HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1966-11-10, Page 2Page 2-r-Clinton News-Record—-Thurs,, N.OY* 10, 1964
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Off and Running
IT WOULD seem thEit Clintonians ideas — small perhaps — were advanc
ed for consideration, Things like sports
events and fashion shows may be small
potatoes in some communities, but right
now in this town, they mean Clinton
people are thinking and planning and
organizing. That is the main thing.
Something else is impressive. En
thusiasm is running high as pur towns
folk begin to sense the potential of Cen
tennial Year and what it could mean to
Clinton business, prestige, morale and
spirit; Huron County’s future; Ontario’s ‘
outlook; Canada’s impression on the
world. ,
. With the first day of Centennial
Year less than two months off; Clin
tonians have a late start —"but not
too late to take part in Canada’s 100th
have. to be prodded maybe even
shamed before they will put their
shoulders to the wheel and push. Once
the -push is underway, however, Clin
tonians will work -hard for success.
It took a scolding from a repre
sentative of the Ontario Centennial
Planning Branch of the Department of
Tourism and Information, three weeks
ago to get the Clinton “push” going.
At last Thursday’s Centennial plan
ning meeting, 58 persons • representing
28 different organizations in Clinton
were on hand to initiate plans for Cen
tennial year, 1967—a marked improve
ment over the 14 souls who attended
the initial planning meeting three weeks
earlier,I It was a lively group, too. Several birthday party.
The Poppy... The Flower of Remembrance
ON NOVEMBER 11th, Canadians
all across the country will stop, and re
member the men who were killed in
wars. There will be parades to memor
ials in some 2,000 cities, towns and
villages. Then everybody will stand in
silence as they remember the more than
104,000 brave Canadians who were
killed.
That is why November the 11th is.
called Remembrance Day.
On that day everybody wears a
poppy, a reminder of the blood-red flow
er which grew in -the fields where many
of these men died. Much of the fighting
was done in a place called Flanders.
This was during the war of 1914-1918.
Every spring, the soldiers fighting in
the trenches noticed -the red flowers
blooming on the battlegrounds. And as
more and more of their friends were'
killed, the soldiers noticed that the pop
pies bloomed over the graves.
When the war was over and when
the soldiers came home, • they still
thought of all their friends who were
buried in Flanders. Each time they
thought of the graves, they thought of
poppies which grew around the -graves.
Then the men* who came back from the
war decided that they would wear a
poppy each year to sho-w that they still
remembered their friends.
November the 11th was the day
on which the fighting stopped in 1918.
The men who had been in the war pick
ed that day each year to wear a poppy.
Other people who -had not been in the
war, but who loved the soldiers who
■had been killed, also wanted to show
that they remembered the dead. So
-they also wore a poppy.
First Poppies
There were not enough real pop
pies to go around. Then some of the'
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men who were wounded, and couldn’t
work at other jobs, began to make pop
pies out of cloth. That is why today
everybody wears a poppy which is not
a real flower but which reminds us of
the flowers which grew over the graves
of the men who died.
For many years after the first war,
children stood with their parents on
Remembrance Day. 'Everybody was
silent, and everybody wore a poppy and
they all thought hard about the men
who were killed.
By the time many of the children
grew up, there was another war. The
boys who ■ were now young men went
to war. Many of them went to the same
places as the men they used to remem
ber. In the fighting in those places, a
lot of the young men died.
When the second war was over,
more people than ever wanted to wear
a poppy: now there were more dead
soldiers than ever to remember. There
were also sailors and airmen. All of
these 'people went to war to protect
Canada. \ They went to war to protect
the people who were in Canada then,
and also the people who would be born
in the future — people like yourselves.
They died so that you could enjoy
-all the good things -in your life. They
died so that your home would be safe,
so that you would be given a chance of
going to school and going -to the church
of your choice. They also died so that
you could make friends with whom
ever you please.
So perhaps you didn’t know those-
men who died in the war. But they
knew you. They wanted you to live in
peace.
Therefore, on Remembrance Day,
when everybody wears a poppy and
stands in silence it is like “thank you”
to those who died for us.
Key Conference
ONE OF the most important agri
cultural conferences in Ontario’s history
was held at Vineland last week and one
of the major topics discussed was the
economic status of the province’s farm
ing community. The program for the
three-day session was varied, but its
main concerns seemed to be centred on
farm income and farm efficiency.
A key recommendation of the con
ference called for the appointment of.a
committee to study ways 'and means to
improve and maintain farm income in
Ontario. Agriculture Minister William
Stewart acted quickly on the proposal
and before the conference ended six per
sons representing farm, government and
consumer organizations had been nam
ed to such a committee. The minister
promised that the full resources of his
department would be at the disposal of
the committee in its operations.
The committee’s job will not merely
be to seek more government subsidy
handouts. Its first task will be to look
into a proposal to base subsidies on
production, subsidies which would re
ward the efficient and productive farm
er. .
The Ontario Federation of Agri
culture, recognizing subsidies as a neces
sary evil, put for|h -the sibsidy-tied-to-
production proposal. Under this plan a
farmer would receive payments on sal
es to give him a reasonable, living stand
ard. The more he produced the more
he would benefit. The federation is
aware that under such a system the
efficient farmers would -flourish while
the inefficient would go out of business.
The -attitude of the federation is that
the farmer is, or should be, willing to
take his chances in a competitive field
and not rely on -government support.
But this should also mean that his re:
ward for efficiency and productivity
should be the same as that tor similar
accomplishments in other industries —
a good standard of living. —Elmira Sig
net.
I,
Gallery
HENRY F. HEALD
OTTAWA—When Tory chief
John Diefenbaker urged his fol
lowers recently to “drop the
disunity within the party,”
Dalton Camp and his support
ers probably replied, ‘'that is
exactly what we are trying to
do ” ■
Whatever other causes there
may be
ranks of
seryative
of John
certainly
seems little likelihood the party
will ever regain a united and
natfi'pnal image as long as Diet
is at the helm. •
Loyal party supporters are
no -doubt chagrined at having
the organization’s dirty linen
so prominently displayed, but
it would. be hard to imagine
any attempt to oust Mr. Dliief-
ennbaker not erupting into a
major pitched battle with, the
inevitable newspaper headlines.
One can admire the courage
of Dalton Camp in putting his
presidency on the block over
the' leadership issue ,and one can
also admire the courage of Ar-
thui’ Maloney in putting 'him
self up as Diefenbaker’s stand-
in. Boltih men have conducted
the kind of gentlemanly and
.rational' campaign that would
never be conducted by the firey
chief himself,
Comments on Mr, Diofenbak-
er heard around Parliament
Hill run the whole gamut from,
"he’s a senile old main” to “the
greatest statesman Canada has
ever produced.” If only Liber
als made1 the first statement
and all the Tories agreed with
the latter there would be no
problem, but such is not the
case.
In fact the most serious di
vision over Diet’s leadership is
within the parliamentary group
itself. Among the 96 MP®' who
share the official • opposition
benches there are many who
have already rejected his lead-,
ership.
How many? Well, when Ter
ry Nugent, an ardent Diefen
baker supporter,' launched his
attack on Defence Minister
Hellyer only 47 of his colleag
ues supported him in the vote.
During the recent emergency
session, a Diefenbaker amend
ment, that would have scuttled
the bill to end the rail s-truke,
caused an open break in Tory
ranks. Three Conservative MPs
voted against the amendment
and a. lot more abstained.
Under Mr, Diefenbaker’s cap
taincy the Tory ship has steer
ed' a course guided almost en
tirely by political expedients.
His opponents feel it is time
the party started navigating by
policies ancl principles.
Yet it is Diet’s skill as a
swashbuckling pirate captain
that complicates 'the problem of
choosing a successor. Ontario’s
Premier Robarts, tor example,
would be in trouble at home if
he stepped forward as a candi
date and was cut down by one
of the Chief’s last minute man-
oeuvers.
x The timing of this latest re
volt will also work in Mr. Dief
enbaker’s favor. Sentiment will
persuade a lot of the confer
ence delegates that it would be
uncharitable to dump “this
great Canadian” on the eve of
the centennial celebrations.
It will take a strong, imag
inative personality ito usurp the
Diefenbaker throne at this
stage of the game and so far
there isn’t one in sight,
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For Quick Results
for disunity in 'the
the Progressive Con-
Party the leadership
George Diefentaker
tops the list. There
Clinton Girl Wins
Huron County
Scholarship
Ngmcy Louise Ql'clb, diau-gilj-
fe-i’ of Mr. and Mrs. W. B,
Old?, 99 Princess Bi, E.f Clin
ton, has b.een giyvarded th? Hur
on -County Scholarship by the
stfh'Otarishi'p coimnafiititee o-f tlhe
Faculty of Arts and Science,
University of Western Ontario,
it was announced by Dr. J, k.
Watson, Registrar,
The scholarship is based .on
academic performance in 1965-
66,
From Our Early Files . . .
tised the very latest Authorized
text books, etc, tor Publip and
Model Schools and .Collegiate
Institute.
Geo. Christopher, .of -the base
line, has disposed of his 50
acre farm to Mr. Isaac Rap-
son, for the sum of $3,000,
75 Years Ago
THE CLINTON NEW FRA
Thursday, November J3, 1891
P. W, Hayward Is malting
ten. cutters for Beiatity’s livery.
In last week’s issue there
Were nearly 13 closely packed
■columns of home and township
news* an amount not yet equal
led by any other paper. It just
go-t a new dress of type, and
its price' .has been reduced to
$1,00 a year.
W. H, Siimpsion store adver-
THERE WAS a time-when the’shin-
plaster- —■( the 25*ceint P'apbr note —
served a definite purpose; particularly
where mailing was concerned. Today,
however, a doting aunt or Uricld would
n’t dfdaih of sticking' bine in A-birthdAy
or Christmas1 card, even if they were
available. But that’s creeping inflation
for -
ri^dVdVfe^ss^ ^ih'isfe
Shari) cdiild Jdojfhr worse -thkh heed the
suggestiori bf’ Ftaiik Howard that: the
shinplaster be'brought back in h ftesh
centeilniai year issUh* iShttib bf them
niight linger abound and prove a bit of
Shinplastcrs
a nuisance commercially. Tens of
thousands^ however, would be snapped
up* and Retired from circulation as sou
venirs of Expo and the centennial year
itself J; It might be a very profitable
operation.* .
In Addition,, two generations have
gro\vri. up4 since the last shinplaster was
issued^ O^MatiVely few of those gen
erations have ever seen the curiosities.
Moreover it‘*is just possible some prac- ■
tical Use fdr! the paper money might,
develop, though offhand, for the mo
ment, we redlly can’t think of a single
one. —The Montreal Star.
Rcv. G. G. Burton on -SMUT*
day, November 15, when Wil-
la Frances' Potted’ became- the
bbid? of Thomas Wilm-er Rajtiv
well, both of Goderich Town
ship.
Mrs. Chas, Trickett and P,
W, Hitchings, who have been
spending the past two weeks
with Mrs. G. E. Hall and Miss
Evelyn, have returned to Till-
soriburg.
55 Years o
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, Novepiher 16, 1911
Guy Bros, Minstrels appeared
in the opera house here on
Tuesday night with a full 'at
tendance.
New improvements -this year
on the 2nd Concession Stanley
Township, two new houses were
built by contractor John Hoff
man, Dashwood. One owned by
E. Mo-raison and the other by
W. H, Collins,
G. L. Walker sold his livery
business to Hiram Hill,
Taking Charge of church ser
vices at Wesley Churchz this
Sunday will be John Hartley,
Principal of Clinton Public
School and in the evening W,
H. Johnston, Principal of Kip
pen Public School.
A horse attached to -a demo
crat belonging to Neil McGreg
or, Brucefield, made a dash to
liberty on Tuesday afternoon.
This being the third runaway
in town inside of a Week.
15 Years
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, November 15, 1951
Principal E, A, Fines re--
po-rts total enrolment at CDCI
during October was 292 while
at the Clinton Public. School,
principal G,‘ H. Jefferson re
ports, with exception of the
Kindergarten, the total -was
307. ' ■
Mr. -and Mrs. Ken Brandon
were honoured at their wedding'
reception held in Bayfield. Town
Hall on Friday evening. Irwin’s
Or’chestra supplied the music
for the dance.
Miss Eileen Gfliddbn, A'RCT.
received her diploma during
the graduation exercises inf the
R-oyal Conservatory ■ of Muisic,
in the Convocation Hall, Tor
onto. Guests included Mr. and
Mrs. D. E. Gliiddon, also Miss
Marie Glid'don of London.
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SUGAR
AND SPICE I
by Bill Smiley
Where’
25th Hdur?
This week, I have a lot of
(things on my mind, but none
of them is worthy of the bril
liant, penetrating essay in
which you wrap up your gar
bage.
Therefore, the column will
be siome thing -of an Irish
stew. Or a Hungarian ragoiut.
Or better still, a French pot
pourri. That’s •pronounced pa
pery, Speaking of which, con
gratulations to all my Dogan
friends. They can now eiat
meat on Friday. And destroy
the market for fish. And
miss all those wonderful food
values in fish ancl turn into
meat-stuffed, red-faced birds
like u-s Protestants.
Speaking of which, one of
our churches hacl a “folk”
service last Sunday. The
ocassion was a conference in
town ‘ of 300 Christian boys.
We billeted two of them. For
Kim’s sake, I ordered, from
the billeting chairman, two-
six-foot, handsome chaps
with rich fathers.
What we got were-, well,
twio- boys. A short, chubby,
cooky one; and a long, skin
ny, -Shy one. Neither was
handsome. Neither -had a.
wealthy father.
But the- -service Sunday was
first-rate. Yo-u should have
seen the look on the gray
headed elders as they belted
out, “Go Tell It On The ’
Mountain,” With the electric
guitars whanging away. The
other accompaniment, a sort
of dull rumble, was the bones
of John Calvin, Martin Lu-
' th er and John Wesley, twirl
ing in their graves.
And the red-beaded kid,
darting from organ prelude
to dhio'ir Loft to electric gui
tar. back to organ tor the
offering, back to choir, 'back
to guitar, was our boy,
ier than the proverbial
armed paper-hanger.
Speaking of church
minds me that I’m. supposed
to be guest preacher at -our
church this Sunday. It's -Lay
man’s Sunday. Very inspiring.
All the laymen get up and
bellow hymns off-key. Those
who can’t even sing off-key
read the scripture. And what
ever is left over preaches the
sermon.
Haven’t quite chosen my
text yet, but there are still
several days to go, and I’ve
narrowed it down to- three-
or four. My first idea was,
“Frailty, Thy name is Wo
man.” Then I decided that
“Something Is Rotten in the
State of Denmark” might be
safer. By the way, these are
bus-
one-
re-
from the Bible, I ihoipe.
There’s always the
standard, of course, “The De
mon Rum.’’ But I don’/t tfhink
I could -stand the sniickers.
And my brother brought me
a jug of Newfoundland
‘screech’. -recently, from the
Kingdom of Jo-ey.
Perhaps I’ll settle tor the
theme, “The New Morality.”
If only I can find out, before
Sunday morning, what -it is,
I'll be in business. As near
as I can discover, it’s doing*
whatever you want, and get
ting -away with it.
Speaking of whiicih, I feel
both wicked and guilty, be
cause I don’t answer letters'.
Here’s part of one from a
weekly editor belaboring me
for defending today’s kids.
He says, “Give me one of
the depression .kids, with a
Grade Eight collection o-f
myths, fables, a feiw. tacts, a
smattering of -the three R's,
and the seat out of his pants.
The last is most important.
The kid would be desperate
, fox' a job -and would learn
more spelling and grammar
-in th-re-e months fro-m an old
comp book than yo-ur gold-
plate system teaches in the
years from six to 16.”
Mrs. C. Braham, of Brud'er-
heim. Alta., writes telling me
what to do about my re
frigerator that stank when
the power was. turned off and
the meat went rotten. Thank
you, dear lady, but you’re al
most as lousy a correspon
dent as I. Your, letter is
dated August 10. I received it
this webk.
And how do you like this
chap from a publishing house
asking when I’m going to
write a book? All I can say
is 'that if he wants to take
over for a week, I’ll -produce
a book. All he has to d'o is:
write a column, a sermon and
a letter to the town council
from 'the library board; try
to keep my wife from going
arouhd' the bend; help my
daughter with her “welak”
subjects: Latin, French,
Math, Science, Gcorgnaphy;
read and criticize- 89 essays;
■set two exams; rake the leav
es that have fallen from 14
trees; throw into the cellar
a pile of .fire-wood that’s been
rotting in the rain for two
weeks; answer ial'1 my letters;
prepare lesson plans and
teach all day; drive my
daughter 200 miles for .a mu
sic lesson on Saturday; and
■help with the dishes.
I’m game if he is. A book
would be child’s1 play.
old
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, November 11, 1926
United in marriage by the
Rev. B. Snell on Wednesday,
November 3, Vera Irene- Shob-
brook became the bride of
Percy John Gi'bbings. They Will
reside on the 7th concession
of Hu-llett.
The offering -at the anniver
sary services at Brucefield Un
ited Chiirch was $800.
Miss Ward spent the
end holiday with Miss
at Essex.
The ' West-End Beef
will 'hold their annual business
meeting next Monday evening
at the home of Tho-s. Living
stone, Hullett.
week-
Stone
Ring
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday. November 13, 1941
T. Percy Passmore, of Us-
barne township was elected
warden of Huron County, suc
cessor to the late James Leiper.
United in. marriage by the,
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10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, November 15, 1956
Scout Kenneth Magee receiv
ed his 50th badge for his
Scouting work, and’ Scouters
here feel it may be a record
for all of Canada.
R. S. Roddick, guest speaker
at Trinity Club meeting at Bay
field took as his topic “Nova
Scotia” where he. went the fall
of 1939.
The pastor of Knox Presby
terian Church, Bayfield, the
Rev, Donald Macdonald and
imide were honoured on Friday
evening.
Clinton Citizens’ Horticultur
al Society will sponsor a “Best
Decorated House” contest at
Christmas time. Prizes to be
awarded are 325, $15 and $10.
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ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
Wishes to sincerely thank the citizens
of Clintons Adastral Park and others
who so generously contributed to the
Legion’s Poppy Fund on the canvass
last Thursday
The Canadian Legion’s Poppy Trust Fund is the answer for
thousands of war widows, orphans and disabled veterans.
ROBERT BURKE, Chairman, Poppy Committee
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NEW FALL PERMANENT
Our Special Prices Good Until
Saturday, November 19
Every Fall we have a Sale on
Helene Curtis' Finest Permanents.
CREAM OIL PERM. Oft 7£
REG. $10.00 ..................... FOR ONLY WVaf V
CREAM OIL PERM. CO CA
REG. $12.50 ..................... FOR ONLY WViVV
Price includes Cut, Style, Shampoo and Set
to ■ r:V-...A 1
cause what we do must be done over
great distances for small numbers of
people. ' : •
Nonetheless, hard aS it is* to follow
the testimony before -the committee,
one is left with the feeling that some
thing is wrong. *; -1
The chains have presented itlfeif
case with skill aiid one would be stupid
to dismiss -the arguments they'haVe put
forward as mere excuses. They. are
not. All housewives, it is -true also, do
not shop with price in mind. A study
by -the Consumer Association has shown
that a family of four can be fed for far
less — $18,62 compared with $34.87
by buying wisely instead of, to quote
Time Magazine, plucking straight from
the shelves. ” .A; ' ■■ ..
But why hre tood : Hsifig^ait
three per cent a yeB* iri Canada, if . the
economist is right, and only 1.5 ^r cent
in the United States? This is the tyM
of question (the committee has hot foiind
the answer to, and which must be an
swered if the doubts are to be resolvbd.
Ohe thing we do know. The sta
tistical services in this country are a
poof match for those ih the united
THERE IS nothing simple, as Cana
dians are discovering from testimony
given the senate-commons committee
on the cost of living, about the price of
a Can of beans. The cost builds steadily
ail the way up the road from the farm
er who planted the crop to the gldssy
labelled package sitting in the super
market. But is the price out of line,
and who is the pirate? We frankly
don’t know.
One -thing the testimony does seem
to be showing. For some reason or oth
er we pay considerably more in Canada
•than they do in the United States for
products wihich one might expect to be
roughly in line, though -the reason given
by* one expert lack of coinpetition —
seems hard t6 credit. Still, the commit
tee Was given chapter and verse on some
costs.
Why should the cheapest flour in
Canada coSt 15 cents a five-pound bag
more than in the United States? Why
d6es a jar of Sanka coffee cost 96 cents
in Washington and $1.17 in Ottawa?
Explain the cake ihix at 39 Cents in
Washington and 47 Cents in Ottawa?
Explain, if you can, a net profit Of one
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Published Every Thursday At The Heart
Of HUrbri County
Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Population 3,475
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bf th* wrltoH only, and do not nticaiiadly •xpr«n
tha vlawi of tha newipapar.
CUm Mall, foit.Office Department, Ottawa, aitd for Payment of Foeta^e In'Oath
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and 2.3 cents • by its Canadian Sub
sidiary.
There may be good and sufficient
reasons. Perhaps it is not as simple as
ah economist with the Agricultural Re
search Council of Canada suggested, a
straight question of “high prices and
high profits.” This Country is an ex*
Jiatieura rwuinlnr 4a In
the committee’s hearings are adding to
the record and serving notice of a
watch-keephig operation.
If that does not solve the mystery
of the cost of a Can of beans, at least
it may make those concerned with its
passage to the dining room table aware
that the journey is being made under
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