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Clinton News-Record, 1963-07-11, Page 4One of Clinton's "Eye Sores", This abandoned auto wreck, left sitting beside the road on Princess street, is an example of how one "eye sore" can detract from the many fine private and civic properties. The car, apparently on town property, is surrounded by weeds and provides a very unattractive "neighbor" for the town's new PUC office, as well as giving visitors a bad impression as they pass this spot on their way to the beautiful swimming pool and spanking new high school, Couldn't it be cleaned up? SUGAR and SPICE (Sy W. 14, T, $NTLEV) #0#40.4.4^..0.1ne+4.0.4hoo....,40.P.Pine..o.too.r.rwo CC'N F{, by W. W. Haysom your telephone manager Still At Your Service There used to be a tune when the word "telephone" almost always stirred an image of the operator complete with headset and a broad smile. Somehow over the years this image has been mingled with pictures of telephone lines, digging machines, plies of intricate equipment and the faces of rugged linemen, pretty clerks and service representatives. Of course, each contributes to the over- all picture of the telephone company, and the skilled and experienced operator, as always, Is at your service. You may not be able to see her at her work, but she is available whenever you need assistance. Nice to know that she's there, ready to help, isn't it? Watt's In A Name/ Although it pays to properly identify yourself when answering the telephone ,sometimes it just doesn't help. Take the peculiar case of Mr. Watt as an instance. It was important for him to talk with James Brown at his office. He called the number. A man's voice answered, "Who's calling'?" Watt said: "Watt." The voice asked "What is your name?" "That's what I told yous Watt's my name.P A long pause followed and then, Mr. Watt said: "Will you please tell me your name?" "Will Knott," Whereupon they both hung up. nephew of Dr. Gunn .of Clin- ton, was camp doctor. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, July 14, 1938 ' Workmen are redecorating the office in the McTaggart block preparatory to the arriv- al of Dr. Douglas, of Toronto, who has decided to practice in Clinton. It has been reported this week that the Rattenbury House is to be opened once more to the travelling public, having been sold to Mrs. Mc- Kenzie, of Shelburne. Mr. Ken Elliott sustained a painful injury early this week while attending to his duties at the milk plant when 'a nail pierced his foot. Gold Certified Typist pins have been presented to Agnes Agnew, Irene Robertson and Jean Swan for obtaining a speed of more than 50 words a minute at the School of Com- merce. Certificates for attain- ing an average of 80 percent or more on eight papers were awarded to Agnes Agnew, Wil- lard Aiken, Isabel Colquhoun, Helen Glenn, Loretta Holland, Harold Johnston, Roberta Laid- law, Earl Leyburn, Floyd Mc- Ash, Pearl McGee, Irene Rob- ertson and Jean. Swan. Clinton Orangemen joined 3,500 counterparts in Stratford on Tuesday to mark the Battle of the Boyne. Three pupils of Miss B. Greene were successful in pass- ing examinations set by .the Toronto Conservatory of Music. They are Don Sproul, Aileen McCartney and Helen McGreg- or, 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, July 9, 1953 Two new police constables, Robert Quayl, London and Richard Timleck, Port Credit, were hired by town council at a starting salary of $2,300 each. John G. Diefenbaker spoke last night at Clinton Commun- ity Park to an enthusiastic crowd of tspwards to 500 pers- ons on behalf of L. Elston Car- diff. This ended Diefenbaker's tour of Western Ontario. Several area apiarists have had a number of hives destroy- ed recently and two bears are believed to be the culprits. Mrs. Austin Wheaton won the Major prize of $600 at the Clinton Lions bingo and three special prizes of $100 were won by Mrs. Jabez Bands, Leo Corey and Mrs. Wesle-y Shob- brook. Miss Winnie Gray, who will teach in the new Clinton Pub- lic School this fall, was honored prior to her departure from Hengall by several organiza- tionS. Williatn Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Moore, AR 5, Clinton, returned last Friday train a tout of duty on the HMSC "Crusader";, ?age 4 Clinton News-Record Is Canada A Permanent Living Thing „ or A.:Briet :Candle:In the North Wind LAST WEED, a .£i-year-old Clinton area youth was fined in court here for. illegally, having. possession of alcohol .and there were several aspects of the incident that show the short comings of our present laws and court proved, !Ares. Evidence in the (:Pse revealed that this youth was not out on a hinge by himself, but there were actually three other youths. with him—all reported as being in the sal-M, age bracket as the Accused, While it was not stated in court, • we would suspect that all four Youths were equally guilty in the offense, but Under our present laws it was only necessary for one of them to admit .ownership of the alcohol and the other three were allowed to go free without any punishment except perhaps a ver- bal warning concerning their actions from the, investigating police officer. This warning may have given them enough, of a "scare" to prevent a re- peat performance on their part, but on the other hand they may also have the attitude that they "beat" the law and as long as they have a "fall-guy" along with them for their next drink- ing session, they need not feAr any punishment from the law or their par- ents, who perhaps never will find out their son's activities. With the incidence of teenage drinking becoming more prevalent, it is time that the law was provided with more teeth to at least attempt to cut down on this social problem among our young people, Tn the case of minors, we think that the parents of all the boys found in the car should have been notified of this fact so they could have handed out any further warning or punish- ment they felt was needed. If law-makers feel this would not solve the problem, as it may not due to the fact that most juvenile delin- quency is attributed to the fact that parents are unaware of their children's activities or else believe them to be innocent victims of the bad habits of some of their companions, then youths in a case such as we have noted should be charged as found-ins and made to appear before the magistrate along with the one who has admitted owner- ship, While fines in such cases are not ' severe enough to create hardships on some of our teenagers, a warning from the magistrate that a second offence could result in a jail term, or a suspen- ded sentence on stiff probation, would possibly create the deterrent that is needed to impress teenagers that the law that is established for the protec- THE CHRISTINE KELLER story is now getting a bit tedious. A little bit of lewdness can be interesting to normally curious humans. When the revelations of lewdness are spread, and stretched, and piled up in heaps, day after day, they get boring. We are left with two thoughts about the Profumo-Keeler-Ward story, which is being brought to light by judicial procedure, in the unromantic atmosphere of a magistrate's court. Both thoughts are, for the Long view, encouraging to anyone who hopes that marriage vows still have meaning in the English-speaking world, and that de- cency is still the rule, rather than the exception, among people in high office. The first thought is that a neces- sary step in cleaning up any mess, is to uncover the mess. If there is a dirty corner in a dark room, it may stay dirty until someone lets daylight in, and shows up the dirt If there are loathsome creeping and crawling things under a log, the first step toward /4.4."111,04~1,0•41.4.4.41.444,1P4.4.4^#4,000 THE CLINTON New ERA Est. 1865 t' 11D a IL tjan of pel.'SQI1S and properties 'must be .adhered to _at all times,. While the fact that only one of the four youths in this case WAS given any form of puniShment shows a lack in our law.„ it Was, even-shadowed by the fact that .the person or persofi$ who supplied tbe alcohol to these four sixteen-year-olds was not found out to receive the punishment that is certain- ly warranted in such a serious nature as this, - While the youth that appeared in court was severely chastised. for telling the investigating officer such a "fan- tastic story" that he had found the bottle of gin in the ditch, it is even more fantastic that he was permitted to get away without telling the real truth as to where he bad received it. We know that the investigating officer and Magistrate Glenn Hays, Q.C„ were not gullible enough to be- lieve his story, and we think the youth should have been forced, under oath, to testify where the alcohol was pro- cured. He could have repeated. the same story, but surely knowing the serious moral and criminal consequences of telling an untruth under oath, the name of the seller, donor or 'adult accomplice who had supplied the alcohol would have come fOrth and the proper steps taken towards his punishment. The results of last week's case did serve one purpose in that one sixteen- year-old youth was punished for his breach of the law and we trust he has learned his lesson and perhaps other young people in his "crowd" have been served a warning. However, it would have been a greater victory if all four youths had received punishment or at least have had their parents informed and sec- ondly if the person from whom they received the alcohol had been brought before the law to receive his punish- ment that should be extremely severe. But unfortunately, three youths have apparently managed only' a nar- row escape and perhaps will be foolish enough to think they can do it again whenever they Please, and a provider of alcohol for teenagers has been al- lowed to remain free to continue his errant and morally deficient practice that—is the one scourge we must eradi- cate if we are to win the battle over teenage drinking and its running mate— juvenile delinquency. Surely our laws can be tightened to serve as the punishment and strong deterrent that they must be to protect our often unthinking and too often "out-for-kicks" youth. dealing with them is to roll aver the log. A fringe group of the British up- per class has long followed the credo that the main object in life is to be amused, and that moral codes should never be allowed to interfere with the main object. The log has certainly been rolled over by the preliminary hearing of charges against Stephen Ward; day- light has been let in on some loathsome forms of human activity. Turning the spotlight of publicity on these creeping and crawling human insects is a neces- sary step in the vermifugal process. The second cheering thought that occurs to us, is that the Christine Keller story is news. It catches the attention of hundreds of millions of readers simply because it reveals a pat- tern of existence shockingly different from that of normal people. If the Christine Keller story were not news, our society certainly would be proven sick. — Stratford Beacon- Herald. Why do Canadians drink so much? Each year, the black line on the boozing chart inch- es higher, and we are told the horrifying fact that every man, woman and child in this coun- try puts away 16 gallons of hooch and 84 galloos of beer, or some such. Now I know that while you may drink that much, Aunt Mabel, I don't and my kids don't and I doubt whether their grandmother does, so somebody is really knocking back the stuff. Who is the culprit? The vil- lain is not the Canadian temp- erament, but the Canadian weather. For eight months of the year we are adjured at every turn to have a nip to keep out the cold. During the other four months, we slosh it down by the bucket to beat the heat. Like right now. At this very moment, at 5 o'clock on a July day, the mercury 'past 90, it is horrifying to speculate the number of Canadians who are lolling in their back yards, or at a cottage, or on a beach, or in an air-cooled bar, clutch- ing a cold beverage. And get- ting steadily hotter. * I find it difficult to criticize them. I've just been through one of the worst weeks in my life, in the middle of the worst heat wave of the summer, and I feel nothing but sympathy for those who turn to drink in the hot weather. I have been build- ing a picnic table. The Old Battleaxe has been niggling about one for a couple of years. All through Febru- ary and March she kept seeing them advertised at low, low prices. I wasn't interested. First, I wasn't in the mood for picnic tables while I was shov- eling snow, in every daylight hour to spare. Secondly, the tables were all of the, type that you have to put together your- self, and I had had enough of that caper. In my time I have put to- gether everything from baby's cots through prefab cupboards and unpainted bookcases to backyard swim pools. Inevit- ably, the baby's cots have turn- ed out looking like bookcases and the swimming pools like baby's cots. Screws never fit. Boards are warped, The plans, which tell you with a sneer that any half-wit can put this thing to- gether, are invariably put to- gether by half-wits. Result: I go into a deep flaming, unadulterated fury. My wife dances gingerly ar- ound, just out of reach. The kids quietly go into another part of the house and turn the radio on full volume. * Ignoring the debacles of the past, I decided to humour The Heckler, buy her a picnic table, and Wrestle it together. But suddenly, we found, all these hot bargains had vanished. Picnic tables had soared in value. "The heck with this," my wife said, "We'll do it the ec- onomical ways" We went to the mill, where they cut out the planks and toobefOres, I think they Cali them. I was a little relieved that the didn't want me to chop a tree and make my dwri planks, Lumber was only $19.95. Saved six or ten dollars already, They didn't have any of the regular plans for,Pienic tables, but they had a plan for a kiddies' table, and the fellow said it was the same principle. Using tried and true Meth- eds, I did not set to Work. I called a couple of husky young Confreres and told them to drop around for an ale. t just hap- pened t6 have a Couple of spare harnmers when they arrived, I claimed x had asked them around for a hail, Three hours, a dozen aleS and a hundred pails later, we had various piec- es of lumber nailed together, none of which seemed to have any connection with the pieces left over. My helpers quit and went swimming. Undaunted, I played my next card. Called another friend, an expert in wood-working, and asked him to loan me some tools. Cunningly, when he ar- rived, I begged him to show me a bit of his skill, mentioned how smart his kids were and spoke of his wife's charm. Within an hour, he had the thing standing up. He told me how to finish it, and left. I started to put in a screw 40 ears Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, July 12, 1923 Fred Elliott, who was in charge of the Cadets from Clin- ton, won the individual cham- pionship at the annual track and field meet' for the Military District No. 1 Cadets. at Lon- don. He won the broad and high jumps and the 440 and 880 yard dashes. Brucefield Rovers nipped Stratford 1-0 in a soccer game to advance to the next round of the Ontario Cup against Kit- chener. The goal was scored by Knox. Other members of the area team are: Stewart, John Mustard, Alex Mustard, Nich- olson, Moffatt, J. McIvor, Ait- kinson, Fitzgerald, McCartney and Thompson. Those successfully passing en- trance exams are: Clarence Ball, Sam Castle, Elva Cook, Lorne Cook, Norma Cook, Mabel Corey, Nellie Cowan, Ivan Dodds, Doris Durnin, Ash- ley Gilbert, Clara Gould, Har- riet Hawkins, Florence Huller, Ida Josling, Annie Judd, Doug- las Kennedy, Elsie Landsbor- ough. Harold Langford, Jack Lavis, Marion McBrien, Grace Mc- Ewan, Bill Mutch, Jack Mutch, Bertha Ramras, Florence Rorke, Margaret Rutledge, Ruth Shaddick, Elva Smith, Gordon Stock, Nettie Taylor, Joe Twyforcl, Barrie Walter, Mary Watkins, Bertha Web- ster, Mr, Bert Sloman has gone to Toronto and will go out with a tent crew of the Chautaugua companies. Mr. Sloman has spent his holidays in a Iike manner other years. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, July 12, 1923 MiSs Hobbs, of London, has been engaged to teach Moderns and Art at CCI next year. Every one of Clinton's coun- cillors from the Reeve down, wears a mustache, also the town clerk. The Mayor only, is clean shaven. Principal Treleaven, who has been head of the Clinton Col- legiate since 1913, following A. P. Gundry, has resigned and a new principal will have to be appointed. Mrs. G. M. Farquhar has pur- chased the Williams cottage on Rattenbury Street. Mrs. V. French has pUrchag- ed from Mr, William J. Elliott his residence on King Street, now occupied by Mr. Hanley, This is the Glorious 'twelfth and a number from here are in Wingham today celebrating the Battle of the Boyne, On Friday last the Clinton Cadet contingent returned home after having spent from June 30 under canvas in Lon- don., Attending weref Fred El- liott, la. Hunter, W. Grant, 3, licllyar, C. and 3, Livermore, 0. Dew, W. Argent, K. Hunt and H. GrealiS. Omni, a The following is the first. place -May in the 1903 -Cana- Ojai), NatiOn4i Exhibition essay contest titled, '"What Canada Has TO, Offer The World", It was written by a 15-year, old Besltatchewan girl, Coes,, tine Ijsselman, a grade 10. stet, dent ity .Celestine' ITssolinan What has Canada. to offer the world? First and foremost its youth. Whether the nation. of Canada can long endure is a minor question in mankind's history, of no great interest to the world when it doesn't know whether the human species Can endure, ' But, assuming that the spec- ies will survive, the survival of Canada is a large question for Canadians and at this moment the answer is by no means cer- tain. The time has come to face it candidly. certainly this crowded hun- gry world, desperate for land, food and wealth, will not per- manently permit some eighteen million Canadians to monopo- lize half a continent of treasure if they cannot manage it pro- perly, No man knows the whole cure for Canada's advanced case of dropsy which will take time, work, equipment and, most of all patience, but cer- tain broad lines of action must be followed, If, we can manage to hold down our production costs then, and only then, shall we be able to take the step of reducing our exchange deficit and living internationally within our means. But if we attempt to do so only by reducing our imports we shall be worse off than ever, since lack of competition will further raise our prices and our customers will reduce their PINFANNIONFAKINI F lers, gin and tonic for the ex- pert, stain and varnish and wages for the painter, and a doctor's bill for a bashed foot brought the total to about $43. • • Heavy rains have retarded haying operations in t h e county. purchases from us, devastlag our eoonorny We must balance our ac- counts primarily in increasing our nxports. Living more than almost any other western na- tion on exports, we have a greater stake in the general exPanSion of international trade, -The economy of Canada is failing to pay its way mainly because it is trying to make too many of the wrong things, too few of the right. It will be. a hard and painful task to eis- nand our economic and shrink our uneconomic industries, but it is unavoidable if we are to create a permanently viable economy, Certainly the same adminis-. tration of our government's hudget after the mad deficits and debt of the last five years is vital also and no doubt will involve higher taxes before long as we begin to pay the bills so lightly contracted in the days of illusion, But the budget de- pends on the economy, the pro- duction and consumption of goods as reflected in the mir- ror of money. If our political and economic systems are to be put into good working order once more, the Canadian mind must be made up on a very simple ques- tion; Is Canada worth preserv- ing at all? Or should we admit that the job is too big for us, accept the end so long prescribed by timorous men and seek admis- sion to the United States—if it would care to have us? That, of course, has always been the sovereign question in the back of the Canadian mind, coloring all our public and pri- vate life. It has always brought the same negative answer, To- day, however, it is posed on an entirely new context because the world has changed while Canada has stood relatively still, in its thinking anyhow. In considering, we must und- erstand that things cannot go along as they are going now for the obvious reason that the world economy for which Canada was built will continue to change, for better or worse, regardless or our convenience. As the American and Russian giants have grown, the relative power of nations like Canada has declined. Of ourselves we are entirely defenseless and make little contribution to the (Continued on Page 9) Thursday, July 11 4 1903 • Editorials Protect Youths From Themselves A Ward On Christine It CAN Happen to YOU! Observe All The_ Safety Rules IN THE WATER AND ON THE ROAD Clinton News-Record Arriaigeniated THE CLINTON NEWS-RECOR b 1924 . , Published every Thursday at the Eat, 1881 Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,369 .• 0 A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • WILLIAM BATTEN, Editor Signed COhfrilnitions In thin Pubikaflon, are Th. opinions of 94 rotten only, and hof nocossarlly .ninon fihio Own Of silo novnpapoi*, mthorliid as 'Wand thno mill, Post office DoriArinnint ottatia and' tot ruqmint of penfacjolO cash SUISCRIPTI off lithinfo fear,' United Stain and Fotuigni KO; $11414 doiiiit Tan Canh ,11,1•41^ From Our Early Files . nail, The table began to sway like a shot stallion and the whole ruddy structure collaps- ed on my left instep with a heart-rending rumble. Hopping swiftly, I got out the axe and was about to administer the coup de grace but my wife and kids grabbed me around the legs and hung on. I got the expert back, bribed him with cold drinks, and he finished' it. There are about 1,300 nails and bolts and screws in it, but it stands tall, a monu- ment to sheer ingenuity. Got my daughter to paint it at 50 cents an hour. Lumber, hardware, beer for the bung-