HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1963-04-18, Page 4I don't know what it's like
for all you folks in inland towns
but this is a rugged time of
year for' the housewife in these
parts, near the waters of the
Great Lakes.
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Right about now our women-
folk should be coming into their
own. In most localities, the
ladies, bless and praise them,
are working like beavers, gr-
oaning like galley slaves, houn-
ding their husbands, chastising
their children, and generally
making life unbearable for all
about them. It's house-cleaning
time.
* * *
But in this neck of the
woods, things are different.
The gals work just as hard,
beef just as bitterly, and turn
things just as topsy-turvy as
their inland sisters. But no-
body pays any attention to
them. At least none of the
males in the family do.
*
Only the few womeh with
the foresight to get at their
spring cleaning early in Mar-
ch get much reaction around
here. Those who leave it until
the ice goes out of the creeks
might as well forget about get-
ting any h e 1 p, attention or
sympathy.
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Women carefully lay their
plans to have the old man help
40 Y ears Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, April 19, 1923
An Ontario election has been
called for June 25.
A teacher for 32 years, Mr.
T. G. Shillinglaw, Tuckersmith
Township, was honoured by his
many friends this week follow-
ing his retirement.
Mr. A. McCartney is having
his house raised and will have
a cellar and walls placed under
it.
Master Bobbie Homey, Br-
ucefield, met with a bad ac-
cident when he went to get
on a democrate wagon by climb-
ing over the wheel when his
foot slipped and got between
the spokes, breaking his leg.
William Dow, Brucefield, also
had the misfortune to break a
small bone in his leg which will
lay him up for some time.
John Aikenhead and bride
have returned from their hon-
eymoon and have taken up
housekeeping on their farm in
Stanley Township.
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, April 19, 1923
John Cuningharne r et i r ed
last week as agent of the Can-
adian National Express after 41
years of service.
Mrs. H. R. Sharp was elected
president of the Ladies Bowling
Club. Other officers are: Mrs.
F. A. AXon, Miss Amy How-
son, Miss Jennie Robertson,
Mrs. J. E. Hovey, Mrs. G. A.
Roberton, Mrs. Zapfe, Mrs. W.
D. Fair and Mrs. Treleavan
Estimated expense for t h e
public school for the year is
$10,500 while it is $17,444.89 at
CDCI.
Mr. 3, Seeley IS opening a
shoe repairing shop in the Pal-
ace Block.
Mr. Snazel is putting up 75
feet of bill boards on the vac-
ant lot where the bowling
alley formerly stood.
Agriculture representative, S.
B. Strothers is moving his of-
fice from the corner' of Albert
and Rattenbury streets to the
Normandie' Block,
Clinton will enter a junior
lacrosse team this season With
3. Zapfe as president
them paper a room on his day
off. Comes the time. She gets
all the junk out to do the job,
turns around to call him, and
he isn't there. He's a couple
or ten miles away, watching the
rainbow trout trying to jump
the falls, or mucking about the
banks of a stream looking for
speckled, or splashing about at
the mouth of creek seeking
some sign of the smelt run-
ning.
* * *
. He arrives home about four
p.m. The old lady has just
washed the paste off her hands,
brushed the cobwebs out of her
hair, and put adhesive tape on
the scrape she got on her el-
bow when she fell off the step-
ladder. She's sitting down with
a strong cup of tea, trying to
tell herself to be reasonable,
trying to muster enough
strength to begin peeling the
potatoes for dinner.
* * *
'Let's get at that job, kiddo,"
he cries jauntily, his face glow-
ing from fresh air and the
three beers he stopped off for
on the way home.
*
"We'll never get that paper-
ing done sitting around drink-
ing tea, will we?" As this is a
family type column, I shall
draw a discreet veil over the
rest of the scene.
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, April 21, 1938
Local merchants during the
past week have decided to close
on Wednesday afternoon during
the months of May, June, July
and August.
Miss E. N. Wilson, graduate
nurse of Clinton hospital, left
on Monday for Hearst, where
she has secured a position.
Mr. Fred Hovey of Queen's
University, Kingston, is holiday-
ing at his home in town.
Robin Thompson was elected
president of the Boy's Grain
Club, sponsored by the Clinton
Lions. Alvin Betties is vice-
president and Robert Glenn,
secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Reginald Noble, who has
spent the past year in New-
foundland with the Meteorolog-
ical Service of Canada is holi-
daying with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Noble, Huron
Road East.
A car driven by Archie Mc-
Kinnon, Zurich, and having as
passengers Jack Clancy, Will-
ard Aiken, Tom Cooke and Ron-
nie Peck of Clinton, was in-
volved in an accident Saturday
None was seriously injured.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, April 16, 1953
Both Chief of Police Gilbert
L. Robertson and Constable
James Thompson presented
written resignations to the
council Monday. No comment
on either resignation was of-
fered by any member of coun-
cil.
Ken J. Pickett and Bob Camp-
bell have opened their new store
at Clinton's main intersection.
Open house will be held on
April 18,
Council set the mill rate of
74 mills to raise a t o t al of
$131,157.81.
Clinton'S "small hand 'fire
pumper" has been turned over
to the Huron County museum
after a lengthy debate over the
ownership of the eqttiprrient
Hon, Brooke Claxton, minist-
er of defence,'visited RCAF
Station Clinton, Sunday,
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Hitting has become a popular
recreation during the past few
weeks. There has been a lot of
shoe-leather burned up, sore
feet, aching muscles.. and heal-
thy appetites developed by the
young hikers, who have been
prompted by President Kennedy
to revive this old-fashioned
Passtime.
I would like to suggest an
interesting, less strenuous re-
creation, which any one of us
could take, but you do not get
behind the wheel of a car to do
it. You pick a place you used
to know when you were young;
if it is far from where you live
now, then try to get to it the
day before.
Get up early in the morning,
before anyone else is awake;
take the lunch you packed the
night before; wear just what
you must for the weather you
choose; slip through the yard
and under the fence if need be
and head down for the favorite
spot while the grass is still
wet with dew.
You will be surprised that
you can walk a long way in a
very short time. In a car it
seems to take hours to go a
few miles. If you check your
the house answers the door-
bell, and there stands one of
the neighbors.
s:*
"Thought you might like a
little treat," he grins, and steps
aside to display proudly a bus-
hel basket overflowing with un-
cleaned smelt. * * *
That is the day the man of
the house comes home from
work to find his smelt net rip-
ped to ribbons, his chest-high
waders chopped into two-inch
squares, 60 pounds of smelt rot-
ting in a heap on the front
porch, and his wife facing a
suit, entered by the neighbor,
for assault with a deadly weap-
on; namely a smelt.
yoauf tewrill
ynooute 1ptfhtat mwaintch,
s
ute
the
house, you are down where you
poet ry as a girl.
used to fish as a boy, or write
Make this day one for enjoy-
ing, not rushing through. As
you cross a field, look at the
clover; remember how it tangl-
ed in your feet as a child.
Wander by the river, You see
a fish lying on the sandy bot-
tom. Catch it if you can—or if
you will. The important thing
is to see it, to remember what
it was like to fish here---how
many years ago?
By now, highways are for-
gotten. You are not straining
for oncoming traffic, not won-
dering about whether, you
should have filled up with gas
at the last station, You are,
aware of who you are, more
aware of who you used to be,
and a little pained perhaps over
been.
When
you might have
When you sit back and eat
your lunch, it will be with one
eye watching down the path.
If anybody comes, it will most
likely be a small lad with a
willow pole for a fishing rod,
He will pretend not to see you.
He knows this river so well
that a torn turf on the bank,
would not escape his eye. ,
If you are one of those people
who believe the only reason for
a holiday is "to see something
new", even you will not be dis-
appointed on a one-day vaca-
tion such as this. You will see
yourself in an entirely new
light. You may be left thought-
ful or a little homesick, but it
may also do what a recrealtion
is supposed to do—renew you
for the days ahead.
Regardless of any other bene-
fit from this short walk, you
will be convinced that the sun
still shines, the river still flows
—that most of our problems
are made by ourselves and will
pass away.
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But this is only the first
phase in the spring hardships
of the lakeside ladies. They've
almost got used to it, over the
years. They realize that "Do It
Yourself" is more than a slo-
gan. It's a way of life. The
real ordeal lies ahead.
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This commences when the
smelt actually start to run, and
the perch are running right on
their heels. The girls don't
mind their men going smelting
at, 1 a.m., and crawling into
bed with them, cold and damp,
about four in the morning.
They've got used to going down
to get breakfast and finding a
ten-quart pail of smelt sitting
in the middle of the kitchen,
to be cleaned.
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They are not really dismayed
about standing over a hot stove
for a couple of hours frying,
smelt fumes wreathing their
rosy faces, while the family
works its way through about
20 pounds of the wee crisp
beauties like a school of por-
poise cleaving its way through
a gaggle of herring. This is
routine.
But there comes a breaking
point. After this smelt non-
sense has been going on for
about ten days, even the old
man and the kids turn a bit
green when somebody suggests
a "nice feed of smelt". And
that's about the time it usually
happens. One day the lady of
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As we reported a couple of weeks
ago, Mitchell has been selected as the
site of a slaughtering .and cutting plant
for FAME, the co-operative packing.
concern being backed by farmers in an
effort to afford some competition to the
major packing plants in Ontario.
With one million dollars invested
by shareholders, FAKE. has already
started work on its major plant at Ayr
and the Mitchell plant will be one of the
smaller slaughtering houses providing
meat for the major plant at the Ayr
site,
While the plant at Mitchell should
be of considerable benefit to area farm-
ers in view of the fact it should cut
down their shrinkage 'and trucking costs
for their prOclucts, the plant will also
give Mitchell an attractive new industry
that will boost the economy of that
Perth town.
The selection of Mitchell as the site
was not a haphazard affair that was
determined by drawing a name out of a
hat, but due mainly to the efforts of
three groups in that municipality,
Several towns in this area, .includ-
ing Seaforth, were being studied by
FAME, but the major selling factor ap-
pears to be the work done by the citi-
zens of Mitchell and the attractive offer
they made.
The council agreed to install the
necessary sewer at a cost of approxi-
mately $8,000, the Chamber of Com-
merce made a determined drive to sell
shares in the town, boosting the coffers
of FAME by $3,300 in the process, and
With the long-awaited Easter holi-
day drawing to a speedy close, students
in the area will be going back to school
on Monday to face the final term of
their school year.
Although we hesitate to remind
them, it won't be too long before they
are faced with final examinations and
this final term is always the most hectic
and the one in which they must do
considerable more work.
It is perhaps unfortunate that this
term is also parallelled with beautiful
sunny weather that entices the unwary
into a state of relaxation and day-
dreaming about the summer activities
coming up.
With the added work-load, the
position of their friends who are al-
ready working and have plenty of free
time on weekends and evenings is also
presenting an enticing picture.
While many words have been writ-
ten on the importance of a good educa-
tion, there are always those who fail
to heed the sound advice of those who
are in a position to know the Untold
benefits of attaining as much education
as possible.
One of the better pieces we have
read was written for the CHSS school
book, "De Schola", by board chairman
John Lavis.
While 'all the students have receiv-
ed one of these books, they perhaps were
As noted before, the meeting held
in Seaforth by the Huron Farm Union
to hear the two federal candidates out-
line their farm policies was what we
would term a disgrace, due to the fact
neither would discuss politics, despite
the fact they were supposed to be
politicians. •
However, that is all •over now, and
there was one other aspect of that meet-
ing we found very interesting and a
little disappointing.
One of the points contained in the
brief the Farm Union has drawn up
to present to the government called
for more aid to rid the country of the
surplus milk and butter.
A suggestion was that free milk
should be given to our youngsters and
also to pensioners, and while this would
cost considerable, it would certainly
help the situation.
However, after the meeting was
terminated, a member of the Farm
Union came onto the stage and invited
all those in attendance to join with them
for a cup of COEFEE.
Having lived in communities depen-
dent upon the living standards and
general well-being of the farm popula-
tion, we have always listened sympa-
thetically to their complaints and ideas
for bettering their own lot.
However, we become indignant at
times when we realize that on the aver-
age they are not really interested
enough in helping themselves.
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
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the PUC will install the necessary water.
and hydro lines,.
While this expenditure will be a
slight burden on the taxpayers of Mit-
chell, there is no doubt that the benefits
they will receive from this new Indus-
try will far overshadow the initial out-
lay.
This is just another example of
what a town can accomplish when
enough interested parties. get together
to back a project that they know will
aid the entire municipality,
While Clinton's location was just
not quite central enough for this plant
we imagine there was a slight chance
that it could have been built in this
area had it been backed even more
than it was in Mitchell.
We also understand the Seaforth
site being considered was west of that
town, which would have been of some
benefit to Clinton, but apparently neith-
er municipality took any initiative to
study the benefits to make a proposal
to FAME in an effort to get it located
there.
This proves once again that munici-
palities interested in enticing industries
can't merely sit back and wait for them
to come, but must get out and "sell"
their area and give a few concessions
to industries.
While it is too late to do anything
about this FAME plant now, we trust
the example of our neighbors in Mit-
chell is one that will linger with us and
will spur the proper people to more
action in the future—and the not too
distant future at that.
too interested in reading the many inter-
esting articles to appraise the sound
advice of Mr. Lavis.
We have reprinted it here for their
benefit and also for their parents, who
may need some additional help in pre-
senting the importance of this final
term to their youngsters.
The message is as follows:
You will find that there is a very
substantial advantage to be gained in
this competitive existence through
education. We live in such a fast-mov-
ing and competitive world that, more
than ever, the poorly educated and
poorly qualified will take second place
to the well educated and well qualified.
There are thousands of successful
uneducated men and women, but remem-
ber—they did it in spite of their lack
of education and not by reason of it.
Education has been compared to
the riches of our natural resources—
nature will give them up only to the
energetic, the courageous and to those
who have the initiative and persistence
to pry them loose•by the very force of
their own efforts.
The most lasting value of an educa-
tion is that although economic condi-
tions over which you have no control
can take away your money and your
property, they cannot take away your
education. It will always be with you
and stand you in good stead.
We find it very difficult to back a
program that will cost the taxpayers
considerable money in providing free
milk, when farmers themselves don't
drink the product they are producing
in such large quantities.
This is meant in no way to be a
criticism of the Farm Union, because
farmers generally are guilty in this re-
gard.
A check with most would find that
they do, not drink milk themselves, and
it has also been proven in polls that
many of them use margarine rather
than the butter they are producing.
We think farmers are being unfair
when they expect the taxpayers to sup-
port a program of free milk for our
school children as the best method to
eliminate the surplus.
There is no doubt in our mind what-
ever that if all the farmers started
drinking it themselves they would elim-
inate this surplus and with an effective
selling campaign and by setting an ex-
ample, more of their urban cousins
would probably start using more too.
However, we can't back their re-
quest until such time as they invite us
to have a glass of milk rather than a
cup of coffee at their banquets, meet-
ings and meals at home.
As one of their better customers,
we find their product very refreshing
and just as cheap to buy in a restaurant
as coffee and suggest they try it some
time.
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1924 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Published every Thursday at the Est. 1881
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,369
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