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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-12-02, Page 4Editorial comment Taking chances How long are we going to go on inviting a serious, accident in Clinton? ever since the junction of Highways 4 and 8 was redesigned where the old post office used to stand, there have been some faults in road markings that have invited accidents. Somehow, no serious accidents have occurred, but how long will our luck hold? One of the trouble spots is at the corner of the one-way portions of King and Isaac Streets. Presently there is a.yield sign for cars that come off King onto Isaac, but there is no sign telling that Isaac is .a one-way street. Anyone who is around that corner has seen cars from time to time turning the wrong way onto that one-way street and thus coming out at the main intersection in the wrong lane, just waiting to be hit by someone trying to go the proper way on Isaac. The problem could be remedied with a sign at the corner marking it as a one-way street, and a serious accident could be avoided. So who cares? The goings on, on Parliament Hill lately seem to prove just how far removed politicians are from the interests of common people. So much fuss has been raised about reports that were leaked prematurely. Accusations have been made from both the opposition and government sides of the house of wrong doing. But just who cares? Most secret reports that are leaked don't really say anything that .wasn't already known by most people anyway. If the leak involved really important information then there would be cause for alarm. But so far none have. As the prime minister said, it is more a matter of moral danger to the country than the danger of the importance. of the facts getting out The other problem is in front of the Bank of MOntreal. That corner has never been marked properly since the road was redesigned. There are two lanes, one on the right for traffic turning right onto Highway 8, and the one on the left for those going through the intersection or turning left, The problem is that most, traffic uses the right hand lane while those Who know the proper rules at the intersection use the left lane for through travel, The result is a mad dash across the intersection to see which car be the first to reach the single-lane highway north of the junction. The markings on the pavement have never been enough to properly inform motorists of the proper lanes to use but now it's been so long since paint was applied that the markings are completely obliterated. The cost of properly marking the corner would be cheap compared to the costly results of the accident that is bound to happen sooner or later. • that should be worried about. But the politicians seem so ready to play their little games that they don't really know what the effect of their words is on the people they are trying to impress, the average everyday voter. Anyone who has watched parliament in action is more than a little appalled at the amount of time spent thumping desks and crying "shame" and "resign". But these are the rules of the game and once e politician is in Ottawa (or Toronto) he plays not for his voters back home, but for his own mistaken impression of what they think he should be saying. Maybe, someday, some mature politician will come along who really knows what the people back home are interested in—and no doubt he will be prime minister in no time. Finding comfort in a duck blind- y for the race Which way from here Beware this book etter -to the Editor Concerning a qualif zed murder 'vattairroi THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD ' EttablIshed 1865 1924 Established 1881 .Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Asseciation and the Audit Bureau or Circulation (ABC) Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County A Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 TIlE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA KEITH W. ROULSTON — Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN General Manager , second class mail 'registration number 0817 SU8SCRIPTION RATES: (ire advance) Canada, $B.00 per year; U.S.A, $9.60 4 Clinton News,flecOrd, Thursday, December 2, 1971 "November glooms are barren beside the dusk of June." Thus quoth the poet Henley. And I say too ruddy true. As a general rule. But this year has been an exception. I don't think I've ever •written a decent word about November, with its "surly blasts", its sudden, depressing dumping of snow, its bleak and sterile look. I know we're going to pay for it with a terrible winter, but this November, for the first time in many years, we've been ushered into winter with a gentle melancholy that seems unbelievable. By the time this appears in print, we may be up to our noggins in MUM But credit where it is due. The first weeks of November this year, in these parts, have made me decide to give this country and hs crazy climate one more chance. Its almost as though God had held up his hand as the four winds were on their mark, cheeks puffed, ready to give us the usual, and boomed, "Hold. The poor devils are having enough troubles of their own making. Let's give them one November to remember. Normally, November is the Most dismal meth in the year, With the possible exception of March. But in the latter, at least the days are getting longer and Mts. Gladys Van Egmond and Stewart McEwan joined the regulars for the old time music, dancing and sing-a-long on Monday afternoon. Kinettes, Carol Finch, Mary Helen Clifford, Janet Jewitt, Carol Bowker accompanied by Chrystal Jewitt led the sing-song on Wednesday at the monthly program and tea sponsored by the Clinton Kinette Club. 'The residents of Huronview were happy to have a return visit from the Jolly Millers, a group of entertainers from Benmiller, for the Family Night program. The variety program included a one act play, several action songs, a sing-a-long by the grotto, accordian solos by Marie Willis, drum selections by Ernie Pfrinuner With Mrs. Barry Millian accompanying on the there's a wild hope that spring may come again. Normally, November means many things, none of them pleasant, Darkness comes early. There is a wild scramble, for many of us, over snow tires and storm windows. There is bitter wind ashore and terrifying storms on the water. It's been a grand November for the hunters and trout fishermen. Perhaps not so good for the deer hunters, with little snow. But for the 'duck and partridge boys, and the rainbow anglers, it has been near perfection. Day after day of mild, almost balmy weather has done away with the agonized squat in the duck blind, with nothing between you and certain death from exposure except the flask of rum. The same weather has made trout fishing, usually undertaken in a biting wind with half-frozen fingers, practically a Sunday school picnic. Even the golfers have been able to stretch the season by at least a month. The only danger they face is exhaustion from golfing in the day and curling at night. Normally, the squirrels would be getting set up for the winter. I look into the backyard and they're gambolling as though it were mid-June Surest sign that it's been a piano for the musical numbers. It has been very encouraging this month to have had the assistance of some new volunteers. We are afraid it will be impossible to carry on some of the programs without more help, and we would be pleased to hear froth anyone interested in volunteer work. This pay day remember XFAINIVINATZNA(DEVELoPpASor ftoPit 97 Eglinton Ave., 'East Toronto 315, Ontario November without peer is the behaviour of our cat. As a rule, when November arrived, with its wind and rain and snow, she has to be hurled bodily outside. This year, she has actually been going to the door and asking out. I haven't seen any bees, but there are still a lot of crazy birds around who have been baffled by the weather, and are going to be caught with their pants down one of these days. And they're not the only ones. Many a man like myself has been lulled into a false sense of security, hasn't his storms on, hasn't changed to snow tires hasn't even turned off the outside water, and hasn't a clue where his winter boots are. Oh, there'll be a day of reckoning, all right. My bones warn me. But to heck with it. I'm going to live dangerously and enjoy every day of it. And to prove it, I'm goifig to Write my first, and probably my last, ode to November. Much-maligned November, This year you've been my friend, Don't quite know how to prove it, But you've shown you can groove it. No way are you September, But you're one long remember. Isn't that beautiful? 10 'YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 30,1961 Passed away Tuesday in his home at Alma Grove Club House, Moses, Clinton's only bear, at the age of about six years. Interment in the Grove on Tuesday, Nov. 28, by Huron Fish and Game Club officials. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 29,1.056 Dr. Paul Yates, formerly of Clinton and a returned missionary doctor to Nigeria, will be in town Sunday and will speak at the evening services at Ontario Street United Church. After the service he will show pictures in the new Christian Education Wing of the church. A meeting, to discuss the possibilities of setting up a film service for the County of Huron, will be held here in the board room of the agricultural office tonight, Nov. 29. All interested parties and representatives from My latest advice for young married couples, which I volunteer from time to time without extra charge and without ever being asked, is to assidously avoid a book authored by an American sociologist named John F. Cuber, which seems calculated to encourage new production records in the divorce mills. A digest of Dr. Cuber's studies of the marital experience of 437 wedded„couples has just reached me and I can tell you that it's the most depressing reading since the Kinsey report. Like the Kinsey report, I am convinced that the Cuber report might be a valuable specialist's guide for other sociologists or marriage counsellors, but it's just plain dynamite for the true professionals of wedlock—those of us who live it rather than clinically examine it. The Kinsey report produced a rash of what might be called sexual hypo"hondriacs, people who became alarmed or downhearted or whose secret fears seemed to be confirmed by a comparison with statistical charts of the love lives of perfect strangers, a sort of Dow Jones Averages of sex behaviour which, as Dr. Kinsey kept pointing out to his dying day, were never meant to be related to the individual's habits or appetites. Now, it seems to me, the Cuber report will produce a rash of equally vulnerable hypochondriacs, people who will magnify every little nagging flaw in their marriages to relate it to the pseudo-scientific "findings" of this study to try to fit themselves into an a arbitrary public norm that may be meaningless in a private relationship. What Dr. Cuber claims to organizations who would like to make use of such a service are asked to attend this meeting. Plans wilt be outlined by officials from the National. Film Board, and if the service is requested, it will be set up at this meeting. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 5, 1946 George Wilson, 13rucefield, was elected president, Clinton Branch No. 140, Canadian Legion. He succeeds T. G. Scribbins who has held the post for several years. Miss Maragret Tarnblyn, Londesboro, is a winner of a Carter Scholarship with a cash value of $100:- She also won a scholarship at the University of Western Ontario, which she is now attending and in addition to the Sir Ernest Cooper. Councillor J. Ira Rapson has Ied the polls in the Hullett Township council race. William R. Jewitt, William J. Dale and Leslie R. Reid were the others elected. John Armstrong returns have found, and what his emotional or immature or self-centered readers will consider to. be significant, is that the vast majority of these 437 marriages are full of woes. He classifies them as (a) the conflict-habituated relationship in which couples are continuously quarreling in an atmosphere of tension; (b) the devitalized relationship in which the partnership is apathetic, lifeless, void of zest and kept intact only by habit or inertia; (c) the passive-congenial relationship in which a feeling of comfortable adequacy keeps the partners together, in which the husband and wife avoid argumentative issues and share impersonal interests to cover the absence of deeper personal relations. These are ridiculous generalizations considering the highly individualistic situations peculiar to each marriage. Even so, I am sure there will be many disgruntled wives and restless husbands who will seize upon them to dignify, by categorization, any transient weakness in their marital affairs, Even now I seem to hear some bored housewife confiding to her neighbour that she's conflict-habituated—with just as much authority as If the were describing a case of water on the knee. This is the danger of all such sociological studies made available for popular reading, It is particularly dangerous in marriage since any normal m a n-and-w omen relationship will, at one time or another, fit into all these classifications. In short, it is the nature of marriage to encounter problems, such as it is in the nature of the human body to endure aches and illnesses. It Would probably to the post acclamation. 40 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 3,1931 While playing basketball at the Collegiate on Thursday afternoon Don Smith had the misfortune to break his arm on colliding with another player. George il.iehl has purchased the property of the late Mrs. 'Umbel', south side of Mary Street, and is ereeting a modern chicken house thereon. David Cantelon who has completed his 84th year on Saturday last, celebrated the day by entertaining a number of his friends to 'dinner in the evening. Reeve G. IL Elliott is in Goderich this week attending the meeting of the County Council. '55 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 30,1916 J. II. Paxman had a big sign put on the -top of his garage, In W, Fair's window, M. E. Paul, manager of the Molson's be a good thing, indeed, if 1-tu. solemnization of matrimony were enlarged to read, "for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health and in conflict, apathy and passivity." The fact that Dr. Cuber made his study exclusively among an upper.middle income group, a slice of anxious society which produces the 'Ugliest percentage of divorces, makes it all the more suspect as a reference work for younger and perhaps less affluent couples. Most marriage counsellors, in fact, agree that one of the major perils in modern matrimony is the nation that happiness in wedlock can be found only in the blissful, eternal glow of romance or in the dream world of the advertising men oriented to status, prestige and gracious living, Reality, when the honeymoon is over, thus may become unbearable. By Dr. Cuber's own findings it can be seen that the well-to-do couples all too often turn their backs, like children, on the adult pleasures and rewards of a lifetime experience. They attempt to escape in a variety of devious ways without actually divorcing. What does not come through is that the really durable and satisfying marriages almost always have gone through precisely the same crises and that they have been overcome by repair, concessions, intelligence and adjustment. Those are the marriages that need to be studied if sociological case histories are going to be a form of guidance. Until such a study is made I would urge any newlyweds to find their own way to a mature marriage and to restrict their reading to Dr, Spook. Bank, has the original painting of the Canadians at Ypres in 1915. George Spotton, Wingham, and formerly proprietor Of the Clinton Business College, has completed arrangements for the opening of a business college in Torontcc Is the destruction of a human foetus in the mother's womb a qualified murder? Up to the beginning of this century, philosophers and scientists were very vague in regard to this matter, In order to answer this question correctly, it is necessary to know at what precise moment, after conception, that human life begins. The answer to this basic question lies in the Science of Cellular Biology and Genetics. In both these areas, spectacular progress has been made in the last decade. In the •past 15 years, many scientific laboratories have brought out the mechanism of life and cellular reproduction in general, and in the human being in particular. While, at Harvard, they were discovering the structure of desoxyribonucleic acid, that revolutionized traditional cytology, researchers from Toronto and Winnipeg were making important discoveries about the mechanism of hereditary transmission. Thus, by corollary, we have been shown the perfect continuity of the development of the human being from the initial cell which will multiply itself up to sixty billion times in twenty years to form an adult. Also genetics has proven that the initial cell contains the complete plan or "blueprint" of the man or woman it will become, having in it from the very beginning more than 100,000 specifications codified on the gene of chromosomes. It is thus that the resultant man or woman will be distinct and differentiated from 3 billion other human beings on the planet. Where then does human life begin? To be specific, in the first initial cell of the embryo. Therefore if human life begins in the embryo, where do its rights begin? Logic or simple common sense tells us, the same place that conception has taken place. It's deplorable to see a Civil Code that does not acknowledge a child's civic rights until he is born. Such a mentality is, to say the least, mediaeval. Even more revolting is this "Women's Liberation movement", which teaches that a woman has an The editor, Recently an article appeared in a local newspaper regarding a proposal by Stephen Township Council to add an additional fifteen dollars to the wolf bounty now paid by the province of Ontario. This would bring the total payable bounty to $40. In my opinion this is a completely uncalled-for addition to an already uncalled-tor bounty. The wolf is one of our endangered species and steps should be taken to slow its decline in numbers instead of hastening _ its demise by a program of eradication. The wolf has a bad reputation which has been magnified in the eyes of man by fairy tales and legend. However, scientific research has shown the wolf is not all he is cracked up to be. Contrary to popular opinion the wolf does not kilt only for the sheer joy of killing; he kills only when he needs food and he will return to a kill. The wolf very rarely attacks livestock. Livestock is something he associates with man, and man he avoids at all costs, A wolf will never attack a man unless he is cornered and crazed with fear and this any field mouse would do. The wolf can. carry rabies but so can a bat and there is no bounty on bats. It has been said that wolves contribute to a diminishing deer population. In actuality a wolf, being no fool and liking an easy meal, will cull out the weak and injured animals; those which probably would have died anyway through starvation or by a hunter's bullet. All of the reasons for the existence of a bounty have been invalidated and still the bounty remains (most other provinces have done away with it). And now Stephen Township wants to increase it! This is totally inconceivable and unacceptable! I would suggest that the people with whom this decision rests read Farley Mowatt's book Never Cry Wolf or some of the literature compiled by Dr. D. H. Pimlatt of the University of Toronto, Having done this they would be very hard put to justify the increase in the bounty either to me or to their own consciences, Ward Hodgins Clinton, Ont. Thank PUC The editor, I feel sure I am not alone when I say a big hearty "thank you" to the and other parties responsible for the installation of the new street lights on Raglan Street. It must be noted that the wooden poles have been removed — many of these supported large transformers which also obstructed the old lighting, With the winter closing in, the lights will most certainly be appreciated. An Appreciative Clintonian, hat's new at Huroittietv? 211111111111MMINII.S reeve by absolute right over herself physically and that by consequence, in case of pregnancy she can be aborted at any time she so desires. Let us immediately say that neither 'women or men are in absolute authority over their person: thus ,no one has the right to commit suicide; on the other hand, everyone has not only the right, but also the duty to maintain their health. Furthermore, if a woman has a certain right over her person, is it necessary to remind her that she does not have the same rights over the body of the child that lives in her womb. It is not her body, both physically and biologically it differs from hers. The only right Nature gives the Mother over her child, is the right to protect it against the "folly of the century". This is one of the main reasons it is in her womb. Have you ever heard of a Mother Swallow invitinga squirrel for a "snack" made of the eggs she just laid, so as not to have the trouble of hatching them? However that may be, if society refuses the right to punish by death a criminal such as Paul Rose, with which I personally agree, why should this same society have the right to put to death thousands and thousands of children by permitting their murder in the Mother's womb; and this for the most futile and fleeting of motives. Let us not delude ourselves: a voluntary abortion which is premeditated, planned, and perpetrated is a qualified murder. As for the advocates of this new modern massacre of "Holy Innocents" I will reciprocate with the slightly altered, phrase of the celebrated poet/Peloquin: "Vous etes pas tannes de faire mourir `les autres' bande de caves!" (Aren't you tired of having 'others' killed, foils of you!) Dr. Therese Martel Jutras 42, Potvin Street Victoriaville, P.Q. Tel: (819) 752-9778 Dr. Rene Jutras 42 Potvin Street Victoriaville, P.Q. Tel: (819) 752-9778 Stop the wolf bounty