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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1964-04-09, Page 4Page , 4 klows,l1pcPr.4, °iCllursdoy, April 7, 1904 Editorials • Delay Would Be Ridiculous THE SURPRISE expressed by John Pearson of the Community Planning. Branch over Clinton cOUncirs,, • failnre to take action On his SuggeStiOns of four Years ago is quite understandable; but the apparent apathetic nature of those who did not deem it wise to follow his suggestions is certainly not underStand- able, tt is bad enough that we have not kept pace with communities of similar size in implementing complete planning restrictions, but not to have the build- ing and the subdivision control by-laws of which he soelce in noting his surprise, is even worse. Listening to Mr. .Pearson it would appear that each of these controlling by-laws is comparatively simple to establish arid both are essential if the community is to grow in an orderly fashion. ' As noted by one citizen at the poor- ly attended meeting, it is now possible 'to P btlild anything, anywhere" within the confines of the municipality, Fortunately this hasn't created bpi) much of a nuisance in the past but it should be noted that it ceuld easily lead to the erection of cheap, unsightly shacks that could make the community something less than a Pleasant place in which to live .and could send property values dipping substantially. Such a situation is difficult to fore- see at the Present time, but when there appears to be so little cost and time in- volved in' taking steps to ensure future building' will be 'of a destined quality. it is ridiculous that any risk should be taken at all. This should become an immediate concern of council and to hesitate again would not bring expressions of surprise, but rather of ridicule. Some Certainly Not Keeping Pace Pries who have been hit by thiS killer. flaw To Fight There are two primary meth- ods 'in which people are pres- ently engaged to combat can- cer. They are; research and treatment, The major. portion of the ten that they have been sub- monies collepted in the annual supporting this campaign, as stantial, campaign against cancer will cancer continues to claim more In faCt, most readers will no go towards research; paying the deaths 'than any other diseased d Abt know of mey of their high cost of the accelerated Last year, it took lives ft.icnds; pri`shbbrS or even loved work of noted reientists who Organize 'Cancer Blitz For Area Members of the Clinton Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society have been busy for the past few weeks planning the gia nt blitz for funds which will be held 'on Thursday, April 16. It will be conducted by students from CHSS and other groups in the area. The local unit has charge of the area from Auburn and Blyth through to Kippen and DrySdal e. L. R. Maloney, seated left, is cam- paign chairman and is showing the map of the area to Mrs. Beecher Menzies, .Grant Doney and Fred Sloman, members of the Unit. (News-Record Photo) On dents throughout. this area wig .elading so under 10 years .of Thursday, April 16, a5,5oo 04444144$, alone, tie ..e411.0 upon by member's ofmag.e. It is nq" respector of age, the student body a CHSS, as Means PP any other dividing factor, Figures on the number persons who died fro,in .cancer in the immediate area are not.. but there is no pops- well gas other adult 'ro4P.4 their areat atlrihg the .4114441, campaign for the 'Canagliien' cancer .Society. There is little that iteedS to be said for the necessity of 'the SUGAR and . SPICE (By W. T SIMIXY) •INP.dPaNO,P#~4NOWN4WFWP ONO," P4,~~044,04...44, chocolates; The kids were a bit shaken by some. of my casseroles.' Per- haps the most successful was the lasagna. Basis, a can of lasagna — egg noodles in to- mato and meat sauce. Sim- mer in oven for ten minutes, Add layer of mushrooms, layer of strong cheese., layer of thin- sliced salami, layer of onion rings, layer of mild cheese. Bake in oven. Sprinkle .with paprika, parsley, chives, cin- namon, nutmeg, wild oats, or anything else that will sprinkle. Serve with hot, crusty rolls, and stand back, "The reason there are no gr- eat wornen chefs? They've no imagination. My wife hacks up some lettuce, tomato and eel- cry,- and calls it a salad. If she's feeling particularly ex- otic, she might throw in some sliced green pepper, My salads besides 'these basics, 'contained. great chunks of cheese, colours; whole green onions, peeled grapes, shredded lemon, raw carrots, quartered dill plc-, kle, jelly beans left behind by the Easter bunny. The whole doused in a dressing made of four raw eggs mixed with tar- tar sauce, ketchup, mayon- naise, mustard and vinegar. I have only two things to say about the grand culinary adventure: (a) the food budget is shot for the next six weeks; (b) where can I buy a - good second - hand automatic dish- washer? A Matter of Principle (By 3. CARL HEMINGWAY) At a recent meeting of the Ontario. Wheat Producers, Rus- sel Bolton, Seaforth, was re- elected director for Zone 7, Mr. Bolton 'has been a member of the, Ontario Wheat Producers Marketing Board since incep- tion and is to be congrattilated fox the fine work that has been done in improving the income of wheat producers. Bob Esdale, ' chief of grain division, Federal Dkpartnent of Trade and Commerce, guest Speaker at the annual banquet, reported sales to China were 115 million bushels Minimum and 187 million maximum. To date :there 'has been no default on payments on any of the credit sales, Russia has not made any use of the credit arrarigeMentS. 'With guaranteed sales of 100 million 'bushels for the next:IWO years same concern has been eXpressed about our regular customers, Rev/ever ample re- serves are retained to supply Britain with 90 million bushels arid Japan with 45 'billion bushels as Well as other ous,. tomous, Exports of wheat and flour total the 'equivalent of 806 Mil- lion bushels to date with an objective of 550 million. Flour exports have declined due to the fact that some of the flour importing countries are building mills of their own, It appears that more and more wheat will be sold and less and less flour. This results in re- duced feed by-products; how-, ever 'the sale of wheat brings higher income to the grower. While these sales have in- Creased the !Meanie of farmers 'in 1963, Mr, Esdale Stressed the reflected prosperity that had come to many other people. There has been a very decided upswing in purchases of con- tumor goods first on the part of farmers but this in turn brought a wide-spread increase in business in many lines, Mr. Esdale reported that contributions to food-aid will be larger and use of Ontario wheat has increased in both number of bushels and hi pounds per capita. The outlook on 'sales methods of the United States is most confusing, cart, eluded the speaker. After attending the meeting of the Ontario Wheat Produc. erS Marketing Organization, it Was interesting to hear a panel (Co'ntinue'd on Pee Ten) !fp Spring Is Sprung., IT'S Time FOR CLEANING UP Clinton News-Record Athatgatriated THE CLINroN NEWS-FIgtitID 1924 Published every Thursday at the Eat: 188i Heart of Haron County Clintok Ontario Population 9,369 A.. L. tOLQUI-toti6i, Pabtishor WILLIAM BATTEN, Editor Signad coitfributiois In 41,11( onblkatton, are the opintolni of the writhes only, end 0O'nOt n461411411* lootain the' yin*. of the Aittiottint0 4444404 two toot i9sItes tfabarfrnanf, oitairdi, and for oiiiniehi of jotted in cash tuasciurtioN. Win: Nimbi* (ii• ini("Gisif kitAtie $4.06 • year; thilthtt 04'44 **I Oikstent OM; Shiite toohis Ten Centi THE CLINTON NEW ERA Eat. 1865 400 $1, • it late ov a CONFt owl y r sur ce F wX English teachers have the same sort of holiday a bus dr- iver would have if he were given a week off and told he was to chive a bus from Hali- fax to Vancouver in the next seven days. When the holidays began, I had examination papers to mark which represented a total of about 480 student writing hours. (They could have pro- duced the works of Shake- speare in the same time.) This, in turn, means that I have about 100 hours of marking time. Na complaints. It's part of the job. But things were a little more complicated this year. The women of the house came down with 'flu, just as the "holidays" began, The result was that, instead of sitting quietly in my study, and having countless cups of tea and coffee, innumerable beers and sandwiches 'brought me, to keep me going, I found myself trotting up and down Stairs about six hours of each day, bearing up tempting lit- tle things on trays, bearing down dirty dishes. While my pillars of papers sat and gath- ered dust. Results of turning the old man loose with the grub for a few days was interesting. My wife has almost decided 'to be, calm a permanent invalid, My kids 'realize 'that their father has another brilliant, Minis', pected dimension, The 01c1' Lady Was feeling 'horrible with the fin, but there didn't seem much wrong with her appetite. She gained about eight patinas, Of CburSe, she's not used 'to- my lunches. In- stead of the scup-aticl-Sanchvich routine she's accustomed to, they consisted of something like tl>lss glass of Sh r Yi grilled sausage with butter, fried rinishroams and Cheese onaeIette; tossed salad; blue, berry Pie and ice cream; cot. fee; brandy; Cherry ;6 centred Holiday In The Kitchen I'm gding to punch right on the nose the next person, be it man, woman, child or nice old lady whose bones are as ;brittle as soda crackers, who asks me, "Did you have a nice Easter holiday?" Some school teachers have f nice Easter holiday, and good luck to them. But English teachers are not among them. Cancet Canvass Needs YOUR Generosity For :csearc. Tredtmirk Patient ssistance THE SPEECH given by CHSS guidance department head, Robert Hunter, at a recent Chamber of Com-, merce meeting has stirred up consider- able comment from Clinton business- men. However, after having listened to Mr. Hunter, and made careful notes of his talk, the only reason we can find for any displeasure on the part of 'any businessmen is the fact they either mis- read the article or else they are trying to remove their own guilt by placing him in a bad light, which is a course of action most people take when they have been criticised. Although it may be rather pre- sumptuous on our part to even guess what has happened, we imagine many of those businessmen who were rather an- noyed at Mr. Hunter's statements, took his very definite remark on the situation and turned it into a generality. What the energetic, school teacher actually said was that he has found through personal experience that no merchant has ever offered to fill his request for merchandise he did not have in stock. This is a very definite state- ment, although 'unfortunately is also rather vague in that he made no men- tion of the number of times and the number of merchants to which he made reference. Due to the fact we have only re- cently set up housekeeping and had considerable dealing with local merch- ' ants we could report we found through personal experience that all merchants offered to fill our requests for merchan- dise they did' not have in stock. That may appear to be a strong recommendation for our merchants, but the fact is we only had occasion to ask two to fill such requests as every- thing else we wanted could be found in their stock. The point we are attempting to establish is this: Mr. Hunter said NO merchant and we said ALL merchants, but it is quite possible that we both had about the same numbers in mind— two. Therefore it can easily be seen that Mr. Hunter was 'not making a general statement about the merchants in Clin- ton any more than we did. So unless those expressing dis- pleasure with the statement made by Mr. Hunter are those who have been guilty of not attempting to fill their customers' requests, we see no reason why they should complain at all. The only thing we can find to fault in regard to the speech was the fact there were only about two or three re- tail merchants present at the C of C meeting to hear the informative talk. 'This apparent lack of interest in the work of the much needed promotional group shaws that perhaps many of the businessmen in Clinton warrant some criticism, We have also heard two other re- marks made in regard to the address by Mr. Hunter that warrant some clarifica- tion. The first was made by a prominent man and was, in effect, that the teachers at CHSS should forget their city up- bringing and be satisfied with the life and variances found in a smaller com- munity. This is the exact attitude which has made it extremely easy for the entire world to get into most of its present dilemmas—those of different opinions not having the grace,and common sense to meet the other half way- We agree that city persons moving into a small community must expect to accept most of the way of life to be found there, but by the same token those in the smaller community must also be prepared to make them welcome' and to even go as far as making changes in that way of life to meet the numerous new residents at least part way. As Mr. Hunter correctly noted, the teaching staff at CHSS are persons who can make a tremendous contribution to this community (and in fact many al- ready have) and similar to some of our merchants, we must all take steps to update our thinking, in an effort to make them feel more at home. We feel many people have- already done this and again we note that the comment on which we have just dealt was the opinion expressed by ONE per- son, as was the opinion we heard which refuted Mr. Hunter's claim that CHSS could be termed an "industry". This particular person noted that education was an expense to the com- munity, and while he agreed it was a necessity, said it could not be termed a boon to the community in the same manner in which a large industry would be. In part this may be true, but a glance at the estimates for the year at CHSS prove that the school is a boon to this community much more than what most schools could be considered. The board at CHSS has estimated their expenditures for 1964 will reach the whopping big total of $776,848.05. But of this, only $195,334.00 will come directly from the taxpayers within the boundaries of the school area. While we have to consider that a portion of the $251,000.00 in govern- ment grants will be indirect taxation, the big "bonus" in the local school is the fact that the sending boards pay $317,287.00 towards the operation of the school for their students. Therefore it can be seen that this community pays only a small part of the costs and yet have the major share of the benefits such as most of the 65 well paid teachers and other 20 employ- ees living in the area; to say nothing of the other business which comes to Clinton only because the school is situ- ated here. And the C of C is quite correct in its hope that the opportunities for train- ing technical students may attract in- dustry into this area. Mr. Hunter gave a very enlighten- ing address and in view of the com- ments, it appears that some people in the community are exactly as he says: not keeping pace! Are attempting to. ,come tiPwith. of cancer .answers ,a4vteit tc114en e44.457.7S-; rested,.. It can be readily seen by this, that whatever steps are taken 'and victories won will affeet all people and the dread many people have of contacting the disease may he dispelled, In•Cg/1404, the Cancer So., Clety supplies 86 percent of the monies retitdred by the National Cancer 'Institute in its total 'programm of cancer re- search in this country. This program .depends on generous contributions, and the goal in Ontario alone is set at $2,000,000, While research takes the major share of campaign re- eeipts, 'there is still the need to look after those already flieted and 'suffering from can- cer. Science and technology 'have brought many new 'treatments to the fore in recent years, and while they have managed to ar- rest the disease in some and eased 'the suffering in others, this equipment, drugs and ex- as follows; DRUGS Payment by the Society for five pain relieving drugs is provided upon request of the patient's physician. Many area residents have already received assistance in this cate- gory and others needing it should make their needs known to members of the Clinton Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society, DRESSINGS—The Women's Service Committee have provided hundreds of FREE dressings 'to local patients. These dress- ings are made by the committee and other interested pers- ons and come in sizes 4"x4" and also 8"x8". Anyone re-. quiringl these should' phone Mrs. L. Salzman at 482-7735. The great benefit of these dressings is that the proper dressing reaches the proper patient for the proper site at the proper time. HOlVfE. VISITING—Very carefully selected volunteers are pre-pared to make home visits to patients who might benefit from this friendly service. This is inexpensive because it is all done by volunteers. NURSING SERVICES—A 'first call 'Visit by V.O.N.. or Public Health is provided free of charge by the Society to assist in determining the needs of the cancer patient when help is 'requested and to interpret the services of the Society to patient and family, It is also provided in cases of extreme need for a period of two weeks, although under emergency situations, these services may be extended beyond the defined period. LODGE ACCOMMODATIONS—Lodges have been provided in Hamilton, Toronto and London and . are operated 'by the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation. Ad- missions 'to this low cost accommodation are 'through the Foundation Clinics and several from this 'area have been housed in London for various lengths of time. HOUSEKEEPING SERVICE—Housekeeping service is available in cases of extreme need for a period of one month. The housekeeper is not employed by the Society, but rather she is employed and paid by the family of the patient, who • obtain the funds for this service from the Cancer Society. DIVERSIONAL THERAPY—A program of diversional therapy for long term. convalescent and terminal cancer patients is being developed to provide rehabilitation activity. As the name implies, it provides the patient with activities that will divert his or her attention from pain and worry. This program is often carried out by the home visitor, who usually knoWs the patient well and is best equipped to suggest an' activity that would appeal. TRANSPORTATION—Transportation is provided to the clinics at London or Wingham for patients desiring such . service, Area patients should contact Miss Esther Jamieson at 482- 9566 :if they wish 'transportation. Four trips have been made 'to the London clinic since the beginning of the year, and several throughout previous years. ' ALL THE ABOVE SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE CLINTON UNIT OF THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY. Your government is issuing Social Insurance Number Cards in place of the unemployment insurance num- bers that most employed people have had until now. The new numbers will help governmentto use modern office methods for greater efficiency in handling un- employment insurance, and also other social benefits such as proposed pension plans. For these reasons, you are invited to apply for a Social Insurance Number, even if you are not a contributor to the unemployment insurance plan, IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE your employer will give you an application form. Fill it out and return to your employer promptly, IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED and drawing ,unemploy- ment insurance benefityou will complete an applica- tion form when you report to the U.I.C. in person Or by mail. IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYER registered with the CM mission,, you will receive application forms automat- itally. If NOT registered with -the Commission, please get in touch with your local U.LC. office so that forms may be sent to you. Dittribute application forms to, your employees, have them completed and return them promptly tegether, not individually, to the Commission. YOU CAN HELP BY dOMPLETING YOUR APPLICATION QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY., 10 1403/44 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION MIA pert ,aid costs a ecinSiderable. amount of money. TreatMent centres have to be niaintainetl. medical personnel. must be paid and all other costs must 'be absorbed. This. is what campaign. funds help, to do. Ala Local people In a, .canvass that is nation wide in scope, it 'is difficult for some people to realize that the money they give actually aids themselves and others in 'their area. But, this is the plain and simple truth. All cancer pat ients the Clinton area re-. Ceive. assistance and as noted before, if a 'breakthrough comes in cancer research, it will bene- fit all area residents as well as those, in 'all 'other sections Of the world. • The Clinton branch of 'the Cancer Society offers 'its assis- tance to all those afflicted and the money for this much need- ed work comes from 'the cam- paign. funds. A list of the services avail- able to area cancer patients is