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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-01-11, Page 44--1.4fNTON NT6WS-RECORD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1973 Editorial cowmen I The ghosts of Clinton's passing and all the pessimistic babblings about the town drying up and blowing away when the Base closed should be silenced forever. We've heard enough. They were wrong, anyway. At least that's how we see it if you look at the amount spent on building in Clinton in 1972. For a town that was supposed to die, the $635,220 spent on building in Clinton in 1972 compared to $382,385 spent in 1971 sure doesn't make much of a case for calling the undertaker. There are a lot of people around that must believe in the future of Clinton or they wouldn't have expressed con- fidence in the town by way of new buildings and renovations to others. 1972 was supposed to be a bad year around Clinton, but even with the large number of housing units offered at Vanastra, a phenomenal $258,000 was spent on new housing in Clinton in 1972, and more than $320,000 was spent on in- dustrial, commercial and institutional building. The clincher for the town, however, is reflected in the amount that the average homeowner spent on improvements to his or her home in the form of garages, carports, swimming pools and other renovations. The more than $57,000 spent on in- dividual renovations must indicate that the average citizen has great con- fidence that he will be living in Clinton for some time to come. In fact, Clin- tonians spent nearly $6,000 more this year on homes, etc. than they did in 1971! With more than $1,000,000 spent in Clinton on new buildings and renovations in the last two years, it's hard to see where the myth of Clinton's demise ever came from in the first place, We know conclusively, now, that Clin- ton does indeed have a bright future and we'll all be here for a long time to come. With that in mind, let's work together and ensure that that future continues bright. Down the drain? Hardly An outstanding Canadian Pass the pill, please "That reminds me. The druggist phoned . . . something about the prescription he gave you being recalled." The thousands of Canadians from every walk of life who passed through the Centre Block on Parliament Hill at Ottawa last week in tribute to Rt. Hon. Lester B. Peasrson were reminders of the regard in which he was held across Canada, It was a voluntary out-pouring of respect for a man who by his lack of pretension, his innate honesty, his con- cern for his fellow man had gained the recognition and respect not only of Canadians but of people in countries throughout the world. Mike Pearson gained this unique !place in the hearts of Canadians by his, 'humility and his ability to balance and blend his intellectual and scholastic capacities with the interests of his fellow men. He was at home equally in gatherings of world leaders as in the dressing room of a 1)611 team. This becomes apparent in reading "Mike" the . first of a three volume biography issued just weeks before his death. His self deprecating grin, his wry humor shines throughout the pages of the book he had written recalling to those who remember him the friendly, always helpful, man he was. Mr, Pearson was no stranger to this area and on several occasions visited. here. On one occasion •the visit coin- cided with a supper being served by the C.W.L in St. Columban Church and he expressed an interest in attending. It was during the period in which he ser- ved as president of the United Nations and the daily press was full of the honors he had brought to Canada. The people in St. Columban that day were aware, of course, of the accomplish- ments of their distinguished guest but perhaps had trouble in realizing that here was .a world figure as Mike Pear- son, jaunty in bow tie and concerned in meeting them, evidenced his enjoyment of the event. He will be remembered for his many accomplishments, for the flag he gave Canadians, for his humanitarian con- tributions to the world, for his life long search for peace and for his deep ap- preciation of the problems and demands of Canada national unity but mostly he will be remembered as a friendly warm individual who did what history will record as an outstanding job for his country. (Huron Expositor) Now it's four times thanks to the cat THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau. of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number — 0817 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) -Canada, $8.00 per year: USA., $9.50 JAMES E. FITZGERALD—Editor J. HOWAID AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County' Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA As I recall, my last column was a tale of woe, relating the dreadful things the gods had done to me in 1972. I should have kept my mouth shut. The same gods, annoyed at my tiny protest, decided to show me what they could really do. Take a cat. Go on. Any old cat. Take a guy with an armful of milk and eggs. Take a wife who is upstairs watching TV when she should be helping that guy with the groceries. O.K. The guy comes in, He takes off his boots so he won't make a mess on the newly- washed-and-waxed kitchen floor. He is in his sock feet. Right? Out of the grocery bags he takes two quarts of milk, a dozen eggs and a case of pop. He heads for the kitchen coun- ter. At that very moment the cat, unfed, hurls herself at his legs, meowing and rubbing. He lifts his right foot, gently, to turf her out of the way, spins smartly on his left metatarsal, and goes down like Niagara Falls. He fails to eject the grub, out of some dim, primitive idea that you hang onto the grub at any cost. The first thing that hits anything is his noggin, which tries to tear the copper off the cupboard door handles, The next thing that strikes hard-pan is his nose, which bounces off the floor in a spray of blood and milk. Yes, he's still holding onto the milk, He loses only one quart of blood, two of milk. His erstwhile wife and protector comes down and finds him sitting in something like a Masai wedding, two parts milk to one part blood, a cold cloth on his torn scalp, eggs all over the place, and his nose going up like a balloon being filled with hydrogen. But there's no fret, no sweat. He's had his nose broken three times before, and by far better people than a cat, or his wife's waxing. Sitting there among the eggshells and milk and blood, he remembers fondly the time his future brother-in-law gave him an elbow and cracked the old beezer during football prac- tice. And then he thinks of that beautiful free-for-all with the Royal Marines, outside that pub in Wrexham, North Wales, when the fighter pilots proved only that they could not fight. And he remembers, almost with pleasure, the day he was being beaten up by the German guards, and nobody had even broken his nose yet, and then the little guy who was engineer of the locomotive came rushing into the circle and kicked him right in the snoot. And I'd like to say this mutt sat there happily for ever after, thinking about the other times his nose had been broken. But she wouldn't let him, Her first thought was pure Florence Nightingale. "Everybody will think I did it", she wailed, ;'Yes, I would think they would," I countered. "Knowing you," "They'll think you were drunk", was her next eon' tribution, "Well that's what I'd think, if someone told me he'd lost a one-round bout with a cat", I suggested. "How am I going to get the blood out of that towel", she queried. "Well you might pretend you were a vampire, and suck it out." "People will think you've been beaten up", she worried. "Yes", I rejoined. Smugly. No answer. "I'm going to lock the door, so nobody can see you." And I replied, "I'm going to call a press conference, and admit it was all your fault, because you'd waxed the floor, and you cynical, almost vicious hadn't put the cat out, and you weren't down to help me with the groceries." Ah heck! I shouldn't put her through all that, It was not her fault, except that she'd waxed the floor and hadn't put the cat out and didn't come down to help with the groceries and in- sists I take my boots off when I come in onto her rotten polished floors. It's not so bad, really. Apart from the cuts on my nose, which look as though a gang of Glaswegians had worked me over, there are only the eyes. For some reason, when you break your nose, there's a great sympathy from your eyes. They don't weep, except for the first six hours. They swell up and up and up. At first they are red. Then they begin to look like a couple of tea-bags that have been on the booze. And when the wo-st is over, they turn a sort of bilious yellow, When that happens, *you know you are home free, and that all you have to do is think up witty answers for the query "Wife beat you up again?" Mark my words, Thorndyke, we'll live to see the day when meals, as we know them now, no longer exist. Mankind will simply pop into his mouth tablets labelled "Breakfast," "Lunch" and "Dinner." There may even be a special tablet market "Midnight Snack" for gluttons, stored, for reasons of nostalgia, in tiny, make-believe refrigerators. These tablets will contain, in highly concentrated form, all the vitamins, calories, proteins, carbon hydrates, calcium and what not required to keep the body functioning. Some of them may contain a distillation of, wine for formal occasions. An entire meal will be con- sumed in a single gulp. I make the prediction boldly because there's evidence too conclusive to ignore. The joy has gone out of cooking. The taste buds of humanity have been anesthetized beyond recall. The thrill of the meal is going and nearly gone. The era of the pill and the pop-swallow- and-gulp repast cannot be far away. The prospect is not entirely gloomy. It means the end, and none too soon, of after-dinner speakers. It will abolish the 10 YEARS AGO JANUARY 10, 1963 L.R. Maloney commenced duties last week as the first business administrator for Cen- tral Huron Secondary School board and the Advisory Vocational Committee. He will be in charge of all the work of the two boards at the school here and it is expected this will take away much of the pressures on both board mem- bers and the principal and teaching staff. Six of the most popular wrestlers on the professional circuit will be featured in the star-studded wrestling card to be presented at RCAF Clinton on Wednesday, January 16. Arranged by FIO Dick Allan, Station Recreation Officer, the main feature will pit Canada's most famous wrestler, Whipper Billy Watson against the rough and tough antics of Australia's Fred Atkins. Others who will trade holds are Gino Marcello and Timothy Geohagen. The final fight of the night pits Japan's Toto Sakuro against Pat Flanagan, another popular Canadian fighter. 15 YEARS AGO JANUARY 9, 1958 Citizens from all over the County and beyond paid their final respects on Tuesday to Thomas Pryde, member of the Legislature for Huron for the past ten years. First major fire in Clinton in 1958 was the blaze at the Com- mercial Inn Hotel on Sunday morning, No one was hurt, though one young couple was warned by testimonial banquet, acid in- digestion, drive-in hamburgers and the nightmares resulting from an over-indulgence in tamales con queso smothered in chile. But otherwise life won't be worth living. The era that began with the can-opener is now being brought to its logical con- clusion by the deep freeze and the packaged, take-out restaurant meal. The super-market on the cor- ner retails a hundred ready- cooked meals wrapped in tin or preserved in ice, In the major centres of the United Sates and increasingly so in Canada the take-out menu, picked up or delivered to your door, is all the rage. The whole trend is so ob- vious that even the New York Times has sadly observed. "Honest home cooking has grown obsolescent." In thousands of North American homes this very night men who can recall, with tears streaming down their cheeks, the meals that their mothers used to cook, will be sitting down to little TV tables, perhaps to dine on a prefabricated chicken pie made proprietor Ceriel Van Damme only minutes before flames licked the door of their bedroom. The Commercial Inn Hotel is situated on Highway 4 (Vic- toria Street) and was formerly the first public hospital which served Clinton. Bert Clifford, student at Clin- ton District Collegiate Institute, was elected mayor at the an- nual meeting of the Clinton Teen Town and will head the group throughout 1958. Sup- porting him will be Reeve Douglas Warren. Secretary of Teen Town is Barbara Pickett and treasurer is Karen Cook. Councillors are Judi Cluff, Jeannie Etue, Sylvia Bell, Darlene Laister, Larry Walsh and John Jacob, 25 YEARS AGO JANUARY 1948 G.W. Nott defeated V.D. Falconer in race for reeveship with a 207 majority. Frank Fingland, Q.C. has been chosen for a second term as chairman of the Clinton Collegiate District Board. Fred Weston, Merton Merner and John Sturgeon Sr. were elected trustees for village of Bayfield, leaving Leslie Elliott, Maynard Corrie and Melvin Davison, the other contenders. Carol Anne Jones, daughter of L.A.C, and Mrs. W.J, Jones, Albert St. Clinton, is the New Year's baby for 1948 in Clin- ton, Huron County Council has 11 new members this year out of a total of 28. 40 YEARS AGO JANUARY 12, 1933 Considering new industries in Omaha, containing monosodium glutamate, corn- minuted chicken skin, turmeric and sugar, which has been lovingly prepared by their "home-makers" by thawing in the oven. If the lights are low, as they probably will be, he may dine on this without ever knowing what he had for dinner, His soup will have come from a gigantic factory in New Toronto, Ontario, his pie will have been baked and frozen as hard as a discus in some distant bakery where everything is done by machines, including stamping "home- made" on the box. The simple little tablet would be simpler and every bit as enjoyable. But it isn't only this pre- fabricated, assembly-line in- fluence on the kitchen that spells doom for the old- fashioned meal. Something else has been happening to food that's made eating a duty in- stead of a pleasure. They've made food beautiful to the eye and a great big blank to the palate. Observe the vegetables down at the super-market, scrubbed and gleaming, exquisitely for Clinton, Mayor N.W. Trewartha suggested a pre- cooling plant for use of the fruit growers. Tax arrears at present are $4000 including $1800 in- curred before 1932. John Ransford resigned from the secretary-treasurer's post at the collegiate after ten years, and W.H. Hellyer was appoin- ted pro tern. Mr. Ransford had been a member of the board for 15 years prior to his appoint- ment in 1923. Twenty minutes of overtime saw Jack Nediger's Colts register a 4-3 victory against the Seaforth Beavers in the local arena. 55 YEARS AGO JANUARY 10, 1918 Clinton Band expressed thanks to council for a grant which helped them to replate and repair their instruments. Mr. and Mrs. George Watts have purchased the residence of Miss Tebbutt on Princess Street, packaged in their cellophane sheaths. They're not the vegetables you knew as a boy or girl. Oh, my, no. They're grown by new scientific methods which force them to maturity at a rate guaranteed to destroy any flavor. Take the tomato, plucked, boxed and marketed without that tedious, but so very necessary, ripening in the sun. How long it it since you sank your teeth into a tomato that brought joy to your taste buds?. Years, I'll bet. Or look, if you will, at the pale substitute they're selling these days as bread, all dressed up in a package but tasting like nothing at all. You make a san- dwich these days out of that bread and the kind of meat pastes that save mama so much toil and trouble and it's like eating a pot of library paste. The whole, trend is away from those hallowed days of yesteryear when a man could look forward to something suc- culent baking in the oven, something that was cherished not merely because the little woman had prepared it with her own dainty hands, but because it tasted wonderful. Yes, the pill can't be far off. Council's committee of two, Mr. Paisley and Mr. Miller have secured a woodlot in Stanley Township and are having wood cut for supply to those in need. Sales will be at cost. W.H. Hellyer, jeweller and optician, advertised: Wrinkles, eyeache and headache removed by wearing glasses scientifically fitted and accurately adjusted. Opinions) In order News—Record readers might express their opinions on any topic of public interest, Letters To The Editor are always welcome for publication. But the writers of such letters, as well as all readers, are reminded that the opinions expressed in letters published are not necessarily the opinions held by The News—Record. we get letters Dear Editor: Recently it has been brough to our attention that there ar people in Clinton and surroun ding area who have som misgivings about the functio of the "One For All Kof feehouse". We felt, therefore that we should clarify its par pose and operation, thu, allowing each individual t form his own conclusions. We are open on Wednesda night from 7-9 p.m. for childre ages 7-13, This is a club-typ meeting with the first hou spent in singing and Bibl study. This year we are takin the book of Acts. One chapter week and about every thre weeks we have a film coverin what we have studied. Part o this study is in quiz form. Th second hour is filled with reces and games. We average abou 40 children a week with 1 leaders. Saturday night is for teens 1 and up. We usually have singing group set in a very in formal atmosphere. Kids corn and go as there is no admissio fee, It is normally open from 8 12. The groups may differ i their style of music but the have one thing in common they share the gospel of Jesu Christ. Attendance on Satur- days varies, with new face every so often. The odd Satur day when we don't have group, we are open for kids t drop in, with games availabl and records for music. On Mon day January 15 from 8 to 9 p.m we are starting a Bibl discussion for teenagers. Thi. will not be like Saturday nigh with people coming and going All are welcome, we ask onl that those coming are in terested, sincere and willing t participate. For the first night th discussion will centre aroun the Gospel of John. Fo following nights the areas o the Bible to be discussed ar flexible. We have a snack bar whit helps to pay for some of th operating expenses incurre and the rest is made up by in terested people. For more infor mation regarding any of th nights mentioned phone 482 9192. Yours Sincerely, Hank & Beryl Gelling Clinton. Dear Editor: If the point of Winifred V. Switzer's letter of January 4 her choice of scriptures was un fortunate, to say the least. In those verses quoted there occurs the following ex- pressions: "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God."; "God shall judge the secrets of men By Jesus Christ."; "...whom the Father will send in my name."; "I go unto the father; for my Father is greater than I."; "I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment even so I do." (See your issue of Jan. 4) Included in her letter was also II Cor. 5:20; Verses 18 and 20 read as follows: "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself By Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of recon- ciliation;" (20) "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." This is in full harmony with 1 Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator Bet- ween God and Men, the man Christ Jesus." Jesus himself said it means our life ) know God. (John 17:3; Second Thessalonians 1:8) Paul's words are full of meaning today: "And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?" (2 Con 8:6, 11) Sincerely yours, C.F. Barney Clinton