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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-10-30, Page 4Santa Claus showed up at the Jingle Bell Jamboree at Wesley-Willis United Church in Clinton last Saturday and 2-year-old Jennifer Wood was one of many youngsters surprised to see the bearded gent in town so early in the season. — Staff Photo. REMS No. joy in the marketplace I feel it in my bones that it is the market-place has come cold, pointless to write this' joyless, dismal. - ill-tempered .column. Still — who Time after time the same knows? — it might just catch the treatment. Men and „Women not eye of one of those disgruntled really interested in the wares put people who, are accountable for in their charge.',Unfamiliar with this black mood. If not, it will the goods and products that be therapeutic for me. But ' occupy all their 'working hours. enough! On with the grouching! Lacking even a token of For most of last week my-,,,,enthusiasm. Unable or unwilling ' wife and I were on a 'shopping to advise or recommend or spree. We're remodelling. -sUggest. Blandly indifferent. Offhand Manor, as, I mentioned.,.'-Often downright reluctant to in an earlier column. Walls rarer fulfill any function but to *rap coming down. ROoms are..beip: i"Vhe.;.,:goods;,andliointjhe wan to re-shaped.. A new fireplace 4e4flecrecfitdePartmentyi going in. We are running amok', Oh, there were exceptions, of with do-it-yourself plans. course, notably in those smaller So off we went, hippity-hop, specialty shops where we made to make our selection of various' contact with an owner or panellings and floor coverings partner or clerk with some and assorted hardware and we' genuine interest in the were like a couple of • kids enterprise. headed for the candy store. For: On two particular occasions days 'we prowled the shops and we had the' pleasure of being department stores, appraising, :' attended by men who were selecting, comparing, touching,, honestl interested in our feeling, squinting. And in no project" and its problems, who time at all the fun of it was no ,' had ideas from their experience and who matched their enthusiasm with our own.‘ A clerk in one builders' supply store bundled us into his car and took us out to a new home to see the kind of fireplace brick he figured would go well with the room we've in mind. But seven out of ten were zombies, holding back until they were actually approached with an oncluiry, sometimes unable to longer there. In all my life I'd never run into such an unbroken series of sour, bored, disagreeable, u n co-operative, ho-humming, put-upon salespeople, seemingly determined to make their lives and ours as miserable as possible. At first I thought — and hoped — that it was simply coincidence. But before we were through I had to concede that it was a pattern, a fact of life, that 75 YEARS AGO Nov. 2, 1894 Mr. D. Cantelon will this season handle about 22,000 barrels of apples, or 150 carloads. A certain hardware dealer in this county sold no less than three dozen revolvers inside of one week recently, mainly to farmers. The presumption is that they are arming themselves as a precaution against tramps. Mr. Porter, finding the work . in Clinton post office much greater than he had anticipated, and realizing the impossibility of performing it to the satisfaction of the public and the department without expert assistance, has secured for a year the services of Mr. W. D. Fair and his sister. Passengers on the L.11.&B. train south, arriving here Saturday, report a close call from being ditched this side of Wingham. When the train was paSsing a road crossing, three cows rushed against the baggage car. The train was stopped and it was found that one of the cows had already been converted into beef, one was dying in the cattle yard, and another was hobbling off on three legs. 55 YEARS AGO October 29, 1914 Mr. John Linder has returned to his home in Toronto after visiting his daughter, Mrs, Jas. Doig. Mrs, Linder stays for sortie time longer. • Rev. J. Greene is having his residence painted. With the old frame building removed from along side and a new verandah, the Reverend gentleman has now an excellent home. Mr. Norman Fitzsimons spent a few days in London during the past week. Mrs. Chas. Helyar entertained a few friends at a Halloween supper. 40 YEARS AGO October 31, 1929 Mrs. Annie Moffatt who spent the summer with her son, W. G. Moffatt of the London road, and with relatives in town, left last week for California where she has made her home for some years. Miss McTavish 'returned recently after a very pleasant trip to the Coast, where she visited her brothers and other friends. She was absent about four months. Mr. and Mrs. L. B, Smith and little Glen of London spent the weekend with Mrs. Smith's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Parker, Miss M. Livermore returned to Toronto on Saturday after a holiday visit in town. 25 YEARS AGO 4 Nev. 2, 1944 Mrs. George I". Elliott and son, Barry, are Visiting with Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Ball, Grosse Ile, Michigan., Miss Phyllis Ilerman, University of Western Ontario, London, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Herman. Miss Lois Middleton was the guest of Miss Jean Elliott over the weekend. Mrs. Douglas Gemeinhardt and children, Phillip and Ann Sharon, of Bayfield, are visiting the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow of Orillia. 15 YEARS AGO October 28, 1954 The 65-bed addition to the Huron County Home will be officially opened on Friday when the Hon. W. A. Goodfellow Minister of Public Welfare for the Province, will make the opening address in the large assembly room which is one of the many features of the addition. Mr. and Mrs. Don Coiquhoun, Mr. and Mrs. Maitland Edgar and Mr. and Mrs. Harry McEwan attended a Kinsmen convention in Kitchener over the weekend. Mrs. U. F. Martell and Janice left for Quebec City Where they will sail on the Seythia for Gernaany,. They will join Cpl. Martell who is stationed at No. 1 ATAV, RCAF Ileadquarters, turen, Kaserne Trier, Germany. Mrs. Martell and Janice have spent the lag, three months with Mr. and Mrs, John Carter. PerhaPs there's a feeling that the rewards in .:pay eriPrestiie or the postibilities ,Of adVniCeiiient are beneath those of other jobs. Maybe there's a combination of all these things to explain it. But surely there must be some compensating reward in encountering and helping people who look to them with trust for such basic things as good taste or special knowledge or familiarity with the goods they handle. And surely — especially in a department store — such an attitude would not only make the work seem worthwhile and engrossing, but would lead to promotion as it does in any other line. I don't want to wrong those men and women who are the exceptions, but this was our experience. The days may be gone when the customer is always right. If that's the case we've lost another of life's little pleasures. disguise their irritation at our indecision, desultory in their this•is-what-we•have-take-it- or-leave-it attitude. I hate the cliche phrase, but it was the only one that seemed to fit: Couldn't Care Less. It must be, I suppose, a matter of pride and I suspect that is becoming the element that's missing all too often in those who directly serve the public. time Then there was the hedge. I was going to tear it out and plant a new one. The old one was getting rotten in spots. It's still there. I was going to play a lot of golf and get fit. I even asked my wife into playing, and paid her fees. I played about eight times, and got fit all right. I now fit size 33 pants instead of 31. But my wife had a great season. She shot her first game last week: Five holes, at $16 a hole. And the club is closed now. With such an active, stren- uous summer behind me, it was good to get back to the orderly job of teaching, where you have to do things, whether you feel like it o rnot. And ever since, I've been as owly as a wolf with a toothache, be- cause we have a new system. There's nothing wrong with the new system except that, like every other new system, it's lousy, compared to the old one, which was also lousy. As I prophesied a year ago, costs have escalated :n direct pro- portion to the increase in red tape and inefficiency, It's something like the Book of Kings. Paperwork begat more Paperwork, Rules begat Regulations at an alarming rate, and Committees begat Committees like so many rah, bits. (There goes my chance of ever getting anywhere in the profession). Don't worry, I can stand sys- tems. I wasn't in the air force for four years without learning how to beat them. You don't defy them, you just chew away from within, like a termite, until they collapse. Thanksgiving I looked for- ward to a chance to get caught up on everything, get out in the open and relax, see the colors of fall, and forget about the system (after all, just a lot of honest men trying to do a good job. No women, strangely enough). So my daughter came home from first month of university: Bewildered, full of hang-ups about courses, and desperately lonely. For the fast two years, my most frequent comment to her was, "Now, you be in at a reasonable hour." This time, we couldn't get her out of the house. On the Saturday, I drove her downtown and said, "Get out of the car and go and see somebody." .She was home in an hour. And now it's the ruddy leaves no pun intended. I have ten maples, three elms, one butternut and two vasty oaks. The maples come down like a shower of dandruff. Elms and butternut trickle down with malicious perversity. And the blasted oaks wait until every- thing else is raked and the snow is falling, before they condescend to contribute their confetti. Oh well, life is the only one we have. But I can tell you one thing. There'll be no more . $54.00 phone bills for one month of wife-and-daughter talks about nothing. 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) A. second class trail registration number — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $8.00 per year $7.50 ERIC A, McGUINNESS — Editor J, HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County A Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 '/ii/:' //OM OP RADAR IN CA IVADA Asei•promnimerWisom eniminweimh THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SEAFORTH InsuralL * Town Dwellings * All Class of Farm ProperW * Summer cottages * Churches, Schools, Halls' Extended coverage 's (wind, smoke, water damage, 'falling objects etc.) is also availahle; 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. 10 YEARS AGO October 29, 1959 Mr. and Mrs. W. Burton, and Mrs. Viola Lampman visited in Detroit recently. Mrs. Gordon Cutts, Arkona, is spending this week With her sister, Mrs, William Hoggart and mother Mrs. Brown. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Heard, Bayfield, on Sunday were their sons and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Heard and Donald, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kirkham, London; Mr. and Mrs. George Heard and . Larry, Stanley Township; also Mr. and Mrs, Eber Kirkham, Putnam. When Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown, Clinton, celebrated their 20th wedding' anniversary on Sunday, October 25, they had as their guests, Mr, and Mrs. P. Lewis and Ruth Ann, London; Mrs. Yvonne Bergen,, Los Angeles, Calif., Miss IL Black, Kitchener; Mr. and Mrs. Willis VanEgmond, Mr, and Mrs. 4, Van Egthond, Miss Lois Gra.s13Y and Mrs. Leslie Ball. „ . FIRE ," INSURANCE COMPANY Farm people have good reason to; be interested and involved in the nation-wide push to move industry and jobs out into the country so that young people can continue to live there rather than migrate to the metropolitan areas which have become more and more crowded and harder, and harder to govern decently. Too often we adopt a defensive stand and start worrying that growth in the community will mean higher taxes and more competition for farm labor. The truth is it may cost even more to live in a community of shrinking population and declining tax base: Local governmental and community services cost almost as much in a shrinking as in a growing society. The fewer remaining people find themselves taxed heavier to keep these services going. Spreading the jobs and the population is the most sensible national program we have launched in a long time. It may be the solution to the problems of the big cities as well as the rural areas. As we work at the job of spreading economic growth, some facts have been coming ,to the fore, both in the surveys that are 'deing taken and the experience that is being recorded. A variety of jobs is all-important in rebuilding a rural community. Now that farming has become more specialized and mechanized, agriculture alone cannot be expected to provide the employment In the un'ilikely event that anyone is worried about running out of things to worry abou, a warping from three scientists at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh contains enough crisis content to fill in any anxiety gaps that may appear at odd moments. Their theory is that, since noise pollution is harmful to man, it ought to be harmful to plants as well, since both are bilogical systems. And if noise is harmful to plants, if may well be doubly harmful to man, since he eats plants. The scientists reported to the Acoustical Society of America on tests they conducted with tobacco plants,. which were chosen because their, normal growth 'rates are well-established, especially in• North Carolirka.,• Twelve plants were alloWed peace and quiet for two weeks in an indoor plot at the university. Then There's never enough Well, Thanksgiving has come and went, and here we are heading into dismal November, and I'm farther behind with everything than I was last June. On the second day of July, 1 began cleaning up the base- ment. And I. can prove it. There's still a sordid little heap of dust, detergent and other basement garbage sitting there, proof positive that I got one corner swept out. It's in a direct line with the washer, so that you have to walk around it every time. This creates some interesting comments. ' My major project of the summer was to have been put- ting a new top on'a little back porch, under which we put our garbage cans. There's' an ingen- ious lid that opens, made of two-by-fours. One hinge was going and a couple of the tim- bers were loose. With winter coming on, both hinges are broken right off, and when you want to put something in the garbage cans, you don't lift the lid. You lift eight two-by-fours, singly, pile them up, put the junk in, then replace them. It takes only about five minutes. And every time you go through the opera- tion, it's raining. Another planwas to rent a chain saw and cut up all the huge oak limbs piled along the fence, for use in the fireplace. They're still there. Speaking of fences, there was to be a new one this year. But I couldn't get at the old one because of allthose oak limbs piled against it. Pretty frustrating. base, There must be jobs or young families must migrate elsewhere. And without, young families the community is doomed to go downhill. Good schools are next in importance, again because they are necessary to hold you ng families. When industries contemplate a move to a rural area, they look first to such things as quality of schools and level of pay for teachers. Health care facilities also come near the top of the list, 'Other community factors are, of course, important like churches, recreational facilities, •highways, and many others. You may be wondering by now why we haven't mentioned low taxes. The reason is that taxes come a way down the list among the characteristics considered by firms shopping for new locations. Low taxes are nice providing they have not been achieved by robbing the community of the things that make for what is called livability. A company must have an adequate supply of labor, including young labor. They must have a community attractive enough to please their administrative,,_~ personnel needed to launch and manage the factory, laboratory, or whatever the enterprise may be. Low taxes do not necessarily mean happy families, good schools, and a heads-up community. —Leamington Post and News CHURCH SERVICES ALL SERVICES ON STANDAnD *TIME et, ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH ,..49 "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV, H. W. WONFOR, ►I im B.Sc., B.Corn., B.D, 1Il 5 (A) Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "The Prisoners Heard Them" . . 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 . WESLEY-WILLIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon: "But Will You Wake For Goodness Sake?" HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m. — Worship Service. 1:45 p.m: — Sunday School — "White Gifts" — All Welcome — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER '2nd 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 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, NOVEMBER 2nd ' 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship. . , BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 R. W. BELL' OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 PETER .J. KELLY your Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada Representative Office: 17 Rattenbury St. E. Clinton 482-7914 4 Clinton .News-Record,. Thursday, October •SQ, 1.9.69 fditOrial.0.;Inment. Must make communities. attractive Noise affects plants loudspeakers were turned on, blasting random noises at about 100 decibels, or the level of noise city dwellers are exposed to every day. By the end of the next two weeks, growth rate of the plants had decreased by an average of 40 percent. The scientists are alarmed at the untold stress we may be subjecting our farm crops to, what with tractors, mechanical pickers and all kinds of other machinery, not to mention jet airplanes flying overhead. So don't blame the job for your indigestion. That salad you had for lunch may have been a bundle of nerves. Come to think of it, though, we've been conducting our own experiment this past ;summer by subjecting the lawn to periodic blastings with a powerernower. Didn't slow the growth rate one bit. — Stratford Beacon-Herald. Business, and Profession qv 9 Ilia fig 3 .P.1 Directory INSURANCE ' K. W. 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