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Editorial comment
Minor hockey
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Once again it is that time of year
when we are asked to support minor
hockey, and to remind our readers of that
already well-known slogan "Oon't send
Take your boy to the arena."
We are willing to do this because we
agree there should be special recognitiOn
of the men (and women) who make minor
hockey possible here.
The local minor hockey association is
composed of enthusiastic, hard-working
volunteers whose efforts on behalf of
local youngsters cannot be measured in
hours or dollars. They make it possible for
hundreds of our youngsters to take part in
Canada's National sport, Every boy in
town can have the opportunity to play,
and none will be turned away. That's the
kind of an organization it is.
More than that, they contribute
towards the development not only of
stronger bodies, but of healthier minds
and better citizens. They keep the
youngsters off the streets and engaged in
healthy, supervised sport. We do agree
with the slogan "To keep a boy out of hot
water — put him on ice". Our
municipality has provided the ice, our
volunteers do the work to "put him on
i6e".
Ice safety
A more affluent society and more
leisure time allows more people to
participate in all forms of ice sports.
Inevitably, the increased exposure
produces more tragic statistics. Rescue
operations and a knowledge of sound
rescue techniques are, therefore, of the
greatest importance.
. When attempting to help others in
difficulties due to broken ice you should
make sure that you do not fall into the
hole in the ice too. It has happened!
Do not stand up onthe ice when
trying .to rescue ,a person and„ if possible,
t use ;.,p,qyjpment to prevent personal
contact with the victim. A plank or a
ladder may enable him to rescue himself.
A rope rescue may also be made using
a rope buoy. If a rope is used, knot the
end of it to. a piece of wood or a gallon
can or to a mitt filled with snow,.so that
the victim may grasp it easily.
In the event of no equipment being
available, a human chain .may be used
when -there are several people about. The
"chain" is formed by the necessary
number of people, lying on the ice side by
side, parallel to one another, and using the
hand-to-hand reaching routine. At a given
signal the rescue is effected by the whole
line wriggling back to safety.
A completely helpless victim can best
be rescued by someone going out for him
with a rope fastened under his armpits,
the other end being secured on shore. A
ring buoy may be used in the same way as
a rope. The weight of this buoy makes it
possible to throw it more accurately to a
person being rescued.
If you are alone and fall through the
ice you should not try to climb out.
Instead, extend both arms along the
surface of the ice and kick vigorously.
This action will tend to raise the lower
part of the body and propel you on to
solid ice. Then, roll to safety.
For all rescue operations, especially
during the winter, it is important to get the
victim out of the water quickly. Cold
water can kill.
Remember, ice is extremely hazardous
during the first freeze-up and in early
spring. Therefore, get to know and use
effective rescue methods and help save a
fellow ice-sportsMan.
Your Red Cross urges you to be ICE
SAFETY conscious!
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•The January campaign of the March of Dimes on behalf of
disabled adults will be climaxed by a one -day blitz in Clinton on
Monday. Some 30,000 "Marching Mothers," across Ontario who
will help the organization achieve the campaign goal of $875,000,
inspired this cartoon by Globe & Mail cartoonist James Reidford.
I The Empty Pew
By W. Jene Miller
The last half of the 1800s
bequeathed to the religious
world the gift of intellectual
integrity. The first half of the
1900s provided a legacy of social
relevance. In all probability, the
last half of this century will be
remembered by Church
historians for two great
contributions: ecumenicity and
renewal. And, ecumenicity is
one form of renewal.
Renewal means worshipping a
God who dwells not in houses
made with hands, nor is he
served with human hands, as if
he needed anything. It means
following with absolute loyalty,
a Master who called men to love
him * more than family',
'-Possessions or life, itself; who
offered, -Mari •", furnished
parsonages, and who told the
rich to go sell what they had and
give it away.
Renewal means - in the
words of Dr. Rollin Vickery of
Oklahoma - organizing church
school classes that truly are
classes, and not bargain
basement churches. He* calls
them that because people can
attend the classes without having
to give themselves or their real
identity, and can toss in a
quarter and not feel cheap, yet
go home and say they have
"been to church".
. Renewal means surrendering
the comfortable idolatry of the
god of nature; opposing the
non -sacrificial symbolism of
cost-free Santa Clauses: and
rejecting the saccharine
sentimentality of
sweet-little-Jesns-boy
emotionalism. It is an absolute
insistence to know nothing but
Jesus Christ and him crucified --
at the hands of a complacent,
opulent, popular religious world.
Renewal means involvement
with the world to which God is
supposed to have sent his Son. It
means being concerned forlithe
down -trodden, setting freoahe
'bilMaved, detrianding lustite` for
the appressed, feeding enemies,
clothing naked, and continuing
in loyalty to the component of
the ,Body of Christ to which
they belong. It means really
"standing on the premises."
There are only two
alternatives, as someone has said,
either to let suicide happen to
us, or to commit crucifixion.
You see, "Renewal",
backwards, is "God -is -dead".
Prominent Huron farmer
"Nick" Whyte dies at 61
• Wilfrid L. (Nick) Whyte, 61, a
well-known Seaforth area
poultry farmer, died Sunday at
Clinton Public Hospital, He had
been ill about five weeks.
Mr. Whyte was a son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. John Whyte,
and was born and educated in
Stratford.
He attended Ontario
Agricultural College at Guelph,
later operating several farms in
the Seaforth area.
Mr. Whyte who lived at RR 2
Seaforth, had been active in
public life and political affairs.
He was a member of First
Presbyterian Chureh Seaforth,
and Britannia Lodge, Seaforth.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Margaret B. McMillan;
four sons, John of Oshawa;
Thomas, Wilfrid Jr., and Bill, all
at home; two daughters, Mrs.
CNIB
thanks
Frank (Mary) Vander Molen,
Oakville, and Margaret at home;
two brothers, Harold of
Seaforth, and Cecil of Hamilton;
four sisters, Mrs. Finlay C.
(Margaret) Perrin, London; Mrs.
Austin (Eva) Howe, Etobicoke;
Mrs. John (Vera) Sebben, 106
Cobourg St., Stratford, and Mrs.
Russell (Victoria) Burgess, Don
Mills, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral service was held
Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the G. A.
Whitney funeral home, Seaforth.
Temporary entombment in
Pioneer Mausoleum will be
followed by burial in Avondale
cemetery, Straford, at a later
date. Donations to the Cancer
fund are being accepted in lieu
of flowers.
A Masonic service was held at
9:30 p.m. Monday.
those who gave
Dear Friends:
The blind people in your area
and the CNIB wish to express
their appreciation fdr your
participation in the 1968 Annual
Appeal for funds.
Clinton News -Record
-111-0E CLINTON NEW ERA
Eatabilshed 1865
Anialgamated THE HURON NEW8-RECORO
1924 Established 1881
Published Every Thursday At The Heart
Of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Population SX75
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- the the contributors who
gave so generously.
- to the volunteers who gave
so freely of their titne and effort
in making the campaign possible.
- to all the news media who
did such an excellent job in
publicizing the, work of CNIB.
You Can all be assured that
the monies raised will be used to
provide the services so vital to
the blind people in your area,
The service program of CNIB iS
ever expanding and improving,
CNIB .is now entering its
second 50 years of service and
the remarkable growth during
the first 50 years can be
maintained and eXpanded with
the continued support and
interest of everyotie in your
community and in every other
ceminunity throughout this
great nation Of ours,
Jack Clements
District Field Setretary
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by Bill 4triley
•
The good (?) old days
You know those people who
have been going around for
the past 20 years complaining,
"Remember the good old days,
when We used to have real
winters, with lots of snow?"
I'd like to catch the next
person who says it, and stick
him, upside down, anywhere in
our backyard; All you'd see
would he two feet trying to
semaphore "S.O,S." And you
wouldn't even see that unless
he were six feet tall or more.
Quite a winter. Jn OW town,
you can park the car in front
of the house, and you wouldn't
know it was there, except for
the radio aerial,
Because of the flu, and my
bad back, and all those warn-
ings about heart attacks, and
bone laziness, I've , been hiring
boys to shovel our front and
back sidewalks, about 90
yards of them,
(Remember the good old
days, when you offered to,
shovel somebody's walk and
worked like a little beaver for
two hours, knocked at the door
' when you were finished, hop-
ing for a dime, or maybe even
a quarter, and some gentle,
little old lady would say,
"Thank you, little boy", and
give you a cookie?)
Things have changed, The
kids now work for a straight
dollar an hour, if you can find
one small enough so that he
hasn't been corrupted by the
snow-shovellers' union. How-
ever, it hasn't cost me much
yet. I've hired five, and three
of them haven't been seen
since they started working on
the front walk. We'll probably
find them in the spring, smil-
ing seraphically among the rot-
ted oak leaves and fallen
branches,
But oneof them, a rosy -
faced urchin called Jerry, is
going to go places. He's right
on the job. If there's a gentle
snow falling, and there's about
an inch of it, and it's seven
o'clock on a Sunday morning,
he phones to see if I want him,
If it's snowing as if there was
a big hole in the sky, and
blowing like a banshee, and
drifting deep, you couldn't get
hold of that kid if you got the
whole police force looking for
MM.
Much the same happens with
i• the -chap who plows the drive-
-way. If there's three inches of
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75 years ago
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
January 26, 1894
We understand that an order
has been issued to all G.T.R.
Station agents to make a charge
of 5c on all parcels left in their
care during the interval of trains.
Our readers will notice in the
advertisements of Cooper and
Co. and Rance and Spalding that
they have decided to do a
strictly cash business. This we
believe is a move in the right
direction and the sooner all
business can be conducted on
the same principle, the better it
will be for all interested.
55 years ago
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
' Thursday, January 22, 1914
Drs. J. W. Shaw and C. W.
Thompson attended the dinner
for the Perth Medical
Association at Stratford last
week.
Miss Ruby Plum of Brussels
spent a few days last week the
guest of the Misses Lavis.
Clinton Knitting Co.
advertises for experienced help
or girls* to learn knitting and
looping with pay of $5.00 per
week while learning.
George Glidden and wife and
daughter Laura, of Dunlop,
visited at 0. W. Potter's, Porter's
Hill, on Sunday last.
40 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
January 24, 1929
Miss Donna Stevens and Miss
Carol Evans, who teach at Ethel,
returned last week to resume
their school duties, their
respective schools having been
closed a week longer than the
usual holiday on account of
illness in the cornmunity.
Mr, Edgar Maguire spent a
few day S over the weekend with
Galt and Stratford friends,
Icy roads and walks have
been the order since Friday's
thaW,
Tenders are being called for
putting a hardwood floor in the
town hail auditerium,
25years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS-RPTORD
January 20, 1944
Mervyn Ilatkin is in TerOnto
attending a meeting of the
Ontario Lecke)! Association
light snow, he's right there. If
there's eight inches of heavy
snow, I'll swear he just goes
home and sits by the fire, And
whichever, he has an unerring
instinct for cleaning the drive-
way just three minutes before
the town snowplow cornea
along and fills it in again.
It's sort of fun driving in
this stuff, though. It brings put
the Cossack in the mildest of
motorists, First, you eye the
pile of snow at the mouth of
your driveway. Looks fairly
light and only two feet deep.
You get the old crock going,
usually, start slowly back,
wards, out of the garage, then
give it the gen and try to buck
through the drift on sheer, raw
courage and plain stupidity,
Sometimes you even make it.
Sometimes there's a foot of
iron ice under that surface of
fluffy stuff, But it's the near-.
est modern equivalent to a cav-
alry charge that I know, except
that you're going backwards,
What gives it a little extra
spice is that, because of the
huge banks, you can't see a
thing in either direction as you
hit that enemy line. The other
day, 1 nearly tallied two snow-
mobiles that were whizzing
past. And the next day, an oil
truck would have got me, ex-
cept that this was one of the
times I didn't break through
the drift,
You can't beat the modern
methods of snow removal,
though. They used to lug it
away in trucks and dump it in
some patch of wasteland. To-
day, instead of trucks, we have
the snowblower.
And in the spring, when the
snow is all gone, you go out
with first a shovel, then a rake,
and filially a stiff broom, and
remove about four carloads of
salt and sand from what used
to be your nice, green lawn.
It's our own fault, of course.
People used to put the beasts
up on blocks in November. To-
day, it's not only vital, but a
matter of pride, to keep the
car in action, even though we
drive only three blocks to
work.
We're caught on the horns
of our own dilemma, and it's
painful, but it certainly keeps
us on our toes, when winter
decides that there's a lot of life
in the old boy yet, and pro-
ceeds to prove it.
Tti.ropt? :TelegragSynd!cate
lies
being held Wednesday and
Thursday in the King Edward
Hotel.
In the enlistments in Canada's
Army at London is Ernest E.
Walton, son of Mrs. Walton of
town and the late Richard
Walton. This is his second war as
he was with the Imperial Army
in World War L.
Lt. -Col. F. G. Thompson has
been transferred from London
Military Hospital where he has
been since his return over a year
ago, to command a hospital at
Lethbridge, Alta.
15 y ars ago
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
January 21, 1954
Mrs. Fred Gatien and children
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Nediger.
Ross Merrill has been in
Toronto this week attending a
three day course in TV service
and repair.
Among the first of the duties
of Clinton's new mayor, M. J.
Agnew, was that of reviewing
officer at the wings parade at
RCAF Station Clinton last
Friday, when lie presented wings
to six graduating flight_cadets.
10 years ago
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
January 22, 1959
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Miles
returned on Monday from a
winter holiday in Florida where
they visited at Deerfield and
Riviera Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Arkell,
Kenny and Jo Anne, Bay City,
Michigan, were with the former's
parents, Mr. and Mrs, F. P.
Bayfield, from Thursday
to Sunuay.
Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Thompson
of Tuckersmith left on
Wednesday to spend a holiday in
Fl ori d a.
Clinton Kinsmen have made
arrangements to number houses
in Clinton and will get this
project under way in the very
near future.
Bill Hanley, Clinton, was
introduced to County Council in
Goderich on Tuesday as the
deputy clerk of the council.
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"THE FRIENDLY CHURCH"
Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A.
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T.
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MR, LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
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Sermon topic: "NO COMPROMISE"
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 26th
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January 28, 630 p.m., Congregational Pot Luck
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Annual Church meeting, 3:30 p.m., January 26.
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.W. Werner, Pastor
SUNDAY, JANILIAI:IY 26th
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