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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-06-18, Page 2to help Dad appreciate outdoor living. A BAR.B-CUE is the thing . WONDERFUL SELECTION TO SUIT EVERY POCKET-BOOK 98c to $29.95 We Also Hove The Necessary Accessories: Caps Aprons - Tools Lighters - Charcoal Briquets rote Many Other Exciting Gifts DAY, can be found in our Tool Section Other Suogyestioris We Offer Are: Electric Razors - Electric Fans - Portable Radios Soldering Kits, THE Z K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTAT• Representative: Sun Life Assurance CO. of Canad Phones: Office HU 2.9747; Res. HU 2-755 Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth J. E. HOWARD. Hayfield Phone Hayfield 53r 2 Ontario Automobile Association Car - Fire - Accident Wind insurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy Froiu Oor Early Files PAM TWO Clinton News-Record NEWS-FiEcPF1P O L ie d` 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 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 24 ALBERT STREET Phone HO /-7023 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. NEVER BO ROW NEED LESSLY! AUCTIONEER ALVIN WALTER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times, "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant GODIRICH, Ontario Telephone 1011 Box 478 45-17-b 50-tfb OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF Hours: Seaforth: Daily except Monday & Wednesday-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m, Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Thursday evening by appoitnment only. Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard- ware—Mondays ohly-9 am, to 5.30 P.m. Phone Iflrnter 24010 Clinton PHONE 791 StAlvOliTH O. B. 0740101' Optometrist Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) Per appOinttrient phone 38, Ooderieh REAL ESTATE tiliiONAItO 0. WM/Zit, Real Estate, and Dusitiess broker High Street. Clitttott photo WI :t.0119Z cuaroN NEWS-RECORD CLINTON NEW ERA THE 01-INTON .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,- SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) RONALD G. 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