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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-09-28, Page 4P.99/1 fs ;COP.LVIV 'to 011i111(10(1 9 .1191blif 0 na • ,1•11.1 1111,011 1161.111•01=0111011101101MONIMPAINIMMI19 THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Established 1881 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; USA., $9,50 JAMES e. PITZGERALP—Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Publithed every ThurSday et the heart of Huron County' a Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 TEE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA Semewnere along the line, usually quite early in the sequence, commer- cialism's ugly head can be clearly glimp- sed by the discerning, rearing itself behind the pretty faces of the con- testants. By the time the Miss Canada stage is reached, no doubt is left in the mind of the chosen woman that for the coming year she is the property of the agency sponsoring the contest, an advertising property for the products it seeks to promote. In all this decorating, parading and ex- ploiting of our young women, there is a disturbing resemblance to those ancient auction block scenes at which female slaves were dressed, groomed and decorated by traders in order to bring the highest prices from prospective buyers. — contributed. It must be .a sign or portent of some sort, the symbol of a trend of our times, these numerous Queen or Beauty Con- tests, No country fair, regional exhibition, local pageant, civic holiday or festival is apparently complete without the seleO- tion of a Queen of a Miss This, That or Somewhere. In these contests teenage girls vie with each other in dressing up and displaying their charms, with a crown being placed on the head of one delighted Miss, two others consoled with princess" rating, and the remaining, contestants relegated to tearful disappointment. The thing culminates each year with the choice of a Miss Canada (there's a rival Miss Dominion of Canada, also, it seems) who then competes for a Miss Universe title. To date entries have not appeared from planets other than earth. Think for yourselves The average Canadian will find it somewhat more than ordinarily difficult to mark his ballot intelligently this year. The "issues" we hear so much about are, to say the least, confusing. For every issue discussed in the press and on the air waves, there seem to be equally convin- cing arguments both ways. One of the issues which has received the keenest and loudest attention from national leaders is that of American ownership. None of us want to see such a large proportion of Canadian business in the hands of American firms — but on the other hand, if we happen to work for a successful Canadian branch plant and the wages come in regularly it's another story. Who actually wants to bite the hand that signs the pay cheque? Then too, there is the galling problem of inflation. We all think the government should do something about High prices — but we weren't very happy when the last try at anti-inflationary measures brought increased unemployment. Take unemployment itself. We resent the high cost of providing financial sup- port for those who are out of work --- but we would be thoroughly chilled if the support was suddenly removed and we found ourselves back in another depr'ession. As in all elections there is the nagging problem of whether to vote for the can- didate of one's preference or for the leader and the party. We cannot suggest an answer, The days are gone when a community newspaper tells its readers how they should vote. But we can urge you to think deeply about the future of our nation, and your part, however small, in its destiny. A host of brave Canadians have given their lives on the fields of Europe just to make sure that we and our children will con- tinue to enjoy this freedom to elect our own governments. To those who think politics is "dirty" and that all politicians .are crooked,' we say, "Elect honest men and yourWill, get honest government." —Wingham Advance Times Smiley, forgot his anniversary - again News- cord, Tharsdayi .Septenlbet 28, 1972 PC HANDICAP NDP 6DICAP E r diwial ,commen MERU HANDICAP The uglg beautg contests ftet-Z.-12t-A.,rEi.:,"=orbAlogine 0 OIZASA,v, ecrtri i li; a al1i',6a " c:ta ritivr ass P.9ibe,1 Prrfi1') .1/911 v -1 .V19i :1/9 'u ' 4 if, bil:1 1,t `J. IL. " 1%0;1 .•!1 ',: iti gives la boy.l.or girl a• little more •time 'tor :make that big decision. • about which- way to travel. • So many youngsters in their mid-teens make the decision without maturity, without really knowing either their true capabilities or their true am- bitions. They grab the first bright ring on the carousel of their young lives. But the university student has the time to discover himself and to learn what he's fitted for and, more important, what it is he really yearns to do, There are coldly practical reasons for it as well. As I've been telling my young ,-friend, thb air force may offerhim1h„,,,e career he wants, but it W"'ilroffer- him that and more if he enters it as a university graduate. In every line of worthwhile endeavor these days the univer- sity man is the man they want and with good reason. It's true in our business too, The coming men are those who came from the campus. We're finally realizing that we can use a little classic literature. When I tottered downstairs last Sunday morning, and my wife greeted me cheerily, and told me to sit down, and brought me in a big glass of orange juice with a stiff belt of something in it, I was as wary as a groun- dhog. I sniffed the air, wiggled my ears and peered about to see from what direction the danger was coming. It's not that I'm suspicious by nature. Basically, I am a naive and trusting per- son. But this was too much. Something was up. While she sat down across from me, smiling in an uncanny fashion, I took a quick slug and let my mind flicker over the possibilities. She was going to divorce me, No, I just got a raise. She was going to buy a third piano. No. No place to put it, except in the wood-bin down cellar. She was going to have a baby. No, she's had a hysterec- tomy. Kim is going to have a baby and I'm going to be a grandfather and old. That seemed the most logical. "Do you know what day this is?", gently but firmly. My mind raced over birthdays, graduations and such, slipped a few cogs and finally ground to a halt, I knew. It was our anniver- sary. How could 'I have foigotten it, even though I'd forgotten it every year for twenty-five? Easy. The bride isn't any bet- ter. Every year, about two weeks after the date, one or other of us says, "Hey, we forgot our an- niversary again," And look at each other and laugh, Some' people make a tremen- dous fuss over wedding anniver- saries, It's as though they were trying to recapture something lost forever. Husbands who either snarl at Or ignore their wives for 864 days of the year arrive home with an expensive present, or at least a bundle of flowers, on that sacted day. Reminded by their secretaries. Wives who spend the whole day in suspense, thinking "The rotten louse. He hasn't even called, He's forgotten.", smile, false-toothed, through their 'tears, and crack open a bottle of vintage 1971 Canadian cham- pagne. Many of these couples, who haven't exchanged a civil word for weeks, actually go out to dinner, and even thrash around •the dance floor in their inimitable 1930's, 40's or 50's 'style, a threat of life and limb to all near them. A few of them actually have the stamina to press on from the ridiculous to the absurd, and make love, Next day, the glow gone, slightly hung, they become acutely aware again of such mundane things as heartburn, constipation, pot bellies, wattles, bald heads and crows' feet. And real life begins again, I'm not knocking anniversary celebrations as such. They're quite beautiful if the love and tenderness are still there. But if those elements are missing, the anniversary waltz is an ugly charade. Thank goodness we forget ours until it's too late to do anything but recall our wedding day and laugh hilariously as we reminisce. Nowadays it's not unusual to have two or three hundred people at a wedding reception, with a bar, dinner and orchestra for dancing. The bride has had eight showers before the wedding and the couple has amassed about two thousand dollars worth of gadgets and cash. We had about twenty at our wedding, A scattering of my wife's aunts and things. Nobody from my side, except a few old buddies to within I'd issued the invitation, "Hey, I'm getting married Saturday at Hart House chapel. Why don't you drop around?" No reception. No bar. No or- chestra, Music supplied by an old friend who played organ in a downtown bar. Dinner we had after the wedding at a crumby hotel in a small town. Alone. • We drove about two hundred miles in a borrowed car. We had eighty dollars. No presents. It was raining all the way. We talked about highway con- ditions. But I wouldn't trade it, even though my wife wore flannelette pyjamas on our wedding night. At least we didn't have to smile and smile and smile at a host of people we scarcely knew. And here we were, some years later, Sunday morning. My wife had remembered our anniver- sary. She had bought each of us a present, and she handed me a piece of paper on which she has summed up the war. Her words: To Us "May we continue until death the battle which has raged for twenty-six years. "Always attacking, never retreating, shall we glorify in our victories, deny our losses, "Let us be constant in making our skirmishes as violent in in- tent as our One Big War, for we might lose courage, weaken in moments of apathy, flounder in surrender. "May we never be tortured by thoughts of love and peace, for these might lead the way to a glimpse of hope and glory. "Let us remain steadfast in the face of our single purpose, "We have fought a good fight Hey, she's talking about our life together. She's being ironic, and that's my field. What's going on here? Then she handed me another piece of paper, Her words: "Along came Bill An ordinary guy You'd meet him on the street And never notice him "No that's not the part I mean, "I love hitt Became he's wonderful Because he's just my Bill. Bozo." I've just learned that the kid down the road who takes me fishing once in a while has decided against going back to school to ready himself for university and I've been giving him hell. He's elected, instead, to get into the air force and train as a mechanic. "I like to take things apart and, put them together again and I like airplanes," he tells me. "I'll learn a good trade and have some money of my own." Naturally, I don't want to prejudice recruiting, but I'm determined to talk him out of it, or at any rate, as determined as a man can be when confronted with the power of decision of a 17-year-old who fancies lie knows where he's going. He's done well at school. Nothing spectacular, but enough to show that he has the seeking sort of mind that benefits most from higher education. He's still too young, in my opinion, to know what's best for him. I think university is the answer. The subject interests me because so many boys seem to 10 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 1962 Sidewalk superintendents have had a field day during the past week, as they watched a crane lift 40 foot-long steel from a truck and dangle it into position for the main floor of the new office building, being con- structed near the post office for the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Many people pass this way each day and very few fail to take the opportunity of watching the construction job. The Most Rev. John C. Cody, DD, LLD, Bishop of London, will conduct the solemn blessing of St. Joseph's Separate School here on Monday afternoon, Oc- tober 1, at 3:80, The new church of St. Paul at RCAF Station, Clinton will be solemnly blessed ,by Group Cap- tain, the Rev. J.P. Davignon on Saturday, September 29, assisted by others of the RCAF Chaplaincy. (Night Lieutenant, the Rev, R.E. Bussey was the Roman Catholic padre at this time). 15 YEARS AGO SEPT. 26, 1957. A musical organization which has come to be recognized as one of Canada's finest will present a free public concert, Friday, September 27 in the Recreation Hall nt RCAP Station Clinton. The Royal .Canadian Air Force Training Command Band. will play two concerts at Station Clinton. D.H. Miles, Agricultural representative for Huron County reports wet weather has delayed bean harvesting by causing many spoiled beans.. Partners' are starting the fall plowing and to put some corn in the silo, There will be sonic very good Ink,46,13:a be making the same choice this year. They're eager to come to grips with the world, eager to make the first buck that will be the down payment on a car, eager to get started on the career problem that weighs heavily on the mind of every teenager. They can point out, with some accuracy, that a degree was never less helpful in finding a job. University seems to them just "more school" and they're im- patient with that. They don't really know what university has to offer them and, as far as I can see, there's not sufficient ef- fort made to attract them in that direction. I never went to university.. I've always regretted it. Yet fort longer than I like to remember I buried this regret in a form of inverted snobbery. When I started in the newspaper business at the ripe old age of 16 many of the old- time newspapermen professed a prejudice against university men and I took my cue from them. "They can't write a simple, readable story," one of my first husking corn as it is maturing nicely. 25 YEARS AGO SEPT. 25, 1947 Burton A. Stanley and Orville J. Stanley have bought the meat market owned by Ross Fitzsim- ons. They plan to operate un- der the name of Stanley Bros. Rev. Laverne Morgan will preach farewell and harvest thanksgiving services in Bayfield — Middleton — Varna parishes this Sunday. 180,000 board feet of dressed lumber has arrived in town for use in the Wartime Houses building project. Parry's Snack Bar, Clinton's newest business, is located in the front of the Fairholme Dairy 40 YEARS AGO THURS. SEPT. 29, 1932 The campaign for provincial election is nearly completed. The Hon, W.L. MacKenzie King spoke in the area on behalf of W.H. Golding, Seaforth, Liberal candidate for South Huron, The Hon, Robert Weir, Minister of Agriculture spoke here for Louis H. Rader, Zurich, Conservative candidate and the Hon. Enest Lapointe also in support of Mr. Golding. The election date is set for Monday, October 3. The Ottawa Citizen reported the funeral of Jack Rumball, only son of Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Rumball. Or, Newton'.Brady, Bayfield, has returned from a visit with Dr. Locke, Williamsburg, who seems to have been performing wonderful cures of all kinds of disease by treating patients' feet. 0 YEARS A46 SEPT, 29, 191/ The Board of Commissioners are quite pleased with results of administration seen in other centres under the Ontario Tem- perance Act — where fines could be levied up to $1000 — and proposed amendments to enable the Commission to prosecute under that Act. Under the Dominion Act maximum fine is $50. Both Stratford dailies are raising subscription rates from $2.50 to $3,00 per year. Levi Strong, Sarnia, has pur- chased a frame house and lot on Townsend and Kirk Streets, 75 YEARS AGO WED. SEPT. 29, 1897 The Great Northwestern Exhibition at Goderich on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thur- sday was on the whole a grand success. Every department was well represented, the only odd shortages in abundance or quality being where nature had not so well provided as in for- mer years. Harland Bros. have installed furnaces for Mr. Gardner of Bayfield and Mr. H, Foster of Clinton. The same firm has con- tracts to put in furnaces for Mr. we get letters Dear Editor: I would like to enlist your help in contacting any past members of the Perth County Junior Farmers Association who might be residing within your Circulation area. This year, 1972, is the Fiftieth Anniversary of our Organization and a celebration is planned for October 14th at Stratford, Ontario. We would like' to inform as many past members as possible, but incomplete and outdated records make it impossible for us to trace even a small .percentage of them. ttny, help you could give use ALM greatly appreciate For complete information, con- cerned parties may contact Miss Mary McKercher, R.R. 1 Listowel, Ont. Thanking you for your kind assistance. Mary McKercher President, 1972 Perth County Junior Farmers Dear Editor: Mr. W. Herold's letter in the Clinton News-Record of September 14 would seem to be couched in language directly opposite to that which he has used in his past correspondence. Before making comment on his appeal to the village ratepayers for understanding and friendship it is necessary to point out a discrepancy in one statement: "Early in 1972, without the knowledge of the vendor or purchaser or the lawyers involved in the sale from Mr. Garon to Blue Anchor, the village of Bayfield submitted the question of ownership of what has been referred to as the flats, being the remainder of Mr. Garon's property from the base of the hill to the Bayfield River ... etc." The matter of Bayfield's questioning of the ownership of the property known as the River Flats was to discover if anyone had clear title to it - not simply that it was or was not Crown Land. This was certainly a well- known fact by the vendor i.e. Mr. 'Red' Garon. All the searches of title made by the village at the Registry Office in Goderich regarding the deeds, from the original sale from the Canada Company up to the sale of the property known as `Jowett's Grove' to Mr. Garon Please turn to Page 7 Huston of Bayfield and Messrs. James Smith, Chas. Carline and W.W. Farran of Clinton. In a village not far from Clin- ton The News-Record has a very large circulation, larger than any other paper in the county of Huron. Several people have taken upon themselves to enter into a conspiracy to stop the paper going to some subscribers because something has been published that does not please them. These conspirators are known and will be exposed in due season. Op . • n tit Loll in order that 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 alt readers, are reminded that the opinions expressed in letters published are not necessarily the Opinions held by The News—Record. University is still the right road viegaigt: tr. '1 9,1' • city editors was fond of putting it. ,, "and we're not in the market for classic litera:ture."' And so, at the age of 21 when I was a city editor myself I took some sadistic pleasure in lording it over the university men who came in for a try-out or for sum- mertime work. "Keep it simple," I would in- struct them in my falsetto voice of experience. "We're not in the market for classic literature." And I tried to feel that I'd made the wise choice in leaping so quickly from adolescence into a career. Even then I could see that what they were getting from university was the invitation to, they „paincls„ pot mert elyi,N t gregosiaries of fact, bUt ,aS ii struments for dealing with ideas, while those of us who had never gone had to find our way alone. University is no guarantee of that. I know my share of doughheads with degrees. But when the raw material is there university will refine it. If for no other reason, I think university is important because