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Clinton News-Record, 1960-08-11, Page 22. Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 8, 1935 '!'he emblem flown by the School of Commerce during the Veterans' Reunion was a real relic) flown at the school dur- ing the war years, The emblem has a red border surrounding a white field, on which are 40 maple leaves, one for each stu- dent who enlisted, Considerable alterations, both interior 'and' exterior, are 'to be effected shortly at the Bank of Montreal's building at the corner of Victoria and Ontario streets, it was learned from the manager, H. M. Montieth. A new entrance is to be locat- ed on Ontario Street, south of the' corner. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon Welsh, London, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Welsh, Clinton, were guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Welsh, Goderich Township. Percy McMichael had his wrist bitten by a milk snake and is under' the doctor's care. The accident occurred on the farm of Norman Holland, Bay- field Road, 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 10, 1950 The blare of factory whistles and the wail of sirens at 1 p.m. sharp last Friday, got the 1950 Clinton Old Bays' Reunion off to a carnival start. Nearly 3,500 persons registered. Mar- vellous, rainless weather smil- ed on Clinton for the entire weekend. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Paterson, Wiarton, visited Mrs. David Laidlaw. Guests' of Mrs. Jean Kyle during the Reunion were In- spector and. Mrs. E. Mitchell, Windsor; Tom Tunney, Niagara Falls; Miss' Bonnie Kyle, Kip- pen; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mit- •chell, Stratford. Miss Maud Sloman and Miss Annice McIntyre, Toronto, and Miss Bessie Sloman, New Ro- chelle, N.Y., were guests of Miss Sarah Sloman. Mr. and Mrs. William Dren- nan, and daughter Jacki, White- horse, Yukon, are spending a month with Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Corran and family. VISIT THE REAL LIVING SANTA May 24 to Thanksgiving Fun For All The Family CHILDREN 14 years and under accompanied by parent FREE 9.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Sunday: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. SANTA'S VILLAGE, Bracebridge, Ont. 32to34b SUGAR. and SPICE (By W. D. T. SMILEY) Most of us who are taking the special summer crash course for fledgling high school teachers are finding it pretty strong meat. It's especially invigorating for refugees from other fields, like myself, whose peak of intellectual exercise in the past decade or so, has been working out a crossword puz- zle, or watching the late, late movie. Thus, we have former in- surance salesmen laboring over Latin, We have men who were in the retail business anguished over algebra. We have married women who have learned, no- thing since they left college, ex- cept how to run a lot of push- button kitchen machinery, ags hast over the geography of Africa. * * But every second week, the pressure of study is relieved. As a special treat we are allowed to play a game. Art one time it was known as Daniel in the Lions' Den. Later, it turned up as The Spanish Inquisition. Now it is simply called Practice Teaching. * * A week of this can shorten your life by ten years. Which is a little hard on us middle- aged types who are already worried about being able to hang on until we get the super- annuation, some 30 years hence. A friend of mine on the course suddenly crumpled the other day. We rushed him to the emergency department of the General Hospital. They gave him about 37 tests of various kinds. They asked him a lot of questions. He kept throwing up and complaining of pain. they told him rather vaguely that he had a virus, gave him a prescription for some ex- pensive medicine, and told him to go to bed' for a few days. I could have saved every- body a lot of time and trouble. I knew what the "virus" was. My friend had to practice- teach mathematics the next day. Last time he studied mathematics was a few years after the first World War. Or maybe the Boer war. Anyway, he's lurking (happily in bed, clutching the little note from the doctor which excuses him from practice - teaching this week. • * * There is a hilarious logic to the practice-teaching ses- sions. If you're going to be teaching Commercial in Sep- tember, your first practice- teaching assignment will be a lesson in Grade 12 French. If you are teaching nothing but English this fall, you are likely to be tossed in front of a class in Grade n Geography, which you last sudied about the time Mussolini was shouting from a balcony. This element of suspense adds a great deal to the game, giving it a distinct flavour of that old parlour pastime, Rus- sian Roulette. It has one of two results. Either it imbues the studentsteac,her with un- warranted self-confidence, or it marks him for life. • * So you get up there in front of the class, lesson notes flut- tering hysterically in your hand, sweat running down your spine. A strange, tremb- ling voice tells the class to turn to page eleventy-seven. You open your mouth again to be- gin teaching, and your mind goes stark, staring blank. The students observe you with the bold interest of sharks about to rend a dying whale. Your fellow student- Page 2 Clinton News-Record--Thursday, Aug. 11, 1960 Editorials FARM BOY MADE GOOD THE PASSING of the Right Honour- able Arthur Meighen last week in his 87th year was marked by hundreds, and in all of the many words written about his death, and his life, we found none but the finest. Twice Prime Minister of Canada, for brief periods, Mr, Meighen was born near St. Marys in Perth County and began his life in the world in the way many of the great men of his time did, by teaching school. It was from wages received while teaching that he put himself through law school. He entered politics from Portage la Prairie, Mani- toba in 1908. Arthur Ford, editor-in-chief of the Lon- don Free Press, writing from his summer home at Bayfield says of Mr, Meighen; "He had all those fine qualities which so many farm boys who make their way through life never lose—a regard for family life, respect for religion, and value of hard work, industry and old-fashioned views on many things in life, and loyalty to friends and principles." CANNED PORK. ANYONE? (Financial Post, Aug. 6, 1960) "BY THEIR PORK ye shall know them." Some such label may before long cling to Canadians the world over. It seems to be only a question of whether the government's immense stocks of subsidy- bought pork can hold out long enough for the reputation to spread, Wherever disaster strikes in this danger- ous world of ours, neatly tinned quantities of surplus Canadian park are almost sure to follow. When earthquakes shattered Chile re- cently, what helped put Chile back together again? Be it ever so humble, our contribution was Canadian canned pork. When mutiny and riot ripped the Bel- gian Congo, Canada knew immediately at least one thing it could doe-ship more excess pork. Who's next on the list? We've got lots more. SPARE THE ROD (Durham Chronicle) EDITOR CLAYTON SC}IAUS of the Chesley Enterprise says: "Most of us recall the days when, if we got a strapping at school, we would likely get another one when we got home'." But times change. Today, the teacher who strikes a student is apt to feel the entire class rise up in puerile wrath. The parents; instead of administering another licking, are likely to complain to the school board that their sweet little son was strapped. The trend' to avoid corporal Punishment at all costs in all cases has, we believe, gone too far. Nat so many years ago the child psycho- logists were warning mothers (and fathers) that it was harmful to spank ' a baby. It would damage his psyche. Mothers who tried to follow through on this advice became nervous wrecks. Eventually most mothers learned there is' nothing so good for the soul (baby's and mother's) as a flat hand applied to the padded spat provided by nature. In the life of a growing child, too, there are occasions when such therapy is demand- ed. Some little hellions will persist in taunt- ing their elders until they get their share of corporal attention. DEMANDS ON THE CHURCH (Hensall Observer) "SOME PEOPLE think they can use the church as a registry office. Why should people who go to church only three times in their life—when they are baptized, when they are married, and when they die—have pri- vileges paid for by regular churchgoers?" The words are those of Rev. C. W. War- ner, 65-year-old rector of Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire. He was replying to a re- quest to perform a marriage ceremony, and he informed the bride and her mother that he would not allow a° Musical service: It was, apparently, one of those innumer- able times when persons who contribute little if anything to any phase of the church's life, including attendance, make demands on the facilities these places of worship provide. It is strange indeed that a family who never attends church, except perhaps once or twice a year, contributes a dollar, perhaps less, a year, desires the administrations of a clergy- man when a member of the family dies. Strange, too, that the parents who never make an effort to take or send their children to church, want a church sponsored service when their daughter decides to get married,. One Of the great mysteries is how theSe people think churches are financed and kept in existence. , A FALSE IMPRESSION? (The Letter Review) ADVOCATES of Federal Aid for educa- tion frequently assert that only thus can teaching salaries be raised to the point where careers in teaching will attract men and wo- men of ability and calibre. Such reasoning is a sorry and wholly unfounded reflection on the competence and. devotion of teachers in Canadian schools'. It is the sort of reason- ing, too, that gives a wholly false impression that the teaching profession is greatly under- paid. Teachers in Ontario schools, as well as in schools in other provinces, today enjoy com- fortable salaries. Proof of this comes from the chief inspector of Ottawa Public Schools, Mr. William T. MacSkimming, who in his report to the Ottawa' Public School Board writes: "It can no longer be said! with truth that teachers, as a group, are underpaid." Statistics presented by Mr. MacSkimming show that average salary for women teachers in Ottawa Public Schools in 1959 was $4,376, compared with $1,922 in 1945. Men's salaries averaged $5,139 in 1959 compared with $2,565 in 1945. Teachers with full qualifications earn as much as $7,800, while assistant supervisors get from $8,000 to $11,000 and school princi- pals from $8,000 to $11,500. Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Amalgamated 1924 Est. 1881 Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County • Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor Payable in advance — Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa • • a • a year THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 1 II D • O‘ tU L SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Draw -14 (ash Prizes Each Ticket Entitles Holder to 1 Free Game of Bingo TICKETS: 25c each or 5 for $1.00 from any Lion, and at Business Places In Clinton CLINTON LIONS CLUB — ANNUAL SUMMER CARNIVAL COMMUNITY PARK, CLINTON Wed., August 17 - 7 p.m. Games and Bingo PONY RIDES - REFRESHMENTS SPECIAL TREATS FOR ALL CHILDREN BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER All Proceeds for Welfare Work in Clinton and Community SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIONS CLUB BY ATTENDING THE CARNIVAL. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, August 12, 1920 Ontario has a new Attorney- General and in future no side show will be permitted to dis- play it's wares at a fall fare until the proprietor has obtain- ed a license from the Provin- cial Police, He will not get the license until he has satisfied the authorities that his "act" is thoroughly innocuous, Mrs. Marshall is seriously ill at the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. James Livermore, Station Street. An electric bell system has been installed at the hospital. C, H. Venner did the work, Which was a very considerable item. The hospital board is grateful to Mr. Venner for his services. Should' the new school act, which provides that everyone must attend school until 16 years of age, go into effect 'in the near future, Clinton will have a big problem on its hands in finding accommodation for the pupils affected by the law. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest McMil- lan, Toronto, are the guests of the former's aunt, Mrs. (Dr.) Gunn. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 12, 1920 Two machine guns, consign- ed to Clinton by the committee in charge of war trophies, .ar- rived and are on display on the boulevard in front of the town hall. The much larger field gun received some time ago is to occupy a place on the Post Office square. J. S. Moir, Hullett Township, recently bought a new Chevro- let car from Bart Levis, Clin- ton. Jack believes in enjoying life as he goes along, and driv- ing at least part of the way in a motor car. Mrs. McCartney and Mrs. Hays, Clinton, have been visit- ing their brother, George Teb- butt, Holmesville. A speckled trout measuring 14 inches was caught near Ben- miller by William' Robinson. J. A. Sutter purchased the house on Rattenbury Street recently vacated by Elton Ro- zell and will take possession after some repairs have been made. „A, panty of gypsies passed through town with a great st- ring of horses in their train, apparently not yet having tak- en to automobiles. teachers watch with aching sympathy. Your critic teacher eyes you with a fine blend of impatience and disgust. All you need is a chair in one hand and a whip in the other, and you'd feel like an apprentice lion-tamer on his first trip inside the big , cage. * * As you go through the lesson with all the enthusiasm and spontaneity of a zombie, your inner mind churns: "What am I doing here? I never wanted to be 'a teacher anyway. They talked me into it. Who can possibly stand 'teenagers all day? I'll go mad. I want to go home to Mom and the kids. Help!" * * * Oh, I tell you, it makes your heart bleed, to see some poor devil, who used to be the con- fident president of the Rotary Club back home, standing there, craven, gray, perspiring. It al- most makes the tears start when you see some girl, hap- pily married for nine years, who had worked her way up to District President of the Wo- men's Institute in the home town, up there with her knees knocking, mouth twitching. It shouldn't happen to Lumurnba. I don't worry 'about the student teachers who are just out of college. They're almost as cocky as the 'teenagers themselves. It's the older types, on the come-back trail, sporting 'the wounds of the years bravely, who wring your heart. You feel like saying: "There, there, old boy. I pro- mise we'll send you back home, to the good old boring job you left for the glitter of teaching, on the first train, as soon as you come out of shock." And to the girls: "Never mind, Mum, bet you'ra a darn good cook, anyway." * * Experienced teachers do a lot to aheer you up, though. One fellow was 'telling me the Other day that it's not so bad, once you get started. In the next breath, he casually •1n- formed me that three teachers of his acquaintance are now happily cutting out paper dolls, or making like Napoleon, On a permanent basis. One good thing about it. Those of us who make the grade will be steady, depend- able teachers. Never again 'will we think the grass On the other side of the fence is greener or more succulent than the 'burdock we are cheMping. The first tame vineyards in Canada Were Started by Zahn Mihail at notutigviuk, OM, in 1859, Gagnon-Bergeron Bouquets of white and red carnations graced the Roman Catholic Chapel at RCAF Sta- tion Clinton on Saturday, July 30, for the wedding of Marcelle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo- seph Bergeron Port Alfred, Quebec, and Philip. Gagnon, RCAF Station Clinton, son of Mn, and Mrs. Henri Gagnon, Chicoutimi, Quebec. The Rev, J. P. Finn performed the cere- mony. The bride was lovely in street-length white nylon or- ganza, with embroidered flower clusters scattered on the skirt and bodice, scoop neckline and three-quarter length, sleeves. Her headdress of organdy flow- ers held ia tiny veil and she carried red roses arranged with net. Miss Monique Gagnon, To- ronto, was maid of honour, wearing a street-length dress of aqua, terylene styled with a 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 SEAFORTH Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard- ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Phone }Hinter 2-7010 Clinton .G. B. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone JA 4-7251 Goderich REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate & Business Broker Hight Street — Clinton PHONE HU 2-6692 HAPPY WORKERS WILL MEET ON AUGUST 11 The regular meeting of the Happy Workers Club will be held at the home of Mrs, Ken- neth Williams in the evening, August 1.1 Roll call Will be "Something I learned from my grandmother", Short-sleeved, close-fitting jack- et. She wore a tiny headdress. of white flowers and white ac- cessories, For a reception at Hotel Clinton, the bride's mother wore green and beige print, with beige and brown accessor- ies, The groom's mother wore wine and black brocade, with black and beige accessories. Guests were present from To- ronto, Chicoutimi, Que„ Port Alfred Que., and Clinton, Following a wedding trip to. Niagara Falls, the couple will reside in Clinton. 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 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: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: President, John L. Malone, Seaforth; vice-president, John H. 1VIcEwing, Blyth; secre- tary-treasurer, W. E. South- gate, Seaforth. Directors: John H. McEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris Leon- hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre- wartha, Clinton; Win. S. Alex- ander, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Gode- rich; 3. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth. Agents: Wm. Leiper, Jr., Lon- desboro; V. 3. Lane, RR 5, Sea- forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James Keyes, Seaforth; Harold Squires, Clinton. From our Early Files Business and Professional Directory A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE JA 4-7562