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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-06-11, Page 124A :Clinton News-:Record, ThurSlaY g ..4.Prle 11, 1970 _.faiitorial ‘orameat, A fair to be proud of If there's one thing better than an pld country fair it's a new country fair, Clinton was treated to one of the best on the weekend as the Clinton Spring fair held, what many People tell us, is one of . the finest shows in years. The show combined the best of the old traditions of country fairs with Modern showmanship. The addition of the Huron. County Dairy Princess `competition to the Friday night program gave the evening a centre of activity, and any show can use pretty girls. The horse show must ,have , brought back many memories to those who knew fairs before the tractor was king. The show was one of the best of its kind, drawing entries from all over the Province. There was competition in nearly every class. For those who like more modern methods of agriculture, there was a large display of modern machinery, although this is one part of the show which could have had a better turnout. Not enough exhibitors seemed to feel the need to show their wares. The livestock show was helped this year by the new barns 'and ' should improve more as the barns are completed next year. but for the city slicker, the enjoyment of the show was in the interesting trade show in the arena. Local merchants did a good job of displaying their merchandise and many from. a distance took advantage of the show. The parade was adequate,' though something of a disappointment in light of the great success of the rest of the fair.. But the blame for this lies not with those. who organized the fair, but with those of- us in the community who didn't .get * involved enough to contribute. But overall the show was something the town can really be proud of and credit should surely go to Jim Snell, presiderit of the Central Huron Agriculture. Society, secretary Robert Gibbings and alr.the members who worked so hard to make it a success. Thank you for a goad time: Save the Bayfield The man who founded Clinton was a businessman. The early settlers of our town were brought here because they knew that here, at the crossroads of the two major roads into Western Ontario, money could be made. They didn't choose a beautiful spot, but one based on the profit motive. Things haven't changed in the close to more than 100 years since. Clinton is a centre of trade and commerce for the whole county whole other spots, chosen by founders because of their beauty, are still only picturesque villages. But just because Clinton is a town based on commerce doesn't mean that people should be ignored. Very few spots within the town are noted for their natural beauty, and what few we have are being ignored, and worse yet, degraded to the point that they may never be of any use again. One of these is the area at the southern end of; the, town where the Bayfield River crosses 'under London road. In the spring, or after a heavy rain, when the river is running full, you can see the Bayfield as it was once, and could be again. But ask people who know the river and they'll tell you that often in the summer the river is little more than a trickle and that it runs completely dry at some places along its course to Lake Huron. Ask some of those who live near its banks and they'll tell you that the river actually stinks on hot days in the summer. It wasn't always that way and it doesn't have to be that way forever. Many other rivers have been in the same sad shape until programs were initiated to clean them up. The problem is that this is a project too big for any • one municipality. The Bayfield River is the responsibility of every town and township that has water that drains into the river. The benefits of a clean-up program would go to all. Parks such as The Falls at Benmiller show what a conservation authority can do. The Maitland Valley Conservation Authority was begun too but now it provides beauty and' recreation for thousands. The time to save the Bayfield River is now, before it's too late. The jobs are there "BAYFIELD RIVER" !!.athotLAmilown4*4 The :stark breaks 'the The fingers of one hand would be more than enough, I suppose, to count the truly memorable moments of television. That's why I felt so privileged to have been watching, quite . by accident, when one appeared the other night. It was a run-of-the-mill drama show that you could take or leave alone until 'a very short scene in which the yt.eag wife announced to her husband that she was„.pregnant.. The dialogue went something like -thi&• Wife: "It looks . as if I'm pregnant, Harry." Husband: "Really? Are you feeling okay?" Wife: "Oh, sure." Husband: "Have you been to the doctor?" Wife: "Yes." The 'entire scene . took probably 40 seconds. It was played with a restraint neighboring on sheer ennui. Yet I'd the urge to cry "Author! Author!" for it was truly an historic moment on the magic lantern. Come to think of it, there's been no medium — literature, radio, movies or the stage in which the announcement of a blessed event has been treated realistically until this one chanced along. The classic situation, as I'm news sure you know, involves the little lady in a graceful bit of dizziness. The husband springs ' to assist her to the nearest easy chair. If a camera is involved it trucks in on the husband's face to register Growing Awareness. "Martha!" he breathes. "You're not you're not ...." "Yes, darling," the make-believe wife breathes back as the off-stage violins start to sing. "Yes .... Daddy!" . Another variation of the scene has the little woman knitting 'wee. booties until the oafish husband gets the message. In either case, be it swoon or sew, the father-to-be becomes a comic, even endearing figure. His solicitude, his air of wonder at what he and his little blue genes have wrought, his dewy-eyed worship of the mother-to-be — are all played for those tiny, heart-warming chuckles that so often produce instant nausea. The real wonder of it is that the scene should have become such a standard when, in real life, it just never happens that way. I've been making a small, informal survey among some husbands and wives of my acquaintance and find a depressing lack of theatrical values in that moment of realization that a new thunder of little feet is to be expected around the house. It would seem, to begin with, that the husband's discovery is never made by his wife getting an attack of the vapors or by the tell-tale clicking of knitting needles, but simply by a direct announcement, The reaction of the husband, on the other hand,.is just about exactly as it was in the scene that I admired: "Really? Are you feeling okay?" Among other memorable lines revealed in my survey are: (1) "Are you kidding?"; (2) "That's "going to keep us from the summer camp 'this year"; (3) "Will it be in time for this year's income tax?" and (4) the simple, laco ale rejoinder of a self-satisfied husband who smugly observed, "Well, honey, , it figured." There's 'no evidence whatever to suggest that a single, living husband ever began to treat his wife like a case of eggs and, indeed, the usual playwright's picture of the fragile, delicate mother-to-be is lamentably short of verisimilitude. In real life she is more apt to be wolfing chow mein and banana splits than knitting bitsy things. • So, at last, we have a blow for truth from where we least expect it, the television screen, and credit must go where credit is due, so I told my wife a long, long time- ago when she made her announcement. .1t AP, SWM 1:Py,I -001* TOO 0 TARP STREET UNIT ED CHURCH "THE er trNoLy ckitigotit, . Pastor; REV- .14, W. WONFOR, B.Sc., B.COrrh, PrganistAll$S I..QIS GRA$BY, SUNDAY, !../N 14th e:45 Sunday School, 11;9° a.m. — Morning Worship, Sermon Subject: "TH.PREATE$T THING" Explorer Choir — Holrnesville U611ed Churches REV, A, .1. MOWATT, C,D„ B,A., D,D., Minister MR. LORNE POTTERER; Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JUNE 14th HQL„MESV ILLE' 9:45 a.m,— SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY. Guest Preacher: Mr. James McNairri will tell of his ex- perience in 'India as .a ALL WELCOME (Sunday School and parents will join in this service) WESLEY-WILLIS 9:45 .a.m, — Sunday School. 11:00 .a.m. Christian Fellowship Hour Sermon Topic: "THE GREAT LIE" Tuesday, June 1F Magic Circle meets at Mrs. Wes. Holland's lakeshore cottage. Pot Luck supper, 6:30. Cars leave church 6:15. 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 — ST., ANDREW'S-PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.. The Rev.'R, U. MacLean, B.A., Minister. Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JUNE 14th 9:30 a.m. — Morning Worship. 10:30 a.m. — Sunday School. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JUNE 14th Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11;00 Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10, 8:00 p.m., Rev. Roland Smith Missionary from Jamaica will speak. ST. PAUL'S ANGLA,CAN CHURCH Clinton SUNDAY, JUNE 14th 11:30 a.m. — Communion, Church School and Sermon. CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, JUNE 14th Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service:' 7:00 p.m. ••••••••••• ••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••\•• Business and Professional Directory • • \ • • • \ • • • • • \ • • \ • \ \\\\,\•1NN\ ••••••••• THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 ' Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Yieekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) Second class Mail registration nuniber -- 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, S6.615 per year; U.S.A., 0,50 Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron county Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 . 111.6 HOME OP RADAR - IN CANA bA KEITH W. AiDULSTOlsi — Editor HOWAAID AITKEN — General Manager ' •-•' • i ' ' '•• ' • --‘ ' • ' • • " 1 • • • f.'. This year again, there is a terrible panic about students not being able to get summer jobs. It is amplified by the facts that general unemployment is steadily increasing, that a fair- ly heavy recession seems. on the books, and that many com- panics are losing money or going broke. My heart does not bleed for the stockbrokers and the finan- cial wheeler-dealers. But the facts speak for them- selves. The construction indus- try is in the doldrums. The Prairie wheat farmers are in bad shape, These two big sources of labor and income can knock our economy cock- eyed, temporarily. But to get back to the stuff dents and their lack of jobs. Much of this wailing ,is pure hokum. , I feel genuinely sorry for the student who has fried earnest- ly to get a job, and failed. However, for most of the oth- ers, I couldn't squeeze a single tear. There is a job fot 95 per cent of them, if they want one. But they want TAB job. They want one like the old Man has: Five days a week, coffee breaks, nothing demean- ing, and good pay. They don't want a job, they want a sinecure: Something where they can put in so many hours and collect so much loot, whether they're any use or not; something where they can treat the job as an unfortunate interruption of their fun time; and something that is not "be- neath" them, This is not a blanket con- demnation; I know a lot of kids who 'slug it out in dirty, tough jobs all through the hot sum- mer months, while their more discriminating contemporaries lounge at the beach, hang around the streets, taunt the fuzz, and whine about a system which hasn't provided a ready- made job for them. This, by the way, is the same System which they constantly attack for being competitive. Afraid I haven't much pa- tience with this large group. How many of the girls slouch- ing around in jeans, or daz- zling mankind with their bikin- is, hive tried to get a job as domestic help? All over the country women who ean pay for it are scrambling for baby-sitters, floor-scrubbers, human dishwashers and iron- ers. These kids could make about $1,50 an hour, with coffee breaks, a free lunch ; and week- ends off. But this is below their dignity, They didn't go to Grade 12, or to University, to do housework, How many boys apply for menial tasks, even though they often pay well? Short-order cook; scrubbing floors in office buildings; tending gardens, mowing lawns, clip p'i n g hedges. Not many. The- hours are too long, or the work is too hard, or the sun is too hot. I know. Recently, I wanted some kids to rake my lawn because I didn't have time to do it myself. I offered the job to fbur of my classes, 60 per cent of them boys. Pay, $1.25 an hour. They laughed at me. - Heartily, but without malice. Know what I . wound up with? Two little Grade 13 girls, about five-feet-nothing. They wanted- the money to buy clothes and worked like twin beavers. Did a better job than any boy I've ever hired, Blis- tered all hands. Right into the thickets to get the ,leaves.- Filled 48 of the big plastic garbage bags. Any enterprising youth could make a killing cutting lawns on a contract basis. Capi- tal expenditure would be about $75. He could make $15 a day without pushing himself. But that isn't very glamorous, When I think of my first job, cleaning latrines, scrub- bing floors and polishing brass, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, $30 a month, you can understand my taek of sym- pathy. 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News-Record June 12, 1895 Mr. Ogle Cooper has placed in his store a modern refrigerator, the work of Mr. John Dayment. Messrs. Duncan and Grant have secured the lumber to build a store house at the station and will engage in grain and fruit buying. The Rattenbury House has added an expensive cash register to the bar fixtures. A good number of Doherty organs ate being shipped to Montreal and eastern points. Mr. Louis Crich has purchased from Mr. James Crich the 50-acre farm in Hullett paying the handsome price of $2,500. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era June 10, 1915 Thoa, A, Edison ptedieta that future uses of electricity that will benefit humanity most will be through its medical application and a new source of electtal supply will be direct from eeal without heed for steam boilers. This Week Earl O'Neil, only SO Of Mr. and Mrs W, O'Neil, Ofillated and Will join the 33rd Batt. at L4:mdean. Accompanying him will be Mr. K. Wilson of the Wilson Bank Staff. Mr. Ross Forbes, who teaches school in Waterloo Co., Spent the Weekend at the parental home. He made the trip Oh .1118 nidtdreyele. Mr. Bert Irwin, Alma, .has been hired for a school teacher in place of Miss Campbell who resigns at holidays. 40 YEARS AGO June 12, 1930 The following is the report of S.S. No. 11 for the month of May: Jr. 4, Lloyd Batkin 77; Sr, 3, Faye Lindsay 76, John Lindsay 70, Margaret Farquhar 53; Jr. 3, Madeleine Tyndall 64, Edward DeeveS 63, Olive Pickett 48; Jr. 2, Lorne Tyndall 73; Jr. 1, Jean Vodden 88, Pearlie McGee 85, Willa Potter 73, Harold Wise 69, Donna Pickett 37; Primers, Lula Tyndall, Frank Potter, Mr. Guy Jacobs of Miliford, Mich., has been ' visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs at the Huron County Horne, Miss Ruby Churchill spent the weekend with friends at Port Stanley, 25 YEARS AGO June 14,1945 On June 1 new regulations Went into effect concerning the retail sale of gasoline. The hours of sale are 7 a.m. to / pan. except oh Saturdays which will be 7 Let, to 10 p.niw One service station Will be open for the Sale of gaSoline On Sunday / a.m, to p.m, from May 1 to Oetober 31, Anyone requiring gasoline hi Other than the above bouts inuSt hare a police ordet This includes taxi owners, NOS resembling pinheads 'ate now being used on some machines, Many of them may be seen behind steering wheels. Miss Vera Hoggarth spent Sunday with Miss Jean Evans of St. Catharines. 15 YEARS AGO June 9, 1955 H. Russell Thompson, Goderich, has been appointed as Chief Constable for the Police force, at a salary of ,$2,800 a year, His appointment becomes effective on July 1 upon the departure of Chief Ferranti. Don Denornme, Clinton, was the winner of the special $25 bingo last Thursday night at the Legion Hall. At their meeting last night, Members of the Clinton District Collegiate Board authorized the hiring Of two more teachers, }Was Middleton, Bayfield, until now a teacher in the public school, Dathwood, was hired and Mr. McGillis, Windsor; to teach English and History, 10 'YEARS AGO June 9,1060 Judi Cliff, Bayfield, haS been' awarded the lira bursary Set up by the Ladies Auxiliary of Clinton Public Hospital for the ontatanding student at Clinton District Collegiate Institute, W. Harris Oakes, soft Of Er. and Mrs, Walter A. Oakes, Clinton, has graduated front the School of Medicine, University OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 48277010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 DIESEL Pumps and Injectors Repaired For All Popular Makes Huron Fuel Injection Equipment Bayfield Rd., Clinten-482-7971 of Toronto, He has an appOintinent, oti the House Staff Of Toronto General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hoggart have purchased the Connell eOtts. on Albert Street: 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 INV ESTMENTS 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 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cooper, Lapeet, Mich., accompanied by their three Childress Nancy, hobby and 'Anne, Were in town this week visiting relatives and friends.