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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-04-18, Page 2Clinton News Record, Thikrp44y, April 1$(6. no canned talk When a> club or committee asks a CIPpartM90 of the °Marie government for a guest speaker for one of its func- tions the result is usually a disprgon. ized non-orator reading a set of dog eared notes on sortie topic as irrelevant and inconsequential to the group as "Canada's future in a growing world" or "Moral decay in the British Empire' . Clinton Industrial Committee was fortunate last Wednesday when they got a man who chose to speak on what he knew best—industry and its rela- tionship with communities. From the moment Richard 'La.; Palme entered Clinton he took a sincere interest in helping the town in its quest to attract industry. He viewed the two industrial sites, showing no hesita- tion in criticizing or praising. He later spoke to a group of 50 businessmen for almost one hour and listed concisely the steps which the town must take if it wishes to attract industry. Mr. LePalrne's style may not have been in the best traditions of civit, ser- vants (they use beautiful phrases but their hollo<vriess seems to echo for hours) but the content was of enough significance that the audience never lost interest. A usually trusty guide to the worth of a speaker is the activity in the ques- tion and answer period—sometimes the silence is measured in minutes. Mr. LaPalme had more questions than he had time to answer. . If Ontario's many guest-speaking civil servants took the example of Mr. LaPalme and spoke only on what they knew best and only to groups. with a vested interest in what is said they might be able to reverse the public's expectation of a babble of canned platitudes, CLINTON NOUSTRIAL .SITE • Business And _PrOfeB44011101 irt,ory 1 24 hour radar? It iswnfortunate When police must use. deceitful tactics in order to enforce the law. But such is the case with signs posts on the outskirts ,of Clinton, and a number of surrounding com- munities, which state, "Radar In Operation." Now certainly, at a few given hours of the day, radar is in operation. Yet, at other times, when the . sign still stands and issues its warning;. the radar is not in operation. It is at these times the signs are stating a fact which, quite clearly, is not, true. The police in these towns, repre- senting the epitome of honesty and good conduct, should be embarrassed they are deceiving hundreds of motor- ists every day. The motive of the signs—fo slow speeding motorists—is just. The ap- proach is simply at a rather oblique angle. To rectify the situation the police must either remove the signs, post the signs only when they state the truth, or reword the signs to indicate radar is used on occasion. ,-trynv.4 EDITORIAL PAGE springtime means park benches With spring's fine weather here on a somewhat:. permanent basis many people are enjoying the pleasures of walking about town and doing a little shopping. The good weather is particularly welcomed by the older folk who have spent most of the winter indoors avoiding the hardships of snow and ice. Even summer travel in' the town is difficult, what with the blow- ing dust and cracked sidewalks, but most people could forgive this if there was a comfortable spot .where they could rest for a few moments. The lush grass of Memorial park and lawn, of Wesley-Willis church beck- on the weary traveller to stop for a moment's rest and invite the merchants to come out and chat or enjoy a cup of coffee. But alas there are no seats. A month of spring has already passed and several park, benches could well have been used. So let the public works men stand up and bring out the benches so the pedestrians can sit down before spring is gone. Clinton News-Record Anialttatitated. THE HURON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Established 1881 Published Bvehy Ttitirtsday At The Heart Of Hurd° County Clinton, Oritari6, datiada Population 3,475 8 8 8 siood tantdbutioni to this pilbticAtioit, ire at Ika writioti ahIy, Aiitt do tibi the *IOW* 4,4 0* NNONNit, Authore.e 44 SitOo$ 'Ctitt kilt, Post ,he ONArirriiht, for liaymiht of Poste 4. In CON • sossciertiewitAtst: oiot>is Is *4464 . 046.4d. aid 'Great iritsiot *a Owl t'cif.46' topt•It It Ciwiti. THE CLINTON NEW 'ERA Elsthblished 1865 INSURANCE COLQUHQUN INSURANCE AREAL ERTATE ppwriec Office' 4824747 ROL 4112-704 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482.6693, LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Office; 4824644 C. Lawson, Res.: 4824787 J, T. Wise, Res.: 482-7265 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and' Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis — 88 Albert St Clinton -a-482-8394 • Clinton New Era April 21, 1893. During the year 1892 21 per. sons were sent from Huron to the asylum for insame. The total admissions from Huron since the asylums have been in existence are 472. During the month of March the pupils enrolled at the Pub. lic School were boys,233, girls 209. Average attenance was 365. Mr, William Colelough of Constance, purchased this week a Doherty organ of the highest grade. The train to Goderieh jumped , the track the other day. Fortun- ately the speed was slow and no harm was done. 55 years ago The Clinton New Era April 17, ten, Capt. John Ferguson has re. turned , to. Cleveland to .again., takP command" 0114 Mayor Gibbings left Monday. for Winnipeg where he enters duties•with the C.N.R. The best wishes of Clinton accompanying him. The New Era is indeed' sorry to see him leave town. MrS. James .McRae' and family left last week for Wood- stock where they will reside in future as Mr. McRae holds a good position there. 40 years ago The Clinton News-Record Thursday April 19, 1928. Miss Larene Langford of De. troit is visiting at the home of her parents, Reeve and Mrs. Langford. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong of Toronto motored up to spend the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson and on their return were accompanied by Mrs, Jeff. erson and little Miss Katherine. Mrs. Thomas Brandon and children, Bayfield, spent the vacation with her parents in Waterloo. Miss Hattie Courtice spent the Easter vacation with Miss , Burke of St. Thomas. Mrs. Wilbur Welsh and little • daughter, Linore, spent several days last week at her home in Goderich township. 25 years ago The Clinton News•Record Thursday April 22, 1943. Miss Irene Brunsdon of Lon& don was a weekend visitor with her father Mr. J. 11, Brunsdon. Miss Freda Schoenhals will visit with friends in. Toronto next week. Mrs. George Campbell and daughter Diana ofNiagaraFalls are the guests of Mrs. George Campbell Sr, in town. FIGHT CANCER WITH A CHECK UP AND A CHEQUE iSUPPORT ti-tt CANADIAN CANCER noldrairV Mrs. Stewart Taylor spent last weekend at Kelly's. Siding with her husband who is sta. tioned there. Cameron Proctor and Lloyd Fulford, C..C.I. students leave on May 3 and May 6 respectiVely for the air force having been accepted some few months ago but were allowed to finish their schooling. 15 years ago Clinton News.Record April 16, 1953. Gerald Holmes andJack Cow.' an have passed the short course they were taking in dairying at OAC Guelph, and have returned to their homes. Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Adams, Brenda and Billy have returned to their home in Winnipeg after visiting with Mrs, Adams' Parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Frernlin. Mr. and Mrs. Graf. ton Weston, London, were with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Weston, over the weekend; Judy who spent the Easter vacation with her grandee parents in Bayfield; returned to London with her parents. Oh; to fly We used to have a supersti- tion in my air force days about things happening in three's. Everything would go along well for a week or two, then the roof would fall in, We'd lose three pilots in one day. Or one pilot would have three extremely hairy experi- ,ences in a row: a bail-out, a crash-landing, a fire. It happened often enough so that you began to believe in it. In wartime superstitions tend to become principles. It hap- pened to me. One day I was hit by everything but the kitchen sink and came home with 32 holes in my aircraft, including one about 18 inches in diame- ter, and just two feet from my seat. I had to land Without flaps and brakes. Nothing much left except a chewed-Up piece of metal, almost useless, and a white-faced pilot, almost equal- ly useless. Next day, one of my bombs developed a hang-up and I had to land with the thing, detonat- ed and ready to blow, dangling under my left wing. This didn't improve my morale much, ei- ther. People started avoiding me. The 'third day I was shot down and taken prisoner. Met Paddy Byrne of Dublin, one of the few survivors of my squadron, in a London subway station after the war, end he told me the boys were running a pool on when I'd get it. Btlt that was in the old clays, when men were Men, and boys were terrified. At least I Was. blow. ever the war was peaceful compared, to preSent days. Now things don't come in three's, but in Sikes and Sevens. Same pattern, Things go along OK for a while and 'then the gods clobber you with ev- erything they have, The other night, for exam. pie, Kim and I were preparing for one of our exotic dinners. It WO a peaceful, domestic scene, She was playing the piano. I was right on top of the dinner, the rainbow trout were crisping nicely, the baked potatoes were baked, and I was :ittst diving the canned corn that extra little stir that 'makes it so delicious, when the door- bell tang, Clinton News Record April 17, 1958. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Haddy and two sons, Scott and Paul, Toronto, spent theweekendwith Mr. and Mrs. .4. E. Haddy, Mr. and Mrs, Percy Brown and family, Stoney Creek, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Ron MacDonald. Miss Ann Trott returned to St. Joseph's Academy, London, after spending Easter holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A, Trott. William Plumtree, Van. couver, B.C. visited last week at the home of his sister.in. law, Mrs. Helen Pluintree, Cline ton. A former resident of Hullett Township, Mr. Plumtree home. steaded in Saskatchewan during pioneer days, later moving to Alaska, Sask. and then to the West Coast. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fenn, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michiw gin, visited the latter's mother Mrs. David Dewar and uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. FredWatson of Bayfield, on Sunday and Mon. day, once more It was our neighbor. The one on the left, where the bank robbers were caught last year. It was about 30 degrees , out- side, and his internal tempera- ture was around 212. He wanted to use the phone. Ile was about to kill the man 'on the other side of his 'house' because he was needling him. He phoned his Mom asking her to come and stop him. It's rather difficult to avoid hearing this sort' of thing when you are five feet away, poking the potatoes. and 'flipping the fish, Anyway, two hours and a couple of beers later, I hadn't had my dinner, but my neigh• bor had and he Was cooled out enough to go home to bed. Well, that's the way things went all week. Next morning I almost murdered myself, put- ting out the garbage. The cans are in a little stoop, with a lid over it made of two-by-fours. I pushed hack the lid and start- ed to wrestle out one can, which was frozen to the bot- tom, when the damn lid fell, clunked me on the forehead almost, knocking me senseless. Dripping blood, I staggered off to work. That Weekend I was caught in one of those last-kick-of-win- ter storms and died a thousand deaths; creeping through wind and snow and drifts, a fibur• and-a-half-hour trip that nor- mally takes two hours, Had a fight with my (laugh, ter, which she Wen. My Wife is having an operation. My piles are screaming. The bacloyard, because we didn't get the leaves raked last - fall, looks like Hiroshima. Ten people want inc to have a committee meeting alma nothing, We had a cloud-burst and my cellar's full Of water. Half the light bulbs in the house ate burnt Out and you need a ladder to replace 'Most of them, I nearly cut My eiitire tippet' lip off when I slipped on soap While shaving. Mel I haven't paid of thought about tiny incept-le talc. 1 Wender whether they take ntri gays back into the air force, where things Only hap- pen in Ore" OPTOMETRY . „ J. LONOSTAFF OPTOMETRIST '049140y. attd. Wednesdays • 20 ISAAC STREET pctr appointment phone 414-1010 ftEAFDRTH OFFICE. 527.1240 R, W. BELL, opromETRIErr ,Thi *war*, GODERICH 524-7061 HINTON THE MOVER LTD. 58 Mary Street Clinton, Ontario Agents for United Vats Lines 0.0. A. GlIfillan, Representetive 482.9779 Attend Your Church This Sunday NOTE — ALL SERVICES ON STANDARD TIME FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec) Pastor: JACK HEYNEN, B.A. SUNDAY, APRIL 21st 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m.—Church Service. — ALL ARE WELCOME HERE — ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A. Organist: MISS LOIS GRASSY, A.R.C.T. SUNDAY, APRIL 21st 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m.—WORSHIP SERVICE. Evening Unit meets Monday, April 22, 8:30 p.m. Miss Anne Fairservice will be guest speaker. ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, APRIL 21st 9:45 a.m.—Sunday, School. 10:45 a.m.—WORSHIP SERVICE. EVERYONE WELCOME — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, APRIL 21st 10:00 a.m.—Rev. Van Katwyk, Stratford. 2:30 p.m,—Rev. Van Katwyk, Stratford. — Both Services English — Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back to God Hour" — EVERYONE WELCOME — BASE CHAPELS Canadian Forces Base Clinton ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL Chaplain—F/L THE REV. F. J. LALLY Sunday Masses-9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Confessions—Before Sunday Masses and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays Baptisms and Interviews — By Appointment Phone 482.3411, Ext. 253 Pentecostal Church Victoria Street W. Werner, Pastor Sunday, April 21st 9:45 a,m.—Sunday Scheel. 11:00 a.m.--AlVorship Service, 7:80 0.m.,-,--EVerting Service. Friday, 8 pan.----YPU fasting From Our, 75 'years ago Early Files 10 years ago SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley 4; , ,ve:3 ,FU 414 0,42*Jtik4,15 • Wegley-Wilhs Holmesville United Churches REV. A. J MOWATT, C,D., B.A., B D., D.D., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, APRIL 21st 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m.--Communion Service and Confirmation, HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m.—Communion Service and Confirmation. 2:00 p.m.—Sunday School PROTESTANT CHAPEL Chaplain—Sit THE REV. F. P. DeLONG SUNDAY, APRIL 21st Holy Communion—Following Divine Service, 1st Sundays 8:30 a.m. on other Sundays Sunday School-9:30 a.m. (Nursery Department at 11 a.m.) Divine Service-11:00 a.m. Inferviewt, Baptisms, etc. — By Appointment Phone 482.3411, Ext. 247 or Ext. 303 after hours MAPLE ST. GOSPEL HALL Sunday, April 21 9:45 a.m.—Worship Service, 11:00 aan.--,-Sunday School. 8:00 P.m.--Evening Service. John Martin Tuesday, 8 pan, Prayer Meeting and 6ible Study