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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1966-06-02, Page 4Page 4-rr—CHnton News-Record—-Thursday, June 2, 1966 Editorials .,, Bean Growers Elect RETURN BY the producers of a large percentage pf the men formerly active in their behalf by way of the Ontario Bean Board, to that same body after a three-month take-over by the government seems to enforce one thought at least: Farmers basically like to run their own business. They accept direction only when absolutely necessary. Generally they accept it graciously,. But when they have ■an opportunity they are ready to “do it themselves”, We’re interested in another thing that has developed in recent news stor ies concerning the “bean” thing: IF the bean board that was ap pointed ‘by the government as a care taker board, actually goes forward and returns 'all of the 77-cent levy which they say they are going to — then what will happen this fall if some pf that money is needed? IF the money is needed, will the government then be. in a benevolent mood and say to the bean growers, “Sorry fellows. Your own board didn’t do a very good’ job for you, but we’ll lend you some taxpayers’ money to help you over this market slump.” IF the government does this, we rather expect that the memory of the bean producer is long enough that he can figure out Why the whole thing was handled in this way. We can see no reason whatsoever to return that 77 cent levy to the bean producers at this season. Through past years it has been customary to make the deduction, and it is no loss to the farmer, only a sort pf enforced savings, if it is not needed it is returned to him, and in full — eyen with interest, on certain occasions, The money was not deducted by the old bean board. If there was any illegal deduction being made, then could it not be that the processors are at fault, for making the deduction without an order to do so? . However, we would not want to point with blame to anyone. The deduc tion was made in good faith by the processors. The producers knew what it was to be used for. The bean board did not use it for something they were n’t supposed to, The money would have been returned to the producer in good time, just as in years gone by. Surely in a modern age when a . government can levy a retroactive in come tax upon its citizens, (which the citizens don’t particularly want), then ' surely producers of a product should be able to make a deduction of this sort retroactive, in order to have funds available for a purpose the majority want it used for. To us it is silly to give the money back. Actually, if it goes back now, under the direction of the government- appointed board, then what will the elected board do for funds when the marketing season for beans comes this fall? If they don’t have money, they’ll be made to look inefficient by their opponents. Our advice to the acting board would be to keep the cash, and let the elected board make some decisions concerning it. Managerial Material ? THERE’S a perplexing story going rounds about a clever young fel- in the mail room of a U.S. rnanu- the low facturing plant. It seems that this youngster was . elected to take up a plantwide col lection to buy a gift for a company vice- president who was about to get married. He went the rounds, collecting 30c from each of the firms 2,000 employees and with this money he bought 2,000 pack ages of cigarettes, the brand with the coupon on the back. > Then he traded iri the coupons for a very nice silver coffee service for the V.P.’s gift. This done, he went the rounds again and bestowed a package of cigarettes to each of his 2,000 contri butors,-to their delight and surprise. Management got wind of this in genuity arid called the boy’s supervisor? “Send that youngster up here. We want to congratulate him and put him on a. bigger job. (This company needs more such resourcefulness.”' Unfortunately, the boy couldn’t be found anywhere in the plant. Later in the day, (though, the whole .truth came out. The lad had bought the cigarettes at a supermarket which gave , trading stamps, had redeemed them for a splen did new fishing outfit, and had taken the day off to go to his grandmother’s •funeral. Or so the story goes. Vacation Cometh ANTHROPOLOGISTS — as well as poets — have pointed out that mankind has moved a long way from his “natural condition” in a relatively short few thousand years — and that most of us have not completely adjusted to the present state of affairs. Through many generations, hu manity was solely concerned with the concrete realities of survival — food, shelter, the minimum requirements of • family life. .Now, we take most of these things for granted. they make it imperative that we return from time. to time to that well-spring of humanity which we once knew so intimately — the world of nature. For few things are as regenerative to the human spirit, to the stress-ridden mind and body as a few days or weeks of close contact with sun, water rind woods. In this sense, the vacation period which lies ahead can .be much.more than the fun and relaxation for which we primarily plan. ■ The refreshing experience of tramping over the heather,” of havingit Survival has become more a nation- real dew on your shoes, the elemental al affair than an individual one and, the ' ................. . pressures of daily life are more likely to spring from relationships between people -rather than the relationship be tween man and his environment. These strains are not only real, but matching of -wits with trout or bass, the humbling, visual music of a sunrise —these can level the frustrations of workaday problems far more meaning fully and effectively than any tranquil izer manufactured by man. i SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Here’s More Perfection Well. If you remember, last week I was explaining how we could improve toe high school system, We had thown out toe Lord’s. Prayer and The Queeh, not because' we are atheistic or anti-royalist, but because both pre mean ingless' in that context. Then we had toe warni-up period; a half-hour of popular music, jokes, news, weather report, This wakes up the children, and starts toe day, not with a whimper, but with a bang, Following this would come a solid hour of hard- work. We’d -switch on the television. For 45 minutes, we’d enjoy toe 'lesson in propaganda from ‘Laurier LaSquare, or in charm from Wat Patsion, or •in mopery and gawk from some -cabinet minister, or in double-think from Lesser Person, or in rhetoric from John Diefen'dummer or in whatever the Department of Education in its ineffable in sight has chosen for toe day. After toe lesson teacher and students would discuss its content and — or try to retain toair breakfasts. It’s about 10:30 a.m. now. Time for the’Anti-Aggression session.-The class presidents would distribute equipment. Every,., student would be given a block oif wood and a mallet. or two pieces .of tin. For 15 minutes, each would pound on his wood or tin until he was cleansed of aggressive tendencies. Only the teacher would be allowed to pound ■students, and only with a wet towel, to get rid of his ag gressive urges. This would be followed, logically, by 15 minutes of soft music piped into the classrooms, until everybody was completely relaxed. May be -even asleep. It’s 11 a.m. Then it’s everybody, toe 1400 kids and the 60-odid tea chers, out and around toe block. Briskly in winter, - sauntering in better weather. English teachers would burble about the- (beauty of nature; Science teachers would , point out- Flora- and Fauna ((the itwo busty waitresses who dropped omit of Grade 11 last year.) Math teacher^ would . -explain that 'the shortest dis tance between two points, (a warm 'Classroom and a warm classroom) is a square block. Time to eat. Everyone is relaxed, refreshed, ravenous; At present, toe -kids, eat in Shifts, stand in long lines, silt at long tables like convicts, gulp their jelly doughnuts, jam-and-peanut-butter sand wiches, and soup (often in that order), and hurtle back to classes. Under my 'System, there’d be an hour and a 'half, for lunch. There’d. ‘be no more- than eight at a table. There’d be waiters and waitresses, given this chore ;a's a punish ment, instead of a detention. • Lunch would ibe free: a hot dish, all you could eat. But how .to overcome toe. overcrowding. Simple. Lunch- hour (and a. half) would, be combined with. Learning- Leisure Period. . Sociologists warn us gloomily that one of the greatest problems facing mankind is the use of leisure hpurs, when the work-week . hqs been reduced by auto mation to about 20 hours. This period would enable ' 1 students to develop a hobby. There’d be 10 snooker tables. There’d he curling end figure- skating in winter^ There’d be . gardening in good weather, There’d be stamp club's and flower-arranging clubs and Indian ctlubs. In the gym, or outdoors in fine weather, you’d find your most learned .savants, strol ling like Socrates, ready to> question and answer those who really wanted to learn something. In designated classrooms, there’d be instruction in poker and bridge and chess and darts and sex, There’d be • no over-crowding in the cafe teria, I guarantee. I haven’t quite figured1 out the afternoon program yet. Personally, I’d send them all home at one .o’clock. But their parents deserve some thing more than that horror, after paying all those taxes. We’d probably spend the af ternoon at sports, drama, music, painting, sculpture, pure math .and science. Those who weren’t interest ed in these things would have dormitories provided, where- they could stretch out for an hour or two in order to be fresh when their favor- . ite TV programs came on. at home. This is just a rough out line, -but I think it’s high time someone came up with a blueprint that reflects our age, rather than the Vic torian. Victoria College Grad From Our Early Files 75 Years Ago THE CL11NTON NEW ERA 'Thur§dy.y, Jane 5, 1891 J. Brunsdon & Son have re ceived a car of toe celebrated Patterson binders and mowers this week 'and .are doing a rushing trade in implements as well as .doing a4 large 'business in wagons and buggies. Dr. James' Butch ard left home on Tuesday last to visit Mends 'and acquaitances in London, Detroit and Cincinnati, previous to his departure’ to Nanken, China as a medical missionary., He proposes re maining seven years. The results Of spring profes sional examinations for 1891, of the Ontario College of Phys icians land Surgeons was an nounced on Saturday. The fob lowing from this county, were among those whQ1 passed their final examinations': F, J. Ewing and C. McKay, Seaforth; R, T. Gibson and J. W. S'haw, Clin ton; R. Knetchel, Brussels and Geo. McKenzie, Wingham. 0 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, June 3, 1926 Sorite. people were .rudely dis- turbed at eleven o’clock yesterr day forenoon When ‘the whistle fit the Knitting Company’s plant sent oqit its luncheon call, The engineer evidently felt hungry and looked crooked at his wat.ch. Nobody had a Jaoli- d'ay as a result, however. Mr, Harry Bell 0'f the Uni versity of Western Ontario, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nelsen Ball. He left Tuesday to .join a geological ‘surveying party to the .Red 'Lake district, and will be absent most of the summer. . A .citizen remarked to 'the News-Recahd this morning tha/t on his .‘asking Why the town flag was not flying today, the King’s birthday, he was inform ed that it could not be hoisted because of some defect in the pole. The flag pole has been out of commission for some time, indeed, last year the same ex cuse was given. Why not have it repaired? 15 Years Ago 0LINTQN NEWS-IIECORD Thursday, May 31, 1951 Miss Ruth Wilson, daughter of Rev. land Mrs. C. Wilson; Miss ’Lisbeth Sloman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sloman; and Miss Margaret Colquhoun, daughter of Mir. and 'Mrs, E. W. Colquhoun; all of Clinton, all graduated from Western Uni versity with first class honours, Robert Allan, Brucefield, who scored 2,670 points to capture first place in the Humin County Seed and Livestock Judging Competitions won a trip to Chicago, Bob has been promin ent in Junior Farmers activities for several years. Bruce Glenn has been suc cessful in obtaining degree ours. Mrs, really days. Last Friday, at the mon ster bingo in Clinton Lions Arena, she won a special prize of $150. g 'his BSA with second clasis hon.- Ed. Dick, Ci-omarty, is wearing a simile toes'e It’s No & THERE ARE times when putting out a newspaper is a frustrating and ex hausting job (but there Is always some one else having a worse time. Take the case of the newsman who moved to. a frontier town (in Colorado, unpacked his hand-set type and started his first issue. This is the way it came out: “We begin the publication of the Roccay Mountain Cyclone with some phew diphphiculties in the way. The type phounder phrom whom we bought our outphit phor this paper phaled to supply us with any ephs or cays, arid it will be phour or phive weexs bephore we can get any. The mistaque was not phound out till a day or 2 ago. We have ordered ' the missing letters and will have to get along without them until they come. We don’t lique the looxs ov this variety ov spelling any better than our readers, but mistax will happen in the best regu lated phamilies, and iph the ph’s and the c’s and the x’s and the q’s hold out, we shall ceep (sound the c hard) the Cyclone whirling aphter a phasion till the shorts arrive. ' It’s no joque to us — it’s a serious aphair.” PETER MIDDLETON ERA «r Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW Established 1865 0 A e* Authorized at Second Amalgamated THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Established 1881 Published Every Thursday At The Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario, Canada Population 3,475 A. LAURIE COLQUHOUN, PUBLISHER ffi . is Slgntd contribution! to fhlt pub licit ion, «r« th* opinions of th* writart only, and do not n*c*narily express the views of the newspaper. Class Mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage In Cash SUBSCRIPTION RAJES: Payable In advance — Canada and Great Britain: a year; United States, and Foreign: 6.50, Single Copies: 11 Cents. Sion of Mir. land Mrs. Doug las Middleton, formerly of Clinton, has successfully com pleted a four-year honour bourse in English and. French -at Victoria, College, Univer sity o»f Toronto. In order to accept a teaching assistant ship to teach oral English (and study in France, he is turning down a $1,500.00 Pro vince of Ontario grant to do post-graduate work in Ont- arid. The French Govern ment Chose 20 applicants from Canada, four of whom are from the University of Toronto. CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, June 8, 1911 Mr. Leacock, a hydro-electric engineer has been in Seaforth this week laying out the light and power line and toe trans former station for hydro power. A. M. To-dd, late of the Gode rich Star, who is now'removing to Toronto to engage in a printing busiiness on Adelaide St., was last Friday evening presented witih a gold-head'ed cane and an illuminated ad dress, signed by Mayor Camer on on behalf* of the town coun cil. John L. Brodie and W. PI. Thompson of London, England, accompanied by A. '-J. King of Toronto, who arrived in Gode rich yesterday, as representa tives of toe Salt King Co., the wealthy English, concern which proposes to establish a mam moth plant at Goderich for toe manufacture of salt. , ■ Health Tips from . - the CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION / JS 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, June 5, 1941 Patriotic Duty: — There will soon be several 'hundred men working on the new construct ion project at the Air School, two miles south of Clinton and accommoidlations. are going to be scarce. Citizens of Clinton, who ,are willing to give accommoda tion to these workmen are ask ed to communicate with the Pigott Construction Co. The public are invited to at tend the Nurses’ Graduation to be held tonight in Ont. St. United Church at 8 o’clock. Graduating nurses are, Jean Christian Herd, Anna Marie Vincent, Beaulah Meita Woods and Agnes Christine Grainger. At a regular session of the Clinton town .council it was decided to prohibit the use of a popcorn, machine on Sundays. .The operator of a restaurant here has one of the machines outside and left it in operation on Sunday. He was advised! to move 'it inside for Sunday. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, May 31, 1956 The I-Iurpn s County Court House on The Square in Gode rich, was officially opened on Tuesday afternoon by Pr'emiei’ 0’f Ontario, Leslie Frosit, jointly with Chief Justice J. C. McRuer of toe Supreme Court o>f Ont-\ ario. Miss J-oanne Castle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Castle, Clinton has been awarded toe Board of Governors scholarship at University of Western Ont ario, London, where she placed first in 'toe third year honours course in physical and 'health education. The Prizze-winning Goderich Girls Trumpet Band, which took top -spat in competition at the CNE last year will lead the grand parade to the Clinton Community Park and toe be ginning of the Clinton Spring Show for 1956. -----------o----------- Use Classified Ads. STROKES ■Many strokes can be prevent ed, or reduced in number, when people who experience ap parently trivial symptoms visit their doctor when they pccur, the Canadian Medical Associ ation says. Strokes are often caused by one of three main varieties of disease process. 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The new edition has two main purposes: to provide schol ars with a new text and a new selection of variant read ings which are representative of modern developments; and to provide students and Bible translators with a new tool With which to do- their work more accurately. The new text is not a radical departure: it is a conservative revision in the tradiitfoh of the Westcott-Hort and Nesitle-Aland type of text, both of which have been widely Used for decades. The edition includes 1,400 al ternative readings in foot-notes, each With supporting evidence. A supplementary volume giving the committee’s discussion notes is also being .prepared. Suggested Daily Bible Readings Sunday, June 5: Job 39: 1-18. Mon., June 6; Jeb 39: 19-30. Tues., June 7: Job 40. Wed., June 8: Job 41. Thurs., June 9: Job 42. Frl., June 10: Psalms i. Sat, June 11: Psalms 8. clusion. Patients who 'have thrombosis causing their strokes often have short epi- , sodes of -weakness, dizziness, or difficulty in seeling, or numb ness and tingling in the1 arms or hands. Relief from these transient symptoms' can some times be brought about by the use of blood- thinning agents known as anticoagulants. How ever, these medications' must only be used after proper diag nosis with extreme care,and by physicians familiar' with theiir use. Cerebral haemorrhage (bleed ing into of around, toe brain) is the second: most common cause of.Stroke. There are two var ieties — one related to high blood pressure-, and toe rupture of' a berry-like swelling where toe ‘arteries divide.'. Cerebral haemorrhage 'often can be pre vented by control of high blood ■ pressure before it becomes severe. , ’ Another common, cause is toe release of embolus of small par ticles .into toe circulation, which in turn plugs a brain artery and leads to paralysis'. Embolic strokes usually follow changes in the heart valves brought about by rheumatic heart dis ease. These can sometimes be reduced' in frequency by toe use of blood-thinning agents, which are frequently .used by doctors caring- for patients who have rheumatic heart disease. While strokes; vary greatly in • seriousness, much, can be done to rehabilitate people who have been disabled by them. . Use Classified Ads. For Quick Results RECEPTION and DANCE for Mr. and Mrs. Barry Taylor (nee Pat Evans) Zurich Community Centre Saturday, June 4 DESJARDINE'S ORCHESTRA LUNCH PROVIDED Music Examiner Here On June 10 Douglas Elliott, an examiner of the Royal Conservatory oif Music of Toronto will conduct examinations for the conserva tory in Clinton on Friday, June 10. Mr. Elliott is a leading member of the piiiano, theory and organ faculties of the con servatory. LAKEVIEW CASINO GRAND BEND SATURDAY. JUNE 4th "THE CHOSEN FEW" CHILD PORTRAITS JERVIS STUDIO Phone 482-7006 Young and versatile! Ken. 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