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Will You Still. Be Around on July 5th?
WHEN THE Dominion-Independ-
' ence Weekend over;; there will be
over 100 Canadians and- 600 Americans
dead in traffic accidents if /the predic-
' tiohs of ■the National Safety Council
are realized.
. , This first of' each year’s Interna
tional holiday weekends, find both Am
ericans and Canadians crowding their
own and each other’s highways in a
happy escape from their,daily tasks
and cares. .
The 1966 result,of these. carefree
excursions ’will,-tin death and’"injuries,
surpass any similar period' heretofore,
a situation which we all are coming to
accept with fatalistic resignation.
' The yearly quarter of which July
•' 1st is the' start of the year’s most haz
ardous period. Last year, according to
records maintained, by a Canadian auto
mobile association and released by. its
public relations director, there were
1,530 persons , killed on Canadian roads
and 44,600 injured in 97,600 reportable
accidents, which is the highest in his
tory. Property damage during the same
three month period amounted to 35
million dollars, or about. $2’ for every
man, woman and child in Canada.
The automobile association warns
that, with more than 10,000, miles pf
. super-highway on the Continent, mpr
torists will have to adjust to meet the
Special hazards of travel . on these
•_ ‘thoroughfares.
v’"' ■. The public relations director ad
vises cruising at normal speed rather
. than-trying to keep up to the posted
limit aS there are many variables which
■" 'enter into the operation of a car at 75
m.p.h. which are absent at 50 m.p.h.
Speed in itself is not the killer. The
prime danger is, in. driving at variance
with existing ■ traffic conditions, ■ ’ Be
courteous to your American guests and remember that many of them are oper-
ating in strange territory; make allow-
. ances for temporary indecisions in their
driving habits'. *
To make sure ■ you’re around on
July 5th, practice the code of the 3'C’s
—, Care, Courtesy and Commonsense, on
July'1-2-3 and 4, and drive defensively
always expecting a wrong move by your
fellow motorists and start for home
early and miss the final hectic hours
of fatigue which lowers reflex-action.
OPTOMETRY
MIDDLETON Rev, E. J,
B. Harrison conducted 'the “Ser
vice of 'tihe Ministration of 'Holy
Baptism to' Children" gn S-t.
Janies’ Anglican Church on
Sunday afternoon,, June 19. ■
The dh'iMresn, wbio reoeiiiygd
this saoranient were: Milton
Alvin Kilgour, son of Mr. and
Mrs.' Gary Kilgour of London
and Darlene Lois Smith, daugh-
ter My. apd Mrs. William
Smith of Clinton.
These are the first grandchil
dren of, Mr, 'and Mbs. John
Smith, RR 3, Clinton apd great
grandchildren of Mrs, Harold
Morrell of Clinton, who was
also, present.
Following the baptisips, a re*
ception and flippy family gath
ering in honor of the occasion
was held at the hojne of Mi*, and Mto, jiplhn Smith, with ov<ri
40 present fropi Dorchestej’,
London, Walton and Clinton. .
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Our U.S. Cousins —Slow On The Boil
LONG REGARDED, .by our more
affluent and sophisticated cousins to the
- south as hewers of wood arid drawers of
Water, we Canadians at least know- how
to bring Our water to la quick boil when
. we get it up to the house. Not so the
Americans.
Curious as it may seem, only the
enlightened few in the appliance-con
scious U.S. have an electric kettle and
many are unaware that they exist. As
in grandma’s day, common U.S. practise
is .to place a saucepan of water on the
stove-—-and wait. ■ \
A major Canadian, manufacturer of
electric kettles bears this out. ‘.‘Many,
Americans see' the; electric kettle for the
first time when vacationing in Canada,”
he says. “We. know this from letters
we receive asking .'where/they can be
obtained. Others who bought kettles
years ago want to know where they can
get cord replacements.” .
The phenomenon is party explained
by drinking habits. Canadians, no doubt
■ reflecting the. British influence, drink
five, times more tea, per capita, than
Americans (Englishmen drink 20 times
as much). And for some reason, Ameri
cans tend to equate electric kettles with
tea; ignoring their potential for instant
coffee making and other tasks where a
quick boil is to foe desired.
Because few, if any, U.S. manufac
turers are in the kettle business, the
market is largely supplied from Canada.
.Limited at the present time, it seems
certain to grow <as our American neigh
bors catch on to a good thing.
■ Instaut tea, a comparative newcom
er, might just turn the trick. Represent
ing an estimated two-and-a-half per
cent of Canada’s tea .consumption, its
use is growing faster in the U.S., where
it originated. ' - ‘ .
The sole Canadian instant tea manu
facturer, incidentally, reports a jolly
good! build-up in exports to Britain.
Tea or kettles, then, Canada seems
to be; turning a nice little profit in
carrying coals to Newdastle. -—-“Talking
Points” An Optario Hydro Publica-
tiori.
Clinton News-Record
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40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, July 1, 1926
Those three cent stamps will
have bo be saved for parcels.
Two cents will carry your letter
today, and in the future. '
The ■ Entrance Examination
was held Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, forty-one cand/ild-
ates from'Clinton public school
and sixteen, from the surround
ing rural schools wrote upon it.
Principals Teeter and Geodes
presided.'
The council have had a- ce
ment platform built in the
square upon which the cannon
has been mounted and the two
machine guns, relics of the late
war, ■ have been. placed on
either side and pointed. This is
a decided improvement not only
in appearanae but in safety, as
the old wooden mount of the
cannon was quite shaky-.-
75 Years Ago
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, . July» 3, 1891
Rev. Mr. Newtori left on
■ Monday morning for a trip to
Europe (accompanied by Rev.,
Mr. Hudgins of Seaforth. - The
pulpit of the former will 'be
occupied during, his absence1 by
Rev. Mr. Stinger, Mi’. Newton’S
intention is • to boon Bayfield
among ihlis English friends,
many of Whom he says, could
live in opulence and ease in
this beautiful little village.
George Frances Train ex
pects to arrive in New York,
July 4, making
the world in 55
the CPR,route.1
W.. Spindlier
the circuit of
days. He took
who1 recently..
With wife and family left Clin
ton for Duluth, US, has again
returned to town, thinking that
the maple "its fairer 'than the
lily, and the beaver more plea
sant than a shrieking eagle. He
found a great many men out of
employment and the cost of
• living high.
55 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, July 6, 1911 >
Dominion Day met with the
usual great celebration in Bay-,
field and the crowd was, larger
than that of last year’if such
Could !be possible as it is Said
over one thousand horses drove
to the picnic ground's.
With the arrival of Thurs
day of this week, The New Era
celebrates its- 46th birthday in
good health and heart.
The street < watering - hy-laW
was 'read and passed which
makes provisions for two-thirds
of the ratepayers petitioning
the council can 'have a street
Watered- at the rate of $1.25 a.
ydar.
We would advise owners of
autos to get a copy of the act
governing their running on the
■ public highway as the penalties
for ,infringtaerits are ' VW
isevere.
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15 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, June 28, 1951
Blyth Community . Centre
Board has raised the rental of
the grounds from ten per cent
of the" gate- receipts to a flat
rate of $25 plus $5 for use of
the floodlights.
Induction services for Rev.
.William Maines w!iil be .held
Friday evening, June 29, at
8:30. A social hour and recep
tion will follow .the. service.
Three cadets from Clinton
District Collegiate Institute
will participate in army cadet
training at Camp Ipperwash,
Lake Huron, this year. They
are: cadets; Sgt. Kenneth
Wood. Londesboro, Gary Coop
er, Clinton, and Howard Tait,
Blyth.
Members of the congregation
of Brucefield United Church
gathered on Monday evening to
honour Rev. and Mrs. E. R.
Stanway -and family prior to
their departure to London.
Bonanza of Beauty at Bayfield
Mrs. Audrey Bellchamber, the News-Record’s Bayfield correspondent, cap
tured this (beautiful scene of the.Bayfield River flats last weekend, taken from
the bridge on Highway 21. The river was crowded with f|shern^n all weekend,
SUGAR
AM) SPICE
By Bill Smiley
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INSURANCE
Oh, These College Boys!
May you never have a child
who is goiiig to college. And
if you have one, please ac
cept , my heart-felt condol
ences.
, Ours is a male. I don’t
know' what college giiris are
like (any more, he said sadly)
but I suspect they’re just as
much of a cross to bear, for
their parents.
I 'had 'to get out of bed this
morning at 6 a.m. to g'ot rid
of ours, but it was .worth, it.
After he’d climbed an the
bus, in a flurry of last-minute
kisses and admonitions, I
must confess to' a distinct
lifting of the spirits.
It isn’t that we don’t love
our son. We have the deepest
affection for him, and show it
in the usual Stupid ways.
That is, we worry about his
welfare; wd puff with pride
when he does something well;
we spend hours trying to fig-
' ure out what is best for him;'
and we put up with murder
from him- Typical, normal
parents.
And it isn’t that he’s a de
linquent. Although there are
times when I’ve been tempted s
to look up the exact defin
ition of that word.
No, he’s really quite a de
cent, average college student.
He’s generous, idealistic and
perfectly, good-natured, if you
don’t cross him. He is reason
ably poliite — to everyone but
His family. He is thoughtful
with old people, and children
— until they bore him. He.
can work steadily for .12
• hours at something he likes'
doing. Like ■ sleeping. He
would give you the Shirt off
/his back; and tis completely
night, but collapses when the
lawn is half-mowed.
You’d wonder 'why we’d
have this sense of relief when
self-centred. He can dance all
he leaves. There’s lots of fun
when, he’s around the house..
He plays guitar and sings,
• plays piano well, plays mouth,
organ, :is full of beans.
" When he’s around the
house. Ay, there’s the rub.
He has just 'spent three
weeks “at home.” This in
cludes a couple of days Visit-
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. ing his, grandparents, a week '
off hitch-hiking to Montreal
and back, three diays with a
friend at the latter’s' cottage,
■■and a day with another friend
in the city. /
But it’s been nice to have
'him home.
And he’s been a great help
to me. He mowed one-third
of the lawn one day; dug
four feet of a 60-foot border
another, 'and' washed the car
another (at the coin-wash).
I’m not trying ‘ to imply
(that the boy is bone-lazy. It’s
just that he’s too busy. When •
ihe is' home, he usually gets to
bed an hour, sometimes two,
before I get up at 6:30. When
I- get home for lunch, about
1:30, he is just ■ coming to.
By 2:30, it’s too hot’ to mow
the grass, but just right for
itihe beach.
Honesty compells me to
admit that he did set a new
record this time. He got in at
3:30 one morning, and was.
just struggling downstairs for
breakfast at 5:30 p.m., when
■ this accomplices of the night
before arrived to .pick him up
for a date they’d made for 7
p.m. Even they were a bit
startled.
Oh well, youth and! all that
jazz. I guess.- Anyway, he’s
off to his summer job, work
ing on a cruise boat on the
west coast. Got a free rail
pass from the company.
He started figuring out his
expenses for the trip out. A
health for three nights; meals
in the diner for three days;
perhaps a couple of nights in
. a Vancouver hotel in case his
boat wasn’t in, plus meals for
tiiose'.two days. My jaw drop
ped gradually but steadily
during <tihis recital.
He was pretty badly shak
en up when I told him he
would be renting 'a pillow for
25 cents and sleeping in his
iseat, would be eating ham
sandwiches wherever the
■tr*ain stopped long enough,
and would stay at the YMCA
.when he got there.
'“We corppromised on $50.
My-wiife and I were talking
it over. “It seems odd,” she
said, “that we’re forking out
$50 so he can get to a job, so
that he can save money, so
that it won’t cost us so much
next year.” I agreed.
Anyway our vacation plans
for the summer are made. A
week ago, the old girl stated
flatly that the only1 trip we
could afford this summer was
a week camping in a! govern- '
ment camp, with a borrowed
tent.
Ten minutes after he’d left,
she informed me that we
were making a trip to the
west coast, and taking a
cruise on Hugh’s boat.
Local Optometrist
Home From Indiana
John E. Lomgstaff, local op
tometrist, has recently, return
ed from Bloomington, Indiana,
where he attended a post-grad
uate course at the University of
Indiana. Dr. J. Pierce, Ph.D.,
lectured on 'the problems of
binocular vision and reicent dis,:
coveries Of methods to alleviate
malfunction of this visual sys
tem.
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Insures:
• Town Dwellings
• All Class of Farm Property
• Summer Cottages .
• Churches, Schools, Halls
Extended coverage (wind,
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25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, July 3, 1941.
It is estimated that there
are about thirty men in tire
advance party of-the RAF al
ready stationed at the Clinton
Air School, although it is only
in the process' of being built.
This 'advance party is’ headed
by Squadron Deader Wheatly,
and the Medical Officer ills
Flight Lieut. McReary, An RC-
AF security guard is also sta
tioned at the school.
T.‘ R. Thompson Superior
Store Weekend Specials: Sult
ana, raisihS, 2 lbs., 25c; grape
fruit, 5 for 25c; bbeitS, bunch,
5c; Oxydol, large* pkg., 22c;
Sunlight soap, 4 bars, 23c.
, Knitters are urgently needed.
Take along your knitting Oil
your Summer vacation. The
Auxiliary gratefully acknow
ledges one quilt top donated by
Mrs. Reginald Shipley.
Outstanding ■S'd.ien'co films
from 70'countries ■will be shown
at Expo in a program Called
“Inright 67’.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
■Thursday, June 28, 1956
Joseph Muaphy, ohiairman of
:the Clinton Public School
Board presented George H. Jef
ferson, principal of Clinton.
Public School- wiith a token of
appreciation from the Board, on
the occasion of a testimonial
dinner held last Thursday even
ing, honouring Mi'. Jefferson
who is retiring this week from,
his twenty-nine year old posit
ion as principal.
Hullett field day Giri cham
pions were: -Dianne Gardner,
senior; June Dolmage, inter
mediate; Shirley Riley, junior,’
and Bonnie Snell, juvenile;
Boy* champions were: Neil Dol
mage', senior; Gordon Hoggart,
intermediate; Frank Tahas, jun-
iox- and Alan Caldwell, juvenile.
On Friday afternoon, June 22
"Ting” the London' Free Press
cartoonist, Meria Tingley, spoke
to the pupils of Bayfield Pub
lic School and. showed them, a
plastic cast of “lulce worm”
which appears in evoiy'cai'toon
with him.
For Holidays Ahead
For Fashionable Weddings —
Yoii can still be cool and well dressed
See our rack of Better Presses
For Camping and
Beachwear
Check our racks of
Slims — Shells
Shorts — Sleeveless
Blouses
Skirts -- Sweaters
Swimwear
Cool Sleepwear
Is Plentiful
Shorty Gowns
Cotton Pyjamas
Capri Pyjartiais
bust^f Coats
Every tick^ll help you
Royal Bank termPlah loan, for boat,
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Foreign exchange facilities, to convert
your money into U.S. funds ot other
foreign currencies.
Buy At Home Before You Go
There is no need to pay the "Resort Prices"
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