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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-02-19, Page 4ONTARIO STR E ET UNITED CIIVRett ltNr?tY," Pastor: REV, H. W. WONFOR, 840Ine A. , organist: M15$ l..015 GRABBY,, A f ft.C.T, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd 9:45 a.m. Sunday School, 11 :00 a an, — Morning Worship — Clinton Scouts, cubs, Guides, Brownies and Rangers Service, . Sermon Topic; "THE PARABLE OF THE COMPASS" Wesley-Willis — Holme‘vIIIe United Churches REV. A. J. tvioWATT, C.D, B.A., B.D., MR. LORNE CiOTTEP.ER, Organist and Choir OirectOr SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd WESLEY-WILLIS 9;45 a.m. — Sunday School and •Confirmation Class. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "MR. MIT- HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m, — Worship Service. 2:00 p.m. — Sunday School and Confirmation. — ALL WELCOME — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Avenue Pastor: Alvin Beukerna, B.A., 13,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. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director is a artt nerg /et ars row Me* - wrier timase Taws artOlti PO WU. From ,Canada Safety Council On signing things' We'll believe it when we see it Paul Simpson, Assessment Director for this section of Western Ontario said last week that those who are worried that their taxes will go up with reassessment of their home at market value rather than at only part of market value are, worrying without cause. "Put succinctly," he said, "when assessment goes up, the mill rate comes down to produce the same revenue." 6-hanks—for—telling us . Mr—Simpson:— We'll remember that in a couple of years. We sure hope you're right'but don't feel bad if we're a little dubious. it sounds too familiar. Just like the tax rebates that were supposed to help us so much. But if we remember rightly, taxes went up just about the same amount as the rebates. The move to larger school areas was supposed to be more economical too. That's why we have such a whopping big educational tax this year. And by the way A4 r, Simpson,#:qi*, new- systera gOi.„g to raise:..irao-re'' money by higher taxes, why are we spending a small. fortune reassessing' all this property? Crescendo of catastrophe SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd 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 ST: PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH Clinton . SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT 10:00 a.m. — Parish Communion, Sermon and Church School. Wednesday, 10 a.m. — LENTEN COMMUNION. 4611013136313XSAMWRICWIZIWIZI Cte XX s',....\\\\%\\\\\NNN%\%,..\\ OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524.7661 INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 J. T. Wise, Res.: 482.7265 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air-Master'Aluminum Doors and Windows and AWNINGS and RAILINGS JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis — 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 Business and Professional Directory THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR YOUR AC THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record. A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Published every Thursday at the heart of Hliron County 'second doss mail registrMion number 0817 Clinton ; Ontario Population 3,475 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year: I.J.S.A„ $7.50 KV1TH Vlf ROULSTON EditOr 3.2 HOWARD AMON -- General Manager rue HOW OP RADAR IN CANADA THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SEAFORTH Insurest * Town Dwellings * All Class of farm Property * Slimmer cottages * Churches; Schbols, Halls Extended coverage (Vine, smoke, Water damage, falling objects etc.) is also available. Agents: Janet; Keys, RR 1, Seaforth; V, J. Lane, RR 5, Seaforth; Wire Leipoi Jr,, Loridaborte Selwyn Baker; Ertissels;Harold Sent rer Clinton; George Coyne, bubiin', Donald 0. 'Eaton,- *forth. 4 ,11 The announcement last Week of new Canadian content rules for television and radio to be established by th'e Canadian Radio Television CommissiOn is good news for those who feel it is iMportant that the Media shonld represent Canadian life. One statement made by CRTC Chairman Pierre Juneau is very interesting. He said, when announcing the policy changes, "We believe in the ability of the Canadian broadcaster." Many others don't. Many of those who spoke on the ProPosed changes that would require 60 percent of prime time television be Canadian-produced, shows predict that quality will be lower. Anyone watching television in the last few years might be excused if he wondered how much lower it could go. CBC' usually takes the brunt of criticism levelled at Canadian television. Perhaps this is just since the corporation is supported by the taxpayer and so should be the most imaginative and least tied to monetary levels,' But if CBC is bad, in most cases the private stations have been worse. It costs money, to produce shows from scratch and no businessman likes to spend money if he can help it. As a result most found ways around the old 55 percent ruling using British and French made shows and such U.S. spectacles as the World Series that somehow were supposed to be Canadian content. Under the new legislation these loopholes will be plugged and Canadian content will be Canadian. It's about time. But the matter of quality still remains. Will 'the programming stand up in quality? And who is to judge What cloPlitY Programming is? To some, quality means opera, symphony or ballet and.everything else is out Others couldn't give a heck for that and think Beverly Hillbillies exemplifies quality. For, others it's Don Messer and still others it is Shakespearean plays, And how is a network to know what People like and don't like. Ratings often kill good programs and bring cries from viewers who miss the show that has been cancelled. Obviously ratings aren't fool-proof. Recently the CBC started a new television series called the Manipulators which was hailed by critics and some viewers as the best television drama produced in North America this year. Yet, because the first episode contained some of the most blatant nudity ever seen on television it brought a storm of 800 letters to the CBC headquarters. More than 75 percent of the letters were outraged at the nudity. Nearly all ignored the fqct that the one nude scene in the show was 'a very integral part of the plot and not just thrown in for sensationalism. Less than one quarter of the letters praised the show yet CBC was pleased .with the result. It 'was the largest amount of correspondence they had had in favor of any show all season. So it is hard for the networks to know what the viewer wants. However it is gratifying to see through shows like the Manipulators that Canadians can produce good' television drama. Now if they can extend this success into variety, comedy and news programming, -the viewer 'will clearly benefit from the new legislation. 4 ClintbitNeWS4lecdrdf, ThPrada 'Febru OW 10,1970. Editerial comment New 'TV' regulations help viewer Isn't it odd how' trouble's come in hatches? You can sail along for as many as two whole weeks with everything going as smooth as cream. Then the reef falls in. Ours almost literally did last week, when the ice piled up nearly two feet deep behind the eavestroughs, and I couldn't find anyOne to chop it off, Your run of calamities, how- ever, usually begins with a few minor things, like a toothache. or the flu, then builds steadily to a crescendo of catastrophe. That's the way it's been with me in my latest bout with the fates, KnobS coming off doors. A broken tooth. Coming clown and finding the front door wide open with 'the tempera- ttire 10 below and the furnace straining .to keep up. Wipers on the ear broken down, which is a fairly easy route to suicidr the way it's been snowing around here this winter, Then my car, op which recently spent $63 to remove the problem of its not starting in the morning, started not .starting again. My gimpy .curl- ing knee got gimpy and I've been limping around over since like a sailor with a wooden leg. But these things you are used to, and cope with, one by ono, Got my tooth fixed. 'Got a chap to hack the' ice off roof, Got the door-knobs working, the wipers Wetting, And the knee wrapped in an elastic bandage that cuts off the circu- lation so badly my face is pur- ple. It's the' things over which you have no control that hit you right between the eyes, Like Sunday noon, when we got a call from my daughter announcing cheerily, though with a touch of trepidation. that she Was calling from the hospital. With infectious hepa- titis. You can't say that the kids nowadays don't live dangerous- ly, at any rate. Kim left for the city at New Year, having quit university to live in a corn- mono. don't have to go into the commune hit again. It's the method some young people use in today's society to escape from the latter. A commune is an idealistic utopia in which everyone shares the work and the food. Just one big happy family, with no nagging par- ents and nobody stopping one from doing ,.one's thing. The commune hits vague links with the early Christians and the modern Israelis, which is a nice touch of irony. There have been hundreds of at- tempts to form such communes in the pat. The only thing Wrong is that they don't work, unless they are rigidly Authori- tarian, like the communities of Mennonites. Kim spent a (presumably) happy week hi the commune, then caught hepatitis from one of the other inmates, and lay sick, semi-conscious. without eating, for about two weeks, She had too much pride, feel- ing she had let us down, to call. We didn't have any .phone number and were waiting for a letter. We finally wrote, She staggered out to the emergency ward of a general hospital, where they gave her a shot of penicillin and threw her back into the snowbanks. On a Thursdy night, one of the members, who had lately been getting a bit weird (going on a big religious' kick), dressed himself in his best, went to his room, and set the house on fire. The others bare- ly got out, into a winter night, with the clothes they were in, and nothing else. lie„ was burned to death. The house was destroyed, Somehow, Kim got into hos- pital. All she'd saved was her Christmas present, a radio, A friend loaned her some clothes, She's feeling better. But, and there aro some big BUTS, we don't yet know what damage has been clone. Her liver is affected, Its normal thing is 35 to 50, Whatever it does, A doctor told her that the worst case they'd ever had in the hospital was 3,500, And then told her that hers was 0,000. , Give us a prayer if you have ay a moni• will you? Until we made our recent move back into the city from those good green acres I wasn't the kind of man to lose sleep over legal documents. Confronted by a form containing an inch or more of fine print it was my practice to sweep a sightless eye over it. mutter something like; "Well, this appears to be in order," and sign blindly on the dotted line. True, I may have affected an extra flourish with my child-like signature, but such decisiveness is a common cover-up for people Who.;haven't" the'leiW idea of Shift 'theY're- . Then we rented out' .the country place. At first the arrangements were clear to everyone, even to me. Fellow said he'd like to rent the place. Nice fellow. Fine, I said, Neither of us said a word about noxious weeds. It was my wife's idea that we have a real estate man draw up a lease. I signed this obediently (the real estate man made a little cross where I was to put my name). There the matter might have ended. Except that two days later I got a bill from the real estate office for a cool $35. This staggered me so much that I took the lease out and studied it. The form, itself, I estimated at a cost of perhaps 80 cents. The stenographer's typing would probably come, at the most to a dollar. So what was'I paying for? I read the lease all the way through. Then I knew, I was paying for the language. Every time I read the lease, and I do it all the time, I get a mental picture of its author. I see him with mutton-chop whiskers. Just his eyes are,visible over a Prince Albert collar. A February 20,1895 The Huron News-Record Mustard and hot water in a foot bath will cure a nervous headache and induce sleep. ins. Kelly, seventh line Morris, has purchased the old Gasman farm on the eighth line. The price is said to be $4,200, the farm containing 100 acres, Miss M, Twi tchell of Southampton is home on a visit, Mr. Thos. Farquhar of Hills Green is on a visit to Mrs. Kilty and other relatives in town and country. On Sale at Jackson Bros. this week --- Suits $7410, Pants $2-$3. Mr. and Mrs. James Sterling and daughter, of Saila Ste. Marie, are visiting at Mr. William Sterling's, fourth con, Porter's Hill. h e roads between Clinton and Hohnesville at present are almost irnpaSsible owing to the pitehholes. It is no uncommon thing for people to be found lying in the snow with a cutter upset in sight. 40 YEARS AGO February 29',193'0' The Collegiate now possesses a very wide awake company Of Girl Guides, the first to be' formed hi the town, The snuff box is beside him as he works away with a quill pen at a roll-top desk. His name is Ebenezer. I mean, who else but an Ebenezer would start a sentence this way: "Witnesseth, that. the said lessor doth demise unto " What kind of a word is "doth" for heaven thake? One sentence, standing all by itself, still baffles me. It says, simply, "The said lessor covenants with the said lessee for quiet enjoyment." I have studied that sentence.' I've broken it down word by word. .4 still don't understand it. AU my- life I have hated to pay $35 for something I do4ft understand. In the meantime, I'd gone ahead and rented a place in town. Again the negotiations were beautifully simple. "I'd like to rent your place," I said. The fellow who owned the place said, "Fine, nice to have you." Ah, but once again there was the ubiguitous real estate man in the picture and yet another great document as warm with words. By now I was beginning to catch on 'to the language. Nothing is ever "at" some place. It is "situate, lying and being." Nothing ever "ends." It is either "forfeited and void" or "suspended and abated." Nobody ever "says" anything. He "covenants, promises and agrees." I noticed, too, that both leases had frequent, gloomy references to the perils of "tempests," it clearly being implied that if everything was blown away all bets were off. When I read the new lease I felt cheated. There was nothing at all in it about "quiet enjoyment." I just couldn't understand why the fellow in of Miss Kellman. Mr. R. Tasker has moved his furniture repair shop and billiard room from the stand in the old Jackson block, Rattenbury St. West, to the premises recently occupied by Merch's grocery, Albert Street. Mrs. Walter Westlake and little daughter, who visited friends in Detroit, returned home to Bayfield on 'Thursday last week. W. T. O'Neil Grocer's meat prices this week: Duff's Bacon 20c ' Picnic Hams 25c, B. Bacon by the piece 35c, 25 YEARS AGO February 15,1945 L.A.C. Willard and Pte. Arthur Aiken, sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Aiken of town, held A happy reunion recently England. Mr. Norman Lever will start the delivery, of fresh fish in Clinton next Week. Earl Leyhurne,. son of Mrs. Leybtane, Wellington St., formerly Of Seaforth, has graduated from a wireless niechanies course standing second in the entry and receiving a silver medal for proficiency. Mr, Melvin Crich received word on Tuesday that his son, Harry R, Crich $ had my house was allowed to quietly enjoy himself while I went without even a legal provision for it. I found only that when my time was up I was "obliged" to leave "peacefully and quietly." I began to sulk about that, too, and asked my wife, rather petulantly, if they thought I was going to leave in a blaze' of gunfire or something. "It doth make me mad," I said. Most of the points in this new lease seemed to .me harmless enough, , not' cloWnright enlikely:j'h41'n6 inte4jr, for instance, Ake fora store or shop. I figured I could carefully preserve all the trees, as it commanded me, mainly because there wasn't a tree within eight miles. ' But then I collided with the paragraph that's filled 'me with dark foreboding. "The lessee," it said, "will cultivate, till and employ such parts of the said land as are now or hereafter shall be brought under cultivation, in a good, husbandlike and proper manner, and shall keep down all noxious weeds and grasses and will not remove or permit to be removed from the premises any straw of any kind, manure or wood." The thing has sort of cast a pall over the whole affair, Here I was dreaming about getting into a nice, modern little pad. Now all of a sudden I'm looking for manure.. It just seems that my landlord has no trust in me and what with that and worrying over tempests and the new hole in my budget I don't see any hope ahead for enjoyment — quiet, forfeited, void or any other kind, When gathering her eggs recently, Mrs. Nelson Heard of Bayfleld found that one of her Leghorn Hens had la.yed an egg 9 inches around the long way and 7 inches the other. The family of Mrs, Samuel Gliddon gathered at the home of her son, Mr. Bert Gliddon, on Sunday, February 11. It was the occasion of WS. Gliddon's eightieth birthday. 15 YEARS AGO February 17, 1955 Completion of the new Nurses' Residence in town is expected within six weeks. The office of the agricultural representatives was a busy Spot this Week as clew to 6,000 copies of the annual Seed Fair prize lists were readied for delivery to the post office. Clinton Junior Farriers Won the top place in Competition with, Exeter and Seaforth Juniors last night with their one-act play, "The Little Red School Ilealse," staged in Seaforth. Bk••Mayor of Clinton, B. J. Gibbings, celebrated his 85th birthday at his home this Week, and his son-in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gibbings, Stratford, Were home for the • birthday dinner. &1404kaditaktkkakil; MNatqz*,,., 75 YEARS AGO company is under the direction arrived &defy at his deatination.