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
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A. L. COLGli1 bUSI; Publisher
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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
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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