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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1961-02-23, Page 440 Years Ago .0141iNTON NEW PRA Thursday, February 24, 1921 W, H. Davison, who recently sold his hardware business in Clinton to Corless and Venner, Purchased a hardware business in Simcoe. Clinton Hospital Association elected M. Brydone, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. .Farquhar and Mrs. Holloway to the Beard for A term of three years. Window' card's in the Morrish Clothing Company's windows were drawing attention. The work was done by Alex Eagle- stoe, and does him much credit. Chief of Police Fitzsimons was readly to issue permits for weaperts.. The Penalty for fail- ing to obtain a .permit was $100. Anyone not wishing to obtain one was 'advised to turn in the weapon, REGULAR AS CLOCK-WORK twice a year you will receive your interest cheques when you invest in a British Mortgage Guaranteed Certificate. . . . interest for any period from 3 to 10 years paid from the day your investment is received in our office. To invest — see your focal agent or send us your cheque. British Mortgage Certificates are approved for trust funds. B TIM MO 11 1'‘l COMPANY iTS (GAGE & Founded in 1877 Head Office: STRATFORD British Mortgage & Trust Company, Stratford [ ] I enclose my cheque for $ for investment for years. [ ] Please send me a free folder giving full information. NAME ADDRESS H. C. Lawson Local Representative—Phone HU 2-9644 Clinton, Ontario Amalgamated 1924 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Eat. 1881 Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario -- Population 3,000 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor It isn't that I'm scared of my wife. It's just that she makes me nervous. As I dare- say yours does you. And yours you. For example, last week, we had to make a trip to the city. Young Kim couldn't come. With some other piano pupils, she was making her radio debut on Saturday morning, on the local radio station. Both of us had to go, so we organized a baby sitter and left without small daughter. We planned to hear her per- formance on the road, over the car radio. There was the usual confusion. Our car radio either goes off when we hit a bump, or suddenly emits a great blast of music when we don't even know it's; switched on. We weren't sure we'd be able to get the program. My wife dithered. I reassured. A familiar pattern. The program came through loud and clear. Our stomachs started to churn with that sick feeling, as the announcer in- troduced the children's num- bers. Each played beautifully. Finally, he stated, as calmly as anything that Kim Smiley would now play an etude. We all turned and grinned trium- phantly at each other. . * * Kim sailed into her piece, played a couple of bars, then stopped abruptly. There was a silence of ,about three seconds, during which I could distinctly hear the pulse in my wife's temple, 'hammering over the roar of the car's engine. Then the child attacked the piano again, and finished the piece creditably enough. But it was too late. * * * The Old. Lady was so mad and disappointed that she wouldn't speak, 'for forty miles. Just sat there like Lot's wife, glaring straight ahead, tears of rage coursing slowly down her stony countenance. Hugh and I nervously tried songs, jokes, funny stories, and point- ing at the new factories. Noth- ing doing. I have related this incident merely to explain that you don't pull any boners around our house, and expect to have them laughed off. That's why I had a few tense weeks over the tickets. -I gave them to her for Christmas. She's a classical music enthusiast, and our son is studying piano at the Conservatory, so at consid- erable expense I organized ti- ckets for two outstanding con- certs this winter; She was de- lighted with the gift. After exclaiming over my thoughtfulness, she put them in her purse, six reserved seat tickets, "Here," I said in a bluff manly fashion, "you'd better let me keep those. You're liable to lose them." She's always leaving her purse at the movies, or at somebody's house, or in. Toronto. So I put them in my hip pocket, where I carry all the things I don't want to lose. * * Well, a couple of days later, I was changing my pants, and of course that entailed trans- ferring the contents of my hip pocket. Yep. No tickets. In the intervening 48 hours, we'd visited a lot of people, wan- dered about in snow to our knees, and generally covered a lot of territory. At first I was alarmed, but not unduly so. I searched my trousers carefully, checked all the bureatt draw- ers. I explored thy wallet thor- oughly, I began going through all the pockets of all my cl- othes. No tickets. I didn't have the nerve to say a word, of course, I checked with all the people we had visited, I searched our luggage. I combed the house from attic to cellar, pretending I was checking the insulation or something. No tickets, Finally pa ge 4. Chilton News-Record--Thurs., Fah, 23, 1961 Editorials From Our Early Files 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, Irebruary 24, 1.941( Mr. Betts, the baker on our, on Street, had a new wagon on the road, and had also installed a motor and power dough- mixer, Sir Ernest Shackelton, noted Antarctic explorer, Wal.5, in Can- ada. His pia= to explore the Arctic regions were not yet, complete. Cliff Seatehmer and Dick Etue were cutting wood for Paul Cleave in Westlake's bush, Stanley Township. G. Hudson, Seaforth, had his foot severely burned at the - foundry. He was carrying a ladle of molten metal when he stumbled and the metal splash- ed over his foot. J, H. R. Elliott, Blyth, was ohosen secretary of ,the Blyth Agricultural Society in place of Tames Curving, who resigned. Business and Professional Directory INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insurance — Annuities CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Clinton, Ontario 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 22, 1951 Dr. Walter A. Oakes, prom- inent Clinton surgeon, was re- elected chairman of the board of directors of Clinton Public Hospital for his fifth term at the annual meeting. Jeffrey Dixon, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dixon,' had a narrow escape from more serious injury when he ran into the side of a pas- sing car, fracturing his wrist. Lloyd Medd was named pres- ident of the Holy Name Society of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Fred LeBeau was vice-presi- dent and Frank Evans, Jr„ secretary-treasurer. Conrad Schilbe, Zurich, and Mr. and Mrs. William Zither, Thedford, were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Neville For- bes. Clinton Colts defeated New Hamburg in Goderich Memorial Arena 8-5 before a crowd of over 1000. Miss Marie Elliott, Bayfield, returned from five weeks in Clinton Public Hospital to re- cuperate, at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Ida Menery. gonimmonommomminumminomisommollmoompoonnommosamillummenn SUGAR and SPICE RONALD G, McCANN PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO OPTOMETRY 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. unity um= By Bill Smiley. J, E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined OPTICIAN Oculists' Prescriptions Filled Includes Adjustments At No Further Charge Clinton—Mondays Only 9.00 a.m, to 5.30 p.m. Above Hawkins Hardware IN APPRECIATION I began to panic. The next few weeks were a whirlwind of long-distance calls, frantic let- ter-writing and middle-of-the- night soul-searching. * * * As the deadline neared, the pressure built up. By this time I was ripping the lining out of my clothes. I had turned my wallet inside out so often that I had found a number of important documents, missing for years. But no tickets. The day of the first concert arrived, Hugh and his mum were making big plans. Drive to the city, have a nice dinner, and drive home, 180 miles in sub-zero weather, but worth it, I agreed, with a sickly I was praying I'd have a heart attack, or that the first Rus- sian nnissle would fall. I went out to get gas and oil checked in the car. I tried to ram a couple of types on the way home, but they dodged me. At last, after six weeks of mounting horror, the moment of truth arrived. * * * She was tearing around the house, doing those last minute things, and crying instructions to Kim and me. I slipped into the kitchen, took a big belt out of the medicinal bottle of br- andy, emerged, put on my most humble look, and told her I had a terrible confession to make. She thought it was about a woman, so immediately sat down, all ears. * * * DAYS AND WEEKS speed by, and we fail to take opportunity to express our deep appreciation to those who assist this news- paper to exist. We speak of course of our many rural correspondents. These men and women in the area sur- rounding our town are public-spirited "cham- ber of commerce" type individuals. who be- lieve in the benefits to be obtained from making their own community known through- out the world. Without the rural correspondents the way of a weekly newspaper would be so strewn with difficulties and stumbling blocks,• that we hardly believe existence would be possible. They are a faithful lot, who every week put clown on paper the news of their own hamlet, crossroads or village, taking pains to be accurate and cautious to harm no one. They are the snit of the earth in the newspaperman's world. Bless them all. G. B. CLANCY, 0,D. — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone JA 4-7251 GODERICH REAL ESTATE A FANTASTIC FARMERS WKO RUSE. . and market hogs are facing a most peculiar situation, Over A, period of 20 years they have felt their way slowly, through the use of elected representatives, requesting legislation and having it passed; finding loopholes in that legislation and having it mended; .striving mightily for a thing which should be their right, 'rids tis the right to sell their own pro- duct, to the best advantage in the public market place. Recently they were seen to have that power within their grasp. Through compul- sory powers approved in a strong vote of more than levo-third's of those voting, prac- tically the entire hog population has been marketed through the hands of their elected marketing board. Apparently that power was proving too strong for someone. Among the many outcomes of all this is the FAME organization. By setting up their own processing plants, and by packaging and transporting at least some of their own product, farmers hope to co-operatively better their own lot and gain some control over prices'. At least they hope to share in any profit which this type. of business offers. In the meantime they are faced with complying with a government order to stage an election of delegates to their own market- ing board, which has some very strange details. Rules laid down by the provincial gov- ernment create one place in Huron County for all of the hog producers to cast their SETTING vote, That place is the Legion Memorial Hall, Kirk Street, Clinton. Not only that, but the nominations for delegates takes place on the morning of the same day as the vote, Some time between closing of the nominations at 11 or 11.3(1 a.m, and five o'clock in the afternoon, all .of the hog producers in Huron County must be ad- vised that there is to be; or is not to be A vote. If they are not advised, then there may be hundrecl5 of farmers vainly driving 40 miles or more to Clinton to vote, Or worse still, there may be only a few turn out, and governmental organizers and politicians will be able to say, "Oh, well, the farmers don't care who represents -them, anyway." It is a hopeless situation. It is fantastic that the very members of parliament whew gain their own jobs through votes placed at polling booths scat- tered throughout their riding, seldom more than five miles apart should require such rules for election of members of the Hog Producers Marketing Board, In a provincial election a turn-out of 60 percent is considered good. What percentage turn-out can be counted good in the up- coming hog producers vote? We would be very much surprised to see strong farm support of the present govern- ment in the next election. However, that would not necessarily mean that the present government would lose office. There are fewer farmers than ever before. What is the answer? Is the only re- course stronger action—possibly to picketing, threatened strikes, and even actual strikes? K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747 Res. HU 2-7556 Years 25 Ago CLINTON NWS-4E00RD Thorsdayi February 20, 1930 The Roxy 'Theatre, Clinton's. new talkie, opened Monday night with a fine crowd and a good picture, "Shipmates For- ever", starring Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, A, Crozier, St. Marys, was operator and doorman and ushers were local people, Service at l3rucefield Church was.. taken by the Young Peop- le's Union. Miss Eva Stack. house, president, conducted the. meeting. W. Pepper read the lesson, Miss Louise Marshall took the topic and Fred Boyce and Jesse Freeman led in pray- ers. George E, Cooper, who had been ill for some months, pas- sed away at the hospital in his 60th year. He was a. barber who conducted a shop tip until the time of his last illness, and an enthusiastic member of the town band. Mrs. Eva Wheeler and son Douglas, Parkhill, visited her brother Lawrence Stephenson of •the Bayfield Line. [ CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT$ 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE JA 4.7562 Hon, George Hees, minister of trade and commerce, is gigot- ea: as saying, after a visit to Washington, that the several Members, of Mr, Kennedy's cab- inet whom he met were "a wonderful bunch of fellows," A. M. HARPER and COMPANY "Wonderful Bunch- It is hoped that Mr, Hees will never have to reverse him- self in this case as he did in the ease of the wonderful bunch of businessmen who vis- ited Ottawa from. Cuba, —Letter Review ROY N. BENTLEY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Goderich, Ontario Telephone Box JA 4-9521 478 PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate & Business Broker Hight Street — Clinton PHONE HU 2-6692 38-tfb What Others Say • • CAN WIVES BE OVER-CAUTIOUS? (Ottawa Citizen) Many a man who likes a bit of fat with his meat and plenty of butter in his potatoes has been forced, since "fat" became a bad word, to content himself with pretty dry fodder—fed him, of course, for his own good. What the doctors should do is try to find out who the non-susceptibles are, so that they would have some solid scientific data to advance to their wives when arguing for a diet just a little less lean. Maybe not many men would be affected favorably, but whatever the number the doctors would be making a great humanitarian contribution. Hay and lettuce may be healthy, horses and rabbits thrive on such victuals. But for a man who likes to enjoy his food there is such a thing as an over-cautious wife. AFTER READING a talk on dieting given in Toronto by Dr. Howard Sprague, former president of the American Heart Association, it's hard to know what to do. Dr. Sprague says that "dietary fat has he- come a very naughty word, leading to the burning of cook books and atrophy of taste buds." But fats are a source of energy and the carriers of flavor in many foods. And metabolism varies from person to person. Those not susceptible to heart disease could probably ;Indulge "in any of the pleasant vices without suffering." But how is one to know? That's the problem. The way it works these days, a man's wife decides for him. After all, she does the cooking; he hasn't much choice. "I've lost the tickets," I blurted. "What tickets?" "The tickets for the concert tonight, and the other concert next month." "What in the world are you talking 'about? They're in my purse. I took them out of your hip pocket the day after Ch- ristmas, because I knew you'd lose them." I didn't know whether to slay her with the. nearest blunt ob- ject, or run screaming into the frozen wastes outside. I com- promised and took another big slug of brandy before I started to sob uncontrollably from sheer relief. As I say, it isn't that I'm scared of my wife. It's just that she makes me ner- vous. SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT (Wingham A dvance-Times) of the House until some concrete plan has been developed to implement immediate ac- tion. Personally, we believe that the lives of our young people are sufficiently valuable to merit action, regardless of where it has to be carried out. AT A RECENT MEETING of the On- tario Teachers'. Federation a resolution was adopted which strongly opposed the use of high schools as training centres for young car drivers. In view of the widespread op- position, not only of the teachers, but also, of high school board members, it would ap- pear that some other system will have to be devised to provide the training. We certainly cannot agree with some of the reasons for opposition which were put forward by the teachers, such as, "there is no evidence that driver education in school makes army difference to the number of high- way accidents." The fact of the matter is that there is only about 50 per cent of the accident rate among the youthful drivers who have received proper training, as corn pared with those in the same age group who are untrained. If the teachers don't believe it perhaps they should ask the actuaries of the major insurance companies, where there are now sharply reduced auto insurance rates for young drivers who have received training. All this aside, however, statistics have already proven the great value of driver edu- cation. If the secondary schools cannot or Will not provide the courses, it is high time to find another means of making sure ours young people can get the benefit of properly supervised instruction. The subject was under discussion in the Ontario Legislature only last week, and it is to be hoped that it remains upon the agenda "HE'S JUST A DOG" (By Joseph M. Anderson) "Here is a friend who proves his worth Without conceit or pride of birth; Let want or plenty play the host, He gets the least and gives the most--- He's just a dog. He's ever faithful, kind and true, He never questions what I do; And whether I may go or stay, He's always ready to obey— 'Cause he's a dog. He watches me all through the day, And nothing coaxes him away, And.through the night-long slumber deep, He guards the home wherein I sleepe-- And he's a dog. As mortals go, how few possess Of courage, trust and faithfulness, Enough from which to undertake, Without some borrowed traits, to make A decent dog." Clinton News Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 • %1I • year WHAT'S HAPPE,NED TO Tlig CAA, GOL.P RUSH FavaR SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance — Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa