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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-06-18, Page 4ClintbrIrS7.RecOrd,ThprsciayvAirie 18,1979 ;oopatit • Time, to start .15 now The word this week that the provincial government plans .to go ahead with plans 'for its 5,000 acre wildlife sanctuary now that it has appeased the landowners involved can be regarded as good pews for the majority of people in our area. The farmers apparently are happy with the prices offered them for their land and apparently they will not haye to relocate in many instances becatiii they will be allowed to keep their house and bdrns and a few acres of land. Others, on the fringe of the area affected will'continue to have some "'leer until the full effect of the prbject on their area is known. So -the probleMs seem to have been solved for the moment at least although discontent may still be boiling under the surface. There is, however, one group of people who should be quite content with the decision to go ahead with the project, one group which has nothing to lose and a great deal to gain: For the people of Clinton, the only remaining uncertainty is just how much they can gain from the project. Officials from the Department of Lands and Forests at the Hullett meeting earlier this year really didn't pin down just how much revenue the project could be expected to bring into the area. They pointed out, however, that a great deal would depend on the initiative used by individuals to get a part of the tourist dollar attracted by the sanctuary. By individual initiative they could also have included the initiative of area governments such as Clinton's. Clinton .as the nearest major centre has a great deal to gain. Nearly everyone visiting the sancturay will pass through Clinton and ' the number of their dollars that they leave behind will depend to a great deal on what attempts we make to attract the tourist dollar. - The time to start is now. Town officials should be in touch with the planners of the project to see just what the town can best do to take athiantage .of the project, One thing would be to try to encourage as many people as possible to stay overnight in the area. For this trailer and tenting grounds would be needed (in this day and age no town should be without at least a small camping ground anyway), There are many avenues to be explored. We have five years to plan before the whole, project will be finished but the time to start is now so the plans can be well thought out. industry seems to be a scarce commodity for our area so tourism could be an important part of our future. Let's not blow a golden opportunity. A question of priorities? To a citizen contemplating the manner in which his tax money is spent, the oddest aspect of the spectacle is the way that governments combine. the opposed characteristics of the miser and the spendthrift. The niggardly, tightly-audited parsimony with which politicians, dole out some expenditures contrasts strikingly with the 'sky's, the limit,' 'there's plenty more where that came from' extravagance with which they pour it out on others. But spending on libraries, hospitals, health services (particularly where mental disorder is involved), research, penal and correctional institutions, old people's and children's homes come definitely in the miserly sphere. Highways ,and national defence come equally emphatiCally in the 'spendthrift, zone, even when some of the spending is questionable from the viewpoint of the motorist or the militarist. That $17 Million refit of the aircraft carrier Bonaventure followed by its scrapping only three years later is a notable case in point. Education presents a curious instance of a split attitude. Expenditures are tightly controlled in such matters as books and teachers' salaries, lavish in -School buildings (especially very large ones) and school buses. It occurs to some to • wonder how closely governments are in touch with the ' public opinion in establishing spending priorities. The real truth may be that, by and large, the electorate would prefer ,,,them to be :generous where they now are So m iserlY ricr ecOndm ica I Where now they are lavish. Log on the beach 'Let the sunshine in' ON TARIO STREET1/NITET:),.,PHIA101. • 41THFFttgigfis? /.1'! _Pastor :REV, H, B-Sc., B.Com., 0r9anist; MISS 1,01$ ..gRA$E(Y. - SUNDAY, JUNE 21st. 945 am- — Sunday SOPol, .11;90 a.m.. Morning Worship,. Sunday Sc',,noi Promotion -- Holmesville United Churches REV, A. J. MQWATT, C.D., B.A.; P.O., Minister MR. LORNE POTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JUNE 21st HOLMESVILA.E . 9:45 a.m. Family Service. Sermon Topic: "THE GREAT (NOTE: Sunday School and parents will' meet for church at 9:45. Afeer children's story and hymn the children will proceed to Sunday School classes). WESLEY-WILLIS 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 am, — FLOWER AND BIRD SERVICE. (NOTE: Parents are requested to bring flowers Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning. Birds and flowers may be brought Sunday morning by parents and children). 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., Ministei Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir, Director SUNDAY, JUNE 21st 9:30 a.m. — Morning Worship. 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School.' BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JUNE 21st Sunday School: 10:00 a:m. Morning Worship: 11 a.m. ANNIVERSARY SERVICE Speaker: Rev. Fred Hussey, Cleveland Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. — Prayer meeting. ST. PAUL'S..ANGLICAU CHURCI30; %To 1 ..,{9J Dili Clinton SUNDAY, JUNE 21st 11:30 a.m. Matins, Church School and Sermon. CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, JUNE 21st Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. ,THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD EstablIthed 1865 , 1424 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper pntario Weekly. Newspaper Association and the 'Of CirculatiOn (ABC) second chat mail registration reirribrir - 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Gonad*, $6.00 Per year; U.S.A.', 0.50 ktil'H W. libUt.SioN Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Association, Audit Bureau Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County tlintent Ontario Population 3,475 THE' HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA HAY SPECIALS One number 46 Baler - $995.00 (season Warrantee) One New Holland number 67 Baler 7 $596.00 One Geht Crop Chopper — $650.00 Two I.H.C. number 2A Hay Conditioners at $495.00 each One I.H.C. C32 Mower (Trail) - $325.00 One I.H.C. C28, 3 point hitch mower -4- $250.00 One I.H.C. number 1 /5 SWather $1995.00 One Gehl Harvester with two heads ,-.-$895.00. Vincent Farm Equip.Ltd. SEAIFORTH — (formerly John Bach) -527.0120 The good life There's something basically piggish about man. He wants to get his snout into that trough, and devil take the runt who can't wiggle his bum in there, because the landscape in front of him is one of solid bums, harder to break through than a cement wall. When you look at the size of lation figures, it's difficult to Canada, and then at the popu- believe that Canadians feel they can't get at the trough, that many of them feel like the runt of the litter. Yet thou. sands do. Many of them feel, as the old rural expression has it, 5. that "they-'re sucking the hind tit" Tit is a short, but perfect- ly decent, synonym for teat, The hind one is the one the runt gets, if he gets any. This is rather a long-winded prelude to my major proposi- tide: That thousands of city dwellers are desperate to t get • away from it all, out of the smog and the concrete can- yons, into the wild green yon- der. For practical reasons, they must, in most cases, live in the city, or exist there. That's where they make a living, where their children will have the best schools, where their friends are, But they don't like it, Obvious solution Buy a summer cottage. Many do, But even there, one does not escape from the throngs, the cramped feeling. Cottages are, mainly, stuck cheek by jovie. Boats and motoreycles in sum- mer, snowmobiles in winter, pollute the air with stink and noise. Added hazards in winter are the roof breaking in under snow, and local hoodlums breaking in under bOoze. Also, for many, the cost of a waterfront lot and cottage are simply out of reach. Have you tried to pick up a nicely-treed, sand-beach water lot lately? Figure on $50 a foot for' any- thing decent. Add a cottage, drill a well, pay taxes and up- keep, and you have to be pret- ty well-heeled even to consider it. Accordingly, many city deni- zens of modest means are buy- ing a chunk of land right in -the country, anything from 10 to 50 acres. In some areas within a couple of hours drive, one can still buy "land" for $50 an acre. Thus, instead of socking $5,000 into a 100- foot water lot, you can have your own ten-acre empire for $500, European immigrants are particularly interested in such land, because they didn't have a hope of buying an acre at home. enless wealthy. This land is usually sub-mar- marginal, or worte. But there seems to be a basic instinct to own some land, even though it won't grow anything but rocks and ChristMas trees, Just to be able to pace around' and say: "This is mine, Nobody can take it away from me." And the sheer delight of posting "No Trespassing" signs around your domain! A man's home used to be his castle. Now it's his prison. But he can have an estate in the country. It's an ideal set-up for a man with a young family. Prefera- bly he sould be handy with tools. He can buy his, chunk of junk and spend a couple of years just going up on. week- ends and vacations, tenting and clearing a 'vale in the scrub brush for 'his shack. And if he's smart, it will be, at first, just that — a shack. Never mind the three bed- rooms. Bang in some bunks. Never mind the big stone fire- place. Get a good wood stove: Over the years, he can add to the place, until, eventually, he will have a snug retirement home No traffic problems. No pollution. No punks. No peo- ple. Small tax bills A place to putter, to meditate Sound silly? Maybe. But with the new leisure age creep- ing upon us, it makes more sense than taking on a huge mortgage at 10 per cent, which will be paid off eight years after you die. Ideally, the property would have a small stream loaded with fat trout, a deer run, huge patches of wild berries. Real- istically, it will be impossible to get water when you drill your well, the land will be infested by rattlesnakes or tee dents, and smothered in net- tles and poison oak. But we, can't have everything. I'm tempted myself. Any chuckling, , gleaming-eyed farm- er want to get rid of 50 acres of rock and swamp for $10 an acre A doctor pal of mine who occasionally suggests topics for these columns proposes that I write a few words about "The Blues". Even a glance at the world or local headlines makes it seem a most appropriate subject. "Every' medical man will tell you," says my friend, "that self-analysis has become a modern-day problem for all of us. We seem to have entered an era in which a vast number of men and women are overly sensitive to their moods and turning to a Do-It-Yourself Psychiatry that can be very dangermis:' "Periods of depression which are perfectly normal are too often viewed with grave concern," he went on. "What our fathers passed off as 'feeling a little out of sorts' or `down-in-the-mouth' are now foolishly home-diagnosed as warning signals of mental disturbances. I get my share of patients who tell me, in their inventory of symptoms, that they often wake up feeling deep gloom. 'Well,' I ask them, 'doesn't everybody?' " Trouble is, as I see it, that there's no rhyme or rhythm to "The Blues." Maybe once or twice a week I creep from the wrong side of the bed with a mild case of what a aUleAta . 75 YEARS AGO Wed., June 19, 1895 The keys at the Exeter post office were stolen Saturday by some unknown person. The postmaster, Mr. Johns; at once placed new locks on the doors. Woman generally gets what she is after, and, without question, will have before many years the privileges of the franchise. Then we will sing: "Baby's in the cradle, cryin' like fury, Daddy's baking pancakes, and mommy's on the jury." CLINTON NEW ERA June 21, 1895 Mr. John B. Rumball and family, who have been rusticating at Sanford, have returned to town, with five pounds added, to Mr. Rumball's weight. The morning train to Goderich on Wednesday, ran into an open switch in the Goderich yard, and collided With a train standing there , breaking both engines somewhat, several Clintonians on the train were considerably shaken up, and Mr. Tisdall had the end of one finger torn off. 55 YEARS AGO Thurs. June 17, 1915 Two thousand baby chicks have been sold by Mr. Frank Andrews this year and he has also turned away several orders Of 400 or so as he had not the eggs or incitbators to hatch them, He is making a fine businesS, and We hope he increases his outfit'next year. There are a large number Of iiselees dogs marking abOtit town. They are no good to their owners and no good to the might be called The Dull, Logey Blues. They're not hard to chase away. A breakfast of ham-and-eggs or a check in the mail or even a kind word will do the trick. The other extreme, which is mercifully rare, is not nearly so co-operative. For want of a better name I'll call them the Whither-Are-We-Drifting Blues. These may be brought on, I've decided, by physical or mental fatigue or by protracted periods of rotten weather or, again, for no apparent reason. Sometimes they're occupational. I guess, eyerybody gets these when the job isn't going right. When I was cast for a few years in the unlikely role of executive it dismayed me to find this so common. The most capable, well-adjusted people could be transformed into moody, doleful types and I would have to take them on my knee, so to speak, to reassure them. I suspect that' this occupational trauma, which possibly is due mainly to boredom and the sameness of a routine, is particularly prevalent among housewives, The one we happen to have on the premises is the sunny type - sometimes unbearably so T. but she, too, has her moments of quiet community at large. They keep up a barking and yelping at night, scare children, frighten horses and make themselves a nuisance in general. Most cities and many towns have a license and every dog is required to wear a 'tag, or be taken in by a dog catcher. We believe our town council would be wise in adopting such a plan here, Those who have dogs they prize for one reason or another would not object to the additional tax. On the ground that "there is war enough in Europe witheut introducing it on the floor of the synod," Lay Secretary John Ransford of Clinton has decided not to introduce 'votes for women' at this year's session of the Synod of Huron and consequently the meetings will be robbed of one of the features of interest, 25 YEARS AGO June 21, 1945 Five thousand gathered at Lion's Park, Seaforth, June 13th, for the third annual field day and picnic of, the Huron Federation of Agriculture . .Jim Hunter, well-known radio news commentator of Toronto, a Huron old boy, officially opened the field day which featured sports, softball, lacrosse, a square dancing contest, exhibits and dancing, Ottawa reports that Canada will ship 10,000 tons of pickled horse Meat to Belgiem, Quoted from the Guelph Mercury, ' Judging by some of the cl6thing prices folk pay, all the dummies aren't inside the show windows.' Departrfiental Examinations ate on this week and he'd. A doltimn Was running in the despair. It has to do, I'm convinced, with the immutability of dust. Whatever the causes, the Whiter-Are-We-Drifting Blues are grim and carry a person's thoughts into dark channels. You can only grope , your melancholy way along hoping to find the "Exit" sign that you know, by instinct and experience, is somewhere ahead. The doctor says this is all a matter of balance, that the pendulum of life just naturally swings slowly from one extreme to the other. The danger is only in " wanting.' an- emotional evenness. ' Most of us struggle against these moods mentally, just as the body struggles against a fever. The extrovert, who has them, too, may seek the company of congenial companions and laugh them away. The introvert may seek solitude, the long walk in the woods or along the lonely beach that so often puts everything back into focus. But perhaps the real comfort is the knowledge that your're not alone, that what seems such forbidding country is familiar to everyone and that when the sun shines again it will semi all the brighter. News-Record entitled, "Runiinations" of Rebekah A Column Prepared Especially for Women - But Not Forbidden to Men." The latest 'edition of Bud Fisher's Cartoon Comedy, "Mutt and Jeff' will be presented in the Town Hall, Clinton for one evening performance only, Thursday night, July 17. "Mutt and Jeff" is a musical show catering to the masses of the ordinary theatregoer. The rural hydro offices for this district will probably be located in Clinton, negotiations for quarters being underway, 15 YEARS AGO June 16, 1955 Nearly 2,000 persons, both civilians and airforce personnel took the opportunity last Saturday to visit RCAF Station Clinton arid see what goes on in Canada's only, and the world's largest Radar and Communications School: Highlight of the event for Clinton folk was the ceremonial presentation of the Union Jack to Mayor M. J. Agnew . . . As a special Mark of Air Force Day, the RCAF ensign was erected On the Library Park flag pole in Clinton pri Saturday morning. The new Baptist Church in Ilayfleld Wag dedicated in special service On Sunday evening when Pastor A. R. Pyke, London, Was in attendance. 10 YEARS AGO June 1$, 1960 Harry L Sturdy, Albert Street, „Clinton was named eheriff Of Huron County and the appointment approved by the Cabinet of the Province of OritariO last Thursday morning, J. E. 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