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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-07-11, Page 2SWAMP SPLENDOUR Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY J, E.LOGSTAFFETRIST OPTOM Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET Forappointment phone 402-7010 :liAFoRTH OFFICE, 527,1240 R. 'W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524-711111 RONALD L. McDONALD CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 39 St. David St. Goderich 524.6253 INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN IN su RANc.E.R. REAL ESTATE Phone.; oft* 418-9747 Rae. 4,24104; HAL HARTLEY phone. 4824093 'LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE— REAL ESTAT, INVESTMENTS. Clinton Office: 482-9644 H. C. Lawson ' Res.: 482-978 J. T. Wise, Res.: 4824 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Mr-Master Aluminum • Doont and Windows and Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis -- 6$ Albert St. Clinton 482-9390 More reform needed Every day we read in newspapers about crimes committed by unstable or emotionally disturbed persons. When sentenced in court these persons often receive some form of psychiatric treatment along with their punishment. Unfortunately, our prisons are not equipped to give effective psychiatric treatment. A special joint committee on penitentiaries was informed in 1966 that the major problems of emotional and • mental nature couldn't be handled adequately .in Kingston Penitentiary Arm. difficult cases were transferred' to the makimum security institution at the Ontario Hospital in' Penetanguishene, if space is available. It is an old story. Reform has touched our penal institutions but it has not gone far enough. Inmates, whether • mentally well or sick, emotionally well or sick, intellectually capable or ,not, all pass through the prison gates to the same cells, the same jobs and the same rehabilitative training. We, seem to operate under the old fashioned belief: let the punishment fit the crime. The punishment should fit the criminal. We continue to operate our prisons with the multipurpose approach of revenge, deterrence, and rehabilitation, despite the fact that revenge and deterrence are not compatible with rehabilitation. The answer lies somewhere between hospital, a school and a prison, not just a hospital-prison, as'sonie have suggested. In the long run it is cheaper for a society to rehabilitate criminals-through purposeful activity and turn them into useful citizens than to store them in prisons, often worsening the mental or emotional disturbance that sent them there in the first place. Where have the children gone ? I've been looking at the papers, With their pictures and their prose, And a nagging starts within me.. And daily, daily grows. Today we have "DELINQUENTS" Or "SCHOLARS" of the best, But where have all the children gone? The ones not like the rest. They don't get into trouble, Nor do they top their Class. They.run and jump and skip and play, In school they barely pass. While some parents hide their sorrows And others shout for joy? No'one seems to notice Just a normal girl or boy. Surely there are thousands Or are mine the only ones? Of "SCHOLARS" and "DELINQUENTS" I've heard enough, Where have the children gone? A parent Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1885 1924 Published Every Thursday At The Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario, Canada Population 3,475 (16 Signed contributions to MIS publication, are the opinions of the writori and do Pot necessarily express the views of the newspaper, Authorised as Second Class 14.11,, Pest Office Department, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage In Cast alaraClutTION NAM Nyablihi, advance Canada and Great While: *Oil a year: Wilted Stalks and Forelgu' i.10, Slagle Copies% II Coals. r.; Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Ah, that silver lining' Oil ARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Plictor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A. Organist: A11551.015 GRASBY, A.R.C.T. ' SUNDAY, JULY 14th 11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship. WesleyWillis Church. and Holmesville will join with us. 11:00 a.m.—Nursery. 11:30 a.m.—Junior Congregation. Wesley-Willis — Holmesville United Churches REV, A. J. MOWATT, C.D„ B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JULY 14th SERVICE AT ONTARIO STREET CHURCH LAST SUN- DAY IN ' JUNE AND FOUR SUNDAYS IN JULY. NO SUNDAY SCHOOL .14. 'nu, MAPLE ST. GOSPEL HALL Sunday, July 14th 9:45 a.m.—Worship Service. BRYCE MARTIN Hawksville 11:00 a.m.--Sunday School. $:00 p.m.—Evening Service. Tuesday Prayer and Bible Study 8:00 p.m. Pentecostal Church victoria Street W, Werner, Pastor Sunday, July 14th 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m.—Worship Service. 7:30 p.m.—Evening Service. Friday, 8 p.m.—TPU Meeting THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Office 'Main Street SEAFORTH • Insures: • • Town Dwellings • All Clan of Farm Property • ,Summer Cottages • Churches, Schools, Halle Extended coverage (wind, Smoke, water damage, failing objects etc.) Is also available. Agents: James Keys, RR 1, Seaforth; V. J. Lane, RR 5, See- Torth; Wm. Leiner, Jr„ Londesboro; ,Baker Brussels; Harold Squire, Clinton; Geoege Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. at" Seaforth. News--Record,. Thursday, ,July 11., 1900 An opportunity The Ontario Housing Corporation, in co-operation with the Town of Clinton is going to conduct a survey to. determine the need and demand for senior citizen housing in Clinton, The survey will determine the need for rental housing for modest income groups in town. Results are based on the number of questionnaires returned. It is the responsibility of persons receiving the questionnaire to complete the questions and drop it in the mail. The questionnaire is not an application for Ontario Housing but is designed to reach all citizens who might be interested in renting an O.H.C. unit. Many people are indifferent to surveys received in the mail, and often discard them without fully realizing what they are throwing away. This survey is being conducted for the benefit .of Clinton senior citizens. Only by full co-operation will positive results be realized. There is no obligation to persons returning the • questionnaire. We have the opportunity. Let's take full advaritage of it. From, Our Early Files Attend Your Church This Sunday NOTE — ALL SERVICES' ON DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME 75 years ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA July 7, 1893 The pipe organ for Rattenbury Street Methodist Church arrived here last week and is being put in place; the choir loft will be extended' out into the church five feet more to accommodate it. Dr. Gunn has now a nice team of chestnut drivers, having traded his bay driver with Harvey Davis for the latter's chestnut roadster. The new house of Thomas Jackson Jr., is being rapidly pushed forward. The material used is a very fine imported red brick, much more expensive than the ordinary brick because they are 'hand finished'. The mason work is unusually well done and calls for good judgment and mechanical skill. At Victoria B.C. last week, Mr. W. Grigg a former member of the Clinton Gun Club, covered himself with glory and honor by winning the highest prize of the list 'The Globe Trophy'. This is described by a Victoria paper as a 'gold trophy with diamond setting presented by the Morning Globe, Tacoma, and valued at $350. 55 years ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA July 10, 1913 Mrs. H. Bartliff is home from an extended visit with her mother at Brussels: Mrs. George Roberton and Master Kenneth are visiting in Brussels. When they return Miss Helen, who has been visiting there for sometime will be accompanied by Miss Jean Fox. Miss Etta McBrien was successful in her piano course in connection with the Toronto Conservatory of Music passing with honors in her Junior or Grade III exams. The young lady is a piomising pupil of Miss. Cleta Ford. Miss Olive Floody, a member of the Toronto teaching staff, is visiting friends here. 40 years ago THE CLINTON NEWS—RECORD July 12, 1928 Miss Viola Livermore returned Saturday from a visit with Detroit friends. Messrs. Brenton Hellyar, P. Hovey. G. Holmes, E. Downs, M. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: , I Would like to congratulate Shirley Keller for her interesting essay, "School is out", in the July 4 issue of the Clinton News-Record. How to achieve happiness from a bit of hard work is one lesson every child should be taught at home. Thanks Shirley! Sincerely, Mrs. Ross Merrill, Bay field, Ontario, Rozell and W. Jackson returned on Monday from a ten days' stay at the Boys' Camp at Grand Bend. Mrs. H. B. Chant returned from Toronto last week where she had visited relatives for a fortnight. She was accompanied by her granddaughter Miss Catherine Floody of Toronto and her grandson Master Benson Sutter of town who had been visiting in Toronto and St. Catherines, Miss Ruth Hale who has been spending a holiday at her home has returned to Cleveland accompanied by her brother Robert Hale. 25 years ago THE CLINTON NEWS—RECORD July 8, 1943 Miss Ferrol Higgins is the guest this week of Mr.' and Mrs. • If your family is anything like mine, you must sometimes put your head down on your arms and weep, quietly and bitterly. We go through periods of passivity and morbidity to the point where mass suicide seems the only sane solution. And with the perversity of life, suddenly the clouds break, the sun comes out, the rainbow appears, there's a pot of gold at its base and God is once pool-hall. agai again backin His heaven, in- stead of hanging around the We've just been through one of these cycles, and I reckon that just about one more will finish me off. It began about ten weeks ago. For the fifth time in the last couple of years, Hugh, the wandering boy, took off to make a new start and his for- tune. This time it was to be in the mines of northern Quebec. A week later we received a card from the flesh-pots of Montreal, urging us to write and saying he had a job at Expo Jr. We all wrote. Silence. Nothing. For weeks and weeks. MOmma worried. I didn't. At about the same time my wife got sick and couldn't write her university exams. Had a small operation, came home and lay around the house, driving me mad. Kim, of course, had to get into the act and came down with mononucleosis. She was forbidden to study. Would she fail her year? Your humble servant, as usual, had nothing wrong with him except a rotten family. However, he just 'put his nose to the wheel and his shoulder to the grindstone and kept on running in circles. He's used to it. Things got steadily blacker. Hugh maintained silence. His mother learned she had to halve a big operation and spent a month chewing her finger- nails right up to the wrists as she waited for the hospital to call, the ghastly operation, and the news that she had cancer. Kim got Surlier and surlier from being cooped up. Did my best. Wrote' Hugh a strong letter. Talked to my wife for endless hours about C. 0. Martin of Kitchener. L/Cpl. and Mrs. L. G. Winter spent the weekend in Toronto and while there attended the wedding of L/Cpl. Winter's brother. Lloyd Carter, student at University of . Western Ontario, London for the past three years, left for Trois Pistoles, Quebec, to attend the French summer school through July and August. The following boys attended Thames Valley Cadet Camp for 10 days: Frank Fingland Jr., Charlie Thompson, Roy Churchill and Bob Morgan. They returned home Wednesday. Miss Marjorie Henderson is on holidays and Miss Wilma Radford is assisting in the Agricultural Office Liere. hysterectomies, ovaries, ute- ruses, malignant fibroids and such delicacies. Tries to humor Kim into eating and sleeping. Then everything started to pop at once. The hospital called and the old lady went off to her doom. For three days I sweated out the opera- tion and at the same time Kim's promotion from Grade 12, which lay in the hands of the gods, her teachers. Finally, the dam broke. All in one day we hit the crisis. Hugh phoned from Quebec City, to learn that his Mum was likely breathing her last. Kim was granted her year at school. And that night, a shaky old lady of about 90 called from the hospital to tell me that she was alive, though not exactly kicking. During the next week, the tide rose and the old family ship, which had been high and dry on the bleak beach amid the rotting weeds, began to float' again. Hugh phoned his mother in hospital, and she was so glad to hear from him that she for- got to give him hell for not writing. The missus came home from hospital with an all-clear, a beautiful scar and feeling remarkably perky. Kim recovered her health with amazing speed. So, 'as it stands now, Hugh has a job as a waiter in Quebec City, is happy and has stopped smoking' and biting his nails. My wife is overwhelmed by the flowers and cards from friends. Didn't think she had many. And she's feeling great, on the whole. Kim is riding on a cloud because her brother has invit- ed her to visit him in Quebec City, and she's going all the way by herself, with no par- ents to ruin everything. All of this is rather uninter- esting, but it is written as in- spirational material for those thousands of gallant men across the country who are about ready to burst into teats, Don't let it get you down, jack. Behind every dark cloud ' there is a darker one, Just keep that in mind and you'll be amazed at how. you feel when the 'sun suddenly comes out. If you can live so long, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec) Pastor: JACK HEYNEN, B.A. SUNDAY, JULY 14th 9:45 a.m.--Sunday Schot.i. 11:00 a.m.—Church Service. — ALL ARE WELCOME HERE — ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JULY 14th 9:30 am.—Worship Service. 10:30 a.m.—Sunday School. — EVERYONE WELCOME — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, JULY 14th Student Minister: The Rev. W. De Jong 10:00 a.m.—Morning Service—English. 2:30 p.m.—Afternoon Service —Dutch. Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back to God Hour" — EVERYONE WELCOME ---