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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1967-02-16, Page 2Page 2 -r- Clinton Hews-Recor<| IMk'llfc- 1967 Clinton. Loses A Good Councillor I THE RESIGNATION of Clinton from public school. The editorial also Town Council’s public works committee reminded parents and motorists to be ‘ ....................... * ' aware of children on our busy and heavy fpaffjq highways. The ptiblic Works chairman will be hard to replace. He was a hard wqrking man during the past two years when Highways 8 and 4 were reconstructed. He has done a good job this winter oh snow removal oh our main streets. Just last week I saw him at midnight on the main corner .r— in zero weather — directing the streets staff in snow re­ moval. He spent many hours -— day and night with the engineers and contractors on the highway reconstruc­ tion the past two summers. His decis­ ions and advice were highly regarded by all. We are sorry to see Mr. Armstrong leave council. But we can’t believe that our editorial Was the deciding factor. There must be other reasons, too, chairman will be a loss to what many .. persons feel is one of the best councils we haye had in years. ■ ■ James Armstrong’s resignation was read, at Monday’s monthly meeting. There were no reasons given in the short letter. But when the mayor spoke his re­ grets of losing the public works chair­ man, he intimated that the resignation W,as brought on by an x editorial in last week’s issue of the News-Record. Your publisher, who attends all council monthly meetings, was deeply hurt by the reason for the resignation, In our opinion,, the editorial was not intended to shake up a well run council. It merely urged council to try and find means to plow, out the side-, , walks on the .highways and strpets which are used by children going to and IT MUST certainly be difficult for citizens in Huron County to fathom _____________________„ ____ _ why an Ontario government study pf area w|ho pulls down the minimum Centralia Canadian Forces Base will cost about $25,000 of their tax dollars. From the point of view of many people who live and<work in the County, $25,000 is an extremely grand sum of money for a survey which will last from three to four months ■— especially since Still, . we can appreciate thoughts of the working man in the' this wage of frorn $1 to $1.25 per hour. He woii; ders why some other men are worth so much more than he is, even though the service he renders is much more strenuous'and backbreaking than that which any member of a study commit­ tee will .ever provide. / at least one firm which had expressed Families living on from $40 to $100 Interest to locate on the site grew tired weekly find it hard to justify ah expen- of Waiting for definite word on whether diture of this amount from the tax or not permission would be granted them. - , We are not prepared to shed any light o.n> the workings of feasibility study committees. We must trust that sound judgment on the part of honest men will determine the correct procedure to be followed and the proper solution to be implemented. .. money they work to accumulate/ Probably there are as many solu­ tions to the Centralia dilemma as there are men and women in x Huron County. If the Ontario Development Corporation can ultimately find the one which will benefit the most people for the greatest length of time, maybe the service is worth $25,000 — or more. Surely They Can’t Be Too Well Plowed ANONYMOUS phone calls are re- properly chastised for what the Mayor ceived at the News-Record office, too. calledJ^,nnJecessary’’ _s2^^_ki?le^nA’ . A caller on Tuesday who didn’t give us’ his name drew our attention to a story Which appeared in the Exeter Times-Advocate last week headed up “Plowed Better Than Most”. • According to the story, Exeter’s streets are plowed better than those' in any other community in Western On­ tario — arid some council members aren’t happy about it. At least one. councillor fears he wfill have to replace some trees which have been badly dam­ aged by the sidewalk snowplow!- , The roads superintendent, who was argued that snow plowing was not an expensive proposition since sizeable grants were available from the depart­ ment of highways for equipment and men to operate it.. Just what is to be done in Exeter ‘ is not known. Our anonymous caller just wanted us to . know that other municipalities have their snowplowing problems, too. His point is wjell taken.' It only goes to prove that you can’t please all of the people some of the time — or even some of the people all of the time. Reflections on Capital Punishment I. . The Board of Evangelism and So­ cial Service of The United Church of , . Canada, presents its views on Capital mrt’ Punishment in an Unchurched Editor­ ial, 'as follows: Capital punishment leaves no mar- are provisions for the correction of er- . gin for the inevitable errors of those ror. All men commit 'errors. AU men who must sit in judgment of. other men. - are^f^lible. All men ^are^ capable, both The basic integrity of our judicial sys- - tem is not strengthened and sustained when we take it presumptuously for granted. However, its fallibility must he questioned. No man.and no group of men can have infallibility of judgment: juries and judges can make mistakes. The Utter finality of capital pun­ ishment1 leaves ho room for the correc­ tion of errors in judgment. In Belgium the death penalty was abolished after it was established that a man had been put to death for a crime he had hot committed. In England there has re­ cently been ah official acknowledge­ ment that in 1953 Timothy Evans Was hanged for a murder he did not com- In all human affairs and enter­ prises allowance must be made for er­ ror. An we must make sure that there J wittingly and unwittingly, of perpe­ trating injustice. But injustice is hot completely be­ yond remedy, some remedy . Unless it is made final by capital punishment. When -capital punishment is the final act of A ptocess in Which untruth has led to injustice, there cannot be any real rectification. ' „ There can be but little consolation for anyone in clearing the name of a man after he has been put to death by due process of law. Capital punishment is fully irrevocable. Once it is done, it cannot be undone; 4. Clinton News-Record ERATHE CLINTON NEW Established 1865 Amalgamated , ■ 1924 Published Every Thursday At The Heart . Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario, Canada Population 3,475 . A. LAURIE COLQUHOUN, PUBLISHER ffi ffi SB SlgnMI eontrlbutloM 10 Wih publicstfoft, ar« Uni op*«k»r^a Sf IM wrlfari ©inly; and da 'not n»c«i»*rttr «tprMi Ifta vhm of tiw nawipnp^r. ■_ GoMon Sinclair chauffeured Betty Kennedy and Pierre Berton as they left CBC’s Studio 4 after taping a show earlier this season, Fred Davis was left to provide his own, less-exalted transportation. This talented quartet meet every Monday for the CBC-TV network panel show, Front Page Challenge now in its 10th year on the network >and/telecast in color. to provide , ______ _ every Monday tor the CBC-TV network panel show, Ten Years of Challenge 3 Col. - 36 Then Yeans of chai.... "I feel complelled to drop you a line to see what, if anything, can be done to have Front Page Challenge kept off TV screens , . " wrote one irate Ontario viewer to a Toronto daily paper in July 1957 .,—? just one month after Front Page , Challenge made its first appearance. And in that same month a television reviewer, echoing the -diisibaste' of ".irate viewer” wrote in his column: "We think disaster is not far off”. < This particular, critic proved slightly inaccurate in his fore­ cast of disaster. 'Front Page Challenge is currently clebrtait- ing its 10th season, and showing no sign of age. Originally planned as a sum­ mer replacement, Challenge iwas first produced by Harvey Hart (now directing Hollywood films) and based on an idea of John Aylesworth's (now one- half of. the successful Pepplartt- Ayleswnrtth writing team in U.S. television). The original panel consisted of Alex Barris (who now writes the show), Scott Young, Toby Robins and Gordon Sinclair, moderated by Win Barron (the voice of Paramount New's). After the' first 13.weeks and a successful debut, Fred Daris became the moderator; Pierre Berton the “end anchor’1; Gor­ don Sinclair and Toiby Robins stayed; and guest panelists were introduced for each show. At the start" of the 1961-62 season Toby left for an acting career in England, and her chair’ was taken by Betty Kennedy ■— thus completing the panel that has remained intact ever since. Sinclair, the sole original panelist, never missed an ap­ pearance until his illness last fall. He is now back in harness, first returning* as a ‘mystery andguest on December 12th thus giving his fellow panelists the chance to ask him all about the money he makes. Front Page Challenge has rarely , made its own headlines, except through the celebrities who have been its guests and have been interviewed by news­ men. The program created' its biggest headlines this season with the appearance of Toronto Mayor Phillip Givens as a guest panelist. His out-going perfor­ mance irked 'bath of his oppon­ ents in the mayoralty contest — but hex lost the election anyway. Over the past 10 yeans Chal­ lenge has, however, gone through various Mais and tri­ bulations with . its guests. Georgina Moore, who was the "body” of Princess Margaret for Annigoni’s .famout portrait, was brought over from England amid all the usual secrecy surround- (COntinued on page 13) CLINTON NEWS-RECORD . Thursday, February 15,1912 / THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Wednesday, February 17,1892 James Fair has • received several, car loads of coal .with which to furnish the power to manufacture the celebrated brands of flour made at his roller mill. Dr. Gunn has taken' into partnership Dr. R. J.. Gibson. Their „offices are on Ontario Street, a few doors east of Albert. . The County Grand Black Chapter, Huron and Perth, will open in Clinton Orange Hall on Wednesday, February, 17 at 2 p.m. for election of officers and general business. i> • * * THE CLINTON NEW ERA Friday, February 19, 1892 Thos. Nott, of the 6th con­ cession, Hullett, intends to erect a brick house this sum­ mer, also John Garrett of the 13th concession is building' a new frame house. T. C. Pickard has purchased the stock of dry goods and gro­ ceries belonging to W. J. Lobb, of the East End, Holmesville. Miss Mary Paisley, Clinton, enjoyed a visit with the Misses Pickard of Porter's HilL From The HENRY F. HEALD THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 AlrttafaMT m Soebftd „„J| ... --------.... ---------. —___ _____ MNkS0RIFlnOH HATH: Payabfo is odvatc* ‘‘—■Cansda «Ml4koaf Brnatas RUNi a ytar; UaHod Ifataa Sad Folatyn: tMM Costed' 11 ''Caste'.'" CUm M«1f. Offlc* o»p<rtm»nt, OH«wi, and Jfor PaymaM of hxtafa fa Cai* OTTAWA Parliament has its lighter moments, albeit some of them come unwittingly on serious matters and sometimes the humor is a fodt cruel. Stanley Knowles, the NDP leader, and Secretary of State Judy LaMarsh .Were the butt of some lighthearted 'banter re­ cently, but they entered into it in good fun, Mr. Knowles rose to ask Miss LaMarsh a question and suggested he would like a ano word "ye^” answer. ”js this a proposal?” some­ one quipped. "Someone else has prior jur­ isdiction ih that field,” Mr. Knowles replied. ; When he eventually managed to ask his question winch per­ tained to the possibility of the government providing free trips to Expo for all Canadians 80 years of age and over, Miss LaMarsh replied: "I’ve been waiting 40 years to say yes to a question, but this isn’t It.” Terry Nugent, the caustic Tory front Edmonton, seldom draws anything but protests when he attacks the govern­ ment, but1 he caused chuckles dll around when he ribbed “the government about its proposed commission to study the status of women. WA ihdrried num soon learns ■(Continued on Pago Five) 55 Years Ago Rev. D. K. Grant will succeed 'the Rev. Dir. Stewart as the new pastor of Willis Church. William Patterson of Hullett, having been appointed an immi­ gration agent, parties in the dis- .trict desirous of obtaining Old Country , help shop/ld make ap­ plication to him. John B. Mustard, Bruccflield. 'has purchased the sawmill and chopper from hlis farther. Miss Florence' Cuninghame leaves today tor a visit of sev­ eral weeks in London, Detroit, .and Jackson, Mich. George Carbert, Hulleftt, sold to McLean Bros., a 1,400-lb. horse for the fine price of $330. # >ii * THE CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, February 15, 1912 John Rathwell has sold has farm to 'his ■-brother Ben. John Rathwell recently purchased the farm belonging to Tam Rath- well of the second concession of Stahley. Department of Education at. Toronto has announced a new schedule of examination fees as follows: High School entrance • $1; junior matriculation $8; partial matriculation $3; honors or scholarship . matriculation $10; entrance to Normal School $5; entrance to faculty of edu­ cation $8, part I or II, $5. James Snell, Hullett Town­ ship, was' elected a director of the 'Leicester class at the an­ nual meeting of the Pure Bred Stock Association held at Tor­ onto. Miss Mabel Vodden is spend­ ing this week with her aunt in Glinton, Mi's. Bert Langford. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 17,1927 , Jahn Gibbings, Clinton’s old­ est native-born citizen passed away Monday. He was the son af Jonas Gibbings, pioneer of this district, hairing purchased the land from the Canada Com­ pany in 1837. He ccnild tell 'in­ teresting stories of the 6arly days in Clinton, when it was still "Vanderburgh’s” or “Rat- teiibury’s Cortiers,’ N. W. Trewartha has sold his house oh Rattenbury Street to J. Dale, and purchasM Dr. Brown’s .cottage on Ontario Street. •............................ R6W and Mrs. F. H. Pauli, Bayfield, attended the funeral of Mto. Pauli's grandfather, the late t A. Drew of London bp Thursday, Miss Cleta Ford and Miss Munro, Alma CJollege, St, Thom­ as, spent the weekend at the, homo of the former here. Use Classified Ads. SUGAR AND SPICE I by Bill Smiley CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 19,1942 ", Mayor A. J; McMurray- has issued a proclamation proclaim­ ing February 20 as a Torch Day in connection with the Second Victory- Loan Drive. Miss Lottie Slornan, Hespeder, was a weekend visffitar at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Siicock. " . ' " Pilot Officer EUwood Camp­ bell of the RCAF at Rockcliffe, and son of Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell of town, is a ntomber of the Ottawa Flyers hockey team. Also on the team are Milt Schmidt, Bobby Bauer and Woody Dumant, the famous Kraut Line, late of the Boston Bruins. The Flyers are favour­ ites for the Allan Cuip this year. 15 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 14,1952 Cart Diehl 1 was re-elected president of the Bayfield. Agri­ cultural Society for 1052. Town clerk and treasurer M. T. Corless has disposed of his residence at Princess and Ship- ley Streets to Harold McPher­ son and has taken ownership of the latter’s house on Orange Street, south of Joseph Street. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Math and daughters Phyllis and Merry, Bayfield, left on Thurs­ day to make their home in Atlanta, Georgia. ’■ Percy Brown attended the RCAFA Convention held last Saturday in Toronto as a dele­ gate representing Clinton Squadron, Huron Wiing 425. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 14,1957 Mrs. John E. Robinson, RR 1, Zurich has been named Head of the English Department at CDCI. G. W. Montgomery has re­ signed, leaving Ontario agricul­ tural representative service after five years in Huron, and has been accepted as agricul­ tural agent in Ontario for the CNR with headquarters in Union Station, Toronto. William Jewiiitit, Leonard Cald­ well, Archie Young, George Brown and George Cowan, Lon- desboro, attended the Good Roads Convention tn Toronto. The. new manse of Wesley- Willis United Church was of­ ficially opened and dedicated yesterday. The $20,000 building on Townsend Street is the home of Rev. and Mrs. Hugh C. Wil­ son. , / , ■ ‘ Jane Batidri has been success­ ful in passing her Grade It Theory ■ examination ’With 96 marks. . ‘ ’ O.K, I know. Enough js ; enough. This is positively the last H a Wlos. of columns pg education. Let me repeat that I’m no expert, just a parent, tax-pay er and together, and equally concerned In eadh role, I've been critical. In some quarters, no dbubt, my ye- nrarks have been considegbd rank heresy, But .there ®s a- positive slide, Letts look at it. Most cheering is the tre­ mendous interest ip educa­ tional improvement both from within and without the sys­ tem. Departments of educa­ tion are spending large a- mounts of time, thought and mopey in an attempt to scramble into the second part of the twentieth century. New universities are spring­ ing up like mushrooms, with fresh and invigorating ideas, vital ypupg teachers. Men and women in "aM walks of life are taking a hard look at what they are getting for their money, and1 what they want, far, their children. As a result of these things, much of the old rigid- ‘ ity and mflexMiity are crum­ bling under heavy 'fire, Changes' are coming. It’s not been any easier to get them started than to make a team of oxen break into a gallop. But 'they’re coming, even though’.they may 'gallop right- through the fence. ■ Thomas Acquinas hasn’t much to say to-the swingers of today, with die New Mor­ ality on one side of them, and nuclear annihilation on the other, In fact, a punning col­ league suggested: "Should Old Acquinas be forgotten?” Egerton Ryerson is not ex­ actly haunting the halls of Ryerson Institute. It’s more ■ likely he's holding his heaven­ ly head in his hands with hor­ ror as he sees the students of that establishment putting away more ale per, capita than their prototypes of Ox­ ford and Cambridge in the days of Elizabeth I. However, we drift. Here are some of the improvements. Some may flap.\But at least the ponderous pachyderm is pulling its feet out of the mud at last. With a resultant, re­ sounding squelch. Teaching machines, televi­ sion, computers will takeover 90 per cent of the dissemina­ tion of knowledge. They’re a ' fact now. The kids of today’s students will have to listen to • boring tales from their par­ ents about the "good old days when there was a teacher in every classroom.” This revolution, in turn,- will eliminate the lock-step - progress of the present, where the swift are held, back, and the slow are scrambling, be­ cause courses are aimed at the average. The kids Will move at their own speed. Learning will be satisfying and exciting. There’ll be strong opposi­ tion to this. There’ll ibe dark wMspgcg that it is un^epio- cratic, tiiat ait will produce an They’ll say it’s bad for the bright phiid because ha wPh’t bp erpptionaiiy ipa- "tyre if, let’s ^ayt hp’s ready for university at 13. BaloneA ' Education isn’t democratic now.1 Not iwhen ope kid has to slug groceries after school to buy decent ■clothes, and a class-mcate is oyt skiing. Not when the first kid hasn’t a chance to gq on because he must help support h’is family, while the second kid goes-> off to. university to find a husband. Better an elite of the mind than an elite of middle-class mopey and morality. ' As for the emotionally ma­ ture hit, that too, is poppy­ cock. Some poople are emotionally mature at 10, others never, Another big change will be curricula. Kids will be taught less facts, more about life. That is, instead of . square roots and dangling participles and the- Peloponnesian Wars, they’ll learn about them­ selves and other people, about beauty and economics, about leisure and love. Annual examinations, which have about as much to do With education as I have to do with Sophia Lioren, will vanish. Schools will have shorter terms, more frequent, holi­ days, but will likely operate year-round. - . .Teaching wall improve, ■ be­ cause .it will become a dyn­ amic, creative profession, at­ tracting the dynamic, creative people. \ I hate to spoil this vision of educational Utopia, but I have ' one more precEction. The1 Whole thing is going to cost more and more and more. That’s the only prophecy I will unconditionally guaran­ tee. ' . In Mocassins Last week the News-Record carried a story entitled “Smoke Signs Read Moes to Minnie”. In it we explained to our read­ ers that Reeve Minnie Noakes of Hensall was in need of moc­ assins to be used in a snow­ shoe challenge race at the Hen­ sail Centennial Winter Carni­ val which was on last week­ end. Mrs. Noakes was pleased to receive four pairs of the authen­ tic Indian-type boots — two from Hensall and two from the Clinton district. The set she finally chose to wear — she does not wish to reveal th.e name of the donor — won her the race .and the title of Champion Snowshoe Racer of Huron County. "It pays to advertise,” says Minnie. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY INSURANCE J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and ‘Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE A REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 JOHN WISE, Salesman Phone 482-7265 G. B. CLANCY, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST — , For Appointment Phone 524-7251 GODERICH R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODERICH 524-7661 I H. C. LAWSON First Mortgage Money Available Lowest Current Interest Rates INSURANCE-REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Phones: Office 482-9644 Res. 482-9787 ATUMlNyMPRODUCTS For Air-Master Aluminum Doors and Windows , and Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis—>68 Albert 8L Clinton —- 482-9390 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Offloe — Main Street SEAFORTH Insures: Town Dwellings All Cl ata of Farm Property Summer Cottages * Churches, Schools, Halit ■< e Extended coverage (wind, smoke, water damage^ falling objects’ etc.) is also available. Agents: Jamfes Keys, RR1, Sefcforth: V. & Lane, RR 5, Sea- forth; Wm. Leipesr, Jr., l^ndesboro; Selwyn Balter. Brussels; IlAtoidSquine, Clinton; George Cojme, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Seaforth.