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the draw for the litfemeta'S Auxiliary to the Clinton Public
Hospital Penny Sale an Saturday. the sale brought a $1,000
profit for wait at the hospital. -- staff photo,
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Doug Thorndike dropped in
at the office the other day and
left d sample of the pin for this
year's winter carnival (later than
you thought isn't it?).
This year's pin is quite a
departure from last year's little
snowman but should give a
much more unique appearance
to the event. It shows the town's
radar symbol and .a clump of
evergreen in green relief on a
white background,
* *
The Royal Canadian Legion
Service Bureau Officer will be
making a visit to the area in the
near future.
Anyone wishing to discuss
pension or allowances should
contact the Branch Service
Officer,: Hal Hartley at 482.6693
not later than October 16,
* * *
Next Monday is Thanksgiving
,Day and the Post Office will be
giving thanks for a holiday (with
pay this time). This means them
will be no wicket or rural route
service. The lock-box lobby will
be open as usual for the full
24-hour period.
The street letter boxes will be
cleared at 4:15 p.m. and mail
will be received and dispatched
at 6:30 p.m.
'' * *
A brochure came to the
News-Record this week
regarding the 1970 Christmas
Country Fair to, be held at
Carlow on Wednesday October
21 and Saturday October,24.
The fair is a revival of the old
Colbourne fair started in 1871
which ceased in 1894 when the
Goderich Agricultural Soceity
was formed.
In 1966 the fair was begun
again when a group of
Colbourne township craftsmen
began "Country Crafts" a
display of local crafts and
paintings when people are
looking for Christmas presents.
The Christmas Country Fair is
'a continuous show from 2-9
p.m.. All booths are open
through the supper hour. Those_ Clinton Public Utilities workmen are busy this week helping to give Clinton's main drag a new wishing to avoid crowds are look. While construction crews were playing havoc with traffic on Albert St., the PUC was urged to come between 5 and 7
p.m. or on Saturday evening. .installing new street lights. — staff photo.
The bake sale, an important
part of the Fair continues
throughout the afternoon and
'evening as bakers bring in more
baking.
The first
column' Clinton rail passenger
service to end November 1
The big new News-Record has
initiated another change this
week, actually two.
The first' is a major
redesigning of the editorial page
which sees the introduction of
our own cartoonist. The page
will continue to • contain
editorials, Bill Smiley, Jack
Scott and From Our Early Files.
Gone will "be the church
advertisements and the business
cards, but more about them in a
moment.
We hope the t new editorial
page, besides presenting a bit of
humour through the cartoon
antics of Frisbee, the name of
the central character in the
cartoon, will also give more
space for editorial opinion.
Another is to give the
opinions of our readers
expressed through letters to the
editor, a permanent home,
rather than spread all over the
paper as in the past. We hope
you'll help by writing your
opinions down and sending them
Another feature of the new
editorial page will be a
condensation of the editorial
opinions of other newspapers in
the county= We hope you'll
enjoy it.
If you're looking for those
church notices, they are now in
the second section of the paper
on our new Church page, The
page will generally be built
around the activities of the
church in general and our area
churches and Church groups in
particular: It will also feature a
picture ancl.short background on
Various churches in the area and,
the Rev. Jene Miller, who used
to have a column in the paper,
will return with his Empty Pew
on that pages
We welcome your comments.
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BY WILMA OKE.
Tuckersmith Township
Council at a meeting in
Brucefield Thursday night,
October 1, acdepted the tender
of Robert Nicholson
Construction Company Ltd., RR
1, Sebringville, to construct the
McCully Drain for $1650.00. It
was the lower of two tenders.
The tender of Harold L. Roth,
New Hamburg, to construct the
Bell Drain for $2394.00 was
accepted, It was the lowest of
five tenders.
Approval was given to Dennis
Chapman of Egmondville to
erect a house in the hamlet.
Alvin Regier, Egmondville,
was present at the meeting to
discuss water laying on his
property. A check is to be made
of the drain.
A tile drain loan for $3000.00
Dr. Bob McClure, first layman
moderator in the history of the
United Church of Canada, spoke
Sunday night to an overflow
audience at Wesley-Willis
Church. Ile challenged the
Canadian people to ready
themselves for a new role in
trying to heal a divided world,
Dr. McClure pointed out that
this is an ever shrinking world.
Stand at any airport in the world
and you will find that nobody
oh this globe is further than 20
hours away. There Are cultures
which have survived for
thousands of years. We are up
against them and must share the
world with them.
Who made the world shrink/
When we realize how the jet
engine, the transistor radio, and
the satellite have cut
Communications, We see that it
is We who have made the world
shrink. "Now We assume that
the whole world is delighted to
be in Stich close contact With
lovely people like us," said Dr.
McClure, "but they are not at all
pleased. They think that We have
a Master plan for the world —
but we haven't t due!"
The moderator also pointed
out that this IS a hungry world-,
Seven out of ova's,- 10 deaths in
was approved.
Robert Cook, Hensall,
attended the meeting to discuss
a minor drain constructed
through his property which
would affect the township road.
Council passed amending
by-laws on the Etue Drain which
cost $14,106.86 instead of the
estimated $13,940; and on the
Charters drain which cost
$16,083.35 instead of the
estimated $14,410.00.
Council agreed to set the due
date for final payment of taxes
to be paid December 15, and
Clerk James McIntosh was
instructed to prepare a by-law to
cover this.
Anyone in Tuckersmith
erecting a. new building or
making an addition to an
existing building costing in
excess of $300.00 must apply to
the world are directly due to
hunger or malnutrition.
Meanwhile Canada has its own
little problem: "We have one
billion bushels too much Wheat
in a hungry world. It wouldn't
be half the problem it is exeept
for the fact that these hungry
people know about it!" Dr.
McClure emphasized the fact
that 50 percent of the people in
the world today are 21 years of
age or under and they are going
to be around a long time. Our
children and grandchildren will
have to figure out a More
equitable solution than we have.
But in a shrinking and hungry
World, we the white, so-Called
Christian nations Make up only
20 percent Of the world's
population. Before the turn of
the century it is estimated that
we will only be about nine
percent of the total. In the
world today there is a new
"Revolution of glaing
Expectations." The depressed
peoples of the world are no
longer going to be satisfied with
their lot.
Formerly they said, "It Is Out
Karma," or "It is the will Of
Allah!" Some day in the near
futUre "when we ate Sitting on
too Much of the World's wheat,
Clerk McIntosh for a permit,
Road Superintendent Allan
Nicholson was given permission
to order more road signs to
replace several which have been
stolen recently.
Council passed for payment
accounts totalling $35,702.84
for October. Of these
$17,218.70 are road accounts;
$9,134.38 for drains; $7000.00
for Tuckersmith Telephone
System loan; and $2,349.86 for
miscellaneous accounts.
Deputy Reeve Alex McGregor
was appointed to attend, as
Tuckersmith representative, the
meeting to be held by the
Conservation Authority Branch
of the Department of Mines,
Energy and Resources
Management in the Court House,
Goderich, on October 7 at 2
p.m.
some of these people will say:
`Let's go oiler to Canada and
help the bast with their wheat
problem.' "
These people are not unduly
concerned with • our ability to
have men walk on the moon.
What they are interested in is the
fact that We share the same
sphere. "Too many of us are like
first class passengers on a world
Cruise. As we look down from
our lofty position on the upper
deck on the dirty steerage
pmprtgers below, we say, 'It
seems your end of the boat is
sinking!' Little do we realise
that it Will not be long before
our own feet get wet!"
Dr. McClure concluded his
stirring message with the
suggestion that all cultures that
have survived have had a strong
faith. The Christian religion is
the only one that teaches a
Message relevant to the world
today: Cod is a God of love, the
creator and father of all men.
But our yonng people of today
are the most illiterate people of
the world as far as religion is
terecerned.
The Makin, Dr. McClure
pointed out, it that we have
failed to preserve family life as
the Centre of our Western
Beginning November 1, the
era of railway passenger service
will end in Clinton.
Permission was granted last
Thursday by the Canadian
Transport Commission for the
Canadian National Railways to
discontinue passenger service on
its Stratford to Goderich line
which serves Clinton. Service on
the Toronto-Palmerston,
Palmerston-Owen Sound,
Palmerston-Southampton, and
Kincardine-Stratford lines will
also be discontinued.
Canadian Pacific Railway's
Toronto to Owen Sound route
will also go out of service.
Service on the CNR's Guelph
to Toronto line was ordered
continued and the railway was
ordered to upgrade the standard
of service,
CNR service between Guelph
and Toronto, which carries up to
400 'passengers daily, is served
by a conventional train but, said
the commission, accommodation
for passengers is not of the
standard that customers of CNR
have a right to expect.
"Specifically the 100-seat
coaches, built in 1919, are
crowded and uncomfortable and
have no air conditioning.
"The surprising thing is that
so many people are prepared to
put up with conditions as they
are,,,and ride regularly on these
trains, Canadian National is
clearly capable of a better effort:
It is inconceivable that there are
not modern coaches in the
The meeting has been
arranged because of a resolution
from the town of Seaforth
asking to have the boundaries of
the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority enlarged
to include the municipalities in
the Bayfield River Valley. The
Bayfield Valley cannot be
established as a separate
authority since it is not large
enough to be economical. The
Bayfield Valley lies between the
Maitland and the Ausauble
Authorities. The representatives
from the municipalities affected
will discuss and vote on which
authority the Bayfield Valley
should be under.
The Department of Highways
is to be petitioned for road
Subsidy from January 1 to
September 30.
c ivilization. We are so
preoccupied with the acquisition
of wealth and the pursuit of
pleasure, that we have turned
over the responsibility of
religious training to the Sunday
School and Sex Education to the
schools.
,Questioned as to the
statistical failure of the Christian
Missions in countries like China,
Dr. McClure said that there is no
way of competing the influence
of Christianity by the use Of
statistics. We are Mathematically
minded and can figure out how
many man-hours it takes to
build a car. Yon can't do that
With people. Our Christian
.missionaries have so influenced
native people of the World that
they have gone out from our
mission schools to libetate their
people in great revolutionary
Movements. .
"In a true revolution,"• Dr.
McClure pointed out, "you
don't displace a thing until you
have Something better to take its
place, To destroy a thing
deliberately is anarchy. It is not
revolution. A rebel is a man who
is unhappy with things as they
ate and wants a better world,"
This is the challenge to a teal,
working Christianity,
railway's inventory that could be
substituted for these relics of a
bygone age."
Passenger services to be
abandoned were found
uneconomic by the committee,
which said they are likely to
continue to be so "because there
is a marked and persistent
preference of the travelling
public for the bus or their own
automobiles over the service
offered by passenger train."
The orders were the first
issued under revised regulations
which would require the public
treasury to reimburse the
railways up to 80 per cent of
their losses on passenger services
they are rerjuired Lo provide.
The commission said the
region the trains serve has a
network of paved, all-weather
highways and roads and all rail
points are either serviced
directly by bus at least once
daily or are within a convenient
distance from a bus stop. Bus
service is available at the larger
centres several times a day to
and from Toronto and
intermediate points, and bus
fares are competitive with those
of the railway.
"We find that in the light of
the, actual losses incurred in the
last three prescribed accounting
years in relation to the number
of passengers using or likely to
use the services, no such
alterations could render them
economic," the commission said.
Education at a meeting Monday
evening in Clinton.
'Elliott was referring to the
policy which was approved by
the board regarding maternity
leave for female teachers.
The board had learned it had
no choice but to approve the
policy which became law during
the summer when the Ontario
government passed legislation
inaugurated by the Department
of Labor regarding pregnancy
leave.
The legislation gives female
employees six weeks leave of
absence prior to the birth of a
child and six weeks leave of
absence after the delivery.
Where female teachers are
concerned, this makes it possible
for a teacher to remain in the
classroom until six weeks before
she is delivered. It also makes it
impossible for a female teacher
to lose her job during pregnancy
if she chose to retain it. •
Some board members were
particularly perturbed by the
fact that a female teacher may
renew a contract at the end of
the school year knowing full
well that she will be having a
child in the first few months of
the new term.
"That's unfair to the child,"
noted John Broadfoot,
Brucefield, "and I mean the
child in school."
"Six weeks is three months,"
(See Page Three)
$1000 profit
in Penny Sale
At the regular meeting of the
Worii&S Auxiliary to Clinton
Public Hospital, Mrs. Helen
Davies, in the absence of Mrs,
Betty Weight, reported $1093.33
had been realized in the Annual
Penny Sale.
This is the highest amount
ever to be made by a Penny Sale
and is to be used in furnishing
the new addition to the hospital,
The hospital cart this month
IS in charge of the Loncleshoro
Women's Institute and will be
stocked 'in November by Mrs.
Doug Ball.
Thanksgiving favors ate being
tnade by No. 1, Brownie Pack
under the direction of Mrs, Ken
Wood,
Mrs. Ryan, in charge of the
flower exhibit at the Hospital,
asked for Small metal vases to be
left at the hospital: Co-operation
of the nubile would be
appreciated.
Arrangements Were Made for
delegates to attend the Hospital
Conference in reran to October
25-28,
The findings = resulted from
public hearings on the
applications for discontinuance
held in the Grey County court
house in Owen Sound March 31,
in the Wellington County court
house, Quell* April 8. .
The accounting years
considered by the commission
were 1966, 1967 and 1968,
The Canadian National service
between Stratford and Goderich
incurred total costs in 1968 of
$86,828, against total revenue of
$10,035, for an actual loss of
$76,793,
An increase in rates for nearly
.600,000 rural customers was
announced October 1 by
Ontario Hydro. Effective on bills
payable January 1, 1971,, the
rate change will raise revenue
from Hydra's rural customers by
nine per cent.
It is the second general rate
increase in 17 years. The last one
was effective October, 1968.
Specific percentage rate
increases to customers vary
according to service
classification. Details are being
mailed directly to all customers.
Hydro Chairman , George
Gathercole said that the increase
is "regrettable", but
unavoidable. Owing to
inflationary pressures and rising
costs, our rural system is now
operating at a substantial loss,
During the last four years the
cost of coal has increased by
more than 21 percent in terms
of energy content. Actual fuel
costs have climbed from less
than $35 million to $86 million,
an increase of 148 percent in the
same period.
Interest costs have risen
Canadian National provides
service six days a week to these
communities, and it would he •
impossible for the railway to
provide more frequent service
without substantially increasing
cost.
The cost distribution, on a per
passenger basis for the
Goderich-Clinton-Stratford. line,
based on 1968 figures would be
$1.01 paid by the average
passenger, $1.54 by the
company and $6.17' by the
taxpayer.
sharply. All new plants are being
financed at interest rates that are
nearly double those of a few
years ago. In 1966 Ontario
Hydro's interest bill was $65.5
million; this year it is over $1.11
million, up 70 percent. Property
taxes, • operation and
maintenance 'expense have also
increased.
"The adjustment of rural
rates", Mr. Gathercole said, "has
been deferred until absolutely
necessary. It,is designed to offset
current operating losses and
meet predictable cost advances.
The increase will barely meet
costs but •should carry us into
1972."
"If Ontario Hydro is to
maintain its ability to meet the
power needs of the province, an
increase in revenue from all
customers is unavoidable."
in farm fire
Clinton Fire Department
answered two fire calls in the
last week.
The first, on Saturday
morning about 9A0 was to the
farm of Robert Trick, RR 3,
Clinton. An implement shed was
on fire, fed by gasoline from a
500 gallon tank inside, the tanks
of two tractors and a drum of
fuel.
Using the new foam method
for gasoline fires for the first
time, the firemen were able to
save the building although it was
badly damaged. The tractors
were also badly damaged.
The second call was just after
9 a.m. on Wednesday morning
when they put out a small fire at
Blake's Welding Shop on King
St.
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
"There are some things the;
sK4°' board controls and' some things
it doesn't," observed Robert
Elliott, vice-chairman of the
Huron County Board of
Tuckersmith council accepts drain tenders
Distinguished missionary challenges large audience
Board approves
maternity leave
Hydro rates up
% to rural users
"Costs have . been escalating
for equipment and supplies,
salaries and wages,,
on capital funds. Methods, to Garage damaged and interest
control air pollution have
become an' ' '
significant budget consideration.
Heavy expenses have been
incurred for the installation of
pollution abatement equipment
and purchases of low-sulphur
fuel," he said.
"The relative shortage of coal,
particularly that • with low
sulphur content, has exerted a
strong upward thrust on all fossil
fuel prices during a time when
the Commission's fuel
requirements have been rising
rapidly."