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Clinton News-Record, 1960-09-08, Page 2Multiply 200 tourists by twice that many pieces of lug- gage, stuff them all into 17 sleeping cars, remind them that this will be home to them for six days and six nights and you could' easily find you've pressed the panic button. Not •until the ONE 'train, for Churchill, Man., gets rolling do holidayers realize they have left behind their TV sets, trays of ice cubes, hot showers and foam rubber mattresses, Fortunately for them, 24 years ago the railway found how to brew, with magic al- chemy, a formula for a perfect vacation. After the first meal aboard, the tour begins to shake down into a pattern of camaraderie. It was obvious that months of preparation had gone into or- ganization, both by the comp- any and the towns enroute, where western hospitality was continually in evidence. Seventy-five percent of those on the second annual tour "down north" were from across the International Border, When we pulled into our first stop at Dauphin, Man., a red coat- ed Mountie, standing between two fluttering red ensigns, was the answer to any shutter bug's prayer. I'd love to have even a penny for every picture snapped during the week's trip. This Churchill Excursion is truly a photographer's paradise. Dauphin likes to be known as "the heart of Agricultural Manitoba." Summer (allowed acres of black loam make a checkerboard pattern beside fields of golden wheat. Flow- ers in abundance' and unbelieve- ablY huge, grow in most gar- dens and were displayed at a horticultural show just a few blocks from the station. This was one of two such shows en- route, staged at this particular time of the summer for the benefit of tour members. We all felt like Royalty as we were greeted by the May- or, the Reeve and the district's representative in Canada's Federal Parliament. Members of the local IODE chapter saw that everyone had a coke or cone before embarking for Rid- ing Mountain Park, or the nearby horticultural show. One of the things we learned ea.rly on the trip was that often 'We had to make a choice be- tween side trips. I 'had to satis- house. * * Fourteen, years ago, I abhor- red' the idea of possessions. I didn't want to own anything. I didn't want to sink any roots. Since then, I've collected an awesome assembly of junk, and my roots are so far down they're blocking the sewers'. Besides the ball-and-chain, I've acquired two children who eat like sharks, two mortgages, a great big, old house that swal- lows every nickel I can raise, and enough accumulated stuff to fill a couple of warehouses, A lot of water has gone un- der the bridge in those four- teen years. And most of it has ended up in my cellar. But there's plenty on the credit side, too. We've two healthy youngsters whose daily pres- ence is a joy in our lives, and also a great booster of seda- tive sales at the drug store. Was it worth it? Would I do it again? You're darn right I would. It's been a wonderful experience, and as we step off into the fifteenth year, I can't help giving thanks for the gentle, lovely, steadfast help- mate who has been by my side, ever ready with a word of en- couragement, or a slam on the ear, if that didn't work. fy my anticipation of viewing the amazing growth of flowers and vegetables from the car window as we drove in a. breeze toward the range of hills in the distance. They looked not unlike the foothills of the Rockies. Forty miles away from Dau- phin is the district's summer playground. This is a govern- ment park, where land is only leased to cottagers and wild life and trees' abound under the protection of rangers em- ployed by the Government. Clear Lake comes into view quite suddenly. Reflecting the turquoise of a clear sky, it is fringed with conifers, poplars and birch. I was' most impressed by the recreational facilities provided for both residents and tourists. Swimming, golf, tennis, boating and fishing are all provided for in this 'surprising play- ground atop Riding Mountain, rising in the midst of the prai- rie. Even a wishing well, where a spring-fed brook babbled over stones, gossiping about crazy tourists who tossed coins over their shoulders into its depths, created a small pond beneath the trees. Aboard the train again, from the platform of the open air observation car, I watched the tracks merge in the distance straight as a bee flies, directly into one unit as we travelled north. The sun lingered on the hori- zon, painting the clouds a pic- ture postcard yellow and scar- let; waiting to be harvested, prairie gold waved in its dying rays. Only a night's journey away was more gold. At Flin Fion, miners working a mile below the earth's surface, dig for the minerals that made this frontier town one of the richest per capita in Canada. Smoky Joe and his tall tales of pioneer life, Virginia Hill, proud of her Cree blood and Harry Moody, several times 'a millionaire and victim of pros- pector's luck, will provide ma- terial for next week's column. 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 SEAFORTI4 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 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, September 9, 192Q The through coach on the morning train to Toronto dur- ing the Toronto Fair period has been a great convenience., If such an arrangement could be made all the year round and a through coach put on the evening 'train from the city it would be appreciated. George Jenkins purchased a lot on Huron Street from On- slow Crich, The cemetery superintendent resigned his position but was offered a wage increase of $8 per month until the end of the year. The price of grave dig- ging was increased to $5 for adults and $4 for children un- der ten. Norman Sheppard, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Sheppard, visited his parents. He has been sailing the high seas for some time and his next trip will be on a new ship, to either Germany or South Am- erica. Gordon Scribbins accompan- ied his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Watts, Stratford, on a visit to the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Watts, and remained far a longer visit. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, September 9, 1920 The young people of St. Paul's church held a corn roast at the river bank. Miss Helena Middleton re- turned from a teacher-tourist trip to Europe and the British Isles, and spent a weekend with her parents, Councillor and Mrs. Charles Middleton. Rabbit shooting opens on October 15 and is good for a month with an extra week at Christmas. It is stated that new game laws may be issued which may lengthen the season. The sports committee decid- ed to spend $175 on the base- ball diamond and will try to make the grounds' a credit to the town. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Phunsteel celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Rozell, Ratten- bury Street, West. 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 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 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, September 5, 1935 Mr. and Mrs A. M. .Knight moved into the Gibbings cot- tage, Gibbings Street, recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. H. L, Atkinson. Thirty members of "C" company, Hurons, from Clinton enjoyed the camp at Point Farm. Major Morgan, Captain McIntyre and Lieuts. Lawson, McKnight and Combe were the officers in charge. The congregation of St. Paul's church gathered to cele- brate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the church, The choir was under the leadership of A. W. Ander- ton, with Mrs. kremlin at the organ. Fire broke out at the resi- dence of A. T. Cooper, Fulton Street. The blaze was control- led before much damage was done, by the prompt use of a garden hose and the assistance of a neighbour, C. W. Draper. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, September 7, 1950 Clinton Staniforth, Goderich, purchased the shoe business of Thomas Churchill, on Albert Street, just south of the town hall. A grand re-opening of the Lions Arena, which has been under repair all summer, was set for September 18, and will take the form of a monster bingo. More or less steady rainfall for four 'or five days caused tremendous damage to farm and garden crops. The school population of Clinton and vicinity jumped from 634 to 716, comprised as follows: Clinton District Col- legiate Institute, 270; Clinton Public School, 369; Clinton RCAF Station School, 77. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Brown, Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Don Rombough, Gananoque, are on a vacation trip to New York City. Manager Russ Holmes, of the Clinton Lions WOAA Juvenile "A" baseball champions, was presented by the team with a pen and pencil set. Coach Stewart Taylor received a desk lamp. INSURANCE "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. 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; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Gode- rich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth. Agents: Wm. Leiper, Jr., Lon- desboro; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Sea- forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James Keyes, Seaforth; Harold Squires, Clinton. From Our Early Files A. M. 'HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE JA 4-7562 Business and Professional Directory NI 74:4, • • • 11" 4'A ELNAN -111- 0111(380RNNESS \14 ,KATANCiA 4 OWERNMENT CHAOS 7416,7 ----kt-w— INCoMPETENCE CC ST OF TM MIEPICAL. MISSIONARIES SUGAR d 4'jC: (By W. .1.1, T. SMILEY) This week the Old Girl and I will observe our 14th anni- versary. You notice I didn't say "celebrate". We just ob- serve them, rather coldly, She's been a little cool about anni- versaries since the time I brought the present and the card, a few years back. She'd been beefing 'about her paint brushes being hard to clean. On our anniversary, I gave her lovely little package of paint brush cleaner, suatably gift-wrapped. I also handed her a beautiful anniversary card, It cost me 40 cents, and had flowers and cupids and all sorts of things on it. Only thing was that it was headed off: "To my darling husband, on our 'anniversary." I'd forgotten to read it. • * * These anniversaries are hard- er to take than birthdays. The whole 14 years was brought graphically to the fore tonight at dinner, when I looked ar- ound, and realized that all these people belonged to me, and were my responsibility for feed- ing, clothing and housing a- mong other things. Fourteen years ago, I was a young veteran of the air force, full of ginger and peculiar ideas. With the aid of other young veterans and various wenches, I had been successful in getting through all my grat- uities in a few months of high living. I was broke, free, cyni- cal, selfish, and happy as a trout, I thought Love was something made up by women and the movies. Marriage and children were for the dopes. Money was something for other people to scramble after. The Home was where old people went when they ran out of money. Family ties were neckwear I borrowed from my brothers. * * * Those were pretty good days, in retrospect. All I wanted to do was read books, eat, drink and sleep when I felt like it, and avoid personal entangle- ments like the plague. My chief ambition was to avoid work in any form, and my only desire was to find some exotic land crawling with beautiful native women, and there settle down in the sun. But, even as the walls of Jericho, I tumbled. Like most young men of that age, I was just like an egg. I thOught was hand-boiled, but I wasn't even half-cooked. One crack 'in the shell, and I ran all over the place. * * In short, I got married, and I've been running all over the place ever since. Our marriage, in those 14 years, has had its ups and dbwns. And a good part of the time we seemed to be going sideways. In those 14 frantic years, however, I've changed a lot. My cynicism has become merely a healthy scep- ticism. I haven't a hope of be- ing selfish any more. But some things haven't changed. I'm still broke, and I'm still free. Oh, not free in the old' way, mind you. I can't go out with girls any more, I can't sit up with the boys until the wee small, and I can't throw all my worldly possessions in •a bag and, take off for Rio. Not un- less I want to arrive at the air- port with a kid clinging to each leg, and my wife flying frorri my neck like a pennant. But I'm free in the things that really count. I can go golfing or fishing any time I feel like it, As long as the kids don't want to go swim- ming. I can speak my mind freely on any subject, around our house, without fear of con- tradiction. As long as I do it down in the cellar, or while I'm mowing the lawn. I can stop my son from wearing my T- shirts and sox. If I can catch him before he gets out of the Back to School SPECIAL! Smith-Corona PORTABLES AS LOW AS $75.50 with your old machine *plus lax CLINTON NEWS-RECORD 56 Alt)ert !it., HU 2-3443 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance — Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa a year ase ke p US Sci ••• Highway Safety,B11010h ONTARIO OEPARTMb\IT OP TRANSPORT Hon, John 440., 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 THALIMI WAS a time when music was fun, and the main purpose of playing the piano, or for singing, other than personal enjoyment, was the satisfaction of others. Now the element of money has become the be all, and end all of existence, apparently. In this issue of the News-Record is a report of a concert given at the County Home. This is not unusual. Church groups, the local band, and lodges, as well as Wo- men's Institutes continually provide enter- tainment for the residents of the Home. But this particular report is published for one reason only: that is to provide professional musical entertainment for the County Home people, without it costing the county money. Musicians are not allowed to perform for money without belonging to the musicians union. Musicians who belong to the union are not permitted to perform in a hall which is not a "union hall Owners of halls, which are in the habit of holding entertainment to which the public pays admission, and in which entertainers are paid, must pay dues to the Musicians Union, and thereby become a "Union" hall. The Clinton Branch of the Canadian Legion pays money to the Musicians Union. Nobody is too clear as to why, except pos- sibly that a lot of amateur musicians do, perform there on' one occasion or another, and making the Legion pay dues is an easy way for the union to make money, When at the Clinton Spring Show a few years ago, the Training Command Band at RCAF Station Trenton was asked to attend to provide music, the Agricultural Society was happy. Here was a band belonging to the Canadian taxpayer, which would perfoiin free. But, the Musicians Union in Stratford required, and the society had to pay the fee which would have been required to bring a band from Stratford to play at the fair. The Band was willing to come from Stratford, and to play. The Spring Show did not need them—they already had a band arranged for. But the Spring Show had to pay them, or JUSTICE TASCHEREAU of Canada's Supreme Court believes drunkenness may be providing loopholes for more serious crimes. During a hearing of a case in which the court will rule on whether a person can be too drunk to form an intent to commit rob- bery with violence, he said that 65 percent of all criminal offences are due to drunken- ness. He suggested that if drunkenness as a defence for other crimes was carried too far the jails would be emptied. Involved in the case before the court was a 25-year-old man who had assaulted and robbed an 84-year-old of $2Z The man was acquitted of both charges. The British Bucks and Bankers (Vancouver Sun) WITH SLIGHTLY raised eyebrows we note that a publication of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, no less, reports: 'A doe can run 48 miles per hour, according to scientists, while a buck can run 49 miles per hour.' The eyebrows are raised not over the obvious first implication of the item, but over a certain naivety implicit in it. Sitting in their marble halls counting their bucks banks are obviously out of touch with Nature and her ways. The simple fact is that if the flat-out speed of a buck were only 40 miles an hour, a doe would run at 39. THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 ti I D * • • ABC >a • • co L pay the Union (we're not sure which). The RCAF Band which did the work was not paid. At the CNE this fall, a young six-year- old prodigy on the saxophone was going to play from the bandshell in the park, He was a crowd-pleaser. He played well. But he did not belong to the Union, We're foggy on how he could possibly belong to a Union, because the country has child labour laws, don't we? Well, anyway the musicians union was going to stop him from playing, unless he paid dues to them, and these dues ate up almost the entire amount of money the ONE was happy to pay the boy (or his father) for his exhibition of talent. Now at the County Home, because pro- fessional musicians were presenting music to the residents, the musicians union. stepped in again. They don't ban such performances. They just say they want the credit. They permit the concert, provided the County Home can show a clipping from a newspaper reporting that it was held. In other words, they get publicity for the concert without paying for it. We would not charge the County Home for this type of publicity. It is only right if the musicians are donating their time free, that we would tell the people about it. But we do resent having to give the musicians union publicity for something they had noth- ing to do with. If on the other hand, the grant from the performance trust fund spoken of in 'the news release, means that the musicians act- ually got paid for their performance at the County Home, then we resent having to use free space in this paper to tell the public that they gave the concert. Either way, we feel it is highly unneces- sary that the strength of the musicians union is as it appears to be, We dislike the dic- tatorship they operate under. We dislike the idea that music given to cheer the sick, the forlorn, and the aged must become involved in any such "pay or do without" scheme. Columbia Supreme Court and the B.C. Court of Appeals upheld the decision. The man. was freed because he was too incapacitated by liquor to form an intent to commit robbery. The court also said that it therefore followed that the man was equally incapable of form- ing an intent to commit assault. , Justice Tasehereau said a person charged with drunken driving could plead that he was so drunk he Could not form: an intent to drive. Would that, the Justice suggested, be a defence against drunken driving? Just A Thought Did you think about the shut-ins, When their day came 'round in June? I wonder did you send a card And say: "We'll see you soon." If you did, I hope you'll go, For many long hours they spend Sitting in their lonely rooms Waiting for a friend. The shut-in folks spend many days, Watching the world go by; They can't get packed and take a trip, The same as you and I. So remember, all your shut-in friends, On shut-in's day for sure; But mind you don't forget them on The other three-sixty-four! —by G.F.H. Page 2—Clinton News-Record—Thursday, Sept. 8, 1960 Editorials ONCE MUSIC WAS FUN Drunkenness A Defence (Meaford Express) Clinton News-Record