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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-08-13, Page 4THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 , 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper AssOciation and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number. 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 pet year; U.S.A., $7.66 KEITH W, ROULOON — Editor J. HOWAAD Al1'kt$1 — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart Of Hurtin County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OP RANA IN CANADA Modern day serenity OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays . 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 Thursday Evenings by appointment R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 INSURANCE K. w. COLOUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482.9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS 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 — 4824390 ,......."1\s00..1 ,0,,NN\111',.••.\\1••111.•1•1,0.1...\\\NNN\\1 DIESEL 'Pumps and Injectors Repaired For All Popular Makes Huron Fuel Injection Equipment' hayfield Rd., Clinton-482-7971 that, to quote the title of the piece, You Can Learn To Be Compatible. Naturally, this will ring a bell with every married girl and boy. I suppose there's never been a match in which the participants didn't confront such a problem. I know a man who has what amounts to almost a mania for Chinese food, which his wife detests. Another craves to spend every free moment under sail while his first mate becomes violently ill simply by setting foot on 'a deck. Such are - the acorns of disagreement which may grow into mighty oaks of hate. But I can't go along with Dr. Thomas that these may be smoothed away by "adjustment" which would mean the martyrdom of sacrifice. No man who gives up chow mein 'in the interests of harmony is going to be a happy husband. Far better, it seems to me, is the simple acceptance that such incompatibility is inevitable and that you can only learn to live with it. k . 4,%at.t,gza, 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News-Record August 14,1895 Mr. Wm. Hale is here on a visit froin Chieago, He came on his wheel from Sarnia, Mr. Geo, 11 McTaggart broke the record at Sturgeon Point by landing a magnificent black bass weighing six and a half pounds. Natural gas has been struck at Chatham. Owing to the dangerous' conditions of St. Paul's Church tower, hereafter the bell will not ring until repairs are effected. All church goers should bear this in Mind. The little sparrows have about a quarter of a ton of hay and straw stowed away in the tower, Mr. James Howe has added to the interior Of his residence a handsome square piano. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record August 12,1915 John Neilands, Sam, Brown, and John Brown are going west to harvest the fields. The citizens of Clinton are subscribing for a machine gun to be presented to the 33rd Regiment as Soon as they are eXpeeted to go Co the front. Miss Olive Cooper returned last Week from Toronto, Where she hat been taking a spodel course summer school at the uttiVetsitY. Please be careful in Youth in Clinton and district must surely be in a deplorable state of Mind when it will stoop to assaulting a town recreational director because he attempted to protect town property. In fact,'youth must maintain a low set of values when it will maim and destroy almost anything in the name of fun, a night out. We fully Understand that the type of young persons who would get involved in such activities represent just a small minority of the whole group. They are the rebels, the unreasonable few. Yet adults — all adults, not just a few — must pick up the tab for this insignificant but bothersome segment of society.. • Adults — taxpayers if you like — must repair thee damages. and hire the peace Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. That's an old saying that might be reworded to fit a situation that has been bothering some folks more and more lately; everybody talks about the unfair base for collecting education taxes, but nobody does anything about it. Not , so! The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is making firm strides now to have education taxes raised through some other channel than outdated land assessments. Though they aren't making constructive alternate suggestions, they are insisting that property assessment is not a fair base by which to collect education dollars. It has Icing been the Ontario ,F of stand that land should support those things pertaining to land and. people should maintain those things pertaining to people. There seems to be merit in that thought. Members, of the F of A believe they have been patient.' , They feel now they must shock the government into action on this matter and they are asking rural and urban ratepayers all over Ontario not to pay their education taxes this year, To add even more impetus to their fight, legal counsel for the Ontario F of A has advised that since no board of education in the province of Ontario, except Halton County Board of Education, was able to set a budget before March 1, 1970, legally no municipality in Ontario, except those 'municipalities in Halton County, has to pay school taxes during' 1970. In short, it now seems that the F of A can achieve its goal by legal means — and this could prove very attractive to the ratepayers in Ontario. In Huron County, a public meeting has been called for August 31 in Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, to inform all interested persons about the F of A proposals, Members of federal and provincial parliament and municipal councils have been invited as well as any citizen for or against the F , of A proposition. The idea is to hash over everything and then reach an with decision — preferably in favor with the F of A viewpoint, Truly there is interest. The regular August meeting of the HUron F of A attracted about 30 persons on a hot sticky night in the middle of the harvdst season! How many more will show up at the end of the month to hear what promises to be a hot and heavy debate if present plans take shape? A quick chat with Roy B. Dunlop, superintendent of financial affairs for the Huron Co6nty Board of Education revealed that all but two municipalities in Huron County have complied with the beard's request to receive half the educational levy at the end of June, 1970. It is believed that the Huron F, of A will 4 Clinton News-FiePPrd, Thi-ltpciOY, August I, 197Q Editorial comment We don't tare if . you think we're right or wrong We care only that you think. Youthful offenders. Needs closer scrutiny be pressing ratepayers therefore to hold back the entire second instalment of their taxes to offset the portion already paid to the board of education. Obviously, someone will have to borrow heavily to keep the wheels turning smoothly if tax dollars are not forthcoming on the normal dates. That, • too, costs money which will have to be repaid. Mr. Dunlop pointed out that the provincial government is already paying 69.2 percent of the elementary school costs and 54.7 percent of the secondary school expenses in Huron County. The provincial government, of course, is all of us. We are not opposed to the principle demands of the F of A. There may indeed be a more fair base on which to collect educational costs. We aren't convinced though, that the tactics employed by the F of A to bring about this change are in the interests of the entire population of Oritario. Government must have concern for all people and they must weigh the consequences carefully before taking any new steps. We think the F of A should be prepared to offer some alternate method by which education taxes could be gathered. And we wonder if it wouldn't be wise if the F of A took some time to really dig into all the implications of their proposal before whipping the population into a frenzy. officers to curb this manful enthusiasm which results in thousands and thousands of dollars worth of devastation each year in the province. Frankly we're a little tired of paying the bills AND accepting the blame for the outrageous behaviour of some young people. We think it is about time that this high geared, high sounding generation of teenage idealists began to show their real "thing", if they have it. We think they should step forward and accept their responsibilities. If the good kids outnumber the bad, let them govern them by whatever means they deem • necessary and, just; Let them keep their own kind in line or, like adults, accept the consequences as a body which either stands or falls together. Summer time, when the living is easy; fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high Remember that old song? It just about sums up how the children feel these warm balmy days of summer. Nothing much to do either but get on that old• bike and head out to the creek..... We don't know what it was the boy was thinking about but he was riding his bike and looking back over his shoulder and' driving straight into the front end of our car. Maybe he was watching a cloud. or a bird. It could have been a ball soaring in the air. His face showed horror as he returned to the present. Our face too turned pale with fright. Bicycle and automobile just brushed the thin line which held them apart. Children, take special care to keep your mind on the business at hand when you are riding your bicycles this summer. Leave the daydreaming until the bike is parked safely down by the creek. And motorists, be on the alert for unthinking children who are having a wonderful vacation — at all costs. When you see a bicycle, take a little extra special pare, at least until the summer slowdown is past. Beware bicycles While bathing in the river oh Thursday last, 14 year old Stanley Falconer rescued Master Gary Cooper and his sister from what might have been a fatal accident as they had gone beyond their depth and might have drowned. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record August 11,1955 Some of the housing units now being erected on the Permanent Married Quarters at R.C.A,P. Station, Clinton, known as Adastral Park, are expected to be ready for occupation by mid-September. Gerald Raw, forrh'erly of Zurich, and brother of Mrs. Lawrence Denoinme, Clinton, received special honour during the recent visit of the royal couple in Norway. Mr, Raw and family were presented to her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mr. Raw is presently the first secretary of the Canadian Legation in Norway. First Class Scout Steven Brown will represent the Clinton troop at the World Jamboree in Niagara. Others in attendanee Will be Assistant; Scoutmasters Arthur Tyndall and Gordon Scribbles, eating three ice cream cones from the nearby confectionery shop, with the growing conviction that she'd 'changed her mind. True, she was on time to the second, but I should have known then that I was destined to spend years and years of irritably consulting my wrist watch. On those three occasions when she had a pressing engagement in a maternity ward the problem• of getting 'the show' on the road assumed' panic, proportions. It was only by coaxing, brow-beating, entreaties and threats, that I was consistently able to get her there, on the average, six hours before the performance. Dr. Thomas, I know, would suggest that we both "adjust" to prevent divorce or homicide, but we have found our own solution, thank you. It is my practice to announce that I am ready, start the car, race the motor and honk the horn repeatedly. Occasionally I shout. My wife, on the other hand, assumes an air of implacability and serenity, doing the vast number of pitty-patty little last-minute chores that remain a mystery to the male. Sometimes she will say, "Let's see, now, what have I forgotten?" This, of course, is just a twist of the knife. It is all a game, part of the sport of matrimony, and the fact that I have cunningly set the clock ahead 20 minutes has kept me from the clutch of the psychiatrists. Early and late Why, bless my soul, if here isn't yet another of those do-it-yourself, home-analysis articles that seeni of late to have been. flowing from the pens of every psychiatrist. In this case it is a Dr. J. K. Thomas who makes the indubitably valid point that every marriage has a measure of incompatability ("When I want Like W. C. Fields who once .to go out, he wants to stay wrote a theatre manager, home; I like fish, he hates it") "Would you kindly return to and offers his suggestions sofa'' this :address the white gloves which my wife will leave in Seat `A', Row 'Y' next Friday," I know with utter certainty that I am doomed inexorably to wait. If I were to say to my wife today, "I want you to 'be ready to go out to dinner at 6:30 p.m. on the day of my 65th birthday" — that is, giving her something like a quarter of a century to prepare for this grisly event — she would be ready at 6:50 p.m. And then she would say, "You're rushing me." It is only fair to concede, at this point, that my wife's defence of this chronic unpunctuality is her claim that I am always 20 minutes early. One of the supreme moments of triumph in her life is when, having cajoled and harrassed her into an , early departure, we arrive at a party or a concert a full half hour before anyone else. She fairly beams with vindication. This has been going on since the very day when we exchanged the vows. How well I recall that bitterly cold January day, standing around waiting at the church, "0- ntaisinti :.moo. ttut Miss Sara Agnew, 'who has been on a vacation trip, returned to her home on Monday night. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record August 7,1930 Mr. Paterson, the new bank manager of the Royal Bank, has taken Mrs. T. Jackson's house on High St. Douglas, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Andrews, had the misfortune to have a finger badly injured in the electric washer one day Iast week. Miss Norma Bentley, who has been with the Sherlock-Manning people for several years in the London office, has returned to town and will be in the head office in Clinton, Oliver Rands, Sault Ste. Marie, spent last Week With his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Jabez Rands. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record August 0,1945 Ken Mettler has purchased the threshing outfit front Lloyd Picot and is busy at work among the ('inners. Mr. add Mrs. ken kobertori and daughter, SMidra, London, spent a IOW days last week with Mt, and Mrs, G.D, Robertori. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Nediget and Mr., and Mrs, Joseph Becker Spent the weekend at Tobermory, SE A/ KV:5 ALL SEFIV ICES ON DAYLIGHT 'TIME ONTARIO STREET UNITED. CHURCH. -,. " 'THE FRI1141)1--Y CHURCH," a, Pastor: nv. H. W. vYQ11/24FPR, U B.Sc., 13,C6rn,, BMA Qrgantst: h4.155 1,01$ ORASBY, ,A.R.C.T. 0 A SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 The cengregatioe will worship at the Wesley-Willis Church during the month of August with Rev. H. W, Wonfor ,preaching, INIIIIIIIIINIIIINIMIN11.11018111.11.1.111111.11.011100011111.111811. Wesley-Willis ---' Holmesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOVVATT, C.D., 8.A., 6.0., D.D., Minister MR, LORNE POTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 WESLEY-WILLIS 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship and Junior Congregation. (Ontario St. Church will worship with Wesley-Willis Church during August). Rev. H. W, Wonfor, preacher. Sermon Topic: LOYALTIES THAT ARE TRAGEDIES Mrs. Alice Andrews, soloist this Sunday 111111111111111111111111111111111111M111111111111111111111111111111111.111111 111111111.1111111111 CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Avenue ,Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.O. Services: 10:00 a.m, and 3:00 pm, (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, interim Moderator Rev. G. L. Royal We mourn the passing of Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A. Church and Sunday School discontinued for the month of August. ,. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 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. ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN" CHURCH ' ' tirritiiii — ' SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 _ TRINITY XII The congregation is asked to worship at St. Thomas Church, Seaforth Matins and Sermon CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street • Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. \\\,..\\\\\,..1%,,‘1% \•\%1N000...1%,,,NNV\NNN\N\N\N\\N\ ; Business and Professional , , 11:....044...., , 10 YEABS AGO The Clinton News-Record August 11,1960 Mrs. W. R. Finale has been named assistant superintendent at Clinton Public Hospital, Clinton Horses set new records at Woodbine, Solar Dee owned and driven by Bill German finished second in a photo finish, Btreaniline Dee owned by Dr, S. Elliott and jack Little won the feature event for a $1,000 purse at Batavia N.Y. Marjean Chief owned by Lorne Brown and hick Jacob won a $900 purse at Woodbine and Obtained a new record of 2,0(3 1/5, The partnership in which I hold a half interest has had to bridge a truly formidable 'schism since my wife and I are divided 'n no less an issue than time itself. I have come to accept the fact that my wife is going to go through our lives 20 minutes behind me.