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Ten years as a dedicated
editor have left me thin, haras-
sed, twitching, and with an
abiding hatred of the telephone.
So it is with a deep sense of
nothing that I turn over the
editorial chair to my tempor-
ary successor. Guess' who it is.
This will murder you.
It's none other than The
Old Battleaxe.
For the past ten( years, she
has told me, and believed, that
all I do is sit in the' office
and talk to people. She has
compared this leisurely life to
her own lowly estate: scrub-
bing floors, doing the laundry,
painting • and wallpapering, put-
ting out the garbage, and a
lot of trivial stuff like that.
That's why I can't under-
stand why she gets so sore
when I roar with laughter,
every time I refer to her as
the new editor. All of a sud-
den, she has not only changed
her tune, but the words as well.
She wails: "But what am I
going to do? I won't know
where to begin." And when
I tell her all she has to do is
sit in the office and talk to
people, she turns white. *
She's been editor for one
week now, and already she's
got an ulcer. Also a bad heart,
high blood pressure, the jump-
ing cancer, and a lung condit-
ion. I 'assured her that all
these symptoms will vanish as
soon as she getS, the paper out
on Thursday, and she can go
back to being a plain ordinary,
neurotic housewife. Until
Friday.
When this deal first came
up, she was full of sympathy
for me "I certainly don't envy
you", she said. "Sweltering
down in the hot old city, study-
ing like mad, living like a
monk." This was when she
thought somebody else would
be editor, and she'd be lolling
around. all summer, taking
the kids for swims, and wait-
ing for me to get home Fri-
day nights,
Now the refrain goes some-
thing like this: "I certainly
envy you. I'm stuck here
with the kids, and the paper,
SUMMER TIME brings fun for little
eople in the park at the swimming pool, and
punsters start for home, (if they live on
ri the „swinge. Eut when the fun loving
he west side •of town) they meet up with the
otorists, and sometimes most of the fun
ocs out of the day.
On a hot clay, with the sun beating
the pavement, yetingsters may be tempted
o take a chance and the need for the motor-
st to be doubly watchful, becomes stronger.
If at all possible, We would like to see one
f the new stop signs the town is buying, go
p on Princess Street where it enters the
'cad to the park. That well paved Princess
reet is a temptation to motorists, and they
hizz down the stretch onto Albert Street,
s if no other street existed, Some day some
ittle person is going to get caught in the mid-
le of the road with not enough chance to get
ut of the way in time.
Considering that corner, we do not think
hat a "No U Turn" sign on Albert Street
the whole answer. For one thing, very
ew cars are making a "la Turn" there. In-
IF THE recent investigation into the
ctivities of the Hog Producers groups in the
oronto office, achieves nothing else, they
ave at least discovered no indication of
isappropriation of funds".
It seems to us in our brief decade of be-
g closely connected with the work of farm
roups, that never has there been an indica-
on of improper handling of funds, In some
ases we have noted the farm people strug-
ling valiantly against a situation in which
heir lack of information made it practically
possible to pin down the "trade" in what
eemecl to be an unfair, if nothing else, opera-
on, But we have no memory of the farm
roups themselves doing the wrong thing with
egarci to members' money.
On the other hand, we find the leaders
n farm organizations continually working
owards having laws passed and regulations
ade, which will make it ever more difficult
or those who wish to underinine the security
f farm people, to accomplish their aim.
It seems at times that the government
f Ontario is acting without the good of the
timer in his mind. That may well be, for
em are more votes in the urban areas than
the farm, and the government members
re in office to serve the people who elect
BIOLOGICAL "
(Goderich
BIOLOGICAL "EXPLOSIONS" in the
reat Lakes, which includes our neighbouring
ke Huron, have created some marked
nges over the years. What future "ex-
osions" there will be and when they will be
ly the, passing of time will tell.
' The sea lamprey exploded in the upper
eat Lakes after 1930 until the commercial
heries for lake trout and whitefish have
actioally died out. Electrical and chemical
tacks on lamprey spawning "have shown
omise" but success in control and re-
tablishment of lake trout is still in the
tore.
Smelt, introduced into the Great Lakes
out a decade after the turn of the century,
ye grown into silvery millions. Delicious
d valuable though this fish is, its relation-
ip to the more valuable fish of the lakes
TH.E MADNESS of the nuclear arms race
w will go on for at least another year.
The Russian walk-out of the Geneva dis-
ament talks means it will be mid-way into
61 before any more serious negotiations can
undertaken. Nothing will happen until the
S. election is over and It will take another
f dozen months or so before the next Ameri-
n president gets moving on this.
In the meantime, our mad world will
ep piling up ICBMs and hydrogen bombs.
ready there are enough atomic bombs .to
1 everybody on earth several times over.
Unless we get the disarmament negotia-
e back to work, we stand in grave peril of
final, ultimate holocaust.
Some military minds may rejoice at the
;armament conference collapse. Indeed, one
;h ranking officer when told of the arms
k collapse by an FP representative said,
'h good," Now the military can get an in-
(Huron
ler WAS an interesting explanation which
"Department of Highways offered Seaforth
lice Chief Hutchinson for the action the
iartmeitt had taken in raising the speed
Lit at the„east end of town to 45 mph.
According to the department, the speed
30 m.p.h. was "unrealistic" in the light
the speed at which vehicles were travelling.
limit was having little or no effect on
idle speeds on the highway in that area.
The department's answer to the problem
3 to increase the speed limit to agree With
speed at which vehieles were travelling.
consideration was given to the local eittia-
r—the fact that a large amount of area
lfic was involved, and that during the
stead they swing up onto Princess Street, and
make their "U Turn" at that point, coming
clown into Alb ert Street at any Point they
choose, some on Princess Street, and some
over on the garage property, Waiting for a
chance to get back onto Albert, sometimes
there are as many as five cars abreast. Then
when a break comes in the traffic, they peel
off lln formation, just like aeroplanes.
Now, it doesn't seem logical to us, that
a "No U Turn" will in any way stop this
sort of thing. We do think that some way
should be found to keep traffic in sensible
order, and we have wondered if a laid-out
traffic circle would be the answer. This
would be better if a curb were built on the
north side of Princess, with a sidewalk, so
that drivers would have to keep their cars
on the street, not on the garage lot, It is
quite possible that the garage could get all
its traffic from Albert Street, without using a
Princess Street entrance at all.
In the meantime the corner is a wide
open no man's land for the pedestrian, and
the little folk have a dreadful time making
the trip across,
rane, who were married last
week, spent their honeymoon
at Berke by Lake Huron.
Miss Gladys. Crich returned
Monday from .a trip to the
west with -her sisters, Mrs. Roy
Pepper and Mrs. ,7. T. Turner,
and their brother, E. Crick,
Pontiac, Mich. They reported
crops looking ,well. Rain had
fallen while they were there
to an extent unknown in sonic
years of drought.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
'Thursday, July 13, 1950
Building permits totalling
$18,050 were granted by Clin-
ton Town Council at its July
meeting, A written request
was received from Clinton Pub-
lic Utilities CornraiSsiort to is-
sue debentures totalling $20,000
for hydro conversion, and from
$15,000 to $17,000 for a new
water well and pump.
Jackie Colquhouri, three-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. C. Colquhoun, had a close
call when he collided with the
right rear wheel of a truck
travelling west on Huron St.
Miss Joyce Grigg, London,
spent a fortnight's vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A, G. Grigg, Albert Street.
Harry Schellenberger and
son, Eric, spent last week at
the former's. home in. Mitchell,
and also attended the Mitchell
Old Boys Reunion.
Yes, We true, all right. ate
taken almost 14 years of
quiet plotting to organize' it,
but I've done it. I've GOT
AWAY FROM THE FAMILY,
That may not sound like much
to you young people. But eve
ery father, every mother,
knows it's just about the next
hardest thing to walking on top
of the waves,
4,
I'm attending the epecial
summer .course for high school
teachers. Don't ask me Way.
It's all rather confusing,
Except that as I watched
those teachers' salaries go up
and up, and I pondered over
that big, fat two-month vacas
tion every summer, it sudden-
ly dawned on me that S was a
dedicated teacher,
* 4,
So here I am, Normally,
I'd be sitting at the kitchen
table writing this, at 2 a.m.
The ash tray would look as
though an Indian princess
had just been cremated on it.
I'd be on the third pot of tea.
And the Old Lady would be
hollering down that I was out
of my mind and why _didn't
I come to bed like normal
people,
But I've got clean away from
that bourgeois and distracting
atmosphere. Ten sitting in. a
cell in a men's residence. The
ash tray is piled high with
butts. There's no tea, And
there isn't a sound to disturb
me. Except the bird in the
next cell pounding the wall and
pounding the wall and offering
most rude suggestions about
what. I should do with my type-
writer. It is only 2 a.m.
creasing supply of ICBMs, Bomarcs and the
latest in deadly gadgetry.
The job for Canadian diplomats now is to
exercise every scrap of influence we have to
try to prevent the collapse of the nuclear test
ban talks still going on.
On this whole terrible business Canada's
Diefenbaker and Green both took the very
sensible line that in diplomacy both sides
have to give a little -to get anything achieved.
But at the time of the Geneva collapse the
Americans would give nothing, hence making
it certain that in turn the Russians would
give nothing.
So this was a total failure of the art of
diplomacy, and all history shows that con-
tinued sophisticated diplomacy is the only
alternative to war.
Canada has a big stake in getting the dis-
armament talks back on the rails again be-
cause, after all, Canada will be the jam in
the sandwich of an American-Russ war.
Expositor)
summer months hundreds of children each
day flock along the busy highway to the
Lions Park,
It is apparent that the speed limit is
determined, not as a result of studies by the
department, not by consideration of local
conditions, but rather by the rate at which
through traffic wishes to travel,
Through traffic was moving at 45 m.p.h,
in what was a 30 nep,h. zone, so the depart-
ment obliges and increases the legal speed to
45 m.p.h. Presumably if the department con-
tinues to apply its present formula and traffic
finds the newly-established rate of 45 rri,p.h.
"unrealistic", it will be increased another year
to a still higher level.
PATIENT DIPLOMACY • THE ONLY WAY
(The Financial Post)
G. B. CLANCY
Optometrist — Optician
(successor to the late A, L.
Cole, optometrist)
For appointment phone
JA 4-7251 Goderich
MOTORISTS SET• THE SPEED
NO SHADOW OF DOUBT
them.
The need, as we see it, is for the farm
groups to keep ever alert, and by keeping
their wits about them, continue to indicate
by education and example, to show the people
of Ontario, and of Canada, that their moves
to attain fair prices for themselves are coupl-
ed with a sincere desire to see that the price
of their product when it reaches the grocer's
shelves is not too high for the consumer to
purchase.
It is well known that if the amount of
money paid to the farmer for a pound of
butter, were taken off the price as it reaches
the consumer, the butter would cost practic-
ally as much as it does right to-day. There-
fore, most of the increase in cost goes to the
middleman—the chap who works in the fac-
tories processing farm products, who needs
the money to buy the butter later, and all
of the other food arid clothing products which
help him keep up his "standard of living".
In this regard the man employed in the
middleman position, is the friend of the
farmer. And when you combine the farm
vote, with the vote of those thousands of
people who are employed in the middleman
position, there's where the politicians should
take heed,
EXPLOSIONS"
Signal-Star)
remains a mystery.
The latest "explosion" is the alewife which
in the past decade or more has spread
throughout Lakes Huron, Erie and Michigan
after entering, like the lamprey, through the
Welland Canal around Niagara Falls. These
parasites from salt water are to be seen dead
on the beaches of Lake Huron or in lengthy
windrows on the lake.
Other biological "explosions" to have
occurred in past years were the Norway rats
which came over to this country in the sail-
ing ships of early settlers from Europe. They
were followed by the phenomenal spread of
both English sparrows and European starlings.
There will be other such "explosions" in
the years that lie ahead. We only hope they
won't be nuclear rats or any other such futur-
istic monstrosities.,
"awammoisoommva luommommiNiammi
A. M. HARPER and COMPANY
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Unique Experience
Bans Hikers
From Daw Car
Ivan Daw, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Daw, RR 3, Wing-
ham, left one June day to visit
with relatives in Toronto.
At Arthur, two well-dressed
young men 'asked for a ride
and were picked up by Daw.
All went well until the group
had passed through Orangeville
and then it happened. "It" is
the word, for the local man
doesn't know just what did' oc-
cur.
The next that •the driver
knew, he awoke to find himself
in the back seat of his car at a
gas station. The hikers appar-
ently 'believed he was still
asleep, and were not keeping
an eye on him. Daw pulled the
keys from the ignition, jumped
out ard his surprise can be
imagined, when he found that
he was in North Bay.
Police were called •and the
pair of hikers were questioned
and claimed that Daw had fal-
len asleep and that they had
taken over the wheel. The po-
lice in the home towns of the
pair were contacted and it was
found they had no previous po-
lice record. Since they did not
steal the car :and as there were
no marks of violence. on Daw,
they were released.
The car owner returned to
Toronto and later back to his
home none the worse for the
strange experience except for
the 450 miles extra mileage and
a shorter visit in Toronto.
Ivan's doctor said it is very
unlikely that due to his age,
and good physical condition
that the young man would have
blacked out.
The result is a big mystery
to Daw and one that may nev-
er be solved. One thing, he
said, however, is that there
will be no more rides for hitch-
hikers when he is travelling.
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From Our EARLY FILES
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
ROY N. BENTLEY
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT'
Goderich, Ontario
Telephone Box
JA 4-9521 478
RONALD G. McCANN
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
Office and Residence •
Rattenbury Street East
Phone HU 2-9677
CLINTON, ONTARIO
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A THOUGHT FOR SAFETY
op 2-1.4600 se S-Record---4 ursclay, Jul '14, 1960
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I don't know how she figures
I can do this on the $9.75 she's
allotted me to live on, but she's
positive I'm going to be hang-
ing around cocktail bare, form-
ing liaisons with beautiful wo-
men, living it up with old fri-
end's' and arriving home every
Friday night gaunt, frayed
and good for naught. *
The other night, before
left for another wild week of
debauchery at teachers' college,
I pointed out to 'her that this
deal works two ways.. "Think
of the fun you'll be having,"
I told her. "There's the thrill
of answering that wildly ring-
ing phone at 3 a.m., excited
because you know it's a big
story. It may be only one of
the town drunks, wanting to
tell you about this here letter-
to-the-editor he's composing,
but you never know."
"And don't forget, you'll be
attending banquets, and all
sorts of interesting shindigs,
as The Press. Provided they
don't forget to invite you, and
there's a place left for you,
and you take 8 pictures and
print them all, <and you report
verbatim the hilarious toast
to the ladies."
Oh, I cheered her up with
a lot of facinating facets of
the editor's job like that, and
when I left, she'd stopped
crying and was working on
an editorial about closing the
pubs at 6 p.m.
and the house, and you'll be
.down there in the city, meet-
Mg interesting people, nothing
to do but sit in lectures.
suppose you'll study for an
hour in the evening, 'then go
out to a nightclub, or to some
interesting place to eat, every
night".
OPTOMETRY
J. E. LONGSTAFF
Goderich Street—Near Clinic
Seaforth: Daily except Monday
Wednesday, 9 a,m. to 12.30 p.m.
Thursday evening by appoint-
ment only.
Ground Floor, Parking Facilities
PHONE 791 SEAFORTH
Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard-
ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. to
5.30 p.m.
Phone Ht3nter 2-7010 Clinton
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Head Office: Seaforth
Officers: President, John L.
Malone, Seaforth; vice-president,
John H. McEwing, Blyth; secre-
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gate, Seaforth.
Directors: John H. MeEwing;
Robert Archibald; Chris Leon-
hardt, Bornholni; Norman Tre-
wartha, Clinton; Win. S. Alexe
ander, Walton; J, L. Meanie,
Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Gode-
rich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield;
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Agents: Win, Leiper, Jr,, Lon-
desbero; V. J. Lane, Rlt 5, Sea-
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(By W. (Bill). B. T. :Smiley)
40 Years Ago.
CLINTON N*SW viz.41
Thursday, July 10, IOU!
Me. and Mrs. Thome Lep-
pington spent the lath in
Wingham,
Miss Gladys Chowen, Ter-
onto, is spending her vacation
at the parental home,.
Mrs. 13. Pridham and son,
Toronto,- are the guests of Mr,
and Mrs, J. E. Cook.
Jack Miro.) had the misfor-
tune to fall and break his arm
above the wrist while climbing
up a ladder,
Misses Jessie and Gertrude
Grainger, -Brecefielcl, are spen-
ding their vacation at "Inver-
huron" in a cottage by the
lake,
William Fingland will preach
at the Methodist Church,
Londesboro on Sunday, July
18.
Besides his usual duties ae
a commercial (traveller "Shor-
ty" Cantelon has been umpire
ing baseball games in Bruce
County for the Wellington.
League,
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursda,y, July 15, 1920
While working at a jointer
in A. Seeley's shop, 0. W.
Potter had the misfortune to
have the little finger of his left
hand severed at the second
joint
Mrs, N. W. Trewartha retur-
ned from Toronto, accorapenied
by her .mother, Mrs, MO1011.
Earl and Ben Kaiser, nen-
oeth Mills and Ross Scott, all
of Brucefield, spent the week-
end at hayfield.
Mr. and Mrs. E, Davis and
chil'd'ren, Toronto, visited at
the home of Mr, and Mrs. E.
H. Wise, Goderich Township..
Mrs, Harry Rutledge, New
Lielteard, visited her sister,
1Virs, la. Steep and other frir ends.
Mrs. I3, J. Gibbings and Miss
Marion left for Cleveland and
Ohio to visit relatives, going by
boat from Port Stanley,
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, July 11, 1935
The Mutch brothers, Bobby
Morgan and other members of
the Orange Lodge serenaded
David Steep, who has been
shut in by illness for some
months, with fife and drum sel-
ections. This act of kindness
on the part of Mr. Steep's
Lodge brothers-1 was much ap-
preciated.
Mrs. H. A. McIntyre and
Mrs. M. W. Nediger were dele-
gates from Rebekah Lodge 306
to the Rebekah Assembly
which met at the Royal York
Hotel, Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Coch-
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