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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-08-13, Page 144 _Clinton News-Record, . T. hursday, August 212, '197Q .fditorial moment Laurels to the. Mayor Praise must go to Mayor Don Symons for his move last Week to start the ball rolling in the cleanup of the Bayfield River and the acquisition of more recreational and camping grounds in Clinton, At last week's council meeting, the mayor noted -that all indications in the Ontario Governments preliminary report on, the Midwestern Ontario Region, released a month ago, point to Clinton being designated as a recreational area. He Pointed out that perhaps it would be best for the area to get ready now so it could take best advantage of the situation. He added that the most obvious place to start is the Bayfield valley at the southeast side of town. Concern over the state of the Bayfield watershed has been expressed from many sides. Bayfield village council has been worried about erosion of the lakeshore near the mouth of the river and last week Seaforth town council asked the minister of energy and resources to add all of Goderich, Stanley, Tuckersmith apd Hibbert townships and the town of Seaforth to the Maitland Valley conservation area so that the whole of the Bayfield watershed could be properly looked after. The concern has also been echoed by the two major newpapers in the area, the News-Record and the Huron Expositor. Both Bayfield and Seaforth seem to feel that their future lies in becoming associated with the Maitland area. To us, however, it would seem Mayor Symons' proposal of amalgamation with Tuckersmith to develop the area south and east of Clinton, is a better arrangement. If this type of joint co-operation could be extended throughout the whole watershed, it would be better than lumping the area in with the Maitland. Although the Maitland authority has been working since 1951, it covers such a vast area that it has not yet solved all its own problems. By joining this area, municipalities along the Bayfield might find they are helping to pay for improvements to other areas and that it is a long time before the authority got around to their own problems. By setting up a separate authority for the Bayfield, either formally or informally, the local governments are assured that their own problems will be dealt with immediately and that there will be complete concentration on righting faults along the Bayfield, not at Gorrie or Listowel. So far, however, everyone has been saying what should be done, and no one has taken action. We urge the mayor to go ahead and fight for his proposal. Town council should call representatives of all municipalities along the river's route to discuss joint action. They should consult the provincial and federal governments to see what assistance they can give. Action is needed at once on this matter and Clinton should take the initiative. Proud to be a Canadian? Sometimes, in one's less generous moments, it is easy to wonder how he can be proud to be a Canadian. It sometimes seems that Canadians are the most block-headed, selfish and pernicious nationality of people on earth. They are the kind of people who scream about high taxes, but yell at the same time for more medicare, grants to the arts, subsidies to farmers, streets, sewers, schools and a hundred and one million other things. The kind of people who tell the government to get tough on inflation, but 'won't sacrifice a Thin/ dollatt'4'virdek to help the cause. The people who rant about government inefficiency but groan when the government budget cutbacks pinch them a little. They are the same people who want to be completely independent to the United States, ,but not if it means that they might have to go without their colour television or automatic dishwasher for another year or so. They are the people same people who grumble at a party about what the younger generation is coming to while they leave the kids to run the streets at home. They're the people who call for a crackdown on crime, but don't think that taking towels home from the motel they stayed at on their holiday is a no-no. And they're the people who shake their heads about the kids travelling the country without jobs this summer and then remember '"no§tagioly :the thirties With its'h!arda:tijbs aernpri`'N frig the ',ails. The ones who worry about drugs and drown their sorrows in a half-bottle of rye. Yes, we're a strange people, the Canadians, and maybe someday we will grow up enough to deserve the beautiful land we've been given to live in. Dumping fill along the Bayfield Would a conservation area stop this? 5' ltmo Never walk alone ALL, SERVICES • ON DAyLidHT TIME FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Clinton, Ontario SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 7:30 p.m. SPEAKER: Rev. 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Huron Fuel injection Equipment Bayfield Rd,, Clinton--'-482-7971 THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 established 1881 ' Clinton News-Record A reernber of the Canadian weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration Mieribee ee 0011 SUeStRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, 56.00 per year; U.S.A., $7,50 i(EitH W, 14OULSTON -.- Editor "HOWArib AttkEN" General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart Of Huron county Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 the noke RADAP IN CA NA A4 Directory Evil omens casting a This summer I feel distinctly that some malicious witch or warlock has put a curse on me, Don't ask me why, I ain't done nothin' to nobody. There's been nothing serious or tragic. Just a lot of little things that seem to wind up spelling hex. Why, for example, should there be a huge wasp's nest in the middle of my hedge, when the filthy little brutes have never built there before? Why should I trip over a rock, take a chunk the size of a silver dollar out of my shin, and sprain my thumb trying to save myself? Why should my waist-line suddenly leap from 31 to a snug 32? Why should my daughter fall in love with a guy of whom she says, "I wouldn't marry him if he were the last man in the world"? But it's not just what hap- pened to the, I seem to .be carrying the spell around with me, and am beginning to feel like a Jonah. Went to a delightful party. Everyone was pleasant. Except that a couple of 200-pounders Wound up 10 a state of deep umbrage. That's a sort of purple. One had told the other, during a discussion of exercise, jogging and waistlines, that he was "just a big, fat pig." Not nice. But why was # the only male left to keep them from Coming to carnage? All 140 pounds of me. spell Went sailing with friends on a perfect summer day. Why did a terrific storm come out of nowhere? Because I was on board. I'm sure of it; Last Sunday, went out as crew with a friend who races his sailboat. He didn't figure on winning, with a crewman who doesn't know a lull from a larboard, But he also didn't figure on winding up two miles behind every other boat, includ- ing one he beats regularly. We hit every patch of dead calm in the bay, while the other boats invariably caught a breeze which would vanish by the time we got there. Why? Another friend invited me for a day's fishing. Came the day, ideal for fishing. Came also a phone call saying he'd put a rod through his crankshaft, or some- thing equally horrible, and his motor was ruined. You think that was just coincidence? The other night I did go fishing with my brother-in-law. Good boat, good motor, lots of worms and minnows, perfect time of evening, arid a hot spot where he'd picked up some nice bass the day before. I don't have to tell you what we caught, About four pounds of weeds, While a chap in the next boat hauled in a hunker, Last night we went out to visit another brother-in-law. They'd taken a cottage to get away from the tetrible heat of the city for a week. That brief visit fixed him. Today it's sweaters and long pants weather, with a howling wind and the temperature down about forty degrees. They'll have a miserable week, thanks to me. These are just a few incidents from a catalogue as long as your leg. But I'm beginning to think that whom the gods would destroy they first make mad, And I'm getting mad. I can put up with my normal stupidity. Like a dunner from the revenue people for a $65 line. Or going out to put our suitcases in the trunk of the car and finding it full of elm blocks for the fireplace which my father-in-law had given me last Spring, and having to unload them in the heat and my brand new sport shirt. Or having the cat claw me about the head and shoulders on three separate oc- casions, because she doesn't like driving in a car. That was my wife's stupidity. But f can't help feeling that there's something sinister, some kind of a trend, in all the other little "accidents." Somebody out there is trying to get me. Today I'm convinced of it. Woke up With violent stomach cramps that turn me into A white, sweating wretch about every twenty minutes. Ate and drank tine seine things last night As the others in the hOuse. Why should I be the only one to wind up with dire rear? Why? The doctor friend who inspired the recent notes here on the subject of loneliness has now sent me two reports of experiments which seem to demonstrate that mental isolation can, indeed, cause medical problems grave enough to account for suicide. Each of these investigations was intended to study human behaviour under the stress of what's technically known as "sensory deprivation." They bear very directly on the sort of person who, having some particular cause for unhappiness, withdraws into himself. Such detachment, it appears, almost always leads to despair. The Lancet, the British medical journal, summarized the conclusions of these tests in this way: "Continual sensory bombardment is necessary to the maintenance of consciousness, awareness of one's relationship to the environment, and intelligent adaptive behaviours." In other words, a man must maintain his interests, his broad and varied involvements in society, his wholeness, or he's inviting the blues and the heebie-jeebies in their most grotesque form. At the New York University School of Education 14 freshmen, chosen for intellect and stability, were closeted in sound-proof rooms for eight hours. They wore earphones through which was fed what is known as a "white" sound — ef 75 YEARS AGO AUGUST 21, 1895 Bicycle Collision Fortunately it was not a case of the irresistible meeting the immovable. In the early twilight of Monday evening Mr. Whitely, of Princess St., was on his way in a low two-wheeled trap to bring home Mrs. W. from another part of town. His bicycle was propelled by quadrupedal power. When on Mary St. midway between Orange and Issac, baker Castle, with bicycle propelled by bipedal' power, attempted to climb over the dashboard of Mr. Whitely's trap. He succeeded only partially. He landed on the dashboard bending its iron supports so that it came in contact with Mr. Whitely's knees, then he rebounded with the lightness of a setting of hie own sponge: and his nekt situation was prone on the earth and his untamable bike ditto, -Maher of them at all injured, The damage to Mt. Whitley"s trap will not exceed $20 which Mr. 0. will be called upon to pay, In answer to boc, Blaekwell Castle said the collision waS not intentional on his part, but arose ftotti his 'looking on the greyOtirie. On lookers declare that lie is a match for gitrimerrnati in speed and could take a five-harred gate with all one, that is, which obscures all recognizable noises. Translucent plastic eye-cups blotted out all recognizable forms, In the English experiment the 20 volunteers were nurses and hospital workers also selected for their alertness and emotional stamina. They were asked to remain in solitary confinement as long as they could, permitted ,to walk about in' the isolation '.'chamber, beet° have no.eontact with the outside. Here was loneliness enforced and concentrated. And it was unbearable. All 14 of the American freshmen found the experience frustrating and three gave up after less than three hours. One who went through the eight hours said, "Boy, you couldn't get me to stay any longer unless you held a gun over me!" They found they were unable to think normally, that their minds went as "white" as the sound in their ears, that they were disorganized, unstable and "de-personalized." The English volunteers, though some quit after just five hours and others lasted 92 hours, shared the agony. Their thinking quickly became disorganized and disordered, the power of concentration slipped away, and, in each case, there were attacks of anxiety, tension or panic that caused them to give up the test. It is my doctor friend's belief that these results, though the the ease of the most practiced Irish hunter. 55 YEARS AGO AUGUST 19, 1915 Gordon Cunningham, express driver, was badly shaken' up and painfully injured on Wednesday when he was thrown from his rig by a collision with an automobile. The Doherty Piano factory starts on eight hours a day next week. The addition to C. C. I. is almost completed and will open when school opens on. September 7. The fire brigade had a run Monday when the chicken coop of Thomas Cook was discovered on fire. The building was practically destroyed, 40 YEARS AGO AUGUSt 14, 1930 The 6.08 train came in on Saturday for the last trip. It Will hot be missed as much during the surnmer, but it will be missed in the whiter, The Rural Hydro people, who failed to collie to terms with S. S. Cooper in regard to taking over his premises on Itattenbury Street, have taken B. Langford's garage Mid it is expected will stabil take possession. The staff at A, 'P. Cooper's store held their picnic at Bayfield yesterday. 25 'YEARS AGO AUGUST 113, 1946 Miss Clete Potter has accepted tests were not designed specifically for the purpose, dramatize the plight of many would-be suicides since they demonstrate that mental isolation can lead only to irrational behavior. He points out that the statistics on suicide show that more men than women' destroy themselves and, sure enough, in ;these particular ,tests the women Voliinteers were able to survive in better shape and for longer periods than the men. ' It was established, too, that it tended to be the placid and calm person with an intelligence level at or somewhat below average who was best able to deal with this kind of sensory deprivation. Again, the suicide studies indicate that it is the more intellectual, sensitive and imaginative types who are most liable to exaggerate and intensify their problems in solitude. The tests, in fact, might offer guidance for anyone who wrestles with guilt or anxiety, the reminder that those problems which cannot be solved frontally may be side-stepped and put in their proper perspective by living life fully and with the infinite variety it can offer. These clinical findings of the perils of isolation, in short, demonstrate that the only "cure" is to re-join society rather than to elect the lonelier path. a position in Churchill's shoe store. Reg. Cudmore who recently received his honorable discharge from the R. C. A. F. has joined the staff of the Clinton Post Office. Robert S. Reid, Varna, has purchased the brick cottage on Ontario Street from Lloyd Turvey, Miss Jean Morgan left for Toronto last week to resume her studies in physio-therapy at the University Of Toronto. 15 YEARS AGO AUGUST '18, 1955 Mr. and Mrs. Grant Stirling and Mr, and Mrs. Keith Miller left on Sunday to spend a few days along the St. Lawrence River, Orrin and Gerald Baird are visiting their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Love, Caro Miele., this week. Mrs. Harry Williams again placed first among the ladies in the haixed bowling jitney 011 Monday night at the local greens. Miss Jean Houston M. A. Toronto, is holidaying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. 1.Icittston, Auburn, 10 YEARS AGO AUGUST 18, 1960 Alt Albino Groundhog is a fairly rare itenl...but the folk at tine Jack Taylor farm, Concesaion. 2,• Stanley Township, ONTARIO STREET UNITIED CHU,RtrH "THE F.I irritn.Y. Pastor; REV. H. W. WONFOR, B.Sc., B.Com., B.D, Organist: MISS J..015 PRASBV, ,A.R.C.T. Wesley-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOWATT, 13.4, D.D., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 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: "THIS MARTYR COMPLEX" Organ Solo: Mr, Lorne Dotterer CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Avenue Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.D. Services: 10:00 a.m. and 3:Q0 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- 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 23 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 Clinton SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 TRINITY XIII Holy Communion and Sermon. The Rev. Canon F. H. Paull CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. \ •••,. \ \N. \ \ %Ns. \ N.\ \ \ • \ Business and Professional 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 5244661 SO. \ \AN S. N, • dug One out mid had him in Ronald Seotchiner recei captivity a that time, liis Otteert's Scout Badge at The first swim Meet to be anniversary service in held in the Clinton Swimming Andrew's United Chu Pool was held yesterday with Bayfield, last Sunday. It w dozens of children taking part, special occasion in another Sunny, hot Weather set the as Well for the Rev. stage, arid Corporal Douglas Renner, Teeswater was bac R. C. A. Station the village to preach Clinton Wae ehlef starter. Ann iversery eery ice. SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 The congregatipn will worship at the Wesley-Willis Church during the month of August with Rev, H, W. Wonfor preaching. INSURANCE K. W. COLOUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTAT Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE -- REAL ESTA INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 J. T. Wise, Res.: 482-7