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By S. J. K.
We read thus week that,
newspaper serving a community
far from any large cities re
ports that four representatives
of the Unemplyoment Insurance
Commission appeared in ' 'the
local school to instruct the
pupils, grade pine and up, on
thieur .rights under the Unem
ployment Insurance Act.
» The four were quite naturally
Welcomed With open arms, con
tinues the report, half because
classes were legitimately “cut”
to attend, the lecture and half
.because “pupils who were ex
pecting to get out 'into the
working world in the not dis
tant future were very glad' to
learn that they didn’t have to
Work so long as they establish
ed through unemployment in
surance the means to live with
out workingi'L
The report' further concluded
that Ottawa is spending money
Unnecessarily to teach prospec
tive employees sdmetMng they
Will / learn soon enough, We
agree it does seem incredible
that it. would, require four gov
ernment officials to
one could have done
been necessary —
wasn't. Or was it?
•■’1 , (* * ’ *
Perhaps the average person
is too stupid to understand the
workings of modern government
agencies —- and politics in gen
eral. At least ’■■this*is how it
would seem judging from the
conversations <of taxpayers in
general”’ as ‘.they watch ; with"
amazement the goings-on in
Toronto and Ottawa. .
One of the most recent puz
zles is the government’s joint
committee of the Senate and.
the House of Commons appoint-?
ed to study the high cost of
living? It doesn’t take much in-
teflBgence to figure out that
this inquiry is going to cost
Canadians many- thousands of
dollars — and for what? Truly,
the. committee might fmd the
cost of living is soaring (the
household on a limited, budget
knows that now), might worry
(most of us get the shakes
when we. think of the money we
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THE NEW ERA — 102nd Year
Nd. 2 —The Home Paper With the News CLINTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1967 $5.00 Per Year -
THE HURON1 RECORD
/Colts Win
First Game
*• V , * ' ’ ■ t
TA/s Season
Clinton's First Centennial Baby Gets Gifts
The first baby pf the *1967 Centennial year borii at Clinton Public Hospital
didn’t arrive until Monday, January 2. He is Walter Neil Johnston, the first
child for Mir. and Mrs. Larry Johnston, RR1 Walton. Showjn here Mrs. Johnston
is receiving an engraved silver cup for the baby from Mrs. Robert. Homuth, im
mediate past president of the Women’s Auxiliary to the hospital On the left is
Mrs. Clark, head nurse in the maternity ward. The Johnston baby and two
other babies born on January . 2 will receive silver Centennial coffee spoons
from the Auxiliary; the other Centennial babies were sons bom to Mr. and Mrs.
David Crich, RR 3 Seaforth and Mr. and Mrs. Keith Keys, Albert Street, Clin
ton. 4 * > < ' (News-Record Photo)
Three U.S. Minor Tearns Here
For Minor Hockey Week
’Clinton’s young intermediate
hockey team, the . Colts won
tiredr first game in the regu
lar OHA schedule on Tuesday
evening in Kincardine by a 10-6’
score.
. The Colts may be seen in
action on Friday night this
week at the local arena when
they 'take on the Port Elgin
team.
/■ Clinton went ahead in the
first period, increased their lead
tp 8-4 in the second and each
team scored twice in the third.
Top goal getters for Clinton
,\vere Keith Allen and Raymond
Garon with three goals each.
Scoring for Clinton in the
fjfest period were: Doug Mc
Dougall, Paul Draper, Bud Yeo
and Keith Allen; second period,
Allen, two, Garon and Bruce
Cooper; Garon got both Clin
ton’s goals in the third.
i There were only eight pen
alties in the game, four to each
team. <
Town Receives Approval
To Issue Debentures
For New Community Centre
BfoodDonor
Clinic At
CFB, January 17
A Canadian Red Cross blood
donor team will visit Canadian
Forces Base Clinton bn Tues
day, January 17. The clinic will
be held', in the Base Physical
Training Centre between the
hours of 9 a.m. and 12 a.m.; 1
p.m. and 4 p.m.
The cQlinic will be conducted
by Red Cross nurses and volun
teer workers from London and
the local area. Members of the
Adastral Park Women’s Auxili
ary will assist the nurses and
will serve refreshments to the
donors.
Clinic co-ordinator Flight
Lieutenant Ed. Madioux reports
that 350 donors gave blood at
the last dipic held in .July. It iis
hoped that this total will be
exceeded next Tuesday. Flight
Lieutenant MaiilouX expressed
the wish that service depend
ents make a particular effort
to attend the clinic. He added
that a baby sitting service
would be provided in the Physi
cal Training Centre.
» All service personnel, their
dependents and DND employees
are urged to attend the clinic
and. give “the gift of life”. It
only takes a few. minutes, it’s
painless, and your- donation
could save a life. *.
Clinton’s Minor Hockey Day
will be celebrated as a week
long affair this year — and
will have a Centennial flavour
as well as international. Three
vAmeiicain!-.minor iteaims/;wOT«
guests‘this year. ‘ '•
• At a meeting Sunday after
noon in Clinton Lions Arena—
attended by, 17 .interested par
ents and sportsmen — confir
mation was received' by tele
phone that peewee and bantam
teams were.coming from Clin
ton ; New York and the St..
Sebastian Dad’s Club bantam
team from Dearborn, Michigan.
This is the eighth year that
the ’ St. Sebastian 1 Catholic
School team has participated in
Clinton’s Minor Hockey Day,
held in conjunction with-Minor
Hockey Week in Canada.
’Minor Hockey Week is sche
duled from Saturday, January
21 to Saturday, January 28, by
the Canadian Amateur Hockey
Association.
Clinton’s minor hockey week
will start on Sunday, January
22 when minor-age players and
their parents and team execu-
tives have been invited, to the
11 a.m. church service in Wes
ley-Willis United Church by the
minister, Rev. A. J. Mowatt.
Arena manager Doug And
rews and Clinton Minor Hockey
Day Committee chairman Wil
liam Harris promised to have
;mihor....hockey. . games every
night at the arena from Monday
to Saturday, January 23 to 28.
The big minor hockey week
end offiaiaHly starts on Thurs
day, January 26 when the first
game in the Clinton Kinsmen
Squirt League playoffs get
tinder .way at 7 o’clock. This
will be followed at 8:30 by a
regular league game between
Clinton Legion Midgets and the
Listowel midgets.
The second game of the four-
team Kin Squirt League is on
Saturday morning, January 28
■at 9 o’clock. The final grime is
slated for 4 o’clock that after
noon, with the winners receiv
ing the Hotel Clinton Trophy!
On Friday, January 27, ah
impressive ceremony is planned
at.. 7p.m. when Mayor.Don.
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Huronview
Opening
Postponed
s:. Official opening of
$737,423 addition to Huron
view, south of Clinton, wiill be
delayed five months because
of a shortage of electrical
supplies and millwork.
. Harvey Johnston, Huron
view,, superintendent, said the
opening planned for today, Thursday, January 12 will,
now take place June 11.
Offices' being relocated in
the new section wiill be occu
pied next month, and some
of the 75 beds in the addition
are expected to be occupied
by March, Mr. Johnston said.
.. ;■, Former offices wUll become
Tuck Shop,' a dietician’s
' offjee and a sewing- room.
Letter From Florence
the
At the first meeting of his I "Clinton has a lot to offer to
second year of th'e two year Huron.'
term of' Clinton town council,...Mayor Don Symons did hot | see the continuance of better
have an inaugural address but
mentioned some projects he
would like to have continued or
carried out.
The big news at Monday
evening’s me'eting was that ap
proval had been received from
the Ontario Municipal Board
for the town to issue deben
tures up to $175,000 for the
new community centre and
arena
Town- council is meeting with
the buildiing committee, finance
committee and promotion com
mittee of Clinton and District
Community Centre Centennial
Fund on Monday evening, Jan
uary 16 to work out more plans.
Gordon Hicks, manager of
Shantz & Hicks Construction
Limited, Waterloo Will also ,be
present. The Shantz & Hicks
firm have submitted a , price of
$224,660 to build the arena, in
cluding an auditoium. Council
and the building committee ac
cepted this tender in December
1966.
Mayor’s Wishes
Mayor Symons said he was
justly proud that the citizens
of Clinton allowed us a two-
year term so we can be your
council in Centennial year. It
was at this , point that he an
nounced' .th'e OMB approval of
the community centre as
town's major Centennial
ject.
The mayor commented
No. 4 Highway was reconstruct
ed from the southerly-' town
limits to the old post office; he
said engineering would continue
on the street from that point to
the main 'corner. He would like
to see- more interest- in Huron
County development, and said,
the
pro-
.the
Jan.
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1967 1966
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Mayor Symons would like to
street lighting ,in town and
something done, about side
walks which he admitted were
“not the best”.
He commended the Ministeri
al Association for promoting
two Centennial programs on
January 1 aind 4, and said this
group was * planning future
events.
“Some definite steps must be
made this year bn planning and
zoning”, said the mayor. Th'e
town has completed payments
on the 20-year sewage deben
tures which amounted to about
2% mills last year, but said he
doubted this reduction would
show on the 1967 tax bills. •
Clerk John Livermore read
a letter from the Department
of National Defence re a signed
agree m e n t with Canadian
Forces Base Clinton on fire as
sistance. The mayor said rather
than having a written agree
ment we will go back to our
■original verbal agreement with
the base.. He said he was confi
dent that CFB would co-operate
in any major f.re in Clinton.
(Continued on page 8)
G/C Greenaway
To Address
Group Captain K. R. Green
away, CFB 'Cl’nton’s Ease
Commander will pay -a- brj;f
visit to the United States this
Saturday. He has been invitcl
to address the student body at
Mackinac College, Mich. lie
will appear on the “SpctlOgh
Programme” and will speak m
the Canadian Arctic. This . >
one of many public spaaking
engagements planned by Group
.Captain Greenaway during the
coming year.
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Beef Debate
At Agr. Office
Directors and members of the
Huron County Beef Improve
ment Association and any other
interested beef producers are
invited to attend a debate on
the proposed' legislation of the
Ontario BIA.
Douglas Miles, Huron agri
cultural representative announ
ced this week that Walter
Beath, Oshawa, will take the
positive side of the argument
and' John R. Stewart, RR 6,
Stratihroy will discuss the nega
tive view at the Association’s
annual meeting in the board
rooms of the Department of
Agriculture office in Clinton
on Monday, January 16. .
Mr. Miles expects-an informa
tive discussion awaits- all who
attend.'
New Cleaning Supervisor Receives Certificate
, . CFB Clinton’s new Foreman and Cleaning Services Supervisor, O.C.R. Lit
tleton, recently graduated from the Theory of Office Management Course conduct
ed by' the Civil Service. Group Captain K. R. Greenaway, Clinton’s Base Com-
mander, congratulates Mr Littleton and presents him with his graduation cer
tificate. At left is Fred Millar, Civilian! Personnel Officer* (CFB Clinton Photo)
The following letter was re
ceived by Mrs. Ceriel Van
Damme, 108 Ontario ' Street,
from a friend, 'Miss June
Adams, in Florence, Italy, im
mediately after the recent flood
in that lovely city.
My dear Mrs. VahDamme:
It was so good of you to
write and I’m pleased to be able
to tell you that all is well with
us. The torrent — it really was
.a torrent — was only about 200
yards from our house and by a
miracle stopped there!
Words cannot express what
poor Florence looked like on
the Sth . . . deep mud with all
sorts of debris, and above
everything, overturned cars ail
batered up 'and brown with
naphta, sometimes four and
five, or even more, ail smashed
up together. Two American
friends watched all night >from one of the Hotels as they float
ed' down the Amo. There* are
20,000 lost and damaged.^
Now most of the contents' of
devasted shops (6,000 out ■ of
10,000) is'. piled up .orif the
streets and it’s a pitiful-Sight
to see stacks of men’s "suits
wringing wet, lying in the mud;
handbags; suitcases; gloves;
shoes, etc.
Most of the antiquarians have
been ruined', it Seems, and
chests of drawers, cupboards,
valuable pictures were seen
floating down the streets on
that fateful 4th.
Thousands of - people are
ruined and. ’there 'have been
very many deaths we are told,
though the papers fail to report
thrtn. We heard that 200 were
drowned in one section of the
dity ; alone, but there may be
sarnie exaggeration.
All the animals of the little
zoo in the park were drowned
(except a little dber Which was
found wandering around yester
day .terribly frightened) and 180
race horses, not to mention the
cafe and dogs in the various
dilstricits of town.
The Ponte Vecchio is a ter
ribly sad -sight with most of the
shops completely gutted and the
Lungarno with most of the para
pets down, where part of the
street has not’ collapsed.
Almost "by - a miracle we are
completely out of it. The shops
around up are all .well stocked
with food, we got light back on
the evening of the 5th, we have
never lacked gas, and I was
able to keep the central heating
going, wbich was most essential
as Father- is prone to getting
bronchitis." The only thing we
have been without, and still are
is water but we are fortunate
in being' able to get it in the
Boboli gardens across from us
so a good part of the day dis
spent going over with our buck
ets.
The
dhrnic;
boiled
British
ing anti-typhoid injections and
I had mine two days ago, with
two more to. come.
Poor, poor Florence! I’m
afraid it Will take years before
slhe gets her beauty back 'but
the Florentines are marvelous
and We haven’t, heard a com
plaint from any of them. They
have been working like heroes
getting their places cleaned out
and the shops ready for busin
ess.
(Continued on Page Eight)
dianger now is an, epi-
so’all water has to be
or disinfected' At the
Consulate they are giv-
Lions on
* ’,
Rev. A. J. Mowatt, D.D., who
became minister of Wesley-
Willis United Church last year
after many years in the Royal
Canadian Navy chaplain ser
vice, was guest speaker at Clin
ton Lions Club- annual Bums
night dinner. Rev. Mowatt can
trace his ancestry back to the
Bums family.
The minister said Robbie
Bums, the immortal Scottish
poet is “a fascinating subject”,
and .quoted.'a writer of the era
as z^y85ig’b*?Tfiere was ‘ho 'truer’
gentleman in. Europe than this
plowman’s”'-poet”. Rev. Mowatt
recited many of Bums’ poems
and songs and! commented on
each, praising Burns for what
he had left to humanity. . .
Bums was bom on January
25, 1759 and only lived 37 years
and’seven months. He was bora
into poverty and never did gain
much wealth other than his joy
of life. “Now over 200 years
later we still honour this man”,
said Rev. Mowatt. “His songs
had simplicity and charm,” he
said. Rev. Mowatt also said
Bums was a,brilliant conversa
tionalist. *
The speaker was* introduced
by Lion E. Beecher Menzies
and thanked by vice-president
Maynard Corrie who also- pre
sented 'him with a gift. The
gift was six-inch high Scottish
piper lad dressed' in full piper’s
regalia. Lion A. L. Colquhoun
won a similar prize in a draw
later in the meeting.,
The Scottish haggis was piped
in by Peter Malcolm and Nelson
Howe and drummer Jerry Cox
of Clinton Legion Pipe Band.
Carrying the haggis was Royce
urns
Macaulay and Joe Murphy, led
by chef Maynard Corrie.
E. Beecher* Menzies delivered
Bums’ Address^ to a Iliads'in’
true Gaelic fashion. -
Guests at the dinner inckrckd
Wing Commander Bruce Ra-
fuse, Major . Robert G^avr s,
Flight Lieutenant Gerry Smith
and Flight Lieutenant Bill Pop-
penk of Adastral Park: I-L'ny
Ball, Frank Mutch, William
Mutch, Kenneth C. Cocke an1.1
Rev. R. U. M&cLean. ,
; (Continued?-’on‘-page.u-. 3
Kinefte Club Plans
March of , Dimes
The regular meeting of CMn-
ton Kinettes was held at the
home of the president' Mrs. Bob
Van Riesen, on January 10. Two
guests from Goderich Kinettes
were present. A 'new Kinottc
banner Was on. display, which
had been presented at the lie
men Christmas ladies night.
Mrs. Clarence Denomme of
fered to act as a captain for
the march of dimes. Volunteers
names were taken for ladies to
be marching mothers in the
drive. Plans were made for a
dance to' be held at ithe Legion
Haill on April 7 with the Chris
Black Combo providing the
music. Mrs. David Beattie is
convener and tickets will fee on
sale soon.
Lunch was served by Mm.
Peter Irwin and Mrs. Don Haill.
Entertainment was in the
charge of Mrs. Bill Fink and
Mrs. Bill Fleming. The next
meeting. will be heftd ait th'e
home of Mrs. David Beattie. •’ - ' • .... ......—...... ' ■' , .......—
What Happened To Our Water Source
For V/2 Hours Last Sunday
Clinton’s three Water pumps
stopped drawing water from the
350-foot wells for an hour; and
a half Sijndlay. -
Mayor Donald SymOns said,
“It’s a mystery.” '
He said the pumps draw
water from an underground
stream and the town is noted
for having one. of the best
sources ' of water in Western
Ontario.
hThb thing that worries Us,”
lie said "everything appeared’
to be in good working order.
The pumps were operating, but
there was no water coming up.”
The malfunction was first
noticed about 10:30 but by the
time an engineer arrived from
London, an hour arid a half
later the pumps had resumed
pumping at the normal rate.
Jabez B. Rands, superintend
ent of the Public Utilities Com
mission, sajid the town was
Within two hours of
lack of water.
• The Water supply
adian Forces Bas'e
complete
to Can-
Clinton,
which , is supplied by the town,
Was cut off."The base has an
auxiliary source Used in emer
gencies.
Mr. Bands said he hoped the
trouble was in. the pumps and
the water level had not dropped.
Mayor Symons said, “We
take the underground stream
for granted. No one knows ex
actly where at comes from or
where it goes. I guess we
should know more abotit it.”
He doubted any water re
strictions Would be imposed now
that everything has returned to
normal and the reservoir was'
filled.
A London firm will be en
gaged to inspect the pulmps and
try to determine the cause of
the stop in water flow.
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Clinton lawyer E. Beecher Menzies, right, a past president of the Lions
Club is shown here giving Robbie Burns’ Address to a Haggis at the club’s an
nual Burns night in St. Paul’s Parish Hall, Tuesday evening. Other head table
persons were, from the left, Rev. R, U. MacLean, minister of St. Andrew’s Pres
byterian Church wjho was attending his sixth consecutive Burns dinner in Clifi-
ton; Rev. A. X Mowatt, D.D., who was guest speaker, and Lions President Ken
Mett P/infAi