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THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD
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ERIC A. McGUINNESS — Editor
J. HOWARD AITKEN General Manager
Published every Thursday at
the heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario
Population 3,475
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SERVICES A very interesting letter was read at the
las/ rneqin9 Lp,f the Wingham town
council. Written by ' the industrial
.development committee of an Eastern.
Ontario town and addressed to Western
Foundry in Wingham, the letter
enumerated the main reasons why
industry should select Hawkesbury as a
site for a new plant.
Not only was the letter written
convincingly and with imagination, but
the advantages which it pointed out were
so attractive that any business owner with
'thoughts of a move or an expansion
program in mind, would certainly be
made at least curious enough to visit the
town before making a final decision.
The great advantage offered by
Hawkesbury is an industrial park, in
which serviced lots are available for new
plants. The water, sewage and electrical
services are all there, waiting to be used.
Councillor Bill Walden, who knows
Hawkesbury well, said that there was no
doubt whatever about the rapid
development of that community. It has
more than doubled in both industrial
production and population.
For the past 20 years we have listened
to the complaints of citizens here that we
need more industry and nothing is being
done about it. We did gain a very valuable
addition to the industrial community
when the Berry plant opened, and the
expansion programs at Western Foundry
and Lloyd-Truax have added many jobs
for local people. But on the other side of
the ledger, a toilet seat industry closed,
the Maitland Creamery operation has been
moved out of town, and operations have
very nearly ceased at the former Fry &
Blackhall plant.
Frankly, we don't particularly want to
see Wingham become a roaring industrial
complex. Most of us who enjoy living here
4 Clinton NeWS..liecOrgt, Thursday, December 18, 1969
.E00(101 Oplitment.
OXFAM of Canada ,opened its
Christmas fund raising campaign on
November 24. This • year OXFAM is
stressing the development side of its work
rather than the relief side.
Food for the hungry is important to
OXFAM. A hungry man can't farm, can't
learn anch;6610 improve himself needs:1
foOd OXFAIVI feed.i• a x,l'at''•Of114
hungry people.
But it does more than that. OXFAM
tackles hunger at its roots. Mothers learn
how to feed and care for their children. It
Initiative makes .difference .
OXFAM needs help
appreciate the fact that Wingham is a
country town — small enough to be
friendly and large enough to have all the
amenities for an enjoyable life, However,
towns don't stand still. They either
progress or decline . and we certainly
aren't getting ahead very fast as far as
employment is concerned.
It's very easy to point an accusing
finger at the industrial committee but we
know from experience that it's not quite
so easy to get new industries signed up.
The hard work of the various members of
the industrial committee has brought
many interested prospects to town, but in
some caes they have decided to go to
Grey County, when there was a federal
incentive plan in that area. The
availability of industrial buildings and
plenty of housing has attracted others to
Centralia — and the same thing may be
about to happen at Clinton.
More than any other reason why
industries don't become seriously
interested in Wingham is the fact that we
don't have any serviced industrial sites.
r There is land available, but lack of services
is a clear indication that we just aren't on
our toes. •
The solution? It costs money — and not
the kind of money that can be raised by
the town council. If and when we find a
group of interested investors in our own
community who will put up some of their
dollars for the purchase and servicing of
an industrial park, we may have some
hope of attracting new industries. Until
that day comes we will be able to enjoy
the pastime of watching the industries go
somewhere else.
If you are not• convinced, visit
Hawkesbury, or Streetsville or Elmira —
or a dozen other places where the
initiative of local investors made all the
difference. — Wingham Advance-Times
helps farmers to grow • better crops.
Agricultural co-operatives become
self-sufficient with help from Oxfam. This
means that a lot of people who need food
today will be able to grow their own food
tomorrow. And helping people grow a
better tomorrow is what OXFAM is all
about..
T tile' nrigt Al9PAr WV. e'of
OXFAM'S"' Ways ciV1481 h 41.
Money that is raised through this appeal
will go to help OXFAM projects.
This Christmas help. OXFAM tackle
hunger at its roots. •
Don't know how things are
around your way, but there's
little doubt that we're going to
have a white Christmas around
here. Winter came in like a
polar bear with a toothache,
and I went off to work on
December 1st as though it was
mid-January. Prayerfully.
That • is, wade through six
inches of fresh snow, pray
fervently as I try to start the
car, breathe another little one
of thanks when it goes, close
my eyes and bomb backward
down the driveway, muttering
another supplication that I'll
make the road, and then send
up another few words of grati-
tude because I'd got my snow
tires on the day before. •
One creature who despises
the whole business as much as
I is our cat. It was bad enough
for her before the snow came.
Huge tomcats, black,.white and
piebald, littered the yard, and
she'd sit on the picnic table,
spitting and snarling at them
with an air of chastity and
virtue that is seldom seen
these days.
She was in command of that
situation. But when I chucked
her out into half a foot, of
snow, her first experience of
it, she almost went out of her
head.
Skiers are delighted, of
course, and that other insidi-
ous new breed, the snow-mobi-
lers, are beaming all over their
big, fat, red faces.
It's not enough that we
should have our summers
ruined by half-wits in motor
boats and on motor cycles,
tearing around polluting the
water and the air, destroying
the peace and endangering not
only their own lives (who
cares?), but those of every-
body else within ramming dis-
tance.
Now we have their winter
counter-parts. I, can tolerate
the show-mobile as a handy
tool for work, or for getting
from one place to another un-
der difficult conditions. But I
haven't much time 'for those
idiots who merely revel in the
noise, the sense of power, and
the stink, half-trained and of-
ten half-stoned, a menace to
everything in or out of sight.
I'll bet poet Robert Frost is
glad he's 'dead. Imagine trying
to write a beautiful, haunting
thing like Stopping By Woods
on a tSnoWy Evening, today.
Some moron would come
charging out of the woods on a
snow-mobile, frighten the
horse, and the poet would wind
up in a snow-drift.
I suppose I mustn't get
churlish, with Christmas ap-
proaching. But if any snow-
mobile manufacturer thinks he
can bribe me into reversing my
stand by sending me one of
these infernal machines for
Christmas, he's mistaken. I'd
send it right back, In April.
Hope you're in better shape
with your Christmas prepara-
tions than we are. Every year,
at our place, the last week or
so is about as organized as an
Irish cattle sale.
But I'll bet you despise, as
much as I do, those aseptic
souls who buy their presents in
September, have their colored
lights out in November, and
mail their cards on the first of
December.
There's something about
people like that that irks me.
They're of the same species as
those who work with a clean
desk, never lose their rubbers,
and smirk, "No thanks, I don't
smoke," when you offer them a
fag.
Perhaps the reason I can't
stand them is that I hate my-
self. My desk looks like a bar-
gain counter after a sale. I lose
gloves, rubbers, hats, and im-
portant papers. I 'forget impor-
tant things and remember triv-
ialities.
One of these is buying
clothes. I'd rather go into the
jungle than a clothing shop. I
have one suit, for all occasions,
one two-year-old jacket, one
pair of flannels with a hole in
them: I have an old trench-coat
about as warm as a silk nigh-
tie, somebody else's rubber
boots, a pair of gloves with
holes in both thumbs, and a
golf cap for winter headgear.
So I shall leave this column
lying about ostentatiously until
Christmas. Maybe my family
will rehabilitate me, at least
outwardly.
However, I'll have about the
nicest Christmas present I
can think of, and it won't be
wrapped. I'll have my dearly
loved daughter home for the
holidays.
Christmas means celebration,
a pilgrimage back to childhood,
old-fashioned family warmth in
a chilly winter world. When
you've made a movie of it,
Christmas means happy
memories through the coming
year.
Movies? If you don't already,
this Christmas is a good time to
start.
For one thing, making movies
has never been so easy. New
movie cameras, like the Kodak
Instamatic M24, are elegant and
palm-sized, yet include built-in
pistol grip and automatic,
electric-eye expbsure for bright
color,invges,,„ ,
TheSe cameras areaereltivel
inexpensive, and come in gift
outfits with super 8
batteries, and thoSe vital
instructions.
Add a movie light for
shooting indoors, make your
family the stars of the show, and
your Christmas '69 movie is
ready to go.
Just follow the traditional
When you come right down to
it, the greatest incentive to sane
and intelligent drinking is not a
matter of laws governing the use
of alcohol, breathalyzer tests on
the highways, temperance
education or even a matter of
conscience.
The real incentive is simply
the plain, ordinary, everyday,
old-fashioned hangover.
Many thousands of Canadians
will soon be starting 1970
pledging themselves like
evangelists to a new ' life of
moderation, merely because on
New Year's morning they'll feel
as if they had been kicked
repeatedly in the head by a
dray-horse.
The hangover is not an
immediate cure, but it has a
cumulative effect and after years
of suffering Most men come to
the reluctant admission that
every golden drop of grain spirits
is a down payment on
irrevocable misery. Eventually,
sometimes around the age of 90,
some men begin to get the idea.
Medical science has now
simplified the whole business of
the morning after. We know
exactly what is happening to the
chemistry of the body.
The alcohol, usually between
the second and fourth highball,
enters the blood stream and
proceeds to dry up the rather •
important substance known as
thiamin hydrochloride, or B-1.
Meanwhile the lactic acid is
acting as a sandpaper (coarse
grade) upon the intestinal tract,
the membranes and the sensitive
lining Of the stomach. The
Christmas happenings in their
natural order, giving free rein to
your own imagination and
ingenuity along the way.
Try to keep each "cut"
between seven and 10 seconds
long, depending on your subject.
Include a great variety of scenes
and vantage points, and keep
things lively with long shots,
medium shots, and plenty of
close-ups.
You might begin with
Christmas in the city, a
"shooting" session downtown,
as the kids marvel at lights,
window exhibits, and
decorations.
pvis..pmas tree (Dad
,coining home with the bush over
his shoulder, kids following
jubilantly), decorating the house
in lights and holly and mistletoe,
trimming the tree, wrapping
gifts, and Christmas Eve
activities.
By the time Christmas Day
arrives, you'll already have
racked up an impressive movie!
Now the big day itself. From
well-known result includes those
old voodoo drums beating,
beating, between the crowded
temples, the mouthful of
grandmaw's Lysol and. the
pressure cooker eyeballs.
Unhappily, medical science
has very little idea of what to do
about it except to suffer like a
man. •
There are, of course, a great
many spurious claims for
hangover cures. Some men
advocate a brisk walk in the
fresh air. Others, usually of the
Neanderthal type, recommend
the cold shower. A full pint of
milk is sometimes prescribed.
Spirits of ammonia,
bicarbonates, hot water, aspirin
— each has its wistful little set, of
faith cure addicts.
The more advanced "cures"
are invariably as disagreeable as
the malady itself.
Anyone who has seen a man
attempting to restore himself
before noon with a Prairie
Oyster — one pony Cognac, ono
tablespoon Worcestershire, one
tablespoon vinegar, one
teaspoon ketchup, one teaspoon
Angostura, the yolk of a raw egg
and a shake of cayenne — has
seen the folly and degredation of
intemperance.
The really effective cures, of
course, are all a variation' of the
Hair-of-the-Dog theory and are
only a reprieve in the long
shadow of the gallows.
Similarly the pre-party
precautions, such as a jigger of
olive oil or cream, while
effective enough in the early
the moment the kids shatter the
early morning silence' with
shrieks of delight until the last
lights of the tree wink out at
night, you'll be busy capturing
those once-a-year moments that
mean so much.
Highlights include the funny,
frantic adventure as the kids
steal down to their fate at the
foot of the tree and open their
presents; the kids (including
Dad) experimenting with new
toys and other gifts; Mom
preparing the turkey; and the
whole family sitting down to the
feast.
Finally, as the guests say
farewell, and the kids straggle
off to bed, you wrap up your
Christmas movie with a shot of
the house lights flickering off in
the night.
The movie you get will bring
you Christmas throughout the
year. And if this is your first,
let's hope it's the beginning of a
family tradition.
stages, are merely a
postponement and, indeed, may
be fatal since they induce a false
note of confidence.
Alcohol, in short, should be
approached in the same manner
as a dark basement stairway in a
home where a great many
children are roller-skaters.
In its purely physical aspects
the hangover is grim enough, but
the mental effect is even more
telling as a deterent to
over-indulgence. This is
particularly true of older men
who ,have, or feign, a certain
dignity and reserve in their
normal state.
A middle-aged man,
awakening with a headful of
warm glue and a mittened
tongue, may forget his aches in
dreadful speculation upon
whether he did or did not drop
an ice cube down the inviting
back of Mrs. Thing's gown.
I once knew a man who
awoke on a morning after with
the certain knowledge that he
had- stepped to a microphone
before some 800 strangers and
rendered "Melancholy Baby" in
a high tenor voice. It shocked
him into an awareness of his
basic inability to drink properly
and it was fully two weeks
before he touched the stuff
again.
This is known as the
remorseful hangover, said to be
extremely common on New
Year's Day, and has caused
many men to end up shaking a
tambourine on a street corner
warning the passers-by against
the evils Of drink,
ONTARIO ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH
"THE FRIENDLY CHURCH"
Pastor: REV, H. IN. iNONFO
OrgooisfB:.5Mcl.; S13.1-CrIS"GBR.DA.SBY. A.R.C.T.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21st
9:45 a.m, — Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship.
Sermon Topic; 4130TH SIDES NOW"
7:30' p.m. — Evening Carol Service,
Junior and Senior Choirs.
Christmas Eve, 11 p.m. — Joint Service with
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, DECEMBER 21st
WESLEY-WILLIS
Sunday School — 9:45 a.m.
10:30 a.m. — ORGAN RECITAL, Mr. Lorne Dotterer
11:00 a.m. — CHRISTMAS IN SONG AND STORY.
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m. — CHRISTMAS IN SONG AND STORY
2:00 p.m. —Sunday School.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS CONCERTS
Saturday, 2:30 p.m. — Primary and Under, Wesley-Willis
8:30 p.m. — Holmesville.
CHRISTMAS EVE JOINT SERVICE
11:00 p.m. ONTARIO STREET CHURCH
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21st
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, DECEMBER 21st
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
-10:45 a.m. — CHRISTMAS SUNDAY.
Special Music by Choir.
Monday, Dec. 22 — Annual Sunday School at 8:00 p.m.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Leslie Clemens
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21st
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'
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482-7010
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INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE
INVESTMENTS
Clinton
Office: 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
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