HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-04-16, Page 4Clinton Thursday, .April 16, 1970
Editorial 4ornateat,
Big stink. over a little smell
The decision in Huron County Court
recently of Judge Hetherington to grant
the appeal of a couple from Tuckersmith
Township to have their taxes lowered
because of "air pollution" from a pig barn
nearby could have some weird
repercussions.
First of all, it is interesting that the
judge felt the smell from the barn was
serious enough to warrant the lowering of
the neighbor's assessment. One Would
think that if this were the case the farmer
in question would be liable to be taken to
court and charged with polluting the air.
The fact is that he won't be bacause his
operation lived up to every regulation and
recommendation by all the pollution
control bodies in the province. Therefore
while he has been more or less convicted
"in absentia" of air pollution, legally he
has not been polluting the air. The
Department of Agriculture, Huron
County Health Unit, Ontario Water
Resources Commission and the Ontario
Air Management Branch all re9ard his as .a
Model farm. Something is inconsistent
here. One law or the other is wrong,
Another interesting point is the cases
that could be made with this as a
• precedent. .1f the smell of a pig barn
located 1300 feet from a house is enough
cause to lower assessment/ think of what
could happen in urban areas.
Torontonians, with all the air pollution
they swallow every day, should be
assessed lower than anyone else in the
province, even though their land is the
highest priced.
It's to be hoped something will be
done soon to clear up some of these
inconsistencies before the law becomes a
laughing stock.
Kids get involved
It was encouraging to see, last week,
that some of the young people of our
community took enough interest in a
project to become deeply involved.
Several students from CHSS who have
been planning the Education '70
experiment at their school during May
went before the Huron County School
Board to ask approval for their project. It
was probably one of the few times the
school board has had an audience since its
inception.
Visiting the meeting was probably an
educational experiment in itself for the
students. They now know, as very few
adults in the community do, who the
people are who govern the spending of
our school taxes. An equally good
educational experiment would be for
students to visit town council meetings to
see the local government in action.
Perhaps by getting people interested in
how they are governed while they are still
young, they will manage to stay interested
as they grow older.
It is to be hoped that today's
"involved" teenagers maintain their
involvement when they become adults. If
they do, perhaps they can build the better
world so many speak of so often.
Certainly they can't do any worse than
the adults have in taking an interest in
government, Probably less than one
quarter of the people in Clinton could say
with accuracy when the town council
meets. Even fewer could name all the
members of council.
So keep up the good work kids.
Experiment and become involved and
work to better the system from inside.
Maybe you can build a better world, we
adults haven't been so successful.
Help us to help you
Do you belong to a club or
organization that hasn't been given good
coverage by the News-Record lately? If
you have, look inside your own group and
see if that's where the problem is.
A weekly newspaper with a small staff
can only Cover so much news. The result
is, that many of the,organizations who are
having good coverage of the activities in'
the paper are doing so because they have a
good press officer who provides the
information for the paper.
Our paper can only have ail the, news
when you help. Appoint a press officer
for your group and make sure he or she is
doing a good job. If you have news, bring
it in yourself. Together we can make the
News-Record a better voice of Clinton
and district.
CORRECTION
I n 'a'r; *editOriai `JaSt week, the
News-Record stated that Town-Council-
had turned down the request of police for
an extra man and new cruiser. Town
Council has not made an official decision
on the police request.
You can't win 'em all
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There's nothing like a little
change at this time of year to
pull you out of the doldrums.
That's what my wife said when
the school holidays were 'com-
ing up. And she was right.
Most of our friends were
going somewhere: Skiing, Flor-
ida, Jamaica, Mexico, South
Carolina.
Family obligations and lack
of cash vetoed anything like
that, but she had a wonderful
plan. My brother-in-law and
family were going to Florida.
They live in the city. We'd go
to the city, stay at their place,
saving a big hotel bill, take in
a few shows, and step out to
dinner a couple of times,
"It'll be just like home for
you" says she. "You can take
your exam papers and mark
them, you won't have a care hi
the world, we'll have some fun,
and it will be a nice change for
you."
It was.
Our daughter was home for
the weekend, but was going
back to the city to stay in the
grubby hole her friends rent.
She wanted to take back her
cat and kitten. She was pre-
vailed upon to wait until mid-
week — when we were going
down — for the animals' sake,
First mistake.
Word got around among her
friends. Second mistake. To cut
it short, we left for the city
with two cats,- reir teenagers,
two big boxes of grub for Kim,
enough clothes to go to Ku-
rope, and me in a surly mood,
Arrived at Kim's abode and
carried up the food, only to
discover that. three teenybop-
pers had beat her to it, and
there wasn't room for her.
Took her hack with us to
brother-in-law's house, a hand-
some place indeed. Picked up
the key from a neighbor, as
arranged. Turned key in lock,
It bent. Played with lock,
Stomped on key with heel to
straighten it out. Couldn't. Fi-
nally dour swung open. Great
relief.
Fumbled for lights, all lo-
cated in wrong place. "Phew!
This place stinks," said Kim.
She was right. Dopey sister-in-
law had not turned refrigera-
tor off properly. Freezer was
unfrozen, water all over floor,
meat putrid.
Solid hour of mopping up,
scrubbing out frig. All hope of
hamburger gone out in gar-
bage, rotten. Eventually, I
made a mess of crumbled buns
in a large tin of spaghetti
sauce. It tasted like spaghetti
sauce, which is pretty strong
without spaghetti.
House was cold. Turned heat
welt up. Nothing happened.
Steam heat. An hour later it
was 80. Turned heat way
down, Nothing happened,
Steam:
Tried washing dishes. No hot
water. Afraid to go out to
show, or anything, because of
faulty key, Might never get in ,
again. Suggested: "Let's get
the hell out of here and check
in at a hotel." No takers. Too
tired. Watched TV and went to
bed.
Next day same thing. Hot
water came on, for no ,reason,
but wife and daughter bick-
ered most of day, also for no
reason, Had company. .Sent out
for food. Stayed up too late.
Fell asleep. Awoke to great
squabble and daughter leaving,
with her cats, Persuaded her to
settle down. Three a.m. and no
buses running, She's not so
dumb, and agreed.
Third day, worse. Freezing
rain and snow outside, no food
and raw nerves inside. My wife
was right from the start, It was
just like home. And my exam
papers were still in the suit-
case.
Finally •took bull by horns
and went out on town. IDown-
town packed with solid mob,
barely moving traffic. Had
beautiful dinner in crowded
joint, after standing in line for
half-hour. Hamburg for me,
coffee for the girls, who wer-
en't hungry from feminine
perversity. At last, 'saw a one-
hour revile, at 11 p.tn. Home
at 12.30 a.m,
Nest day, took Kim down to
her house, with cats. All food
we'd brought for her was
eaten.
Back to house. Wife slaving
to dean up, I said: "I'm going
home. Period!" For once, no
argument. Herne through hilt-
zard. Stopped by cop. But, all,
that home sweet home. No
cats, no kid.
There's nothing like a little
change.
Another problem of the
younger generation that may
prove distressing to sensitive
parents is the modern attitude to
dentistry.
I don't know about your
children, of course, but my
children have no respect for
dentists. Well, I shouldn't say
that. They have respect, all right,
but they have no fear at all,
I think it comes from some
subtle kind of brainwashing that
they must get at school — they
certainly don't get it at home'—'
having to do with the innovation
of the high speed drill.
We older, wiser people knO1W,
the difference between the-old
drill and the new drill. The
difference is that you get the
pain quicker, at 5,000
revolutions per second and with
a pungent aroma of something
burning, quite possibly the
entire roof of your mouth.
But the innocent little
children have somehow been
persuaded that the agony has
actually been removed, It just
shows yoti how the human brain
can be conditioned by
propaganda.
How often, as we've set out in
group formation for a day in the
chair, I have heard their piping
little voices crying, "Don't be
scared, Daddy, it doesn't hurt at
all any more!" and have had to
fight back the impulse to whack
them.
These kids are growing up, I
tell you without the slightest
hatred for their dentist and it
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75 YEARS AGO
The Huron News-,Record
April 17, 1895
Mr. B.. H. Chowen, for several
years a resident of Clinton,
opened out in the butchering
business at 13lyth last Saturday.
A Wingham plasterer used
abusive and threatening language
to a resident and Mayor
Brochenshire sent him to
Goderich jail for 20 days in
order that his tongue might have
a rest.,
Messrs. 3. McMurray, E. J.
Cantelon, and W. Grigg were in
London last week and took part
in the big gun shoot, each
getting in some creditable work
and winning laurels.
A great deal is being said in
London in favour of selling eggs
by weight. Shop-keepers do not
look on the proposal with any
great favour.
55 YEARS AGO
The Clinton NEW Era
April 15,1.515
Mr. John Sutter was
appointed representative for the
local a 0. F. lodge at Grand
Lodge ter be held in Woodstock:
Mr. Hugh Grigg, of the
heaelcifflee staff of the Molson's
Bank, Montreal, is spending his
holidays at the parental home.
home.
Mrs. Wm, Mail./ London,
returned home on Saturday,
after Spending a Week at the
home of her parents„ Mr. and
Mts. John Co.X
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isn't natural. How can you build
character in children, I ask,
when they just sit there calmly,
confidently, trustingly? A child
who will trust a. dentist, I say,
will trust anybody.
In my bachelor days there was
a kind of understanding between
my dentist and me. He would
elevate his eyes from my
twitching lips and staring eyes
and would make no comment
whatever about my habit in his
waiting room of reading old
copies of the Oral Hygiene
Review upside down:
I could mom 'and-grebe' and
'occasionally crY due ShatPly'in a
high, girlish complaint. The
dentist would pretend he didn't
notice. "You think I'm .a
coward, don't you, doctor?" I
once asked him and he replied
frankly, "Yes, I do" and we
understood each other perfectly,
Not now. My wife has hardly
put down the receiver in
triumph after making an
appointment before my children
fix me with a sort of sadistic,
analytical scrutiny.
As the dreaded day comes
near they often simulate the
noise of the drill, as they pass
by, followed by clucking sounds
clearly meant to represent a
chicken. Little do they know
that they are taking their lives in
their hands, the rotten little
smarty-pants.
At the dentist's office, itself,
they often go running in to greet
their old friend and I can hear
them whispering and giggling.
Wesley Vanderburgh was in
Kippeh for a couple of days last
week on business.
Lyle Hill, Guelph, spent
Easter at his home. He expects
soon to leave for England with
the third Contingent.
40 YEARS AGO
April 17, 1930
Mr. Reuben Grigg has
purchased the farm of the late
Thomas Webster on the ninth
concession Goderich Twp.
Mr. Phil Rowcliffe purchased
a very valuable horse from Mr.
Roy Elliott one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs, Proctor Palmer
and little son, Donald, left
Friday for a short visit to the
home of the former's mother, in
Detroit, Mrs. g. Palmer.
Mrs. C. IL • 13artliff has
returned hoMe after spending
the winter in Toronto and
Oshawa.
Messrs. -Frank Andrews and
Harold Pickett motored to
Toronto for the weekend.
The Goderich Signal boasts of
having somebody coming in and
handing around pure maple
sugar to the staff. But perhaps it
was thought The Signal needed a
little sweetening.
25 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1.945
Mis,t Helen Welsh left this
week on her holidays, which she
is spending in New York and
Washington.
Right beneath the story of a
'henhouse robbery, a paper
printed a church notice
announcing a Chicken Slipper.
"Really?" I hear the dentist
saying, "he's still the same? Oh,
boy, wait till I get him in here."
And what's left of my morale
evaporates completely.
The whole thing has utterly
destroyed one of the traditional,
comforting parental duties that
are supposed to endear them
forever in the memory of their
offspring.
How well I recall my mother's
tender solicitude, her words of
reassurance and the way she
kept my right arm locked up
between my shoulder blades as
we marched off for an
appOintment. -
Now everything,is reversed.
Instead of me shephrding them,
setting an example by my brave,
matter-of-fact acceptance of the
ordeal, my children trip off
without the slightest
apprehension and never miss the
opportunity to prove their
superior fortitude.
What fiendish delight they
take in giving me my choice of
being first or last in the chair,
knowing full well that I'm torn
by the impulse, on the one hand,
to get it over with and, on the
other, the forlorn hope that if I
put it off and go last there may
be some cataclysmic upheaval of
nature that will spare me before
the nurse calls my name.
Se will be calling it, in fact,
this very afternoon. They will be
watching me as I take a last drag
on my eigaret and adjust the
blindfold. And, just between us,
I will be hating them quite a lot.
The editor is believed to have
left town for a few days.
Miss Helen Herman returned
to her school, at Millgrave on
Sunday.
Miss Helen Radford has
accepted a position at the
Fashion Shoppe in Goderich.
Mrs. Margaret Manning,
Londesboro has returned home,
after spending the winter in
Vancouver B. C.
15YEARS AGO
April 14, 1955
Miss Gail Manning,
Londesboro, was elected
president of thdt Huron
Presbytery Young Peoples
Unions, United Church of
Canada, at the spring convention
held in the North Street United
Church, Goderich.
Ronald Steen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Steeper• has been
chosen as Clinton District
Collegiate Institutes'
representative on the Student
Leader's Club, This Club is a
joint project of the London Free
Press and the University of
Western Ontario.
10 YEARS AGO
April .t.4, 1960
Presentation last; night of a
handsome bronze plaque was
Made to George H. Jefferson,
'retired principal of Clinton
Public school. The plaque and its
Ilreseritation was the brain-child
of an iitterested group of
young mon, 'former students of
Mr. Jefferson, during his time as
principal of the public school
here, 1'02'7 to 195G.
Wesley-Willis Holmewille United Churches
REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.0, B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, APRIL 19th
WESLEY-WIL,LIS
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
11:00 a,m. — Christian Fellowship Hour.
"GOD'S METHOD OF CONCEALMENT"
Rev. J. Ure Stewart, Guest. Preacher
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m. — Divine Worship.
Guest Preacher: REV. J. URE STEWART
2:00 p.m. — Sunday School
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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
SUNDAY, APRIL 19th
9:4$ a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Morning, Worship.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Guest Speaker: DR. WATT
SUNDAY, APRIL 19th
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 --. c.
SUNDAY, ,APRIL 19th
EASTER III
Service 11:30 a.m.
Matins4 Church School and Sermon.
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