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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-07-31, Page 2161.40 kAt4c-e- riPri,a6.‘..tszpst.o. No0 povEP-rY $00." PROTEsr sr,_PArt• THE CLINTON" NEW ERA Established 1865 0 Amalgamated 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 Clinton News-Record An member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Otario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit, Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number y 0617 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, S6,b0 per year; L1.541, $1.50 ERIC A. McGUINNESS- editor J. HOWARb AITKEN General Manaer • Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 5,475' VIP HOME OP RADAR 11V CANAIM darkness of the night. In less than five minutes, the pilot had come from flying directly into the sun into total darkness at ground level. His eyes could simply not adjust to the change in. lighting, and he was unable to read the instruments on the cabin panel. The plane had undershot the landing strip. - -The first airplane flew-at 25 miles per hour. Its total flight waS,. .shorter,l,thart,„ 4-14: i Stance required to land today's giants of the air. A jet plane hurtles earthward at 5,000 feet per minute. In the five seconds before . the thrust starts to become effective, the jet falls 416 feet without power to correct its descent. In the time it takes for a traffic light to change on the ground, a modern jet can fly forty miles or more. Rocket travel will be ten times as fast, No wonder the plane had undershot the landing strip. In these times of incredibly rapid change, there is no time to wait for things to happen before knowing what to do. It is not enough to know the Now. Even an automobile travelling at a mile per minute must be able to anticipate- rational = = and predictable • patterns of traffic . I*Or a mile' ahead. “N.A.S.A!.--, reported that the Apollo 8 craft had only one degree either way to miss their exact re-entry angle. (A degree is 1/360th of a circle.) To miss was either to be incinerated by too fast descent, or bounced off into oblivion. That's why regular worship and study are so essential. If you undershoot, you can't do it over. swear it never happened, we'd had a long and involved tele- phone talk setting the time and the day. No way out, without being a stinker. So I tottered off sail- ing. A peculiar sport. It takes an hour to get ready. This is hard on a man who is dying on his feet. Then you float around for a couple of hours while the skipper desperately tries to catch a breeze no bigger than a belch. Then, suddenly, there's what we old sailors call a spanking breeze, and the skipper is hol- lering at you to "cleat your jib" and "luff your lee" and all sorts of nasty things, and the dam' boat• is hurtling along with one side almost under wa- ter and your beer has tumbled into the bilge and you are. won- dering whether you Can still swim two miles. Back home, safe, late and burned to a cinder. Nodding over a late dinner and the 11 p.m. news. Door-bell rings Cheery young voice, "Anybody home?" And you go downstairs and there's another old friend, petite Jeanne Sauve, and she's brought you a beautiful rase from her own garden. And yes, she'll have a gin and a look at the new bathroom and a two, hour talk with Suse. There was only one way out, and I took it I plunged off in the ear next morning for Uxbr- idge and the Ontario Weekly Editors' annual golf tourna- ment. Host Pete, Hvidstert, a Nor, weglan who didn't know enough to go home after the war, But by the acme of acu- men managed to marry off both his kids within two weeks. Gene Macdonald, the man from Glengarry, who won the prize for the longest drive of the day— he'd driven 280 miles to get there. He also insisted I buy him a .double every time I had a double bo- gey. A stiff proposition for both of us. Johnny lames of Bowman. ville with two strapping sons who hit a golf ball a quarter of a mile. Weeklies' dean, Wer- den Leavens of Bolton, who played four holes. counting the 19th. Charlie Nolan of Stouff- vile, game as always, getting through nine holes despite the pain. thullient Harry Stemp, who ran the show, which is rather like trying to get 40 rhinocerus to sit up at table and put on their napkins. Jim Dills of Acton-Milton, genial and easy-going as always. And a dozen others. That's why it was equally pleasant to meet new friends. Dave Scott of Fort Erie, the only man I've ever seen whiff four times straight while trying to strike a golf ball. And "Ting", the amiable troll wile cartoons brilliantly, and the only man alive who can skate lit his bare feet on a Coffee table, With coasters as skates, And a dozen others. There's nothing like friends, old or new, If you want to beat Gabriel's tramper and die a couple of decades before your time 2 clinton..NewS7fiecord,, Thursday, July 31, 1,969 A. WO .see it You mean, everbody suffe.rs? In a small town where shopkeepers and their customers are often neighbors, buyers need not beware with the vigilance Of city-dwellers and problems are more easily remedied, but modern man's machines give us all enough trouble to appreciate the following jeremiad from the Detroit Free Press editorial column: "The recent public outcry about' the delays and high cost of obtaining service from stores, dealers and technicians is a revelation to a lot of people who thought they were the only ones in distress. "If a fellow were to sit down and list the problems that he knows of personally it comes out to a roster of such length and frustration that Job appears to have had little to complain about, really. At least he didn't have to cope with a faulty light switch. "For starters there is the washing machine which had a heating element jiggle loose during moving. The estimate " ,Ally! “-.1 010 CNI' 1.1.N. 01, :Mil, ate a;a.lit, and thy Ty quit ,jia.t ac ynn n.nr9 landing on the moon . . ." No room We were somewhat surprised by the statements of a Lucan cleric, Rev. R. A. Carson who spoke to Orange Order members and friends Saturday in Myth. Rev. Carson indicated his displeasure with Canadian bilingualism by saying he felt English protestant tradition is being thrown out by Quebec-educated, federal government ministers. He told his audience Saturday's Orange walk was a demonstration of protest. He even talked about the "supremacy" of the English language and English traditions. We are inclined to agree with editorial comment contained in Tuesday's London Free Press which read: "In this country, there is room for the languages and the customs of all peoples. There is no room for the "supremacy" of any. "No anniversary not even "King With life as Prophetic voices are again sounding in the church and if we are hearing some of them right, drastic changes are in store for the familiar church of our society. Complacent in their acceptance by the rank and file of the community our churches have carried on their business as before. But it seems obviously clear that the churches' present role is in for great change. Former patterns of life are not alwayS acceptable today, and like other institutions they must adapt themselves to the needs of the age. It is predicted that people both inside and outside the church will, in increasing numbers, turn away from the idea of personal salvation to a primary concern with social action. So speaks Roland W. Topp of the Westminster Press. Whereas for repairing it is $100. It's just sitting there. A new machine has been installed beside it. "There's a lawn mower ‘ivith defective spring starter in the garage. The repairman says it was a burn idea in the first place. "The toaster only toasts one side. Out it's better than having it in the shop, where it spent two months the last time, "The TV set has been in the shop three times since it was purchased 10 months ago. The on-off switch doesn't work, Fortunately it is stuck on "on" so it can be operated by sticking in the plug and pulling it out. "Even then the tubes don't always light. There's a bad connection in the filament circuit. So far, a sharp rap on the left side has remedied the trouble temporarily. "The dryer in the laundromat sucks up dimes enthusiastically. But often after a half hour of churning around the clothes still come out wet. The gas doesn't always go on, "The Mighty Mustang came out of the repair shop with the left front wheel grievously out of alignment, Farewell tire. "The living room needs a new screen frame and all. Cost is $45. It will continue to need a new screen. "The new bed purchased on a charge account took so long in coming that the bill arrived before the bed. "The blender needed new blades. They cost $7.21 for a $25 gadget. "The world is full of toilets which require deft handle-jiggling before the tanks starts filling or else gush out all over the place when used. "Our sinks are being caked with residues from dripping faucets. Windows will not open. Windows will not close. Plaster is falling. The air conditioner is making odd noises. The hi-fi rumbles. "The brave new world is falling apart. "Help." for supremacy Billy's ride -can it is used to create adversaries and inflame passions over an event of 279 years ago. "Such demonstrations will undoubtedly continue in Canada because we are a nation that believes all people would be allowed to gather freely and speak their minds. "But whether they are staged by Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Arabs, Hindus or any other religious group, "hate" demonstrations - and make no mistake, that is what they are - hold no constructive value." "In recent years there have been many indications they are slowly dying out in Canada. As the new generations grow more enlightened, such hates disappear forever."-Exeter Times-Advocate, July 17. well as words from the Chicago Divinity School, Martin E. Marty says that there will be a continuing quest by individuals for religious meaning in life. But the challenge to the churches to become actively engaged in social programs is perhaps best impressed upon us by our own Canadian Cardinal Paul Emile Leger, who left his Montreal diocese less than two years ago to live and work among African lepers. Just last week Cardinal Leger stated that he feared the current renewal in the Roman Catholic Church will be "merely intellectual" unless Christians live their words. He succinctly states the challenge to the churches today in the words, "we must learn to present our message with simplicity - not only with words but with our life."-lElmira Signet It was very late in the afternoon, in Tokyo, Japan. The giant Boeing 727 was partying over 100 people to the Japanese Islands. The pilot contacted Tokyo airport and received permission to land. The next thing heard from that plane vas the thundering explosion of it's crash into the ground. What had happened? Was the plane „faulty? Who' was Topflight iii'V'eStIgitt.W.S:':,'Syvartriedf‘ over the the remains. And 100:people were dead. The plane had undershot a landing strip. Little by little the facts were pieced together. The plane was not faulty. No human error was really to blame. The plane had been flying in bright sunlight at 30,000 feet. But, the airport had long been swathed in the It's nice to make a new friend, but most' members of our species, the naked ape, agree that old friends are the best friends. Last week, I had the best of these two situations, and I am not only delighted but aston- ished to be alive to report it. The only,, thing that doesn't seem to be functioning is my 'liver. Must be in better shape than I thought. It began with a three-day visit from our old friends, the Traplins. We have one of these reunions once a year, and it usually takes a week to get over them. Trap and 1 joined the air- forte together. Peggy and Suse have always got along well because they have the same interests. They can talk for 20 hours at a stretch, On Tuesday night they went to bed at 8.15. That's a.m, Know what they were doing? The university ac- ceptance tests. They scored very high. But they were a little dashed when I told them that high school kids get 50 minutes to do these, It had taken them seven hours. And you should hear them playing duets on the piano at4 a.m. One 'playing Galway Bay arid the other Tales Front the Vienria Woods. It sounds pret- ty good until they begin to sing. Well, the Traps left„ and I settled down for a quiet day of reading and recuperation, KtiOek at the door, Another Old friend, Bill Hanna, all set to go sailing. Apparently though I'll How many of us realize how susceptible young trees, growing in grassy places, are to sudden and severe heat? All trees are thin-barked when young, even a few seconds exposure to flames will kill the cambium or growing layer beneath that thin, protective layer of bark, Heat rises and the twigs and buds have even less protection than the main trunk, Trees- not killed outright must be weakened to some extent, thus making them morellabte to attack by harmful insects and by fungus diseateS. Ontario still needs trees, both for their aesthetic value and as a source of high grade hardwood timber.' We could all do more to protect them. 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LOYALTY United Church will worship with use 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 4 .'91,,.ill ,1.,:. );,:l ;)iii '''''' ,..r '' , , i' :. ..7.' '''',1 P Joint Service with Ontario Street United Church during August. 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 — ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SUNDAY, AUGUST 3rd The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director Services of Public Worship withdrawn during the month of August. PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Viitoria Street W. Werner, Pastor SUNDAY, AUGUST 3rd 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m„ — Worship Service. 7:30 p.m. - Evening Service. MAPLE STREET GOSPEL HALL SUNDAY, AUGUST 3rd 9:45 a.m. — Worship Service, 11:00 a,-n. — Sunday School. 7:15 . 7:45 p.m. — Sunday Evening — Hymn Sing 8:00 p.m. — Evening Service. Speaker: Fred Munnings 8:00 p.m. — Tuesday Prayer Meeting; Bible Study "Certainly rd like to print more good news,-Perhaps if all of Os tried harder we could create sorrier' Photo by Ron Price • by W. Jene Miller The empty pew by Bill Smiley Sugar and spice Can do more to protect trees OPTOMETRY PETER J. KELLY your Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada Representative 201 King St. Clinton 482-7914