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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1969-12-22, Page 51CHURCIE SERVICES eqs,ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH I ° "THE FRIENPLY CHURCH" a Pastor: REV. H, W. WQNFOR, B.Sc., ELCom„ B.D. 0 * Organist: MISS 1,015 GRASBY, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th. ,p4i• 9:45 a.rn. --Sunday School: 11100 a,m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic; "THINQS TO COW" Christmas Eve, 11 p.m. — Joint Service with Wesley-Willis New Year's gVe, 11 p.m. — Combined seroce at Wesley-Willis Wesley-Willis -- Holinesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOWATT, CS), B.A., B.O., 0.0., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th WESLEY-WILLIS Sunday School — 9:45 a.m. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m. — Worship Service. 2:00 p.m. — Sunday School. Christmas Eve Service--11 Eat7tario St. Church. New Year's Eve Service-11 p.m. at Wesley-Willis. — ALL vv CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th 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 28th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship. Special Music by Choir. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th 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 \,...\\\\%•%••\1.1N 1N1N1N\1'"..NO.N\st ...\\\\N\NN ,,i Business and Professional Directory 3 3 3 3 3 3 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 class regiStration number — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, 56.00 pet year; U.S.A., S7.50 ERIC A. MedLIIISNM — Editor J. IkOWARE5 AltICEN General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population THE O/ P/IbAP IN CANADA Wonders of a 19-pound Christmas pie SEAFORTH insures: * Town Dwellings * All Class of Farm Property * Summer cottages * Churches, Schools, Halls Extended coverage (Wind, Smoke, water damage, falling objects etc.) is also available. Agents: James Keya, RR 1, Seaforth; V, J. Lane, RR 5, Seaforth; Wm. Leiper, Jr, Loridesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Harold Squire, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Seaforth, FIRE INSUROCE COMPANY I L. good will toward men Clinton News-Recor MONDAY, DECIVII3ER 22, 1969 pCOND. SECTION 111111110110110110111141111111011111110iillill111111111111iliiiiiiill11111111111111milhill11111111111111 lllilallI11111i11IIII111111111111111101111111111111111111111111ialiail1iiiiiii1111i11isi 5.--. -7-_ E--: ommitfiligigmillgiiiiiiiiti11111111111111111111111111111111111111l111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111R The News-Record staff This season, . it is our wish that your spirit be moved by the inspiration and -hope that distinguished. the first Christmas. And that its meaning then . . of peace and good will toward men . . , will be its meaning now for you and your loved ones. A joy for all seasons Christmas is hairy! As the getting-ready-for- Christmas tempo around our house increases from mild pan- ic to wild hysteria, I can't help thinking a long way back: to the times when Christmas was an experience to be anticipated with thrilling delight, to be• savoured when it arrived, rath- er than the inane, exhausting scramble it has become 'in these affluent times. First real indication of Christmas was the buying of the turkey. In my home town, there was an annual Turkey Fair, late in November. Excit- ing fore youngsters. Farmers brought their turkeys to town, fresh-killed and plucked, but with heads, feet and guts still there. Housewives wandered among the turkeys, looking for the perfect bird, pinching, pok- ing, sniffing, Then it was hung in the woodshed, by the feet. At the right time, it was brought in, the pin-feathers plucked with care, head and feet chopped off and guts re- moved. Then the scent of home-made dressing filled the air. It was a real turkey. Today, we elbow and shove Our way along the meat count- er, gazing at a row of pallid, yellow-white lumps wrapped in plastic, legs neatly tucked in. They all look the same, and they all taste the same (wet paper), but we are secure in the knowledge that we don't have to disembowel them, that they are "eviscerated" and that the giblets are in a nice little bag tucked inside the frOzen dareaSs. I can't quite believe that they have ever been real turkeys that have walked and eaten and fought and mated. Getting the tree was the next step. You went out into the country with your kid brother, walked half a mile into the bush and selected a beautiful spruce, one cutting, the other watching for the farmer. You dragged and car- ried it, sometimes two miles, home. There was a great sense of satisfaction. Today we go down to a Christmas tree lot, fumble through a pile of half-frozen, crumby Scotch pines, select the least misshapen, take it home, and when it thaws, dis- cover that the frozen side has a gap the length of your arm in it. This is after forking over a small ransom, There is a great sense of dissatisfaction. Decorations in those days were simple, inexpensive, but just right. Strings of red paper bells, venerable but cheery, Strings of red and green curled crepe paper all over the house. The tree itself had "ici- cles" and some colored balls. A few wealthy people had col- ored lights. On top Was a home-made angel. Today, on decorations alone, some people spend what would have 4'ecl a family in these days for two months. Fancy candles; store-bought wreaths of ersatz holly; colored lights every- where, inside and out4 trees that are almost hidden from the naked eye by festbons of tribbery. Buying gifts in those days was simple, compared to the frenetic business it is today. There was scarcely any money then, and everybody needed' something. SO it was long un- derwear, or a hand-knit sweat-. er, socks or gloves, maybe a few real luxuries, like a 59• cent game of snakes and lad- ders, or a book. Ten dollars didn't go far, even then. Today people almost go around the bend trying to find something for other people who have everything, or can buy it. Nobody makes a gift. They buy them. They haven't time, because of the "Christ- mas rush". Clothes that don't fit. Eight-dollar toys that last five minutes. A hundred dol- lars worth of ski equipment that isn't the right kind. Christmas Eve then was ear- ols around the piano, mother stuffing the turkey, kids to bed early quivering with excite- ment. Stocking-stuffing time for the adults. A quiet chat, with a little despair that there wasn't money fOr skates and new winter coats, and things like that. Today it's frantic last-minute shopping and wrapping of gifts, entertaining people who have managed to finish their rat-race (we got to bed at 4 a.m. last year after receiving carollers and others, and, be Bove it or not, we had frozen chicken pies for Christmas din- net.) Hope I'm not getting mand- Iin, but Christmas used to be merry, Now, it's just hairy. Christmastime. Happy time. You can almost feel it snowing memories. But like snowflakes, memories melt into time unless you freeze them on film. This Christmas, make a project of chasing good times through the camera viewfinder. Build up a trove of memories for the future, when nothing is ever quite the same again. Especially if you have children. Equipment? That's the easy part. Even the simplest camera takes good color prints or transparencies. Now take a thoughtful look at the Christmas season. To tell the whole story on film is a challenge to your imagination and ingenuity. Your subjects: environment, activities, and people. First, environment, town and country. Set the stage for your Christmas pictorial with a series of snowscapes. There are few scenes more beautiful than a white world painted in winter light, Keep your pictures simple Several readers have asked me if I intend to run the Morton Thompson recipe for cooking a Christmas turkey again this year and the answer is no. Zap! There goes another tradition. This recipe, in case you've joined us recently, first appeared many years ago in a collection of hilarious essays by Morton called "Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player." Though columnists all across Canada picked it up in later years I claim to be the first to have pirated it, The book, by the way, is available at any public library if you really must do your bird the hard way, The first year my wife and I tried it ourselves resulted in our kitehen being declared a disaster area, The turkey was as splendid as promised. But the chaos and confusion of preparing it and the progressive debauchery of the entire party of volunteer helpers was such that We agreed henceforth to stick to saner, more orthodox preparations of the festive fowl. Still, there was such a demand for it that I continued to print the considerable directions year after year. So many trusting readers decided to follow them, carried away by the Yuletide spirit or gluttony, that several &partition( stores put up a kit of the enormous variety of ingredients. Poi* years I kept a file of the resulting letters from people who described in detail the harrowing experiences in and uncluttered, arranging a few basic elements into dramatic compositions. 'In the city, you wander through the concrete corridors photographing colorful exhibits, decorations, giant streams of lights, Santa Clauses, and the crowds themselves in the first waves of shopping panic. All these have a place in your Christmas show. Then another bright Yuletide picture — your house! Strings of glittering lights, lawn figures, spotlights painting the house in cheerful colors, make for a sight you'll want to remember with pictures. Pick a not-so-chilly night. Brace your camera (here you'll need an adjustable model) on a tripod or against a solid support, and leave the lens wide open for a few seconds. Just to be on the safe side, you might "bracket" by shooting each scene at two or three different exposures. Next, Christmas activities. From the moment Dad and the kids bring home the tree until following the step-by-step procedure. "The best turkey we ever ate," one described it, "and the worst Christmas we ever spent," It soon became apparent that the recipe appealed mainly to husbands who would have trouble boiling an egg and the resulting monumental Mess was always on my conscience. I mention all this now because my wife has been threatening this week to prepare Mrs. Hannah Glass' 18th - Century Yorkshire Christmas Pie. If I get carried away and decide to rim that recipe next year I want you to know how it all started. It all started, in fact, in the village of hatchet near London during my first bureau assignment in. Britain. It was there that my wife's mad passion for hInglish cooking came to the ruff boil. It wasn't a passiOri we shared, I may say. I, myself, prefer a form of cooking Which gives you a 60.50 chance of being able to. rise after a meal, I could never bring myself to share my Wife's adoration of the gtosS tonnage of the British confections that teak her fancy. Our neighbor, as it happened, Was a cook knoWn throughout the length and breadth of Buckiligharnahlre a sterling woman who appeared to Move perpetually in 4 cloud of baking Soda, Not the least of her eltdrns to culinary fable waS that each the last lights flicker out on Christmas night, keep shooting. Among the highlights of your pictorial will be the ritual trimming of the tree, wrapping presents, decorating the house, the kids stealing out to the tree on Christmas morning, the whole family gathered to inspect the loot, and naturally, the Christmas feast. Keeping this thorough "shooting schedule" in mind, it's best to stock up on film in advance. The last and most important category is people. Make your family the stars of the show, but remember to include visiting relatives, friends, even the household pet. Try to catch people as they're doing something natural 'to the scene, such as opening presents. Avoid static poses. And take plenty of close-ups. What it adds up to is Christmas all year long — brought to you by photography, the language of today and tomorrow. Christmas she prepared the famous Yorkshire Pie which, should warn you right here, weighs 19 pounds! Like Morton Thompson's recipe the Yorkshire Pie directions had come by a circuitous route, having been printed originally in the 1796 edition of The Art of Cooking by Mrs. Hannah Glass and, a century and a half later, revived by a Christmas number of The Tatler and Bystander. Well, cooking the Thompson turkey is a breeze in comparison With the construction job required for Mrs. Glass' mammoth goody. To begin with, the ingredients include a nine,pound turkey, a seven-pound goose, a six-pound capon, a fully-grown young hare, two partridges, a large knuckle of veal, baton, ham, mushrooms, pistachio nuts, IVIacleira, brandy, bouquet garni and a whole bunch of Other stuff. This is just the kind of project ; in displacement, calories arid heft, that brings the roses to my wife's cheeks arid I inuSt confess, myself, to a certain sense of anticipation in Cutting into the thing, said to reveal gorgeous layers of white and dark meat. If she goes ahead with it, and I survive, I'll let you ItrieW All abOtit it. Meanwhile, a tight merry Christmas to you ail. OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF oPtomermsr Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 LAWSON AND WISE 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 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY From, our early files page 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. 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