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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-03-07, Page 6CORO!! NewsrDepOr'd, Thursday, March 7, 1968 HURON CO-OPERATIVE MEDICAL SERVICES offers .to Residents of Huron Cqur` Comprehensive "It's tractor tune up time" UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT SOUTHEND BP Paul Goldsworthy LICENSED MECHANIC EXPERT SERVICE ON ALL MAKES OF CARS .1, GALBRA I TH RAD I 0 - TELEVISION AUTOMATIC COLOR T.V. "Automatic Colortone" Control allows pre-set colors to be varied to personal taste. Improves color balance under weak signal conditions. On monochrome it automatically switches to a cool white picture, "Tint" con- .trol gives proper balance of hues for a "natural" color, "Automatic Color" Control maintains color intensity. "Auto- mati.c Fine Tuning" locks in the station at the perfect color position. "Automatic Degaussing" prevents electromagnetic distortion. "Automatic Color Switch" changes the receiver From color to monochrome or vice versa depending on the broadcast program or if color signal is too weak for viewing. ..w41•Y• • BERWICK COLOR 'IV GALBRAITH TV tor. Albert and Rattenbury 04, Clinton shoes and, while reading, was luxuriously wiggling her toes in the' deep pile of carpet that surrounded her. Two senior citizens were engrossed in choosing a "who-done-it" in the mystery fiction section, while nearby, several children with earphones were listening to records. There is an extensive selecw. tion of Canadian films, neWs• papers from every city and town across the country, and better known dailies from all parts of the world. I couldn't then, or since, think of one thing that had been overlooked to make this a haven for either knowledge-thirsty citizens, or those just seeking leisure amusement through lighter 'leading, or the music library. This was Edmonton's Cen. tennial effort and her citizens can be justifiably proud of one of the finest public libraries in the country, _Diary Of A, Vagabond BY POrothY BeriCe; 1•101.,EP RECORD FoR PItOWTH Municipal rivalry is a healthy state ler Any city to find itself in. This has haPPened in the west, for egamPle, where since the end of World War Two, Edmonton has maintained its lead over Calgary as AlbertOS largest city. gdliontork .als9 is one of the most progressive in the western provinces when it comes tq redevelopment. Itis hard for those who have never travelled west of the Great Lakes to visualize what is happening in this foot. hill area. There is a tendency to associate Edmonton's citi. zeory with Indian tribes and Eskimos when, actually, the city numbers among its popula, tion sortie of the most sophist. icated people in the country. It wasn't too long after Donald Gordon, then president of the Canadian NatiOnal BallWAYS, Presented a Plan to his heard of directors for the 1'004140 Won of the CemPeneS real estate ligidings in Montreal, that Edmonton seized the 013 Poritinity to almost completely rebuild the heart of its down. town area. Down came dilapidated Old buildings and up went the CN Tower which houses as well as offices, a, modern new station. The Tower looms over the 'new' city hill and stands rather like a sentinel over the entire'area,of re-development. I have logged a, good many miles op the Several city blocks between the Macdonald Rote). and the CN tower on my visits in western Canada. During my stay I have watched this noun. cipal metamorphosis taking place with keen interest. City Hall and the area that has becetne known as Civic Centre Is evidence that the nomenclature that is constahlY being associated with Edmonton as a 'swinging city' is not at all far fetched. With its wide streets, mid-city park area and cultural centres, its eager and imaginative town planfters and civic management, the spirit of Edmonton is contagious. I think I became thoroughly innoculated with its civic pride when I visited its Centennial Library, one, of the buildings in the complex rising from the rubble of old structures. MOOD MAGIC Often, when I have been re* searching a subject in a local library, the hush has been de. pressing. No so in this magus ficent monument to constant learning, I will start with the decor, for I am a firm believer. in harmonious surroundings con* tributing to a mood. Large up. holstered chairs in mute green and beige surround study tables, On islands of thick carpeting there are more of these corn. fortable lounge chairs in tur- quoise and moss green tweedy material. Tropical piansts grow profusely in the air conditioned atmosphere and ceilingfixtures beam soft light on reading areas, There are tall narrow windows where • comfortable chairs provide privacy while looking out over City Hall square. : There is,a, children's theatre 4045.wer :gegion,4: parkkle iiiihrAdeon tileriiiTOP4 fibOrs far Offices. TlieSe will event. ually be occupied by varaous municipal departments. ,There is one of the finest filing sys. tems for reference and for locating boOks. Five-tiered racks surrounding three walls held every magazine I could think of and many I had never heard about. . Particularly interesting w er e the pamphlets on every subject under the sun. Nearby is a section "For Teens" where a youngster had kicked off her To love MEN! DO 'YOU HATE YOUR WIFE? Does she 'talk all the time about Her Rela- tives? Does, she Nag about Nothing? 15 she a Miserly Spendthriii? is she Too Bard on the Kids or Tee PaSy on the Kids? Is she always wanting to Talk Things Out? Does, she tg- Aere your Sterling Qualities and pick constantly on your .eight or ten Little Weakness- es? LADIES! DO YOU nog YOUR HUSBAND? Does hp talk all the time about Golf and Curling? Does, he Grumble shout. Trivialities? Is be a erly Spendthrift? Is he Too .asy on the Kids or Too Hard on Them? Does he Always want to avoid Talking Things Out? Does he • ignore your charm, 'Intelligence and Warmth and pick on inconsequentials like that watermelon that - has re- placed your little, flat tummy of former days? ' Sorry, but this isn't an ad- vertisement. If it were, there'd • be g coupon. to send in, and we'd get everybody squared around in no time. It's merely a questionnaire. But if the answer to the first question, in each case, is, "Sometimes", and the answer to all the others is an unquali- fied,. ringing, "Yes!", you're an honest man or woman, and a. perfectly normal one, with a good, average marriage going for you. If your answer is, "No!", there's no point in reading far- ther, because you're a liar or you should be in heaven and not reading this tripe at all. I know that I hate my wife sometimes, deeply and bitterly, and I know that she hates me sometimes with the same ad- verbs. But e' est la guerre, and if you don't think marriage is a guerre, either you aren't mar- ried or you aren't bilingual. On the other hand, there's a shoutder-to-shoulder solidarity in the average marriage that makes up for practically every- thing. A man and woman who fight constantly, verbally and even physically, will turn like a pair of cobras and hiss and 'spit 'at someone who criticizes either of them. • They .will forgive each other rNi-r4 is to hate for the most monstrous insults,. inanItst the most cutting and vicious remarks, if it's the real thing,. They will ..cherish each other-;in sickness as. well as in health, in poverty as well as in wealth. 1. • don't what brought all this on, except that it's snowing and the wind is howl- ing about the beuSe. and '1 /MO My Old Lady is lonely in thp city and I'm lonely at home. There'S nobody there 1.0. tell her that there aren't any ghosts, that the kids will prob- ably turn out OK despite all evidence, and that she's a hell of a good-looking girl when she gets 'fixed up. And there's nobody here to WI me that I'm clever, despite my stupidity in some' areas, that I'm a good husband, and father; despite my lapses, and that my column is readable, if I'd only leave out the vulgari- ties. She's so lonely in the city that she can scarely wait to get home on weekends so we can. fight a normal life. And I'm so lonely at hoMe that I can hard- ly wait to hear the cheerful babble that normally drives me up the curtains, She misses my cool, my rea- sonability, my• refusal to panic And I miss her passion, her irrationality, her determina- tion to panic. She misses my casual atti- tude toward money and bills. And I miss her furious insist- ence that the budget hould. be kept in order. , And I guess that's what this column is all about, You chaps who answered "Yes" to all the questions in the quiz that be- gan it might take another look at old Myrtle and count your blessings, even if there are only a couple of them. Try it' without the Old Girl for four or 'five months. To- morrow, for example, I have to shovel the front and back side- walks, get breakfast and put out, the garbage, before I even start the day's work. In the good old days, I'd leave all that to Mum. And brother, am I getting sick of those frozen chicken pies! ,M11111111 ambling it h.icy • Moog ft« wood8)• The foilewinK clipping, was Sent to Lucy by Mr. and Mrs. by Makins. 1)y Pick Robins Are Winging It Again Robin redbreast and his buddy, the cedar Waxwing,are PrOhahlr the only birds in 'the winged world that 80 put and get drunk together. At least, that's what It looks like to the impartial observer, gyery year in January and February, the birds show up along the Buncoast in gangs of 100 or more marking time until things warm up a pit in their'Northland living quarters. It you've got Brazilian pepper trees, by now you've PrebablY already had a visit„ Because while the early bird may get the worm, robins and waxwings would rather have the hrilliant 'little red berries the pepper trees produce. Alter • they gobble up the berries, everybody makes like the Bed Baron, with loops, barrel rolls.:and such-, the moat exciting aerial show you ever saw. Particularly if you have left your car standing in the driveway or have your wash out on the line. No drunk is every very neat. Actually the question of bird intoxication is one of the mootest points around, here, Talk to Audubon People and you will get no satisfaction, They are apt to say the birds don't fly well because they are so gorged on berries. But skeptics say the berries are fermented' by the sun. The birds eat the berries and it makes hard cider inside their insides, which makes them drunk. Ultimately science will settle the question; Somebody will capture one of those loopy robins and force him to breathe into a Drunkometer. Or see if he can fly a straight line. Now this writer is a bird-lover from away back, but in my opinion the robins and waxwings are just as soused as possible. If their behaviour was only the result of over-eating, you'd see pigeons (one of the greediest of birds), putting on similar aerial circuses. But you don't. Nor any other bird, either, This is not to throw off on robins and waxwings. They are highly moral birds, Their only crime is that they, like people, are suckers for external appearances. There is the Brazilian, pepper berry gleaming red, fat and tempting to a lam= bird. How in the World is he to know that ,it is spiked? There is one comfort, It's doubtful that any robin or waxwing ever becomes a berry colic. Because when they ily.north in another month or so it's so cold up there they sober up pronto and stay that way all summer. Lucy doubts if the birds stay sober until this time next year. Three years ago Mrs. R, L. MaeMillen was one of several Bayfield persons who reported flocks of robins cleaning off over. ripe mountain ash berries and then carousing in a foolish way like most drunks do. They flew againgt their big picture Windoiv until she thought they'd break it. And when Les MacMillen went outside to see what was causing the commotion, they fluttered around his head so that he was glad to seek refuge in the house. Maybe they only go on a spree when they are migrating! Mrs. Makins writes Dear Lucy I just couldn't resist sending you the clipping out of the St. Petersburg paper. and , thought you would really get a kick from it. The robins really have a spree on their way north. We experienced seeing the robins come into St. Petersburg again this year. They seem to come altogether and are literally every- where by the hundreds. The, little bushes with the red berries on are really covered with birds and the trees are full and the song is wonderful. I'm glad I didn't have a washing out on the clothes line or it might have had a change of colour! They stayed about two hours and all was quiet again. I hope that you are feeling as well as usual this winter. The winters are hard on we older people. That's why I came south. I was none the worse of my trip and each day I have a nice walk and 'rest and I feel much better. I still am using my cane but expect to do so for a long time yet, These operations are not so good and-fittakes-tinie-to-get-over them: I We sit out on the back patio which is sheltered from the wind4 and are both getting tanned. It has been dry on this coast this year but has its cool spells, too, I always say 'well, we don't have snow and ice so that suits me.' Accommodation down here this year is at a premium. They are opening up the jails and letting people sleep over night. We had difficulty getting what we wanted, so went back to the same place for the fourth time. We are both enjoying ourselves and hope to return home the end of March feeling more fit than before. We expect to ,go over on the west coast where Helen, the Moores and the Hughes are located and spend two weeks there before returning home. A card from Mrs. Nelson Howes from Duvedin, Florida, re. ports: "Meadow larks, flickers and red-winged blackbirds around the garden." And with the signs of spring, it won't be long until these birds will be back with us again. Carl picked four snowdrops outside the back door on February 26 and brought them in to Lucy. Over CKNX radio she heard that clay that hunter's dogs had 'uncovered two live snakes - it was mighty cold weather right men' Mrs. J. E. Howard heard the cardinal singing on February 26 and also she noted four seagulls and a large hawk which she was unable to identify ,when driving the car. And almost anytime one goes out, there is much "cawing" from all those crows which wintered in the district. On February 8 she saw three horned larks on her way to Clinton. All these are signs of spring which may or may not arrive before its official date, March 21. 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Others don't even think of me at all. But there are a few who do realize how helpful I really am, They know what a great asset I am to the community. Why, I've even heard them call me the guardian of the night. The police department is responsible for calling me that. Before I was installed on this corner, it used to be a haven for purse snatchers, rapists, juvenile delinquents, and other law-breakers. But now, with my light beaming all around, strangers don't lurk in the streets, and crime has been reduced almost to none at all. People now walk the streets without fear of being attacked or robbed. In addition to stopping crime on this corner, I have also reduced accidents, So many times little children are run over by cars simply because the drivers are unable to see them. There hasn't been a serious,aceident here for over a year, whereas before, they used to happen quit frequently. Besides reducing crime and accidents (if I may say so myself), I'm not bad to look at. Before I was big and ugly, and 'gave off a sort of yellowish, drab light. But now, since this new program to modernize our lighting system was started, I am long and slender, and my light is a beautiful blueish color, Also, I need much less attenticin than. I used, to, because I have a mercury light that lasts for about three years. Because of this, thd,cost of'maintenance goes down, and with it, the taxes. I also have an electric eye, so I go on as soon as it starts to get dark. Oh, there are so many good points about me if people would only stop to think about them a• minute! I could go on and on,. but now it's morning and I have to shut off, BEVERLY WILSON. IF YOUR STREET LIGHT IS DAMAGED OR BURNED OUT PLEASE CALL US AT: 482-9601 432 - 9th Avenue N. 33701 St. Petersburg, Florida February 23, 1968