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* The Classic Signs
(77ie Montreal Star)
From Our Early Files . . t
JUDICIOUS as his language was,
Mr. Louis Rasminsky is plainly wor
ried.' The governor of the Bank of
Canada does not like what he sees in
the Canadian economy. Virtually all
the slack, he points out, has been taken
up, Shortages of skilled labor have be
come more numerous; mpre industries
are working at capacity or close tp it;
prices are increasing at a significantly
high rate; the current deficit in our
balance of payments is widening.
These are the classic signs of in
flation. In more scary language the
economy is hotting up, It is no longer,
as Mr. Joseph Kraft suggested recently
about the United States, a question here
of whether we have inflation. The
only interesting question now is what
weapons will be chosen to fight it. Mr.
Rasminsky has already used the chief
weapon available to him -r- an increase
in the bank rate. The nation’s govern
ments, for their part, have made a few
tentative passes at the situation by de
laying a limited number pf public pro
jects.
But the bank, rate is a dub which
works broadly across the whole country.
It does not discriminate. Yet the infla
tionary condition here as in the United
States is not general across the country,
or across the economy. If there is pres
sure in the central provinces, there is
little or no pressure on the east coast.
And because the problem is not general
the cure cannot be. either. Selective
action is what we need. For every
dollar’s worth of medicine we should
buy, if we can, a dollar’s worth of cure.
This means joint government action,
and Lord knows how, in this country,
we are ever going to get that.
For Fun and Your Fellowman
SATURDAY NIGHT it would be
well worth while to get out into the
open, air, leave the TV to its own de
vices, and enjoy one of the last winter
sports nights of the year. You can con
tribute. towards crippled kids, at the
same time.
While John Dickins is promoting
his Bunny Bundle every morning over
the Open Line, and the Easter Seals
Sale of the Clinton Lions Club is pro
gressing as is usual, another effort for
those youngsters that are hampered by
less than 100 percent physical condition,
is going forward in this area.
The Shrine Club is staging the 4th
Annual Gala Sports Night, with parade
around the square at Goderich, squirt
hookey, clowns on ice and displays by
the county town’s figure skating club.
The Shriners Motorcycle Corps, Mocha
Temple clowns, and a German Brass
Band are included in the entertainment.
The Shriners in this area are assist
ing two youngsters who need the help
of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled
Children.
Don’t miss this chance to help them
help others, and have a last fling at
winter time sports yourself.
75 Years Ago
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THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, March 27, 1891 '
Since the electric light was
was put in here (Seaforth) it
has given such popr satisfaction
that we believe some of. the
merchants have decided to go
back to coal oil, The electric
light when working right, is a
grand1 light, and we would like
to ‘see the difficulty here con
cerning iit, remedied, and lot us have good light in our ,towin.
Mr. Gilbert Mair has sold his
farm of 100 acres, on the Sth
con. of Hullett, to Mr. James
Reynolds, for the sum of $4,000.
This farm cost Mr. Mair con
siderably more than this, but
as he hia'd bought another’ farm
elsewhere, he was, willing to
make a sacrifice.
Mr, Pfihromer has his mail
in full operation, 'and is fitted
with the best of machinery.
We think the neighborhood
should support him as he. is turn
ing out fine flour, 'and has went
to a lot of expense.
The congregation of Bum’s
Church, Hullett, have raised
the Stipend of their esteemed
pastor, the Rev. D. M. Ramshy,
$50; it would be in order for
the Londesboro congregation to
go and do likewise.
evening to considei' a letter re
ceived hbm the Secretary of
Ontario West Shore Railway,
asking what Bayfield would do
towards the extending of the
line south of Goderich. The
council wias unanimous in dbing
all in thdlr power to support
the project and a delegation
was appointed to wait on the
manager ait once.
Mr. Chas. P. Sillte, son of Mr.
G. A. Sills, who fc attending
the School of Practical Science
in Toronto, has been appointed
manager of the University of
Toronto football team for thffis
year,
held the progressive
for Summerhill north,
a good crowd an en-
evening was spent in
cards.'
Six Giant Steps
WE’RE ON the brink of another
great community project.
At long last, 'after lesser towns
and even villages have been enjoying
the advantages of community centres,
with artificial ice in the winter, roller
skating space in the summer, and meet
ing rooms that actually have space to
spare, and washrooms available—Clin
ton is ready to make the plunge.
'Six giant steps from now, we’ll be
enjoying the new building.
Six giant steps will include, fund
raising, construction, fund raising, in
spection, fund raising, a gala opening,
and the inevitable debenture to cover
the left-over costs, and then we’ll be
in the position to expand our recrea
tional facilities for the entire area.
Central as Clinton now is, and hon
oured by the title “Convention Town
of Western Ontario”, our town will be
able to do better than' ever in serving
visitors and ourselves, our children and
our adults, as soon as this building
(now in planning)" is completed.
We’U have a place where ’teen town
can 'be held. We’ll have a place where
farm conferences can be held. We’ll
have a place where large meetings of
all sorts can be staged. We’ll be a com
plete community with year round rec
reation and educational space for all
of us to use.
Let’s gird up for the six giant steps
toward maturity, and “get with it” as
soon as the campaign is actually under
way.
Letter To The Editor
County Roads and Taxes
Sir,
In discussing road financing,
no mention was made by me of
development roads, of which,
except for land purchase, the
highways department assumes
the entire capital cost. •
In the fiscal year under dis
cussion, 1964-65, the depart
ment’s capital expenditure on
development roads was $14,368,-
227, or nearly seven percent of
total capital outlay. Stratford
district was fifth" highest with
its1 share, at $957,000.
In that fiscal year the devel
opment road from Seaforth to
Highway 86, costing more than
$1,000,000, was completed. In
the current fiscal year a con
tract was completed for grad
ing granular base and struc
tures on the Crediton-Khiva ten
miles, at $379,775.
Huron earlier got a develop
ment road on county road 25,
and in fact has done very well.
But when it is argued that
“the money is there, and we
might as well have it,” an ex
ception must be noted. The
money . is not all there even
when all taxes are collected.
Actually, the revenue from
gasoline and fuel taxes and lic
ense fees should cover all high
way .expenditure, ordinary and
capital, but much is diverted.
To make good its capital com
mitments in 1964-65 the govern
ment borrowed $68,725,999.
.It has been borrowing like
sums annually, on 'highways
account mainly, so that interest
and sinking fund now require
$164,835,000. Some motor ve
hicle revenue may be applied
to that, but it could not begin
to take care of it.
Roads being for the general
good, not exclusively for motor
ists, it may be contended that
retail sales tax, income tax, etc.
should help service the high
way debt. It may as well be so
argued because that is the way
it is.
Subsidies mentioned a week
ago are based, of course, upon
various categories of,work ap
proved by the department for
subsidy. That should be well
understood by everyone inter
ested, but County Engineer Brit-
nell says he thinks it is not,
and ought to have been spelled
out in any discussion of this
subject.
Subsides worked out per
capita do reflect in a general
way the amount a municipality
taxes its people for roads, in
expectation of collecting from
the province a substantial share.
The latter, however, comes from
our provincial taxes, soon to
be increased (except for what
is 'borrowed, and on that we
must pay interest).
At no level of government'
can legislation revoke the rule
that you can’t get something for
nothing.
W. E. Elliott.
Goderich, Ont.,
March 19, 1966.
Clinton News-Record
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 23, 1911
Miss Hattie Coiurtice enter
tained a number of her girl
friends on Tuesday evening in
honor of Miss Nettie Sitevens.
A pleasant feature of the even--
ing’s entertainment was the
showering of the guest of honor,
a bride-to-be of the month.
A special meeting of the vil
lage council was held Monday
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 25, 1926
Mr. W. A. Crich oif Seaforth
and Mr- H. Baritliff of Clinton
have purchased the * Bluthner
bakery and restaurant, business,
corner of Albert and Ratten-
bdry 'and are taking over this
week. Mr. Bartliff Will be in
charge of the business and he.
ought to know how to run. it
all right as it is hlis old stand.
Messrs. Luke and Gordon
Lawson have bought out the
Watson grocery, south slide of
Huron Street, which Messrs. D.
N. Watson and Frank Watson
have been conducting for the
past year, and are also talcing
over this week.
The river at Bayfield broke
up on Tuesday, March 23rd,
the latest that has been known
for years. There is quite a jam
between the piers.
The following item 'is clipped
from the, Malden correspond
ence of the Amherstburg Echo.
The Mission Band is no doubt
named after Miss Sybil Cour
tice of Clinton, now a mission
ary in Japan. It seems to be a
flourishing slate too, an honour
to its namesake.
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 27, 1941
On Friday evening, March 14,
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ball and
family
euchre
Having
joyable
playing
Mps, James Howitt returned
home Monday after spending
the winter with her daughters,
Mrs. Percy Manning of Lon-
desboro, and Mrs. Hugh Ches
ney of Seaforth.
Mrs. J. Taylor pf Forest and’
her brother Mr, William Gil
more of Bengaugh, SaJslk., are
Visiting Mr, and Mrs; Victor
Taylor and other friendls in the
vicinity this week.
The snow plow with Mr.
Cameron Rihtoul at the helm is
removing some of the snow
banks on the 2nd Con. of
Tuckersmith this week.
At the weekly Reid Cross
meeting' on Monday next, we
will have two more quilts ready
for quilting. Any quilters, who
are free to come and help with
this Work are most welcome.
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Huron County Tax Rate
Likely To Rise To 17.3
(By W. E. Elliott)
GODERICH— Tax increases
appear certain as Huron County
council assembles for its bripf
March session, with the 1366
budget as most important busi
ness.
Prepared by clerk-treasurer
Jphn G, Berry, in consultation
with the finance and executive
committee, of which deputy
reeve w, J, Cuthili, Seaforth,
is chairman, it will call for a
rjse in the, general purposes
rate from 6.75 mills to 8.00 and
in the roads levy from 8,75
to 9.30. bringing the total from
15.50 mills ip 17.30,
Action thereon is up to coun
cil, but in regard to the gener
al rate there is virtually no
choice; a substantial rise has
been, averted in the past two
or three years only by with
drawals Ifrom surplus funds, and
even so, it was found necessary
to increase the rate by three-
quarters of a mill to cover 1965
operations. Surplus funds are
now exhausted.
Advantages of an increased
levy for roads, with particular
reference to provincial subsidy
and “development road entitle
ment,’’ were set before council
at the January session by
County Engineer James Britnell,
speaking to the report of the
road committee (1965), Discus-
sion. at the time seemed to indi
cate general concurrence.
Council will be asked to con
firm a debenture issue of
$375,000, bearing six percent to
coyer cost of the Huronview
addition. Highest tender for the
debentures wa!s from J. L. Gpa-
ham & Co. Toronto, at 98.1.
Numerous applications by
various .organizations for grants
were laid over in January, to
await preparation of the bud
get. Also to be dealt with is
a request from Midwestern On
tario Development Association
that the county take opt mem
bership, at $5,300.
The roads committee, of
which Reeve Donald McKenzie,
Ashfield,' is chairman, met here
on Saturday.
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Mexican jumping beans are
the seed of a desert plant in
Which' the larva of a moth
moving caulsCs it to jump.
SUGAR.
AND SPICE
by Bill; Smiley
This 'is a time of year— one
of a very few — when I feel
deeply sorry for high school
principals. It’s the time when
they have to start bidding on
livestock, in the form of teach
ers, for next fall.
Let’s put you, gentle reader,
.into the boots of one- of these
sterling chaps for a few min
utes. And let’s say you have a
staff of 60 at the moment. And
let’s say you don’t know wheth
er you’re going to have 1,200 or
1,400 students next September.
Oh, well, so far, only two peo
ple have officially resigned. Any
clod' could hire two teachers.
Unless, of course, those extra
200 kids show up, which means
two or three more. Even so,
nothing to it.
Ah, but tarry a moment. You
know perfectly well that one,
possibly two of your teachers,
preferably from among the
married ladies on the staff,
will become pregnant.
You are fully aware that Ma
demoiselle Tartuffe, Of the
French department, had an un
fortunate affair with young Ja
blonski, the basiketball coach,
and that one of them: will be
leaving.
The grapevine has informed
you that Mrs. Billings’, the- old
faithful in the History depart
ment; has been hitting the
grape pretty regularly since her
husband ran off with the wait
ress.Everyone knows the English
department is rife with strife.
Since the unfortunate demise of
Mr. Wiley, the department
head, in February, of cirrhosis
of the liver, four of the Eng
lish teachers, all equally quali
fied, have been gunning for the
position. No matter which gets
it, all the others will quit in
dudgeon.
You have just heard that your
Home Economics teacher, the
one in charge of teaching girls
to cook, planned the menu for
the monthly meeting of the Un
fulfilled Wives Club. And every
body came down with food poi
soning.
One of your junior science
teachers has just blown up $850
worth of equipment and two
students, during an experiment
which completely justified your
opinion of his knowledge of the
suojcct.
Little Miss Muffett, the geo
graphy teacher just out of col
lege, is having discipline prob
lems. You discovered this when
you walked past her room and
saw two boys hanging out the
window, Investigation revealed
Mites Muffett hanging upside
down, a boy holding each leg.
They were testing the wind ve
locity, they explained, using her
hair as a weather-vane,
Monday morning, you heard
that the director of your Tech
nical departnient Was .iri hosplf-
tal, with third-dOgree butnS, af
ter* trying to change a fuse at
horiie.
The head of your Maths de-
partment, old! Gwillimbury, re
fuses to teach the New MathO*
Wati’dS, Or1 haw anything io do
with it, because “It’s a lot of
nonsense.”
And on top of this there are
four teachers you’d dearly love
to fire because of incompetence,
emotionalism, idealism, being
too fat or plain 'laziness.
So you have two resignations,
but you might wind up with 42.
What to do? If you leave it too
late, all the. other principals,
like 'So many dogs after a bone,
are in there first, and you wind
up with a collection of clots.
If you jump in too early, and
start hiring teachers right and
left, nobody Will resign, and
you’ll ’ wind up with 12 more
teachers than the Board will
pay for. And no job yourself.
As a result, quite a few prin
cipals these days are treading
the thin line of lunacy. They
start at shadows. They quail
when they see a teacher looking
surly.
They stare with unconcealed
horror at Mrs. McGillicuddy’s
swelling waist-line. They fl'inch
when a teacher knocks at their
door. They pour oil on troubled
waters, turn their backs' and
find that somebody has tossed a
match into the mixture.
Hard luck, chaps'; and good
hunting.
15 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 22, 1951
Fire of unknown origin caus
ed heavy damage at Huron
County Home, south of Clinton,
last riight, completely destroy
ing a large shed and contents.
Through plucky efforts on the
part of the Clinton, RCAF and
Bayfield Fire Brigades, the
fire was kept from spreading
to the main building of the
Home.
Property owners of Clinton
go1 to the poles on Monday,
May 14, to decide 'the future
of the town’s elementary, edu-
’aational facilities. “Are you in
favour of the Town of Clinton
issuing debentures in the a-
m'ount of $300,000 for the erec
tion of a new public school?”
is the question which'' will ap
pear on the. ballot.
The police are on1 a strict
lookout for the culprits who
made a forcible entry to Mur
phy Bros. Garage, Clinton, be
tween 9:30 p.m. Friday and 8:30
a.m. Saturday last and stole
approximately $15.00.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 22, 1956
Preparations for the opening
of Clinton’s dial telephone ex
change ■— the first in Huron
County — are becoming more
intense this week as the date
of the changeover draws' closer.
At about 2 p.m. on Sunday,
April 15, the prelsent manual
exchange will be cut out of
service and the dial system
will be placed in operation.
Among those receiving honors
from the Toronto Conservatory
of Music were Carolynne Smil-
lie, who passed grade 5;x Mar
garet Smillie, grade 7. They
are daughters of Mr. and Mirs.
Clarence Smillie, Hensail.
Mrs. William Riehl, Albeit
St., was the lucky winner of a
new refrigerator (apartment
size) in a contest computed by
a well known manufacturer of
vacuum cleaners last month..
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1 May 1973
1 May 1974
1 May 1975
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