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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1966-04-14, Page 4Pqge 4~-^CIinton News-Record—Thurs., April 14< 1966 Editorials ” What’s Your Answer There are not many things wrong with Clinton but one thing is wrong, and continues to be that way despite the efforts of a number of people who have tried throughout the years to cor­ rect it. We do not have a thriving? sup­ ported, and appreciated Chamber of Commerce. Why not? Perhaps it would.be best to con­ sider first what a Chamber of Com­ merce is, and what use it is in those communities which actually make use Of one. Basically a Chamber is organized to promote the business of a commun­ ity. This goes farther than having clean stores, tidy storefronts, and a friendly attitude toward customers. A proper Chamber of Commerce is continually alert to methods of attracting more business into town, more industries, more job opportunities, and also in as­ sisting those businesses which are hav­ ing a hard time to overcome their diffi­ culties and to become prosperous. A town with a prosperous business section is a healthy town, There are all sorts of ways to de­ scribe a Chamber of Commerce by us­ ing long words and flowery phrases. But in the end, one comes down to the fact that a Chamber of Commerce is a banding together of businessmen and professional people, with the view to improving business, encouraging more jobs, making tbe'town more attractive and pleasant, Now, we come to the next factor? Does Clinton need a Chamber of Com­ merce? Well, can Clinton use more jobs for young people? Is it encourag- ing to see five empty stores on Main Street? Then comes the question we asked first: Why doesn’t Clinton have a well- supported, appreciated and thriving Chamber of Commerce? ' Can it be that business people are satisfied with business the way it is? How else can one explain the fact that a meeting of members, called a week in advance, advertised prominently on the front page of this newspaper, and announced by postcard notice to every member of the Chamber —- had exactly eight people in attendance? Of those eight, only three plus the president, were business people. There was one member of the press; a man who was not a member of the Chamber, and two members now re­ tired from business. Is it leadership that is missing? Or is it lack of a defined purpose? or just sheer acceptance of things as they are, and laziness on the part of nearly every businessman in town? We look at this ‘‘problem of the dying Chamber” and wonder if Clin­ ton is just over-organized (too many meetings of too many organizations), or whether we’re just prosperous, and satisfied. We don’t know the answer. It's A State Of Mind The Low Cost Of Eating Well . (The Montreal Star) THERE will be a lot of sympathy for the cri de coeur vented in the House of Commons by Grace Maclnnis (on March 22). Food prices are high and they are certainly going to get higher. And food is, as she noted, the “rock- bottom” item on everyman’s budget. But are they too high for what we get? Mrs. Maclnnis took a potshot at the producers. But the producers in terms of constant dollars are worse off with today’s so-called high prices than they were 15 years ago: a grade A hog brings his producer 30 percent less, a good steer 45 percent, a broiler 55 per­ cent. So it is with dairy products and vegetables. If not the producer, then Who? Perhaps the wholesaler or retailer. But these two groups have been investigated endlessly. At bottom it is not one, but a series of seemingly unrelated influ­ ences, among them the housewife’s own demands, which determine the final bill. Mrs. Maclnnis may not like econ­ omic jargon, but economics are very much part of the picture. Canadians are eating twice as much beef as they ate 15 years ago despite the “out­ rageous” prices they are asked to pay. We are now, each one of us, putting away 150 pounds of red meat a year. Producers are getting less for the same meat. Something is wrong with the argu­ ment somewhere. Prices may be high to the, housewife, but clearly she is meeting them. They are certainly not high to the producers, and those in be­ tween don’t appear to be growing Tat on their cut. We have two choices, it seems. We can encourage production by letting prices run their normal course, which can be painful to the consumer on occasion, or we can absorb part of the Shock by subsidies, which means taxes. Any other system, as the various coun­ tries of Eastern Europe show us con­ stantly, is a poor risk. A Bureau of Statistics survey in the late 50’s showed food expenditures by the average urban family running at around $365 a head, or in income per­ centages about 23.6. But these .are aver­ age families, not the poor. For those at least, on the borderline of poverty, such expenditures are out of hand, and for these, in the short run, special provision must be made. But they are not surely in terms of the average. We can, if we wish, cut elsewhere. Food is after all, as Mrs. Maclnnis described it, “rock- bottom”, and by any standard of value received, relatively cheap. Farmers earn today less for their produce than 20 years ago. To try and cut prices would be, in agricultural terms, disastrous. We could perhaps shave the frills, but these frills — the clean, trimmed vegetable, the packag­ ed meat, the enormous assortment—are what we ask for, even if it is given the hypodermic of advertising. A partial answer is to adjust our values, to shop better and more efficiently,. but cer­ tainly in practical terms it would be madness to try and isolate one section of the economy. Farm production is the great success story of North America, and one of the miracles of modern times. Quote Of The Month Prime Minister Lester Pearson “It is a common and careless as­ sumption, but a false and dangerous one, that federal expenditures are from some other source than your own pock­ et; that the government pays, not you. This is as naive as the reasoning of the patient who told his psychiatrist that he was making long distance calls to him­ self. ‘Isn’t that costly?’ asked the doc­ tor. ‘Oh no, it doesn’t cost a cent,’ re­ plied the patient. ‘You see, I always reverse the charges.’ ...” Times Change (Industry) . ANTICIPATING change .will be more difficult in the future than in the past. The life cycle of products will be shorter and shorter and the rate of change in every sphere will be much greater. The acceleration in the pace of change has been neatly illustrated by Dr. Dwayne Orton of IBM in his scale of the ages of man: Stone age — 500,000 years; Bronze age ~ 50,000 years; Iron age c- 5,000 years; Industrial age — 500 years; Nuclear age — 50 years; and Space age 5 years: “Let us not lose sight of the fact-— and we heed to keep reminding our associates in the public domain of this — let us not lose sight of the fact that industry is the main source of our economic wealth”, said Leonard Hynes, president of CIL. “How we commit our resources, how we direct our efforts, in fact most of the decisions that will de­ cide dur future — that will make our to-morrow — will be made —* the really important ones, that is, will be made within our commercial enterprises by our business managers. “How good these decisions will be depends on the freedom available to competent managers to take action quickly on their own initiative. Such freedom is hot typical of many of our present organizational structures. “This is true today in government and other public institutions* These al­ ways seem to lag behind the public need. And it will be true tomorrow in our private commercial institutions un­ less we effect the necessary changes in attitude and structure how to meet the hew conditions/1 Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 * 1924 Established 1881 Published Every Thursday At The Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario, Canada Population 3,475 A. LAURIE COLQUHOUN, PUBLISHER . * ® ' IS ,, & Signed eonWbuHdni to publication, ar» ih< bptniohi of the writSri only, And do hot necessarily express the views of fha newspaper, Class Mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for Payment of Pottage tn CashAuthorized at Second SUBSCRIPTION RATES: PaySbt. In advance » Canada and Great Britain: $4.00 « year; United Sfataj and FciNjIghf $5.50; Sing!* Id Cenh The nurse of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children advises and coun­ sels the mother concerning her daughter’s artificial arm, while the young lady herself, plays with her doll before the mirror. Easter Seal Funds col­ lected by Clinton Lions Club send the Society’s- nurses into the homes of crippled children in Huron and all across Ontario and through the nurse the children receive the benefit of all the Easter Seal services. Clinton Lions Still Accepting Easter Seals Donations Clinton Lions Cluib Easter Seal Committee are still ac­ cepting donations to their Crip­ pled Children Fund. Send your ciheque in the pink envelope you received, or if that was miisplaced, send your dtaatton to D. 'W. Cornish, treasurer, Clinton Lions, Easter’ Seal Committee. The 16,896 crippled children in the province, living on farms; in city homes, in towns or vil­ lages or- in northern districts know that the 1966 Easter Seal campaign means hope and op­ portunity. Easter Seal funds will bring to them treatment and training and the possibility of independence and relief from the physical handicaps ’that birth, illness or accident have left with them. Just about a month ago everyone in Ontario received the Easter Seals, a letter in­ viting financial support and a pink envelope in which such a gift could be returned. Today more than 230 service clubs, who conducted the campaigns in their area are tallying up their returns and issuing re­ ceipts - for all contributions that are earmarked for the $1,000,000 needed by Ontario's crippled children for theiir pro­ gramme of care and treatment. The Ontario Society for Crip­ pled Children joins with the service clubs and other com­ munity groups to thank the thousands of citizens who have supported the campaign and asks that any that have not yet sent in a contribution do so 'as soon as possible. Many long hours of planning and de­ velopment have been given vol­ untarily to insure that crippled children will receive their need­ ed care and treatment, but. this will only be possible if suffici­ ent Easter Seal funds are raised. -t From Our Early Files . 75 Years Ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA Friday, April 17, 1891 Hensall News: Our town has been very busy the past few weeks; horses, cattle and pot­ atoes 'are being sold, bought and shipped in carloads; pota­ toes- were bringing 75c a bag but they Will be cheaper. John Deeveis and James Miller claim to have felled, out, split land piled 20 cords of wood in 2% days on the farm of George Hudie on the 7th con. of Goderich Township. Can this record be excelled. Brussels is > supplied with electric lights at the rate of lie a night. Marinus E. McLean was sen­ tenced at Brookville to seven years imprisonment for taking away the household goods of W. H. Arnold with whose wife he eloped. 55 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 13, 1910 Miss Lizzie Sullivan returned to her home in Kingsbridge on Wednesday after talcing a sten­ ographer’s course in the Clin­ ton Business College. Gordon Cuniinghiame returned this past Tuesday from a trip south. He left about February 1 in company with <Fnank Kidd for Cuba, after about a six week visit he returned by way of Washington 'and New York. Mr. Kfdid will remain in Cuba for a time. John Woon, a very highly respected resident of Goderich Township, died suddenly today of a heart seizure. z The arrival of a young son to Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Mc­ Michael on Tuesday makes T. McMichael Sr. five times a grandfather and all of them are boys. Spring lamb is the order of the day — a Carcass is hanging in S. Castle’s 'butcher Shop now, weight about 100 lbs. •f 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 15, 1926 Harold Whitmore of Hamil­ ton, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Whitmore of Goderich Township. Mrs. Jiames Berry and son will have moved to Brucefield and .the village welcomes them. The Jr. Room of Bayfield Public school Easter report in­ clude the following who have passed Easter exams: Jr. 3rd — Craig Kerr, Kenneth Merner, Mary Widcotmbe; Sr. 2nd >— Thelma Parker, Isabel Osmond, Edith Merner, John Wild, Jack Lindsay, Sandy Mustard and Lawrence Johns; Jr. 2nd — Keith Gemeinihiardit, James Stur­ geon, Maud Parker, Dean Cas­ tle, Brown Lindsay, Tom Cas­ tle, Cason Johns, Melvin Elliott, Louise McLeod and Louis Wild; Primary — Charlie Parker, Clara Parker, Doris Feather­ stone, William Osmond. The teacher was Anna W. Wood's. • • five large trucks and two trail­ er-tractor outfits loaded with merchandise, en route for de­ livery. Damage would reach $200,000 or more. Perch run was reported ■heavy at Bayfield port, boats brought in 'an aggregate catch of between five and1 six tons. At the Tuckersmith Town­ ship Council meeting, Ross Scott, Alex Patterson. Hugh Berry and Thomas Baird were present on behalf of the Bruce­ field Fire Department. A $1,200 grant towards purchase of new truck was issued. The marriage is announced of Georgina May (Jean) Hearn, daughter of Mrs. and the late Dr. Percival Hearn to Gerald David Misitele, Espanola. Spring is not a season. It’s a state of mind, To Browning, writing in Italy, jit was, "Oh, To Be In England? Now That Ap­ ril’s There.” To Botticelli, it was delicate, long-legged ladies in long nightgowns, scattering petals as they danced. To Bee­ thoven, it was lambs gambol­ ling to the notes of the shep­ herd's pipe, But 'in these parts, i|t's a time of agony and ecstasy, depend­ ing ion what age you are, and What you are up to. Ecstasy for 'little kids. Off with the snowboots, and snow­ suits hurled into a comer, Out into the wonderful world, from so long ago they pan1 scarcely remember: wading puddles, building sinky rafts, shooting marbles; shipping; picking pus­ sywillows. And lovely, brown, soft, silky, sludgy, slimey mud everywhere. Heaven. It's ecstasy for the young in love. For the first time in five months they can hold hands, bare-handed, on the way home from school, They can hang around the girl’s back door, or the corner, for an hour, talking inanities, joyous in toe certain­ ty they won’t freeze to death. Could anybody be happier, and cockier, than toe young mother in spring? Trim girls last fall, they wheel their prams down toe street on toe first sunny day, three abreast, pushing honest taxpayers into foe gutter, as they display with utmost pride those miracles they produced during the win­ ter. They are women this spring. For our senior citizens, spring brings another kind of happi­ ness, a quiet, deep one. They have been , dicing with death all Winter. They have suffered loneliness . and pain and des­ pair. That first balmy day of spring warms, theur old hearts and their old bones. It’s a promise of life, renewed, which they need badly. I think farmers and sailors are happy in the spring. For foe former, it means another right ’months of back-breaking labor with small return. For foe latter,, it means back to work often dull, often dirty, and toe loneliness of absence from families. But both are ready for it, after being under­ foot all winter. It restores pur­ pose to life. A man who isn’t working is only half a man. For the housewife spring is combination of the agony and toe ecstasy. There’s the agony of choosing the right paint and wallpaper, the ecstasy of 'ate tacking the house like the Assyrian coming down on the fold, • Gardeners are happy. Gloves on, they go out in the back yard and joyously muck about. They .squall, over foe first firik pus, inhale with driiight, the rote tjng stenph. of long-buried earth, plan glorious gardens in the mind's eye, Golfers me giddy with glad­ ness'. The last streaks of snow are still under the pines, The course is muddy, toe wind shill­ ing, But the first day the flags (Continued on page 9) Mary and Martha Tuesday, April 19 at 8:00 p.m. Mary and Martha Unit Will meet at the home of Rev. and Mrs. C. G. Park, Townsend St. Mrs. Doug Andrews, Mrs. El­ mer Hugill and Mrs. M. Edgar will be charge of the program. Following the meeting there Will be a demonstration of “Sarah Coventry Jewellery”. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 17, 1941 Gleh Cook has rented the McLennan store and will take possession the first of next month. Mr. and Mrts. Art Knight are moving to the house -on the corner of Orange and Welling­ ton ■ Streets formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Ger­ man. The Germans have bought the house on Frederick Street from Miss Edith Hunt. It says here — King John did not sign the Magna Carta, he merely affixed a seal to the document he couldn’t write his own name. Miss Eleanor Plumsteel of Sioux Lookout is spending the Easter vacation With her par­ ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Plum­ steel. Super Suds with a crystal relish, dish sold! at 24c a pkg.; Princess Soap flakes' with a lovely fruit nappie was 24c a pkg. and Jello powders sold for 5c a pkg. at Johnson Grocery, Clinton. 15 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday April 12, 1961 Fire broke out at the Han­ over' Transport storage ware­ house and plant and destroyed 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 12, 1956 Clinton will cut-over to dial phones on Sunday at 2 a.m. We note in the new directory we have 17 Johnstons or John­ sons; 13 Smiths and 13 Elliotts as well as a number of new list­ ings. Clinton’s Bonnie Hamilton ■bowed out of the Ontario Spell­ ing Bee last Thursday in Tor­ onto. The mis-spelled word was “missile”. The winners of the Toronto Telegram sponsored bee were from the Windsor area. Mbs. Fred G. Thompson was elected president of the Clin­ ton Progressive Conservative Womens Association, at a meet­ ing held in Clinton this past week. Mbs. M. Anderson of Maple Street, Clinton is still using an electric iron bought in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1908 mak­ ing it 48 years old. Mr. and Mfs. Don Epps last Sunday went “Cruisin' Down the River” to Bayfield in theiir new fibre glass boat. It took four and one half hours to go from Clinton to Bayfield and although they did get stuck a few (times were able to free themselves and continue along their way. --------------o-------------- Calvin PTA Says Thank You The Pai'ent Teachers Asso­ ciation at Calvin Christian School report a successful bake sale last month, and proceeds were $131.75. The group ex­ presses thanks to all these who patronized the sale. \ To The Editor Appreciation Of New Subscriber The Editor, Clinton, Ontario. Dear Editor: Please find enclosed four ($4.00) for a subscription to your paper. We like the kind of items1 that have been witten in the past week’s issue re “The Trial of Steven Truscott”. Sincerely, > MRS. J. R. LEITCH. 27 Nelson St. E. , Goderich, Ont., Letter to the Editor Cent an Hour Increase in Pay The Editor, Clinton News-Record. Again down memory’s lane —’ this time 50 year’s ago: Do you remember when 24 of the 27 'truckers employed at toe Grand Trunk Railways freight sheds in. London, went on strike, when demands for a wage increase to 20 cents an hour were refused? They went back to work*, on toe understanding they would receive 18 cents an hour, until the first of April. This was, one cent an hour increase. The men said if they did not get 20 cents an hour by the first of April, they would again walk out on strike. I thought this would' give people an idea of what wages were 50 arid 60 years ago. Yes, compare 'them With 1966. No wonder people were hungry very often. > It is hard to believe, but it certainly is 'true. Just fancy giving working men a one cent ■an hour increase — and they had to almost fight to get that much. I guess the old timers were sure born 75 years too soon. Now this is, the last letter to the News-Record for the present time. “Thank you,” to all the people wanting me to carry on. ' TOM LEPPINGTON 177. Spencer Street, Clinton, Ontario. April 11, 1966. Ed. Note: Thanks Tom. When you have more ideas for your “memory's lane” letters, don’t hesitate to send them in. We’ll ibe glad to print them, for we feel people 'are happy to read them. We have to apologize again. Last week, in Tom’s letter, we Somehow changed Dr. Cole's name to Dr. Dale. How that could 'have got past the proof­ reader, and 'all the rest of us, well never know. The house in which Tam found those old shoes, pictured 'here last week, had belonged to 'Dr. Cole. And a loft over bit of apol­ ogy. Sometime during this series of letters, Tom made mention of a railway, and thinking to help him, we put in the initials, CNR. Of course the railway is now CNR, but at the time of which he was writ­ ing, it was the Grand Trunk. So instead oif helping, we be­ came a hindrance. W.D.D. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY INSURANCE J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 JOHN WISE, Salesman Phone 482-7265 G/ B. CLANCY, O.D, — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone 524-7251 GODERICH R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 Classified Ads. Bring Quick Results H. C. 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