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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1962-01-25, Page 2ETER'S Modern MEAT Market HU 2-9711 Oven.RecAy — Grade A Turkey 6 12 ibs. 49c lb. BONELESS STEAK ROAST' i a c WING STEAKS j 1 01 b. Headcheese 0:, tor $1.00 1, There's something gruesome in the interest everyone has these days in being annihilated. Some people are so absorbed in the whole business that I swear they'll be disappointed if no bombs fall. I've just finished reading a pile of Grade 12 essays. More than a third 'of them dealt with some aspect of nuclear warfare. If those kid's knew half as much about the subjects on their course as. they do about radia- tion fallout, there'd be no stop- ping them. They are morbidly interested in the monsters to be created 'by mutations among the post- atomic generations. They talk casually about the dosages of strontium 90 and. iodine to be released by the bombs. * They are fascinated 'by fall- out Shelters, and write long and frightening lists of the equip- ment they should contain. One lad, as nice a teen-ager as you'd come across, warned in .all ser- iousness that shelter supplies should include a gun, for the purpose of mowing down any outsider who tried to join the inmates. You can't blame the young- sters. Listen to the conversa- tion next time you're out play- ing bridge, or drinking beer, er whatever you do at your part- ies. That plump, gentle wife and mother at the next table will be reeling off the number of millions who will be killed in 'the first' attack, That portly, jovial church warden across from you will be saying that we ought to drop it before they do. I'm not frightened by all this. 've nothing to wear. Nobody appreciates you. The furniture is Shabby. Those kids _are driv- ing you crazy. Jack's never home at nights. You're a nerv- ous wreck. The house isn't nearly as nice as Mabel .and George's. You're losing your looks. And the church is always after you to bake pies'. I'd think you'd be happy to abdicate. How's that again? You wouldn't trade 'the whole sordid mess for a mink coat, a model's looks and figure, a mansion with servants, as long as' you can stick around for a few years? Stop whining, then. Enjoy, while you're still with us. Really, I don't see what we're all so alarmed about. For the Darwinians among us, nuclear war will be an interesting ap- plication of the theory of sur- vival of the fittest. For the unregenerate sinner, there's still time to do something about it. And for the res:t of us' good Christians, it will merely mean that we all: get to heaven that much sooner. Especially us Anglicans. Personally, if this is' any con- solation to you, I haven't the slightest intention of digging a hole in the ground and crouch, ing there with my family, like four terrified moles. In the first place it's not a dignified way to meet death., should it come. In the second place, I have better things to do. And in the third' place, I fully intend to live to the .age of 90 and expire peacefully in my bed, my last conscious act being an attempt to pinch the bottom of my special nurse. If this interferes with the plans of either Khrushchev or Ken- nedy, they're just going to have to 'change their plans. Letter to the Editor LETTER FROM EUROPE The Clinton News-Record, Clinton, Ontario, Canada Dear Sirs: Endlased please find a cheque for $4.50 for the renewal of my subscription to the paper. The papers are usually three weeks late when they arrive, but the news is always new to me. I hand it over to another couple here who used to be stationed at Clinton, so it is Well read. Yours sincerely, MRS. J. 0. (Eleanor). PHILLIPS. Sardinia, Europe, December 28, 1961 -o A good driver reacts instinc- tively, and consistently to traf- fic signs and markings, says the Ontario Safety League. But many drivers regard a Warning sigh as a challenge, and feel satisfaction if they. ignore it without being penalized. It is estimated that six out of every ten drivers involved in fatal accidents violate some visible rernincler of the law. Remem- ber, laWfUl drivers liVe longer. 40 Years. Ago WANTON NEW Eg4, Thursday, January 2G,. 1922 Nelson W, Trewarttia, 'Popu- lar reeve of Goderich Township is the new warden for Huron County, He 'is a graduate of Clinton Collegiate, and London Normal 'School, He taught at Holniesville for 10 years; has been 'township clerk for seven ST'alls, farms at Holinesville; is local manager for Gunn Lang- lois, ,Co„ at Clinton, Salaries are raised' at Clin- ton Public School Minimum is set at $750 with $50 raise each year to a maximum of $900: There are six teachers. Prin- cipal A, F. Johns will. receive $1,500. Ice has been harvested at Bayfield despite a lawSuit pond- ing to decide who owns the harbour. W. Jowett and Lewis Thomson each claim it, 40 If ears • Ago CLINTON NEWS-IIECORD Thursday, January 26, 1922 The two Methodist Churches in Clinton are considering un- ion. A vote will be taken on February 2 by all members and adherents over 15 years of age. Ice is being harvested for summer use. One of the waterworks pumps is out of order and cit- izens are asked not to waste water until it is fixed. A, ,McCartney is. driving a pair of greys of which he is somewhat proud. Miss Sadie McCool, Londes- hero, a graduate of Clinton School of Commerce is now private secretary to the Hon, James Murdock, the new min- ister of labour in the King Cabinet. Why are we eating apples shipped from British Colum- bia? They don't begin to com- pare with. the homegrown var- iety in flavour. 1111•01111•11111•10.1. OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined OPTICIAN Oculists' Prescriptions Filled Includes Adjustments At No Further Charge Clinton—Mondays Only 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Clinton Medical Centre 44 Rattenbury Street West Seaforth--Weekdays except Mondays, ground floor. Phone 791 G. B. CLANCY, 0.1). — OPTOMETRIST --- For Appointment Phone JA 4-1251 GObERICH INSURANCE THE WEST WAWANOSH MUTUAL FOIE INSURANCE CO. Head Office, DUNGANNON Established 1878 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President, Brown Smyth, R 2, Auburn; Vive-Prea., Henan Ir- win, BelgraVe; Directors Paul Caesar, R. 1, Dungannon; George C. Feagan,Goderich; Ross Me- Phee_, R. ,3, Auburn; Donald MacKay, Ripley; John F. Mac- Lennan, . R. 3, Goderich; .Frank Thenapson, R, 1, Hdlyroed; Wiggins, It, 3, Atiburn, For information on yOur in- shratice, call your nearest direc- tor who is also an agent, or the secretary, Durntn PhillipS, gammon, phone Dungannon 48. 27-tfh 25 Years Ago ,c1-41s1170N Nt,',ws-it,Kconp Thursday, January 2$, 1937 T.. Hardy was named prest, dent of ',Clinton Public School Board. H. Lawson pi$ersyco::. Total.$s54 exp4ens;a5 for the year were John M. Eckert, reeve of MOoeuTtiyi°14). Tiels IsWr47,4111%n ra.Q-fioaii4wiriol11111 8 'children, two of whom are: teachers. Red. Rose tea (with a free scribbler) was 28 cents a half pound at Scott's Grocery. Kinburn hockey team will meet Kippen in Seaforth Saturday, On Kinburn's team, are Alvin Dale, Bruce Harold' Glazier, Bob Venus, Ed Dorrance, Bernard Riley, A. Riley, F. Riley, J. Moore, W. Riley, C. Neilans, goal for Clinton Juniors, played Seaforth with a cracked rib, Score was 5,1 for Seaforth. In the same game Chester Neila.ns played forward with a bad knee, 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, January 24, 1952 H. E. Hartley is president of Clinton District Chamber of Commerce. Clifford Epps stressed the need for new trees, to be plant- ed in Clinton to replace those cut clown and dying. , The stipend 'for Bayfield Tr- inity Church rector will be $2,725. Rev. R. G, MacMillan, God- erich, made the address on Burns at the Clinton Lions Club Burns Night Dinner. D. C. Sproul, medical officer at Station Clinton gave the ad- dress to the haggis. Wesley - Willis Church Men will affiliate with the Canadian United Church Men. (By W. B. T. SMILEY) -I'm bored. I'm. sick' to death of uninformed prattle about World politics from people who think Marx is a TV comedian. I've had quite enough half-baked lectures on nuclear fallout from people who couldn't even com- bine hydrogen and sulphur and come up with a stink bomb. What I can't understand is why everybody's so concerned, Why do we sit around like so many ghouls at a garden party, licking our lips over the horror's to come? Are we scared or something? You'd think nobody had ever been killed before, violently and painfully. You'd think no other civilization had ever perished before. Surely you're not worried ab- out leaving this world suddenly, Jack? Why, all I've ever heard yon 'do is complain. Business' is terrible. Your wife nags. Your hemorrhoids are acting up. You can't do a thing with your kids. The government's' taxing you to death. The salt is ruining the car body of your car. You- 're working too hard. You haven't thrown a decent rock in the last two bonspiels'. I'd think you'd be glad to be out of it all. * * What's that? You don't want tote? Life is sweet and warm aiidebeautiful and yoti love your wife and kids and business is picking up and your bottom's better and the government could be worse and the old car's had it anyway and you like work and you just curl for the fun of it? Well, why didn't you say so? And what about you, Ethel? You haven't stopped moaning since you were married, You- .action to draw certain tones from one of the world's most delicate instruments, Rubinaff will appear in the CDOI Auditorium on Friday, February 2. Tickets are av- ailable from any member of the Clinton Lions Club. Fri.)m Our Early Files When Rnbinoff appears in Clinton on February 2 in a program of popular concert music, he will play on one of the most precious instru- ments in the world., the fam- ed Roinanoff Stradivarius violin insured for $100,000. The violin is famous for its silken, lustrous tone, its full range and almost Unbel- ievable depth. Made in 1731 by 'the master of all violin, makers, this particular 'Str- ad' eventually found its Way into the hands of the Roman- offs, one time rulers of Rus- sia, and still bears the be- jewelled crest of, that family. During the revolution it was smuggled out of Russia and eventually Was purchased by Mr, Rubinoff. Sensitive to heat, humidity, altitude and' the riSks that beset any treasure of such vast value, the Stradivarius is guarded and handled With deference .and extreme care At all tinieS, The ancient in- strument still retains the or- iginal varnish and is the acme of perfection in Musical inStrunients. An interesting fad, is that during certain pasSages of "Warsaw Concerto° Ittibinoff exerts as inn/3h as 60 pounds of pressure on the 'violin, It takes hlenienclous strength elf highly developed nitSculat Clinton Medical Centre 42 Rattenbury Street West New Phone Number HU 2-3431 Please phone for appointments between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. OFFICE HOURS AFTERNOONS 1-4 p.m. EVENINGS 7-9 p.m, Dr. Addison — Monday and Thursday Dr. F. M. Newland — Tuesday and Thursday Business and Professional Directory A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON ST. 7 RATTENBURY ST. E. GODERICH CLINTON Phone JA 4-7562 Phone HU 2-7721 TH15 IS MINOR HOCKEY WEEK IN' CANADA. TAKE- DON'T SEND YOUR BOY TO THE STADIUM IR .14 ,44:aSagtr,* SUGAR and SPICE . Rubinoff and His Violin Concert Here February 2 INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insurance — Annuities CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Clinton, Ontario K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747 Res. HU 2-7556 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL ' FillE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: President, John L, Malone, Seafortb; vice-president, John H. MeEwing, lillyth; secre- tary-treasurer, W. E. South- gate, Seaforth. Directors: John I. McEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris Leon- hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre- vvartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alex- ander, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth: Harvey Fuller, GOde- rich; Wm. rt. Pepper, Seaforth; Alistair Broadfoot, Settforth. Agents: Wm. Leiper, Jr„ Lop- desboro,' V. J. Lane, RR 5, Sea- forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels,' James Keyes Seaforth; Harold Scathes, Clinton. PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N, BENTLEY PUBLIC ACCOUNTAN1 GOderlch, Ontario Telephone Bo* JA 4,9521 478 REAL mute- LEONARD G, WINTER Real Estate & Basines* rovicer High Street 4.-a Canton PHONE HU 2-6692 News About Shopping (St. Marys A DISTRICT FARMER calling at our office last week gave us encourag- ing news. He mentioned that he felt that most farm colleagues he had en- countered expressed the opinion that this town was a pretty fine shopping place and the rural customer got al- together very fair treatment in retail stores and other business establish- ments here. "Of course," he said, "Many rural folk do take a turn at spinning away to a nearby city occasionally, but in all I feel they are pretty attached to their local town merchants and think that in the long run they get the best treat- ment and service here." One thing this community does have is the support of many hundreds of loyal farm customers who buy much of their family needs here, and we know that the. business people of the town are well aware of the immense value of this patronage, and do appreciate it. We could not help but tell our farmer friend one tale before we parted. It was about the shopper who decided to do her Christmas shopping in the dis- count store some thirty miles away from home (she has an economy car and gets thirty miles to the gallon). After she had made her purchases via Journal-Argus) the discount route, she paused in a few other places including stores in her home town. To her dismay she found most of the things she had bought were easily obtainable closer to home, in most instances at similar prices, and in several cases at lower prices. Some peo- ple find it hard to believe this type of thing. The best test of it is to talk to someone who has experienced it. A Good Idea (Exeter Times-Advocate) WE LIKE the idea, which seems to be spreading, of having school child- ren witness the inaugural rite of muni- cipal councils. For the second year in a row, pupils of Grand Bend public school wit- nessed the ceremony at the town hall there this past week. This year, Us- borne officials were sworn in udder the watchful gaze of some Winchelsea stud- ents. It's an excellent idea to promote interest in municipal affairs among public school children and this is one practical way of doing that. Besides, it engenders respect for the municipal office, which is warranted. CHM News-Record THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Amalgamated 1924 Est. 1881 Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,369 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance Canada and Great Britain: $4.00 a year; United States and Foreign: $5.50; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized aS second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash A quiet atmosphere in plet4sant surroundings And a trained Competent staff. BALL & MITCH FUNERAL SERVICE AMBULANCE SERVICII Phone HU 2.9441 • WHEN. IT COMES to saving money for their voters back home, members. of county council can show some par, ticulariy quick stepping. Faced with, a need to supply .additional space to house the increased number of offices for of, fiCialS which seem to come properly Within the realm..of county government in, one way or another,' they turned down the -idea i of spending $256,000 fora Possibly-. some of the councillors were thinking of the demand for hospi, tal rooms which must be met in some way, and very soon. From a humanit- arian point of view, this demand holds precedence over the need to supply of- fices for employees of the county. Though" the need for increased space may be evident to the county council, they are searching for other ways to provide it. Somehow we feel that they will be quite successful in this. Strange that no one has suggested PERTH AND HURON together have a strong grip on the health and welfare business, as a result of the shuffle of parliamentary secretaries, announced by Prime Minister Diefen- baker on the opening day of the new session of Parliament. The minister of national health and welfare, Hon. J. Waldo Monteith, MP for Perth, now has as his parliam- entary secretary L. Elston Cardiff, MP for the neighboring county of Huron. The two should find it easy to work together, and to arrange that Mr. Car- diff is able to speak in the House of Commons with a good understanding of what is in the mind of the minister. Not only are they both from this same area of Western Ontario, with homes only 40 miles apart, but they have been together at Ottawa longer than most of the minister-secretary combinations that might be made up from among the 202 Conservatives on the governing side of the House. Mr. Monteith's service in the House dates from 1953, when he was one of only 51 Conservatives who gained election against the tide of a St. Laurent sweep. When Mr. Monteith THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 4% E D A O • C flL al cutting down on the number of em- ployeeS, or on the number of branches Of public service being .offered by the county.. In the past there have been some ..rninblings about the need for a health unit; certainly there are some who have doubts about the need for an emergency measures organizer; there are even those who would question the need for the bookmobile :service. But in this instance, there seems to be no move toward cutting down on staff, Would this indicate that we are moving even further along the road to more civil service? In the battle to cut down the unemployment figures, have we all agreed that an additional clerk to look after paper work is justified? In any case, we compliment the county councillors upon their wisdom in refusing to build more office space. We would hope that they will be able to solve the problem in other ways, entered Parliament, however, Mr. Car- diff had already been there for 13 years. When the Conservative party hit its all- time low, in Dominion affairs, back in 1940, Mr. Cardiff was one of the little band of 39 who won election under a Conservative label, and formed the of- ficial opposition in a House of Com- mons top-heavy with Liberals. In three general elections in the former riding of North Huron, and three in the pres- ent riding of Huron, he has never been defeated. Mr. Cardiff became government whip in 'the first Diefenbaker admin- istration, formed in 1957, and has since served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of agriculture. If it were not for his years (Mr. Cardiff will mark his 73rd birthday next Monday), and the effect on his health of severe in- juries suffered three years ago this month, in a fall from a garage roof where he was shovelling snow, there is no doubt that he would have been asked to assume heavier loads of responsibil- ity in the government. In his new appointment he should be able to give good service. Page 4-,--Clinfaa News-Record—Thurs, ion, 25, 1942 Editorials Wise County Councillors What Others Say . . . Perth and Huron Together (Stratford Beacon-Herald)