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Page 2—Clinton News-Record—-Thurs.z March 1Pf 1966
Editorials
)Lip Service To Democracy
IT WAS NOT very long ago that
we read an article by one of Canada’s
better political writers—though at the
moment we do not recall which one it
was, who commented on the shortness
of the attention span of the public,
with regard to political mutters, He
expanded on the theme, that almost
anything could be stated as fact by
almost anyone in, political office, be
cause the public 'did not remember
what had gone before.
We recalled that vividly last week
when announcement was made by the
Prime Minister of Canada of a group
of'Liberals named to the senate.
• Investigation into even the recent
past of these men shows them to have,
been rejected by the people on the hus
tings, and yet they now have -been ele
vated to the highest seats in the land.
And for life, Surely the Liberal leaders
could have had more respect for the
intelligence and -memory of the voters!
One saving feature is -that there
now is an age limit to senators.
One bad aspect, and to us a symp
tom of a sick society, (very sick, in
deed) is that these unsuccessful politic
ians, those who have been rejected by
the people, and merely apointed to of
fice by someone who has the power so
to do, then have certain powers them
selves over the people who have re
jected them,
We draw ah obvious comparison
with the opposite situation, which
occurs with regard to the bean market
ing board. In that ease, without warn
ing, and with no announced valid rea
son, <a board of men elected by the
people were removed from power, by
half of a board made up of appointed
men—-the Ontario Farm Products Mar
keting Board.
It would seem that in Canada the
idea of rule by the people is given only
lip service.
From Our
Early Files
75 Years Ago >
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, March 13; 1891
The Christian Endeavor Soc
iety of Uniten Chqreh, wjll hold
a public meeting in, the phurph,
next. Thursday evening, March
19th. Rev. W. J, Clark, the pop-
ufer young divine, of London, is
to deliver an address, also the
Rev. F, S, Newton of Bayfield
is expected.
Mr, Thomas Mcllvain has
purchased, from the Clinton Or
gan -Co., one of ,their beautiful
piano case organs; Tom should
invlite all his* friends and give
them all a musical treat.
The regular annual meeting
of the Eaisit Huron Teachers’
Association, wias held in the
Public School, Brussels, on
Thursday and Friday, February
26th and 27th, the president,
Mr. Taylor, of Wrbxeter, in the
chair.
Mr, B. R'atel'iff and Mr. Beil
Irwin are 'in the vicinity buying
cows for their ranches in th'e .
North West.
Your Chinee To Help Canada’s Retarded
They Say It Well
IT’S PLEASANT to have some lay
person re-affirm your personal convic
tions regarding any one subject.
Within the past week we have no
ticed two persons widely based geo
graphically, and at different kinds of
meetings, express in their own way the
value of advertising.
At the annual meeting of the Hur
on County Egg and Poultry Association
here in Clinton, James Huctwith, a pro
vincial director, from Forest, said:
“within two to three weeks of beginning
a program of legitimate advertising, VI
could see a firming of the price.”
He referred to the year-old pro
gram of advertising carried out on a
provincial level with a $150,000 budget
made up of marketing board funds and
substantial assistance from the Ontario
Department of Agriculture.
' Then, in Brodhagen, that small vil
lage with an active Chamber of Com
merce, which does great things for the
community, generally on a shoestring,
a meeting was held. Milverton Reeve
Harold Herman, staunchly supported
newspaper advertising. Concerning pro
motion of Mid Western Ontario De
velopment region, he asked if much
money were being allocated to televis- *
ion or radio where “It’s just a swish,”—
he demonstrated with his hands what
he meant by swish'— “ahd then it’s
gone.”
Mr. Herman noted that an adver
tisement in a newspaper is always at
hand. “Even if you use the paper to
pad the soles of your shoes you can al
ways read it later when you change
insoles,” he said.
And we don’t think we have any
thing to add to what these two men
have already said on the subject.
THIS INVOCATION for drivers
was given by Rt. Rev. Kenneth C.
Evans, Bishop of Ontario at the offic
ial opening of the Kingston Road Safety
Workships:
“O God, grant us grace to glorify
thee, and to serve our fellowman in love
-—in all our deeds and no less when we
are driving our cars.
“Enable us to accept the pleasures
and dangers - of motoring as mature
and responsible, citizens.
“In our automobile insurance may
we include the policy of unfailing cour
tesy and consideration for the safety
of others, as well as ourselves.
“In exercising our licence to drive
may we not allow ourselves the liberty
to trespass on the roads when we are
in an impaired condition, nor to drive
after we have had ‘a quick one’.
“If we do put a tiger into the tank,
give us grace to tame him, and to use
his powers as a blessing and not a curse. •
“Grant us penitence for the high
cost of driving. And for all those that
have 'been sacrificed to our negligence,
the maimed, the crippled, the injured,
and the dead, we beseech thy pardon.
“Grant thy blessing upon this and
every effort of our authorities to bring
home to us all—the needs, and the
methods of safe driving.
“And since our driving corresponds
so much to our character, in thy mercy
make us better men and women.”
55 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 9, 1911
Miss Metcalf amid Misses
Louise and Dorothy Tierney
snowshoed. from Biyth to Clin
ton yesterday. On their way
down they dined with Mr. and
Mrs. George Thompson of the
Gravel Road', aunt and uncle of
the Misses Tierney, and arrived
in Clinton about four hours
after they started', on- their
tramp, which included stop and
ail.
A meeting of the ratepayers
of USS No. 9, Blake, is called
for Friday evening 'ait 7 o’clock
p.m. to consider the proposition
of a new school. The old build
ing needs so much repairs that
the inspector has ordered a new
one for 1912.
At a meeting of Bayfield vil
lage council on Monday evening
a resolution was" passed offering
a reward of ten dollars to- the
person who will give informa
tion that will lead to the con
viction of the party or parties
who destroyed a large number
of shade 'trees on Keith Crescent
near the English Church.
Should the party be located, a
few months confinement behind
bars, would not be too good fol’
him.
THerue lis d campaign in pro
gress tiirough whidi the
people, of Canada are asked
to join in a National Crusade
to combat the country’s mosit
crippling affliction mental
retardation. v
No one will knock ori. your
door. No one will $sk for
your help. But you, can make
a donation, or a pledge, at
any chartered bank in Can
ada. Both the Bank of Mon-
ti’eal and the Royal Bank
here in Clinton 'Wii'l accept
these contributions,. A flve
year’ plan is in affect.
The total Crusade goal is
$5,000,000. Aim is to erect
buildings in which diagnostic,
treatment and training facto
ities may be housed. Thirteen
individual projects are being
undertaken at .centres across
Canada. 1
'Clinton' Kipsmen Club has
undertaken $ $500 committ
ment, payable over the next
five years, and already has
contributed $100. Gift of this
first cheque was made by
Kin president Andy Peterson
at the February 15 Kin meet
ing.
Kinsmen Clubs of Canada
have undertaken the job of
raising funds for the Kins
men Institute of Mental Re-'
tardaition.
The building sketched a-
bove, will be built in Toronto,
•as the national headquarters
of the Canadian Association
for Retarded Crildren. Also,
it will be a clearing house
of ideas, a point where every
National
new development in the field
of mental retardation will be
assimilated and then made
available to every other point
on the map.
And in addition to these
purposes, the building will be
used as a teaching centre to
instruct some 2,000 volun
teers, professional and techni
cal people every year.
K:’LL.
Institute for Mental Retardation
Completion oif the building
'is scheduled for 1970, which
is the 50th anniversary of
Kinsmen. Sad-turning is to be
SUGAR
AND SPICB
by Bill Smiley < .lBg» \
Crippled children are encour
aged to participate in out
door recreation like baseball
which is this boy’s favourite.’
Easter Seal donations help
him develop new skills during
his rehabilitation period. Clin
ton Eions Club oodteot Easter
Seal money in this1 area.
done fin 1967, the year of Can
ada’s centennial.
The other one of the 13
projects, Which will be built
in Ontario, is in the. Hamilton-
Niagara area, to give compre
hensive diagnostic and treat
ment service for a semi-urban
area.
One Canadian in ten has1 a
retarded relative. Families of
Canada’s half million retard
ates number 2,000,000 per
sons. Cost of caring for ‘pre
sent mentally retardeds in
Canada is a staggering $100
million a year.
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Letter To Thie Editor
Honey For the Bees
The Editor,
Clinton News-Record,
• Clinton, Ontario.
Dear Eliitor,
Your editorial on the tourist
dollar "Real Money Maker”
sparks an interest that should
-be dear -to the hearts of every
commercial enterprise in town.
Some pants of the country are
dependent on the tourist dollar.
What would the tourist dollar
mean to us?
It could mean industry, more
employment, less exportation of
our young people, more dollars
in our pockets, more buying
power, better able to care for
our funded indebtedness, better
able to have the facilities we
need and want.
•How do We attract the tourist
dollar? By attracting the tour
ist.
We have historical spots (as
your editorial mentions); Tell
the tourist about them.
We have several unusual
beauty spats. Show them to the
tourist.
We have an RCAF Station
Where arrangements could be
made for conducted group
tours.
We could have a museum and
ah aquarium of local lake ahd
'stream life. — Where? —
What about the old posit office?
Who could put this in mo
tion? Organized commercial
ands.sesrvice groups, particularly
the local Chamber of Com
merce. This is a natural for
them. Promotion of commerce
is their main interest. *1
Every able-bodied person-in
town can get with the act and
help. If you do not help your
selves, no one will help you.
Let your imagination 'go. —
You can probably come up with
a lot more ideas.
Get into 'the action and get
going — You might 'be surpris
ed how many bees you will at
tract that will make money tor
you.
DUFF THOMPSON
March 7, 1966,
157 Ra'glan Street,
Clinton, Ontario. .
Letter To The Editor
in
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 11, 1926
Mr. T. Mason’s horse took a
jaunt down through town one
day last Week, leaving the driv
er behind, and! got along not so
badly until it struck the corner
of Cree’s dray, When the cutter
stopped and the horse went oh.
Some eggs in the cutter were
lather ibadly jarred by the sud
den stop.
Mr. Elwin and Miss Viola
Wilson of Auburn spent the
weekend as the guests Of their
cousin, Miss Grace Ashton.
Mr. Harold Elliott went to
London Tuesday to attend the
hockey match between Peter-
boro and London.,
The WMS met at the home of
Mr, and Mrs. C. Watson on
Wednesday afternoon. After the
business program was over a 10
cent tea was served. It goes
without saying that Mr. and
Mrs. Watson have the gift of
making everyone feel right at
home,
The TPS met on Friday last.
Dr. Newton-Brady was unable
to be present to give his lecture.
Miss Grace Jowett gave a very
interesting address on John
Huss, from the study book.
on with
Life can be a real drag, 'but
it has its moments. A couple
of them came to me this week
to convince me that it’s more
fun to be' alive and suffering
than stone cold dead in the
cemetery.
The other night I took
three busloads of students to
see a play, "Murder in the Ca
thedral," in a neighboring
town. I won’t even mention
What a nightmare such an ex
cursion is for the man in
charge of a hundred-odd live-,
ly teenagers.
We arrived, in best clothes
and best manners, ready for
an evening of culture. The
house Bskts dimmed; the
stark set was revealed; the
chorus came
.brooding note of doom and
death. You could have heard a
feather drop as a thousand
youngsters sat enthralled.
Suddenly a nipple of sound
went through the theatre. The
ripple rapidly became a wave.
The chorus in the best show
tradition, bravely pressed on,
fits chant almost lost in the
swelling titter. The ghost of
the old opera house had taken
over.
He had assumed the form
of a 'large bat. The noise and
lights had frightened him out
of his eyrie among the rafters.
And he put on a display of
aerobatics that stole the show.
He swooped and swirled
over audience and actors. He
flickered through the shad
ows, in ever-descending cir
cles that had all the girls
clutching their hair. He
peeled off and dive-bombed the
chorus, making it duck collect
ively and frantically floorwards.
He disappeared intermittent
ly, but, a bom scene-stealer,
was right on cue for his entries.
Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of
Canterbury, intoned ‘‘For a
little time the hungry hawk will
only soar and hover, circling
lower ...”
And there was Mr. Bat,
whistling around the actor’s
ears. The chorus wailed, "I have
heard fluting in the night-time
. . . have seen s caly wings slant
ing over.” And guess1 who was
fluting around gaily on Hs scaly
wiings, right past their noses.
All in ail, a diverting even
ing in the theatre. I won’ t speak
for 'the players, but tine kids
and the bat loved it.
My second reviving experi
ence was not with a bat, but a
butterfly. I think that term
best describes my 14-yeai>old.
She flits. She can’t quite decide
whether she’s 'going to be a
writer, a folk singer, a concert
pianist or a basketball player.
Last Saturday, I took her to
the 'city, to compete in the
world’s biggest ‘music festival.
Competition is rough. Her tea
cher and her mother had both
told her she hadn’t a chance,
‘‘Because you haven’t worked
hard enough.”
She was pretty jittery. Teeth
chattering, great nervous
yawns, four trips to the bath
room in 20 minutes. My heart
bled for her.
In her first ciass there were
12 competitors. Guess who was
last. It was for students 20 and
under. They were all good'. Even
though I’ve been to a hundred
festivals', and am pretty world
ly, my spirits sank for her sake.
The bell clanged. She went
on stage. And as I sat, turning
purple while holding my breath
through a Bach prelude and
fuge, she played like a tiger.
Second place we take.
We tottered out of the audi
torium in a daze, leapt into a
cab, rushed to meet her Mom,
and hurled her words back in
her face.
The kid repeated ■ twice dur
ing ’the afternoon, and we ar
rived home after a 12-hour day
and a 200-mile trip, staggering
with exhaustion but flushed
with triumph.
Of bats and butterflies, I
guess, is .the essence of life.
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The average “head of house
hold,” visiting Expo will be 40
years old and a high school
graduate.
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Clinton News-Record.
Again down memory's lane,
this time to the summer of
1907; the year of the 'big Mc
Pherson and Hovey Foundry
fire in* the block where new
post office is.
McPh'ensOn and Hovey made
steam engines and threshing
machines, and all parts for their
construction, right on the spot.
Imprinted on each machine was
“McPherson and Hovey, Clin
ton, Ontario.”
It was a terrible big fire that
covered 'a whole town block.
The wind was blowing towards
the homes of veterinarian Dr.
J. S. Evans and the Rattfenbufry
Hotel. Four poplar trees saved
the front of the hotel, but the
roof caught fire. Everything
was done to try and save the
two buildings, but they went up
in flames.
Fires every place you looked!
People With pails and cans of
water, wet carpets, and so on,
mostly on the' rooftops. Calls
were sent out to many places
for help as the fire got Out of
control.
Stratford fire department
came oh a, flat car ■ (iby CNR)
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25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 13, 1941
Mr. W. L. Johnson has pur
chased the grocery store from
Mr, Morley Jordan and is busy
getting ready for business.
Last Friday evening the Jun
ior Red Cross of the Clinton
Collegiate held an open meet
ing, when a large crowd filled
the auditorium to hear thiedr
speaker, Miss Mary E. Depew,
Who for eight yeans was a mem
ber of the Collegiate staff, and
Who wont to France tor two
years’ study in 1938.
T. R, Thompson’s Superior
Store advertised the following
weekend speaials: Mapleleaf
Salmon, V2 lb. tins, 19c; Max
well House Coffee, lb., 29c;
Monarch flour, 7 lb. bag, 29c;
Icing Sugar, 2 lbs. for
Grapefruit, 5 for 25c.
Wes I-Iaddy and Laurie
qUhouri, of the Galt Aircraft
School and Dick Fremlin (RC-
AF) Brandon, Man., spent the
WOekehd With their parents.
Ross Fitzsimons’ Butcher
Shop advertised the following
weekend nioat specials: Fresh
Homemade Sausage, 1 lb. 15c;
Pork Chops, 1 lb. 22c; Ham
burg Steak, 2 &.y 35c.
29c;
19c;
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15 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 9, 1951
A letter .to L. H. D. McLeod,
from 'the District Meteorologist,
Dept, of Transport, mformed
him that all visual1 storm signal
stations are to be discontinued
effective (March 31, "Louie” has
been the local storm signal
agent far the past ten years.
He thinks .that this service Was
instituted about 1870. James A.
Gairdner was thb first agent.
Norman W. Miller, 55, Gode
rich, County Clerk of Huron,
and formerly of Clinton, was
killed in .a highway crash, on
King's Highway 21, eight miles
south of Goderich, on Saturday
afternoon.
A further1 step in the new
public School project will be
taken on Monday, March 12, at
7:30 p.m., Whan & joint special
meeting of Clinton Town Coun
cil and Clinton Public School
Board Will be held in tile Town
Council Chamber to discuss the
$300,000 proposal.
Clinton District Collegiate In
stitute would like to erect a
large addition to the present
two-storey-and-basement brick
Structure oh Princess St. East,
to Cost approximately $285,000.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 8, 1956
Close on the heels of an an
nouncement that H. Frank
Lawson, London, had been ap
pointed engineer in -the County
of Huron, last Friday came the
announcement On Saturday that
he had withdrawn from the ap-1
pointment. Mr. Lawson is a
native of Clinton, only son of
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. law-
son.
Town Council on Tuesday
night unanimously passed a
motion granting the Clinton
Lions Club $1,000 toward the
mortgage existing on the skat
ing arena.
Huron Central Agricultural
Society received a ghaht of $50
from the Township of Tucker
smith this Week and ah equtl
of $50 from the Township Of
Hullett. Stanley Township
which is a strong supporter of
the Bayfibld Fall Fair, aS well
as the Hensail Fair; granted
$25.00 to the Clanton society.
These amounts help to support
the Clinton Spring Fair, which,
is ;beihg held this year on Sat
urday, June &
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