HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-02-05, Page 4It will be ironic if the 15-year-old 00 Y
charged with the murder of Miss
kcithbrilV McGregor is foOnd
ironic because the murder took place
on a weekend when. Most People in town
'Were down at the arena celebrating Minor
Hockey Week, the focal point of the
efforts of many to provide the type of
healthy activity that will keep young
people out Of trouble.
Clinton has an excellent minor sports
program, The service clubs and many
individuals work many hours in minor
sports. Recreational director Doug
Andrews directs a healthy program of
sport. The ,town has some of the best
recreational facilities in the country.
For this reason it seems even more
unjust for a staff writer from the London
Free Press to write Of the unusual number
df murders in Clinton, it definitely is too
much for there to be two murders in
Clinton in a lithe over ten years, If there
had been only One murder it still would
have been too Many,
But you can't exactly call a town,
crime ridden because two major crime
happen within ten years. If another such
tragedy happens, within the next 10 Years,
then maybe there would be grounds for
the charge the writer seems to intimate in '
his article.
We are sure there must have been at
least a dozen murders in London in the
last ten years, yet that doesn't lead writers
of the London daily to talk of the crime
rate in that city.
Hopefully there won't be another
murder in Clinton for another ,hundred
years. And if there isn't, pert of the credit
must go to the volunteers who work so
hard to make Clinton a good place to live
for our younger people. If there should
be, it in no way diminishes their effort
and the credit they deserve.
Our daily dose of poison
When a baby swallows a bottle of
aspirin, a frantic mother rushes the child
to the nearest hospital to save its life.
When a man kills his wife with poison,
justice is demanded and he receives the
death sentence or a jail term for life. Most
poisons are regarded with natural fear and
thought of in terms of death. Only a
suicide deliberately takes poison.
Today the entire population takes
poison daily — poison not imposed by
some scheming enemy, but absorbed from
their trusted, natural environment — air,
water and soil. But strangely enough, the
great majority of people calmly and
apathetically accept their' daily poison
potion without fear or protest.
No doubt the danger is difficult to
grasp. We have enjoyed these basics of
life, air, water and food and taken them
Letter to
for granted over a lifetime. Now our good
friends — the elements — contain an
insidious enemy attacking our bodies,
slowly eroding the internals of man — his
lungs, liver, blood and other organs.
Pollution has developed to almost
catastrophic proportions and many
scientists maintain the extinction of the
human race is imminent. Even our faithful
oxygen supply is in jeopardy. People are
seldom urged, to be fearful, but the
salvation of mankind may well depend on
arousing natural fear of our poisoned
environment in individuals. While leaders
in governments and industry are in
positions of power to take action, citizens
everywhere will need to form pressure
groups to ensure action is taken to halt
the trend to suicide. — Contributed
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THE Ii0111'
RADAR
IN CANADA'
I 4 pump jovvo3oporct, Thuropy, ,February
'filitOriarcoinntent
The irony of
1970
Banks and mini-skirts break old traditions
Oh, the frustration of
I've been thinking seriously
about giving up my job as a
teacher, and settling for a lot
' less money and a lot more
peace of mind. And I'm not the
only one.
Colleagues, right and left,
are unhappy. One would like to
go into the hotel business. An.
other dreams of buying some
rough land on Manitoulin Is.
land, and raising sheep.
Others, who have been teach-
ing a long time, are planning
to quit soon and take a re-
duced pension, 'rather than bat-
tle it out to the full term. They
can't face another five years of
teaching apathetic, lazy and in-
solent kids,
Another friend, who has
taught' happily for 23 years,
says he used to look forward to
every day of it. This year, he
admits., he faces each day with
a sort of vague horror. Still
another is socking every nickel
he can spare into investments
so that he can get out while he
retains his sanity.
Had lunch the other day
with a chap who this year,
after some years of running
his own business, came into
teaching — in the technical
department. On his own, he
worked 10 or 12 limns a day.
At this lunch period, he' didn't
stop talking for half an hour,
From the outside,' he thought
teaching was a snap. The pay
was good, and the holidays
looked great. Now, he's eX-
hausted at the end of a teach-
ing day, though he's done no
profession in Huron County to
the current increased incidence
of influenza in the area, even
allowing for the probability that
the feature was written in a
semi-jocular manner.
The general `tone and content
of the article are all the more
regrettable when it is recalled
that several of Mrs. Keller's
working
physical labour. He said: "I
never knew there were kids
like these."
Perhaps we sound like a
bunch of old fogies who are
getting tired. Most of those
I've mentioned are in their
40s, not quite in the old-fogey
class. And they've enjoyed
their teaching for years,
But another colleague is
talking about going to the
Northwest Territories. Another
is thinking of taking a job in a
steel plant. His wife, also a
teacher, wants to get out and
do social work, at less money.
They are all in their 20s.
All of us are making quite
reasonable salaries. It would
be quite a wrench, financially,
to quit, especially for those
who have roots in the commu-
nity, a mortgage, and growing
children to educate.
But the malaise is there,
And it's difficult to put your
finger on the trouble. Our
wives are getting worried
They ask, "What is wrong, spe-
cifically?" And it's difficult to
give an answer that doesn't
sound. trivial. It's a host of
little things which add up to
one word -- frustration.
What is the trouble, then? I
think there are two major
sources. First, the pendulum
has swung too far — from a
system that was archaic to one
With ned permissivences. Eve-
ryone is supposed to do his
own thing. Sad truth is that a
Majority of teenagers hasn't
contributions to the local press
in recent months have been
valuable in the dissemination
and discussion of medical and
paramedical information.
`Yours sincerely,
`;Dr. G. P. A. Evans,
Secretary,
Huron County Medical Society
got a "thing" to do. They want
to be entertained, not learn.
They'll sit happily through a
movie at school, chewing gum.
But try to get them to talk
about it, express their ideas,
relate it to their own lives, and
they groan with boredom.
They're mentally lazy, as most
teenagers have always been
Their favourite comment on a
thought-provoking, stimulating
movies, is "Stoopid."
I've never believed in cor-
poral punishment, either as a
disciplinary deterrent or as a
spur. But I'm beginning to
wonder. I am hurt and alarmed
at the increasing lack of cour-
tesy, the "who cares?" atti-
tude of the kids, and the in-
crease in plain, dirty talk. (The
language you cars hear in a
modern high school, especial-
ly among girls, would curdle
your blood.)
You can imagine the joyous
rapture of my wife to my pro-
posal that I quit. Like the good
little wife she is, she said she'd
go anywhere with me, and do
anything, as long as I was hap-
py. She made up a great list of
where and how we could save
money, without the salary.
But the reaction has set in,
and in 100 casual, little hints
she is revealing the utter folly
of it all. But I was prepared
for that, and I'm going to keep
her thinking about a shack,
and a pot-bellied stove, and
petatoes, and porridge for a
while yet. It'll do her good.
There was this -discreetly
seductive young woman on the
radio last night purring, "We're
approachable" and I must say it
set me to thinking.
It happened that I'd been
re-reading Stephen Leacock,
worshipping at the shrine, and
had come across his renowned
essay on banks. For some reason
it was no longer as hilarious as it
' was once. Leacock's humor is
well nigh imperishable, whatever
"Well nigh" might mean. But the
truth is that banks, like nearly
everything else, have changed
and, indeed, that comez hitOr
Voice` oil "the' fadiO'Was inviting
me to come along to her bank
and find out for myself.
It is simply 'no longer a
comical idea, as it was in
Leacock's time, to be terrified of
The First National. The First
National has prettied herself up,
put some perfume behind her
ear and wants earnestly to be
loved.
This has happened, as I
propose to illuminate, within the
last couple of decades.
I can well recall, myself, the
horrors of opening my first
account in a gloomy mausoleum
where stern and suspicious old
men in high, stiff collars prowled
behind bars. I had the strong
feeling that opening an account
in that place with a grubby ten
dollar bill was like asking U.S.
Steel to forge a bobby pin.
' The whole atmosphere,
75 YEARS AGO
February 6, 1895.
Huron News-Record
Council
Clinton Communications
were received from the Fire
Company asking for rubber
boots for the members —
referred,
Chief W. Coates reporting
Fire Company as follows:— R.
Horsley Capt; G. Rumball Limit;
C. Helyar, T. Cottle, R. Stevens,
H. Glazier, R. Welsh, W.
Wheatley, W. Dowser, J. Rand,
John West, J. Cook, H. Roeder
and W. Ball.
Mr., Josiah ,Watson, of
Seaforth, has rented a saw mill
in Brumfield and is running it to
its fullest capacity.
The monthly shoot of the
Gun Club for the Silver trophy
resulted in Richard Grigg making
the highest score with 22 points,
Charles Hale followed with 21
points.
MuKillop roads have been
shovelled out and otherwise
improved and ate again fit for
traffic, to be sure there is an
occasional big pitch hole,
Mr. John Becher, of the
Babylon Line, Stanley, has sold
his black team to Thomas Berry,
Henn% for the snug sum of
$250,00.
40 YEARS AGO
February 6,1930.
One of the 'strongest drawing
features at the Friday night
skating patty 'sponsored by the
local branch Of the Canadian
Legion Wes the novelty hockey
Match between "Maclaine
whether accidental or contrived,
had the effect of overwhelming
the customer with the extreme
respectability and staggering
riches of the establishment.
They cut you down right at the
door to the tomb with a brass
sign announcing assets of three
hundred billion dollars and from
there on you felt like one of
Singer's Midgets.
They were times when a great
many citizens just naturally kept
..their money in old cookie jars.
Well, you know what the
'modern bank looks like now.
My :oWn,Ank., — and say
pU my.," , be cause. ,4ban k
encourages that and I like to
humbr them —is as cheerful and
ff bright as a florist shop. The walls
are all a pastel green, like
antiqued bank notes, and there
are only itsy-bitsy 'bars to keep
up the tradition.
Lord only knows what
happened to the hostile old men
in the celluloid collars. All
retired to stud at the mint,
perhaps. In any event their place
has been taken by a large
number of young ladies who,
like airline stewardesses,
combine efficiency with charm.
"Here is five dollars for my
account," you say, "and I love
you madly."
The managers, themselves,
are, more and more, young and
amiable men who sing out a
cheerful good morning and are
so obviously approachable that
it is all you can do to refrain
Aka,
Queen" and her team against
"Kingfish" and his team. Both
teams were dressed in comic
attire with the "Queen's" team
proving to be the winners by a
score of 4-1. The "Kingfish"
goalie, was presented with an
iron cross by Councillor Dr.
Thompson on stopping a shot on
his goal.
Following is the line-up:
Girls — Goal, M. Mulholland;
defence, D. Streets, H. Churchill;
wings, S. Schoehnals, M. Streets;
centre, H. Cooper; sibs, M.
Smith, P. Churchill, Men — Goal,
L. Lucas; defence, A. Steep, R.
Forrester; wings, H, Turner, C.
era; centre, T. Morgan; sub, G.
Cook. Referee — Carl Draper.
Misses Eleanor and Jean
Plumsteel, Ruth pall and Mr.
Jack Gibbings were all successful
in passing their mid-winter
exams at the University of
Western Ontario,
The villagers in Bayfield are
busy harvesting the ice this
Week. The quality is very gOOd
and depth from ten to twelve
inches.
Mr, John Storey, Mr, Torn
Riley and Mr. Robert Beattie of
ConStance are busy these days
hauling logs to Clinton from
Fred Armstrong's bush. Mr. O.
Riley and Mr. John Mann are
doing the cutting,
25 YFARS AGO
February 1,1945.
Mr. Gladstone Grigg, of
Gederich Township has
purchased the gintorr branch of
the John IL Mustard Goal
Company. Mr. Grigg intends to
from leaping into their laps,
blurting out your financial
troubles and having a good cry.
The most astonishing change
of all, however, is in the attitude
that banks are taking these days
to money, i'tight" though it may
be.
I haven't seen it hereabouts,
but in Toronto there are banks
with windows containing mink
coats, speed-boas, posters on
holidays in Hawaii and shiny
new automobiles to shoW what
you may have if you will but
,negotiate.
Even at "my" bank --hello,
there, bank! — there are a large
number of cards and pamphlets
placed at strategic points to
remind you that all sorts of
perfectly dandy things can be.
done with money.
Half of these cards urge you
to save for the future. The other
half urge you to cart a little of
the product away and live for
the day. There are no free
samples, mind you, but the idea
is made very clear that they have
a lot of the stuff lying around in
the vaults and, after all,
somebody ought to be using it.
This light-hearted approach
to money was dramatized by an
American bank manager who
put out some bowls filled with
coins on an unguarded counter
so that customers might make
their own change. Much to
everyone's astonishment the
bank lost no money.
take up residence in Clinton in
the spring.
Tpr. Gordon Emmerson
Heard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Emmerson Heard, Bayfield, is
officially reported injured in
action. His parents were notified
by telegram from National
Defense Headquarters on
Sunday, January 21. Gordon
enlisted in March 1943.
Snow blocked reads and zero
weather kept many of the usual
donors away from the
Fourteenth Blood Clinic on
Thursday, January 25.
The Scout troop consists of
the following boys: Fred
Thorndike, Don Haddy, John
McIntyre, Fred Kirby, Gordon
Lane, Francis Denomme, Bill
Nediger, Bill Andrews, Frank
McDonald and Frank Fingiand.
15 YEARS AGO
February 3,1945.
Constable R. Timleck of
Clinton Police Department
captured two men singlehanded
as they fled from the County jail
at Goderich. Timleck, parked by
Bank of Montreal, stepped from
the cruiser out into middle of
the intersection to intercept a
taxi approachinj from apcierIch
on Highway 8. He recogniaed
one df the Men as Joseph
McKay. As the cat stopped the
second man, George Mulholland,
London, opened the rear door
and began to run down Huron
Road, Constable Timleck drew
his gun whereupon Mulholland
stopped at once. The men were
removed to the police station
and the 0.1q. at Ooderich were
summoned.
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11:00 p.m. --- Morning Worship._
Sopron_ Topic:
"WHEN WE MAKE GOD TOO SMALL"
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REV, A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D„ Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTEREB, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8th
WESLEY-WILLIS
8:00 a,m. — Clinton Church Men's Breakfast Club.
9:45 a.m. -- Sunday School
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship.
Sermon Topic:
"EARTH MIGHT BE FAIR"'
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1;00 p.m. '— Hi-C Youth Service.
Theme: "ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION"
2:00 p.m.— Sunday School.
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CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor; Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.D.
Services: 10:00. a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
(On 2nd and 4th Sunday, 9:30 a.m.)
The Church of the Back to God. Hour
every Sunday 12:30 p.m., CHLO
— Everyone Welcome —
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH •.
The Rev. R. U. MacLean; B.A., Minister
Mrs. 13. Boyes, Organist and Choir• Director
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday ,School.
10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship.
Tuesday-, Feb. 10 — Madeleine Lane Auxiliary meets
at Church, 8:15, p.m.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Leslie, Clemens
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8th
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday,. 8:00, p.m. Prayer .,meeting and Bible study
iCi - "ST PAts ANGLI CHURCH — CIintoi
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8th
, QUINQUAGESIMA Sunday
Parish Communion and Sermon 10:00 a.m.
Ash' Wednesday, February 11
Holy Communion — 10:00 a.m. ,
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The executive of Huron
County Medical Society wishes
me to write to comment on the
"From My Window" feature by
Shirley Keller in the Clinton
News-Record of 29 January,
1970.
• The executive regards the
article as an unfair assessment of
the attitude of the medical