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THE CLINTON NEW ERA
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THE HURON NEWS-RECORD
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Clinton News-Record
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KEITH W, .AOU .1.5TON Editor
'J HOWARD. AITKEN " General Manager
4A Clinton News-Repord, Thursday, June 4, 1970
Editorial moulient
Three ,cheers
Three cheers for Joe Greene.
Whether he is speaking for the federal
government or for himself, the energy
minister has been letting Americans know
of late that every Canadian isn't just
waiting for a chance to jump across the.
border to the joys of Americanism.
Joe's been laying it on the line that we
won't sell our 'birthright by getting
hooked up in an energy-sharing Oct that
would mean our gas, oil and water would
be flowing freely south of the border to
feed American industry and pocket
books.
ALL SERVICES ON DAYLIGHT Tit4
ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH
"THE FR fE-NbCii CHuRcHt,
Pastor: REV. H. W. WON FOR,
B.Sc., B.COm, B.D.
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY„A-R.C.T..
SUNDAY, JUNE 714.
9:45 a.m. Sunday School,
11:00 a.m, Morning Worship.
Confirmation and Communion
7:30 p.m. Community Couples Club
Mr. Greene seems to be one of the few
govemMent officials reflecting the new
nationalism building steadily in this
country. His statements haven't been so
much anti-American as an assertation that
Canada is a separate country and doesn't
share in the "American dream".
He even went so far as to call the
dream a nightmare. Strange talk, coming
from a man many called (when he first
emerged as a big-name politician) the Abe
Lincoln of Canada.
Safety patrol back on road
The school safety patrol, however, still
seems to make the most sense. It is cheap
and effective. Many towns using the,
system can proudly point to accident free
periods of 10 years and more. It also
instills a sense of responsibility in the
children and teaches them to respect
authority not just because an adult is
present.
Wesley-Willis Holmesville United Churches
REV. A. J. MOWATT, B.D., D.D., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTEP.ER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JUNE 7th
WESLEY-WILLIS
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. — Confirmation Service
Sermon Topic: "THE CHURCH AND YOU"
HOLMESVILLE
9:45 a.m. — Confirmation Service.
10:45 a.m. —, Sunday School.
ALL WELCOME
7:30 p.m. — Sunday at Ontario St. Church
Community Couples' CLub
Spring Evening
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 —
Something has gone wrong in the safety
patrol program in Clinton and it's time
someone found out what it is before
trouble occurs.
Town Council has devoted some time
in recent sessions to the problem of
protecting children on their way to and
from school from the heavy traffic of
some of Clinton's main streets. They have
been unable to find a solution. It is
obvious the present safety patrol is
inadequate. The numbers have dwindled
so that there are not enough guards to
man even the most strategic corners in
town.
Several solutions have been suggested,
among them hiring retired gentlemen to
guard corners or adding an extra police
officer to the town force to" handle the
crossings.
Obviously the incentives are not strong
enough in the present form. In many such
programs children have to wait in line to
become members of the patrol. Here no
one wants any part of it. It's time
someone found out why the patrol is in
bad shape and cleaned up the situation
before some child is killed. ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,.
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
What goes next? Don't cross swords with me, buster! SUNDAY, JUNE 7th
9:30 a.m. — Monring Worship.
10:30 a.m': — Sunday School.
take the shock quite philosopically. Now,
still preoccupied with the problem of
getting something to replace the base, our
leaders have 'another problem. •
BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
SUNDAY, JUNE 7th
Speaker: REV. JONES OF LINDSAY
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship: 1100 a.m.
Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 'p.m.
Wednesday, June 10, 8:00 p.m., Rev. Roland Smith
Missionary from Jamaica will speak.
It isn't very comforting to know that
others in the area are having much the
same problem. In Goderich, the Sheaffer
plant is running far below normal staff. In
Walkerton a report last week showed that
nearly "every indukry-in'town .1-iderfewer
employees this year than a year earlier.
Men also have been laid off at plants in
Wingham, so we needn't feel alone.
Still, it make you wonder what goes
next.
ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Clinton
That times are bad is something that
anyone -who listens to the radio or reads
the newspapers knows. But
unemployment statistics and declining
stock market prices don't mean much to
the ordinary person until some of it
strikes near home.
The' announcement that the
Sherlock-Manning piano factory is
shutting down,- at least for the present,
'..broaghtthat-khowledge 'kr-the-000e
the Clinton area, last week.
When the news came some time ago
that the Canadian Forces Base was closing
the town knew it was in for a major
economic blow, yet the people seemed to
SUNDAY, JUNE 7th
TRINITY II
11:30 a.m. — Matins, Church School and Sermon.
CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
166 Victoria Street
Pastor: Donald Forrest
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m.
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OPTOMETRY
assuring for other men with the
usual cargo of timidity and fears,
including that worst of them,
the fear of fear itself.
The natural and primitive
reflexes in both these cases were
easily diagnosed. I was
motivated not by courage, not
by bravery, but simply by
resentment, hate, indignation,
anger.
I felt toward that killer whale
exactly the hot wrath I felt
toward the prowler. Each had
invAcgq PrlyMX 4 had „
d' my right to
At that moment of
unthinking reaction to an
injustice I'd have gladly shot
dead the mammal or the man.
The livid language came right
from my heart. They were a
perfect expression of the
indignity I felt.
' This, of course, is neither
bravery nor courage. Real
courage is coupled with
prudence and not with ferocity.
Bravery is elective rather than
simply a blind response to a
situation.
Yet, somehow, I find it
comforting to have this
confirmation that there's • a
built-in mechanism of active
resistance, that there's a searing
fury that's marvellously
effective. Righteousness, I guess,
is the word.
The knowledge that this
works in such physical
encounters and equally well in
the realm of ideas where protest
and dissent so often rout the
enemy, is, in itself, a source of
courage. And courage you need,
believe me, when the trembles
set in after such experiences.
Almost immediately I knew
for certain that it was not that
simple. I watched hypnotically
as the door furtively swung
open; saw the silhouette of the
prowler against the night lights
as he peered into the room.
Then — and, again, as with
the black fish, without the
formality of decision — I
struggled from under the bed
clothes, bellowing with a rage
that brought my wife out of the
bed in a demonstration of
levitation, unequalled, since the
days of The Great'Rerialdo.
The prowler staggered back,
turned and vanished like a
shadow in the night. There was
no sign of him, to my secret
relief, when I had reached the
door.
Once more, delightfully, my
wife chose to interpret this
spontaniety as an act of
deliberate bravery.
If it occurred to her that no
man could or would be passive
in such circumstances, if the
thought crossed her mind that
her knightly protector was really
just obeying his first, natural
impulse of pure panic, she gave
no indication of disloyalty.
I had gone on the attack,
comically explosive though it
may have been. The enemy had
been routed. 'The effect upon
her was rather like that promised
in ancient Charles Atlas ads in
which, overnight, the' 90-pound
weakling becomes the
magnificent beast of the beach.
Down deep, I knew, there
was but a hair-line separating the
heroic from the ridiculous.
I've gone into all this mainly
because I think it may be
Believe me, it is not modesty
but simply a columnist's
obsession with self-analysis that
causes me now, having been
certified by my wife as a brave
man for the second time in more
than 20 years of wedlock, to
admit honestly that it was
something less than shining
courage.
The first occasion on which•
the hero worship flickered
briefly in my wife's brown eyes'
was some years ago, when we;
were attacked, by, a killer whale.
We were trolling peacefully in
a nine-foot dinghy when that
great, black, thick, evil fin sliced
our wake and the hidden beast
came lunging at us.
My response was instant,
automatic. I grabbed an oar and,
hollering incoherent curses and
threats, whacked at the thing
until it submerged and went to
hunt or, perhaps, to play
elsewhere.
My wife has told this story
often, embellishing it very
sweetly, so that even now there
are friends of ours who clearly
suspect that beneath this mouse
facade there pounds ,the heart of
a tiger. Naturally, I've done little
or nothing to dissuade them.
The second incident occurred
just this week at a motel when a
burglar attempted to slip into
our room.
It was sometime after three in
the morning when I was
awakened by the tiny,
surreptitious sound of a key
being-slyly turned in the lock. I
raised up on one elbow,
momentarily assuming that some
late reveller had the wrong
room.
J. E. LONGSTAFF
OPTOMETRIST
Mondays and Wednesdays
20 ISAAC STREET
For Appointment Phone
482-7010
SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240
75 YEARS AGO
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June 5, 1895
LAWSON AND WISE
INSURANCE — REAL ESTAT.
INVESTMENTS
R. W. BELL
OPTOMETRIST
The Square, GODERICH
524-7661
Clinton
Office: 482-9644
J. T. Wise, Res.: 482-726
ALUMINUM PRODUCTS
I have no sympathy for any,
One except the public.
• Mail service in this country
has gone backwards about 50
years in the past two or three
years.
Costs have steadily in-
creased, and service has steadi-
ly 'decreased, until we have
reached the point where many
people would welcome the re-
turn of the pcink express riders
who used to carry the mail
through dust and storm and
hostile Indians.
Because it is a government
monopoly, it is huge, sprawling
and utterly inefficient in a
modern Soeity: No enterprising
private business would put up
with the incredible sloppiness.
of the present postal system. If
it did, the public would soon
put it out of business. •
It's rather a paradox to note
that the liquor stores, which
used to operate on a five-day
week, are now open six days,
plus Friday evenings, while
postal service has been cut to
five days and post offices close
earlier. Apparently there's
more profit in booze than publ-
ic utilities for government.
And that's What the postal
service is,or should be
public utility. Wouldn't We be
in a fine state if hydro power,
and, the telephone- service, and
police.. and fire protection
Were hipped off on Friday, to
recommence' Monday — or
DIESEL
Pumps and Injectors Repaired
For All Popular Makes
Huron Fuel Injection
Equipment
Bayfield Rd., Clinton-482-7971
For Air-Master Aluminum
Doors and Windows
and
AWNINGS and RAILINGS
JERVIS SALES
R. L. Jervis — 68 Albert St.
Clinton — 482-9390
go out. If I send a letter to my
father-in-law, 120 miles due
west, here's the procedure. It
goes due east for 35 miles,
then southwest for 200 miles,
southwest then 'northwest for
120 miles. The shortest dis-
tance between two points is a
triangle, in post-office math.
There is a good-sized town
three miles away. A letter
sent from there can, and usual-
ly does, take two days to get
here. You could walk it in 45
minutes: Paradoxically, a col-
league of mine writes his
mother in England, and she
gets the letter within 36
hours. If this is efficiency, I'm
all turned around somehow
Granted, the, postal workers
were underpaid for years,
though I'll witness that they
were not overworked. I was
employed in a post office dur-
ing the Christmas rush and
nobody was rushing that much,
Pay thein a decent wage,
give them decent working con-
ditions, but let's have some
blasted service. If the P.O.
runs, at a loss, pay it.
The CI3C and the CNR are
heavily subsidized, and there
aren't too many squawks. Mil-
lions and millions arc thrown
down the drain on such flour-
iShes as the aircraft carrier
I3Onaventure, and shrugged
off.
How about delivering the
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Tuesday, if there were Fed-
eral holiday?
The only people who have
benefited from Mr. Kieran's
new, "efficient" postal service
are the telephone and tele-
graph companies, They're reap-
ing a harvest because big busi-
ness has practically stopped us-
ing the mails.
What's the point of posting
an important letter on Wednes-
day if you kno'w it probably
won't be delivered Friday, and
therefore will be delivered the
following Monday, or Tuesday
if Monday's a holiday
It's had enough to drive a
businessman to apoplexy, but
it's just as frustrating, on a
more personal basis, to the or-
dinary citizen.
Our daughter lives in the
city, 90 miles away. She
doesn't have a phone. If we
write her on Monday, she gets
',the letter Thursday or Friday.
If there's something urgent,
and we write Wednesday,
there's no guarantee she'll get
it that week.
So send her a whet Suppose
she's not at home. She doesn't
get the telegram Until next
day, or the next. If I were to
drop dead, she might find out
about it a Week after the fu-
• neral. It wouldn't bother me,
in that condition, but it might
upset her a bit.
Today I checked at the local
post office. Three mails a day
Mrs. J. B. Shorey, Clintc
Elizabeth Grange, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gran
Auburn; Mary Clark, daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce Clark,
5, Goderich; and Muriel Ar
Morlock, daughter of Mr. t
Mrs. W. L. Morlock, Clinton.
Mrs. Major Youngh
Auburn, attended the graduat
ceremony at Queen's Univers
Kingston, when her eldest F.
Keith, graduated arid
employed at Elliott Lake.
attended the, graduation
exercises at the' University of
Toronto, at which their daughter
Phyllis received her B.A. Phyllis
specialized in Latin.
10 YEARS AGO
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
JUNE 2, 1960
Six girls from the area
graduated last week from
hospital schools of nursing. Five
from Stratford being Bonnie
Iloffindri, -daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, Elgin Hoffinan i Clinton;
Sharon Anneompsen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. R.
Thompson, Clinton; Gwen
Shorey, daughter of Opt, and
move his Law office -there, when
the alterations are completed.
Mr. John Cook, who for the
past year was a student at the
Stratford Normal School, has
accepted a position on the staff
of the Ingersoll Public School.
Mr. Pere Manning has leased
the garage, formerly managed by
Mr. Peter Douglas, from the
McManus Petroleum Company
of London. Mr. Manning has the
agency for Dodge and Desota
cars.
Clinton Annual Spring Show
was held for the fortieth time on
June 5 in the Recreation Park.
This is the first show to be held
in the park; the earlier shows
were held on the Main Street.
1,5 YEARS AGO
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
June 2, 1955
Chief of Police J. Ferrand has
accepted the position of chief of
police in St. Marys and will take
over duties in that town by the
first of August.
Fire of unknown origin
completely destroyed a frame
barn and straw shed on the farm
of Harry Torrance, Porter's Hill.
Sonny Mallough, Goderich,
grandson of Mrs, I/ Steep, was
credited with saving the life of
Ronald Lyon, 14-year-old
London youth, when he slipped
from the south pier inter the
deep water at Goderich Harbour,
Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Hanky
ONfi,
The Barbers take their
afternoon off every Thursday.
We understand the Dentists are
going to take an afternoon too
and the lawyers will soon follow
suit.
40 40 YEARS AGO
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD THE
June 5, 1930
Grant Rath had the
misfortune to meet with a nasty
accident while practising softball
the other evening' when he
suffered a fracture of the thumb
on his right hand.
Miss Margaret Cree R.N. has
taken a position on the staff of •
the Community Hospital at San
Matoe, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Hartley
Managhan of Detroit have been
visiting their respective parents
in town during the past week.
The baseball season opened in
Clinton yesterday with Clinton
winning over Seaforth by a score
of 22-5, Line-up for Clinton —
Fulford 3b; McEwan ss; P.
Livermore If; Carrick lb;
0 Brien 2b; Pickett rf; N.
Livermore cf; Twyforcl c; Brant
p.
25 YEARS AGO
THE CLINTON NEWS-RECO 1,1)
June '7,,1945
Mr, Frank Fingland K.C. is
having the building .formerly
occupied by the S. G, Castle
Meat Market temodelled and will
The Big Gun in Bayfield is
now properly mounted. The
Council deserve and are entitled
to all credit for their energy and
patriotism displayed in regard to
so lasting an ornament for the
village.
Mrs. Orr, who takes part in
the Church of England concert
in the Town Hall this Friday
evening, is expected to be
accompanied by the harp.
The Parkdale Cricket Club are
booked to wield the willow with
Clinton, on the grounds here, on
July 4th.
55 YEARS AGO
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
June 3, 1915
Mr. Thos. Grealis has secured
several contracts for painting. He
has the home of Mrs. Powell and
Miss Mcllween and also Mr,
Stanbury's house.
Rev. J. L. Bell of Blyth was
among six young men ordained
to the priesthood at Sir Peter's
Seminary, London, Saturday
last, Rev. Pr, Bell is a son of Mr.
and Mrs, Bell of Blyth.
Messrs. Charles and Harry
Twitehell, Morley Counter and
Ilea, Chas, Kerr Motored to
Brussels last Friday and spent a
feW hours there,