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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-06-01, Page 44-.Clinton News-Record, Thursday, June 1, 1972 Take a look at sehool buses -Recently the Huron-.Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board began studying the problem .of school bus Safety.. The Board plans to form a resolution asking for safer buses in the near future, The subject is one that should be given serious consideration by everyone involved with education from the school trustees and administrative staff to the teachers and parents. More children are travelling more miles every day in school buses these times than ever before. Under such circumstances, accidents are bound to happen. Have you ever looked at the inside of a school bus and wondered what would happen to thepassengers if there was an accident? The seats are of the low, bench type which allow whiplash to occur:incase of a rear-end collision, In a sudden stop, the passenger may have his head smashed against the metal framework of the seat in front of him. The buses are of a flimsy construction, giving little protection in a collision, and there are too few exits in case of emergency. Buses were designed this way to help keep costs of busing down. -But which is more important, cost, or the safety of our children? The time has come for the government to act so that safer buses will be avai lable. So far we have been lucky, in that there have been very few serious school bus accidents in Ontario, but it is only a matter of time before there is a terrible tragedy. Can we win the race against time and get proper safety measures first? Give them a break The days are clicking away rapidly toward the end of another school year and once again thousands of college and high school students in the area will be looking for work. • Every year there seem to be more kids trying to get jobs that become. more scarce year by year. And they just can'twin because they can knock their heads against the wall for weeks and not get a job, then be accused by many of the older generation of being too lazy to work. The old line, "When I was in school, I worked hard every summer" seems to be heard everytime an adult sees kids with time on their bands. Sure, perhaps it used to be true that every student worked hard all summer, but those were the days when there were fewer students and more short-term jobs. Today, businessmen are so profit conscious that they will get a machine to do the job the student used to or they just wi II get along without the help they would get if they hired a student. And another student will be left without a job. Why not look around your farm or buiness right now and see where a student could be of assistance to you? You might be surprised to find out that the student can not ony help you by letting you rest a little more this summer, but might help increase your business or inject fresh ideas into your operation. Why not give it a try? As a service to students seeking summer employment, the News-Record will institute a program of free "Employment Wanted" ads. See next week's paper for details. Time to practise water safety If it happened only once a summer, the story would still be an all too familiar one. A family goes to their cottage or favorite beach for a weekend of fun and relaxation. After unpacking and changing into their swim suits, they head down to the water's edge. The children are all playing together on shore. The parents close their eyes to enjoy the sun, and fall asleep. Suddenly they' re awakened by the shouts of other people. They see lifeguards combing the water for signs of an unattended child who suddenly disappeared. Sometimes a life is saved. Sometimes a life is tragically lost. But by that time it is far too late to think about water safety measures which could have prevented the child's disappearance in the first place. Fortunately many Canadians do think about water safety, and the story of their summer is funfi I led and safe as well. For 26 years the Red Cross Water Safety Service has helped Canadians stay alive with water safety. The rules are simple. But they can help keep your family safe. Supervise and,,, educate your children. If they can't swim ctintact your local Red Cross Water Safety Service and enquire about local swimming programmes. Even if your children do swim, always keep them in sight. If you know where they are and what they're doing, you can make sure they play safe. Swim only in supervised areas and attimes whenthe beach is supervised by professional lifeguards. In unfamiliar waters, debris or sudden drop-offs which you can't see can hurt you. Always swim with a buddy. If trouble should occur, someone wi I I be there to help. Equipped with a respect for the water and a thorough knowledge of water safety, you and your family will enjoy the water more. So enjoy the water this summer, and stay alive with Water Safety.— contributed. "Obviously pobsmokers—notice the enlarged pupils, slovenly posture, licentious leer . ." Play it qgain the old way, Sam THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS,RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1 881 Clinton 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 ntitrber — 0817 :SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) "Canaria, $8.00 per year; U,S.A„ $9,50 KEITH W. ROLHATON -'- Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager PubliShed every Thursday at the heart of Huron County' Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE IOW OP RADAR IN CANADA "sir. Do you, occasionally, have the feeling that you'd like to stand up, preferably in some public place, and scream, "Stop the world! I wanna get off!"? This urge, which is becoming a compulsion, Seems to he hitting more often lately. Perhaps it's the first, faint symptom of Twenty years ago, when our kids were babies and I was leading the hectic, 72-hour a week life of a weekly editor, I accomplished a great deal. I still found time to play the, odd game of poker (and odd is the word), catch opening day of the trout season, get in a few rounds of golf a week, see the latest movie, play with the kids and tell them bed-time stories, and fight with my wife, Today, the kids are grown up and gone, and my weekly chores have been pared to a reasonable number of hours. Yet 1 find myself so beleaguered that I haven't played poker for five years, haven't wet a line or sliced a drive this spring, haven't see(' a movie for a year atel a half, and scarcely ha ve time to fight with my wife. Don't say it. -He's getting old. 'this is pure malice. I can still out•dante and out-drink most tweiity-year-olde. I was going to add out-fight. But let's put it this way. I can still out-run any coward my age, or up to 10 years younger. I can still swim a hundred yards in half an hour; I can walk a block in twenty minutes, with time out for catching my breath. I can hit a golf ball 200 yards with a mere 60- mile tail-wind. Don't say it. "He's caught up in a social whirl," That's pure imagination, The only social whirl around here is trying to decide whether we should go over and visit Grandad, or ask him to come and visit us. No, We something else. What, in the world of all that is ridiculous, is happening, in the prime of my life, when I should be coasting a little after years of uphill pedalling? It's the rotten world, that's what it is, The danged thing is flying around faster and faster on its axis, whatever the scientists may say. The days are getting shorter and shorter, the years are flipping by like somebody shuffling cards, and everybody is wishing the weekend would come or saying, "Thank God, WS Friday." And all God's &Hien seem to know it. The kids are lido drugs and sex as though they'd just been invented and might be out of style tomorrow. The trout streams are polluted. It's easier to flop and watch an old movie on television, with forty- six commercials, than to venture into the dark theatre and become involved. I play an anemic and safe game of bridge instead of an erratic and brilliant game of poker. The golf courses are so crowded it takes all day to play a round. And even playing around is no fun anymore. Everybody, instead Of viewing it with the delighted horror of a generation ago, has an instant analysis of the whole affair, in pseudo-psychological terms. It used to be fun to fight with my furnace, man against beast. Often it won, but at least I had the satisfaction of giving it a few good belts with the Coal shovel, Try that With your friendly oil dealer and you'll wind up with a law-suit, Everybody is sick to death of taxes, always going up, however cleverly disguised; of politicians, who seem more concerned with Scoring a point, for or against, than in leading; of the lousy postal service; of the growing army of slobs who diddle the rest of us and live on unemployment insurance or welfare, The majority of Canadians are sick to death of those darlings of Keep the flame The year is still mighty young, but already I'm convinced that the nicest news story of 1972 will be that of the sentimental American whose wedding anniversary gift to his lady was a candle-light dinner in Paris. I've mislaid the clipping, wouldn't you know? But perhaps you saw the small item the other day, a small, bright distillation of sunshine in the grey wastes of the news. It seems that the Admirable American had tricked his lady into the flight to New York from Dayton or Cincinnati or wherever it was and then aboard the Paris-, bound jetliner. The whole thing, so the story went, was a complete, totel,surprise, to ,her or, if ;t.2, wasn't, she did a fine job' of pretending. I imagine there were tens of thousands of women married to unromantic clods who shed a silent, inward tear of pure envy. And...who knows? maybe even a couple of husbands who felt a small tug of guilt or remorse that such a splendid notion never occurred to them before. By one of these happy coincidences that keep 10 YEARS AGO MAY 31, 1962 The pony barn at the corner of Clinton Community Park burned to the ground just at dusk on Saturday evening, along with a good show buggy stored inside the building. Damage would he about $1,000, The barn was owned by George the self-styled intellectual leaders; anti-Americanism; lack of a "true Canadian culture", whatever that is; bilingualism, a perfect example of the real being conned by the ideal. However, don't feel that I'm giving up, The only people who seem to get ahead these days are those who dig ih their heels; the garbage collectors, posties and cops, who are now making a decent (and in the opinion of many, an indecent) wage; the farmer who refuses to sell out to a corporation because he believes in what he's doing; the odd teacher who refuses to be shut up by a smother i ng administration. Perhaps if we all dug in our heels a bit, the world would not be going to hell in a wheel-barrow. Or going around so fast. I'm willing, How about you? Maybe too many of u$ feel that we're a voice in the wilderness. Not so. That's whete Christ gave the gears to the devil. And see what happened. Maybe I sound disgruntled. I'm not. I'm as gruntled as they come, And one of the main reasons is that I've just learned that my favorite uncle., a t the age of 80, is getting married to a broth of a girl 0172. As Jewish writers have it, "I should live so long!" columnists in business it was only a day or two after the story appeared that. I received in the mail a review copy of a new book, published under the auspices of the British Medical Association, called simply Getting Married. One particular paragraph, written by its editor, a Dr. Harvey Flack, seemed to me the perfect footnote to the story of the Admirable American, "Love may' not conquer all," Dr. Flack had written, "hut just being ' in love makes a lot of problems fall into perspective and the most desperate difficulty can look very small skittles if you hold each other close„. I have been recommending kissing, as a cure for marital stroull0: for years. Most other doctors agree with me." If I may presume to add a layman's comment, on the basis of a lengthy survival in the matrimonial ring, I would suggest that what Dr. Flack has in mind is not so much the actual salute of love or the calisthenics, but the attitude. You see, the trouble in North America, particularly, is that Lavis and was located at the end of William Street. They pony was outside and unharmed. The Hon.' Lester B. Pearson, leader of the Canadian Liberal Association, will spend about five hours in Huron riding next Wednesday, June 6. The Clinton Liberal Association will be hosts at a coffee and donut party on the Library Park lawn for an hour, when everyone is welcome. A car owned by Mrs. Florence Williams was reported stolen on Sunday evening about 5:45, May 27, The vehicle was missing from behind the Williams bakeshop. The stolen car had already been found at 4:30 p.m. last and north of Sheppardton, in a swamp in Ashfield Township, on , fire, Lucknow Fire Department was called to the scene to control the fire, and keep it from spreading into nearby bush. Chief H,R, Thompson and Constable A Shaddick are continuing investigation of the theft, 15 YEARS AGO MAY 30, 1957 Approval of a payment of $12,000 by the Department of National Defence to provide for the paving of a Tuckersmith Township road, was announced this week, The road runs between lots 35 and 36, Concessions 1 and 2, Huron road survey, and provides direct access to RCAF Station Clinton, and west end Tuckersmith residents from No, 8 Highway. • Mr. and Mrs. C.A.Trott and daughter Ann, travelled to Toronto via CNR this morning, to attend convocation exercises at University of Toronto, when Mr. Trott will eeeeive his Bachelor of Education degree, The Rev, BM de Vries, Blyth wilt be one of seven dandidates to be ordained to the Priesthood for the Diocese of queen, with ordination carried out on Ascension Day, at St. Paul's we've come to think of marriage much as we might think of a two- stage rocket. The first stage is spectacular, full of the fireworks and the excitement that make the early years of wedlock a legal continuance of the love affairs that began them, The second, or orbital stage, is all too often anti- climatic. The affair becomes' a partnership. The romance becomes a working arrangement. The marriage goes on its way predictably, making bleep-bleep- bleep sounds. This sort of thing can be marvellously comfortable, Having adjusted their own personalities to each other, the husband and wife may arrive at complete compatibility. But all too often it extinguishes the flame of the blast-off that got it on its way and, without that heat. marriage may lose the vital spontaneity and thoughtfulness so dramatically demonstrated by that candle-lit dinner in Paris. Dr. Flack's advice may sound rather embarrassing to a people as undemonstrative as we Canadians. fancy that if some conscience- Cathedral, London, this morning, May 30. 25 YEARS AGO MAY 29, 1947 William E. Perdue, local hardwareman and active in many phases of community affairs, was elected president, by acclamation, of Clinton Lions Club for 1947-48. Fifty homes are to be erected in Clinton by wartime housing. The most important local real estate deal of the year was made public yesterday when W. Glen Cook and Frank Cook, proprietors of Glennie's Lunch, announced the purchase of the Mackenzie House from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mackenzie. Robert Elliott, Garry Cooper, Ron Moore and Misses Ann Epps and Helen Ball spent the weekend in Detroit as guests of the Stratford Beacon-Herald. 40 YEARS AGO JUNE 2, 1932 King George 'V celebrates his 67th birthday tomorrow, June 3, South Huron Liberals met in convention in Hensall yesterday, stricken husband were to take Dr. Flack's advice literally the little woman might phone instantly to the nearest psychiatrist. But it could be a reminder to most of us that we're sure enough guilty of some neglect in keeping alive the romantic aspect of our marriages. If you asked any honest group of people if they felt they were really dedicated to working at marriage, as they work at careers, for example, you'd doubtless get a sparse show of hands, One can thus speculate on how many pedestrian marriages could be re-activated if the husband were to spend as much time and energy at the job as he spends cutting clowii his golf handicap.. Or how many might recapture some of that old black magic if a wife were to concentrate less on her housekeeping and more on those soft charms that got her the lout in the first place. Paris, of course, is perhaps a bit steep for our budget. But I daresay there are quite a few wives who would be inordinately pleased to be surprised at the nearest Chinese restaurant. when officers were elected and a candidate chosen to contest the riding at the next Provincial election, William Golding of Seaforth being the choice. Exeter and Clinton will play a football game on the local park this Thursday evening, commencing at 6:30. The local boys are in good fettle and are out to win this game. They won an exhibition game from Tuckersmith the other night. 55 YEARS AGO MAY 31,1917 R.C, Willis who has been for some years western manager of the Doherty Piano Company, has taken charge of the plant here. Mr. and Mrs. James Snell have received word of their son, Pte. Ephraim Snell, He was shot in the left shoulder, and is now in hospital in France, Mr. Roy Davidson, a young musician from London, will give a recital under the auspices of the Clinton Travel Club, at the home of Mrs, Gunn on Monday evening next at eight-fifteen. The recital will be open not only to the members of the Club but to all music lovers. Students from more than 60i Ontario secondary schools aril expected to register for the second youth conference on the environment onAugust28, 29 an) 30 in Kingston. Co-sponsored by Queen's University and Ontario's new Ministry of the Environment, the annual conference has been dubbed "The Straight Goods." "Students have often complained that it is difficult for them to get to the heart of our environmental problems," said Hon. James Auld, Minister of the Environment for Ontario. "This conference will give students that opportunity by exposing them to an impressive array of experts in all fields of the environment." Each secondary school has been invited to send one official delegate from Grades 11 or 12. Return to school next term is a condition of acceptance, The conference committee hopes delegates will be selected by the students themselves, "What the university and the province are trying to do • is simply create the setting and make resource people available to the students, To what extent they benefit is entirely up to them," said conference Co- Chairman Rob Buller of Queen's University. The first Straight Goods conference at Laurentian University last year was such an overwhelming success that government was obligated to make this an annual event", added Dave Booth, Educational Resources Co-ordinator. for the new Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Several renowned key speakers will deliver short stage-setting papers of 10 to 15 minutes, Emphasis is being placed on informal dialogues between the students and about sixty resource people from business and industry, government, and community groups, The resource people are being invited to contribute their time by being available for impromptu bull sessions called spontaneously by groups of students in meeting rooms and lounge areas in the new Faculty of Education buildings. The entire conference will be self-contained on the Queen's campus with dormitory and dining facilities ,provided at nominal cost. Scheele sending delegates are encouraged to involve all the students in fund raising projects to finance transportation and accommodation. There is no registration fee. On the final day, Wednesday, August 30, a Plan for Action will be presented by the speakers and delegates. This climax to the Conference will generate specific ideas for environmental action by high school students. 75 YEARS AGO JUNE 2, 1897 Numerous complaints are being made about the "fire box" on Albert Street, caused by the toppling over of an old building. Many claim that the authorities should see to it that the property is put in proper repair or removed. The cold weather continued all through May and coal stoves and winter clothing were in order' on the first of June. One might almost hold the powers that be-the Laurier party- responsible for the state of things. The Shakesperian recital in Oddfellows hall on Friday evening by Miss Minnie M. 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