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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-05-21, Page 4Thank you Holland It's easy to forget something good that someone has done for you. That's why the celebrations held all over Canada recently when Dutch-Canadians said thanks for their liberation from German occupation by. Canadian troops in 1945 is so remarkable. • It's too bad that the legion hall wasn't large enough to hold everyone in Clinton when "Operation Thank-you Canada" held its dinner for service .veterans and • civic officials of the Clinton area. It'S too . bad, not because the food was so good, (beiides the bill for feeding everyone in Clinton with a meal like that would be - staggering) but 'because of the emotions, freely expressed at that meeting. Having attended many meetings, one expects the same perfunctory applause and lipservice thank-yous. But at that. dinner,• all speeches, all bompliments, all thank-yous, seemed to be coming from deep in the hearts of those who expressed them. The true-7feqing of , brotherhood .- ‘.seemed to flow 'frOnl 'OersOn:id`' person' among the 200 or more gathered there. Several of the guests at the meeting expressed the sentiment that Dutch-Canadians should no longer be called. by that name but just as Canadians. They were right of course, but here's one hope that, as they continue to contribute to their new country, they will not forget the traditions of their old country. Afterall, it was those ingrained traditions of hard work and brotherhood, that helped them do so well here and so improved our own area. They have proved they can be good : citizens of Canada and still be proud of /their past. They sang 0 . Canada at the gathering just as loudly and with just as much feeling as the Canadian natives did, ' • and yet when someone suggested they sing the anthem of their homeland they sang it too with feeling and moved the • guests present to applaud. That night was one which anyone present will not forget -for some time, and . those of Cis who were guests Can"8nly `says' Thank-you Holland. • • • • • • • • • • 1, • %. • • • • • • \ • • \ • N. • • • • • • • • • \ INSURANCE OPTOMETRY •••••••••••••••• • N. 'V • • V. • • • ••••••••••••••••••• • Business and Professional Directory THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgamated 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoeiatioft, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second Class malt registration number 017 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (hr advance) Canada, $6:00 per year; U.S.A,„ $7.50 KEITH W. ROUOTON Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN - General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County t•P Mott, Ontario 'Population 3,475 Till? HOME OP RADAR IN CANADA DIESEL Pumps and Injectors Repaired For All Popular Makes Huron Fuel Injection Equipment Hayfield Rd., Clinton-4827971 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air-Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and AWNINGS and RAILINGS JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis - 68 Albert St. Clinton - 482-9390 •••••••••••••• ••••••••.-1V1,1 1'•"•••••••••••••••••••••••• Well, how do you like having to go without better streets and streetlighting for another year while your taxes climbed yet another 7.5 Mills? Being a town councillor has never been a bed of roses, but it must be more frustrating than ever this year. Town Council used up all of last year's surplus, shaved and carved money off their own budget for 1970, and still had to boost your taxes. Why? Once again the municipalities have had to fork over a big, bundle in school taxes. This year in Clinton it was another nine mills. ' Members of council were noticeably unhappy when they brought down their budget for 1970. Despite wanting to improve local facilities, they had done their best to cut money from their own budget and still had to go to the people with a 7.5 mill increase. And just to rub a little salt into their sores, they had read in the newspaper only a day or so earlier, that the already top-heavy administration of the county school system had gained a little more weight with the addition of a high-priced assistant to the director of education. They also realized, thit although they had been told how much money they had to fork over, they hadn't been told how the county board was planning to spend it and wouldn't for more than a month yet. Anyone want to be a councillor? ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH -T4E-FR onus, CHURCH" Pa4tor; REV. H. W, WONFOR, B.Sc., %Cam., B.O. Organist: MISS LOIS GRASSY, ,A,R.C.T., SUNDAY, MAY 24th .9:45 cm. Sunday Schopl, 11:00 — Morning Worship., Sermon Topic: ° "BETTER A MILLSTONE" Opportunity for Discussion Following 4 Clinton News-I*9N, Thursday, ION 1970. comaiont We don't care if ,..you thiakwe re right or. wrong We tare only that you think. HOW did you like your taxes Wesley-Willis Holrnesville United Churches REV, A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTEP,ER. Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, MAY 24th WESLEY-WILLIS 9:45_ a.m, - Sunday School. 11:00 a.rri - Christian Fellowship Hour. Sermon Topic: "BUILDING ROADS TO NOWHERE" HOLMESVitcg- 9:45 a.m. - Parade Service of the Clinton Masonic • Lodge (A,F. & A.M. No. 84). Sermon Topic: "THE POWER OF A GREAT PURPOSE" 10:45 a.rn. - Sunda)" School. ALL WELCOME • A night with a beautiful blonde The Maitland at Summerhill BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, MAY 24th 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 ,ANG00,101"tHUnklml,?.?"'L) „ Clinton SUNDAY, MAY 24th TRINITY SUNDAY 11:30 a.m. - Parish Communion, Church School and Sermon. ' SUNDAY, MAY 24th 9:45 a.m. - Sunday School. 10:45 a.m, - Morning Worship. A life of troubles This may be cheating, but somebody else is going to write my column this week. I received a 12-page letter from a Prairie wife that made me sick of my own petty whining. With a minimum of editing, and changing only names, here it is. "Dear Smiley: We've read your column for a long time. I enjoy it. When you told of your daughter's illness, I wasn't able to read the column because my husband was seri,. ously ill with cancer of the lung. I was with him most of the time. I read the one later where you 'thanked everyone for their prayers . . "Anyway, I wanted to tell you how so many people prayed for my poor husband, He died March 9th. I really believe all the prayers helped him accept it. He got pneumo- nia suddenly, had the last rites, went into a coma and died, He was quite thin, but could have lived down to skin and bones, because he had a strong heart, and was only 51. "He was taken prisoner at Dieppe. The first year they had their hands tied. When the Russians began getting closer, they (the Germans) moved them oh boxcars and on foot, with very little food. He once said he thought he should al- ways carry a piece of bread in his pocket the rest of his days So he'd never` have to go hun- gry again, (Ed. note: Me too.) "He came home in '45 and quite a few of his churns died of lung conditions soon after the war. Anyway, his nerves were really bad, and with trying to farm and father four boys he was an alcoholic for six years. Then he went to an A. A. centre. It was terribly hard on him, but he quit for six years. Then he ended up with cancer. "He used to tell of all the close 'calls he had had as a prisoner. Then, one day, he was riding a tractor, standing up and looking for a new calf. The big wheel hit a hole and then another, and threw him over the front and the tractor ran over him. "`It broke his right hip 'and his pelvic bones. He turned over on his stomach and crawled a quarter-mile to the road. He had our faithful dog with 6 him and- sent him - for help. The dog came back and licked his face, and Jack told him again to get help, He went south to the edge of some neighbor's , trees and .barked and barked. The farmer was just going with his tractor to work again after Supper. He told his wife, who thought it was a coyote, that it was Jack's dog and something must be wrong. "When 'he saw Jack lying there on the road, he thought it was a clump of old rags. Anyway, ;Leek told us how he Prayed and thanked God for the neighbor paying attention to the dog, "In the hospital, the doctor operated on his bladder, The pelvic bones had busted through, and the blood was taking urine all through his system. "Our neighbors had a bee for him and put the crop in. He got home on crutches. That fall, our crop got hailed out. So he sure had his hard knocks in life as well as close calls. "He used to talk about his accidents so he _could say, 'I'll likely die a mean death.' "So when he found out it was cancer in his lung, he seemed to expect it. He had his operation, and lost his voice all summer and got really thin. Then he gained weight up to 147 pounds and got his voice back, with all our prayers. (But, to summarize, large lump on neck going to brain; loss of control of right hand, burning bedclothes when ciga- rette dropped; mixed up men- tally.) "So I think the prayers helped him to come to his death sooner than he could have. He felt very bad about being a prisoner and being through so much and people didn't appreciate what they went through to save our coun• try for us. He was very sad about Vietnam. "He would just cry when he'd see the Bob Hope show at Christmas, all those young boys going' through so much and the big-shots making mil- lions on their deaths and crip- pled lives, "Thanks, Smiley, for listen. ing, I have four boys," Rest in peace, old kriegic. Be of good faith, noble woman. Be goodd to her, four boys, By a curious combination of coincidences, which wouldn't interest you in the slightest, I found •myself compromised last night with a beautiful blonde. The name of the dear girl is Mary, she's two months short of being five years of age, I was a volunteer baby-sitter and my instructions were ,to read her a bedtime story. "Here," said her father, handing me the book. "We'll be back in an hour, Read her a story, or two and I'll reward you with the biggest Martini ever niacte bYt human hands I" • • .!!! tvt„, So there I was -me, Bopeei) and, as it turned out, a handsome edition of Grinims' Fairy Tales which, I want to tell you right now, is an awful wan to send a kid off to dreamland. To begin with there was the charming tale of the Twelve Brothers and as I read the title little Mary snuggled down contentedly. "Once upon a time there lived a king and queen very peacefully together," I read. "They had 12 children, all boys. Now the king said to the queen one day, `If our 13th child should be a girl the 12 boys shall die so that her riches may be greater and the kingdom fall to her alone.' Then he caused 12 coffins to be made, and they were filled with shavings and a little pillow laid in each..." My voice trailed off. This 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News-Record May 22, 1895 Mr. John Johnston, Rattenbury Street, last Friday was after speckled trout and landed some 36 of as fine specimens as ever seen, one of them weighed a neat pound. Mr James A. Ford, who has so long and successfully conducted the butchering business in COmbes block, has disposed of the business to Messrs. A. Couch and C. Wilson, Mr. Peter Cantelon has decided to build a $2,000 brick residence on Princess Street and has awarded the contract for the carpenter work to Mr. H. Stevens. A maiden lady who keeps a parrot which swears and a monkey which chews tobacco says between the two she doesn't miss a husband very much. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era May 20, 1915 Mr. Frank O'Neil, of Moosejaw, Who hat been ender the doctor's care, is visiting at the home of hiS brother, W. T. O'Neil. Last week Mr, W. J. Nediger wired three more houSes for. &Mlle lights, they being - E. Ilunninford, Bert rittaimons and George Jackson. There are many houses yet in town that have not been wired but time will tell. would never do. I babbled something about looking for a better story and flipped the pages to Sweetheart Roland which sounded as if it might be more suitable. "Once upon ,a time there was a woman who was a real witch..." I began. My eyes skipped forward a couple of paragraphs where, it developed, the wicked witch lopped off her child's head with an enormous axe. "Oh, that's not a good one either," I said. "Why," said Mary, "did the king put the shavings in the little boys' coffins?" "Here's one!" I croaked and began desperately to read about Jorinda and Joringel. Well, Jorinda and Joringel, as I was soon reminded,, is the story of one of the Grimms' nastier witches who changes into a cat by day and a screech-owl by night and makes a hobby of transforming nice little girls into birds and shutting them up in cages in dark rooms. I did a quick switch into The Goose Girl in which a sweet old lady is put - and I quote, "stark naked into a barrel of nails and dragged along by two white horses from street to street until she is dead." At this point to my astonishment, I noted that Mary was showing every sign of departing to the land of nod. I Mr. W. Elliott has the contract for the erection of a frame barn for Mr. E. Rozell, on the Torrance farm East of Clinton. It will be 30 x 50 feet and will have a Preston Metal roof. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stanbury have moved to Clinton and have taken up housekeeping there. Mr. Will Falconer, son-in-law, will manage the farm. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record May 22, 1930 Miss V. Fraser of the Public School staff had the misfortune to have a bone in her hand fractured the pther day while playing ball. Mrs. M, Mains and Miss L z Zie, Londesboro, have returned home after spending the winter With the former's other daughter in Chicago. Mr, H. Adams treated his family' to a new car last week. It Was purchased from Mr, M. Lavin, Mr. Waiter McLennan, who was assisting in shining the town hall at Bayfield, fell from the building, sustaining a fractured shoulder and other injuries. Ile was brought to Clinton and put under the X-ray and given Immediate treatifieht, 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton Newt-Record May 17, 1.945 My. and Mm, Los Jervis of flohnesville received word from Ottawa, that their son W.O. Ivan had expected her to be plucking frantically at the counterpane or screaming in terror. Instead, incredibly, the stuff was acting as a sedative. The tot's father found me deep in the black pit of the Brothers Grimm on his return. I was trying to figure out whoever got the idea that this was a book for children when death and sadism peek from the shrouds of every terrible page. Story after story seems guaranteed to keep a child awake forever and with the beginnings of a life-long anxiety complex. .• , • - Here, for example, is '!"`The` Golden Bird" in which the two brothers, having been rescued from hanging by the Prince, throw him into a deep well. And here-a chuckle a minute-is a typical Grimms' Heroine, "a crooked old woman, skinny and yellow, with big red eyes and a crooked nose whose tip reached her chin." Look, kiddies! She is setting fire to that nice old man! Onward I went then to the saga of the magic dance where we observe the good lady forced to dance faster and faster with the thorns tearing at her clothes, her feet bleeding, until she falls down dead! Happy dreams, little children! Mary, my beautiful blonde, slept on, but I knevv I'd be awake all night listening for the whirr of the witches' wings. Jervis, who has been a prisoner of war in Germany, arrived safely in the United Kingdom on May 11. Word was also received by Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Cornish and Henry Dalrymple, Brucefield, of the recent release from German prison camps of their sons W.O. John Cornish and WO. William Robert Dalrymple. Mrs. T. E. Mason of Summerhill received flowers by cablegram for Mother's Day from her son G. R. Mason who is in Holland, and her daughter, Mrs. G, W. Yeats, from Scotland. The Clinton Knitting Company has been granted by Council the lotS adjoining their property for expansion of the busineSs, the Company to pay cost of transfer. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record May 19, 1955 Judge Frank Fingland, Clinton, will officiate at the laying of cornerstone's at the Huron County Court House and County Building. Godetich, next 1VIOnday, May 23. The Judge will lay the 1954 stone, and an 1854 stone from the old court house Will be laid by the County Warden, Earl Campbell. Mr, Bruce Keys, Varna, shot two strange animals last week, when he fonnd them robbing his Chicken shelter; The animals were described like a cross between a racoon and a eat Min' bori8Tyndaii is attending the dental Nurses' Association R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 Convention at the Royal York in Toronto. She it the representative of the London Branch of the Association. 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record May 19, 1960 in the space of one weekend, the tank of Montreal Moved equipment, records and furniture to their temporary location in the former Molson's Bank on Rattenbury Street and are how serving customers at that building, Staff Members include, manager W. I, Morloek, George Thornat, Mel eleeveS, Ross Christian, John Shaddick, Mrs. Fred Itodley," Miss Nancy Powell; Miss Jean McGregor,- Miss Norma Lovef Miss Phyllis Elliott and Miss Myrtle Knox. K. W. COLOUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTAT Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482.6693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE - REAL ESTAT INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482.9644 J. T. Wise, Res.: 482-7265 At a special service on Sunday, May 22, the Ontario Street United Church will recognize the end of its indebtedness for its New Christian Education Wing, which Was opened on November 27, 1955. Through the efforts of many faithful people the cost of over $70,000.00 Was realized in such a short One. Stuckey's friends don't play math matches, CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Avenue Pastor: Alvin Seukema, 13.A., S.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 J. E. 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