram of speeches was given. W.
McEwan, president of the Clinton
branch of the UFO was in the
chair. R. McMillan, Seaforth, Mr.
Ratcliffe, Exeter and Mr. Kerni-
gan, Colborne, each spoke.
Mrs, 3, Canningharrie and Miss
Florence Cuuninghaine, took in
the Greyhound excursion to De-
troit.
Mr, and Mrs, Blanchard came
over from Detroit on the Grey-
hound, and, after spending a few
days with the latter's mother, Mrs,
M. Pickett, will go up to Lake
Bosseau, for the summer,
25 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, June 21, 1934
Mrs. Radford, Mill Street, who
has spent a couple of weeks with
her daughter, Mrs. Johnston, Lon-
desboro, has returned home.
Dr, J. W. Shaw, G. H. Jeffer-
son, C. H. Veinier, T. G. Serib-
bens, H. P. Plumsteel, G. E. Hall
and E, A. Fines, attended the dis-
trict meeting of South Huron AF
& AM, at Seaforth.
Arnold Venner, eldest son of
Mrs. F. Venner of Clinton, who has
been assistant on the staff of the
continuation school at St. Getrge,
has accepted the principalship of
Jarvis continuation school.
Miss Margaret Plumsteel has
completed her third year honour
course at Western University,
taking second class honours in
English and French. Mr. Lawrence
obtained third class honours in
business administration.
The markets: wheat, $1.02; oats,
35c; barley, 55e; buckwheat, 65c;
butter, 20c; eggs, 1,1c, 13c, 15c;
hogs, $8.50.
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
Thursday, June 16, 1949
Ella Nethery, Blyth, stole the
show at Hayfield at the annual
Achievement Day competitions of
Huron County Junior Farmers and
Junior Home-making Clubs. Corn
peting against 36 boys, she won the
junior championship in a contest
that called for the judging of eight
classes of cattle, swine, horses and
sheep. Ella is the 15-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Nethery, Blyth.
The drought which has plagued
this district and a large portion of
raw today, In the old days, fath-
ers weren't particularly concerned
with "getting to know the child-
ren". They didn't worry about their
children liking them. They took
it for granted and everybody was
a lot happier.
When my Dad got home from
work, he didn't have to set the
table, run around looking for the
kids, then jump in the car and go
and get a quart of milk. Nor did
he have to "pick up a few things
on the way home", because moth-
er looked after her own shopping,
* * *
No, sir, when my Dad got home
from work, he was greeted aff-
ectionately, but politely, and left
alone. He retired to HIS chair,
with HIS paper, until he was call-
ed for supper. During the meal, he
was not forced to listed to a 20-
minute harangue about the terrible
day mother had had, Nor did he
have to break up quarrels among
the children. Nor did he have to
jump up and make the tea because
mother was called to the phone
and was still there, talking about
the bake sale, 20 minutes later.
An on the weekend, my Dad
wasn't expected to turn into a
party boy. He was tired Saturday
night and went to bed. If he felt
like going to church he did. If
he didn't, he didn't, But he
wasn't pestered all day Sunday
by kids wanting to go for a swim,
or a wife wanting to go for a
drive, He made the decisions. If
he just wanted to sit on the ver-
andah and recoup for the coming
week's strugg4le, *le, he
Usually, we went for a picnic.
But there wasn't any nonsense
about Dad doing the cooking on an
outdoor grill, Mother made the
lunch, and Dad would sit on a
stump, in his Sunday best, gazing
with dignity and a certain amount
of distaste, at nature. After lunch,
he would recline on a blanket, in
the shade. He was relaxed, that
man. * * *
Another reason for his unqueet-
ioeed head - of - the - house status
was that we didn't argue with hit t.
The most I would dare was an
"Aw, Dad e ." But today the
old-fashioned clip on the ear for
lippy kids has become a symbol
of psychological disturbances or
something. Now you have to dis-
cuss everything with the brats.
Today's father Can get into a 20-
minute argument with any kid ov-
er the age of five, at the drop of
a suggestion. And come out wh-
impering.
'Twas ever thus, The world is
going to hell in a hot-rod, which
is considerably faster than the pro-
verbial wheel-barrow. And I can
hear my kids telling theirs, 30
years from now: "You children
should show a. little respect for
your father. Why, when we were
kids, we woudret dare disagree
with. our Dad, He was the boss
and no two ways about it, You
kids get away with murder these_
Letter to the Ed ttor
IIITIOR REPLY
FROM HOT-nompats
DEAR SIR;
Referring to the item in this
paper last week, we would like to
add a few words about hot-rod-
ders.
A member of Clinton Council
was witnessed racing another
prominent citizen across the main
intersection, with the local con-
stable and so-called hot-rudders
looking
These drivers took away from
the intersection with such speed
and screaming of tires that the
lives of citizens were endangered.
The old saying is that 'teen-
agers are expected to act like
'teenagers but adults are expected
to act like grown-ups.
Faithfully,
—THE SO-CALLED
HOT-RODDERS.
Clinton, Ontario,
June 16, 1959
Ontario for nearly a month, came
to an end Tuesday evening with an
electrical storm which cut off el-
ectric power for several hours
and provided much-needed mois-
ture for dying pastures and shriv-
elling crops.
Donald B. Palmer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Proctor Palmer, Clinton,
passed in Third Year Dentistry at
University of Toronto.
R. Milton McCool, who left
Clinton in 1902, returned last week
to find many changes. He recalls
some old landmarks such as Fair's
Mill, now Manning's Garage;
Graham Hotel, now Russell Jervis
Store and apartments; Clarendon
Hotel, later the Normandie, now
a vacant lot opposite the post of-
fice. Mr. McCool is superintend-
ent of the United Farmers of Al-
berta Central Co-operative stores,
Calgary, Alta., and a former UFA
MLA from Cochrane riding, Alber-
ta, from 1926-35.
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.Amalgamated 1924
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario — Population 2,985
0Z A. L, COLQUHOUN, Publisher
WILMA O. DINNIN, Editor
WE'VE COME ACROSS a good set of
answers for the tourist from south of the border
who is not very happy aobut paying the discount
on American money in Canada.
Comparing the expense of shopping in On-
tario with that of shopping in Florida and in
some other states, the Florida shopper pays a
tax of three percent on nearly every purchase
of meals and merchandise. In addition there
are several municipal and local taxes of one
or two percent or a total of four or five percent.
In Georgia taxes on some goods run up
TAKE
HOW WI LL WE spend our vacation this
year?
This question is foremost in our thoughts
as the warm days cause us to dream of sun-
drenched beaches and cool sparkling lakes where
the trout beg to be landed.
Certainly our aim is to be happy and enjoy
ourselves. Why then, do we so often court
sorrow and tragedy at our lakes and rivers?
Every year, in Canada, more than one
thousand persons are drowned. The shocking
thing about this annual toll is that most of
Father's Day is but a pallid imi-
tation of that great commercial
orgy known as Mother's Day, but
apparently it is with us to stay,
Each year father receives gifts
that he neither needs nor wants,
and before the wrappings have
been put away, he realizes the
family has put him in hock for the
price of said gifts.
* *
I don't know what the rest of
you birds want for Father's Day,
but I know what would please me
most. The most thoughtful gift
the family could produce for me
would be if they packed a lunch,
got into the car, and disappeared
for the day.
I find the whole business of Fa-
ther's Day revolting. The mere
existence of such a day is an in-
dication of the new low to which
the father has sunk in the family
unit. Just a few decades ago,
every day was father's day, and
there was no fooling about it.
When I was a kid, there was
none of this dam! foolishness of
father helping around the house,
Nowadays fathers scrub the kitch-
en floor on their day off, and help
with the dishes after dinner. In
the good old days, father didn't
have a day off in the first place,
and mother woudn't have let him
help with the dishes, in the sec-
ond, because she knew her place,
and his,
* *
Perhaps it's the increase in his
leisure time that has turned the
head of the house into a sub-
stitute baby-sitter, a domestic
menial, a handy wailing-wall, and
in general, a pale refIectien of his
dignified, respected male fore-
bears,
* *
Until a couple of decades ago
father worked a six-day, sixty-hour
Week, .but he didn't get ulcers. And
do you know why? Because be
didn't eee as much of his family
as the poor, cripple - gutted creat-
ure who brings home the bacon
today.
*
Nowadays, father gets a day or
half-day off, Does he potter in
the garden? Does he go fishing?
Does he get away for a game of
golf? W6uld it were so, He is
kicked into the street with the
children, while mother does what-
ever modern women do around
Inane, with $800 worth of labour-
saving machinery,
There is nothing more pitiable
than the sight of a father, on his
day off, wandering forlornly about
a supermarket, trailed by two or
three little monsters of children,
as he does the weekend shopping.
When he gets home, he is allowed
to put the groceries away, and
spend an hour mowing the lawn,
before dinner, After he has put
the kids to bed, he is supposed to
emerge from his chrysalis, as a
full-fledged social butterfly, and
go off and get all juiced up at
somebody's Saturday night party,-
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