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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1960-03-17, Page 2Page 2—Clinton News-Record,Thursday, March 11,, 1960 Cliton. News-kecord_ ERA THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD„ Amalgamated 1924 . Published every Thursday at, the Heart of Huron Bounty Clinton, Ontario -- Population 3,000 • • A, L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • • • t SUBSCRIPTION' RATES: Payable in advance--Canada anti. Great. Britain, $3.00 a vett, United States and Foreign; $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post •Qffice Department, Ottawa Editorials ... WILMA D. DINNIN, Ator TH,E, CL I NTQN, NEW J. E. HOWARD. Bayfield [hone Bayfield 53 r 2 Ontario Automobile Association Car - Fire - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy "Hal" Hartley Annuities — All Types of Life Term Insurance Canada Life Assurance Co. Phone HU 2-6693 10-tfb Insure The Co-Op Way AUTO : ACCIDENT : FIRE WIND : LIABILITY : LIFE P. A. ROY HU 2-9357 Rattenbury St. W. CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION K. W. COLQUHOUN. INSURANCE and REAL ESTATI Representative: Sun Life Assurance (..;o. of Caned Phones: Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2-755' Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: President, John L. Ma- lone, Seaforth; vice-president, John H. McEwing, Blyth; secretary- treasurer, W. E. Southgate, Sea- forth. Directors: John H. McEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris Leon- hardt, Bornholm; Northan Tre- wartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexand- er, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alistair Broad- foot, Seaforth Agents: Wm. Leiner, Jr., Lond- esboro; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James Keyes, Seaforth; Harold Squires, Clinton. CHARLES HOUSE OF BEAUTY Cold Waves, Cutting, and Styling King, St, Clinton Ph. HU 2-7065 C. D. Proctor, Prop. fqt•4IWPNNP#4NP4PM••••f•INNP•I1P4NP*P4NNNP OPTOMETRY J.' E. LONGSTAFF Goderich Street—Near Clinic Seaforth: Daily except Monday & Wednesday-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Wedneaday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. ThursdaY evening by apppintment only. Ground Floor—Parking Facilities PHONE 791 SEAFORTH Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard- ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Phone HUnter 2-7010 Clinton G. B. CLANTCY Optometrist — Optician (successor, to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone JA 4-7251 Goderich PUBLIC 'ACCOUNTANT • ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant GODERICH. Ontario Telephone JA 4-9521• Box 478 RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 2-9677 CLINTON. ONTARIO REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Business Broker High Street '— Clinton Phone HU 2-6692 GALBRAITH RADIO & T.V. TELEVISION SERVICE Phone HU 2-3841 Business and Professional Nk- Directory — , A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE'JA 4-7562 r INSURANCE HAIR HAIR DRESSING A STATEMENT by the Former Anglican Primate of All Canada The Most Rev. W. F. Barfoot on YOUTH and \LIQUOR, "We have reached the Point where intoxicants have begun to tyrannize much of modern social life ... Their use is paraded in such a way as to suggest to the RISING GENERATION that no happy social life is possible without them. The resort to intoxicants BY AN EVER IN- CREASING NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN EVER INCREASING QUANTITIES is clear evidence of their tyranny. Social drinking habits have thus been approved in the Minds of MATURING YOUTH . . . It is nothing less than a national calamity) "The Canadian Churchman" Use YOUR Vote As a Protest Against This Snare For YOUR Boy or Girl! VOTE •"NW Sponsored by Clinton Vote "No" Organization SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) YOUR VOTE IS • FURTHER _EXPLANATION. by us of the liquor vote next week' is needless. This issue of the paper contains • advertisements, letters, and factual news stories, presented to us. for Publi- cation.- • We believe they explain' the details fairly completely, and fairly honestly. We would urge all readers in Clinton, who have a vote next Wednesday,' to .read carefully and seriously all of the comment on the situation as pUblished here We believe that the situation in Clinton is unique, possibly in Ontario, with- out doubt in the counties of Huron and Perth. No other urban municipality is in the situation THOUGHTS "SLOW ME down, Lord! Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with the vision of the eternal reach at time. Give me, -amid-the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves -and muscles with the soothing music of the Singing streams that live in my memory. Teach me the art of taking minute vaca- THE OLD CR (Sherbrooke Telegram) IF A Royal Commission which investigated price spreads had its way, women would go back to killing their own chickens, making then' own soap, and. doing without a good many of the fancy services available to them today. At least that is the impression which this government commission gave to the people in its report, after two years of studying the situation. The commission was headed by Dr. Steawrt, who is now the head man of the Board of .AUTO INDUSTRY (Listowel Banner) THINGS TODAY aren't built to last, is a remark often heard. Many times it has been said with reference to automobiles. Usually a qualifying- statement explains that car manu- facturers don't want their products to last be- cause it would hurt sales. Moreover, if people keep changing their cars more fre-quently it keeps money circulating, provides more stable employ- ment and improves the country's economic pic- ture. Those guilty of following this line of think- ing will be somewhat embarassed if they faniil- iarize themselves with the following facts. First, the modern car doubles the lifetime of its'earl- ier counterpart and secondly, it covers better than four times the mileage. These comparisons are not drawn against vehicles made today and those that won the name of "horseless carriages." Rather are they made with those of today and that period in the late 20's and 'early 30's when the trend was to make everything "solid". For instance in 1925, the average car lasted 6.5 years. Those now coming off the assembly lines are given a lifetime of 12 years. In 1925 the average car travelled about 25,750 miles be- fore it was scrapped, according to statistics. As we enter the 1960 decade the average auto is expected to travel more than 110,000 miles. Passenger cars, it is also interesting to note, travel about 500 billion miles a year on this continent—a distance greater than 2,700 round 1-0 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, IVfareh 18, 1920 The T; Eaton Company of Tor- onto shipped to the local express agent 247 sacks, containing! seven tons of their spring catalogues, The express charges on the ship- ment were $155. Postage amoun- ted to $500 in addition to the ex- press charges. The T. Eaton Company found out long, ago that it pays to advertise. Miss Irene Gould, who has been at Portage la Pxiairie, Sask., for some months, arrived home on Thursday, G. W. Nott, Tuckersmith Town- ship, sold his farm to Mr. Garrett, Walton, for $10,000. Mr. Nott has _bought . the William Dale homestead on the Huron Road and will move there shoiltly. David Steep, who has been in the employ of Mr. Ransford for the past eight years, has moved his family into town and is taking a position with the flax company as foreman. 40 YEARS AGO • CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, March 18, 1920 Henstall's annual spring seed show was -held- in the town hall. Prizes for spring wheat and'whitte oats were won by Robert McLar- en. • Miss Gladys Chowen, who, has been an the staff of the Royal Bank for 'some years, has accep- ted a position in Toronto and will leave shortly. Laurie Greig left .for Wood- stock, having been transferred from Molson's Bank here to that city. The case of Miss Maggie Pol- lock, sister and housekeeper of a farmer near Blyth, reached Os- goode Hall. It is one of the weirdest to come before the On- tario courts for many years, and involved supposed communication with the dead. Miss Pollock claimed at her trial that she had gradually become aware that she possessed a peculiar occult gift. Tier reputation of being able to reveal the hiding places of lost, stolen or strayed property had be- come known. Her neighbours in the county frequently came to her for information -and generally left a small monetary gift. Every St. Patrick's Day, I try to write a column about the Irish. And every year, I give it up as a bad job. What can you say about the Irish, good or bad, that they have not •already said about them- selves, being the greatest talkers and writers on the face of the earth? * * About ninety-four per cent '`of this talking and writing is pure, Irish blather, but the remainder is as fine and true as anything that has come from tongue or pen. * A * I'm no _authority on the Irish, and I promise' that anyone :who -finds a single "begorfrah" in this column niay clobber ,me with a leprechaun. But it behooves me, as a student of the highways and by- ways, the odds jand sods, -to peer through the fog, and squelch through the bog, in an honest ef- fort to find the real essence of the- Irish. * * Fortunately for the cause of pure research, there are hordes of genuine authorities on, Ireland -and the Irish. They are all Irishmen, of course. No nation on earth has found itself so fascinating as the Irish. No people has ever examin, ed itself with such untiring de- light, such hopeless disgust. * * * Most of the confusion about the Irish must rest with their writers. The. brooding, turbulent, hilarious, soaring language of their poets, story-tellers and dramatists has tumbled into our ken an Irishman who is half-man, half-myth, half- clown, half-hero. * * If we listed- all the fine things the .Irish -have to say about them- selves, we'd have them down as:, loyal to the death; witty as all hell; fun4oving; handsome; deep- ly religious; sensitive; and with-a fine disdain for the material things, of life, to mention only a few self-bestowed virtues. * And if we listed all the sorry things Irishmen call themselves, we'd put down: cowardly; treach- erous; simple-minded; morose; ugly as sin; deeply profane; coarse as crows; and with. a Shrewd eye for a shilling, to name but a few self-bestowed vices. • * * This is to say that the Irish are just like everybody else. Which, of course, is ridiculous, and any Irishman worth his weight in boil- ed potatoes will attack this slan- der at the drop of a crock, * * There's one thing about the Tr- ish, for example, that stands out like the head on a draught of GuinneSs. Aside, of course, from the fact that they're bad-temper- 25 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD. Thursday March 21, 1935 Mrs, D. Carter, Killarney. Mar), iteba, visited relatives in Clinton and vicinity after an absence of 17. years, • Miss Sybil Courtice, a Clinton girl, was honored by being elected preSident of the Canadian Assoc- iation of Tokyo and Yokohama at O meeting of that association at the CanadiarnLegatkin in TOkyo, Miss Courtice has been a. mission- ary an Japan for many years and is now principal of an Oriental, English and Japanese academy for girls. Albert Seeley purchased the residence known as "the old Wes- ley parsonage," Rattenbury Street West, from the estate of the late Rev. A. A. Holmes. Old houses, they say, take on the character of those occupying them, This one, if it has retained in • its atmos- phere a bit of the -character of each of its occupants, should be a place for broad-minded righteous- ness. Men and women noted -for social grace, learning and culture have occupied it. The old house has -a lot of sacred memories. 10 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, March 16, 1950 The RCAF's Radar and Com- munications School, Clinton, was host to a number of United States Air Force officials, A great deal of interest was shown by both ser- vices for the interchanging of training methods at the -working level, -and administration and manning problems. Allan Wainer, Parkhill, captur- ed the over-all: championship of Huron County Seed Fair with the highest point score in grain and seed classes. Jack P. Hinchberger, London, a member of London Township pol- ice force, was appointed chief constable in Clinton at a salary of $1,800 per year, plus $600 for car allowance. James A, Thompson, who has been chief for several years; was appointed assistant chief at $1,400. His Salary as chief had been $1,350, Mrs. Arnold Hill has returned to her home in Toronto, after vis- iting her sons Ross and Norman Fitzsimons -and their families. • ed, garrulous, inconsistent, self- pitying, lyrical, humourous, warm- hearted and entirely charming. a. * And that one thing is the mem- ory of them. They have a mem- ory that would make a self-res- pecting elephant wind his trunk a- round his, left ear in an ecstasy of embarrassmeht. The Irish have never forgotten anything, which is at once their curse and their glory. IIVIPORTANT this town is following the repeal of the Canada Temperance Act. It is important -that every voter understand the various aspects of the vote. If there are some points on which you are not clear, call upon representatives of „either, or both of the ° organizations campaigning for your. vete, They are fair men, and regardless of the opinion they carry, can be depended upon to give you a fair interpretation. Make -a special effort to vote. Only if a large number mark their ballots, can a true pic- ture be seen of the wishes of our town. FOR 1960 Lions—of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book. Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew slowly and well. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my ronts down into the soil of life's enduring valueS." — Author unknown. , AND ECONOMY trips to the sun. But •the auto, which has produced perhaps the greatest Single affect on the economy of the modern age, has had its up and downs. It was such a -novelty in 1896 that the famous Barnum and Bailey circus displayed one as its main oddity. England tried to discourage the use of cars by passing the Red Flag Law. This legisla- tion required that someone carrying a red flag in the daytime and a lantern at night walk ahead of any steam carriage travelling on the highways. A Cadillac was driven up the steps Of the capitol in Washington, D.C. in 1905 to prove the car's power. Why the auto has had such a •tremendous influence on modern economy can be gleaned from the fact that there are more than 80 million passenger cars travelling on the world's roads. It is 'estimated that there are enough cars to take every man, woman and child an this con- tinent for a Sunday drive at one time—with room left over for all the people of Great Britain and France. And even then, there would be 15 million empty seats. If one ponders these figures and- then takes into consideration all the incomes derived through allied industries he will find there is lit- tle cause to criticize the strength or service of the modern day car. As a matter of fact they are just, about startling enough to make one wond- er what controlled to the economy before the advent of the motor age. From .our Early Files ACKER BARREL Broadcast Governors. There is no doubt that food prices would be lower if these services were reduced. But how many women would like to kill, pluck and clean their own fowl? How many women would accept ginger snaps dished out of the old- fashioned cracker barrel? How many of us would be willing to go back to the old harsh soaps? How are you fixed for salt pork? Dr—Stewart is a Scotsman. But he is obvi- ously not a housekeeper! An Irishman just one jump out of the bog will remind you with some disdain that the emerald isle was a centre of learning, a cultur- ed, Christian country, when the British were just climbing out of their coracles and wiping the woad off their faces. And good for him. But the same fellow will tell yog the reason he hates the English is because of the rough treatment his folks got from Cromwell. To hear him tell it, you'd think it had been last Hal- lowe'en, not 300 years ago. * * Another thing you'll notice about the Irish is their immense self-satisfaction. Who else would excuse the posssesion of a foul temper by -declaring proudly: "I (Continued on Page Three) A11111=11, SUPPORT OUR Community Minded Service Clubs HURON FISH and GAME CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION CLINTON BRANCH 140 CANADIAN LEGION Have spent thousands of dollars in past years assisting with Minor Sport, Children's Recreation, the Community Swimming Pool, the Christmas Entertainment, etc. NOW they, are asking for the support of Clinton's voters in assuring them the opportunity of obtaining Private Club Licences, Show Your Appreciation at the Polls VOTE "YES" ON ALL 3 BALLOTS on MARCH 23 The two Clubs depend on you. When you vote "Yes" on questions No. 2 and No, 3, we hope you feel they are votes for these clubs—not for the outlets indicated on the actual ballot. This advertisement published by members of Clinton's Volunteer Fire Department in apprediation of the work Service Clubs do lin Clinton,