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Still on the job after sunrise, firefighter hoses down hot spots in
rubble of Clinton Feed Mill. The fireman stands on a section of
crumbled wall, with charred timbers behind him. —Staff Photo.
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Getting started on "overhaul" work, firemen search for pockets of fire at site
and try to knock down loose concrete blocks. —Staff Photo.
General scene at height of Clinton Feed Mill fire in the predawn hours Tuesday. Story on Page I.
of Clinton Feed Mill
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fire extinguisher, (4) distress signal kit, (6) lantern, (7) bilge pup, (8) first aid kit, (9)air horn, (10)
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THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated
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ERIC A. MeGUINNESS- a- editor
J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager
Cfintorr, Ontario
Population 3,4/5
rim: HOW
OF RADAR
IN CANADA
by W. Jene Milier
The empty, pew
Politics does, indeed, make
strange bedfellows.
Sometimes it even pits a man
against his own declared
convictions. One of the current
illustration& of this is the
struggle to legalize abortions.
Forces fighting to establish
more lenient laws for the right
of a mother, to decide whether
her child shall live are often the
very same voices which are
raised in the effort to declare
that "capital punishment" is
wrong. On the one hand they
want the law to take a life and
on the other hand they want the
law denied the right to take a
human life.
Part of the argument over
abortion rests upon the point at
which a fetus is considered a
separate human being, entitled,
by Bill Smiley
to the protection of laws. But
the point at which the unborn
child is entitled to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness
would have to come after the
time when that life is not a
separate entity frorn its mother.
There is a point in embryological
development after which a child
may be prematurely born, or be
taken, and live. But, actually, to
abandon a child, after it is born,
is a crime just because society
recognizes that its dependency
on its parents extends for many
years beyond birth. •
The degree of dependency is
a claim against the parents which
the law enforces. But the degree
of greatest dependency is the
time when it may most easily be
killed: This is the time of •the
.ifirst few weeks of growth after
.aenception. =
In the argument against
capital punishment, the
plaintiffs declare that the state
has no moral right to deny a
person his life. In the argument
in favor of abortion, the
plaintiffs declare that the
woman should decide whether
she wants to bear a child.
Individuals are given a right
which is denied to the power of
the state.
, The discussions which centre
upon the cases wherein a
mother's life might be
endangered, are already covered
by laws. But there are no clear
distinctions as to the rights of
the unborn.
-••• Is it more moral to attach
killing to ,one end of life than to
4fiothert
Sugar and spice
With the income tax return
safely off at the usual eight
minutes before midnight on
the last day, and my wife, who
figured out mine, nearing nor-
mal a couple of weeks later,
think 1 have cooled out enough
to pay a deep-felt, and deeply -
deserved, tribute.
Oh, not to her. As I, told her,
• from a safe distance, "Any
dummy can do that." 1 didn't
really mean it. It was only in
retaliation for her applying to
me the epithet "stupid." twelve
times during one Sunday after-
noon when I was helping her.
We got a different total on
every column of figures.
Patiently, I pointed out to
her that women didn't have
the panache to deal with in-
come tax forms. They want
everything to come out even,
jest as they do when wall -pap-
ering. Alen would much rather
grin fiendishly and say, "Let's
see what the computer can do..
with that."
Finally, in disgust 1 left it
to her, She's so ridiculously
honest that I probably won't
even . be fined this year, as is
the custom. But that takes n
lot of the fun and excitement
out of it. There's no joy in
doing yoUr income tax form
unless you think you've gotten
away with something.
No, the tribute I want to pay
is to a modern writer. He's
anonymous, or I'd trumpet his
name from the housetops. He's
the chap who produces that
annual best-seller called Ti
General Tax Guide. Don't let
the title fool you. That's just a
front for one of the most baf-
fling mystery stories of the
year.
It's wildly unfair that his
publishers, a stodgy old firm
called Department of National
Revenue. with headquarters in
Taxation, Canada, do not give
this author the glqry and pub-
licity which is his due.
Not since, Nicolo Machiavel-
li wrote The Prince, back in
the sixteenth century, has such
a brilliantly, diabolically clever
piece of prose been produced.
And this guy does it every
year.
The 1968 edition of this
work ran to only thirty pages,
but it was a little masterpiece,
It had the usual combination
of complication, suspense, mys-
tery, irony and horror. While it
smacks of :NInehiavelli there
are undertones of Edgar Allen
Poe.
Mind you, it's not for the
average, reader, who likes a
plot with beginning, middle
and end, This is for the more
sophisticated reader, who likes
jumping backwards, forwards
and sideways in an effort to
keep up with the subtle, inVoL
lutcd mind of the writer.
Nor is it a thrilling ericoun.
tet fey the fellow working for
a salary, paid by cheque, with
all deductions at source. But
for the citizen who has more
than one source of ineome, the
From our early files
75 years ago
The Clinton New Era
May 18, 1894
Messrs, James Fait Sr. and I).
A. Porrester talk of personally
taking their cattle to the old
country niarket,
Mr. W. J. Paisley was offered
$400 for his driving mare on
Tuesday at Wingharn; this is a
big price for a thtee-year-old,
but it is an exceptionally fine
mate,
The Grank Trunk is preparing
for the etettiOtt of a nevi?' bridge
Oast of Stapleten.
Persons who tether their cows
on the streets and leave them are
violating the by-law; if they
watth them also it is alright.
55 years ago
May 14, 1914
Mr. Dean Courtice finished
his fourth year at the S,P.S.
Toronto and took honer
standing. Last year he won a
scholarship arid has dont credit
to his various teachers, both at
the C.C.1. where he too k hOnors
and at the University, 'He will
spend a Short time at the
parental hbnie before taking a
position.
Mr. A. J. Holloway made a
business trip to Buffalo last
week to make arrangements with
the Lehigh Coal Co, as he will
handle that Oat this summer.
C. 3. Wallis and Mr. Ernest
Rbzell were in Brussels last
Mondhy On a business trip. They
went hi the former's eai.
book's combination of back -
tracing, leap -frogging, equivo-
cation and gobbledegook are
sheer delight.
My wife enjoys this sort of
thing, In faet, her favourite
indoor sport is reading aloud
to me excerpts which prove
that I am going to wind up in
the. penitentiary for life. if I
ignore Item 36 of this gem,
which the author, with typical
irony, calls a Guide.
With a guide like this, who
needs a compass. It's all there,
perfectly clear. For instance,
she was delighted to find that,
because we live in one of the
ten provinces of Canada, we
get something: an "Abatement
for Provincial Taxes." This can
amount to 28 percent. Just
like money in the bank. Pretty
darn decent of the federal goy-.
ernment. It is actually called a
"reduction."
Of course, you don't get this
redaction if you live in the
Yukon. You have to pay tht
whole shot. Pretty darn mean
of the federal goverament.
And, of course, if you do live
in one of the provinces, your
"reduction" is added back
somewhere, and, you pay the
whole shot, anyway, But this is
just one of the charming, illog-
ical little peccadilloes that
make this book a "must" for
anyone.
Anyone, that is, who is being
skinned alive by a trapper who
smiles and smiles while your
pelt is being removed.
The Clinton Kiltie Band was
out on Saturday and gave several
selections at the Molson's Bank
corner and then marched down
to St. Joseph's Church where
Artist Fink took their picture
for advertising Rurposes.
40 years ago
The Clinton News -Record
May 16, 1929
Mrs. JOhn E. Pepper and Miss
Vera visited Mr. and Mrs, Lorne
Pepper at Niagara Falls over the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs C W. Morris and
Miss lVfargaret, Orand Valley,
spent Sunday as guests at the
home of Mrs. Morrisbrother,
Dr. McIn tyre.
Mt. Roy Cook student of the
Toronto Bible College, whO
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