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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-10-09, Page 4Editotial ...comment Kudos for the colts. The players' faces were Solemn and the crowd quiet Sunday after the Clinton Colts suffered an 8.5 defeat on home ground in the deciding game of the Intermediate "Be provincial finals of the Ontario Baseball Association, But the team had played well and while it would have been nice to, 'take top honors, the club deserves a lot of credit for going as far as it did this year, Clinton didn't field an intermediate baseball team for many years. The season started with an assortment of, uniforms and few if any spectators. No one was — predicting any playoff action for the team. gut the colts did win and did advance to the playoffs and did fight right , to the end despite the fact that several of the ball. Players are in university this fall and had to travel back for the weekend games. There were few cheers after Sunday's game, but the packed stands which rooted vigorously for the Colts testified to the interest and enthusiasm sparked by the team, With several of this year's Colts expected back next season and the Kinsmen and Recreation Committee improving the park facilities, Clinton baseball fans will be looking forward to 1970. A great deal at.stake Exeter Police Chief Ted Day asked area parents some leading questions regarding drugs last week, and the response to those questions will be the determining factor in how great the problem of narcotics will become in his area. His experience in law enforcement no doubt prompted his appeal for parents not to 'bury their heads in the sand and meet the situation with the opinion that it is something in which their children would not get involved. Unfortunately that's an attitude all too prevalent and many parents don't get interested in knowing what's going on with their offspring until they are called in to bail them out. Much of the damage has been done by that time and this is the point Chief Day is making, Drugs are here. They're readily available to your kids. Are they_ using them? His appeal to parents to become aware of the situation should lead to some frank family discussions. Information is available so parents can conduct knowledgeable discussions. You can learn what the Most• popular narcotics are, their effect upon your children, the law regarding the use of drugs and the consequences if your child is caught breaking those laws. Indications are that most area kids already know more in that first area than their parents, but the final three deserve the most attention because therein lie the problerns. The temptations today's youth' faces in the realm of drugs is much the same as that which their parents faced over tobacco and alcohol when they were in that age bracket. Many people in that generation succumbed to that temptation. The understanding of the added dangers involved for those who succumb to drugs should spur parents to become educated and involved. There's a great deal at stake. —Exeter Times-Advocate Surely a better use Tiptoeing through the tulips? Or maybe just pondering the petals. The spring tulips seen here are an exarriple of the many fine bulb varieties that can be planted in the fall ready to bloom at winter's end. October is bulb planting month in Ontario arid the Ontario Dept. of Agriculture and Food recommends planting begin now before severe weather sets in and bulbs are unable to root properly. An bulb beds should be well covered with straw mulch, leaves or peat over the winter, to prevent severe freezing and help keep the soil temperature even, — Photo by Malak of Ottawa. 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" ..."„..t ‘, Ettvir ..4-4.7. i e Bo e 41rt i• Sermon , .ONTARIO 0A . STREET UNITED CHURCH I "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR, B.Sc., B.Com., B.D. . Organist: MISS LOIS GRASSY, A.R.C.T; SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th 9:45 ,a,m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — THANKSGIVING SERVICE. Topic: "The Grace of Thanksgiving" Junior Choir 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, OCTOBER 12th 9:45 a.m. .--. Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Harvest Thanksgiving Service. HOLMESVILLE 9:45 a.m. — Harvest Thanksgiving Service. 10:45 a.m. — Sunday School. — All Welcome — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th 10:00 a.m. — Morning Service. 2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service. Every Sunday, 1 2:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back to God Hour" — EVERYONE WELCOME — ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School, 10:45 a.m. — THANKSGIVING SERVICE. Madeleine Lane Auxiliary will meet at the hotne of Mrs, Rbbert Homuth on Tuesday, Octbber 14 at 8;15 p.m. MAPLE STREET GOSPEL HALL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th 9:4S a.M. •.-- Woiihip Service 11:00 a.m..-' Sunday School 7:15 - '7:45 — Hymn Sing. 8:00 p.m, — MR. JOHN AITKEN, Shelburne; Speaker. 8:00 p.m.— Tuesday Prayer Meeting:: Bible Study BAYPIECOgAiitigt —CHURCH ' Paster: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th Sunday School: 10t0b a.m. Morning Worships 11:00 a.m. Evening GoSPel Service: /:30. p.M. Speaker: 'III v4 Gi A, MOREHOUSE representing T.E.A.M* Wednesday, a:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Estblished 1885 1924 Established 1881 Clinton Nevis-Record A member' of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper .Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second elasS mail registration number — tuskkIpTION RATES: Oh advahte) danacia, $0,00 per year; $7,60 6RIC A. McGUINNESS Ebitoe J. HOiriAllo AITKEN General M Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County it Clinton, °Mario Population 3,475 I/O/1'fE OF RA ()AP IN CA NA t)A tiger' 4 Clinton News-.Record, Thursday, Oct9.1.)P.r9,1.969 John Q. Public was caught throwing an empty cigarette pack out of his window. It wasn't the first time he had done this but it was the first time he was caught at it. MrS, John Q. Public tossed a couple of tissues out of the car window while cleaning ,outs her purse. It wasn't the first fora slier either. Junior was caught ditching a pop bottle. He was learning fast, They are representative of some of the 353 persons fined in 1968 for littering Ontario's highways and of the hundreds of others who were stopped by the police and warned about the law against littering. Cleaning up after Ontario's motorists is an expensive,business.,. Last year the -Department of'H'ighways found that it cost ..$970,000, What the John-Q. Public family forgets is that any way you look at it, it's. their money that pays the cleaning tab. It could be put to better use. -Err- vowinuiv The dear ladies, I gather, retain the image of the far-flung journalist as a swashbuckling, even a romantic figure whose life of those days when he first went is one derring-do adventure after on the foreign beat. It was then another. a search for the exotic, the I hate to be the one to banish surprising, the unfamiliar. India the illusion. But the fact is that was the Taj Mahal by moonlight. the foreign correspondent rio :Egypt was a camel caravan' to , ,,,Iongere'ebuokleS.,,, ai•';',.:8Wash •..or,;,411.9 pyramids. , Japan was ;the i'w e ashes ',"'a buckle "ai the case;', ••geisha house. Holland wastulips Confessions of a foreign , correspondent Our local PTA, apparently when men such as my friend scraping the bottom of the Gordon Sinclair could roam it barrel for speakers, has asked me and produce an adventure story to say a few words at their next for every edition. It once was for monthly meeting on the joys just such discoverers.. Now it is and perils of being a foreign for tourists. Increasingly, the correspondent. globe is beginning to seem just an endless chain of Hilton hotels. I have listened to Gordon talk Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY IN5U RANCF K. VV. POLOVH9UN iNSURANP0 a REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7604 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-0693 LAVVSON 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 111161 1.1r7 Sometimes we shoot an ar- row in the air, which comes to earth , we know not where. At others, we drop a pebble in a pool and the ripples made are really cool. Something like this hap- pened recently to my father. in-law. On our last visit to, him, inspired by who knows what hidden 'emotions, he flabber• gasted us by quoting, verbatim, hundreds of lines of poetry be had learned in public school, some little while ago. (He is 78.) This was an entirely unex- pected facet of Grandad's per- sonality. We gawked with ad- miration and he lit up like a neon sign with modest pride. Most of us can't remember an eight-line poem for two Weeks, after memorizing How many can remember hun- dreds of lines after almost 70 years? But one thing bothered him. Re couldn't remember all the stanzas of an old favorite, "The Village Blacksmith." It had one verse in particular which he wanted to get straight, be- cause it was a solace to him in his loneliness, since the loss of his wife. The smith had lost his wife, too, but was pressing on. Most of you middle-aged and older folk will remember the poem, or at least a few lines, as I do: "Under a Spreading chest- 'nut tree The village smithy stands: The smith, a mighty man is he; With large a n d sinewy hands: And something, something something arms Are strong as iron bands." Grandad is. a man of great persistence, and he determined that he'd remedy the lack. Ile wrote to a farmer's magazine, the Free Press Weekly, and asked if anyone could help sup- ply the missing verses. He was overwhelmed, almoSt physically, by the response. Approximately 150 letters came pouring in. People from ten years old to those in their nineties Wrote him, Some re- membered studying the poem and chatted about the good old days of the one-room rural school, Others sent the whole poem. Some wrote it laboriously with rheumatic fingers. Some had it typed. One lady had .torn the poem from an old reader (a school reader, that is, not an old person who was reading it). One customer went to the trouble and expense of having photostatic copies made. What really delighted Gran- dad, though, was the kindness of the notes and letters that accompanied the poem. One lady sent a long list of other poems from the old Grade Three and Four readers. And the letters came from as fat east as Nova Seotia and from B.C. in the west. Thus my father-in-law learned of the power of the press, something I learned years ago. But I also learned that the term is misleading. The people who plan and exe- cute editorial policy and news coverage for the daily papers have the hilarious idea that they have tremendous power, that they influence people's thoughts and actions, It is to laugh. Elections are surest proof of this. The dai- lies could be unanimous in supporting one man for a cer- tain position, and as likely as not the Canadian people, with their own sense of when they arc being pushed around, would elect his opponent, No, it is the little things that demonstrate the power of the press something which touches a chord or a nerve in the read- er and rouses him from his habitual apathy to heights of kindness or fury. I've recently had a good ex- ample. Not long ago, I men- tioned here, in one paragraph, a woman who is struggling to raise a family of six, decently, on welfare, A good and kindly woman ef Riondel, B.C, read it and responded. She wrote and offered to send a box of cloth, ,ing for boys. It arrived today, and I've just had a call from the Woman on welfare. She was terribly excited. The whole family said it was "Just like Christmas." There is a lot of warmth in the world, still, Let's help spread it around, in a genera- tion that needs to realize it, may be. The fun has gone .out of it. I hate to be the one to come right out and say so. On my own beats over the past six years — South America, Britain, Europe and the Middle East — I was always astonished at the numbers of famed correspondents who were ready, even eager, to give up a life that's the envy of every stay-at-home newspaperman, One reason is • that the dividends of travel, constant travel, produce diminishing returns. After the first time around the wonder of it begins to drain away. One of the great travelling writers, Evelyn Waugh, observed, at the ripe old age of 35, that he would have to go to the moon to recapture the excitement he felt when he first crossed the English Channel, It may be that the first correspondents to the moon will weary of that, as well. The world, itself, has changed immeasurably from the days 75 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA • October 12, 1894 On Saturday a couple of Sheep which had been impounded here were sold by auction and brought in the munificent sum of $2,45, or at the rate of $1,221/2 each, not enough to pay expenses. Mr. Jas. Stevens, who has been on a trip to Manitoba, has returned; he is not altogether in love with that province, and experienced a genuine blizzard while there. Mrs. McIntyre showed us a fine sample of raspberries, which she picked on Wednesday morning. Who can beat it? Robert Sinillie has been engaged as teacher in No. 6, Morris, for 1895, at a salary of $315. 55 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA October $,1914 Dr. and Mrs. Shaw and Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson left on Monday for Chicago to attend the Ticket Sellers annual convention and excursion, Miss Florence Garrett has returned home after a visit with her sister, Ma Joseph Garrett, and also her ebusier, Mrs, Derwin Carter of Huilett, Miss Jennie '11obetton returned on Saturday frern tertnight'S. ViSit in Brantford, and windmills on the dykes. Africa was jungle and tribal dances and pygmies with rings in their noses. Where did it all go?Today the foreign correspondent is in search of a different 'commodity. He writes of trade agreements or defence pacts or agrarian reform or spheres of influence. He is entirely absorbed in the problems of squalor, of starvation and the confrontation of ideologies. Trouble is his business., Business is forever booming. What happened to the strange, beautiful world? What happened to pith helmets? Where have the crocodiles gone? The old-timers go on this way at great length wherever you meet them. Nostalgia is the opium of global writers, especially thoset who went when the going was good. It is only the newcomers who see it realistically. They know that it is really progress when you can record the aspirations and the deeds of African leaders rather Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bartliff and children were visiting at Brussels last Friday. It was Fair Day there. 40 YEARS AGO October 10, 1929 Mrs. Edward Pickett and son George of Detroit spent the weekend with Clinton friends. Miss Irene Brooks of Mitchell was the weekend guest of her cousin, Miss Dorothy Cantelon. Miss Hattie Baker of Fullerton was the guest of Miss Florence Cuninghame Over the weekend, Mrs. Thos. Vernier left yesterday to visit her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Venner, Markham. 25 YEARS AGO October 12, 1044 Miss Lucy Levy is returning this week to her duties: Oh the nursing staff of London Senetaritnn. Mrs. ,Lew Trouse of Woodstock has °returned home after spending a week at the home of Mrs. Fred Livermore and friends in town. Miss M. Gibson, Post Graduate Nurse of New York, is spending the Thanksgiving holiday at the home of her brother, Mr. E. E. Gibson, Ontario Street, Mr. 0. W. Mott has returned frOm the West *here he purchased several toads of Cattle, than the tribal dance of the pygmies. They know that a series of reports on the economic dilemma of India is far more meaningful than a flamboyant description of a maharaja's tiger shoot, a standard item when dear old Gord was on the prowl. But the glamor is gone, long gone. Just a little over a year ago in a tiny cafe off Wenceslaus Square in Prague I listened to one of the greatest of the British correspondents, a man who has explored, the far corners of the earth' fot more' than 30 'y'ears and was now about to retire himself voluntarily to a cottage in Hammersmith. "I did the race story in the southern states lastyear and that was when I realized I'd had it," he mused. "It was the first time I'd been in the deep south. I remember the night I arrived in Oxford, Mississippi, a soft, warm night that was totally relaxing. I was thinking of the south• that was an Englishman's fantasy, the bangos strumming on the levee, the good Dixieland jazz in the old New Orleans' bars, the drawling voices and the courtly manners. But the story I'd come for was one of volence and hate and intolerance. Suddenly, I was very, very tired. I knew it was the end of the road for me." More or less the same thing happens to every foreign correspondent, a breed notoriously romantic. Life out there now is terribly real, terribly earnest, as it should be. But, hell, that's just like home. 15 YEARS AGO October 17, 1954 Mr. and Mrs. Ira Merrill and Elwin are vacationing in Eastern Ontario this week. Miss Vera Murch, Sarnia, was the guest of Misses Hattie and Sybil Courtice over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Macaulay, Sarnia, visited on the weekend with Mrs. W. Shaddock and Ann. There was hail yesterday, It didn't last long and the pieces Were the size of underfed peas, but it was hail and the weather is told. 10 YEARS A00 October 8, 1959 Mrs. Ella Mason and Mrs. Ralph Totten, Windsor, spent the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Crich, Clinton, and Mr, and Mrs. H. M. Ford, Goderich. genneth Cummings, Stratfold Teachers' College, Was the guest Of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cummings, over the weekend. Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Ciminghame left early in the Week to make an extended Thanksgiving visit in the home of their son.in-law and daughter, Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Saunders in Sarnia. Their visit Will also include the celebrating of their 44th Wedding anniversary, J. E. LONPSTAFF Ort9METRI0T Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 40R-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 R. in, BELI- OPTOMETRIST The Square, poDER ICH 02476E1 PETER J. KELLY your Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada. Representative 201 King St. Clinton 482-7914 Lots of warmth in world spread it around iike'epee.V