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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-06-25, Page 44 Clinton. News-Record, Thursday, 4une 25, 1970 Editorial .comment Our emphasis is wrong School is out, For the next two months hundreds of local youngsters are free to pursue their fancies. Some will, decide to work and will be lucky enough to find a job to put extra money in their Pockets. Some won't be able to find jobs as they feel the pinch of the current economic situation. Some are too young to work. Most of the students have things they've been waiting all year to do, but in most cases they will accomplish their plans long before the holidays .are over and will have time on their hands. Several hundred students wandering the town looking for action mean problems. The police department is braced for the usual acts of vandalism and, petty crime. Authorities are trying their best to head off the trouble. Doug Andrews, Clinton recreation -director, has programs , in lacrosse and basketball planned to supplement the usual swimming classes and other pool activity. Hard working adults from the community will be donating their time to run baseball programs during the summer. All of these efforts make Clinton lucky. Our recreation program is better than many towns our size. Yet there is one thing wrong with our approach to recreation and with the approach of most other towns in our area. We are making a mistake when we put all the emphasis on activities that must be supervised. The result is that adults must always be on hand when the kids want to play and adults are not always available, Then too, kids want to be free of constant supervision of adults. It's strange that we have become_ involved only in the most expensive aspects of recreation such as swimming pools and arenas while we've ignored less expensive facilities. Tennis courts are relatively cheap to build, require little upkeep and can be used without supervision, yet few towns in this part of the country have any. Outdoor basketball courts provide hours of amusement for Young and old with little cost to the taxpayer. Another possibility is•the formation of a track club, although this would require some supervision. Track interest in the schools has grown greatly in the last couple of years and extra-curricular track might find great popularity. However you look at it the fact is, not taking away from the excellent job the Recreation Committee and volunteers have been doing, that we could be giving our young people better facilities for their recreation. The cost of providing these facilities would probably be less than the cost of repairing the damage of vandalism that such a program might prevent. To be sure there will never be an end to all crime among .youth, but at least we can try to cut down the problem as much as possible. The world is the victim In tackling the United States over Canada's proposed legislation on controlling pollution in the Arctic region, the Federal Government is waging .a struggle that surely has the backing of all mankind. History has proved that at certain stages of their development, the greed and ambitions of some nations have known no limits. The most monstrous crimes were committed, by whole peoples and nations, for the sake of personal gain. Today, the global powers are fighting for oil, and this is what the quarrel between the United States and Canada is all about. Oil decomposes in warmer climates, but a large-oil:A:411, imthe frigid Arctic apulc1 cause permanent damage with incalculable consequences. In fighting for pollution control, Canada is in the forefront of a campaign that is gaining pace around the world. Air and Water pollution, the indiscriminate dumping of industrial and household wastes, the carbon monoxide being discharged from hundreds of millions of cars in the world's cities endanger man's total environment. Already many cities in North America and Europe are covered by a permanent blanket of odious, disease-carrying smog. Now this sickness of the industrialized world is spreading to Japan, and is .threatening the bigger cities of Asia. Man's poisoning of his environment which can only be called a form of self-destruction, must be halted by tighter controls and wiser legislation. Canada's fight for an Arctic free of pollution may: well prove a test case. And this should be a battle that every Canadian must support with both words and concrete actions.-Contributed Oh, for the life of a teacher Grown-up ugly duckling no • .wis.g5ovigoo3,„:. Ve." •• Okay fellas, let's follow the Italians R SEMilictt ALL SERVICES QN DAYLIGHT TIME ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE- FrirENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. H. W. VVONFOR, B.Sc., B.Com., B.D. Organist: MKS-1.7(51-5 GRASBY„A.R.C.T., SUNDAY, JUNE 28th 11:00 a.m. -- Morning Worship and Junior Congregation (Wesley-Willis congregation will worship in Ontario St. Church until the end- of July). Sermon Subject: "THE LORD IS MY PACE-SETTER" Rev. A. J. Mowatt• Wesley-Willis -- Holnnesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTEP.ER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JUNE 28th HOLMESVILLE . 9:45 a.m. — Morning Worship and Sunday School. WESLEY-WILLIS The congregation will worship at the Ontario St. United Church until the end of July with Dr. Mowatt preaching and looking after pastoral work. 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 28th 9:30 a.m. — Holy Communion. 10:30 a.m. — Sunday School. 1 BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JUNE 28th 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. dit ST.. pAp L'S ANGLICAISPPHURCH""°11 ,V,WFT Clinton SUNDAY, JUNE 28th TRINITY 11:30 a.m. — Holy Communion and Sermon. CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, JUNE 28th Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.' Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\ \ Business and Professional , Directory \\\\\\.\\\\\I \\\\.\\\\\\ \\ \ \ \ \\•\ \ THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 ' dodo Clifton plews-Record. A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assodation, Ontario Weekly Newspaper AsSociation and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second chiii mail registration number — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7.50. KEITH W. ROULSTON Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE' HOME OR RADAR IN' CANADA everywhere, the report goes on, but particularly on the Amalfi and Adriatic coasts where there's never a closed season on hanky-panky. As one can readily see, the Agency's findings may reveal more about Anglo-Saxon women than they reveal about Italian men. , What's worse, it may be interpreted as a harsh judgment against Anglo-Saxon men generally, a group who, hitherto, have taken false comfort ,,in the , myth Latille*re'" lovers. If its true that the females of our tepid breed, responding to a stirring of the libido, are hot-footing it to the nearest Italian consulate for a visa instead of supporting home industry then, clearly, something is wrong. This can be particularly disturbing to any Canadian who has attempted to emulate the aggresive, whimsical, slightly arrogant Italian, only to get an Anglo-Saxon alligator-skin, purse smartly across the ear. It becomes all the more confused, geographically, when one realizes that men of our porridge-blooded race are attracted hypnotically to Italian women like Gina or Sophia. Maybe the only answer is for both sexes to go just a little Italian, to save all those plane fares across the Atlantic — and I mean to start on this right away. Show me a teacher in June, and I'll show you a character with a crumpled shirt, a wrin- kled brow, and a desperate look in his eyes. His spirit is treading the lush green of the golf course. His inward eye is contemplat- ing the dark swirl of water under a log in a trout stream. And his winter-fat, pudgy body is there in the classroom, which is more like a steam "bath. Room temperature, 90 degrees. Before hinf loll about 30 students, eyes glazed, minds turned to something impor- tant, like a swim, or a joyride, or just lyihg in the sun. • ,Chief difference between them is that the kids are ar- rayed in their coolest, while he, adhering to some ancient and ridiculous tradition, quiet- J37 steams in his swaddling of shirt and tie, jacket and trou- • sere'. The students are there only because they have to stick around to write last - hope tests, and find out whether they've been promoted or have to write the "finals." The teacher is there only because somebody, in his infinite wis- dom, has decreed that school will continue until a certain day in June. It's not exactly what we in the so-called profession's jar- gon call "a good learning situa- tion." Someday, someone with some common sense is going to close the schools on the first day of June, and open them on the first day of August. June is a month for joy in Canada, not imprisonment in a sauna bath. The days are long, the mos- quitoes haven't really found the range, and the world is green and 'glorious. By August,the sun has lost some of its blast, the days are shorter and that first wild lust for the lushness of summer has abated. School could run from 7 a,m. to 1 p.m., and there'd still be a decent chunk of a summer day to be enjoyed. It's not only the heat that makes June rough for teachers. It's the last-minute panic. There are 64 memos from the office, telling you to be in three places and doing three different things, at the same time. Or so it seems. There are the final exams to set, supervise and mark. There are marks to be mustered that would murder a mathemati- cian, and written down in six different places. There are new b'ooks to be ordered, and old books (about 10,000 in my case) to be sorted and counted and, stored. And everything is to a deadline that always seems to be yesterday. Some of the young, new teachers find it a traumatic experience. Something like trying to milk a cow while looking over your shoulder for the dangerous bull known to be in the same field. The oldti- mers just get irascible, and ignore the bull. But who can complain? There is the deep satisfaction of knowing that Joe Dough has passed and somebody else will have to teach him next year, that Naughty Nancy, she of the cocky walk and the talky talk, has her ring, and will be driv- ing nobody crazy next year ex- cept the poor simpleton who gave it to her. There is the sincere satisfac- fion of knowing that some of your graduating students will probably contribute a lot more to the world than you have, as doctors, nurses, teachers, engi- neers. There is a special touch of sadness when the kids in the two-year course, who are fin- ished with education, probably forever, inartict' 'ely tell you they have enjoyed their year withyou. Their future is not in pastel shades. They seem so young and vulnerable. You have a great wish that at least they'll . find happiness, if not affluence. • And finally, there are two glorious months ahead in which you don't have to leap to your feet and scuttle some- where like Pavlov's rats, every time a bell rings. I think I'll stick it for another year. It was only a question of time, I suppose, before the Italian government began to exploit one of the country's more inexhaustible natural resources — namely, the romantic ardor of nearly all the entire male population — and, by George, the day has come. I have before me an authorized and absolutely straight-faced press releaie from the official Italian Information Agency. It looks to me very Much guide.,2,,:. for Anglo-Saxon ladies whose pilgrimage to Italy may be,, motivated by more than a desire to study Michelangelo's version, in the Sistine Chapel, of the temptation and fall. It notes, not without a certain vanity, reports of complaints in the British and American press made by churlish female tourists who found Italian men "over-aggressive." Mama Mia! it seems to be saying; what kind of women are these? But far from getting angry, it seems, the Information Agency organized a survey of various tourist areas within Italy to determine exactly where the male population might be most inflammatory, or likely to pinch a bottom. It is a service now as complete and detailed as any Canad!'.a. list of camping sites. The research was apparently . conducted by a discreet poll of the more amiable English Lady 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News-Record June 26, 1895 Commencing on the 1st of July the dry-goods merchants of Clinton will, during the heated term, close their stores at 6 p.m., except Saturdays. Previous to his marriage the members of the lacrosse club presented Mr. B. J. Gibbings with a handsome easy chair. Chatham, Ontario becomes a city on July 1st. Mr. John Ransford was elected at the Synod meeting in London a member of the Executive and delegate to the Provincial Synod. In several churches prayers were offered last Sunday for rain, and it came in this section during the night. 55 YEARS AGO June 24,1915• Up to date the Ontario government has issued 31,000 motor licences, as many as were issued during the whole of 1914: John A. Bean has passed his final examinations of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Miss Tiplady, teaelrer at Vanleek Hill Collegiate, is at home for the summer months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tiplady, Ontario Street, Mew& Chant, Wiseman, Moore, Monaghan, Chapman and Hall drove to Seaforth on Sunday and attended the IOOF decoration service there. tourists who had sampled the native hospitality at various water-holes and, if one is to judge from the report, found it therapeu tic. Some of the more general findings may be of interest in our own colder-blooded climes. For one thing, a definition of the ideal, composite Italian man has been compiled on the basis of the frank replies of the Anglo-Saxon female tourists. "On the question of the ideal Italian man," notes, "the linglish' woman tourist likes him eb masculine and a little arrogant, but with the affectionate and whimsical nature of a child." ' One particular English girl is quoted directly: "He is a man Who avoids asking us what we want, but who gives us a chance to be discreet in our choice. He's someone who knows what we are thinking and doesn't want a lot of asking, someone who's never bored or tired, but who wants to amuse himself, dance, sing and make love. Even though he may be on the hunt like other men, he is a hunter who knows what he's doing." I say! Another defines the general behaviour of Italian men as "inviting a pleasant courtship that often pleases feminine vanity, gives no bother and makes one pleased to be a woman." Such charming lady-killers are to be found in abundance 40 YEARS AGO June 19,1930 Cpt. Edwards and Lieut. Williams of the local Salvation Army Corps have had orders to farewell and will shortly leave Clinton. Joshua Cook, Sarnia, is spending a holiday with relatives and friends in town. H.P. Plumsteel, E. A. Fines, T. G. Scribbins and Amos Castle were amongst those who went to Toronto last week. 25 YEARS AGO June 21, 1945 LAW Lois Moffatt, Comox, B.C., Vancouver Island is spending two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moffatt. • Cpl. Bill Leppington, Camp Borden, Mrs. Leppington and little son Billy, were in Clinton to welcome home his brother,• P/0 Gordon Leppington. J.W. "Bill" Counter, Fred Hovey, and Gordon Leppington all have returned home from overseas. John Sutter was elected president of the Clinton Lions Club at their regulax meeting, E.J. "Dick" Jacob is the retiring president. 10 YEARS AGO June 23,1960 Gerald Wallis, son of Mr. and Mrs. 'Charles Wallis ' R.R. 1, Bayfield, has been chosen from the cadet corps of Clinton District Collegiate Institute to attend this summer's National' Cadet Camp at Banff, Alberta. Miss Betty Durnin, daughter of Warden John Durnin, R.R. 3, Auburn, began work Monday on the staff of the Ontario Department of Agriculture here in Clinton. Miss Marilyn Riley has successfully completed her second year in the honours course in mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. 15 YEARS AGO June 23, 1955 In re-arrangement of the town streets department made necessary by the retirement of foreman Jack Woods, the Town Council has appointed Fred Trevena as working foreman of the department and Harold Gibbings to work with him. 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