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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1960-10-20, Page 4Leadership of the newly organized Clin- ton Concert Band is showing a continued spark of enthusiasm, which well may pro- duce a great band for the town. Certainly the music presented at present by the Concert Band, is not great—.it le, however, showing improvement, and is a credit to the members, and to the leaders they have had, The project they have undertaken pre- Sently, to equip themselves with a presentable uniform, is well along. Already they have the basic parts of a uniform. A smart matching cape will finish off the dress. -If a uniform. will do anything at all to- ward encouraging the Band in its struggle for excellence and achievement, • then we are all for it, 'Somehow we feel that the uniform Never have we had so many persons comment to us about the beauty of Ontario's coloured maples than in the past season. Never, for that matter, have we known an autumn with more brilliant colour, which stayed so long, that it impressed us all with the glory of it. Now in evidence for over a month, the colour continues day after day, altering a little, but apparently getting bet- ter each day. DIFFICULTIES being faced in the op- peration of Maitlandbank Cemetery, point up the necessity of increased co-operation on the part of the public. There are few cemeteries in the district that have as pleasing a natural setting, or are as well maintained as Maitlandbank. But in this era of rising costs, location and main tenance are not enough. There must be made available the finances necessary to carry on the cemetery operation. While it is !true the cemetery is the pro- perty Northside United Church and is operated by a committee appointed by the congregation of that church, in practise it serves as a community cemetery, serving all Protestant congregations in Seaforth, and to a lesser extent those in Tuckersmith, Mc- Knipp and Hullett. Recent changes in administrative pro- THE JUNE EDITION of the Canadian Cattlemen tells the story of a display which the Manitoba Stock Growers set up at the Winter Fair to show the disposition of a car- cass of beef. Using a 1,175 pound steer as a basis, the Growers demonstrated that 1,021 pounds of this carcase were saleable in some form-689 pounds of this being the dressed carcass and 332 pounds being be-products. The dressing percentage was 58.6 percent and the carcass graded Choice. From the 689 pound carcass a total of 170 pounds of bone, fat and shrink had to be . deducted leaving 519 pounds of saleable re- tail cuts. Over the counter from this steer there was available-33 pounds of prime rib roast; 26% pounds' of sirloin tip roast; 25% pounds of sirloin steak; 1814 pounds of club steak; 161/2 pounds of T-bone steak; 3 pounds of Porterhouse steak, A distinctive Canadian flag? Yes, sir, we support Huron County Council on this one. A banner for Canada has been long overdue. A few people still advocate the use of the Union Jack but they obviously do Canada a grave injustice. If we pride ourselves on being an independent nation which has established a respected voice in the councils of the world, we cannot fly the flag of another country, no matter how dear it may be to us. The red ensign is not at all suitable, in our opinion. It is a makeshift combination of the Union Jack and the Canadian Coat of Arms established by the British Admiralty in 1892, presumably to distinguish Canadian merchant ships from those of the British. Since the Coat of Arms itself incorporates the Union Jack, it is superfluous to have another copy on the flag, It can only denote now, as it did then, a subservience to Great Britain which we tolerate in nothing else but the ensign. The presence of the coat of arms on a flag in itself is an incongruous combination. Can we not have both a coat of arms and a flag? The Canadian government in 1945 cer- tainly recognized the inadequacy of the red ensign when it authorized its use "until such time as action is taken by parliament for the formal adoption of a national flag". The wording frankly -admits Canada does not have a flag of its own. It may be interesting, at this point, to THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 ‘t1D de means a great deal. Recall the smart appearance of the CDCI Cadet Corps Band, Remember the trim look et the Bannockburn Band after they dressed in the new kilt the Clinton Legion Branch purchased, Probably to the trained musician's ear, either one would have sounded as well in denim overalls, but to the ordinary on-looker, appearance is nine-tenths of the band's per- formanee. The Concert Band is appealing to the citizens of town and district to help them in this major financial undertaking. Let's get behind the effort and everyone do what is . possible to finish their uniforms. An estimated POO expense is only 30 cents per person liv- ing in Clinton. Combined with the brightness of the maples and the blaze of sumac, the bright blue skies, and the floating, clouds have pro- duced beauty which makes this province "THE ONE" in which we like most to be. Even the mountains of British Columbia, though lovely to be with on occasion, have a hard job competing with the great wondrous colour and variety of this part of Canada. cedures and in the schedule of fees have re- sulted in increased revenue, but not in an amount sufficient to provide for continuing maintenance at a proper scale. The difficulty arises from the necessity of providing main- tenance on a perpetual basis for hundreds of lots, payment for which was based on costs as they existed 30 or 50 years ago. The trust fund established over the years to provide for such perpetual maintenance simply can- not produce sufficient revenue to meet to- day's cost. The answer, of course, is to increase the trust fund, and it is for this purpose that the committee seeks assistance of the public. It is a worthy appeal—one which should receive the wholehearted support of the community that for too long, perhaps, has tended to take for granted Maitlandbank cemetery. In other words there were only 123 pounds of choice, high-priced cuts from this 1,175 pound steer. Medium priced cuts added up to 92 pounds, and there were 304 pounds of cheap cuts such as chuck, plate, brisket, shank, short-ribs, etc. This may come as a surprise to same consumers who were of the opinion that "beef-on-the-hoof" and "beef- on-the-plate" are one and the same thing. Getting Rid of Children THE KITCHEN SINK is one of the few places where a man and his wife can meet to have an uninterrupted discussion and with- out much danger of being overheard by their children, as the thought of dishes to be wash- ed' tends to make children strangely invisible. — The Printed Word note that the first flag flown in Canada (out- side of what ever banners the Indians may have had) was early England's flag, raised by John Cabot. It was the red cross of St. George on a white background. The other flag prominently linked with Canada's early beginnings was that carried by Samuel de Champlain, three symbolic fillies—or fleur- de-lis—in gold on a blue field, the flag that was carried before the King of France when he marched to battle. The Union Jack, al- though not the Union Jack as we know it today, became Canada's official flag by the Peace of Paris of 1763. This earlier flag was made up of the red-on-white cross of St. George and the diagonal blue-on-White cross of St. Andrew, But these and the Union Jack of today —are -the flags of our nation's founders, not of Ourselves. In one sense, to give the Union Jack any significance at all in a Canadian flag seems most unreal. It does not in es- sence represent anything of this country—it is the symbol of the United Kingdom. There is nothing in it connected with Canada—it de- notes solely the area of land from which our founders came. But this is an academic argument which caxi lead far astray. The essential point remains. We consider ourselves an independent nation; we there- fore must gather about us the trappings of such a status and this most definitely includes a distinctive flag—one, in our opinion, that sloes not copy or incorporate the ensign of another. Page 4—Clijataa News-Record Thum, Oct. 20, 1060 Editorials IF UNIFORMS WILL DO IT GLORIOUS AUTUMN What Others Say . UPKEEP COSTS ARE CEMETERY PROBLEM (Huron Expositor) 110W MANY T-BONES IN A STEER? (Canadian Fed, of Agri. News Bulletin) YES, A FLAG (Exeter Times-Advocate) Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Ainalgamated 1924 Est. 1881 41 L1k 41% uzscnrpnON rtA.TE.S: Payable in adVante and Oreat Britain: $3.00 a year 'United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized ea sedend class mail, Peet Office Department, Ottadm Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,000 • A. L. COLQUROUN, Publisher • WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor eeet:e..,'"'Aece Fallen Leaves Put To Use Fun in the leaves for the Strong family. Ten year old Ken has done the work of raking, and his little .sisters get in on the fun, from the left, Geraldine, four; Grace, six and Patty, nine. (News-Record Photo) SUGAR and SPICE Well, the school board hasn't had me on the carpet yet for that last column, which urged the abolition of Religious In- struction from the curriculum, Maybe it's just because they haven't had a meeting in the meantime. Before they do, I might as well unload all the other beefs I have about the educational system. Its major flaw is that it costs money. Municipal councils wail with increasing regularity that the economy of Endsville is being wrecked by those mad- men on the school board. Ed- ucators observe with equal monotony that we spend more on smokes, or liquor, than we do on schooling. * Most of us who have child- ren done kick too much After all, if you have garl4ge: you expect the cost of its pick- up to be added to your taxes. But when a farmer retires and moves to town, it hurts when he finds that half his tax bill is made up of education costs. He forgets, of course, that his grandchildren who live in the city are being educated at tr- emendous cost, and half the tab is picked up by some poor old trout who is trying to hang onto her house on the old age pension and the income from her husband's $4,000 insurance policy. Another thing wrong is the tremendous waste. Every day skilled teachers are found cl- imbing the walls after trying to insert in some Neanderthal brain the rudiments of learn- ing. Apparently there are to be no hewers of wood or drawers of water in this brave, new Canada. In this democracy of ours, it seems •that you can't scrub a floor or fill a gas tank unless you are able to identify an intransitive verb, You are not able to carry a plank from here to there un- less you are 16 and have learn- ed more mathematics than I knew when I was flying a (By W. B. T. SMILEY) $50,000 aircraft in the service of his late Majesty, Geo. VI. You can't even have a baby until you've made a weed col- lection or taken some options. * * Another sore point with me is the course of training given to teachers. They are not brut- alized enough. They are taught neither judo nor unarmed com- bat. They are given no idea of how to deal with teenage tears. What, pray, are they supposed to do when a six-foot- er, weighing about 180, says: "So I aint got my homework done. So what ?" Or a 16-year- old sylph looks up, bats her eyes, admits she doesn't have her homework done, and starts to bawl? * Then there's this business, for the teacher, of being "on stage" all the lime. Every classroom should have a little alcove to which a teacher could retreat, at least once a period, and make sure his fly is but- toned, or her slip isn't show- ing. It's 35 to 1, and I have a lot more sympathy now for some of those drill sergeants I hated so intensely in the air force. The other day, for ex- ample, the kids were killing themselves laughing at me, and I didn't even know what was going on. * * * I'd asked them to build a portrait of Brutus, from the play "Julius Caesar," by giv- ing me imaginary details of his appearance. I asked a boy first, and after shuffling and snuff- ling for four minutes he blur- ted, "Well he's medium height and medium weight," A dazaling thrust of the imagination, as you can see. I asked a girl to add to the picture. She sug- gested he bad dark brown hair. Immediately, there was a class snicker, and several kids hol- lered: "No! He has grayish hair, sorta curly." So I wrote that down, scowling at them about the snicker. Next kid said Brutus had a sort of re face, It didn't sound much like a Roman senator to nae, but I put it On the blackboard, it the midst of another wave o giggling. Another volunteerec that Brutus had a big nose and the entire class dissolve into hila.ria. I got pretty sore and told them they'd probably fail hi their examination, an such like. It wasn't until they' left, still chortling, that I looked at the portrait they'd drawr. in words and realized that the were describing, with the ut most glee, their gray-haired, red-faced, big-nosed teacher. * * Another thing wrong with th educational system is that there are too many common peopl getting into the teaching pro- fession. When I was a kid, teachers knew their place. When the last lout was released from the last detention, about a qu- arter to six, the teacher hurried nervously home, eyes fixed carefully on the ground. You know what some of them have the nerve to do nowadays? They hunt, fish, play golf, have a smash, drive a nice car. They act just as though they were like other people, and I think it's time somebody put a stop to it. e e * * * The only other major com- plaint I have concerns the tr- eachery of the students. I spend hours telling my wife what a delightful, intelligent, well- mannered young girl is Susan, and what an utterly irrespons- ible, insolent young monster is Sam. Then we're downtown. We go into the supermarket. The "monster" is working there, after school. He smiles broadly, carols, "Hello, sir" and hustles around giving me the super ser- vice. My wife says: "That's one of the nicest boys I've ever met." We come out of the store. And flying past on the rear seat of a motor-cycle, thumb- ing her nose at me, is delight- ful, intelligent, well-mannered Susan. From Our 40 Years CLINTON Niaysatuconn 1 Thursday, October Ago 21,, 1929 Early 25 cuNiroN Thurscley, Files Years NEwsatEcoRro Oetober Ago 11, 1935 The Mothers' Allowance Act, T h e Ontario Government i passed by the Ontario Paella- would give no consideration to meat recently, came into of- any suggestion that an eight- feet on October 1, and boards hour day be instituted in pro- were appointed all over the vincial hospitals, according to province to attend to the ad- Dr. J. A. Faulkner, minister of ministration of the Act. Huron health. Such a move, he said, County board members were would increase capital costs to G. W. Holman, Goderich; Mrs. an exhorbitant figure and in- (DM Fowler; Rev. A. R. E. terfere with the professional Garrett, Rensall; Mayor R. S. aspect of the institutions, Hayes", Seaforth; Mrs. George John R. Middleton, Goderich Cruiltshanks, RR 1, Wingham. Township, returned home from The stone doorstep at the a trip to Western Canada. post office, which had been Mrs. LeBeau, London Road, woarne et was m ay f hollow , by the built tramp e with received word of the death of her sister-in-law, Mrs, Cadieu, cement. a former resident of the Road, R. J, Miller and W. A. Grant won second prize in doubles at the bowling tournament at Tuckersmith Ladies' Club held their meeting at the home of Mrs. Austin Matheson, Goderich. Readings were given by Mrs, Miss Garrett, who had visited Miss Wand for a week, left for L . Lawson, Mrs. R. Fear and Mrs. F. Walter, and a piano her home in Washington, D.C. Agnes and Mary Chidley, To- solo by Mrs. Ernie Crich. ronto, -spent the holiday with the latter's Jackson. mother, Mrs. T. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD 1 40 Years Ago Thursday, October 19, 1950 CLINTON NEW ERA The monument to the late Major-General Sir William Ot- Thursday, October 21, 1920 ter, located on the west side of highway 4, just south of Clin- Work on the provincial high- ton, needed repainting, so May- way between Stratford and or Robert Hattin arranged to Mitchell was reported well un- have it done by David Elliott. der way and satisfactory pro- Sir William, one of Clinton's gress made. One motorist, un- most famous sons, was a voter- aware that work was being ,an of the Boer War and the done, came over Seebach's hill Reid Rebellion, and was born at a fast clip and narrowly in Sttanley Township near the averted an accident, site of the monument on lee- Teachers who were at their comber 3, 1843. homes in Brucefieki and dist- October weddings of interest riet for Thanksgiving were were: Dr. and Mrs. James Ed- Margaret Ross, Anna Bell Mc- ward' Mullens (nee Charlotte Donald, Louise Allen, Grace Elizabeth Middleton) and Mr, Ross and Emma McDonald, and Mrs.. Joshua Douglas Finch ! Lorne Deeves, Kitchener, and (nee Helen Lorraine Dixon), Bert Deeves, London, spent the Mrs, Mullens is a daughter of : weekend with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middleton, Nelson Howes, Brantford, Whitehall Far ms, Goderich spent Thanksgiving with A. Township, and Mrs. Finek's , McCartney. parents are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glen McKnight, Tuckersmith, Dixon, Clinton. took first prize for boys under Robert Allan, Brucefield and - 17 in the walking plow con- Joseph Gibson, Clinton, quail- test held on the Mittell farm tied for the Huron County fin- east of Clinton, and was also ads in the roadeo farm tractor awarded the prize for the best competition when they topped finish, best ,team and best a field of ten Junior Farmers strikeout. Fred Pepper, Tuck- in a preliminary contest held erstnith, led the open class, in Community Park, Clinton. JOIN GODERICH N.* FIGURE SKATING CLUB Club Pro—WANDA MacDONALD (Canadian Ladies' Junior Champion, 1955) Registration and Skating—Sat. Oct. 22, 1-3 p.m. GODERICH MEMORIAL ei FEES — ARENA INDIVIDUAL--$12 FAMILY RATE (3 or more.members)--$25 Weekly Classes Will Be Held On Saturday Afternoons -1 to 3 p.m. ea--,....—.......—. I Business and Professional Directory , A. M. 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