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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
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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.
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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
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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!
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