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THE HURON NEWS.RECORO
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Clinton News-Record
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the heart of Huron County,
Clinton, Ontario
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Man. and his forest environment
Increased interest is being shown in
Man's environment. Concern about
pollution of air, land and water is
particularly great at present. Of, no less
importance is the role the forest plays. It
produces oxygen for the atmosphere, uses
carbon dioxide, takes part in the
hydrologic cycle, the stabilization of soil
and production of organic matter, and
feeds and shelters myriad forms of
wildlife which play their part in making
the planet Earth habitable for man.
pringle week nf May 3:9 .members
of *174C(Mar 61 Wor'estty57/Ve.th-cjalo sti
be encouraging us to take a greater
interest in the forest resource, It is the
supplier of essentials for life as outlined
above and provides fibre, fun and funds to
permit our high standard of living.
The Association urges us to do more
for our forests which do so much for us.
By learning more about our forests and
their use, by encouraging their care and
wise use, and by supporting effective
legislation aimed at maintaining and
improving them while using them wisely,
we can all play a part. All natural
resources are important but none plays a
more dominant part in our affairs than
our -fOrests.Their care is in the best
ysinTelt4.-Oratt) nia'r io Citizens.
We suppoi4 National Forest Week, May
3 - 9.
4A The Clinton., News,Record., Thursday, May 7, 1970
Editorial ;mongol
Deportment reconsiders use of -CFO molt
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The recent announcement that the
Department of Transport will reconsider
earlier decision not to use the Canadian
Forces Base here at Clinton as a training
facilitY for airport controllers and other
Peltonnel is good news.
It would seem logical that, the
department should decide to use the
Clinton base. It already has, many of the
facilities needed for such training, plus
readily available housing. The last time•
the base was turned down because the
department had plans to build a new 5.5
million dollar school at Rockcliffe in
Ottawa. Since then, with the cutback in
Spending the department has been urged
to take a second look at the Clinton
facility by the treasury department. .
If the transport department decides to
go ahead with the Rockcliffe building •
rather than use the Clinton facility it
would certainly seem to be against
everything the present belt-tightening
policy stands for.
It's great to see the government trying
to save money but why is it they cut back
in the poor areas of the country all the
time and centralize government business
in the cities. When the defence
department closed bases it was in areas
that really depended on them for
livelihood such as Clinton and
Summerside in Prince Edward Island
Bases like Downsview in the heart of
Toronto stayed open, although people
near them probably would have cheered if
they had, been closed. The people in the.
Downwiew area have been trying to get
rid of their base for years.
When the government began its fight on
inflation, the first to feel the pinch were
those who could least afford it, the
"havenot" provinces of the Maritimes and
Quebec. When things get bad here in
Ontario you Can bet that we in Western
Ontario will be hurt the worst.
Centralized government is good, but
centralizing all government institutions is
not. We need to fight the present trend .
that sees, everything moving out of the
small towns and cities and into the larger
cities. If things keep going, everything in
the province is going to be located in
'Toronto, with the exception of federal
government institutions which will be in
Ottawa.
One way to reverse the trend is by
moving government departments out of
the cities. One suggestion has been, made
that the capital of Ontario be moved
into Northern Ontario It would be an
excel lent start.
But for ourselves, we would be happy
at present if the transport department
would make what seems to be a logical
decision, and locate their training facilities
here.
ONTARIO STREET UNITE[? CHURCH
Pastor: REV. H. W. WPNFOR,
OrganlicsIt:MEB'IFS.:71:01:;;;HAS:DBRY7.:11.P.T.
SUNDAY, MAY lQfh
Christian Family Sunday'
9;45 a.m. — Sunday Scheol.
1 1:00a" — _Morning Worship.
Sermon Topic:
44111E FAMILY AND THE WORLD"
Sacrament of .Infant Baptism
Wesley-Willis -- Hplmesyille United Churches
REV. A, J. MOWATT, .P.PA, Minister
MR. LORNE ocry'rutF, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, MAY 10th
vvESLEY-WILLIS
• 9:45 a.m. Sunday School,
11;00 a.m. — "Christian Family Sunday" Service.
Junior and
. Senior Choirs
HOI_ME$V1LLE
3;45 a,m. — "Christian Family Sunday" Service
10:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
ALL WELCOME
PREVENT FOREST FIRES
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor: Alvin Beukerna, 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
A dream, the Irish sweep, and a kitchen SUNDAY, MAY lath
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Christian Family Sunday.
Sacrament of Baptism will be administered
Tuesday, May 12 — Madeleine Lane Auxiliary at
Mrs. Gordon shortreed's; eayfieid.
Meet at church with cars at 7:45.
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
Guest Speaker: REV. GORDON CHAMBERS
SUNDAY, MAY 10th
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
SUNDAY, MAY 10th
SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION DAY
11:30 a.m. — Matins Church School and Sermon
Business and Professional
Directory
Life in the. son
Went for a chest X-ray to-
day and had quite a ,reminisce
with the doctor who examined
me. It turned out that he was
the second-in-command at a
Sanatorium where I spent one
of the most dreary years of my
life,
. He's retired now and does
this work as a part-time thing.
He told me I wouldn't believe
what has happened to the San.
When I was there, it held
about 1,500 patients. It now
has 300. Average length of
stay then was 18 months. To.
day it is three months.
T.B. wasn't a comparatively
simple thing when I was there.
Three people died in three
months in one ward I was in,
because their lungs were so
rotten they couldn't breathe,
Two of them were in their
2()s.
The tensions, frustrations
and monotony of life in a sana-
toriure have been described of-
ten enough. It was like being
in jail, except you couldn't
walk around. And always,
hovering in the air, like a cou-
ple of vultures, were two
things: Surgery and your "cul-
ture".
Surgery meant hacking out
most of your ribs on one side,
to collapse a lung that was too
far gone, or removal of the
Lung.
If your "culture", sputum
test, broke down within 12
Weeks, you had atitithet three
or six months added to your
sentence.
I WAS lucky. AU I had was a
shadOW on my lung. I felt fine.
I never had a "positive" result
from tests, and I couldn't even
mister enough sputum for a
culture, But it still wasn't
Much fun.
Perhaps I acclimatized bet-
ter than most. I'd had a year in
prison camp, not too long be-
fore good training for life
in the San. I had learned that
time does pass, however snail-
like, in such circumstances.
But I was dreadfully lonely
at first, and pretty resentful
toward the gods. I had been
married six weeks when the
shadow on the lung was discov-
ered. About a week later,
something else was discovered.
My wife was pregnant. We
were about 200 miles apart',
with no money for train trips
to visit. This was the worst
period.
1-low times change. Nowa-
days my wife thinks nothing of
spending $10 on a long-dis-
tance call to one of the kids,
for .no particular reason. in
those days, I was on full. pen-
sion. I think it was $55 a
month, and the governninnt
kept back $15 of it to help pay
for . my keep.
So it was letters, one a clay.
There's still a bushel basket of
them in the attic, full of pur-
ple prose; what we'd call the
baby, and stuff. I feel like an
old fool when I read them now,
and my wife Weeps and won.
ders why I don't write Netts
and gooey stuff to her nowa-
days.
But I shook down into life at
the San, and as always in retere
spect, remember mostly the
good things, and the fttney
things,
I began a writing course
and won a prize. I wrote
scripts for the San radio sta-
tion. I played chess for hours a
day with the guy in the next
bed and became a tolerable,
though erratic, player.
Most of us were young veter-
ans, and We had a certain es-
prit de corps, which meant
heating the establishment. For
example, the food was nourish-
ing, but lousy, like all institu-
tion food.„One chap had a wife
who smuggled in bacon and
eggs and onions. Every night,
about an hour after the nurses
had snuggled us down, and
while the night nurse smoked
and drank coffee, the action
would begin.
Out would come the illicit
hot plate, and -the forbidden
frying .pan, The spryest, usual-
ly I, would whack up a great,
reeking feed. And with one
lamp, carefully screened, we'd
play poker until 4 a.m. No
wonder they had trouble rous-
ing us at five for, our morning
wash,
it was a special occasion,
maybe a birthday, we'd chip in
and buy a mickey. Oh, yes, We
had a bootlegger — who was
also a bookmaker — among
the patients. lie was tubercular
and also diabetic, dying on his
feet, but he staggered around
the wards each day, taking
bets and orders.
You'd be surprised how far a
mickey goes 'anfeng Toile T.B.
cases, wheel they haven't had
anything stronger than 'Milk
for a month. Like most of life,
it wasn't all bad.
When I build my dream
house, the minute the gold
comes from the next Irish
Sweep, I'm going to have a
kitchen ' exactly like the
Simpsons.
This I'll have to do over my
wife's dead body, a bridge I can
cross later. Come to think of it,
we might even have two kitchens
— his and hers. You're going to
dream? Dream big.
My wife's idea of a kitchen
may be found in-,any of the, back-,
pages of the glossy magazines, a ,
sterile, enamel cubicle sort of
like a dentist's office, in which
everything is within convenient
reach of a 90-degree pivot.
Like most women, she craves
a purely functional headquarters
for the preparation of meals, a
place where everything makes a
barely perceptible hum, works
automatically with a feather
touch of a switch and never
gathers a mote of dust.
I'm not knocking her
concept. Labor-saving devices
appeal to me, too. I often
dream, for example, of a
typewriter that could be,pre-set
to peck out a column rather
than put me through this
old-fashioned weekly
self-destruction. So I can hardly
blame her for wanting the
labor-saving devices of the day.
It's just that I feel so right
when I go up to the Simpson's
place and pull up a rocking chair
to that old Monarch stove.
The Simpson's kitchen
probably hasn't changed a whit
in 40-odd years except for the
of
on the walls. It's one
of the oldest farm houses out
there just beyond the fringe of
Creeping Suburbia, built in a day
when families were big and their
needs were simple, an age I never
knew, but for which I feel an
ache of nostalgia. As the Irish
say, it makes me want to go
,back to where I've never, been
The kitchen has a charm and
an atmosphere you'll never find
in the ultra-modern; all-purpose
!`units" o. ,oday. Something had
to go when they streamlined
that particular room and what
went was the personality. You
could find just as much homely
cheer in a chemistry lab, in most
cases. When Westinghouse and
General Electric moved in the
friendliness moved out.
I like to walk up to the
Simpsons on a nasty, blustering
day and step into the warm
embrace of that kitchen. The
first thing you do is to walk
directly to the stove. It is
gigantic and black with all sorts
of elaborate filigree work on it.
You put your hands out to it,
palms facing the heat.
Now. Can you imagine
making a gesture like that to the
automatic, thermostatic,
high-fidelity, super-hetrodyne,
electric range of today? Do you
realize that millions of children
of the coming generation will
never know what it means to
moving his house from
Rattenbury Street to Huron
Street.
Mr. Charlie Lockwood
purchased the barber shop of
Mr. Melvin Crich and has taken
possession.
40 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1930
Gunn, Langlois and Co. Ltd.,
local produce Merchants, have
decided to make a few changes
in their business here. The plant
is to be remodelled and the very
latest in poultry equipment is to
be installed. 'This includes a
modern cold storage which will
have cooling and freezing
opacity.
Mr. J. E. Baechier of the
Coderich Manufacturing Co, has
purchased the lumber yard and
planing mills of the Thomas
McKenzie Estate,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jowett
and Miss Edna Jowett of Port
Huron were guests of Mr. and
Mrs, W, 11. Jowett, Bay field, on
the weekend.
25 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1945
Ni l'. and Mrs. 'Nog,
Lippington have received a box
containing One pair of wooden
shoes And Othet trinkets from
their son L/C01, R. V.
teppiegtoe„ Who is now in
Germ any
worship a cast-iron monster?
Poor little gaffers.
The Monarch, true to its
name, dominates the room.
There's usually bread in its oven
and an ancient Airdale in the
space behind it and a line of
clothes hanging above it to dry.
The Simpsons kitchen has that
lived-in look and I wallow in it.
There's a living room in the
farmhouse, more properly called
"the parlor", but I've only been
in it since, on Christmas Day.
Even the' Simpsons, I suspect,
felt strange in there as if they,
too, were guests.
Normally the kitchen is the
all-purpose room. Long before
the architects thought of
conceiving a home in terms of
"living" and "playing" areas the
farmhouse. had the problem
licked. There are seven in the
Simpson family. The kitchen
graciously accommodates them
all.
In this I am supported by my
oldest daughter who is
occasionally invited to dinner at
the farm.
"Gee," she said the other
night, "it's fun to eat all
together in the kitchen. Mrs.
Simpson brings all the food in
bowls and platters and you all
pass it up and down the table.
Why can't we do that?"
"Seine day," I said, "when
we have our dream house."
"Over my dead body," said
my wife which, I see, is where
you came in.
Miss Ruth Middleton, student
at Stratford Normal School, has
been chosen Queen of the May.
John Robert Cook of Clinton
will be the valedictorian 'of the
year. •
The Clinton Collegiate Cadet
Corp held their annual inspection
on the campus on Monday.
Voted smartest boy and girl
cadets were, Lt, Margaret
Coiquhoun and Cadet Bill
Hanley.
• Mr, J, E. Hovey has sold his .
drug store to Mr, Frank
Pennebaker.
15 YEARS AGO
May 5, 1955
Mr, and Mrs. Gordon W.
Cunningham have returned to
their Clinton home after an
absence of more than three
years. Since Mr. Cunningham's
retirement As CNR Express agent
they have wintered in St.
Petersburg, Fla.; Redlands and
Long Beath, Cal.; Vietoria, B.C.;
and Owen Sound, Ont.
Ten,yeat-Old Ann Trott,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Trott, Queen St., Clinton,
narrowly missed injury on
Tuesday afternoon when her
bicycle was in collision with a
Motorcar near the main
intersection.
Deputy Reeve and Mks,
Burton Stanley are in Daytona,
Ohio, attending the wedding of.
their daughter Phyllis Ann ter
Richard A. Dohine,
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OPTOMETRY
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
DIESEL
Pumps and Injectors Repaired
For Ail Popular Makes
Huron Puel Infection
Equipment
Bayfield Rd., Clinton-482-7971
10 YEARS AGO
May 5, 1960
Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Whitehead, formerly of
Teeswater, have purchased the
Parker House Motel Ltd. south
of Clinton on 1-Iwy. 4.
The wraps came oft the
Murray Block yeSterday and
underneath were a qUartet of
lovely store and office units.
Allan Galbraith tells Us it will be
a little while before they'll be
ready to Open.
Miss Marie Lee haS earned her
Registered Nursing degree at the
school of nursing, Ontario
Hospital, Kingston. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Lee, Clinton,
C. Magee, Clinton,
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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. 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
received the Montreal Trophy,
top award for topical postage
stamp collections, at the 32nd
annual exhibition Of the Royal
Philatelic Society of Canada.
For: the best in farm
supplies, grain bins, gates,
Water troughs and steel
roofing.
THAMES ROAD EAST
EXETER, ONT.
TEL, 235-2901
75 YEARS AGO
THE HURON NEWS-RECORD
May 8, 1895
A Big Blaze — ''he Mason
FIotel stables and adjacent
buildings all went up in smoke.
The cause a mystery. A 'Hot'
Fire. The lost or badly gutted
stores were Mason Hotel stables;
Felix Hanlon Shoe Shop. The
late John Steep tailor and
clothes cleaner shop operated by
James Howson; John Johnson's
two store houses; Woo Sing's
laundry and photo gallery
owned by J. W. Cook; Lack
• Kennedy's ice house; Canteton
Bros, two store houses, where
damage was light. An inquest
WAS held.
Postmaster Porter has
removed his faintly to the
pOSt4iffiee building, Mrs, Vair
and family having removed to
itatteebory Street as provionSly
intimated.
55 YEARS. AGO
'ME CLANTON NEW ERA
May 6,1015
Masters Percy and tern()
Gibbiligii spent it few days with
thoir coaain, Norman Wright,
Pie, Fred Ford, London, Was
home for a tow days. •
Mr. Barry Twitched went
down to Denson on Monday and
brought tip a new 191.5
Studebaker, It WM ptlithaSed
through iViessrs, IL NMI ft and IL
Rattenbury, the local agentS,
Mr, John MulliOliand is
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