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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1962-11-22, Page 2Page 2 --[";]inion News-Recon]-•—Thurs., Nov. 22, 1962 &ii.tor.Iiis . Hope We're Among Them - According to the Ontario Dental Association's council op .dental public health, there are 100 rural coMmuniti- es in the province that lack a dentist. We rather hope that Clinton is numbered among these. a, er Certainly we have one dentist,. nde a aV ygo d.Q one, but we most definitely could keep an- other busy, The .dentist who has tried to cope with the situation here for the past decade: would be the first to agree with than, In feet, Dr, Palmer has tried repeatedly to persuade someone in the dental profession to come to Clinton to Practice. • There was a workshop held in Tor- onto yesterday to search for specific recommendations to deal with the prob- lem of .dentist shortages. Let us hope they were thinking of -Clinton, too, Most Important Days Throughout the municipalities of Ontario the time for selecting govern- ments for the next 12 months is come. For some reason, the people are never so interested in their own local governments as they .are of the provinc- ial legislator, for instance, or for the dominion government. We think that the greater inter- est nter-est should lie with our local govern- ment. Whether it be township, town ort n and women, coon y, the me men we have a chance to vote for are those (in most .cases) who have grown up here, those we have a nodding acquaintance with at least; we see them at church, at farm sales, in rinks at hockey games; we see them acting as pall -bearers for r their loved ones, as ticket -takers for bingo games, as • coaches for baseball teams, as cooks, waitresses, farmers, mechanics, businessmen, housewives, retired gentlemen, whatever they hap- pen to be. These are men and women we know. Also, we know the local situation with regard to what is needed to make our communities grow and prosper. We know when a drain is needed across a section of the township, and we know when sewage from a neighboring town is causing sickness in .live stock down- stream; ,we know when a sidewalk needs repair, when street lights are needed; we appreciate new pavement when it is. installed, modern schools built for aur children, good bus systems to get from one place' to another, poor mail delivery when it happens, and we know when rprotection. we have good police and fire We know what we want, and we know what it will cost, and we know which people will get what we want for a sensible price. Then, let's get going and nominate on nomination day or night, the men and women who will do this job for us. Let's give them eager and constant support when they set about the job we've asked. them to do. Let's_ vote for our choices in such strength that they will know the people want them. This time of nominations and el- ections on a municipal level are mighty important, and the basis for our entire democratic structure. Major Changes Afoot In the world of weekly news - papering, changes continually take place across the Dominion, and those of the industry keep a close watch at the changing scene. This is comparable to jewellery store owners knowing who is in their Kind of business in Orillia or Fredericton and to clothing merchants knowing who is in the same business a hundred miles away. Just within our own county, major changes are taking place in weekly newspapers. At Wingham, after years of having presswork done in the plant at Listowel, the Wenger Brothers have changed the entire style of their paper, to an offset (or photographic) process, and are doing all the work in their own plant. The result is a very readable, well -printed and lovely weekly news- paper. Our congratulations are sin- cere. South at Exeter, similar changes are taking place. For years their press- work has been done in the plant at Stratford, and this has meant several trips a week to the city. Very soon that weekly newspaper, too, will change to offset production, and all the work will be done in the Exeter plant. While we • are looking forward to enjoying the new products of both of News -Record does not consider a n y change in the method .of production here. With thousands of dollars in4 vested in new, or quite usable letter- press equipment, it would not be logical to make the expensive change to the other process. On a sadder note, we veiw the pas- sing from circulation of the Seaforth News which suspended publication last week. Actually this was one of very few remaining "second newspapers" in any of the Ontario towns of which we have knowledge. Years ago, every town had two newspapers, sometimes three, and they were fiercely political in their veiws., For a short time. this situation prevailed, and then came grad- ual merging, until very few towns have two newspapers. We believe that the Seaforth News was one of the best of the "second news- papers" to be printed, and the Snowdon Brothers produced a clean sheet, with quite liberal use of pictures. YOU NAVE A HAND IN THINGS CANADIAN when you own L'rfelnsunnce Surprising? 'Yes—hut trate. Like most people, you have probably thought of your life insurance -was protection for your family -'-as a good Way to save money regtilatly--ae a valuable collateral if you need a loan for an emergency —as a retire. *tent plan for you later on. Actually, your life insurance dollars are More than an investment in your personal Security and your ramily's, These dollars are also art investment in Canada. They Stimulate growth and 'progress and help Make this country abetter place in which to live and Work. M this imoment, 9 BILLION 1SbLLAiiS O life insurance Savings are invested itt important Canadian enterprises --through the purchase of bonds and stocks and through Mortgages. These hard-working dollars are helping to finance great projects all over this ,country such as pipelines, shopping cert- tress, bridges and highways, homes, aper't• ment and Office buildings, schools, fadtotiete industrial plants and power develope:entre The investments create emiployment opportunities, too. The income frem these investments bene- fits you directly by reducing the cost of life insurance to yeu and the 9 million other Canadian policyowtneril. `'HE 4'iFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANAbA West SUGAR and SPICE (ay W 13 . T. Snillk470 Life pan be a zn,ighty punish ' leg pr?oceee. And I don'± mean the ordierary everyday struggle for existence.. Nobody has :ever ttescrlbed that more 4ocunate4 than Thoreau, who Observed that every mala leads a lire of quiet desperation, No I don't mean the day-to- day fracas with our families, our jobs, our society an'd our complaining :bodies, We !become inured to this :grim warfare, and I swear that when we stagger,, groaning out of bed' or a bleak November day, we :almost wet- come the corning fray because it is. reassurance Alba, at ]:east, we are still in there fightiing. But it isn't the daily horror that lleavtis those great purple welts an our :sensitive souls]. It's the nasty backhander that corn: - es out of nowhere. just when we think everything is renninng reasonably 'well. The pagans knew enough to propitiate the !gods with secr'i- fices. The Irish know enough to try to keep the fairies from clobbering them. The rest of us have to rely on such feeble tricks ,as' keeping our f ingerts cro s'ed, 'and :knocking on wood. All we gets in response is arth- ritis in the fingers, and aro answer, respectively. There's eine ;thing, 'however, About these nasty little flog- gings from fate. They always Doane in threes. Once you've had your three kicks in the teeth you can rest easy for a while, until the next series is due. I've just had my latest treat- ment, and though T feel ,groggy and sorely bruised, there is ileo a pleasant sense of relief, as I realize that I am home free for awlhile. The first assault was On my Peace of mind. You've weird of ;peopie with .bats in, the bel- fry? WO, that's nothing. I halve little black things chairing each other around 'in. my top storey; t !see That the ix h . - X .....ins s' unl fired black squirrels who are so. "cute" around our 'place all su tmer are not coiteinte.,d with the bushels of acorns' eon my lawn, They want to get at the nuts inside the Place, They have chewed a hole in my roof, moved in With all their ne lotions, and ,are throwing a 24- hour -a -clay party, with sqt a3le. dancing, broad jumping land eekinling races as featured en- I ertainmrent. It makes your blood run col, to hear them thundering around up there. It's driv+irg our cat straight .cut ,of her aid. It's putting my wife in that frame of mind when -"Why dent you do •sornething about it?" be- comes •a chip on my shoulder. I had no sooner dlecided the squirrel' situation was hopeless, when the second sortie was made ehlis time on my pocket- book. My wife took the carr to 'the city the ,other day. lit wee pouring rant Some gawk Slammed ibito cher freer behind vvhen s,h e w a s parked' at a Stoplight. She jumped out, didn't see any serieus; damage, didn't 'want to ruin her hairdo, jumped in :again and dr'o've away. That one cost one $130. The impact had broken t h e reverse gear in my anutonnatic transm'isei'oa. No name, no lie - mese number, no imisnurance. • After these two I was cow - ening mins a bit. knowing from ex. (Continued on page 5) Letter to the Editor Sometimes we have printed editorials which we wished we had written. This week we present a letter to the editor, which we wish someone had written to the Clinton News -Record editor. Act- ually it was written to, and appeared in the Leg- ionary, a monthly magazine published by the Royal Canadian Legion. OUR FLAG The strangest argument put forward in discussion of a Can- adian Rag is the matter of racial origin. It would be im- poseible to assess the racial origin of the people of any country in the world by looking at its ,flag. And the most .not- able changes in hags have had nothing whatever to do with a change, either sudden or grad- ual, of the race of the people concerned. What the flag changes have represented is a radical change in a nation's political concepts and ideals, using "political" in its broadest sense. When the French nation changed its flag from the Royal Lilies to the Tricolour and the new American; nation adopted the Stars and Stripes and threw out the Union Jack, they did go because they had substituted republican ideas and forms of government for a monarchy. The RugStans relrlaced the two- headedeagle by the hammer and' sickle because they had re- placed .the dictatorship of the Tsar by the "dictatorship of the proletariat." The Germans, 30 yearns ,ago, showed by their tri- colour ad swastika that they 'had committed themselves to the • apolitical ,ideals of Nazi Socialism. When after 1945 they abandoned those ideals, they again changed their flag. In no case was, there .any racial change in the people of the na- tion ,concerned. The flag is a •political, not a racial, syanlbal. A recent ex. ample is .Cuba, whose new flag proclaims its adopt;din of Com- munist political Heels. The world ,o'v'er, the union Sank alepresenta not a trace but the ideal of "fair play" ear all. It as a still unrealized i!d'eal, but nowhere is it more nearly attained than under our system of a ,government by "the Craven 1Paultiaineiivt" en independent judiciary, .e'ourta open to the public, trial by jury and .a free press. It 'is dangerous to as- siwne that these safe'gu'ards of freealom will remain with us wvithasnit thought or effort on our pant. Seeking attempts have been made in Canada within recent years to limit, or abolish altogether'', the freedom of gas- gemb']y and !the freleddtr of the press. It 'is dangerous, to'a, to think that ire b'aks 'Naive no pra'cti tlal. value. `Ilhe first cottntry of the Conutonwealith to eliminate the Union Jack was South Africa. The reality of freedom as we know it did not ling survive. the .abolition of the symbol. It may be that some day the Canadian peopile will d'ecid'e that individual freedom entails a burden too heavy to be bourne and will entrust our affairs to some self-appointed person or group who will know better than, we do what is good for us, and will heed and drive us to it. If and when that hap- pens, it will be time enough to do away with the symbol of freedom --the Union Jack. And we shale have surrender- ed - a e sur. ender ed all that we have fought to maintain moi. R. Ailey, Toron- to, Ontario. F.r.o..m Our Early. Files 40 Yvan Ago xporQN W W •ERA. lyovesnber 23, 1922 Weti'ston Churchill, Was de- feated iii this owin'ra•.'ding of Den - dee. He was Lloyd George's divief lieutenant, George Hili, Br eeeilreikl', ship_ peed two leave of hogs', sheep and cattle, 1 -le received the highest price for .cantle, ante :beast g'oi;ryg at 9 cents Nappy Bartllff returned from Vancouver last week. He Te- Pert's that the !auto bi•ts'iness has been very good weer brght- er prospects for the eetnitpg year. Haavdel's Messiah we'll]' be suing in Ontario .Street Methodist Civureh by the Clinton C•ihlanrai Society and the South. Huron; :choral .Booiety, Aetam'oibile .owner should ibe- ware of 'carbon monoxide poi. sin and should not s'tanit ear in graarage. 40 ears Ago a 4 NTO i NgIVS TMC011p Novenkber 23, 192.2 Humph and '1phria'm Snell p accompanied t tI e i r exhibit :a f sheep to the Royal Winter Fair at Toronto, and will go en with them, .'to the Chicago fair and then back to the Guelph Winter Jena Torrance, ,Footer's Hail, returned horn;e from Blybh least week after helping hits son-in-llaw, A. Sloan with ;handling his apple crop, One car load was Ben Devis, i.naluded with a shipment of 5,400 barrels ship- ped by a firm at Brighton, to South A:Mee. Butler Bros. offers choice steak, .any cut, 20 cents, The Kelly Circle at Bruce- flieta heard miss Edythe Bow- ey. .give ,an interesting pasper cn British Guiana, The annual sale of work 'will be held Dec- eunber. Adine writes - o many t� in s f Recently I hta:d! to part with an Bald-faslhioned bread er bake 'bowel which heel been in :our family for romaine years. Medear cupb'oaird's ,and' kitchens just dant seen to have space for these, The shiny, counter tops sand table esumfaces found in the thoxne today 'con hardly lend themselves .to the want and he:grease scenes that some of • us can recall All pastries and baked +food seem more delicious when we recalll their goodness front years ago; before calories came ,into widespread disfavour and fanner -IS' pure lard became a thing. to avoid es one would, the "plague" ,because of the cholesterol content! Today's :chlildr'ea will recall the sound of box tops 'being torn fr!oni packages; the bell ringing on the .automatic oven timer. If they wish to speak to mother it will• have to be above the Whirr of the electric mixer! Who needs a board when the cooks ,af. today take the dough out of .asealed! car- ton and roll it -on a waxed paper? The bakebaard in today's kitchen would be as miisplace!d as a 'bustle at a Twist party, The board to which.. I refer was made of pine—scrubbed •smooth and honey -coloured. Where ano- ther willed out and •cut cookies or pastry on its ,creamy 'sur- face, scraping up the flour from the edges with a dull knife, the sound was soft and muffled. The kind :of noise that you could hear and talk above. I remember a story my math- er told me one day as I sat on ur Sped& Combinati f n Sale on Quality Meats Ends Saturday, Nov. 24 at closing time WING and T-BONE STEAKS — SLICED • RINDLESS BACON LOIN PORK CHOPS - MEATY AR SPE RIBS - FRESH GROUND BEEF GROUND SUET BOLOGNA l WIENERS SAUSAGE � 11.11111 - - 83c lb. - - 59c ib. - - 59clb. - 57c lb. - - 43c lb. - - 19c Ib. COMBINATION DEAL 3 lbs for BUY 1 Ib WIENERS 1 Ib. BOLOGNA $100 85c " Get 1/Z Ib. Bacon Free! FREEZER SPECIAL! --- CHOICE BEEF Front Quarters 45c Iba. but Wrapped to your 59c Ib. J own tpecifiaations at Hind Quarters no extra charge. ETEIi'S Modern MEAT Market HU 24731 Cliaton News -Record. THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1866 4 {, �► � sustckiiitioti Authorised at second Antalgamated THE CL•IN-PON NEWS -RECORD Published every924 hureday at the Est, 1881 Wart of eluron County Clinton, Ontario ee Population x,369 • A. L. COLGli1 bUSI; Publisher • WILMA b, itttNNINf Editor Signed cdntribufions to this tsublicafioh, ate the opthieas of the Writers Only, and do not hetessatilri rixi rest th'e viewi of the newseapet. RATE Payable to advance L danada and Gteot britein, $4 0s a yearn Untied States and Flutist: $S,SO; Single Gopte Tad' Cehti Oat; feat(, Post Otfite bepaFfinehf, Ottawa, And for ernsektlf of 'posfa,* id cash C N R' a steel helping her. T put sug- ar or nuts on the cookies, and sampled them. as they carne from the oven. It seems that many years ago ththere oyes .a young olio who veld with ]ilia •mother, He had a real peoblenxr. He was foxed of two young ladies! who seenn- ed' to have equal. (sivarm +and talents !and he couldn't d'ec'ide wihedh of the two he should atloimg :)oagboe whiassnwt ifeat. b(eTfhiorse was girls really recidedthis ques- Well, he !discussed this pro- blem with: his mother and she said to him, "Have both Mary and aline bring you the "scrap- ings" from their breadboard next Saturday alight, and bring these to me." Naturally the son was puzzl- ed by his mo'ther's- advice, but as he had found she often was wise (he was past 21) he de- cided to do as ehe suggested. During that week he saw both Mary and Jane end asked them to bring him the "scrap- Plns"• Both girls did the family baking an Saturday and one said to hlex'eelf, "Oh, John will find what as wonderful wife I will be when he sees what good 25 dears Ago •CLPTTON NIWS-RLDCOIip Noveipber 25, 1937 David Caeteion celelerates his 90th bhrtbdlay on Bat'usrday . Be is .]vale and hearty and actively engaged tin livestock b u y i ng with no intention of retiring. He can tell' some interesting stories abo * apple buying, too, About 2t) inches of Mew snowfell laat weekex. td, making for ideal sleighing. Robert Berl is responsible for roaming Krippen, aftev his native village in, irelaand, 'rhe Goshet line in Star tey Township was first settled by Protestants Who r'efus'ed` to ,allow-Catholti'es to lave on it. Varna was earned for a town ?Wade famous in . can War, Beraaniller isthe WarneCrimd after a man by that naxne who built a flour mill there. 1 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEws,Roo RD November 29, 1952 Ken Water, ex:mayor of Clin- ton, is seeking la place en Tor- onto or-onto City Council. Dr. J. W. Saw officially lair- ed the connerstane .at. the new Legion Memorial Hall, Assist- ing were Kelso B. Streets, pre- sidernt; .K1.tner Jel mUon and' the branch 'chaplain the Rev. R, M. P. Bulteel. Geange F. Elliott has the con- tract 'tor snow removal from town streets th?' winter . New entrance sig tis are up at Auburn. The concrete Setters are 33 Indies high, and each weigh 250 pounds, Rteeve W. J. Miler .announced intentions of running from may- or. •Couneiti'r M. J. Agnew plans to run for council. things I use in baking." So sthe left +a little of each item sh'e had used oh her board atnd ' packaged 11 all up neatly for her "beau" to take home. The other candidate:did the regnllar baking and had diffi- cuity scraping anything from her bakeboard — just a little flour was left --this she •put do a small paper. Wihen the young man took the two packages to his mother she didn't:Wen open, them, but pointed to the smallest and said,. "That • is the rgin 1 you should marry. She will be thrifty in keeping your shame." The whole story, of course; proves the old saying, "Waste not: Want not". BELL LIN by W. W. Haysom your telephone manager Don't Miss This Christmas Suggestion! How's your Charistanas list tamingalong? It's often difficult to find just the right thing or that very special someone—a wife or husband, son or daughter, mother or close relative. Well, here's a suggestion: say a "1Vleray Christmas" to your dear ones this year with a lovely tot- oared ,extenation phone — a year-round reminder of your thoughtfulness. . You can order the phone of your choice naw by simply calling us at HU 2-3401, We'll do it up in bright Christmas wrapping for you in time to put it under the tree for Christmas, Intreduca0g .. . Miss B. McQueen; recently appointed Chief Operator at Cllinton. Miss McQueen will have snpervision over Clin- ton, Goderich and some Seaforth calls. Miss Mc- Queen came to Clhtten from Ham- ilton and Grimsby where she had con- siderable exper- ience With the Telephone Comp- any which will be of help to her itt assuming the re- sponsibillties o f her new position. With the Christ - nuts Season ap- preachin , the Vol - utile of Long Dist- ante coling will inereaSe, and Miss MCQueett and her staff fire readying thenyselves for a busy season. l i s s McQueen has taken up real- deuce in Carlton o n cl We welcome her to the conn tpun#ty