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Clinton News-Record, 1960-07-28, Page 2rage t --'-Clinton News -Record Thursday,. July 28 1960 J.ditorials... !€ANE IN PLANS THE NEW PRQVINCiAL building to be built near Goderich will be a.: mental hospital for the aged. it will not be a retarded .cisild- ren',s hospital as once was plaruied. When the initial disappointment felt at this change wears off, the resulting sensation is one of satisfacittion that the elder people in the county, and the surrounding ones, will be able to have the advantages of this new hospital building close to barite, The site on the lake front is a pleasant one, and will lend itself to becoming a beautiful location. When this project was first mentioned, Tom Pryde, Exeter, was the member for Huron, and his interest in it was profound, After his death, announcement was made that it would be named the Tom 'Pryde Memorial Hospital, and this. was met with approval by the majority of Huron County people. There have been so many delays, and changes made, that sometimes we wonder iE Mr. Pryde would consider it an honour at all, now, The project has been accused of being a political football, and certainly it has seen the Conservative party through two - elections in ,this riding. The need for more accommodation for mental patients. was well known an Mr. Pryde's day. It has not been reduced, but the speed with which this hospi- tal has progressed .certainly does not show =eh appreciation of that need, 'The Town. of Goderich will probably benefit the most from the building, for coupled with it will be a Bost -sharing sewage treatment plant which will serve both. the town and the hospital. Changes in water supply for the county town ere also awaiting decisions of the province in the matter of the new building.. However, the whole of the county will benefit indirectly by the building project, as it will create employment during the com- ing winter (that is, if tenders' are received and are accepted). Clinton possibly will see some of the gains, and Bayfield, too, is apt to . find its year round population boosted a little. In any case, tenders are called, That is a good forward step. PROMOTION IS AN 'ART THE SUCCESSFUL PROMOTER is a man daring beyond all imagination of the ordinary individual. He sees a vision and the way to achieve it, He dreams a dream, and then sets out to make it come true. The promoter of ideas in Canada is not rare, but we feel that in many oases he be- comes discouraged, and either moves off to greener fields to the south, or joins the country's "queer people". For Canadians do not readily accept the methods of the dream- er and the idealist. One local case is that of the "rutabaga Ding", This man has seen a vision. He has seen it in the lowly turnip, which for years Canadians fed to their pigs, and their fat steer cattle, and once in a long while, boiled up far a tasty dish at the house. But, with the romantic name of "ruta- baga", which the promoter rolls off his tongue in thunderous tones, the turnip is be- coming known by cooks throughout this na- tion and in the United States, and favoured by households 'as the "right" vegetable to have with fowl. The rutabaga king reports that Canada exported two million bushels of rutabaga in 1959. Of these, 201,000 bushels were grown in Huron County. He predicts that hi five years he can have five million bushels going out from Huron County alone, Couple that with his aim for $1,00 a bushel for the farmer, and you have a financial gain for Huron County farm families whioh is not to be discarded lightly. Mr, Wilford has a dream. Ingredients for success oall for a lot of co-operation, a lot of planning, and a determination to keep poor turnips off the market. He is strongly against permitting the rutabaga in the stores during the season when it is mushy and soft, and has encouraged research into methods of canning, freezing, and squeezing, to make it available to the housewife in the off season. Whether his dream comes true or not, remains to be seen. If it does, then he .has helped create a market where none was be- fore, and has helped create the industry to fulfill the demands of the market. The way of the promoter is not strewn with roses. His main business in life is to get others to believe .his dream, Though his path may not be strewn with roses, 'the rutabaga king is making sure that this country, and foreign lands are reasonably well strewn with rutabaga, and this will help to bring a nice bit of prosperity to the local farmer. ALL COMES OUT OF ONE POCKET (Goderich Signal -Star) THE ASSESSMENT commissioner of Kitchener recently proposed a 2% sales tax on goods bought in that city, •to raise an estimated $2,500,000 a year and "cut the tax rate by 15 mills!" A party leader proposes a provincial sales tax to raise $300,000,000 and "reduce taxes on real estate in some areas by half." The Ontario Association of Mayors and Reeves had before it a resolution ,demanding that the province assume "tithe whole cost of education", (The Ontario Government is spending this year on educa- tion $230,836,000). The convention rejected the motion when opponents pointed out that who pays the piper Bails the tune, and the Government would soon be taking over all the schools. But 24 delegates voted for tt, just the same. Some public charasoters with their heads. in the clouds seem never to pause and re- flect that it does little good to syphon money from one tax source to "relieve" anotther, The federal sales tax is a heavy enough bur- den without having a provincial sales tax as well and a municipal sales tax on top of all. If the individual taxpayer had to shell out directly the tax ,money that he provides indirectly, he would look into its destination more carefully, and denvandl that more atten- tion be given to ways of reducing expendi- tures on wasteful tor unnecessary projects. Ontario is raising in the current firms year .$770,538,000, which works out at $568 for a family of four. A householder asked for that sum in one lump would be shocked, but on the average he does pay it. Ontario's 'largest single .source of revenue is Ottawa's contribution under the Dominion provincial tax .agreemerbt, but the Doininion raises that through income tax, sales tax, etc., from the same persons as are taxed by the province. The Dominion spends in billions, and to break that down to an individual average might scare people in a country with a population only about twice that of New York. Governments, collect lamge amounts from corporations, but corporations pass on the flax levy to customers; nobody is in business for fun. The faot is that "government" money conies! out of one pocket—that of the individual citizen; but nobody ever thinks of that when rushing off to Toronto or Ottawa for a "grant." Clinton News -Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Est. 1865 Amalgamated 1924 Est. 1881 ♦rt ? O Published every Thursday at the q Heart of Huron County •\ 0 Clinton, Ontario -- Population 3,000 \tel . (. 1. 0' SUBSCRIPTION RA'T'ES: Authorized as b A. L. COLQUFIOUN, Publisher • WILMA D. DiNNIN, Editor Payable in advance — Canada and Great Britain: $3.Q0 a United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents second class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa yeatr 40 Years Ago 1CL>GN'1CQN NI WS- CQJ D Thursday, tfssly 29, 7.920 Will Hamilton and his sis- ter Miss Mae, Harlock, were visitors at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. James Livermore. Mrs. W. MQ?;,wan, Goderich, called on her cousin, Mrs. W. S. R. Holmes, Clinton, Mrs. MoEwan was on her way home from a trip to Winnipeg. A good .old -Fashioned basket picnic will be held at the home of W. Brigham, Londesboro, under the auspices of the Wo- men's Institute. There will be sports, including a baseball game between Londesboro boys and the .boys from the 13th concession. Mr. and Mrs. Gillies and Miss Marion, Toronto, are guests at the home of the lady's parents, Magistrate and Mrs. Andrews. Albert Colelough, of the 7th concession, Goderich Township, has about 30 acres of very fine oats, Mammoth Cluster, which he has grown for sale as seed for five years. Many stalks grow four clusters, and 145 grains were counted on one stalk. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, July 29, 1920 Ray Rumball, who has been manager of the Bell Tele- phone •Company at Goderich for the past five years, has been promoted to the office of traf- fic chief with headquarters in London. He will have charge of 95 offices extending from Windsor to Owen Sound, Two cornerstones of a $25,- 000 community hall were laid at Blyth, the building to be financed by voluntary contri- butions' ontributions' as a memorial to local men who served in the war. A day of sports in. connection with the ceremony netted $3,- 000 toward the funds The wholesale price of coal oil and gasoline advanced two cents a gallon. Coal oil will now sell for 40c per gallon. The Hall Dent glove factory branch in Zurich is now turn- ing out a Ier'ge ,numsber of Iadies' gloves weekly. Arrange- ments are also beting made to increase production still fur- ther. /Y125 nYears Ago e.*�p� i/H.AN i/1 ov, S- 1000.FN) Theraclay, July 25,. 1930 William "Scotty" McDougall, the Goderich native who has been a power in heavyweight av41stli,ng for some years, ap- pearing with great success in the United States, New Zea- land and Australia, is in a To- ronto main bout this week and will be in Clinton for the big time match mat attraction on August 5, Veterans' Reunion. Lebeau Brothers, London Road, moved their threshing outfit to the farm of V, Bis - back on Monday to continence threshing operations for the season. Campers on Lake Huron are complaining of "water itch", a. troublesome rash which a7a- pears as soon as a bather emerges front the water. It seems the rash is easily con- trolled but reappears on a re- turn to the water. Elliott Bartliff met with an accident on the road from. Au- burn on Saturday, Dazzled by sun in his eyes while rounding a corner, he lost control of the car and ran into a pole, break- ing it off. He was unhurt. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS=RECORD Thursday, July 27, 1950 Grant Irwin, while engaged in trimming 'a tree overhang- ing Stanley's Abbatoir, was thrown 25 feet over the side of the building to the ground when a branch snapped, His left arm was fractured just. above the wrist, with 36 bones reported broken. Rt, Hon. William Lyon Mc- Kenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada for 21 years, died in Ottawa in his 76th year. A fine new flag pole was erected in Library Park. The pole is 41 feet, 6 inches in Iengith, of good sound red ce- dar, and came from the bush of James Lindsay, near Bay - f ield. Mr. and Mrs. Willard A. Aik- en, Miss Lois Connell and Ro- bent Miller visited friends in Highland Park, Michigan. The Historical Committee of Huron County Council agreed to lease Central Public School building, Goderich, to be used as a museum, George H. Jef- ferson, Clinton, is one of the committee members. SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) There's always something to take the joy out of life, isn't there? If a fellow was run- ning barefoot through a field of violets in pursuit of a beautiful creature, there'd be a broken bottle among the flowers, and the nymph would turn out to have buck teeth and a goitre when you caught her. That's the way I've been frustrated by the business of eating out, in the city. There have been many occasions, in the past decade, when I have thought it must be heaven to eat out, at a restaurant, every day, all alone. Our house at mealtime has always required nerves of steel and a castiron stomach. Meals around home were al- ways a mad melange of gags, giggling, •arguments, questions with no answers, fights over dessert, and an endless recita- tive of domestic, social and personal problems, contributed by the cook. * * * Sometimes I used to clench my teeth, close my eyes, and retreat from the babel into one of my favorite dreams. There I'd be, in • a romantic restaurant, just sitting down 0 a dazzling spread of gleami- usepresit setwav toSPOSOloN OF glsIGSD dere' 'P "14,r,"." i•<• TIML FOR AN Qv$RMALS1.1. c 400, t4 B. T. Smiley) ing silver and white napery. A white - gloved waiter would be lbendting over me solicitously. In the dilly lift interior, gypsy music stirred the senses. Sev- eral devastating women, o(b viously rich, lonely and bored, would be eyeing me with in- terest from neighbouring tabl- es. I would sip my apertif, glance with casual insolence about .the room, and greet the head waiter familiarly, as he scuttled over to discuss the wine list with me. He would slip me 'a note from the Baron- ess Gorki, seated across the room, to whom I had nodded coldly when I entered. I would read it, give a short hard laugh, and turn my entire at- tention to the gently roasted duck, festooned in truffles, and specially prepared by the chef. * * * Just then one of the kids would knock over a glass of milk, and I'd be back at the kitchen table at home, gulp- ing a hot dog, and assuring my wife that, all right, I'll get the dam' lawn cut but she doesn't need to blow a gasket. I'll never know how I went through years of this without developing an ulcer the size of a turnip, That's why I waslooking forward to eating out when I went off to surnmer school. I could picture it all: a light breakfast, with perhaps just orange juice, crisp bacon, roll and honey and coffee.; a spartan lunch consisting at a mere omelette, a salad, and perhaps' a Danishpastry; but in the evening, the works. I planned to nose out all those charming little foreign res- taurants my friends in, the city are airways telling me they a1- most went to one night, and do them up brown. I was looking i'otwward to cold vichisoisse on, a hot even. ing, donsumed with quiet ap- preciation and crusty bread in some candle -lit French place, nets:weld', of course, by golden Wray potatoes, crisp frogs legs and superb salad, the whole washed down by a, light Rhine 1 J Letter To The Editoir Clinton News -Record, Sirs: Am enclosing cheque far $4.00 subs elptian to Neel - Record. We don't see accounts of mens whom we knew before leaving there in 1904, but find interesting news of rising gen-. erations. Sincerely, Mrs, W. E, Sheppard Lynden, Wash„ July 17, 1960, Inquest Decides Sheriff N. Hill Asleep at Wheel A coroner's jury at Hensall decided July 21 that Sheriff Nelson Hill, 70, Goderich, had been ,asleep at the wheel when his car crashed into a concrete bridge near Kippen last May 22. Testimony showed the acci- dent victim bad been travelling north on Highway , 4 when his car veered out of control and crashed into the bridge. He died of multiple injuries. He had been en route home from attending a baseball meeting at Simcoe. Four witnesses, including OPP Constable Cecil Gibbons, Exeter, were examined at the inquest by Crown Attorney J. W. Bushfield, Wingham. Cor- oner was Dr. 3. C, Goddard. • Members of the jury were: Orville Workman, foreman; Lloyd Lovell and Duncan, Coop- er, all of RR 2, Kippen; Hector Forcier, RR 1, Zurich; and Joseph Cantin, RR 2, Zurieb. 0 member 104 Take It Along And Then Use It When Tom R. left iris job, he took care of a number of things. He gathered up his tools and rolled them in his overalls, put a few personal odds and ends in his lunch pail and called) at the company of- fice for 'his pay. You can be sure he checked carefully to see that all his time was paid for and his va- cation allowance included. The paymaster gave him his Un- employment Insurance book and his Ontario Hospital Insur- ance Ceaitificate of Payment Form "104*. All this was "old stuff" to Tom, except the hospitalization form "104". Wonder if he read the instructions on the back telling hien how this form would help •him keep insured? wine. Topped, naturally, by a choice Camembert and an an- cient and honorable brandy. * * * Well, I don't like to admit it, but something has gone wrong. My breakfast has turned out to be toast tared coffee, same as at home. Lunch has become a cheese .sandwich and the soup du jour, some of which was definitely made le jour before yesterday. These are eaten in hot, crowded, shouting dumps in which the flies are twice as active las the waitresses, who look at you as though you'd made an indecent pro- posal if you ask them for a spoon. But the real heart -breaker is the dinners. I tried it, just once, Went out all by myself to a posh clip joint, and went all out, You know something? I was ready for a straightjacks et before they brought my cof- fee, It was ea lonely in that romantic cellar that I was ready to cry. The 'Baroness didn't happen to be there that night, either, If it hadn't been for a nice old couple from Fort William at the next table, I'd have felt as :friendless as the Prisoner of Chilton. So from now on, that clash- ing bouleuardiee standing with nose pressed .against the win- dow at Murray's restaurant, reading tonight's special on the menu pinned up, will be yours truly. And I don't care if I never see another French - fried potato in my life, And I count the days until the week- end, when t can get home and enjoy a real meal in the pro- per ,atmosphere of kids fight- ing, spilled milk, and four peo- ple all talking at once about four different things. Check Your Lobel 0s Your Sub. Pohl 1 Clinton Memoriai Shop T. PRYD. and SON d..1NrbN -- EXETER ., SEAFORTiH Gaper 6.ety ,A f rnoott PHONE NU 1442 At other tithe* contact Local RepresontatlYe tont Steep HU 2 306 titt ti BY Biro N'.HY BARKER It was one of those modern 'miracles, a size 34 raincoat tucked into a four by six inch plastic envelope, that cast a happy spell over 'a train -coach - load of tourists bound for a rendezvous with a sighteseeing boat, This Saturday group, in holi- day mood, was assured by the travel minded stenographer that it woudn't rain, even though popcorn clouds hovered menacingly on the horizon, "I bought this coat last summer, but it's never been out of its case/' she commented, If there was a pessimist in the crowd, not one voiced the old cliche, "There's always a first time." The 'talisman held good to her promise for the sun shone brightly all day on the CNR's Thousand Islands tour of the St, Lawrence Seaway. Settling themselves in the seat ahead of me, the gingham clad girl and her companion tucked bags of Potato chips, two Brownie cameras, a pap- er back novel and a pair of overgrown purses between the folds of their billowing crano- lined frocks. I asked them bow they ''had learned about the package tour. Daddy, the ex- trovert said, had gone to Van- couver ancouver as a delegate to a con- vention last summer, aboard the "hotel on wheels". He had planted the seed of a yen for travel on fertile soil when he decided he wanted his daugh- ter to have the broadening ad- vantages of a journey by train. Even though it came in capsule form and had to be paid for out of a junior sized salary, the tour, she decided, was a good one. Daddy learned about it through a dodger picked up in the station. Each time the Newsy came through the coach the girls bought pop to wash down their potato chips. When we arrived at the tdbck, after a breezy bus trip from Kingston to Gana noque along a portion of Can- ada's Trans -Canada Highway, they gorged on hot dogs and more pop purchased .art the coffee shop. I envied ithean their young constitutions that could stand such punishment as I watched the water taxi bobbing .at the 'crock on the choppy, emerald sparkle of tihe great waterway. Aboard we dipped and wal- lowed in the wake of numer- ous smaller craft as aur boat nosed its way for four hours among those fabulous islands!. We cruised through narrows between rocky shores, under the International Ivy Lea bridge and skimmed through the Channel where islands were sunk to make it possible for seagoing ships. to travel safe- ly through the buoy -larked seaway. I wandered, as I viewed the Gay Nineties architecture of Helena Rubenstein's summer palace, how many of my 4ol- lars squandered on her beauty preparations, were spent on the upkeep of acres of rolling lawn on her privately owned is and, Boldt castle, like the Taj Mahal in India, visual evidence of the adorationof a husband for his wife, is probably the most spectacular of the many amazing homes that cling to such promontory real estate. Dollar signs must have danc- ed before the eyes of our steno friends when the tour conduc- tor said Boldt, an American hotel tycoon, lead spent five mullion dollars on his St, Law- rence River playground. The castle has never been occupied. His wife died early in the cen- tury erntusy before the monstrosity was completed. Now owned by the Noble estate, it has degen- erated into a tourist attraction, It costs 60c to view this monu- ment, erected to satisfy one man's conceit, Luckily, charity benefits from the contributions of the curious. ' There was still one antici- pated adventure left for my young companions. This was .a meal in the dining car on the homeward bound journey. If daddy had gorged on the per- fection of dinner steak dinners at the expense of his lodge, daughter was prepared to be on the same travel footing with her parent. She had apparent- ly budgeted for this luxury. Not even the allure of a roast chsicken special distracted her from her intention to splurge the last of her spending money on a filet mignon, medium rare. A little wiser, a little more assured, the girls detrained contentedly at the end of the tour with four aspirin tablets from my purse in their sto- machs trying their best to sub- due a battle between gallons of pop and the cut of a prime bit of beef. Huron County Farming Report (By D. G. Grieve, associate agricultural representative for Huron County) Winter wheat is ripening very rapidly during the past week and cutting will be gen- oral this week. Some fields have ,already been cut. The weather has been dry throughout the county, at the time of writing. Mexican Bean Bettie damage has been report- ed in one area of the county in white beans: Business and Professional Directory • A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE JA 4-7562 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. 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 SEA FORTH Clinton: Above Idawkins 2 ard- ware ---Mondays only -9 acct. to 5.30 p.m, Phone Hunter 2.7010 Clinton G. 8, CLANCY Optometrist Optician (successor to the late A, L, Cole, optometrist) Per appointment phone JA 44251 Gdderioh HAIR DRESSING �. CHARLES House of I;3ecluty Cold Waves, Cutting, Styling 14 Vibtai•ra Street Minton w:, Phone- HU 24085 C,. Proctor, Prep. INSURANCE J. E. HOWARD, Bayfield Phone iiayfieid 53 r 2 Ontario Automobile Association Car - Fire - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insuranee, I have a Policy "HAL" HARTLEY Annuities -- All Types of Life Term Insurance CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE Co. Phone HU 2.6693 10-tfb K. W. COLQUHOUN NSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747 Res. HU 2-7556 Salesman: Vie Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 THE MOKILLOP MUTUAL Fine INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: president, John L. Malone, Seaforth; vice-president, John H. 1VteEwing Blyth; secre- tary -treasurer, W. E. South. gate, Seaforth. Directors: John H. McEwing; Robert Archibald;. Chris Lean- hardt, Bornholri7; Norman Tre- wartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alex- ander, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Gode- rich; 3. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth. Agents: Win. Leiper, Jr., Lon, desboro; V, J. Lane, RR 5, Sea; forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James Keyes, Seaforth; !arold Squires, Clinton. REAL ESTATE LEON -ARC G: WINTER Real Estate d4. Bueidetls Broker Hight Street Ciintor, PHONE HU 2.6692