Clinton News-Record, 1970-03-05, Page 4A .Clinton. News-Reccgcl, Thursday, ..March5„ 1970
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A wise decision
It is hard to fault. Judge. F, C, Egener
on his decision last week that the
15-year-old, youth charged in connection
with the murder of Katherine McGregor
should be tried in family court.
Some people have commented that the
boy should have been tried in adult court
so that he could be given the stiffest
possible penalty for the dreadful crime he
is accused of committing. But what do we
want from our courts, justiee, or revenge?
Would it be' justified to put away a
young boy for life in a penitentiary with
older hardened criminals? This would
virtually insure that the accused would be
no good to humanity for the rest of his
years.
By trying the boy in family court,
society has nothing to lose. If he is found
guilty, he will be put in atraining school
where professionals will have a chance to
rehabilitate him into a useful individual. If
they fail, he can still be tried again in
adult court' when he is released from
training school on his eighteenth birthday
or any time thereafter until he is 21.
It seems ironic that a boy is not
allowed to drive until he is 16. He cannot
vote until he .is 19, 19 or 21, depending
in what Part of Canada he lives. He
cannot legally take a drink until he is 21.
He can't even join the armed forces until
he's 17, He is granted none of the
advantages of manhood.
Let him create a crime at 15, however,
and suddenly he is expected to be just as
responsible as a man.
Katherine McGregor was a wonderful
woman. Her murder was one of the most
brutal in recent years, yet if there is any
chance of her murderer becoming a
healthy, normal person again, he deserves
it, and society deserves it. We never have
enough good citizens.
Has Mr. Benson horns?
With the flurry of opposition to the
government white paper on taxation that
has been filling the pages of newspapers in
the last few weeks, a casual• observer
might be excused if he thought the people
were about to riseup, march on Ottawa
and burn the Parliament Buildings with
the Prime Minister and Finance Minister
Benson inside.
The amount, of publicity the
opponents of the white paper have gained
gives the impression that 'the entire nation
is opposed. In the light of this,, it was
interesting last week to see the result of
the latest Gallup Poll which showed Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau's government had
the support of 43 percent of the Canadian
people, the highest total in more than a
year.
Polls do not mean much, but this one
is interesting because it shows the fallicy
of believing the , publicity of those
opilidStrigilhe1/44Vhite'vader:4 . • • , ..k .J , „ , .
I This opposition has almost reached the
point of hysteria. To listen to the paper's
opposition one would think it was already
law or that Mr. Benson was a man with
horns purposely setting out to wreck the
country.
Opponents' of thr, white paper scream
that it will destroy the ini+iative of the
small businessman. E '• is', .gly, those
who have screamed the lc...iciest have been
firms like T. Eaton Co. and Robert
Simpson Co. who never shed a tear when
their large organizations squeezed smaller
retailers out of business.
The fact is, that it is the big
businessman who has led the opposition.
He. is the man with the most to lose in the
new approach to taxation. Despite its
faults, and there are many, the white
paper is the first attempt to reform
Canada's outdated tax laws that any
government has made. It is also the first
time a government has allowed the public
some say in the way a new policy is to be
decided.
x, The tord.inary Ca9adian should not
1,:alld_w.,u4imSelf to —149igatoAdl..lnto
believing the wholeOsioposal is a failUee
and should seek in his, own way to make
sure the best is left in the white paper and
the weaknesses are corrected.
Lots of billy left in goat
BENM1LLER BRIDGE
The right vibrations for a love match
75 YEARS AGO
The Huron News-Record
, March 6, 1895
The Palace Rink races were
not liberally patronized last
Wednesday due to the "January
thaw." The fat man's race was
between Messrs. Watts, Scruttm
and Wheatley, The many
mishaps arid unaccountable
delays gave Chief Wheatley first
place. The three Mile open race
was 1st Mack Cantelon, 2nd M.
Grealis; Boys' race, 1st W. Miller,
2nd W. McRae.
The contract for the erection
of the cheese factory at
Holmesville has been awarded to
Mr. McKenzie of Clinton,
Messrs Searle and Overberry
of the Street Committee are
endeavoring to secure the
assistance of citizens in
regulating street and private
shade trees. Where trees are' too
• thick, or too close to the walk,
either on the street or inside the
fences, they should be thinned
out.
40 YEARS AGO
March 6,1930
Mr. and Mrs. William Mutch
and family visited friends in
Auburn on Sunday,
Mr, Harold Squires is now in
the employ of Mr. Taft Clark.
Connell and Tyndall Meat
Market Cottage Reins Pernealed,
SCic lb; Fresh Plonk Hams, 2c;
Loin Roast pork, 27c; Pork
chops, 27c; Rib roast beef, 22c;
Rump roast beef, 22c.
Miss Margaret Brown of
Stratford Normal spent the
weekend with Miss Dorothy
Manning of town.
There isn't much to see in a
small town — but what you hear•
makes up for it,
25 TEARS AGO
Match 1, 1945
Mr. W. L, Johnson has taken
his son Charles, into partnership
with him in his grocery business.
Mr. A. D. McCartney has
disposed of his coal business to
Mr. George German, who has
already taken possession.
Mrs. William Lovett spent a
few days with Mr. and "Mrs.
Harvey Hayter.
Miss Florence Aiken was the
guest of Miss Marilyn hozeIl of
Kitchener over the weekend.
Miss Kate Dalryin pie of
London and Miss Grace
Dalrymple spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs, H, Dalrymple.
15 YEARS AGO
March S, 1955
Three Clinton girls received
their caps in ml impressive
eeresnOny- held at Stratford
General Hospital, These being
Jayne Mary Snell, daughter of
Mr. and WS. Eph Snell, RR 1,
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rHE HOME
OF RADAR,
IN CANADA.
'rm.) recent letters have ac-
cuse( me of something inex-
cusable •-• losing my zest.
II" was f rom a chap I hav-
en't •SN,I) Since we played to-
gether as kids. tie said a re-
cent column showed a negative
approach and beseeched me
not to feel that way. 1 think
he's also a health nut of some
kind, because he urged me not
to let any "forn" body, such as
nicotine or alcohol, to enter
my system. (You're right, Bob,
your spelling is terrible, but
thanks, anyway.)
Another was from a lady
whose daughter I taught. She
said I sounded as though I had
the mid-winter blues, and
cheered me by telling me that
her daughter thought. I was
great, even though she had
hated school. Thank you, too,
Main, and I know your name,
though you didn't sign it.
But don't . worry, chaps, I
might sound a trifle misanihro„
pie at times. I always have. But
there's plenty of billy in the
old goat yet. I don't intend to
Slash my wrists. At least, not
until the present curling
bonspiel is over, I need them.
We have a great institution
M. our school for pulverizing
those February blues, Once a
year, we throw the curriculum
out the window and do some-
thing sensible, We have a bash
called Frtisty Frolics.
This year, a Computer
couldn't have picked a better
day. Ten below; Oles . of snow,
and a brilliant sun, Everybody
in colorful garb: Bunts and
Parkas and scarves and hats of
all hues.
The day began with a leg
'auction in the gym. Girls hid
behind a curtain, with only
their legs showing. Boys bid on
the legs. One French teacher,
male, was knocked down for
53.25, and the highest hid was
over $7. All proceeds to sup-
port' a fo,ster child in )long
Kong.
Then a grand march to the
lake, for games on the ice,
Snowshoe races, brooMball in
which everything goes, includ-
ing tripping teachers at every
opportunity, tug-of-war, and
just plain horsing around and
wrestling in • the' snow. No
holds barred. A fine sublima-
tion of sex..
Other groups split for curl•.
ing, skiing, snowmobile .rally
for a trip out around the is-
lands. snooker tournament,
swimming.. skating.
The beauty of the day is that
it's so amateur, There are ex•
Pelts in every field, of course.
But you could watch fat, Mid•
dIe-aged teachers, oyes bulging
with horror, as they tried
downhill skiing for the first
time ever. Or little Grade 1)
kids, weighing in at 81)
pounds, trying to get a 40-
pound curling stone oVer the
hog line.
Everyone back to school af-
ter lunch for a check-in. Then
a karate demonstration. To my
amazement, and (error, I saw
three of my Grade 12 Tech
boys up there; smashing one-
inch boards With their ,bare
knuckles and bare feet, kicking
and Chopping With blows that
would kill, flipping each other
around like pieces of rubber
hose.
Cold sweat crept into my
armpits as I remembered that
I'd thought, once or twice, of
ousting these individuals, phys-
• ically, from my class. That is a
thought that will never again
cross my mind.
Afternoon. Everybody off to
the hockey game, or back to
the ski hill, or stay and watch
the basketball game, dr'bog off
to the poolroom. Or skating or
swimming.
All sorts of other things
going on, too. Snow sculpture,
Choosing of a snow queen.
This year, in a student body of
about 1,300, with perhaps 35
Indian students, the Queen was
a beautiful Indian girl. How's
that for a blow against the
WASPS?
And so it went, with a big,
windup dance Saturday night,
But the melody lingers on. -
This mid-winter Madness has
the effect of literally Melting
the thin red line which sep•
arates teachers and students.
Row can you. maintain your
dighity when some 14-year-old
girl is yelling at you, "Sweep!
Sweep, you dummy!" Or when
some five-foot Grade,niner
stops to help you up, when
you've sprawled iii a hopeless
tangle on the ski hill'?
The whole community kicks
in, with
ski tows.
We all discover that we're
human beings, Biggest disdov-
ery of the year, Should have
one every term.
than the efforts of a pair of
baby-blue eyes like limpid pools.
There's a pattern to this sort
of thing in the nature world that
you rarely find in human affairs.
The last surviving boy curlew,
it is said, could find the last
surviving girl curlew • in all the
vastness of the frozen tundra.
The strongest drone is the
one — and the only one — who
gets to-thavee his moment with
the queen ;,bee,on hr where she
has flown to inset that the
'father of her hive Will be the
best daddy of them all.
It is all very orderly. There is
a reason for mating.
But humans? What's
reasonable about a man finding
his mate because a big fish got
off his line? Who would be out
there in the kitchen, I wonder, if
I hadn't gone to that wrong door
so long ago?
The cynics say, of course,
that there's no such thing as
love, that it's all a matter of
chemistry. But what other
logical explanation can there be
for the fusion of male and
female?
People get married apparently
by chance, against odds that no
self-respecting, bookie would
consider, and yet the vast
majority of marriages succeed.
Perhaps Professor Low was
on the right track. His meter to
register this chaotic emotion was
never perfected. It needn't
matter. There seems to be a sort
of built-in radar system that
works remarkably well just as it
is. Unless I'm badly mistaken its
name is love.
Clinton; Ruth Clarke, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Clark,
Varna; Marilyn Shaddick,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
Shaddick, Clinton.
Miss Catherine E. Fingland,
University of Western Ontario,
spent the weekend with her
parents, Judge and Mts. Frank
Fingland,
George Bean, Auburn is a
patient in the Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital, Goderich.
10 TEARS AGO
March 5, 1959
Beverly Boyes, eldest soh of
Mr. and Mts. Bert Boyes, and a
student of Grade 13, Clinton
District Collegiate Institute,
distinguished himself at the
Kiwanis music festival in
Stratford this week by achieving
the mark bf 84 — best in the
four solo classes in the festival.
Mr. and Mrs. Ab Shaddick
and Mrs. Thomas Fairservice
spent, Sunday afternoon With
Mr, and Mts. James Walsh,
Beigrave.
Douglas GeMeinhardt and
Jack Fraser, Bayfield, are
carrying on a winter fishing
operation which brings them
about 30 pounds of suckers a
day, and soMetimes perch,
herring or pickerel. They have
nets set through the ice, about a
quarter mile out from the piers.
Wesley-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches
REV. A, J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist ant.' Choir Director
SUNDAY, MARCH 8th
WESLEY -WILLIS
1;45 a.m. — Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. — Christian Fellowship Hour.
Topic: An open discussion on
"IS THERE A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOD?"
(Read March "Reader's Digest" P. 82),
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m. — Christian Fellowship Hour.
2:00 p.m. — Sunday School ,
— ALL WELCOME—
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. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, MARCH 8th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship;
Tuesday, March 10, 8:15 p.m. — Work Meeting.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Leslie Clemens
SUNDAY, MARCH 8th
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m,
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m.
Wettriettlay7 8fOCHt Wm.'k Prayer meeting, and; Bible study
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Clinton
SUNDAY, MARCH 8TH
10:00 a.m. — Parish Communion and Sermon.
Wednesday, 10 a.m. — Lenten Communion. ,
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My wife is forever apologizing
to newly-met friends for my
innocent habit of
cross-examining them on the
details of their pm-marital love
life.
It's not that •I'm after the
kind of statistics pioneered by
the late Dr. Kinsey, but simply
my passion for discovering the
curious pranks of fate that cause
boy to meet girl and so to
become lifetime,partnersr,,i •
,Gf ,all the f-prms
negotiation, you;;see:, this is,. the
most haphazard, the most
illogical and unreasonable and,
perhaps, the most successful.
The subject -comes to mind
because a dear friend of mine
has just trudged the last mile to
the altar in a love match that,
you might say, was made by a
fish.
If he'd landed that big brute
on that Friday afternoon he'd
have taken the plane back home
that night, as he planned all
along, and that would have been
that.
But, no. The big fish got
away. He decided to stay on for
the weekend to have another go
at it. That was the weekend we
were also entertaining the little
lady from the city. They met.
There was that old black magic.
And now, as of last Saturday,
they are Mr. and Mrs.
You see how it is. A man
never knows how it will happen.
A girl drops a parcel on a bus. A
casual friend introduces his niece
from Moose Jaw. Some fellow
goes into a shop to buy some
perfume for his grandmother.
'Out of such simple experiences
come a wife, a mortgage and
seven or eight kids.
I was reading the other day in
a biography of Professor
Archibald Low, the pioneer
inventor of • guided missiles, of
the love-meter he conceived to
take the guess work out of such
fateful accidents.
Professor Low had the theory
that love is determined by what
,lie called "emanation
characteristics." People give off
fal3sort of ray similar to wireless
eam,rays, igtfred, and these
could be measured. He visioned
tie lovers of the future strolling
in' the moonlight, glancing every
now and then at their meters to
see if they were dialed to The
Real Thing.
The idea isn't as crazy as it
first seems — and, anyway, it
isn't any crazier than guided
missiles.
After all, we wouldn't dream
of acquiring any other
possession without some
guarantee of success. We buy a
house and we check it carefully
for termites. We buy a boat and
we examine its bottom for dry
rot. We kick the tires of used
cars.
But when it comes to
investing in a life-long,
non-negotiable commodity like a
bride the average man is in a '
condition that ranges from
bewilderment to utter
irrationality.
All of the literature of
romance attests to this. Guys are
getting married every day, just as
they have all through recorded
history, for no better reason
VICE