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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-09-10, Page 4September is here, the kids are back to school and the first yellow is, starting to creep into the edges of the Maple leaves. Soon the first frost will come, the leaves will fall end the last of the fall fairs will be over Already some radio stations are telling us how many shopping days, are left 'tit Christmas. PA if you think christmas time is coming fast, your days of shopping for good people to sit on municipal councilS and school, boards are even fewer. This is an election year and 'the' decisions you make in a couple of months time, or the decisions you fail to, make, will be around to haunt you for the next two years, Now is the time to evaluate the job being done by those who now sit' on your council and school boards. Are .they doing a good job? Are they doing any job at all? Do you even know who the, representative from your ward or district is? The electors are fond of sitting around the kitchen table or at the coffee bar at the restaurant and scoffing at the latest crazy antics of the local council (whichever council happens to be their own). They call them uncomplimentary names and imply that they haven't done a satisfactory day's work since they took office. They're just a lot of politicians letting off hot air. But few of the, people who' complain the longest and loudest will accept the responsibility for putting the men they accuse of ineptness into office. Few will_ admit that they voted the people into office or that they didn't nominate anyone else so these people went in by accla'mation. • The coffee club pundits have some points on their side. Some people on most boards or councils aren't doing the best possible job. Most if not all are trying very hard to do the job to the best of their Involvement Jean Vanier who has dedicated his life to looking after retarded men in a small French village, recently spoke on radio of the reluctance of modern man to accept those who are poor or handicapped as equal human beings. Modern man, he said, puts up barriers so he won't feel the weight of his brother's distress. We give money to charity and feel we've done our bit. But, says Vanier, this IlaS a two-fold destructive influence — it makes the recipent feel less a person and it makes us feel superior. Nd involvement has really taken place. Recently a few aldermen toured the jail of a large city. This jail had been condemned for years by judges, lawyers and social workers — all without any remedial effect. The aldermen were ability, But effort and the wilt to toeri4010 not the only criteria as to who ahouk1 . on these governing bodies. You may hkaa man and think, he is,honest PM hard working but it doesn't mean he s,,.110019 he running a business that spends half a million dollars in the case Hof the town . council and more than ten *million in the case of the school ,board. Government today is big, big business and clever • business-minded men and women shOuld:be handling it. The time to take .a look at thOse who are presently handling the job is right now. There are still several Meetings before election time for you to see these represernatiVes in operation..Go to the 'meetings if possible. you.cannot-attend, at least read what information - is given in the newspapers: ,Evaluate what your representative. is doing, and if you don't like what you see, look around yOur ward or district for someone who can 'do a better job, Take a look at the job being done by' your Mayor •. or reeve and the deputy . reeve and.see if you think they are the best meri available. If they fall short of your ideal, lOok for someone else. We •aren't advocating 'a wholesale change of all governing bodies in the.area. We are urging a thoughtful review so that we can have the best :government available. The next two years will be extremely important for this area. We 'need men with the courage and know-how to guide us along the best road with such major changes as the closure 'of the air base and oncoming of regional government in the offing. • If there is no' election in Clinton this fall because, not enough candidates offer themselves, every citizen in the town • is guilty of helping to kill democracy, and has only himself to blame if the town disintegrates to a ghost town. in our society shocked to find• cells so small prisoners could not walk around, slop pails instead of toilets,' and ventilation so poor 'one alderman felt faint after 20 minute's of the foul air. The deterioration of human beings existing under such conditions was forcibly driven home to the city fathers when once. they had experienced them at close range. They had to become involved before any, reel understanding of. the situation and corrective action could follow. Now the jail is to be torn down and replaced' by one more humane. It is so with distress all over the world. We need to see and hear the distress of people as individual human beings rather than statistics on paper, and then seek direct ways of helping them. 4,:11i .31 .10 Parents of the world, rejoice • • \ N • N. \ N \ N \ \ \ N. \ N. N. N. \ N. N. N. N. N. N. '1/4 N. N. N. \ \ \ \ OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 Thursday Evenings by apOointment R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 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 INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 J. T. Wise, Res.: 482-7265 'ALUMINUM PRODVCTS For Air-Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and AWNINGS and RAILINGS JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis -- 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 .."\\"‘"‘NNS \‘‘‘‘\‘‘‘\‘‘....s.\\\'%\"‘"..¤'\N•\.", Directory — DIESEL ,Pumps and Injectors Repaired For All Popular Makes iHuron Fuel Injection 'Equipment taYfield ad., Clinton-482-797f THE' CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS.RECORD Established 1865 1924 • EAtablithed 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 081/ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) dariada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A.' OM KEITH ROU LSTO Editor J. HOWARD AlIgEhl General Manager Published every ThUrtday. at ' the heart Of Hurbit'CountY A Clinton* Ontario Population MTh . HOME OP PADAR IN CANADA Pie be careful in hiS. 4 ,Clinton News-Record, Thursday, September IQ, Editorial comment The time to judge. is now Birdie, meet baby Going back to school could be a traumatic experience, but it isn't. It's sad to see the summer go, and all those things you were going to do not done. But there's a certain excitement as we step into September, surely the finest month of the year in this country. ' It is certainly not a sad occasion for mothers of young children. Most of them heave a sigh of relief, right down to their sandals, at the thought of school opening, Children are wonderful creatures. But, like booze, .they should be taken in small doses. In summer, they are constant- ly wanting 'to eat, do something dangerous, or fight with their brothers and sisters. A young mother's nerves are tough, but can be stretched only so far. Even more grateful for our educational system are the par- ents of all those teenagers who didn't have a job this. summer, Most of them, even those who complain bitterly about high education taxes, could kiss the minister of education. on both cheeks. For, despite all the wonderful things to do in summer, there is nothing more bored than a teenager of either Sex, just hanging around home. I Can't blame then) lunch. I get bored silly myself, just hanging around home. And adO- Jescerice makes it even more' .41111111110— frustrating, because the body is full of beans, not. meant for, sitting in a lawnchair,, reading a book. But the pattern goes some- thing like this. Sleep till noon or later. Get up after the 'lunch dishes are done and make a shambles of the kitchen prepar- ing a messy hamburger. Leave the mess for Morn;Demand why there isn't a clean shirt. Slouch to the streets or the park, or hitchhike to the beach. Sit around and rap with• a gang of other bored teenagers. If dinner is at six, be sure to get home at either five or seven and demand to be fed immedi- ately. Then spend an hour in the bathroom, fancying up, and drift off to stay out half the night, muttering vaguely 'that you don't know where you're going, or when you'll be home, This, of course, after "borrowing," in plaintive tones, a little some- thing from the old man, With exceptions, this is how it . goes. It's demoralizing for all parties. And it's one reason even teenagers are glad to get back to school and their parents are not glad, but ecstatic. • Then there's the business of clothes for school. Little kids are sent off clean and shining, in fairly conventional apparel. Big kids battle every inch 'of the way. Big boys aren't so bad, though even they are showing peacodk tendencies. It's the' big girls who cause the trouble: After a summer in:shorts and jeans, sweatshirt and bare feet, ' they are exceeding loath to don dresses and •skirts and shoes, So they do the next 'best thing — battle their mothers over every item of attire, and demand something ;exotic: a buckskin jacket, a prayer shawl, a micro or maxi skirt, a see-through blouse. • • However; once they're badk at school, the kids enjoy it. For a while. They discuss _their summer romances and immedi- ately begin new ones. They brag about the wild times they had. They positively swagger if they've hitchhiked to Van. couver. They swiftly assess new teathers-a6c1 try to drive them up the wall. They groan with exaggerated dismay when ihey find out;that Old So-and-So will be teaching theft' again this year, And how do the 'teachers feel? Most of them are glad to get back to. work, They're biOke, or they're sick' of muddling around with their ,families or they _want to See hat kind of rotten time-table they have this year, 'or 'they just plain' love teaching. I know one vit' holt be glad to get back, for all the reasons Mentioned above, pig of yourself," Anyway, when my wife kept dropping hints, about this nine-day, high-protein diet 'I decided in the spirit of defiance to have a go at it. The fact that the diet promised a plethora of big, juicy steaks, steaming hamburger patties and sizzling lamb chops helped make up my mind, of course. It looked, in fact, as if I might be eating better than ever. Had. I given a little closer, study to what Wasn't there I'd have come quickly to my senses. Until you've been six days without them, take it from me, you've no idea how sentimental you can become about bread or potatoes or apple pie or cream and sugar in your coffee. Right now I could write a sonnet ,about a banana split. As for grapefruit, I'll probably never be able to look another in the face. My wife, knowing that I've the will-power of a cowardly tit-mouse, appointed herself as an armed guard to see that I kept to it. It's a funny thing about women's hearing. I can shout across the room at my wife to ask her about some bill from a dress shop. She'll have trouble hearing me. But let the refrigerator door click quietly open and, though she may be miles away, she'll, be there and scornful of my claim that I'm just window-shopping. I can't even take the dog for a walk up past the store without having to undergo a breathalyzer • test to see if I'm impaired with O. Henry'bars. Quite, a number of Indians have been here pulling flax at Will Falconer's farm. August was so wet that it only cost the council $41.93 for street watering. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record " September 4, 1930 This year there is a record attendance at the Clinton Collegiate. On Tuesday the students.registered the total then being 174. There is a, total of 60 in the first form this erm And as the capacity is more than overtaxed an extra teacher will be engaged to help relieve the congestion. Miss Mary R. Stewart resumes her teaching duties as principal of Blyth Continuation School. Jack Gibbings and Paul Hovey have returned from their hike which took them through Western Canada, down the Pacific Coast to Los Angeles and eastward through Chicagb and Detroit. 25 YkAll.S. AOO The Clinton. News-Record September 6,1945 13atkin's Locker has been recently taken civet by Llbyd Batkin a brother of the former Owner. Iteg, Otidinewe has purchased the Peter Cantelon hottse On T,his sort, of thing changes your whole outlook on food, quite apart from what it does to your waist-line. First thing in the morning, when you awaken, you're aware of something strangely foreboding. You search your mind. Is this the day you've the dentist appointment? No. Is the finance company due to take away all the furniture. No; that's next week. ' Then, with consciousness, it comes to you. It is the half grapefruit and black coffee that awaits you that's begun everything wrong. Life seems hardly worth getting up for. Gluttony, too, faces you on all sides. You pick up a magazine and there are ten thousand full-color pictures of forbidden goodies. You turn on the television and there is the Galloping Gourmet fixing something in a wine sauce that would totally wipe out every nine-day gain. The phone keeps ringing with people you haven't heard, from in years, inviting you to Italian or French, restaurants that you've never been able to afford before. Before you know it, Raquel Welch means nothing to you. You're crazy in love with Betty Crocker. Hence the apology. I'll' never laugh again, girls. As for dietir • again, I was never so convinc despite all the evidence to the contrary, that all the world loves a fat man. Princess St, from E. Ward. George Rinnball, who recently returned home after more than four years service in the RCNVR, has resumed his position with T. J. Riley in his grocery store. Lome Brown, who has served for several years in the RCNVR, has received his discharge and has returned to his home in Clinton. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record September 8,1955 The Legion Memorial Hall will be formally dedicated on Sunday evening next, when a public service Will take place, The Hall waS begun in 1952, with the cornerstone laying On November 11 of that year, and the official opening of the building the next. Beecher Streets spent the weekend in Hamilton, the guest of Dr. and MrS. Harold GibbS, and took in the rugby game between Hamilton and Toronto. Miss Luella Walkinsha* has returned froin a vacation spent in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and the Laurentian Mountains, "YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record Septeniber 8,1960 Mark Bender has been awarded the $200 scholarship by ONTARIO STBEFT UNJTED PHIJRCH, "1* FR irsibi.,:*? CHURCH" Paster: REV. W, WoNFOR, 8.coro, Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, SUNDAY,:SEPTEMBER 13th 9:44 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m,. — Morning Worship. "ON TAKING THINGS UP AGAIN" Wesley Willis -- „Holmesville United Churches REV, A, J. MOWATT, CAD,, B.A., 13,13 4, 0,0., Minister MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director • SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th WESLEY-WILLIS 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m, — Rally Day Service. Guest Preacher; REV. JAMES HUMMEL HOLME$VILLE 9:45 a.m, — Rally Day Service,' Guest Preacher: REV. JAMES HUMMEL 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 CHLO — Everyone Welcome — ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 9:30' a.m. — Morning Worship. Interim Moderator Rev. G. L. Royal Speaker: JOHN TURNER. 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. We mourn the passing of Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A. Madeleine Lane Auxiliary meets Tuesday, Sept. 15, at the home of Miss Mabel Harlley, 134 Albert St., 8:15 ..m. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th 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 'ANGLICAN6CHURCH-t—r Clinton SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th TRINITY XVI 1 30 a.m. — Parish Communion' and Sermon. 'immrsarsioramaxamir.AP CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. \1\1 1,. \\N. \ N.\ \\\\.. N.\\\N.N.N.\\NN,\N. \\\.\\ \\ \N.\ \ \\ Business and Professional the' University of Western Ontario Beard Of Governers, on the basis of high marks received in Grade 13 examinations written in June at C.D,C.I. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. tlion Bender, 11,11, 1, Varna. Seventy children front grades 4 to 8 from Goderith Township school area 'began wheel on Tuesday at the recently completed building in flohnesville. The two.roorn school has principal J.ohn SiertSerna and the intermediate robin Miss Mary Helen Yeo, , The nine-day agony Speaking of fat men, as we were last week, I should report that this is D-Day-Plus Six on the nine-day "wonder diet" I was talked into and I crave to make a public apology. I want to beg forgiveness from every plump woman whose agonies of shedding weight have provided me with comic material for so many years. I now perceive, ladies, that it's very much a one-sided joke, just as you said all along. Naturally,• you're going to wonder, right here at the beginning, how it is that a man with my svelte' dimensions (40-50-40) could possibly need to go on a diet, The answer is that for 27 years of my life I was built like a rake,. In school 'they called me "Skinny."" In the army I was known as"Slim." Hard to believe, .but -true. Then, when we'd made the world safe for democracy and I began 'to compensate for the four years of hunger that I endured in uniform, I started to burgeon. Soon, by the charts,* I was normal. But all things are relative and everyone who'd known me with angles refused to let me rest easy with contours.. My mother's reaction illustrates how cleanly my life has been divided, in terms of avoirdupois, in two parts. For 27 years she'd admonished me: "You don't eat enough to keep a canary alive." From then on she admonished me: "Stop making a 75 YEARS AGO The. Huron News-Record September 11,1895 Mr, J. W. Riter, who has for eight or ten years conducted the liquor store, has disposed of the business 'to Mr. Lack 'Kennedy. Dell, the little two year old daughter of Mr. Jacob Miller, fell off the verandah, a distance of three of four feet and broke her thigh bone, Mr. C. Joslin, who came here from British Columbia last spring after an absence of Some fifteen years, has purchased Mr. Wm. Carter's 150 acre farm on the 8th concession of Hullett. Deputy-Reeve Cantelon left on Monday for the' Eastern Garden of Eden, where apples are plentiful and to Spare. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record September 9,1915 While framing a sill at the home of Williain Jackson last Saturday, Dick Tasker had 'his right leg badly cut with an axe Which severed four of the arteries. Dick will be forced'to take a feW holidays during the next couple of months. John Carbett sold his farni on the eighth concession Of Willett to Jelin Shanahan WhO gets possession about the first of Noveniber, 1, I ))