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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1964-07-30, Page 2BIG! BIG! Double MIDNITE SHOW! Monday, August 3 at 12:05 ELVIS PRESLEY in "Flaming Star" — Color — plus JERRY LEWIS as "The Delicate Delinquent A Great Double-Value Program! THUR., FRI.,. SAT. July 3O-31-Atigust 1 Nancy Kwan, John Fraser "TAMAHINE" _- Color — ' Plus Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops MON., TUES., WED, August 3-4.5 Sandra Dee, John" Gavin 'Tammy Tell Me True" dolor — Bill Travers, Nancy Walters ""The Green Hehnet" THUR., Fittl e SAT" August 64-8 Steve MOQI.Seen, Stella Prentice "The Honeymoon Machine" Julia AdamS; Rock Htidson "The Lawless Breed" .e•-, Both "lts Technicolor THE COTTA.CrE. FALLACY Occasionally, I think -110W pleasant it would be to have a summer cottage. Just a cosy little place, on a lake, where a fellow cotild get away from 'it 'all, de‘' a little quiet fishing and thinking A spot to go on those long, lovely fall week- ends, as well. Fortunately, this - manifesta- tion of madness is brief. My well-developed sense of reality revives, and I breathe a little silent thanks that I have not been hooked. A summer cottage, thirty years ago, was 'a joy to the heart, a balm to the nerves, a refuge from the, relatives, a source of 'spiritual rejuvena- tion. Today it is almost guaran- teed as an ulcer maker, a nerve-wrecker, a spiritesinash- er. It is an albatross around the neck of its owner, who Winds up each season looking and feeling about 'as spry as the Ancient Mariner. First, and , perhaps worst, there is the sheer, shocking expense of the thing. A man could keep three ,mistresses swathed in mink for what a • cottage costs him. Thirty years ago, you bought a lot from farmer, who thought you were out of your mind, for $50. You had a local carpenter whack up a cottage for about $400. For another $35, you picked up a • stove, some beds and a .few other odds and sods of furniture, at auction sales. And you were in business. Today you fork over about $1500 for a lot, erect a modest cottage for „another $3500. And you're just beginning. It costs a year's salary to outfit the Greatest traffic menace on the highways is the slowpoke driver. SUNSET DRIVE-IN GODERICH — Highway 8 Shows Start At Dusk Children under 12, in cars, FREE 40 Years Ago J'u1y 31, x9,24 Mrs. Ladlaw 'and Mr. Van, Emma motored .through from Detroit Saturday. and call'e'd on Mrs. ..ScOtt here, 'Nfrs.. Laidlaw and Mr. VanEgniond. are home to be present for the Old Boys' Reunion week. in Seaforth. A pretty wedding took place .on :Saturday, July 26, at the home of Kr, and Mrs, Edward W. RodawaY, Albert Street, Clinton, When their youngest daughter, Helen A., was un- ited le wedlock to Mr. George H. VanTeoon of Detroit. The Clinton, Knitting Comp- any and staff are picnicking at Bayfieild today, A young boy of eleven at Stratford, in Order to see a real train wreck, placed a rail across 'the Goderich 'track one evening last week and as a consequence was haled into court. The rail was discovered almost at mice by a young wo- man, who reported it and it Was removed half an hour be- fore the train came up, other- wise serious damage might have resulted., Mr, Walter Jackson, Brant- ford is visiting his brother, Mayor Fred Jackson, and sits- ter, Mrs. H. W. Steep, of town. 25 Years Ago July 27, 1939 Speaking at the First An- nual picnic of the Huron Fruit Grower's Association held at 'the farm of George Leith- Waite near Goderich last Fri- day, George Wilson, Toronto, obtain-nen of /the Farm Pro- ducts Control Board of Ontar- io, stressed the need of a regu- lated and a high grade flow of apples to the British Market, Sixty years of uninterrupted service to the community and the surrounding district will be completed next week by ain- ton's oldest bank, the Bank of Montreal, which is also the oldeSt banking institution in the Dominion. August 7, has been deClamed a Civic Holiday in Clinton by Mayor G. H. Elliott, The chief weed inspector was in town 'this week and was favourably impressed although there are still some places needing attention. Yesterday -afternoon the members of the Clinton and Bayfield Presbyterian churches held their annual pi c nic Bayfield. The first bridge across the Schoellenen Gorge in Switzer- land opened the St. Gotthard pass to traffic in 1237. 15 Years Aga 4ro1y 28, 1949 3, George MeLay, manage Of •the Royal Bank of Canada Clinton, was the lucky whine of the Dodge club Coupe ant mobile given as the major pi ize at the third annual Wel Bayfield Liens Club 1 Bayfield Lions Park last nigh Gordon Troyer, 35, who S. sides 'two miles west of Bei sail is slowly recuperating I Clinton Public Hospital. M Troyer suffered a sun,stro some three weeks ago whi cutting hay and a week ag he contracted double pneum la. Fourteen of his neighbour cut and stooked 39 acres of hi grain Friday afternoon last. Huron County was one three counties to present brief to the select committee of th Ontario Legislature on conser vation which met in. USW Wednesday last, The lovely farm home o Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bell, on mile east of Hensel", provid an ideal setting for the Marc Arthur reunion. Milk production has pick up slightly (luring the p a s week dee to the effect of th rain on 'the pastures. 10 Years Ago July 29, 1954 One of Canada's oldest pra,c-. tieing physicians, Dr. John W: Shaw, Clinton's "Grand Old Man", marked Ms 93rd birth- day last Friday at. his home .on Rattenbury Street. Tenders have been called for 100 new houses to be erected': at Adastral Park (the Perman- ent Married Quarters 'attach- ed 'to RCAF Station Clinton.) Since closing date for the ten- • ders of August 17, it is ex- Footed 'that construction Will commence one month later, possibly by the end of Septem- ber. The passage of time combin- ed with alertness on 'the part - of Huron County farmers in a time of crisis has practically • spelled the doom of the army- worAlls, here. An unusual happening at the small pump house 'on Princess Street East, Monday evening,- managed to keep assistant sup- erintendent A. E. "Rumball of the Clinton PUC up all that night. A holding switch in some way produced' a short circuit, and when Mr. Rum- • ball approached the 0, small' building, he found it filled with ' smoke. High honour was paid to George Baird, 'Brucefield, last week, when he 'received an award from the Federal. De- partment of Transport for "excellent weather reporting over as period of years". place. Then there's the well ,to dig, plumbing and hydro to in- stall, and a' boat to buy that Is bigger than that of the guy next door. In the old days, a man could keep his family in dignified comfort at the cottage for about ten buclFs a week. That, gentle reader, is eighty dollars for 'the whole summer. They get their fuel in the b ash. They bought vegetables and min, chickens and eggs, from the local farmer 'at prices that make one weep with rage 'to- day. Once 'a week, the family went into town' and loaded up .with grub, coal - oil for the lamps, and a round of ice cream cones, for about eight dollars. In these enlightened 1960's, keepin gthe family at 'the cot- tage is like watching b 10 o d pour out of an open wound. There's wood to buy for the fireplace, and gasoline for the boats, and hydro bills and taxes and repairs to 'the plumb- ing 'system, And there's the thrice - weekly swoop on the supermarket and booze outlets to 'the tune of about thirty dollars a swoop. But it's not only the linen- cial aspect 'that appalls me It'S the communications an d transportation progress that makes a cottage o wn er go around all summer with a sev- ere. facial twitch. In the good old days, a man d r o v e his family a hundred miles to the cottage and left them there until Labour Day. He didn't see or hear one of them for eight weeks. Those were, 'indeed, the golden days. Nowadays, the poor guy has had a couple of long-distance calls telling him that the toi- let is leaking and the kids have pink eye and his wife has run out of money because she had quite a repair bill on the Volks after backing it into the boat trailer. Then he's expected to drive a hundred miles Friday night in traffic that would make a bishop blaspheme. He arrives just before dark, to find that the pump has broken down, tile kids have wracked up the boat, the baby has drowned, but has been revived by art- ificial desperation, and the next-door neighbours, who never know enough to go home have been invited in for a drink. Our Early Files, o Dusty Work Done .0. . At Farm Near Clinton (News-Record Photo) SUGAR .and (By W. . TOWN OF CLINTON PROCLAMATION In accordance with the wishes of a great many citizens, and following an established precendent, I hereby declare MONDAY AUGUST 3 1964, as a CIVIC HOLIDAY and call upon all citizens to observe it as such. (Signed) WILLIAM MILLER, Mayor, TOWN OF CLINTON. WATCH Salute to CLINTON Friday July 31 6 to 7 p.m. CKNX Television CHANNEL 8 WINGHAM CBANK OF MONTREA—L) ce "MY DAMN 70 .1 Ay 10# iNMAMNS Ian Bring all your Personal credit needs LOW-COST LIFE-INSURED LOANS Clinton tranoh IC. G. mem, IVranager Station (Sub-Agency) t Open Daily Lonclesboto (Sub-Agency): Open Mon, & Thurs. Puts the things you want within your . reach • A lengthy editorial in last week's edition of the News-Record exhorted the Clinton Police Committee to pur- chase an effective communications ,sYs- tem for the Police Department rather than spend $1,000 to $1,500 for a radar trap. It was pointed out that citizens • often have difficulty trying 'to reach the police by telephone because the of- ficers on duty are out of the office a good deal of the time in the execution of their duties. On the night shift especially, the officer or officers on duty spend most of their time outside the office either patrolling in the cruiser, or patrolling on foot. The patrols are necessary, but they make the police hard to reach by telephone. And when Joseph Q. Citizen is un- able to reach the police when he tele- phones, he naturally becomes indignant, What's the use of having police, he reasons, if they cannot be reached when they are needed? What would I do if the police were needed urgently to attend to some matter at the west end of town when they were patrolling in the east, end of Clinton, or checking for unlocked doors even two blocks away? The more he thinks about it, the madder he gets. One major electronics company has estimated it would cost about $1,800 to provide a complete radio system for the Police Department. And a radio operator would not be , needed. Nor would training be necessary. According to the company, anyone intelligent enough to be reading this editorial could operate the radio system! It would involve a control panel located in the police office where, nor- mal telephone calls could be taken. If We heartily endorse non-conform- ity and individualism in many varied areas since conformity—for the sake of conformity—must surely be one of the greatest curses of humanity. To do something because everyone else is doing it is not good, yet it is the creed many follow. Like cattle—follow- ing the leader—many find themselves at the slaughterhouse door. But conformity for other reasons is not only good, but necessary. We'd be in a sorry mess indeed if it were left to. -the discretion of the driver which lane he would use to drive in! And there is another area where we wish conformity were made com- pulsory. Anyone who has ever tinkered with the family chariot, tried to repair a household appliance, or monkeyed with a modern boat will readily agree. - The average householder, to be equipped to repair all appliances and mechanical equipment in his home, needs an assortment of between 15 and 50 screw drivers—each with a different head. There are Phillips heads, slot heads, box heads, Allen heads, and others. Most Near Orillia, Ontario, recently, more than forty witnesses to a road death declined to offer information to police, This, of course, is their ques- tionable- privilege. The complaint of lack of co-opera- tion was made by Ontario Provincial Police who were doing their best to in- vestigate the head-on collision in which one man was killed and members of two families were seriously injured. This news item makes us think of another scandal reported some months ago in New York City where a girl who was being attacked could get no help from dozens of people who watched We had felt at one time that some of our readers were being just a little overbearing in their insistence that our newspaper carry numerous details about social events which seemed of small or no interest to us or other readers. But we recently stumbled against this little item from a large Ontario Daily Newspaper which made us feel somewhat better. The prominently featured item Was headed "Name Omitted", The item went on to say that "Miss Blankety-Blank of such-and-such a town was omitted in 11IE CLINTON NEW ERA ESL 1865 *1 I* is the officer on duty had to leave the office and go out in the cruiser, the flick of a Switch would transfer all calls to the car. From his cruiser he would be able to contact other radio-equipped units within a 25-mile radius—including am- bulances, Ontario Provincial Police, fire departments, or police- from neighbor ing towns. If the officer was on foot patrol, he could keep his cruiser nearby with the radio turned up full blast so he could hear incoming calls a block or so away. And the full price is a little more than the radar set would cost. That money—$1,500—has already been al- located to the Police Committee budget, There would be no difficulty in fin- ancing the radio equipment by a var- iety of methods. One reader who telephoned the News-Record to voice her support of proper communications suggested any financial deficit could be made up by the issue of debentures. And yes, she said, -"although I am living on welfare and the little savings I have, I would buy a debenture be- cause I feel so strongly our police need proper communications, I would be willing to make that sacrifice to help make our town a safer' place for every- one." If, after communications are in- stalled and the police committee feels radar is still needed to make this a safer place, then by all means buy the equipment. But proper communications would likely end the immediate need for radar equipment. Yes, we would buy a de- benture too if Clinton's finances are in such a sorry state there is not an extra $300 to buy one of the mast im- portant pieces of equipment a police department can have. need a different screw driver, for each different size. We wonder what ever happened to the good old slot screw nail.. Here was something which could be turned with a dime, a thumb nail, a belt buckle, or anything which had a thin, strong, straight edge, If the screw got rusted in and the slot ripped under pressure, you could always cut another slot with 'a hacksaw. When one of the new type screw heads rip, you've had it. The only way to get it out is to cut up whatever it is screwed into. There is an interesting variety of reasons given for the multitude of screw heads on the market today. None makes much sense. The multiplicity of shapes and sizes available seems to point to only one thing: Somebody's trying to make a buck selling millions of screw drivers at the expense and frustration of Joe House-. holder or Hiram H. Handyman. We have thousands of laws . about all sorts of things . . . why not some means of control over the shapes of screw heads? PagO, 2-- -Clinton News-Record- Thu!rs, JOY. (./.,t 1904. Editorials. "I'm Sorry Sir They Don't Answer Let's Conform In Just One S More Area Would This Ever Happen Here? the incident take place. All of which makes us wonder about humanity. There is one small point, however, which makes us feel just a little better. Both these inci- dences took place near cities. We feel it is unlikely such stories will ever be published in the News-Record in connec- tion with local events. There appears to remain that strange fibre in country people which makes them want to help others when- ever they have an opportunity to do so, It is the people who make life in a small community and in the country worth- while. All Editors Have Their Problems yesterday's paper from a list of assist- ants at a Trousseau Tea held for Miss So-and-So, whose marriage to a certain gentleman takes place tomorrow in" a Church which was named. We cannot help but wonder with what terror and quietly subdued anger some editor must have answered the telephone call from this girl's mother— doubtless the wife of a heavy advertiser in that newspaper whose every whim must have had to be catered tO. And of what great interest to how many newspaper readers must that small item have been! Clinton. News-Record Amaigarnated 1924 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Published every Thureday at the Est. 1881 Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario ---. Population 3,369 • DAVID E. SCOTT, Editor A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • stoned teitdeuilest In !his okro °pinto* of MI *lite' only, and do isat sweat:sal* *km *AK Of Om Asithorbed at sitond class mail, Nit Otrie• Dapartnunt, Ottawa, and for Parheas of isastaaa In cash suesdiurpoN Payabin In 'chianti.- dinacta and Biratt Britaia: $4.00 a yin: Undid Sides' and Foratilit: Kitt limit Casing VA Cants'