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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 filit0.001 ;00,0000. ' 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 • • \ • Ss, S.\ \ • •S. • • • sk • S., iNN\l‘N.,.%••• 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, GODERIOI 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: 462-9644 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 — 482.9390 \5 %••55'•5'•5'•5'5'•.N1.5\5'5'5.•••••5'5••1‘1.5'•5••••••••••51 ss's ••••• ••••• •••••••••••••••••• Business and Professional Directory •• • sk • • DIESEL 'Pumps and Injectors Repaired rot. All Popular Makes, (111rOtt Duel Injection 'Equipment hayfield Rd., Clinton--48-7971 Clinton Memorial Shop t. PRYDE and SON cLINI6N EXETER — SEAFORTli Phone 4824211 Open Every Afternoon THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE- HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 ' Clinton Newswilecord A rhernber 'of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoeiatioe and the Audit Bureau Of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration riurtibet SuesScillOtioN 'MATES: tin advance) danada; $6.08 per year; $1166 KEITH W. ROULOON(‘-- Editor J. HOWARD AlThgtst — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County ClintOn i Ontario Population 3,475. Tills MOUE OP RADAR 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 — . IINNIIIIIINMIIIIIINNMMMIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIPMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIININMIIIIIIJIMIIIIIMIII‘, 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