Clinton News-Record, 1961-03-16, Page 2THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Amalgamated 1924 Est.'1881
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000
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A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher
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WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor
TALENT NIGHT
For this rally we ore having all local young
people presenting musical numbers. Soloist, Duets,
Quintets, Os well as instrumental selections with
Captain Little of the Salvation Army, Toronto, as
guest speaker.
WE KNOW YOU WILL ENJOY THIS PROGRAM
SATURDAYS MARCH 18 at 8 p.m.
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and X thought it might make an
interesting subject to discuss in Bell
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Labrador and Frobisher Bay on
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"Who owns The Bell Telephone Com-
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are residents, of Canada, and many are citizens who live
and work in communities like Clinton. Altogether they
number 166,627—by far the largest body of share owners
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Canadian people are now spending ap-
proximately 100 million dollars each year
for the treatment of dental diseases which
are mainly preventable through the applica-
tion of knowledge already available. Residents
of Ontario spend annually about 47 million
dollars. These sums, while significant, cover
only the approximate 35 percent of the pop-
ulation who receive any dental care at all in
any one year. Dental authorities estimate
that probably no more than 20 percent of the
adverse dental conditions existing in any one
year are being treated. In other words if it
were physically possible to provide immediate-
ly all the dental treatment required in Canada
it would cost about half a billion dollars!
The enormity of the dental health problem
in this country is not generally appreciated.
Dental diseases, by nature, are not dramatic
as they are rarely the direct cause of death
and the presence of dental disease is not
always obvious. A child with heart disease
or with obvious physical defects, elicits much
greater sympathy than one with dental pro-
blems, Yet, with the possible exception of
the common cold, dental diseases represent
the nation's number one public health problem.
Almost every man, woman, and child in
our population manifests some evidence of
tooth decay. Surveys in Ontario reveal that
tooth decay affects infants as early as one
year of age and that over 80 percent of
elementary and secondary school children
have cavities. Less than one percent of the
adult population remains free of tooth decay.
Abscesses, loss of chewing ability and
facial disfigurement are among the most
serious consequences of dental disease. Person-
al appearance is of great importance and a
dental cripple has a most serious handicap to
overcome,
Although the Faculty of Dentistry of the
University of Toronto, Ontario's only dental
school, acquired greatly expanded quarters it
will be several years before the increased
accommodation will result in a larger number
CLINTON OAS an investment of $28,000
in fire protection equipment. Maintenance
costs for a year are $4,500, That includes
salaries of firemen, replacement of equip-
ment, new equipment,
Last year, in return for fire protection
coverage of those parts of their townships
near Clinton, the rural areas around town
paid $1,500,
Clinton council and the fire department
do snot think that is a fair share, They raised
rates to make the townships share closer
to $2,100,
The rural townships were prepared to
bargain, The town lowered the rates by $50
each. The townships are still prepared to
bargain. The financial situation was sufficient
to place before the townships in order to
prove the need for more money.
However, the town council saw fit to
point out that they could not afford to leave
the town buildings without "the best" fire
protection while on a rural call, unless they
got more payment for this coverage.
What Others Say .
HEALTH PROBLEM OF GREAT MAGNITUDE
This is no loss, for dead trees are un-
sightly.
But the absence of all these dead trees
leaves room for new ones; to be planted. The
planting should not be neglected.
Would an 'additional $100 from each
township pay for the loss in town if a fire
began in town while the big fire truck was
in the country on a prior call? Hardly! All
a, retaining fee could cover is maintenance,
Then the question naturally rises of
whether the fire truck should be permitted
to go out of town at all,
AFTER MANY YEARS planning to get
at the job of cutting dead trees along town
streets, only to be defeated by a normal
winter, the streets committee has made use
of 1961 open winter,
About 75 trees (marked for cutting for
some years.) have this year been cut.
CUT ONE, PLANT ONE
From Our Early Files Letters to the Editor...
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NliI.WS-RIMCOls0
Thursday, March 17, 1921
Spring hats and roller skates
were in evidence,, and swing
plowing begun in Hullett and
Goderich townships..
The Huron Home committee
Purchased the Swinbank place
to add to the farm, making a
total of over 70 acres,
Louis McLeod ,and his bride
took up residence in l3ayfield,
adjoining :Mrs, Ross' millinery
shop on Main Street.
Norman Ball, Hullett town-
ship, delivered four head of
,choice cattle, weighing 4950
pounds, to Fitzsimons and SM.
Miss Hattie Belcher, Goder-
ich, was the weekend guest of
Miss Dorothy Cantelon,
Oscar Switzer was one of the
many who attended the pure-
bred cattle sale in Wingham on
Thursday.
Miss Margaret Torrance, Fort
William, visited h e r parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J, Torrance,
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, March 17, 1921
S. S. Cooper secured the mail
contract for taking and bring-
ing mail from the post office
to the G.T.R. station.
St. Thomas Anglican Church,
Seaforth, was struck by light-
ning during a severe storm,
just as the congregation was
assembling for a special service.
No one was injured.
Mrs, Edmund Mounteastle
died at her home in Dundalk.
Her maiden name was Margar-
et Thompson, daughter of Geo-
rge Thompson, for many years
a farmer on the Huron Road
near Holmesville.
Grand Trunk construction
men building a bridge between
Holmesville and Goderich un-
covered a nest of over 80
snakes,
Insurance agents who until
recently paid a license fee of
$3.00 for the privilege of writ-
ing up insurance policies will
now be obliged to pay a separ-
ate license fee of $3 for each
kind of insurance, sold.
Thomas Little met with a
serious accident while doing
some sawing in Wells' mill in
Londesboro. A piece of timber
he, was handling touched the
saw causing the other end to
fly up and strike his chin.
"How do you like the teach-
ing game?" So many people
have asked me this question in
the past few months that I
thought I'd try to answer it
here. My usual reply is what
hope is an eloquent shrug.
One reason I left the news-
paper business for teaching
was that I thought it would
give me more time with my
family. As a weekly editor, I
was out night after night, cov-
ering meetings, attending ban-
quets and the like. The only
time I had with the kids was
on weekends.
As a teacher I spend a lot
more time at home. And I
see even less of my family. I'm
locked away in the smoke filled
little room on the second floor,
five nights a week and most of
Saturday and 'Sunday, I see so
little of the kids. that there are
times when I can't quite re-
Goderich Township
Federation Meeting
The Goderich Township Fed-
eration of Agriculture will meet
on Tuesday evening, March 21
at 8.30 pm. in the Holmesville
school. A Special cancer pro-
gram is planned with a suit-
r able film, and also a follow-up
to the panel discussion of last
month, "Education to-day'',
Ladies are asked to bring lun-
ch.
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 12, 1930
Miss Ruby Newman of the
local Bell Telephone staff leav-
es nest week to take charge
of the office at Hanover..
3, T. McKnight has taken, the
position of local manager of the
John B, Mustard Coal Company
a place left vacant by, the death
of Antos Cartwright
Mr: and Mrs, Lloyd Keys and
family, Varna, spent Friday ev-
ening with Mr, and Mrs. Alf
1ngs.
The largest crowd ever pack-
ed into the arena saw Clinton
Colts and the Durham team
deadlocked at the end of their
seeped game with score of
2-2. The deciding game was to
be played in Galt.
Joe Quigley, who was badly
injured when hit by a car on
July 5 last and a patient in
Clinton Public Hospital ever
since, was able to return home
on crutches.
Miss Billie Stewart, London,
spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam
Stewart, Stanley Township,
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 15, 1951
Treasurer A, H. Erskine was
appointed acting county clerk
and John G. Berry acting dep-
uty clerk and deputy treasurer,
following the death of county
clerk Norman W. Miller in a
car-grader crash March 3.
Rev. D. ,1, Lane, minister of
St, Andrew's Presbyterian Ch-
urch, was appointed interim-
moderator of Cranbrook and
Ethel churches.
While digging a post hole, a
man knocked out 50 telephonee,
at Hensall, practically all the
rural telephones, the fire con-
nection lines, and all except
one long distance Line. His ser-
ious digging severed the tele-
phone cable.
Clinton suffered its first cas-
ualty in the Korean War, Lance
Corporal Ross MacKay Coiqu-
houn, 20, son of Mrs and Mrs.
E. W. Colquboun of Calgary,
formerly of Clinton was injured.
Huron County Seed Fair hit
a new high in entries, attend-
ance and interest, Bidders ran
the price of the best bushel of
oats at the fair to $12.
(By W. B. T. SMILEY)
member their first names.
* * *
Another reason for embark-
ing on a teaching career was
all those holidays. Two months
in the summer. A week at
Christmas and another week at
Easter. Of course, last sum-
mer I had to go to summer
school arid work like a dog
for two months, And this year
I have to do the same. And
at Christmas I spent exactly
471/2 hours, during my holiday
week, marking papers and it
will be the same at Easter.
Arid then, at the end of an-
other year, when I am qualified
as a teacher, I have to go back
to summer school for yet an-
other eight weeks to get my
specialist's certificate. But just
think — in 1963 I'll have the
whole summer off. That's cert-
ainly better than the one mis-
erable week a year I used to
take in the newspaper business. * * *
And then, of course, the mon-
ey is good. My take-home pay
is better than that • of many
truck drivers—almost as good
as that of a welder or a brick-
layer. Unlike them, I don't
draw overtime, but think of
the security. All I have to do
is teach for 35 years, and I
get the full pension. Am I
ever geiing to raise hell around
the lawn bowling club when I
get on that pension! Wheelchair
or no wheelchair. *
But these things are mere
adjuncts to teaching, After all,
we're not just interested in
money and security, are we?
Well, ARE WE? Of course,
we're not. Money is no more
important than say, breathing.
No, what we are concerned
with in life is the deep, baale
things. Like, uh, satisfaction in
a job well done, and, uh, the
rich reward of guiding young
lives, and, uh, stuff like that,
You have no idea of the thrill
a teacher feels when he real-
izes that but for the guidance
he has .gtiveri young Joe, the
latter might have wound up
in the penitentiary. Instead tsf
just reform school,
To 'Senior Musiciena
Dear Editor:
There area number of good
trombone, trumpet, baritone,
eaxaphone end clarinet adult
musicians in town, camp and
district that we need for our
town band, Some are currently
playing and some are capable
of playing.
Although the young hand. is
progressing favourably the stal-
wart few adult musicians we
Drunken Youth
Dear Editor,
Clinton News-Record
As I sat a few minutes this
morning waiting to get the
sermon over TV I picked up
the paper, a copy of the Exeter
Times-Advocate, which, my dau-
ghter had brought in on Sat-
urday, and read with big head,,
lines "Clinton Youth Fined $25
for Drunkenness in Exeter".
He was so drunk that has two
girl companions had to hold
him up when he got out of
the ear. He was taken to God-
erich to jail overnight, after
a big fight with the pollee. The
paper said the boy was sick
all the way to Goderich.
Who is responsible? Those
that worked so bard to have
the drink brought in to make
it easier for themselves to get
a drink: the cream of our town.
The supposed to be "most well-
to-do" people.
Some of these days they will
have to answer to their dear
Lord, just for what a great
number of our young people
are doing. Yes, six young men
from Goderich drove to Sarn-
ia, all drunk, all under 19
years of age.
Oh, my heart aches for their
poor mothers!
Blame those that voted and
worked so hard to make it
easy for those young men to,
get it. Miss Editor, it is only
beginning. What will it be for
those mothers that their sons
are only growing up? God
help those that are responsible.
As I am in a wheelchair and
have a great deal of reading
brought in to me, I have time
to read and think of the great
wrong they have done, just to
make a few pennies for a few
extra people, at the expense of
spoiling the lives of so many
of our young people.
Mrs. James Livermore
Clinton, Ontario
February 11, 1961
And there is nothing to equal
the rich satisfaction a teacher
derives when he has taught
something so difficult that the
sweat is, running down his
back. And he knows he is get-
ting through to them when he
sees young Mary's face light
up like a flower. And he nods
to her in kindly fashion when
her hand is raised, And she
asks, courteously and intelligen-
tly, "Sir, may I go to the wash-
room?" It makes everything
seem, you know, sort of worth-
while.
There's a completely differ-
ent atmosphere in the schools
these days. When I was in high
school, if a kid got out of line,
the teacher would clobber him.
My old science teacher could
clip a large lout right off his
stool, across two desks, and
into a limp heap of rags on
the floor, without disturbing a
test-tube. My old maths teach-
er favoured a two-knuckle
smash just above the kidneys,
which enabled you to say
nothing but "Huh! Huh! Huh!"
for about four minutes.
That old brutality has all
gone by the board now, and
a good thing, I say. Nowadays,
If a kid does something that
qualifies him for a sound
belt in the chops, you realize
he's not doing it just for hel-
lery, he's emotionally disturbed,
And the kids appreciate it,
Aside from the fact that they'd
have a lawyer on you if you
gave them a dirty look, there's
a wonderful new sympathy be-
tween teacher and student. I'll
bet there's not a single kid in
any of my grades who would
refuse to sign the class card
of condolence to my wife, if I
were to be run down by a bull-
dozer. *
How do I like teaching?
Well, say, I haven't really time
to discuss it, right now. I
have four hours' homework to
do, an examination to prepare,
and an hour's work on the
school yearbook. Come back
and ask me in the summer of
'63.
have cannot he expected to.
carry the load of bolstering or
being the pillars of our band
forever. They find the time to
take part, they are not too
proud to sit in with junior
people and give them help and
they also find time to travel
to practices regularly from out
of town.
The few adults we have are
just as busy if not busier than
the available musicians needed.
A few of these people from
town, camp and district would
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of graduates. These increases, it is already
apparent, will be mostly offset by a greatly
enlarged population. In Ontario the popula-
tion per dentist has risen from 1,900 in the
year 1920 to 2,400 last year.
In view of the social importance of oral
health, the heavy expenditures required for
treatment, and the scarcity of dentists, there
is a great need to prevent tooth decay, and
its after effects, by all means available to us.
The traditional methods of preventing
tooth decay are just as important to-day as
when they were first enunciated many, many,
many years ago—sound nutrition, adequate
and timely oral hygiene procedures, and early
and regular dental care. In addition, the
fluoridation of water supplies is recommend-
ed by almost every major health organization
in the country as well as by the Department
of National Health and Welfare, as a most
effective public health measure to reduce the
occurrence of tooth decay.
Clinton water supply has naturally, the
ideal amount of fluoride content
in concerning ourselves with health mat-
ters some priority might properly be given
to problems which are related to a high
death rate, but such priority should not be
perpetuated at the cost of our problems,
while less dramatic, take a relentless toll of
human health and well being;
Most dental diseases can be prevented. In
our own enlightened self-interest we should
make greater efforts to prevent them,
Quote Of The Month
"Mark haw fleeting and paltry is the
estate of man,—yesterday in embryo, tomor-
row a mummy or ashes, So for the hair's-
breadth of time assigned to thee live ration-
ally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops
the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore
it and the tree that matured it."
—Marcus Aurelius.
look and sound mighty good
in the band.. I urge such men-
toned adults to let yOttr hair
down and. sit in with the junior
players and give them the help
that you (like myself) were
happy to get from older music-
ians who were not too proud
to help us. Let's find the time.
Incidentally there are at this
Moment spare baritone, bass
and trombones available for
seasoned players or juniors and
seniors to learn, I would like
to see more girls' in the band
also,
George Wench
Bandmaster
Clinton News- eco
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Here's interesting news about a new service —free
concealed telephone wiring for homes under construction.
We are now ready to install multivvire cable through the
studding to suitable locations in the house where tele-
phone service may be required, We can only do this at
the stage of construction after electrical wiring is com-
pleted and before walls and partitions are closed in. When
the house is built and the customer has chosen the loca-
tion, or locations, for telephone service, our installer will
locate the hidden wire, install an inconspicuous outlet and
connect the telephone, or telephones, with the wiring.
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In Clinton, our
installer Al Har-
per is being train-
ed to do this
work. As he is
the expert, we
asked him about
the new service.
"Yes, it's free. It
certainly fits right
in With the plans
of all progressive
builders to keep
wiring bidden and
many outlets as
possible in con-
venient and in-
conspicuous loca-
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"One attractive
feature of the
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with a plastic
faceplate. More
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ed in their kit-
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