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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1965-10-21, Page 4"Queen of the Furrow” at the International Plowing Match at the Massey- Ferguson Farm, Milliken, Ontario„ Verna Thompson, RR 2, Milton, carefully measures the depth of furrows she has plowed. Her skill on the tractor, ap- pearance, deportment, ability to answer questions on agriculture and to give a short speech made her the judges' choice for the title. The 1966 International is being held at Scott Farms, near Seaforth and a Huron County girl could have this honour next year. From Our Early Files 15 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 19, 1950 On Saturday, October 7, 1950 Helen Lorraine, -daughter /of Mr. and. Mrs, Frank J. .Dixon, became the bride of Joshua Douglas Finch, Rockcliffe, son of Mr, and Mrs. Edward Finch, Ironbound, N.S.. Also on Satur- day, October 7, 1950, Charlotte Elizabeth Middleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Middle ton, Goderich Township, be- came the' bride of Dr. James Edward Mullens, son of Mrs. Mullens and the late W. Mul- lens, Hamilton. Sutter-Perdue Hardware ad- vertised a Findlay combination coal or wood and electric . stove. —easy to keep clean with the feature of having warmth in the kitchen .OP on warm days keeping the kitchen cool at the complete price of $284. Goderich. Township Field Day vsnas held at No. 6 Union School on Wednesday, October 11, with. SS No. 9 taught by Matt Ed- gar coming out on top to win the shield with 75 paints. SS 5 with 70 points and SS 4 with 59 points, THE CONPON NEW IMA Established INS * fly 0 MUU * 0 • Signed contributions to thli publication, are the opinions- 'IP, of the writer's only, and do not necessarily unrest Ilr I.*„. • flie Oasis of the newspaper. Authorized as Second Clair Mall, Post ofirce NI:liniment, Ottawa, mid for Nynierif of Itostage in SUBSCRIPTION RATES: l'aVable In advance- '•-••, Canada- and Great Britain: $4.00 • Veen United Stiotis and Foreign: $5.50; Single Caption: le d•eh Clinton News-Record Amalgamated THE CLINTON NEVi5-ItECORD Ina Established INN Published Drury 'Thursday M the Heart Of Huron county Clinton, Ontario, Canada Popolafion 3,475 A. LAURIE OOLOLIHOUN, 111.1iLISHER 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 20, 1955 At the end of this week, meal service will be, discontin- tied at' he Commercial Inn. Mr. and. Mrs. Van Demme plan to take a three month vacation in Europe. This will be their first trip back since coming to Can- ada 30 years ago, Morris Darling, son of Cub Master Tom, Darling, proved the best salesman in the group selling apples for the scouts. lie sold a total of $15.01 which was the record for the cubs. Elvin Parker held the record for the Boy Scouts. A total of $214.50 Was realized frail ail sales -- $2.50 more than last year. Simpsons-Sears will open a new office in town where Hugh Hawkins had his hardveare store. Mist Freda Schoenhals and 'her staff will be on hand all day to welcome visits froni cUstorners and those wishing to leek Over the new Office. Classified Ads. bring Results My daughter is furious with Me, Again. She's at that age, 14, when daughters have very little difficulty an becoming en raged with their fathers, This occurs, of course, only on days when they're not sore as a boll at their mothers. She has good reasons, of eourse. She claims I'm crabby in the morning and grouchy at night. This is because I'M el- ways hollering up the stairs to tell her to get a move on; in the morning, and hollering up the stairs telling her to get her light off, at night, She calls me an old crock When I refuse to play badmin- ton with her, because of my bursitis. And when I do play, and beat the 'can off her, she is like all women. .She accuses me of dheating, or playing like a big bully. She goes livid with rage when I try to help her through some ,situation I know will be h)ugh. "What do you think I am, Dad, a child?" But she grows purple with passion. When I remind her that she's not an infant and can just keep .on looking for her lost gym suit and I don't care if her P.T, teacher does kill her and she can play basketball in her underwear, for all I care. She boils with bellicosity when she wants help with her homework and I remind her that 'she thinks I'm stupid and she'd better do it herself. When I play the heavy fath- er, moralistic and conventional, she calls me, in disgust, and "old poke." When I get gay and kick up my heels' and 'be- come the life of the party, she is muffed and makes cracks about my lack of dignity, In fact, about the only time we seem to he on our old basis of true buddies is when she's trying to Wheedle some money. Then her true sweetness and my -innate generosity shine. through and we . get along beautifully. Until I remind 'her that she's to be in at 11 p.m., even if it is Friday night. Oh, well, that's about stand- ard, these days, for a healthy father - daughter 'relationship. But this Week she went off like a skyrocket. I .decided to use a portrait of Kim in my English. teaching. It was painted, and extremely well 'done, by Jean Hay, whose daughter Princess and Kim, were bosom pals then, about. age nixie. I took the painting to school, held it. up for three 'minutes for the class, then told the students to describe the im- pression: it, made on them, Re- sults were interesting. • Quote: ""Be wasn't very old, perhaps about ten, but the eyes were those of an. old, tired man. An overworked man." Quote: "I think that this child 'is a. bedraggled orphan, wishing for parents to love and care for him." Quote: "Tears of pity and forlornness could almost be seen dripping down the boy's rusty cheeks," Quote: "It is a picture that, leaves the viewer with a feel,, ing of deep concern." Quote; "His large, sad. eyes, which dominated his thin, dirty little face, told .his story bet-ter than a thousand words," Quote; "I-lis ears dreepedlike a does; when it knows it has done something wrong and will be punished." Quote; "I got the impression that he was very sad and lone- ly, 'perhaps an orphan who had gone without food for some time." Just a sample: Titles - were such as: The Boy; The Lost One imaginative lad rolled it The Last Jew and suggested, the child was wait- ing to go off /to the gas ovens. What' young lady of 14, who is dabbling with lipstick, wears a brassiere, and, has been out on a -date, wants her name bandied about the school as: an old, tired man; an orphan; a sad dog; a dirty-face; a rusty-cheeks. And worst of all, a boy. Ninety percent of them thought she was a boy. Maybe she had some excuse, after all, for coming home from school, those brown eye% like boiling chocolate, with, "DAD! I could murder you!" 0 Junior Farmers Plan Oct. 22 Dance The October meeting of the Clinton Junior Farmers was held jointly with the Clinton Junior Institute in the Clinton Town Hall with a good attend- ance. Bruce Betties was in charge of the meeting. The roll call was answered by the boys and girls comment- ing on the attractive attributes of both sexes. There Were many interesting comments from both the boys and the girls. The 'business was then dis- cussed and reports received. Plans were completed to hold a dance in the Auburn Com- munity Memorial .Hall on Oct- ober 22. Miss Sharon Ball told about her recent trip to the United Nations, through Wash- ington, New York and the New York's World Fair. Business and Professional Directory ffONIINISh 'PHOTOGRAPHY HADDEN'S STUDIO PORTRAIT -- WEDDING and CHILDREN 118 St. David's St. Dial 524-8787, Goderich 6-13p OPTOMETRY J. E. LONG STAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 B. CLANCY, 0.1). — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone 524-7251 GODERICH 38-tfb R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST F. T. ARMSTRONG Consulting Optometrist The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 ltfb INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE 84 REAL ESTATE Phones: Off ice 482-9747 Res. 48?-78134 JOHN WISE, Salesman Phone 482-7265 H. C. LAWSON First Mortgage Money Available Lowest Current Interest Rates INSURANCE - REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Phones: Office 482-9644 Res. 482-9787 H. E. HARTLEY Lull; INSURANCE Planned Savings . . . . . Estate Analysis CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Clinton, Ontario 111.111NMM, ALUMINUM PRODUCTS Fbr Air-Master Aluminum Doors and d Windows an Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervls-69 Albert St. Clinton-482-9390 A.M. HARPER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 53-57 SOUTH ST._I TELEPHONE GODERICH, OW. 524-7562 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY .offloe — Main Street SEAFORTH Insur: • Town bvvellings • Ali Claims of POrm Property • Summer Cottages • Churches, Schools, Hails Extended Coverage (Wind. watet (Waage, falling Objects, etc.) is also aVailable. AGIINTS: Reyes, RR 1, Seaforth; V. f, Lane, RR 5,- Sea- fortlit Wirt. Le1156r, Londesboto; Sel Juicer, Brusaels; Harold Squires, Clinton; George Coyile, Dub ; Donald G, Eaton, Settfoirth: W. H. Bitc,Oracken of Bras, sels -has attended: and exhibited at five tall fairs and in all has received 194 prizes. At Sea- forth he received 27; Wingham 40; Brussels 65; Belgrave 36; and Blyth 26. His total win- nings were about $96.00, so it pays to exhibit at the Fall Fairs. Mrs. Fred Jackson has ten- dered her resignation as of the next month as organist in the Rattenbury St, church, a pos- ition she haas held for several years. The Family Hearid and Weekly Star publishers have just paid Forty Thousand Dol- lars for one printing press to give better service to their many subscribers. This amount Would 'perhaps be as Much as any paper in the U.S. would care to spend on the same thing. The Family Hearld and Weekly Star is a newspaper success which is truly marvel- lous. 55 Years Ago 25 Years Ago SUGAR AND SPIC by Bill Smiley How Many Humans This Season? 11 uron ounty ,:uccrl of The Furrow" In 1966 IT IS commonplace at this time of year to read editorial comment con- cerning the 'approaching hunting sea- son. Editors now have begun to make their annual plea to hunters, asking them to use extreme caution when cleaning, carrying or shooting a rifle, Of course there is 110 way to tell how many lives are saved each year by the efforts of newspaper writers who pound home the sensible safety mea- sures that all hunters know and most practise. Generally it is much easier to enumerate the few now suffering or forever silent souls who let the warning go by unheeded, Glaring headlines and articulate announcers unfeelingly report 'tragedies like, "Child Shot Accidentally By Older Brother" or "An area youth was killed • CANADIANS are no longer im- pressed by the flood of promises for an easier, _ happier, less expensive, more financially rewarding way of life that aecompanies every federal election cam- paign. The average voter is well aware that every time the ballot-box ante is raised, the post-election doldrums get worse. He knows the price for being sucked into the election game of 'out- pledging everyone in the race is always paid by the poor, gullible voter. Like Hansel and Gretel •who for a while nibbled away at the witch's. bait but woke in time to hoist her -into the oven, so the average Canadian voter who has sampled the political wares tossed, at them over a series of unsatis- factory elections will one day dump political pests into the hot flushes of a resounding defeat, has boosted the rising flood of useless and expensive paper so much as the waste of publicity releases from Expo '67. Week after Week we receive, along with thousands of other people in all phases of 'the publishing business, great masses of free publicity material which, like all other outputs of this type, find their way immediately into the waste basket. These releases are of little interest, drawn up, by a man with little or no experience in such matters. The Expo people haye been reluctant to give any assurance that the various media will receive any paid advertising on the big show, and for this reason alone, will, not give away free thousands of columns in unpaid space. Still they keep coming, with two and three copies addressed to the same person. It is interesting to learn that Expo's initial budget for publicity was $50,000,000. This figure was drastically cut to $5,000,000, and of this amount $3,000,000 has already been spent, and the show is still over a year away. This is just one prime example of the manner in which millions are being THE WHEAT sales to the U.S.S.R. are rightly hailed as a big 'boost to Canada's prosperity. A comparable con- tribution, suggests Vincent Egan of the Toronto Globe and Mail, has come from another source—and has remained al- most unnoted. Immigration to Canada this year is now estimated 'at a total of 133,000, an increase of 20,000 over 1964. This inflow, the Toronto paper's financial editor comments, "will have a dollar- and-cents effect on Canadas' economy A WIDER range of unusual foods is getting more shelf space as super- markets and gourmet centres and more delicatessens sprout across Canada, acording to Paul Gibson in The Finan- cial Post. In Vancouver, cloudberries are be- coming More pepular. A delicious soft red or yellow fruit contpa.rable to a raspberry in appearance, they Carrie from a creeping-vine plant common in instantly today when his hunting corn- panion mistook him for the deer the two had been traeking." We who read and listen shake our heads and ."Tsch, Tsch". .then turn the page or the dial to something more pleasant. After all, there is nothing we can do to undo the damage and little we can say to comfort the loved ones who wait anXiouslY in a hospital .corri- dor or mourn quietly in a funeral par- lour. So the autumn slaughter of hunt- ers, their family and friends swings into gear for another teriii. How many will be injured or killed this year del).- by on the amount of extra care 'taken by hunters who heed the safety slogans and their ability to stay out of the way of those who don't. Yes, most Canadians have cottoned to the trickery employed by the nation's politicians at election time._ These are the voters who will make their decision quietly and alone after careful delibera- tion of party accomplishments. Still others, like sheep will allow themselves to be herded into some party fold by the rod and staff of clever phrases and golden-tongued oaths, Thousands more—and this is the deplorable part—will not cast a ballot on November 8. They will, choose to give up their hard-won right to vote because their stomachs have been sick- ened by hanky-panky of all parties,- particularly at election time. One question, Mr. Candidate. What are you and your party doing —at election time and in parliament— to halt the rapid disenchantment of the Canadian voter? unwanted paper flood. When Sir Winston Churchill was Britain's wartime prime minister, he used to upset his associates by demand- ing that they reduce their reports on some of the most intricate subjects to a single sheet of paper. This is not easy for professional writers. But Chur- chill's instinct was right. There is a grave danger that we can eventually be swamped beneath an ocean of paper created by ourselves. In Russia, a Soviet' economist has warned that by 1980 the Russian economic system will require more than 100,000,000 people to handle its paper- work unless the whole establishment is overhauled. In. Canada 13 percent of our labor force is engaged in clerical work and the automation we have ex- perienced seems to be making little dif- ference. It is estimated that the cost of clerical work in the federal govern- ment alone is nearly $500,000,000 a year. Human instinct seems to be to hoard things 'and this makes our filing systems a menace. Keep it short is one of the most immediate weapons to fight 'this trend. comparable to the recent Canadian- Soviet wheat sale contract—not to meh- don the immeasurable hurhan impact on Canadian life . . . Earning power of this number of people would run well into the hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Their contribution to the tax coffers would be similarly substan- tial." There is no wealth without people to produce it. And the 'more people in Canada, the more wealth that will be produced. the Arctic. Also gaining popularity across the nation are rn,angoeS, which are grown in trepical countries, baba.S, a rich, heavy French cake, chocolate-Coated , bees, fried grasshoppers, Irish marrow, prune butter and nasi-goreng (a fried- rice'dish with spices). That is not all. Pried ants, =eked frogs legs and vvhalemeat are IiVening cocktail parties, The choice of the exotic or unusual foods is unlimited. - Page 4—,-Clialeet News Record Thurs. Oct 2 1965 _Editorials ,„4 One Question, Mr.' Candidate Expo Boosts Useless Flood of Paper (The Stoufiville Tribune) NOTHING in the last year or two wasted in wages and materials on an People Are Wealth CloudberrieS To Irish Marrow CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 20, 1910 Goderieh news reports that a merger is to take place be- tween Baynes' Carriage Corn- pany Limited of Hamilton and the American Road Machine Comparly of Canada Limited, Goderich. The Goderich plant Will be closed and the new com- pany will, be making car parts in Hamilton. The new company Will be run by a grOup of auto- mobile men from Detroit. Clerk Campbell of Hullett Is home from a visit to the west. He feels that before Many years Winnipeg and St. Boni- face will be all one city with art increase of population of about 20,000 people. Mr. Camp- bell says the west it a great place for the young man vellio has no- prospects here, but for himself he Will stay ih his own township of Hallett For several months Messrs, Stevenson and Netliger Of the Electble Light Company have been trantferming the street lights from Art to tungston Inca'nde'scent. This should Make the town: much brighter and at the saline cost. 75 Years Ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA Friday,—October 24, 1890 The Electric Light 'had its first trial in the Verity foundry in Exeter and it is expected to gleam from a number of busin- ess places in town in the near future. CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 24, 1940 M. T. Corless has been ap- pointed 'to succeed R. E. Man- ning as Clerk Treasurer of Clinton, Nine applications were received. Mr. Carless has been a resident of Clinton for the past 80 years. George H. Elliott, former mayor of Clinton, pasted away suddenly at his home on Wed- nesday. He was in his 63rd year. Weddings of note Were — Doris J. Addison of Clinton to William. Walker, Clinton and Beatrice Irene Woods of Gode- rich Township to James Char- les Durnin of London. During the latter part bf last week a farmer hear Auburn picked a pail of raspberries and this week William 3, Stew. art, former reeve of West 'Urfa- watioSh, drew three loads of wood from his bush with the sleigh and clahns it was better than the Wagon, 116WeVer, the snOW has disappeared and tern:eat-1e Sighted a flock of rob, ins on Sunday, They usually. have left for warmer climes by 'the end of SepteMber. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 22, 1925 Miss Isabel Fraser was the winner of the $10 prize offered by Mrs, M. D. 1ViCTaggart to the Clinton Collegiate girl tak- ing the highest standing in any eight papers of the Upper Sch- eel and Ernest Hunter won a similar prize offered to the boys by the former principal W. M, Erwin, now principal of the Dundas High School. At the Evangelical parson- age, Zurich, on October 21, by the Rev. Mr. Dengis, Adell Maude, daughter of Mr, 'and Mrs. Sylvanus. Witmer of Zur- ich to Wilfred C, Jervis, sae of Mr. and Mrs, A. Jervis of Gode- righ ToWnship. Next Thursday is election day and it 'is to be hoped that whichever party is elected will have a majority and then let the government be responsible for its acts and answer to the people. It seems when there is a minority government it is an excuse for all kinds' of weak policies, ,