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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-07-08, Page 4we.° LIKE."T-'t,i'.'15 STORY ABOUT OUR BAZAAR. IN TiAtS WEEWS ISSUE.--$At$0,1 Pl,EAsE. TARE A 'PICTURE TO GO A e). vvrrIA e t ato Ill, eeeee., t ri.OE'RE GLAD YOU DON'T CHARGE FOR NEWS-WE SPENT OUR BUDGET ON RADIO ADVERTISING Publishers' Auxiliary The ant world hat's new at IIu onview, The Sunday drive sponsored by the Exeter United Church Men of Exeter was completed last Sunday for the 20 residents who were not able to go last month. The Christian Reform Church of Clinton held a service of song in the auditorium last Sunday evening led by Mr. Dice Roorda. The Clinton Kinettes program and tea, as well as several ether activities, were held outdoors last week owing to the extreme heat. Kinettes Mary Hellen Clifford, Roxanne Brown, Marie Jefferson, Jean Jewitt, Laurie Corrie, and Mary Jean Beattie served lunch and led a sing song, The auditorium was filled to capacity on Friday night when the Blyth Legion held a birth party for one of their members, Mrs. Mary Taylor Heronview, who was celebrat her 93rd birthday. The veri program, with Jim Lawrie chairman, included v numbers by Mrs, Wittick Jim Lawrie; duet solos by p Lynn Johnston, Florence H and Susan Stret, accompan by Mrs. MeDouga instrumentals by An Duttman on accordion; several numbers by the g which included Sheila Fran Sharon Wittich, Grace Bro and Jim Lawrie. Following program each resident receive piece of birthday cake served members of the legion. Voi ,, . . .. . . . . problem Bill can't solve 1924 THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECO Established 186S Established 1881 Clinton News-Record second class mail reeietiattcm number — susscR HrtioN RATES: lin advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $1,50 KEITH W. ROULSTON Editor J. HOWAHP AITKEN * General leleriager A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County I Clinton, Ontario Population 1,415 Tile HOME OP RADAR IN CANADA in a few huge plants. He says plants must use 100 to 300 million pounds a year if they are to be efficient. Such an operation is the Kraft plant at Ingleside which will likely get a. good portion of the milk diverted from Plum Hollow if the factory closes. It uses 100 million pounds a year and hopes to reach 300 million. It was built using a $500,000 forgivable loan from another government branch, the Ontario Development Corporation, So what if the factory closes? The farmers will still have a market for their milk at the bigger plants won't they? They will indeed. But the Plum Hollow farmers will have to pay the extra cost of shipping their milk farther which, to a farmer shipping .1,000 pounds of milk a day, could mean an extra expense of $1,000 — $1,300 per year — a big margin in the tight budget of a farm. And then there is the extra irony of the situation in that the 38 farmers who belong to the co-op produce more than 16 million pounds of milk a year themselves but can't even sell it to themselves. So what[ say you if you are an urban consumer not really caring about the plight of 38 farmers away off in Leeds County. The urban consumer should be concerned because the same problems are closing down small plants all over the country. If the present trend continues, and with the power of the Ontario government behind it there seems to be little hope it will not, the only choice available to the consumer will be between two or three mass-produced brands of cheese. The• distinct taste of the small plants will be gone and cheese will be reduced to just another bland food. The urban reader should also be concerned about the implications of a government saying who can and can't run a business. The only criteria for a business used to be that it had to make money. That was back in the good old days wher the government used to be a supporter of the small businessman who was a supporter of it. Today big business is the thing and the bigger the better. With government policy strongly behind big business, how much longer can the small independent hold out against the large chain in any business. Hopefully, with an election coming up, the government will heed public opinion on the Plum Hollow issue and do an about face. The, cloota syst,em, has helped to stabilize prices on 'the farm, even if it has reduced the number of milk producers from 51,865 in 1966 to 22,030 in 1970. The value of the whole system will drop if mistakes like the Plum Hollow blunder are allowed to continue, When does government regulation become interference? Farmers who belong to the co-operative that owns the Plum Hollow Cheese Factory in Eastern Ontario think they know. The farmers bought the factory in 1965 after the company that owned it wanted to close it down. The farmers claim the 'provincial government promised financial support if they would farm a co-op to run it, Now the farmers are down right angry because-their factory is likely to close this fall, despite the fact it has been showing a good profit in the last two years. The reason is that the Ontario Milk Marketing Board has cut the factory's milk quota, The factory's quota was set on April 1, 1970, at 98.5 per cent of the plant's consumption between March 1968 and February 1969. Last year the quota amounted to seven million pounds of milk but the plant used eight million, 13 per cent over their quota, so this year's quota was cut to 85 per cent of 1970's amount. The plant might have survived this but the OMMB slashed the quota another 31 per cent, meaning less than one half of last year's milk supply available. Why did the OMMB do such a thing? "Small plants like Plum Hollow are not good business any more," said Lorne Hurd, general manager of the OMMB, in a recent story in the Toronto Globe and Mail. "They are outdated, their equipment is usually antiquated and they are just not viable. The only thing they own that is negotiable is the milk quota, and this is something we created for them. Before we set up the quota system, plants like Plum Hollow had nothing that the big processors were interested in." Yet last year the plant made money, while producing 206,290 pounds of natural cheese, with gross sales of $228,752. Much of this cheese was sold over the counter at the retail sales area at the factory which draws customers from all over Ontario and the northern United States. Over the last two years the plant has averaged a profit of $12,000.00 per year. Logically, there is one way out for the factory. It can buy the milk quota of some other factory. But that isn't any guarantee the way the OMMB operates. Last year, for instance, the only other remaining cheese factory in Leeds County (which once had 92) purchased a milk quota for two million gallons at a cost of $14,000. But this year the OMMB slashed the factory's quota to less than the factory had before it bought the extra quota. $14,000 down the drain. Mr, Hurd makes it obvious that the intention is to consolidate milk processing I would like first to congratulate the town on the fine new pavement and sidewalks on Albert Street. While they had the street torn up last fall and the trucks and other machines were working in front of my building, the large window hi the office was cost me over $40.00. any holidays this summer, An alternative Would be to get a room in the village. As she puts it, this would be like going into a nunnery. Which, at age twenty, unless your tendencies are immesh, and hers are not, is not too appeeling. However, like most teapot tempests, something could probably be worked out, Now comes the dilemma. She has been offered another job as a waitress right here in town, five minutes walk from home. The wages are better, the tips poorer. The work is just about as hard. It's right on the Main street, and hotter than hides in summer, She doesn't know whether she likes the hots. Up to now she's been working only part time at the hotel, usually weekends, but can be on full time during July and August. She has already worked two shifts at the restaurant, on a trial batis, and they've offered 4 full time jab. Isn't this a sad story? 'l'he poor kid doeen't know whet to do. She likes the first one better, but the second has no transportation problem. And of course a waitress basiiit much security these days, or ever. She -could be fired front either jab if business fell off of she got blisters and couldn't walk or the had e run-in with the chef or dropped a tray of food On the customers (which I did one time, thought it wasn't food, it was beef). I'm quite willing to pay my share (in taxes) for improvements, but it doesn't seem fair that one should have to pay for damage done to his property at well. John Plumtree, 84 Albert St., Clinton, Ont. The whole thing is complicated by the fact that her mother was a waitress for a couple of summers at the same age, and thinks she knows all about everything and keeps poking her nose in, The irony of the situation is that if she diddles around and doesn't Make up her Mind, she could wind up without any jab, and knowing my daughter for twenty years, I have a feeling this is exactly what will happen. This would give her a perfect excuse to go off hitch-hiking to Vancouver or Charlottetown, which She'd much rather be doing than Working, as who wouldn't. As you can see, the whole thing is a tragedy in a teaspoon, but you've no idea how we burn the midnight oil, the three of us, turning over new leaves and unturned stones, building up one job and then knocking it down with the other, doing Sums, calculating tips, considering the personalities of tashiets and cooks. If something isn't settled soon, I'm afraid Iim is going to decide that the great world of free enterprise 'is too baffling and opt out. Arid if something isn't done soon, Pm afraid I'm going to decide that the whole world of student employment is too baffling, and take off on solitary holiday, leaving the two Women to soft it out for themselveS draw from such — forgive it, if you will — antics? Well, the first, I think, is that ants aren't really working to get a job done, but are working for work's sake. They just have to keep busy or sit around and brood all day. This, of course, is because the so-called "workers" are sterile females. I like to think of an old granny ant explaining this to a circle of young "workers". "Don't blame me, girls," she's saying, "that's just the way it is. We can only make the best of it. Keep active, girls, Dedicate yourself to industry. Up early! Out under the hammock!" This, in turn, is the only possible explanation for ants deliberately seeking out obstructions in their hauling and cartage. It would be fatal to run out of jobs and, besides, it's something to talk about when the day is done, "Oh, the trouble I had with that twig, Cynthia," I fancy Agnes saying. "YOU had trouble?" Cynthia responds. "You should have been lifted all over the place by that nut in the hammock!" One other thing. I notice that the ants ignore each other completely. If two of them bump into each other, they zig and zag like human beings in a barrow corner and then go on their way very swiftly, very worried about the delay. I think that this is caused simply by the fact that down deep the ants khow that if they ever stopped and looked at each other they'd bust out laughing or crying. Sort of like humans, you might say, Heron's Christian Businessmen's chapel Was officially opened last Sunday evening in the village of Auburn with the church filled to capacity and guests from many neighbouring places present. The President of the Huron Businessmen's Association, D. A, Ralston of Goderich, was in charge and welcomed everyone. A hymn sing was conducted by Ron Malloth. A. Hoy led in prayer and 10 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEWS—RECORD JULY 6, 1961 Members of the Clinton Citizens' Horticultttral Society have received an invitation to the Rose Tea id Auburn, Friday, July 7. Tea will be served on the lawn of Mrs, R. J, Phillips from 2 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. The Auburn Horticultural Society is sponsoring this event. If it rains, tea will be served in the Orange Hall. Mayor W. J. Miller, Reeve Melvin Crich and Clerk John Livermore attended the Convention of the Association of Ontario Mayors and Reeves in London, for three days last week, and report excellent sessions. Members of Huron's 4—H Clubs will go to the Hamilton area on Tuesday, July 18, where they will visit the Steel Company of Canada Ltd., and the International Harvester's plant. Also, they will visit the Botanical Garden, and at noon enjoy a boat cruise in Hamilton Bay. 15 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS—RECORD JULY 5, 1956 Though school is over for two months, pupils who will be entering Clinton Collegiate District Institute might bear in mind that they'll have to do some real work if they plan to be "head of the class" in the fall. Season of family picnics reached its peak over . the . Dominion Day holiday. Many are held in Seaforth, Bayfield, Goderich, and Exeter. It seems too bad that Clinton has not a park attractive enough to be chosen for these gatherings. Farquhar Oliver, Leader of the Opposition in the Ontario Legislature, was the principal speaker at the Liberal picnic held in Jowett's Grove, Bayfield, last week. Other speakers included A. Y. McLean, Seaforth; James Scott, Seaforth; and Hugh Hawkins, Clinton. 25 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS—RECORD JULY 11, 1946 Mrs. Clete Brown, daughter of the late Edward and Rosanna Forster Tebbutt, Modesto, Calif., has been the guest of Mrs. L M. Nay, having come to attend the Tebbutt reunion. John Cook, who is attending summer school at the University of Western Ontario, was in St. Marys on Wednesday, where he acted as soloist for the marriage of Marion Follick to Allister G. Murray, Clarke S. Teal read the Scripture lesson, Musical selections Were given by The Messengers and The Watchmen groups, both of Kitchener. Offering was received by C. S. Teal, Bob Stephenson, Clayton IVIlzen and Allan McKillop. Greetings were brought by Rev. W, N. Teal of St. Catharines. The chapel, which was the 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS—RECOR JULY 9, 1931 Mr. W. M. Glew, commenced his banking ca on the staff of the local br of the Royal Bank, has b transferred to the Stratf branch and Mr. J. W. Dou has been transferred fr Toronto to the local branch. men reported for duty on t new positions on Monday. Clinton baseball team wen Hensel' on Thursday evenin play a game with the He team and it proved to b pretty evenly contested one much so that not a run I made during the first e innings. Before the game end however, Hensel' team had pi up a score of five against th made by the Clinton boys ; the game ended with odds two in favour of the It , southern team. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Camp and little son of Calgary arri on Monday and are visitin the home of the lady's pare Mr, and Mrs. J, A. Ford. 55 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW—ER JULY 6, 1916 Mr. Clarence Shepard, so Mrs. Shepard, Townsend Str who has been at Iroquois some years with the Mols Bank, has enlisted with 161st Battalion and is now the paymaster's staff. Huron Old Boy's Associat . will run • their, ;big, a an excursion to Goderich via Grand Trunk Railway Saturday, July 8. The usual crowd is expected. There will be no promot results this year from Clin Public School, as the record: the pupils now show on t monthly cards, which installed last September, number who have passed above the average this year. 75 YEARS AGO THE HURON NEWS—RECOI JULY 8, 1896 Clinton has an excelli baseball club, although th made a bad record at Goderi: The report that, in consequen, they will disband because defeat is hardly true, It u simply an off day for the be and they will yet recover th lost ground. The Legislative grants public schools have not yet be received by County Treasure although on the authority o circular from the Ethical Department, the Inspectors h sent out orders. former Knox Presley Church, was dedicated prayer by Rev. Leonard I minister of Victoria S United Church, Goderich, Norman Bonnets, Preside the Wingliarn and Dis Christian Businessm Association, introduced Weaker, Rev. T. E. ryteKin Presbyterian minister Teeswater. He chose to spea the Bible passage, "Upon Rock I Will Build My Char 4 Clinton Nevvs4lecord, Thursday, July 8, 1$71 Just who runs the show? I had always thought of the ant as being a symbol of tireless, constructive industry until I commenced my exhaustive studies into the subject, Now, I confess, I don't know what to think except that ants are certainly crazy, mixed-up insects. It was an accident that I began the study at all, Funny, isn't it, how fate takes a hand in these things. I mean, if I hadn't been lying there on my stomach in the hammock at the cottage — and looking down! — I would never have embarked on what now may be my life's work. Just as Newton is said to have begun his theory of gravity through the accident of being hit on the head by a falling apple, so I was led, through this rare moment of repose, into a new world of research. The time was mid-afternoon on this very warm July day. I mention this because there is a possibility that the poor, fey creatures were temporarily crazed by the heat. I want to give the ants the benefit of the doubt wherever possible, But the fact is that all of them were involved in projects of a lunatic nature and the method wasn't any too bright, either. Here, for example, is an ant, to be referred to hereinafter as Agnes, who is obviously looking for something. She goes this way and that very purposefully — ant-like, in fact — investigating twigs. There are thousands of fine, straight little twigs, Agnes does not like Mimi. Not her! She has to find a big, crooked twig that Will go about 14 times her weight, The other twigs she might hoist over one shoulder and pack back home. THIS twig must be hauled, shoved, worried over. It is the one she wants! There are all sorts of clear paths between this twig and the roots of the tree where the nest appears to be. Not for Agnes. She goes out of her way to drag this enormous log over every rock and leaf she can find, huffing and puffing, pulling and pushing. "Frantic," I see, is the description I wrote in her case history, Here is another ant, Cynthia, who is engaged in hauling a dead fly somewhere. She is heading in a westerly direction, which is the way to the nest, although, like Agnes, she makes detours to find every available obstruction. I pick up Cynthia and her burden on a leaf and deposit her four feet closer to the nest, which is as far as I can go without actually getting out of the hammock. Cynthia picks up her fly and, very determined, heads due east, I pick her up again, "No, no, Cynthia, THAT way!" I cry. Cynthia heads north. Here are two more ants, Mabel and Alice we'll call them. They are at either end of an old leaf. Lord knows what an ant wants with an old leef, but that's for them to know. What interests me is that they're both trying to take the prize in different directions. How busy and purposeful they seem, preteedihg to ignore each other, going round and round with the old leaf. They may be going yet for all I know. Now What deductions may we The Hill. t the Palomino The Sun was sinking behind the green hill, Outlining it with far reaching fingers Of gold and pink, for a moment lingers 13efore sinking unseen, leaving a chill in the air. The cry of the white owl shrill Pills- the pure night air, and the shout "Whiged'er" Dies, as hunters head home. Woodland singers Sing their evening song and creatures soon will Sleep. But high on the hill, a gold statue Comes to life, and gallops to his waiting Subjects, and for ranchers, trouble he breWs. But a beautiful sight is he; flying Golden mane and tail; born under the moon Of pure, wild, golden paloniino blood. —by Joanne Price LVE R NIGHT In the night the pale moonlight Shines on the Silver trees, fro reveal a sight of peaCeful right No human eyes can see. A silver Well rises and falls Like a shimmering veil: Into the sliver fountain tall Leaving a silver trail. —by-Joanne Price The Editor, broken. The tenants in the office phoned me right away and T spoke to the foreman about it, but because I can't prove that a particular machine threw a stone the insurance coMpany won't pay for the new window which We're in a terrible dilemma around our house these days. My wife ie going off her nut worrying about the situation, my daughter is having bad dreams about it, and i, as usual, am being ground between the millstones of two hysterical women who expect hie to come Up smiling and with the right answers. In this summer wheh there is so little employment for students, my daughter has two jobs available. One, as I've mentioned, is at a hotel, waiting table in the dining-room. It's a pleasant plate, over-looking the water. She likes the job and the people, chef, box and the other waitresses. The salary is well below the minimum wage, but the tips are good. But there's the inevitable fly in the souls. There is no accommodation for the hired help, and the darn thing is ten miles out of town, in a small village. As I have reported, this means that she must have transportation to and from the job, or get a foam in the village. She doesn't have a car or driver's license. A taxi would be $2.50 each way arid there goes day's tips. So I've been driving her to Work hi the mornings and her Mother picking her up in the afternoons. Evers the kid realizes that this is somewhat of an imposition, if we expect to have Lotter to the Editor He's happy with street, unhappy with broken window Huron Christian Businessmen's Chapel opens in Auburn