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Simon Fraser descending the Fraser River in
1808. After his Highland Scot father died while
serving the British Army in the American
Revolutionary War, young Vermont.born Fraser
joined the North-West Company and served as
a clerk in" various Canadian outposts. He became
a partner in 1801; He set up trading posts in
the Peace River district, explored west of the
Rockies and established Fort St. James, Fort
Fraser and !oft deorge. On May 28, 1808,
Fraser launched an expedition from Fort George '
immediately south of Prince George to explore
the length of what he thought was the Columbia
.River. He led two lieutenants, 19 voyageurs
and two Indian guides in four canoes, The party
returned August 6 after completing a very
difficult journey of discovery down the Fraser
River to, the area of New Westminster, where
hostile coastal Indians turned them back and they
retraced their route up the river. Fraser
reported in his journal "my great disappointment
in not seeing the main ocean, having gone so
near it as to be almost within view. We besides
wished very much to observe the longitude.
The latitude is 49 degrees nearly, while` that
of the entrance of the Columbia is 46 degrees
20 feet. This river is therefore not the
Columbia!" Fraser's expedition was 'assisted
by friendly Indians through the canyon sections
of the river, where nearly every mile brought
danger and difficult,: whirlpools, rapids, rocks,
and carrying-places so rough that a new pair
of moccasins was torn, to shreds in one day of
portaging.
From Our Early Files
Mrs. Margaret Thompson is
visiting her daughter,-"Mre.'G.E.-
MeTaggart at Blyth.
Mr. C. G. Allin leaves this
week for Halifax where he joins
the Canadian Naval Cadets again
as Instructor after spending the
holidays at the Ontario Street
Parsonage.
Dodds Holloway was a visitor
in town for a few days.
Mrs. T. Jackson Jr. enter.
tains a number of her friends
this evening,
Miss Hazel O'Neil leaves for
Toronto to enter the hospital
as nurse-in-training. Her many
friends will wish her success
in this new sphere of work.
40 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, January 19, 1928
Miss Gladys Crich and her
niece Miss VeraDouglas spent a
few days last week with Sea.
forth friends.
Miss Madeline Streets spent
the weekend at Londesboro, the
guest of Miss Almeda Critten.
den.
Miss Palma Bunking visited
Miss Margaret Ross of Londes.
boro a few days last week.
Mr, G. Burrows of Lanfine,
Alberta, and Mr. F. Vrooma,n
of Goderich were guests of the
former's aunt, Mrs, Margaret
Pennebaker, on Monday.
25 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, January 21, 1943
Reuben Grigg and family of
Goderich township are moving
into their house on MapleStreet
Clinton, recently purchased
from Misses Walkinshaw.
Miss Irene Brunsdon of Lon.
don spent the weekend in town
with her father, Mr. J. H. Bruns.
don,
Mrs. Ronald McDonald re.
ceived word the endoflastweek
from her brother, Sgt. Percy
Brown, wireless air-gunner,
stating that he had arrived
safely overseas with theRCAF.
15 years ago
THE CLINTONNEWS_RECORD
Thursday January 15, 1953
Bill Shearing has returned to
the Royal Military College,
Kingston to resume hiS year's
academic study, He plated 35th
out of 1b8 inhis tni cl-term work.
Mr. and Mrs Newton Styr.
gee», Margaret and Billy, Port
DOVer, .visited the former's
Mother and sister, Mrs. Eilliara
Sturgeon and MiSs, Hertheila,
over the Weekentioial
Mr. and Mrs. Fotheringharn,
Hamilton, spent the weekend
With the lady's Mother, Mrs,
Chris Veinier,
Mt, and Mrs, T. J. Salkeld
and MISS Helen Salkeld, BOO.,
January .16, 1958
.Kenneth enneth Carter, son of Mr.
and Mrs, Joe Carter, returned
to his studies at Queen's Un.
iversity, Kingston, on January
We get
Teachers get some pretty
funny notes from parents, ex-
plaining the absence of a pupil.
Usually it's because the har-
assed mother or father stabs
down anything at the last min-
ute, as the kid, heading for the
door, and already late, screams
in dismay; "Oh I gotta have a
note."
Thus you get such things as,
"Please excuse Jane's grand-
mother for being absent due to
her illness." The baffled teach-
er finally figures out that gran-
ny had the 'flu and Jane had to
stay home and look after her
because Morn can't miss a day
at the shoe factory, because
that's the only way she can
muster enough money to buy
Jane some decent clothes so
she can go to school, so she
can be a real whiz and help out
Granny and Mom.
Sometimes the notes are not
'so funny. "Please excuse Jim
for being late as he had to
appear in court this morning
for drunk and disorderly, but
it was the other guy's fault."
Well, teachers aren't the
only ones who receive sad and
funny letters. The rest of the
column will be made up of
sentences taken from actual
letters received by the Toronto
Welfare Department from
applicants for aid and assis-
tance.
They may explain why Eng-
lish teachers look so stunned
So much of the time. The sen-
tences will be in quotation
marks. The comments will be
whatever conies to Mind.
"I am very annoyed that you
have branded my son illiterate
as this is A lie, I was married
to his father a week before he
was born." She didn't Mean
illiterate, She meant illegible.
"In answer to your letter,
have given birth to• a boy
weighing ten pounds. I hope
h's•:,:la satisfactory," Really,
rat could be more Sat-
isfaetory?
"Unless I get my husband's
Money pretty soon, I will be
forced to lead an immortal
life," And good luck to you,
5, after spending his vacation
at home, and found he had
been awarded a bursary for
$275. from the AtkinsonFounda•
s tion.PF**?°J1 • ,
CYa ' , • to ig Dixon was acclaimed
ani df the' Six=mantritibli'd
School Board at the inaugural
meeting. He succeeds George
Levis to this position.
letters
Missus. There should be a lot
More of that type of positive
thinking in the world.
"Mrs. Jones has not had any
clothes for a year and has been
visited regularly by the Cler-
gy." No comment.
"This is my eighth, child,
what are you going to do about
it?" What, indeed? It's cer-
tainly time somebody did
something.amething. Or stopped doing s
"I am glad to report: that my
husband who was reported
missing is dead." Now there is
a sentence of which
Hemingway would be proud.
Not a syllable too much or too
little. The emotion is retrained.
Note that she said "glad", not
"delighted".
And here's one with the
same theme, but a different
twist. "Please find for certain
if my husband is dead, the man
I am living with can't eat or do
anything until he finds out."
There's drama for you. There's
tragedy. Think of the poor dev-
il, starving to death, unable to
smoke or drink or pick his
teeth or pull the fluff out of
his belly-button.
Here's another that shows a
nice respect for bureaucracy.
"In accordance with your
instructions, I haVe given birth
to twins in the enclosed en-
velope." And they thought The
Pill was a big deal!
Another Mom writes, "I Can-
not get sick pay. I have six
children, Can you tell me
why?" There's a beautiful logic
there somewhere, if you could
just put your finger on it.
"I haven't any children as
yet as my husband is a bus
driver and works day, and
night." But think of all that
overtime.
And finally. It sounds like
an old chestnut, but teachers
actually get notes like this, "I
want money as quick as I can
get it. I have been in bed with
the docter for two weeks and
he doesn't do me any good. jf
things don't improve, I will
have to send for another doc-
tor."
This is Medicare
Ph.D., Lucknow, spent Tuesday 55 years ago the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Middleton.
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday January 16, 193'3 Pr4""10` years ago
SUGAR
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by Bill Smiley
Clinton News-Record, Thursday, January:18th, 19613
Business and Professional
Directory
OPTOMETRY
Minor hockey week- looms once
again, with its attendant , power-play
publicity and promotion. To attack
minor hockey, cradle of Canada's na-
tional sport, is akin to criticizing mother-
hood. Yet* some mothers are, less than
perfect,
Publicity drums are being drubbed
more loudly this year than ever before,
pounding out the message that minor
hockey helps build young bodies end
characters, fosters (perhaps paradoxi-
cally) competitive spirit and co-opera-
tion with others, respect for authority
and self-discipline.
Minor hockey has, with the expan-
sion this season of the National 'Hockey
League, become desperately important
—in fact, essential—to the continued
existence of the big-money major
league teams. A larger cradle will hold
more potential Bobby Hulls, Gofdie
Howes, and Rabbinovitch Dinklehaui-
ers. (The last-named represents '''-the
majority of minor leaguerS whoS
dreams of hockey glory -re recognized
as only dreams before irivy finish high
school).
But chivalry and good sportsman-
ship, as learned in the minor leagues,
are undoubted side benefits as young-
sters strive to emulate, their televised
idols in the majors.
One such idol is Edward Shack, a
former Toronto Maple ,L.gat-n&i(i)ific;
Boston Bruins. Ina recent game against
his former team, the Leafs, played' in
Toronto, Mr. Shack racked up 18
minutes in penalties. Toronto fans loved
it. They cheered Mr. Shack.
Dick Beddoes, sports columnist for
the Globe and Mail, was moved to
report: "It was rare hockey entertain-
ment, fast and wicked, and the loud-
speaker .finally bawled, .'One minute
left in the game.' A sorrowing voice in
the seats hollered, 'Oh,. shut up'I"
To earn his entertaining penalties,
Mr. Shack had, among other sporting
gestures, belted Toronto goalie John
Bower, attacked. Frank Mahovlich with
a' pitchfork-type check (driving stick
into abdomen, chin and nose), charged
Civil servants, whose payroll is
one of the taxpayers' heaviest loads, are
multiplying like rabbits at a time when
automation is shrinking manpower
needs in past other fields. -
From 1957 to 1966, some 30,000
persons entered Canada's civil service.
While this may seem to indicate growth
of the country, it is significant that,be-
tween 1965 and 1966 more then
12,000 civil servants were hired. The
hiring rate for civil servants is accelerat-
ing out of all proportion to national
growth.
Why?
Perhaps an investigation of de-
partmental empire builders might • pro-
vide an answer. These insular creatures
operate behind the slogan: "Never Us4
the referee, knocked down Dave Keon
and stuck him in the stomach, and tried
to bulldoze Duane Rupp into hospital.
Local minor hockey players folloW-1
ing in Mr. Shack's skate-marks recently
misbehaved for 28 penalties in one
game. While nosing out Ripley 3-2,
Legion-sponsored Clinton Juveniles
earned 12 penalties. Their opponents
offended 16 times. ,
Such rule-breaking antics 'may in-
dicate competitive spirit. They hardly
_suggest co-operation with others, re-
spect for authority and self-discipline.
Young bodies are being built, yes, and
characters—but what type of char-
acters?
An ignoramus exposed to his first
hockey game might wonder whether
the emphasis was on hoodlumism and
brutality rather than healthful sport
'played with intelligence and reason.
Fathers ,ere,, urgecltp take rather
Veil send the ir,'S'Ohao'lh
o
e minor hockey
league wars.' This is 'laudable in prin-
ciple. But some fathers — and some
minor hockey coaches—tend to stress
the need to win at all costs. Under such
pressure, young players have been
known to break down and weep un-
controllably after a loss, and 'to brag
and swagger with outrageous arro-
gance while celebrating a win.
It is not suggested that Canada's
national sport be changed to croquet,
or tiddley-winks. For the kids, how-
ever, a more sane, less serious and
bloody-minded approach would be a
great step backward . . . toward the
light-hearted fun they used to get out
of hockey before the game was organ-
ized into a religion.
one where you can hire two and make
yourself twice as important."
The Glassco Royal Commission
pointed to ways by which the civil ser-
vice could be streamlined, not only
through automation, but by' improving
management—eliminating the empire
builders.
And civil servants• have long been
criticized as automatons. Surely automa-
tion could relieve them of many func-
tions.
Auditor Genera) Maxwell Hender-
son frequently urges that the Glassco
Commission's recommendations be im-
plemented.
Taxpayers would certainly appreci-
ate the resulting lighter load.
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Pastor: JACK HEYNEN, B.A.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21st
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m.—Church Service.
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11:00 a.m.—Worship Service.
DAY OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
Sermon: "PRAYER — A LIMITLESS POWER"
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m.--Worship Service.
1:45 p.m.—Sunday School.
ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Rev. R. W. Wenham, L.Th.; Rector
Miss Catharine Potter, rganist
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21st EPIPHANY 3
8:00 a.m.—Holy Communion.
11:00 a.m.—Morning Prayer.
Minor hockey players and executives are invited
to attend morning service.
9:45 a.m.—Church School.
January '18—Chancel Guild meeting at home of Mrs.
Wenham, 8:15 p.m.
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. M. J. Agnew, Organist and Choir. Director
Mrs. B. Boyes, Supply Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21st
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School.
10:45 a.m.—Worship Service.
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Guest Preach: P. VAN KATWYK, Stratford
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21st
Guest Preach: REV. BROUWER, Acton
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2:30 p.m.—Worship Service—English.
Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas
listen to "Back to God Hour"
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Sunday, January 2Ist
9:45 a.m.—Worship. Service.
11:00 a.nt.aSunday School,
11:00 psis, Evening Service.
Speaket: Beb Brandon, Forest
Tuesday, 6:00 p.m Prayer and
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Pentecostal Church
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W. Werner, Pastor
Sunday, January 21st
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