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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1962-03-01, Page 21 Page 2--�Cl n ..News-Recorih-,-Tbun,., March 14 1962 Editorials Moved To Tears We shed a few salty onesurn receipt of the latest Readers Digest and after reading the "personal mes- sage" which was included from the president Paul Zimmerman, of The Reader's Digest i ssociatien .(Canada) Ltd. As was expected following the de- cision of Prime Minister John Diefen- baker and his government to restrict the growth of so-called Canadianedi- tions of foreign magazines, the Reader's • Digest is putting across an appeal to its "readers; Mr, Zimmerman b e c'a m e s o emotional about what he calls a "cruel dilemma" that at one time he refers tq his magazine as the "Canadian. Digest". This magazine, which admittedly r the 'ion has many readers across Dominion, has this month a total of two Canadian articles out of 30 major ones and an un- counted number of small features. This is quite typical of a "Canadian Edition". Mr. Zimmermancontends that his firm hires 1;000 Canadians in the job ofprinting these articles, and of course its • soliciting advertising, preparing ad- vertising, ete. We agree with him, that this would be a loss to Canada, should these people be unemployed, when the proposed legislation is passed. But we do not think they would be unemployed for long. If Canadian advertising is more available to Canadian publications, then • those bona fide Canadian publications would expand their staffs and would employ those people who would be temporarily unemployed. We do not worry too m>ieh about the content of Reader's Digest coming into Canada, for we read it as a Cana- dian fully aware that it is United. States material we are reading. We are concerned for those people who ignore footnotes, source marks, ete., and apparently think that they are reading a Canadian publication. That is the insidious part of this. "Canadian edition" type of thing. On the bulletin board of one of the classrooms in our own public school is .a preponderance of United States material. Included within a few square feet on the day we looked, was a full: page 'colour meat advertisement from Saturday E,veningg Post; a, large four- colour presentation of the solar system distributed by GM of Canada Ltd. (of. course this is a branch of the American General Motors) ; a front page of the "Canadian edition" of TRUE depicting a charging wild beast of some sort; the front page of an issue of MacLean's showing President and Mrs, John Ken- nedy; a Royal Bank calendar . and an editorial page from the London Free Press. Bad enough to be subjected to the overflow of manufactured articles from the United States and the persuasive powers of United States. TV, radio and their beautiful monthly magazines, without having the same material fed to the Canadian people under the guise of "Canadian editions". Our answer to Reader's Digest, and other such magazines when they ask for a subscription is to request a sub- scription to the United States edition. So far there has been no results. We cannot help but wonder what they're saying about Canada in their United States editions. At Time To Change The winds of change are blowing through the Dominion of Canada, and there is need to heed the indications which are most obvious. Within our own small sectiondeep in the good farming lands of Ontario, there are some movements toward a change in our way of life. We'll wager that those of us who have not been on a modern farm, or in a barn for the past ten years, would see a vast changeover the way things are managed now than they were even that decade ago. In the same vein, people who have not been in Clinton for ten years, will note great changes, notonly in the ownership of business places, but the type of housing which people are erect- ing; the many more homes than there used •to 'be, increased size of schools, three more churches, different types of business. More change is coming. Our town is going to grow. The management of the town's affairs -must keep in mind the changes which are pending. The taxpayer must be prepared to continue his contributions toward keep- ing the town in 'modern dress, even though he may be asked to keep up with the moderately high tax structure which we now have. Possibly the increased revenue from increased assessment will see the town through its next growing stages. We rather think it will, for the finances of Clinton are in good .shape. But if it seems necessary to ask for even more tax money, then we think the town fathers would be justi- fied in this, for Clinton must be ready to accept the changes which time brings about. 'Goderich To New Zealand (Stratford Beacon -Herald) A shipment of heavy machinery which came along the Canadian Nation- al line from Goderich, and through Stratford, a few days ago, was a chunk of. evidence that Canada can compete with manufactured goods, in world, :markets. Pessimists will tell you that Canada can sell farm products, minerals and pulpwood in world competition, but that our manufacturing industries are too feeble to compete with those of other countries. A gloomy view of what will happen to exports of Canadian manufactures to Great Britain is at the root of some of the fears about Euromart; factory - made Canadian goods now being sold to Britain have the benefit of a 17 per cent tariff advantage against goods from Western Europe, and if Britain joins Euromart, this advantage will be lost by Canadian exporters. The rail shipment from the Domin- ion Road Machinery Company at Gode- rich, which came through Stratford, was on its way to New Zealand. It con- sisted of six big road graders. They were going by rail to Saint John, New Brunswick, vvhex'e they are to be loaded aboard the SS Port Nelson, for Ship-. rent by way of the. Panama Canal to New Zealand. That's a long , way to go in successful competition, and the Gode- rich firm is doing it. The six graders complete orders fol a total of 11, bought by the New Zealand. government. Three went last year, and performed so Well `that the New Zealanders ordered eight more. Two Were shipped in January of this year, and six to complete the order are on their way noW. For this export Shipment, the high cabs were taken off, dismantled, and packed in with the Main frame of the grader, to save cargo Space aboard ship. The cabs tall be re. assembled when they get there. • This bit of export business is an example of the way a seeming liability, the Canadian winter`, can be made to work as an asset. In Canada, counties and townships normally reckon to use their road graders as dual-purpose equipment, converting them to work as snowplows in the winter season. For Canadian use, to buck snow and fight winter storms, as well as to do normal road maintenance in summer, the Cana- dian designers and manufacturers have to turn out a rugged product. When the ruggedly -built Canadian machine goes to work in countries which do not have our winter conditions, the extra ruggedness • shows up as extra dur- ability, The Goderich firm is demonstrat- ing that when Canadians stir them- selves abroad, and try to sell, we are able to compete. The Art of Living To TOUCH the cup with eager lips and taste not drain it; To woo and tempt and court a bliss --- and not attain it; To fondle and caress a joy, yet hold it lightly, Lest it become necessity and cling too tightly; To watch the sunset in the west Without regretting; To hail its advent in the east the night forgetting; To smother care 'in happiness and grief in laughter; To hold the 'present close — not questioning the hereafter; To have enough to share — to know the joyofgiving; . To thrill with ell the sweets of life is living. Clinton News -Record telt CLIN`t'ON NEW ERA Est. 1865 t Atniaigartiated 4924 TAR CLINTON NEWS.RECbRD Est, 1881 Pubilahed every• Thursday at the Heart of Herrin County Gunton', Ontarid •- e iseeiltat on 3,369 A, L COLOUHOUN, Pal:41sher 011 WILMA D. DINNrN, Mi tel% SCtB tIPTzO 1 RAttE. Payable advatidt heradr arid Great Britain. $4,00 a year, tlriited 'gtates httd l'erelgi $5.Sb; Single copies Ten Cents hate riled aS secozic dfia fhli3fl i?tnst Offiee bettantment, ottatva and tai- Payrxient 'o pestt'ige iri cath \e;\-tfile a WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP SUGAR and SPICE . There's an aircraft flight scheduled far this corning July that I'd like to be taking. 1 read all about it in a letter received the other day from the air force branch of the Prisoner of War Association. Some of the boys, with their wives, are .chartering 'a plane to take them to the United Kingdom, where they will visit old .heunts. Former prisoners of the Germans call themselves "ka iegaes". It's an abbrevia- tion of the German word "kriegsgefangenen" — or some- thing of The sort. It'll be a lively jaunt. There is to be a well -stocked bar aboard. I can visualize the antics when some of•the old kriegies get imito the grape. * a: * At one end of the 'aircraft, the singers will be serenading 0/Riley's Daughter and other ladies of that ilk. In the galley somebody will be mixing up a kriegiecake: pulverized biscuits, powdered milk, man, and prune es. There was never a eaike recipe to beat that one for sheer weight — 12 pounds to the square foot. You can have your Duncan Hines mix. Some other character will be setting out a batch of pure, unadulterated kriegie brew. It's made from potatoes, •turnips, prunes or anything else that will ferment. One hooker of that stuff, and an angel can turn in his wings. He doesn't need them any more. • Elsewhere in the aircraft, some old-timer will be hammer- ing away at empty powdered= milk Minns, turning them inito. cups, plates, jewelry and high- powered machinery. But I doubt if the expedition. will ever make it to the IJ -K. Some kriegie, who cut his way through a six-inch concrete wall with a nail file, 20 years ago, and was en the loose for three days before he *as caught, will insist on demonstrating how he did it. And when the whole bot- tom falls out of the aircraft, the others will have to agree that he hasn't lost ,.his touch. * Every old kriegie is larcenous at heart, and the pilot of that aircraft is going to have his hands full convincing thern that he hasn't room on the return trip for a few things they pick- ed up in England, each as The ',rower of London:, princess IVfargaret, Big .Ben, and the en- tire saloon bar of The Gate Hangs eligh or the Dirttry Duck. There's to be a grand reunion party in London, with former RAF kriegies. That'll be a good one. T wonder if wee Jock will be there, with his In- verneee tongue that could peel your hide? Wel Paddy B. make it, and of he does, will the get drunk and want to fight eNerr-. body? I 'wonder • if Dave Will show up and infuriate one and all with 'his calm English view that it`s time somebody "took these •Catorde s in hand," mine at. big us? * Tx'd'ttbl'e le, l: See thein, and morin, like thein, as they Were then: 'Wee Jock with hie nob.. hiy, •schoolboy face, Paddy as strong es a bull and quick ,a5 a rabbit. {earn, blond Date With his carnal Mariner, ledi face, Inig'e tnrurstaehe. And All of /tient just ,A year or two elder, than the lads I'niteach. ins 'in school eight new, WOnit3t•t;'t 'it be terrIble of they turned up for the lei dor parity looking lust lie the rest of tiisf, (By W. IL T. SMILEY) thick around the middle and thin an top; a whole lot less interested in staying up all night; and meekly murmuring, "Yes, dear" to some strange woman with a, cold, suspicious eye in her head. That letter about the trip brought back t host of mem- ories of prison -camp days. All of them were good ones„ That's a beautiful piece of machinery built into us humans --the ability to forget the bad times and remember only the goad ones. In retrospect, the life in pris- on camp 'has a great attraction for old kriegies. The reason, of course, is because it was com- pletely free of complication. Thome were no jobs, no homes, no anortgages, no cams, no chil- dren, and no women to worry 'about. • • All the decisions were little ones. You had 'to decide wheth- er to have turnip soup or turnip stew for dingier. You had to decide whether to go on smell- ing like a goat or to have a midwinter bath with ice water in the unheated washhouse. You had ;to decide whether to gobble yourslice of bread in one glut- tonous mouthful or nibble at it for an hour. Looking back from the welt- er of payments and problems and .children and wives in which they are firmly morassed today, it pis little wonder' that old kriegies heave a sigh of nostal- gia for the simple; ordered ex- istenee of .the camp, Even though they'd have sold their own grandmothers into slavery to get out of the ;place while At The Library (By MISS EVELYN HALL) ' A Passion In Rome (Marley Callaghan) Described on the jacket as a major novel, this latest story by Marley Callaghan Packs something, that almost indefin- able "something", that places a book 'above others. The story is not cluttered by a mass of characters and to it is extremely easy to follow the thoughts and actions of the two main characters. The set- ting is. Rome in those weeks of anxious waiting before the death of tihe last Pope. Sam Rayburn, a Canadian, a newspaper phetogr:apher of no mean ability is scheduled to meet a feature writer in a certain hotel. On arrival at the hotel Sam is horrified to learn that the man has come and gone. Knowing nothing of the language his efforts to com- municate with the desk clerk leaves hen quite frustrated. He leaves the +hotel to walk off his moodiness. He feels; lone- ly, bitter and entirely bewilder- ed. His life up to then had been lonely, cut off from his artisstic father who despised' him when he would not conform to plans made for hen Secretly he had dabbled at painting and just before receiving this latest assignment had came to the conclusion that his talent did not lie itt the 'field` of painrbing. He wants to knave why he fail- ed 'aad hopes that while he is in Rome he may find .the are saver. There are places of beatity V) vdeit, fine paintings to see. It was on that first lonely night 'that he caught a glimpse of .a young lady who seemed so desperately unhappy. He Was coinpletely intrigued by her and feta so strongly that he would meet her again, and in the best tradition of fiction he ;does just this. Unable to understand or speak Italian he seeks the services of an inter- preter. It does not take him long to learn th.a't • she knows the young lady, Carla Cane+li. Born Anna Connell in New` Jersey, She had found life hard and brutal, ,and even her rise to stardom as a folk singer was too much for her. A severe set'baek had knocked the props from under her and she was alnriost a mental wreck, a victim. of steady drinking. Sam feels that it is his duty to rescue her and restore her lost confidence. He finds a small apartment and starts on the uphill struggle to make Carla feel a real person again. He makes mistakes but is pleas- ed to see the real Carla ,emerg- ing from the blurred image. Sant is surprised to learn that he feels more like an artist creating a masterpiece. He has more talent at a confidence re- storer than as a painter. He proceeds .patiently and cautiously with 'tins, plans only to feel that all is lost when an American producer hears Carla sing in a small; restaurant and pedes her that he will take her back to the 'United' States and manage her career. Callaghan has a •good sato{', but why dial' he have to pad, it with such sordid quantities of sex ,and; drink? Earlier it was suggested that something was lacking, maybe it was what wan added that puts the book into "the second.class". Osie standard of a goobook .i.s how many readers Will comment int it voluntarily when it is .returns ed, Se far no one .has made a cotnmerit oh this one. Merchants Meeting Town • Hall Tuesday, March 618 p m ALL MERCHANTS WELCOME Bring Your Ideas end raoke this n Bigger end Better Meeting. Glltltott Retail Merchalnta Cotniiilttee it, R. Cafpbelt, evretary JONI From rQ u 40 Years .Ago OU NToN NIPM 'PRA Thursday, Marv11. 2, 1922 The first class gf nurses gr. adAting from .Clinton Public Hospital were Miss Margaaeert Mucha id, Miss Annette S nelaxr and 'Miss Fanny . MnKe'nziet The received dip1gxnas dram Dr, W. Gunn and ,pins from Mrs. W. el, f 'ann.'ing first pros - of the board, Special gifts were presented by ?Vers. N. W. Trewari ha, president of the board, Dr. J. W. Shaw made .the address. The ho, spital plant. is now worth about $10,Q00 acid flnailly paid for. Jack Miner entertained a large crowd at Wesltey Ghurgh with his plain but humoa'ous bellk about his cxlinnpanions i ip with the wild things of the air, 1I. B. Chant and Ernest Rum- ball hada narrow escape from gas £amines at U e waterworks Nous pump . e Art S cele, oovered the hien in time, A ratepayer ;asks that Clin- ton Piubdie School adorn the idea of •purchasing text books for lyupils. 40 Years .Ago CLTNTON .NEWS-RL!'GORD Thursday, March 2, 1923 W. E. O'Neil 'and Miss Win- nifred O'Neil thave bought out the Corner Grocery from F, W. Wigg. They will continue to op- erate their own store until ex- piration of tine lease, A London company has pur- chased the Owen interest in the •Clinton knitting concern and it will be reorganized. We understand Col. Combe will continue to hold a large int- erest in the new company. Mrs. M. Brown has moved from Londesboro to take pos- session of the grocery recently purchased ,from L. Strong. "The Four ,Horsemen of the Apocalypse" will be shown in the Princess theatre next week. The News -Record did not come -out until 1130 p.na. Sat• - urday night awing to the power failure. ,ary CS 25 Years Ago ,04/4T9Isi l WS- LECQ$D Tbursd y, Vebrilary 27, 936 A .favorite {wall during the past few weeks has been up y negarr. TN111 to view tho snow piled up on Qithetr ski of the road, by line :many exertions of the srlow 01oW. On $und'ay a little racing car attempted the road, buried its nose le the soft saaow. The deriver, from GoderiGh, s'irnply lit up .a cig- arette. and wa'ite'd until those Cutter ,drivers who lead ftp got lakiraugh, got busy end, dug him out. 0'oe M11rplhy, Royal Canadian Corps signals, Carlip Borden, spent the weekend with sea parents, Mr. and Mrs, Bert Murphy, Concession 2. Stanley. Mn and Xr$•. J. W. Tippett, Bayfield, celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary on Valen- tines Day. 'erYone' glad to see Mgr - way 4 'tlhlrough, Londe -sieve .open again to traffic. Back in 1896 the News -Rec- ord reported a telephone being installed in the Wavee ey House. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, February 28, 1952 Tenders are .called for the new $300,000 Public Sehool 'irt Clinton. Thomas Pryde, MP for Huron is appointed Deputy Whip of the Progressive Conservatives. P/O J. R. Wood, Goderich, was •aanong personnel graduat- ing as radio operator from No. 1 AROS, RCAF Station. Clinton last Friday 'afternoon. Bayfield Lions saw pictures of the Royal Family's tour of Africa, shown by Robert Welsh in the Little Inn. Addition to MCI basely need- ed. 325 enrolment expected this fe>,1 for a building planned to accommodate 180. • Miss Ciama Hanson reserved a jewel pin from the LOBA. She as a Past Worthy Mistress. PETER'S Modern MEAT Market ' HU 2-9731 S.P. COTTAGE ROLL 45c Ib. PORK HOCKS -- Fresh - Meaty .... 25c Ib. BACON SQUARES • 29c Ib. WEINERS 3 lbs. for $1.00 FREEZER SPECIAL: BEEF Front Quarter Only 39c IL Business and Professional Directory s A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON ST. 7 RATTENBURY ST. E. GODERICH CLINTON Phone JA 4.7562 Phone HU 2.-7721 OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAEF 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, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST For Appointment Phone JA 4-7251 GODERICH 38.413 INSURANCE THE WEST WAWANOSH MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO: U. .AN.. i.. b TMG NON Head Office, Established 1878 BOARD OF DlRECtORS PreSident, 'Browfi Smyth,">€t 2,; Muburn;. Vice -Pres., Hereon. tr- win, BelgraVe; Directors . Paul Caesar, R. 1, bunganszoh; George C, Feagan, _ Gederich; Ross Me f2hee, L 3, Atiburh; Donald MacKay, Ripley; John1+.. Mee - tertian; R. 3, Gederich; 5 Binet Thoi'npSon, R. 1, Holyrood; WIn. Wiggins, R. 3, Auburn, For inforreation on your in- Surancer call your nearest direc- tor whe is fisc- ail agent, or},.the Secretalry,, bui�nin Phillips, bun - gentian,. phone bu'hgttnhon48. 27-tfb INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Terns 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 Rein. 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