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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-10-08, Page 44 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, October. 0,1070 Editorial comment Where's .Women's Lib in Clinton? The rantings and bra-b.iirnings of those ladies in the cities who feel their sex is being exploited by men don't seem to have much effect among us backwooders up here in Huron County. It would seem to us that there might be more cause to fight for here, though, than' there is in the big city, where a women can be just about anything she wants. • We were wondering recently, for instance, why Clinton does not have one women councillor on the town coucil. We understand from Clerk John Livermore, that there. has been only one lady councillor in the 15 years he has been It would seem to us that, by ignoring vomen as candidates for council, we are rutting our -prospect-i— of getting good A real Thanksgiving councillors by half. Perhaps it may be by more than that, since the men we elect to council often are busy business men who don't have as much time as they would like to devote to town business. Many of the women in Clinton, are housewives and probably have more time to spare (although we're not suggesting that housewives have nothing to do). There are many women qualified for the position in Clinton. Many have experience having served various organizations faithfully for years. Many are very well educated. And yet we have ignored them, or they, have ignored 'themselves by not offering themselves to office. With this being an election year, the time to remedy the situation is at hand. Tinkering or not tinkering It seems only a month ago (and it isn't much more) that Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaughton addressed a gathering of Huron County Farmers at Central Huron Secondary School here in Clinton, and firmly stated that he refused to "tinker" with the budget in favour of a small portion of the population. He was referringtathe farmers demand , that funds fdr::'::Ii.ddcation':64' raised elsewhere than from property taxes. They felt that they were paying an undue share of the, education burden. They wanted, education paid " for out of general revenues, but Mr. MacNaughton told them that, -.though the government shared their A fond farewell Last week's announcement that Canadian National Railways will discontinue its passenger service from Goderich to Stratford through Clinton is a disappointment but we didn't exactly have any wailing or knashing of teeth locally. The fact is that we've been resigned to the fact that sooner or later we were going to lose the service anyway. And the way the railway was running the so-called "service", it might as well be sooner. We didn't even put up a decent fight this time round. And why shbuld we? Just who wanted to go anywhere at 11:30 in the morning or 12:30 in the afternoon? Who wanted .5to take twice as long to get concern, the matter would have to wait • until the government could institute a thorough tax reform policy. Mr. MacNaughton's problem could be understood. Education is one of the hottest issues around right now, and one of the most expensive too. And, although we've tended to sympathize with farmers complaints, we've pointed out before that we do ,not,:completely ;agree, with their :Ometl-rqdS;:4- 1!4 However, Mr. the tax rebates for farmers that your government announced on Tuesday, it would seem to us that you just "tinkered" with what you said couldn't be tinkered with. • What a difference a month makes. somewhere as if they took a car, and at twice the expense? Who wanted to be treated like something less than a piece of baggage? • Those who knew the railway as it USED to be will be, sad to see it go but anyone who has had much-to do with it in recent years will probably say good riddance. , We're lucky here in Clinton. We have the best bus service of any town around and are a close drive from two cities on the main line. Other towns that we know of to the north have no bus service at all and they may not take so kindly to the decision. Amalgamated1924 THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 Established 1881 ' Clifton '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 — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7.50 KEITH W. ROULSTON — Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County a Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA ComsiDEZINq ITS PR013/42“, titit.Cuks, LEVEL, MAYBkw cF;fr use. a- RS FI 11(kiZtlot-f47-kk, Letter to the Editor The Editor: A letter appearing in your issue of BePtemher 17 brings to my mind What was written in the Ashland Avenue Baptist, ptiblished in Lexington, Kentucky; written by Dean Roscoe. Brong of Lexington Baptist College: "Baptist churches are being overrun and their testimony destroyed by a flood of infidels masquerading as ministers poured out of modernistic colleges and seminaries — infidel preachers ' who deny the Bible, serve self instead of Christ." Also from Readers Digest: "Many of the church's top leaders today -- especially in what is called the 'mainstream' denominations — are sorely failing its members in two ways: (1) by succumbing to a creeping tendency to downgrade the Bible as the infallible Word of God, and (2) by efforts to shift the church's main thrust from the spiritual to the secular." In addition to . that, commentator Louis Cassels, in a United Press International dispatch stated: "People look to the church, and especially to its ordained ministers, to help them find their way to a living, renewing, transforming faith in God. But how can a pastor point anyone else to such a faith if he himself is devoid of it, as a substantial number of young (and some not so young) privately confess themselves to be?" C. F. Barney, Clinton. Keep the bras on, girls With Thanksgiving in the air, perhaps it's as good a time as any to give thanks that all our women have not joined the lunatic fringe of the Women's Liberation Movement. I'm not knocking the Move- ment. The majority of those who belong to it and work for it are mature, intelligent women who believe there is discrimina- tion against women in some areas and want to abolish it. I agree with them about the discrimination in some areas. But I want no more to 'do with the screaming, bra-waving, instant-abortion parodies of women who -haunt their ranks than. I do with the hard core of Maoists who turn every peaceful protest meeting into a riot. 'Twas not always thus. A look at history shows us some remarkable' women who had tremendous influence without ever waving a placard or scream- ing epithets at policemen. Back to Greek mythology, Hera, wife of Zeus, was a wicked old , dowager who repaid him in , spades every time he strayed from the straight and narrow. 'Venus and Aphrodite did all right .•;for themselves. Among mortals, Helen of Troy launched it thousand ships. And she didn't i do t by flaunting her girdle on the end of a pole, She did it with her face, simple picnic lunch of sandwiches and a hot drink from the thermos instead of polluting the air with barbecue smoke. A stroll through the park or along a nearby river-bank can be your gesture of appreciation for nature's bounties and can be just as rewarding as a campsite miles when he got too big for his britches. Victoria was a stick, but Moving up a bit, we come to nations trembled when she another majestic figure — Cleo- spoke, and she had so much patra. She managed to diddle her influence on manners and morals brother out of a kingdom. • that we are just now shedding (yay! ), get herself an illegiti- the double morality of her age, mate son (yay! ) by the great She'd never be accepted by the dictator Julius Caesar (boo! ) Women's Lib. and bring the magnificent Mark Antony, conqueror of hundreds of women (boo! ) to his knees, a quivering wreck. She did Wind up clutching her asp to her breast, which made for a rather sticky end, but she had a lot of fun. I wonder if she wore a brassiere? Isabella of Spain overrode the quibbling of her„ husband and gave that lunatic who thought the world was round, Columbus, some rotten biscuits and meat, some rotten jail-birds and three leaky ships to find the New World. Oh yes, ' they've always been tight with a buck. Moving quickly, look at the two English queens who had entire eras named after, them: Elizabeth I and Victoria. Liz had most of the male royalty of Europe desperate to marry her, and dallied with the lives and loves of such robust chaps as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter 1 Raleigh. The handsome, virile Earl of Essex was in love with her when he was about 20; she Ft her fifties. What woman could want more? And with womanly logic, she choppid off his head 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News-Record October 9, 1895 The cheap western excursion trips offered by G.T.R. took quite a little crowd and the' following passengers were booked: Jas. McGill and wife,' Mrs. C. Coats and son, F. J. and Mrs. Ball, W. Stanley, Geo. Sharman and wife, Geo. Armour for Chicago; Miss Wilkie for Cincinnati; Jas. Mann for Cleveland; Jos. Jervis, S. Merrill and W. Tebbutt for Saginaw; Ben Switzer, J. Trouse, W. Kay, Jas. Fair, Miss Dot Fair, Mrs. Biggart and J. Quigley, for Detroit. Mr. J. A. King, who a few years ago resided in Clinton, has disposed of his bakery in Wingham and bought out Mr. Beckwith in Clinton. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era October 7, 1915 The Street Paysheet was very light for the past month and only totalled $19.81. able. May e they have a thing about peering into canyons. My wife thinks things are O.K. as they are. Like most women„ she controls most of the money, can ruin her kids by spoiling them, and has a wailing wall (me) when things aren't going right. ^ Well, the Women's Lib likes to set up straw men and knock them down. I've set one up for them. The day on which Mae West tears off her brassiere and starts waving it (the brassiere, that is) I'll apply for an associate mem- bership in the W.L.M. than usual. Then the music began to speak to them. Our "concerts” became a regular thing, by request. I still don't know beans about classical music. My favorite record is the Cesar Franck Symphony in D Minor. I saw it described the other day by a famous critic as "banal." ' The record• club chooses for me and I'm uncritical of it. I accept Berlioz or Bizet, Brahms or Beethoven, with just as much innocence as my kids accept them. I don't mention this as, ,a d fence for , a lak of scernment, bt because occurs to me that the emphasis on musical "understanding" may be a kind of glass wall that, for many people, young and old, stands in the way of enjoying so-called serious music. There's an accepted idea that it may be appreciated only by those with a sophisticated taste which, in turn, makes it seem formidable to the untutored. A few musicians — Arthur Feidler and Leonard Bernstein, for example — have tried to break down this barrier, both by popularizing classical , works and by explaining them. But it remains. And so you find that the young, whose minds should be most receptive to any new cerebral experience, are often prejudiced against anything but Mr. John Derry purchased the house and lot on the corner of King and Joseph Sts., which is occupied by Mrs. Grigg Sr. Mrs. Grigg will reside with her son Mr. A. J. Grigg. 40 Y EARS AGO The Clinton News-Record 0Otober 9, 1930 Messrs. G. Morley and Norman Counter have taken over the bowling alley and are already operating it. O'Neil's Corner Grocery is being re-modeled and changed in order to install a new business system that being a Groceteria, Cash ,and Carry Service, and Self Serve Store, with free delivery. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record October 4, 1945 Miss Ruth Hearn has begun her Second Year at the College of Optometry, Toronto. Wilfred Jervis has been busily engaged in moving his summer home "Jervis Bay" at Paradise Vista, to the safety of the hill top. Miss 'Lisabeth Clinton, and Miss Doris Mc Ewen, Bayfield, both graduates of Clinton Collegiate Institute, won two Dominion-Provincial Scholarships this year. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record October 6, 1955 Verna Marie Falconer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Falconer, Clinton, has arrived at the simplest forms of music. The truth, it seems to me, is that music needs to be "understood" for enjoyment no more than the sound of bird calls or the wind in the trees. It is a mystic language which may be interpreted individually. I read recently of an experimental program by Hephzibah Hauser, the sister of music as a form of therapy in an Yehudi Menuhin, who used Australian mental institution. She found that even those patients who had lost all contact with reality responded to music as a form of communication, more meaningful in its beauty and in the expression of feelings than words. • X haven't tried to ,probe too deeply into the, response that's sciAelighted me It is a simple reaction to pleasing sounds, I know. Yet it goes deeper than that. The music forms images in their young minds , that often carries them away into private fancies. One night, during a passage in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, one, of the girls — a small voice in the darkness — observed, "It's like drifting down a river." Which, indeed, it was. Unlike popular music it causes a creative participation. If it's a response foreign to what the composer had in mind who cares? It is a sound that inspires them to the free-flowing thoughts that would otherwise remain insensitive. With that as a beginning the deeper meaning and comprehension will follow naturally. 30 Air' Materiel Base, Langar, England, for a tour of overseas duty with the R.C.A.F. as a clerk typist in the station hospital. Right across Highway 4 from the Huron County Home work has begun on the foundation for a ten-unit motel, the property of John S. Parker, manager of Par-Knit Hoisery, Ltd., Clinton. Del Cook, Lloyd Dale and Eugene McAdam have the job of laying forms for the cement. 10 YEAIRS AGO The Clinton News-Record October 6, 1960 Eugene "Butch" McLaren went back to work at Wells Auto Electric, after having been a patient in Clinton Public Hospital from Tuesday to Saturday as the result of receiving a charge of shot in his right leg. Thanksgiving weekend generally finds Canadians driving madly off in all iirections. Thanksgiving Day itself is isually hubbub on the highway. The glory if green trees turning to scarlet, russet or fold draws us to the woods, the lake, the lver but this Thanksgiving let's pay our beautiful ,planet a tribute by i OT :rowding the highways and polluting the Sir unnecessarily. Unless you have to close ap the cottage, leave the car at home. Enjoy the changing colours of nature as close to home as possible — walk through the parks, along the river, or out into the country; ride a bicycle if you have one; or if transportation is necessary, Share a bus ride with others to the nearest conservation area or nature trail. Plan a With another leap, let's move up to another Liz: Taylor, the royalty of this century. She is married, for the fifth time, to a brilliant,, sexy man. She has made millions. She has been envied and admired by millions (of women). Certainly, this' is a superficial view of women, But it does prove that if you've got what it takes, you can get where it's at. To confirm my suspicions, I made a rough and hasty survey of female opinion, My senior girl students are all for Women's Liberation, but deplore the tac- tics of the far-out wing. They do point out the soft spots, particu- larly in industry and business, where women meet a stone wall at a certain stage. True, and something should be done about it. But in the professions: medicine, the law, teaching — women get the same fees as men. Why aren't there more women engineers and dent- ists? One would think their practical common sense in the one case, and their gentle touch in the other, would be invalu- from home. Engage the family in a little listening to nature — to the birds, the little wild animals of the woods, busy insects, rustling leaves. Let us try this one day to hear and understand a little of what nature has to tell us when we have time and patience to' listen — that on this beautiful planet each Mma • USIC creature has a place and a purpose, no more or no less important than man's. — Contributed. The evenings I like best at our place are when we build up the fire, turn off the lights and lie around on the floor listening to the records. It's about a year ago that I signed up with one of the record clubs. It was the best investment I ever made. Among other things it's shown me how much you can underestimate the capacity of the young for absorbing something that we so lightly assume is beyond them. Perhaps it's because I hadn't the slightest interest or appetite for classical music as a boy. My father took.some pains to„,. expose me ,to ;literature, be Wasn't mu6h on 'mnsiba, eir,cefit • that of Eddie Peabody and the' banjo isn't the ideal instrument to foster musical appreciation. In any event, when I set about building a modest library of the kind, of music I'd missed in my youth, I'd no idea it would become a family affair. It began only as a novelty. The records arrived regularly once a month — sometimes two or three of them together because of the bonus idea. Having a nice sense of fair play, my kids consented, with no more than a few screams of protest, to a temporary darkening of the television screen. The darkness and the prone position on the rug, I suppose, appealed to them as a lark and as a way of staying up a little later for all Other views A SUMMARY OF EDITORIAL OPINION FROM OTHER AREA NEWSPAPERS. their advice. "Mayor Miller pointed out immediately after the report was published that it contained a serious error in regard to Wingham's water and sewage services. It may well be that a point-by-point study would reveal other and equally important discrepancies. "There is one major conclusion of the report with which—we --cannot agree. The ,F.xpeOs appear,; to be unanimous inlifeleonclutiOn that there will be very little increase in the population of Huron County and towns such as our own. This premise is apparently based on the fact that farm populations are declining and that rural people are moving toward the cities. This same assumption has even carried over into a role study recently completed by a firm of consultants for the hospitals in Huron and Perth Counties. "It is true that the pattern of farm-based economy is changing rapidly and that less and less young people will depend upon agriculture for their livelihood,' but these reports fail to acknowledge the fact that increasing numbers of city people are seeking the quieter life which may be found in a rural atmosphere. This movement from city to country is not just a theory — it is a fact. We know of several city families who have purchased or leased homes in this area in the past few years. We know, too, of several more who will make the switch as soon as they can. Some of the wage-earners return to, the city for their week's work and still others have found various sorts of employment in this area. "The same trend is slowly taking shape as far as industry and business is concerned. True, it is not taking place very swiftly, but as the pressure for, and cost of land, buildings and labor soars in the cities, those industries and businesses which are not actually compelled by market conditions to operate in the big urban centres will move out to less crowded communities. "The next ten years may very well bring a reversal in the population trends. It has already happened in many of the American fast-growth sectors." Area papers dealt with the provincial government's report, "Design for Development, Midwestern Ontario, Phase 1, Analysis" in their editorial comment last week. The Huron Expositor said: "Hon. C. S. MacNaughton has indicated that once the proposals are formally adopted making in so lar as develoiniielit of the area is concerned. they will become the foundation for future planning and decision Presumably . they will take precedence over similar reports by other departments of governnient despite the difference in approach which some adopt. The latest in these costly studies for instance is issued by the Ontario Economic Council and suggests a growth patteme from south to north along Lake Huron with a new transportation corridor to accomodate the movement. "What makes the whole matter so disturbing to the average citizen is that there appears to have been no overall look at the problem. Like the government's assessment program, jumping as it does from one expediency to another, planning for the region is going oninseveral directions at the same time. "If as Mr. MacNaughton indicates, the present proposals are to become, on approval, the basis for long term decisions, it is increasingly important that the premises on which their conclusions are based be accurate. "A subsequent discussion program in Exeter made apparent the extent to which inaccuracies existed and it is this recognition that has moved a number of area municipalities to an intensive study of the proposals." The Wingham Advance-Times was also concerned about inaccuracies in the report. It stated: "The report 'was not anticipated by government officials to be without errors or shortcomings. In fact, one of the prime objects of its presentation • in Listowel at the end of July was to interest local leaders in critical comment, so that the next phase of the report, recommending action at various levels, would have the benefit of