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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-02-27, Page 2.,\«'E♦ \'''',0'•.r\\'.'.\\'\\\'.\ ♦''.'.''. Business avid Professional Directory 2 Clinton News -record, Thursday, February 271 '1969_ E'd�tor al comment., No tirne for apathy For the first time in several months, taxpayers in Huron County have something something to cheer about where the board of education i$ concerned. At Monday evening's meeting in. Goderich, a young Clinton area farmer combined backbone and eloquence to stave off an expenditure of about $10,000 per annum for the provision of office space, No one is at all certain at this juncture if Robert Elliott's suggestion to use available space in Central Huron Secondary School for board of education offices will become .reality. It is a good feeling nevertheless to have concrete assurance that at least some members of the new county board of education are concerned for the pocketbooks of Huron taxpayers. There has been little indication of this in recent weeks. To date five men have been hired to handle the education affairs of this county. Their salaries total $109,000 per year. Another 12 positions will likely be filled before the staff comes to full strength in time for fall classes. Salaries for these persons will uridoubtedly be more in line with average Huron wage scales. Even that could represent an additional expenditure of about $50,000 per annum. Coming on the heels of extensive school building programs throughout the county as well as increasing demands by teachers for salary hikes, ratepayers in Huron have been hard hit, Needless to say, they have not become too sympathetic toward the efforts of the Ontario Department of Education and the Huron County Board of Education to provide a "computer -space age education" for their young people. Some persons may argue that Elliott saw an .opportunity to draw attention back to the "Hub of Huron County" when the bid to locate the board of education offices in the former Clinton Hospital nurses' residence seemed IQst. Even if the scheme was a last-ditch effort to put Clinton in a favourable light, the idea has merit simply because it is a sensible solution to spiralling costs which continue to infuriate the average .taxpayer. The board owns the Clinton school not now fully utilized because projected figures showed enrolment of 1,400 when in fact, only about 1,000 students .attend classes at CHSS. The board heats the premises, pays the light bills and raises the cost of maintenance whether the building is occupied or not. A Clinton site would, by the admission of education director John D. Cochrane, be the most central to all the schools in the county and all the present board members. We understand the board's reluctance to locate the board of education offices within the walls of any school in Huron County. However, we laud Mr. Elliott's common sense action on an idea first conceived by businessman and board chairman, John Lavis, Clinton. We welcome this kind of constructive thinking and we praise the board members who agreed to "take another look" at a costly situation which seemed settled. We urge Huron ratepayers in this part of the county to make their opinions in this matter known to the board members who represent them. There should be no apathy now. — The Exeter Times -Advocate, February 20. Be a blood donor Every day there is an appeal to give to some cause, and almost every week and month is designated in support of some organization's activities. Most of these appeals are worthy but the multiplicity of them becomes tiresome and a bit of a bore to an increasing number of people. The Canadian Red Cross Society we believe, is an exception. Born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the wounded of the battlefields, and also effective in days of peace, the Red Cross continues to meet urgent needs in our own country and throughout the world. There are few families in Canada today that haven't faced serious illness when a blood transfusion often meant the difference between life and death. As a person said recently, "I used to pay no attention to the Red Cross appeal for blood donors because 1 thought this was something for the other guy and not for me. But my wife had a serious illness and two blood transfusions from the Red Cross Blood Bank saved her life. Now I give my blood regularly and I tell others to do the same." The Canadian Red Cross Society National Blood Transfusion Service, which is perhaps the most important of its many services, grew out of the experience gained during World War II, and was established in Canada in 1947. This unique service is responsible for providing whole blood and blood products in Canadian hospitals from coast-to-coast. New surgical techniques create more uses for blood every day, and over One million voluntary donations will be needed to meet this year's hospital requirements. Why don't you become a regular donor. Your help is urgently needed. And remember, blood donors come .from every walk of life. They are men, women and youth of all races and creeds. Their generosity and willingness to share their good health has been the key factor in the success of the Canadian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service over so many years. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of blood donors, thousands of men and women serve as Red Cross volunteers and give freely of their time in the organization and operation of more than 5,000 urban and rural blood donor clinics,every year. March is Red Cross Month in Canada and it is the time to salute this organization which contributes so much to the health and welfare of the people of our nation. The readers remember The Printed Word, an interesting and provocative brochure that comes to our desk each month has a firm knowledge of public relations because, after all, that is its business. With an awareness, based on long years of experience; of the effectiveness of the weekly press as an advertising medium the Printed Word takes advantage of every opportunity to press home the point. In a recent issue the publication under the heading "Advertisers, Please Note" called on the words of a former Seaforth resident as added support on behalf of weekl ies. This is what the Printed Word said: "Taking the time to reach small town weeklies is worth the effort according to a man •who is reported by a daily paper to be one of the best political executive assistants in Canada. He is Clare Westcott, a member of the staff of Ontario's minister of education. "Get to the weeklies and you get to the province. Their readers remember what they have read." — The Huron Expositor, Seaforth. THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgamated 1924 THE HURON NEWS -RECORD Established 1881 Clinton News-Reco rd A member Of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Published evety Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OP RADAR IN CANADA Authorized aS second class mail, PoSt Office Dept., Ottawa, ankrfor payment o postage in cash SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $5.00 per year, U.S.A., $6,50 ERICA. McGUiNNESS -- Editor- J. ditorJ. HOWARD AiTKEN - General Manager Sugar house in eastern Ontario y Bill Smiley Sugar and spice My mind is so scrambled right now that I'll be lucky if I can write three understandable sentences. I've been trying to explain to my daughter, in an hour or s�, such things as Marxism and Communism, why the Russian and Chinese types are differ- ent, where Fidel Castro fits in, why, where and when the na- tion of Israel was created, and why the Jews, notably nonbel- ligerent for about 15 centu- ries, have a chip the size of a brick on their shoulders these days. From there we wandered to Mahatma Ghandi, the Congo, nationalism in Africa, separa- tism in Canada, the Black Pow- er movement in the States, growing anti•semitism among Negroes, and her biology test on the dissection of rats, which takes place tomorrow morning. Golly, it would he nice to have once again a little girl, who asked such simple ques- tions as, "Dad. docs God have to go to the bathroom?" It all began with a discus- sion of the student militants at universities, She is appalled at the violence of the hard core of "pacifists" who, lurking in: the forefront of ;ill the young idealists and the middle-aged ".liberals", ; deliberately resort;,; to violence in their efforts til catch headlines, be martyrs, and destroy an idea which has taken almost 1,000 years to build — The University. Thankfully, we agreed that violence begets violence, and that neither of us wants any part of the whole stupid busi- ness. Admittedly, the universities are sitting clucks. Over the years, they have grown as sleepy, and fat and insolent as an old tom -cat who has been "fixed'. They have almost taken pride in their administrative inefficiency, their moribund traditions, their cosiness with The Establishment. Write a - letter to a university. Three weeks later you will receive a reply, either a form letter or something completely alien to what you asked. And admittedly, students, universally, have always been •among the vanguard of rebels against the system, .political or social. 'That's because they are idealistic. want action, and arc inclined to see things in blacks and Nvhites (or today, blacks and reds). But the fact remains that the universities, over the years, have become the only truly free centres (albeit timid) of sound criticism of society and its ills, in addition --to their normal function of teaching people to think and/or learn a professional skill. And mother fact remains, The universities, on the whole, raider • pressure from ` within `` and without, have made a tre. mendo,uis1 effort: to Louse them- c, selves from their stately torpor and scramble into the twen- tieth' century. Even though it's two-thirds over. In the process, they have leaned over backwards to free themselves of the rigid, puri- tan traditions of even 20 years ago. When I was there, living -in men's residence, we were allowed to bring girls into the place once a year, on a Sunday afternoon, for a heavily chape- roned cocoa and cookie party in the common room, Now, wow! I'm not advocating a return to those days, when university men and women were treated like bright juveniles who were basically sex -fiends and alco- holics. But I am dismayed to see these once -great institutions cowering and cringing under the attacks of malcontented, Marxist wolf -cubs who repre- sent a fraction of student opin- ion. As Mordecai Richter pointed out recently, the real yuk of the whole affair is that while the student activists endorse anything, up to the burning of buildings, they are scared stiff lest they get a police record, which would be a serious detri- ment when they try to get a job in the system they are trying to destroy. The solution? Kick out the hard-nosed boys and girls, for whom democracy is a sham anyway.. Sock it to them with the law when they disturb the peace,,,or _ col n)it „�yancialismd And get back to the business of educating, or teaching• to think, the vast majority who want those things. So now I'm a fascist, and a tool of the imperialistic, press. 1 knew it at heart. Toronto Telegram Syndicate by W. Jene Miller The empty peri The current glee of reactionaries and right-wingers over the supposed "death" of liberalism reminded me of a study made some years ago by the University of Minnesota. Groups of people were first tested on their attitudes toward the traditional positions of conservative and liberal. Whether they subscribe to the ideas favoured by the two camps was the measuring stick. They were not separated by some external name like "democrat" or "republican". They were isolated by the attitude they had toward the issues. After the differences in attitude allowed the people tested to be separated, they were tested for personality traits. What evolved Was a standard of judgment about the kind of person who is conservative and who is liberal, rather than the party, church, business, or economic • classification. Both conservative and liberal attitudes were found in all social groupings. One of the areas tested was "hostility". Whether the subject tended to react from an attitude of hate or of openness Was discerned. There are some people who Will do what they do because they loVe. Others do what they do because they fear or hate, but they do not respond to an appeal of love. Seventy-one per cent of the conservatives were basically hostile, and 18 per cent of the liberals were primarily motivated by hostility. Mistrust of others (political suspiciousness) was also tested. Fifty-five per cent of the conservatives and 14 per cent of the liberals tended to a basic distract Of the motives of those who differed with then). They would assume that they loved their country, homes, mother and apple pie, blit would assume that those Who differed from them were really Serving ulterior motives. In the field of ethnic prejudice, 71 per cent of the conservatives rated, while only 11 per cent of the liberals fitted this pattern. Ethnic prejudice would be not only race, but "nationality" or religious group, or economic class. Intolerance of weakness brought in 54 per cent of the conservatives and only 8 per cent of the liberals. Rigidity included 60 per cent of the conservatives and 18 per cent of the liberals. Inability to handle ambiguity (all things must be black or white, neatly pegged) got 67 per cent response from conservatives and 12 per cent liberals. No "liberalism" is not dead. The conservative mind -set is! Ask Czechoslovakia! From our early files 10 years ago CLINTON NEWS -RECORD February 26, 1959 Mr. , and Mrs. Arthur Saunders, Sarnia, with their three little sons, visited over the weekend with Mrs. Saunders' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cuninghame. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rowse and three children, Dorchester, visited her aunt, Mrs. R. J. Larson, Bayfield, on Sunday. Reeve Walter Forbes, Grant Stirling and Roy Tyndall of Goderich Township left on Monday to attend the Good Roads Convention in Toronto: Mr. and Mrs, Ray Patterson, Hensel', visited relatives in Clinton on Sunday. 15 years ago CLINTON NEWS-RJ:CORD February 25, 1954 Mrs. Melvin Crich and Melvin Jr. spent the weekend with Mt. and Mrs. Ray Gibbings and son, Wayne, at Strathroy. Mr. and Mrs, L. R. Gray, London,- visited the latter's Mother, Mrs. 1-1. A. Lawsoi, and . Sister, Mrs. M. Corrie,and family, Hayfield, on Sunday. Mr, and WS, W. E, Manning, Gail and June, Londesboro, returned home on Sunday after a two-week holiday trip to Florida. They reported it Was quite warm there with the mercury registering 100 degrees in the shade. • 25 years ago THE CLINTON NEWS RECORD /February 24, 1944 Mrs. Ronald McDonald and baby were in Toronto a few days last week, having gone down to meet Mrs. J. E. MacDonald on her arrival from England. Fit. Sgt. Jack McGill, New York and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McGill, of Saskatoon, Sask. spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. J. McGill of town. Jack was with the Boston Bruins for two seasons and was goalie with the New York Rangers when he joined the services. Miss Pearl Elliott of London visited at her home here during the weekend, 40 years ago T1 -IE CLINTON NEWS RECORD 1'ebruary 28, 1929 Mr. S. B. Stothers of Essex was a visitor at the hbrrie of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Gibbings on Monday on his way to the northern part of the county. Miss Lediard of Olken Sound, who is home on furlough from the mission field of Japan, was the weekend guest of MiSs Hattie Please turn to Page 3 OPTOMETRY J. E. LQNGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 .iSAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 627-1240 R, W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GADERICH 624-7661 RONALD L. McDONALD CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 39 St. David St. Goderich 6624-6263 INSURANCE K. W, :CQLQUHQVN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones; 001;e -482-S747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone.4826692 L,AWSQN AND WiSE INSURANCE— RL. ESTATE INVESTMtrNTSEA Clintgn office: 482.9644 11. C. Lawson, Res.; 482. J. T. Wise, Res.: 482.726,97875 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air -Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L, Jervis -- 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY /MIDI) '14(fitTAr FIRE INSURANCE COMPAMy Office Main Street SEAFORTH Insures: • Town Dwellings • All Class of Farm Property • Summer Cottages • Churches, Schools, Halls Extended coverage (wind, smoke, water damage, falling objects etc.) is also available. Agents: Jaynes Keys, RR 1, Seawall; V. J. Lane, RR 5, See - forth; Wm. Leiper, Jr., ' Londesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Harold Squire, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Seaforth. Attend Your Church -This Sunday' ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. GRANT MiLLS, B.A. Organist: MISS LOiS GRASBY, A.R.C.T. SUNDAY, MARCH 2nd 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship EVERYONE WELCOME Wesley -Willis -- Halmesville United Churches REV. A.J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D,, Minister MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, MARCH 2nd WESLEY-WiLLIS 9:45 a.m,;—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "OVERCOMING FEAR" HOLMESVILLE` 1:00 p.m. — Worship Service — All Welcome. 2:00 p.m. — Sunday School. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, MARCH 2nd 1.0:00 a.m.-•-Morning Service — English. 2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service English. 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. Boyer, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, MARCH- 2nd 9:45 a.m. -- Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. -- Morning Worship. PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Victoria Street W. Werner, Pastor SUNDAY, MARCH 2nd 9:45 4.m. Sunday School. 11:00 ri.tri. Worship Service /:30' p.rri. 'Evening Service. MAPLE STREET GOSPEL HALL SUNDAY, MARCH 2nd 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11:0O a.m..-- Sunday Sch. Thursday, 8 pan. Prey meeting and Bible Study.