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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-10-15, Page 16,Plinum. NeWS7fieP9rd, Thursday, -QctOber 1979 Editorial .comOieeV Keep the ball rolling We whole-heartedly agree with town councillor Clarence Denomme who suggested to Mina last week that Clinton should keep the ball rolling on the matter of the clean-up of the Bayfield River by suggesting a separate authority for the Bayfield. We agree, not because we had earlier suggested such, an authority (mainly so people would look at all alternatives before making decision), but because we feel that the efforts to remedy the situation should not be dropped without action. Our council's representatives voted for joining the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority at a meeting held in Goderich. If they voted for it, we are sure that they must have considered all possibilities and felt it provided the best answer, But others, in their own wisdom, felt it war not, and so the proposition was turned down. But we Must not let the clueStion drop there, There are those who want it drooped. There are those, even here in. Clinton, .who feel that cleaning up, the river and building recreation areas is a waste of money. Some feel that Clinton, since it borders on the river for only a short distance, should not have to help bring the river back to life, But they are wrong. We all have a responsibility to preserve and improve our environment, even if it does cost a little money. We owe it to oursehies, Keep the ball rolling Mr. Denomme and councillors, Keep up the good work. If you were asked If someone got up on November 16, and nominated you for town council, would you stand? If 1970 is like most other years in most of the towns in Ontario, your answer would be no. The fact is, that most of the people who are asked to serve by their fellow citizens refuse to offer their services. The excuse isn't "No, I do not think I am the best man for the job" but rather, "No, I have too many other things on the go" or "No, I have my business to think of." We think that if you are asked to stand for a position on nomination night, November 16, you should run for council. We aren't going to say you should stand because you owe it to your community; arguments like that don't seem to carry much weight these days. Instead we'll appeal to you on monetary grounds, since they say money talks. You think you cam-it run for council because your business might suffer. Well my friend, put it this way: How good is your business going to be if your town is not a growing, prosperous place? How much business will you do if there are no jobs and everyone has to move elsewhere? And as for your clubs and organizations that keep you so busy you haven't time to serve your town; where will they be if the population drops and membership shrivels? The two-year term that the next council serves will see many, many important decisions being made, or failing to be made. We need a dynamic, energetic council in this important time. Only you, can help give us that, council by nominating good candidates and by running, if you are one of those candidates. A place for private schools vit's a tree„country;; everybody knows that, but anyone who has been watching the cost of education soar might doubt the fact. With the exploding school population it is inevitable that costs in schooling Have' to rise. But many of the other developments in the public school system have many parents shaking their heads. Some object that schools are too permissive. Others protest that it's just the other way around. Some resent the fact that public schools must work to the lowest common denominator. And others, such as the group now circulating a petition in our area, feel that children should have miigious instruction in their schools, which the public system is not allowed to give. We understand the position of those who want their load of supporting two school systems reduced. We feel that' people shoUld have an alternative method of education available to them without prohibitive costs. But we do not want to see any more government-supported education systems being set up in the province. Our public and Roman Catholic Separate systems are enough burden to bear asit is. We feel that those who wish to send their children to private schools should be able to do so and should not have to pay regular municipal education taxes if they use a private school. We feel though, that these private schools should exist on tuition alone and not on government grants. And, we feel that such schools should be closely examined by the government to make sure they maintain standards at least equivalent to the public system. .••L' 1,C;" ,c'4'ez., THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgatriated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Established 1881 aint0tv News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau Of Cireulation.( 13C) second class mail registration nurhber — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION ilAtES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year U.S.A., $7,60 KEITH W. ROULtTON Editor J. HOWARD All General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 8,475 IW 110111E OF RADAR IN CANADA \thattlsi Fashionable views Women are in a terrible fret these days, poor dears. The fash- ion designers have once again thrown them into a dither with their decree from the halls of the mighty that skirts were going down, In length, that is, For a change, there is a good deal of resentment among the gals. Many are declaring belliger- ently that they're going to stick with the mini. These rebels run all the way from middle-aged housefraus who would look bet- ter in a potato sack, to teeny- boppers who look great in any- thing, or almost nothing, Which some of them favor. But Pll lay long odds that, if the designers so choose, there won't be a mini-skirt to be seen within a year. What does grieve Me is that women are such utter Sheep, when it comes to style, They do' everything but jump thrthigh hoops when the designers crack the whip. When it tomes to equal rights, War, the stupidity of Inert, and other questions of vital im- portance, women will fight like tigreases for what they believe, They stand united, I am a gteat respector of women in general. They are far more reasonable than men, ex- cept when you try to reason with them. They are tendet and compassionate. except when they are belting their kids or tongue-lashing the old ntan for sOtite minor irritant, And they are practical to the point of being ruthless, except when it cornea to clothes, At this juncture, ail their good qualities fly out the win- dow. They become the silly, flit- tery, indecisive, disunited crea- tures that they have pretended to be for centuries. ' Why can't they be them- selveS? If I were a woman and had long, tapering, beautiful legs, and a flat chest, I would wear a mini-skirt and be damned to him who first cried: "Hold, enough”, And if I were short and pudgy, with a big chest, I'd be strongly inclined to wear a maxi Mother Hubbard, hinting at all sorts of mysteries lurking behind the cloth. • If I had bony knees but well- turned ankles, I'd wear a midi- skirt, In short, the skirt is quick- er than the eye, It should draw attention away from the less pre- possessing aspeett (no woman is plain ugly), to the more attrac- tive features. Now, I'm hot just speaking as a man who is ignorant of these things, or uninvolved in theta. My wife and daughter haVe been fighting the battle of the hem- line for four years. "Mom, I can't wear that, It's practically hanging around my knees." This meant that it was barely covering her pelvis. "All right, Kitty turn it up One more inch, and that's that," "Oh, Mem, I'll lbok like a freak out 6f the thirties, Why don't you forget the Whole thing and go listen to ,'your Guy Lom- bardo records?" I think the old lady hid the last word, She, took the shortest dress she could find, turned it up four inches, and sent it off to Kim at college. It looked more like a blouse than a dress. Even the kid had to admit the only, way it could be worn in public was over long pants. That's another thing they fight over — long pants. When Kim means long, she means trail- ing in the mud, snow or what- ever. However, my wife is quite happy about the change. She went rummaging through her wardrobe the other night and discovered a whole pile of things that are almost brand new, and just the right length, She'd never got around to throwing them out, when the mini came in. Enough of that. What does please me these days is the dash, flair and elan of men. For two centuries they had been scorned by women for wearing drab blues, browns and greys. Lately, they're as colorful as jungle birds, lust the other day, a friend of mine whom I thought a confirm- ed bachelor, was married._He wag clad in an Edwardian jacket with lace collar and fringes of lace peeping out at the cuffs. The jacket was decorated with autumnal flowers of all Shades, How about that? Presumably he also wore trousers, which were not described, Probably green velvet, Well, I. nave to buy a new suit this week, first in four years. haven't quite decided whether it will be maroon with a mustard stripe, or , off-mushroom with purple cheats, But It will proba- bly turn out to be grey, This is because he is not a born pipe smoker and, so far as I've been able to find out, they've yet to invent a pipe that works properly 'for anyone else. I have, myself, a whole drawer full of them, ranging from a 10-cent clay model that I bought on a Saint Patrick's Day in New Orleans to a magnificent Bewley Countryman that cost me two-pound-ten in Windsor, England, and they all work the same. They're either burning like a kerosene-soaked hay-rick, filling my lap with a patina Of flaming ash, or they're out. First thing you know I'm back with the laboratory mice smoking cigarets under the watchful eyes of the 75 YEARS AGO The Huron News-Record Oct, 23, 1895 John Roach, of Seaforth, who was so seriously injured at the Goderich show is recovering. At Porter's Hill: Mr. Dan Mclnnies, the champion wood chopper of Ontario has appeared in our midst once more. Mr. James Stirling of the 6th concession commenced the gay season by inviting his friends to an old fashioned husking bee on Tuesday evening. Messrs. James A. Ford and Richard Murphy have bought out Mr, W. J. Langford of the Central fluteher Shop and take pogsession today. 55 YEARS ACO The Clinton News-Record October 21, 1915. A great improvement will be made at the Library Square after seeding and the walks are laid, The Smith Memorial Fountain will add beauty to the square. Miss 13. Porter, Whb started for Canada on the "Arabic" which was sunk by a German submarine, eXpectS to leave about the 28th for Clinton. Her many friends will hope that she - will have it sate and pleasant voyage this time. 40 YEARS ACio The Clinton Wows-Record October 2;81,1930 Last night the fine barn Of Mr, Orville Phillips, Hurbit Road, East of Clinton, Was tOtally destroyed by fire. W. T. O'Neil; Clinton's Corner Grocery, feature a trying to keep the thing going, cursing it and scratching matches on the Chippendale and stabbing at the stem with his fuzzy cleaners and setting fire to his best tweed trousers and trying to defend himself • from his wife, who is so cross about all that smooth-flake Cavendish ground into the rug, that somehow he just never gets around to the calm delight. Take as routine a manoeuvre as tapping the dottle. The born pipe smoker casually cups the bowl in his palm and he reaches over with a thumb that's presumably made of asbestos and he firmly presses down on the smoldering tobacco and the pipe glows obediently, With me it does not work that way. If the dottle is sufficiently lit in the first place my reaction is a thin piercing scream of agony and a quick dash to the medicine re-opening sale sale with the following specials: 5 lbs. granulated sugar, 27 cents; 3 lbs. lard, 50 cents; picnic hams 25 cents per lb.; Kraft cheese, 33 cents per pound. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record October 18, 1945 Following a lapse of five years owing to war Conditions, Huron County Plowmen's Association held a very successful plowing match — the 19th annual — on the farm of Benson Sowerby, Goderich Township, Blue Water Highway, south of Goderich. Fit. Lieut. 13. B. Pocklington has purchased Roy Plumsteel's house on Rattenbury Street East. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record October 20, 1955 The official ceremonies to open the new wing at CDCI will begin tonight with chairman of the board George L.41alconer in charge. Dr. C. F. Cannon, deputy minister of education, will officiate. At the end of this week, meal service at the Commercial Hotel is being discontinued, in preparation fot a three month vacation in Europe being planned by the proprietors, Mt. and Mrs. C. Van Gamine. Clinton's cost for laying King Street sidewalks, intersections and drains will be $10,000, for which the' town Will be eligible for a 50 percent subsidy from the Ontario Depattthent of cabinet for first aid. Sometimes the whole mass simply adheres to the thumb and comes out of the bowl in a shower of sparks, an experience seldom conducive to peace and reflection. It may be, of course, that even if a workable pipe was invented — that is to say, one that kept alight and drawing for as long as 12 minutes — it would still be a simple thing to separate the born pipe smoker from those who simply aspire to the title. I • have friends who are so rarely seen without one that you come to think of the pipe as a permanent fixture, a part of them, like eyebrows or teeth, While we lesser mortals' look self-conscious or affected. holding 'the briar or using it to point with or thoughtfully polishing the grain on our noses, such types would look strange without a pipe. You never see them lighting up or prodding with cleaners or scraping the bowl. The pipe simply goes forever. They could put it down and go away for a week and pick it up and it would still be smoking. It is noticeable, too, that they are invariably calm, relaxed, well-adjusted men, beautifully fashioned to go with open fires and old books, which leads me to think that perhaps they were this way all along, that the pipe is not the reason for their serenity but simply an expression of it, But until I can find one or invent one that will be easier on the nerves I guess I'll never know. w\IPP n" 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record October 20, 1960 Three Clinton boys became Queen's Scouts last Friday in a special ceremony. The Scouts are Paul Bateman, son of Mr. and Mrs. ' Maurice Bateman, Steven Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Cook and Peter Thompson son of Mr. and Mrs. Duff Thompson. No secret was ever kept in Bayfield like the one when the news broke in our village over the weekend that Lucy Woods and Carl Diehl had been quietly married in Trinity Anglican Church late Saturday afternoon. The new Bank of Montreal is rapidly taking shape at the corner of Highways 4 and 8. The one storey structure is slated for completion in November. The discontinuance of local railway service doesn't seem to have caused too much noise in our area but to the north, along the Stratford to Kincardine line where bus service leaves much to be desired, the move has met heavy opposition. * * The Kincardine News said it this-Way: The first reaction to the recent announcement regarding the termination of railway passenger„service was, in many cases, disappointment and frustration.' Disappointment was natural for those who used the service to any extent as a means of transportation. Those who took an interest and attempted to thwart the bid by the railroad would also feel their efforts had been in vain. A realistic look at the situation would have been enough to cause most businessmen with a desire to make a dollar throw in the sponge very quickly. Consistent losses .of the size experienced on the Stratford to Kincardine run would make one shudder. This was no doubt the determining factor in the decision of the Canadian Transport Commission. Had they looked further than the submitted balance sheet, the Commission would probably have seen why the losses were being incurred. The lack of "merchandfsing" of their product on the part of the C.N.R. was very evident to those in business, particularly the advertising business. The sum total of the railways effort at promoting their service in this area was a small dingy advertisement setting out the price of a ticket to Toronto, and these were inserted most sparingly. Never, to our knowledge, was any amount of effort used to "sell" the rail services . . . . The Canadian National Railway may know how to get a train from point A to point B but they sure don't know how Wpm a railway„ . No, we're not saying that the Canadian National Railway or the Canadian Transport Commission made a wrong decision. They have it right there in black and White to wave under your nose, They were losing 'a fortune. On the basis of totter to Me Editor The editor: "As the twig is bent, -so the tree will grow" is an old familiar saying. Yet, how many people see the inconsistency of taking "unpreeedented • steps" to combat blackmail, and each year, giving our youngsters basic training in blackmail, tinder •the facade of a religious holy day? Was it not Elojaby Burns who said; "Ah, would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us"? C. F. Barney. --OPINIONS - What could be more incongruous than the sight in the last week of those protestors across the country claiming in public places and op • national television, that their civil rights had been taken away from them by the invocation. of the Wet Measures Act? * * * The CBC presented a program on the sale 'of water to the United States on. Tuesday night. Let's hope melnbers of the government watched that show and saw what we've done to our beautiful land in thb past with such water diversion programs. effort put into the job, however, they were making every nickel they could expect. * * The Wingham Advance-Times also examined the loss of railway service but was not so hard on the railways. It took about 20 years to do it, but Canadian National and Canadian Pacific have finally succeeded in convincing the Canadian Transport Board that passenger service by rail in Western Ontario is indeed unnecessary. The people in the ;.'4.ine,a.in'oni No. 8 Highway north to Georgian Bay can no longer travel by train. There is no doubt whatever that the cessation of passenger service will create a hardship for some people. Buses do not provide a comparable service, particularly for older people or mothers with small children, And although the vast majority of those who live in this area have their own cars, and use them to the total exclusion of the railway, there are still many hundreds who don't have cars, nor friends with cars who are prepared to take them wherever they wish to go. It would be safe to say, however, that the _greatest hue and cry during the long years of struggle to retain passenger service, came not from those who were going to be seriously inconvenienced, but rather from those who, out of a sense of civic pride, felt that the loss of daily passenger service would in some way downgrade the reputations of their several .communities. We do regret the loss of service, for the sake of the few who really did need it — but we cannot deny the railways' argument that it was folly to maintain a system which was losing thousands of dollars of our money every day it operated. If we actually did need railway passenger service we would have been travelling by train — and the most of us were not. Some pipe dreams Another of my secret money-making schemes, better even than my plan to revive mah-jong, is the invention of a pipe that will satisfy the demands of the man who wasn't born to smoke one. There must be millions of coves like me who reach a point where they're worried about too heavy a consumption of cigarets and decide to switch for awhile to a brair. "Hmmmm," a man will say to himself. "Twelve hundred cigarets today. I must get out the old pipe for a bit." men in white. It isn't only as a retreat from cigarets, of course, that makes a pipe seem so attractive. It is a veritable symbol of peace and reflection. Give a man a pipe he can smoke, as the old poet said; give a man a book he can read; and his home is bright with a calm delight though the room be poor indeed. You remember that bit of Robert Service: I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few: my pipe of brair, my open fire and a And he does. He buys some book that's not too new. exotic tobacco, usually a Fine. smooth flake Cavendish, heavily Except, of course, that the scented, with rum, and, if` ,a „ strong ;thinker, fi • he may es -./ poor cluck who isn't born to fpipe-smoking is so wrought up well in some fuzzy pipe cleaners and a patented tool for scraping and plumbing the bowl, He lights up and right away he's miserable. A SUMMARY OF EDITORIAL OPINION FROM OTHER AREA NEWSPAPERS.