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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-04-23, Page 44 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, April 2?, 1970 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 THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR YOUR AB 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, GODER ICH 524-7661 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 111,4•••••••••••••al1.0.1.5S.\1,\11%55!"... \ S.N.1.55•1•155 s. N555 THE CLINTON NEW,ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A Member Of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assodiation, Ontario Weekly NewSpaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class iiiail registration number 081/ 5L1ISCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; ti,S,A„ $7.56 KEITH 'HOLIL8TONI — editor J, HOWARIY AltKeni* General Manager Published every "Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontariti Population 3 0 475 IIOMP, OF' RADAI 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. vi I ONTARIO . STREET UNITED CHURCH "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. 0 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 — ALL WELCOME -- HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m, — Christian Fellowship Hour. 2:00 p.m. — Sunday School.' 111011011111111111111111111P 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, 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. N z%V .,: C, ‘, el 6.,,,WPIP A Y ' A MAI- PAP '1,•,.aq bus um Sunday School: TOTOO atritibiP i eforf oh" 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, APRIL 26th EASTER IV Service 11:30 a.m. Parish Communion and Sermon , Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY INSURANCE 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