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Editorials
SUMMER TIME
AUGUST — and the last few days of
drowsy summertime are moving steadily along.
As more than one man has been heard to
remark: How I love the summertime, before
school, Thanksgiving, Christmas and bills are
upon us.
It is a busy time, too. But, if you've
not had time for holidays, do plan them soon.
There's a very pertinent slogan up on our
office wall which reads, "If you're too busy
to take holidays, you're too busy,"
If nothing else, take time to sit on the
back step and to relax entirely. Take more
than just a few minutes at a time to be with
nature. There are many, many wonderful
things going on in your own backyard, wheth-
er it is graced by flowers and fountains, or
is merely grass and a couple of trees or a
hedge.
Summer in Ontario is certainly the time
to be gut-of-doors.
ABOUT THE PARK
BY THE TIME this is read, hundreds
of people will have visited the Clinton Com-
munity Park, to frolic with the Lions and
to watch the eager splashings of the local
small fry in the now officially opened swim
pool.
You've had a good look at the many
wonderful things which the Park committee,
and Swim Pool Board have done to improve
the place. Rest assured that there are other
plans afoot, to make the park more of a
beauty spot, and a holiday area within the
bounds of Clinton.
More money must yet be 'spent. A year
ago we wrote of various ideas to improve the
park, and included was a semi-permanent
booth built into the back of the grandstand.
Need for this is perhaps eased somewhat by
the bboth in the bathhouse, but on many
occasions, such as the frolic last night, a
more central location could have been put
to use. We suggested landscaping, and more
ball diamonds, so that more than one game
could be played at once . . . and suggested
that $1,000 would go a long way.
We received a donation of $2.00 toward
the cause, from a lady who does not live in
Clinton, and she suggested that if 499 other
people felt the same way, then the work
could be done. We've never heard from the
other 499. Therefore we'll be glad to give
that $2.00 back to the kind lady who sent
it.
Actually we feel that the job on the
park is being done well, although slowly,
and we realize that many groups have to be
pleased. We noted at a recent ball game,
that the main gate was open, that no guard
was placed at the wading pool site to pro-
tect the tiny children there, and that cars,
however slowly they went, were a danger.
We certainly would not suggest barring
the ball team, and their fans from the use
of the park, and if they are desperately need-
ful of getting close to the diamond with their
cars, then something must be done to accom-
modate them. We are producing some cham-
pion ball teams at Clinton, and promotion of
the sport by all encouragement possible is
to be admired.
The task of running a park such as this
is a responsible one, and must not be taken
lightly.
A DAY BY THE SEA
The children were having
Such wonderful fun
Playing around in the
Sand and the sun.
They splashed and they laughed
And they shouted with glee
Such a wonderful time
They all had by the seal
They swam in the water
And dug in the sand,
And played at explorers
All seeking new land,
They had a grand picnic
With cake and ice cream
And 'then travelled home
To sleep and to dream.
—By G.F.H.
'THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Amalgamated 1924 Est. 1981 Published every-Thursday at the
Heart of Heron County
Clinton, Ontario Population 3,099
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A, L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher
WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor
‘MliglOWVV. •
•„„:,
Next stop in sight?
Substitute for Butter May Contain
More 'Strontium 90' Says Fieldman
(By J. CARL REIVIINGWAY)
SUGAR
and
SPICE
(BY W. B. T. SUILEY)
of scene and routine, new
thing more attractive than be-
lug on the move. I was ready
to go anywhere, without notice,
at any time, It meant a change
When I was 20, I found no-
friends and new faces, It was
'challenging and stimulating.
Now I am twice twenty. We
are moving to a different home
in a 'different town next month,
and I'm as mournful as a
shroud. I'm clinging to the old
home and the old life with the
grim tenacity of a granny a-
bout to be lugged off to the
county home. The movers will
probably have to strap me to
the ironing board to get me out
of the house, on moving day.
I've known it was coming for
some time, of course, and
thought I was reconciled to it.
Hut last weekend, when I went
home from summer school and
saw the two big FOR SALE
signs hammered into my lawn,
it was a terrible jolt. I felt as
though the stakes had been
nailed right through my heart. * *
I love that old house as a
man loves an old wife who is
hard to get along with, but
who has grace and charm, a
comforting warmth, which he
can't get along without.
I've reviled the old girl, pri-
vately and in public. I've told
her she was frigid, slatternly
and extravagant. And she's
given as good as she got. My
head is all knobby from the
whacks she has dealt me with
her cellar beams. On several
occasions, she has dropped. all
the plaster from a ceiling, just
before guests arrived, out of
pure perversity. * *
But on the whole, it's been a
love match all the way, and
there has been a rich, under-
standing relationship between
us. She knows I haven't be-
grudged all that money I've
spent on her. And I know that
when I come to her 'after •a
hard day, she will take me in
and comfort me and' soothe my
troubled spirit. She will give
me privacy and peace, a sanct-
uary from , the dogs of life,
snapping at my heels.
Thai's why this uprooting is
such wrench. My other wife,
the real one, feels it too. She
has spent many more hours
than I have with the old girl:
bathing her regularly, feeding
her delicacies like paint and
wallpaper, and dressing her
with the dignified taste her age
demands. But women are tough-
er than men, and basically less
sentimental. They look for-
ward, not' back. So my wife
has turned her back on the old
girl, though not without a tear
or 'two for times remembered,
and can hardly wait to start
decorating and making drapes
at the new place.
I couldn't do that. I had to
have a final, dramatic leave-
taking. I chose last weekend to
do it, because I knew I'd be too
hot, frustrated and furious on
moving day to give her more
than a cross look. So I went
and poked around the old place,
growing more maudlin with
every memory. * * *
First I went up to our bed-
room. I stood for a moment
and remembered the night my
wife came home from a meet-
ing and found the bed on fire
and me sleeping peacefully in
it, I turned away with a lump
in my throat as I recalled the
lively, warming scene.
Then I went to the bathroom
and looked fondly about at my
refuge, the only place in. our
house with a bolt on the. door.
Many a happy hour I spent
there, shouting to the kids that
I'd be out in a minute. I gave
the toilet seat an affectionate
glance. It comes 'away in your
hand, When strangers are in
the house the seat always
comes off and ricochets around
the room with an 'appalling
clatter. Quite unnerves them,
in the dead of night. * *
I had to pay a visit to the
cellar, where I'd spent so many,
busy, creative hours, digging
drains, piling wood and swear-
ing. Yes', there it was — the
two-ton pile of stoker coal
that's been sitting there since
I put in the ail furnace, It took
me back to the winter nights
when I crouched behind my an-
cient stoker, nursing it through
the small hours as a marine
engineer nurses his cranky old
engines in an attempt to reach
port. *
I went out to the patio. And
I almost broke down at this
point. I felt like an artist be-
ing dragged off to jail just as
he is about to start work on
his masterpiece. I've been plan-
ning that patio for eight years.
Every winter I've given it a lot
of thought, I've been pretty
busy, summers, and haven't
quite got started on it, but I
know I'd have built it next
summer, if I'd been spared. *
Then I went into the, garden,
Maud. Lush, geeen, fragrant,
the pampas grass had almost
hidden the dear, fatniliar land-
marks: the ash pile so pretty
in winter with its topping of
snow; the heap of furnate
pipes, each like an old frieed;
the black, reproachful pit
Where I dig my Worsts, so he-
gleeted this summer.
It Wag tee much, I Weed Over
and leaned against the 40 feat,
$225 new chimney I'd •pet on
the old girl last fall, and cried
like a baby, You'll have to city
ettee Me new, I'm all' choked
up again, suet thildeing abeelt
thit,
40 Years Ago
04,xmcols- NEW IRA
Thursday, August 19, 1920
The barn of Henry Glew, two
miles north of Clinton in }Iul-
lett Township, was struck by
lightning during a severe elec-
trical and hail storm and burn-
ed, with 13 loads of hay, Grain
w' a s damaged considerably
within a limited area. Four mil-
es on either side of Clinton on
the Huron Road. there was no
storm at all.
Workmen at the Public
School have finished the base-
ment and the plasterers are
at work on new partitions, and
ceilings. The old clearways are
out and will be bricked up.
One of J. J, Mereer's prize
Shorthorn 'calves fell into a
well 'on the Flax Mill fields.
It was rescued with difficulty
and proved to be no worse for
a fall and ducking.
Rev. and Mrs. Frank Her-
man visited the former's moth-
er, Mrs. Herman, Victoria St-
reet.
A young 'coon was captured
on the Hayfield Road. Frank
Bawden had it on parade at
Paxman's garage, where it
proved quite an attraction.
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, August 19, 1920
Hugh Cameron, Brucefield,
rented the carriage shop from
J. McCaughey and will open
up a general repair business
under 'the name of Berry and
Cameron.
Leaving town on the Cana-
dian Pacific excursion to -the
West were: H. A. Stewart, L.
F. Huller, J. McFarlane, E.
Glen, W. S. Jackson, J. S.
Davidson, George Riley; W.
Walters, R. Gibbings, M. Jahn-
son, Percy °rich, Frank Wal-
ters.
Miss Ruby Wise was presen-
ted with a fumed-oak library
table, by the Sunday School,
Epworth League and choir of
Wesley Church prior to her
marriage to L. J. Wasman, To-
ronto.
Mrs. McDonald, Clint o n,
spent Sunday with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. T. Mustard, art her
summer home on the Terrace,
Bayfield.
St. James Church, Middle-
ton, planned a garden party
to be held' at John Hudie's, on
the 7th Concession, Goderich
Township.
Apparently five new children
have moved into my street
since last I made a spot check.
One of them has the most
charming set of freckles.
If this new bunch are per-
manents it makes 49 kids who
pass any given point on Meld,-
da Street on their way to the
Civic Swimming Pool and to
the schools 'and churches, and
the Kinsmen measured the st-
reet and found it to be just
4,386 feet from end to end,
bounded on the north by a girl
they 'told me was Susan Smith
and on the south by one they
said was Diane Steepe and in
the middle is one called Deb-
bie Hart.
One kid is demure as a Gray
Nun and surprisingly (in this
age) says "Excuse me" when
her tricycle runs into your
heels, One who looks to be ab-
out age 13 can field a hard-ball
as efficiently as young John
Cooper and! she can hold the
fastest that Bruce can deliver.
As they pass my fixed point,
I can't sort them out by nam-
es nor by houses, but two doz-
en parents, or rather pairs of
parents, should be mighty
proud of what they own, One
has passed his Swimming Tests
and at least a dozen got 'over
70 in last June's school exams,
I challenge any other street
in all the town to show a pret-
tier or a more charming bunch
of kids . • or a smarter bunch,
We have no delinquents, though
sometimes adult heels get bum-
ped by toy wagons and some-
times a tricycle is left where
a car might squash it, and
Sometimes we accidentally
tumble into somebody's petun-
ias but a police patrol is quite
unnecessary on Matilda Street
. , that used to be a lane of
ghastly silence peopled by aged
crabs like me,
If any other 4,386 feet of
street in Clinton can show a
finer and More interesting
bunch than the children of Ma-
tilda it Ought to be' given a
Otte . Why not a Civic
Competition of Streets with
the children. most likely 'to be
the best future citizens as
plumbers and prieets, artists
and artisans, financiers and
farmers, choristers and chit o-,
praetors, ditch-diggers and
doctors. (since "all service
ranks the same with cod").
Matilda, in St, James Ward',
there ate kiddie-ears and bikes,
wiry hands down and then go
an to match the kids Of any
4.tnd all streets Huron Comi-
ty and part of Meted and
Perth.
At a Medea Atitet, presently
the "town's HOttictilttirel 'Sees
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECOIL;[?
Thursday, Augest 15, 1935
Bert Johnson and daughter,
Betty, and Mrs. Thomas' John-
son, Chippewa, visited Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Johnson, Clinton,
Dr. and Mrs, Hearn spent a
week's holiday at Chaffey's
Locks.
Lawn bowling prizes were
won by Charles Johnson and
Gordon Lawson. Frank Penne-
baker won third prize after
winning the draw between him-
self and "Dick" Tasker and
Jack Sutter.
The hedge surrounding the
lawn at the home of David
Centel= took fire from a
Smudge 'being used to smoke
out wasps. About half the
hedge on one side of the lawn
was destroyed.
There were pictures in the
London Free Press of drummer
Bobby Morgan and piper Fred
Mutch, who entertained the
crowd at the Scotch picnic at
Port Stanley.
Mise Kathleen Beveridge, Re-
gina, visited her 'aunt, Mrs.
Harry B'artliff.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, August 17, 1950
Huron County Health Unit
announced the appointment of
three additional public health
nurses to the staff, bringing
the total to six, which is still
at least two short of Huron's
requirements,
Police were investigating
three break-ins in one night.
Places of business affected
were McAlpine and Daw, im-
plement dealers, Victoria St-
reet; A. G. Grigg and Son,
coal and cement, King Street
and Gliddon Cleaners, cleaning
and pressing, King Street.
Miss Betty Moir, 16, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Melvin Moir, Hens-
all, was admitted to Victoria
Hospital, London, coffee:Mg
with head injuries caused by a
fall while roller skating at Gr-
and Bend.
Miss Emma Plumsteel re-
turned home from a visit with
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. McFadden,
Cookstown.
Loss of about $12,000 was
estimated in the burning of a
barn and the summer's crop of
hay and wheat on the farm of
Ed Boyes, one mile south of
Brucefield,
iety will send some judges a-
round to look at the daisies
and dahlias and award prizes.
Why not have their inspecting
agents sort of throw two ston-
es at one bird and glance at
the streets' kids too, Then 'the
Town Fathers could award a
civic prize . . . maybe a black-
top road surface for the win-
ning street. I would like to see
a whole cavalcade of cars fol-
low those daisy and buttercup
judges like unto the cars that
follow the town fire engines,
only as you come down Matilda
please drive very carefully for
we have something very beauti-
ful and very valuable, and
there are kiddie-cars and bikes
balls and burp-guns lying all
over the place.
Clinton is a great town.
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Letter To The
Editor,
Recalls Clinton
The Editor and Publisher;
Clinton News-Record,
Clinton, Ontario.
Dear Sir:
Having spent a few months
in Clinton as a boy and while
there attended kindergarten ab-
out 1918, I have ever since re-
membered some incidents.
While there with my cousins
picking raspberries' I saw an
airplane which landed and
took up passengers and just
like any other lad, I climbed
about the machine while it
was on the field, and no doubt
got in its why. I would like
to know if any record of it is
available and the name of the
pilot.
Also it was ;there I saw for
the first time a parade of re-
membrance in conjunction with
a fund drive and often listen-
ed to the "Band".
I have here a manuscript
Story by a former Clinton resie
dent which tells of the. town
possibly 70 or more years ago,
'ands was written by Miss Clara
IVIonteastle Of the "Wigwam".
There is en interest for many
people, as I am finding out, in
seeking a 'History of Itatrine
with legends and folklore'. Per-
haps 'Sortie Wduld like to read
Of days gone by,
Your sincerely,
JatteS L. Langlands.
Xatritie Ont.
August 19(.0.
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Largest fish caught In the
world Oh rod and line is a 277,-
Petted Jena taken at St. Anti
BAY,. 1050 by Cont.
Mandel' Hedgsbit Of Montreal.
The directors and township
representatives of the County
Cream Producers met in Clin-
ton:, August 11. Appreciation
was expressed to the local
members of parliament for
their successful efforts in pre-
venting the manufacturers of
butter substitutes from using
the colour of butter to promote
the sales of their product.
I have never been able to
understand why consumers are
demanding that manufacturers
should be allowed to imitate
the colour of butter in 'the sub-
stitutes, If these substitutes
are as wonderful and econom-
ical as they are supposed by
their supporters to be, then
why imitate another product?
I should 'think that they would
be proud to have their product
identified as a different article.
It reminds me of the story
Of the farmer who put greee
glasses on his horses in order
to fool the horses into thinking
they were eating hay while 'he
'fed them straw. Surely this
couldn't be the idea of the
housewife in wanting butter
substitutes coloured to look like
butter.
The "Twilight Zone" on the
TV program is described as
"the area between the pit of
man's fear and the summit of
his knowledge." Sales promot-
ers do not appeal to the middle
zone but rather to the ex-
tremes.
Dairy farmers in the past
seem to have tried, with con-
siderable success, to appeal, to
the "summit" by promoting the
sound idea that milk and milk
products are wholesome food
items, However it seems: to me
that the competitors of but-
ter obtained much greater ef-
fect in much less time in ap-
pealing to the "pit of man's
fear" through the promotion of
the idea that animal fats in
the diet increased the chole-
sterol in the blood stream and
contributed to the incidence of
heart disease.
On the surface we need only
The Ontario Safety League
invites family discussion about
this defamatory quote from a
U.S. publication: "The only
time a woman won't look in a
mirror is when she is pulling
out of •a parking space".
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 HUnter 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
think of the Eskimo who lives
very largely on animal fats but
has no heart disease, as com-
pared to 'the consumer in Unit-
ed States who last year ate
more butter substitute than
butter and has a great deal of
heart disease. From the most
recent medical research reports
on the subject I can only inter-
pret that diet has no affect on
the amount of cholesterol in
the blood stream. But stress
and nervous tension very dem
finitely does increase the quan-
tity of this product in the
blood and therefore may con-
tribute to heart attacks, This
would explain the increase of
heart trouble in highly devel-
oped countries,
Similarly, dair y farmers
could very well appeal to the
"pit of man's fear" by making
use of the statement that ap-
peared in many of our dailies
to the effect that milk contains
much less of the strontium 90
fallout than the grass which the
cow eats, Couldn't we conclude
that products manufactured
from vegetables would contain
more of this dangerous element
than dairy products?
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Phones: Office HU 2-9747
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Salesman: Vie Kennedy
Phone Blyth 78
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FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office: Seaforth
Officers: President, John L.
Malone, Seaforth; vice-president,
John H. McEwing, Blyth; secre-
tary-treasurer, W. E. South-
gate, Seaforth.
Directors: John H, McEwing;
Robert Archibald; Chris Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre-
wartha, Clinton; Wm. S, Alex-
ander, Walton; 3. L. Malone,
Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Gode-
rich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield;
Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth.
Agents: Wm. 'Alper, Jr., Lon-
desboro; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Sea-
forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels;
James Keyes, Seaforth; Harold
Squires, Clinton,
Bayfield 4-H Calf
Club Meeting
The semi-annual meeting of
the Bayfield 4-I-I Dairy Calf
Club was held on the farm of
Tom Rathwell at 8.30 p.m.,
Wednesday, August 10. The
first portion of this meeting
took place hi the barn where
the leader, Ted Dunn, gave the
Jersey classifications. Th e
members then judged a class
of four mature Jersey cows
and gave reasons for their
placements.
The remainder of the meet-
ing took place in the Rathwell
home, where Ted Dunn lectur-
ed on the benefits of milk test-
ing and records. The business
was then attended to and roll
was called. With the conclu-
sion of the business session the
18 members viewed a short
film, "Preparing for the Fu-
ture". Lunch was served by
Mrs. T. Rathwell and daugli
ter.
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From Our Early Files
'Observations Along Matilda Street
By "Aged Chap" Living There
(By Fred Sloman)
Business and Professional
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