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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-06-04, Page 16Let's have some service THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgamated 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 ' Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) 9 Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County second class mail registration number 0817 Clinton, 'Ontario POplilation 3,475 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U,S.Ag, $7.50 THE HOME OP RADAR IN CANADA 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. \\SSS\SSN.S.S.NS.S\ ‘SSSS.%\\\NS.SS\NNSsS\NSSS\NSS .4 Business and. Professional Directory s‘...\\‘‘,..\\N•\\N‘SNSSS‘S SN'S\S.SS.S.\\NS \\N1\\NSS INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTAT Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 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 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD 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 Mail on time: %%%%% NNSS.S.S.SSLS.S.\\\S"\‘‘‘%•S.S•S•\‘‘‘‘‘,..\\‘‘. 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,