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page 2-—Clinton News-Record—-Thurs., Sept* 8, 1966
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Double Stop Now For School Buses
WHEN YOU see a school bus with
red lights flashing — STOP.
Whether you are approaching the
bus from the front or overtaking it from
the rear, the flashing red lights mean
you must' stop. You must stay stopped
as long as the red lights are flashing,
For some time now, motorists have
been required■ to stop BEHIND the
school bus when it is stopped on the
highway with red signal lights flashing
on thq back, A new law, effective Sep
tember 1, requires motorists approach-
• ing from the front to stop as well.
This law applies to all motorists ex
cept those approaching from the front?
on a highway with separate roadways.
“The purpose of this new law, stop
ping traffic in both directions, is to aL
low children to cross the highway after
they get off the bus;” said Honourable
Irwin Haskett, Ontario’s Minister of
Transport, °I urge all parents and
teachers to instruct children to act with
caution when getting on or off a school
bus, The law says motorists must stop, .
but (Children should still make doubly
sure they have done so before crossing
the road.”
Drivers who fail to stop when re
quire^ to do so are liable to fines of up
to $50 for the first offence, $100 for a
second offence and $200 for a third of
fence. There is also a penalty of four
demerit points for each offence,
To Canada’s One Hundredth Birthday
IN 1867 our founding Fathers laid,
the foundation for true Canadianism,
based on acting fair and square with
ourselves and others, in a rebirth of
freedom, and inheriting a land stretch
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific
shores, with the mighty St. Lawrence,
the great lakes, highways, byways, and
railways for the transportation of our
agricultural products and the world’s
mineral needs.
We are a nation of many people
and, many things, with the world’s blood
stream flowing in our veins, we are
given a voice in the management of
our own affairs, with the right to pen
a letter of protest or encouragement to
our politicians in our public life, or to
yell with a mighty voice in our sports
stadiums.
We are a nation conceived in free
dom, and God willing, prepared to spend
the rest of our days possessed of the
courage to keep ourselves free, endowed
with a maternal care for the woes of
others, a beacon and a beam of world
hope.
Our children’s joy and play, in
unison with the light hearted songs
of the birds proclaim to the world a
Canadian land persistently smiling, a
call for the children of men to come
rest upon her bosom and find here the
needed materials to live and to build,
create great cities and commerce.
As free agents, we are given an
understanding of man’s destiny on
earth and we shall play our part upon
this stage .with free speech, freedom to
assemble, to petition, and to develop our
individual enterprise, ours is the safe
way whereby man works in partnership
with nature for the fulfillment of each
in manifesting the Divine will, to bring
to fertility the holy'ground on which
we stand, can be worked and make to
use in concecrating it to feeding of the
world, with freedom and opportunity
for every man to find and build his
( own place in the Divine scheme of
things.
To build our nation we must think,
speak and participate, proclaiming to
the world that we love it here and that
next to God there is no better dwelling,
because here greatness lives, grows, and
thrives, looking to us to pick it up and
embrace it.
To -retain our economic freedom,
we are prepared to pay the price, to
follow where wisdom leads lest we go
astray, and knowing that (those who
merely sit by the wayside reap but the
fields of destruction.
As our forefathers have shown,
success is won by toil, how great the
price paid by our pioneers, past and pre
sent, for those who screwed up their
courage 'to perseverance and persis
tence. Reward comes only as the result
of one’s def inite individual and co-opera
tive struggle and effort to achieve and
in no way does nature reveal her sec
rets.
'With thoughts only to optimism
we open the avenues of light to walk
the straight path with our position un
shaken.
When our senses grow old and we
have become weakened by the battle of
life, we pray the Father of all to take
us in and that we may then still sing,
“O Canada” and “God Save Our Noble
Queen”. ,
The above tribute to Canada on its
hundredth birthday was submitted by
Philip Verheyden, RR 3, St. Thomas,
Ontario.
Centennial Symbol on 1967 Dollar Bills
THE CANADIAN dollar bill will
have a new look in 1967. Bank of
Canada Governor Louis Rasminsky an
nounced that the Centennial symbol
and a change of wording will highlight
the Centennial currency. The -back of
the note will feature an engraving of
the original • Centre Block which was
destroyed by fire in 1916.
The special $1 note will be the only
one to be circulated in 1967 find the
present bill will be re-issued in 1968.
Collectors have not been overlook
ed; ia quantity of notes bearing the ser
ial number 1867/1967 will be made
available to them.
Mail orders for the collector’s note
are now being accepted by the Bank,
for delivery (in January 1967. A nom
inal charge of 35 cents will be made on
all orders to cover the cost of the bill
and postage and the sum must be in
cluded with applications.
Letter To The Editor
Clintonians Urged To Show Off
Their Nice Flowers And Streets
About two hundred people
passed in to look at the flow
ers in the Council Chamber and
about 190 of them said “Ooh”
or "Aah”. One gentleman
handed in an envelope marked
Anonymous ahd did not give
his name1 nor accept a Member
ship card so
of thanking
Four others
we have no way
•him for his $5.
dropped in their
bit of silver, plus a dollar for
membership, plus an extra bill
for “the cause” and judges
pondered a full twenty-five
minutes over a red gladiOla to
decide if it should be awarded
“Best Glad of the Show Tick
et”. Winner of the Best Glad
Award will bo glad to know
that she won after keen com
petition that cost nearly half
an hour of the Judge's Time.
The best flowers were not at
the Show. Some people like
Mrs. Ball on King put theirs
out Whore he who runs may
read but far too many citizens
hide their light under a bushel
where only thelir friends and
other elect of God may see.
Some woman at the corner of
William and Townsend has a
trimmed lawn that cows, dogs
and Similar people would nat
urally use as a foot path. In
stead of Stringing a wire thiat
would trip cowis, dogs and
similar Citizens in the dark, or
putting up a curt ‘Keep Off the
Grass’ sign to show that -this is
a free country, she has built
her own memorial . . . three
decorated posts duly measured
on the square to make an angle
that encloses, a canna ot a simi
lar flower and some bits of foil
age. Brookville guests paused
at a stop Sign, admired the
flowers and asked whose house.
Clinton, replied, “Some woman
that sings”.
Brookville remarked “One
could assume that!”
Clinton’s Public Relations Of
ficer should be fired or better
still, boiled in oil. All during
the summer, Dept, of High
ways estimates that about
eighty-five thousand visitors
passed through the town on
highway 4, enroute to Wiarton
and Owen Sound. Instead of de
touring the whole eighty-five
8thousand around to Highway
where at least there is a mod
ern smooth drag-strip through
town, we detoured1 them past
the five municipal dumps below
the CNR depot, damaged their
shock absorbers, offended their
sen Sibil ities before they reached
Hattie Burton’s, garden and' left
them with impression that Clin
ton is a good place to pass
through and Londesborough,
Blytih, Belgrave and Wingham
profitted thereby.
If guests oall on you as over-'
flows from Seaforth’s hundred
thousand Plowing Match visit-
oirs'in October, plelase take half
an hour to show them our best
prettiest
yoil can
bounded
Victoria
dresses and our
homes.
In one half hour
Show them the block
by Victoria Terracei,
Street and Gordon. You can
show them a twenty-by~twienty
foot garden beside a trailer in
Mrs. Becker’s Trailer Camp, a
terrace behind a whole line of
hoitstes on Townsend East, a
bouse on Spencer Street, a gar-
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ERA Amalgamated THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
1924 Estab fished 1881
Published Every Thursday At The Heart
Of Htirdn Cbunty
Clinton, Ontario, Canada ,
Population 3,475
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THE CLINTON NEW
Established 1865
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A sleek 60-foot, two-masited
sailing schooner christened
“Tiki” met with near disasit-
ter Sunday fallowing a week
end cruise to Port Sanilac,
Michigan.
Tiki’s crew was forced to
switch to t'he vessel’s 100-'h.p.
diesel engine when high winds
"tore almost all of her 1,900
square feet of sail to shreds.
Mountainous waves at the
mouth of Bayfield Harbour
prevented Tiki from berthing
at her home port and she
put into Goderich.
A special feature in Satur
day’s edition of The Stratford
Beacon-Herald reported that
Tiki’s six owners, Rob Gor
don and Gary Bannister,
Stratford, Charles Wright,
Kitchener, Dick Peiever and
Michael Evans, London and
Bruce MacDonald, Goderich,
had plans to add “25 feet to
the' craft's two masts and nig
her like the famed bluenose
schooners, then sail ter to
Expo ’67”.
The same story noted that
Tiki will be about 21 years
of age next yqar and "ready
for some form of coming out”.
It is believed Tiki was a work
vessel until refitted and re
built as a pleasure craft and
painted a striking jcit. black
trimmed with white.
Capable of sleeping 10 per
sons in three cabins, Tiki can
(Photo by Audrey Bellchamber)
carry enough food, fuel and
fresh' water for an 800-anile
cruise. The ship was purch
ased by the six “sailors” in
Midland and sailed under
‘them command to Goderich, a
distance of 250 miles.
Rumour in Bayfield has it
that (the Tiki came to Bay-
field from England, but very
few folk believe it. However,
the owners may have visions
of a trip over the bounding
main to foreign .shores.
As Chuck Wright .told the
Beacon-Herald, “You never
can tell.' A fellow might go
out for a pack of cigarettes
and come back with salt all
over the sails.”
From Our Early Files . . .
’"one to be operated on the OPR_Agriculture’s
in Northern Ontario, and the.................
other on the CNR, for the use
of Children of settlers who are
outside the range of rural
schools proper. The teacher
chosen for the oar which Will
be operated on the CNR is Mr.
Fred Slomian of Clinton.
Rev. E. O. Forde, for some
time pastor of the Clinton and
Auburn Baptist Churches, leav
ing here to take the pastorate
of tire Beverley Street Baptist
.Church, Toronto-, has resigned
his charge and has accepted a
charge in Calgary.
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75 Years Ago
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, Septembei* JI, 1891
Rev Mr. Newton returned
last week from. an extended
trip in England. Mr. Netwton
was in the great metropolis of
London for about a week,
where he had the privilege of
seeing Her Mlajesty Queen Vic
toria and of being within arm's
reach of ter.
The ailumlinous blaze of tor
ches on the lawn of oiur post
master, on Wednesday evening
last was the foundation for a
cry of 'fire’, but 'it was soon
discovered to be a fashionable
croquet parly given the friends
of the family.
Some people wonder how it
is that Wingham is increasing
in population, while other
towns are decreasing, but lit is
quite reasonable. The railway
facilities and manufacturing in
dustries awe the cause of its
progress and not because we
are any brighter or better
looking people than they are
anywhere else.
25 Years o
o
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, September 14, 1911
The new industry which has
been' established in Goderich for
the manufacture of patent grain
doors is getting 'into running
shape. Four or five carloads of
lumber have arrived from
Huntsville and four carloads of
iron have been secured from
Pittsburg.
Many of our citizens are in
stalling the electric lights in
their homos.
Thanksgiving Day will prob
ably be Set for Monday, Oct
ober 30th but no official action
Will be itaken till after the
election.
Miany of our citizens and
those in the surrounding town
ships went to Stratford last
Friday to hear Sir Wilfred
Laurier and the other speakers.
Everyone Was satisfied.
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, September 11, 1941
Old 'friends’ of Mr. Ernest H.
Cooper Will be interested to
know that he is now acting as
Production Adviser to the Gov
ernment. of Northern Ireland.
Until recently he had been as
sociated! wlith Lord Beaverbrook
in Airplane production.
Attendance at th;e Clinton
Public School according to Mir.
G. H. Jefferson, principal, has
increased slightly over that of
last year. At present there are
218 students registered.
Weekend Specials as adver-
. tised by looal merchants': Fry’s
Cocoa, Ys lb. tin, 19.c; Toilet
Tissue, 3 rolls, 19c; Honey,
Pure White, Cudmore or Scrib-
bins Brand, 4 lb., 60c; Light
Bulbs, 25, 40, 60, 100 watt, ea.
20c.
15 Years
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, September 13, 1951
Huron County Federation of
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SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-REGORD
Thursday, September 9, 1926
Miss Louise Beaton as assist
ing. Miss Ward in the School
of Commerce, in the absence
of Miss ‘Storie who has had to’
remain at home Oh account of
the Illness of her father.
The Department of Education
annual scholar
ship has been awarded to' James
Anderson, RR 4, Brussels. He
is a .son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Anderson.
The day when the Snells of
Hullett go out of prize-winning
sheep still seems a long way
off .... Showing 26 Leicestea's
at the Canadian National Exhi
bition, Toronto, last week, wins
totalled 24, including champion
ewe, champion ram and pen of
lambs. They were fitted by
Richlard Snell, the youngest
the clan. Congratulations!
I
Don’t ask me what I’m do
ing in a hotel room in Cal
gary, writing this on a rent
ed typewriter. The best-laid
plans of men with stubborn
wives gang aft agley. We
should be at home right now,
but get my wife and daugh
ter into a posh, hotel and the
only way to get them out is
to call the management and
tell them you have no money,
Travel is supposed to be
broadening. And it is. In the
first plaice, you’re sitting a-
round on your tail most of
the time — in planes, trains,
buses and hotel rooms. Sec
ondly, besides the lack of ex
ercise, you eat too much and
too often. Between the two,
travel is definitely broaden
ing.
Travel is also exhilarating,
expensive and exhausting.
The best part is starting out
on the trip. There’s the ex
citement of anticipation: new
scenes, new faces, new ex
pediences. You’re feeling first-
rate. All your clothes are
clean and fresh and pressed.
You have every cent of a-
valilable. cash on your hip.
The worst part is the tail
end of it. The anticipation
has turned to satiation. You
’re feeling awful, whether
it’s constipation or piles or
dire rear or just utterly ■
bushed1. Every rag you own is
■.soiled and crumpled. And you
■are not only flat broke but
you have signed1 a couple of
Cheques that are guaranteed
pure India rubber.
, We.’ve seen a fair chunk of
the second largest country in
■the world, in the last few
days. Jet liner to Vancouver.
Back by train through the
Rookies to Edmonton. Day-
liiner (ugh!) to Calgary. To
morrow off to Banff all day,
back to catch the jet and into;
Toronto airport in the dawn’s
early light, after a 22-hour
day and a couple of thousand
miles. Yes, even the bour
geois are getting around these
days.
Now, I know there’s noth
ing quite so dull as hearing
about somebody else’s holiday
trip. S'o I won’t bore you with
a resume of ours. Except in
'the next two or three col
umns. Just a few general im
pressions.
I’m not sure Lake Superior
■ is still there, as we were
above Cloud when we flew
over where it was supposed
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to be. Nice cloud though.
The praMes awe very wide,
Also long. But don't expect a
sea of waving wheat, like in
the novels. From 33,000 feet,
it’s the same old patchwork
quilt as elsewhere. Further-,
more, those of us who don't’
live there have been getting
a bum steer for years. There
isn’t any water out there, but
when you look down, they’re
crawling wlith lakes.
The Rockies? Very rocky.
Also high. Lots of high rocks
there.*
No. what made me gasp
Was the thought of the early
bards. First, the explorers like
McKenzie and Thompson,
who fought and starved their
way through that massive1,
■menacing wall 200 year’s ago,
with a sack of pemmican, a
few Indians and a canoe.
How their lips must curl,
those early birds, as they look
down and .see us rolling through in Hen hours, and
'hear us complaining about
the lack of space an our com
partment, the lack of variety
in our meals, and the slow
service in the bar.
West coast? Very coast
like. Good deail of shoreline.
And water.
Chief attraction, of course,
including magnificent moun-
tains, gorgeous gardens and
salubrious sea-air, was har
assed Hugh, son and heir. ■
Met his boat, with great
excitement. As luck would
have it, in fact, as luck al
ways has it, we couldn’t have
met him on a worse day.
Normally, he bias1 ten hours
off. But this week, he was
changing from the day shift
to night, and had to work
a double shift, so he had
■three hours off. His mother’s
face fell a foot.
Working 16 hours a day, he
had a tWitdh like an old
fightei’ pilot. But it hadn’t
impaired his appetite, I not
iced, when I was paying the
bill for dinner. He left With
a big grin and one of my best
shirts.
Well, here we are, running
out of space, and I haven’t
even begun to tell you about
how Kim fell in love with the
lifeguard in Edmonton, or
how my wife fell asleep on
all the sight-seeing tours or
how I fell into the lap of a
nun When the train was
swaying in the Rockies. Oh,
well, at least I haven’t made
you look at colored slides.
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10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, September 13, 1956
The dieath of Billy Bishop,
Canada’s fighter ace of the
First World War was the cause
of a cancellation at RCAF
Station Clinton yesterday of a
musical contest. Full RCAF
honours1 will attend the fun
eral in Toronto tomorrow.
Wilfred Jetrvlis, Clinton, who
is1 a regular alttend'ant at the.
Appreciation Day draws, Went
home richer by 8231.41 follow
ing the -draw of his 50 percent
coupon.
On Tuesday of last week for
the first time in many years,
the old school bell in Bayfield
did not summon the students
back from tiheiiir long vacation.
Instead the electric bell in the
new school rang for the1 com
mencement of classes.
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