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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1960-02-18, Page 2Page 2—Oaten News-Reeard—Tbureday, February ler 1960 • Clinton News -Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA • THE-CLINT,ON NEWS -RECORD Amalgamated 1924 P ub I libeeadevHuron Thursdayortyat the rtof Clinton, Ontario -- Population 3,000 A. L.- COLQUHOUN, Publisher WILMA•D. DINNIN, Editor - • SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance—Canada and' Great Britain: United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents • Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa $3.00 a year • • • THURSDAY!, FEBRUARY 18, 1960 • EGGS IN ONE BASKET (Durham Chronicle) k MR. HOMO SAPIENS 1960 woke tip with a ohilL' His electricblanket had gone off. He tried to .check the time but his electric clock had stop- ped. He turned on the radio for the weather report but there was no sound. Going-dovvn to the kitchen he .could not even prepare his wife's breakfast. The electric stove, the electric fry pan, the electric kettle—all re- fused to function. The refrigerator wasn't operating but the milk hadn't gone sour because the entire house • BASIC ONE OF the speakers at the Hog Producers meeting here last week quoted the following, written by Gregory Clark: So .pioud are we of our great oities and towns, our abounding industries, 'our limitless highways packed with raging traffic, our marvel- lous and intricate complex of money and machin- es, that ,we are liable to forget that we are total - ]y .dependent upon the farmers. It is the farmers who keep us alive from day to day. Not a loaf of bread, note quant of milk, not a thick steak, not an egg, not a potato, would we :have without the farmers. Not a pickle, not a salad, not a dish of peaches. Not a breath • would we draw, in a matter of days, .for all our majestic technology, without the farmers. It is the fanners, in short, who give us life. • "Suppose,'!- Iasked a big wholesale proVision was as cold as an ice box. There was no power to pump fuel and air into the oil. furnace. Mr. Sapiens stroked his stubby beard (he couldn't shave because his electric shaver would not operate). ' • He struggled into his chilly clothes and went into the garage. His car itarted but he almost killed himself with carbon monoxide. The electri- cally operated garage doors .would not function. "Yessirree," he chattered, as he gazed at the ' slender ice -coated wires leading to his house, "too many eggs in one basket, and they're all frozen!" CITIZENS man, "suppose the farmers went on strike for a hundred days." "Well," he said, 'I've heard different gues- ses on how long we would last in cities if • the farmert went on strike,1 know these warehouses of mine would be cleaned out in two days. I fig- ure the packing houses would be empty in about ' `four. The stores would be wiped ;out in a few hours, once the panic started. Talk about civil defence. The people would start' out from the cities about the third day. Cityhoodlums would murder the farmers to get 'at the food supplies, -1 looting and wrecking. I figure in a Week it would be worse than an atomic bomb." Farmers, let us remember, are our basic citi- zens. Without them, all the rest is so much Hollywood stage setting fictitious at a play. CAN'T STRADDLE TIIE FENCE. AS IT can't possibly please everybody, the CBC has the choice of erring on the side of discretion •or indiscretion, comments The Fin- ancial Post. It .must do one or the other. • By playing safe, it can avoid trouble, be in- sipid and slowly expife. By taking a Chance now and then with a script that may raise the roof, it can risk getting into hot water, be interesting and stay alive. There can't be any ileubt that boldness, within the limits of taste that Would be exceptable to a lively, olerant,' adult mind, is the right policy. Wherrthe CBC or any other broadcasting system ceases to be controversial, it's dead or dying, IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION ' (Hensall Observer) 'THE ADDITION .6f German to the curricu- hun at South Huron District High School, Exeter,. • closely follows announcement that Canadian youngsters in Grades 7 and 8 may soon be re- ceiving elementary instruction hi French. . These are steps in' the right direction. Too often we are inclined to live our own little of work, community do-gooding, concerned only with our own immediate problems, and not giv-- lag a hoot about what May be happening on the other side Of the globe. With world horizons - narrowed as they are, anywhere is just a hop, step and jump, and there is a need to know as xratch as we can about our global neighbour; there is need to follow his thought process, and , to understand why he does things differently thin we. .Publie school French and high schwa Ger- man won't solve world problems, but they will help to swing the door of understanding in two ways. Mott Europeans, especially those from the low countries and Frahte have several langte, ages at their command, and that is one reason they assimilate so easily in our country, and Make the DV:ogres§ they do. We are inclined to Warne the "foreigners" for everything that Our own neglect has allowed to fall in a sorry way. But the "foreigners" forge ahead, while we fall behind, because they have learned our lang-dage, and thus keep one jump ahead of many of our "good Canadians" who consider these people lawful prey for any kind of business deal. UP THE REBELS REBELS ARE useful to stir things up. Spain started downhill when it destroyed its rebels. The English, with their great political wisdom, provide a forum for rebels. In Canada, the rebel CCF party is showing new life and is contribut- ing to the country's thinking, although the var- ious outbursts within the CCF do not appear to please the party hierarchy, Fact Is, rebels are a thorny lot, undomfortable even to their friends. 1VIr. Winch, in showing that runaway Wages put Canada in grave danger �f lesing its foreign. Markets, has proved that Canadian rebels are full of life. 1VIr. Winch's political associates should take comfort in the tboUght that their side can produce courageous spirits in the great traditiOn. —The Printed Word •••••.••••••....miemoy.ftwo••••••...........••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••*••••••••••••••• From Our Early Files 40 -YEARS AGO CIJINIColv NEWS-4E00BD Thursday, February 19, 1020 Several of the remit in the mo- del school were so cold on, Tues- day Morning that the children had to be dismissed. This was owing to the fact that the caretaker waSill and the principal, having to. act as $taker, had probably net got got doll% early enough. The build- ing seems hard to heat as on sev- eral occasions this Winter, rooms have had to be elosed until they warmed hp. Trains have been running ir- regularly, handicapped by t h e storm of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, together with the flu ep- idernic. A weekly consignment of paper for the News-Beccord. which usual- ly comes in by express Monday or Tuesday, had not arrived IV Thursday noon. The paper will consequently be late this week. E. C. Hoare, Toronto, and Car- man H. Hoare, Kitchener, were home for a few days, having been called home by the sudden death of their mother, 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, February 19, 1920 On Monday of this week, James Lovett purchased the shoemaking business of A. Wilkin and is now in 'charge. - Frank Bawden, who is in charge of the boilers at the knitting fac- tory, discovered fire on the roof Of the main building under the water tank. The alarm was sent in, but the fire was put out with- out the aid of the brigade. Harry Gould' was called ,to God- erich owing to the death of his father. The late Mr. Gould was a pioneer resident of Goderich. Township and only recently retir- ed to 'the county town. Norman Levy, Toronto,' and Matt Levy, Sarrilo, were in town last week attending the funeral of their brother-in-law, the I at e Charles Brown. Fred Rurnball, London, who is having logs delivered here at the old Western railways yards, will have a portable saw mill erected and cut the logs here., It will take most of the summer to finish the cut. 25 YJARS AGO CLINTON nEws-REconn Thurailan February 21, 1935 The Liberal Club had :a joilY card and dancing party in the hall above Hawkin's store, Stewart CPO; younger son of Mr. and Mra. Oree Cook, has gone te take a position with Kresges, with whom his brother, Lorne Cook, has been employed for some time. S tewart has gone to the Brant- ford plant, while Lorne has been transferred from Toronto • to a Hamilton branch. • Thomas II Hardy was chosen as school trustee to fill out the term of the late James A. Ford, Mr, Hardy is no novice, coming back to the school board after a nine- year vacation. Ile was a member of the board Which had in hand the remodelling of the 'school building some years ago. • „ Mrs, W. Perdue and her son, W. Perdue and daughter, Mrs. O. Jervis, were in Goderich attending the -funeral of the former's .sister, Mrs, James Donaldson 'Who died at the great age of 100 years. 10 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, February 16, 1950 Held on one charge of breaking and entering by day on January 28, th&egg grading station of C. J, Livermore, Clinton, and theft of about $150 cash, and another of wilful damage to property (a cash register), Robert Carrick, 38, and Bruce Marshall, 19, both of Clin- ton, were scheduled to appear in Magistrate's 'Court in Goderieb. The pair were arrested by Chief of Police James A. Thompson, Clinton, and Provincial Constable H. Stott, Goderich. • Hotel Clinton has a new neon sign in three Colors—green, red and ' • New members inducted into Clinton Lions Club were Dr. Rob- ert M. Aldis, Medical Officer of Health for Huron County, and Royce S. Macaulay, partner In Ball -Macaulay; dealers in builders supplies and fuel. Clinton Colts won their ninth, straight game in OHA Intermed- iate "B" series by trimming New Hamburg 6-4 in Clinton Lions Ar- ena before the largett crowd of the season, totalling 820 paid admis- sions, SUGAR and splc • W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) 'There is quite a foofawraw these days about fluoridation. All the expertsFederal Department of Health, Canadian Medical As- gociation, Carradian 'Dental Assoc- iation, and others—are juit bust- ing to get some sodium' fluoride into our drinking water. * * They want to cut down on the holes la the teeth in the heads of our children, bless them. They are supported by many members of the press, including a .good few of my weekly dontamporaries. In Ontario, the government is being berated •for being backward about fluoridation. Most• violent and emotional of fluoridation advocates is a Toronto newspaper columnis' t, who insists that all who oppose it are violent- ly emptional, irrational, fanatical, dimwitted, and crackpots. * .* * All I can say is, move over crackpots, and make room for One more. I'll line up .With the crack- pots against the experts any time. That will help the balance a trifle; Nowadays there are too many ex- perts,' and not enough crackpatt. Experts are: people who give you weather reportsthat are ab- out 400 percent wrong; people who predict election results 200 percent wrong; generals who tell you hdw wars should have been fought, aft- er they're over; polititans whose party is not in power; and hordes of people who know a little bit about one thing, ancl sweet beg- gar all about anything else. * * * Crackpots are; people. like Chris-. topher Columbus, Galileo, Thomas Edison, Alfred Einstein, Mahatma Ghandi, Dr. Albert Sohvveitzer; people who are too stubborn, fan- atieal and narrow-minded to make an honest effort to get along with the expert. * * * In between the experts and the crackpots lies the great slumber- ing, himbering body of humanity, even as you and me. We are bul- lied by the experts, ignored by the crackpots. All we Want to do is grow up, get married, have Child- ren, make money, live in peace, die at a ripe Old " age, and go straight to heaven, It isn't much to ask. But the experts won't let tts do it, * Right now, the expert politicians have us teetering on the verge of total annihilation; the expert scientists are treating the ways and means; the expert warriors have their fingers ready to push the buttens; and the expert news analysts tell us with one shalloW breath that atomic wars will WiDe out humanity, with the 'next, that we can escape the effects -of rad- iation by building a shelter. * Sorry, I drift, as I do every time I muse on that self-satisfied stultification known as the expert. We were talking about fluorida- tion. I am opposed to it for sev- eral reasons. Not because I think it's going to poison me or because it's too expensive, or because if God had wanted sodium fluoride in bur drinking water ,He'd have Put it there, or because it's going to kill all the frogs in the town reservoir. * * * First of all, I'm agin it beCause I think it's silly. I don't think teeth are that important. Let's get cracking on mental illness, the ulcer, the common cold, and hem-, orhoids. If these ailments were cleaned up, half the . tensions of the world would vanish, and I'd be willing to talk teeth. * * * Second of all, the experts, as us- ual, are on the vvrong. track. If they are son concerned about the teeth of our children, why don't they start at the baseof the troub- le? Why don't they raise a hue and cry against :the sale of soft drinks 'and candy? Why don't they decry that "enriched" bread we have to eat these days, and tastes like wet kleenex when fresh, like bleached sawdust when stale? Or is all that stuff we learned about diet and teeth just so much expert malarkey? 4. * Third of all, I'm agin it because I don't like people doctoring my drinks. Oh, I. don't mhid'a chlorine to kill the bug. But the principle is wrong. This year, they fluoridate our water. Thirty yeas from now, with the wrong people in power, they'll be putting a sedative in it, so everybody will relax and be happy no matter what's going On, . * * But the beat 'argument I've heard against fluoridation carte from my wife. 1 asked her what she thought, just to get an Out- side dpinien As Usual, she was way outside. First, she asked if there would be any of the stuff in our milk, I pointed, out that cows usually live in the country and get their water from wells, st- rearm and such -like, not from the municipal water supply, * * * "Then What's the use of 'putting that stuff in the water?" she snorted, "kids neer drink water. All they drink is orange juice, milk and popt Ky. east mats, however uriett.sily. I'm Saving tnY good points for the next round, Letters to the Editor ABOUT LOCAL -,OPZION The Eiditor, CLINTON ISTWS-r=013.1), As conversation around town more frequently turns to: talk of our local option vote, I feel it about time' to set the minds of Clinton voters straight on the- is- sues, 'their history, the reason for. their recent emergenceon our aleene. First May. I attempt to clarify the tem -"Local Option." Our Webster dictionary defines "option" as "the right of choice"; "selection." "Local" is defined as "restricted to a particular place". in Our Case,Clinton, As a result of a by-law passed in 1912 Clinton's local Option has been; no outlets whatsoever for the sale .distribution of :alcohol-. is beverages. of any kind, While under the CTA this situ- ation was county -wide. Upon the revocation of the CTA. On Novem- ber 30, 1959,, Clinton reverted to its status _ under the 1912 by-law while most other 'municipalities reverted toa status which permit - 'tea certain outlets. The. method of removing the .so- called "dry" option in Clinton is by authorizing by a vote of the eligible voters', _certain typos of outlets. The Clinton Local Option Revision Committee has, after a study of Clinton's situation, on a petition of 25 business men, asked council to put' to a vote of the above mentioned voters, .a- set of three ballots designed to provide Clinton with. the minimum requir- ed outlets to permita continuance of the philanthropic .work of cer- tain of its service clubs, and pro- vide additional. attraction to itis already thriving ,and modern bus- iness section. -. Failure- of the voters of Clinton to provide the necessary three- fifths majority on all three ballots, to make these outlets legal, will seriously . jeopardize, the future groWth of Clinton as the business centre.. of Huron County, and will reduce the funds of the certain service clubs to .a point where the sponsoring of minor sports, sup- port of .recreational facilities and future donations to local projects. would of necessity be practleany •non-existent. • • . If you agree that Clinton is to be permitted the opportunity to continue as a thriving business centre, and that its service clubs, are to be entitled to continue their public .srevice, then on March 23, ypu must vote "Yes" on all three ballots. These ballots Will ask YOU (not in this exact wording, but in ef- fect): • Firik topermit the establish-. Meat of a ,g0.11001111WIt liquor store and brewers retail Owe. Secondly, to pmnit the sale of liquor. tinder a dining lounge lic- ense, to be 'served with meals. Thirdly, to permit the sale of liquor under a lounge. licence (not a beverage, AffirMativ.e answers On quest, ions tv.vo and three, are the min- imum requirements under which the •goverment will permit _clubs in Clinton to apply for.licenses for the sale of liquor and/er beer. This therefore, is the reason we must vote "yes" on all three bal- iots, J. W. ,COUNTER, Chairman, of the Local Option Revision Committee. February 16, 1960, Clinton, Ontario. WHAT WILL THEY DO? The Editor, Clinton News -Record When we were young we were told that "things' done by. halves are never done right." It would appear that those who are plan- ning the renovations in the :town hall may not have seen the truth of this ancient saying. To quote a more modern source, "Some- bedy goofed." That Clinton should be withont, a central public meeting place, an auditorium which is available to all groups on a "first come, first served" basis, is more than slight -1, ly Nothing will happen, of course, unless Chntonians show more en- thusiasm than they have to date, If, for instance, there were as much desire for an adequate aud- itorium in the town hall as there was to vanquish the CTA, the auditorium could be ready by late spring. 'It seems unfortunate that local citizenry is more interested'. in loosening liquor laws than in im- proving town facilities. We can still remember, albeit Only, the Hallowe'en parties, the plays and the badminton league th'at once used the auditorium. Now that there is no available auditorium at CDCI, the need for repairing this venerable edifice is portentously apparent. There has been more than an adequate amount of talk on the subject. What we would like to see now for Clinton is a little action. February 8, 1960 Toronto, Ontario. 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COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2-7551 Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 Insure The Co -Op Way • AUTO : ACCIDENT : FIRE WIND : LIABILITY LIFE P.- A. ROY HU 2-9357 Rattenbury St, W. CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION 4#4..••••••••••••••••wrimsi HAIR DRESSING CHARLES House OF BEAUTY Cold Waves, dutting, and Styling , King St., Clinton Ph. HU 2-7065 C. D. Proctor, Prop. • 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 HIInter 2-7010 Clinton ...•••••=, G. B. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist). For appointment phone JA 4-725t Goderich sogroo"....~Ww.40,00.4~otwoot PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant GODERICIET, Ontario Telephone • JA 4-9521 Box 478 RONALD G. McCANN Pilbile Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 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:Y/13 REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Rosiness linker High Street — Clinton Phone HU 24692 1 TELEVISION SERVICE Phone HU 2-3841 o GALBRAITH RADIO & T.V.