Clinton News-Record, 1960-03-03, Page 2%THERE IS NO reason why students in
rural areas should be, denied the opportunity
to acquire the technical education for which
they may 'be particularly Adapted. This is par-
ticularly Se when their brothers and. sisters in
the larger centres ‘beve the advantage of this
education. It could not be expected that there
could be established technical schools in every
town or, for that matter in every county. But
there is no reason why schools could not be
sited, to serve students within an area that can
be served by daily transportation."
Above ,is the comment of the editor of the
Huron Expeitor, Seaforth, Andrew Y,
concerning the proposal that Buren County
could Well do with a technical school to supple-
ment its secondary .school education facilities.
The suggestion originated at a board meet-
ing of the Clinton District Collegiate Institute,
and has also been mentioned by the principal'
of the South Huron District High School in
Exeter,
foot, 2
Wotan News-Record
Thursday, March 3, 190
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APPROVE TECHNICAL SCHOOL
Editor of the Goderich. Signal-Star, George
Falls.. comments that the sad part of the present
situation is that extra accommodation in our
secondary schools is having to be provided by
the taxpayers for 'hundreds of pupils who have
no desire to be in school at all, but are simply'
putting in time until they will be legally of
• age to quit going. These pupils are not only
wasting their own time at school but are doing
definite 'berm to other pupils in their class,
rooms Who are reasonably .anxious to make
their time count, The disinterested pupils are
a distinct handicap to the .whole school,.
And the Signal-Star concludes thus: "It
would appear that the time is not so far distant
when the needs of .the, so-called rural areas
along the line of 'technical education will have
to be given serious conSideration. If they aren't
there's going to he a continuance of many thous-
ands of hours of wasted students time, as well as
additional thousands of dollars cin wasted tax-
payers money."
ONE OF THE
KEEPING UP WITH the Joneses has al-
waYIS been hard enough, Now that one of the
jones boys is to become part of the Royal
Family of the British Commonwealth, it will be
herder than ever.
Seriously, we certainly mean nothing but
approval of the latest announcement from Buck-
ingham Palace of the engagement of Princess
Margaret Rose to Antony Armstrong-Jones. That
hyphenated lest name makes the young man
truly British, and acceptable in that light. He
appears to be a cheerful sort of person. The
young Princess Margaret has the reputation of
enjoying fun and happiness in the Midst of con-
JONES BOYS
tinually doing her duty by the family and the
nations who ball her their princess, We wish
her' the best of good wishes in her married life,
We are particularly pleased that the ro-
mance escaped the prying eyes 'and vicious
tongues of the gossip columnists, until the en-
gagement was a. fact accomplished. It has al-
ways seemed most unfair that the personal life
of the young princess should have come in for
such microscopic and at times unkind comment.
We are happy with the Princess Margaret,
and pleased that she is marrying "one of the
Jones" boys, instead' of some person of royal
blood for whom she might have felt little
interest.
PROUD OF CAN ADIAN HOCKEY
UNTIL WE TAKE more interest in the
task of sending the best of our amateur hockey
teams to the Winter Olympics, Sand World Hoc-
key Championships, Canada can expect in the
future to take the odd beating at her national
sport.
After all, Canadians have taught the world
this great spectator sport, and millions of people
watch the game either in the rinks or over the
magic box in the -corner of the livingroom. In
Europe it is Canadian coaches who are making
the 'better teams. Few foreign nations other
than the United States has even one professional
league. The result is that the best of hockey
players can go out for the world hockey champ-
ionships. ,
Here on the. American continent it is esti-
. meted that over 1,000 of Canada's best hockey
players are- used up in the professional leagues
Of 'Canada and (the United States. Still another
500 or so, must be in the ranks of former pro-
,
fessionals who cannot compete at Olympic com-
petitions.
Then 'after this cream has been taken off
our small population (small in terms of some of
the competing countries), then somewhere in
the middle bracket must be found a hockey
club with the wherewithal to finance a trip to
the Olympic games wherever they may be.
If Canalda is to win gold medals at the
Winter Olympics in hockey, then we must be
prepared to set up a nationally financed way
of selecting amateurs early in the season, and
with good coaching bring them to the top of
performance is a well integrated and close-
working team.
We do not' feel that a second-place win for
Canada is a bad situation at all in present-day
hockey circles. After all, "the game's the thinig"
and even when we loge we can be very well
satisfied with the results of our teaching an
enjoyable team-work sport to the rest of the
world.
Huron's Member in the House
Cardiff Defends. Goverment's
Deficiency Payment Plans
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THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS;.RECORD
Amalgamated 1924
0 I b 44 Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
O Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000
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A. L. OOLQUHOUN, Publisher
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% WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor
With deficiency payments very
much of interest to farmers, it
was thought that Huron County
people wiuld like to be able to
read part of a debate in the House
of Commons at Ottawa on the
"failure to provide fair share of
national income to farmers." El-
ston Cardiff, Brussels, the parlia-
mentary secretary to the Minister
of Agriculture was replying to the
Liberal member from Kenora-
Raley River, W. M. Benidickson.
Mr. L. E. Cardiff: Mr. Speaker.
I had not intended to take part in
the debate but after listening to
the hon. member for Kenora-Rainy
River (Mr. Benidickson) I felt I
should make a few remarks. He
did not give us any figures to pro-
ve some of the statements he made
but rather rambled on for the
length of time he had the floor
without giving us any idea of what
he would do or what he thought
should be done to improve the
situation. He criticized the idefic-
iency payment program a little
prematurely, I would judge. In
the first place, it has not had time
to work and in the second place
be or nobody else has any idea
what the result is going to be un-
til sufficient time has elapsed for
.the program to prove itself.
We inherited the surpluses from
the Liberal government some two
years ago end have tried our best
to get rid of them. We have done
a pretty good job so far end now
in order to eliminate any further
surpluses we have initiated •anoth-
er program and if the bon, mem-
ber for Kenora-Rainy River has
patience enough to wait for a little
while I feel sure that his criticism
Will look rather silly six months
from now.
I intend to quote a few figures
to indicate what has taken place
in the last few years so far as the
, minister's predictions are concern-
ed. In the past two years the
Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Hark-
ness) •has been pointing out to
producers of eggs and hogs that
production was increasing to such
a high level in Canada that it was
impossible for the' agricultural
stabilization board to sell the sur-
pluses outside of Canada. r-am
sure hon. members will agree with
this. Other countries have 'also
been increasing their egg produc-
tion during the years' since the
war with the result that there is
no market in which surplus eggs
can be sold. Had we kept on buy-
ing eggs and storing them with no
prospect of selling them, the only
alternative would have been to
destroy them. I do- not believe
anybody would think that we
should destroy them,
Over the past two years the
Minister of Agriculture has been
warning producers what to expect
if production was kept up. How-
ever, regardless of the warnings
egg production kept right on go-
ing up and increasing, and on May
7 an announcement was made in
the' House of Commons by the min-
ister that in order to keep the pro-
duction of eggs in Canada at, a
level which the domestic market
could absorb the stabilization
board was being instructed to
work out a plan of support for
eggs by way of deficiency pay-
ments to producers rather than
continuing to purchase eggs to sup-
port the market.
Now, then, this is what we did.
Perhaps I should explain a little
bit about dtsficiency payments be-
fore I give any more details and
figures. While considerable publi-
city has been given to the mechan-
ics of the hog deficiency payments
program, it is apparent that it is
not yet fully understood. Most
producers are probably aware
that any deficiency payments made
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursdays_ March 4, 192O
Themes Wiggington has turned
out an .ap40.-claite fire sleigh for
the local fire brigade. The bobs
were bought some time ago and
Mr. Widgington made the box,
With this added to the present
equipment, the fire cemoany is in
good shaPe. What is needed now
is a new fire alarm system to do
away with the "Mari-killing" pull
of the rope. With an aliday hy-
dro power, the Fire Marshall of
Ontario has issued ,a booklet coo-
bathing a hydro fire whistle which
could be heard all over town ;much
easier that the bell is heard at
present.
Insurance adjusters sent a che-
que for $200 to pay for the dam-
age of the recent fire at the town,
hall,
• Mr. and Mrs,, Jagb returned to
Clinton from Mitchell, and the for-
mer has opened his cleaning and
pressing business again.
Two motor sleighs are on exhib-
ition. on the streets of Dashvvood.
These travel about 20 miles an
hour.
Mrs. Higgins, Clinton, visited: in
Brucefield 'at the home of Dr. D.
McIntosh
40 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 4, 1920
Council was asked for a grant
of $60 for the Spring Show. On
motion of Councillors Wiltse and
Langford the request was granted.
Mr. Durnin, who bought the
Wheatley farm and 'the James
Fair residence, is moving his ef-
fects down from Lucknow.
Wilmer Walls was up from Kit-
chener over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Steep and
little Miss Doris-thy, Toronto, sp-
ent a few days with the fo er's
parents, Mr. ,and Mrs. D.-Steep.
Harvey Patter, who has been
at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. 0. W. Potter, for several
weeks owing to illness, left for
Toronto to resume his studies at
the Faculty of Medicine.
Mr. Terryberry, Puckersmith,
who is moving to Dresden, Kent
County, loaded his car of effects
at Clinton.
R. J. Anderson, Winnipeg, was
the guest of his :aunts, Mrs. J: P.
Sheppard and Mrs. Render of town
and with relatives in the surround-
ing country. Mr. Anderson is the
architect of the new Union station
being built in Toronto. Operations
were held up waiting the arrival
of material, which gave him a few
slack days.
There are more than 100,000
voluntary workers in the member-
ship of the Women's Work Com-
mittee of the Canadian Red Cross
Society,
CLINTON ,N4WS-RECORD
Thursday, IVferch 7, 1935
Council met at seven o'clock, to
allow some interested Members to
go to the hockey game after the
meeting. The matter of a grant
to the town and band was laid ov-
er until the next meeting. A grant
of $100 was voted to the Spring
Fair.
The arena was jammed to the
rafters with enthusiastic hockey
fans for the first game between,
Clinton Colts and Ildenton Icicles
in the semi-final playdowns of the
HA Intermediate "B". The visit-
ors had plenty of support, They
had chartered a special train, and
about 160 followers accompanied
them. The score, however, was 5-0
for the Colts,
J. T. Clancy, Guelph, has been
appointed CNR agent in Clinton,
filling the vecancy . --cauaed by the
resignation of Mr, Vaal-Tome. It is
regretted that serious eye trouble
hastened Mr„, Viand-lore's retire-
ment,
U. S. Turner was ,appointed to
the Customs Office in Goderich.
The persopnel at the gpverpinept
building in Clinton has been com-
pletely changed during the past
year. Mr. Counter was appointed
postmaster, filling the vacancy
caused by the death of the late
James Scott; Gordon Howes was
made caretaker on the retirement
of Mr. Walton. Mr. Turner's suc-
cessor has not yet been appointed.
Mr. Purser of Wallaceburg is re-
lieving officer in Clinton until a
new appointment is-made.
10 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 2, 1950
An artificial ice plant for Clin-
ton Lions Arena was discussed at
the semi-annual dinner meeting of
the Lions Club. Two representativ-
es of a refrigeration equipment
firm were present.
All Boy Scouts were requested
.to attend a reorganization meet-
ing in the Troop Hall, Wesley-
Willis Church. Scouting is being
revived by the Lions Club, with
A. G. Grigg as chairman.
Huron Trapper's Association
was organized with Mervyn Bat-
kin, Clinton, as president.
Ray Gibbings, elder son of Mrs.
Melvin Crich, and' an employee of
the CNR ,at Goderich, has been
successful in passing examinations
and is now. qualified to take a sta-
tion.
March came in like a lion on a
storm that raged through two
days. Rural roads and some high-
ways were blocked, rural schools
closed; and regular bus and train
schedules greatly disrupted. An-
nual meeting of the Huron Frilit
Growers was postponed, also the
Clinton Colts ,hockey match at
Milverton and the WOAA Bantam
championship game at Southamp-
ton between Clinton and South-
empton.
the paper before toddling off to
bed at 11. The lucky bums. * * *
You just can't get away with
that in a small town. The pace is
killing. Take last week, an average
one. It started on Saturday,
Daughter had a birthday and wife
had the 'flu, or said she had, so a
birthday party 'was out. To avoid
tears and recriminations, Daddy
sprang .for the works. Took the
kids,. the old woman, and small
friend of small daughter, to the
Saturday matinee and out for a
real dinner in a real hotel.
at * *
Years ago, I swore I'd never a-
gain go to a matinee with the.
kids. Last Saturday I reiterated
my oath and wrote it in blood on
my daughter's forehead, where We
safe until swimming star. I'd
rather dive into a, snake pit than
enter a movie emporium on Satur-
day afternoon in a small town. In
these times, they'd never throw
Daniel into a lion's den. They'd
send him to the Saturday matinee. * * *
Emerged unscathed physically
but scarred within, from that ex-
cursion, Home, and got the kids
to bed just in time to welcome Un-
invited guests looking for a place
to happen to. Unless we turn out
all the lights in the front of the
,house, lock the doors, and refuse
to answer phone, it is a common
Saturday night cross to bear.
4, * *
Totter to church Sunday morn-
ing, under Verbal lash of No. 1
son, who is altar boy. Mom still
Working the 'flu angle to have
Dad's special grilled cheese send-
Wiches for lunch. Wife rests dur-
ing afternoon. I hear kids' hiss
tory, geography, memory work and
reading, as exams in progress. Be-
gin to prepare dinri&S quit in huff
When Old Lady interferes with
plan to marinate chops in beer,
ITave beer. tat dinner. RuSh to
confirmation class, thence to band
concert where son, smallest guy
in town band, tootles Clarinet,
(Continued on Page Five/
The membership of the Canadian
Red Cross Corps consists of more
than 800 housewives and business
women. They serve in 22 com-
munities..
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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
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Public Accountant
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Telephone
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RONALD G. McCANN
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Phone' HU 2-9677
CLINTON. ONTARIO
REAL ESTATE
LEONARD GI. WINTER
Real Estate and Business Broker
High Street — Clinton
Phone MY 2.6693
will be limited to grade A and, B
hogs and to a miximum of 100
carcasses of these two qualities
which are sold by any one produc-
er. A further requirement is that
every eligible producer must have
forwarded an application card to
the data processing unit of the
Department of Agriculture in Ot-
tawa, and have secured a regis-
tration card. and number. It is
very important that 'the registra-
tion number he shown on the man-
ifest with every lot of hogs ship-
ped. Unless this is done the pro-
ducer cannot expect credit for de-
ficiency payments later.
Probably the least understood
feature is the basis proposed for
calculating the amount of the de-
ficiency payment. The first point
to note is that the present floor
levels tat various markets remain
undisturbed as a basis of calcula-
tion. However, there will be no
regional deficiency payments cal-
culated, and a national average
will be used. On the basis of pres-
ent floor prices, the national aver-
age floor level has been calculated
'as $22.64 per one 'hundred pounds.
To the extent that the actual nat-
ional average price for 1960 works
out to be less than $22.64, a defic-
iency payment of that amount will
apply. For example, if the weigh-
ted average market price for grad
A hogs sold at all centres across
the country this year should turn
out to be $20 per 100 pounds; each
registered producer would be en-
titled to a deficiency payment of
$2.64 per 100 pounds on up to 100
grade A or B hogs delivered by
him after January 11. This would
be regardless of the price he act-
ually happened to receive. For ex-
ample, he might sell hogs in Feb-
ruary at $5 below the floor, or
hogs in July at $2 above the floor,
(Continued on Page Four)
From .our Early Files
40 YEARS- AGO 25 YEARS AGO
The Canadian Red Cross will
have to collect 500,000 bottles of
blood in 1960 to meet transfusion
therapy demands of Canadian
hospitals.
Living in •a tourist area, we hear
each summer an oft-repeated ques-
tion that causes untold inner
Mirth. City people, lolling around
in our paradise, say: "Certain& is
a ,lovely place in summer, But
what in the world do you .do in
this little town all winter?" * * *
We just chuckle bitterly and
give ‘a vague reply. But nothing
would pleasure me more than to
have one of these birds follow me
around for ten . days, about this
time of year. Before his time was,
up, he'd be on his knees, begging:
permigsion to return to the safe,
quiet, dull life of the city. ' *
Must admit I am fooled each
year, myself, As winter approach-
es, I almost welgorne it. When the
first snow falls, 'and the darkness
comes early, I look forward with
some eagerness to those long win-
ter evenings: reading, writing,
listening to records; good conver-
sation with good friends by a cosy
fireplace; pleasant, =hurried days
at the office, when business is slow
and the pressure is off. * * *
What a mirage! By this time
of year, I have realized again that
the small town is a veritable
wasps' nest all winter. Life' is a
gay, mad whirl of bingos, hockey
games, banquets, meetings, social
evenings, plays and concerts. * *
What I want 'to know is, what
do people in the city do all winter?
I know, I know, They have cock-
tail bars and nightclubs and con-
certs and recitals and art exhibits
and theatres. These 'things soak
up a few thousand of the rest-
less, the bored, the frustrated, the
lonely, and the honest culture lortr,
erg.
• * *
Bet What ere all the other hun-
dreds of thousands of people do-
ing? I have a lurking suspicion.
I think abeitat 0() percent of these
dashing city dwellers spend five
Or six nights a week ginsking at
their idiot box or yawning over
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