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Clinton News-Record, 1969-10-16, Page 4GODERICH SALT BOAT Photo by Run Price Humble columnist talks to honorable readers 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 clast &if registration 'number — eal7 SUI3SCAIPTION RATES; (hi advarice) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S,A„ 0,50 ewe A, McGUINNEgS Editor HOWARD. AITKEN —General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County A Clinton ; Ontario Population :3,475 Mk HOME OP PA DA!? IN CANADA nights a week," But he gave us a refund, which ,you'd never get in most cities. • Perhaps the highlight of the weekend was The Newlyweds. We were coming down in the elevator on Sunday. A very large man, in his late fifties, and stoned to the eyeballs, joined us at the fifth. floor. He was accompanied by a stat- uesque blonde, in her early fifties. Also stoned, hut a lady. Couldn't say a word. ''Wanteha to meet the wife." he burbled deliriously, "Just got married yesterday," We were delighted at this manifestation that love knows no race, creed, or age,. and congratulated them heartily. "We got 12 kids," he an. nounced proudly. Seems she had four sons and two daugh' tors and he had four daughters and two sons, by previous mar- riages. Lots of grandchildren. They wore just off to Boston on their honeymoon, Now, don't ask the why anyone would go to Boston on a honey- moon: There isn't that Much time to talk while you're going down five floors in an elevator. But they seemed extremely happy, and God bless them, and I hope they made it out of the city without being thrown in the impaired driving tank. Ile almost wiped out a bellboy as he backed away from the hotel entrance. 13 ut love and peace to both of them, Ilow would you like to start on a honeymoon with 12 kids? Personally, I love and ad- mire anybody who believes in love and admiration after the age of 50. But 12 kids! And all those grandchildren. Wow! It's like going over the trenches at dawn with a cap pistol and a string of firecrack- ers. Theme two. Does anybody in his right mind understand Medicare? I take it from the silence that the answer is a resounding "No!" This will replace that, and that will replace this, and I can get a hearing aid, which I don't need. IloW about a smell, ing aid for those who can't smell? My wife, after carefully reading the utterly confusing directions, has the idea that we belong to four different medi- cal plans, 'none of which will pay all our medical bills. The only thing that comes through to me, loud and clear; is that it's going to cost more Money. Theme three. Do you realize that a high school with about 1400 students in it, is a snake pit? Confine about 1600 peo, pie ( counting staff and jani' tors) into a shoe factory . about a city block in size, and what do you get? A learnim!, situation? No, burning situation and a gaggle of paranoids, Mote about this later, when I'm feeling better. And I feel better already, just having said it, J. E. IrONGSTAFF 0PTOmETRisr Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527.1240 R. W. 00,1_ OPTOMETRIST The Square, GOD E RICH 524.76Q1 PETER J. KELLY your Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada Representative 201 King St. Clinton 482-7914 AVKILOP —litiftle; FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY ;Clinton News-Record, Thursday, October 16„ 1909 Editorial comment Why the surprise..?.. Huron County's, new assessment at .a meeting which 'happened to be held in. commissioner., E. F. Hall, decided this town — but to point ..out that the weekly year that certain farming operations press on which many Huron citizens rely should 'be assessed as .businesses. — and for local news was not 9.1V.811 time to do its. they have been. Whether or not they are job of informing its readers. businesses as defined by. the Assessment When the broiler producers hastily Act is a question which may have to be called a meeting to discuss the business answered a court of law, assessment last week, a A more easily answered question — and standing-room-only crowd turned out and one which should be answered • -not only many left with unanswered questions,' for farmers but for every ratepayer whose Mr. Hall admits readily that the switch taxes go toward the nearly $200,000 it to a central, automated record system was costs to run the assessment department bound to involve errors — and almost any .this year — is why the farmers had to wait town or township clerk knows they did until they received their assessment occur. notices to learn that a new policy was in Why then was the confusion over the effect. business assessment not avoided by Even then they learned only that they announcing and explaining the new policy were being assessed for business tax in advance? purposes. They had no idea why or on Mr. Hall said many months ago that what .basis. Most of the notices went in much, business tax was being overlooked the mail on or about Sept, 30, With in the county — a situation he said would appeals due back in Mr. Hall's hands be remedied. It has already been suggested ' on the situation and decide what action to yesterday, property owners had at the most 14 days to try to inform themselves that he was thinking then of the farms. In any event, the decision to add business assessment certainly' was made well before Sept. 30, take. Like so many of today's problems, this This newspaper carried a brief story one can be blamed largely on lack of about the matter last week and to our comrr unication. But riot on lack of knowledge we were the ,only weekly in avenues of communication. All that was the county to do so. We mention that not to pat ourselves on the back — we were necessary was for Mr.,Hall to make use cf just fortunate the subject was mentioned them. Must tell the whole truth Consumer protection efforts at the oils, soft drinks, beer, napkins, facial provincial level were outlined in a seminar tissues and toilet paper as well., The list held here by the Dept, of Financial and will be expanded later. Commercial Affairs last week and it was "The blessings of the New York made clear that the marketplace is no longer governed alone by the words regulations will be obvious to anyone who has shopped in a supermarket recently. "caveat emptor" or "let the buyer Trying, to determine which is cheaper, the 12 2/3-ounce package at 73 cents or the beware," But while Ontario laws cover an 13.8-ounce package at 81 cents, pis an impressive list of activities, the whole area exercise which can drive any of packaging and labeling lies outside the conscientious shopper to tranquilizers. province's jurisdictibn and we believe the "Mr. Basford has long been a believer in Montreal Star's recent comments on that the power of consumer resistance to keep subject are worth reprinting here. "If Ron prices down. But consumers can hardly Basford, the federal minister of consumer exercise their power when they cannot affairs is really looking for battles to fight discover which product is cheapest on behalf of the housewife, he might cast without the aid of a computer. And it is his eye to New York City for inspiration. all too easy- for manufacturers to disguise Mrs. Bess Myerson Grant his counterpart the effects of inflation by putting just a little less of the product in the package there, has just issued a regulation and leaving the price Unchanged. requiring supermarkets and other food retailers to label a broad range of goods "Mrs. Myerson, herself, put the whole nat•ony the:tota I mice but also With issue with admirable clarity: "The package must tell the whole the price per pound or per quart. "Most stores in Canada and the United truth. It must tell not only what is inside and how much of it is there, States already give both the unit price and but how much it 'costs in a way the the total price for items like meat and housewife can compare with other fish, But the New York regulations will sizes and shapes of packages," require shopkeepers to provide the same information on bread, cereals, cooking "We hope Mr. Basford was listening." Visits daughter, hits medicare, says school is snake pit This column is not going to have one theme, but several. Fair enough? I've just re- turned from an exhausting weekend, taught eight 40-min- •ute periods of English and at• tended a department -heads' meeting which ended by six p.M., with everybody snarling. We went to visit our (laugh- ter at university, A mistake, but you love them, First few weeks are bad enough, but when you add a tooth extrac- tion, with complications, it's 'orrible. Complicate that with loneli- ness and you have a pretty sad kid, on' your hands. (Funny, isn't it? Kids spend years tell- ing you how glad they'll be to get away from their rotten par- ents and be FREE. And a week later they're desperately home- sick. But it wasn't all bad. We had a good dinner, out: and Kim ruined her new leather skirt by dropping a fried shrimp on it. This is the only skill she has really mastered, after 13 years of education. _Dropping things. And then there was Dennis, the cab driver. Rotund and .jol- ly, he talked steadily as ho drove us in circles and squares, looking for an ad- dress. When we finally found it, we realized we could have walked in half the time. And Dennis, striking his forehead violently, remarked: "fleez, 1 shoulda known Us place. I work right across de street dere at de garage two What with all that good Canadian wheat going their way and now the proposal that we sponsor their membership in the United Nations (as we dam'd well should) it seems likely that we may be the first western nation to establish cordial. relations with The People's China. If that's true now would be a good time for some of us to start bridging the language barrier — and there, I fear, may be a problem greater titan mere ideological indifferences. I went into all this a half dozen years ago when there seemed a slight chance that my paper might establish a bureau in Peking, I instantly enrolled in`a language Class- and learned hoW to count up to 10 — yet, yee, sum see, ng. loke, chut, hart, gow, sup — but it wasn't easy, even after all those years of eating chicken chow mein, and there were complications to right and left. Those words are Cantonese which is spoken almost exclusively by Chinese Canadians, because, it seems, - most of their ancestors come from the southern provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi. The rest of the country speaks Mandarin and there's a bewildering variety of dialects. Even what we ignorantly describe as the "sing song" style of Chinese'speech is a matter of precise tone. Occidentals are sometimes advised by teachers of the language to tune up at a piano with the high tones at middle C, low at (1 below C and medium at B below C, a gloomy 75 YEARS AGO October 19, 1894 Mr, Ed. Bates of Galion, Ohio, is the guest of Jno, Derry, On Wednesday, Rev. Mr, licidgins bf Seaforth and Mayor Holmstead, inspected the pipe organ of Rattenbury street Methodist church, with a view to procuring one for their Own church. Wednesday afternoon a horse, which had been left untied in front of the New Eta office, walked up to the plate glass and started rubbing its nose thereon, an occupation it was not allowed to continue any longer than was absolutely necessary. On Wednesday, Mr, Lea Brown left on a trip to Aylmer, going by bicycle; this would be quite an undertaking for a persons physically unimpaired, to say nothing of it being done by someone who is somewhat crippled. 56 YEARS AGO October 15, 1914 Hon. T. W. Crothers, Minister of Labor, has issued an appeal to the women of Ontario asking that each and every one who has an orchard, dry two bushels of apples in the old fashioned way from the wealth of fruit which this season loaded the 1,11,08.11)e dried product will be shipped to Prudhomme of Montreal who will attend to its transport, across to ReigiuM. Town Clerk, 1), L. Macpherson has received the revised list of permits for th e province, There are now 364.9 motor eyeles and 81,050 automobiles in Ontario, prospect for a traveller who happens to be tone deaf. Nearly all Orientals have trouble pronouncing "v" or "r" which simply aren't in their alphabet. Called upon to say "ripe on the vine," for instance, they may conic out with "lipe on the wine." (The late Ian Fleming, who was terrified of flying, once described his chagrin when, boarding a Japan Air Lines plane, the lovely stewardess welcomed him with the words, "have a good fright.") We find it amusing that Orientals have difficulties with these consonants, but it works both ways since several Chinese sounds aren't in our language, including the "ng" combination; and this causes some reverse hilarity, which is only fair. The Chinese word for "me" or "I", for example, is pronounced "ngor" and may take a couple of weeks to master for people like columnists who use the first person singular rather often. On the whole, Chinese seems to be a more expressive language than English. You could do better describing a sunset or a blond in Cantonese than in English. It is all beautifully polite, as well. "Your home," for instance, is "grand palace" while my home is "humble nest". Your name is always "honorable name" while my name is "humble name". The more literate Chinese usually have some epigram on the lips of their tongues, handed down from the early philosophers, and can toss a telling phrase from Confucius Miss Ross Lavis who is a milliner at Seaforth, spent the weekend at 'her home in town, 40 YEARS AGO October 17, 1929 Messrs. Curren and Shipley have disposed of their Albert Street grocery business to Mr. C. Lobb, who has been conducting a grocery in the old Wiltse stand in the Sloan block for some time. Mr Lobb has moved into his new stand this week. Another change in the grocery business has also been effected this week when L. Lawson and Co., disposed of their business, Huron street, to Mr. J. T. McKnight of town. Mr. Leonard McKnight will come up from Toronto to assist his father in the business, There were no services in the United Church at Holmesville on Sunday by order of the Medical Officer of Health on account of a recent death from diptheria, The school has also been closed. 25 YEARS AGO October 19, 1944 Miss Beth Goyim', Miss Elva. Govier and Miss Wilma Radford Spent the weekend in Toronto and them went on to Ottawa to visit the former's aunt and uncle, Brig. Gen, and Mrs. E. Dewar. Miss M. 11.3i2abeth Courtice of Mitchell spent the weekend with' her aunt Miss Harriet Comfit:6. Mrs. R. IL E. (Whiner, Hayfield, left last Thursday to- spent the Winter With het father, Mr. Si Gaylord, Lake Geneva, Wise. Miss Mildred Heard and Mrs, into almost any debate. "Innocent men cannot be accused with false evidence," is a good example. They also have their colloquialisms, many quite similar to our own, "Chasing chickens" is Chinese for girl-bunting and "loading big gun" is the Oriental way of saying that a man is elaborating on the truth. Chinese words are all of one syllable, How are you is "Nay ho inaa?" The weather is fine is "Ho tin see." See you again is "Joy ghin." I love you is "Ngor oy nay." (There's that "ngor" again, fouling up the course of true love.) This naturally makes it look r easier -than.: it is, e -Chines?. high school texts contain some 2000 words and since you'd need at least a third of them for conversation it generally takes from six to eight months for a westerner to build up a basic vocabulary.. • The .writing of it is an even greater challenge. Having had it confirmed that ,seript runs from top to bottom you may be advised to drop the whole thing right -there: Some Chinese characters look vaguely like the word they represent ("tree" looks like a tree), but .when you combine the words "feet" and "hands" to make the word "captured" you're getting into deep water. it pleased me to learn that my own name is written by combining e Chinese characters for "afternoon", "scholar" and "quantity" — a wonderful byline if a fellow had a column in Peking. A. R. Cooper spent the weekend with the latter's sister, Mrs. Floyd Lodge of Goderich. 15 YEARS AGO October 14, 1954 Miss Phyllis Hanley, University of Toronto, spent the long weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hanley. Mr. and Mrs. George Beattie and two children, David and Miss Beverley, spent Thanksgiving with the former's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George Gregory, Barrie. Kenneth Ashton, University of Western Ontario, London, spent the holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Toms, Detroit, spent the Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Toms, Hayfield. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 15, 1959 Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Margeson and sons John and Jimtny, Aylmer, spent the holiday weekend in town visiting with the lady's patentS, Mr. and Mrs. C. Proctor and grandmother, Mrs. J, K. Wise. Mr. and Mrs. 1)ia Cornish have returned from a two weeks' vacation in the United Stales where they visited Mr. and Mrs. William Neal, Harrison- City, Pa,, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Neal, Elyria, Ohio; and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd MacDonald, Detroit,. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Haddy, Paul and Scott, Agincourt, spent the Thanksgiving weekend With Miss 13mma LAOS and Mr, and Mrs. AleN TIaddy. 0.$1..oiness. and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY INSURANCE -K. 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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19th .94+ 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "The Courageous Companionship" Wesley-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., 0.0., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTER ER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.ni. — Morning Worship. Sermon: "IS GOD UNJUST?" HOLMESVILLE 9:45 a.m. — Morning Worship. . 10:45 a.m. — Sunday School. Saturday, October 25th, 10:00 a.m. "Jingle Bell Jamboree" at Wesley-Willis . -- All Welcome — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19th 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 PRES3YTERIAN CHURCH The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School, 10:45 a.m. — ANNIVERSARY SERVICE. The Rev. W. E. Jarvis, B.A., 8,0., Exeter, Guest Speaker — Special Musit — MAV',.E. STREET GOSPEL HALL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19th 9:45 a.m. -- Worihip 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 i i 8AYPI5LO BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19th Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 1 I :00 a .rn, Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 pan, Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting and Bible study