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FINE PLACE TO READ
RECENT S.URV4YS show. that our nation
stand's 14th among the world's nation in num-
ber of book ,stores per capita.
But we wonder it that is a fair way to.
decide .how many books Canadians read, Book-
stores would indicate book -buyers. But to dis-
cover book -readers, one would need to consider
all the libraries, the travelling book -mobiles in
our county, all the little village libraries, book-
ofthe-month Club buyers, etc. In fact, cine
would have to count in the multitudes of paper-
backs which people buy and read carefully try-
ing To find some oonneotion between the picture
on the cover, and the story.
In Olinton .,more people than ever before
are borrowing from libraries, In many sections
of .Canada, library circulation has risen by as
much as 50 percent since 1945. The number of
borrowers from libraries has ,increased by ale
most 60 percent in many areas,
How is our local library financed? Well,
bhe town council • sets aside 80 cents per capita
from the tax dollar, for that purpose. With
over 3,000 people now living in town, that means
$2,400. The provincial government ,also makes a
grant. Last year it amounted to $1,639. Out of
these funds about $1,000 is spent each year for
new books, ,magazine and newspaper subscrip-
tions. The balance goes for general overhead
for the betiding, salaries, etc.
Possibly there are people in town who have
never made use of the library as a place of
seclusion, to read as ,their leisure, to browse, and
meditate. The -Suavely reading ,room, connected
with the library, is a fine ;place to read.
FIRM IN DECIDING
ONE STAUNCH CITIZEN of Clinton (pre-
sumably a "wet") was queried the morning
:following the vote lasit week, and his reaction
was this, "Biggest d-- -- surprise, I ever
did seg!"
Certainly the decision made by the people
at the polls on Monday was a definite one, and
there can be no doubt in anyone's mind, but
that the majority of .people over 21 in Clinton,
want liquor outlets in town.
As in the case of the vote which eliminated
the Canada Temperance Act last November,
there was a firm majority, over which there
will be no dispute. Whether or net that same
feeling will remain two years from now, re-
mains to be seen.
We would suggest this: that those service
clubs which have received such strong support
from the town in this vote, must continue to
make themselves worthy of this support. We
have had fine co-operation in .the past, the clubs
with the public, and we will expect that same
spirit to •pfevail in the future.
Any outlet for beverage alcohol has an
important duty to consider in the way the busi-
ness of selling is carried out. It is well within
the control of that business, or that private
club, to regulate the sale in such a way that
individual persons need not suffer unduly.
Especially in our small community, it is pos-
sible for the seller to know completely, what
the background of practically every buyer is.
It is his duty to see that neither the buyer, nor
that buyer's family, is handicapped because of
mis-use of beverage alcohol.
In our service clubs in the past, we have
noticed that the executive committees of each,
have considered this aspect of sale quite thor-
oughly and the result has been seen in the
confiidence the people have now placed in thein.
The public has reason to expect that this situa-
tion will prevail.
FOR NINETEEN YEARS
IT WAS WAY back in 1941, that the RAF
established an Air Station; between Highways 4
and 8, two miles south of Clinton, and began
the task of training men and women to track
aircraft through the skies by means of radar.
Radar was new then. Lt was being used
to alert England of on -coming flights of bombers
and fighter craft from across the Channel.
Trainees were needed, and fast.
By 1945, 2,325 Americans and 6,500 Canad-
ians had been .graduated from RCAF Station
,Clinton. The US students thought so highly of
the school that it became a model for US train-
ing centres. In Burma, Russia, and other coun-
tries, graduates saw service overseas, and played
distinguished roles in radar research.
RCAF Station Clinton, and the married
quarters known as Adsetral Park, is a fine mili-
tary establishment. The people in the 220 hous-
ing units have a thriving community with a 16 -
room public school, two churches, sports clubs,
and children's organizations. They do a continu-
ing service •work among persons at the Huron
County Home, and needy children throughout
the county:
Old time Clintonians, and the new people
in town who established here in large measure
because of the added prosperity brought by the
Station, are proud to have been a part of this
development. We realize the far-reaching effect
which a school such as Station Clinton has upon
the world. Students of NATO from overseas
and from the USA have spent many months in
this area, getting to know each other, and get-
ting to know about Clinton.
It is through this sort of interchange that
men and women throughout the world will lose
their tendency for suspicion and .habit of dis-
like of the unknown. That Clinton and com-
munity could have a major part in this modern
trend, leaves with us a sense- of prude and deep
appreciation.
We are happy to wish the RCAF a happy
36th birthday, to -morrow, April 1.
NOT SO BAD
WHEN WE gather up nerve to state in black
and white that the increased taxes in Clinton for
education are "not so bad", then we must have
facts and figures ready to support our opinion.
We realize fully that any increase in taxes is
certainly bad enough,
Consider, however, the two schools • in Clin-
ton,
Total amount to be raised in Clinton for
the collegiate this year is $29,786.45. Total am-
ount for the public school is $62,000. Add them
both together and the total raised locally for
school purposes is $91,786, or in round figures
$92,000. Yes, that is a lot of money.
Where does. it come from? Well there
are an estimated 950 taxpayers in Clinton, That
means about $97 from each tax -payer for educa-
tion. Of course sone people will pay mere than
that, and some will pay less, but the average
is less than $100.
In other words, each tax -payer's share of
the cost of educating the children of this town,
is 50 cents for each school day in the year. There
are 200 days in most years to attend school.
Now do you, as a tax -payer actually feel very
put upon at the rate of 50 cents a day for
school costs?
Here's another way of looking at it. There
are 540 children attending the public school.
Cost of operating the school is $30,000 plus
$32,000 for debentures. Multiply the number of
pupils by 200 school days in the year, and you
get 108,000 pupil days. Divide that into the
$62,000 (total amount needed by the school this
year), and you arrive at less than 60 cents per
pupil school day.
Now this may be only one opinion but we
feel that any operation which costs a tax -payer
50 cents per day, or less than 60 cents per unit
(per pupil per day), is not a bankrupting opera-
tion. Lots of people spend 50 cents per day on
tobacco. Baby-sitting costs for a child for a
six -hour day, certainly cannot be bought for less
than 60 cents.
• In 'other words, our education is being
bought at bargain rates!
URANIUM LESSON
(Uxbridge. Times -Journal)
CANCELLATION by the Undated States of
its contracts for Canadian uranium is one more
illustration of how capricious and uncertain are
the foreign markets for the products of our
extractive industries.
Ih also points up yet again that, important
as these industries are to the national economy,
their existence alone—iaratipported by Manufac-
turing industries -is fax from being a guarantee
of stable and continuing growth for the com-
munities which are totally dependent upon them.
The. truth ,is that some manufacturing in-
dustry—Canadians producing for Canadians—
will always be an indispensable requirement for,
such a condition, and that national policies
should be clearly directed to this end.
Uranium may very well make a comeback
late+ in the decade. There is every reason to
expect that it will. But, for the moment, this
is of small consolation to the thousands Of •Can-
adians who will lose their jobs or to the tom-'
murales in which they live.
Clhiton News -Re cord
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Amalgamated 1924
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario -- Population 3,000
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From Our Early Files 1��
40 YEARS AGO
C1f..><NT011T NEWS-RECQRD
THUR$DAX'•, APRI> 1, 1920
George Clark and Joseph Rich-
brdson, Shanley Township, recen-
tly bought new Chevrolet cars
from Mr. Lavis, Clinton.
Miss Fannie Lovett was surpris-
ed by a number et her young girl
friends who gave her a handsome
aluminum shower, in anticipation
of her conning marriage to Frank
G. Lobb.
The Morrish Clothing Company
advertises a saving of ten per-
cent on ,all raincoOt4 bought non
Clinton Spring Show day.
Clinton Mdrkets: oasts, $1,00;
butter, 55 cents; live hogs, $1T.50.
Miss Bell Roberton, Londesiboro,
who is -attending Stratford Nor'
mal School, is lionise for the bola-
days,
olidays,
A. J, McMurray was called to
Mitchell by the early train on
Monday owing to the serious ill-
ness of his father,
Ray East of the Royal Bank
left this week for an inspection
trip to Havana and later goes to
Mexico. He is connected with
the head office, Montreal.
40 YEAR'S AGO
pi<;INTQN NimW EfiA
T> J1 SD Y, APIY , 1920
Fail Wheat inn HuroLIn1County
never looked better, The snow is
practically all off the -fields and
the Wheat is coming out practic-
ally in the condition it went in
last fall.
Bart Levis has purchased the
house he is living in from Oliver
Johnson.
The flower garden at the stat-
ion park has bee nplannted, The
other beds will soon be put in
shape by the Horticultural Soc-
iety.
Mrs. Cliff Keys, Verna, is spen-
ding the week visiting her per -
mete, Mr, and Mrs. J. T. Tiplady,
on the Base Line.
During .the recent floods, little
damage was done at Bayfield, ex-
cept to the tug "Edna K." One
large cake of ice rammed • the sup-
erstructure, which is partly de-
molashed.
Mrs. W. J. Biggart and children
are Easter visitors with her sis-
ter, Mrs, Robert McKenzie,
On Sunday, April 4, David Bea-
com will celebrate his 93rd birth-
day. A notable flet is that five
of his family, their ages total 420
years.
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
Man, we're a bloodthirsty lot, we
Canadians. Here I've been going
around for years, thinking we
were a mild, gentle, civilized peo-
ple, the .milk of human kindness
fairly dribbling out the corners of
our mouths,
We're not like that at all. We're
a real Old Testament, fang and
claw, eye for an eye, blood and
guts gang. Behind those good,
gray exteriors lurks a red -eyed
avenger who would make Attila
the Hun look -like a divinity stu-
dent.
• • * * *
I didn't realize what a snarling
tiger lay within the bosoms of my
fellow Canadians until I mention-
ed casually, in an editorial a
couple of weeks ago, that I didn't
believe in capital punishment, and
asked for the opinions of readers,
* * *
What a Pandora's box that op-
ened! I received only one reason-
able response—that is, one opinion
that agreed w4th mine. The rest
of .them howled for blood. They
ranged from curt suggestions that
"rape, rifle or gas will do", to in-
terminable epistles that dragged
in everybody from Moses to my
small daughter.
* * *
I was belaboured by Scripture,
torn from context. I was buried
under bales of newspaper clip-
pings about the latest murder
cases. Many assured me that an
murderers serving prison terms
were just busting to get out so
they could go and knock off some-
body else. Others tried to sell me
on. capital punishment because it's
cheaper than feeding a murderer.
* * :k
Now the fact is •that I never
mentioned murder in the first
place. I just stated that I didn't
think society had the right to
take the human life in cold blood.
As a result, none of the argumen-
ts affected any opinion at all, be-
cause everybody went haring off
after murderers, deterrents, par-
oles, sex fiends, insanity, liquor
and the cost of jail meals.
*. *
Besides which, es my wife has
pointed out on innumerable occas-
ions, and again when we discussed
the subject: "Nobody can tell you
anything. You think you're so
dam' smart and you're not. You're
just pig-headed."
* * *
Just to prove she's wrong, and
that I'm a reasonable fellow, a
true democrat 'when outnumbered
50 to 1, I'll reverse my stand. Let's
have capital punishment, and lots
of it. But for ;pity's sake let's get
a little variety, a touch of colour,
a strong vein of tradition, and a
dash of imagination into it.
* * *
Only a primitive people would
stick to such et crude, drab coup
de grace as 'secret hanging. I
would also •abolish those other
pedestriari death penalties of to-
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day's society — the chair and the
gas chamber,
* *
Ordinary murderers must die,
but I think the condemned pian
should have a sporting chance to
pick the manner of his demise, Iri
this age of bingos, draws and raf-
fles, the least we could do is shake
the choices up in the warden's hat
and let the murderer pull. one.
* * *
He'd have a chance at: the
headman's axe; being torn to
pieces by four wild horses; the
guillotine; a bullet through the
back of the head; being pushed in
front of a train or over a cliff;
being impaled.
* * *
Of course, under a wide-open
capital punishment system, with
some life to it, we'd need more
candidates. These could be ac-
quired by returning to the more
virile fashions of former times.
For example, blasphemers would
be stoned to death ,though there'd
soon be a shortage of stones.
Heretics would be burned at the
stake, preferably at Hallowe'en.
Rapists would be tossed into a pit
of rattlesnakes. Traitors would
have their entrails removed and
burned before their eyes.
n * *
Now that we're getting into the
swing of things, I must admit I'm
growing enthµsiesti , While we're
at it, we11 cdii1d tibhtoxl up our en-
tire code of punishment. No rriore
of these 10 -year sentences ,for
bank robbers. Cut off their gun
hands at the wrist. It would be
a real shot in the arm for the
artifical limbs industry.
* * *
People taking trout and deer
out of season would be transpor-
ted, with their families, to Cana-
da's artic wastes. We'd soon
have some thriving settlements in
the tundra. People trying to beat
the income tax would not be fined,
but given hard labour on bread
and water.
:k * *
Shrewish women would have a
half-inch snipped off the end of
their tongues. Wife beaters would
get a going-over from a pro-
fessional pugilist, Business men
caught padding their expense ac-
counts would get the lash. Known
alcoholies would be put on a duck-
ing -stool and held under water for
three minutes, every time they
got into the stuff.
* * *
Maybe that's what's wrong with
society today — our penal code
has became soft and sloppy, like
everything else. People tell me
capital punishment is a detergent
to would-be murderers. Perhaps
juvenile delinquents would be de-
terr ed from beating people up if
they knew the punishment was to
have one foot lopped off.
* * *
Let's give it a try, anyway.
We could start by branding
"THIEF" on the foreheads of chil-
dren caught stealing apples.
To Whom It May Concern ---
In the full page advertisement of Clinton
Branch 1.40, Canadian Legion, published in the Clin-
ton News -Record of Thursday, March 17, the names
of William McKim, C. Cameron and B. Inder were
inadvertently quoted in"connection with the Legion -
sponsored Public Speaking Contests.
Clinton Branch 140, Canadian Legion, apol-,
bgizes for any and all implications which may have
<arisen from this inadvertency, dssuring all parties
aapncerned that any implication was entirely uniinten-
tibnal.
(Signed)
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE,
Clinton Branch 140,
Canadian Legion
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25 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS -R V011a)
THURSDAY, APPAL 4, 1935
Frid'ay's .Londo n Free Press car-
ried a :cut of four Huron College'
students who had engaged in the
finials of ,an oratory, contest for
the Sylvanus Joy p'rjz , Among
them and taking second place was
Edward Rorke, younger Son of
Mr. and Mrs, H. E, Rorke, Clin-
ton.
Roy Cook, a student in theol-
ogy, won the gold medal donated
by the Hamliton Advertising club
at the oratorical „contest that
wound up the Beason of the Men's
Debating union at McMaster Un-
iversity. Mr, Cooke subject was
Youth and National Prejtatice..
Alumni Association of the Un-
iversity of Western Ontario Med-
ical ooho4l ran a picture in the
March Bulletin of the champion
hockey team of Meds. 1924, show-
ing Dr. Fred Q. Thonvpson as cap-
tain, in the centre behind the sil-
ver cup.
Clinton's tax rate goes up four
mills this year, and is fixed at 44
mills. The levies are as. follows.
county rate, six mills; town rate
14 mills; school 14%; debenture
rate 91/2, Total amount 4;o be
raised by taxes is $35,560.
10 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1950
Top grade hardwood flooring is
now being produced in Clinton's
newest factory, Clinton Flooring
Mill, owned and operated by an
experienced hand in the mill bus-
iness, Fred J. Hudie.
Ball and Mutch have just com-
pleted a new furniture showroom
in their spacious store, which is a
real show place.
In addition to plain, ordinary
mud, the result of rain and melt -
nig snows, another sign of spring
is the :sap buckets hanging from
spales on the hard maple trees.
Tapping is general in most sec-
tions of the province, and in this
area, Frank Raithby has 1,000
trees tapped at Auburn. , Best
syrup weather is when there are
cold nights and warm days.
Fire, breaking out in the rear
of the War Assets Surplus cloth-
ing store on Isaac Street, near the
main intersection, about 4.10 p.m.
Sunday, threatened Clinton's main
business section. Prompt action
on the part of Clinton's Volunteer
Fire Department under Chief
Grant W. Rath prevented the
blaze from spreading.
The Bible. Today
World Refugee Year has grip-
ped the imagination of Christian
people of the world as the words
of Christ take on further Mean-
ing: "Inasmuch as ye have done
it unto .one of the least of these,
my brethren, ye have .done it un
to me," The Bible_ Society,
membering that Jesus and the
Hely family were refugees from
tyranny a,rx the flight into Egypt,
has always endeavoured td bring
the consolation of the Scriptures
to the homeless and the disposses-
sed,
The Bible House in Hong Kong
ministers to the 20,000,000 Chin-
ere outside China, Two million
refugees are in Hong Kong itself.
Tet ,these las to all homeleae wan-
derers the Scriptures bring the
eternal message of hope. A total
of 502,290 Bibles, Testaments and
Gospels have 'b e en oire hated
through the Hong I'ong Bible
House,
The Bible Society lis !als'o dis-
tributing the Scriptures in the re-
fugee camps in Europe from
which Canada is helping to rescue
some of those whose hope for a
settled abiding place, had almost
vanished.
Suggested Bible readings:
Sunday John 18: 15-27
Monday John 18: 28-40
Tuesday John 19: 1-16
Wednesday Psalms 130: 1-8
Thursday • Psalms 118: 1-29
Friday Luke 16: 19-31
Saturday Matthew 5: 3-5
Luke 14: 1-24
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.TUCHERSMITH LADIES TO
MEET TUESDAY, APRIL 5
The Tuokersmith Ladies' Club
will meet Tuesday afternoon, Ap-
ril '5, at the home of Mrs. Ernie
Crich. Roll call will be "A House-
cleaning Hint. Please note chan-
ge of date.
Ashton's Taxi
Office located in
Don Smith Motors
SUPERTEST GARAGE
PHONE
Business: HU 24334
If No Answer, Phone
Residence: HU 2-9815
HARVEY ASHTON, Prop.
DAY and NIGHT SERVICE
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Business and Professional
— Directory --
A M. HARPER and COMPANY
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS
33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH
TELEPHONE JA 4-7562
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.INSURANCE
J. E. HOWARD, Bayfield
Phone 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
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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 ESTATE
Representative:
Sun Life Assurance Co. of Cana&
phones!:
Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2.755,
Sales:ban: 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. 1V1•cEwing;
Robert Archibald; Chris Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre-
wartha Clinton; Wm. S. Alexand-
er, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth;
Harvey Fuller, Goderiph; 3. E.
Pepper, Brumfield; Alistair Broad-
foot, Seaforth
Agents: Wm, Leiper, Jr., Lond-
esboro; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen;
Selwyn Baker Brussels; James
Keyes, Seaforth; Harold Squire,
Clinton.
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HAIR DRESSING
CHARLES HOUSE OF BEAUTY
Cold Waves, Cutting, and
Styling
King St., Clinton Ph. HU 2-7085
C. D. Proctor, Prop.
OP -TOM ETR Y
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 SEAFORM
Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard-
ware—Mondays only -9 a.m. to
5-30 p.m.
Phone HUnter 2-7010 Clinton
O. B. CLANCY
Optometrist -- Opticlan
(successor to,.the late A. L.
Cole, optometrist)
For appointment phone JA 4-7251
Goderich
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
ROY N. BENTLEY
Public Accountant
GODERICH, Ontario
Telephone
JA 4-9521 Box 478
RONALD G. McOANN
Public Accountant
Office and Residence
Rattenb'u.'y Street, East
Phone' HU 2-9877
CLINTON: ONTARIO
REAL ESTATE
LEONAIW G. WINTER
Real Estate and Business Broker
High Street -- Clinton
Phone 1117 2-6692
fALBRAITH RADIO & TV.
TELEVISION SERVICE
Phone HU 2-3841
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