HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-01-09, Page 2Mrs. Thompson, Sprucedale
Farm, Goderich Township.
Mr. and Mrs, Dalton Smith
and little Janet, London, spent
Sunday with M.s. Smith's
parents, Mr. and ivlrs. W. W.
Higgins, Bayfield.
10 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
January 3, 1959
Mr. and Mrs. George
Roberton, accompanied by Mrs,
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George MacLennan, spent New
Year's weekend with their son,
Kenneth Roberton at Aylmer.
Pte. Ronald Clifford of the
Royal Canadian Ordinance
Corps, Training School, at
Montreal spent the Christmas
holidays with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Reg Clifford.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Poth,
Bayfield, returned from a motor
trip to Florida on Sunday. Their
son Ronald, joined them at
Hamilton for the trip.
SUCAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
2 Clinton News -Record, Thursday, ,lanuary 9, 1969
'Editorial comment
'doe many die
The advance of mechanization is
helping to bring the good life to
Canadians who live on farms, but,
unfortunately, it is taking a .heavier toll in
the slumber of accidents and 'people
killed.
In the last five years, according, to the
Royal .Commission on Farm Machinery,
about 600 people — including 200
c* ildren -- have been killed in accidents
involving tractors or other machines.
Over the last 10 years, the farm
machinery fatality rete — deaths in
relation to farm population — has
doubled.
Despite this alarming trend; the
Commission has found that "little or
nothing is being done by the
manufacturers, provincial governments or
safety councils" to make farm machinery
less dangerous.
The Commission deplores the fact,
too, that farmers are not made more
aware of what it describes as the
"inherent injury and health risks in using
the ever -more -powerful equipment,"
The conclusions reached, as a result of
the Commission's research and
background studies into the farm
machinery picture, make absorbing even
though somewhat shocking reading.
Urban residents will be appalled at the
slow progress of developing safety
measures.
As agricultural economist Graham F.
Donaldson, who prepared the study for
the Commission, notes: "It should not be
necessary to await statistical proof that
the detrimental impact of farm machinery
on farm people exceeds that of
automobiles on the whole community,
before some action is taken."
Mr. Donaldson lists some of the steps
now being taken to cope with this
problem, but makes, it. plain that it is not
enough. "Although farm safety is a
provincial responsibility," he states,
"many of the provinces have done little or
nothing in this area. in some provinces the
total activity is confined to clipping
newspaper accounts of . farm accidents."
It is ironic that while the farm
population steadily declined between
1957 and 1966, farm machinery fatalities
in Canada role: by 30'percent
ThisVrs' s'6rr ethin that .-:sh'oul :-
:9 d no
nger be permitted to go unnoticed. The
provinces, in co-operation• with Ottawa,
safety associations, . farm organizations
and manufacturers should examine this
regrettable situation and take the
necessary steps to correct it.
The farmer still represents the life
blood of the Canadian nation, regardless
of whether he is a wheat producer, mixed
farmer, raiser of livestock, tobacco or
fruit grower, or dairyman. (Toronto
Telegram)
Reflecto-tag
Damn....
That woman is walking on the wrong
side of the road.
1 vves lucky. Bicycle didn't have a light.
Did you see that! ,t..
Why, he was right over the white line.
He could have side-swiped us.
it is almost dark now, what is that
deep shadow? It seems to be moving. Why
it's a truck, He didn't have his lights on
either. What's he saving up for, my
funeral?
That jaywalker went on an angle across
the street, just twice the distance. He
made me wait. I did. One of those
jackrabbit jalopy drivers in town would
have doubled him up in the middle. He
almost put my heart in my mouth,
i've been lucky, mighty lucky.
"Not seen until too late", hasn't
happened to me yet — not yet.
But as I said, i've been lucky. That's
sober reflection.
fi efiection? Did you say
r -e -f -f -e -c -t -i -o -n?
Say, that reminds me...the Ontario
Safety League is thinking of reflection
too.... R E LECTO—TAGS are obtainable
from 20$ King Street West, Toronto.
Eight tags for $1.
Pinned to a pocket, purse, hat or coat,
after dark, IR EF LECTO could save a life.
The Coburg Sentinel -Star)
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60
40
20
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FARM MACHiNER
FATALITIES PER
UNIT OF PAPULATION
(PER•cENTAGE CHANGE SINCE•
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60
65
From our early files
75 years ago
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
January 12, 1894 -
Mr. Join Shaw, father of Dr.
Shaw, is now inspector for the
North American Life Ins.
Company for north Huron and
west Bruce.
The weather this month has
been unusually open, and the
absence of snow for sleighing
makes quite a difference; it
Iooks more like early fall than
midwinter.
Mr. Mark Cassels and wife
(old Clintonians) were this week
visiting friends here, having
come down to attend the
wedding of their niece, Miss
Rumball of Goderich Township.
Mr. Thos. East jr., who last
summer was foreman for a
Virginia brick -yard is now
engineer at the Doherty Organ
Factory. -
40 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
January 10, 1929- err: MINA trOttft.'
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`l' sea• : waste.., n :,.�$ r a ,
Consta'nd b Iast+�weol�:,on;e n
of the flu, and no churchservice
on account of the storm.
Mr. Russell Jervis, son of Mr,
and Mrs. Oliver Jervis of the
Base Line left Monday for
Guelph, where he will take a
course in poultry raising and
horticulture at the O.A.C.
Misses Beattie of 'the Vogue'
leave Saturday to spend a
holiday at their home in
Watford. •
Let's hear your views
Nothing like a good dose of
the 'flu to make you feel like
turning out a column of death:^
less prose. I feel like a fighter
on the ropes in the fourteenth
round with the crowd yelling
to the other guy, "Kill him
Kill him!" t>
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25 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
January 6, 1944
L/Cpl. Arthur Aiken of the
Prince Edward Island
Highlanders stationed at Prince
George, B.C. spent New Years at
his home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Liebold
and babe accompanied by Mrs.
Thomas Leppington called on
friends and relatives in London
last Thursday.
Miss Eleanor Plumsteel has
returned to Palmerston after
spending the holidays with her
parents; Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Plumsteel and with Rev, H. J.
and Mrs. Snell of Auburn.
Mr. Edward Steep has just
received a telegram informing
him that his son L/Cpl. Joseph
Steep has been wounded in
action in Italy.
15 years ago
THE CLINTON NEM -RECORD
January 8, 1953
Bill Shearing has returned to
the Royal Military College,
Kingston, to resume his year's
academic study. He placed 35th
out of 108 in the mid-term
work.
Rev. J. R. Thompson,
Willowdale; Mr. and Mrs. A, L.
Thompson and children, '
Dunnville, were visitors with
their Mother and brother, Mr.
and Mrs. H. A. Thompson and
Clinton News Record
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Published Every Thursday At The Heart
Of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
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items this week, then begin the
New Year with a fresh slate
and a sound constitution.
We had a very merry Christ-
mas, thank you. But an insidi-
ous old custom is being re-
vived. No less than three dif-
ferent groups of carollers ap-
peared at the door, and had to
be suitably entertained, By the
time the last gang had left, we
were well into Christmas
morning, among other things.
It's a charming old tradition,
but I hope it doesn't spread
too far. If it does, next Christ-
mas Eve . I think I'll just call
the cops and have the carollers
charged with disturbing the
peace. It would be a lot cheap-
er.
For once, everything fitted
when the gifts were.opened.
See me in my new off-white
turtleneck •sweater and Pierre
Trudeau will look like some-
body from Hayfork Centre.
Kim, with her usual exqui-
site sense of timing, almost
turned Boxing -Day into a box-
ing match when she, announced
she'd like to go to Israel and
work on a kibbutz for a year,
after finshing high school So
a c.uple of years from now, I
inay be a' Jewish grandfather.
That would be a switch.
Church bells and a blazing
log fire and jolly evening with
old friends brought in the New
Year on a pleasant note. Not
for me the $30'a -couple New
Year's Eve in a nightclub with
a lot of idiots in paper hats,
throwing streamers, blowing
their little horns and kissing
everyone in sight,
Speaking of bells, Lt. Col,
John McEwing of Spokane,
Wash., retired, has a bell in
the belfrey which is bothering
him. Describing himself in a
letter as a "sentimental nut,'
he says he has bought the bell
from the little red sehoolhotise
be attended as a boy, near Pott
Eigin, Ontario.
That bell has many mento'
ries for him, lie planned to
This is the new Symbol of the
March of gimes, the name of the
cainpaign for the Rehabilitation
Foundation frig the Disabled A
Morrell— of
tiOntrli)11t1C11i tri the
Dulles will help the disabled
along the road lb independence,
present it, no strings attached,
to the new consolidated school
which has replaced the little
one -room country schools, as a
symbol of all of them, those
humble institutions w h e r e
many a great man got his start,
` The Colonel flew east and
talkedtb"ihe,•architect xespOh
41e- H07 as. ant usia e a ut
tfraittrirstees stalled rlrheromeiei;g
„,ging out of office at the end
IV.' the year, and "couldn't
make up their minds" about
having something as old-fash-
ioned as an 1875 school bell
on the premises.
To me, it seems an excellent
idea, and I hope the new board
will be receptive to the Colo-
nel's idea. We talk a lot about
Canadiana, and preserving our
heritage. Why sell it to the
scrap dealers?
This brings us in a round-
about way to the new school
system in Ontario, which prom-
ises to be interesting. The old
local school boards, chosen in
their own communities, are
being scrapped, and county
boards, elected, have already
replaced them.
Theoretically, the idea is a
good one, It should give equali-
ty of educational opportunity
to all children. That's the pur-
pose, In the bad old days, be-
fore 1969, the fatter centres
got the best facilities and often
the best teachers, while the
leaner ones had to struggle
along with what they could af-
ford.
I hope it works. But I have
reservations, Many a time have
I seen something made bigger,
so that it would be more effi,
tient and cheaper to run.
Usually, the opposite occurs.
Expenses increase and efficien-
cy decreases, because of sheer
size.
Parkinson's Law takes over.
Empire -building begins. Al-
ready hundreds of new admin-
istrative jobs have been creat-
ed for the new sy§tem. 1Jnder
it, board members will receive
a stipend, and no doubt, ex-
penses, The old boards worked
for nothing, Paperwork will
double, then triple, and so on.
Rope I'm wrong, It will take
a couple of years to tell. And
by that time, the system may
be so rigid that changing it
will be like getting an elephant
to Stop standing on your foot.
Any comments?
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OBITIUARiES
GLIFFORPi HART
Clifford Hart, 61, of
Clinton, died December 26 At
Alexandra Marine and General
Hospital, Goderich,, after a Tong
illness. He was 61 years old,
A native of Hullett Township,
he was born June 8, 19Q7, a son
of the .late Mr, and M. John
Hart, And lived the last 15 years
in polborne Township.
He was a member of
Goderich Orange Lodge No.
182,
Survivors include two
brothers, Joseph of Colborne
Township and George who lives
in Grey 17ounty.
' Funeral services were held at
the Ba;1 Funeral Horne in
Clinton on December 28, with
the Reverend A. J. Mowatt of
Wesley -Willis United Church,
Clinton, officiating. Burial was
in Maitland Bank Cemetery,
Seaforth,
Pallbearers were Leslie Jervis,
Orval Blake, Norman Allin,
Aaron Fisher, Donald Ives and
George Ives. Two nephews, John
and James Hart, were, flower
bearers.
MARY G. WATSON
Mrs. John G. Watson, of
`Goderich, died at the Alexandra
Marine and General Hospi>al on
December 31, following a short
illness She was 68.
Mr:. Watson was born Mary
Stirling in Goderich Township a
daughter of D. A. (Sandy) and
the late Pearl Stirling.
She was a graduate of St.
Mary's School of Nursing,
Stratford, in 1935. She was an
adherent of North Street United
Church.
She was predeceased by her
mother and a sister, Miss
Florence Stirling. Surviving are
her husband John G. Watson,
step -children Mrs. Frederick
(Barbara) Schuch, Etobicoke,
Robert Watson, Peterborough;
father D, A. Stirling, Goderich; a
sister, Mrs. Ralph (Margaret)
Jewell, Goderich; and a brother,
William Stirling, Goderich.
The funeral service was held
at Lodge Funeral Home at 2
p.m. on Thursday, January 2.
Reverend J. Donald MacDonald
officiated assisted by Reverend
W. J. Maines.
interment followed in the
Clinton Cemetery. Pallbearers
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MRS. J. R. TAYLOR
Mrs, J. Ross Taylor, the
former Margaret Mahaffy, of
West Nissourie Township, died
December 17 in Stratford
General Hospital.
A native of Mitchell, Mrs.
Taylor worked in the Clinton
post office for several years prior
to her marriage.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by two sisters, Mrs.
Edythe Hodgson, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan and Mrs. Ethel
Sparks of Zurich.
Funeral services were held at
the L. A. Ball Funeral Horne, St,
Marys. Burial followed in St.
Marys Cemetery.
PEARL C. PRIDDLE
Mrs. Pearl C. Priddle,
formerly of Goderich, died at
Huronview, Clinton, on January
2. She was 82.
Mrs. Priddle was born Pearl
Jewell in Ashfield Township on
October 20, 1886, a daughter of
Richard Jewell and the former
Eliza Grace Mitchell, She
married Joseph Priddle on March
11, 1907 in Colborne and lived
in Port Hope until returning to
Goderich in 1910. She had spent
the last three years at
Huronview.
She was Assistant Librarian at
the Goderich Public Library for
15 years and was an adherent of
North Street United Church.
•She was predeceased by her
parents, and by one soh,
Emerson, who died at age two
and'one half years. Surviving are
a daughter, Mrs. Herbert
(Edythe) Cranston, London; a
. son, Joseph M. ?riddle, Ottawa;
a sister, Mrs. Edward (Clara)
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Attend Your Church
This Sunday
ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH
y~rr. "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH"
Pastor: REV. GRANT MiLLS, B.A.
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T.
• SUNDAY, JANUARY '12th
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11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship
EVERYONE WELCOME
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, JANUARY 12th
WESLEY-WiLLIS
9:45 a.m,.--Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. — COMMUNION SERVICE.
HOLMESVILLE •
1:00 p.m. — COMMUNION SERVICE.
1:45 p.m. Sunday School.
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12th
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
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A-, Minister
Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School,
10:45 a,m, — Morning Worship.
Madelaine Lane Auxiliary meets January 14 at home
of Mrs. Bill Cook, 44 Mary St., 8:15 p.m,
Everyone Welcon)e
MAPLE STREET GOSPEL' HALL
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12th
9:45 a.m.-- Worship Service.
11:00 a.m. -- Sunday School,
8:00 p.m. •--- Evening Service.
JAMES DAVI LE, S•imcoe
tuesday, 8 pan.
Prayer Meeting and Bible Study
Speaker: tJAMES DAV1LE, Silncoe
ST, PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
the Rev. J. S. Sharples, IMA., Minister
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12th
' Morning Service and
Sunday School y 10:00 a,m,
PEN1 COStAL CHURCH
Victoria Street
W, Werner, Pastor
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12th
9:45 .a:m. -- Sunday Scholl.
11:00 a.m. ' Warship Service,
/:30 h,rit. ^-- Evening Service.
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