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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-09-25, Page 4Flames spread from the Clinton .dOmp. into an adjacent field and. threatened a nearby barn Tuesday afternoon. As town firemen worked to stop the blaze, a Hullett Township farmer asked .a bystander; "How would you like to live out here with this smell and smoke all the time?" No answer was needed. At the man's foot lay a dead rat. Another was several steps away. As the garbage tip smoldered, flies swarmed over raw waste rotting in the sun. And Tuesday's picture was better than usual because the day before a bulldozer leveled a part of the dump and tidied up some. that things in the air and water, things that aren't supposed to be there, are affecting every corner of human life from our sexual vitality to our ability to learn, An appeal for local co,dberation in tackling one pollution problem appeared in this space seven months ago. It was suggested then that Goderich Township and the Towns of Clinton and Goderich investigate the possibility of banding together to establish and share a sanitary landfill site which would replace the three existing open dumps. A study was launched and the three municipal councils endorsed the plan in principles. A site was found and approval for its use was obtained from provincial officials. A committee met and an agreement was drafted. We were told that the pact needed only to be put in final written form and ratified by the three governments and the landowner. With the promise of a truly sanitary solid waste disposal operation by mid-summer, this column in June carried commendations for everyone involved. 4 Clinton News- Record, Th.PrSdaY., ;September 25, 1969 Editorial comment The praise Was premature Clinton's town dump in Mullett Township, typical of open garbage dumps wherever they exist, smolders and smokes much of the time but leaves enough waste unburned to attract flies and rats in great numbers, Open dump fires such as the one Tuesday which spread to an adjoining field will soon be banned by provincial edict and disposal sites will have to conform to strict anti-pollution regulations. — Staff Photo. \\\\\\,..\\•,..\\ \NN"..\\\\\,..\\N\N\\,.\\N\\\\\NN.1 Business and :Professional Directory A University of Guelph ecologist — a scientist who spends his time worrying , about the relation of one kind of life, to another — observed recently that th're really is no more "away" to throw to. That Hullett farmer would agree. Air, water and land are clogged with man's wastes to an extent that a growing body of scientists view the .pollution problem as a crisis. Ecologists fear that from far under the farmer's field to far up in the atinosphere, the belt of life that surrounds the earth could be heading for some irreversible calamity, Our determined dirtying of the environment is beginning to show in frightening and unforeseen ways. Traces of lead are turning up in Arctic glaciers and 'DDT is being found in Antarctic penguins. Big city zoo animals are getting lung cancer from bad air. Traffic police in Tokyo have to suck away at tanks of oxygen to keep alive and children in another Japanese city wear masks when the ,go out tomp e?:; Men everyWhere - must co-operate if we don't want a world where your soup gets dirty before it gets cold. There is evidence But it appears now that we were counting unhatched chickens and the praise was premature. The joint operation did not materialize and when the four parties sat down to go over the contract this month, a number of new points of contention arose. We hope the committee members meet with more success when they again try to come to terms. But if the pact cannot be salvaged and the proposed site proves unacceptable, there must be an effort to keep 'the plan alive for it offers a sensible solution to a pressing problem. Local governments protest when their functions are taken over, but if they fail to find modern methods to answer today's needs, they open wider the door for provincial and regional agencies. I set" igatek.,::. aid* t$M Last of Rotten Kids told "fly, don't walk, Kim" iddlioe Maar Atio4 He's done it again — no more cigarettes ROY HANNON Occidental Life Insurance Company RR 3, Mitchell Phone 345-2274 $100,000 25 year decreasing Term Life Insurance At These Low, Low Rates Age 25 —' $157.00 Age 30 — $207.00 Age 35 — $300.00 Age 40 — $463.00 Should a husband and father whose chief "estate" is his job pay a high premium for a little protection — or a low premium for a lot of protection? "Be Protection Rich — Not Insurance Poor" -••••••1111111.1111111. 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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year: $7.50 ERIC A. McGUINNESS Editor HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 Mk HOW OP RADAR 1N CANADA • • They got away just in time. My nerves, stretched like a rubber band, were about to snap. Tonight, as I sit alone with the cat, in blessed peace, I feel as though I might last for 'a bit yet. The last of my Rotten Kids has gone off to college, and her mother, reluctant as ever to raise her wing and let the chick go, went with her. The latter will be back in a. few days, and the foriner will probably be back in a few weeks, but it's a wonderful res. pite. Even the ,cat looks more relaxed. But maybe that's be- cause she's pregnant. She's eating like one of those dogs in the TV commercials, to it looks suspicious. Getting a 'girl ready for col- lege is something like outfit- ting an entire expedition to Outer Mongolia, as I've dis- covered in the last few weeks. First, you have to talk about it for -an average of seven hours a day. Then they spend hours making up lists of "in- dispensables", like a razor and shaving cream. The lists are lost and new ones' begun. Then there are hours of talking about clothes: turning up hems, lowering necklines, rais- ing waists, what goes with what, what clashes With what. That's why I've been hiding in the bathroom and the back yard for a couple of weeks, during these altercations (that's not alterations). • This, of course, produces heated accusations that, "You 'don't even care! Why can't you show some interest?" This, in turn, makes me join them for a modelling show, at which I mutter, "That's pretty. Yeah, I like that one. That looks pretty good on you." Again, this brings forth heated accusations. The fact is, I have about as much interest in women's clothes as I have in choosing wall-paper. If the plaster is OK, whack it on. Same with wo- men. If it looks OK., I say so. If it doesn't, I have enough sense to keep my mouth shut. During this_ preparatory per- iod, I have felt like The Invis- ible Man. .I have had two dinners cooked for me in two weeks; I have done all the shopping. I have broken up in- numerable feminine squabbles. (Kim's taste and her mother's, in clothes, are as far apart as the R.C.'s and the Communist's philosophies). And I have 'strip- ped my every bank account to the barest of bones. If that kid drops out, as so many bright youngsters do, I'm going to take . all her effects, piano, those records that drive me out of my skull, the lot, and burn them in the back yard. Invited to this soiree will be a number of parents I know. We have recently formed an organization called PORK. It stands for Parents of Rotten Kids. And it's spreading like wildfire. Within a year, it'll be bigger' than the Notary Club. By the way, anyone who wants to join the organization is welcome. There are no fees. All you have to do is drop me a, line, explaining briefly why you think you qualify. Anonymity is guaranteed. Charter members are: a cou- ple with a son of 150-plus I.Q., who is making toilet seat lids in a factory; a woman whose 14-year-old daughter ran away; a minister whose daughter smokes pot; and me. There is only one proviso. You have to swear a solemn oath that, if your kid is over 16, you have 'given him, or her, no more than two "last chances", and have then kicked him, or her, out into the world. We will haVe no truck with parents who want to sit on the egg until all that emerges is hydrogen sulphide, when it finally breaks. But I digress. My baby, whom I have taught and fought for 18 years, has left me. We've trot- ted off to high school together for the past five years, I snar- ling because she was late, she snarling because I was snarling. I telling her to be in early, she, indignantly, finding me pacing the floor, "What do you mean? It's only one o'clock." I certain she's been killed in an accident, or raped by a Motor-cycle gang. She laughing hilariously at my lurid imagination. The only thing worse than missing her is the thought that she might come home, perman- ently. Young eagles, of either sexy have to fly or they become Cripples. I'd rather she flew. 75 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA September 28, 1894 Mr, D. Cantelon has about ten thousand barrels of apples purchased in the vicinity of Chatham and is busy putting them up. ' James Smith has put plate glass in the windows of the store to be occupied by Mr. Hovey. Jackson Bros. have moved the stock they bought at London at 57c on the dollar and will give their customers the benefit thereof. The advantages of creamery over ordinary butter are shown in the fact that James Steep is receiving 26c per lb. wholesale, for all the butter he can make. Eggs this week advanced to lie per dozen. 55 YEARS AGO September 24, 1914 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Miller of Brooklyn, N,Y., are the guests of their daughter,_ Mrs. T. Hawkins. Mr. Miller is traffic manager for the Mak. Gair Company, Mr. Thos. Trick is visiting friends in London, Ingersoll and Thedford. Mr, Those Hawkins has the water fountains placed in the rooms at the Model School and did a good job. He also has the fountain here and ready to put up for the Women's Institute, The young girls of town gave a piano dance in the town hall last Thursday and it was a very enjoyable affair. I'm happy to say, in just a month of abstinence. Indeed, that's a point that my doctor would like to make: Significant physical improvement begins the moment a person quits cigarettes; a life-time, two-pack-a-day smoker is recovering from the accumulated damage in the very hour that he signs the pledge. The satisfaction doesn't come from the knowledge that I have 'given myself a little bonus of $300 or more a year, though that will just about finance the sailing dinghy I've had my eye on. It isn't merely relief, either, from all those irritating little mechanics and litter of the habit, though it's pleasant, in itself, to be free of lighters, *matches, polluted ash trays, ,• burns on the chesterfield, stains tp. th,e fingers, Aar on the Wonchial tree and the other disgusting evidence of "smoking pleasure." So what's the real reason for this deep satisfaction? Simply that I have salvaged what's left of my will power. There's the real delight of it. In giving my chest a second chance, so to speak, I've also given a second chance to my back-bone. • It's odd, really, that the psychological damage known to so many of us who have repeatedly given up the weed and spinelessly returned to it hasn't been explored more extensively. I mean, we know what cigarettes do to the heart, to the blood stream, to the throat and the lungs. But what do they do to a man's self-control, self-mastery and 40 YEARS AGO September 26, 1929 Friday, tomorrow, is Field Day in connection with the Clinton Collegiate. The Annual At Home will be held in the evening. Miss Doris Durnin has gone to Toronto to take a Normal Course. Mrs. Ed. Nickle and little Miss Shirley have been visiting Kitchener friends. Misses Margaret Cudmore and Dorothy Manning are attending Stratford Normal. 25 YEARS AGO September 28, 1944 Miss Katherine Jefferson left last week to attend Alma College, St. Thomas. Nursing Sister Dorothy Carr of St. John's, Nfld., is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. George MacDonald, and Mrs. H. ,C. Lawson, Miss Dorothy McIntyre, nurse-in-training at Toronto General Hospital, is holidaying with her parents, Dr. H. and Mrs. McIntyre, Tom Murphy, who has been employed at the Malton Airport during the past few months, has returned to his home in town, and has taken a position with Mr. Wm. Wells at his garage on Ontario Street. 15 YEARS AGO September 28,1954 Harris and David Oakes have self-command? They louse them up, that's what. I write, of course, as a man who has not only given up cigarettes time after time, but who has done it in the maximum glare of public exposure. It seems to be forgotten now — ah, the obscurity of yesterday's heros! — but I was the originator, founder and president of The Nevertouchem Club, designed as a self-help group of fellow quitters. In two weeks after my inspired idea we had more than 3,000 members and my picture was in Time Magazine — and I was, to my .everlasting shame, back secretly smoking behind locked doors. I mention this only because I deserve it and to convince you that I know how a man's moral oifibre can .be. ;ruined: by the grip Of nicotine.* In that sense, at least, cigarettes are as adcbetive as heroin. If it is true, as I now believe, that every failure to stick by a resolution causes some erosion of a man's confidence then surely the mental result of a failure to break the cigarette habit is as severe as any physical effect. How many men, I wonder, have subconsciously thought to themselves, "I am the kind of insipid character who can't beat trus pellet or tobacco .., how can I ' expect to beat any of the greater challenges of life?" Am I over-dramatizing it? Maybe so. But shaking that particular hang-up is the ultimate satisfaction for at least one long-time smoker who has seen the light. gone to Toronto to enroll in the University of Toronto. Harris will be in his second year of pre-med and David will commence his first term of Aeronautical engineering. Gordon W. Harwood and son, George, Toronto, visited on Sunday with the former's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Benson Sutter. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Nediger, Toronto, were weekend visitors with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Nediger. Miss Kathleen McNaughton, London, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Campbell. 10 YEARS AGO September 24,1950 Mrs. Robert McKinley, Stanley Township, is a guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. B. Lavis. Mrs. Kelso 13. Streets and Mrs. William J., Mutch visited last week with their Cousin, Mrs, E. F. Tairian, Listowel. Guardsman Ronald Nice, his wife and year-old son arrived home from Germany on Monday by plane. Mr. Nice has been overseas for two years With the 2nd Company Canadian Guards. He reports to Petawawa on Saturday while his wife and son stay with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Nice, Huron Street., Elwin Merrill and William Wilson, London; Spent last week on vacation ih the north, crossing by way of Manitoulin Island at Sault Ste, Marie and parts of Miehigran, OPTOMETRY J. E, LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays ISAAc. STRUT For Appointment Phone 482-701Q SEAFORTH OFFICE 527.1240 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 Aluminum Doors and Windows and AWNINGS and RAILINGS JERVIS SALES R. L Jervis — 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 SETIVir. Attend Your Church This Sunday . ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH gym° 4i.;.° "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" m Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR, * Di 12 B.Sc., B.Com., B.D. Organist: MISS LOIS GRASSY, A.R.C.T. (A) ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th c) 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Sermon Topic: "TWO MEN WRITE CONCERNING THE CHURCH" Soloist: Miss Mary McKellar 7:30 p.m, — Sermon Topic: "INTO ALL THE WORLD" Music by Snell Sisters Oct. 5 — Joint Thankoffering in Wesley-Willis Church Nefe rorre 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, SEPTEMBER 28th 9:45 a.m. — 7Silnday School. 11:00 a.m. — Church Service Sermon Topic: "What Gives Meaning To Life?" HOLMESVILLE 9:45 a.m. — Communion Service and Reception of New MeMbers 10:45 a.m. — SUNDAY SCHOOL. — All Welcome — October October 5 — JOINT THANKOFFERING WITH ONTARIO CHURCH. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th 10:00 a.m. — Morning Service„ 2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service. Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back tb God Hour" -- EVERYONE WELCOME — , _ .,... draw r —J ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th 9:30 a.m. — Public Worship. 9:45 a.M. — Sunday School. MAPLE• STREET GOSPEL,HALL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th 9:45 a.m, — Wiiilliiii. Service 11:00 a.m.— Sunday School 7:15 - 7:45 — Hyrith Sing. 8:00 p.m, -- MR. JOHN AITKEN, Shelburne; Speaker. 8:00 p.m. Tuesday Prayer Meeting; Bible Study To put it mildly, I haven't felt this depth of satisfaction since the day first broke 100 on a • golf course. But that's a poor comparison. This is a far sweeter, more meaningful reward, harder to come by, longer to last. Oh, come now, Scott, cut the heroics. All you've done is to last exactly one month without a cigarette. Millions have done it before. If the deadly research findings continue to mount as they have of late (a minute off your life, kiddies, warns the American Cancer Society, every time you light 'up) millions will do it again. Yes, but this is something more. This is Kicking the Habit Forever. I feel it in my bones. At last I've made it All The Way. Yessir, one of the great, all-time losers to Lady Nicotine, a Than ". firmly „entiOched op the wgopg tide of• thbse statistics offering proof that a non-smoker lives an average of seven years longer than a heavy smoker, has finally crept into the winner's circle. You can see from this that it's a terrible temptation not to climb on abox, shake that tambourine and start saving souls again. But, no, I've done that too many times before. Instead, I've been analyzing, as best I can, just what it is that accounts for this euphoric satisfaction and finding answers I hadn't expected. It isn't simply that I feel better, though, Lord knows, that is true. That walrus-like morning bark and t h e loose-gasket-wheeze on a single flight of stairs are all but gone, R. IN. BELL. OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 PETER J. 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