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Clinton News-Record, 1962-12-13, Page 2Clinton News-Record Amalgamated THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,369 I A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • a WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor Signed contributions in this publication, are the opinions of the writers only, and do not necessarily express the views of the newspaper. 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 THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 0 • D * Est. 1881 CCNR Poultryirgot Now! YOUR Christmas ORDER while the selection Butter Ball and Wallace's Turkeys Greaseless Geese Ducks Capons Chickens — Hams Roast Beef PETER'S .MODER14.,....MEAT MARKET This Year Again viii 6 Feature: GET YOUR FREE TICKETS ON AN ELECTRIC DRYER AT OUR MEAT COUNTER 1, ( ' PICKLED WIENERS Are your valuables protected in a Safety Deposit Box? Buy a box at British Mortgage to protect your valuable possessions and important papers. RENT FREE until January 1963 — Three sizes — Spacious coupon booths for privacy — Long office hours: • Monday to Thursday-9 a.m.-4.30 p. Friday-9 a.m.-6 p.m. BRITISH MORTGAGE & TRUST COMPANY Edward R. Rowland, Branch Manager, At the Stoplight, Goderich. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, December 14, 1922 Warden N. W. Trewartha has sold the Dominion' Poultry Sta- tion at Holmesville. to J. Brog- den MacMath. The new owner is planning to go extensively in- to bees and poultry, Mr. Tre- wartha has purchased Inkerman Terrace on Rattenbury Street, Clinton. • A suitable Christmas gift would be a year's subscription to the News-Record. Miss Kaite McGregor is presi- dent of the Kelly Circle at Brucefield Church. The cost of $75,951.74 for 20 miles of provincial highway from Dublin to Goderich came as quite a shock. • Huron County is assessed 20 percent of this. In the midst of all the hustle and work at this busy season, it helps to remind ourselves that although our ways of liv- ing have changed over the cen- turies, the old message "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord" is still the heart of Christmas. The first greetings of the season, the Christmas cards, are beginning to arrive in most homes. On many of these we notice the great .changes which have taken place during recent years. The real symbols of the season have been replaced by dogs, cats and even old cars, but can these replace the tradi- tional star, manger, Wise Men and angels ? If they do, where is there any improvement? 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, December 14, 1922 This 'issue is not available, 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD • Thursday, December 16, 1937 J. L. Heard as the new presi- dent of Clinton Branch, Can- adian Legion. Vice-presidents are A. E. Haddy, Clinton, and J. K. 'Cornish, Brucefield. William McDool and Melvin Davison, Bayfield, have bagged the largest fox that has been known to be shot in the district, It measured 'six feet from snout to the tip of 'its tale. M. E. Clarke, Seaforth truck- er as paying his four drivers $15 a week. He states, "I don't Changes in the familiar col- ours of the season are affected by some in their decorating, but what can be more beautiful than red, green and pure white? The cynics complain that we have commercialized Christmas. How true .this is, but we don't need • to let this happen to our own celebration of Christ's birth.. If we have thought of the real meaning of this day we cannot say either, that it be- longs only to the children. The older we become, with our greater faith, the more signifi- cant it should be to each of us. We must feel the true Christ- mas spirit of love for one an- other. As you brighten your home with poinsettias and holly, and think it a fair wage and I would like to pay more but I can't because I am not making enough profit." St, Paul'S Parish Hall is re- opened after renovations. At the special program to mark this event Col. H. B. Cornlye was chairman. Miss Ellen Charlesworth sang a solo. At this time Col. H. T. Rance was the oldest member of the con- gregation. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, December 11, 1952 Miss .Edna McDonald and Miss Irene Ifowatt received certificates from Miss A. B, 'hospital superintenderit. They are the smallest and last graduating class at Clinton Pub- lic Hospital. M. T. ,Coriess, retiring clerk- treasurer was presented with a wrist watch as 'a farewell gift from the town. L. Douglas Hol- land, the new .clerk-treasurer, has begun work. Permit for a drive in theatre was issued by Clinton Town Council to R. L. Marshall. An two rooms are needed at 'Clinton Public School, Whose new building is now raid- er .construction. Rev. George J. Hoytema was inducted as minister of the Christian Reformed Congrega- tions /which worship in St. An- drew's, Clinton and Oaven, Ex- eter, 'both Presbyterian church- es. you trim your tree with lights and tinsel, make it a happy family affair. Help your chil- dren to have memories to carry with them down the com- ing years; the fun of unpack- ing the old time-honoured star or angel for the top of the tree — the fragile ornaments (Continued on page 5) jangled nerves, Jangled nelves, Jangled' all 'the way, Through the muddled madness Preceding Christmas Day, If people tried to go at the same clip during the rest of the year as they do in the few weeks before Christmas, the world would soon be populated by a race of wildeyed, twitching maniacs. Even mental constit- utions attuned to an era of guid- ed missiles in the hands of mis- guided mortals couldn't stand that pace much• longer. Never mind, chaps, we're in the home stretch. Only another few •days of Christmas cards, concerts, carols and cranberr- ies, 'Christmas pageants, p u d - dings and parties, Christmas trees, turkeys and tinsel, and we can go back to being the real- istic, selfish slobs we are the rest of the year. For kids, the pre-Christmas wingding is just dandy. There are letters to be written to S. Claus. There are Christmas concerts at which to he mira- culously and' temporarily trans- formed from small devils to small angles. There are glass balls to be shattered while we're decorating the tree. There are packages, rustling mysteriously, to be ripped open 'in drawer and closet. * For the elderly, too the Christmas season brings excite- ment. There is the sound of carols, to bring back memories of rich, good times in the past. There are lights and decorations to put a splash of colbur into the drab grey of the endless days. And there is a little ex- tra warmth and humanity a- broad, to make people pay some attention to the olcHolk, for a change. But for evierbody in the so- called prime of life, it seems that Christmas, or at least the couple of weeks before the big day, has 'become an orgy of shopping, mailing, cleaning, scrambling and worrying that produces little but tension, tir- edness and tears. Especially a- mong the women, Pity, isn't it? Like most men, I'm about 50- 50 on Christmas. At times, I'm strongly in favor of the whole business, at others violently op- posed. Knowing that it puts me in debt, every year ,until about the following June, I'm pretty belligerent about it ,all around the first of December. I put my foot down. I state flatly that we 'are going to curt down on everything: cards, gifts, and especially "stuff for the .kids." But 'by the week before Christmas I'm running, around like the rest of the lunatics grabbing scraggly trees, snatch- in g tough turkeys, planning possible parties, holding whisp- ered conversations with the Old Girl and throwing money around like one of the newly elected 'presidents of a new African state, One aspect. of 'Christmas that I .throughly enjoy Is the sending and receiving of cards, It's the one time of year when I pay any heed to old friends and relat- j9/1$, I dig up the addresses of old, bent pilots in Australia, India and South Africa andsend them cards tai which I triple my income, the accomplishments of my kids and my state of health. They do the same the liars. Arid when the pants come in, I read every one. For one thing, it's the only way I find out that my two brothers are alive, where they are, and how MaalY children they have. Last I heard; one was in Europe, the other in the West Indies. Their wives send cards, Our first card this year was a puzzler. It was postmarked Belfast, Ireland, and addressed: Mr. and Mrs. Sanylle, 790 Bay St., Onatrio,. Cazianda. There ain't no such place, but it ar- rived here. Inside, it read, "To Greta, Alex and family, from Kay and David." We .did- n't know a soul on either end'' of the greeting, but it was' a nice card. The ,address was there, so my wife will probably send one next year, :and we'll keep exchanging for years. To balance out my pleasure in the cards is my homicidal hatred of the erection of the tree.. This is one time of the year when any family sees the head of the house in his true colours. Or hears him, rather, if you can hear blue, because I insist that the living room 'be cleared of women and children before I start. The axe is too handY. Then it is that there come lyact to me those fine, rol- ling, month-filling, satisfying Celtic oaths my Dad used to use when he was down cellar fixing .the furnace and thought my mother couldn't hear him. From. Our Early Files SUGAR and :SPICE (By sv, D, T. S.Y.M4Y) Adine Writes - - - of many things Clinton Representative: Harold C. Lawson Phone HU 2.9644 Reffenbury Street — Clinton Ont. Construction At CDCI Before Storm Work is going along steadily at the Clinton District Collegiate Institute. Above, a crane lifts a seven ton hot water tank into position somewhere in the shops section of the addition. Workmen were ready to pour several of the roof sections last week. (Photo by Stryker) WATCHES For Christmas at ANSTETT JEWELLERS BELL LINES by W. W. Haysom your telephone. manager Our Christmas Tribute think in. human .. the rebirth of hope and the renewal of man's faith in himself. W e have seen the machine a g e grow and de- velop to the point where some have suggested DIA machines have become our masters . . • that nowadays machines can serve mankind better than man himself. Indeed, the age of science has advanced so far and so fast that one o a a scarsely lc e e p abreast of it. We in the telephone MRS. HELEN LAIT company a r e very MOO aware of this. We have made tremendous strides in perfecting What we like to call the telephone art. But, in spite of all our up-to-date technology we cannot escape the happy fact that the friendly helpful operator is as indispen- sible as ever. There are many times when only human undeustanding and sympathy can provide the service you urgently need: A sudden emergency, the need for fn doctor in the night, swift help from Die police or fire department, locating a friend in a distant citythese are the times When an unknown, but friendly Voice can help yoti most. No matter how Many eompleX devices the years may bring to improve telephone service there will always be operators to give the One service that no mackiiie Can provide—human under- standing. On behalf of everyone here at the Bell, the business office staff and myself would like to extend to you a very Merry Christmas, and the best in health and happiness for the coming year. Sally Pock, kToyee Carter, Elaine Rathwell, Wanda Wilson. At this time of the year we like to terms—the love of man for his fellow men Page 2—Cliaton News-Record Thurs.„ Dec, 13, 1962. Editorials.... So, It's True! Anybody who has had some doubts about the actual state of affairs within the farm family's pocketbook, can rest assured that much of the grumbling our rural people are doing is based on fact, A news story from Rome, issued by Associated Press covering the annual review by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization reports that the fall of net income to farms in Can- ada was 24 percent, in 1961, and that this was the lowest level since 1945. Not only that, but the fall of net farm income in Canada was the great- est in all of the countries in which net farm income fell. In contrast farmers in the United States, Britain, Austria, Italy, France, Greece and Poland saw an increase in net farm incomes of nine percent. Farm- ers in Japan, Yugoslavia and Norway, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium have enjoyed an increase in net farm income, too. Small Towns "What I'd give to live in a small town; away from the noise and bustle." So said a long-time city dweller who shares with many the illusion that small town living is attractive. It isn't. Prices are high, people are nosy and civilization is far away. Prices are high because the small town merchant has a captive market; competitively, he's lazy. People are aggressively nosy be- cause they have nothing better to do than poke into other people's affairs. And the cultural advantag- es of living in a large metropolitan area are lost to small town dwellers who see most top-rated movies many months after general release. . Best definition of a small town: A cemetery with lights. If Raymond Varela wanted to start something when he wrote these words for the December issue of the Canadian Saturday Night, then he's got what he wanted. You, Mr. Varela, simply do not know what you're talking about. Our town is as small as the majority, and we feel we're personally slighted and all our friends here, too, by your ignorant remarks. Prices high? Mr. Varela, if you can prove that, then we'd like to see you try it. Prices in our stores are no high- er; rents are no higher; cost of swim- ming in the swimming pool is no high- er; cost of learning to skate is much, much less; cost of being on a winning ball team or hearing the best on tele- vision, or paying for hospitalization or going on a trip to Europe are no higher than those of a person in the city. And with five minutes to spare we could make that list a whole lot longer. People are nosy? Don't you believe it, Mister Valera. People in a small town are not nosy. They're interested. Sure they want to know who's in the hospital, and what he's got, but that's because they want to visit him, take flowers maybe, or send him half a fruit cake, and by knowing what the disease or ailment is, they can better judge what they should do. Sure they know which families have not as much money as others, but that's so they can be ready to lend a hand when the going is particularly tough, and they often do Some few days or weeks ago we read several stories in the big daily newspapers reporting that farmers in Canada experienced a rise in cash in- come, At that time, we bided our time, waiting to find out what the compar- ison was, when net income was discuss- ed. Now we have the answer. When you think of this in terms of cash income being the actual pay a chap is supposed to be getting; and net in- come as being what he actually takes home in the pay envelope, this sit- uation becomes clearer. Who among labour, or the ordinary employed person would be happy in 1962 it he had just come through a drop in net income of 24 percent in 1961? So, when next you're talking to the cousin in the country, remember that he's been having a rather though time of it in many cases. Are For Cabbages! it without even the people involved knowing for sure where it comes from. Sure they're interested in which young lady goes out with whom. The reason for that is that they know that young lady's older sister, and their parents, and grandparents, and about when they came to Canada from England, Holland, Denmark or Sweden. And they care, abolit that young lady, and they care about her young man. Civilization far away? Balderdash. There isn't a small town in Ontario, hardly, that hasn't most of the ameni- ties which big cities consider "cultural advantages". Little, theatre, community concerts, stereo records, live television, excellent libraries, churches with cen- tury-long histories, guest speakers of top calibre, schools with the best taught and devoted teachers to be found any- where in Canada. They're teachers that take part in the life of the community, too. Of course, Mr. Varela, if you con- sider that the Grey Cup in all its be- fogged glory, and the hi-jinks that go along with it, are cultural advantages, and that the "top-rated movies" which are put together by overly rated film stars and directors in another country, also cultural advantages, then you may be right in that small particular. But as for your summing up sen- tence, Mr. Varela—well, you just don't know anything at all about a small town. We presume that you are trying to say that there's nothing to do in a small town. Your wrong, Mr. Varela, dead wrong.. There's not a man in our town that doesn't have something to do, of importance within the community, at least two nights in every week. Many of them find themselves busy more evenings than that, and we've often seen some of them fitting in three meetings after supper, each connected with some- thing of vital importance to him, his church, his business, or his family in some way. The womenfolk are just as busy in their own organizations. "A cemetery?" Well, if this is one, then in order to discover peace after death, we are going to plan to be buried at sea, rather than in a cemetery, Mr. Varela, because there's so much doing in our small town that we'd hate to face a similar hustle and bustle for all eternity.