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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-09-24, Page 1Back To Standard Time Sunday Morning at 2 Sunday morning at 2 a.m. is changeover time, back to Stand- ard Time, for Clinton and district. This means move your clock back an hour, if you intend being to church on time in the morn- ing. You will gain one hour in sleep. 0 Bingo October 5 For Turkeys At Lions Club Arena Weil Known Businessmen Make Up Lions Executive cheal McAdam, first vice-president; John Livermore, secretary; John S. Scruton, Lion Tamer; Leslie Ball, one year director and Rus- sel Holmes, past president. At far right is Peter Anastasiades, guest speaker at Tues- day night's dinner meeting. Officers not pictured are Hugh R. Hawkins, Tail Twister; two-year directors, William Morfock and How- ard Brunsdon; one year director, Harvey C. Johnston. (News-Record Photo) Concert Band To Play at Bayfield Mrs. Irene Wolsey Named "Mother" At Nurses Residence Clinton Lions Club is staging a turkey bingo on October 5, in the arena, in plenty of time for the householder to plan for the Thanksgiving dinner menu. Time is eight o'clock, and two large turkeys are offered as door priz- es. Admission will be 75 cents, and this will entitle the player to 15 games, prizes for which will also be turkeys. Special games will be sold at 25 cents each, five for one dollar. Gladstone Grigg and Kenneth McRae are in charge of the bingo itself; H. C. Lawson is in charge of publicising it; Mitcheal Mc- Adam and Royce Macaulay are in charge of seating. Proceeds are to be used to boost the financial status of the arena. The club finds themselves with a deficit of nearly $1,000 left from this spring, and extensive repairs needed to get the ice-making plant underway. F. G. Meek Hired Temporary Principal Enrolment at CDCI is now re- corded at 516, according to F. G. Meek, who has been supplying as principal there since the second week of school. The board of CDCI, meeting last night in the school, approved the hiring of Mr. Meek as temporary principal, on the basis of $8,000 per year. ' Mr. Meek has had four years eXPerierice as principal in North- ern Ontario, prior to that was on the staff of Exeter District High School. Students Council has been given permission to use the gymnasium for dances, and 'Teen Town also, if they so desire. The 35th annual convention of London Conference Young Peop- le's Union of the United Church of Canada was held over the we- ekend at the Ontario Street Un- ited Church, Clinton. Ronald Steepe, Clinton, a past president of Huron Presbytery YPU, was the able convention manager. Assisting him was Bill Coultes, Belgrave, the present Hu- ron Presbytery president. Approximately 150 young peop- le were present from the nine presbyteries, including Algoma, Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford', Lamb- ton, Huron, Kent, Essex and Per- th. The conference was' attended by the national president, David MacDonald, Charlottetown, P.E.T. Theme of the conference, which opened Friday evening and closed Sunday afternoon, was "You and Your Direction." Rev. W, S. Mac- Leod, St. John's Church, Strat- ford, was theme speaker. Among the resolutions dealt with was one which will be for- warded to Canada's Prime Min- ister, John Diefenbaker, express- ing the conference's appreciation of the fat:A that no alcoholic bev- erage was served at the state ban- quet for the Queen. Elizabeth wh- en she recently visited Canada. New Executive The new executive for 1959-60 will be: Christian education con- vener, Rev. ROSS D. Crosby, St. Marys; Young People's counselor, Rev. C. J. Scott, Sarnia, (for- merly of Blyth); president, Terry Chinnery, Aylmer; vice-president, Bruce Lambert, London; secre- tary, to be appointed; treasurer, Miss Jeanette Seabourne, Wind- sor, Conveners are:• Faith and evan- gelism, Wilmer Errington, Dun- gannon; stewardship and training, Miss Mary Howe, R.R. 1, South- wold Station; citizenship and Kick-off To-day For CDCI Red Devils CDCI Red Devils are meeting Seaforth High School football team this,afternoon on the Sea- forth playing field, for the first game of the season. First home genie will be at CDCI campus nest Thursday aft- ernoon at 2.30 pm, when the God- erich entry in the inter-school Ser. ieS will play here, Band Association Headed By C. Dixon and Mayor Taken To Hospital For X-Ray Work Mrs, Alice Dinsdale, Kippen, 89 years old, is a patient in Clinton Public Hospital since September 21. She fractured her left hip ill a fall. Gerald Shaddick, son of Mr, and Mrs. A. Shaddick, Victoria Street, was taken to hospital for x-rays on Saturday, following injuries re- ceived at school. to his chest. Siebrand Wilts, Londesboro waS released on Saturday from Hospi- tal where he has been since a tWo car crash on a Hallett Township road on September 14. His son Dame, 8, was allowed to go home on September 16. Mrs. Wilts is still in , hospital, where her condition is improving, and a second son, Hendrick, 12, al- so remains in hospital suffering from injuries to the jaw, ancial business of the band, and along with the president to' sign cheques, etc. The Band is experiencing some difficulty in locating certain of the instruments presumed to be- long to the former Clinton Band, and would appreciate any know- ledge of the whereabouts of these. They could be put to good use by the Band, The next meeting of the Assoc- iation will be on October 27 in the Legion Hall after band prac- tice, approximately 9.30 p.m. 0 Clinton Concert Band will lead the parade of school children from Clan Gregor Square in Bayfield to the fairgrounds in the village, beginning at 1.00 o'clock Satur- day afternoon, September 26. All members should be in the Square ready to move off at that time. Bandmaster George Wonch re- ports that supplementing the Band's parade will be the Clinton District Collegiate Institute's drum majorettes: Misses Dawn. Grigg, .Connie Smith, Mary Mac- aulay, Sandra Addison and Chris- tine Bridle. Recruiting Officers Visit Station Clinton Nine recruiting officers from various parts of Canada visited Station Clinton last week, to get up-to-date picture of life and training there. These officers have the job of advising those applying for enlistment with the RCAF. Mrs. Irene Wolsey, Victoria St- reet, has been appointed house mother at Clinton Nurses Resi- dence. She has been on the staff of the hospital for .four years, and now will make her home in the residence. Mrs. Wolsey succeeds Mrs. Jean Radford, who has been house mo- ther since the residence was first opened. Appointment of a secretary- treasurer for the hospital has not yet been confirmed. (BY W. EVERY SO OFTEN A FAR-OFF subscriber of the News-Record Passes away . , . and we realize that although they may be some- one we have never seen . . , we will miss them very much , One recently, was Tom Walker, Denver, Colorado . . He was 81 years old and had left Clinton years ago . . but he'd made a name for himself in his chosen city, and the reason for it, was a background in the piano factory here in town . , Torn sent along a gaily coloured postcard with every renewal of his paper, and we generally stuck it up some- where on the wall, where it ser- ved to remind us that our words were read far afield , . He was a cheerful man, and one we hate to lose from our subscription list... * * * THIS PENNY SALE SEEMS TO be gding very well , .. There's an- other whole week to buy tickets, for the draw is on October 3. , . There are more than 50 prizes, each of which have been donated by Clinton merchants . . They've done their part to support the Hospital Auxiliary . . . Now it's your turn , . . * * * THE LADIES OF THE HOSPI- tal auxiliary are not a bothersome group . . . They come to you only twice a year for fund raising pur- poses . . . the other time is on Tag Day . . And last year the penny sale raised $750 which was put to use buying siderails for beds, tray carts to carry food to the rooms; and dispenser for the operating room, 24 stainless steel teapots and carafes for the food trays . , and assisted in furnishing the emergency opera- ting room . . . * * * MRS. B. MENZIES IS PRESI- dent of the auxiliary this year... Mrs. Duff Thompson is chairlady of the penny sale itself . . . and numbers of volunteer workers are assisting . . • * WE AGREE WITH NIKITA Krushchev . . . it would have been nice for him to see Disney- land . . . and it was not nice of Hollywood to present the CanCan as an example of the best of their art . . If Mr. Krushchev finds it hard to understand the Amer- ican way , . we can sympath- ize with him . . . * * * FOR 'INSTANCE, WE WERE this week "selected" to receive a colourful brochure of a new- type magazine published by some- one in the US.A. . . It was an expensive one: $16.70 for six cop- ies . . and the promotion was as colourful as perhaps the book it- self is . . . But one thing has lost them a potential subscriber . . . The friendly little mass-produced letter they sent us was clearly not written for a Canadian read- er . . it went (at one point) this way: "You are on our list be- cause we believe you are one of those adult Americans . . . etc." . . and right away we backed up . . If our Canadian $16.70 subscription is worth anything to the promoters of this' American book, then it is worth a friendly little note, even if mass-produced, aimed at a Canadian reader . . . * * * THIS IS THE KIND OF THOU- ghtless lack of tact . . which was ,shown bluntly to the Amer- ican people by The Ugly Ameri- can, •a novel written for that ex- press purpose . . . Apparently it has not taken effect . . . nor have the general American public learned how to treat an invited guest . , Mr. Krushchev may, or may not be, a man the American public wishes to honour .. . never- theless he has been invited to their country by their president . . and in this capacity should be treated •as a guest . . . not as a foreigner to be baited . . . 0_ Murray K. Roy Enrols at OAC for Degree Course Murray K. Roy, Londesboro, has enrolled at Ontario Agricul- tural College, expecting to gradu- ate in 1963. Mr. Roy is married, and his wife and two sons will carry on the family farm while he it at college. Mr. Roy is not new to farming. Last year he topped Huron in a pasture competition sponsored by the Soil and Crop Improvement Association of Ontario, and this year served as judge for the Hu- ron pasture competition, results of which have just been released, He Will be among 450 freshmen and freShettes attending OAC from Canada, Europe, Asia, Afri- ea, South. America and the West Tndies, The Week's Weather 1959 1958 High Low High Low Sept, 17 51 34 61 55 18 51 45 65 48 19 65 36 68 55 2() '?4 48 68 46 21 80 63 72 44 22 75 68 76 56 23 80 66 78 61 Rain: .62 in. Executive of the town's senior service club, the Clinton Lions, from the left, Frank. B. Pennebaker, treasurer; Stewart Taylor, third vice-president; Herbert Bridle, second vice-president; E. B. Menzies, president; Mit- Lions Need Help to Open Rink For Skating Season Clinton Lions Club decided to tickets will be available well in ask for assistance in getting the advance of that game. arena open in time for skating The Lions. are beginning a this fall. Apparently one of the membership drive, and hope to motors burned out this spring, swell their ranks considerably. and a cost of about $800 will be President Beecher Menzies called needed to replace it. for "at least ten" new Lions for At present the Lions record ov- initiation on October 27. er $980 deficit in arena operation. Official •attitude of RCAF Station Peter Anastasiades was introduc- Special speaker of the evening, Clinton is that the arena is still ed by Herbert Bridle, and after out of bounds to Air Force per- his interesting address, was sonnel. This condition has existed thanked by Kenneth McRae. since mid-winter, Station officials Mr. Anastasiades, who is a staff require an engineer's certificate member at CDCI, was born in In- concerning the building. dia, and completed his college. e:d- The boys ,and girls committee uoation here in Canada. This is is studying the problem of loca- his second year at, tit Clinton col-tioh -for 'Teen Town dances this legiate. His topic was "Travel in winter, since the auditorium at India" and he told in a most in- CDCI has been partitioned off for teresting manner of holidaying in use as a permanent classroom and Kashmir, to the north of India locker room. proper, when he was nine years Mitcheal McAdam, first vice- old. president of the Lions is heading Kashmir has 4,400,000 people, the Grey Cup draw project, and approximately, he said, although the government has never been able to take an accurate census of the people. Whole villages can dis- appear in one month, Import of beef, even in tinned form is pro- hibited, and all such is confiscated at the border. The speaker showed 'the con- trast between countries, by men- tioning that a bricklayer would work 12 hours a day in Kashmir for $1.00 for the entire day. The people are happy, he said, al- though poorly fed and with little in wordly goods. They believe in re-incarnation after death, and that if they live this life as well as they can, then the next one will be better. "The people live a simple life amidst unparralleled beauty, in an uncommercialized country." The Clinton Band Association was formed officially on Tuesday night in a meeting held after band practice in the Legion Mem- orial Hall, Mayor Burton S. Stan- ley accepted the chair of honour- ary president, while Clayton Dix- on will be president. The Rev. J. A. McKim is sec- retary-treasurer and his assistant Scholarships Are is Miss Joan Johnston, member of the band. The advisory com- mittee is made up of Beecher Listed at CDCI Menzies, representing the Lions Club; Harry Plumsteel, fo rural members of the band; Kenneth C. Cooke, representing the Legion, and two more to be named, Purposes of the Band ASsocia- Mon are set uot: to better the musical education of town and district; to produce a properly administered music organization; to promote public engagements of the band and, to have a properly led and musically trained group, The sectetary-treastIter was given power to deal with any fin- CDCI Board Awards Contract For Addition Tenders have been let for the construction of the new addition to Clinton District Collegiate In- stitute. Approval of this move was received on Tuesday by II. C. Lawson, secretary of the CDCI Board, and John Hayman and Sons, Ltd., London, is the firm delegated to do the job, Tender price was V96,867,00, Directors of the Bayfield Fall Fair are staging the big event on Saturday this year, in an attempt to make the fair available to all the hundreds of people who look upon the village as a summer home. This is a unique idea in the lakeside community, and many are watching the outcome closely. Another new feature is the pre- sence of Clinton's newly formed Concert Band, which will be on parade for the first time, as they lead the school children from Clan Gregor Square into the fair- grounds. With them will be the drum majorettes from the CDCI Trumpet Band. Bayfield's Fairgrounds are situ- ated in a natural setting, framed by trees on three sides, and the modern arena which houses the dozens of indoor exhibits makes that section of the Fair easy to view. Special classes such as the Herd Wins Fame For Dalevista Farm William J. Dale, RR 1, Clinton, brought home a solid array of prizes from Western Fair, London last week, earned by his Guern- sey herd. Mr. Dale's farm is known as Dalevista Farm. Leaskdale Bandmaster's Nancy won grand champion and reserve in the junior yearling heifer class. Second prizes were won for junior bull calf, three year old milk, senior yearling heifer. Third priz- es were won by yearling bull, jun- ior herd and graded herd. Dry cows won both second and third placings. Fourth: four year old in milk; sixth, junior heifer calf; seventh, eighth and ninth on sen- ior calves. 0 Young Herdsmen From Lobb Family Two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Mer- vyn. Lobb, RR 2, Clinton, were active as showmen and herdsmen at the larger fairs this fall, show- ing Ayrshire cattle. Murray work- ed with the herd of Alex Suther- land, Dunvean Farm, Paris, at Western Fair. Donald worked with Sam Pattison's herd, Elora View Farm, Elora, at the CNE, Toronto. Annexation Hearing In Toronto Next Month Progress towards annexing land in Hullett Township along Highway 8, has been continuing. The Ontario Municipal Board has announced that a hearing will be held on October 28, in Toronto, and all property owners affected will be notified shortly of this, 0 Guides Registration Next Monday Night First Clinton Company of Girl Guides will hold registration in the Legion Hall, Clinton on Mon- day, September 28 at 7 p.m. sharp. The age limit: beginners should be in their 12th year, Cancer Society Has Annual Here Friday Clinton Tdwn Hall will be the site to-morrow night of the an; nual meeting of the Huron Unit, Canadian Cancer Society. All those who are interested in this work, either on the local level, or 'otherwise, are invited to at- tend, Meeting time is 8 p.m, Linton News-Recor London Conference Y.P.U. Has Annual Here in Ontario Street Church Hall Scholarships won by students at CDCI were reported to the board by Principal F. G. Meek last night. They include the Sir Ern- est Cooper Scholarship to Eugene Bender, RR 1, Zurich; also a $400 Ontario Government scholarship, and a Dominion-Provincial Burs- ary of $250. Eugene is attending Stratford Normal School. James Managhan, son of Mr, and Mrs, W. E. Managhan, RR 5, Clinton, has been awarded a Do- minion-Provincial bursary type A, valued at $500. He has entered the faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toron- to. Mary Helen Yea, Holmesville, has won a Dominion-Provincial bursary Of $250, as well, and she is attending Stratford Normal School. Secondary school bursaries of $100 each have been won by D. Mark sender, Sherry Cochrane and Thomas A, Logan, They are students in Grade 13 at CDCI. Community service, Miss Helen Haines', London; mission and wor- ld out-reach, Miss Anna Thomp- son, Science Hill; recreation and culture, Harry Greenwood, Mit- chell; leadership education, Lloyd Holland, Clinton; publications, Miss Betty Cook, Sarnia. Tour Air Station On Friday evening Rev. Grant Mills, minister of the host church, extended a welcome to the dele- gates, and reports were presented. Saturday began with morning worship. Group sessions were held for discussions. Bible study and resolutions completed the agenda. At noon lunch was served in Wesley-Willis United Church. In the afternoon, following the business period, the young people were taken on a tour of RCAF Station Clinton. The official convention banquet was held Saturday evening in the host church, after which the new officers were installed. On Sun- day morning, after a communion service, a meditation was led by Kenneth Ashton, Blyth, (formely of Clinton), a Huron Presbytery student for the ministry. 0 THE NEW ERA-93rd YEAR THE NEWS-RECORD-77th YEAR $3.00 Per Year-10 Cents Per Copy-12 Paget No. 38—The Home Paper With the News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959 Fair Time at Bayfield on Saturday; Fun for All Apple Display show hours of work and great ingenuity. The general fruit entries are a good example of the excellent variety grown. in. Huron County, School exhibits at Bayfield are the "talk of the county" for there are often more than can be ac- commodated upon the display boards, and the work is of .excel- lent quality. There are two 4-H Clubs ex- hibiting beef and dairy cattle. The enthusiasm of the young folk is outdone only by their families, There will be a square dance corn.- petition during the afternoon, in which school children will com- pete. At night there will be a dance in ' the town hall. Interestingly enough, htis can 'be a real night of dancing, even though on Sat- urday night music stops at 12 o'clock. Intention is to start on. Daylight Saving Time and dance until one o'clock. That will be midnight Eastern Standard Time. The ladies will want to view the baking exhibits, and the spec- ial class for a fruit cake, uniced. The men will enjoy seeing the top-prize grain and vegetables and fruit, Everyone will enjoy the food for sale on the grounds, the gam- es to play and the good live stock and poultry to see at first hand. This is a "big" event in Bay- field's year. It can be fun for you. Library Extra Door Ready For Use Renovating Soon As many people are aware, work has commenced at the Lib- rary to add support to the front arch, which is showing cracks, due to the quicksand in the area, While work is in progress memb- ers and friends are asked to use the emergency door just off Rat-, tenbury Street, Signs will be er- ected to indicate when to use this entrance, Beginning on the first of Oct- ober winter hours will be abserv- ed at the Library. This means that the Library will be open from two until five-thirty, as usual, in the afternoons and from seven until nine in the evenings, with eight o'clock closing on Friday. 0 Hospital Records 35 Births In August During the month of August there were 35 births and two deaths and a total of 203 in-pat- ients. There were 14 major Kurgi- cal operations and 74 minor Ones; 66 chest x-rays, 78 other x-rays and 9, fluoroscopy, Out-patients treated in the emergency ward totalled 91. This was the biggest month so far in lab work, and 533 units were done, according to superintendent Miss Hilda Smith. On Monday Miss Smith attend- ed an administrators institute and workshop in Toronto, which was sponsored by the Ontario 1-lospi.• tat Services Commission and the Ontario Hospital Association. She reports there are now ,fivo Ontario people insured under the plan, which is 92 percent of the province's population. The commission. now plans to .send out second notices for de- 'invent .accounts, making it eas- ier for those who might forget to send in payments.