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Editorials
An Assessment
SIX MONTHS gone and 1961 is
well on the way for the last lap, No
time like the present for an assessment
of things accomplished.
Without doubt, the promised cozn-
posite school for Huron County is the
most revolutionary project to have
come up in the past six months, The
entire concept of secondary education
will be altered,
No longer will the youngster Ieav,.
ing public school see only one avenue
open through which be can work to a
university education and a future with
satisfactory employment.
A composite school combines the
advantages of .an academic learning
with more practical training. Students
will decide at the end of Grade 8 wheth-
er to .enrol for the academic or voca-
tional course of his choosing.
Transfer from one to the other may
be nude after completing a year suc-
cessfully. After a- four year vocational
course a student has the basics neces-
sary in the modern day world to go
into a trade. Or he may transfer back
into the academic course for Grade 13
and go on to university.
The possibilities for this composite
school are unending. We can visualize
excellent use of this structure for adult
education and re-training through night
schools,
The 100 percent capital grant ar-
ranged by the Canadian and Ontario
governments was made available for all
construction and equipping costs of the
school. This move was made in an
effort to take a long range view of the
unemployment problem and the need
for re-training men to take jobs created
by onr :changing economy.
In other ways, too, the Canadian
government is taking steps. Much as
we may resent the loss of an artificial
"top dollar" position, the return to a
premium American dollar is healthy for
all of our nation.
Exports to the United States can
now be managed without a drop in
revenue to the producer. The trend to-
wards American money invested in
Canadian industry with view to high
profit will be halted slightly.
The inquiry into foreign publica-
tions should lead to action in reduction
in the loss of advertising dollars to
Canadian publications and the more
important loss of Canadian identity.
When James Coyne stood on his
'Cleanliness
(Aurora
THE LORD'S Day Act, as itaffects
coin laundries, is one of the ridiculous
insults of the 20th century.
The Supreme Court of Canada has
made its decision, based on the law. So
let's change the law.
The girls can take their clothes off
at the Sunday burlesque, but they can't
wash them at the coin laundry.
You can enter a drugstore on Sun-
day and buy a milkshake or a restaur-
d;gn;? and announced to all of Canada
his side of the squabble over monetary,
matters he did what he felt was right
and for that we give him credit. We
have always enjoyed Mr. Coyne's ad-
dresses and his demeanour. But we feel
his announcement and subsequent in-
fighting were ill-timed,
Mr, Coyne, and .any manager of
the Bank of Canada, is a civil servant,
The guidance of the Bank, and of our
nation's monetary policy must be the
job of the government. If the manager
does not agree and cannot adjust then
his alternative is to resign, but grac-
iously..
Then, if be wishes, he can go on
(while Living on the generous pension
we taxpayers are going to pay him) all
the rest of his life, speaking, writing
and advising the government on policy,
and the nation on their choice of gov-
ernment, Mr. Coyne could :make a
career of this sort of thing,
However, we have lost patience
with him.
Prime Minister Leslie Frost has
spoken of retiring, Facetiously we could
remark that he is "not the retiring
sort". However he has fought a long
battle as the head of Ontario's govern-
ment and a rest is due him.
We wonder if anyone has kept a
list of the Ministers in his Cabinet who
failed miserably at the job of "keeping
their skirts clean" and retired speedily
and in a blaze of publicity. Over the
years it must be an impressive list.
In any case, Mr. Frost deserves
high praise for his job in this regard,
if in no other. Though he may retire
in a blaze of publicity it is much more
apt to be of the hearts and flowers,
hand -shaking, "held in high esteem"
sort.
This has been a long comment
touching on things national and pro-
vincial. Seldom do we find it necessary
to go out of Clinton for an editorial
of this. kind. But we are mindful at
the moment of the advice; If you can't
say something good, then say nothing!
Honestly, there is little to report
of municipal achievement in the past
six months, except the fine job of re-
decorating the council chamber which
the deputy reeve accomplished early in
the year, and which already has receiv-
ed mention in these pages. Of course
the "line was held" with regard to mill
rate for municipal taxes.
on Sunday
Banner)
ant to buy a nose spray, oars a gas station
to buy a teepee or a swing or ,a•carnera,
or stop at a hundred' fruit stands along
the province's highways.
But you can't put a quarter in a
slot and have your clothes washed.
There isn't even the argument here that
you are forcing anyone else to work on
Sunday — for the laundries are auto-
matic.
Cleanliness is supposed to be next
to godliness, in case anyone remembers.
Cintton Neisa.'Record
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Amalgamated 1924
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario -- Population 3,000
A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher
WILMA O. OINNIN, Editor
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Est. 11381
a year
40 Years Ago
• VIrIi11TON NNW 044
Thursday, July 7, 1921
Bayfield unveiled the war
memorial tablet at a three
o'clock =ceremony on July 1.
Mrs. Currie end Mrs, Tarns whe
last their sons in the war un-
veiled the tablet and Col. H. ,B,
Combe made the address. Misses
marianOJJl bings and Mary Mc-
Murcll,ie sang solos. In an even.
ing sottba]t game Varna de-
feated He•Y'field 4-0,
Rev. B. Gaffney is transfer-
red from Stratford to the -Clin-
ton Roman Catholic parish,
Two children of Aaron Fish-
er, Colborne Township, had a.
.close call when they ate some
Paris green, Prompt action by
a local doctor sexed their fives'.
The Laurier Monument Com-
mnttee has announced. that the
public subscription which was.
limited to a sum Mot exceeding
$5 from any individual, has
mounted to $35,293.20. The
money will be used to pay for
a monument over Sir Wilfred
Laurier's grave,
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, July 7, 1921
Temperatures at 100 degrees
on Tuesday.
Thomas E Cook while help-
ing with hay at William Step's
Paan, fell from the load; and
received a broken nose and
other bruises.
$15,840 taxes had been paid
by midnight, June 30, repre-
senting almost half of the levy
in Clinton.
Shortage of water was noted,
and Superintendent H. B. Chant
requested that another well, at
a cost oaf $5,00 be sunk. Mayor
A. 3. McMurray requested that
something be done regarding a
watering place for horses.
Dominion Day was quiet in
Clinton with many going to
Goderieh, Bayfield and else-
where.
Fred Siemer:, principal of the
continuation school at Blyth,
presided for the farewell event
for the Rev. R J. McCormick of
the Methodist Church.
25 Years Ago
1 'orron. NEWS -RECORD
Tlmu#'5tlay, .July 2, 1836
A•d'disvyn A.. Pegg, formerly
vice-president of The Sherlock.
Manning Pianos,. Ltd. and Caryl
W. Draper, superintendent -of
the factory for many years,
have purchased the stook, int.
ere and good will of the
company from the estates of
the late W. N. Manning and
J. F. Sherlock.
The strawberry social .at
carmen Tebbutt's turned out a
veal success although the wea-
ther was cool,
Lawyer J. J. Hoggard, Sea-
forth, who according to a po-
lice s' tat e m e n t, "embezzled
$30,Q00 to $40,000 from a dozen
different persons," gave himself
up in Los Aingeles, Calif, He is
to be brought home to Toronto
for trial.
Tea for 27 cents a half pound
Haat T• R. Thompson's shore.
Wheat was 70 cents. a bushel;
bunter 20 cents; live hogs .$9;
eggs, 12 to 17 cents. ,
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, July 5, 1851
The Rev, A. Glen Eagle, BA,
BD, was inducted as minister of
Ontario Street and Turner's.
The Rev. W. J. Maines was in-
ducted at Brucefield United
Church.
Miss Margaret Shoebottom
Yeas successfully completed her
course in public health nursing.
Fred Arkell has returned to
his Goderieh Township home
after a stay in Clinton hospital
following a heart seizure.
Clinton Women's Institute is
contributing $50 to the wading
pool .at the •community park,
and .also will have the cemetery
fence painted.
The Chamber of Commerce
plan a picnic .at Bayfield.
Clarence Overholt, Zurich,
won $150 at the Lions bingo in
Clinton arena.
J. Alfred Crazier was Instal-
led Worshipful Master of the
Clinton Masonic lodge.
Collins orchestra to play at
ani oldtirne barn dance in Arn-
old Dale's new barn three miles
north of Clinton on Highway 4.
They Do Go Fishing!
To prove that they do fish on their annual fishing excursion to French River,
near Callander, Ontario, John A, Sutter (left) "insisted" that we publish the
above picture. Other local businessmen who make this trip every spring are
Russell Holmes, Caryl W. Draper and Jack Scruton.
Quick Canadian
Quiz
1. In 1960 the national av-
erage retail spending per cap-
ita was $921. What four prav-
inces were above the national
average?
2. By boat what is the dist-
ance ,from Vancouver to Victor-
ia, BC.; from Halifax to St.
John's, Newfoundland?
3. In 1960 did corporation
profits in Canada increase or
decrease from the previous.
year?
4. What are the two .great in-
land waterways of the North-
west?
5. Government transfer pay-
ments to persons (for pensions,
welfare, social security, etc.)
totalled $1,7a7,000,000 in 1955.
What was the 1960 total?
ANSWERS: 5. In 1960, $3,-
116,000,000. 3. Corporation pro-
fits declined by 6 percent over
1959. 1. Alberta ($1,056 per
capita), British Columbia ($1,-
037), Saskatchewan ($1,030),
Ontario ($1,028). 4. The Mack-
enzie
ackenzie and' Yukon Rivers. 2.
Vancouver to Victoria, 85 miles;
Halifax to St. John's, 625 miles.
Material prepared by the ed-
itors of Quick Canadian Facts,
the pocket annual of facts a-
bout Canada.
SUGAR and SPICE...
Well, we've completed our
plans for this year's vacation.
According to the calendar, I
can chisel a week's holiday at
the end of August, and wee
all set. We're going on a camp-
ing trip.
The kids and I would be
happy enough to spend the
week at some luxurious sum-
mer hotel, but the Old Girl
won't hear of it. She thinks
a week of roughing it is just
the 'ticket. Of course. she's
always been crazy about nat-
ure.
Lots of women, for example,
never go trout fishing. They
think it's an insane pastime.
Not my wife. Many a time she's
come right •along with me. She'll
throw on an old $20 pair of
slim jians, ,and pull on an old
rough, $18 sweater, and just
sort of take a swipe at her
hair with a comb for about
ten minutes and slap on some
make-up in 15 minutes, and
she's all set.
She ties an old $7 scarf ar-
ound her hair and away we go,
And when weget to the stream
do you think she complains
about the hard going and the
(By W. B. T. SMILEY)
mosquitoes? Not on your life.
She just rolls up the car win-
dows, gets out her :book, turns
' + the radio and sits there,
roughing it, while I fish,
* * *
But she's always been wild
about nature, so it's no wonder
she talked us into this camp-
ing trip. She just likes to get
right out in nature and *revel in
it. She's what you might call
an amateur naturalist. She
knows the name of all the
wild flowers, like the dandelion
and the geranium, and you
can't fool her on birds. You'll
be standing there, wondering
what that bird is, and before
you can tentatively murmur
"thatch -crafted tit - willow,"
she's flashed out, "It's a crow,"
You can spot this love of
nature every time we go on a
picnic. Many a time I've seen
her sit right down on a rock
or a log, when I've forgotten
the folding chairs, And often,
she'll get out of the car the
minute we arrive and march
right down and look ,at the wat-
er for 'ten or twelve seconds
at a stretch.
And you can tell she's mad
about nature by the way she
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keeps talking about camping
trips, We've been talking about
a camping ,trip ever since we
got married. I just sort of ram-
ble on in an impractical way
about the fishing and sitting
around .the campfire and stuff
like that. But you can spot
her as a seasoned carinper, be-
cause she gets down to sensible
things and makes a list of what
she'd meed, things like her iron-
ing board and a spring -filled
mattress. I guess the reason
we've never gone on our camp-
ing trip is that I'm too dreamy
and romantic about it, and nev-
er get down to the basic es-
sentials, as she does.
* * *
Lots of 'women, in this age
of soft living, have lost .touch
with nature. They think they -
re roughing it' like their pion-
eer ancestors if they spend two
weeks at a cottage with out-
door 'plumbing.
My wife isn't like that, and
I admire her for it, I've seen
her spend a week in a cottage
right out on some wild beach
Wei no neighbours closer than
forty or fifty feet, and nothing
to cook on but an old electric
stove with only two burners,
and do you think there was a
out whimper t of her? Not on
p
your life.
And she's absolutely intre-
pid in the outdoors. Some wo-
men are frightened of anything
bigger than an ant. Not my
brave girl. I've seen her stamp
her foot fearlessly at a chip-
munk and tell him to beat it.
And she was only two days
getting over it the time the
porcupine walked past the cot-
tage.
* * *
No, she doesn't seem. to
know the meaning of fear, when
she's out in nature. I've seeii
her ego right out in a rowboat
and not even hang onto the
sides, meter the first twenty
minutes.
And when she wants to go
swine nirtg, it doesn't matter
what the weathers Like, as long
as the sun is shining and the
tehrtperature's in the 80's and
she has a new $24 bathing suit
and she hast^t lost or gained
any weight diming ing tahe winter
and there ere no stones on the
bottom and there's a kid drag-
ging her by each hand.
Well, you can see what we're
tip against. As I said, the kids
and r would be happy enough
lonaocking around at some plush
resstnt, but Whether we like it
or not, she's going to drag us
off on this bookie camping (trip.
All l: have .to tlo between
now and the last week in Aug-
ust
ugtts't is borreee it; tent with twin
bt and an oil furnace in it,
and make ante the stair at Al-
gonquin Park has killed all
mosquitoes .In the Park and in.
stalled pphig0 for out' vatttnrn
oleater and Clothes dryer at
all trotpsites,
Here is a man who plannea well in advance for
his retirement. His Sun Life of Canada policies were
purchased with two important objectives in view —
to provide immediate protection for his family in
the event of his death and to augment his retirement
income if he should survive.
Now that he has retired in good health, he and
his wife are able to travel and he can indulge in his
favorite sports — golf and fishing.
With just a little forethought, your retirement
could be as pleasant and carefree.
Gordon T. Westlake
Phone 60 r 2 -- Bayfield
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