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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-05-14, Page 12Last week, Clinton was fortunate to be the home of an excitingly different method of education. Education '70, masterminded, promoted and organized by a group of 18 students at CHSS could only be classed as a great success. There will be voices arguing that, because a few students took advantage of the relaxed rules to play a few extra games at the pool hall, the whole experiment was a failure and should be dropped forever. It is understood that even some of the organizers of the project were disappointed at the number of students opted out of the experiment. But anyone who took part in the seminars realizes that this was a very successful experiment. Certainly the system wouldn't work as a regular method of education, for the simple reason that all students will not take part. But as an experiment, for a few days a year, an extra holiday for a few students is a small price for the, tremendous, mind,expanding experience of which the other students were a part. These students were learning, not being taught. They learned about things they. would not normally deal with in school, investigating • things like music, communism, the Far east, students' rights and many other 'topics, But there is one disturbing ' thing about education '70. It's sad to realize that the brilliant minds who organized it, and many of the most intelligent of the students who took part will be, off to college soon and then on to jobs in the city and will be lost forever to our area. Notes from news of last week Education 70 4A The Clinton News-Accord, Thursday, M.4y141870 filtorial (Mew a We don't care if you think we're right or wrong We care only that you think. 110111111a11111‘1111g11811111111111111111111111811111111118111111811111111111111111111111111111181111111111111111111111111111111111118111111118111111111111110118181111111111111110110111111114111t The paradox of some of the happenings of last week's news cannot go without mention. Last week people around the world celebrated the 25th anniversary of the ending of the European campaign of the Second World War. Meanwhile, they nervously watched as war spread into yet another country in Southeast Asia as U.S. and Vietnamese troops swarmed across the border into Cambodia. President Nixon calmly said "This is not an invasion" but even coming from the President of the country which has always prided itself as the upholder of democracy the statement sounded strangely like the words spouted by Hitler when his troops occupied the Rhineland and Czechoslovakia. Here in Clinton, our students were holding an exciting and successful experiment in education while south of the border, schools all over the country ,were closed after four students were shot by National Guards troopers called in to put down a peace demonstration. On Saturday, close to 100,000 Americans gathered peacefully in Washington to try to convince their president that the time had come for peace. Meanwhile in Toronto, about 5000, protesting a war they had nothing to do with anyway, went on a rampage and broke more than $7000 worth of windows in department stores and screamed about the brutality of the 200 Toronto policemen, some on horseback, who tried to keep the crowd under control. Is cable TV a con game? ONTARIO STREET UNITE!) CHURCH "THE FRMNDLV CHURCH" Pastor: REV. H. W, WONFOR, B.D. Or8anist: MISS LOIS GRABBY, ,A,R.C.T. SUNDAY, MAY 17th Christian Family Sunday 9:45 a41(1 - — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "WHEN RAP NEWS IS FEARED" Wesley-Willis -- Holmesvilie United Churches REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., 13.D, 0.0., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, MAY 17th WESLEY-WILLIS PENTECOST SUNDAY 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School, 11:00 a.m. *— Christian Fellowship Hour, Sermon Topic: "THE WINDS OF GOD" HOLMESVILLE 9:45 a.m. — Christian Fellowship Hour 10:45 a.m. — Sunday School. ALL WELCOME CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Avenue Pastor: Alvin Beukerna, 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 17th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship. THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 186S 1924 Established 1881 ' Clinton News-Record A Mernber of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper ASSOCiatiOn, Ontario- Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Second class Mail registration number 0817 SUekitIPTiOtsi RATES WI advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7.60 KEITH M. 11011LSTOIN1 Editor .110WAll0 AITKEN General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart Of Huron County Clinton, (MOHO Population 3,475 rug How OP RADAR 1N CANADA An honest face in television-land ',N. S.\ • • • • N. •.\ •• • N. • • • S. • • S. • • • • • • • • \ • • • • • • • • • • • Business and Professional Directory \ • • • • • N. \ • • • \ • \ •••••• • ..\...\..' SUNDAY, MAY 17th WHITSUNDAY 11:30 a.m. — Parish Communion and Church School. • N. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1, • • %. • •• • • • • N. • • • • N. • • • • • • • • • THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY If someone suddenly asks you to make a television, ap- pearance, take my advice. Don't. Not unless you can talk with lucidity, intelligence and wit, and have some profession- al advice. I went on TV recently and it was pitiful. At least, according to my wife. I thought I was pretty good, seeing that we had no script, lousy equipment, no rehearsal, and everybody in- . volved, including the techni- cians, was strictly an amateur. Kim was watching, and she thought I was the best, too, which only goes• to show you. (She confided to my wife, in private, .that I seemed bored. And I was.) But my wife kept up a run- ning fire of comment "you look terribly thin, You were the grayest one there. Why didn't you speak up? There was no humor at all. Why did you slump in your chair like a wet rag? You put your hand over you mouth once, What a dull program." I think she expected a com- bination of Fred Davis, Pierre Berton, Walter Cronkite and Johnny Carson. It wasn't exactly a Moon shot, or an NHL game, though it Was just as interesting as some of the latter we've seen this spring. It WAS a dull pro- gram. It had about as much zip and flair as Ed Sullivan inter- viewing the reeve of Hayfork Centre about the bindweed pithier/1. It didn't help much that I'd just come from a harrowing day, and had had three hours sleep the night before. Or that I didn't have a clue as to what the program was about. Or that nobody else did. I was just another victim of a new game invented by the owners of cable television.. These companies are highly sought after as a means of minting your own money. But the CRTC is leaning on them and suggesting that they produce something besides money for the owners; namely, sonic local 'Canadian content." Our local cable company is in the forefront. It has man- aged to get itself a television nadian content. Ninety per channel, and is turning out Ca. cent of it, so far, is. time sig- nals and the weather report. But it has alSo produced sev- eral shows. • It doesn't really matter what they are, as long as they don't cost anything. So I've decided to cut short what promises to be an enrich- ing life as a television per- former, Fear of over-exposure, Here's the way it went, as warning. A chap I knew oiled and asked if I would appear on a panel discussion about educa- tion. I agreed, A student I knew was also to lie on, plus another moderator. We arrived at the studio on time. It consisted of a room about 10 feet square in the farmhouse beside the cable tower. A table, three chairs Seems every time there's a renewal of the controversy over the Canadian content on our radio and television stations poor old Don Messer gets it in the neck. There's always a critic who'll say, "If you dictate Canadian content you'll get Don Messer until he's coming out of your ears." • Apart from it being nonsense it angers me for another reason. I happen to think, you see, that Don Messer and his Islanders is a. great, enduring ryeriment in modern=da1"eneeitaiinnent. '" At first glance the Islanders may strike the casual viewer as nothing more than a bucolic little musicale. Yet the perceptive critic (namely, me) will discover that for years it has broken new ground in several directions, notably in its use of a cast of real people. By real people I mean people made of human flesh as opposed to those glittering, glamorous, beautiful, superbly-posed, make-believe shadows we normally associate with Televisionland. As a further definition, real people are people who do not show 64 . perfect, smiling teeth when they talk or sing, who are not gifted with a jaunty or indestructible insouciance or who ' are incapable of laughing uproariously and infectiously at things which are not terribly funny. 55 Years Ago Thurs. May 13, 1915 Last Monday morning the Clinton Kiltie Band accompanied Our town soldier boys who were home to say good-by, as they had been picked to go to the front at, once to fill up the gaps, to the G. T. R. station, Those Who were here for a short visit and who go to the front were: Ptes, W. Ede, Cantelbri, 2. J. Huller, N. V, Levy, W. G. Outwit and T„ W. Morgan, Last Saturday saw the finishing touches to the Post Office clock and it will be of great service to'our citizens, Total weight of the' clock is 11000 pounds and is Made by J. Smith and Sons, Midland Clockworks, derby, England, Mr, Harry Twitchell went The cat is a feline (drinks milk from a dish) His lives number nine, (he also likes fish). down to Hensall on Monday and brought up 6 new 1915 Studebaker. It was' purchased through Messrs. H. Bartliff and I. Rattenbury, the local agents. 40 Years Ago Thurs. May 15, 1930 R L. Honourable W. L. MacKenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada has announced that a general election will be held as soon as possible, The Honourable H. B. Bennet, Conservative leader and leader of His Majesty's Royal Opposition will endeavour to lead his party into power in the coming election, An accident, which might have been more serious, occurred shortly after one o'clock last Thursday afternoon, when Percy Brown, son of Mrs. A. S. Inkley was struck by a 'car when on his way to school, Young Brown and a companion Were on a bicycle and were struck by a car. 25 Years Ago May 10, 1945 At 4.30 on Monday afternoon, after the Hon. J. L, Ilsley, Acting Priitie Minister, announced that Tuesday, May .8th Would be official V.E. Day, the Clinton Town Bell rang out to signify that the war In Europe was at an end, that the German AffnieS had- Surrendered Unconditionally to the Allies.....,.The joy of the occasion was heightened by the fact that tWo local lads, Harold Prernliti and "Skip" Winter were liberated from German Prisoner Of War Camps, The town boll which regulates the iWes of the citizens, calling Charlie." They just stand up and sing and get off. Charlie sings easily without closing his eyes or holding his right hand half-clenched in front of him. Marg sings without looking as if she were in agony or ecstacy. They are not the world's best singers, but they remain television's only genuine singers. They alone hold the distinction in the medium of being able to do a eluet on a hymn without'making it gte74sa-eiTfegi Otis. The entire concept and carrying out of Don Messer's Islanders, in fact, is done in this honest, refreshing manner. For example, the program clearly originates in a Halifax television studio. It is not meant to look like a South Pacific atoll or a Fifth Avenue apartment or a• farm yard. It is a TV studio and it looks like a TV studio and no monkey business. There are no fancy costumes. Charlie wears a string tie and Marg wears a corsage (I like to think that Brother Don gives it to her before the show), but the costume budget would come, at the most, to eight or nine dollars. I suppose you could say that the program is not a historic showcase of great talent, but it is wholesonie, fun and genuine—altogether Canadian, in short—and that's good enough for me, them to work and signalling the time to, cease work was the only casualty in the V.E. Day celebrations in Clinton. A piece of the steel frame was broken and flew out of the belfry, fortunately striking no one. 15 Years Ago Thurs. May 12, 1955 Sixteen nurses and help at the Clinton Public Hospital have moved into the new residence on Shipley Street, Miss Lucy R. Woods, news-gatherer in Bayfield for the Clinton News-Record for over 30 years, has been adjudged Champion rural correspondent in a eontest conducted by the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association and sponsored by Ontario Hydro. In recognition Of the honour which her work has brought to the News-Record and to the Village of Bayfield, she was last Week presented With one dozen red roses—the Ago of the publishers of the paper. 10 Years Times., May 19,1960 A disastrous fire in Little England (the Southeast terrier of Clinton) early last Thursday morning destroyed the home, furniShings and clothing of Mrs. Ruth Carter, 59 Walker Street, and left her arid five children Without a place to live, Celebrating 50 years of service to Clinton and area shoppers, ifrWine Ladies Wear IS staging an alltfistergaty MI6 starting to-morrow, May 1 OPTOMETRY J. E. 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Two technicians were there, watching TV. They'd never heard of us. They called the manager, back in town. He'd forgotten about the show. He finally arrived, borrowed a chair for the farmer, and we did the dull show. Cold. It was shown a week later. Now, I'm not knocking the whole idea. This sort of thing would he great for a small town, whore all sorts of inter- esting things happen. And there's lots of talent around. . . But the cable companies had better forget about how many hours of "local" content they can point to on their books, and start spending some mon- ey on trained personnel, good equipment, and organization, or the whole thing will be just another farce, to slide around the rules and save money. Two recent examples of what I'm talking about: On one show, we watched five or six buses draw up to a local school and the kids, one by one, get out. Fascinating, eh? Ten minutes, On another, we watched the residents of an old people's' home for about 10 minutes, sitting in rows, facing the camera, waiting for "the show" to begin. CraSs:, if not cruel. But it shows on the books as Canadian content. If it doesn't improve rapidly, it's lust a con game, and should be • exposed as such. 75 Years Ago Wed. May 15, 1895 Mr. William Cooper now rides a bicycle and can manage "the animal" very easy. The Mason Hotel stables, we are informed, will be rebuilt at once, The thermometer registered 92 in the shade on Friday and reached freezing point on Saturday. Prom an ad for Est. J. Hodgens store Clinton, "Watch the bottom of advertisement for, our • WEEKLY SNAP, THIS WEEK ' it's 1975 yards of Heavy Gingham, the regular 10e, kind, 30 patterns, mostly pinks, blues 'and browns at 5 cents per yard. At the rate they're going now a week will finish them. Messer, himself, who is the leader of the ensemble and chief fiddler, is hardly ever seen close-up, but is a comforting figure in the background. He works industriously at his fiddle, a conscientious-appearing man who, the viewer is apt to reflect, is probably secretary of the local musicians' union. He is not the flower of the musical world. No candelabra light him. We do not see gigantic blow-ups,•of niatqly. '47danchirOlf 1 Brother Don, a real good old fiddler. He is, in short, believable, o' which iS, as they say, a television first. The real stars of the program, However, and those mainly responsible for the strangely three-dimensional effect upon the viewer, are Charlie Chamberlain and Marg Osborne. Charlie is a big stout man and Marg is a big stout woman. Though you may never have seen them before you get the feeling instantly that you know them. You know that Charlie will be pretty good at Irish songs and that, after he's sung them, he'll come out to the truck with you for a nip. You know that Marg is the best dam'd cook in these parts. They're people. Charlie never says to Marg, "That was just terrifice and fabulous, Marg." Marg never says to Charlie, "That was wonderful, BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH Guest Speaker: A. C. WHITCOMBER, Brantford SUNDAY, MAY 17th 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 —11111111111111611M111 ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH Clinton Agenth: ilatnet Keys, tat 1, Seaforth V. Lane, hit 5, geatorth;. Win, Leiner, Jr., LendeSborki; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Retold Squire,'Clinton, George Coyne; Dtiblirq DOnald G. Eaton, Seaforth.