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Tell a tale of take-over
One Upon a time there was a little
village called FOrmOsa. Nobody even
knevki where Formosa Was, The Only
industry in the Village was a tiny brewery
owned by .a man of old German stock.
Then one day all the big breweries in
the cities where they had Unions, were
closed by strikes. The little brewery was
the only Place in Ontario where beer
flowed freely.
And so it happened after two different
strikes, that the village and the little
brewery became famous. And one day a
big rich businessman thought that he
could become even richer if he owned the
brewery, so he bought it.
Then he decided that the brewery
should be able to make more beer so he
really could become rich, so he built a
bigger brewery, not in the little village,
but in a city Plied Berrie,
But another rich, company came along,
A tobacco company called,Benson and
Hedges from a country called the United.
States of America. It bought the little
brewery and the big brewery. The rich
man who sold the business blamed the
big, bad, boogyman Benson for the sale,
saying his whitepaper on taxes was the
reason he was "fOrced u to sell. But
everyone knew it Wasn't really so because
Mr, Benson's white paper wasn't law end
wasn't likely to be for several years.
The story doesn't have an' ending yet,
but wise old men think the little brewery
is likely to be closed and only the big
brewery and the Americans will live
happily ever after. ,
China's barefoot doctors
Burmese health officials admitted the
other day they were having difficulty in
introducing more modern and hygenic
measures among the rural population.
People in Burma still prefer to use the
fields and rivers as their toilets rather than
latrines, doctors said. Many refuse to
believe that vegetables are good,
nutritious food,
The same problems are faced by health
authorities in many states of India, in
Nepal, Thailand, Ceylon, Laos, Cambodia,
Vietnam and other Asian lands,
The country that has made great
strides in public health in recent years is
China. The emphasis of health work has
shifted from the cities to the countryside
where the so-called barefoot doctors are
injecting fresh vigor into medical services
for the 500,000,000 peasants of China.
In assessing China, one tends to forget
the advances made in public health. The
land of the Cultural Revolution, the
nation where Maoist disciplines are
preached day and night is also a country
where the government truly cares about
the health of its vast population.
Recently, the army_alone sent out into
rural areas more than 6,000 teams made
up of more than 40,000 medical workers.
In different parts of China, these teams
have so far trained 274,000 peasants as
semi-skilled medical workers or barefoot
doctors, as the Chinese themselves call
them. These are not fully-trained doctors
but rather public health workers and
village nurses who tend to people's basic
medical needs.
In trying to analyze events in China,
the West must not always criticize
Communist ruthlessness, which
admittedly does exist, but should also
view some of the achievements of the
Maoist regime. Unless this is done, we in
Canada would get a distorted view of, the
new China.
The danger of cheap H-bombs
The British, West German and Dutch
Governments believe they have discovered
a cheaper method of enriching uranium —
a discovery that could have vital military
implications. Enriching uranium is the
most difficult single element in the
manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
The enriched uranium also is used in
reactors to produce electricity but the
weapons use is far more significant.
Although the three governments are
keeping very quiet about the possible
military uses of their discovery, these are
the l'A'Weet's that" shoiild'iniorrY 'the world.
Work done, in recent years in Britain,
West Germany and the Netherlands on the
development of carbon fibres and on the
high-speed gas centrifuge, in time is
expected to lead to much cheaper
H-bombs.
The three nations say they want the
enriched uranium, not for weapons but
for nuclear reactors which produce
electric power which is all well and good,
but the danger always exists that in times
of crisis these materials will be used for
destructive purposes. ,
There is only one way mankind must
view these extremely dangerous
experiments with materials that could
eventually end up in super bombs:
Humanity must try to ban the bomb. The
partial ban on testing bombs in the
atmosphere (which by the way France
and China have ignored), and the nuclear
non-proliferation treaty are only a small
'beginning.
Until the nations of the world, and the
five nuclear powers in particular, get
together and ban all atomic weapons 7
destroying the groWing nuclear arsenals
they are today in the process of building
— the world will continue to live in fear.
Only after all A-bombs and H-bombs
disappear can men breathe easily once
again.
Hugh broke his middle finger
Requiem for giants
Adventures of an amateur chicken rancher
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IN CANADA
Can you whistle a Bach pre-
lude and fugue without a mem-
ory slip? Can you hum a Bee-
thoven sonata without sliding
into falsetto qr basso profun-
do
Darn right you can't. But 1
can. Almost. And it cost me
only about $12,000.
Trouble is, and this is a
touchy point in April, none of
it is deductible. That's what it
'has cost me, over the years; to
provide a musical education
for my family.
After all that, I can whistle,
and hum, both' of which I
could' do before. There's some-
thing wrong here, but I can't
quite figure Out what it is . .
I wish I had the 12 C's
in bonds at eight pet' cent. Mit
my wife 'doesn't agree. We
could have taken a trip around
the world for that, but she still
doesn't agree,
As far as I'M concerned, • I
OM have taken that $12.-
000, thrown it off the end of
the dock, and been just as far
ahead. Once again, the only
one who agrees with me is I.
Both my kids have degrees
in piano. Both were talented;
Near, hut not quite at, the con-
cert pianist level. Both es-
chewed (I like that word) a
Career in music, beeauSe they
wanted to he first, And they
Wanted to he free,
Well, they're free, Hugh
broke his middle finger, and
can play I Went Down To St.
James Infirmary, with only a
few bum notes. I think Kim
could play The Happy, Farmer,
with a couple of days' practice.
But perhaps it's all been
worth it. They've learned
something. Hugh has realized
that you can't practise the
piano when you're waiting
table at the Chateau Frontenac
or selling vacuum cleaners in
Calgary. And Kim has realied
that "het" piano Won't quite
fit into a three-rooM pad in
Toronto, unless you want to
sleep on top of it,
What brings all this to mind,
and without bitterness, is the
fact that my wife, a former
piano teacher, has become
hooked once again, after a
lapse of a couple of years, on
the local music festival. She's
going every day and :listening
intensely to her former stn.
dents. (Though she's a bit
miffed that some of them are
doing extremely well, despite
the fact that they don't take
lessons from her any more.)
But her reports have
cheered me. Things are just
the same as they always were.
I went through years of them,
and I know the scene intimate-
ly, The festival mother's are
still as friendly as an 11,C, bish-
op and a Mormon lay preacher,
The adjudicator is still rot-
ten, giving the first-pine cer-
tificate to the girl who played
worst. Except when it's your
daughter. or your pupil. Then
he (ot she) shows an insight
into music that is superb,
The kids are still sailing into
their pieces at breakneck
specq, which they can't possi-
bly maintain, and breaking
down in the middle. while
their mothers and teachers
turn purple as the youngsters
fumble, and throw up their
hands. and burst into tears.
But perhaps the Old Lady is
right. Those moments at the
music festival, in other years,
were the closest to heaven and
hell that I've ever experienced,
with the possible exception of
shooting at a concentration of
German tanks, which were fir-
ing back at you with bigger
guns than you had.
I've stopped breathing for
as much as a dangerously long
two minutes while my son or
daughter weaved through a so-
natina, I have gone out after-
wards anti smoked a complete
cigarette in two drags.
I have called the adjudicator
a slob, a cretin, moron, and.
sometimes, a brilliant, :Ridge of
music,
Maybe the Old Battleaxe is
right. Maybe it was worth
512,000. Anyway, I can whit-
tle three bars of Tschaichev.
sky's something or other.
75 YEARS AGO
April 24, 1895
Butcher Fitzsimons is putting
in a telephone, which will make
57 in town.
"The Palace' Specials this
week: Drawers — good white
cotton trimmed with tucks'
and 1,1/4 inch embroidery, 45
cents, 39 pairs of Corsets —
some B. and C., some P.N., some
Featherbone, some Drab, sonic
White, some Fawn, all clearing at
58 cents per pair; corset covers,:
good cotton trimmed with lace,
19 cents.
J. W. Chidley, Furniture
Dealer, advertises bedroom
suites $14.50,
Messrs. S. J, Andrews and J.
Miller Were in Exeter last
Thursday on business.
55 YEARS AGO
April 22, 191.5
In connection with the
inaugnration of war stamps on
Thursday, April 15, the citizens
are reminded that on all cheques
and bills starnps must be affixed
as well as on letters, hills etc. A
two-cent; stamp must he placed
on each che'q'ue Or bill by the
person drawing up the paper. A;
penalty of $50 that' he incurred
for failure to comply With this
section of the Act.
Mr. Glenn Cook has become-
the local agent for the Prudential
insurance Co,
Mr. Lorne Beeves left on
Friday last for Kincardine
slightly at the cost per dozen.
But when I had birds of my own
and found an egg in the nest,
sometimes still warm and lying
there in the straw like a gem in a
jewelery store window, I
marvelled that I could have ever
taken them for granted.
Here is fruit for the gods (did
you ever eat an egg that was
snatched from under a layer?)
and wrapped in a package of
exquisite beauty. I never knew
whether to eat them or put them
on the mantlepiece.
I purchased my original six
White Leghorns (pronounced
leggorns', if you are one of us
poultrymen) in a plaintive effort
to save money.
The pullets (not "hens", you
fool!) cost three bucks apiece.
Then came the bills for laying
mash, grain, straw and chicken
wire. I subsequently estimated
that if each of the pullets had
laid an egg a day and lived to the
age of 48 I would have been in
the clear. As it was, if my figure
was correct, I was paying about
80 cents per egg.
That, of course, didn't include
the labor. If you've ever seen
what six White Leghorns can do
to a chicken house in 24 hours
(please, not while I'm eating!)
you'll know that the manpower
required is considerable.
In addition to this, there are
certain strange, macabre habits
that are peculiar to the chicken.
They get "broody", for one
thing. As far as t can remember a
"broody" hen is one that gets
tired of laying duds, wearies of
all the dry runs, as it were, and
where he has taken a position.in
the furniture factor-v.
40 YEARS AGO
s April 24, 1930
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Scribbins
a'nd little son have been visiting
Aylmer friends.
MisS Alrneda Crittenden spent
the Easter holiday weekend with
her sister, Miss Annie
Crittenden, in Toronto.
Miss Linnie Nediger, principal
of the Burwash Public School, is
holidaying at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Nediger.
Miss Evelyn Hall returned to
Toronto yesterday to resume her
studies at the university,
25 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1945
Hairs and Ross have opened
their new taxi stand on Isaac
Street,
Frank Sinatra Jackets on sale
this week at R. V, Irwin's
$7.50 to $10.95.
Mrs. Harold Glazier received
word on Monday, that her
husband, L/Cpl. Harold Glazier
received wounds to his right arm
while fighting overseas.
The Serious teXtife supply
situation in Canada will mean a
continuation of the ban on 'the
mantifactUre fOr sale of .long
dresses.
15 YEARS AGO
April 21,1955
Three resignations have been
received by the Clinton Public
School Board to date Mrs. rteg
craves a rooster of its own and a
little family. She then sits
around on the nest all day
reading' True Love' Stories and
probably wishing she were dead.
This means that you get one
egg less, each day and chaos
descends on the poultry market.
Each "broody" hen is a factor in
our cost of living and a threat to
our free enterprise way of life.
The man who sold them to us
said you have to be mean to
"broody" hens. He even
suggested tying them by one leg
to a post as a means of cooling
the old ardor. I simply never had
the heart to do it.
Chickens go all against the
Freudian theory, that much I
know. They do their best work
when frustrated, bored and
discontent. Sometimes, watching
our six White Leghorns, which I
did by the hour, I could fancy
them saying to themselves, "Oh,
life, life! Same old grind every
day! Guess I'll go lay an egg just
to break the monotony."
Still, as I have told Webster,
there was only one real crisis in
the coop. When I went out there
one clay, my eyes shining with
greed, I found one of the pullets
attacking another. It was
plucking viciously at the other's
neck, had ripped the feathers
away and was drawing blood, I
ran up and down, wringing my
hands, but it did no good. Only
later did I learn that a little 'salt
in the mash or the water would
have solved that.
As it was I solved everything
by simply moving back to the
city and the supermarkets.
Ball, Mrs. Harold Wise and Mrs.
Williams, all have signified that
they are resigning the end of
June.
Mrs. Laidlaw, Mrs, Geo. B.
Beattie and David and Beverley
Beattie spent last weekend with
Me. and Mrs, E. E. Paterson at
Marton.
Mr. and Mrs. )garland Betties,
Toronto, spent Easter weekend
with the formers brother, Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Betties,
10 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1960
Mrs. Daisy Plumj.ree, Detroit,
visited with her sister-in-law;
Mrs. Helen Plumtree Maple
Street.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Macaulay
and Jimmie, Sarnia, spent Easter
With Mrs. W. Shaddick and with
Mr, and Mrs. Fred Gibson,
R.R.5,
Nancy Oltle, daughter of Mr.
and MrS. Brock Oldo, won the
proficiency, award. for work in
Grade 8 at Clinton Public school
this year.
Miss Edna Little, Mrs. R. B.
Wolsey, Miss Mary Boyd and
Miss Betty Sturdy, of Nurses
Residence Clinton, returned
home after a four-day tour of
sightseeing New York.
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"THE r A fiEND!-ir dHURCiff 0 o Pastor: REV, H. W. WONFOR,
ti Hi ' • B.Sc., B.Com., B,P,
Organist: MISS LOIS GRA$BY, ,A.R.C.T.
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SUNDAY, APRIL .26th
9:45 a.m, --' Sunday School,
11:00 a.m, — Morning Worship. i
Sermon Topic:
"THE CASE FOR CHASTITY"
Wesley-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches
REV. A. 4. MOWATT, C.D., 13.A., 13.0., D.D, Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTEP.ER, Organist and Choir Director
' SUNDAY, APRIL 26th
WESLEY -WILLIS.
9:45 a.m, — Sunday School.
11:00 a,m. — ANNIVERSARY "RRVICE.
Sermon Topic: "RENEWAL, NOT JUST CHANGE"
Guest' Preacher: REV. DONALD R. CORNISH,
B.A, B,D„ of Clinton and Hamilton
7:10 p,m. — Organ Recital, Mr. Lorne Dotterer
7:30 p,m. — EVENING ANNIVERSARY SERVICE.
"Rev. Don Cornish ON Till SPOT"
Youth Panel and Contemporary Hymns
Festival Award Winning MITCHELL SCHOOL
CHOIR, Directed by Lorne Dotterer
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HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m, — Christian Fellowship Hour.
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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, APRIL 26th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Guest Speaker: REV. REG SCOTT ,, ,, ,,, , ..JIAWILY ./ i/Al 31• /Jt-ill Jtit/ ItJail., A.
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Morning Worship; 11;00 a.m.
Evening Gospel ServiCe: 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study
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SUNDAY, APRIL 26th
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My old friend, Jack Webster,
Canada's most abrasive
commentator, is finding solace
from the city these days on a
90-acre farm where he has
installed exactly 24 White
Leghorns. This explains why I
am getting a series of piteous
letters from him imploring me to
straighten out his problems.
My hook, What Every City
Boy Should Know About the
Chicken, never actually got
written, but I have all of the
material right here in my' tiny
mind as the ' result of '1-ay own
adVenCures in the pointry World,
I bring nothing original to this
subject except a magnificent
humility before the miracle of
the egg. Each morning, on
finding one in the nest, I used-to
hippity-hop to the house crying,
"It's another one! Another egg!"
'If they had laid golden
doorknobs I couldn't have been
more amazed,
Oh, I can hear you people out
on the farms snorting. The
fellow who had the place next to
mine used to snort, too. He f
expected to find eggs when he
went out to his chicken house
and never, in all his life, passed
among his chickens handing out
cigars.
But for me, city-bred, it
always remained a thing of
wonderment and delight. If our
pullets had a shifty, embarrassed
, look about them it was because I
was forever peering anxiously,
over their shoulders when they
were on the nest.
Before that 1 could take eggs
or leave them alone, shuddering