HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-09-17, Page 4Listening to Mayor Donald Symons.
read out the - monthly pollee report at.
Town Council on Monday night, we came
to. the -concluSion that 1970 must set.
records for crime in .Clinton,
The reports included frauds, thefts,
assaults, sex crimes, auto thefts and
break-ins. Added to this. a murder, drug
,Offences and all sorts of vandalism and it
seemed we'd had just obOut every .crimp at
one time or another during the year.
We were wrong, of course, there was
one type. that we hadn't thought of, but a
few hours later we foond that that crime
too had been committed when we heard
that some stupid crackpot had set a bomb
at the Central Huron Secondary School
which could have destroyed the building.
Perhaps it was a coincidence that the
same night we were thinking this, the
council had interviewed applicants for the
position of police constable, Several of
the members of . council said privately
later they wished they could have hired
two of the talented police candidates they
had interviewed. Most seem to feel that
sooner or later a fifth member will have to
be added to the town police force,
What's holding them back?
Most councillors are afraid of
overburdening the heavily taxed .Clinton
citizen. They are trying to stave off the
added expense and the likely rise in tax
this would cause. In other words, they are
trying to act for the good of the people
who pay the bill.
Their concern for the taxpayer is
commendable. Yet it is time that we
examined our priorities. We think nothing
of addinq an extra member to the
administrative staff of the board of
education if they feel they need one, =if
the school needs an extra teacher, they
get One, If the Public Utilities Commission
or the Public Works Department need
some new piece of equipment, they get it,
usually without any fuss or bother.
Yet improving our police force
leads to great controversy. Our PUC has a
suite of offices in their own building. Our
police are put up in a 10 foot by 15 foot
office in one corner of the town hall, Our
utilities has an office staff, while the
police do their own typing or have
part-time help in once in a while.
That the current set-up is inadequate is
obvious by the number of unsolved crimes
(the beating of Recreation Director Doug
Andrews more than a month ago, for
instance), Our police force is .a remnant
from the days when all the small town
policeman had to do was write parking
tickets, investigate the odd scratched
fender and show up to lead the spring fair
parade in the police cruiser every year.
It's time we, the citizens, made up our'
minds' about priorities and let our
councillors know how we feel, so they can
then feel free to take the action they
think is necessary to clean up the
situation.'
4. Clinton' :Nevva-Record, Thursday, .Sept‘illber 17,..1979
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What priorities?
Lunch stand at Bayfield Fair
It certainly is a pretty highway to
travel as you drive toward Clinton from
Goderich.
Highway 8 curves past neatifarms, dips
into valleys and mounts little hills. Then it
comes to its big moment of beauty as it
rises just west of Holmesville and then
drops many feet to the floor of the valley
below.
The view as you come down the hill is
beautiful. The' green hills roll off in all
directions and to the north you can even
see the steep banksOf the gorge where the
Maitland flows. Off to the right the little
village sprawls out, a church here, a store
there, a house over there, simple and
pretty.
Then the eye strays to the, north side
of the road a little farther, ahead and an
ugly gray smudge mars the. green of the
hill rising on the other side of the valley.
TVito stubby little smoke stacks puff out a
thick gray smoke. On clear days it rises
quickly and disperses several hundred feet
in 'the air, but on summer days when the
air gets muggy, the smoke hugs the
ground and covers the whole valley.
The smoke comes from a plant that
manufacures asphalt for paving roads.
Nearly every paved. road within a wide
radius of Clinton is surfaced with
blacktop produced by the belching
monster.
We find it 'hard to 'understand how a,
plant which does business with taxpayers
money paid through two levels of
government can get away with this sort of
disruption of our environment. Do our
governments, who give this plant the
contracts that keep it going, condone this
type of operation?
Sunshine, sand, bacon, eggs and beans
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IN CANADA
Choke Choke
In a burst of blind fury, 'Made
my wife get off her tail and go
with me on our Big Trip, in the
last week of holidays.
It had started out, back in
May, as a leisurely trip to the
British Isles. It shrank like a
dowager on a crash diet.
There was no formal opposi-
tion, just a lot of little feminine
tricks, something like the Chi-
nese water torture. Drop after
drop, Insomnia, nothing to wear,
can't afford it, who'll cut the
lawn, absolutely must have the
so-and-so's for a weekend. You
know the gamut.
By mid-July it was a trip
across Canada, with a trailer,
Looking up friends and relatives,
not driving too 'far in a day,
enjoying the camaraderie of the
trailer camp.
By mid-August, it Was a mad
dash to the Maritimes. But Kim
was home and, "We can't leave
her alone" (and she didn't want
to go with us, after just having
been there).
Well, spilt milk isn't much
use. We finally made it, Left on
a Thtniday afternoon, and got
home Sunday evening. Row's
that for a Big Trip?
However, perhaps it Was
Worth waiting for all summer. It
Was different, We bought a
Coleman Stove, as we planned to
took along the way, Anyone
interested in a brand-new Cole-
man stove that has never even
been lit?
And, of course, we bought
food here and there, to cook on
our new stove. Arrived home
with two huge boxes of grocer-
ies. I swear I had 12 meals in a
row of bacon and eggs and
beans." No mean fare: But we've
still got two weeks' supply.
We just drove until we felt
like stopping. North and north.
And we wound up spending a
couple of days in a cabin on a
lake and loving it.
'It was a run-down, old-
fashioned tourist resort. We got
one of the deluxe cabins. No
bell-hops, no broadloom, no TV,
but a real washroom; with
running water. In fact, the water
was running all over the floor,
from a leak or something, when
we checked in.
Strangely, my wife loved the
place. At home, she's a psy-
chotic' emptier of ashtrays,
sweeper of floors and maker of
beds. At the cabin, she cheerful-
ly walked around in grit up to
the ankles, and actually chuck-
led when the Trans-Canada train
went by' three or four times a
day, rocking the cabin like a
cradle.
For a couple of days We
forgot about pollution and
population-explosion and other
such poppycock._ It Was enough
to wrench the door open, look
at that great, clean lake 20 yards
away and wonder what the rich
people were doing. Sunshine and
sand and bacon and eggs and
beans.
Evenings were just as paradisi-
cal. Campfire until midnight,
then into the hut with the little
gas stove sputtering cosily, a
novel, a nightcap, and no phone
ringing .or car door slamming to
indicate callers.
We had a special treat on
Friday night, when the proprie-
tors held a dance, The rock band
made the railroad train sound
like a muted whisper, We didn't
go to the dance, but it was just
like home, when Kim has a
record on,
But idylls must end. Third
morning, woke to a wild wind, a
driving rain coming in around
the front door, and the worst
storm of the summer in full
flight,
Drove the long way home in
rain that was worse than a
blikzard, with sundry morons
tail-gating, cutting in, passing On
corners and hills and over the
white line, when you couldn't
see the front of your car, Shaky.
Things didn't improve. They
just got back to normal. Discov-
ered daughter engaged to fine
young chap who had two cents.
Literally. I know it's hard to
believe in this affluent age, but
he had two (2) cents cash when
he proposed,
ciWA
Boy-men and divorce
The latest statistics from
Ottawa which reveal the
Canadian divorce rate to be at its
highest level since 1948 are
hardly surprising when, in
almost everyone's circle of
friends and acquaintances, there
are marriages succumbing to left
and right.
You can't easily generalize on
divorce. Each case carries its
own individual geed — of
discontent.
And yet,'traitorou's as it may
seem, I'm convinced that a good
four out of five of the marriages
that end on the rocks are steered
there by the males. •
It was Ernest Hemingway
who once described a breed he
called "the North American
boy-men" and this term has'
become popular with
psychologists to explain away
many of the lunacies of our
society.
It is neither an altogether fair
nor accurate assessment of
North American men, in my
opinion. Yet it exactly fits a
great many who break the bonds
of matrimony not for any valid
reasons of incompatability but
simply out of a kind of aging
boyishness.
It may be said, and often is,
that the rising divorce rate is a
symbol of the continuing years
of anxiety in. which we still live
under the shadow of The Big
Bomb.
I am inclined to think that it
is linked more directly with the
immaturity of the kind of
husband who might be called
The Big Boob.
75 YEARS AGO
The Huron News-Record
September 18, 1895
Carter Harvey showed the
champion eorn stalk the other
day. It measured 15 feet 7
inches in length. Some
suspicious people hint that Mr,
Harvey is an expert grafter.
Wm. Miller, of Brussels,
shipped a carload of ashes to the
Eastern States. There were 15
tons in the car. It is worth about
65 cents per bushel at its
destination, and is reduced in
the manufacture of baking
powder, potash, etc.
Thos. Cook has recently
bought the Potter farm on the
Ilth con" Goderich township, 80
acres, for the sum of $1,500; the
land ispod.
55 TEARS AGO
The Clinton New,tra
September 16, 1915
Workmen have put up the
new' fountain at the Library park
and Water has been turned on to
to
i
xed
t ont. When the grounds are
fi up it will be an ideal spot.
Miss Agnes Middleton woh
first Otte again at the Western
Fait and at Toronto Exhibition
fot her hand painted china, her
Work friet With good sitcom-.
Janes Pathos and Son Neville
are spendilig a few days at
London Pair,
Maria students enrolled at
the School of Commerce for the
present term: Miss Annie
Mains, Blyth; Miss Effie
Jamieson, Clinton; Miss Minnie
May, Clinton; Miss Colette
Carbet, Clinton; Miss Margaret
Cowan, Blyth; Miss Anita
Graham, Kippen; Miss Emily
Ivison, Kippen; Miss Lottie
Sloman, Clinton; Miss Gladys
Petty, Hensall; Miss Margaret
Malt, Clinton; Mr. Will Appleby,
Clinton; Mr. Leo Flynn, Clinton;
Mr. Alva Ingram, Hensall; Mr.
Walter Cowan, Blyth.
40 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
September 18, 1930
Misses Ruth Venner, Dorothy
Little, Grace Evans and Miss
Paterson left this week to take a
eotirse at the Stratford Normal.
Messrs. Arthur and Fred Le
lieau left on a Motor trip Lb the
West last week, visiting in
Windsor enrotite.
Itev. A. A. Holmes, Dr,
Vowler, br. Gaudier, and G. W.
Cunningham were dtick-htinting
the beginning of the week.
Connell and Tyndall Meat
Market: Chuck Roasts, 18e;
Shoulder ftoasts, 1.8e Rill
Priests, 20c; Corner Roast, 2e;
Ithmp Roast, 19c,‘ hound Steak,
50; Sirloin Steak, 25c; Picnic
Hams, 23e; P.M, Cottage non Ib,
Me;- Cottage Prins, lb 32c; Loin
limited to North American men.
Unhappily the North 'American
man, lacking in worldliness or
the capacity for deceit,, seems
unable to have his little fling
without bringing down in ruins
the whole structure of marriage,
home and family.
. In his temporary lust for the
fountain of youth The Big Boob
may become thoroughly
confused.
Should he become involved in
even the most transient affair his
reactions of remorse and guilt
may lead him into unreasoning
resentment toward his wife and
eventually the final break-down
of their relations.
He is, in short, the' hopeless
romantic and this can wipe out
all considerations of duty,
loyalty or appreciation.
Women, on the other hand,
seem to have a much more
mature outlook and, indeed, will
often sacrifice pride to hold
together a marriage.
There are very few women, to
cite one example, who would be
so carried away emotionally that
they'd overlook the effect that
divorce inevitably has on
children.
And in the end, I believe, it is
the man who suffers the most.
The rapture of that
unaccustomed freedom, the
illusion that it has somehow
lightened the load of his years,
isn't going to last forever.
In the end he is apt to be a
pathetic figure shorn of all those
timeless values of the marital
partnership that lie on the other
side of the dangerous years.
Roast Veal, 32c; Veal Chops,
30c.
25 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
September 13, 1945
Miss Frances Houston R.N.,
Auburn, left on Monday for
London, where she will take a
course in Public Health Nursing,
at Western University.
Mr. and Mrs. Theron Betties,
Winthrop, accompanied by
nursing sister, Isobel Betties,
recently returned from overseas,
visited at Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Betties.
Miss Anna Townsend,
Porter's Hill, is attending
Business College in Clinton, and
Audrey Harris started last
Tuesday to Clinton Collegiate.
The Sir Ernest Cooper
Scholarship, an annual award to
Clinton Collegiate by Sir Ernest,
a fotmer graduate of the school,
and for the past 30 yeara,
prominent industrialist of
London, England; will be
awarded to Doris McEwen i of
Bayfield, daughter of Mrs, Fred
McDwen.
15 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
September 15, 1955
Paper On holidays.
10 YEARS A00
The Clinton News-Record
September 15, 1960
Paper oil holidays.
• SERVIC IS . , .,,, SERVICES ON oAy....oh7 TIME -
ONTARIP STREET UNIT cHURCH
"THE FR1011:0 CHVRcle
Paster; REV. H. W. WON FOR,
B.Sc.* B.C9111., B.D.
Organist: MISS LOl$ GRABBY, .A.R.C.T.
SUNDAY, SgPTEMBOI 20th
9:45 a.m. "- -Llrldalf SchOOK
I 1:00 a.m. '-- Morning Worship.
Sermon Topic:
"ON AGREEING TO DISAGREE"
Sacrament of Infant Ba tism
' WOW-WOOS -- Holmesville United Churches
REV. A. 4. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., 0,13., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTEP.ER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th
WESLEY-WILLIS
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
11:00 a.rn, •— Christian Fellowship,
"Serendipity — Finding Unexpected Treasures"
HOLMESVILLE -
2:00 P.m.' — ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.
Guest Preacher: REV. DONALD DEAS of Mitchell
"THIS IS A COME AND GO AFFAIR"
SPECIAL MUSIC: Trumpet duets played by
Mrs, Clare McBride and Mrs. Berne McKinley.
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., S.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 — .
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ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
• interim Moderator Rev. G. L. Royal
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th
9:30 a.m. — Morning Worship.
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
Speaker: JOHN TURNER.
BAYFIELD' BAPTIST CHURCH
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th
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, SEPTEMBER 20th
TRINITY XVII
Matins and Sermon
11:30 a.m. — Parish Communion and Sermon.
Wednesday,- September 23 — Friendship Guild.
CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
166 Victoria Street
Pastor: Donald Forrest
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m.
4/1"
A significant aspect of the
divorce figures, in justifying this
assumption that the male is
often to blame, is the fact that a
high percentage of busted
marriages involve people of
middle age who have been in
wedlock anywhere from 12 to
20 years and sometimes more..
These are people who,
presumably, have built a home
;and family together, have shared
"„those intimate experiences of
''creating lives with rewards and a
sense of purpose, Then — whap!
— it all disintegrates in a cloud
of dust.
They are men and women in
their forties or a year or two on
either side and this is a time of
emotional adjustment for most
of them — the so-called
"dangerous years."
Many women seem to react
with anxieties. Miss Ann
Landers, an authority on such
matters, has said in a recent
interview that it is an age when
large numbers of unsettled
women try to solve their
difficulties with a secret bottle
in the cupboard,
For many men, on the other
hand, a mild form of panic often
develops at the prospect of
permanently leaving behind their
youth.
At this stage they're not
simply push-overs for any kind
of romantic entanglement that
will confirm their image of
invulnerability from the years,
but often go out at the full
gallop in search of it.
The pattern is by no means