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Co-operation Deserves Praise ■i
CLINTON Recreational Committee . ticularly pleased to see the shindig sub-
and the local police force should be con- ,
gratulqted for their united- efforts to-
ward the safety of Clinton, cyclists.
Boys and girls who availed them
selves of the opportunity to have their
.bicycles taped with fluorescent strips
might, not really have understood they
were taking steps to insure their owii
safety. They might yery well have seen'
it only as a chance to , “jazz up” the •
faithful old hikes' that carry them on.
a paper route or to school of on a Sat
urday outing. ,
Motorists, though, .must be par-
stance pri bicycles ape otherwise
difficult to see on a cloudy day or at
night. Mothers and fathers too should
Be thankful fpp this added protection
for sons arid, daughters who, like all
children, may at. times-ride carelessly’
and unthinkingly iuto the dimly lit path
of danger..
Co-operation like this between the ;.'
rec committee and the police should toe >
a guideline to other . groups - in' Clinton
and area for similar .‘projects of benefit
tp all. Ideas and manpower combined
can be a magnetic force for good ip any
comriiunity. / / // '
<z . Mystery Solved — Our Thanks
WE NEVER cease to be amazed at
the ntimber of. interesting things there
are to learn, in a-, small town like Clin
ton if one simply has .eyes to see and
appreciate, lips to. question and inquire/
ears to hear arid enjoy, ri ‘ t t. . ‘
: ', In last week’s First Column, we
made mention oif a plant behind the
home of Mrs. A. D. McCartney. We
described this horticultural wonder as
‘‘like a dwarf weeping willow” with
“deep cerise plumes drdoping lazily
to the ground”. . ? /
We have since learned this plant is
known among gardeners as ah amaran
thus and that; oddly enough, Mrs. Mc
Cartney -got her plant through a news-
, . paper! ’ '
M. V. Chesnut, garden editor of the
Victoria, British Columbia, Colonist of-,
fered packages of amaranthus seed to
his readers.. A niece of Mrs. MeCart- •
Dey had a package of the seed serif to
.her arint, ar longtime flower lover.
- Originally from Demnark, amaranthus
plants are easily grown m Canada and
according to ,Mrs. McCartney,' come in
many lovely colours. ' ;
All of this just proves something
we’ve always known: everyone in every
town has sbirie fascinating bit of infor
mation somewhere about the home -that
could be shared with others^ A weekly ■
newspaper is the friendliest place.to do •
it and we are constantly grateful to
people like Mrs. McCartney who .take
the time and the trouble to visit our
• office to tell us the. story, tt-:
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WE ARE beginning to wonder if
the Canadian Indian will every really
become a first rate citizen.
Last week, a man who had suffered
for over a decade because of a mis
carriage of, justice was acquitted and
freed. His. name. was Edward Wau-.
riaush. His home had been in the Mun-
•cey Reserve. He is an Indian. This
final fact was made quite clear in news
stories carried in newspapers and over
radio and television.’ <
Had Mr. Waticaush been any other
Canadian, we would, probably never
have known his racial origin. If the
-Waucaush family had been of Irish or
English or Scottish or Hebrew or Ger
man descent; there would likely have
been no hint of it (unless, we could have
perceived as.much from his name).
\ Maybe Edward Waucaush is proud
of His Indian heritage. ’ We<, would ex
pect that he -is/ just as most Canadians
are proud of their family backgrounds,.,
whether they be. French or. Polish or.
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Dutch. • . ‘ ’
But -there seems still to be a cer
tain stigma lattached ,to those folks who
are Indian/’ They., .are never quite free,
to come and go as. other Canadians and
there is that carefully pronounced dif-'.
ference between Indians, and- the re
mainder of Canadian society. There 'are
still Redskins and Whitemen, the sav
age and the .civilized; 'No one is allowed
to forget it, entirely/
Many people see Indian reserves
as havens Where their Red brothers can
pursue their way of life in peace. Such
kindness, they say, should hardly be re
paid, with bitterness or a . feeling of in
adequacy . . . yet no one would consider
confining all Chinese. Canadians to one
plot of ground or all Italian Canadians
to their own; acr^sage. / •
Canadians cah toai’dly reriiove the »
Negro splinter fronr the eye of the
United States of America until the
beam of prejudice against the Indian
has been Wiped from Canada’s peepers.,.
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STEEL CO. of Canada has acceded
— at any rate! for the time being — to
Finance Minister Sharp’s request that
it rescind its steel price hike. The Fin
ancial Post comments that Stelco’s de
cision to make-this contribution to the
anti-inflation fight is impressive indeed
because its case for higher steel prices
’ was strong and its proposed price ,in-f
creases of 2%-3% very modest. '
Significantly, steel has got where cancel out the projected gain. Stelco
million to be spent in the. years immediately ahead. - s.
Long More the 1960’s are over,
steel will have spent more , than $1 bil
lion on capital projects. Stelco’s earn
ings in recent years have been running
$1.80-$1.90 per share. It was expected
that heightened efficiency and larger
operations would raise these earnings
to $2.10 per share this year.
The wage increases very likely , will
it is by investing very heavily in new has set an outstanding example in the
equipment and plant expansion, The drive to keep prices under control. ’
Financial Post notes . that the four ■________ ___ ____ ___ __ _____ ■ Will the postal workers and the Air
major companies, of the industry spent Canada machinists — and the govem-
$495 million in the five years 1961-65. ment — do as much’, The Financial
They have appropriated another $703 Post asks.
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SUGAR AND SPICE
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BILL SMILEY
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Smiley Takes
His Stand
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A chap called Richard J.
Needham, writes a daily
newspaper column in Tor
onto. ’ Quality and content
range from high-class to hog
wash, but it is eminently
readable.
Needham is not a true hu
morist, but has a'sharp sat
iric Sense, a wild imagination,
and a clear view of the rid-
iculosity of many of our mor
al, social, political and econ
omic fairy tales.
Despite the clear view, he
is an incorrigible romantic,
■a 1966 model Don Quixote ’
who tilts at windmills with a
1 typewriter, forces flowers on
strange ladlies, and thinks of
life and love in capital iet-
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ters. Xie’s, a literary
and a bellowing no-nconform-
‘■1st. Interesting fellow.
But' he lias .a' coupl-b. of
blind spots, tie hates the edu
cational system and has' a
blatant contempt for today's
young people. Sounds psycho
logical, Perhaps he was turf
ed out of ‘school, or dropped
out or had some roitten tea
chers. But he despises the
whole business.
For him, the educational
system is a vast, soul-less,
monolith, whose sole aim is
to crush the spirit of youth,
. ’indoctrinate lit with all the
wrong ideas, and fail to teach
it any thing about 'LIFE. He’s
great oh LIFE.
burglair
For. .him, teachers are a
bunch/-6f dull clods; whose
only desire -is to staff kids
with useless information and
.prorritxtly squelch any.sign of
initiative or creativity.
For h-im, modern students'
are a sorry, lot, unadventur
ous, -.-iharticui'ate, .security-'
minded and . materialistic.
Well, I’m-here to tell bro-
• ther Needham it’s time he
got into the twentieth
tury. His ideas are pure
pycock. ■
Sure, the educational
tern is a vast mono-lwth.
What do you do with 6,000,-
000 kid's? Shove them ditto
the streets to learn about
LIFE ? But it's far from soul
less. On the contrary, it’s
composed of men' and women
With- intelligence,, goodwill
and understanding, who work
tirelessly to improve the
system for; the benefit of the
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Early Files
75 Years Ago
THE CLINTON NEW ERA-
. Friday, October 2, 1891
Huron Central Fair was a
great faeces? Gode-rich
people, many of whom were
pi'esent, freely admitted tiiat
the shQv^ was much 'tiheaid' of
their own, and the Seaforth
people acknowledged $bat theira
would not foe-able to come up
to it ; ■ . ’ •:
A body whs fpund. floating in
the; Bayfield River this past
Week .and according to Dr.
Stanbury, no evidence of font
play was found at the inquest.
No 'identification was made and
no one has been listed as miss
ing. It appears by the clothing
that.the deceased was a man of
rneans., although five cents and
a comb were the' only contents
of pockets. Papers ri the prea
were asked to publish a’ de
scription .in the hope that iden
tification, could be made, ./
55 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, October 5, 1911 .
Wiill* Hunking '-'of Hullett
Township, now sports a, snubber
tired buggy.
The-town o£ St. Marys now
boa-sits that it has a total of 19
automobiles and more on order.
The townfolk must feel that
the auto is here’ to stay, . .. .
Mr. Matheson, formerly of
the New Era, seems to. have
made another .successful effort
in journalism, judging by the
initial numib.er oif his new
paper, the St. Catharines’ Daily
News.
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, September 30 1926
Seems most of the merchants
and , folks from Clinton mad'e
the most of the last half holi
day on Wednesday to.'. go over
to Bayfield’ and take in the Fall
Fair.
Word has been received that
Miss Etta McBrein formerly of
Clinton and now living in
Miami Florida, is safe after the
big storm. She ■ reported that
the water was five feet .deep
around the apartment where
she resides, but it was a strong
ly built structure and did1 not
have much damage. Cleaning
up operations are underway,
but; it Will be a long time be
fore' they are completed,.,! :
It says , here "skinny men,
women and children can help
putting on good healthy pounds
if; they {Will take McCoy’s God1
Liver Extract Tablefts’’. •
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, October. 2, 1941
'.A shower was held at the
home of Mbs. Kenneth Elliott
for.-Miss Valena Elliott. The
bride-1 to be was presented with
many useful kitchen utensils.
Oryal Lobb, wiho has been as
sociated with his father in the
grocery and drygoods store, has
: taken over the operation of the
grocery department. as of Oct
ober 1. It is 15 years Since Clif
ford LObb started business in
Clinton and we predict the
same success tor Orval.
Miss Jean Swan, who has. for
the past three years been head
clerk ' in Pattison's Variety.
Store/resigned her position and
will leave for Toronto on Tuesday. -Afis'S" Swan will seek em
ployment’in Toronto. «-
15 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, October 4, 1951
.. Mrs. Brock Olde of Clinton
has'received word .that, Marie
R'eafdusse, a Grade Nine/, stu
dent of'' Clinton District Coil-
legiate-ttnstitute has beefi suc
cessful in capturing ninth -prize
in the provincial contest for an
essay on "Conservation of Wild
Flowers” conducted by the Ont
ario Horticultural Association.
Miss R’eafausse is a daughter
of WO2 and Mrs. William Rea-
fausse, Adastral Park, RCAF
Station and attended Hugh
Campbell Public School.
Gordon R., I-Iearn, Optome
trist, will be in Clinton at the
heme of Mrs. B. C. Hearn,
Huron Street, on Monday and
Tuesday next, October 8 and 9.
Enrollment at ODCI stand's
at dn all time high of 292, it
was indicated by Principal E»
A. Fines in hiis October report
to the Board on Tuesday even
ing. .
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, October 4, 1956
Bayfield held their Centen
nial Fair this past Week and
Toni Pryde, Exeter, MLA for
Huron cut a white, ribbon and
officially opened the fair un
veiling plaques on the specially
built stone gates at the en
trance to the fair grounds.
Prize winning Cakes were bak
ed by Mrs. R. Dalrymple, Eg-
mondvilie and Mrs. Fred Ar-
kell,- Bayfield.
George Telford, Kitchener,
was at thd home of has patents.
Mi?. And ' Mrs. Fred! Telford,
Bayfield, over the weekend.
One of the Hosts at* Expo "67
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j; The Bluenose II, an exact replica of Canada’s
• ” famous Grand Banks fishing schooner, will be the
host ship for Expo 67’s Visiting Ships program. It
is expected that’some 50 ships from nations around
the world will visit the Exhibition.
DRYING IDEA
Dryt white and coloured goods
separately in an' electric clothes
defer. Synthetic fibres in par
ticular- tend' to pick up hand to
remove color, even from gar
ments labelled "color fast’’.
Wedding Pictures
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The Bible Today
Scripture distribution by
local Christians led by trained
men and women, following q
pattern all over Tjaitl n Awruca,,
is continuing throughout Cob
ombia. During the month ob
June five such aunpaigns were
held, each lasting for a week,,
Local Christians attended
classes on methods of Bible
distribution land, then went ou!t
into their neighbourhood with
the Scriptures. Over 6,000 Were
sold, including 360 Bibles and
Testaments, and a further
12,000 were distributed free of
charge. with, personal introduct
ion,.
As the result of such a distribution campaign four years
ago, a church in Girard'ot, one
of, Columbia’s main towns,
came into being, This church
has., grown rapidly. The congre
gation now meets in a small
Chapel, and has bought a large
plot of land o'n which buiild
a church structure.
FpllpWing- the Penzotti pro
gram, Whii'dh is a method of in
tensively 'training lay men and
women in Scripture distribution
while, working under local
church leadership, is flourish
ing throughout Latin America,
Puerto Rico and the Domini
can Republic attributed much
of the success of their dlstri-
button to Penzotti Institutes,
Argentina saw apathetic believ
ers filled with enthusiasm. Par-
aguay MexigQ, Venezuela .and
W Colombia. ;qire showing M*
fective spiritual programs. The
.distribution pf the -Bible has.
beep calleci ha unifying force of
moral and spiritual strength
among ah groups/’
DRYING PLASTICS
Plastic shower curtains and
draperies may be dried in an
electric clothes 'dryer by using
a very low heat and taking
them out in four or five min
utes,
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