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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-12-30, Page 4Here is an extreme example of the kind of thing truck drivers are regularly doing on Clinton streets. This truck was seen on Albert Street last week, double-parked, in, the wrong lane of traffic. It caused a great deal of confusion to drivers trying to park or just to proceed safely up the street. Uesser examples of illegal parking by trucks can be seen nearly any day along the Albert and Victoria street business section. It's time something was done. Letter to the Editor 4 ClintOn News-Record, ThurSdaYe Decerntier 30, 1071 Editorial commeitt What's wrong with athletic scholarships? Maybe it was because of all those bad mid-thirties and forties movies we watched, but Canadians still seem to have blind eyes toward the possibility of athletic scholarships, Those movies always showed some big, handsome athletic hero at an American college who always won the football game but didn't know enough to put his pants on the right way after the game. He got to school on a scholarship although he could barely write and he managed to get his college degree in 'some subject like basketweaving. These old ideas linger on and whenever someone mentions scholarships for athletes, people scoff,. But surely it's time we took our heads out of the sand and looked at the real world. For one thing, rules governing athletic scholarships in colleges in the U.S. are much tougher now and students must maintain sufficient marks if they are to continue to play sports. A second fact is that in our province, students are given free grants every year to help pay the cost of university education but many spend it instead on sports cars or trips to Europe skiing, and they don't even have to worry about keeping their marks up. Thirdly, many students are leaving Canada each year because they can't get scholarships to go to school here but can, because of their ability to play hockey or football or some other sport, in the U.S. The Greeks used to stress perfection of both mind, 'and body. Canadians seem to have turned it around to read mind or body, but certainly not both. We have done our best to divorce training of the mind from training Of the body, Athletic departments at Ontario schools are always the first to feel the squeeze in budget cuts. They are considered luxuries. Consider the case of IVICGi1,1 University in Montreal which last year had its budget cut back by the Quebec goVernment. The intercollegiate sports program was one of the first things to go. But in an American school it would have been one of the last' because there athletics is an asset, not a liability. Here, athletics are a drain on funds but in the U.S. athletic programs often help pay for the other programs in the schools. Admission fees to popular, college sports such as hockey, football and basketball not only pay for the scholarships and the whole athletic departments in most American colleges, but are a badly needed source of revenue for the whole school. What's more, because of college athletic programs, the U.S. has perhaps the best athletic facilities in the world while here in Canada we have probably the worst of any of the richer nations of the world. We've missed the boat for many years in this country. We wonder why our taxes are, higher than our. neighbours' but we refuse to follow their example. How much longer can we be so stupid? Time for a crackdown The time has come for a crackdown on the amount of illegal parking that goes on in Clinton. Not just the cars that are parked overtime on the meters should be tagged (although it seems ridiculous to have meters if parking tickets are only issued twice or three times a year) but the amount of parking that is done in illegal positions should be cut back. The biggest offenders are truckdrivers making deliveries to main street stores. Especially bad is the business section on Victoria Street where truck drivers never seem to park properly even when there is a space available. And the parking of trucks on the street is completely unnecessary because stores along this street and almost everywhere else in town have access from a rear alley. But instead the truck drivers seem to think they have the divine right to leave their trucks in the middle of the street for several minutes while they unload their merchandise. And we do little to discourage them. A crackdown by police and action by town council would help deter this illegal parking which sooner or later is going to cause an accident. Letter will cost 8 c to mail on Saturday The domestic rate for a first class letter or postcard goes up to 8 cents on Jan. 1. This is the second step of a two-stage rate increase for first class mail approved by Parliament last summer. The new 8-cent rate will apply to all mail weighing up to one ounce travelling to destinations in Canada. The rate for over one ounce to two ounces goes to 14 cents; over two ounces to four ounces, 20 cents; over four ounces to 8 ounces, 32 cents. Concurrently, the surface letter mail rate to the United States, its territories and possessions (and to St. Pierre and Miquelon) also goes up to 8 cents. Other changes coming into effect on Jan. 1, 1972: The weight limit for domestic fourth class mail, and for parcel post to the United States is increased from 25 lbs. to 35 lbs.; and the rates for mail going to Canadian Forces Post Offices are adjusted in accordance with the other changes mentioned above; please check with your local post office for details. International rates do not change: Letter Mail weighing up to eight ounces is automatically conveyed by air at the following rates: 'up to one ounce, 15 cents; over one ounce to two ounces, 30 cents; over two ounces to four ounces, 40 cents; over four ounces to eight ounces, 90 cents. Detailed rate sheets are available at all post offices. How to save a girl from Love THE CLINTON NEW ERA Anialgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton NQws-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario WeeltV- Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Published every Thursday at second class mail registration number — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $8.00 per year; U.S.A., $9.60 KEITH 1N. ROLILSTON — Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General manager •tiM•10..4 *IMO • the heart of Huron County A Clinton, Ontario Population 3,415 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA A quiet start New Year's resolutions seem rather pointless, when one looks back over the past year and realizes what a mess one made of it. But hope springs eternal in the human beast (note to ed. — that's beast, not breast), and , most of the time I feel as though I'm still animal, though I have a lot of calcium in the wrong places — not teeth, but elbows, knees and shoulders — and there are moments when I feel pure vegetable, maybe a withered turnip. So here goes-. The very first thing I'm going to do in '72 is get my rake and lawn chairs out of the backyard and into the basement. Provided I can find them under the snow. Same goes for my woodpile, which has been sitting there, "drying out", since August. The second thing I'll do is stop listening to my wife and make her start listening to me. She is eternally getting into jams because she won't listen to me because she never has because she thinks she knows more than I about practically anything you can name. And she is forever getting me into jams because I listen to her because she thinks etc . That will clear a lot of the fog in our domestic air. I know. You think that's like a mouse bragging that he's going to straighten out an elephant. And it is. But it's also a fact that we mice have been known to panic a whole herd of elephants. Anyway, it'll be fun trying. That old spirit of adventure, you know. Even if it does cost me a broken nose or a cbuple of thick ears. Another thing I'm going to do is stop worrying. I'm a terrible worry wart. Some weeks I worry a total of 27 minutes, about something I can't do a thing about. I'm going to cut that down to 27 seconds, do it once a week, and get it over with. I'm going to give up late nights. They take a terrible toll on a fellow when he must work next day. No more of those. Except on exceptional cases, such AS Friday and Saterday nights and anytime we go to a party or have -one. Or anytime I really feel like staying up, I'm going to put a stop to Illy daughter falling in love. This will be one of the trickier assignments: I just get nicely adjusted to the fact that she's deeply in love -and settling -down when I get word that it's off with the old and on with the new, and this time it's "reaI"% In the past year she's been in love with an English professor, an American (imagine!), student; twice engaged to the same guy, name of Joe; and is currently head-over-heels with a sculptor. How much does a struggling sculptor make? I don't really care, but I don't fancy the old idea that two can live as cheaply as one, if I'm paying the bills. I don't know what teehniqtte I'll use to stop her, but come up with something fiendish that will guarantee her a long spinsterhood. I'm going back into the arms of the church for a long-awaited (on her part) embrace. 1 am steadily growing more sinful, just like the rest of you, but it's time to start straightening the accounts. Well, that's enough to keep me going for the year. A nice mixture of physical and psychological problems. In closing, thanks to all those who have written -during the year. Forgive Me if I haven't answered yet. Have a good year. And a special wish to all those in trouble; Western farmers, the unemployed, the old, the Mentally ill. Keep your -chin tip, Things an only get better. And remember, somebody is thinking about you. Maybe Edgar Benson won't, but I will. Once upon a time there was a middle-aged married couple'who had reached a time in their lives when New Year's Eve left them very cold indeed. They were swollen, sodden, bloated, stunned and extremely broke after Christmas, like almost everybody else, and they dreaded the necessity of seeing the new year in, not to mention seeing the old one out. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," said The Little. Woman one night, "if we could just stay home for once and not have to go out and have a good time?" At this remark they both suddenly sat upright with idiotic, gay expressions on their faces. "Why not?" said the man of the house. "There's no law against it." Well, one thing led to another and on New Year's Eve the middle-aged couple built up a fine big fire in the fireplace, opened a small bottle of good wine, put some Duke Ellington on the machine, turned down the lights and saw the new year in. It cost them hardly anything to speak of, they had a fine time and woke up the next morning feeling that maybe 1972 might not be too bad a year after all. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 28, 1961 Mr. and Mrs. D. John Cochrane, Shipley Street, entertained the staff of CDCL at a Christmas tea on Sunday, Dec. 17. Mrs. Cochrane was assisted by her mother, Mrs. George Campbell, Mrs, Brock Olde,Mrs. Alan Lowe, Mrs. Ross Midleton and Mrs. Aubrey Langdon. Pouring tea were Mrs. Garnett McGee and Mrs. Robt, Hornuth, Gordon Tebbutt, now in his fourth year of geology at University of Western Ontario, London,. has again received the $1,000 dollar scholarship offered by Kennecott Copper Co. New York, awarded on the 1960-61 academic year. Gordon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ervine Tebbutt, R. R. 2, Clinton. 15 YEARS AGO Thurs., Dec. 27, 1956 Christmas Eve we were doing a bit of that last minute shopping for which merchants kindly stayed open to help us all out, and we heard a lady chatting With a clerk. She said she was just doing her‘elinton shopping, an apt term this year if there ever was one. The Harboraire's, popular male eliorus from GOderich, will again appear on television this coining Sunday afternoon, Dee. 30 on Channel 8, from five until five-thirty o'clock. This is a regular feature, once a month for a six month period. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 26, 1946 Although dated Dec. 26 this issue of the Clinton News-Recotd was published Tuesday, December 24. The editor thanks advertisers, correspondents arid others who co-operated so Whole-heartedly This is not a fairy story, but a preview of a sensational experiment scheduled to take place at our house on the great night. After far too many years of 'greeting the new year with unbridled revelry we've decided this year to greet it like sedate human beings. Looking back down that long parade of New Year's Eves is rather like a series of dog fights. Most of them have been spent in the dense jungle of cabarets or night clubs where a patron pays a king's .ransom for the privelege of being pulverized by a mad herd 'of alcoholics, sometimes actually 'being- trampled under their hooves and left there to be swept up with the rest of the debris in the morning. I remember one particular year in a hotel ballroom being wedged in a corner at a table the size of a soda cracker, trapped there behind a wall of human flesh, cut off from all sustenance and bleating for an oxygen tent. Somewhere, at least 75 miles away, an orchestra was playing, providing background music for the rites of human sacrifice, The contusions suffered at that particular brawl lasted for an entire year, causing us to decide against a public pit in in the earlier publication of the paper, so that the staff might observe Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Similar co-operation is requested for next week's issue. Send in the names of Christmas visitors early please. Goderieh — Town Council has appointed H. M. Ford a member of Goderich High School Area Board for 1947 and W, C. Attridge for 1947. 40 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 31, 1931 Clinton, will play its first intermediate game here on Tuesday, Jan. 5 with Exeter as opponents. Exeter is boasting of having a stronger team this year then last and the locals can expect a hard game. The locals are out to win the group this year and hope for a win. The manager, in anticipation of this game, might get the boys out on the ponds on New Year's Day and give them a practise workout. S. S. No. No. 7, Colbourne township, visited the Huron County Home on Wednesday evening last and gave a very pleasing program and a Christmas treat to the residents, which was appreciated. 55 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 28, 1916 Lady Baker, who has just passed away, was the first European to look upon the Albert Nyanza, and Much that we know of the secrets of Central Africa we owe to her clever pen. And Lady Baker has a formidable rival in another of her sex, Mrs, Jane Moir, who spent long and perilous years in the very heart of the Dark Continent, and was the ehief histruinent in adding Nyessalaed favor of "a quiet little house party.". Possibly you know the results of such fiestas — the sharp incline in the divorce rate, the severing of life-long friendships and, of course, almost total demolition of the house itself. The trouble seems to be that ordinarily sane and moderate citizens somehow feel compelled to celebrate the turning of the year like a tribe of demented Navajos. Whether this is caused by relief that the old year is ended or gladness that the new one has arrived I don't know. Whatever it is, it's not a pretty sight. Which reminds me of a remark by a seven-year-old boy who peeked through the bannisters while a New Year's Eve party was in session and, the next morning, asked his mother, "Were they real people, Mummy?" Now that we've decided on the experiment it seems not only the smart thing to do from the standpoint of both pocketbook and physical well-being, but a fitting way to observe a solemn moment.. I like to think that at midnight we'll look ahead reflectively to another happy 12 months soberly, with just to our colonies. Postmaster Scott, Brussels, was elected President of the Independent Telephone Association of Western Ontario at the Convention held in Toronto recently. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the system. 75 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1896 The Victoria street Methodist church Sunday School had a Christmas tree on C' istmas night, There was a large attendance, a good programme, a well-loaded tree and much enjoyment all round particularly among the little ones, Mr. Palmer, the evangelist, who was so Successful in Clinton two years ago, will preach in the Baptist Church next Sunday. He will remain here for some time. Special meetings of the High School Board come and go, while the authorities will not so far take the public into their confidence as to the time and place of these meetings. enough wine to make it seem less fraught with peril. I like to think that we'll reminisce over the past 365 crowded and rewarding days uninterrupted by the wild whoop and holler of the celebrants. I like to think that it will be successful if we take the phone off the hook and build a barricade of barbed wire and booby traps at the gate. But the supreme test will come as those clock hands scissor off the year. Will we wish we were there being dragged along with the stream, a crazy paper hat on the head and a horn at the lips? Will the midnight hour seem right without cacophony and confusion? Will we rush across to the neighbor's where the joint will be jumping? And, come to think of it, why weren't we invited? BY JUDY TIESMA On Dec. 20, Hullett Central School held , their annual Christmas concert. It was a great success and the audience was huge. Everyone of Hullett Central School took part. On Dec. 21 the grades seven and eight students held a dance. Hotdogs and pop were served. There was a great turn out and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Angel's Song, Are My Ears On Straight, and He'll Be Coming Down the Chimney, Primary Choir, Gr. 1, 2 and 3. Accordian Selection, 0 Holy Night, Wayne Lyon, The Three Bears, Kindergarten and Gr. 1. True Hardship of the Pioneers and Song by the Oldsters, Gr. 5. Sleeping Beauty, Gr. 1 and 2, Rudolph Shines Again, Gr. 3 and 4. 'Twos the Night Before Christmas, Gr. 2 and 3. Gymnastics by Gr. 3-8. Little Donkey, Mr. Santa, Do You Hear What I Hear, Junior Choir froth Gr. 3, 4 and 5. Accordion Selections, Angels We Have Heard On High and It • To The Citizens of Clinton It is with regret that we have to write this at such a joyful season of the year. However, the Christmas light bulb thief has struck the town, and, perhaps, this may serve as a warning to others. Just five minutes after turning our outside lights on the other night, the thief struck, taking our outside bulbs, as well as attempting to extricate the string of light sockets; no doubt, thinking he had made a clean get-away but we were able to trace his footprints in the freshly fallen snow. We are sorry to have to write this as our faith in our youth of today had been strengthened through 'an incident which • happened earlier this Fall, but, now we just wonder how we are to assess them. We're sure as this person looks at these lights, they will not shine so brightly as they should at this Christmas time because they are a 'stolen' light and perchance his conscience may bother him just a little. `A Taxpayer' Caine Upon A Midnight Clear by Wayne Lyon, Grandma's Story, (dialogue composed by Students) by Gr. 6. Belling the Cat, Gr. 4. The Christmas Court and Modern Children, Gr, 7 and 8. Waiting for the Doctor, Patty Cake Polka and Texas Star, Gr. 7, Sleigh Ride, 0 . Holy Night, Mon Beau Sapin, Be a Santa and Tell It on the Mountain by Senior Choir, Gr. 6, 7 and 8. A Dutch recipe for "New Years Eve." 1 cup flour 1 tsp. B. powder 1 egg 4.5 spy apples icing sugar milk Do not use soft apples, peel and core apples. Beat egg, put in cup, add milk to make -3.4 c, Add this to mixed flour. This should be a little thicker than a pancake mixture, Slice apples two at a time (just like donuts) turn over when brown on one side. Drain on brown paper. Dip them in icing-sugar and eat. You can eat them either hot or cold. IIIlllett Central school holds con ceri, (l(I11 ce