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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-10-29, Page 4Pierre's different this time around almairrmaniamk. 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) every Thursday at of Huron County' Clinton, Oriteri0 Population 3,475 TEE HOME OP RADAR IN CANADA JAMES 8, rItZGEttALD—Editor J. i4OWAIII) AITKEN — General Manager second class Mail registration number — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: fin advance) 'Canada, $8,00 per year; U.S.A., $0,56 Published the heart Clinton News-Record, Thursday, October 26, 1972 Ontario's Environment Department recently announced it would spend $150,000 on advertising to get people to pick up their litter. Shortly afterward the Consumers Association of Canada criticized this method of controlling litter and asked for legislation instead. However, unless the legislation was en- forced it wouldn't work either, We have anti-noise laws now but do you ever see a policeman stopping a car racing and roaring up the street without a muffler, or are there any fewer noisy motorcycles or sports cars disturbing the peace on residential areas? Unless some attempt is made to enforce legislation by authorities such as the police or by citizens groups through protest, the problem will continue. We have highway signs now reading "$50 Fine for Dumping Trash" or some other such warning. Does it stop people from dumping trash? Obviously not. AzAt j • itortat coniment New directions needed for litter problems Most intelligent people today are aware of our serious environmental problems and are likely to regard the Ontario En- vironment advertising campaign as a feeble gesture in the wrong place, If instead they spent the money on cooperative programs with industry to recycle tin cans, bottles and paper, of- fering some benefit to the public for collecting these and turning them in at government supported depots in turn, to be transported to industry, this service would benefit everyone. Without in- telligent planning to follow up litter collection, although unsightly, it might just as well lie on the camp ground, the park, or the ravine to be recycled even- tually by Nature. The problem is disposal and $150,000 of taxpayers money should be directed towards the solution to THAT rather than into advertising to tell us that we are lit- ter-bugs. Municipal elections: chaos? Municipal election procedures have always been dictated by the provincial government, and rightly so. Some rules and regulations had to be set up to bring some continuity to the procedure. However, the provincial powers over- stepped their marks with their sweeping changes for this year's provincial elec- tions. The result could be complete chaos, The problem is that what works in Toronto or some other metropolitan area will not necessarily work in rural Ontario. Many city council members are paid to the point that it is a full-time job with them. Elected officials in smaller com- munities perform their tasks out of a sense of dedication and the pittance they receive in no way covers the amount of time and abuse with which they are faced. Be that as it may, changes have been rralde and we'll Wave to put up with . it. No longer will municipal officials be nominated at a ratepayers' meeting. Those wishing to run for office must have the signatures of 10 qualified voters and submit their nominations to the clerk's of- fice. A nomination meeting will not be held. In past years, rural communities have had problems attracting candidates. On many occasions one's attendance at a nomination meeting was the sole criteria on which he was presented for office. He was "talked into it" by others at the meeting who realized there were vacan- cies to be filled. On occasions, "undesirable" can- didates got themselves nominated at such meetings and others at the meeting then took steps to make certain there would be an election to keep these un- desirable candidates out of office. These situations will not present them- selves this year. The onus is strictly on the candidate to make up his own mind and then get the required signatures. However, it also puts considerable onus on ratepayers to make certain that people who would make strong ad- ministrators are urged to seek office. It's not too early to be looking about for such people, or to consider running your- self. Certainly, the new regulations require that all diligent ratepayers keep abreast of what is going on so they can take whatever steps are open to them to keep local council posts filled by capable per- sons. — Exeter T-A) This is for men only Canadians, fairly phlegmatic in most ways, are mercurial in their voting. They've shown that since confederation, swinging now behind one party, then tur- ning it out for a while, then put- ting it back in power. John Diefenbaker swept the country with his fire and vision at just the right moment, Not many years later, he couldn't even win a convention for leadership of his own party, And I confess with a slight blush that I'm no exception. At one time or another, I have voted for candidates of all three major parties, and would probably have cast a vote for Social Credit if I'd ever had a chance and the right man had been running. How about you? Have you made up your mind yet, or are you still looking over the field and wishing there were some other alternative, such as Mao- Tse-Tung or Guy Lombardo? It's hard to choose. The present government has not exactly won wild plaudits in the last four years. It has achieved little in cutting expenses and taxes, in fighting inflation, in creating employment, and in buying Canada back from foreign investors, It is doubtful whether any other party would have done better, How about the Prime Minister? Can he swing it vir- tually on his own, as he did last time? From my tiny vantage point, it looks as though he's running scared. Last trip around, he had an enormously favorable press, I-le Was something new and exciting, a swinger with a rimer-Sharp mind and a charming shrug. The WoMen loved him. But now he's an old married Man with a family, the press has soured, and you don't hear that word "charisma" being tossed around. He's deadly serious in his commercials. He is resorting for the first time to the old backroom politics with what look suspiciously like election bribes to various parts of the country. What would he do if he lost? I think he'd pick up his marbles and go home. He's always been a winner, and to has none of the parliamentary skill, the patience and the doggedness that make a good opposition leader. Well, then there's honest Bob Stanfield. He's hardworking and oozes integrity and is in- telligent. But lordy, lordy, if only he'd take a course in public speaking. He'd probably make a solid but uninspiring prime minister, But is it worth it to change the whole government for a fellow whose slogan is about as fatuous and feeble as you'd find: "We Can Do Bet- ter"? Better than what? Better than nothing, a good Torz might retort. Even that isn't good enough. There's something I can't stand about David Lewis, head" of the RD.?. lie's smarmy, He has only one tune. And he has that old-fashioned belief that there's a big business rapist forever hiding under the bed of that perennial slinster, the Canadian socialist party. That leaves Heal Caouette, There's a real firebrand for you. I'd rather listen to one of his speeches, even though I can barely follow it, than any given number by shrugging Pierre, bumbling Bob and I-can-give-it- tolou-Wholesale David, If I were a rural Ca nadian, I'd certainly say, "bat Caouette is de hes' bet," Well then, what in the world does one do? It's easy for the faithful of any party. They'd vote for an ape if he were run- ning on the party ticket. Some of them are so rigid that they'd even vote for a woman. But the rest of us are faced with the same old spectacle: the government desperately shoring up the old levee, and the others all howling that they will do this and that and thus, if only. That makes us get down to the local level and take a look at the candidates, trying to disassociate them from their leaders. In my riding, we have three, There's the incumbent, a Tory, a doctor, an elderly man who is a master at politicking and never misses a fiftieth an- niversary or a ninetieth birthday in the riding. We have a handsome, youngish lawyer who has done a lot of work in municipal and service club affairs, and sings at weddings. And we have a university student, full of ideals and somewhat blinkered when it comes rto reality. Three generations. And do you know who is going to win? The elderly doc- tor, who has been years in parliament and should have retired gracefully, after making a mark on the face of our history that could be wiped off with a kleenex. Because this is a Tory riding, and that's it. The student will get his, lumps, the lawyer will get some experience, and the old gen- tleman will get the gold ring. Well, that's elections, and I can't even tell my wife how to vote, because she thinks Trtideau is still aorta cute and Margaret is beautiful. My guess? Liberals hack in with a Minority government, A phenomenon these days in the world of magazine publishing is the astonishing popularity of "men only" periodicals and perhaps we may , profit by narrowing our eyes and studying a few of them, just as there weren't enough gloom around already. At almost any newsstand you may observe the incredible bulk of reading matter — "Sir!" "He", "Stag" "Men", "Cavalier", "Male", "Man's Life", "Sport Life", (the ex- citing magazine FOR MEN) and a dozen more specifically tailored for the North American gentleman, circa 1972. The proprietors report brisk sales and one authority claims their combined circulation suprasses all other magazines. I've been analyzing six of these magazines, a research project which cost me $3 and just a little bit of faith in the male animal. In format and content, they're strikingly similar, clearly based on the more respectable formula of Argosy and True, and if it may be assumed that people may be judged by their tastes in literature they're moderately alarming. They indicate that millions of 10 YEARS AGO THURS., OCT. 25, 1962 It seems altogether likely that, the famous "school car" in which Fred Sloman taught for 35 years may become one of the major exhibits at the Huron County Museum in Goderich. If it does, it will be completely fur- nished as its last students used it. Revised federal spending estimates were tabled in the House of Commons last Thur- sday. Deleted entirely from the schedule of expenses in 1962 is the $90,000 public building slated for Clinton. Delegates from Huron County to the council meeting of the On.- tario Cream Producers Association in Toronto next month, were selected on Tuesday night at a meeting held in the council chamber, Clinton, Gaily coloured dresses and shirts abound each Wednesday night at RCAF Station Clinton when 85 people participate in a square dance beginners course currently being conducted by Flight Lieutenant Art Shepard of the RCAF Clinton "Cross Trailers" square dance club. 15 YEARS AGO THURS., OCT. 24, 1957 The number of cases of 'flu in this area is increasing steadily, Worst day so far at the Collegiate was 80 pupil absentees last Thursday. Gordon Hill, Varna, active worker in the Ontario Farm Union since its beginnings in this part of the province, was yesterday named president of the provincial organimition, men are repressed, that they hunger as desperately for violence as they hunger for security and that they have an immature absorption in erotica. Each of these magazines has two distinct faces, wildly, conflic- ting. There is the editorial side, devoted to tales of lurid adven- ture, crime and sex. And there is the advertisers' side devoted to the promises of higher-paying jobs cures for baldness and big stomachs. Both sides obviously know their market. The over-all picture is distur- bing. Here, for example, in "Male", are characteristic stories of the perils of aqua-lung deep-sea diving, a first-hand account of how it feels to freeze to death ("... a thousand sharp-pointed knives drove into my chest, a million vicious needles daggered into my back"), a profusely illustrated article on New York call girls, the story of a lion- tamer's worst experience ("She turned her great, remote, yellow eyes on me...."), a new biography of Clyde Barrow, "the crazed killer" and his moll, Bonnie, the adventure of a sub- marine crew on a mission with 12 attractive nurses and four following the well-known Albert Cormack, Arthur, who has completed a four-year term as OFU leader. A meeting of the Hog Producers Association of Huron County has been called for next Wednesday night, in the Exeter High School, commencing at 8:30 p.m. W.R. "Bert" Lobb, president, and A.H. Warner, ,secretary-treasurer, are calling I the meeting. 25 YEARS AGO THURS., OCT. 30, 1947 Lions Club Fall Carnival net- ted returns of $550 net, under the direction of George L. McLay, manager of the Royal Bank of Canada. William Sparks, Bayfield, president of the Huron County Holstein Breeders Club, was in charge of the meeting at the an- nual banquet held in Ontario Street United Church. Speaker was Watson Porter, editor of the Farmer's Advocate, London. Dr. and Mrs, T.A, Addison at- tended a reunion or 1937 Meds, University of Western Ontario in London. St. Paul's WA to pack boxes of food for sending to post-War England. 554, Goderich Township took the shield for the most points in that township's school field meet held in Goderich, In- dividual champions are Tommy Cole, SS9; Joan White, S89; Gerald Tebbutt, 554, Shirley 13 SS5; Gordon Tebbutt SS4, 40 YEARS AGO THURS., Oen". 2t, 1932 St, James Church, Middleton, pages of pictures of mutilated corpses on the Vietnam bat- tlefront. Is this the literature of red- blooded, adventurous he-men? Oh, my, no. The advertising pages show us a pathetic clientele of men who are potential customers for a Charles Atlas' course in body- building ("Don't Be Half A Man!") or a scientifically designed abdominal belt "to eliminate dropped paunch." Here are page after page of correspondence school offers ("Make a new career in•,custom upholstery"), guaranteed cures , for falling hair, glandular . in- flammation, rupture, slipping dental plates and "the secret fears that build up nervous ten- sion." And all through these magazines the insidious little advertisements for the semi- licentious appetite — home movies of "Hollywood's loveliest cuties, the way you like them", "Marriage Mischief, the brand new, devilishly indiscreet book. "a portfolio of breath-taking pin-ups, sent to you in a plain envelope." It's hard to read these magazines, remembering their held their 60th anniversary on Sunday. The minister is the Rev. F.H. Paull. Fresh made cider at 20 cents a gallon is offered by H.H. Can- telon; R.R. 5, Clinton. The eighth annual meeting of the Young People's Societies of Huron Presbytery was held in Ontario Street United Church. The Clinton Knitting Com- pany, working full time and with a night shift, has received an order from Hamilton, Ber- muda, for ankle hose. 55 YEARS AGO THURS., OCT. 25, 1917 William Brydone and Charles G. Middleton are appointed tribunals for Clinton and district under the Military Ser- vice Act, Proceeds amounting to $88.25' resulted from an old time dance in aid of the soldiers tobacco fund, held in Cardno's Hall Seaforth. tremendous circulations, and not wonder if there isn't something desperately wrong with the mental health of a great many men. Escapism in literature from the woman's point of view — the mushy sentimentality based on women's desire to be loved romantically — are much more easily rationalized than this weird retreat from the reality of a man's life. Judged on this basis it would seem that the male is the more likely can- didate for the.. psychiatric couch thare;thet female, , , For how' else can .Yotr, explain • such cheap, vicious sen- sationalism except that their lives are so barren of adventure, so thwarted emotionally, that they will seek a substitute as harsh as this? I seem to see a prototype man with falling hair, a dropped paunch, worried over his security and his half-man physique, turning voraciously to the soothing image of facing the jungle beast with its great, remote, yellow eyes and the Hollywood cuties with those 'devilish curves. And this, surely, is a picture of despair. Subscriptions to the British Red Cross Fund from Clinton totalled $1,214,70 and to the Italian Red Cross, $86.00. Senior championship at the Clinton Collegiate Institute field day was tied between Fred Lawrence and Harold Kitty. Fred Wallis won the junior championship. 75 YEARS AGO • WED., OCT. 27, 1897 The entertainment given by the I,O.G.T. last Friday evening was successful beyond the most sanguine expectations, the large hall was literally packed arid many being unable to gain ad- mittance. In addition to the splendid programme of vocal and instrumental music, an eloquent and timely address was given by Mi. C,M, Bezzo, Cantelon Bros. made a large shipment to Montreal yesterday. They are now purchasing potatoes for export. Watch for goblins Shell out, shell out The witches are out If you don't come out We'll throw you out. It's that time of year again, when the little people, the spooks and ghosts are out in full force, full of excitement with safety the furthest thing from their minds. Parents can and should do all they can to protect their young goblins by adopting a "see and be seen" policy. Here are some techniques suggested by the On- tario Provincial Police, Instead of buying a funny face, make one using make-up; eyebrow pencil, clown white, colored moustache sticks and anything else your imagination suggests. Face paint provides clear vision, whereas the con- ventional mask with small peep holes restructs vision and can even slip down over the child's eyes. To help drivers see dark clad youngsters after dark, decorate costumes with reflective iron on, sew on, or self stick tapes. It gives an eerie appearance and shows up brilliantly in driver's headlights. , • Parents should accompany their youngest toddlers and im- press on the older ones the need to be extra alert when crossing streets. Drivers should remember that on Halloween there's bound to be some small ghost who will forget to be careful and then his chances depend on you. * * Car drivers! You've probably noticed that daylight is ending earlier these days. Collision facts prove that darkness in- creases traffic hazards ... and traffic collisions. Darkness comes earlier now, so adjust your speed accordingly slow down after sundown! By following this simple rule, you can increase YOUR safety and the safety of others. Lake water now unsafe The water in Ontario lakes and rivers is already taking on an autumn chill and the mor- ning dip will soon become too refreshing for most people. It is amazing how rapidly cold water saps a person's energy even when it is still at endurable swimming temperatures. The Ontario Safety League states that a person exposed to 60 degrees Fahrenheit water without protective clothing could become unconscious within two hours, at 50 degrees Fahrenheit one hour would be the safe limit, and, of course, at low temperatures near freezing the exposure limit would be a very few minutes. These findings are the result of exhaustive tests conducted by underwater clubs and the Armed Services. The Ontario Safety League claims that the biggest hazard for fall hunters is still cold water exposure as a con- sequence of capsizing or falling out of boats, Small boats which are overloaded or incautiously used are a veritable deathtrap once the water temperature has dropped to a dangerous degree. Duck hunters are urged to use utmost caution when shooting from a boat, even during the early part of the season. The boat must be securely anchored in a blind before shooting com- mences. This is important from a safety standpoint as well as being a Game Law of the Province of Ontario. The Ontario Safety League advises double precautions when using a boat at this time of year, keep loads light, watch the weather and always wear an approved lifejacket "First they destroy our environment so that ice starve — then, they shoot us to save us from the anguish -of starvation,!"