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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-01-25, Page 2EDITORIAL PAGE Clinton ,NOW4IPPQ411, 111447POPY! January g.50, 1968 'county blocks progress Huron County council fired an other ',soggy salvo at progress when it shot down plans for immediate amal- gamation of Perth and Huron, boards of health, Council's action, ' although de- Plorable, was predictable. It ,had. Already allied itself with other county councils mobilized against the Ontario government's plan to amalgamate school boards into larger adminisita-a tive units.. Members of county councils, particularly in Southwestern Onrarid, are fighting a Vietnam-type war, im- moral, corrupt, with no hope of tory. Their enemy is progress in the form of regional governm,:nt. With regional government, coun- , ty councils will become not merely anachronistic as they are now, but obsolete. So county council rnLmt_irs who squirm and wriggle, pout and bluster in efforts to protect their funny little fiefdoms can be understood if not applauded. AMalg-Sination of the two county health boards was urged by the pro- vincial government and recommended by Huron's medical officer. But Huron council's vote, held secretly in committee-of-the-whole, was 34 to 4 against the merger. Earlier, Dr. G. P. A. Evans, Hui'on's medical officer, supported the two- county health unit proposal. He said the main advantage would be a lowering of costs per capita because the unit would be dealing with a larger population. (Huron has a popula- tion of about 50,000, Perth has 59,000). Ontario has offered to pay 75 per cent of total costs to public health units which serve populations of 100,000 or more. Provincial sub- sidy for separate Huron and Perth units `is 50 per cent. "In summary," Dr. Evans said, "I Would say that (by combining the two units) we could achieve better, more comprehensive services, ' more econ- omic services." His own experience, he added, was the one unit could best serve from 100 . 00 250,00Q, persons: ',Arnal: g a ati oiL,Lik2.1.7.1t) rpm. a n ti its L would facilitate, among other services, improvements in geriatrics, community mental health—particularly among children—and cervical and sputum cystology. Spiting this favorable profes signal opinion, members of Huron' county council hid their heads in the dirt and waggled their feet ;frantically, a time-dishonored political drill de- signed to give the impression of move- ment while going nowhere. They performed in the same brave fashion when the Ontario gov- vernment moved to streamline the province's educational system . Premier John Robarts, in a speech, stated: "Vast , improvements in trans- poi:tenon and communication have re- moved much of the element of isola- tion from rural living in almost all areas of Ontario. With this .change in the lives of the people has come the recognition that the small districts must make way for larger units of ad- ministration if we are to achieve our goal of equality of 'educational appor- tunity for every child. We believe that when the size and population of Ontario are considered, our objective should be to reduce the number of ad- ministrative units to approximately 100 boards of education." There are some 1,600 boards, now, reduced from 5,600 at the end of the Second World War. .Huron county council, however, decided to join with other county coun- cils and preserve historic structures (their own) for posterity, fighting a 'delaying action by doing nothing con- structive. School board representatives .and councillors from Perth, Waterloo and Oxford counties met recently in Tavi- t ,t b. .t* • s OCK ef0 waffle out' s-briet ropposiiV r. Ontario . goNig-ilirneas".'Sireanilining plan. . Huron council had already n- dorsed Perth's stand. Harold Schmidt, chairman of the Waterloo-Oxford High School board compared the Ontario governm.mt to that of' the Nazis. He said at the meeting that the Nazi plan consoli- dated small areas to form larger ones. The Bible was thrown out and copies of Mein Kampf substituted. "In Hitler's Germany, no-one op- posed the change until it was too late," he said. We must remember ' in •future when members of Huron County coun- cil block moves toward regional goV- ernment they are not just watching the backside of progress grow, smaller un- til it disappears over the horizon leav- ing them far behind. They are sav- ing Ontario from the machinations of that well-known Nazi, John Robarts. who's a loose dog? Dogs running loose on Clinton streets, making barking, following, be- fouling nuisances of themselves are de- fended as "harmless" by residents who claim to love the beasts. An elderly lady, asked for com- ment, said: "Dogs are just like humans. They have rights, too, you know." What attracts the dogs to exercise their rights in the downtown area? On a recent morning, five of these pests were noticed romping on Albert Street with no visible means of support in the shape of an owner. A young • German Shepherd vociferously chasing vehicles at the Huron-Ontario*Albert intersection caused three near-accidents within 10 minutes. A clue to the answer may be found in a recent post-office revelation that about 700 mailmen yearly are bitten by Canadian dogs. Clinton has, no mailmen. Perhaps members of the downtown dog-pack act like dumb animals (instead of humans) because they are mentally dis- turbed, frustrated in their efforts to find mailmen to bite. 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SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Thank you Mother Nature ~xom fur Early 55 .years. ago. CLINTONTIIE NEW Ert4 January 25, 1912 Miss Rose Lavis is visiting friends, in LendOn- m. McLean Of Lon, don is the Peet of Mrs. w,p, Counter. . Mrs. H. T. Rance and Mrs, Ferran are entertaining their lady friends to a 500 party tonight. Practically a unanimous vote was given in Hayfield today in favour of the town being link. ed in the hydro-electric power chain. Ninety-four votes were polled in favour and only sew enteen against the measure, Miss McIntosh of Gorrie was visiting Mrs. J. Hartley this week. 40 years ago THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD January 26, 1928 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ford left this week on a visit to friends in Hamilton and Tore onto. Miss Florence Cuningharnee left Saturday afternoon on a ten-days' visit to New York City • where she will be the guest of Miss Isabel Straughan formerly of Clinton, Mrs. Sinclair, who has been staying with her sisters, Mrs. W. Pickard and Miss Georgina Rumba.11, left Monday to spend(' a month in Hamilton, where her husband will be located. Mrs. Herbert Wallis, Donald and Lawrence, returned on Sun. day to visit the former's mother Mrs. William Sterling, Hayfield after having visited relatives in Port Elgin and Clinton. 15 years ago- THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Miss Marie Plumsteel has accepted a position on the of. flee staff at Sky Harbour air. port, where she started work. ing Monday. • Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Cook, received a cable last week from their son Fit. Sgt. Bill (Blondie) Cook, overseas, informing their that he has been commissioned as a Pilot Officer. One of the worst blizzards to strike Londesboro for many years came to stay last week. The village was completely Ise. lated, and was without bread, 'meat, milk or mail. It was a full week before the roads were cleared enough for traffic to, be resumed, Sir: YOur very seriotth cusations against Children's Aid Societies in your January 11 editorial "Children suffer" constrains me to write on be. half of your Huron County Children's Aid Society. You aren't familiar with our staff and work or you wouldn't apply to us such terms as "mon. strous" and "bureaucratic". We invite you to come and meet us at your convenience. If a child begs in a public place (it is illegal) any "well- meaning Canadian" seeing him should report it ' to the Children's Aid Society who would try to remedy the family's trouble. For the last 20 years such report has gone unheeded in Huron. If parents can't adee quately provide for their children) they may ask for welfare assistance which is the municipality's responsibility, not that of the Children's Aid Society. Many Huronites have helped such children with or without Children's Aid Society know- ledge or approval. Never were there "shouts of protest" from us. We encourage such com- munity participation, with' usually praiseworthy response., The welfare of a child is his parent's responsibility. Children's Aid Societies are responsible for carrying out the, regulations of the ChildWelfare Act. Ontario's adoption probae! tionary period is six months, then the new parent may apply/ for Adoption Order. It may take. two years to find the Child they want if she's a curly-haired, blue-eyed blonde, but we try. It certainly does NOT take "six, months of intensive investiga.' lion' by workers" to approve a good *home! If we haven't an acceptable home for a peril. cular child and another Society has, the child is given that good home, wherever it is, "Religious barriers" are now removed. We have excellent relations with the Ontario' Catholic Societies and often find' homes for their babies. Needless to say we want to improve our services in Huron. You might help us and so change the attitude expressed in your aforementioned editorial! Sincerely, (Miss) Clare McGowan, Local Director, Huron County C.A.S. * * * Sir: Would you please tell me what .a boondogle (Sic) is? I could 'not find it in the die. tionary,` In your editorial of January e1Avonth you call, dig Children'S'Aldtticiety strous bureaucratic boondegle (Sic)". The many inaccuracies in your editorial will be dealt '15 years ago Clinton News Record January 22, 1953 The Rance house on 44iica• bury Street has been sold to Roy Tyndall and the lot on Ontario Street to Lorne Brown, Mrs. POPP Campbell Cpl. and Mrs. H. L. Bastock and Ponnie, spent last week ,with Mr, and Mrs. R. B. Camp. bell and Robbie. Mr. and Mrs. Bastock and Bonnie left Sa,ture day for St. Johns, N. B. where they sailed abeard the liner Empress of France for England. Mrs. George McVittie, Lend. esboro, visited onSaturday with Mrs, David Es.sorn, Ronnie Rob- bins is visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sutter, There's one thing that brings people together and makes them forget, for a few hours at least, all their normal rotten, little, miserable, petty, private troubles. That is a good smash in the midriff from that gentle old lady, Mother Nature. Whether it's fire or flood, blizzard Or drought, a blunt reminder every so often from good old Mother has a salutary effect on the perpetually whin- ing denizens of the twentieth century. • This time it was that "cold snap" in January. I like that term. It's a typical Canadian understatement. And .we delight in .it, as we do at barn fires, heat spells, terrible thunderstorms, beauti- ful autumns and three-foot snowfalls. It's peculiarly Cana- dian, and it makes us all be- come human again, if only un- til it's over. People who normally trudge around with a face like an old rubber boot, people who wouldn't be caught dead in a ditch together, suddenly start shouting witticisms like, "Cold 'nuff for yeh?", beaming through dripping noses and purple countenances. People who wouldn't be caught speaking to each other • - with elsewhere and time and space will, not permit me to go into the long struggle to bring the Children's Aid Society to its present state of efficiency. Did you know the first brutal parents of a small child were brought to court under the S.P.C.A.? At that time there was no protection for abused children so the judge ruled that the child was a little animal and the parents punished ac- cordingly. The men you mentioned, Mr. Stanfield among them, are al. ready supporting ill-used children of this country under our tax system. But they are generous enough to help desti. tute children of other lands who have no recourse to help of any kind. No child need starve or be destitute in Canada. That there are abused and ill-treated children no one will deny. We needn't go out of Huron County to find them. The constant strug- gle goes on to give each child a good life. While we have those who should never have married in the first place, those who have more children than they can support, in the second place, those who fail to report cases of abuse or having reported, refuse to testify in court for fear of becoming involved, we will continue to have abused and ill-cared for children. That the Children's Aid Soci. ety makes mistakes goes with. out saying even as you and I, but when you downgrade their efforts you do a great disservice to all children across our land. Yours sincerely, E.D. Fingland. EDITOR'S NOTE: W eb ster's definition of "boondoggle" (please note correct spelling) is: ". . . trifling, valueless work; to engage in trifling value. less work; to 'engage in use. less occupation." Files 10 years ago Clinton News iIPP40 January 20(' IPPO' Miss. Pat M 14e return. ed,te Whitehorse, Yukon after spending a month with her P4re tints, and Mrs. Harold' MtirnPY? Ruth Merrill, Mervin Pen. found, Glen McDonald, Clinton; John Siertsenia. and Lorna ,Parry, Blyth are practice teach- ing in Kitchener this Week, Miss Patricia Denby, worn' panted by Richard 'Habbote Buffalo, spent the weeiteeti with her sister Mre, Kenneth Bran. don and family, Hayfield. Mr. and Mrs, C. Cudrnore and family, Hamilton, were recent euests.of Mr. and Mrs. H. Cud.* more, Polmesville, in the Black Hole of Calcutta find they have a great deal in common: neither could get his car started this morning. Then there are the brag- garts, but we even put .up with them, whom we would normal- ly detest, with the greatest of good spirits. They come in dif- ferent wrappers, Let's say it's 30 below outside. But there's always some character who lived in Kapuskasing or Yel- lowknife who swears it was 80 below there all winter, and wasn't even cold, just refresh- ing. Hacking their lungs out, they say, "This is nothing." And there's the reverse snob. Through rattling teeth and hunched shoulders) he too claims this is nothing. Why back in '53 it was down to 50 below and stayed there for a week. Then there's the rugged type. Pounding himself on the chest, he burbles, "This , is great; this is the real Canada; this is what makes us a sturdy, independent people." Three days later you get a card from him, From Florida. Two types are happy, every- thing is golden, when there is a "cold snap." They are the fuel nfan and the tow-truck chap. And bully for them, say I. But my point is that a na- ture crisis gets people out of themselves, and perhaps it's better than medicine in this neurotic '20th century. Forgotten during the "cold snap" are the ' Vietnam "War': higher taxes on booze and fags, your rotten boss and the fact that you can't live another week without an automatic dish-washer. There is a certain joyous drawing together against the elements and a definite pride in the fact that you can cope. For once, including Expo, there is a common bond, as we rub our ears and stamp our feet and blow our noses in a great national chorus that, to me, expresses the real spirit of Canada, and at least temporari- ly freezes all thoughts of separ- atism, divorce, abortion and who's going to be the new Lib- eral leader. When you go out in the morning and find that the bat- tery is flat, you don't fuss and cuss. You feel sort of proud that you're taking part in a heroic adventure. You know you're not exactly Scott of the Antarctic, and that you cap phone a cab, but you know that all over town, other cars arc going, "Argh argh - arh - ah- uhnn," and it gives you a sense of shared danger and hardship. There's a tingling and a jingl- ing in the atmosphere. Peo- ple are grinning and shaking their • heads and shouting, "Isn't that a brute of a day?" And even the domestic prob- lems abate. The other night, it was 28 below zero. My wife is always saying that she might as well leave unless I can "Show some understanding." Kim continually threatens to run away to Vancouver and become a hippie, I opened the door and said "goodbye, chaps." Eighteen seconds later. they were upstairs, watching TV. Good old Mother N. Once in a while, she nudges us back to normal, even though the nudge knocks the wind out of us. Office — Main Street SEAFORTH Insures: • Town Dwellings • All Class of Farm Property • Summer Cottages • Churches, Schools, Halls MAPLE ST. GOSPEL HALL Sunday, January 28th 9:45 itm.—Worihip Service. 11:00 a.m.—Sunday School. II:00 p.m.—Evening Service. Speaker: Bob Brandon, Forest Tuesday; 5:00 p.rn.Prayer and Bible Study Pentecostal Church Victoria Street W. Werner, Pastor Sunday, January 28th 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m.—Worship Service. 7:30 p.m.—Evening Service. Friday, 8 p.m.—YPD Meetli• .FIRE INSURANCE • COMPANY ?.... 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