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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-02-26, Page 14Why Wait For Spring - DO IT NOW BRING THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE OR THE WHOLE FAMILY TO DINE AT THE RED PUMP RESTAURANT MAIN STREET, BAYFIELD WE ARE RE-OPENING ON FRIDAY, FEB. 27 8:30 A.M. to 8:00 P.M, For The Spring and summer Months TO past and new patrbns, we will continue to serve the same high tivality, Carefully prepared food. moderatethine g Our Sunday Special is Marinated Beef — Serving begins at 4:30 p‘rn: your easter seal gift will kuitooriini cattalo ttt tindl4Unitiintitt- help a crippled child SEND YOUR GIFT TODAY IN PINK ENVELOPE TO D W. CORNISH Treastiret; CLINTON LIONS EASTER SEAL COMMITTEE 90 Albert Street Clinton Ontario THE LIONS CLUB OF CLINTON .EASTER. SEAL-01101,EO CHILDREN'S COMMITTEE A, Laurie •Colgultotiii Ted Davies Chairman President Easter Seat Committee Clinton Lions Club '• HELP tRIPPI.E0 CtillOREN orr AlOtt tts trOutt Oirlikets et.or 4A Clinton News-Record, Thursday, February 26, 1970 The Happiest Days of Your Life will be presented March 14 and 15 by the Pegasus Players, the Clinton Canadian Forces Base theatre. Caught in the action are (I. to r.) Stan Dukes, John Rankin, Grant McNally, Kathy Renshaw, Anne Scott, George Youmatoff, Bruce Abbott, Parole Warner and Tillie Hack. • Pegasus Players to present "Happiest Days of Your. Life" each other in the earth, kept moist and eonnected to •the clock by Wires. Title was distributed from OreenWich via the giqctric Telegraph system being run by private companies and reilWaYs to fAnden and Other Places :by an apparatus known as Thus,was set Greenwich mean time which was used for navigation in all parts Of the world, Then owing to the world's axis gloving from side to side a conference was held and Universal time was adopted in 1950 as a basis for civil timekeeping, navigating and surveying. Today in. Canada the a.11,0. radio broadcasts time with the "beepl beep! beep! pause, arid the long sound on the tninnte." Stop watches and chronographs are made for almost every use — yacht racing, boxing, shooting, rugby, rowing, fencing, horse raeing, lee hockey, mining, navigating, oil refining, projective timing, psychology testing, rallying, radio and T'.V, production and so on,' Eric Bruton concludes his book thus: "Time and timekeeping involves everybody. There is no escape from them, whether a man be a cowherd who is controlled by the rhythm of milking time or an astronaut whose passage and life depend on the accuracy of quartz and atomic clocks. Many of the apparatuses of modern life include time bosses, usually.completely unsuspected by the users." Lucy read this book with the original intention of placing her great grandmother's long case clock which has parts missing. Perhaps it was because it was made in Dublin, Ireland that she couldn't identify it as only Ulster makers were mentioned. To date she has not been able to locate a clock maker of the Old School who could supply the parts and set it up. But she found this book on Horology intensely interesting and she hopes her readers have not been bored. • "The Happiest Days Of Your Life" a farce by John Dighton, is to be presented by the Pegasus Players on Saturday, March 14 and Sunday March 15 at the Base Theatre, CFB Clinton. The action of the play takes place in the Masters' Common Room at Hilary Hall School for THE DRIP DRIED TOURIST by Willard Temple (New York, Putnam, 1969; 219 pages) Ed Meadows' idea of a relaxing vacation is spending two weeks at a Canadian fishing camp. His wife, Claire, wants to go to Europe. Obviously she wins, and at the healthy sum of $142.86 a day, this middle aged couple tour Europe with their , drip dry wardrobe. The author, Willard Temple, has written a number of highly successful light-comic novels, among them Too Young To Be a Grandfather, Every Day is Sunday, and Give It Back to the Lemongrowers. He and his family, who usually seem to turn up in his books, make their home in Santa Barbara, California. This time they all took the Grand Tour across the sea that Temple so aptly writes about in this book. Ed and Claire over tip and under tip to the waiters distaste, during a bewildering session with foreign currency. They miss planes, get lost, and project the very image ,they are trying to avoid, that of The Ugly American. They gain weight eating pasta in Italy and eclairs in France. They wind up in the most expensive hotel accommodations, far beyond what they can afford. They attempt the impossible schedule of visiting 11 countries in 21 days. During this hectic schedule, their children (back home with a baby sitter) contract a childhood disease, their television breaks down, and the men in Ed's business go out on strike. Temple hasn't left out one hilarious detail and follows this bedraggled couple through to the bitter end. Even to the part where no one back home is even interested in hearing about the ordeals and tribulations of the trip. This book would be of special interest to readers that have been to Europe and perhaps beneficial to . t ose thinking about such a Available at the Goderich Pu lic Library. Deadline for tax savings on registered retirement savings plans Deposits made by February 28, 1970 are tax free for 1969 returns Victoria and Grey Trutt ofibts you three tax savings retirement plans. an "equity fund plan" designed for greatest capital appreciation —a high cumulative income plan ---tt Guaranteed itivestMent Certificate plan fully guaranteed as'to principal and interest start Retiring today at Victoria and G rcy VlCfOR/A a,d GREY tOc.r8t- demlnAfoi giNct itjr40 KOlittii . St; dodetich Boys in Hampshire, just after World War 2. Due to a mix-up in government regulations a girls' 'school is moved into Hilary Hall and the resulting chaos must be seen to be believed. The play will again be directed by Brian Markson of On February 16 Hullett Federation held their annual meeting in Londesboro. Lorne flunking president welcomed those present. Mrs. John Stafford, County Women's Director, spoke, urging the women to come to the meetings and take an active discussion in them. Through Direct Service Membership they hope to have information for women concerning good buys. John Stafford brought greetings from the County. He .outlined what' the Federation had initiated and has „s now become law: 1. Gas tax for custom work remain the same as for other purposes, 2. breathalizer test 3. humane act changed to protect the farmer. Mr. Bud Murphy chartered accountant of Denfield spoke on Benson White Paper on Taxation and what implications it had for the farmers. He advised us to write to Mr. Benson asking him to allow farmers to use straight line depreciation and to be able to file on the cash basis and to have the exemptions raised by January 1, 1971. Many questions on income tax and taxes in general were answered. Some discussion of the proposed lake followed. There are people available throng the Federation who can give assistance to those involved. They must ask the federation for' help. Those with Direct Service Membership can obtain additional help. A resolution committee of Lorne Hunking, George Colclough and Lawrence Plaetzer was formed. The following, officers were elected: President, Larne Hunking; vice-president, George Colclough; directors, Bill Flynn, Cecil Elliott, Eric Anderson, Hugh Flynn, Lloyd Stewart, Gordon McGregor, Frank Konarski, Robert Peel, Leonard Archambault, Jack Snell, Charles Goderich with Anne Scott portraying the Principal of St. Swithins and George Youmatoff as the Headmaster of Hilary Hall. Tickets are $1.00 and can be obtained at the box-office or by calling 482-7606, Scandlon, Lawrence Plaetzer, Clayton Ellis, and Archie Young. Mason Bailey spoke on Direct Service Membership. To remain a unit ip Hullett Township there must be at least 35 service members. The next few months will tell whether there is a strong 'Federation. In Hullett there is a huge government plan to come into effect. We must have an organization to help those whose homes and farms are endangered. Gray fox • seen in district An unusual visitor to this part of Ontario was seen last week in Colborne Township. A local trapper reported to the Lands and Forests office that he had captured a strange looking fox. The animal was examined by Roy Bellinger, Predator Control Officer at Goderich and identified as a Gray Fox. The Gray Fox is common in some States south of the Border and there have been reports of them being seen in Southern Ontario at either end of Lake Erie. According to the Royal Ontario Museum there are records of the Gray Fox being found in the Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario and also in Southeastern Ontario near Kingston. The Gray Fox is slightly smaller than his Red Fox cousin. His back and flanks are gray and a black strip runs down the centre of the back extending to the end of the tail. Just what route our little friend from the South took to get here is unknown but it certainly must have been a long hike for him in any, event. What is .0 At recent safety conferences held across the nation winding up 4.4ePaq :31st in Vancouver, It. W. Trollope, President of Dominion. Automobile. AssP.040M outlineci their 'Drive with ,Care" Safety Campaign for 1970. While many*other areas of the campaign were. _covered during his addresses, Mr, Trappe put particular emphasis on the hazards of .drinking anti driving And applauded the Federal Government's •initiative• in legislating the uniform statute ,96 ,Breathalyzer Law pow in force across the nation. "Now that the law is in force, from coast to coast, it is up to us to inform drivers what the :Q8 Breathalyzer Law is and what actually constitutes impaired driving. This must be done in order to fully exploit this law as a deterrent to drinking and driving." In keeping with this policy, Mr. Trollope proceeded with the following information:. "The .08 Breathalyzer Law is a Federal Statute now in force in every Province of Canada. 'Anyone suspected of impaired. or drunk driving must take the breathalyzer test at the request of the investigating police officer. Refusal to do so will result in, fines up to $1000 and an automatic 3 month suspension of your driver's license. The breathalyzer, he explained, is a breath analyzer that measures the amount of alcohol in the blood by analyzing a sample of exhaled breath. .08 (grammes per millilitre) indicates the level of alcohol in the blood that shows impairment for all individuals and 12% deterioration in their driving ability at which time their road accident risk is doubled. "One twelve ounce bottle of beer equals one three ounce glass of sherry, which in turn equals a one ounce shot of liquor, "Three drinks," Mr. Trollope continued, "will impair a man 150 pounds or less and four drinks will impair a heavier man. Seven drinks for a medium sized man and nine drinks for a large man and his driving ability has deteriorated by 33% with the risk of an accident being increased approximately 40 times: "These - amounts," Mr. Trollope continued, "are providing the alcohol has been consumed in a normal drinking period prior to the examination and providing the drinker is in good health, Poor health, fatigue and the use of drugs will also contribute to the degree of alcoholic impairment. "Many people," explained Mr. Trollope, "have the idea that because they have been drinking for years and are able to control the symptoms of drunkenness, such as slurred speech • and staggering, they are not drunk or impaired. This group probably constitutes the most dangerous of all impaired drivers. Because of their confidence in their ability to drive while drunk, they take greater risks. When in fact, their ability is impaired as much or more than someone who has consumed the same quantity but drinks only occasionally. "Aside from the frightening risk of killing or injuring yourself and/Or someone else, next to your health," , Mr. Trollope concluded, "your driver's license tray. be your most important possession and the fastest way to lose it is to drink and drive." Rumbling with Lucy BY LUCY R. INPOPs EVOLUTION OF TIME .KEEPING (PONT) young man •by the name of Galileo watched a largo lamp swaying in the Cathedral at Pisa, Itaiy. He timed it egainst his pulse and, recorded that it kept the same time whether swinging in a large or small are. • From this observation the pendulum clock evolved. It was wOrked out ,mathematically by a Dutch scientist, Christopher Huygens. He had a clock made in 1057 by Salmon Coster of The Hague, to his design. and publiahed a book Horolgium in 1658. Rapid transfer of information made dominant, over French and Rwiss, the English clock and watch industry for two centuries, The pendulum made time more accurate, • The mastery of timekeeping in the 18th and 19th centuries brought a.ccnrate navigation arid charting of the world's c.ciastlines, In the 17th century the ,Royal Observatory had been -Set up at Greenwich,. England to discover an astronomical solution as to why so many ships were lost at sea. The charts of the times were not accurate, In 1714 A.D. the British Government paSsed an act. of Parliament offering prizes for finding longitude on board ship at sea to within half a degree. John Harrison made the first successful sea clock. A young carpenter who received some grants. from the Royal Society but his family lived in poverty while he devoted all his time to the sea clock. Hp ran afoul of bureaucracy in Parliament and the Royal Society but at the age of 67 thought the prize was his. At the age of 79, he and his son William finally received a settlement which fell short of the first prize offered 20,000 pounds sterling. German clock making increased rapidly with the invention of the spring .drive ; clock in Augsburg and Nuremburg but did not outlast the 17th century, Towards the end of the century, German farmers and woodworkers of the Black Forest developed clocks to suit their own raw -materials and skill. Almost every part of the Black Forest clock was made of wood, including all toothed wheels, and bells were made of glass. The farmer clock makers sold their own products. Fashioned like pictures to hang on the wall, the weights were suspended below, Locally, clocks with the pendulum in front of the dial were called 'cows' tails.' Eli Terry born in 1772 in East Windsor, Connecticut, and apprenticed was selling brass, He settled at Northbury, 35 miles to the northeast in a sparsely settled district. He took clocks on horseback and peddled them. He recorded taking two saddlebags of pork for a clock and I.O.U. notes which were traded as currency. Terry was the first in America to make clocks on an assembly line. In 1818, he sold shop rights to Seth Thomas, a partner who produced as many as 16,000 for which Terry sued him. Clocks became plentiful, cheap and were now sometimes used as money. The wheel had turned full circle. Chancey Jerome, a partner, Sold his home in Plymouth to Eli Terry for 100 mantel clock movements and bought a small farm in Bristol for 214 complete clocks. , Steeple-on-steeple, an eight day mantel clock as well as Seth Thomas clocks'were known in this district. An act of Parliament in England taxing clocks and watches 1797-1798 all but killed the industry in Britain. People preferred to rely' on the Tavern Clock. It had a huge dial, two or three feet across, weight driven, with a long pendulum. They became known as Act of Parliament clocks. John Whitechurst of Derby invented the first Industrial clock in 1550. It was used by watchmen who punched and left a record. In 1868 Dr. Thurgar of Norwich invented a clock to turn gas lights off and on, first used in Bournemouth. - Fifteen years passed between the beginning of plans for the huge clock in the Tower of Westminster (Big Ben) were made and its installation in the tower with its quarter bells and hour bells in 1859. It was designed by Lord Grimthorp. C. Shepherd designed an electric clock shown at the Great "Exhibition, 1851. He persuaded the Astronomer Royal, Sir George iAery, to have his system installed at Greenwich Observatory the previous year. The railways found the idea of a master clock operating slave dials, the idea of a Scotsman named Alexander Bain, particularly suitable for stations and the first system was set up at Crewe. Bain clocks were driven by an earth battery-zinc and coke buried near CONESTOGA COLLEGE of Applied Arts and Technology Continuing Education Division Applicants are invited for Upgrading and Skill courses. These courses may provide admission to various technology and technician training programs, For Further Information ' Contact Mr, Irian • B. Howlett, Administrator, CONESTOGA COLLEGE, Stratford Centre 271-5700 •S For Further Information Contact, Your Counsellor At coma mappower ceoire Department of Menpower and immigration 35 East St., Goderich Dial 5248342 Hullett Federation holds annual meeting Other persons interested in obtaining skill training that could lead directly to employment should take advant- age of opportunities made available by 0.T.A., a Federal-,Provincial Training Agreement. Some appli- cants may qualify for training allowance. 1