Clinton News-Record, 1965-08-05, Page 4P0104,-Clint00 ,News-Itecord-4hur"scloy, Ays, 1905
Editorials
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Huron Conservatives WERE .Properly 'Publicized
gatheriiig at times laelced the •enthus-
iasm h4$130.11c1 accompany a political
rally each a these ne‘vSPaPerS carried
facttlal -report of the proceedings,
The organizational meeting was
advertisedinat least six HP -roll County
Weekly newspapers during the week of
ru1y 15. Nott the least of these was
the notiOe of the PC meeting whidh
Was 'carried in the Goderich Signal -Star,
:It i quit e possible, that we are unaware
of the "usual" Method ernPlOYed •tP,
inform interested •persons of a party
meet, but we do believe that the Method
chosen this year ShOtild have been Ade-
quate,
And finally, if it is "possible that
Progressive ConSerVatiVe voters in gen,
era], may be among those cOnfused'',
then it is equally probable that their
:confusion. was brought about by the
overall confusion of Canadian politics.
44 AgOVNT etliterig in the Gode,
rich Signal,Star entitled 'orwo pc
. )30aies in -lurron" raPpeid the 10a1 Pro,
.greSsiVe ConervAtiv e.,$• for Athe lacitf
Pniolietty prior to the meeting • on July'
19 and took a 'wipe at newspapers in
the Aroa for their rePOrtS On the: gath,
Pring;
• , the nature Of the MIN'S re-
porth seems to indicate that no repOrt,
•ers were at tile Clinton meeting, It
was nqt advertised in the usual way and
it is possible thast. Progressive Conser-
vative voter$ i., .ggeX'a1 .rnay he among
those confused," Penned the writer of
the Goderich editorial.
Let's take it point by point
Three progressive newspapers in
Huron County, Clinton, Exeter and
Zurich, had representatives at the -meet-
ing held, very understandablY, in the
"Hub of Huron CoulltY". Though the
How Much Do Motorists Really,Care?
(From The Stouftville Tribune)
AS ONE who has one a great deal
of travelling by air, we recall repeating
to a good many persons that we be-
lieved the most dangerous part of any
plaxie trip for someone in Stouffville,
was the driving the highway from
. here to Malton. Frankly we have lost
much of our fondriesS for motor trips.
It's just too dangerous and nerve wrack-
ing. • This is how serious it appears
from one Man's corner.
There is a great list of tragic
deaths every week — the list grows
longer and it• no 'longer startles us.
We believe that the great majority of
people accept it as a way of life.
Some members of Parliament have
already petitioned the Prime Minister,
to back a safety campaign, • and any
rise in interest should be greeted with
enthusiasth. However, do you think
it really is? Wewonder if people are
really concerned. This has become an
age of easy come, easy go, and 'that
seems to be oreeping into the matter
of life itself, 'Mat drink and be merry,
for tomorrow we die," are there too
many drivers on the road with this
attitude? Certainly it's beginning to
look that way,
Have -a safety check campaign in
your community and see how much
response there is, Other comintmities
have found there is not 'very much,
This, in the face of the fact that faulty
vehicles are blamed for a major share
of road deaths. Over and, over again
this, unconcern has shown up. If this .
is the fact, death tolls from accidents
will' never diminish and driirers will
have no one to blame but themselves.
Unfortunately, many persons who
are concerned about their safety to the
point where they will do something to
ensure it, will be innocent victims of .
crashes caused by the unconcerned.
LETTER TO ED/TOR
The Editor,
• Clinton News -Record.
Dear Sir:
At a recent ,Historical Meet-
ing a youth fondly boasted that
• has Grandsire cleared the first
acre that Is now Hullett Town-
ship and another boa:abed that
a cairn cammemorates his'
great-grandfather who made a
corduroy' highmiray • through a
swamp in Wawatash.
Dukes and Princes have been
• know to ',aridly boast that their
grandsires drew a, good bow
at Hastings and a banker in
Montreal likes to say that his
folki came to this Country with
Samuel de .Champlain and
made a trail ta Ontario's Vac-
ation Land and to the Htmting
Grounds of the Hurons.
Sixty years ago a silly war
developed and the kids from
the four -room Clinton High
School left their 'algebra and
Latin and went away because
TIRES HAVE 'CHANGED
I'm sorry yau :don't like my
new Short skirt, Grandnna,"
said the teenager, "but when
you were a girl didn't you have
to set your cap for the right
• young man?"
"W e 11, maybe,"/ asiswered
Grandma, "but never mY knee-
cap!"
Are
Dea
--some adult's had set the world cantributor gave $15. That was
on fire, and lights went out in
windows all over the world.
Thus the' district kids never
did regain the Hough Foorth'all
Trophy from Lisowel, and List-
owel kids died too,
One such kid from Guelph
sent back a paean that said
rather plaintively, "Remember
us yet a :little while, for we are
the dead who lie„ where Pell -
pies grow,' in Flanders Fields."
Recently a truck -driver said,
"My father tried to land at
Dieppe and any ohum's father
died dri the sky over the Med-
iterranean".
SeVeral wondered if it might
be possible to make a 'man -
lament of very hard stone that
kids of a new generation, and
a generation yet to come, mighit
paint with pride and boast a
bit fondly of the stock from
which they (came.
They asked their .neighbours
for a token contribution.
Same neighbours responded,
but most had married a wife
and could not contribute, or
had bought a parcel of land 9r
were about to ptirchase a yoke
of oxen and therefore could
not contribute a penny.
Looking over the list of con-
tributors at 'the Tama Clerk's
Office, I note that the largest
from a girl who teaches history
to other peoplets' kids; and only
last Month chase to make her
home in another provinde.
A handful or people gave a
two dollar bill and about a
hundred gave twenty-five cents.
I gave a whole +dollar, which
it generous', for it as almost one
quarter of the cost of my case
of Sunday been.- or 'amaroximattlY
the price of gas for one weekly
trip to my summer cottage,
where petunias and poppies,
grow in profusion and the sun-
sets are beautiful.
This is a busy world. Let the
dead past -bury their dead.
FRED SLOMAN.
Clinton, Ontario
August 3, 1965.
Clint*ni,,in Club
To Meet Aug. VI
The Clintonian Club will
Meet on. Wednesday afternoon,
August 11, at 2 p.m. at the
home cie Mrs. Jack Pearson,
Hayfield. Hostesses will be Mrs.
Russell :Colclough, Mrs. roan
Leppington, Mrs'. Ron 1VlacDon-
old and .aVies. Tom O'Connell.
Program wIti be in, charge
of the Hayfield ladies. Oars
will leave , the town hall
promptly at 1:30 p.m.
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Roses To Be Featured FloWer At Expo 67 • • ,
. Roses from Rotary Clubs around the world will be in a garden with 100
rose bustles in each ,of its 100 beds at the 1967 World Exhibition in Montreal.
Featured Will be the Canadian Centennial Rose, a gift of the Rotary Club of
Montreal -Lakeshore, which spearheaded the program. Seen with the 'coral -col-
ored blossoms are Mme Jean Drapeau, wife of Montreal's mayor, left, and Mrs,
Robert Shaw, right, wife -of Expo's deputy commissioner general.
From Our
75 Years Ago
TKO CLINTON NEW ERA
Friday, August 8, 1890
Hayfield news:: A couple of
our young men have opened out
a photo gallery,' two doors west
of the Post Office, and will be
in readiness from 10 a.rp. to 8
p.m. to put into tin the likeness
of all who may give them a
call.
'Council meeting on ,Manclay
night had a suggestion put
forth that a hook and ladder
company should be formed of
volunteers. It was stated in dis-
cussion that the Fire nassiyearProtect-
lorfowrther8for the past
1.
Stepensan has a diploma
in hits window stating that he
had passed an examination in
Physiology and Anatomy, the
science of embalming the dead,
a qualification Ithat fits him
particularly for the duties of a.
funeral director.
An excursion carried 900
passengers front Harrison to
Gaderich this week and several
dropped off in town for a visit.
On Sunday the temperature
was 92 tin the shade -while in
the N.W.T. it was only 4 de-
grees above freezing:
55 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, August 4, 1910
Teaching staff of C.C.I. for
1010-11 will be: Principal, J.W.
Treleaven, Science Master, Neil
MeEarehren, Moderns Miss Mc-
Dougall, , Mathematics; Miss
Delmege, 'Commercial Subjects
'and Art, 1Vtiss Bartlett.
James Burns of Hayfield area
has oats that ran 80 to 100
busthels to the acre,
The follovvting have been tick-
eted through by Jothai Ransford,
town agent of the G.T.R.: Rev.
J.E. Ford, rho gees to Victoria,
B.C., to :attend the General
Conference of the Methodist
Church; 1Vtiss Sybil Courtite,
who leaves for the mission field
of japan to-morrovv; Mks Derv::
erell who lea on Saturday far
an extended trip through Cana-
da and the United Staites be-
fore Settling in Winnipeg and
ivrt, Henry and family who will
take up land near Grand Forks;
Math Dakota: ' •
Miss Margaret Worthington,
Clintah. and Miss ,300.13. Muir,
Summerhill have been success-
ful Normal School students at
Guelph Agailcultare College,
40 Years Ago
OLLNICON NEWS -RECORD
Thursday, Angust 6, 1925
Something went Wrong with
the engine of the WoNabe alt
the Old Ewe Reunion on. Tam,
day and it mune to the ground,
but It wasn't very high up et
the tithe and nobody was hunt.
The Machine- however aufk,red
seine dentate;
and. Mns.• Shaw
nOttnced the engagement of
1.•
arly, Files
their only daughter, Madeloti (to
Mr. Harold Kay of Toronto.
Sutter and Perdue Hardware
'advertised MoCiary's Bonn y
BIue enamelware for the well
appointed kitchen.
At the U.F.O. Convention
held in Hensall last ThInsclay,
Mr. Robert McMillan was chos-
en as the 'candidate to repre-
sent that party's interests in
the corning Dominion election.
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
• Thursday, August 8, 1940
Registration. of all citizens
over the age of 16 will take
place in the public school from
August 19-21. A number of vol-
unteer helpers will be needed
to carry this through.
Ms Isabel Lindsay has tak-
en a position on the Embro
High School staff and will
teach English, History and Art.
Plural:steel Bros. midsummer
sale features all the latest
styles in ladies shoes at $1.00,
$1.49 and $1.95. Boys canvas
Shoes are selling alt 59c and
men's wash pants are clearing
at $1.59 per pair.
Mr. and Mrs. Willieni Finlay
of Holmesville are celebrating
their golden wedding anniver-
saa-y this week.
Tomatoes are selling at 5 lbs
for 25c and carrots at 5c a
bunch New potatoes are 27o• a
peck (15 lbs.)
15 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
(Special Anniversary Edition)
Thursday, August 3, 1950
Leo Kelly of Galt has been
named Chief' of Police far the
Town of Clinton at a salary of
$1,800,
:Chief officers for the Old
Boys' Reunion 1.950 were: A.J.
1VIClurray, General Chairman;
W.J. Mutch, Vice -Chairman; H.
C. Lawson, Secretary and K.W.
Colquhoutit, Treasurer.
We nate that Mists Mabel,R,
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SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
en Ike Well Lools Diy
Ever :have your Iva** pft in up, unscrewed some fliAeSs
off? thapPerk to us the ether
,day, And that rather vulgar,
'eacPreSSIOn, along With an older
one, 'Ton MIST ThiPS. the wateV
till the *ell MPS :dirs Pane
new meahing•
My vv'ffe's dad, 4 1104ound
stilly O. whijpaeod with one,
arm, auddenlY ot sitok, ohe of
the few Ones in his life, We
lit nut fr. the 11=004d' to
lend a band, while he was 4n
hospital.
Everything went fine Ilan a,.
bout 11 p.m, when we decided
to have a cop of tea before re-
tiring. A trickle came out of
the tap, and stopped. _
My fatherti-law IS eite or
that vanishing species of rural
dweller vyito, besides being able
to tell the weight of a cattle -
beast and know when it's going
inrain is earpenter-larrick-lay-
etr-pluariber-and 1 wr gh t. He
could build a bridge across the
St Lawrence with Some Wire,
a plank ar two, a shovel, an
iron bar, and a couple of tin
cans.
In eontrast, 1 am, one of that
raPiclly-increasing breed that
couldn't build a bridge ,across a
trout stream with 200 tons of
steel, eight carloads of cedar
planks, twelve bulldozers and
six civil engineers.
So there I was. Grandad in
the' liesbital. And me out there
on the ranch, With no water
stipPly, and three womer,i on my
hands, each of whom suddenly
had to use the toilet and had a
feverish thirst.
I tried to imbue them with
the the old pioneer spirit, when
you had to walk two miles to
the 'spring for water, through
thickets of black bears. They
were not impressed. All they
wanted to do Was go to the
bathroom
I went down the cellar, Mid
looked desperately around.
There were srvvitehes and pumps
and hot-water tanks and cold -
water banks, arid pipes running
in every Conceivable combina-
tion. Don't sneer, Mac. Do you
know the ins and out of „ a
pressure system.? •
Granny started to panic a-
bout the hot-water tank blow -
Clark Wa.t associated with the
News Record fOr about 30 years
and some of her editorials are
kindly rearembered by a great
number of the Old Boys • and
Girls coming back to .Clinton
far the Reunion.
Clinton. Town Conneil for
1950 include: R.Y. Hattin,' May-
or; Dr, G,S.: Elliott, Reeve; M.J.
Agnew, Antoine Garen, Bert
Glidden, H.E. Hartley'
• W.J.
Miller and D.M. Pegg, Alder-
men; and M.T. Corless, Clerk
and Treasurer.
This special anniversary is -
• was 22 pages, including 2
pictorial pages '• with many
pictures of past and present
businesses in' Clinton.
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10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
.E'ltursday, August 4, 1955
Tenders close to-mortrow for
the job of trucking mail for the
route between London • and
Wingham. The diesel loconto-
tive was taken off the London -
Clinton run earlier ;this year
and a steam engine replaced it,
but this did not prove satisfac-
tory.
Miss Betty 'Coney, Waterloo
and Miss Gwen Barr, Toronto,
both from the University of
Toronto and Miss Dorothy Se-
well, Markdale, from the Un-
iversity of Western Ontario
will join the staff of the Hur-
on County Health Unit in Au-
gust.
Council passed a b3r4aw in
the number of service stations
sellhig gasoline to the 16 exist-
ing stations. This seems like
discrimination, but no one
spoke (against it at the council
meeting and it was carried un-
anamously.
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The- fizst p1ttnP4 the houSe
to 4411Erle,sla. The second put
the refaimartor out •of order
(wthO* we Macorverpetl next'
Mornings) I Pulled A. AW"
The furnanne Went on.
I peered at pampa, gazed at
RPM. then 1 prempunce4,
well's gone dry." It was Ore
only thltng 1oould thintl; ore,
and at midnight, who was go-
ing to 4rg4e? Grammy came up
with some folk -lore about paint-
ing the why, but with 1 05-
gurted her that modern electriC
Pumps didn't need priming. We
went to bed, disgruntled, end
thiAsty as explorers of the
great Gobi desert.
Blight and early, the punab-
etr He said the first
thing to do was prime the
pump. He poured 843 teapots
full of water down the pipe, No
results. Female relatives, look-
ing a bit frantic peered down
the cellar stainsabout every
four minutes. In the old days,
there'd have been a two-holer
within range, But these modern
farm homes have everything.
Except an putd!oor privy.
Eight hours and many dollars
later, we had: five men on
the job; torn up a. great chunk
of the lawn with a digger;
found the well; pulled up 90
feet of plastic pipe; lost all
the females to various plumbed
establishments 'in town; and
found the trouble
Nope, the well wasn't dry. It
was almost overflowin,g from
all these tea-pots of water
poured in, Nope. The pipes had-
n't burst. Yup. There was some-
thhvg stuck under the foot -
valve. One of the legs had
broken off the poppet, a 60 -
cent item, and had prevented
the jet' in the foot -valve from
jetting, and the pump was
pumping air. Now, is that
clear? If it isn't, hold your
peace. That's what the man
said.
And it certainlY helped
decide what I'm going to db in
summer holiday's from, now on.
I'm going to pick up s, launch of
firm -legged poppets' and go a-
round the country helping peo-
ple whose water ha& been cut
off. Just tive me a call.
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