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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
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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
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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; _