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.
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10 YEARS AGO
October 29, 1959
Mr. and Mrs. W. Burton, and
Mrs. Viola Lampman visited in
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Mrs. Gordon Cutts, Arkona,
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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.
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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. —
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