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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-07-24, Page 2Qlintori News-Record, Thursday, July 24,1969 Editorial comment Hold your breath washed away, leaving a terrain that looks like a small Section of the moon. After sOrne years of this totally uncontrolled destruction the mining companies were forced to build the smelter stacks taller and to, install some of gas removers. By that time, however, the damage had been done and With all the new regulations currently being introduced by the Ontario government we can look forward to a much sweeter atmosphere before long. There's a law against burning refuse, another one that controls the amount of carbon monoxide your car may emit from its tailpipe and now they are going to do something about those big, smelly diesel trucks and buses. By 1971 we will Probably be required to wear some sort of face masks in case any of us have halitosis. Nonetheless we shouldn't be too sarcastic. Many of these air pollution controls were long overdue and a sharpened interest in retaining the cleanliness of our atmosphere and our fresh water is entirely welcome to the general public. It will be less so to those business interests and municipalities which face rather expensive remedial programs. If you have ever, travelled through a paper-company town you will recall the nauseous stench which invariably accompanies that industry. We imagine it will be a long time before that smell is eliminated. One of the worst problems exists in the nickel belt of Northern Ontario around Sudbury, Coniston and Copper Cliff. The smelters in those communities were first put into. operation decades before any thought was given to the rights of the public where fresh air was concerned. As a result the sulphurous fumes from the chimneys completely denuded the landscape for miles around. The green foliage disappeared; the trees died and with no covering growth the topsoil the area still looks like something straight out of science fiction. The present condition of Lake Erie provides another startling example of how man can ruin his pleasant surroundings, Situated as it is in the centre of the continent's busiest industrial area, Lake Erie has been the collecting basin for thousands of types of industrial and human pollutants. Some experts believe that the lake is already doomed; that it will become a stinking bog within a generation or two and that no remedy can• now be successfully applied. Such deterioration is hard to imagine, but it is a well known fact that many beautiful and productive areas of the earth's surface have been completely devastated by man's carelessness. North Africa, for example, was once covered by green forests and verdant fields. Wild goats are believed to have cropped it so thoroughly and steadily that it became the Sahara Desert. The bare and eroded slopes of central and southern Italy once bore abundant crops until the life was worked out of the soil. Our conservation restrictions will be the cause of a great deal of complaint, but they are absolutely necessary.—Wingham Advance-Times. Conservation "Conservation is the planned management and wise use of nature's resources. It aims, in co-operation with science and nature, to increase their quality, quantity and availability through the years. Conservation is not merely a subject for a school curriculum or for attention of conservation officers and departments of government: it is a way of life for all people." — The Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter. Ken can cope Of cattle beasts and urchins Photo by McG PORTER'S HILL CHURCH 1927-1969 by W. Jelie Miller The empty pew J. E. L,ONqSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 4824010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 PETER J. KELLY your Mutual Life Assurance -Company of Canada Representative 201 King St.. Clinton (82:7914 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SEAFORTH • Insuresr ' * 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: 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. I . CHURCH SERVICES Attend Your Church This Sunday NOTE: All Services on Daylight Saving Time ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH (3. 'es, "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" tee` Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR, a, B.O., B.Sc., B.Comm. !'f'f.1 so[fil ' * Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T. JOINT SERVICE IN WESLEY-WILLIS CHURCH 0 , ie DURING JULY 44 4 Sunday School closed until September 7 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, JULY 27th • 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. , Dialogue Sermon: "HORNS AND HALOS IN HUMAN NATURE" Mr. Garnet Harland, BA, DFC., and Dr. A. J. Mowatt Soloist: Mrs. Mary Hearn Ontario Street United Church will join us ALL WELCOME HOLMESVILLE 9:45 a.m. — Morning Worship. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, JULY 27th 10:00 a.m. — Morning Service - English 8.00 P.M. — Evening Service Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back to God Hour" EVERYONE WELCOME poressmosimasx r. ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SUNDAY, JULY 27th The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A,, Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director 9:30 a.m, — Morning Worship. PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Victoria Street W. Werner, Pastor SUNDAY, JULY 27th 9;45 a.m. —,Sunday School. I 1 :PO a.m. ' -- Worship SerVice 7:30 p.m. ,-- Eveininp Service. MAPLE STREET GOSPEL HALL SUNDAY, JULY 27th et45 a.m."- Worship Service. 11:00 a.m.,- Sunday School. 7:15-- 7:45 p,m. -, Sunday Evening --• Hymn Sing 8;00 O.M. -'- Evening Service. Speaker: Fred Munnings fl:b0 p.m. :-.ttieiday Prayer Meeting; Bible Study enema COM K, W. POt„OLII-IOUN INSURANCE & REAL EsTAirg, Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7894 HAL HARTLEY Phone 402-0093 LAWSON 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 Aluminurii Doors and Windows and Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis — 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 THE CLINTON niEW 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 Assoeiation and the Audit bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class Mail registratitm number — 0817 SuascRIPtION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7.50 ERIC A. MeGLIINNES — Editor HOWARD AMON Genera) Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County A Clinton, Ontario Population 8,475 ME HOME OP RADAR IN CANADA SysinesS and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY INSURANCE . The following story appeared last week in the second edition of The 'Conservation Clarion, a publication of the Ontario Dept. of Energy and Resources Management, under the byline of Ken Musclow, "Clarion roving reporter.'! LISTOWEL—That • dreadful bureaucratic title, "Resources Manager," implies that the incumbent manages a variety of resources, when in truth, the incumbent must have a reservoir of very peculiar resources in order to manage. The challenge of a job is never ever really insurmountable. The real hang up is the cultural crunch, because inevitably, we end up dealing with people. Let there be no doubt about this: people are the staff of life. There was an occurrence in a nearby municipality that illustrates the type of crisis that really gets people worked up. A municipal councillor who was also an authority member called me up °oh the phone. "Hey, Dad, are you there?" "Yes, I am." "Well, look, there is a dead cattle beast in the Lower Wingham Pond. It's been there for a couple of months and it's pretty ripe. Can you get rid of it?" "Alive or dead it belongs to somebody. Why don't you have the owner move it?" "I don't know who owns it and if I did, I would have his - - flang in gaol." "Alright if the Authority is to be stuck with this problem, have it moved." Much to the delight of the authority foreman and his crew, the town work force removed the carcass on a hot, humid 'afternoon. The incident was duly reported to the executive and after some discussion, the following tale was unfolded. "You mind so and so over on the seventh of Morris?" "Ile raises beef, don't he?" "Last February during that mild spell, he let his cattle beasts out of the barn into the pasture. Well, nine of them wandered across the river over the ice. He had to fetch them back to the barn, as there was no grass. So he had them in a tight bunch and when they were on the river, they broke through the ice and they all drowned." "He wasn't very bright, was he?" "No, it was - - - near stupid. We hauled them out this spring. Cost him an awful pile of money." Then' there followed a thin discussion on the mechanical properties of ice and snow. At the end of the meeting, the Committee sat around drinking instant coffee and eating crackers, with summer sausage and either cheddar or Limburger cheese. A Huron county member started a discussion with a man from Perth county. "I mind one time a fellow from Perth county once asked me how to make Limburger cheese." "What did you tell him?" "I told him to hang a pail of cream up in a sheep shed and leave it there for two weeks." "Did he?" "No, the - - fool went home and hung a pail of sheep manure up in the cream house." "He couldn't have been from Perth, must have come from Wellington county." "Sounds like Something they would do in Huron County." At this point a government appointee interjected; "If a man told me he liked Limburger cheese, you know, I wouldn't trust him in a with a Wooden spoon." These perturbations are not confined ,to any:pattimiat Age, educational, of;4,:eceup,Aonali group. Some time ago, a young farm lad became a member in good standing of a conservation club. One of the goodies available to the club was a weekend at a conservation school. The group was a mixed bag; like, there were both boys and girls present. In the evening before lights out, they played cards and accomplished this by shoving the pasteboards under the door between the rooms. While most activities were integrated, some were not. Anyway, the poor lad aspired to a more meaningful communication but seemed frustrated. "Look," he said to me, "these hinge pins in the door have been rivetted and can't be removed. These locks, you can't unscrew them. I don't think it's fair; in fact it's almost unreasonable!" "Well, what's the problem?" "There are girls on the other side." "Yes, I know, but what is the problem?" "We are locked out on this side." "I can see that but what is your problem?" "Like Dad, how do we make the scene?" "Have you and your true love thought of going down to the end of the hall and leaning against the panic bar of the fire escape door? It will open and you will have several hundred moonlit acres of Conservation Area all to yourselves." "Oh, gee thanks!" Undoubtedly, there are natural resources to which people should not have access. But that, of course, was an afterthought. "Bar the door, Matilda, and close them shutters! Henry, look to your flintlock! The In- juns are on the war-path!" Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but the Indians of Can- ada, a quarter-million of the natives of this vast continent, have blood in their eye, wheth- er it's a product of politics or bean wine. "And .they don't need toma- hawks, bows and arrows, and rusty muskets this time. They have two weapons which bring them right into the nuclear age. One is the white man's guilt complex, with which they belabor him at every opportu- nity. The other is the mass media, which they are using with a skill that would make a public relations man turn green. There are some facts that have led up to the current confrontation. First of all, the Indians were victims of one of the greatest eon jobs in history when the various treaties were drawn up. Have you ever read one? They sound great, full of poet- ic stuff like," As long as the rivers run to the sea and the grass grows to the sky and the mountains do not fall down ... etc., etc." Then comes the crunch, in the small print. As long as the Indian stays on his reserve, and out of the white man's hair (especially the scalp), he and his children and his children's children shall re- ceive an annual bounty from the Great White Queen across the Big Water. For a whole Indian band, it 75 years ago The Clinton New Era July 21, 1894 Master Ernest Cooper, son of Mr. W. Cooper, leaves for Toronto today where he takes a situation in the McLean Publishing House. Mr. A. Ewing Mid daughter have gone on a visit to the neighbouring republic, they go by boat to Detroit and then take in several of the eastern cities; they expect to he gone some. time. Dr. Horsey, who has been away on a trip through Egypt and elsewhere, Was. in town calling on his old friends yesterday; he says that in all hit crown. Each plan was tried with great enthusiasm. One vulture disguised himself like an eagle and just built a nest like theirs. It almost worked, but the Flying Bird Investigators were too smart. They spotted the vulture and chased him away. Another vulture suggested distrust. The vultures began to slip up at night and whisper to the birds that their leaders were really in sympathy with the vultures. They called them vul-symps. They tried to weaken the unity of the eagles. But their lies got so ridiculous that no one believed the vultures, even when they occasionally told the truth. Another vulture suggested might be 1,000 pounds ster- ling, Not cash annually, but only the interest thereon. Fig- ure out sometime what the in- terest is on 7,000 pounds ster- ling in 1969. Yes, inflation has caught up with the Indian, too. Treaty Day, according to old-timers, used to be a real 'fair at the reserves. Each In- dian family received its share of the loot and avaricious mer- chants gathered from miles around to separate the Indian and his treaty money as quick- ly as possible. Today, he might be able to buy a few bottles of wine. Second, the Indian culture, or what's left of it, is quite dissimilar to that of the White man's. It is based on commu- nal, rather than cut-throat soci- ety. The romantic refers back to the "noble red man". The pragmatist calls him "a shift- legs bum." Neither is anywhere near the truth. lie is a human being. He's neither red nor any more noble than the rest of us. Third, the paradox exists that the Indian has special privileges (medical care, fre( education, no taxes on the re- serve; etc.) and yet he is un- derprivileged (inferior housing and education, plus plain old discrimination, social and eco- nomic.) And now, the Federal goy- eminent, with a cold logic that seems to seep down from Mr, Trudeau, says, "Put up or shut up. If you aren't happy about the way we run things, do it yourself." This, after years of treating reserves with all the journeyings, he found no better place than Ontario. 5.5 years ago July 23,, 1914 Morrish Clothing Company advertises boys' overalls at half-price, regularly 50 cents, for' 25 cents. Mr. George ltoberton attended the annual outing of the London Life at Niagara-on-the-Lake a Week ago and reports having an excellent time. Mr. and Mrs. Jervis and Miss Lamm were picnicking at Bay field last week. Miss McLaughlin, nurse, of London is the guest of Miss Annis liartliff, On Tuesday working on the young birds. They organized activities and hunting parties. All the time they kept telling the eagles that their leaders were not worth protecting. But the young birds saw the life of the vultures and wanted no part of it. Eventually a winning plan was devised. A vulture would agree with whatever was good for the eagles. The eagles were so afraid of being accused Of sympathizing with vultures that they opposed whatever the vultures favored. Eventually, vultures favored eating fresh meat, and the eagles all died from eating canon. Fear of agreement is more cowardly than fear of a fight. largesse and benevolence usually associated with an or- phanage. The Federal government proposes to dump the Indian problem on the provincial gov- ernments and the Indians themselves, all in the course of five years, then fold its tent and steal off into the night. The provincial governments want the Indian problem like they want the Black Plague. So do the Indians. For the latter, the Canadian government's new policy is a smoke-screen to cover failure, For the young Indians, dissolu- tion of the reserves is like burning your boats behind you. For the middle-aged and elder- ly, it is terrifying. Indian leader Wilmer Nadji- won of Cape Croker put it succintly, if over-simply, when he said the new legislation Would allow an Indian to sell his property for two bottles of wine. That doesn't solve a problem. It creates one. The Indians don't want as- similation, They want help to get on their feet and some redress for 200 years of being considered second-class Cana. dians. Some reserves are worthless, mere slum areas. Some are ex- tremely valuable as potential resort areas. How does every- body get a fair share if these lands are handed back to the Indians themselves, for dispos- al as they see fit? You're not going to settle that one in five years, Pierre Elliott. morning Mt. John Gibbings and Miss Lucile Grant left for LaPier Mich. to visit relatives. 40 "years ago July 25, 1925 Dr. Manley Shipley and little daughter, Mary, who had spent a fortnight visiting the former's Mother, Mrs, George Shipley, left Friday for their horde at Kirkland Lake, Miss Florence Rorke, Dees Durnin, and Ruth Ball have gone to Muskoka to Spend Soma Weeks, Mr. and Mrs, Ilea Jervis and children of Toronto are visiting with the lady's parents, Mr. and Mrs, It, J. Gibbings. Please turn to page 8 Once upon a time a group of vultures looked up to the cliffs and envied the mighty eagles. They decided that they would like to live on the cliffs. They wanted to take over the dwellings of the eagles. Naturally, the eagles refused to move out. They stopped the vultures from nesting. They flew so much faster and higher that they kept the vultures from catching the fresh game. They were so strong that the vultures could not throw them out by force. Finally, the vultures offered to make any bird their king who could devise a way to beat the eagles. Many of the smartest and strongest' sought to win the , Bill Sugar and spice F rom our early files