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THE CLINTON NEW ERA
A. L. POL,Q0HQUN, Publisher
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WILMA D, DINNIN, Editor
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1960
year
THE POST OFFICE
CLINTON NEEDS improyements in Post
Office accommodation.
Even before the Post Office Department
arrived at the decision to build a new post office
in our town, residents had realized that more
space of some kind was needed. Many of the
postal !boxes are serving three or more families.
Businesses have made their boxes available
to employees, with the result that four or five
are getting mail in that way from their employ-
er's box. There is a waiting list so long that
people wishing a postal box do not add their
name to the list, knowing their chances are so
slim.
Since the railway mail service was discon-
tinued and sorting of mail can no longer be
done en route, the sorting for the entire area- is
being done in the Clinton Post Office, Where
just a few years ago, the employees needed to
use only a half dozen different bags to get the
mail away on the train—now the letters and
packages are sorted into ever-increasing numbers
of bags, entire racks are crowded with them dur-
ing the sorting time.
Automatic cancelling machines have helped.
The local staff has done a terrific job of clearing
POWER'S ON!
"POWER'S ON," were exciting words in
many homes following the ice storm late last
year, and the added troubles experienced• by
home owners entertaining for the holiday sea-
son, made them even happier to see the welcome
lights, and feel the heat as it once again was
produced by electrical methods.
Ontario Hydro is terming their linemen
"heroes", and we are quite willing to back their
employees up on that. Local linemen worked late
through the cold and wet of that first Monday
night, when the ice was forming on the lines.
Then a number of them went off to Simcoe
area the next day, where they worked until
December 24, helping to clear up trouble on the
lines there. •
It is particularly hard to imagine what
would have happened in this district, if the pow-
er had stayed off all week, as it did in some
communities. Five hours was quite sufficient to
show us that home is not equipped to withstand
any lengthy layoff of hydro power, There's
talk around our house of installing`. some kind
of wood or coal stove, just for use in einergen-
des. Farmers put •tractor power to work, with
generators to get enough energy for their milk-
ing machines, and water pumpe Those who
could use these methods were fortunate.
Interruption such as the one we all exper-
ienced, indicate just a little bit, how handicapped
we would be if a .big disaster came to our
country. A couple of well-placed nuclear bombs
would put the entire country out of commission,
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Last Week's
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For bargains
DUSTERS, etc
In
DEp MARTINS STORE
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CANDU In Bruce
To Provide 'Hydro
Sometime In 1965
Bought about my eleventy-sev-
enth sweepstakes ticket the other
day. I could line the walls of my
study with old ones, if I had a
study, They're sort of pretty, too,
with that chubby dame on the
front staring at you quizzically,
and practically saying: "Sucker!"
* * *
Every time I buy one, I kick
myself. "Why are you doing this?"
I ask me in disgust "First of
all, it's against the law. Second,
you don't give a tippler's tart a-
bout helping out the •Irish hospi-
tals. Third, if you have the odd
quid to throw around, why don't
you give it to something worth-
while, like the establishment of a
school where people could learn
to smile, in twelve easy lessons,
attractive partners, no experience
necessary?"
* * *
But every time I give myself a
going-over like that, a still, small
voice within me says: "Aw shad-
dup. This time we're gonna win
'er.. Seventy thousand singles of
the. glorious green. Can't miss.
Gotta feelin'." This tiny voice is
known as Human Nature or Ar-
rant Greed, depending on wheth-
er it's your own or somebody
else's. * * *
It's a fact, though, that every
time I pay over part of the groc-
ery money for one of those little
off-pink sheets with all the fine
print on them, I do havea sudden,
dazzling vision of winning $70,000,
or whatever it is they give you. It
must be something like one of
thoSe spells in which a Holy Rol-
Jere sees the vision and starts to
roll, * *
Trouble is, something always
jars me out of my trance before I
can build up the faith and really
get into it. I'm sitting in the of-
fice, clutching my sweeps ticket,
I'm looking out the window. I
don't see the snow be ti down
and miserable fellow-townsmen
crouching their way through it,
noses dripping, • *
No, what I see is the white
glearnitig beach at Rio, as the
plane dips its Wing to make the
circuit of Sugar Loaf mountain,
Or the firm, brown, Spanish ser-
ving-wench setting up breakfast
on the terrace over-looking the
Mediterranean. Or the agile, frizw
zer-headed kid scrambling up the
palm tree on Xdaltihueo, to fetch
me `a fresh coconut. *
And just Abut then a Weenie
Canadian Voice clangs into my
reverie with "say, I Wanna padcla
nadentilia paper, I got sonic real
good trigs fer sale and / 'know
I'm thaek, I haVen't Woti the
Sweeps, it's strewing otttside and
iLINTQN NEW ERA
Thu day, January 15, 19e0
Councillor Middleton, top man
at the polls, is a new man on
council, Harrison Wiltse, in sec-
ond place, was first• elected to
council in 3.98, In 1908 and 1909
be was mayer. Councillors McMur-
ray and eohnston both were coun-
cil members last year for the first
time.
The fire amid water committee
made the following report: That
a sleigh be purchased to carry.the
hose and that $5 be paid to the
first team to reach, the fire hall
and return apparatus to hall under
the chief's direction.
Councillor Middleton reported
that Mr. Merner might be able to
get a field gun or machine gun
from the Militia Department. The
Clerk was instructed to write ask-
ing for a field gum
A load of Orangemen eilhe start-
ed far Winthrop to attend Hullett
District meeting were obliged to
turn back after five miles on the
Huron Road, which became impas-
sable because of the storm,
CLINTON* NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, January 15, 1920
A sign with the words "Employ-
ment Bureau" now hangs in the
window of the Chief Constables
office. Anyone requiring help in
securing employment is asked to
leave •his name with Chief Fitz-
simons.
O: L. Paisley, after getting off
the Huron Road and having one
of his tanks upset, decided it was
too stormy to go further, No dam-
age was done to tank or teams.
Doherty Pianos Limited, is run-
Meg again this week, now under
new management, having been pur-
chased by Sherlock-Manning Com-
pany, London.
The-storm has interfered some-
what with railway traffic and
transmission of mails.• No train has
come from London since Tuesday
and no train went down the L.H.
and B. yesterday.
The application of electronic
eceneefere to the transcription of
books into Braille is likely to open
exciting prospects for blind roe-,
ders. With the aid of one of these
machines, a 300 page book can now
be transcribed into Braille in one
hour—e task which would take al-
most a week for several skilled
transcriptore to complete. More-
over it takes two years to train
specialists of Braille, whereas the
new method does not demand a
knowledge of Braille on the part
,of the operator,
The _machine 'receives punched
cards on to which the printed text
has been transcribed and which
feed every letter, number arid
punctuation mark into the mag-
netic store. Also stored are the
complicated rules" of Braille tran-
scription, -
The machine responds to as
many as 600 instructions in less
than one-fortieth of a second. The
machine transcribes 4,000 words a
minute whereas a human being on-
ly does 40,
This process is also Ming devel-
oped for the automatic translation
of languages,
Bible reading suggestions:
Sunday Acts, 15: 22-35
Luke, 3: 21-38
Luke, 4: 1-15
Luke, 4: 16-30
Luke 4: 31-44
The &file Today
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
mail through the office under difficult condi-
tions.
In addition to the convenience of boxholders,
and the staff of the post office, a new post
office if placed off the main highways, would
prevent the traffic congestion which is so evident
at noon of every day at the present site,
With the Post Office Department's decision
to •build, the problems were overcome. Now a
petition of some towns people, who refuse to have
their names mentioned in connection with it,
has gone forward to Ottawa, arid we are told
the whole plan to build has been shelved for the
time being, The result of this is thdt in order
to satisfy a few, the entire town must suffer
inconvenience, and Clinton is deprived of the new
building we could have had.
Consider the aid to unemployment which
such building would be? Surely we are in no
position to refuse this construction which would
be a project of the federal government. Surely
we should do what we can to overcome the
actions of those few, who foe reasons of their
own, apparently do not want the post office
location moved.
and repairs would not be possible within weeks
or months.
This serious situation deserves serious
thought, and action, so that we will be prepared.
CAT ON A COUCH
My cat, washing her tail's tip, is a whorl
Of white shell,
As perfect as a fan
In full half-moon . . Next moment she's a hare:
The muzzle softens, rounds goes dumb, and one
Tall ear dips, falters forward . Then,
Cross as switches; she's a great horned owl;
Two leafy tricorned ears reverse, a frowni
Darkens her chalky visage, big eyes round
And round and stare down midnight.
There sits my cat
Mysterious as gauze,—now somnolent,
Now jocose, quicksilver from a dropped
Thermometer. When poised
Below the sketched ballet-
Dancers who pirouette upon the wall,
Calmly she lifts the slim
Boom of her leg, What will
The prima ballerina next
Perform ?—Grace 'held in readiness,
She meditates, a vision of repose.
Barbara Howes
'-'—From "Light and Dark"
THE CLINTON N.EW9eRgOOR.1)
Amalgamated 1924
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario a-- Population 3,090
From Our
40 YEARS AGO
40 • YEARS AGO
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday,
Friday Philippians 2: 1-30
Saturday .... Acts, 15: 36-16: 15 CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thur'sday, January 12, 1950
Mrs, Bruce Cann, RR 5, Clinton,
talked by telephone to her mother
in Holland, a distance of about 4,-
000 miles. She spoke for three
minutes at a cost of $3 a minute.
William J. Dale, a leading Cly-
desdale horseman, is Reeve of Hul-
lett Township for 1950, having
been elected in a close ballot bat-
tle with J. Ira Rapson. At 39, Mr.
Dale is the youngest reeve ever to
represent Hullett in Huron County
Council.
Mrs. Frank Fingland was re-
elected president of Clinton Hos-
pital Aid, Other officers elected
were: Mrs, L. McKinnon; Mrs. D.
J. Lane, Mrs. May Rance MacKin-
non, Miss L. Walkins.have, Mrs. L.
Brown and Mrs, R. S. Atkey.
The newly built kitchen of the
Parish Hall of St. Paul's Anglican
Church is a beautiful dream come
true, A "Sean the Kitchen" tea,
sponsored by the Ladies' Guild,
was a decided success.
The first large nuclear-elect)
Station: in Cenede, CANDU (f
Canadian Deuterium ilrxiitur
should begin feeding electricity i
to. ilydre's Southern Ontario
tern in late 7964 or early 1965,
A '2,300-acre site for the 200
000-kilowatt nuclear develoPrIle
has been selected on the sleet
of Lake Huron between .Kinm
dine and Port Elgin.
Ontario Hydro announced
j'une,that it will co-operate in 1
construction of the station. Wh
it is. completed, Hydro will sup.;
the operating staff and perch)
'the power generated. Once i
'station has demonstrated it can
opeccated, suitably as part of I
Hydroe.system, the .Commis;
will purchase it from the
agency. This agreement
AECI., will permit Hydro to ob•
nuclear power at a cost comp
tive with coal-fired plants
similar size. ,
Construction of the Nucl
Power Demonstration plant, n
Des joachlms. on the Ottawa
er in which Hydro is also a p
near reached the half-way mar
December. Scheduled for ser
in mid-1961, this 20,000-kilo
station will provide experien
the planning, building and o
Lion of CANDU.
arly Files
it's the middle of January in the
true north strong and freezing.
* * *
However, Hope springs eternal
on the human beast, as the old
Norse folk-song has it. I wish
Faith and Charity would make it
a sister act. Nothing will ever con-
vince me that I'm not going to
win the next sweepstakes. And I
don't mean one of those piddling
consolation prizes, either, I mean
the bundle. It's got to happen
soon, while I have a modicum of
health and a-vestige of youth left,
or it's too late. Next summer,
be 40. After that, who cares? *
The first thing I'm not going to
do with the money is buy a house.
That's all those dopes can ever
say who are interviewed after
they win one. I've got a house, of
sorts,. Why waste money building
a fancy new one? And have some
bum, living in it fifty years from
now, curse me up and down be
cause I made such a mess of build
ing his house, * *
The second thing I'm not go
ing to do is put it in a trust ac
count so my kids can go to col
loge. My kids can get through col
lege the same way I did, by bor
rowing the money from one o
their uncles. Nor do I plan to in
vest it for my old age. If I ge
hold of that $70,000, I'll never live
to a ripe old age, I can guarantee
that,
4, *
With a bankroll like that, I'I
live like a millionaire. First, I'll
get credit cards, good anywhere,
for everything from dinners to
dancing girls, These won't cost the
a nickel. Then I'll buy a whole
flock of plane tickets, in the Buy
Now—Pay Later plan. I'll outfit
the whole family from top to toe,
susing 'my credit cards:
*
Then, away we go. Trips around
the world and back. Visits to all
the exotic places, the lush spots,
the forbidden fields. Tutor for
the kids. French maid for Mom.
Swedish masseuse for Dad. Their
galaxies would be the only ex-
pense, as everything else would
go on the Credit cards,
We'd see the world in high style
for about two years. At the end
of that time, I figure the FBI and
the Mounties would be closing in,
We'd ship the kids, C.O.D„ back
to one of their aunts in Canada.
We'd sock the remaining ,V30,1:100
into a Swiss bank, and retire to
live happily on the interest, for
our brief remaining span, oe the'
golden isle of Majorca, Our only
extravagance would be the oceas-
sional dispatch, to credit card
companies and airlines, of cables
sayingt "So, sue mei"
25 YEARS AGO
vLiNum. NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, January 17, 1935
Gordon Manning, Stanley, Spent
a few days with his brother Norm-
an Manning. He was nursing a,
sore knee, caused by a kick from
a horse.
Miss Ruth Manning, Walton, is
visiting at the home of her aunt,
Mrs, Roy Pluresteel, London Road,
The resignation of Chief Con-
stable Stong was accepted by the
19$5 council with regret, Applica-
tions for the position will be ad-
vertised for.
W. S. R. Holmes was elected
mayor of Clinton by a large maj-
ority on _January 7. He presided
at his first council meeting this
week and looks forward to a good
year,
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Cook and
daughter, Betty, of Sarnia were
guests of the lady's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Schoenhals.
The Y.P.S. of Porter's Hill had
a splendid meeting with 25, pre-
sent. Alvin Betties gave the topic.
10 YEARS AGO
JUNIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL
SENIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
J. D. THORNDIKE,
Chairman
Lower Grades
Grades 7 and 8
Grades 9 and 10
Grades 11, 12 and 13
J. E. DALE,
President
1
Clinton Branch No. 140 of the
Canadian Legion
Public Speaking
Competitions
Wednesday, January 2
AT 7.30 P.M.
LEGION MEMORIAL HALL
Kirk Street, Clinton
FOUR CLASSES
Business and Professional
— Directory —
A. M. HARPER
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH
TELEPHONE JA 4-7562
INSURANCE HAIR DRESSING
3. E. HOWARD. Bayfield
Phone Hayfield 53 r 2
Ontario Automobile Association
Car - Fire - Accident
Wind Insurance
If you need Insurance, I have
a Policy
THE McKILLO1 MUTUAL
friftE INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office: Seaforth
Officers 1958: President, Rob
ert Archibald, Seaforth; vice- pre•
cadent, Alistnir Broadfoot, Sea
forth; secretary-treasurer, Norma
Jeffery, Seaforth.
Directors: John H. McEwing
Robert- Archibald; Chris, Leon
haaqt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha
Clinton; Win. S. Alexander, Wal-
ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Hat.
vey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper,
Brucefield; Alistair Broadfoot
Seaforth.
Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr., Lends
ashore); J. F. Prueter, Brodbagen,
Selwyn Baker., Brussels; Erk
Munroe, Seaforth.
K. W. COLQUHOUN
INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE
Representative:
Sub Life kaserence Qo, of Canals
Phones:
Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2.7651
Salesman: Vic t' needy
Phone Eilyth 78
Insure The Co-Op Way
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OPTOMETRY
J. E, LONGSTAFF
Goderich Street—Near CI
Seaforth: Daily except Mon
Wednesday--9 a.m. to 5.30
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30
Thursday evening by appoin
only.
Ground Floor—Parking Fact
PHONE '791 SEAF
Clinton: Above Hawkins
ware—Mondays only-9 a
5,30 p.m.
Phone BUnter 2-7010 C
G. B. CLANCY
Optometrist — Optic's
(successor to the late A.
Cole, optometrist)
For appointment phone JA
Goderich
PUBLIC ACCOUNTA
ROY N. BENTLEY
Public Accountant
GODERICH, Ontario
Telephone
4A 4-9521Box 47 , .
RONALD G. MeCANN
Public Accountant
Office and Residence
Aattetibuty &rot East
Phone HE 2-9077
MINTON, ONTARIO
REAL ESTATE
LEONARD G. 'WIN'.E
Real Estate and Unsiness
High Street Clinton
Phone. III/ 2-9692
A. M. GALBRAITH
TELEVISION SERVICE
PHONE NU 1-3841
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