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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1960-01-28, Page 2a I 0 mains a mystery. Doherty Piano Company ems ployees met in the shipping room 'and were 'addressed by W. N. Man- ning, one of the new firm. Wages are to be paid weekly, while the buying and selling end a the plant will be conducted from the heads office at London, 25 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday,' January 31, 1935 - Brucefield sent in a call for the help of Clinton Fire Brigade and the chemical engine was sent down, Hugh Berry's house being on fire. Chief Stalin reports that 210 re- volvers and pistols have been reg- stered with him, in accordance with 'the new regulations, up to January 29. Rev. Albert A. Holmes, a retir- ed minister of the United Church died suddenly in Clinton, in his 71st year. While in town he was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Fowler, but had been keeping a fire in his own house, the old Wesley parsonage on Rattenbury Street. Mr. Holmes was found in the base- ment by Dr. Fowler and G. 'W. Cuningharne, lying as he had fal- len while lifting a shovel of coal to the furnace. Mrs. Alice Mason left this week to spend some time with Mrs. Ha- ber at Romeo, Michigan, Insure The Co-Op Way AUTO : ACCIDENT : FIRE WIND : LIABILITY : LIFE P. A. ROY HU 2-9367 Ratteribury $t. W, CO4OPERATORS ,INSURANCE ASSOCIATION HAIR DRESSING CHARLES ROUSE OF BEAIhIP Cold Waves, Cutting, and Styling King St, Clinton Ph. ,HU 2.7066 C. D. Proctor, Prop. 3. E. HOWARD. Bayfield Phone Bayfield 53 r 2 Ontario Automobile Association Car Fire - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers 1958; President, Rola art Archibald, Seaforth; vice- pre sident, Alistair Broadfoot, Sea• forth; secretary-treasurer, Norma Jeffery, Seaiforth. Directors: Min H. MoEvving Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewantha Clinton; Wm. S. Alexannet, Wal- ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har vey Fuller, Godesich; 3. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alistair Broadfoot Seaforth. Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr., Lond• ester(); J. F. Prueter, Iitrodhagen Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Ern Munroe, Seaforth, TELEPHONE JA 4-7562 { .33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH A. M. HARPER - CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street Peat Phone 'BEE '2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO FRED KNETSCH ACCOUNTANT SEAFORTH PHONE 231M Puts and keeps your books .in order for fiscal and other purposes. 4-5-6-7-p REAL ESTATE .1,0444E TWO li CLINTON .NEWS-REC.4nRD 77•IURSDAY, Letters to the Editor Clinton. News-Record SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance—Canada and Great Britain: $3,00 a United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa A C V LAt • • THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Amalgamated 1924 Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • WILMA O. DINNIN, Editor WHAT ABOUT RADIOS CONVEN GOOD 11 WHAT is is there about a radio that makes it so valuable? We don't mean in a financial sense . . but as a companion. There is nothing quite so friend- ly among the inanimate objects which man in his modern wisdom has concocted, than a radio, small and trim, sitting on a table or shelf with- in easy reach. The radio we have in mind is one we listen to every day. It was bought just after the war, when our daily task was to cycle five miles very day to school, and arrive ready for seven hours thinking up ways to keep 30 grade school young- sters busy, The time was just when CSC began intro- ducing radio programs as a means of 'educating the young . . . and as a youngteacher, we felt it only proper that the classroom should benefit. NOW THAT the municipal councils have their affairs in order for another ten months, the• thought of many of these public men is the zonventions which they can attend. There are electrical conventions, plumbing conventions, good roads conentions, and prob- ably a host of others, • The taxpayer might wonder at times, why these things should be attended at his expense. Why, indeed? There are a number of good reasons. For instance, the chaps, who attend council meetings month, or utilities meetings, or such, are doing so in the interests of the taxpayer. Some- body has to take an interest in the way things are going, and Make sure, that the various jobs are done right—or where would our way of life be? We'd all drop back into individual land- holders, with expensive methods of getting wat- er, arranging some type of plumbing, and won- THIS IS Minor Heckey Week. To the doz- ens of youngsters taking part, however, the week is a major one in their lives, Every year Clinton's celebration of this particular, event, grows and expands. Saturday. will feature a parade, and guests from south of the border will compete. . Our yottngsters are playhig good hockey, and are bringing home their share of wins. It IT IS essential that Clinton people urge their elected representatives to take stock of the em- ployment situation in town and discover what steps are needed to create a more healthy econ- omy for our town. We don't have too many people. We just need more places for people to work, and more stability in some instances for their employment. Clinton will always Welcome more people to live within the town limits. The trouble is, as time goes by it gets to be a more expensive place to live, We estimate that prospective honte owners may soon begin to consider carefully the idea that rural living is less expensive, even though some of the conveniences which Clinton offers are not available there. We do desperately need an expansion of in- dustey in some way. We need the added indut- ttial assessment Which would help to hold the land taxes down. We need. "Men with vision" and the ability to carry through With their ideas, cal:nesting confidence in the faint of the town and Of Canada as a whole. Consider this----1.5 yeart ago our town was well Served by an eight elasstoont public school, and about 240 children were enrolled, Plow many The radio was bought, and the programs were listened to. Unfortunately there was' some idea that the radio might be tampered with in the school room, so every night it went into the car- rier on the bike, and rode the five miles home, For some time the small brown box traveled the miles back Alarl forth with us. tt has been a companion ever since, because it makes do with a built-in- aerial, and rarely causes difficutly. Radios of the modern design, built of plas- tis, and of diverse shapes and colours can never mean as much to us, as the old one (now over a. dozen years old). We appreciate a radio because it can be tuned low to form a background for thought and work, and it does not have the compelling distracting force of the magic TV box. The radio is more friendly. TION TIME daring why tte, wife didn't fill the lamps with whale-blubber while it was still light. • Now these chaps who look after these many jobs for us, have a lot to learn. That is, they - do if they want to do a good job. So, they go to conventions to learn. They learn from the speechet, they learn from the after-dinner speak- ers, and they learn from each other, as they talk in the elevators, on the convention floor and as -they all go down to China-town, looking for some food that's just a little bit different •from what they get at home all the time. Besides this, is the factsthat the municipal Officers put up with a lot of grumbling and gen- eral comment while they go about the job of looking after your affairs. That's for 362 days in the year. Surely the taxpayers won't be too unhappy if they' take a few days off and try to •get some of the answers to the problems they're faced with. OCKEY would be a good idea to keep track of their schedules and attend a few games. It would be a lot of fun, too. Shut off the- TV, bundle up and visit the arena. The kids are playing with all sorts of enthusiasm. Your enthusiasm in the stands will help build up a joyous feeling of accomplishment .in Canada's National Sport. of thote 240 are now living and working in Clin- ton? — To-day there is almost 600 pupils at the Clinton Public School—where will they find work and make their homes 1.5 years from now? Penn you think they would appreciate hav- ing their parents lay the ground work right now so that 'they can return after schooling, 'to ineke their homes and livelihood in their Gam borne town Think of these things, HOW TO STAY YOUNG YOUTH 18 not a time of life, it is a state of mind, We grow old only by deserting btar Yeats wrinkle the skin but to give up enthutiasm wrinkles the totil. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair—these are the long, long years that bow the head and tarn the gnawing spirit back to dust, There is in the beans of all of us, whether seven or seventy, the love Of wonder and the love of life. We are as young as our faith mid as old as our doubt—as young as our self-confidence—and as old as our feats-ea young at our hope and as old lts our despair, —Anonymous From Our Early Files 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON nuawanitECORD Thursday, nairoary- 20, 1920 Mitt Hattie 'Baker, Mitchell, has been the guest of Mits. Florence Cuninnlirane during the past week,. Smith of the 16th Conces- sion, Goderich Townthip, who res ceotly sold his farm, to Mr. Stai- dart, has purchased T. J, Lindsay's farm on the Bate Line, Hallett, An enthusiastic meeting of God- erich Township farmers was held. in Clinton concerning the obtain- ing of hydro on the farms. The meeting was. ,addressed Eby Super, intojlienntdtiesarent i t . CghChant •apl t anpdCesornrnission- rown er Andrews of the- Clinton Public Utilities have ad- vanced sharply in price. during the peat week. Northern Spies are quoted at Ottawa, at $9 to $10, J. A. Irwin •ha,s moved hit 'fam- ily into the • house known as the Webb place do Victoria street, G. Elliott having bought the house they have just vacated, Genial George intends moving into town just as soon a.s.• he gets his sale oyer He will- be a welcome Cit- izen, 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, January 29, 1920 .On Sunday morning last, the re- liable thermometer at Mr. Baird's Stanley Township, registered 23 degrees below zero. Some coal dealers are recom- mending to their customers that next winter's supply should be laid in as early as. February. Two excellent sessions in behalf of the great Forward Movement were held in Wesley Church. Vic- toria Street, Goderich, has • had three weeks of successful revival services. The pastor has been as- sisted by Hugh C. Wilson, who was in charge of the service songs. Four carloads of fat stock left Brucefield station on Saturday, for Toronto 'accompanied by N. Tay- lor, Goldie Graham and Frank Lane. The slaughter house of S. Cas- tle, on the London Road east of the bridge, was totally destroyed by fire, the origin of which re- (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) For most people, no matter how drab life is ordinarily, there is al- ways a special excitement in star- ting on a journey. I've been on a few in my time, and on each oc- casion there have been the same sensations : 'anticipation, stimula- tion, and something akin to fear, I've 'started' another one, and rec- ognize the , symptoms. * * * lily first journey was when I was sixteen ,and got my first job. It entailer' hitch-hiking 400 miles, all alone, to get to it. That was quite an experience for a kid who'd never been anywhere or, seen anything. It's a good way to see a fait chunk of life in a hurry —hitch-hiking across the country with $2.85 in your pocket. * * * There was no let-down in the climax of that journey. The huge boat was there, tied to the vast dock. The stevedores were filling her innards, hundreds of people were bustling around knowing What they were .doing, and I was standing there, mouth open, stom- ach churning with the knowledge that I'd soon be part of it, and a whole new life was beginning, * * Then there was the first trip to college, What a deal that was for 'a smalistown boy, clad in a cheap suit and a deep inferiority'. com- plex. Those other freshmen looked so sophisticated. Those girls looked so unapproachable. * * * There was no anti-climax then, either. Soon there was the exhil- arating exploration of the minds of great men, living and dead', And the fun of Playing in the varsity band, and being on the college football team, and working on the varsity newspaper; and making all sorts of odd friends, and falling in love once or twice a week. All of it was heightened by the beginning of war and the certain knowledge that college days would be brief. * * * The next trip, a short one to the recruiting office, triggered Several years of exciting journeys, and not one of them was a disappointment. The first Was' a hilarious hitch- hiking jaunt to New York, with three other potential air heroes. We had about $20 each and did ibe city up brown. One of my mat- es can still boast that he spewed What / really started to say the entire length of Broadway, out Was that I've embarked on Another a cab window. We averaged three journey, which promises to be as hours sleep a night. A cigarette exciting as any of thesis. After a certain meant of arm-twisting, girl in some joint promised to, write ire, and never did, I'm launched On a journey of ex' PleratiOn. /11 short, Inn. taking Next excursion was a big one, confirmation Classes, reeding the across the Atlantic, The only salt Bible after lo these many yeatt, and on the way toward a fighting water I'd ever` seen before WO same my mother made me gargle chance at getting to heaven. A friend suggests that you ean't me mberI was a kid, All I of the crossing it seasick. with, when re- swallow' anything Winne With your tongue hs your diode, but r im go- ness, submarine scares, and a big, 24-hottr,ia-day crap gable But lug to give it a fair trial. Clinton Planning Big Hockey Day Minor Hockey Week in Canada is being observed in Clinton on Saturday, January 30, with an afternoon and evening program, four games in the afternoon and two in the evening. Two Dearborn Michigan tetams feature the evening program, playing against Clinton Fish and Game Club sponsored' Bantams at 7, o'clock, and the Clinton Legion Midgets at '9 o'clock. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1960 ....IF a ""•-i +:ti.t •i S:A 4t ni THE CLINTON NEW ERA • 0 • 0 • THIS IS MINOR HOCKEY WEEK IN CANADA,. TAKE- DON'T SEND 'YOUR. SOY —Vq. TO THE STADIUM Illr year MEN WITH VISION 10 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, January 26, 1950 ,Prior to his departure to Dunn- ville where he 'has been transfer- red in the acceuntants' depart- ment, Robert Miller, who has been first teller in the Clinton Branch of the Royal Bank of Canada for some months, was presented with a silver cigarette case by the bank staff. Members of the Badminton Club presented him with, a hand- some pipe, Leonard Johnston mak- ing the presentation. President N. W. Counter of the Clinton and District Chamber of Commerce reported a good year, with membership standing at 1.08, the ,highest in 'three years of op- what a thrill it was to see the coast of Ireland, just as it was when my great-grandfather shook its dust off his feet, which were probably bare at the time. * * Then the first journey to Lon- don on leave. I thought I was a blase young men, but my heart was pounding like a maiden's as the train rolled into that vast, smoky metropolis, the heart of the Empire, What a city it was then, before the Yanks took over by sheer force of numbers! Sailors and soldiers and airmen of every allied nation, beautiful women everywhere and in the very air that special excitement which only a war can produce, sadly enough. * * * And more journeys, each stim- ulating in its own way, meeting new people, finding old pubs, in Scotland and Wales and six cor- ners of England. And soon en- ough, the short trip, but the big one, across the Channel and into Normandy. No anti-climax there, but the solid satisfaction of culnri- Mating interminable months of training by smiting the foe, hip -anti thigh. • * * * Then the rapid long leaps, ti Lille, to Antwerp, and the first vivid imprestions of the bubbling life of people newly freed after four intolerable years. Ah, Lite where are you now? * * * Then into a plowed field in Hol land, sans wheels; and beginning another long journey across a bit- ter, hostile land. A, miserable trek, but not without its high points of excitement: attempted escape in Holland; being strafed in a German train by one of ours; rolling in A locked railway car- riage through a night bombing raid on Frankfurt; Meeting old friends; long since believed dead; in the camps. * * This is getting monotonous. But there was One more exciting jour- ney. It was made on foot, through about 100 miles of country crawl- irig with dunk Russian soldiers and blood-thirsty ex-slave-labour- erS, and was accomplished with ria other Weapon than a big, waved grim * * * I. Best Wishes The Clinton News-Record, Clinton Ontario. Gentlemen: Enclosed' find cheque $3,15 for the renewal of my News-Record for 1960. May it 'be a, happy and prosperous one for the paper and its editor. Your truly, Mrs. Rebecca M. Boyd. Regan, Ontario, January 19, 1960. K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747; Iles. HU 2-755f Salesman: Vie Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 From StrasboOrg Clinton News-Record, Once •again I see it is time to re- new my subscription to the News- Record. Sometimes there does not seem very much in it of. interest to me. The old time news is of most interest, . It was over 62 years ago since I walked up and down to Clinton Collegiate Institute. I guess now the death columns are of most in- terest, especially in the last few months, as' I read of the paSsing of Mrs. B. J, Gibbings, Mrs. Sarah (Turner) Cosens, and Mrs. F. Townsend; all old' friends, Now I follow the doing of 'the old -town, •as 'I read the news of council, especially since my broth- er, Melvin Crich, is reeve. Had a long distance call frerna him on Christmas Eve. • Then again the news from Tuck- ersmith, 'and especially Turner's Churela doings are always interes- ting, and also of RCAF Station Clinton, where many of our .Wes- tern boys- have been in training. The weather here has been just about the best of anywhere, lots of sun since early October, but no bad storm and not so very cold. I manage 'to walk to the post of- fice every morning. My writing is terrible. I hope you can read it, as my eyesight is poor. Best wishes for 1.960, MRS, R. M, DOUGLAS Strasbourg, Ontario, January 20, 1960. •••••••••••••••••. .....••••••••••• INSURANCE OPTOMETRY eration. 3. D. Thorndike suffered a brok- en wrist and a cut over one eye when the car in which he was a passenger left King's Highway 4, south of the Bayfield River bridge and careened into the east ditch. Business and Professional Dire&ory GALBRAITH RADIO & T,V,I TELEVISION SERVICE Phone HU 2.3841 LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Bushiest Broker High Street — Clinton Phone HE 2-6692 News r.rom Away . Clinton News-Record, Clinton, Ontario, Pear Sir: Enclosed' find cheque of -renewal of 'subscription. We are receiving. paper promptly and' enjoy it very Much, any mother watehes. for "Paper Day" as she calls it, and I really think she read-s- every word, .lads and all, She will' be 90 on February 5, Had lovely' gars den last summer and' is making' plans for another garden soon es the days get warmer. Many thanks for promptness in sending paper. > Best to. all the. staff for 1960, Sincerely; MRS. CHAS. E. WALLACE 14897 Stoepel Ave., Detroit 38, Mich. . Amery 22; 1960, Former Clintonfan• The Editor: Clinton, NewasRecerd. tau may not have heard' of' the death of' Ruth (Jackson)• Inuchann, of Lond•on, she was 'the daughter of the late Tom Jackson and Mrs. Jackson. They lived on. High Street. Site /eaves• a son 16 years old. A nephew of Mrs, Kenneth Rot- •Ine, Prescott, was instantly killed in a traffic accident. He was 18 years old, and through his first year University, Toronto, a law student., He was very musical and ,an only son. Kenneth Rorke and his wife and two sons Peter and Michael, spent Christmas holidays with his moth- er and sister Miss Florence Rorke, in Toronto, at their "Sunny South" apartment, Mrs. Blight, nee Amy Inelly.ar, who was' visiting her sister, Grace, Mrs. Green of Geneva, art Christ- mas, was at Rev. Edward Rorke's reception. On her way home she visited with Mrs. Rorke and Flor- ence in Toronto, MRS. H. E. RORKE 1920 Bloor Street W, Apt. 3, Toronto 9, January 20, 1960. G. B. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone JA 4-7251 Goderich J, E. LONGSTAFF Goderich Street—Near Clinic 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. Ground Floor—Parking Facilities PHONE 791 SEAFORTH Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard- ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Phone Muter 2-'7010 Clinton TUCKERSMITH `CLUB TO MEET FEBRUARY 3 The Tucketsmith Ladies' Club will meet at the hoine of Mrs. Les- lie Lawson, on Wednesday, Feb- ruary 3, at 2 p.m. WESLEY-WILLIS WA TO MEET FEBRUARY 4 The February Meeting of the Wesley-Willis Woman's Associa- tion will be held in the parlour on Thursday, February 4, at 2.30 p.m. PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant GODERIC11 Ontario Telephone JA 4-9521 Box 478 *IWO The driver, Patrick Nye, Seafertia SUGAR and SPICE was unhurt, Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Elliott, To _ _ _ ronto, spent a •few days with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Elliott.