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Clinton News-Record, 1969-11-20, Page 4When you're in first grade, a library card catalogue isn't much fun..But an elephant or cat-shaped booklet listing animal stories alphabetically by their authors' names teaches the filing system and helps youngsters find books at the library in Air Marshal Hugh Campbell Public School in Adastral Park at Canadian Forces Base Clinton. Displaying the colorful catalogues prepared by library helpers in grades five through eight are Scott Spidell and Karen Thuot. — Staff Photo How to do business wealthy or broke .......,,,.... SERVICES . , ALL SERVICES' ON .—..........„ , STANDARD 'TIME • - ay ,ONTAR IP STREET UNITED CHURCH , "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" w Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR, z • 1.. B.Sc., B.Com ., B4O. 41 O-to V\ Organist: MISS LOIs GRASSY, A.R.C.T.: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd 9:45 a.m. — Sunday Schocil, 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "GOD'S FOLLY" The Evening Unit of U.C.W. meets Monday, I November 24 at 8:30 p.m. WeSley-WilliS — HOIMe5Ville 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' 23rd • 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. HOLM ESVI LLE . 1:00 p.m. —Worship Service. 1:45 p.m. — Sunday Schpol — All Welcome — _ . . CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH ' SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd 10:00 a.m. — Morning Service. 2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service. Every Sunday, 12130 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 23rd • 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School., 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship — BAYF IELD BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd 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, GODERICH 524-7661 PETER J. KELLY your Mutual, Life Assurance Company of Canada Representative Office: 17 Rattenbury St. E. Clinton 482-7914 INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Officei 482-9644 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 Yes, madam, times change THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 • 1924. Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member the Canadian Weekly NewsPaper AsSoeiation, Ontario W kly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Ciretil don ( ABC) Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County SUBSCRiPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year: U.S.A, $7.50 ERIC A. McGUINNE$S Editor k J, HOWARD AITKEN General Manager second class rail registratien number — 0817 it Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 We 110111E OP PADA!? CANAtiA y Opp/ ROY HANNON Occidental Life Insurance Company RR 3, Mitchell Phone 345-2274 $100,000 25 year decreasing terin Life insurance At These Low, Low Rates 25 — ' $157,00 „ Age 30 — $207.00 85 — $300.00 Age 40 -'- $468,00 Should a husband and father whose chief "estate's IS his job pay a high pterniuM for a little' protection — or a low premium for a lot of protection? "Be Protection Rich Not Insurance " Age Age 4 Clinton News-FleCbrd, Thursday, November ?0, 1969 Other voices RC school aid scored ,and providing homes for their children where there was an opportunity for progress and freedom. That being the 'case, it seems only fair that they should seek to become fully integrated im the new land as rapidly as possible. Basis for their desire to have their own schools is a religious one and as such they are entitled under the laws of this province to the same right that is accorded Roman Catholics. But where the percentage of parents seeking such special facilities is too low, the law also requires that they must pay for them out of their own pockets. . Surely the example of fragmentation which we !—e,,,e in the,province of Quebec should pe ei.uugh to point out the folly of peosetuAltp rejigtous,„i „ar cultura l differences arid' endangering national unity. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all just plain -Canadians — and proud .of it. — Wingham Advance-Times. Another reason for the co- coon-like over-protection is love. You don't like to see someone you love in trouble, whether it's emotional, finan- cial or legal. And a final motive is plain laziness. Mothers say, "I'd rath- er do it myself than have to nag at her (or him)." •So do fathers: Thus many of the things which middle-aged peo- ple consider virtues:. punctuali- ty, diligence, courtesy, cleanli- ness go by the board. But when you have to tell an 18-year-old girl to wash her feet, there's something wrong, My neighbor, whose son is at •college, was wakened early Sat- urday morning by a long-dis- tance (collect, 'naturally) call from said son, His car had collapsed and he , wanted to buy another one Choking back his natural fury, father said he would think it over. Result? He and his wife drove about 300 miles toy see the kid and get something settled. Example two. Our daughter is at college. My wife writes about three times a week, and her letters consist mostly of "Do this" and "Don't do that." The kid needed winter boots and a winter coat. This of course is very unusual in Can- ada, and demands urgent ac- tion. 'And, of course, at 18, she's much 'too young to buy them for herself. And of course she might be lonely in that big city, with no friends. The Qntario Liberal caucus has made a terrible blunder by endorsing the principle of extending public ,support to Roman Catholic, schools to Grade 13, The Liberals have fallen prey to a massive and concerted pressure drive by Roman Catholics who want Public funds for private schools. It is neither sound :fiscal policy, nor good educational theory. What the Liberals are saying, and a New Democratic Party study committee has taken a similar stand, is that Roman Catholic children do not have the same educational opportunities as non-Roman Catholic children because their school system is poorer, therefore inferior. The implication is that some forM of religious bigotry is working against Catholics. Nothing is further from the truth. Non-Catholics feel just ag strongly as. Catholics do that a Catholic child should have a right to a Catholic education. What the majority of non-Catholics feel, however, is that they should not be called on any further to support a private school system with public funds. This is especially true at a time when education costs for the public system have more than doubled in the past five years. it can also be argued that the Catholics do not have the full support of their own people. A spokesman. for the Calvin Christian Society of Clinton appeared before the Huron Board of Education last week to ask for the use of gymnasium and library facilities. During his presentation to the board he protested the fact that the school operated by his society does not receive one cent of government assistance, the parents paying $12.00 a week to cover the cost of operating the school and its transportation system. Ontario has never acquired more valuable citizens than the Dutch folks who settled here after the war. Most of them have been models of independence and industry and they have• contributed tremendously to the economy and culture of our province. However, we cannot-agree with their desire. o Aucate. tffiejfec ildren.i.n se p a rate,,, schools. When these, people moved to a* new land they did so because it had much to offer as a reward, for their labors. They came with the intention of staying here Do you know what the up- coming generation of Canadian men is going to marry? Rotten wives. And do you know why? Because the mothers of these potential wives have spoiled them rotten. They have over-protected them, tried unsuccessfully to impose their own dubious taste on them, and refused to allow their daughters to learn- any- thing practical, like sewing or cooking. This is not a blanket con- demnation, but it certainly ap- plies to many people I know. Nor must I blame it all on mothers. Many fathers aid and abet. speak from experience. These middle-aged spoilers are driven by several motives. Most of them were growing up when things were tough all over, and they are ruthlessly determined that their kids are going to have all the "advan- tages" they couldn't have. Thus we have a plethora of lessons in music, ballet, fig- ure-skating. We have the very latest fashions and fads, re- gardless of cost. We have cars for kids who would be danger- ous on a tricycle. Another motive is fear. By shielding their children from any and all unpleasantness, in- cluding work, they hope to. keep them "straight" and out of the cinches of drugs, sex and hippiedom. More often they drive them into trying something out of sheer bore- dom with their diet of Pah- lum, So we drive through 450 miles of that fog and rain. ' Counting hotel bill, tips, gas, and a couple of dinners out, those boots and that coat cost about four times what they should have. And then the brat says she isn't lonely at all. That's the only reason I went, and I told her so. However and despite, we had a pleasant weekend. Dining out, we sat beside a young couple. He was a Czech, not long out, very smooth, very handsome. She was a New- foundlander, very friendly, very open. Then a Sikh (Indian, turban ' and beard) came in and sat nearby, looking desperately lonely. I asked him over. The chef, a young Czech who was a friend of the other one, joined us and said he'd like to take my daughter out. Kim spilled something on her mother's best blouse. We adjourned to our hotel room for a couple of pleasant hours. The Newfy girl asked Kim if she'd like to share an apartment. I wouldn't be sur- prised if a Czech did, too. My wife worried about the smooth Czechs. The Sikh lost his mel- ancholy. Don't think I've strayed from my theme. Our kid is spoiled rotten. She cooks like a one-armed paper-hanger and couldn't sew two burlap bags together. My deepest sympathy is extended to her future hus- band. One of the suave husksters of the newest Canadian credit card system was on the radio this morning, referring to it as "a major breakthrough in the handling of money" and I yearned to tell him that it was no such thing. For a civilized concept of credit, based on the notion that mutual trust is still alive and well, you must look to Britain. As it happens I've been doing just that this week which is why I'm on .41,0 :subject, in the, first; place. I've had this small account,i you see; at the head office of the . Canadian - Bank of Commerce, 2 Lombard Street, London, E.C. 3, a Canadian bank that does business in the British style. It was my fancy that I still had some 10 pounds. to my credit there so I sent off a cheque for that amount to a daughter who lives in South Africa. As it turned out, that caused me to be overdrawn to the precise amount of nine pounds, seven shillings and 11 pence. Two things were astonishing about this. One, that the bank had promptly and graciously cashed the cheque though it had been months since they'd last heard from me and had no idea whether I was dead or alive, in riches or in poverty, in sickness or in health. Secondly, their subsequent' letter to me which delicately .75 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA November 23, 1894 Mr. Thos. Walker of town has the contract for the erection of a stone foundation for the new barn of Mr. McCash, near Varna. It was 12 degrees below zero in Winnipeg on Saturday. Mr. W. Moffat of Shoal Lake, Man„ formerly of town, is here for the winter. The evaporator closes this Week after having converted into one shape or another about fifteen thousand bushels of apples. Mr. Geo. Hofflich proposes to erect about a dozen good bill-boards around town. 55 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEW ERA November 26,1914 Miss Jean Chldley left on Monday for a visit of some months in Winnipeg. Mr, Will Harland of Guelph made his usual call on Friday last. Travelling looks as if it agreed with him all right. Miss Bessie Irwin, Field Secretary of the DeacOnnes.4 Training School, Toronto, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. A. J. Irwin. Ontario weather is hard to beat, This week we ,saw in OM Mottling, buggies, wagons, cutters, sleighs, automobiles, taidka and a bicycle — not bad for our winter weatherr, noted that I was in the red and concluded with a paragraph I'll forever cherish. "It occurs to us," the manager noted so very gently, "that you• may not be aware of the fact that your account is overdrawn and we thought it advisable to inform you at an early date." Well, sir, as a man with a lifetime of bitter experience involving overdrawn Canadian accounts this was 'enough to have me blubbering with gratitude., No crossness, no 'of clistisement or hurt — just this offhand little reminder, wherever I might be, this casual, friendly little word between a bank and one of its trusted, gentlemen depositors. It instantly brought back grateful memories of my dealing with Gieves, the tailors in Bond Street and Cowley's, the wine merchants at the village of Datchet where we lived, two firms that gave me a Whole new slant on the marvellous bond of faith that makes credit, in Britain, a thing of shining dignity. Gieves, like Austin Reed's and Burberry and the other famous clothiers in the old land, have an absolute abhorrence of the actual exchange of bank notes. While my purchases were feW and far between I soon came to realize that I would offend them by coarsely proferring naked, soiled money. 40 YEARS AGO November 21, 1929 Mrs. Ephraim Snell and little Miss Barbara spent the weekend with friends in Stratford. Mr. C. G. Lobb accompanied his parents on a motor trip to northern Ontario over the weekend. Mrs. Albert McVittie of' Hespeler and Misses Pearl and Edith Gidley of Toronto spent a few days over the weekend as the guests of Miss Zetta Bowden. Mrs, Cudmore returned Friday from Elmira where she was visiting her daughter Mrs. Douglas Ward. 25 YEARS AGO November 23, 1944 Mrs. Dia Cornish has returned • home after visiting in Detroit and Dearborn, Mich., and Windsor for -a. week and a half renewing old acquaintances. Mrs. (Dr,) H. A. McIntyre has just returned after spending several days with her mother, Mrs, Jenkins of Toronto and sister, Mrs, Robert Draper of St. Catharines and Mrs. George McLeod Of Edmonton, Alta., are the guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. Caryl Draper, Rev, and Mr's. F, H, Patin of Windsor were the guests of Mrs. N. W, Woods, Bayfield, for a couple Of clayS last Week. 15 YEARS AGO November 18, 1944 Seventeen organizations of Clinton and Hullett Township were represented in the Council Chamber on Tuesday night when the Clinton Branch of the Perth-Huron Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society was formed. Ross Merrill was named first president. The local P.U.C. made plans on Tuesday afternoon to request permission under the H.E.P.C. Act to spend $25,598 for rehabilitation and extension work on the hydro system. Mrs. J. Sturgeon Sr. returned to her home in Bayfield on Friday after having been in St. Thomas and Pert; Stanley for a week. In Metro Toronto, for example, 39 per cent of Roman Catholics direct their taxes to the public school system, and the great majority of Catholic high school youth attend public high schools. The Liberals and the New Democrats in endorsing tax support for separate schools have tried to show that the authorative Hall-Dennis Report favors their stand._ The Report, in fact, recommends that each child should have an integrated education, but this certainly is not an endorsation of two high school systems, one separate and one public and both fully supported by public funds. . It must be recognized that the British North America Act authorizes separate schools from kindergarten to grade 8, but it would be a retrograde step to extend this privilege to the higher and more expensive grades. What is needed is not two school systems that would duplicate facilities and create the need for separate and expenpivelY prepared curriculums. All that is needed is one school system. Those who dissent should be willing to take on the financial responsibility as well as the moral responsibility for educating their children. — Unchurched .Editorials, United Church Board of Evangelism and Social Service. Surely enough fragments So, too, with Cowley's where • my visits were neither so few nor so far between. Without saying a direct word it' was instantly established that I would cart off the goods and that some day, perhaps from the decent /privacy of my book-lined den, I would deign to find time to finalize the transaction, probably with a perfectly good cheque on an overdrawn account. It was all so civilized, so c,41 q cii4,?d, fiPut the x: ,r relationships, on a lofty plane above the meanness of common barter, -that it soon gave me the delicious illusion of being not merely honorable, but affluent, a role undreamed of in my long and losing bout with Canadian merchandising. • - The establishment of this lovely assumption of honesty requires no cloistering in claustrophobic booths with flint-eyed credit girls or phone calls to mysterious agents who know your entire statistical past or references from police chiefs or clergymen. It is enough that you have honored them with your custom. So, too, it seems, with the London branch of this Canadian bank on whom the British way has rubbed off so gallantly. One of these days, when, I've paid off Gieves and Cowley's, I plan to send ,them a cheque to show them that trust is, after all, reciprocal. 10 YEARS AGO November 19, 1959 Workmen moved the CNR Station from Brucefield to a previously poured foundation on Charles St. to become the new home of the Loyal Orange Lodge and the Benevolent Association. Mr, and Mrs. Harold Scotchmer, Winnipeg, Man. were the guests of Mrs. Robert. Scotchmer of Bayfield, from Sunday to Wedrier,day. IVIrs, Thomas' Fairservice-, Mrs. Albert Shaddick, Mrs. Carl Ward, ' Stratford and Mrs, William Bagaent, Ingersoll, spent the weekend in Port Huron.