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Go to the rink
Once again, it is that time of year when
we are asked to support, minor hockey,
and to remind our readers of that already
Well-known ..,'SPAah "Don't send—Take
your boy to the arena".
We are willing to dp this because we
agree there should be special recognition
of the men (and women) who make minor
hockey possible
The' local' minor hockey association is
composed of enthusiastic, hard-working
vOlunteers Whose efforts on behalf of
local youngsters cannot be.measured in
hours or dollars, They make it possible for
hundreds of our youngsters to take part in
Canada's National sport. Every boy in
town can have' the opportunity to play,
and none. will be turned away. That's the
kind of an organization it is,
More than that, they contribute
towards . the development not only of
stronger bodies, but of healthier minds
and better citizens.. They keep the
youngsters off the streets and engaged in
healthy, supervised sport. We do agree
with the slogan "To keep a boy out of hot
water—put him on ice". Our municipality
has provided the ice, our volunteers do
the work to "put him on ice",,
Although the recognition of the
volunteer organizers, coaches, managers,
car drivers and fund-raisers is one of the
most important objectives of Minor
Hockey Week, it is not the only one.
Another is to "focus attention on minor
hockey", This we gladly do.
We do so because we agree that minor
hockey is an important part of our
community life. It is an integral part of
the fabric of our community and a Major
Part of the sPorting activities: of our
MuniciPelity. We agree it is benefiCial to
the youngsters, and because it is; it is
beneficial to the Whole coMMunitY. We
agree in addition to building stronger
bodies, minor hockey contributes to the
development of better citizens while it is
keeping them occupied in a worth-while
endeavour—right at an age When many of
them might easily be engaged in pursuits
much less acceptable to society.
The statistics issued by the C.A.FIA
indicate' yet another reason for supporting
minor-hockey and editorializing in favour
of Minor Hockey Week. The C.A.H.A.
minor hockey committee points out that
minor hockey is an activity that not only
works for the youngsters, but provides
work for many adults and in addition
turns back to the Canadian economy
more than five million dollars every year.
The costs of providing sweaters, skates,
and other equipment (much safety
equipment is now compulsory), the cost
of ice rentals, transportation, meals after
games, injury insurance, are items that
soon run up into many dollars per player,
and hundreds of dollars per team.
Considering there are more than twelve
thousand minor hockey teams in Canada,
it is not difficult to visualize millions of
dollars being spent to keep the operation
going. So it is we realize everyone benefits
from minor hockey--truly IT IS good for
the community.
These are some of the reasons why this ,
newspaper is happy to "Keep in Step with.
Canada"—by supporting Minor Hockey,
Week. We urge our readers to do
likewise. —contributed
Accident cause covered up?
The 5,000 traffic deaths in Canada'each
year make it difficult to criticize any type
of highWay safety campaign,
Nevertheless, suspicion attaches to
safety propaganda which intimates, .if it
does not actually say, that all vehicle
accidents are caused by reckless or
negligent drivers.
Probably the majority are, in whole or
part, so ' caused.' But there are other
causes: bad weather, poor roads,
dangerous bridges, misleading signs and;
very importantly — defects in vehicles
themselves. .„ .
The "loose 4ricit4 the'i+vheei""4'
theory of accident causes can be a
coverup for the real truth that the,most
careful driver can be ditched by a loose
nut in his car.
The number of vehicles manufacturers
have been constrained to recall for safety
adjustments in the recent past, is its own
comment on the situation.
Costly vehicles, fresh from factories,
should not be offered for sale in
conditions which require independent
inspection to protect their purchasers. Yet
some provinces find it necessary to
, compel such inspection by law.
Feelings of buyers who discover
defects, whether glaringly obvious or
concealed in brakes or steering systems,
are not mollified by .the statement, often
heard from d.ealers:..."oh„,,you.:must expect
.a.few, little things hep,
'YOu should tibl hi n
New, expensive, precision machines-
should reach their purchasers in perfect
mechanical condition. Nothing less should
be expected or tolerated. Careless driving
should not be allowed to forma shelter
for careless manufacturing. — Contributed
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John AldirigtOe; marshal, Harold
Penhale; first lecturer, William
MeliWitin', second lecturer, Lewis
;Clarke,
10 YEARS AGO
WA Jet-111410g.
Seems as if Mother Nature
Was trying to lay dOWn in one
Week enough Snow to make a
Jantiary thaw a practical affair,
A tilVer. Medal certificate has
1F ,
Sixties were pure bosh
Thinking back over the
year-end reports of the 1960s,
I realize that all the experts
painted a picture of a 'decade
of violence and change proba-
bly unequalled in history.
What is especially embarrass-
ing is the thought that I did
the same thing, though I'm do
expert.
On second thought, it was all
pure poppycock. It's true ,that
The Sixties included these
things, but the 1940s, in ret-
rospect, make the 1960s look
like a children's birthday par-
ty: Noisy, disorganized, messy,
but essentially kids' stuff in
comparison.
Surely it was in The Forties
that today's' violence, revolt,
drug addiction, sexual free-
dons, disgust with the Estab-
lishment, and all the other
goodies of The Sixties, had
their roots.
In the 1930s, those lucky
enough to have a job were
working for less than it costs
today for a night on the town.
Ai Toronto newspaper colum-
nist Richard Needham pointed
out, the Great Depression was
not brought to an end by our
economists or politicians, but
by Adolph Hitler, War created
jobs, wages went up, prosperi-
ty began. Sickening thought,
but true.
In The Sixties, we waxed in-
dignance over Chicago cops for
beating dissidents over the
head, And so we-should. But in
The Forties, six million non-
dissidents of all ages and both
sexes were beaten, gassed or
starved to death. And millions
of others were obliterated with-
out even waving a placard.
How's that for violence?
Revolt? It was everywhere,
in partisan groups and new
nationalist organizations. And
the rebels were just as long-
haired and bearded and dirty
— and a lot hungrier than
today's rebels- They, too, were
of both sexes, ' as today. But
they were fighting for some-
thing, not against everything.
And they were laying on the
line not just a clout on the
head, a trip in the paddy-wag-
on, and a fine, but their lives,
The Establishment? In 1945
the British threw it out,
including that heroic hut un-
mistakable member of it, Sir
Winston Churchill. That was a
far, far greater thing than riot-
ing on a campus.
, Atrocities? We had one, ap-
parently, in Vietnam recently,
with the Yanks as villains for a
change. Vile? Certainly. But it
was a mere trifle compared to
the atrocities of The ,Forties,
On all sides. Tell your kids
about Lidice, the bombing of
Hamburg and Dresden, and.
what the Russians did at War-
saw.
And then there was the big,
gest one of all, committed by
the Good Guys the atom
bombs dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki; Today's atroci-
ties are peanuts, however in-
digestible,
Drug addiction? There
wasn't any "pot" around. But I
wonder how many alcoholics
are wandering around today
who got their start when they
were 18, and in uniform? I
could list you a dozen, from
personal knowledge. Just mul-
tiply,
Sexual freedom? Perhaps it
wasn't as blatant and self-con-
scious and publicity-conscious
as it is today, but it was there
lady, it was there. Now, I don't
for one minute mean your hus-
band. But those other guys.
Wow!
Change? Whole countries
disapPeared. Millions of people
wandered, homeless. New
countries sprang into being.
However, just as The Sixties
weren't all rotten, neither
were The Forties. They pro-
duced courage and sacrifice
and a great sense of sharing
and loving, amidst all the
hatred.
They produced a generation
that sincerely believed that a
better' world Was not only
needed, but could be built.
They produced entire new con-
cepts of world peace. They set
the seeds for the end of the
old imperialism. Never mind
that these have been frustrated
and warped since. "
And, as 4 sideline, they pro-
duced the millions of kids who
are now a mystery and terror
and bewilderment to those rel-
ics of the frightful Forties.
Nuff said?
A friend in the Parliamentary
Press Gallery writes me that his
most confident prediction for
1970 is the marriage of Pierre
Elliot Trudeau.
"His political advisors
certainly hope so," he adds. "A
bachelor prime minister seems
acceptable to the women of the
land, but the male married voter
prefera:ahis uleaders Iretpectably
vved."a,i soa
I suspect that it may be true(
though I suspect, also, that every
married man alive reflects atone
time or another of the joys and
freedom of the single life.
On those occasional days when
the children have been
particularly bestial and the pile
of bills has been particularly
staggering any normal husband
and father may be forgiven a
moment of fancy and the vision
of the yellow convertible, the
penthouse apartment, the gold
key to the nearest Playboy Club
and the rest.
I've a long-time bachelor
friend, a man more or less in my
own income group, yet he lives a
rich man's life. I look at his rack
of hunting rifles and think of
how many pairs of children's
shoes they represent. I ride in,his
Jag and think of all those eager
mouths in the nest waiting to be
fed.
Curiously, though, when I
think of him I find myself
thinking of an essentially lonely
man rather wistfully groping for
a sense of purpose.
The bachelors I've known —
or, at any rate those who have
made the choice deliberately --
75 YEARS AGO
January 25, 1895
Clinton New Era
The weather this week so far
has been very unfavorable.
Sunday evening and up till
Monday night very wet and Since
that a regular blizzard. The roads
are almost impassable,
Mr. G. Newton of Wirigharn,
made a visit to this village last
week, and let the contract to
enlarge a number of businesS
houses in the place. It is to
convert a stable into a shop.
(Londesboro news),
Mr. Fred F`ollancl evidently
did not allow many cows to be
at large last year without'
impounding them, for 'his
returns shoW that he had
impounded 40 cows, 12 horses,
2 sheep and 1 pig.
Messrs: McGregor and Hunter
shipped 640 lambs to the old
country a few days age.
During the past year there
were registered with Town Clerk
Coats, 46 births, 34 marriages
and 20 deaths.
40 YEARS AGO
January 16,193b
Mr, O., )3. Hale has opened a
conveyancing office in the
rooms above Hovey's drug Store.
are self-centred men and I
wonder: are they self-centred
because they're bachelors or are
they' bachelors because they're
self-centred?
The single life, I'm convinced,
exposes a man to that perpetual
risk of egoism. The bachelor's
accomplishmentS are primarily
foci himself._ His occasional
fadures or, 1,lia-oPK,9,*TM.
seem ,enIaiged because he .must
bear: them alone. He may end up
living only for himself, the most
barren form of existence,
The antithesis of this is at
once the curse and blessing of
marriage. As every husband and
father knows he is forced to
look at his personal troubles
through the wrong end of the
telescope. He may have an ago
the size of a barn, but in the
family group he almost always
finds that he's absorbed in the
accumulative problems of his
brood. His own personal crises
become relatively unimportant.
Ego is a luxury denied him by
the sheer weight of numbers.
Without thinking too much
about it, the married man does
reach a point where the real
meaning in his life' is in the
sharing of his triumphs and
failures.
My bachelor friend may have
felt pretty good that day he
bought his new conVertible. He
can never know what it is like to
bring home an old second-hand
jalopy to a family who will
accept it as if it were a Rolls.
He is, as I say, a bachelor by
choice, one reason being a
succession of dazzling female
Murch's Grocery will be
moved next week from its
present location beside Bartliff
and Crieh's restaurant, to the
store recently vacated by C.
Lobb in the Sloane Block.
The Public School board at its
first meeting elected Mr. J. A.
Ford, chairman for the year.
Town grocers complain that
they are much annoyed by dogs
hanging about their places of
business and nosing things.
There is no use putting the dogs
out for they just wait until
someone opens the door to
/come in or out and in they go
again, A grocery store is really
no place for a dog and owners of
dogs should try to see that they
do not annoy business people,
25 YEARS AGO
January 18,1945
The Exeter team, which had
defeated Clinton on home ice,
again defeated them here' oh
Friday night by a Wore of 4-3
after 10 minutes oVertime.
Specials at Superior Store
were: Robin Hood Quick
Cooking Oats, 5 lb, bag for 25e,
Camay soap; 3 bars for 19c,
grapefruit, 5 for 25c.
Mr. Reuben Taylor of Sask., is
visiting his brother Jeremiah
taylor and other Mentla,
(Auburn new's),
companions. He likes to speak of
his "intelligent relationship"
with the ladies of his life, each
of whom has been forewarned
airily that he's not the marrying
kind.
It is a succession because the
gals invariably find themselves a
man who will accept the
responsibility of matrimony and
settle 09W1.1 40 What ,MY; faienci,
in, his sophisticated way, often
terms the prosaic life of raising
children and meeting mortgages.
But is it prosaic? I wondered
that last summer when he came
to visit us for a week and I
observed with interest his
relationship with our kids. For
the first couple of days he had
the time of his life with them.
Then the inevitable tears and the
little internecine feuds and the
natural-born orneriness of kids,
so familiar and so accepted by
every parent, began to irritate
him.
One afternoon our smallest
daughter was going to a birthday
party. There was much haggling
about what she'd 'wear. At her
age all girls have to dress like
other girls or simply die of
humiliation.
It was this that capped the
growing irritation of my
bachelor friend. I heard him
mutter, "Conform! Conform!"
In that fleeting second it was
revealed nakedly what he was
missing and perhaps what was
too late now for him to ever
have.
Perhaps Pierre Trudeau will be
luckier.
The Board of Directors of Si.
Paul's Anglican Church included
Messrs. G. M. Counter, J. J.
Zapfe, Caryl Draper, Wm.
Robison, H. Hawkins, H.
McCartney, Geo. Walker, Wm.
Johnson, Fred Ford and Fit. Lt.
H. Tull.
15 YEARS AGO
January 20,1955
Royce S. Macaulay was
appointed chairman at the first
meeting of the Clinton Public
School Board for 1955.
We noticed some days ago
that work had been commented
on the excavation of the Bell
Telephone lot just back of
Aiken's store, That's Where the
new building is planned Whith
will sometime house a dial
telephone system,
Mel Crich, reeve of Clinton,
was unanimously elected to the
post of presidency in the Huron
Central Agricultural Society for
1065.
Stanley District of L.O.L. met
in the Orange Hall (Varna) on
Monday evening of this week
and elected the following
offices tor 1955: W.M., Robert
Tayler
r
; alVi,„ Wilfred Castle;
chaplain, - Louis Taylor;
recording secretary, Charles
Pilgrim; treasurer, Orrin
DoWsbri; financial secretary,
Wesley-Willis Holmesville United Churches
REV. A, J. *MATT, -OD., RA, D.D., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25th
WESLEY-WI ILL IS
9;45 a.m.
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship.
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m. — Worship Service.
2:00 p.m. — Sunday School.
— ALL WELCOME
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Ayenue
Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.D.
Services: 10:00 a.m. and 3:00
(On, 2nd and 4th Sunday, 9:30 a.m.)
The Church of the Back to God Hour
every Sunday 12:30 p.m., CHLO
E'vetyone Welcome _
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN, CHURCH
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. B. Bayes, Organist and Choir• Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School,
10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship.
00 a.m..
3-m.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Leslie Clemens
SUNDAY, JANUARY '25th
Evening
rt, ioSiunnind gaGy osp
Worship:
School:
se-1/11i ,Service:
7 : a.m.
, . Wednesday,, 8:00 pan. Prayer meeting and Bible study,'
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RR 3, Clinton, on his Jersey
heifer, "Don Head. Raise Lanta,"
for production in Canadian
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Test.
Mr, and Mrs, Norman Ball,
Mr, and Mrs Clarence Ball and
Master Douglas and Mr. and Mts.
Reg Ball visited the tortner'S
daughter, Mrs. Dougai Campbell,
Mitchell, on :Sunday,
Sunday School