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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-04-30, Page 44 Clinton: News Record.; ThorsdaY 4 1970 Editorial comment WO don't care if you think we're right or wrong We care only thof you think. The-',OseOgaint ,gicts's It's nice to have the summery Weather back this week, but before the week is out, someone in Clinton is liable to be wishing it had stayed cold. With the pavement warm, bare feet were very much the order. of the claY for the younger set early in the week: Anyone who saw all those unshod feet arid has seen the amount of broken glass lying around the town ever since the snow melted, knows that sooner or later the two will have to come in contact and someone is going to be cut very badly. This isn't a knock against the kids not Wearing shoes, We weren't born with shoes so it is natural for people not to want to wear them sometimes. Beside's, not only feet are in danger. Already at least one new tire we've heard of in Clinton has been ruined by running onto jagged glass from someone discarded bottle. Such happenings as these make it easy to support the bill that would ban the' use of non-returnable bottles in Ontario as introduced recently by Murray Gaunt, M.P.P. for Huron-Bruce. It is time that we stop this form of pollution, and one of the most dangerous forms. The banning of these nonreturnable bottles would be a giant step in that direction, • That certainly doesn't excuse the piggy-type of person who thinks so little of his environment and of others who have to live in it that he throws bottles away in any direction he finds most convenient. The sooner people start having a little respect for others, the sooner the whole problem can be solved. These are long range cures though, and they are not going to do any good for those who will be badly hurt or have tires ruined in the next few weeks. In the meantime, wouldn't it be possible for someone, some group of the town public works department or just a group of, volunteers, to clean up the glass that's lying around right now, waiting to do damage? If everyone would even clean up around their own home and business .it would help a lot. Don't let someone be badly hurt because you didn't take the time to pick up a bit of glass and deposit it in a garbage can. • The death of three Komoka-area youths several weeks ago after a high speed car chase by police has caused a great deal of controversy lately. People have expressed the view that the police should not have been chasing the car at such speeds. Some have come out with the usual comments on what the younger generation is coming to. Others have questioned the law which requires the police to identify the driver of a car before an arrest may be made. Some responsibility lies in another area though, where the news of these deaths will probably never penetrate. It lies with car makers who have brainwashed the J•lohl,),-Arnerican• Public into belieiring that powerful cars are sexy, beautiful 'and an absolute necessity in our society. It also lies with legislators who allow these companies to produce cars that will travel up to 140 miles per hour when the highest speed limit in the land is 70 m.p.h. Give a man a car that is built to go twice the speed limit, teach'him through intensive advertising that speed and power are the "in" thing, and how do you expect not to have him try, at least once in a while to see what the machine will do? • It's time the government banned these travelling bombshells from the road. They are dangerous and impractical. When they are travelling all out, they are a wandering accident looking for a place to happen. When they are idling, they are the worst offenders in contributfng.ico air pollut►Qr1. Either way you can't win. Get them off the road and- see how many lives we can save. It'll cost me a fortune THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS,RECORO Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the CanIsliati Weekly Newspaper Association ; Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of eir Oulation (ABC) Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,4/5 11//i; 110A1E OP RA /14k CANADA second class rriail reoustrattorr ilUtrititr — 0811 SUBSCRIPTION RATESt (in advance) Canada, $6.60 pot year; U.S.A., $7,50 KEITH W, AcKiiAtCSNI - Editor J. HOWArIb AITKEN — General Manaoet \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ • • \ • •••••••••• • Business and Professional Directory ••••••••••••••••• %% • •••••••• •••• •••••••••• OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE527-1240 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR YOUR AD 1-- I — • INSURANCE 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. Y. Wise, Res.: 482-7265 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air-Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and AWNINGS and RAILINGS ' JERVIS SALES R. L. Jands — 68 Albert St. Clinton 482-9390 wp1:11ENicKIILLOP MUTUAL. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY FIRE INSURMICt insures;. COmpAky * Town ()wettings * All Class bf Farm Property • Surnmer Cottages Churches, Schools, Halls Extended coverage smoke, water damage, rifling objects etc.) is also available: Agents: James Keys, CR 1, Seaforth; V, J. Lane, RR 6, Seatorth; Wm. Leiner, Jr., Londesbor0; Selwyn Sake'', Srussels; Flatoid &Ore, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Seaforth. SEAFORTH • ' :g' Too much power a killer Nothing like a good quarrel for a happy marraige Waiting in the grass Wesley-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister MR. LORNE POTTERER, Organist,and Choir Director SUNDAY, MAY 3rd WESLEY-WILLIS 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11;00 a,m. — Christian Fellowship Hour. HOLMESVILLE 9:45 a.m. — Christian Fellowship Hour. 10:45 a.m. — Sunday School. CONFIRMATION CLASSES will meet in Church at Church time Topic: "BLIND CHANCE OF GOD?" COMMUNITY COUPLES CLUB-8 p.m. at Ontario St. Church 11111111=1•111111111111/' 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, MAY 3rd 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship. ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH “i"itg'f ri Mots?. CHuRov Pastor: REV, H. Of, WONFO(2; . B.Petn., Organist: M15LOIS GRASSY, SUNDAY, MAY 3rd 9:46 e.m. — Sunday School, 11;00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "ANCHORS OF THE SOUL" 8:00 P-M- Community Couples Club. 'SERVICES ON"pAyLIpIiT TIME No major, or even minor theme this week. Just a few observations. Perhaps the most important to me is that my daughter has turned over a new leaf. Or perhaps it's just an old.. stone. She is studying hard for two music exams, and actually has a job, part-time. She has learned, in a re- markably brief period, .that "bread," as the kids call it, is fairly important when it comes to eating and keeping a roof over one's head. She has learned that jobs are mighty scarce when your only experi- ence is playing the organ in a church one summer. She has learned that a Grade 13 certif- icate and one term at college has as much use as a third leg. She came home on the weelt end, with her danged cat and kitten, and clamoured for Meat, Real meat. She's sick to death of hamburger and bolo- gna, and drooled over a steak in her honor.' But she's a criminal. She went back to the city with her kitten stuffed under her jack- et. I believe it's against the law to transport animals on buses. However, she's d clever criminal, and may go a long way. She gave the kid a quar- tet of a sleeping tablet in milk so he wouldn't yowl for his mama arid alert the bus drivet. We've been' eft with the moth, or cat, an unexpected treat, like a hair in yout meat pie. We agree that Kim will be fired on the first day of her new job. Her function is to Stock shelves 'in 'one of those cut-rate stores. And since she was three, her greatest attri- bute has been knocking over her milk, dropping full bottles of any liquid, and- smashing cups and saucers while doing the dishes. It's not lack of co- ordination. She can play a Bee- thooveu sonara. Oh, well. We'll see. 'That's one thing off my chest. The 'next one is not so pleasant. I share with most Ca- nadian citizens a sickening dis- gust at the attitude of most Members of Parliament -toward their own financial security. At present, with their $18,000 a year, sik of it tax-free, and various other "perks": Post- age, travel, secretarial help, etc., they're' grossing about $20,000, as MP Barry Mather recently pointed out. This is not wealth, Far from it, these , days, And I think they should give themselves a reasonable increase, consistent with the cost of living and tax in- creases. But the proposed pen- sion plan stinks to high heav- en, Oppose it, with every means within your power. The Old pension scheme was rotten, and many men who had given most of their lives to nubile service wound up in Poverty. But the new one is rotten in the opposite sense. Don't let them pass'it. Another item which has me ptetty disturbed is that The Telegram News Syndicate, which circulates this column, wants an up-to-date pietUre of. yours truly. Who first came up with this infamous idea I don't know, but Vile and vicious are the words that first come to mind, It'll cost me a fortune. I'll have to buy a wig. I'll have to have my remaining mo- lars painted white, have to pay a. photographer to touch the whole, thing up. And I'll still look like a 'veteran of the Boer War. My wife disagrees. She says my fine bone struc- ture will always come through. Yeah. Just like a death's head. However, I ain't ascared. The grog blossoms won't show, in black and white. I can have my eyes dehagged, which is expensive, but works, My Ro- man nose is intact, and per- haps a side shot, with the jowls taped up behind my ears, might convince some people of something or other. Maybe they could take the shot from the waist up, and show the needle-holes whore I had my cortisone shots. I would certainly be better than one from the waist down. I have bowlegs, and gout in my right big toe. Anyway, you'll be seeing it, Take ,a good snort, or a tranquilizer, befOre it tontes out. I'll be right there with you. But what the heck, we all have troubles, If nobody's were greater than mine, it Wouldn't be a bad world. Cope with your own troubles, and don't let them drag you dowii. Look at the world troubles, and if you, personally, can do something about them, do it, Otherwise don't let them drag .you down, It's a long road that has no turning; you'll be a long time dead; and spring is here, Rejoice! My wife and I, married, lo, these 30 years, spent most of last night answering a questionnaire compiled by something called The Psychological Services Institute. I wish we hadn't. At the end of it all we added. up our scores, as instructed, and now we know the truth. We are completely, totally Incompatible. The experience has set me, to wondering about the whole school of matrimonial `experts" 'and - "aufhoritiet" who • make a living telling other people what's wrong with their marriages and listing "rules" for wedded bliss. Follow the simple directions, they infer, and you, too, may live as calm and content as a couple of sweet potatoes. Their theory seems to be that once the knot is looped men and women should "adapt" themselves to each other so that their personalities may be fused, as it were, into one. The Perfect Husband test, which flunked with flying colors, pictures the man of the house as an insufferable diplomat forever reminding the little woman of his abiding affection for her and dedicating himself to preserving "harmony" in the nest. The Perfect Wife, on the other hand, is advised to treat her husband as she might a backward. child and to dull the -seVo.KVO,Aie • "ligirm4'01:i*.: 75 YEARS AGO THE HURON NEWS-RECORD MAY 1, 1895 Mr. Peter Cantelon, Jr. has purchased the Townsend lots on the corner of Princess and Shipley streets for $225. Mr. Cantelon intends building a brick residence during the present season. Contractor Cooper expects to commence the mason work for the House of Refuge to-day. Mr. John 1VIedd Of Clinton is on the road in the interest of Mr. D. D. Wilson. Tom MeQuaig, of the Express Office, hat accepted a position at the Doherty factory and Inkerman Cantelon is now in charge of the Express business. 55 YEARS AGO APRIL 29,.1915 Mr. A. T. Cooper will preach Missionary sermons at Walton Methodist Church on Sunday. Mr. It. J. Irwin, who IS attending Victoria University, is spending some holidays at his home here. Mr. Arthur Trick of the 16 Con. Goderich Township, hat given a contract for the erection of a Preston steel barn, 36 by 60, to Mr. Thos. Ilayvkins of town who is agent for this firm. This will be ono of the first steel barns in this neighborhood, Agent Bert Langford is starting right into business selling Ford cars. This week he disposed of two Cats, one going to Mr. Will Jenkins, Holmesville and one to Prank Perdue, of 40 YEARS AGO MAY 1, 1930 The annual play put on by the Pastime Club which this year was "The Colonel's Maid" was staged in the towrf hail on Thursday evening last before a good house. The parts were very well taken in each case by Mr. Percy Livermore, Mr. Henry Sloman, Miss Elva Cook, Miss Madelon Streets, Miss Olive Watkins, Mr. J. D. Buckrell, Mr. Charles Wilson, Mr. J, Twyford and Mr. G. N. Davies. Between acts Messrs. Joe Reid, Jack Perdue, Kenneth DOugan, and George Elliott contributed several much appreciated mOuthorgan and 'kettle drum selections, accompanied by Mrs. W. E. Perdue. The Supertest people have commenced work on the new building they are erecting on the site of the old Clinton Garage, which has been wrecked. 25 YEARS' AGO APRIL 26, 1945 Mr. and Mrs. Norman Miller and family, moved to their new home in Goderich On Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. D. Ward visited, with Mr. and Mrs. G, Swan, Brueefield, over the Weekend. Master Bruce Marshall is out of hospital and around again ; ,after having injuries to his tight hand. Miss 1.6is Xearns spent the Weekend With her parents, Mk. and Mrs, it W. Kearns. Mrs. Wr IL Sault and two Children Of Chatham are But they've a wonderful time together and love each other very much. Seems to me that when you've survived the hard part — the first 20 years — you find that the real secret for a successful marriage is largely a matter of honesty. It calls for a continuous process of adjustment, sure, but without pretence. , The Perfect Husband, as defined in this test, is, a charlatan, a man who is trying to play a role that Illtiireti think could survive the day-in-day-out business of matrimony. It is not a job for actors, but for real-life people. Oh, I know that women appreciate those gestures that every husband ought to make — "the small, important ways of showing affection" — but they appreciate far more the gesture that comes spontaneously out of love and trust. I know that it I were to follow the Institute's advice seriously it could easily lead to disaster. I nourish the hope that my wife doesn't really want a perfect, wax-dummy husband at all, but just little old imperfect me with all the faults that she's so 'admirably learned to live with. Take it from the old hand, my dears, that's the compatability that counts. spending a few weeks with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Carter. 15 YEARS AGO APRIL 28, 1955 Representatives of the Clinton Fire Department and local town organizations attended a demonstration in the town ball Friday, on the use of the town's new resuscitator. The machine will be kept in the fire hall to be available at all 'times. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hartley were in. London on the weekend and enjoyed a tour of CFPL. TV, conducted by Olen Robitaille, chief TV engineer. Mr. and Mrs. William Wells and Douglas, were with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Youngblut, Londesboro, on Sunday. 10 YEARS AGO APRIL 28, 1960 An order-in-council was passed last Week authorizing the appointment of John B. Livermore as justice of the peace in and for the County of Huron. Named "bek School citizen", Donald Lobb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Lobb, RR 2, Clinton, continued his avv ar d- vvihning Career at Ridgetown Agricultnral School. He graduated with honor standing. Elwin Medi! travelled 'Ij'y TCA on Easter Sunday from London airport to Ottawa* to act as best man St the wedding Of AMte Doreen MatNay to Northan Janes 'McLeod, sharp edges of her personality lest they bruise Dad's. ("Do you help him relax from the tensions of modern living?" scolds the Psychological Services Institute. "Do you save interesting, amusing and pleasant items to tell him when he comes home from the office?") This may sound reasonable enough on paper. In real life it might very well be fatal to most :marriages. A husband and wife living by careful rules, going at iii parriage tippy-toc, , could easily end up taking meat cleavers to each other. I know, as it happens, a couple whose marriage, is built on that sort of impeccable foundation. They're wonderfully considerate of each other in a polite, distant sort of way. They never forget anniversaries. The husband pays her those small, calculated compliments supposed to be so dear to a woman's heart. They never quarrel, never argue. Trouble is it's not an attractive thing to see. It's a partnership where the books are audited and carefully balanced every day and it wouldn't surprise me if they hated each other just a little. . The happiest couple I know fight in public like a pair of wild-cats. Their personalities flare like Roman candles. They could serve as living models for a thesis on How Not To Be Wed. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH . Guest Speaker: REV. GORDON CHAMBERS SUNDAY, MAY 3rd Sunday School: 10;00 a.m. ,.„Mly,ning,Mbrship: 11•:00 a.m. aviiddio Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study 11:30 a.m. — Matins Church School and Sermon ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH Clinton SUNDAY, MAY 3rd EASTER 5