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Clinton News-Record, 1971-07-22, Page 66 Clinton News,Record, Thursday, July 22, 1971 Sports Colts drop lower in standing ,Ntyrtle Collins honoured on retirement Reg. $15 Reg. $20.00 MID SUMMER Special Perms 92.50 94.50 95.00 HAIR SPRAY SPECIAL Professional Quality Protein Strengthening HAIR SPRAY, reg, $3.00 — Retail $1.49 Agnes (Ryan) Etue Charles Proctor 74 Victoria St. Tel.: 4824065 NOW! GET 8% ON 5 YEAR Term Deposits ($5,000.00 MINIMUM) Clinton Community Credit Union 70 Ontario St, 482.3467 Things for. the now generation NOBODY'S BUSINESS 38 HAMILTON ST., GODERICH OPEN NOW A Revolutionary New WATERLESS TOILET BY PERDISAN NO BUCKET TO EMPTY NO ODOUR — NO ELECTRICITY — NO SEPTIC TANK & TILE REQUIRED — WILL NOT FREEZE NO INCONVENIENCE Ideal unit for cottage, ski chalets that are used all winter or for week-end enjoyment. Installs easily anywhere or completely portable. 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Another Clinton rally in the second inning was foiled when umpire Bruce Collins called Joe Livermore out for having the ball hit him after he left the batter's box. P. Wallace hit two base hits BY BERT CLIFFORD The Ponies downed Seaforth, 8-4 for their 11th league win as Mark Nicholson won his fifth game. Nicholson gave up his only hit, a single, in the first inning but his nine walks kept him in trouble especially early in the game. Mark opened the game with two walks and both runners scored on the hit putting Seaforth out in front 2-1. Don Peterson led off the game with a single and scored on Pat Phillips' sacrifice hit. Seaforth went ahead 3-1 in the third but Clinton came back with two runs in the fourth. Mark _Nicholson scored on FIRST RACE — Pace, $225, time 2:12 1-5: Steven R. Rick, Stevens, 4.00, 3.10, 2.60; Miss Direct Baker, MacDonald, 3.30, 2.60; Glen Henley, Pollard, 3.60. SECOND RACE — Pace, $250,: time 2119:„Union ,Scott; Faulds; 6.00, 3.90, 4.20; Patricia Chips, Payne, 8.60, 6.50; Lucan's Girl, Young, 5.90. Daily Double (5-7) $14.60. THIRD RACE — Pace, $225, time 2:11: Leo Law, Stewart, 5.40, 3.40, 2.90; Irish Irving, Kerr, 4.10, 3.30; Terragon, Vollett, 3.20. FOURTH RACE Pace, $250, time 2:13 1-5: Sunday Watch, C. Young, 5.30, 2.70, 2.30; Prima Davey, P. Young, 2.70, 2.30; Merrywood Mike, Revington, 3.20. Quinella (4-2) $9.00. FIFTH RACE — Pace, $225, time 2:12 2-5: Victory Van, Pollard, 9.70, 4.80, 3.30; Linda's Boy, Mathers, 13.00, 6.20; Harwood Heather, F. MacDonald, 4.20. SIXTH RACE — Pace, $225, time 2:14 1.5: Super Sue, Hardy, 5.10, 4.80, 3.30; Blue Glen, Williamson, 9.20, 4.20; Tammy Pull, Maguire, 5.10, SEVENTH RACE — Trot, $300, time 2:11 3.5: Goldies Cross, Caldwell, 4.10, 2.80, 2.10; Meadow Brook, C. Payne, 3.10, 2.10;, Dewliner, G. Hill, (no price available). Extractor (6.5) $17,00. EIGHTH RACE — Paee, $225, time 2:14: Adios Tan, Hardy, 9.80, 3.20, 2.70; My Mickey, Dupee, 3.00, 2,20; Victor Mac Gratton, A. Hardy, 2.70. NINTH RACE — Pace, $300, time 2:10 2-5: Sebringville, Mathers, 27.20, 10.30, 5.50; Cleyer Larry, Arbour, 12.30, 6.00; Lee Cardinal, Moffat; 9.40. TENTH RACE — Pace, $700, time 2:08 3-5: Arvellas First, Pollard, 13.40, 5.20, 3.10; CB, Carruthers, Wall, 8.90, 3.80; J. R. Gratton, McRann, 4.10. Extractor (3-7) $131.20. Attendance 1,327. Handle $48,890, Juveniles down Chesley 4-1 Stu Mustard struck out 13 Chesley batters and made eight other plays to put out 21 of the 27 outs in the game. Mustard drove in three runs; Ron Graham two and Dave Fawcett one. Ron Graham hit a sacrifice fly to allow Steve Switzer to cross the plate. Clinton won the game 4.1. Dashwood is in town tonight starting at 6:30 in a league game. Clinton has beaten them twice and Dashwood has won once. Clinton hosts Mount Forest at 2:80 Saturday in an exhibition game. BY LIZA WILLIAMS The Huron County Museum is a strong link with a past dominated by strong people, Early settlers in the area tilled and tamed a land which is now one of the most populated and prosperous sections of Canada. Who visits this museum? And why do they return again and again to be reminded of their grandfathers ' and great-grandfathers? Raymond Scotchmer, the Curator of the museum, says that the interest is varied and the age-groups widespread. Some come to see particular things, from the sixty-foot railway engine to 'high-buttoned shoes, but most come to see everything — and they practically do. The bonding, converted from the more than 100-year-old Goderich Public School, has ,been expanded and improved until it now is able to house 11,000 items. The museum holds great appeal for children. Most of the people who visit it are families, who come in from Provincial Parks, private pleasure boats, and restaurants where the museum is advertised. They live as far away as London, Sarnia, Woodstock. And Goderich? There have been two or three classes from the Goderich school, but most- of the children have visited the museum long before they go with their school groups. Last year over 4,000 school children from other areas toured the museum. There are ten girls who work as guides for the museum, and they think it is one of the best summer , jobs one could have. Besides showing visitors around and talking about the history behind the various exhibits, they are responsible for cleaning and straightening up the displays. Sometimes they are allowed to handle, the objects, and once, one of them tried on one of the old-fashioned dresses. Anne Legg, who is in her second summer of guiding now, spends some of her time on Sundays playing the antique pedal organ in the reconstructed pioneer chapel. In a sense, the museum is a sort of library or history book. Anne reports, "Last week there was a lady in here looking through the old photographs for a picture of her father, who was on the Huron County Council in 1911. When she found him she was very pleased." Favorite displays with the guides and with Mr. Scotchmer are the Orchestral Regina, which is a wonderful music-box with a different musical piece on each of the interchangeable disks fashioned by a tinsmith; and the June Collection of intricate carvings and inlay work. Favorites with children seem to be the Indian rel.cs, which they have studied in school, and the stuffed animals, such as the two-headed calf. "You can see how they like them by the fingerprints on the glass!" says guide Laurie Ginn. At the beginning of a guided tour, Anne likes to "introduce Mr. Neill," the founder and builder of the Huron County Museum. She tells briefly about his life and work, and how his grandparents were pioneers in the 1860's. The museum tries to tell the pioneer story "from the cradle to the grave." So the order of exhibits actually begins with cradles and ends with antique hearses, sotne on sleigh runners for the Winter. "Most people don't realize that pioneer life was so hard," Says Anne. One of the most striking benefits of taking a guided tour through the museum is the recurring influence of J. H. Neill. He founded the museum in 1951, and was its curator for fourteen years, leaving his mark of personal taste and interest on all aspects of the building and its contents. Many of the items are machines. These held Mr. Neill's foremost fascination. The questions — How does it work? How was it powered? How did it develop? — were what prompted him to collect antiques and build models. There are several exhibits which Mr. Neill put together to illustrate the answers to these questions. For example, the history of flour-making is traced with 18 different models of methods used from ancient Egyptian times through pioneer days. Every model, many of which , have handles which allow the visitor to operate the machines, was built by Mr. Nein himself. Children love these models, which are at an easy height for them to study. „They wonder, - whether they are from farm or city, how the 'pioneers managed without cars,, television, switches and buttons. And by operating the models themselves, they prove the old expression that their toil except their own ingenuity, and luckily they had plenty of that. The most interesting exhibits, aside from the working models, are of two kinds. The first kind presents a complete history of one area or facet of practical life, such as the display of 15 different methods of providing light, from candles to lanterns to electric light bulbs. The second kind of exhibit represents a particular tithe, illustrating different aspects of life then. For example, there are restorations of a typical early kitchen, parlour, and bedroom. Decorated with hand-made articles, these rooms reflect the simple taste and homey style of the decor of that time. As guide Anne says, "Many people see things here that they have in their own homes." Sometimes they have the actual items, handed down through a household, either as heirlooms or as objects still serviceable. Sometimes they have only variations of the item. Many of the inventions of the pioneers were so successful that our modern-day machines are -.based on them with very little modification except a new exterior. Ldoms, maple syrup equipment, some farm tools — many are still used today. The guides are quick to point out that there are great parallels between pioneer and modern life. Their general store, for "one picture is worth a thousand words." There is a model of an apple press, a bale maker for hay, a livestock-powered "engine." But it is not only children whose curiosity is aroused and satiated by Mr. Neill's models., Long after some of them have grown up and gone away, they come back to the museum to look again. Curiosity is not something one grows out of — or at least, Mr. Neill never grew out of it. If he had, he would not have continued to study and learn and create until he died at the age of 84, So Mr. Neill, knowing thai he himself was curious, assumed that most human beings wonder how things work, especially the things which make up their heritage. The concept of heritage is perhaps the reason for the museum's exiQterice. One of the strongest urges in man is toward self-preservation, and part of this instinct results in a desire to record the past. Our past, here in Huron County, consists of the lives of pioneers. And it is to them that the Huron County Museum pays tribute. These early settlers were made of solid stuff, '1 he museum recreates their struggle and their success, Case after case of tools, implements, and equipment bear witness to the work they did and their hardships. Nothing eased instance, is much the same idea as our supermarket, However, almost everything the early settlers made was created from the materials at hand, wood and iron for the most part. The museum has a gate from the fence of an old farm which is made from an oddly entwined piece of pine root. And as Mr. Neil said in his history of the museum and the pioneers, "Many of our first born throughout this country were rocked in an old sap trough." The museum also has a floral clock out in front, and a large sundial-like instrument to tell time by the sun. The authentic log cabin in which Mr. Neill lived so as. to be near the museum while he was curator now holds antique furniture. Out in back, ready for action at a fair or the coming International Plowing Match, is a school bus, outfitted like a little museum, for portable exhibits. Facts and figures galore are available in the two booklets which the museum carries on the history of Mr. Neill and his projects. But 'the most valuable information is to be gained through one's own eyes and ears, when one visits the museum for oneself. As Mr. Neill once said, "...the most pleasing thing which has taken place all the way through...is the attitude of the people as they leave the museum. I know now we Wave what suits them." Last Wednesday afternoon many members from all hospital departments attended a tea held at Goderich Psychiatric Hospital Recreation • Tips With the golf season in full swing, The Canadian National Institute for the Blind urges parents to warn children against cutting golf open. The centre of the ball sometimes contains sulphuric acid, zinc sulphide, and other materials which may be harmful to the' eyes and hands. A few minutes of caution prevents a lifetime of eye damage. A word of warning to all barbecuers from The Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Be careful of hot fat and sparks which fly into the air. They can burn your eyes. And another tip—never throw gasoline or lighter fluid on slow starting barbecues. Your eyes can be damaged permanently. Don't give accidents a chance to happen. About 2,2Q0 Canadians will receive se;ioua eye iinjury this ; year in and around the home. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind suggests these safety tips for the home gardener. Put garden tools away after use. Youngsters can trip and fall over them, resulting in fatal eye injury. Before spraying weeds, make sure nozzle openings on cans face the ground and not your face. Don't wait for accidents to happen. They're not worth it. and a home run picking up three runs himself. Last Saturday night Colts lost 4-2 to Thorndale with Don Bartliff hitting a home run in the first inning. On Sunday night in an exhibition game they • were defeated by Walkerton 4-3. They now have a record of seven wins, six losses and one tie with a win by default on Friday night when St. Marys failed to show up. They play next on Wednesday night in Arva and on Saturday night in Clinton against Arva at 6:30 and in Thorndale at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. Peewees pick up Ilth league win David Clynick's double, and Clynick came home on Doug Schoenhals' single. From the fourth on Nicholson found his control as he faced only one extra batter, an opening walk in the fifth. This runner eventuall‘ scored and tied the score 4-4. Pat Phillips had scored in the top of the fifth. In the sixth Clinton picked up three walks but two flyouts and a running error snuffed out the rally. In the seventh the Ponies picked up runs by Pat Phillips, Robert Harkes, Mark Nicholson and David, Counter. Along with the one hit and nine walks Nicholson retired 13 batters by strikeout. $48,890 bet at Raceway Sunday honoring Mrs. Myrtle Collins, psychiatric nurse, on the occasion of her superannuation from service. The arrangements and decorations were in the charge of Mrs. Ruth, Ann Chapman, Reg.N. Mrs. Collins was thanked and praised by Mrs. Mona Enzensberger, Reg.N., for her 'devotion and loyalty demonstrated throughout her over eight years' service in the Goderich Psychiatric Hospital. A much appreciated swag lamp was presented to Mrs. Collins by Mrs. Linda MacLeod, R.N.A., on behalf of hospital personnel from all departments and Mrs. Eileen Dean Reg.N., made a presentation, to Mrs. Collins, of a silver tea service on behalf of the Goderich Psychiatric Nurses' Association. Mrs. Collins, in her reply, thanked all involved. Tea and cookies were served.