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Clinton News-Record, 1972-07-13, Page 4How to order Chinese food My little book titled "How to will defend to the death my right to Order a Chinese Dinner and Still order it. Keep Your Friends" is not yet in Yet this individuality is the hands of the printers, but precisely what makes organizing perhaps I can give a short preview a meal for a group a perilous of what it's all about. This will be , undertaking and why I have the egg rolls before the main written my great humanitarian course. The hook will have nothing woOrnice of the most common types whatever to do with the fact that of Chinatown Menace is the guy most of us haven't the faintest who craves everything. He opens idea of how to go about properly a menu with the same sort of ordering an Oriental meal. anticipation that some of us open a Of course, it drives the Chinese Raymond Chandler mystery. He is convinced that he can eat all the right out of their inscrutability to way from Bird's Nest clear to the see us sitting there with our crazy Boneless Chicken Balls and back selections. If a man went into an Occidental resaurant and ordered .ri•.'11 ' .' four different varieties of salad' The Waiter stands there, pencil they'd be calling for the squirrel- poised, Experimenter, aiid his the eyes bugged catchers. This, in effect, happens all the time in Chinatown and out like grapes, begins his explains why the waiters go `recitation: "We'll start with the running, giggling, to the kitchen. Deep Fried Crunchy-crisp But who cares? Chinese dishes are an acquired appetite. One man's suhgum chow mein is another man's buckchoy chop suey. And half the fun is knowing exactly what you like without any rational reason whatever. I am, myself, a lustful lover of beef-greens -peapod-and-pepper sprinkled with sesame seeds and spell of the mystic east. I was once with just such a type and we ended up with about 40 gallons of something called Thin Canton Mushroom Floating Bean Custard before willing hands shoved him under the table. At the other extreme, of course, you find the One Track Mind type who scorns everything except his one favorite dish, almost always something that repulses the other guests. "All of this is for the tourists", he will likely say, grandly dismissing 138 suggested dishes including beef-greens-peapod- and-pepper. "What we'll have is the Boiled,W,hole Rockcod stuffed with green ginger with a minced garlic-and-bean sauce. This is a real Chinese dish". (He's happily eating New York steaks, rare). Since the Boiled Whole Rockcod is enough to feed an entire logging camp a lively argument naturally ensues, often being resolved the next morning before a magistrate. Almost any large group in a safari to Chinatown will include one concientious objector who permits himself to be dragged along, but never lets you forget that he thinks you're mentally unbalanced. He believes that birds' nests are only for tlfe birds. While you are pursuing the menu he will bleat to the waiter, "Could you coddle me an egg?" When the first steaming goodies are brought in he will poke at them distastefully with a fork and enquire, "Have you any idea what's in this stuff?" He is dedicated to the theory that if he doesn't like it you're not going to like it, either. This fellow usually acts as if Chinatown were one of the suburbs of Hong Kong and may at any time break into, a form of pidgin English. Only last week I chanced to over-hear one of this type saying to the waiter. "You bling-um two howl rice, you savvy?" "I savvy," said the waiter, a kid who is working his way through university and can take a joke. But, as for preserving harmony, I recommend the One- Dish-Apiece system under which each of the participants is entitled to the delicacy of his choice and with the privelege of digging into the others, which is the democratic way. Just so long as you keep your big hands out of my beef-green- peapod-and-pepper, that is. Dear Sir: In my letter published June 29 my "premise" was "Tradition or Truth?", clearly stated. However, today I received a copy of a letter addressed to you from G.N. Russell beclouding the issue. Therefore I submit the following information. The New Catholic Encyclopedia, prepared by an editorial staff at the Catholic University' of America (Washington; 1967) says: (today) "Trinitarian discussion, Roman Catholic as well as other, presents a somewhat unsteady silhouette." Why? It says this is because of the modern return to "the primitive sources, chiefly the Biblical." No doubt to the great surprise of many of its readers, it says that there is a recognition among Biblical scholars, "including a constantly growing number of Roman Catholics, that one should not speak of Trinitarianism in the New Testament without serious qualification." According to this Encyclopedia, it was as late as "the last quadrant of the 4th century" that the teaching of "one .God in three Persons became -thoroughly assimilated into •Christian life and thought," This means, of course, that the current idea about the Trinity was not explained by Christ to his apostles, but was added centuries after his death. Among Protestants, The New Bible Dictionary admits: "The word Trinity is not found in the Bible, and, though used by Tertullian in the last decade of the 2nd'century, it did not find a place formally in the theology of the Church till the 4th century." Thus, these persons who teach the doctrine of the Trinity are forced to admit that it is not found in the Bible. C.F. Barney Clinton. Wuntun, sweet and sour...hmmmm....the Shredded Wormein-egg Noodles with Bamboo Shoots hmmmm Dragon's Eye Fruit with Preserved Lichi Nuts ..." At this point the man must be forcibly restrained by clearer heads who are able to recognize that he has run amok under the Letter sm., to the Editor Dear Editor: What activities do the Clinton parents wish for their children? One often hears the following words. 'There is nothing to do in Clinton!' This summer Clinton has a recreational co-ordinator who has tried to organize events for the young people. These events have been varied but the response has been discouraging from the children and parents. My prirpe concern is the organized playground. Thought has been put into this event yet by the second day of registration less than ten children had registered. Why? Do the children not wish to attehADo the parents not wish this kind of activity for their children? Is the fee prohibitive? Do parents wish this service to be provided free to all children and sponsored by the town? Please parents, let's get something going for * our kids. Concerned. Polly Powell, Clinton "That Croft's got his nerve — he knows it's my turn to be away with the flu!" This is the year of his poetry hat's new at Huronview? •••••••;* DON'T BURN CANADA'S FORESTS! THE CLINTON fJEW 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 number 0817 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) 'Canada, $8.00 per year; U,S.A., $9.50 JAMES E. FITZGERALD—Editor J, HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County' Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA 4—Clinton News-Record, Thursday, July 13, 1972 A welcome addition The Open House at the new Wi I-Dex plant on George Street yesterday means more to Clinton than many people care to believe. Not only does it mean an infusion of money into the 'economy of CI inton but psychologically, it's a termendous boost. The plant has only been open a few months and already they are a year and a half ahead of schedule. During the first year the plant was supposed to employ only 12 people but already, there are 20 working there and the plant is looking for more help. What's really important, though, is the fact that all the people are local People who would otherwise not have jobs or would have to move to one of the big cities to find employment. It's no secret that Huron County was Poor jounalism Some residents have expressed concern lately thatClinton's image is being ruined by the frequent bad press it gets from the big dai I ies. They point to the fact that everytime something bad happens around Clinton the big dai I ies blow it al I out of proportion and stick big screaming headlines on top of it. They also say that when something good happens it is either totally ignored or given small space on the "local front" of the dailies and never makes any of the other editions. Well, we agree. They're just about 100 per cent right. The axiom in the big daily newspapers still seems to be "no news is good news" or translated "good news is no news". A glance at the other editions of one particular daily would leave a person A MDC winner Midwestern Development Council has a winner on its hands. It is the unusual slide showing which comprises its presentation to the federal committee on transportation and it concerns itself with travel in the four-county area it serves- Waterloo, Wellington, Perth and,Huron. With three screens, a triple set of slidesflashingatcolorful intervals on them, and accompanying sounds effects and music, the viewer is taken on a bird's-eye tour of the MDC district. And the presentation comes across tel I ing the'story of this part of Canada where it is as easy to put a man on the moon as it is to make bus' connections between Goderich and Wingham. But more than that, the presentation tells a story of the MDC area, its people, its economy, its past, its future. It focuses attention on its the only county in the province to lose population in the last five years and by attracting new industry, Huron County and Clinton will not only start growing again but will be able to keep their sons and daughters at home. Luring new industry like Wil-Desx into the area is a significant moral booster as well. The closing of the Armed Forces base meant uncalculated losses in income for businesses and trades in the area. Clinton managed to hold together wel I but without some industrial base, she eventually would have shrivelled up and died. As the farm economic,units become larger, there are fewer farmers and hence fewer purchases. Dependency on the rural community alone would mean sure death. with the impression that the town of CI inton was fal ling apart at the seams, and is under mob rule. A perfect example is illustrated by the London Free Press. In the last week or so, the only stories about Clinton that made all the other editions of that paper were stories concerning violence against CI inton's police, an erroneous story on a pending law suit against Rodoma Investments who are developing the old armed forces base and the banning by the Huron county board of education of a book on the Truscott affair. Os time the citizens of Clinton area let the Free Press know where they stand. It seems funny that the Free Press, which has a high circulation locally, could sell papers because of their local coverage and then turn around and smear our name behind our backs potential for growth here and it plants a powerful suggestion for continued progress in the future. It isn't surprising that when the committee viewed the presentation recently, MDC executive members were invited to take it to Ottawa where it could be viewed by more of the country's policy makers. . The presentation is one of the most tangible accomplishments that MDC has been able to show the people of Huron. If the quality of that presentation is any indication of the worth of MDC, it could be that MDC is far more valuable than anyone thought possible. In any case, it is evident that Huron's membership in MDC for 1972 is now justified and this county has its money's worth for the first six months of the year at least. — from Goderich Signal-Star Don't hold your breath waiting for its publication, but this is the summer I'm going to write a hook. It's the tenth summer in a row that I've been going to write a hook, but this year will he different. It's the year in which I'm not going to write a novel. Other summers I didn't get around to writing a play, or an expose of the educational system, or a series of pungent essays, or an attack on marriage. This year it's the novel. That doesn't leave too much, does it? Maybe I'll write a "slim" volume of verse. Any dam' fool can write poetry these days. The secret is to avoid capital letters and punctuation, make your lines all different lengths, toss in a little erotic imagery, and make the end result a visceral experience which nobody understands. Here, just to show you what I mean. If you don't get a real charge out of it, a profound emotional experience, that is, and haven't a clue what it's about, you're a connoisseur of modern poetry, Oh, one other thing: no rhyme please. We'll just call it Poem yesterday in the supermarket a fat lady or maybe she wasn't really a lady ran over my foot not really ran but walked I guess it was her buggy laden with a quarter-ton of eat food and orange juice and tide and glide and waX and snacks and four cases of non- returnable bottles and twelve pounds of pallid meat two bags of spuds 16 cans of chunky soup that ran over my foot (not the soup) driving my seed wart into my metatarsal I wept not because it hurt like hell but for lovable fat ladies and unlovable super- markets and because I couldn't do a • thing. Now, don't tell me that's not a poem. It was a vivid personal experience which I attempted to convey to the reader. It's got everything. There's sex in it: a secret yearn for fat ladies; the word metatarsal. There's plenty of concrete images. There's symbolism: How about seed wart? a fertility symbol if I ever saw one. There's masochism, social criticism and a deep personal sense of futility and frustration, It's what I would call universal in its appeal. They won't all he so deep and hitter, of course. There'll he the hearty bucolic touch: The garden ain't hoed The lawn ain't mowed But. he Mowed If she's going to goad Me into doing any of them. Th'en there'll he the fragile, tender little lyric that makes real poetry lovers just wriggle and almost turn themselves inside out. Something like: love myself more than anyone but you sorry baby but maybe it's not even true. Sorry about that rhyme, but sometimes it just comes so• automatic-like you can't hold it back, And of course there'll be some dramatic narrative stuff. I'm working on a sort of epic called The Day I Shot the Black Squirrel Thinking It was a Black Bear. But it still needs a little polishing in the last twelve cantos. Maybe you think this is just advance publicity for my book, But I guarantee there'll be something for everyone, though some of it will be pretty strong stuff, and you may have to hide it from your teenage kids. I was thinking particularly of a couple: Down By the Old Gravel Pit, and Let Me Call You Meathead. But there's also some stuff 'coming up that is really haunting. One is entitled simply "Puke". It is based on a great storm on the Great Lakes when I, as junior porter, did great things with a mop after people were sea-sick. It's been haunting me ever since, anyway, So, there's a delectable foretaste Of my summer project, I can hardly wait to get started, Except that I have a golf date, then I'm going swimming, then there's a barbecue, and somehow after a day like that, the Muse and I are both ready for the sack. 10 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1962 Clinton Town Council decided Monday to adhere closely to the trailer by-law and request the Lavern Asmussen Co., to remove the house trailer which has been placed at the site of the new vocational School wing at GDCI. A letter read at council meeting reported that the trailer housed a watchman, Who was also foreman on the job, and his wife, who is acting as his secretary, and requested permission for them to remain there. xxx Fire early last Thursday morning caused an estimated $30,000 to $35,000 damage to the locker storage plant on King St. About 400 lockers and some contents were seriously damaged by smoke, fire and water. xxx 15 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1957 Thieves gained entrance to the home of Mrs. Alice Joynt, Main Street, Hensall during the early hours of July 6. They cut the telephone wires and carried away a safe containing valuable papers and considerable money, xxx Men on the sloop "Betty J" sighted on Lake Huron off Hayfield on Tuesday were rescued early yesterday morning by Henry Green, Grand Bend, who came out to them in his fishing tug. Brisk gusts of wind on Tuesday afternoon blew the sloop off course, and when the tiller cracked, the men had tried to keep close to shore and make it down to Grand Bend. On the boat were Alfred Searle, Stratford and John IvIeGugan, London as well as two Provincial Park men. 25 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947 Ten farmers from Western Canada arrived to help with the harvest. Another 125 applications for help are still on file. xxx Phyllis Evelyn Middleton and Lorne, Keith Tyndall were married in St. James Church, Middleton on July 5 by the Rector, the Rev. Laverne Morgan. xxx Winners of the races at the S.S.10 picnic (Stanley Township) included: eight or under, Murray Hill, Ken Caldwell; twelve and under, John Moffat, Wilmer Johnston, 40 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1932 Meetings of the Liberals, Liberal- (louse rya! ives , and Progressives, were planned to select candidates in the by- election to replace the late Thomas McMillan, M,P. xxx Violet, Freinlin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, A, E. Fremlin, stood high in the entrance class in Clinton with 685 out of a possible 750 marks. xxx Irwin's were selling dresses listed at $1.50 marked down to 98c (flowered linen). xxx The Rev. F. M. Paull preached for the L.O,L, church service in St. John's Church, .Varna, on Sunday. 55 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, JULY 12, '1917 Robert Matheson, who was publisher of the Clinton New-Era from 1869 to 1872, celebrated his 82nd birthday at his home in Toronto on June 30. xxx Murphy L.O.L. attended church service at Ontario Street United Church, Rev, J, A, Agnew gave the address. xxx The Rev, E. G. Powell, Huron Court Inspector for the enforcement of liquor laws, made a seizure of liquor last week at Exeter, and put it inside his grip. While stopping at another residence, some thirsty soul retrieved the wet goods. Fourteen residents from Huronview along with eighty senior citizens from Goderich attended the Octogenarian Club Picnic on Wednesday afternoon. The Picnic was held in the Anglican Church parish hall and is sponsored by the Goderich Kinsmen Club. The afternoon's activities included a musical program by several individuals and the Goderich Psychiatric Rythm Band led by Gordon Harrison. Following the luncheon, each member was presented with a gift. A great deal of credit is due to the Goderich Kinsmen for this very worthwhile social service work, As a result of the' cancellation of the Band Concert by the Clinton Legion Band, the Family Night program was held in the auditorium, The variety program featuring the Henderson Family was a real treat for everyone with vocal solos, duets, trios, quartets and dance numbers by Donna, Darlene, Debbie and Diane. Norman Speir and Jerry Collins accompanied by Mrs. Henderson added to the evening's enjoyment with several musical numbers. Mrs. Orville Dale thanked the entertainers on behalf of the residents. Opinions In 'order tnat News—Record readers might express their opinions on any topic of public interest, Letters To The Editor are always welcome for publication. But the writers of such letters, as well as all readers, are reminded that the opinions expressed in letters published are not necessarily the opinions held by The News7Record.