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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-04-17, Page 2c. 2 .Clinton News -Record, Thursday, April 17, 190 Edtor��pl cgmment deep the the ball rolling Clinton's industrial committee can be justly • .proud this week of its. accomplishment in selling the former Canada. Packers plant and bringing to town the promise of jobs, neW business and added tax revenue, The furniture manufacturer Which is moving here is admittedly a small concern, It will change nothing overnight, There will be no miraculous sprouting of new factories or sudden creation of hundreds of new jobs — and these may not necessarily be desirable. A year ago this week a headline in The News—Record said "Committee sets sights on industry and housing -- Industry man foresees five years hard work." The story was about the industrial committee's annual banquet at which an official of the Ontario Dept. of Economics and Development told the` town that a big, 400 -employee industry would put it in debt for years to come. What Clinton needed, he said, was a smaller company which' would stimulate the economy. The search for industry could take as long as five years, he warned. The committee's own "industry" is bringing the first company here in just a year and Fabian's plans offer a good potential and one in which there can be reasonable confidence. There will soon be jobs for a dozen or two dozen people, we are told, and the five acres of land will be put back on the tax rolls. The plant may open a bigger market for local lumber and later may attract other companies whose products will • use Fabian -built components, it certainly will provide an immediate, if modest, stimulus to the local economy. We think the community owes thanks to Clarence Denomme, a town councillor and industrial committee chairman, along with all the committee members: Councillors Ted McCullough and Harold Lobb, Jack Hunt, Paul Kerrigan and .Red Garon. And Councillor Denomme says: "lf there's .any .credit to go to anyone, it should be shared by members of the present town council and the committee because it was just through everyone's patience, persistence and cooperation that we managed to 9et this industry here." Mr. Denomme said to the Fabian representatives . Monday, "1 am sure everyone in Clinton welcomes you with open arms, We will do all we can to make your stay in Clinton a profitable one for you and the Town of Clinton as well" Clinton can't sit back now, though, and wait for this company to grow. It must continue to seek other industries and make the community an attractive and progressive one able to accomodate new workers and their families. The provincial official stressed last year that community climate or attitude is one of the most important things in attracting and keeping industry today. "Industry," he said, "wants its people to live in an area where they will be happy and thus productive. Every citizen of Clinton must be a salesman for his community." "There is no definition of communtiy climate. It is good schools, streets, recreation facilities, What his words mean today is that the industrial committee has taken only the first step. The planning board may be the agency most involved in the second. Now more than ever there will be need for better land use planning and orderly growth patterns. Sanitary sewers and sewage treatment, streetlighting, storm drains — all the utilities needed for residential development take on increased importance. The industrial committee has shown how to take a postive outlook and determination and produce results. We hope the town can use the same approach on other problems. Blood Be a precious gift If you have ever visited a hospital room where a friend was receiving a blood :transfusion, you . probably came away"' -remarking casually on the strides accomplished by medical men in recent` years. You were likely impressed — slightly and briefly — but before too long, forgot all about it as the problems of your own little world closed around you. Someday though, you may sit by a bedside and watch for hours on end while a steady red drip drops from a plastic bottle to someone very near and dear to. you. You can do an awful lot of thinking in that time. Someone you never saw and will never meet donated that blood that stands between life and death for someone you love, and you'll want to go out and kiss the ground beneath his or her feet. But all you can do is sit there quietly, praying that someday you can repay the debt. If you have never had the experience, nothing said or Written can let you know how it feels. No imaginings come near the reality — the thought that if other people ignored appeals' for blood with' the .,blithe'ness.'you had, this'person,°b\ "whose: 'bed you`11Ovv- wart could have died." °""" The Red Cross will hold a blood donor clinic at Central Huron Secondary School in .Clinton on Monday. Townspeople are asked to donate from 7 to 9 p.m. More than 900,000 units of blood are required for transfusion therapy in Canadian hospitals each year. To maintain an adequate supply of whole blood products, an average of one unit must be collected every 15 seconds of " every working day. Unlike most other countries, where the cost of blood can be a crippling addition to hospital bills, it is given free to any patient in any hospital in Canada, because of volunteer clinics, like this one. Blood cannot be manufactured. It must come from people. It is your chance to give someone else another go at life. Space and theologians Man's exploration of space must inevitably become a concern not only of governments, scientists and the military but also of` theologians, The latter have past mistakes to remember and avoid. A violent theological reaction followed the sixteenth century discovery that the motions and sizes of earth and the so-called heavenly bodies were quite different from what had long been supposed. Roman Christian theologians sentenced Giordano Burnt) to the stake and Galileo to life imprisonment. Protestant leaders called Copernicus a fool and accused him of setting his authority above that of the Holy Spirit. Eventual acceptance of the creation theories of Copernicus, Galileo and Bruno as substantially correct struck theology a blow from which it cannot truly be said ever to have quite recovered. Theologians must exercise greater wisdom to avoid a similar blow after earthmen land on other planets and perhaps find intelligent life there. It may not be easy for theology to fit new knowledge from other planets into the framework of terrestial religious thought. Can theological systems based on teachings of Confucius, Gautama, Jesus, Mohammed, _Moses and Zoroaster be integrated with other ideas we bring back from travel to the stars? The basic assumption of human theology is the existence in the universe of powers greater than man's. if real, such powers must be manifest elsewhere in the Cosmos but grievous shocks could come in discovery of how they are interpreted in environments totally unlike that of earth. THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS -RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News -Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau Of' Circulation (ABC) second class Mail registration number - 0817 SUeSCRIJ TIot RATES (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year U.S.A., $7,50 ERIC A. McGIJlNN5SS .. REditor J. HOWAR6 AITKEN` General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, 6ritariO Population 3,475 7'l7/s" JIoMS Or? RADAR IN CANADA by MAiTLAND RIVER W. Jene Miller The e AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ASTRONAUTS: Word continues to come our way that you received some complaints about reading scripture on your magnificent moon flight. I, for one, am very grateful to you. Your selection of verses was excellent, and in perfect keeping with the Spirit which sent the first message across space: "What bath God wrought" — another passage of scripture. The Creator does not need the approbation of men, but he can and does use it for the transformation of human society into a redemptive process. He is not, limited by the "ac knoivle'dgetnent?of 'humanity, but he can and does use it to bring men before that eternal by Bill Smiley Sugar and spice ty pew judgment which compels them to compassion, respect and reconciliation. He is not enhanced by the humility of mortals, but he can and does use that humility before truth to bring forth responsible and creative use of history, freedom and nature which blesses mankind. You who travel the vastness of space have used well the laws of"life which man obeys (but does not establish). Your obedience to finitude has been a great service to our nation's spirit, as well as its physical properties. • Your confidence does not need our approval, -but it deserves the admiration of all of us whom you have served by. -1 being true. You did not created the freedom, power, and opportunity for that courageous Business and Professional directory »>.. »»»>.>..» ».»»...» OPTOMETRY trip, but you used them well as a tribute to the nation which expressed them, the hope which impelled them, and the faith which sustains them. Other men, dedicated to other understandings of the value of human life, can use the laws of nature to invade outer space, but you have testified to the nobility of your purpose by calling your country remembrance that it is a nation "Under God." Faith always demands. courage, whether for a trip to the moon, or for a life in the spirit of the Living God. And I can assure you that atheists do not get nearly .'so angry at • hearing scripture as some church mernbers get ' at"' having to face uptdit'sden'taitils'." t' May the God who created all life bless yours. Amen. For years, the mother-in-law has been the butt of jokes with a touch of bitterness in them, They have been pictured as domineering, interfering wom- en, ruining the grandchildren, breaking up marriages. They have been caricatured as un- welcome visitors who criticized, made trouble and generally were a great big pain in the arm. And often with good rea- son. I've never been able to write sarcastically about my mother- in-law.. In the first place, she'd have had my hide for a door -neat. In the second, she was one of the sweetest and most gentle persons I have ever known. Now, don't get ane wrong,. She was no saint. She was no little, old white-haired lady handing out cookies and be- nevolency all over the place. Far from it. She was born and raised in County Antrim, Ireland, and she had most of the traits' of that peculiar race. Equally quick to tears and laughter. Witty and' stubborn. Quick tongue and quick tem- per, Warm and fiercely loyal to her own and with a wonderful capacity for giving love, Her children loved her and her grandehildren adored her and her husband worshipped her, Like so many grannies, she had spanked her own children when they needed it, but grew furious and tearful when they spanked theirs. She came out to Canada as a young Wonsan, beautiful of face and figure, with long, black curly hair, a haughty, fine -boned Irish look and a waren and lively spirit, She sang like an angel. She was thrown into a Sober puritan Community and mar - tied a shy young farmer who loved her deeply for 46 years and still does. Perhaps she was not cut out to be a farm wife. But she pulled her weight._ She Worked and how she worked! Milk- ing, gardening, serubbing clothes and floors by hand. She was indefatigable in her pur- suit of the demon dirt, and her hoose was always spotless. But it was never sterile, as sdme spie-and.span houses can he. It was never a house, but n home,- filled with the warmth, awl levo and life that only, an sign and the mortgages, and those rending decisions about whether the last 56 Cents avaitable was going for a rntisie lesson or dress material for the girls or feed for the hens. And she didn't go through it patiently and submissively. She was too Irish. She complained like hell. But she didn't whine, Her complaints and common sense (this is one thing that is seldom attributed to the Irish, and should be) produced re- sults, Despite her fire, she hacl a wonderful way of coming to terms with the situation, whether it was. emotional or material or spiritual. She bore three handsome children. She was pregnant, and terribly sick with one of them, when she got word that her young husband had lost an arni in -a threshing machine. She learned that one of her - daughters was going to marry a broken-down fighter pilot, with a total income of $60 a month, and no prospects. Most mothers would have fought unusual person can provide. There was singing and laugh- ter and chatter and a complete lack of tension. It wasn't roses all the way. She went through the depres- like a tigress to avert, or at least postpone the marriage. She gave encouragement, though her heart must have been sore, and it was then that I fell in love with her. My instinct was right. When my wife attacked me, she at- tacked my wife. When I wrote a bum column, she told me. When there was sicknest or trouble, she was right there, with ancient charms and cures that worked. She was not a pious woman, thank Gad. She was a virtuous woman, and a real Christian. She fed tramps, gave strength when it was needed, and love -without stint. Dying, she didn't whimper to God. Most of her thoughts and words were about those she loved. She didn't want to leave, and fought to the Iast breath, Life is going to be different without Granny, but I have a feeling she won't be far away. She couldn't stand it. She'll be around as long as those who loved her are. rom our early files 75 years ago Clinton New Era April 20, 1894 People talked about: Queen Victoria has been photographed 634 times but no artist has ever had the hardihood to tell her to try to look pleasant — Chicago Tribune, Edison . is reported as expressing the opinion that "Sleep was waste of time." There is not much time wasted by the men who Work on morning newspapers. Queen Anne was fond of liquor, particularly of brandy, and Was always put in a fury whenever she learned that her subjects called her "Brandy `an" 55 years ago Thursday April 16, 1014 Mr. John Can telon, of Toronto, was a visitor over Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cantelort. Mr, and Mrs. Frank Chowen of Detroit, Were Easter visitors With the former's father Mr. J, G. Chowen. J. E, LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFQRTH OFFICE 527-4240 R, W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 RONALD L, McDONALD CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 39 St. David St. Goderich 524-6253 INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & HEAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482.9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 L AWSQN AND WiSE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 H, C. Lawson, Res.: 482-9787 J. T. Wise, Res.: 482-7265 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 Offices Main Street SEAFORTH Insures: *• Town Dwellings * An Class of Farm Property * Summer cottages * Churches, Schools, Halls Extended coverage (wind smoke, water damage, fallin: objects etc.) is also available. Agents: James Keys, RR 1, Seaforth; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Seaforth; Wm. Leiper, Jr., Londesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Harold Squire, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Seaforth. U 40 years ago The Clinton News Record Thursday April 18, 1929 Miss Evelyn McCartney of Detroit, Mich., daughter of Mrs. T. McCartney of town is spending the month of April in • Southern California visiting at the home of her uncle, Mr. H. W. Tebbutt in Redlands and other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Tuck of Ottawa who Were on a motor trip visited the Andrews families in town for a couple of days this Week. 25 years ago April 13, 1944 Miss Wilma Radford of London spent the Easter weekend at her home in town. Tel. Tom Steep of H.M.C.S. Digby, who has Seen quite a bit of foreign countries Since his enlisttnent w, in the Navy, is spending leave at his home in town. Mr. and Mrs. Randall. Pepper And Carol Ann M Warren Spent the weekend with Mr, aiid Mrs. 11 L. Stephenson. Please turn to Page. 3 ' -Attends Yc�u..r, -Chrc tis This Sunday ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A. Organist: MISS LOiS GRASBY, A.R.C.T. SUNDAY, APRIL 20th 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. EVERYONE WELCOMlr 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, APRIL 20th SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY SERVICES Guest Speaker: HERBERT A. MOWAT Distinguished Lecturer, Author and Preacher 11:00 a.m. — "THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE STRUCTURE OF WORLD PEACE" 7:30 p.m. — "THE CHRISTIAN SIGNIFICANCE OF PLACES iN ISRAEL" Special music included—Solo by Mary Hearn, Trio from Mitchell Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. HOLiVMESViLLE Worship Service — 1:00 p.m. Sunday School — 2:00 p.m. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, APRIL 20th 1.0:00 a.m. --Morning Service - Engiith. 2:30 p.m. Afternoon Service. Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back to God Hour" EVERYONE WELCOME — ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN C1 -1(01 -CH. The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, APRIL 20th 9:45 a.m. -- Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship. PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Victoria Street, W. Werner, Pastor SUNDAY, APRIL 20th 9:45 a,hi. — Sunday Schools 111:00 a.m. Worship Service. 7:36 p.m. - Evening Service. ' MAPLE STREET G6SPEi HALL {' SUNDAY; APRIL 20th '9:45, a.m. — Worship Service. i1:oo a.m. --• Sunday School. $tb0 pail. Evening Service. Speaker; Abner Frey,' Walienstein 8 OQ pin, Tuesday Prayer- Meeting; rayerMeeting; Bible Study.