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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-03-04, Page 44 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, March 4, 1971 Editorial comment We don't care if you think we're right or wrong. We care only that you think, The Red Cross helps There are many charitable organizations these days, with their own symbol and their own special fields. We have health agencies concerned with helping those with particular disabilities or diseases and there are welfare agencies which see to it that the material necessities are available for persons in need. And then there is the Canadian Red Cross Society, a volunteer agency with its own symbol atird many special services. March is Red-Cross Month and time to pay tribute to the Red Cross Society's services and its thousands of volunteer workers. Over 90 per cent of Red Cross work is done by these volunteers who come from all walks of life, and are of all ages, races and creeds. Volunteers help with the recruiting of volunteer blood donors and the organization and operation of Red Cross Blood donor clinics. Specially trained Red Cross volunteers teach children and adults water safety practices so that they may enjoy water activities in safety. They also operate many special water safety programmes for the physically handicapped, the mentally retarded, the deaf, and the blind. Many volunteer hours are dedicated to helping the sick, the lonely and the elderly — visiting veterans in hospitals, caring for families when the mother is ill, offering friendship and help to shut-ins, and meeting the needs of senior citizens by providing "meals on wheels", organizing fitness and recreation programmes and making them feel part of the community. For many elderly people who would not otherwise venture outdoors, the Red Cross has supplied wheelchair service and transportation to hospital clinics for treatment, or to public gardens, art showings, theatres or zoos for recreation. Many women volunteers use their talents to make layettes, bedding and articles of clothing for the victims of disasters at home and abroad. They also prepare millions of cotton swabs for use at blood donor clinics. It is through the financial support of the Canadian public that the articles used for operating these services are purchased and maintained — the sewing machines, the wheelchairs, the instructional aids for the teaching of care in the home and water safety, the items loaned to the public from the Red Cross sick-room equipment loan cupboards and the special apparatus necessary for the -teaching of the handicapped. To strike is a right There was a riot and a man was killed in the streets in Montreal in 1969 when the police went on strike. Londoners lived in the stench of their own refuse last year when the garbage collectors struck. A strike involving essential services, such as those provided by doctors, hospital workers, police and firemen, dock workers, transportation workers, teachers and postai employees, pose a serious threat to the health and welfare as re as the economy of a society. Each time such a strike occurs the same question is raised: Should people in essential service have the right to strike? More important, however, is the compelling argument that the right to strike is a measure of freedom in society. An employee must retain the right to withhold his services from an employer without being liable to prosecution unless he is bound by an existing work agreement. That is the ideal. The reality, however, is a different matter. On one hand illegal or wildcat strikes happen often and on the other, government exercises the right to intervene and legislate workers back to their jobs. Neither course complements the process of collective bargaining. Usually, only two courses seem open: compulsory arbitration and the right to strike. But a third alternative may be to study the possibility of introducing in our society that which ;s common in European industry — the practise of industrial democracy. This simply calls for participation in decision-making by both management and organized labour. Everyone seems to agree that improvements are needed in the collective bargaining process, It is too cumbersome and takes ar too long to go through all the procedures. But changes in the system require better relations between employer and employee, better representation of staff on budget committees and improved two-way communication between staff and upper levels. in other words — industrial democracy. —Contributed. (4'4.,Some TIMES 2 F/N© AIVSEC.F PR A sumc FOR ANo7~NER BLIZZ A RD 11 Pour your own with Smiley's mix hat's new at Huronview? EMERMaft 1KtMEM. Huronview orchestra plays THE CLINTON NEW ERA i9Amalgamated24 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 Established 1881 " . Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $750 KEITH W, ROULSTO'N — Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published second class mail the heart registration number — 0817 every Thursday at of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Potitilatio-rt 3;475 TEE HOME OF 12.4 DAR IN CANADA Well, we ventured into Sodom or Oornorrah recently, acid escaped with nothing worse than a case of pop. Or 13 cases, to be eeact. We just had to visit our daughter at university because she'e lonely. This is the Old Battleaxe's story, and Kim aids and abets with sly innuendoes in her letters, Flow anybody can lye lonely when she's living in a house with 13 . other girls is beyond the simple comprehension of a male parent. Maybe she is lonely, but her real reason for wanting us to go down and See her is that she knows she's going to get a night in a hotel room, have a smashing good (limier, and see a show, none of which is included in her budget. The thy before we were to go, my muffler blew. This, coupled with dire weather warnings and my phobia about the city, made me suggest caneelling the trip. Nothing doing. Turned out to be the worst weekend for driving this winter, and that's a big statement. However, we made IL Had a room reserved, but had forgotten about the big political rIonvetation. The hotel lobby was chaos. Wild-eyed room clerks. Red-eyed conventioneers arguing over the bills they had run up, which they had signed with a flourish for food and drink before the testy dawn of the last day. Not a bell-hop to be had, 'Filially got a key. 'The people had checked out, said the flunkey„ brat tile room wasn't made up yet. All we wanted to do was relax after a 150-mile bad drive, so we found our own way up. Not only was the Mom not made up, it was still occupied. But the residents; a charming couple from Ottawa, let us in while they finished packing. Both the room and the couple looked like the tailend of a convention. It was actually two adjoining rooms and they looked like a scene from Ten Nights In a Bar-room. Not the people, the rooms. This had been a "hospitality room", it turned out. That is a polite way of saying a place where the drinks, usually supplied as a public relations deal by the distillers, are free for every moocher who :arrives, as well as the hard-working. There Was still plenty of booze, and about 18 ',nylons of. mix. There was one made up bed in the two rooms. The rest of the space'was a tonglomerate of glasses, bars, desks, placards and posters. Sam, the husband, was a fairly big wheel organizer. He was tottering with fatigue and sounded as though he had swallowed two pounds of sand, after four days and nights of working for the cause. I3ut -within 20 minutes, we were fast friends. At four p.m., they infortned us that they had to meet their son and his wife at the station at four nan. 'They got away about 4:15, leaving us with the chores of telling their son where they might meet him, and protecting the booze that was left. Everthing worked fine. Son phoned, got the message. Booze men, looking like a couple of hotel dicks, picked up the hooch, giving us the cold suspicious stare. I hadn't taken a single jug, so help me. My wife wouldn't let me. But they wouldn't take the mix. Cartons and cartons and bottles and bottles of it. We sat around desolately in the wreckage for three hours, waiting for the maids to come. Finally, the Old Lady got sore, phoned the desk and demanded action. We were given another room. But leave all that mix? Not an old prisoner of war. We carted 15 cases with us, after giving several to a raucous party from Timmins, across the ball, who had been ogling and whistling at Wife and daughter, to former's delight and latter's amusement. Settled in new room. Knock on door. Fainily of four 'mitered. They had been given same room. Dad exhausted, mother distraught, teen-age daughter excited and 12-year-old son sitting sullenly in corner, muttering, "Never trust an alcoholic." Gave them a drink. Buddies in no time. But they still had no room. Saw show. Wife shocked at nude scene. Checked out next day with 13 cases of mix, about $35 worth. "Real hicks," said the bell-boys' arrogant glares. Carried it 'off with'aplomb. Dropped Kim and eight cartons of ginger ale and tole at her residence. Arrived home with five of soda and tonic water, Drop around, and bring your own booze. My time. We're set for mix. Not enough love Mr. Paul Zucci, of Geneva, who has been touring the United States and Canada for his syndicate of European newspapers, spent the night here at Offhand Manor earlier this week, full of admiration and wonder at North American life, but with one small reservation. And perhaps not so small at that. Canadians, said Mr. Zucci in accents I cannot hope to reproduce with any fidelity whatever, do not love each other enough. We do not give one another the barest minimum of praise or compliments or affection, said he. We have the warmest homes in the world "Today, thermostatically-controlled, but our reciprocal heat emotionally is seldom above zero. How strange, said Mr. Zucci, addressing the gathering in his honor, to come from Europe, where one may go through the TEN YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record March 2, 1961 Fourteen years ago the first seed fair was held in Huron County by the Soil and Crop Improvement Association. Expanded last year to a three-day affair, the 1961 seed show will feature for the first tithe an evening's variety entertainment. This is the particular project of the Junior Farmers of the county and is the only part of the fair for which an admission charge is made. On Monday, just to prove her statement that .she had pansies blooming in her garden, Mrs, Nelson Heard picked a bouquet and brought them to the writer (Lucy R. Woods). Two stems of pink annual phlox were thrown hi for good measure. Maurice "Rocket" Richard, of Montreal Canadiens hockey fame and now a good-will public relations man with the club was a visitor at Jack Setutotes office and warehouse recently, FIFTEEN YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record March 1, 1956 The Hon. Paul Martin, Dominion Minister of Health and Welfare visited the Clinton Public Hospital last Friday afternoon, and made a tour of the building, accompanied by the superintendent, Miss A. 13. Sinclair. Ken Arkeli, Waterloo College, was home over the weekend. Ken has signed a contract to play football with the British Columbia Vancouver Lions next season. He will leave early in June for Vancouver B.C. to be there for training. When the Canadian Council on 4-11 Clubs convenes in Saskatoon on March 5-7, R. Gordon Bennett, associate director of extension, Ontario Department of Agriculture, will be general chairman throughout the tonference. Mr. Bennett is a former agricultural representative for Huron County. day strengthened and buoyed by physical embraces, by expressions of approval and confidence, by greetings of sympathy and understanding, and then to be flung among the frigid Canadians who give each other so little, so grudgingly. Never, said Mr. Zucci, had he ever been in a country where there was so much austere self-sufficiency, where each man was an island unto himself, and, rude though it may have been for a visitor to criticize, he had to say that it was intolerable and unbearable. You need to learn to love, said he, to hug and kiss hands apd touch each other, uo say l@id and flattering things about each other and to each other, to lighten the burden of each other's lives by adoration. We remind him, said Mr. Zucci, of the story of his friend Alex Koenig, who wrote under the name of Alexander King, 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record March 7, 1946 Huron County's drive to control the nefarious warble fly in cattle, has commenced. A vigorous publicity campaign, through the media of the press, schools, radio and movies, will be conducted under the auspices of a joint committee representing the County Council Agricultural Committee, Huron County Federation of Agriculture, Huron Holstein Breeders' Association, and Perth-Huron Shorthorn Club. The heralded 011A Intermediate "13" hockey play-off series between London Majors and Clinton Colts has not been staged as yet. Springtime has interfered with the best laid plans of Secretary Nl. J. Schoenhals, Manager Bert Oliddon, and all the rest of the players and fans. As the weather IS still like Spring there not likely will be any more ice made Clintonhi arena this season. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record March 5, 1931 Owing to the fine weather we have been having lately and the diligence of the roadnien, most of the roads in this vicinity have been cleared and are open to motor traffic. Since the paving of King's Highway No. 8 and the keeping of it clear all winter for motor traffic, the incentive to open other roads early is greater. From the column "Of Interest to You and Me:" Driving on many of our streets has been automatic recently. All that is necessary is to pick out the set of ruts that will take you home Stratford Beacon Herald. Just the same here, and if you didn't happen to strike the right Ones, welLyou went on until you could turn out. Playing at the Capital Theatre, Goderich Was Gloria Swanson in "What a Widow", and his tropical gold fish. In search of a hobby, it seems, Alex had purchased tanks containing hundreds of tiny, bright, exotic fishes, but found he could not bear to watch them. It seemed to him that those little creatures, opening and closing their mouths a million times a day, were, in fact, screaming. They were screaming, "Look at me! Please look at me! Love me! Love me!" And so he had to get rid of them. A crazy story, perhaps, said Mr. Zucci, but that was the same feeling he'd had about Canadians. We are all starved for attention and for reassurance, silently screaming for recognition and always in vain. Canadians, said he, had come to seem to him a nation of wives who are never told they are loved, of friends who are never assured of their indispensability, of creative 'writers and painters 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton New-Era March 2, 1916 The failure to affix a war stamp to a cheque is a more serious matter than many people suppose. A man in Toronto was up before the police magistrate for omitting to affix a stamp to a cheque for $3, which be had issued. Though his counsel stated that the omission was accidental, the man was fined $10 and costs. Dr. J. L. Hughes of Toronto will be here to address a patriotic meeting on Tuesday next. In the matter of enlistment it is A case of now or never with most Huron young men. If they do not enlist now, they are never likely to do so until conscription forces them to do the right thing. 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News Record March 5, 1896 At Clinton Town Council meeting the clerk verbally stated lie had received a letter from Mr. Garrow, M.P.P. for West Hume, stating that the Ontario Government would shortly give Clinton $10,000 of the Stavely estate money. Mayor Holmes said the Citizens Committee who had charge of the work had decided on a public library and this had and musicians who are never permitted the luxury of acclaim, of business associates who are never given the generosity of trust and faith, of older people never blessed by tender respect. Only our vary young, charged with the universal chemicals of adolescent passion, walk with the pride and surety of those who are loved, but they, too, become alone when the thermal of ardor is cooled by matrimony. How lonely you all are, said Mr. Zucci, and his eyes glistened with tears. It would be understandable, said he, if we were, indeed, a chilly people, surly and suspicious of all forms of social intercourse, but this, he could record from his own travels across the country, was not at all the case. Wary, yes. Watchful, yes. Embarrassed at any open display of warmth, yes. But the need been submitted to the government. The Bayfield fishermen have been very unfortunate this winter. About New Year's a number of nets were lost, and since then there has been no fishing done, as there was no ice The Iluronview orchestra assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Finlay of Goderich provided the music for Monday's dance, A good attendance of residents and some of their relatives took part in old time waltzes, wheel-chair dances and a square dance with Jim Barrie calling. The afternoon's activities were concluded with a sing-song. The Kinette Club of Clinton were sponsors of tea and program in the auditorium on Wednesday afternoon. The Huronview orchestra provided the music for the program with Kinettes Mary Ellen Clifford, Roxanne Brown, Mary Fleming, Evelyn Archer and Marie Jefferson leading the sing-song and taking part in the dances. The Ontario Street U.C.W. Lettetro the Editor PARENTS,—DEAR the epret ln space-age, the role of a teacher is becoming less and less that of a lecturer and more and more that of a motivator of inquiry, as a resource person and co-ordinator, a role in which the teacher provides direction and material, but the pupils must discover the answers, If we are going to teach our children to be resourceful, a multi-media approach to learning is vital. A combo team of classroom and library facilities make this possible, Materials other than books are required to supplement classroom texts. Since today's sources of knowledge are new and exciting ways of bringing information to life — by projecting it live or still; large or microscopic; by finding pieces of information in various places until, as if by magic, the puzzle is complete — then we want to give our children a chance to try it. If the intake of knowledge can be entertaining, much more will be absorbed! Taking advantage of the library in our school makes this possible. When visiting the school during Education Week, drop into the library and view the instructional materials available to your children. Yours truly, Alice Andrews, Teacher — Librarian. and the hunger for flattery, for closeness and for fondness were strong in us all. A man such as himself, known to be a foreigner and quickly forgiven for his emotionalism, could be astonished at how the walls of reserve could come crashing down. You have it in you to be more generous to each other, said he gravely. You need not be the tropical fish doomed forever to remain in the tank. But you must find a beginning. You must give praise and kindness in the European manner and then it will come flooding back at you in a golden blower of dividends. Mr. Zucci sat back, triumphantly., and surveyed the; assembled company. What, he asked, did we think of that? "Well," said the most Canadian of us, breaking the guilty, thoughtful silence, "I'd like to try it, Mr. Zucci, I really would. But I can't think of anybody I like that well." on the lake. Last week's cold snap formed ice, and on Monday a number of nets were set, but on Tuesday the wind carried the ice out, and another lot of good nets, several of them new ones, were lost. entertained the residents on Family Night with the President, Mrs, Velma Trewartha as chair lady and Becky Howse leading the sing-song. The variety program consisted of instrumentals by Elmer Trick, Sharon Coctough, Becky Howse, Paul Van Demme, Marilyn Mann and Patty Proctor with vocal number, by Marianne Doucette accompanied by Mrs. Langdon. Eight of the U.C.W. formed a set for square dancing, Mrs. Hazel Parker, Ruth Shaddick, Dorothy Picket, Mamie Carter, Edna Wheeler, Mary Trick, Edna Cok and Lois Elliott with all of the ladies group leading a hymn sing and along with their husbands assisted with the wheelchairs following the program.