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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-04-15, Page 4Give the gift of Life FoR Tfl/$ 7)/E 7; -7-6/ eY. 7- o 1-44e"P/1"4-A) To .61 ,6 Be a blood 7A/4-- .1,1sr oxf yolk 21scRi8.e-D " 7- Fo 1.? , 3y il/tlY 01-71,1 0E donor 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 Q..0 QS.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Q. Man with baby Although all may not agree with his conclusions, Councillor William Crawford must be highly praised for the excellent study of wages and salaries of town employees which he delivered at town council on Monday night. The councillor did a great deal of work to prepare the report he delivered. He had to go to a great deal of trouble to get some of the information he needed. It is the kind of in-depth work that is needed badly to make ours a better community. Lack of such study by councillorS is one of the reasons that municipal councils have failed to do their job and left the way open for regional government. But. Councillor Crawford's effort and the efforts of such men as Goderich Reeve Paul Carroll who recently presented a study to his council on redevelopment of the Goderich harbour area, may start a new trend. It is to be hoped so. There are so many areas in our communities that need study. A complete study of the position of senior citizens is needed so the best facilities can be provided for them. A similar report should be prepared on the role of youth in our community so ways can be found to keep young people .in the area instead of shipping them off to cities. A complete study of recreation is needed so that best use of existing facilities can be obtained and needs for future facilities ascertained. And not just recreation for the kids, but for all citizens from one to 100. Along with this study, a report on the best use of parkland is needed and a report taking inventory of the. land available for future parks so that, if the town grows, there will, be adequate parkland available to people in all sections of town. A study should be made on how the town as a farming community, can better serve the rural residents who do their business here. This could go hand-in-hand with a joint study by representatives from the town and townships on how facilities can be shared and costs of those facilities can be fairly divided. There is plenty of room for study in these and other areas. And if these studies were done, efficiency would probably rise and such dire recommendations as Councillor Crawfords suggestion to freeze wages would not be required, But how many of the councillors are willing to do the work, and how many citizens are willing to volunteer their time to help the councillors with such badly needed studies? The honest thief still must pay Towards the end of a tong, dreary whiter like this year's, evert the most jubilant of spirits begin to flag. The world takes on a gray monotony, about the colour and taste of English gravy. We seem to be suspended in a vague nightmare in which we are swimming in porridge, with no land in sight. We have forgotten the glory of the individual spirit and our fellow-beings seem to merge into the murk. Right there it the point at Which we heed a good spring tonic. hi the old days our mothers gave us a physical one, in the shape of a good purge, and it seemed lo help. But in these days of instant laxatives, we need something for the, spirit, not the body. I got my tonic this year, just in time. It was in the form of two stories, both true. My faith in the colour and vitality of the human spirit was restored, and I feel like living again. The first one contained enough irony and humanity to satisfy the most demanding of writers. It toncetned a batik hold-up. The manager was out to lunch when the desperado struck. lie slipped a note to one of the tellers informing her that it was a stick-up, then Slipped a sawed-off shotgun from under his coat, enel went to the front counter. Chatting happily on the phone to his girl-friend, the acceuntalit had his back to 'the 'villain, The latter waited politely for him to finish his call and get the message. A lady teller, trying to get the accountant's attention, kept hissing at him, "Dave! Dave!" He went blithely on, while the robber began to drum his fingers on the counter with just a touch of impatience. Finally, he roared in a stentorian voice, "DAVE!" Dave looked over his shoulder and dropped the phone as though it were red-hot, as he looked into that shot-gun barrel, about the size of a Cyclops' eye. The intruder shoved a bag at Dave and told him to fill it, It was done and the visitor left with what turned out to be $3,000. He got away clean, though three of the staff had run alarm bells which were directly connected to the police station. A customer saw the getaway cat and got the license number. The chap was picked up about a week later. A sordid little stoty? Not at all. This was no ordinary hood. This was a man of character. He didn't go careening off in a mad chase with police bullets and tires screaming. He drove a few blocks to a hotel, went in and had a few &hike. Sensible chap. What did the hold-up man -do with the money? He went to his own bank and paid off a $500 loan. 'Then he went to a finance company and paid them $1,000 he owed them. What a pity he was caught! An honest man who paid his debts, pushed by them into an armed-robbery charge. A man of character. The second story is also true. I just missed seeing it, but an eye-witness filled me in. It's a cowboy story. The hero lives in a small town. He owns and rides a beautiful horse. On a recent Saturday, he tode uptown, feeling no pain. lie wanted his horse to enjoy life, too, so he took him to a hotel and tried to take him into the beer parlout. Unaccountably, he was refused. Undaunted, he took his steed across the street to a tavern and tried to buy him a double. Foiled again, he was trying to lead his pal into the beverage room of the other hotel in town, when the law arrived. It Was tea contest. The cowboy told the cop exactly what he thought of him, for about twenty minutes. He then mounted Old Paint and galloped up the sidewalk of the main street, scattering old ladies into snowbanks and children into store doorways. Allegedly, when the 'constable was asked why he didn't put the strong arm on the cowboy, he replied, "I didn't know what'o do with the darn' horse," And a ,perfectly sensible answer. Don't ever let anyone tell you that Canadians are a dull, mousy, e-oloarlese lot. Jesse James was a violent clod and Dodge City a home for old ;ladies, compared to this bank robber and this cowboy. • .. ...• ... • . • Pollution and other junk BY ANDRE AN1SING "Good-morning kids". The teacher shook the water off her hat. It was raining so hard the air was difficult to breath. After opening exercises, the teacher took out her picture cards Her Grade Two class looked eagerly, ready to learn. "Alright children, first we'll learn what these pictures mean. "This first picture is what we older folks call a bomb! But its nc ordinary bomb, my no! This bomb scares the pants off your daddies. United States and Russia get their kicks by pretending to fight each other with bombs they'll never use. And guess what! Just one bomt could wipe out Canada's biggest city. Just look at it's graceful lines "And this picture, children, is what hunger means. Hunger isn't just a wanting for a cookie. This boy was your age. He didn't hav anything to eat for the last week and only a bit of dirty rice before that, Now he is dead. His body lies there in the mud with flies worms and rats in his body. Our wheat fanners have enough wheal to feed a million of these boys. "See this next picture? This boy was about ten years old with t whole life ahead of him. He just died because the seathelt broke when the car hit the tree. Somebody was careless at the auto plant The worker was to busy thinking about the next strike. "You know all the stuff that goes out through the toilet. Well thi, picture shows what happens when thousands of' toilets are empties into the lake. See those cute red Worms. They're poisonous. Don' dare to put a toe in the water though. You would probably get five or Six diseases. That handsome man who rides through the city smiling and waving at everybody be allows it. "We'll continue tomorrow kids, because these problems stay witi us all the time. I don't expect you to understand everything." The water started to rise around the school sweeping it occupants into the swollen river. Air was displaced by water. 'mom 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 mail registration number -0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, .$6.00 per year; U.S.A., 57.50 KEITH W. ROULSTON — Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager 4 Published every "Thursday at the heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 1,475 TEE' HOME OF RADAR iN 'CANADA /5.2Nroe It's become obvious by now that the federal government does not see Huron riding as important to their desire to stay in office. If they did, they certainly would have done something with the 'Canadian Forces Base. 0 But not only has the government not done anything to keep this important part of the economy of Huron open, they haven't even let it be known if the base is available for others: Instead they've sat there like a dog in the manger, not wanting it but not wanting others.to 'have it either. It's understandable enough. There are 264 other ridings in the land involving over 20,000,000 persons vvifile ours has only 50,000. Less understandable though, is the actions, or lack of same, of the local Liberal party organization in failing to draw the attention of their senior party members to the grave situation. Probably the reason that the liberals are traditionally weak in the riding is that they are busy playing politics, not. realizing the importance of bread and butter issues. Even more mystifying is the lack of effort by local businessmen and merchants to put pressure on to get action on the question of future use of the base. One can only- conclude, as the federal government probably already has, that the' community just doesn't care. And if the community doesn't care,.why should the government spend its money here when there are other areas that DO care? Thank goodness that the future Of Conestoga College in Huron doesn't depend on the base. If interest is high enough a college will be in the county, base or no base. 4 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, April 15, 1.971 Editorial cornment. We don't care if you think we're right or wrong we tare only that you think Does anyone care? Letter to the Editor The editor, It is clean-up time once again! Most of us rake and work industdously at our lawns and hedges, but our sidewalks are absolutely disregarded and left in a deplorable condition. I know that it is A ear-oriented world, but there are many people who still must use the sidewalks. I enjoy walking, but it is not much pleasure when sidewalks are littered with glass, gravel and mud. Of course there are many new sidewalks needed in town, but if people could try harder to clean up what we do have, especially where driveways cross the walks, it would help quite a lot. Thanking you. Yours truly, Erma Hartley. 0000000000000-000400000 More studies needed We're the temporary L custodians at our place of a small, pink and delectable baby, its parents having heartlessly abandoned it for an entire week of convalescence and re-discovery of each other. I haven't been so fascinated with anything since I got my new spinning reel. Not that I'm so carried away that I'd want to invest in another, mind you, but, by George, there's something about a baby around the house that makes life a little fuller. Mind you, this is a remarkable child, happy the live-long day, not at all like the howling teethers that aged me so prematurely, and in all ,my born days I never saw one react so satisfactorily to an itchy-kitchy-koo. This is the way babies are when you have them briefly, like books from the library, and helps Lo explain why visiting 10 YEARS AGO April 13,1961 Members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Girl's Club, approved a change in name at their meeting on Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Viola Lampman, Maple Street. From now on, in memory of Mrs. D. J. Lane, the name will be "The Madeleine Lane Auxiliary." A meeting of the five secondary school boards of Huron County has been arranged. It is to be held in the Clinton Collegiate District Institute. Present will be a representative of the department of education, to bring information concerning a proposed vocational school for the county. The community concert staged last week was again a great success in Clinton resulting in 10 new members being added to the roll. Congratulations to Mrs. G, C teheitighaine and her enthusiastic team, Mrs. Ruth Knox, Miss Elva Willse and Mrs. W. C. Newcombe. 15 TEARS AGO April 12, 1956 At 2.01 a.m. on April 15, the manual exchange will be' "cut" out of service and the intricate dial apparatus will take over the job of connecting manual telephone call. Most of the operators will remain in Clinton, handling long distance calls and service calls at switchboards on the top floor of the new exchange building on Rattenbury Street. The Clinton Lions Boy Scouts opened the 1956 season last weekend, when six scouts spent at the Camp, cleaning it up and getting it ready for the first weekend camp, and the eamporee planned for June. Scoutmaster Percy Brown, and assistant Arthur Tyndall, visited the camp with patrol leaders Alvin Palter, Stephen Brown and Kenneth TVIagee. 25 YEARS AGO April 18, 1946 M. Monteith, formerly of grandparents act the way they do. Permanent possession, I know down deep, might not be quite so sunny. It has been my pleasure to conduct the young lady on a daily royal tour and it is an event that I anticipate with simpering delight. Do you crave popularity? Want people to stop you in the street because of your magnetic personality? Care to bathe in the milk of human kindness? Then place a happy baby, borrowed or otherwise, in a carriage and take a stroll. The results are almost enough to restore your faith in mankind. This is a child with a great curiosity, ever ready to strike up a friendship with passers-by, and the effect as we proceed is magical. Faces approaching down the street, faces containing the gloom of the times, soften when Clinton, who is leaving Goderich for Sault Ste. Marie, was honoured by Goderich Lions Club and the Board of Trade with the presentation of a handsome travelling bag at a dinner meeting in Hotel Bed ford. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered in Wesley-Willis United Church on Sunday morning. Rev. Andrew Lane, the minister, was in charge of the service and Mrs. Morgan T. Agnew was at the organ. During the service, Mrs. W. A. Oakes rendered a very fitting solo. Sargeant Major W. L. Ford, cadet instructor attached to M. D. No. I, London, was in town yesterday training the cadets of Clinton Collegiate in the preparation for a formal inspection May 18. 40 YEARS AGO April 13, 1931 The Ladies' Golf Club will meet on Tuesday evening, April 21, at . 1:30 in the council chamber. Not only the present members, but all those interested ere invited to attend this meeting for reorganizing for the season. While some are retrenching and others are content to hold their own, Clinton merchants show signs of expansion, Mr. A. T. Cooper having on last Friday opened a hew five to a dollar store, in the stand recently vacated by Mr. E. WerelorL Magistrate S. T. Andrews presented a couple of handsome garden urns to the town of Clinton this week and they may be seen now adorning Library Park. They are "Made-in- Clinton" articles, having been turned out in Magistrate Andrews' own tile factory, and their workmanship leaves nothing to be desired. They are of graceful design and when filled with earth and planted with some bright flowering plants wilt add to the beauty of the park. 55 YEARS AGO April 18, 1916 Mr. Otto Fink, Clinton's they come abreast of our caravan and often break wide open into a grin. Everyone suddenly begins to look younger. Soon I find that pedestrians and I are nodding and smiling at each other in an elaborate way though we've passed many times before with no more recognition than a slight curl of the lips. Almost immediately our stately progress is slowed to a crawl by the necessity of stopping from time to time to be admired. That striking blonde who has always passed me by without the faintest acknowledgment of my admiring gaze was halted in her tracks. While she was chucking the baby under the chin I was recalling an old pal of mine who used to meet the most interesting girls simply by walking around with a small cocker spaniel puppy. "My," said the striking blonde, "she is beautiful isn't excellent photographer, has disposed of his business and may locate in California as he has for some time desired to do. Otto is genial and courteous and he and his good wife are popular here and will be missed. May 24 will be a Gala day in Clinton, one of the attractions to be the 161st Battalion which will be then fully mobilized. The program, the promoters inform the News-Record, will be one of the most attractive yet presented in Huron County. The date isas yet some distance away, but it would be as well to mark on the calender "Going to Clinton on 24th." Mrs. A. O. Pattison returned Saturday from a visit in Buffalo. Mrs. Pattison went over to be present at the ninetieth birthday of her mother. The aged mother was a bright and interesting hostess and enjoyed very much having the members of her family gathered 'about her. 75 YEARS AGO April 11,1896 Messrs Seale and Hoover, of Clinton Marble Works, anticipate a good season's 'trade, and this week put in six immense blocks of stone, the lot weighing 64,000 Ibs; one of the blocks contained 110 cubic feet, the largest single pieces of stone ever brought to this town. she? Your granddaughter?" But it was better than nothing. There are a variety of reasons why life seems brighter when you're on the business end of a buggy. Why, even the dogs that rush out at you with murderous intent shrug, smile and slink off when they see the pram. Motorists come to a halt, wave you generously on your way, smiling tenderly. In the glow of all this warm feeling a man finds himself enjoying his walk as never before. His pace is slowed to a leisurely one, he beams on the world, accepting its praise for his baggage, pauses to exchange notes with the matron behind an oncoming buggy, while the rival babies study each other critically, plans his route to Meet as many of these delightful people as possible, It didn't take me long to notice the difference in the A meeting was held on Wednesday eyeing, for the formation of a baseball club. A committee was appointed to consider the advisability of sports on the 24th. The meeting approach of males and females. The males give their attention entirely to the baby, plying her with outrageous baby talk and visibly melting when rewarded with the radiant smile. The females, on the other hand, take a more clinical approach. "Your's?" they ask, "How many teeth'?" "Off the bottle yet?" Meaning the baby, not me. And so, easily, I slip into the role of expert on the care and feeding of small children, perhaps the most universal common ground of social communication. Which, in itself, is a happy discovery. In two more days the baby will be going back to her rightful ownez%"I am going to miss her and itlitipopular1ty I've achieved basking in her reflection. Old Uncle Jack will just have to go back to his own kids, long past the age of baby-talk and unquestioning admiration. was adjourned until Monday, the 20th when all those interested not only in baseball, but 24th sports, are requested to attend so that the committee can begin its arrangements.