Clinton News-Record, 1960-11-17, Page 4Spectacular Sale!!
Tender grown for roasting or frying
Chickens (ays 3-4 lbs.)
Pork (hops
COMBINATION DEAL
1/2 lb. BACON
1 lb. BOLOGNA a terrific buy
1 lb. WEINERS
37( lb.
57( lb.
89(
FREEZER SPECIAL
this week only
Beef Front Quarter 35c lb.
PETER'S Modern Meat Market
"The Home of Quality Meats" Phone HU 2-97311
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Editorials
SAFE AND SO SENSIBLE
While involved in the, general round • of
reportorial duties we had occasion recently
to accept a ride in a motorcar owned.by the
Ontario Department of Transport, There for
the first time we came close to seat belts
in a car.
Of course, when. taking a flight by plane,
one automatically reaches for the seat belt
and does it up tight. It takes little imagina,•
Lion to figure out what would happen if the
pilot decided to fly upside down for a little
while.
But human nature being what it is, people
are very prone to become accustomed to what
has always been done, and slow to accept
change, Years ago when cars travelled a sane
ten to forty miles per hour, seat belts were
not thought of.
However, with even ordinary thoughtful
people like doctors and merchants talking
about the trip with the new car when they
"had her up to a hundred and ten" Well, seat
belts seem to be in keeping, If ordinary com-
monsense will not keep a driver from exceed-
ing speed limits, then the least he can do is
to equip himself and his poor unfortunate
passengers with seat belts for their own pro-
tection.
"GRAND OPENING" WEEK
Special opening ceremonies being held this
Week centre the attention of the public upon
the activities of the provincial government.
First of all and most important to us, is the
opening of the Collegiate addition.
With the Minister of Education sandwich-
ing the event in between similar ceremonies
in Exeter and Goderich, Clinton will have a
fairly quick glimpse of him. However, the
look at the new section of the collegiate can
be done at leisure, and if not all accomplished
on opening day, then there are other years to
come.
On Tuesday a driver examination centre
for the county was opened in Clinton officially
by the Minister of Transport. This marks
the end for thousands of people getting a
licence to drive a car the easy way. They
must show to a competent examiner that they
are actually capable of driving properly be-
fore they are permitted a licence,
To-day there is another "opening" cere-
mony performed at the Brewers Warehouse.
Though it will affect directly only a small
percentage of the population in comparison
with the other two events, this promises to
have far-reaching effects throughout this corn-
rnunity. Though many people welcome the
appearance of liquor outlets in Clinton and
the county, still others deplore it as the end
of a good era in Huron, and promise of evil
days ahead.
Actually there is a good and a bad side
to each of the situations involved in these
special openings. It behooves each individual
to see that the good part of each is taken
advantage of to the full.
In any case it is important to note that
within the space of a week, three different
events, all involving the Provincial Govern-
ment to some extent or other, have taken
place. Clinton has long had good relations
with the Department of Agriculture, and has
been on such good terms with the office here,
that often it is taken for granted. Of course
the relationship with the Department of
Education has been just as happy.
Now there is in existence a centre operat-
ed by the Department of Transport, and a
liquor outlet controlled by the Ontario Liquor
Control Board. Clinton citizens have every
reason to expect that relationships with these
will be equally serene.
UNINSURED, HE OWES $21,000
(Stratford Beacon-Herald)
A Toronto salesman, driving in British
Columbia, hit another car and injured two
persons. He was not insured, and as a result
of a judgment must repay $21,000—the Un-
satisfied Judgement Fund limit, including
costs—at the rate or $25 a month. This will
take 70 years, if he should live to be 107.
Married, with two children, he supports an
aged father, and as long as he owes any
part of this money he cannot own a home
or other major asset,
For public liability coverage alone, an a
passenger car used for business, the premium
in Toronto, a Stratford company, tells us,
would have been $45. Allowing for the com-
pulsory payment into the Fund, this man
saved $41, or so he figured. Discussing his
grim future, the Vancouver Province says
there ought to be 'proteetion for motorists, as
well as the persens injured.
There have been numerous cases equally
distressing, but always the protection against
such disaster was in the hands of the car
.
owner. If a man cannot pay an insurance
premium, obviously he cannot reimburse any-
one he injures with his car, and is a menace
to the public when he drives.
Agitation for compulsory insurance in
Ontario has been going on for years, and
arguments for it are being heard by a select
committee of the Legislature, but it is not a
cure-all. A few days ago a Toronto man
charged as impaired got bail and three days
later was arrested on a similar charge. He
this week was a man with six convictions for
cannot buy insurance. Also in a Toronto court
impaired or drunk driving, and whose license
had been lifted in 1958 for life. He was in
two accidents last May, and this time was
jailed for driving without a license. He can
be punished under the Traffic Act, but his
victims would have no recourse under a com-
pulsory law, because he would have no in-
surance. The Unsatisfied Judgement Fund
would still be needed, if only to protect against
uninsured or financially irresponsible non-resi-
dents and, hit-and-run drivers.
The Legislature committee hopes to re-
port by next January. One thing it ought
to recommend is higher limits to payments
from the Fund. The present $10,000-$20,000
is in many cases inadequate.
Clinton News-Record
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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 1.1. Mawing;
Robert Archibald; Chris Lton-
hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre-
wartha, Clinton; Win. S. Alex-
ander, Walton; j. L. Malone,
Seaforth; Harvey ller, Gode-
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Agents: Wm, Leiper, Jr., Lon-
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Office and Residence
Rattenbury Street East
Phone HU 2-9677
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TH/S TABLET WAS ERECTED
IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF
CLINTON ONTARIO AA"
WHO CAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR..
Every time I think of it I
experience a warm glow of
satisfaction. As I sit here in
the cosy, smoke-filled confines
of my private phychopatrick
ward, I revel in the security
the snugness. I shake hands
with myself. I grin with sheer
delight. The reason for my el-
ation is simple: I didn't have
to go deer hunting this year. * *
They were Out last week,
every single madman of them.
They ranged from the fellow
who sneaks out for an hour or
two before and after work,
through the type who has
taken a week off and skipped
a payment on the car so he
can 'afford to get away with
his gang to the big shot who
makes the trip in a station
wagon, with a cook, a case of
whisky and a crew of kindred'
spirits. * *
But •they're all brothers
under the skin, infected with
a delirium that sweeps the
Canadian male in November,
and in many smaller towns,
an the edge of the hunting
country, almost brings com-
merce and industry to a halt,
Last week they walked 100
miles through wet hush. They
turned blue at the end of
runways. They wolfed leathery
eggs, marmalade and bacon
sandwiches, and similar deli-
cacies. And they laid the found-
ations for the deer-hunting
stories they'll tell from now
until Easter,
* *
This week most of the hunt-
Meeting Monday evening,
Clinton Town Council endorsed
a. resolution by Peel County
requesting immediate actionto-
wards increased grants for
hospital construction, or other
arrangements 'by provincial and
federal governments for in-
creasing funds available in
municipalities for this purpose.
Also the Council received
word from the Ontario Liquor
Control Board that a sales outs
let in Clinton was definitely
planned as soon as property
could be purchased for build-
ing.
By-laws were passed adjust-
ing the assessment of farm
lands in Clinton; accepting the
assessment roll for 1961 at
$2,304,429.26; assurning the
part of the cost of installing
sanitary sewers oh Townsend,
East and Queeh Streets; agree-
ing to issue 15 year, 6 percent
debentures totalling $10,474 for
sanitary sewers as above un-
der the Local Improvement
Act.
Council accepted the report
of the Court of Revision.
Building perrhits Were ap-
proved fOr a $10,000 house for
A. It Bates and $400 addition
for Russell Jervis,
Councillor J. D. Thorndike,
chairman of the police cOtrimit-
tee, reported that repairs to
(By W. B. T. SMILER)
ers are home, and the stories
are flying about with the
swooping inaccuracy of bats
on a summer evening. Fellows
who fired at nothing livelier
than a stump, during their en-
tire week's hunting will be re-
lating exploits straight out of
Rod and Gun. Others, who
spent most of their time lost,
will swagger a bit as they re-
call how they liked hunting
alone. With each repetition,
the stories gain in stature.
And so do the deer.
There are no tiny fawns or
skinny, little does in the woods.
They were all brought home
by the hunters. But there are
thousands, tens of thousands,
of huge bucks running loose.
There must be, because every
time a hunter misses a shot
at a scared little fawn which
was standing still 20 feet away
that creature, by some magic
inherent in deer hunting, be-
comes a vast, 10-point buck,
going like the wind.
*
TI*; is o say that deer
hunters era liars. It's just
that they have a little more
imagination than the rest of
us. Perhaps that's why they
plunge into the chill depths of
the north woods each Novem-
ber, and undergo something
like the Retreat from Moscow,
with apparent enjoyment.
* *
It isn't just the hunting that
draws them to those vast,
frozen swamps and burns. It
isn't pure 'bloodlust. The true
hunter will know what I mean.
the 8 cylinder police car had
been "simply ferocious" the
last while, and that the police
would just have to cut down.
He advised a smaller car, "We
don't have to spend money
just to have a car as big as
London or Stratford."
Tax arrears for 1959 and
before total $6,886,26.
A motion by Councillor J. D.
Thorndike, seconded by Reeve
Melvin Crich approved the sale
of "a strip of land 25' x 156'
on the east side of Maple St-
reet 'between Mill Street and
Park Lane, be sold to Wilfred
and John Parker for $150, and
a byslaw be prepared author-
izing the sale of Same, final
agreement to be dependent On
an agreenient with LCI30
construction of a liquor store
on this and adjacent property."
After all, anyone can sit in a
warm house, after a good din-
ner, and watch television. But
how can that compare with the
wild exhilaration of mooching
through the woods, soaked to
the tail-bone, half lost, with
darkness coming on, and the
wind in the north with a bone
in its teath? * *
Any ordinary fellow can take
a holiday in the summer, when
there's nothing to do but lie
around in the sun, drink beer,
fish a little, and watch for
bikinis. But it takes a real
man, a deer hunter, in fact,
to go into the woods in Nov-
ember and come to grips with
nature, nothing between him
and the forest primeval ex-
cept a few bottles of cough
syrup, his laxative tablets, his
tranquillizers, a hundred dol-
lars worth of warm clothing, a
rifle, a guide with dogs to
chase out the deer, a snug
camp, a good cook and, an in-
teresting poker game. You
need' hair on the chest to
tackle this kind of battle with
the elements. *
Yes, I'm afraid deer hunt-
ing is not a sport. It's a cult,
like Teddy Boys or Beatniks or
Existentialists, It's a reaction
against the decadence of mod-
ern living. And as I sit here
with t h e furnace humming
away merrily, and let my mind
venture timidly into the vast
bleakness of the November
woods, I can't refrain from
giving three smal 1, silent
cheers for good old decadence.
The motion was un-opposed.
Mayor Bridle commented on
the fact that this would help
along a request made by the
people of Clinton by ballot
earlier this year,
Queried about the rental
housing project, clerk John
Livermore stated' that since
the method of rental had been
changed, several applications
had been received. The first
renters will be moving in on
Saturday, and he predicted that
all would be occupied by the
end of the year.
Clerk Livermore explained
that the change in method of
rental would mean a direct loss
to both the province and the
federal governments, and the
town would take a reduction
in taxes (up to a maximutn of
one-sixth of the total taxes),
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, November 11, 1920
Howick Township honored its
war dead before a large as-
sembly in Fordwich when Reeve
Doig unveiled a full size bronze
statue of a soldier in full trench
equipment, T h e monument
stands in a park donated 'by
citizens of the village,
The musical committee of
James St, Methodist Church,
Exeter, who had advertised for
an organist and choir leader,
'were in touch with a Mr, And-
erton, at present a choir direct.
or of a church in Belfast, Ire-
land.
Walter Lowe visited in town
before returning to his home in
Hamilton, He reported a good
deal of unemployment in Ham-
ilton,
Charles Spooner, of Western
Canada, visited at Charles Mc-
Gregor's, Constance, and with
Mr, and Mrs. F. Hall.
Thomas Lindsay, Clinton, was
in Hensel as a delegate of the
UFO and visiting friends,
Heavy rains were expected
before freeze-up, since the
beaver houses in Northern On-
tario were projecting far above
present water lines. Beavers
like their houses covered with
water for the winter and are
no fools about taking chances
on the cold. Malcolm Lang,
MPP far Cochrane, predicted
that the big rains needed to
cover the beaver houses would
ease the present power short-
age in the north.
Good Will Club
Contributes To
Several Charities
A dedicatory hymn, follow-
ed by the Lord's Prayer in
unison, opened the thank-
offering meeting of the Wesley-
Willis Good Will Club on Nov,-
ember 8, with Mrs. H. G.
Manning presiding,
Reports were read and ad-
opted. Three more boxes have
been delivered for U.S.C. Save
the Children Fund and CARE
are each to receive donations
of $35. The 1960 officers are
to be retained' for the coming
year.
A thougl{tful tharikoffering
service, "The Fruitful Vine,"
compiled by Mrs. J. A. Mc-
Kim followed. The .offering
was donated to the Woman's
Missionary Society, Mrs. Don-
ald' Andrews, accompanied by
Mrs. B. Hearn, sang two pleas-
ing solos, "His Eye is on the
Sparrow" and "My Task".
Mrs. E. J. Roulston, guest
speaker, was introduced by
Mrs. Hearn. Her timely subject
was "United Church Women".
She gave an informative talk
interspersed with a question
and discussion period. "We
must ensure now that our pr-
esent work is carried forward
vigorously throughout the re-
mender of 1960 and 1961, and
create an atmosphere of under-,
standing and. willingness to at-
tempt new things, if the or-
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, November 14, 1935
A handsome and up-to-date
operating table was presented
to Clinton Public Hospital in
memory of Doctor William
Gunn, who was Clinton's cele-
brated surgeon from 1897, when
he came to Clinton, until he
died in May, 1930, The gift
was presented •by Dr, Gunn's
daughters, Mrs. Isabel. Cross
and Mrs. Marion Polk,
Wheat was selling for 65c
per bushel; oats, 24c to 26c;
butter, 22c; eggs, 20e to 33e;
live hogs, $7.35.
Horace and Fred Wiltse, De-
troit, visited their brothers on
the London Road and their mo-
ther in Clinton for a few days.
Mrs. R. H. F. Gairclner and
Miss Betty, London, were at
their home in Bayfield over the
weekend,
Robert Penhale returned from
a hunting trip to Northern On-
tario. Four deer were bagged
by the party.
Jack Perdue returned from
Stratford, where he played a
week's' engagement with the
Tony Farr orchestra at the
Winter Gardens.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, November 16, 1950
The Clinton District Colleg-
iate Choir captured the Ki-
wanis Shield at the Kiwanis
Music Festival at Guelph. The
choir, which consisted of 20
boys and'. 34 girls, were guests.
at the Guelph home of their
directress, Miss Anna Pond,
Leonard George "Skip" Win-
ter opened a real estate agency
in the office being vacated by
Merrill Radio & Electric in the
Sloane Block, King Street,
near the Post Office.
Clinton contributed $3,116.25
to Manitoba Flood Relief, A
letter was received by Mayor
R. Y. Hattin from the Mayor
of Winnipeg, expressing amaze-
ment and gratitude that such
a large contribution should
have come from a town of ap-
proximately 2,000 people, par-
ticularly when it was subscrib-
ed on a purely voluntary and
spontaneous basis.
A 100-foot pine tree was
struck by lightning and crash-
ed into the Victoria Street
house occupied by Mrs. Bruce
McDougall and her father, Is-
aac Carter, 85. Neither was
seriously hurt.
ganization is to function
successfully." Mrs. Roulston
was thanked 'by Miss Stone.
After the benediction, re-
freshments were served by
Group 3, convened by Mrs.
Hearn and Mrs. L. Jervis.
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FRIENDSHIP CLUB TO
MEET ON NOVEMBER 23
The next meeting of the
Friendship Club of St. Paul's
Anglican Church will be held
on Wednesday, November 23,
in the Parish Hall. Members
are asked to bring in donations
of good used clothing for the
bale which will be packed
that evening.
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Besides those names visible on the upper section, are fifteen others, who
gave their lives in the war of 1914-18. The decorative arrangement of poppies,
maple leaves and crosses, in place on Remembrance Day, was constructed by
Harry Weymouth, on staff of the Clinton Post Office. (News-Record Photo)
SUGAR and SPICE . . .
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