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Editorial omnloot.
Why not here
Next month one of the biggest events
Of - the Year will take Place in Kitchener
'when the -G erman-Canadian population of
the city celebrates its .Qctoberfest.
The large .German portion of the
Waterloo county area has 6IW4y6 given the
twin cities of Kitchener-Waterloo
different atmosphere 'from the other,
more Anglo,Saxon„ cities of the
prosperous. southern Ontario industrial
belt,
The difference in -origin of our citizens
has become an increasingly recognized
virtue .of our Canadian society in recent
years, The post war era has seen millions
come to Canada from all- over Europe and
more recently Asia and Africa. In most
cases they have added an exciting new
dimension to our way of life. In the
metropolis of Toronto it has meant a new
variety the.; has really become the spice of
life in the city.
We here. have had our own migration
with thousands of butch immigrants
settling one one of the farms of western
Ontario in the early 1950's. They have
contributed much to the economy by
rejuvenating ailing farms, They have
Pontributed to their community with such,
fine efforts as the little park they donated
To the town this spring,.
Though we .once thought of our
country as a melting :.po.t where old
nationalities were dissolved in favour of
uniformity, we are now recognizing the
benefit of not cutting all ties with the
'past, of keeping the best of .old cultures,
and combining them with the best, part of
:the new,
For this reason we hope the
Dutch-Canadians of the area keep some of
the traditions of Holland while'continuing
their contributions.to a new and growing
'Canada. And we .suggest that those in the
Clinton area, this being the centre of a
wide area of Dutch settlement, consider
beginning an annual festival such as the
Octoberfest, but ,,for the Dutch, The
festival would be a way of retaining the
Dutch culture and helping the rest of us,
learn more about Dutch life. It would
help build community spirit, And, as a
side product not to be ..ignored, it might
provide a valuable source of tourist dollars
to help build a better community.
The Professor's right
Listening to Professor William Andrews
blast his home town, Friday night, for
polluting a river to save a few dollarA, it
was hard not to jump up and cheer.
For years now, from what we've heard,
the Bayfield River has been a sort of black
sheep in the Clinton family. Everybody
knew it was a mess but nobody wanted to
mention it in polite conversation.
Now at last, someone who knows what
he's talking about has had the courage to
stand up and tell it like it is. It's pretty
hypocritical for us to sit on our fat
backsides and talk about how terrible it is
that the big cities and factories are
polluting air and water while we put up
with an insufficient sewage treatment
plant that sends thousands of gallons of
raw sewage down the river to our friends
in Bayfield every time a downpour
overloads the system.
A. plantfor, new. facilities has, been, in
thCAP tAg stage for *gilt rrient)
talk" seems to be about as far as it ever
gets. Local officials are not all to blame. It
seems every time they talk with someone
from the Ontario Water Resources
Commission, the OWRC changes its mind
on what it thinks Clinton needs. One time
it recommends a lagoon system, the next
not, and the next time it's back to the
lagoon. This old switcheroo has taken
place several times.
But the last time the subject came up
for discussion before town council we
heard one of the councillors suggest we
try to stall as long as possible before
meeting the OWRC to decide final action.
The attempt to save money at a time
when costs are rising all around is
admirable but foolhardy, How much
longer can we have it on our consciences
that we're polluting a river? If the
problem had been solved when it first
arose many years ago we wouldn't have to
deal with it today. But that council
wanted to save money too. The time
comes when these things start to catch up
on you.
As Professor Andrews ''said after the
.:greeting, this polluting ,has been going on
fdr,:'• 15 years. '1 At,,the,,normal rate :° that
OWRC fines in these cases ($1,000 per
day) Clinton would be so far in debt it
would never recover. Let's get this mess
cleaned up before it starts to cost us
money as well as the loss of our
environment.
And what have you got to tell?
Young old timer
gab
My own bottomless pit
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Phones: Office 482-9747
Res. 482.7804
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Phone 482-6693
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INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE
INVESTMENTS
Clinton
Office: 4829644
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For Air-Master Aluminum
Doors and Windows
and .
AWNINGS and RAILINGS
JERVIS SALES
R, L. Jervis — 68 Albert St.
Clinton 482.9390
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OPTOMETRIST
Mondays and Wednesdays
20 ISAAC STREET
For Appointment Phone
482-7010
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Thursday Evenings
by appointment
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The Square, GODERICH
524-7661
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For All Popular Makes
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Equipment
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I don't advocate taking the law
into your own hands, but can't
help feeling a glow of
satisfaction when a human
being, in this age of anonymity
and conformity, reacts to an
intolerable situation with a fine
individual rage,
We all have a wild streak in
us, a spark ready to catch fire,
but we usually manage to
smother it under the wet blanket
of society's manners and morals.
And a good thing, too, but
sometimes a pity: There is no
better purge of tensic.n than a
good blaze of anger once in a
while.
Sometimes this streak is
warped, and it comes out in
vandalism, sadism or blind
violence.
But Within every man,
however humble and
'unassuming, bides a black
panther. And Within every
woman, behind those smiles and
make-up and hairspray and
deodorant, lurks a leopardess.
Just recently I went out to
get some corn at a roadside
stand. There were two bushel
baskets and this god-awful
woman and her slob of a
husband were going through
every ear of corn, ripping down
the husks and throwing the
discards back. This is the
epitome of bad taste,
I stood behind them, waiting,
blood coming to a boil. Just as 1
wag ready to hurl a searing bolt
of invective at them, the farm
kids rolled up with a wagon
loaded with big, green, luscious
cobs, fresh off the stalk. I
walked to the wagon, grabbed a
dozen, walked back to the stand
and plunked their juicy carcasses
right down beside old
greedy-guts, who had just paid
for a much inferior dozen. The
look on her face poured oil on
my troubled, waters.
And then there was a flying
instructor I was going to strangle
as soon as we landed. However,
he was about six-two to my
five-eight, and I'd have needed a
pail to stand on, So I settled by
telling him to go to hell.
Amazingly, he sidled off and
that's the last I heard of it.
People in authority are often
cowards. Just show them your
teeth and claws.
Another strangling I
contemplated was that of a
German 'sergeant who had put
the boots to me. "Just as soon as
I'm untied, I'll kill him, even if
he kills ;me." But I wasn't untied
for several days, and by that
time we Were buddies, 1 smoking
his pipe and the pair of us
jabbering away in a stew of
French, German and English.
'These were comparatively
simple incidents, but they
happen to most people, (Let's
hear about some of yours,)
A couple of recent news
stories convinced me that Man
has not been turned into a grey
Cypher, even in this smothering
Society.
A chap in Miami had sent his
prize dog, via airline, to Texas
for stud purposes. The dog was
worth $25,000. The airline
goofed, and somehow the dog
was returned to Florida, where it
was found to be dead of heat
prostration.
Now, the logical, civilized
thing to do would be to sue the
airline. Of course, you might
spend a year or two in the
courts, with a possibility of
losing the case and winding up
with a mitt full of legal bills.
This fellow chose direct
action. He went to the airport
with an axe and started hacking
at the underbelly of an aircraft.
He did damage worth $100,000
before he was stopped. Foolish,
but somehow admirable, This is
no computerized man. More like
the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Then there was this
84-year-bld gentleman who was
living with a 59-year-old lady in
her trailer home. She threw him
over 'for a 72-year-old rooster,
who kicked him out of the
trailer.
What could he do? Go to the
police? Nope, There was no
charge he could lay,. The lady
had transferred her favors to
another, and that was that.
But he wasn't foiled. He
struck back. He Made a
firebomb and Set fire to the
trailer, causing $15,000 damage,
toy, I hope I can be as
jealous and resourceful as that
when I'm 841
The Argyle syndicate
75 YEARS AGO
The Huron News-Record
September 25, 1895
We understand Mr. Thos.
Murch of Hohnesville, has rented
Mr. Walsh's farm on the London
road for over $300 a year. The
latter talks of coming to town to
live.
Mr. W. F. Keyes, Varna, has
opened a new furniture store
there and will no doubt be
liberally patronized by the
general public in this section.
Mr, N. T. Doekrill, travelling
passenger agent of the C.P.R,
waS in Clinton Tuesday and
appointed A. T. 'Cooper agent
for the Dominion Express
Money Order Department,
The Shot gun' contest on
Priday between Messrs. John
Miller and Horace Jackson was
*On by Mr. Miller, the score
being l8 to 12.
55 YtI,A RS AGO
The Clinton New Era
September 23,1:915
The people of the Baptist
Church have purchased the fine
brick residence, Mr. A, J.
f1011OWAY on Albhtt SL for a
parsonage, Rev, J. K. Pairfull
expects to get possession next
Miss- Vera COICIOUgh spent a
few days With her edilSillS nt -
London,
doing this very morning, I
bravely face the impossible
challenge. I take the drawer out:
I stagger with it to a cleared
space, usually the middle of the
living room, and empty the
entire contents for sorting.
Let's see, now, what have we
here?
Well, here's a punch for home
handicraft leather-work; a cow
bell originally acquired for the
• • urpose of •-calling children to
t; inner; an assortment of castersn
two alike; forceps; three
-bobbins for worm-fishing; it half
tin of dried surfacing putty; 12
'ead flashlight batteries and an
empty flashlight; a rubber tire
from a child's toy cat; a tin of
grease; 53 paper clips; an empty
bottle marked "Mahogany
Stain"; a broken electric light
switch; two women's gloves, one
brown, one originally white,
both for the left hand.
Now. Here is a cupboard door
handle; a ball of silver paper; a
leather sheath for a hunting
knife, without knife; a half tube
of household cement; an
uncoiled, used typewriter
ribbon; six torn rubber gloves;
the handle of a brass fire poker;
five oyster shells; a key to Room
Nine of The Seaside Motel,
Oregon; the magnet from an
automatic can opener; a link
from. a boom chain; an empty
holder of Scotch tape; the top
from a baby's feeding bottle.
Pressing on, we come upon
the blade of a bread knife; a
manual for the operation of a
one-and-a-half horsepower
Viking outboard motor; a
carpenter's rule; the top of a
Waterman fountain pen; assorted
The editor of a paper
threatened to publish the name
of a certain young man who was
seen hugging and kissing a girl
unless his subscription was paid
within -a week. Fifty-nine young
men called the next day and
paid up, while two even paid a
year in advance.
Mr. Thomas Keen and son of
Toronto are visiting his sister,
Mrs. Wesley Shohbrook, of the
Gravel Road,
40 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
September 25, 1930
A very beautiful pulpit has
been erected in St, Paul's Church
and was dedicated by the rector
during morning service. The
pulpit is of earved oak and is
memory of Sarah Rattenbuty,
Mr, C. B. has
purchased a number of Well-bred
Aytahitti cows to add to the herd
at Pairholm Dairy Farm.
Mr, Alex Addison and Mr,
Leonard l3oyce left this week to
attend the University in London,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Layton{
Elliott and Irene mid Miss hazel
Pepper spent the weekend at
Hamilton and Niagara Falls,
25 1PAI1SM10
The Clinton News-Record
September 20,1046
C. 11 Hall, who has published
the Chill:On NeWS-Reeord
pieces of a jig-saw puzzle; a tea
strainer; a ledger with a neat list
of the debts of some forgotten
April; a tooth-brush; salad fork;
souvenir pennant from Juarex,
Mexico; an imitation ebony
cigaret holder.
But there, as it does year
after year, my inventory comes
to an end, A terrible depression
settles over me, a feeling of utter
helplessness. Very methodically
begin to pile it all back in ,the
Why keep the sheath for the
hunting knife? Because, of
course, if you threw it away
you'd find the knife the very
next day. The flashlight
-batteries? Well, some of them
might just possibly have a spark
of life left in them. The two
left-handed gloves? Well,' she
must have put them in here for
some reason. The wheel from
the toy car? Discard that' and I
guarantee that within 10
minutes you'd hear a piping
voice enquiring, "Whatever
happened to that wheel from my
toy car that I put away so
carefully in The Bottom
Drawer?"
So it goes, item after item, as
the rat's nest takes shape once
more.
The manual for the outboard
motor? Could be very valuable if
we just happened to buy an
outboard motor. The top of a
baby's feeding bottle? Why
tempt fate?
So the drawer is put away
again, more cluttered than ever,
and I hurry to my new ledger
and my comforting, tidy column
of debts. At least I know where
they came from.
continuously since October
1916, has disposed of the plant,
building, equipment and
goodwill, to R. S. Atkey and H.
L. Tomlinson, who took
possession September 17, 1945,
Mr. Atkey becomes Editor and
Business Manager and Mr.
Tomlinson Plant Manager,
Clinton knitting Company
Ltd., established more than 40 1
years ago has been sold by the
chief shareholder.; Lt, Col. H. B.
Combo and Angus A. Morrison
to Mr. H. Harriss. Mr. Harriss
has been the largest although a
minority shareholder,
Lorne J. Brown has taken
over as lessee the Supertest
Service Station formerly leased
by Basil Thrower. He will also
aet as local agent for Chrysler
and Plymouth automobiles.
16 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News,lieeord
September 22, 1955
An amalgamation of two long
established coal dealerships in
Clinton took place early this
Week when George C. German
and Son, purchased the tom and
fuel oil business, which hasbeeii
operated by John W. Nediger,
Mail delivery between
London and Wingham will he
made by truhtt instead of train
starting Gabber 11.
Ephriam Snell, ItR 2,
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ALL SERVIOES ON OA*L114.111
cl,QNTARIQ MK T , "TK FRIeNDLY
m . Pastor: REV. H.,
041 B.Sc., Lcinn,
*Organist: MISS LOIS
(A) ,1, ,
SAUNNNDIAVYiRSARE PTYEGMS.
Preacher; Rev, R obert
Wesley United Church,
9:45 p.m. .— Sunday Schoco.
11
a.m,
5e rm01 Subject:410irnin"9 Worshi
p,
01HATT Soloist: Mr. Jarrle$ Doherty
7:30 p.m. — Evening WorShIP,
Sermon Subject: "BURGLAR-PROOF
Soloist: Mr, Peter Snell of Exete',
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W. WONFOR,
B.P.
ORASEIY, ,A.R.C.T.
UBTENr ii3OrnAb?li 78 . A 8.0 .
London
ALL ABOUT?"
of Clinton, tenor,
RELIOION"
religious folk ,singer.
Wesley-Willis — I-10hreSyille United Churches
REV. A..I. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., 13.0., D.I:X, Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTEP,ER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
WESLEY-WILLIS
9:45 a,m. — Sunday School.
11;00 a,m. — Christian Fellowship.
Sermon Topic: "ZEST FOR LIFE"
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4th
8 a,m. — Men's Club Breakfast — Meet the 'Moderator.
7:30 p.m, — Dr, Bob McClure, Moderator.
'ALL WELCOME
HOLMESVILLE
$:45 a.m. — Worship Service.
Sunday School (meets in church for opening)
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton
263 Princess Avenue
Pastor: Alvin Beukerna, 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 p.m., CH03
Everyone Welcome —
ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN• CHURCH,
Interim Moderator Rev. G. L. Royal
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
9:30 a.m. — Mor'ning Worship.
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School,
. Speaker: JOHN TURNER.
• BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. •
,,,gr 4 . "i1V4,10
,evening Gospel: Service. 77.::,30 *in. 11 Infirm:Ay
Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. — Prayer meeting.
ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Clinton
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
11:30 a.m. — HARVEST FESTIVAL — Matins
Guest Speaker: Deaconess Mrs. John McKinnon.
CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
166 Victoria Street '
Pastor: Donald Forrest
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship: 1 1:00 a,m.
Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m.
secretary-treasurer of the group.
A motion was passed that
cloSing time on Friday night .
throughout the year be set at
9:30 p.m.
Jacob Redo, RR 1, I3ayfield,
topped the civilian classes in the
safe and Skilled driving
competition at Wolesiey
Barracks, London, oh September
16.
Miss Paige Phillips, daughter
of Mr, Mid Mrs. Harold Phillips,
Blyth, , has been granted her
music supervisor's ogee by the
Department of Education.
A mania for tidiness
invariably grips me when. there's
a change of season. I am a
relentless basement-cleaner-outer
in the springtime, a dedicated
leaves-raker-and-burner in the
fall.
Come early April or late
September I always buy 49-cent
ledgers and enter all my debts in
them in painstaking, impeccable
figures. It makes me feel that I
am well organized,:: •
But,;-a ,: for- .,- years .
illusion of orderliness 'has' never
been quite complete for the
simple reason that, carried away
by the zeal for a place for
everything and everything in its
place, I 'am emboldened to
tackle The Bottom Drawer.
It is a very small drawer. Wait
just a moment and actually
measure it so that we may
consider the whole thing
scientifically, Yes, it's just two
feet square and a mere eight
inches in depth.
But this is the Grand Canyon
of drawers. It is a combination
of midden, tomb, archives, filing
cabinet, tool chest, junk yard,
sewing basket, catch-all and
Pandora's box.
What is it you require? A dog
collar? 145 feet of twine? A
button from a World War One
infantry uniform? A copy of
Chums Annual for 1923? A
barrel stave? Ski wax?
Carbureter for a Hudson
Terraplano? Saddle soap? The
..missing parts for a Spitfire
model airplane kit? A lid-lifter
for a Climax stove?
You name it. We've got it. In
The Bottom Drawer.
Each year, as I have been
Clinton, received a gift from his
fellow exhibitors all the
Canadian National 81thibition
last week. The oecaSion was to
mark half a century of
exhibiting at the C.N.E. by Mr.
10 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Reeord
September 22,1960
Robot N, Irwin was niOtted
chairman Of the newly organised
Cli nton ftetait Merchants
Committee, at a meeting of
, interested merchants August 13,
Robert B. Campbell is