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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1963-08-22, Page 4ClintonNews-Record ' i.. THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Est. 1865 Published every Thursday at the Est. 1881 Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,369 • 0 A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • WILLIAM "BATTEN, Editor skinsci COAtribuilotii in this publication, era the t Opinions of floi writers Only, and do not riiitoitially estprisi 410 *tat of the newspaper. at; Wand Office payment of CAA SUItaiIPTION RATES: Payable in ad4anti'Cnnadn and Greif Britain: 14.00 a year; %dot and Faritop0 thijk C1101.0i Centt k I TUCKERSMITHE YUNICIPAL DUMP Will be Open Until Further Notice on Wednesday and Sat. Afternoons from 1 to 5.30 p.m. No 'Wire Fencing, Old Con- ete or Car Buries Permitted. 1 !. McINTOSH Clerk- 14tfb American Growth Fund Appointment A.G.F. Management Ltd. ADRIAN SWANTON Mr. William Sametz, manager of A.G.F. Management Ltd. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Adrian Swanton as area supervisor. Mr. Swanton will reside in Goderich and will administer all investments, monthly sav- ings plans, registered retire- ment plans and monthly in- come plans for — American Growth Fund European Growth. Fund C nadian Trusteed Income Fund of many things 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW-, ERA Thursday, August 23, 1923 A rink of George Roberton, James Miller, M. McEwan and W. Grant copped second prize in the myth bowling jitney on Wednesday. Householders are complain- ing of the myrades of moths that are getting into their homes when twilight comes. The street lights are also crowded by the unwelcome visitors. Bayfield's splendid new post office was formally opened on Friday evening by Dr. N. W. Wood. Dr. Wood, the postmas- ter financed the undertaking and the two. and one-half st- orey building is on his prop- erty. Mr. S. S. Cooper has had his two buses and dray wagon newly painted. Miss Ethyle Wasmann of Cl- inton has been appointed prin- cipal of the Fordwich Continu- ation School. Mr. Harold Gibbs-Gibbs takes pleasure in aniouncing the death of "Fifii" his wife's pet dog, who made home a hell to him for many years. Callers will no longer be forced to admire little Totsies' pretty parlour tricks. Quite a number of young men from the district are leav- ing on the Harvester's Excur- sion to the West. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 23, 1923 Mr. T. H. Leppington laid a floral freak on our desk yes- terday morning, It is a Siamese twin dahlia, composed of two fair sized blomms, fastened to- gether at the blossom, the two stems being firmly attached all the way down. Capt. F. Clarke and Lieut- enant Addison have come to take charge of the local Sal- vation Army corps. Mr. George Shipley has pur- chased a Maxwell car from Mr. Roy Ball. If the motorists that hug the neighbourhood of the horses' water trough on Saturday nights would be more consider- ate in their 'parking arrange- ments the men who drive hors- es might be •able to see the trough and perhaps wedge their way in to let the animals dr- ink. Congratulations are due Fos- ter Copp, who was successful in passing his Council exam- ination 'for the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons, Elmer K. Lyon, another successful cand- idate, is also a graduate of CCI. Calvin Coolidge is the 13th President o fthe United States and the sixth Vice-President to succeed to the higher office thretigh the death of the Pres- ident. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, A;igust 25, 1938 Mrs. A. T. Cooper enjoyed a novel experience this week when she held a five-inimite telephone conversation With her son, Mr. Willis Cooper and his wife, who reside at Esher, Sur- rey,' England, G. A. Johnston, manager of the 85-acre apple Orchard of Mrs. Sloan Smith, Goderich Township, has a 8aiorne apple growing in an electric light bulb. He attached the bulb to the tree just after the blossom had dropped last May, Mrs. (Dr.) Shaw who kept one tomato plant through win- ter andk then transplanted it, reports the plant is over six feet high and has 70 nicely formed tomatoes on it. Mr. Albert Robinson's house was destroyed by fire in Varna on Friday and the flames sp- read to the home of Tom Den- nison, but it was saved. Oil drilling will commence at once on the farm of Joe Mann, Hullett Township. Master Lloyd Butler, who has been visiting relatives' in Wing- ham', sang over CKNX on two occasions last week. The Bell Telephone Company last week removed the last of their old wooden poles on the main business street.' The hydro wires were put underground last year. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 20, 1953 More than 20 picketers, mem- bers of the teamsters union, which is presently striking in Western Ontario for higher I had my annual injection of culture last week, and am now ready to resume my nor- mal condition of boorish bour- geoisism. The shot, as usual, was painless physically, pro- ducing a feeling of mild stim- ulation, painful financially, producing an aftermath of hol- low depression. Because we plan to attend a convention at a swank spot next week, that ancient and honorable lament, "I haven't a thing to wear!" reared its hoary head. This gave birth to the inevitable twins: a visit to the bank manager and a trip to the city. The latter,, in turn, demand- ed that we take in a show. The only show in town was a "brilliant" British revue call- ed "The Establishment," direct from rave reveiws in New York. It stank. That may not be quite the cultured way • in which to re- view a revue, but it's an hon- est opinion. The critics prob- ably burbled that the thing was "refreshingly frank" and "delightfully irreverent." I though it was disgustingly frank and childishly irreverent. The show did have a couple of amusing skits, including a clever paradY of the Queen reading one of her speeches, but the remainder was lab- ored and tasteless, about one jump and a bushel of English accents ahead of a college an- nual show. HoweVer, the aud- ience, to prove its broad-mind- edness, applauded wildly; while I sat glumly on my $3,50 seat, glowing like a true-blue roya- list. Just to make a proper mish- mash of the excursion, my wife who was supposed to be shop- ping for some stunning late- summer 'clothes, cameback Ito the hotel with nothing pur- chased but a whiter coat which she couldn't resist. wages, havebeen picketing the premises of Hanover Trans- port since Tuesday. R. E. Thompson, clerk of Goderich Township and well- known farmer, had. the misfor- tune to break his leg while working with the combine, Monday. L. E. Cardiff put the new Huron riding in the Conserva- tive opposition when he scored a majority of 953 votes over Seaforth's A. Y. McLean. ' Mrs. J. A. Mustard, Bruce- field, suffered painful back in- juries following a n accident which involved a tractor on the family farm. Howard Dowson, 18, died last week when he was trapped under a burning tractor which had upset while he was work- ing on the farm of Cecil Dow- son. ' It was estimated that close to 3,000 adults and 1,000 child- ren flocked to see the Huron County Trade Fair sponsored by the Clinton Lions Club last weekend. At a special meeting of God- erich Township Council, the final bylaw was passed approv- ing the sale of the Goderich Township Municipal Telephone System to the Bell Telephone Company. Things were a little brighter on the week end, when we took a flyer to the Stratford Fest- ival, that peculiar Canadian monument toward which we bow with reverence, beam with pride, and point with honest indignation when people say, "Ah, you Canadians got no cul- ture." Ten years ago, when the fest- ival began (it was in a tent), we stayed, for three dollars, in a private home whose mis- tress turned out to be nut, and our six-year-old son was left at home with Granny. Things have changed. The festival is now a handsome the- atre, we stayed, for ten dollars, in the room-at-the-top of the shabbiest hostelry this side of the Atlantic, and our great, gormless boy went off after the theatre to hear the folk- singers at a coffee house and didn't get back to the room un- til 2.30 a.m., at which point he heard some real folk-singing from his ain folk. This past week X have been reading a book by Elizabeth cion'clge, This was published in 1958, so prObably some of you have already read it, and hope enjoyed it as I have. ere are several gypsy .stories r he beopopkA:t9aciiia toI .ohwc,i4lidarTio to tt ll you one of these which found .especially' delightful. .14 The Sun was lonely. The great are always alon,p, poor souls, sad and alone in great. ness, and who more lonely than the Sun? Only the one Sun, driving his chariot through the. fields of heaven. So many thou- sands living .in his light, but only the one Sun." "In his lonliness he thought he would take him a wife, and for nine long years he drove his nine great horses through heaven and around the world, but neither in the fields of the one nor the other, neither am- ong the stars nor the flowers, did he see a maiden as lov- ely as his sister Helen with the silver hair." "The more he looked at her the more he loved her, for indeed the Lord God never made a creature fairer than she. But when he asked her to marry him she said, "Sun, my brother, your purity lights the world. If we commit this sin there will be darkness upon the face of the earth'. And she turned her face from his mid- day splendor and withdrew herself. "So the Sun drove up and up the steep of Heaven until he came to the throne of the Lord God took him into Para- ven and upon the earth) and there he bowed himself and poured out the gold flood of his supplication, begging that he might have his sister Helen to be his wife, "The Lord God took him by the hand and led him into Hell, and the Sun covered his bright face with his hands and could not look upon the desolation of that place. And then the Lord God too khim into Para- dise and he stretched out his arms and his heart was near breaking for the beauty and the peace. And then the Lord God led him back into. the fields of the sky and they stood there together and the Lord God said, - 'Choose'. The Sun looked up and saw Helen afar off, and he said, 'Hell'. "But the Lord God (sancti- fied in Heaven and upon the earth) was, not minded that the fair world he had lifted out of darkneSs into light should be plunged again into the bit- ter cold by the sin of a man and a woman, and stretching His hand across Heaven, He took Helen and flung her into the sea, and she became a silver fish, beautiful and deli- cate, sickle-shaped, swimming this way and that and giving Stratford itself is unchanged -7a pleasant mixture of ug- liness and beauty in the town, sophistication and gawkery in the audience, professionalism and amateurism in the per- formances. We enjoyed it thor- oughly, as always. I liked the hotel. Found the manageress in the kitchen, af- ter waiting vainly at the desk for a while. She tried about eight skeleton keys before find- ing one that would open our door. Carried our own bags up three flights. No tip, Went down to the kitchen and got a bucket of ice. No charge, no tip. Used the phone in the lobby. 'No phone bill. Used the bathroom at the end of the hall. No paper. Saturday night we saw Cy- rano de Bergerac, with John Colicos in the lead. It was a grand Stratford spectacle, a great swirl of colour and mo- tion and poetry. But either I'm getting old and hard, or Colicos (Continued on Page 9) light to the monsters of the deep," "Then the Sun rose and bl- azed across Heaven, descend- ing pale with grief toward the west, where plunging into the sea he went to look for his beloved among the monsters of the oeel). Then the Lord God took Helen in 'His hand and tossed her into the sky again, and she hung there, delicate and pale, a sickle curve of trembling light," "The Lord God spoke, and the earth shook, and the moun- tains bowed their heads, and the stars hid their faces. 'Golden Sun and Silver Moon, for eternity you must follow each other with your eyes th- rough space without meeting in the fields of Heaven, Then will your purity endure forever, There will be no respite for You, Sun and Moon'." i*.lrfoNoolitto- View Proposed Nuclear Plant Economics and Development Minister Robert Macaulay shows Premier John Robarts a model of the proposed new $500,000,000 'nuclear power plant to be built soon in Ontario. The 1,800,000 kilowatt plant, which will provide jobs during construction for an estimated 50,000 people, is on display in the Ontario Government Building at the Canadian National Exhibition. From Our Early Files • • SUGAR and SPICE (By W. B. T. SMILEY) #4,04,00~#M,IstMI 0 Letter To Editor What is the matter with this town? Why isn't there any en- tertainment for the teen-ager? We feel there could very well be dances once a week. We don't feel we should have to go out of town.for our fun.. What is the matter with our , town councillors? Local Teenagers ED. NOTE — We're afraid we can't tell the two young girls who gave us this letter what is the matter with Clin- ton in regard to dances for young people. However, we should point out that we doubt if arranging dances is actually the task of our elected officers on council. Perhaps the Recreation Com- mittee will consider organizing a teen-town hi the fall. capogagm2 174:k44 rtr PERSONAL CREDIT CREDIT NEEDS wit6tex. rooP etzl •MY BANN' BANK OF MONTREAL -0f wellimeAmwm F 11111 p inanee kl LOW tOST LIFE-INSURED LOANS Editorials ,AFTER R,..4.5 NNO. some' of the editorials in the weekly , newspapers that reached our desk last weekend, we. found ourself coming to the Wow- ing ,conclusion; thank God our young PPOPIe are smarter than that!, Many of our counterparts through- MA Western Ontario noted that school would soon be opening :again and many of them wrote lengthy editorials urging their young readers to go back to school and get the- best education possible. While these. words of wisdom may be appropriate, for young people in some areas, it is not our intention to play down the known intelligence of those in the Clinton :area by repeating the sound reasoning they have been given by parents, teachers and employ- ment officials in regard to continuing their schooling. We know that the youths in this area are 'intelligent a enough to realize that unskilled and semi-skilled job op- portunities are rapidly declining in this modern age and .that their unwise counterparts in' other areas who have quit school, .are finding it extremely dif- ficult to find jobs. We know they also realize that if they can find a job with their limited education they won't .quit school to take it because there is every indication that "automation" will take away these • menial tasks within a very short time as even now they have eliminated many unskilled and semi-skilled occupations. They realize elevators in today's new bUildings are automatic and require no operators; that fork lift trucks now do the jobs once done by warehouse helpers; that heavy .machinery has taken over Much of the construction work from ditch diggers and labourers, etc., etc. - • Yes, the young people in this area are quite aware of the fact that 36 per- cent of those who quit school in Ontario CLINTON'S FIRST attempt at a comprehensive playground program has concluded and we have yet to hear anything but high praise and words of commendation for the activities which attracted close to 150 youngsters and the Clinton Recreation Committee have already intimated they will continue the program next year, and if possible, ex- tend it for,a longer period. There are probably those who as usual will note that we are pampering our modern children with too many benefits and in comparison with past decades this reasoning may appear to be sound. However, let us never forget that the modern children are growing up in a more complex and highly competitive world than their parents and such bene- fits are not so much pampering, but are much more necessary training to equip them to take their place in our space age. Perhaps one of the best descrip- tions we could find oim the 'program was written for this newspaper by one of the supervisors, Karen Schefter, who stated: "These parks do not exist to serve as handy, inexpensive baby sitting centres, leaving mother with leisure time." "Their purposes are many: to pro- vide a safe place for the children to play; to teach social, creative and phy- sical skills; to develop a good health through outdoor activities and to build character by providing recognition, satisfaction, encouragement and oppor- tunities to accept responsibility." That these playground .programs did aid in developing character and the other attributes listed by Karen would certainly be attested to by any who "THERE OUGHT to be a law against it," an irate citizen was heard to say the other day. Against what, we know not. But whatever it was, the odds are better than even that there already is "a law" affecting the point at issue. The trouble is, of course, that there are so many laws that none of us, law yers included, can be expected to have knowledge of them all. Or, for that matter, of even a fraction of them. In the United States, for instance, last year lacked .any certificate or dip- loma whatever, and that those people will soon be among our nation's 1,111.-, employed and • never will have the op- portunity to attain the standard of liv- ing and the many good things in life that will be much more :accessible" to. those who receive a good education.' And perhaps what is most enoonr, aging of all, is the fact that our clear thinking youths reali4o that even what may be considered a good education to- day may not be good enough to compete in the labour force in the next 15 to 20 years, and so they will continue their studies or train themselves as well as possible at the present time, when they are young, eager and full ..of ambition, They realize that acquiring a good education takes a considerable amount of hard, honest work; but that it pays off handsomely not only in self satis- faction, but in a more tangible dollars and cents value and an opportunity to share in the rich benefits that are avail- able to those with a good education in our country. Because our young people are so intelligent, it must surely serve as. a great reward when the people in this area, who have done so much to give them the finest in educational, facilities and opportunities, see them arch off to high school, teachers' colleges, nurs- ing schools, trade schools, universities - and what have you, in an effort to at- tain the best education possible in re- gard to their varied interests, ambitions and abilities. It must make some of our weekly editors jealous to realize that our young people are so much smarter than those in their areas, and that we don't have to write editorials urging them to stay in school. But, then, thank God our young people 'are smarter than that! visited the parks during the summer. It should also be noted that the program gave the six playground super- visors, Mary Jean Beattie (Colquhoun), Bev Beck, Bonnie Homuth, Beryl Stev- ens, Lloyd Ann Rutherford and Karen, plus their many teenage assistants, an opportunity to develop their own abili- ties as leaders and the girls are certain- ly to be commended for the fine job they did. Despite the fact they had only a four-day training session, they conduCted the program as seasoned veterans and must have spent many hours in preparation to come up with the continual schedule of activities and ideas that the children enjoyed so much. While the playground program was financed by the Clinton Recreation Committee, it should be noted that this group's finances come from the four service clubs and the town's coffers, and so .every citizen played a small part in its operation. However, special commendation should go to Bob Welsh and Bob Hunter, the two CHSS teachers on the Rec Com- mittee, who spent considerable time in organizing and assisting the supervisors and in getting the parks and equipment ready for use. There were many other volunteers who assisted and deserve plaudits, but we doubt if words of praise will measure up to the satisfaction they must have gained from realizing their worthy , w ef- forts were being enjoyed and put to such good use 'by the children in their neighborhoods. With a continuation of this type of co-operation—with the leadership of the Clinton Recreation Committee— there can be no doubt but what the playground facilities and program will flourish' in Clinton for the betterment of our children, community and nation. we are told that there are some two million laws in force. If a' man could' familiarize himself with as many as ten a day, it would still take him something like 6,000 years to qualify as a law- abiding citizen. We would be surprised if the Cana- dian, total was not in proportion. ignorance of the law may not rate as a valid excuse, but it is certainly a wholly understandable condition. Possibly what' we really need is not more laws, but fewer laws. They Pon't Need Prodding Playground Program Proves Successful There Ought To Be A Law!