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Clinton News-Record, 1970-11-26, Page 4Cotter to the Editor Smiley proposes new marriage MOWS Two-day hermit Toronto Daily Star THE. CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgamated 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 ' Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bluetit' of Circulation (ABC) second claSs mail registration innnber •—• 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advantej Canada, $6.013 per 'year 11.8.A, $7.50 KEITH W ROLHATON — Editor J, 1-10WARD AITKEN ,=•,. General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron county Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE` !AVE OF RADAR IN CANA BA 4 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, ;November 20, 1979 Editorial comment We need a Chamber of Commerce back on its feet. Then came the big boost of the Douglas Point project nearby and Suddenly it was a boom town with. Wilding going on all over the place. Such a transition could take place here. The most important element in bringing the turn-around, is the change in attitude from defeatism to boosterism, In such a change, a Chamber of Commerce could 12e very important. It could work to help publicity the town in the county, in the province and across the country. At present, only the bad news goes out and everyone gets .a negative view of our town in other centres. . But isn't the present Clinton Retail Merchants Association enough? No. The retail merchants association is a good group but it is limited in scope, It is primarily an organization to promote business. We would like to see an organization that would not only take in stores and other retail businesses, but representatives of industries and non-retail businesses who have no part of the association. We would like to see a positive program of promotion of the town as a commercial, industrial and cultural centre. For this, a Chamber of Commerce would be most helpful. $C140P1.130A110 WsS SENT TkIE.MEN T9 effecticE 'YOUR LIGHT BULB, sigf • Orri ,cE ot. • AL. will refer to a hat water bot- tle, rather than shock treat- ment to the party of the second part. ITEM. It will clearly be understood who is to put out the garbage, who will get up to close the window, who will get up to shut up the baby, who will get the car on open- ing day of the trout season, ITEM. Neither partner shall spend' more than ten minutes during each 24 hours telling the other partner what a hell of a day he/she had at 'work/home, ITEM, She will not say, more than once a week, "You never say you love me any- More." And he will refrain from replying, "Certainly I love you; new will you quit bugging me about it?" ITEM. Neither party will promise the kids something ridiculous, then confront the partner with a fait adcompli, ITEM. The male partner May invite anyone for a drink or dinner regardless of hair curlers; "the house is a mess," "there's not a thing in the house to eat," Or "you might have a little consideration for me," rrtm. Males will refrain from shouting violently, "Why is there never any peaee around here?" Females will not hit, except in the clinches, (I have scars.) Carry on chaps. I've just begun. There's motley, jell- busy, sulking, teasing, nag- ging, baele-seat driving, deco- rating, There have been far too Many hooka- written abOut sex and marriage. Let's get down to the realities, The' Argyle Syndicate is another howler that could be jettisoned. When I'm pracs tically dying with the 'flu, she has less sympathy than she would have for a rattlesnake making its death rattle. And if there'a anything I can't stand, it's having a sick wife malingering around the place and not getting the meals, The last bit of farce at our wedding was when the preacher, being a little •coy, looked at me and asked, "Would you care to salute the bride?" It was an Anglican ceremony and I was a bit at sea anyway. In addition, I was just out of the air force, where "salute' meant just that. I gawked at him as he re- peated the question, "Well;" I thought, "if this is the way these Anglicans do it, O.K.," made a smart left turn and Was about to Whip up a snappy salute, when my bride, who knew the damn fool was telling me• to kiss her, solved the situation, by grabbing me around the neck and kissing me. It was a beau- tiful kiss. I got a rnduthful of her veil and that's about all. But with my personal ex- perience, and in view of the divorce rate today, I'd go fur- ther than the modern kids do. Not only would I bring the' service up to date, I'd Maid on an air-tight contract to be signed by both parties before they swore to anything. There'S not nearly enough speed here to set out the 'eons tract in full, but giVe zott skeleton, and .YOtai—can fill in the flesh, ITEM,. If either party 'suf. feta froth Cold feet, he Or she For some time now Mayor Don Symons has been saying that he would like to see the Clinton Chamber of Commerce reactivated. We understand the chamber died a slow death by stagnation a few Years ago and died so quietly no one knows just when the time of death was set, The advantage such organizations can give a town is being seen this week by the amount of free publicity the town of Kincardine is getting with its Chamber sponsored stagecoach travelling to the Grey Cup parade in Toronto. The venture is spreading Kincardine's name across Ontario and, when the stagecoach participates in the parade, across all Canada, All this will cost the town little, and although it is hard to measure the success of the project in terms of money, it will probably net the town new business in the long run, not to mention the feeling of pride it gives to the people of the town. It wasn't too long ago that Kincardine was in a state somewhat like Clinton is now. Industry had been pulling out of the town like mice deserting a sinking ship, But hard work by organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and members of the town council, helped put the town Dreamers wake Last week a local businessman , made the kind of statement that makes us feel a little weak. We asked him what he thought of the plan outlined in this paper on November 12 that suggested development of the area between the town of, Clinton ' and CFB Clinton to create one large town. "Oh," he said, "I guess it's something for them to dream about anyway." After we recovered, from the urge to knock his head off, we tried to explain something to the man. What the whole article tried so hard to point out, was that this idea does not have to be a dream. If we sit on our fat fannies and dream about it it will always remain a dream. But if we get up on our feet for a change and set out to work for it, every facet of that plan could be put into reality. ) •Feypu rap le 'co m epts on„ I have come into our office from people who should know something about the possibilities of the plan, from planning officials, educators and politicians. 'The, most important thing they point out abqut the proposal is that it is a positive plan, something that has been becoming increasingly rare in this part of the country in recent years. It's hard to believe, when talking to persons such as the businessman in question, that little more than a hundred years ago, the ancestors of the peopia who are so conservatively minded now, were some of the most exciting people in the world. Those people had imagination. Those people had energy and hope. They had to Young people of today, as we all know, don't want to do anything the way their elders did it. This includes getting married. Most still stick to the tra: ditional service, but many modern wedding ceremonies are completely different from the time-honored and time- worn ceremony that most of us endured, Nowadays, instead of hear- ing the .organ triumphantly booming "Here Comes the Bride," you may be startled, but shouldn't be surprised, to near someone belting out "Hey, rude!" — With guitar accompaniment. Instead of the comforting, traditional and often anachro- nistic passages in the ortho- dox ceremony, you may hear an erotic poem by Leonard Cohen. Any day now, 'll see the Men lined aip to Ou kiss the groom On both cheeks and shake hands with the btide. In many ways, I agree with the trend. I had the devil's own time with My wife be- fore our nuptial vows were finally nuptiallized. She wanted the "obey" deleted from the phrase, "love, honor and obey," and fought me right up to the after, where she muttered it Only to avoid a scene, And, of tourse, She has never obeyed me since, Another bit that got her back tip was, "With nly body I thee horior," ' spoken by the groom only, She look it the wrong„ way, And thought it a perfec example of male vani- ty. -hi sickness and in health" I'm not much of a one for doing things alone. Seems to me that almost everything in life, the good and the bad, is more fun or easier to bear if it's shared. When you get right down to it I suppose that's the real blessing of marriage. "The quiet comfort of companionship," as somebody said. Still, I think there are times when being alone may be a kind of therapy. Once or twice a year, as I've been doing this week, I get away by myself for a couple of days and give all my grouches and frustrations and worries, such as they are, a good airing. It is a form of escape, I guess. Certainly to be beyond the reach of the mail man, the newspapers, the telephone and the bill-collectors is at least temporarily tranquilizing. About the only way I can be reached at my hermitage is by Indian smoke signals and this gives me the splendid illusion of being detached from the rest of the silty:old,world. • , But =the escape can also mean a period of reflection and provides a perspective so that you may look down from a great height, as it were, at what suddenly seem to be some rather pygmy-sized troubles. Like those aerial maps that reduce mountains to ant-hills, things seem very different from the reaches of solitude. I almost always come back 75 YEARS AGO' The Huron News-Record November 27, 1895 The previous good condition of the roads did not require much snow to give fairly good sleighing last Saturday. There was in consequence a large number of farmers in town and a big amount of business transacted. • Mr. James Smith the other day purchased at Woodstock a beautiful snow white Shetland pony, and it is greatly admired. The Conservative Electors of West Huron, should at once re ppare for action. 'A Riding Convention will be held at Smith's Hill on Tuesday, December 10, to nominate a candidate for the House of Commons. Hon. Dr. Montague, the talented member for Haldimand, and several other ministers will be present. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era November 25,1915 By the death of Mrs. William Simpson, Clinton loses one of its oldest and Most respected, citizens. For many year$ Mr. and Mrs. Simpson conducted a store here and for the past few years Mrs. Simpson was assistant matron at the Huron House of Refuge. Confidence prevails in the minds of the Ontario License COmniissioners that all club bars in Ontario will be voluntarily eloSed at eight o'clock. Lest Sunday afternoon Rev. a. 1. Pairfull had a hatrOvv escape at the C.P.R. crossing out of Auburn. A heavy gale was blowing, the top of the buggy WAS tip, and jug as he was about clear of the track a heavy mogul and freight cars went past the cow catcher grazing the bind Wheels of the buggy. 40 YEARS AGO The Clihton News Redord November a0, 1930 Mr, Ian McLeod, Agricultural unbearably philosophical as you can see. Being alone, for one thing, makes you realize how much you're conditioned by society and how much value, true and false, that you place on getting along with other people. On the debit side, it brings out the Neanderthal Man in me. I retrogress magnificently, I eat the beans cold from the can. I keep a supply of wood precisely calculated to last just so long as I am going to need heat and no more. My beard progresses from a wire stubble into the soft, itchy beginnings of the Rip Van Winkle model that would surely be there to my knees if I could stay as long as I wished. My housekeeping consists entirely of doing up the zipper of my sleeping sack. This, I suppose, is a form of revolt against the fundamental conformity of communal living and probably explains why recluses are not only eccentrics, but almost always downright unsanitary.„ On•, the credit 'side, I find a sort of heightened response to the things in nature that ordinarily go unnoticed. Though I am a sloth at home I'm up with the dawn when there's no need of it, prowling the hills and the valley trails. To observe wild life and vegetation without the confirmation or response of a comrade somehow makes them seem a personal Representative: and his assistant, Mrs. H. L. Atkinson, are in Toronto this week. They have charge of the County Judging Team and the ten boys who go from Huron as guests of the Government. The death occurred on Saturday of Robert Marshall, who had been a Citizen of Clinton for about 25 years. He had, Until five years ago, run the tobacco shop and pool room, selling out to Mr. Mitchell. From Auburn: One of the most disastrous fires in recent years in this village occurred on Friday morning about two o'clock when the hardware store of Mrs. Nelson Hill took fire, The Blyth and Goderich fire brigades were called and did splendid work in saving Dr. Weir's house, which was very close to the store. 25 YEARS AGO • The Clinton News Record November 22, 1945 A beautiful memorial window, the gift of the family, was unveiled and dedicated at our impressive, service in Wesley-Willis United Church Sunday morning to the memory of the late Mr. and, Mrs. II, B. Chant. For many years prior to his death, Mr. Chant was superintendent of the local Electric Light Department. Playing left wing for Ordnauce Demobbers, Pte, Kelso Streets, Clinton,-figured prOminently in a recent hockeY .match in the Apollo Skating Rink Amsterdam, Holland, when his team battled to e 4.4 deadlock with Fourth Battalion' Air the Group Championship Pte. Street scored for the tieing goal. The list of these Arriving hotne On the liner "Queen Elizabeth" thiS Week includes the following front Clinton: Spr. R. H. Pickett, Gra. N, K. Naafis, Pie. J., P. Murray, 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record November 24, 1955 Nine minutes, after the deer season officially opened in Huron County two local farmers were forced to put a sudden stop to their hunting when a charge of buckshot from behind wounded them in the legs and hips. Keith Tyndall and Clark Ball are in Clinton Public Hosptial recovering from their wounds. Wilfred J. Denomme was acclaimed president of Canadian Branch No. 140 of the Canadian Legion at the November nomination meeting. 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News Record November 24, 1960 Opening three schools in one day iS a major task even for practiced politicians and both Hon, J. P. Roberts and Charles S. MacNaughton began to feel the strain last Friday. During the afternoon the addition to South Huron District High School in Exeter was opened. The new retail outlet of the' Brewers Warehousing. Company was opened in Clinton at the corner of Maple and Mill Streets last Thursday evening. Mrs. Lymburner is chairman of the Women's Advisory Committee, Ontario Department of Trade and Development. The last thing any woman wants to be is average. Nevertheless, I have gathered some interesting details in recent years on what is "the average Ontario woman." At the outset, I had better make it clear that I see the following statistics as average, and the woman they supposedly represent as very much an individual. In any case, here it is: She is 5 ft. 4 inches tall and weighs 132 lbs. She eats 3,200 calories a day and is always going on a diet. The Ontario woman annually consumes: — 160 lbs. of meat; 353 eggs; 91 lbs. Of sugar; • seven!-' lbs. cheedel 103: ' potatoes; — 100 lbs. of fresh fruit; 100 lbs. of bread; — 21 lbs. of coffee; 244 quarts of milk; — 42 hot dogs;' 191 bottles of pop; — 146 packs of cigarettes; 183 ounces of whiskey. Some of the things the average woman doesn't like to hear is that annually she throws 4f),(1 lbs. of edible food in the garbage; she watches television fIve hours a day; spends a year of her life on the telephone; uses $50 worth of cosmetics annually; spends one and a half times as much on clothing as her husband; charges 50 per cent of her purchases and returns 13 per cent of them. Indeed, the shopping habits of women in Ontario have far-reaching economic implications that are not always appreciated. Ontario women spend or influence the spending of an estimated 80 cents of every recall dollar. That's why in the Women's Advisory Committee make a point of urging that Ontario women consider buying Canadian-manufactured goods. Trade, of course, is a two-way street, and we don't suggest Shopping Canadian for nationalism's sake. Only that Canadian goods and products be considered When price and quality compare favorably with imported items. There are important dividends in Shopping Canadian. It helps create jobs, encourages our manufacturers to improve their goods and services, and helps factories reduce their unit costs and export at competitive prices. All these factors enhance our standard of living. And I have no doubt that the illusive "average" Ontario woman will go along With that, The editor, would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the superb, ill depth, and *tool article your paper presented to its readers in the November 12 issue, concerning the hope and aspirations of Clinton for the future. Being chairman of Clinton's Industrial Committee, I would like to assure you that this article will be kept operrin our files for constant reference. Let me say also that I am sure the citizens not only of the town of Clinton, but of the surrounding area, took much comfort in this article, for recently they have • only been facing a barrage of headlines and speeches on the loss of capital unemployment and thirdly, human resources, which will effect the area tremendously with the closing of the Forces Base. Now they can visualize the prospects of Clinton, its possibl routes to a hopefully unlimite success in the future. Being chairman of th Industrial Committee I would very pleased and interest indeed to see this article get th widest circulation possible. No only could it be sent to othe newspapers for puplication, bu parts of it could be used I pamphlet form as advertisin sponsered by the Tow Industrial Committee to be use as part of our presentation interested parties. Incidently copy of the paper containin this article is already on its wa to an interested party i Chicago. Huron County, to my belie offers its citizens the best an place could offer — relativel free from pollution, (now is th time to set up our defences fo arrest of potential sources o serious pollution). Hum County offers excellent touris resorts, shopping outlets an transportation links, and mos important as far as any futur resident of this area is concerne schooling for their childre which is second to none. Agriculture, in all its forms, o course is still the major indust in Huron County and it is indee ,something to boast about. For alit you have to•dois take a driV ehroughOut the. country-side an you will see twentieth centu agriculture at its best. S therefore when we have indust starting to take a foothold i Clinton, it will open a two-wa street, one to supply a read market to related industries an county agricultural products wil have a readily available an stable consumer market. In conclusion, I would mak this recommendation; that part-time- worker (a member o council) cannot be sufficient fo the task your article has pu before us. What is needed is full-time town manager o administrator appointed by th town, and naturally a prim requisite being a graduate of recognized course of study i this field. Not only would thi person pay his way in a ye short period of time, he woul more importantly give a sense o direction to the town and allo the town fathers to plan thei strategy more comprehensive) for presentation to industries government bodies and above all to people who elect them. A present we are faced to only table those things most pressing and requiring immediate action, Finally, I would like to thank your newspaper on such a masterful task once again, and I feel with articles such as yours, and the new interest being shown by the citizens of Clinton We are down the road of progress. Yours truly, C. D. Denomme Besides decorating the holiday mail of Canadians, Christmas Seals support year-round research into all respiratory diseases. This year the Canadian Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association and its constituents will spend $325,000 on its research and scholarship 11 IM11111 ,111 .1111.1 11 live. Although many of them were poor, and many knew nothing of how to live in the wild unsettled country, these people took their families and belongings from the settled world of Europe, across thousands of miles of rough sea, to a new continent where they staked claim to forest-covered land and dreamed of a bright and glorious future., What would they think of the timid status-quo seekers who inhabit their land today? ,Because it still is their land. We have done little to earn our -title to it. We inherited their hard work and ideas and have added so little of our own. If that generation of men and women could have lived on to fulfill all their dreams, we wonder how different our country would be today. It seems interesting that thisyear there are onlr:Seven busressmen:(rkiti)pg for,; 1 positions on council, and of these, three are men who have recently started or are about to start businesses in the town. These are men who have a lot to worry about without taking on the responsibility of guiding the town's fortunes through the next two years of trouble. Yet these men feel it is important that we have a strong council, important enough . for them to offer time they perhaps could use to increase their own prosperity. Where are our other businessmen who are well established and should have more time to give to our town? Are they so fat and happy that they don't care if the town improves and grow but only that their taxes stay as low as possible? • • •••••• se, Os, .. • . .• • • ... • *. •a, 16 .1,14 . Y4••,, • PP.4f At N11, \ OA. • • .4 . • • "'WO.... iVen, 4 •• •4 ••• a,. •• • ‘: " • • • discovery and more to be cherished. Thoreau said, "The perception of beauty is a moral test," but Thoreau was a man who chose to walk alone and, without distractions, the beauty of nature is inescapable whether the walker is perceptive or not. There is, too, the transient luxury of being responsible only to yourself. In our day-to-day living, as you realize only when you draw back from it, we're like marionettes worked by the strings of the conventions and duties of the group. At least half our actions and more than half our words, are involuntary. When a man awakens in the morning his day stretches befOre him like a narrow bridge. I suppose that accounts for the pleasurable feeling of awakening in solitude and saying ,to yourself, "I can do anything I want to do today, anything!" The fact that there's practically 'nothing that needs doing only adds,-tothe joy,ofit., eie e- • A steady "kiiet of that, • I imagine, could drive you completely mad. Two or three days of it are enough for me. I get lonely. But as a respite from the rigors of running with the pack, of magnifying your petty irritations, of taking yourself far too seriously, I've never found anything to beat a self-imposed exile. No woman wants to be average BY LILAH LYMBURNER