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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-01-04, Page 4• 4/104 EvilOwtett, a'ailyatt- UMW .1 sr' - -seaeatileir '''' Editorial con mew The Manitoba Chamber of Commerce is worried about the health of weekly newspapers in that province and claims they are in a life or death struggle for survival,' "We can make two clear statements of fact about the weekly newspaper and its value to the community." says the Chamber of Commerce. "First without a weekly newspaper, a community has no promotion vehicle and chambers of commerce and other community associations are practically beaten before they start. Secondly, almost without exception the weekly newspaper is one of the outstanding community promoters," So important is the weekly newspaper that chambers of commerce in St. Claude and Strathclair have had to start their own form of community paper because their weekly newspaper went under, "The next time you decide to place an ad in the big city daily or radio station instead of your weekly, or the next time you knock the local 'rag' just remember that when they close down your weekly paper and the publisher moves on, you have lost the voice of your community and without some form of communication, you're dead." — (The Lake Simcoe Advocate). Healthg community press an asset "Forgot to put it away again this year, eh Cobblestone?" Ideas and freedom seeeligesir sSieSeeles The ideas of freedom have fascinated men down through the ages. it is therefore sad to learn that the 33 largest foundations in the United States have given up their former pioneering role. On a study of the wealthy U.S. foundations, Mr. Waldemar S. Nielsen charges that these , private philanthropic foundations are sick and no longer perform their (un- ions properly. The foundations symbolize the heritable, ethical and responsible im- pulse in the Judeo-Christian society. Mankind for centuries has evolved a series of ideas, and these in turn have ed to the freedoms the luckier members of the human race enjoy, Freedom from hunger,: and lack of shelter, freedom of Speech, freedom of hought, freedom of religion-all these freedoms are taken for granted by so many people in our society. The great U.S. foundations were established originally to protect these freedoms, and to help more people to attain them. The 33 institutions studied by Mr. Nielsen have assets totalling more than $10-Billion, a figure that equals almost half the total annual trade between the United States and Canada. It is claimed hat instead of studying the needs of U.S. and other communities, and filling the gaps the foundations are following old paths and patterns. They are sen- sitive about criticism, and there is not sufficient disclosure of the institutions' finances. The Nielsen study is disturbing because it comes at a time when there is a growing need for innovation and imagination within and outside govern- ment in the United States. The funds generated by those $10-Billion often help to pay large salaries of executives who tend to lea n toward conservatism. But the problems of pollution, violence, crime, racial unrest, the drug menace, the revolt of youth and many other social diseases that are in-, creasingly apparent also in Canada, need fresh minds prepared to take new initiatives and to try radical methods in an effort to find solutions. It is sad to learn that the wealthy foundations, with all their power and resources, do little more than reinforce the existing establishment, For in the search for more freedoms for more men, these in- stitutions could be helping to sow the seeds of social change most people in the world demand. (contributed) More sugar and spice THE CLINTON fIEW ERA Established 1865 Arrialgametecl 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD EstabliShed 1881 Clinton News-Record A member or the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number - 0811 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) 'Canada, $8,06 per year: U.S.A., $9,S0 Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County . Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 ruE ' OP RADAR IN CANADA LINTQ NRWS-RECORD, THURSDAY,. JANUARY 4, 1973 Winter struck swift, sure and without mercy this year, Five days before Christmas we'd had about two feet of snow in these parts, along with the usual combination of blizzard.. force winds and a generous sprinkling of freezing rain. Today with my driveway plugged again and my sidewalk drifted in a foot deep, and myself still nursing a deep cold contracted two months ago, I'd be just as happy if somebody marched me out, stood me with my back against the garage, and shot me, right under the Flower-box. It was a pretty uncheery toliday at our place. It wasn't Manned; it just turned out that vay. I'd bought the usual pair if trees, a spruce and a Scotch line, Too sick to put them up rid they sit by the back door, )rlorn, covered with snow and The Old Lady caught her ?.cond round of 'flu and just idn't feel like coping with decorations and the hole Christmas scramble. She as even too sick to lash me on greater heights which is ighty sick, We had hamburg r our festive dinner. Missed three holiday parties d had to cancel our own. dn't even get out to church, Thought desperately of eing the whole thing, going Montreal to spend Christ- is with number one son, and :ing out. Couldn't get a plane train ticket and didn't feel to driving. il hought even more ' iperatety of fleeing south, whatever the cost, Same thing. No seats, Didn't get our cards started, let alone finished. Didn't get the wreath of holly on the door, or the mistletoe up. In fact, you name it, we didn't get it done. This is a solemn warning to whoever is in charge of things, If they don't get better smartly in 1973, there's going to be trouble. I've been through two rounds of anti-biotics and about 300 pounds of calcium tablets,in an effort to shift my cold. It worked. I shifted it from my head to my chest and back again and now it's penetrated as far as my big toe, My, this IS a dreary little recital of woe, isn't it? Come on, Bill, surely something remotely pleasant happened. Well, yes. We did enjoy get- ting cards from all the old friends, It's good to know that not everybody has one foot, both physically and mentally, on the edge of the grave. And there is the cheering thought that everything has no place to go but up. Lucky that came out, spelled right. Typed it with all my fingers crossed. And there is one thing to hang on for. We're going to go south for a week in March and try to make the sun and the rum put some life back into the reluctant hones. There will probably be a revolution on our Caribbean island the week we're there,. But I don't care. By March I'll probably be (mite happy to be planted under a palm tree, even if it's permanent. It'e better way to go than a snow- - shovelling heart attack, or get- ting lost in a blizzard between the house and garage and being frozen to death. Even the calendar conspired this year. School teachers can usually count on a week's holiday to recharge the bat- teries before plunging back into the long winter term, Wouldn't you know it? This year; with Christmas and New Year falling on Monday, we got exac- tly three days of holiday, aside from the legal ones. I know what you're saying, "Eat your heart out, teach." Oh, well you can't win them all, and I've won some good ones, I do admit that I'm feeling a bit like Job except for the boils, But then, of course, my hemorrhoids are acting up, so we're even. I guess, until we see what, 19/3 has in store, we'll just . have to go around muttering things like: "Hang in there, kid" and "Keep the faith, baby" and We shall overcome" and "Next year, Jerusalem!' There's no use complaining, is there? Especially when you've already been doing so for some six hundred words. Whatever befalls me and mine, I want to end rotten old 19/2, which seemed eight years long, by thanking all the readers during the year, and wishing all readers a great big, beautiful year to comer with unexpected pleasant surprises and lotsa luck with the tax collectors. Things to come Generally speaking, I guess I've been facing the new year with as much outward con- fidence as the next man, buying things on the instalment plan, making engagements often a full three weeks away and con- fronting the uncertain future with a brave little smile. Or I was, at any rate, until I picked up that copy of "Canadian Astrology," a small, digest-size magazine published, it says right here. by the Incor- porated College of Cosmic Science. Now I'm not quite so sure of the future. The smile has begun to falter. I'm making dates more than three days ahead. I am not: the kind of person who would ordinarily lay out a half dollar for "Canadian Astrology." At the risk of an- noying the faculty of the Cosmic Science College I must confess I put astrology in the same category as teacup reading, palmistry and gazing into crystal balls. But the cover of the January edition of the magazine promised me an article by one of the editors, titled "What of 10 YEARS AGO THURS., JANUARY 3, 1963 First baby to be born in Clin- ton Public Hospital this year was a bouncing boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Dietrich, R.R.3, Clinton, The baby was born yesterday afternoon, January 2. The Guided Missiles Detach- ment at Radar and Com- munications School, R.C.A.F. Station Clinton is being moved this month to R.C.A.F. Station Centralia. This is one of many detach- ments joining the Central Of- ficers School which has been set up at the Centralia Station. Squadron Leader R.R. Waters, Zurich, who is officer commanding of this detach- ment and his staff will be moving to Centralia, effective January 21. Clinton council took their oath of office Wednesday night and named their striking com- mittee at the inaugural meeting. 15 YEARS AGO THURS., JANUARY 2, 1958 Blue Water Gas Company worked all weekend in a final spurt to get installation of their pipeline to Station Clinton complete before the snow comes. Monday night they were welding the last few lengths of pipe on the Stanley Township side of the highway. New Year's hopes for Clin- ton: t. Numbers on all the houses; names on all the streets. 2. Growth of existing industry and at least One new industry, .3. Better lighting in business sections and on back streets. 4. Continued harmony between town, county arid the II„C.A.P. Station, 1973?" and this seemed worth at least 50 cents of in- vestigation. As it turned out, the editor had filled eight full pages with just about the gloomiest predic- tions since the last time Charles G. Long, of Pasadena, announced the end of the world. Further, the star-gazer has carved his chilling forecast into verse, a medium more generally associated with light- hearted optimism. The resulting dirge, apparen- tly on a direct hook-up with the news-rooms on Saturn, Mer- cury and Mars, is one of the more chilling documents of all time. -The author introduces his subject briskly, giving us just two alternatives. "Will we have all we desire, or will the world be set on fire?" he muses, ad- ding quickly, "We'll tear aside the veil of time and read the planets all in line." At this point the smart reader will steal quietly away to a good movie, especially if he happens to be a lover of poetry. There follows several verses of sepulchral convent on world 5, Recreation director. Less than seven per cent of the taxes in the municipality of the town of Clinton remain to be collected at this date. An- nouncement of this very favourable state of finances was made by Deputy Reeve Nelson W. Trewartha, chair- man of the .finance committee, at a meeting on Monday night to finalize the council's 1957 year. 25 YEARS AGO THURS., JANUARY 1, 1948 Two candidates are con- testing the reeveship in Stanley Township: Elmer Webster and C. Parke, N.W. Trewartha is Goderich Township's representative on the Collegiate Institute Board. George Beer, Heneall, 18 years, was injured on Boxing Day, when during a rabbit hunt, several hundred pieces of hot. lead from the shotgun he conditions in which the editor makes the preliminary point that Saturn and Pluto in Leo will be conjoined by Mars late in the year and this is obviously not good, having a serious ef- fect on kings, actors, bankers, brokers and ministers. "In money trade, diplomacy, is where the worst effects will be; those who worship at money's shrine are in for a whale of a time," the author recited in his quaint cosmic doggerel. And this brings us abruptly to his most sensational predic- tion. "It would seem from the forces here that it is the sign men fear," this stanza reads. "Jupiter is this sign, I say; will give scientists a Death Ray." This was as far as I got, having decided it was all could bear at one sitting, I ed- cided to turn to the back of the magazine where a more per- sonal forecast was promised. This was a mistake. Glancing under the chapter for Pisces people like myself (symbol, the Fishes, ruled by Neptune) I was not exactly heartened to find that, right at was carrying tore through the upper part of his right arm. Arthur Nicholson is re- elected reeve of Tuckersmith. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Fair- service, Londesboro, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last Tuesday. 40 YEARS AGO THURS., JANUARY 5, 1933 George H. Elliott defeated David T. Churchill by 240 votes in the contest for Reeve of Clin- ton. Asa Deeves is installed as Worthy Master of Murphy LOL No. 710 for 1933, Barry Walter is named superintendent of the Sunday School at Hohnesville, L.K. Epps is W.F. of Diamond RBI' No. 1025, Varna and F. Watson is D.P. James Leiper earned the reeveship in Hullett Township with a majority of 168 votes. Boys' sheepskin coats, size 32 to 34 were on sale for $2.95 at Davis and Herman. Dear Editor: thotrght it might be of r terest to the farmers of Hurc County to know the,erica presently being paid for Saler in Northern Ireland. Despil the political troubles in the country, property values and i particular farm land has sk) rocketed, Enclosed you wil find a newspaper cutting repor ting the sale of a Kacre farn for the record price of $231,150 this is using the exchange rats of $2.30 per L1 sterling U400,500), This price of $2,400 an acre establishes a new record price for agricultural land in Nor them Ireland, a record whic had previously stood at $1,80 per acre, Factors which have contributed to the recent in- flated prices for agricultural land in Northern Ireland are: (1) Entry of U.K. and Ireland into Common Market; (2) A very optimistic approach by the farmers themselves; (3) A shor- tage of agricultural lancIA,s (a) Trend towards large farms (for Ireland a farm over 100 acres would be termed large'), A recent study shows farms in Ulster have been selling for $1000 an acre upwards, this for farms in the 50-100 acre category. However, this recent sale indicates no slackening 'in the pace of bidding for farms. This farm in question was sold on December 8, 1972. Yours truly, John L. Duddy, R.R.4, Seaforth, Dear Editor: In reply to the letter t Editor of December 7, 1972 titled "well versed" by L.,G Lewis. St. John 2, 24, 25s—"Bu Jesus did not commit himsel unto them, because he knew al men. And needed not that an should testify of man: for he knew what was in man". Mark 10: 17.22—"And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him why tallest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery. Do not kill. Do not steal.. Do not bear false witness, Defraud not. Honour thy father and mother. And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him. One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou bast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, And come, take up the cross, and follow me, And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions." Romans 2:16—"In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." John 14:26-31---"But the comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things. And bring to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you, Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father ' is greater than I„ And now I have told you before it come to pass that when it is come to pass ye might believe. Hereaf., ter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father gave me commandment even so I do." John 8:21—"Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go ye cannot come. v,22 Then said the Jews, will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot collie. v.23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath: I am from above: ye are of this world: I am not of this world. v. 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die In your sins: for if ye believe not that I sin he, ye shall die in your sins, v.58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you. Before Abraham was, I am." 11 Cor. 5:20-,-"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ" Thank you for publishing the word of God. this moment, the planets Saturn and Pluto are busy working against me, though, heaven knows, I never did anything to THEM. "Be careful at work, especially towards the end of the month," the chart cautioned and I would lay good dough that the magazine's poet was at work again. "Such a planetary configuration could bring accidents of various kinds and unfavorable developments in connection with work." At this juncture, I confess, I was forced to pour myself a stiff shot of the supplies left over from New Year's. Sheer perversity then caused me to look ,up my wife's,future. and I turned to the forecast for. the Capricorns, symbol,, the Goat, ruled by Saturn. 's A line of type sprang from the page: "Toward the end of the month you must be careful of finances and guard against loss." Saturn and Mars, it seemed, were working against HER as well. What with that and the imminence of the Death Rest it was a lousy way to start the new year. Dressed hogs by halt, per lb. 6 1 /2c. at Connell and Tyndall. 55 YEARS AGO THURS., JANUARY 3, 1918 The autos are seen in the country this past week but the travelling is not the best for cars in this kind of weather. Officers of the Canadian Or- der of Foresters at Porter's Hill included W. Vanderburgh, S. McPhail, and J.H. Harrison. Men running for council in Clinton are R.J, Miller, W.T Hawkins, W.J, Paisley, Bert Langford, W.J. Nediger, H. Wiltse and J,P. Sheppard. A concert troupe scheduled for the Town Hail this week had to be turned down by Town Clerk MacPherson because there was no coal for heat. The Saturday Evening Post states, "For winning the war a shovelful of coal counts for as much as a loaf of whole wheat bread," This should be hung up right over the chain to the check damper on your furnace. JAMES E, FITZOERALI3Editat 1-10ittkcit Atri<E4 qtnerat Mt% Rayfield,, One