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THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Amalgamated 1924
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County • Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000
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A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher
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C Y1.10 WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959
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WALLPAPER14‘4 .WP
SALE to brighten up 90up home
Clearing Our 1959 Stock
Now is your chance tb decorate your
walls with wallpaper—We have
papers for every room in
your home.
Buy One Single Roll for Regular Price
And You Get The Second
Roll for 1 Cent.
Washable, Plastic-Coated and some Prepasted,
All SUNWORTHY Imagine the Savings!
All must go as we have to make roam We Are Also Introducing Our
for our 1960 Stock .now on order. New ROXAL1N PAINTS Ceilings and Borders at Regular
Prices. No Refunds, with this Sale.
TERMS CASH — ALL PAINTS GUARANTEED
Sale Begins Friday, October 2 until Saturday, October 17
D. A. KAY and SON
Store Open Friday Evenings Until 10 O'clock
33 Huron Street CLINTON Phone HU 2-9542
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 appointment
only.
PHONE 791 SEAFORTH
Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard-
ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. to
5.30 p.m.
Phone HUnter 2-7010 Clinton
G. B. CLANCY
Optometrist -- Optician
(successor to the late A. L.
Cole, optometrist)
For appointment phone 33,
Goderich
REAL ESTATE
LEONARD G. WINTER
Real Estate and Business Broker
High Street -- Clinton
phone M. 2-6692
HAIR bRESSIN
CHARLES HOUSE OF BEAUTY
Cold Waves, Cutting, and
Styling
King St., Clinton Ph.,HU 27065
C b. Proctor, Prop.
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CLERK'S NOTICE
Of First Posting of
Voters' Lists for 1959
Municipality of the Town of Clinton,
County of Huron
NOTICE is hereby given that I have complied with Section
8 of the VOTERS' LISTS ACT, and I have posted up in my
office at Clinton the 2nd day of October, 1959, the list of
all persons entitled to vote in said Municipality at Municipal
Elections, and that such list remains there for inspection.
And I hereby call upon all voters to take immediate pro-
ceedings to have any errors or omissions corrected according to
law, the last day of appeal being the 16th day of October, 1959.
Dated at Clinton this 2nd day of October, 1959.
JOHN LIVERMORE,
Clerk of the Town of Clinton
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Insure The Co-Op Way
AUTO : ACCIDENT : FIRE
WIND : LIABILITY : LIFE
P. A. ROY
HU 2-9357 Rattenbury St. W.
CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE
ASSOCIATION
K. W. COLQUHOUN
INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE
Representative:
Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
Phones:
Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2-7550
Salesman: Vic Kennedy
Phone Blyth 78
J. U. HOWARD. Bayfield
Phone Bayfield 53 r 2
Ontario Automobile Association
Car - Fire - Accident
Wind Insurance
If you need Insurance, I have
a Policy
TYKE 1VIcKILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office: Seaforth
Officers 1958: President, Rob-
ert Archibald, Seatforth; vice- pre-
sident, Alistair Broadfoot, Sea-
ter:lir; seicretary-treaSurer, Norma
Jeffery, Seaforth.
Directors: John H.
Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon-
liarcit, Bornholm; E. j. Trewartha,
Clinton; Wuxi . S. Alexander, Wal-
ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har-
vey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper,
Brucefietd; Alistair Broadifoot,
Seaforth.
Agents: Wm. Leiper Lon&
egbore; J, F, Prtleter, D,rodhagcn;
Selwyn Baker, Brustels; Eric
Munroe, Seaforth,
.',AGE, TWO ,afINTON ti$WS4WCORP, mugsDAY, ocgroBzR 8, 1959
WE'D LIKE to put that title in capital let-
ters at least, or in glaring colours of rich reds
and golden yellows for those would best illus-
trate the bright aspect of Ontario autumn.
The cheerful glow which one feels in this
season is apt to be credited to the weather alone.
We should not forget the many other wonderful
things for which we should give thanks—things
which are ours because of a benevolent hand
guiding our destinies.
Thanks given generously for good turns done
PROMISES OF governmental bodies can all
too often turn out to be empty ones. Changes
of policy as the years roll along; changes of per-
sonnel in the seat of control and changes of
situation meantime may create need for another
decision.
Huron County has several of these problems
right now. For instance the new bridge on High-
way 21 north of Goderich and the proposed Tom
Pryde Memorial Hospital School• on Highway 21,
south of Goderich.
This week another problem has arisen in
the south of Huron. The intention of the Ontario
Department of Highways to turn Highway 84
(St. Joseph to Hensel].) back to the county is
raising consternation in both the villages of
Hensall and Zurich.
Aside from the fact that the villages would
suffer increased costs in road maintenance if
this comes to pass—the general public outside
of those villages should be concerned. Changing
it back to county control will mean there will
be one more highway the county council will be
responsible for. That will mean increased costs
on the county level. Por the motorist who uses
that road, winter driving will be a hazard, for
the county road crews do not, have the policy of
sanding roads—and the gently curved state of
Highway 84 would present terrific icy conditions.
CANADA HAS one "first" that is a national
disgrace.
Our loss of life and property through fire is
greater, per capita, than that in any other
country in the world.
Last year, fire killed 529 Canadians. Just
about half of them were children. Death by fire
is horrible—and unnecessary,
Our 85,500 fires in 1958 also burned up
property conservatively estimated to be worth
WHILE COMMENTING that youthful gang
wars are spreading in Bruce County, rather than
declining, the Kincardine News has a suggestion
to make.
They feel that "a curfew on these impetuous
young souls would put a stop to further out-
PROMISES BECOME PROBLEMS
OUR SHAMEFUL "FIRST"
SOLUTION SUGGESTED
LET US GIVE THANKS!
to us, have become mainly a matter of routine,
a ritual without a greet deal of thought.
Let us not permit our October Thanksgiving•
to become a ritual and an opportunity to devour
great roasts of quantity-produced fowl, generally
over-eating and indulging ourselves. Sometime
during this weekend, it would be an enriching
thing, tg consider quietly and at peace with our
fellowmen the many great things we take for
granted as days follow weeks, and consider each
individually as a matter to give thanks for.
$116 million. This brought property loss in the
last decade to over $1 billion, This is an appalling
economic waste.
What's tragic about the whole business is
the fact that most of these fires were caused
by human carelessness.
This week is Canada's official Fire Preven-
tion Week. It's the right time to start an all-out
permanent drive at home and at work to remove
the fire hazards — and the stigma of this shame-
ful "first". —Financial Post
breaks. Were they required to be home by nine
o'clock each evening for a definite period, it
would go a long way in preventing them carrying
on in the unseemly fashion they have chosen,
and would provide them with ample opportunity
to consider how they can spend their spare time
to better advantage".
Letters to the Editor
40 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, October I), 1919
p.oy Mohring, former popular
assistant at the grist mill, Ben-
miller, is welcomed back to the
village with his wife and child.
'The executors of the eatate of
the late J, C, Kalbfleisch have
sold the fine residence property in
the south end of the village to the
Maisons Bank. Mr. Coiles, man-
ager of the local branch, is now
occupying it.
James Graham, Goderich Town-
ship, has purchased a neat brick
cottage on Princess street and is
coming to town to reside.
Mrs. Hugh Miller, Brooklyn,
N.Y., is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Thomas Hawkins.
Among those who attended the
Liberal meeting at Seaforth on
Monday were: A. J. Holloway,
Dr. Shaw, W. 0, Paisley, G. A.
McLennan, A. Wilkin, J. Cornish
and J. L. Kerr.
George Becker, Detroit, has
returned home after visiting his
parents, Mr, and Mrs. Jacob
Becker of town.
40 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, October 9, 1919
Mr. and Mrs. J. R, Middleton,
Goderich Township, returned from
a trip to the. West. They were
absent about three weeks and vis-
ited in Winnipeg, Alexandra and
Colonsay, Man., and 1Viacklin,
Sask. Mr. Middleton has proper-
ty at Colonsay which is worked on
shares and the threshing was done
while he was there. In the Mack-
lin district he saw the Thompson
brothers, John, Wilfred, Ernie
and Robert and their mother and
sisters, who went west from God-
erich Township several years ago.
John Sheppatd and Hanckle John-
ston also live in the Macklin vic-
inity.
The new silent policeman at the
bank corner no doubt does a lot
to regulate traffic when it be-
comes congested. Chief Fitzsim-
ons, however, might do well to
have it brought in on October 31,
otherwise it might be missing the
following morning.
T. T. Murphy has sold his hand-
some house on William street to
Fred Rogerson, Hullett, who gets
possession in Mar9114. t -
25 YEARS AGO
OLINTO,N,r,,MEWS-RECORD
Thursday, October 11, 1934
W. S. R. Holmes has purchased
the old Stevenson property, the
stand lately occupied by the Ride
Cafe, Albert street.
R. H. Johnston has on exhibit-
ion in his store a sunflower stalk
measuring twelve feet, and on the
end a fine big flower, 'Twas a
very ambitious stalk.
Miss Reta MacDonald, only
Once a week, whether I need it
or not, I take a bath. And once a
year, without fail I sit down and
count my blessings. Every
Thanksgiving, I make a point of
it I suggest you try this excellent
custom, which induces an unaccus-
tomed humility in the most hard-
ened of us. Each year, when I do
it, I feel all pure and holy for an
hour or two. *
The daily scramble can become
such an accumulation of small ir-
ritations, minute frictions and pet-
ty miseries that life seems to be
nothing but a great big pain in the
arm. But just sit back and tick
off all the good things you have,
and you'll feel like that rarest of
creatures, a happy, well-adjusted
millionaire.
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One thing for which. I'm deeply
thankful• is reasonably good heal-
th. There are teeth missing, I
can't smell, and some of the old
joints are giving me hell, but on
the whole, I'm a doctor's despair.
In ten years, I've spent three days
in bed and $3 on doctors, and that
was to get my corns pared. Of
course, the rest of my family have
cost me about $2,000 in doctors'
bills during that decade, but
that's neither here nor there. It
certainly isn't here, anyway.
* *
I'm thankful for my three
squares a day. I tried living on
four squares a day one time, for
a couple of weeks. The squares
were slices of bread, one-quarter
inch thick. That experience has
left me to this day with a perver-
se urge to secrete bits of cheese,
crusts of bread and hunks of meat
about my person, so I'll never go
hungry.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T, P.
MacDonald, Teeswater, became
the bride of Eimer T. Potter, only
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Potter,
Holrnesville.
Miss Harriott Gaudier visited
Florence McCallum and old
friends in Clinton over the week-
end and holiday.
Detroit Tigers were very busy
winning their world series game
in St, Louis on Saturday by a
score of 10-4, but that was noth-
ing to many enthusiastic fans who
watched Clinton doing ahnoat ex-
actly the same thing in the final
with Staffa in the Huron-Perth
Intercounty League, winning the
championship with the substantial
margin of 5 runs in a 10.5 score.
10 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Grover Clare was named Mayor
of 'Teen Town; reeve Kenneth Ar-
kell; clerk, Barbara MacDonald;
treasurer, Harris Oakes.
A burglary took place in Jack-
son's Jewellery Store early Tues-
day, between 12,30 and 1 am.,
when jewellery to the value of
$1,000 was lifted from the south
show window. The service stat-
ion and garage operated by J. E.
Hugill and Son on Ontario Street,
just east of the main intersection,
was also entered. Both robberies
were carried out in the same
manner—by smashing the wind-
ows of the front doors, reaching
through and unlocking the spring
locks on the inside.
W. P. Roberts, Tuckersmith
farmer, who was the main speak-
er at the banquet held in the
basement of the Community Hall,
Londesbor, in connection with the
North Huron Plowing Match,
lauded agriculture as a vocation
and good plowing as an avoca-
tion. L. E. Cardiff. MP for North
Huron, secretary-treasuurer of
the Match, stated that it was the
largest match in ten years. •
Quick Canadian
Quiz
1. Name Canada's oldest incorp-
orated city.
2. Of the Great Lakes, which has
the largest area in Canada?
3. What is Canada's population
per square mile of area?
4. In indirect taxes• will Ottawa
.collect this year $400 million,
$900 million, or $2 billion?
5. At mid-July, 1959, the number
of Canadians with jobs was
6,206,000. Was this number
greater or less than one year
previously.
Answers: 5. Nearly 200,000 great-
er; the July, 1959 total was a re-
cord high. 3. At the 1956 census
4,53 persons per square mile. 1. St,
John, New Brunswick, incoropor-
ated 1785 4. About $2 billion, 2.
Lake Huron.
Material prepared by the edit-
ors of Quick Canadian Facts, the
pocket annual of facts about Can-
ada.
I'm happy to have a few close
friends. Most of us have many
acquaintances, few true friends. I
have several friends• to whom
could go for anything, in time of
need. They'd give me the shirt
off their backs, their last crust of
bread, their wives, anything. Ex-
cept money, of course.
* *
It's wonderful to have happy,
healthy, children who only require
new shoes every three months.
I'm afraid I subscribe to the pag-
an view that in our children lies
our immortality. And in that
thought I find deep satisfaction.
It Means that my kids will prob-
ably have to take as much lip
from theirs as I do from them,
while I lie happily mouldering in
Bayview Cemetery.
* *
I am deeply thankful to have a
gentle, tolerant, patient, under-
standing wife. I'd be even more
thankful if she used some of those
qualities when dealing with me,
but at least it's nice to knew she
has them.
* *
I'm thankful to have a job I
like. Where else, except in the
weekly editor's chair, can a man
who is completely unfitted for
anything useful, find himself not
only making a living, .but able to
sound' off like .a preacher?
*
I'm •thankful, every Thanksgiv-
ing, that I'm a Canadian. Three
months from now, as I plod
through the slush, I'll be cursing
the country with the best of them,
but in the fall, there's no other
place so close to what paradise
should be like.
*
Ihn humbly thankful
that I'm alive. Millions are not.
Life is a superb gift, made even
more delicious by the fact that we
must surrender it, It is full of
madness and Magic, of melancho-
ly and merriment, of a thousand
good things, each a. delight to
treasure,
alive, aren't you? Be
around — via the post office and
mail couriers—if -there were an
already existing "Broadview"
area? For around 30 years we
have been receiving our mail,
correspondence from several parts
of the world—properly addressed
at Broadview Farm, AR. 5, CUn-
ton, Ontario.
Sineerely,
—ARTHUR PARRY.
Broadview Farm, 11R, 5,
No, 4 Highway, South of
Clinton, Ontario,
To.ckersrnith. Township.
Saturday, 3rd October., 1959',
LIKES THE PAPER
Clinton News-Record.
GENTLEMEN:
Please renew subscription, We
get a great deal of pleasure in
keeping informed about the news
and happenings in the community
through the columns of the News-
Record. You do a very creditable
job and the same goes for your
Bayfield correspondent.
Sincerely,
—WILLIAM L. METCALF
1101 Graham Blvd,, Apt. No. 1,
Montreal 16, P.Q.
September 30th, 1959.
If on the other hand the county plans to
persuade the provincial government to accept
another road in exchange, then we feel this
could stand a better look. Rumours have it that
the road from Drysdale through to Kippen and
on up through Seaforth to Brussels, may be the
road in mind. This seems to be poorly thought
out.
If the Department of Highways wishes to
make a through road for tourists up to Brussels
(though why, we have yet to understand) then
why not keep Highway 84 as it is, direct traffic
that way up to Kippen and then proceed with
work on the road over to Seaforth and Brussels
that way. The modern driver in his powered car
does not mind turning a few corners as long as
the route is well marked.
If the Department is interested in reducing
the number of corners involved at that point,
then why is it not interested in taking out the
two right-angle turns in the middle of Goderich
on Highway 21, before reaching the site of the
new bridge? Policy in one part of Huron should
be good enough in another part,
The idea of removing provincial highway
status from a road passing through two thriving
villages, and transferring it to one involving no
villages at all, seems foolish, indeed,
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:From our Early Tiles "WROADVIEW". NAME
Editor„
News-Record;..
Clinton, Ontario,
SIR: Re Housing Authority.,
We notice that in' your issue of
Thursday 1st of October, 1959; a
front page writeup of the above
which is said by the planners to
be named "Broadview Acres", a
pirating of the name of our Hold-
ings in Tucicersmith Township on
No, 4 Highway, the main highway
going north and: south through
the Town of Clinton.
This property was named
Broadview several years before
we came to it 30 years ago, and
'its Postal address has always been
"Broadview" Farm, R13., 5, Clinton,
So we have been wondering why
the pirating of its name "Broad-
view", by the planners—only one
elected to the municipal council.
Obviously a deliberate attempt
to confuse some people which in-
clude the postal workers in the
town as' well as others, Perhaps
it is a solution of the mystery of
the "Mortgage Acres"—whereon
they hope 'to plan "Millionaire's
Row", in the 12' semi-detached
units?
Could not they have enquired
ROY N. BENTLEY
Public Accountant
GODERIMI, Ontario
Telephone 1011 Box 478
45-17-b
RONALD G. McCANN
Public Accountant
Office and Residence
Rattenbury Street East
Phone HIT 2-9677
CLINTON, ONTARIO 50-tfb
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
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Another thing MI grateful for
is the spring-filled mattress and
the wool blankets and the Old Girl
beside me, glowing away like a
box Stove. About 15 yearS ago,
I spent six weeks, at this time of
year, sleeping in box-cars, barns
and ditches, my sleeping partner a
skinny Canadian corporal (male)
who exuded about as much heat So you're
as a garter snake, thankful,
RESERVE A TABLE AT A BOUNTEOUS
THANKSGIVING DINNER
Tomato Juice Cocktail with Cheese Dream
ROAST TURKEY and DRESSING
Cranberry Relish-:-Whipped Potatoes,:-Glazed Carrots
or Baked Squash and Green Beans with Mushrooms
Tossed Salad with our French Dressing, Crisp Relishes
Home-Made Rolls
Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream
or Apple Pie with Cheese
or Swedish Nuts Torte with Ice Cream
Fresh Fruit Bowl -:- Mints
Tea or Coffee or Milk
Time:
41,
Monday, Oct. 12-1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Price: $2.50
Place:
ate tittie Jnn
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