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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-11-12, Page 4F3?,./.51044.7 014,YEs.Youg FATOCR k4.1AM"rto ro Yoa 71/4 r AS Coq' AS Yott 1,64W A)1.7 e ere t NA re vAzis•vo You W0,4 oveAdo IA At SZaitot tiP Yowl New SPoiers CAR, Published the heart every Thursday at of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA Many vital questions were raised during itheuvbent:WorWpod Congress., held in. Thefifiague,,,One of these ,was,,how, the nations would meet the problem of , feeding an additional billion people in the developing countries by 1985. But perhaps the two most significant arguments were put forward by former :Prime Minister Lester Pearson; and by United Nations. Secretary General U Thant. Mr. Pearson stressed that unless new food production techniques were developed hand in hand with new social and political wisdoms, the gap between the hungry and the well-fed would only Widen. The benefits of increasing food product:Ian around the, world must be more fairly shared" than they are today, worned Mr. Pearson, because almost a third of the 3.5 billion people living on earth • today" are , either hungry or ,dangerously under-nourished. U Thant issued an equally urgent warning. He said nations showed too much interest in defence and were not We are confident in the future of our area. The News-Record believes that, although things may look black now, the future is rosy if we make it that way. The work of the many who are working to find a replacement for the armed forces when Canadian Forces Base Clinton moves out next September is bound to pay off, We feel sure that alternatives will be found to keep the base, so important to the future of Tuckersmith Township and Clinton, operating. Many suggestions of uses for the base have been made: police colleges, Department of Transport, ' school, community college, and the Conestoga College experiment in training immigrant families in the Canadian way of life. Many people don't realize that it doesn't have to be a situation of one or• the other. CFB Clinton is big enough to take in all projects and then some. In Hullett, the future can also be exciting if the best advantage is taken of the new wild life area. Such developments point out how important it is for you the citizen to nominate wisely in nomination dates cdming up in Clinton on November 16 and Hullett and Tuckersmith on November .23. The decisions that these men must make in the next two-year term will have long lasting implications. They must be willing to look to the future, to plan for their community's growth, or others will take over the planning for them. They must be young in ideas if not in years. The new council in Clinton will face the following major decisions: 1. A showdown on the CFB Clinton 4 lint9n;NOWOOPOrd, ThUrPOPY,..NOVOMNPIZ:1970 . • Modal omnient Look the future.. fig leaves instead of slacks Bridging the gap in selecting amdidates meeting the challenges of the population . explosion. U Thant say,99vernmerits were spending an aitiononiic20(1 billion dollars a year on armaments to keep each other in check, thus achieving the most expensive zero ever observed in human history. The answer, if .only mankind was logical, seems relatively simple. Governments, and particularly the great powers, should divert the billions being spent needlessly on defence into productive sectors of the global economy, More social education for people in rich and poor countries alike, more equitable trade between affluent and backward lands, more and wiser foreign aid, more ,effective population control programs, more food and medical care for the needy — these are only a few of the projects that would benefit from a slowdown in the maniacal race of the super powers to acquire ever more deadly and destructive instruments of human slaughter. —Contributed. t,gosing. The deci$ion on whether or not the base stays open will be made during the term of the new council, Much may depend on how actively they work to develop alternatives. And if they are successful in winning a new life for the base, they should be looking beyond to the future with such Plans as ,the one outlined in the second section of this paper. 2. Formation of the Bayfield River Conservation Authority must be finalized and Clinton and Tuckersmith Township should take the leadership in project. They will also have to co-operate in developing the area across the southern end of Clinton. 3. A strong voice in discussions in county, regional and provincial affairs must be maintained so that the local municipality doesn't become handcuffed in attempts to develop itself, especially since the government development plan for the Midwestern Ontario Development Area is due to be released during the term of office of the new councils. The next two years may have more bearing , on the future of our area than any two-year period in our history. We are in a time of change, whether we like it or not. We have the choice of changing ourselves or having others change us. If we take bold action we can mold our own future and build an exciting and independent community, if we don't we'll be cast in others mold. We can not stress too much the importance of placing intelligent, progressive, hard-working men on all councils in the area. If we do not, we have only ourselves to blame for the dismal results we may reap. the. Editor . Experiences with turtles The Editco, When I read your article on snapping turtles in last, week's paper, it reminded me about Our e4Perience with six of them, 'bellies, that is. ' \feW years ago, not far from our summer cottage, a snapper dug'a hole on a sandy, clay bank and laid some 3Q eggs, which looked and felt like ping-pang balls. She covered them up carefully, and then promptly wandered away, never to think of them again, I suppose. Early in September, we brought six of the eggs into town •— they were heavy and rubbery by then. In a few days the eggs began to chip, and six black, ugly objects appeared. I was sure they had all died as it was a day or two before they 0111100.11.1.101110$11.111/ letter to 'Esionsimmusurmarmoons, I have just got home from some- thing as rare and delightful as a personally conducted tour of Buckingham Palace — a teachers' staff meeting that lasted only half an hour, This is equivalent to building the Pyramids in three ' weeks. Meetings, as such, are a parti- cular annex in hell for anyone who has been in the newspaper business and attended at least one, and sometimes two, every :working dayof the year. .,•-five percent of meet- ings are unnecessary, unenlight- ening, and unproductive. They are the refuge of bores of both sexes, who take out their per- sonal frustrations by frustrating everyone else. These people have their little dinkiest RaiSing points of order; moving amend- ments to the motion; and hag- , gling for interminable times over items that could be solved in eight seconds by a three-year-old with two heads. Occasionally, a meeting pro- duces sparks, a clash, a conflict of personalities or ideas that light the Stygian gloom, I well 'remember one town council meeting, One of the councillors, somewhat the wear for some- thing or other, called one of the other councillors, "a gibbering old baboon," A nice thrust. He Wasn't top far of I the mark, but was in no condition himself to hurl such charges. The offended party promptly started peeling off his jacket, and offer- ed to thrash the other "within an inch of your life." The other councillors, and even the mayor, quailed. Chiefly, because both councillors were well into the seventies. I might add that the only blood shed was verbal. But that was a meeting. Staff meetings are not quite that bad, but they inevitably produce in me a headache so fierce that only a great dollop of some sedative beverage can allay it. I've seen adults haggling bit- terly for half an hour over the chewing of gum. Where it could be chewed, when it should be chewed, and how it should be chewed (open mouth or closed.) The only result was that the kids went on blithely chewing gum, wherever, whenever and however they could get away with it. Deep moral, social and psy- chological issues are involved in a problem of this magnitude. Is gum bad for the teeth? What do you do if you send a kid to the office, he removes his gum on the way, and swears angelically that it was the teacher's imaging; tion, that he was really chewing his cud out of sheer nervous. ness? Is it better for the student to chew gum than to chew his fingernails down to the blood? "Jesus wore long hair and beard, didn't he?" How do you counter this one .(a favorite, by the way, among male students)? bo you say, uh, Jesus, uh, THkCAY THAT GUM IN THE BASKET!" Or would you say, "O.K., Buster, turn that blackboard into an ouija board." This particular staff meeting was about girls wearing slacks. Human experience has showed that girls will wear whatever other girls are wearing, And girls, these days, are wearing slacks. They are comfortable, they can look smart, they are warm in our frigid winters, they prevent boys from peeking up the stairs as the girls ascend in mini-skirts, and they have probably contributed more to containing the popula- tion explosion than the old- fashioned night-dress. Anyway, I expected a mara- thon. About three hours. They can wear slacks, but only once a week. They can wear slacks, but they can't wear blue jeans. No- body in my class is going to wear slacks. If it's all right for the boys to wear blue jeans, why can't the girls. And so on. It was fantastic, but the open- ly, and bluntly expressed feeling of the majority was that girls should be allowed tb wear what- ever Was in style. And that was that. One commercial teacher, who could have been expected to come down heavily on the side of "no slacks„" said she didn't care if they wore fig leaves as , long as they were "neat and tidy." I'd like to hear 'what you e think _about long h hair, girls Wear- ing slacks, and all the other things that were unacceptable in our day, Drop a 'line. No pets, please! It took just three days before I had to steel myself against the inevitable puppy. Cocker spaniel. Five weeks old. Pleading eyes like pools of Warm Swiss chocolate. No, I cried, and the bestiality in my face was terrible to behold. There's no use being patient or rationally explanatory about it. All you can be is ugly. "Never! Never another beast or fowl in our lives!" Can this be the voice of lovable old Jack, friend of the furred and feathered? It can and is. • 3Oh, I lulow, how„ they, feel. The kids, I mean. Here we are getting all nicely settled in our new house, after a year in a no-pets-allowed apartment, and they're just dying to have something alive and crisis-making to share it with us. Always we've had one or two dogs howling in the garage, or • goldfish gulping their last before our very eyes because of the change in water, or cats that have vanished, stiff-legged, in their customary protest against a new address, or a pair of budgies that went into shock and moulted like autumn leaves. We never, in short, had a pet that didn't show an active resentment about moving and some of the dogs have voiced this so violently that we've often been alienated from our new neighbors before we've even met them. Four of the longest nights of my life were spent listening to Billy's terrier yipes of distress before he reconciled himself to his new home out of sheer • 10 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 10, 1960 The Hon. John Yaremko, Q.C. Toronto, Minister of Transport, will be in Clinton next Tuesday, November 15 to officially open a Driver Examination Centre to serve Huron County. Mrs. Maude Hedden, Hensall, who reports on the doings of that village in this_paper, and a number_ of othWt..predicted the U.S. election right again. Way back in September she called the Democratic John F. Kennedy to win, 15 YEARS AGO November 10,1955 Thirty of the proposed 71 new housing units at Adastral Park, RCAF Station. Clinton, are new complete, and personnel are gradually moving into the new quarters from hotnes far from the Station. Miss Marilyn Ashton, Clinton, was crowned Queen of the Apple Festival at the Festival &Hite last Saturday. , 25 YEARS AGO November 8, 1945 Remembrance Day will be marked in Clinton on Sunday, November 11 by a special memorial service in Wesley-Willis United Church at 11 a.tn., when a tablet containing the names of exhaustion and laryngitis. I remember going across to our new neighbors to apologize and seeing the haggard man of the house, upon a step-ladder, taking down the nameplate that read, "Peaceful Haven." It isn't that I'm heartless about any of the assorted livestock we've had. Quite the contrary. I've made a fool of myself over dozens of dogs and four cats. Trouble is, in the first place, we've had an almost unbroken run of maladjusted pets, The dogs we've had have almost always been over-sensitive, over-bearing or over-sexed. ° If they haven't been wanderers, like Jim the beagle Who wanted to see the world, they've been Hoppers like Jinx the labrador w,ho waddled each morning directly from her kennel to fall heavily against the front door and could be moved only like a sack of wheat. Jim the beagle, by the way, was the dog who had St. Vitus Dance. People who found him following strange scents in the far corners of the city would rush him to the nearest veterinarian, which cost me a pretty penny. Oh, the dogs we've had. We had a sweet mutt named Andrew, though I've forgotten the reason why, who was called, though never answered, to "Andy" until the morning we found eight crazy pups with him-her and, out of respect, changed his-her name to "Annie." She never responded to that, either. men and women from the Church who served in the Armed Forces, will be unveiled and dedicated. Engineers are authorized to proceed with sewer plans. Thirty-three convictions were registered in weekly police court here against owners of radios who had failed to take out licences. They were from the districts of Goderich, Clinton and Seaforth. 40 YEARS AGO November 6, 19$0 At Council meeting Monday evening, Chairman Miller of the property committee, seconded by Councillor Cook,' moved that the committee be empowered to have all cracks in town hall stopped up befote cold weather comes. 55 YEARS AGO November 11,1915 British Columbia is said to have potatoes "to burn" but it is a long haul to get the "frith pills" into Ontario. There is quite an outcry by a number of town and villageS this fall overt depredations carried on after nightfall by the boys who are not under Mine control. If a census were taken of the lads and lassies who spend the majority of their evenings tinder the parental roof the There is, too, my feeling that it's kind of unfair to have a dog in the suburbs in the first place. Dogs — or, at any rate, the dogs in our lives — have such a highly-developed sense of property that they're bound to be a nuisance. The more loyalty they give you the more of a nuisance they are. If you chain them up you're cruel and if you let them loose they're under the trucks or at the postman's tenderloin or into the neighbor's petunias or into some scandal of amour. (Yet to neuter a dog is to put a terrible burden on your conscience and I would never have that done again.) Finally, there's that predictable agony of the end of the road. Who has ever made the humane decision to put old Rex "to sleep" without wondering if the pain of that verdict is worth the pleasure of the companionship? Who has found a new home for a dog, as we had to for Jinx and Billy, without being haunted by the reproachful gaze they level from the back of the car taking them away and a mental resolution never to expose yourself again to such accusation? All of this I flung at them when they dragged me to see the spaniel. "A five-week-old pup? Are you mad?" I could hardly recognize the hateful snarl. '"We can't possibly get him for at least two weeks." probabilities are it would astonish you. 75 YEARS AGO Wednesday, November 13, 1895 Hensall wants to create a police village, and it has the reputation of being a moral village too. Weddings are so numerous and some courtships so brief that it is rumored a most worthy alderman may Soon follow the ti m e-honored example at anytime. The Editor, Thank you for reprinting the Windsor Star article on my niece's family and their fight with cystic fibrosis. Your covering story came as a surprise; again — thank you. All I expected to see was the article on Denise, Dale and Michael John — and their parents, who must be admired for their courage, devotion and unlimited faith. Your readers have probably seen the TV commercial for the CM Foundation Christmas cards that are being sold to raise The Editor, The Canadian Association for Humane Trapping sends out a bulletin "C.A.H.T." outlining the outmoded and cruel traps presently is use by many trappers. Of these the worst is the leg-hold trap. When this trap is set in water it is true the animal drowns but in some cases the drowning is not speedy. The beaver for instance can take up to 20 minutes to drown. But hundreds of thousands of land animals are also trapped by the leg-hold trap. In 1968 and . 1969 season 1,366,844 were taken in this way. They may die of starvation, exhaustation, cold, or attacked by predators. Some escape by ripping or chewing off their paw or paws. In any case many suffer hideous pain. Men who make a living by trapping are for the most part kindly men with no wish to inflict unnecessary pain on helpless animals. But the new improved instant-killing traps are for the most part expensive so the cheaper Cruel traps continue to be used. There is no legislation concerning trapping that controls the type of traps or trap sets to be used by trappers, from the humane point of view. C.A.H.T. endeavours to replace these traps with the instant-killing ones and has done so to the extent of some $15,000 worth through its exchange program. But much more remains to be done. really moved at all. however, gradually we had six liongry, hahY turtles crawling around, We fed them turtle food at first, but soon they preferred small pieces of raw meat, which they: took from our fingers. They thrived and grew all winter hs a big bowl of water and stones, and at times we'd run races on the floor. They, were ugly, bossy things, but never went to bite. A little red-eared turtle we had at the time was absolutely terrified of them, In the spring, two or three of the larger Ones were over two ' inches across, and of course, we Were happy to release them all in the river. Yours very truly, Erma Hartley. money for further research. I have these cards on hand — as' well as some imprinted pens. Anyone interested in extending a "Helping Hand" can reach me at 565-2145 or Box 146, Bayfield. I will be pleased to deliver any orders. You and your staff are most co-operative and understandings - Hopefully a new drug or treatment will be found in time for "our three." May God go with you! Sincerely yours, Jan Simons (Mrs.), Bayfield. For all animal lovers everywhere this is a chance to "help those who cannot help themselves".' Each instant -killing trap put into use ensures that a large number of animals will escape the agony of the leg-hold trap. One large conibear trap (for bears) cost $7.25. One smaller no. 110 conibear trap (neuskrat and squirrel) costs $1.25. One small no. 120 conibear trap (for mink) cost $1.60. There is no valid reason for retention' of cruel trapping methods and only an aroused public can see to it that legislation concerning control of proper trapping methods be brought into effect. If you wish to provide even one of these humane traps the address is: "C.A.H.T. Box 934 Station F. Toronto 5" Ont. C.A.H.T. has a trapper inventor assistance program. Governments could initiate a temporary form of subsidy to help trappers to convert to what are presently more expensive human traps. Instant-killing traps are an advantage to the trapper as he does not Iose animals through"raring off." All that is necessary for the continuence of cruel trapping methods is that good men do nothing. Sincerely. E.D. Fingland Candy-wrappers, paper pags, boxes and cartons litter the sidewalks and give Clinton a shabby, careless, neglected look. Eat your treats but do not throw your left-overs to the floor. How do you feel about the Bayfield River? Are you proud or are you ashamed, or are you just indifferent? Are you going to let sewage quietly gush into the river? What are you going to do about it? Action is the word, action from our citizens, to clean up this ugly mess. You could ignore this message, but you will suffer eventually. Something must be done now!. If not now, in ten years (a professional's guess) at the present rate of pollution you will die. It won't be in the next generation, but in . your generation. You can't escape. Be concerned; learn more; do your part." KAY STEVENS setond class mail registration number — 0817 A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U:S,A., $7.50 KEITH W. ROULSTON — Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Cistic Fibrosis Christmas cards Support more humane trapping THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD . Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record Clean up pollution at home The Editor, Clintonians you are killing yourselves: You are a major pollution concern in your own town. It would be a pleasant enough town except for the smoke caused by the mass burning of autumn leaves, the littered streets and 'the filthy Bayfield River. It is a scientific fact that the burning of leaves is a major contributor to pollution. Surely, even you dislike the black carbon-filled smoke that gets , into your eyes and down your lungs. With less energy than it takes to rake leaves you can build a compost heap which fertilizes the ground. Even the average person can comprehend this situation, or are you all blind? It is too much trouble to put your rubbish in a coat pocket, or have you some compulsion to throw it on the ground; _