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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1967-02-02, Page 2Page 2 Clinton News-Record Editorials It’s no different; now than the olden days, And the kids are just the Same, ’ The sun still shines the same old rays, And w|e still have our country lane; It’s just that the days are shorter, Because we move so fast, We haven’t got old Dobbin, Like we did in days of past. » * We used to have the sleigh hill, Ride behind a prancing team, We’d shower behind the lumber mill, And fish by a quiet stream; Play hooky in the springtime, Sneak apples in the fall, Get dizzy, from smoking Punkwood, And played our sandlot ball. There was always our private hideout, Where we’d hide from pirates bold, And on our raft we’d sail far out, ■ To try and find their gold; We’d play cops, and robbers and Indians, And cowboys along with the rest, We had our own little wagon trains, When we helped to settle the West. . Popular Winter Sports Farm l lii- Question So the only difference there is now, Is the speed with which we go, A motor behind the sleigh and plow, Because old Dobbin w>as too slow; We have a nice shiny bathfbpm, ' No longer the sawdust and steam,; No more do the kids play hooky To fish by that quiet stream, The orchards are getting smaller, And they’re too far fjrpm town, , And now with the new fangled sprayer, it’s turned all pur Punkwood brown; ’ The union has taken pur baseball, . And the pirates have long since been Our raft, Indians, cowboys, cops, robbers, And the gold by the foot of our bed. No we have no mere wagon trains going, To help settle the home .in the West, All we have is the Diesel and Boeing, The cars, motorbikes, and the rest; But I wonder which was the nicest, The horse, the punkweed and sleigh, The Indians, cops, robbers and cowboys, Or patching T.V. today. — By “Pinky” Woody - The farm of Ken Tyndall, RR 5, Clinton, is the most popular spot in this area for all outdoor winter sports. Every weekend you can ski, toboggan or operate your snowmobile there. For the convenience of skiers, Mr. Tyndall has over $500 invested in a ski tow. He does not make a charge for the use of his winter playground but a dollar or two would be most Welcome. The farm is located ,a half mile west of the Bayfield Road on the second concession of Stan ley. ' ’ . (Photo by Alan Galbraith) -V We Must Build A World From The From Our Letter To The Editor Clinton library Subscriber If Librarian’s Pay Sufficient Editor, Clinton News-Record. Dear Sir: The sound of many annual meetings and their Centennial projects ‘-are heard to the land at t his time of the year and we understand the Clinton Library Board will be holding theirs Soon, , May this very satisfied (read ing-wise) library subscriber congratulate the board on their wide, well-chosen selection of excellent reading material neat ly displayed to pleasant sur roundings. We undei’stand the number of subscribers is steadily increas ing, Indicating exemplary man agement. But most important to this regard is the overall atmos phere of a library and here we salute Miss Evelyn Hall, the ‘.‘beloved” librarian. Miss Hall belongs to that rare and nigh vanishing species, a public servant, who always “goes the second mile", far be yond the call of duty and does it as if it were indeed a Plea sure! She has that invaluable asset in & librarian, the unerring in stinct to pick the right book or article for each client regard less of age, sex pr condition. How the children's interest in literature has blossomed and flourished under her regime and if there is a sick or.aged person at home, she will take the. time to pick out a book for them, wihich choice invariably pleases. Several citizens remarking on these traits to us during • the past year have voiced then.' doubts as to whether her re muneration is at all commen surate with the services ren dered or does it remain static while all other expenses and salaries rise and rise as a mat ter of course? In this regard, one subscriber also raised the qupsltion of a pension plan for a librarian, ap pointed by a board? We feel that everyone would commend and heartily endorse a clearly warranted increase in salary this Centennial year. Yours sincerely for “FAIR PLAY IN '67” Clinton, Ontario, February 1, 1967. A HUNDRED years is a short time in the life of a nation, as nations go. A single century is seldom long enough to allow the bedrock of ideals and free doms and values to form which will hold it erect. Yet, Canada is a nation beyond. doubt, and it has been scarcely a hund red years in the making. Some will say that its foundations extend much deeper into the past, and this is also true ~ the country and its people began with a rich legacy handed down from others. But Canada had the strength'and resource fulness to build on its inheritance and the vision to hold on to it, and this has made the difference.* " Strength and resourcefulness and vision: these are the essentials. Without them nd nation will go far. They are partly the gift of the land itself, partly derived from the people who inhabit it. A century after its founding, Canada still possesses the land and has found it rich beyond conception. Its people, in increasing . numbers, are strong and resourceful. But their vision is still to be proven? A hundred years from now this generation will be remem bered not for what ft builds for today, but for what it creates for tomorrow. A'birthday is always a notable oc casion, and Canada’s is no exception. To celebrate it, every community will light its own candle, in one form or an other —holding exhibitions, construct ing technology centres, opening concert halls, presenting plays, refurbishing and restoring — enough light to brighten half a continent. It is an occasion which we hope the World will help celebrate, for Canada is not a country alone, and its party should not be a private one. Some of its gifts should be shared, some of its strength and resourcefulness passed on to others, so that the light will not be confined or its brilliance fade. For Canadians must not be satisfied with building a nation. They must seek to build a world. Gallery By HENRY F. HEALD OTTAWA In the House of. Commons these days the major topic of debate has been trans portation. Outside the’ house it has been international finance. Leadership In Research Early Files . . OVER THE years, Canada has shown the way to the world in many aspects of medical research. It was here that insulin, the life-blood of the diabetic, was discovered; it was here that the Salk vaccine for poliomyelitis was developed. We should be proud that we have in Canada, doctors and medical scien tists who can provide the leadership, inspiration and imagination to the world of medicine. Today, many of these men and women are engaged in an all-out fight against heart disease. /They .are fortunate to have at their disposal the facilities of our medical schools which are among the finest in the world. Already much of their effort 1 has been crowned with success. Re search on heart disease in Canada need know?* no bounds, unless it is limited by the lack of funds. During this month, February, the Canadian' Heart Fund is conducting a drive to ensure that the research may . continue uninterrupted. Funds are need ed to.'meet expenses incidental to the work and to maintain the doctors and .medical’ scientists on fellowships. All of us have a vital stake in the fight against heart disease. Our support of the Canadian Heart Fund will help our medical scientists to conquer yet another enemy of mankind. Remembers Give From the Heart — To Help Your Heart! CELEBRATING a 100th birthday is history for 25 blind Canadians. “These people saw Canada growing. They are a living source of information for Canada’s Centennial year,” said' Jack Clements, Field Secretary for The Cana dian National Institute for the Blind, in an interview for White Cane Week sponsored by the CNIB and The Cana dian Council for the Blind. Four blind centenarians who live in B.C., were in their teens when that province joined Confederation in the early 1870’s. Ontario’s ’ eight and Quebec’s five wiere born when the two provinces were one. Four blind resi dents of the Atlantic provinces might have been carried in itheir mother’s arms to see the Fathers of Confederation oh their way to the Charlottetown Confer ence. The four elderly blind settlers of the Prairie provinces probably remem ber herds of buffalo roaming the wilder ness. Arid to two residents of the far north, the gold rush was just yesterday. “It is undoubtedly true,” added the CNIB Field Secretary, “that these people piorifeefed this country wiih> a simple desire to build successful lives, regardless of the hardships, a philosophy which 4 gave courage when ' blindness occurred.” The CNIB representative Went on to illustrate. “One of these blind old- timers lost hfis sight when he was six teen, in 1877, 40 years before the found ing of the CNIB. He went to the On tario School for the Blind, studied piano tuning and was a member of that school's first graduating class. He owned what is thought to be the first Braille watch in Canada as early as 1882. He joined a piano company and later in 1925, started his own business. He wtas 63 then, at an age when most men are looking forward to retirement. Taking an interest in his fellow blind, he served oh CNIB Boards to make sure that the youth of today have the services he was , denied.” “The good life we fenjoy now,” the Field Secretary concluded, “is due to men like these old pioneers with pick, shovel, and yes even piano tuning in struments, who made this country What it is today?’ Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA E«t*bll«hed1865 Amalgamated THE CLINTON NEW8-RtCORD 1924 Eeiabltehed 1881 Published Every Thursday At The Heart v »-■■' Of Huron County i ":r tltoteh, Ontario, Canada PopulationWTS A< LAURIE D6|»Q0HpM ^URLiSHER ,gg ‘ apte gg Sl«Md contrlbirtloM f# Hih paHlaffl«A aHb W toWeM W" tte wrlhH only; *•»”■*•»**ebtoMitertly ' * «Mw» H I- tewteaHft'' ■ •" Two items more vital to Can ada’s future development and well-being would be hard to find. Yet in both cases the de bates have been weighty and complicated with detadl and while they have occupied con siderable space in the press, the layman has been left pretty much in the dark. The two matters are not un related. In both cases the dis cussions become heated and the solutions difficult due to Can ada’s unique position. The hur- ,.dle always looming before Can adian legislators is: How do you reconcile the basic free enter prise approach to life with the need for government controls to preserve national autonomy and to safeguard the less developed regions of a vast and varied country? Canada has an intricate net work of legislation that has been devised over the years in attempts to solve that problem. Freight rates have been frozen or subsidized, tax sharing agree ments have been-worked out and federal grants have been steered here and there to try arid keep opportunities more or less equal for all Canadians. Some of this .legislation has been wrongly inspired by social ist idealists, but it can not all be pushed aside as welfare state paternalism. James S. Rockefeller, presi dent of the First National Oity Bank of New York, seemed genuinely surprised to find that Canada would pass laws to curb foreign ownership of fin ancial institutions. He said no other country revised its bank ing legislation every 10 years and suggested Canada should join the international financial community.' Transport Minister Piokers- ..gill showed nd such surprise when opposition MPs started ‘hacking away at his mammoth, 94-clause transportation policy bill. The pill had been promised more than three years ago, had been redrafted several times and might not be before the House eVen yet had it not been necessary to after Parliament a counterbalance to the unpal atable compulsory arbitration bill that was necessary to end the rail strike last September. The bill leaves the govern ment firmly in the saddle as far as transportation policy is con cerned, but has opened the door to the idea that the Railways should be allowed to set rates and provide services that wtill allow them to operate on a Competitive principle Without the need for government sub sidies. It is oh this poiint that Mr; Pickersgill has had to face- persistent criticism by oppos ition members from the times and the West. It would bd nice to that Canadian financial tutions could hold their own to the international business oom- . inunity without any. government protection. Arid it would be nice to think that free enterprise transportation companies would serve tke heeds of all Canada Withdb’t federal subsidies arid controls.L It was too much to expect to achieve -It lii the first cOri- tury. Unfortunately, with Wal ter Gordori back ill the cabinet, there is not" much ’1 chance ' of getting' an dariy start oh it in .the second century either. Maiii- think Insiti- 75 Years Ago T.IIE HURON NEWS-RECORD Wednesday, February 3, 1892 J, Brunsdon and Son, Londes- boro are getting ready a carload of wagons Which they intend shipping to Mjanitoba about March 1st. John Torrance, reeve of Stanley, whs elected warden and sworn in at the county Parliament of Huron session held at Court House, Goderich, last Tuesday. The carnival at the Clinton Palace Skating Rink, last week, was a success. ** THE CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, February 5, 1892 George H. Cook, dentist, has disposed of his practise to R. Agnew of’ Toronto, who will take possession March 1st. Hullett Township . auditors presented the 1891 financial statement at the council meet ing. It showed the assets of the township were $3,530, the lia bilities were $2,500, leaving a balance of $1,030. Representatives of the Edison Incandescent Electric Light Co,, New York, have been in town for several days. It is their in tention to put lights only in business places and they have contracts already for over two hundred lights. 55 Years Ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, February 1, 1912 Miss Lizzie Ferguson and her friend Miss Herrin of Toronto, are now visiting at the home of her parents. Mr .and Mrs. John Ferguson, Bayfield. A. D. Beaton is offering his grocery business for sale, owing to ill health. Dick Tasker, Clinton’s well- known baseball pitcher, has signed the contract sent him by the Brantford Baseball Club, for 1912. R. Marshall has had the walls of h!is store brightened with “Cap” Cook’s paint brush last week. * .1: CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 1, 1912 W. E. Johnston, Nekoma, North Dakota, wrote a letter to this office in which he states, “I would like to become a sub scriber. I once lived within a few miles of Clihton. A weekly visit through the News-Record will cure me from becoming homesick.” • Peter Cantblon was appointed one of the county council audi tors at their recent meeting. He also has assisted in auditing the town’s accounts for many years. Jacob Taylor has recently sold his house on Ontario Street to Mrs.'Polly Nott. of the Huron Old Boys’ Associ ation was held in Toronto last Wednesday. Huron competitors in a fiddler’ contest were as follows: Th os. Murdock, repre senting Hensail; George Arm strong, representing' Goderich; Thomas Rand, representing Seaforth; James Gibson,' repre senting Wiingham; and William Collins, representing Clinton. Thomas Rand, age 69, won the silver cup'while the losers re ceived silver medals. ' 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 3, ’1^27 At a meeting of the Provin cial Cabinet the other day Dudley Holmes of Wingham was appointed Huron Crown Attorney. ' Merton Merner, who is at tending the Technical School at London, ftpent the weekend with his parents in Bayfield. Mrs, William Ratteribury, who has been confined to bed Vrith a broken leg, has been ite* ihbved to the home Of her daughter, Mrs. '■ Ross Scott, ferucefield. Little Miss Lois Farquhar of the Base Line is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. G. M. Far quhar, this week. The 27th annual “At Home” SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Just a Starter 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, January 29, 1942 Kenneth C. Cooke, who has been teller in the Royal Bank here is ‘being transfered to the branch in Stratford on Friday. Kenneth W. Colquhoun, the ledgerkeeper, will act as teller here. The Wartime Prices and Trade Board has issued a regu lation whereby sugar will be rationed to % pounds per person per week arid it is un lawful to purchase more than two weeks’ supply at any one time. Will Holland, Riohlea, .Sask., and Ogle Holland of Regina, Sask., visited with Mir. and Mrs. Mervyn Batkin a few days last week. Miss Marion Gibbings spent the wekend with her parents, and assisted the Ontario Street church choir last Sunday morn ing, singing a duet with Miss E. Wiltse'.- Swimming Pool Fund. In recent years, there has been a great deal of criticism of education in this country, from both outside and inside the system. It doesn’t take a Ph. D. to realize that a whale- of a lot of it is justified. And I speak as a parent, taxpayer, and teacher. Only by frantic efforts and vast infusions of money have we managed to keep our system a mere couple of dec ades behind the times. I know it’s easy to indulge in hindsight. But hotly old jumpin’ Jupiter, surely there could have been a' little fare- - sight somewhere along the line. Look what we have: shortage of buildings, short age of teachers, shortage of just about everything except pupils. And a vast surplus' of them. This didn’t happen overnight. They weren't all born last summer. It was all there 20 years ago, perfectly obvious to anyone who could add and multiply. The only people doing any multiplying were the parents. And the crazy part of it is that we keep urging the kids to stay in schools which •haven’t enough room for the new crop arriving. “Drop-out” ■has- become almost synony mous with “delinquent”. It doesn’t matter whether they ’re doing any work, or learn ing anything, or are just be ing bored silly. They’re told to stay in school until, through sheer old age and the tidal wave pushing from be hind, they get a magic piece of paper that will open a golden door to success. Chiefly blame are par ents. They have my sym pathy. Miany of them remem ber the great- depression. Many‘others honestly believe material security means hap- iness. But far, far too many of' them, delude themselves. They insist that Jack, whip wants nothing more than to get out of school and become useful and happy as a sales man or a ’ poliicemlari, has the makings of a great surgeon, because he has always g'ot more than 60 marks in Science. Or that Jill, a born wife and mother, who wants nothing more than to get married, should struggle through a course in psychol ogy, because she’s always been a first-class baby-sitter. Almost equally to blame are the big industries and ■institutions, from oil compan ies to banks. They are too lazy, or too cheap, or both, to interview young people and hire them on what they are. It’s much easier, and a lot cheaper, just to say, “We don’t want anybody .unless he has at least a Grade 12 cer tificate”, even if all they want him to do is stick square pegs in round holes. Another thing vastly wrong with education is the way it is financed. Let’s take a couple (Continued on page 3)CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, January 31, 1952 Walter John McEwen, 23, Brucefield, died in Victoria Hos pital, London, on Sunday, as a result of a car accident which happened seven days ago. It occurred during a blinding snowstorm near Exeter in which his car struck a cement culvert and nosed into the ditch. Lewis Tebbutit, University of Western Ontario, London, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carman Tebbutt. CDCI trimmed Seaforth High School in three basketball matches. Clinton players are ,as follows: junior boys, K Porter, J. Hartley, G. Tebbutt, J. Howes, A. Mitchell, D. Lad'd, It. Gibbings, T. MacLean, R. Elliott, T. Colquhoun, R. Steepe, T. Jenkins; giris, J. Castle, M. Hunking, L. Garon, B. Tait, K. Sharp, J. Hawkins, D. Hunking, V. Lyon, J. McVittie, O. Fan grad, B. Parke, M. Scri.bbi.ns; senior boys, J. Porter, K. Howes, G. Coleman,. B. Fines, C. Talbot, M. Colquhoun T. Dunn, J. Wil son, R. Elliott, H. Oakes. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thitrsdriy, January 31, 1957 Jim Harrison, sori of Mr. and Mrs.' Peter Hainrison, RR 1, Goderich, has placed third to Ontario SHowtoahship amongst boys and girig shoritog Ayr- shire calVes in Wcstock slhO to 1956. He Will teceiVe $75 plus1 expense-free trip to the annual trieeting of the Ontario Ayrshire Club in Obmwall on February IL ' ■ Clinton Chamber of Com merce now has a membership df ;/■'/....... ‘ At the meeting of the Clinton Branch' of the Canadian L6fgikto, according ’to' 'trrtiiSuror M £.■ Dale, $900 'was rOlited, from blngos hcld; this os ete> maritft5 fbiv' Cito tori> ‘dotomuhity Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY INSURANCE J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 G. B. CLANCY, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone 524-7251 GODERICH R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 " K. W. 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