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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1959-10-22, Page 2PAGE TWO 1111111.111010111•111W Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON • S .. LA 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 THURSDADY, OCTOBER 22, 1959 op CLINTON NOT• CONCERNED! NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Amalgamated 1924 Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario -- Population 3,000 • 0 A. L. COLQUHQUN, Publisher • WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor CLINTON NEWS-RECORD From Our Early Files 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 23, 1919 Huron County gave a large "dry" majority in a four-question ballot voted upon Monday. The Kilty Band had arranged an- nouncement of returns and in full uniform entertained the crowded town hall, Results across Ontario were telephoned and a large num- ber came in from the country to hear the returns. The band reali- zed a tidy little sum after the expenses of the evening were paid and the citizens are indebted to them for the service, The News-Record is installing a new Model L Linotype this week. It is not in working order yet and we are indebted to the New Era for assistance in getting our type up for last week's issue and this. We appreciate this courtesy on the part of our contemporary and will be pleased to reciprocate in kind should he ever stand in need of it. The News-Record has al- ways taken great pride in the careful handling of copy and in the makeup of the paper. When the new machine is set up and in working order we hope to be able to turn out a paper second to none in the county, not only in appear- ance but also in news service. 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, October 23, 1919 Many went to London today by railway and motor car to greet the Prince of Wales. A band of nearly 4Q strong went to represent Huron County and the soldiers will make a good showing. The colors of the 33rd Battalion will be placed in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and Lt. Col. Rance will have charge of the old Battalion. Owing to the high rate of ex- change on New York, the Post Office Department has issued in- structions that no further postal notes whatever will be sold for remittance to the United States. The temperance forces of Clin- ton held a big mass meeting on Sunday evening after the regular chorch serviceS. Contractors on the new Welland Ship Canal, after excavating some 20 feet of solid clay, found the rock bed to be very smooth, and further down a series of steps in the rock as of -a water fall have been found, •smooth on the edges and well worn. The place is a- bout half a mile back from the Niagara escarpment. 25 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 25, 1934 If plans which are already un- der way work out as expected Clinton is to have two new im- portant industries, a gigantic egg producing plant and a chemical manufacturing plant. New York financiers, who came to Clinton on the Andrews. Egg plant project saw also the exceptional advant- ages there were in locating a plant in Clinton for the manufac- ture of salt, soda ash, all kinds of bleaching powders, caustic soda, liquid chlorine, hydrochloric acid, synthetic ammonia, and many oth- er chemicals not now made in Canada. In Mr. Tasker's shop there is a very fine desk, which has been fashioned by him from an old squ- are piano. It was ordered by a customer in New York City, Mr. Tasker is a good judge of wood and has an artistic eye for design as well. The new wing of the hospital is being got into shape very quick- ly, the contractor, R. W. McKen- zie, speeding the work as much as possible, and it is hoped that it will be ready for opening next month. 10' YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 20, 1949 After winning the first game of the •series by 8-1 and dropping the second by 20-6 away from home, Clinton Colts galloped rough-shod over Allenford, the Bruce League champions, in the OBA Intermed- iate "C" playdowns to the tune of 12-1. As a result, Clinton Colts are now in the semi-finals against Milton. Clinton Lodge No. 83 had its annual fowl supper on Tuesday ev- ening, served in the Wesley-Willis Church dining hall. Benson Sut- ter, the incoming Noble Grand, was chairman. Although it may be a long road and it may take quite a long time, Breat Britain will eventually re- cover its previous position in world' affairs, Willis C. Cooper, native Seri of Clinton, told the members of the Clinton Lions Club at their last dinner meeting in St. Paul's Parish Hall. Under the equalization of as- sessment carried out during the past year by Town Assessor J. W. Manning, the total assessment of the Town of Clinton has increased by nearly 53 percent. What a difference a few weeks can make in this country! It is no wonder that Canadians carry on a deep, lingering, tongue-tied love affair with their native land. And they do. Believe me, they do, though you'd never know it by casual observation. They may sal- ly to Florida, and Mexico and Europe, but most of them would be sad beyond endurance if they were banished forever from Can- ada. * About six weeks ago, we drove out to visit friends at their cot- tage. It was the lush, bosomy end of summer, and the evening air was tropical. We slowed to cross the bridge, and the ever-present, ever-intent anglers peered with fury at the black little river, and the birds chortled. * * * ,Along the beach, golden girls walked', and brown urchins swam, and fat ladies' slumped in deck chairs, and cars poked around and dogs ran, and people waved and water lapped and motors roared, * * When we arrived, our friends, about a dozen of them, sat and lay under a vast, sighing pine tree, drinking chilled sauterne and eat- ing dill pickles and stuff. Child- ren, from toddlers to junior delin- quents, prowled and begged bites and squabbled and demanded one last swim, and laughed and cried and wet their diapers and bother- ed their mums. * Out over the lake the sun, al- most gone, had a last mad fling with colour, slashing it across the sky with the ferocity of a Van Gogh, And the water, darkening its blue, looked up longingly, and the sun distainfully flung across it a few scarlet and gold stream- ers, And we lounged and sipped and munched, in shorts and bare feet, in, jeans and swim suits, shirtless and wordless, too lazy and content to get up and go in, even when the sun took a deep breath and went down like a bomb, away Out at the end of the water. * * Like good Canadians, we accept- ed the splendour of the evening with decent restraint Nobody sang a sonnet to the setting sun. Nobody was impelled to dance a dirge to dying summer. It was ad- mitted, upon the urging of one or two of the more flamboyant mem- bers of the group, that it sure was a swell night, before we gathered our kids and went home. * * Just the other night we went back to the same beach for din- ner with some friends at their cottage. The air was fairly curd- ling and the heater felt good. When we- reached the little bridge, there were no fishermen, but we stopped to look at the late gold sun on the little black river. And high, away up, went over a way- ery V of geese, a lovely sight. * * * Along the beach, there was no sign of life in any direction. Just steely water around green-clump- ed islands; silver sand and black- and-blue sky. Cottages all board- ed up and blank-faced. It was lonely and bleak and beautiful. * * * When we came to the cottage, away down the shore, and saw the cars and the yellow lights shining, it was a good feeling. And inside, there was a great, glowing fire, a warm welcome, fa- ' riiliar faces, and the good rich smells of rye and turkey and per- fume. • * And again, like decent Canadi- ans, nobody made any crude re- marks about what a beautiful ev- ening it was, how lucky we were to line in such a country, or any- thing erratic like that. We just stuffed ourselves with food and drink, not necessarily in that or- der, and went home. • * * Maybe we all had too much Bliss Carman, William, Wilfred Campbell and Archibald Lamp: man, as school children. Maybe we're just undemonstrative. But surely there is no nation on the face of the earth that loves its country so much, and sings about it so little, * That's why' I'm going to sing out once in a while, however cracked the voice or corny the tune or bored the audience. Maybe I can incite enough people to form at least a quartet. PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant GODERICH, Ontario Telephone 1011 Box 478 45-17-b RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO 50-tfb 4141.4.~~.~044PWANNON•••~•~". 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 Muter 2-7010 Clinton G. B. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician (successor tp the late A, L, Cole, optoirietrist) For appointment phone 83, Goderich REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Business Broker High Street — Clinton Phone HU 2-0692 HAIR DRESSING CHARLES House OF BEAUTY Cold Waves, Cutting, and Styling king St., Clinton Ph,,,HU 2-7065 C. D. Proctor, Prop. INSURANCE Insure The Co-Op Way AUTO : ACCIDENT : FIRE WIND : LIABILITY : LIFE P. A. ROY HU 2-9357 Rattenbury St. CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTAT Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canad Phones: Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2-75 Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 a. E. HOWARD. Hayfield Phone Hayfield 53 r 2 Ontario Automobile Association Car - Fire - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy THE McIiILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers 1958: President, Rob ert Archibald, Seaforth; vice- pre sident, Broadfoot, Sea forth; secretary-treasurer, Norms Jeffery, Seaforth, Directors: John H. McEvving Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon hardt, Born elm; E. 3. 'I'rewartha Clinton; Win. S. Alexander, Wal ten; 3. L. Malone, Seaforth; Her vey Fuller, Goderich; 3, E. PeppeT BrIcefield; Alistair Broadfool Seaforth, Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr,, Land es130r0; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Ergo Munroe, Seaforth. Business and Professional — Directory — A. M. HARPER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONES: 343J and 343W THURSDAY,. ceropg.R. 22, 195 Letters to the Editor OLDER SUBSCRIBER Clinton News-Record„ Clinton, Ontario. Gentlemen: Enclosed please find my cheque in the sum of $5.00 for which kindly extend my subscription, which I note is soon to expire. For almost 60 years the "Re- cord" has been coming to this, address; often bringing glad tid- ings, and occasionally a note of sadness. One by one my assoc- iates of a day long past have been recorded as having disap- peared along the Glory Road, un- til now it seems there is none left. However,. there is one redeem- ing thought—the sons and daugh- ters. of my 'generation who re- mained behind to "hold high the torch" are striving to make the old town a better place in which to live, I congratulate them on their success. Sincerely,, C. MORTIMER BEZEAU 12 Ellen Street East, Kitchener, Ontario. October 20, 1959 0 FOURTH PRIZE WON IN SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST Mrs, Albert Shaddick, Victoria Street, won $20 as fourth prize in a contest involving selling new subscriptions to the Stratford Beacon-Herald. PLEASE RENEW Gentlemen,: Would you please renew ou subscription to the News-Recce for another year, We enjoy read ing all the news, and of local a fairs going on, Your truly, (Mrs.) M. LEYBURNE. 51 Dunkirk Dr., St., Thomas, Ont. Oct. 15, 195 Mrs. Vida Straw (By our Auburn Correspondent Mrs. Vida Straw, Jacks° Mich., passed away on Sunda October 18. She was the eld daughter of the late Mr, and Mr Robert Stalker, and attende school at USS 5, HuIlett. S lived in Stratford after her f' marriage to George Finch wh passed away many years ago. La er she married Mumford Stra who also died some years agi She was 76 years of age. Surviving are two sons: Jam Finch, Detroit, and George Fine Jackson; five grandchildren a five great grandchildren; als three sisters, Mrs. Maitlan (Belle) Allen, Mrs. William (Jean) Craig, both of Auburn an Mrs. William 3, (Ethel) Coat Flint, Mich. Service was on We nesday at the Groves funer home with burial in Forest La Cemetery, Flint, Mich. NOTICE CHANGE OF BUS TIME TABLES Fall and NoVinter Schedules are now in effect Reduced services on some routes. Obtain your copy from your Local Agent or Driver. The Western Ontario Motorways, Ltd. Kitchener Ontario CLERK'S NOTICE Of First Posting of Voters' Lists for 1959 Municipality of the Township of Goderich, 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 RR 2, Clinton on the 14th day of October, 1959, the list of all persons entitled to vote in said Municipality at Munici- pal Elections, and that such list remains here 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 31st day of October, 1959. Dated at Clinton this 14th day of October, 1959. ROBIN E. THOMPSON, Clerk of the Township of Goderich. 42-3-b ti SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) BY A RATHER peculiar bit of reasoning, Which we feel must have been as a result of not thinking at all, town council last week decided that the threat of pollution of Lake Huron by oil drilling firms was of no concern to our town. Councillors had at their hands a request from the city of Sarnia for support of a resolu- tion to have off-shore drilling for oil and gas banned entirely from Lake Huron. It would have cost no money—only a half hour of the clerk's time, and two minutes to pass a motion in council to have sent an endorsement of the reso- lution back to Sarnia. But councillors decided it was no concern of theirs. Surely there is no member of council, nor person living in Clinton who has not in the past, enjoyed the swimming, boating and fishing in Lake Huron, and the loveliness of an after- noon or evening by the shore, with nothing to mar the view but small boats, and the occasional smoke on the horizon to recall the busy line of commerce which the Great Lakes form. People travel hundreds of miles to have the NOMINATION DAY in town has been set a little earlier this year, so as not to conflict ,with voting day for and against the repeal of the CTA. However, this means that there is now only four weeks in which the public can select candidates for the various positions vacant. Available for the taking, either by election or by acclamation will be two positions on PUC; three positions on Public School Board; six councillors, two reeves and the mayor's chair. No official indication has been given by the (Following from the Globe and Mail shows result of campaign on both sides of the Great Lakes to have action taken on lamprey problem) . The joint Canada-United States program to rid the Great Lakes of lampreys has started to pay dividends. A report to the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission, the international agency set up to carry out the program, tells of striking success with a chemical which when introduced into the lamprey's spawning streams kills its larvae. EDITORIALLY the Goderich Signal-Star comments upon what it terms our "mysterious departure from normal" as we reflected "concern over the welfare of Goderich". We mentioned two weeks ago the as yet unfulfilled promises for a bridge at Saltford and a hospital on High- way 21 south of Goderich. The weekly editor in the county town has received another promise on each of these pro- jects from the riding's member at Toronto. Rea- son for delay in both is termed in well-rounded Queen's English: "altered plans of construction for the ultimate maximum benefits." Without trying to cast adverse criticism at Charles MacNaughton's doorstep—who as a new member in the house, is doing his level best, and meeting up with his share of disappointments, no doubt—we have another worry: where, in On- tario, are all these mentally-retarded youngsters now, who are going to fill the soon-to-be-vacated tuberculosis sanatorium in London, as well as the hospital to-be-built-sometime, near Goderich? If we have need for these buildings, then let's get the difficulties over heating systems, or whatever is causing the delay, remedied at once WE LOVE GeTTI NG "letters to the editor". Lately we've gotten several that had good ideas behind them. But, there was no signature. If you want your letter, or the ideas con- (Note: This poem appeared in the London Free Press recently. The author, Mrs. Alta-Lind Rodges, lives at 114 North Street, Clinton, and Is at present in hospital.) I thank Thee, God, for simple things, A fire that glows, a kettle that sings; For blossom scents on the morning air And my little black deg with curly hair, I thank Thee, God, for little things, A friendly voice when the telephone rings, For old familiar things and places And the cherub look on baby faces, For the pleasant streets of a little town And country roads, winding uphill and down, pleasures of Lake Huron, which to us are only nine miles away. If we allow our lake to become polluted as Lake Erie already is, then we are giving away a great deal which our children and our children's children have a right to enjoy. In Lake Erie, offshore from Colchester, the drilling rigs are only 340 feet from shore. The noise of the rigs is discouraging throughout the day and night, to cottagers and visitors to the beach. At night the bright lights are distracting from residents enjoying the lake-side view. Oil deposits on the water, and from wastage placed by the drilling gangs on the shore, kill the fish, and destroy the fishing industry. Yellow oil upon the sandy beach, and on the rocks, makes swimming unpleasant and the beach unsightly. That is what Colchester people are putting up with right now. Do we want the same thing to happen in Lake Huron? Sarnia is going to fight this menace, The least we can do .is to give them support on paper, that the people of Clinton are against offshore drilling. sitting members whether they intend to run for office again. No doubt they will do this at the regular November council meeting on the 10th but that will be only two weeks away from nom- ination day. It is important that all those persons who wish to do a job for the municipality in an of- ficial capacity be given the opportunity to do so. After nomination day, only 17 days will elapse before election time. That is not long to cam- paign, so it might be wise to get started early— even before the nomination day, Tests of the chemical by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service brought a drop of 58 percent in the lamprey catch in six streams treated last. year. Similar results were obtained in tests by Canada's Fisheries Research Board. The larvicide is now being placed in other streams which pour into the Great Lakes on both sides of the inter- national boundary. The commission chairman, Dr. A. L. Prit- chard, has said that by next June every spawn- ing stream on the Great Lakes will be under control. and get them built. But, if the need for the buildings is not evident in the immediate future, possibly those at London will prove to be suffi- cient, and the Huron County promise of a build- ing will be forgotten. It is not concern for the welfare of Goderich which we feel—but rather for the youngsters for whom this building is being so slowly planned. And in the case of the highway, it is not for the good of Goderich that we write, but for the good of the motoring public as a whole. Tourists who are promised a lovely drive by the alluring name of Blue Water Highway, should be routed as quickly and as pleasantly as possible around or through built-up areas, with their speed limits, sharp turns, et al, and be re- turned with all speed to the environs of the "blue water" they wish to drive beside. If by delaying another year, or two years, the provincial government should decide to route the Blue Water Highway east of the town of Goderich and over the Maitland at a narrower rather than at its widest point, then it would be considered all the wiser by the tax-payers of Onario who will foot the bill. tained in it to be published please sign it. If you do not want your name •published, tell us so, and we will respect your wishes. Letters that are not signed, go into the waste-paper basket. I thank Thee, God, when day is done, For blue o1 the day and gold of the sun, For white clouds drifting across the sky And the moan of wind in the pine trees high, For honk of the wild goose, flying south, And ferns that grow at the river's mouth, For snow that drifts o'er roof and spire And cosy evenings beside the fire, For laughter' that always follows pain, And golden waves on a field of grain, For a lonely beach and a seagull's cry, And bird songs from a tree top, high, I thank Thee, sod, with all my heart, For blessings so great, the tear drops start. WHO WILL RUN? VICTORY OVER LAMPREY? MORE PROMISES PLEASE SIGN 'EM I THANK THEE, GOD