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,4,-,c1.4NTON NEWS-RW:1RD, .THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1973
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More humane trapping
It appears there are a great many
people who can't read or having ,read,
do not digest the truth of it,
The recent editorial taking nearly a
half page "Unhinging the Trap Syn-
drome" is a case in point.
Carl Monk, whoever he may be, might,
if I may venture an opinion, be better
employed using the tax-payers money
elsewhere - trying, if he has the ability,
to invent a humane trap, for instance.
The statement by the editor of the
News Record "The recent spate of let-
ters regarding anti-trapping has only
served to give a bad name to a skilled
trade etc. etc.:'_
In the first place it is not a "skilled
trade" and can never be until we find a
way for a painless death for our wild
creatures. I have before me a letter from
C.A.H.T. expressing their gratitude for
the response in letters and money from
many concerned citizens.
Mr. Monk may, and I do not doubt his
word, have received letters from overly
sentimental people such as the "she" he
refers to who wishes to eliminate the
trapping trade. In all organizations and
in all causes we have such as these.
Their influence is minimal, as he well
knows and if he reads at all this is-not
the issue at stake and never has been.
At that I would prefer the overly sen-
timental to the hard-boiled who couldn't
care less for our wildlife, shoots at
anything that moves and allows his 12-
year-old or younger to trap for "sport':
Recently, a boy in Clinton was seen
shooting birds in the "gully' thereby
breaking two laws - shooting song birds
and using firearms inside town limits.
No one needs to be told Mr. Monk's
views on necessary controls; anti-rabies
compaigns; decimation of too prolific
wildlife etc. But these must be by
humane methods and skilled hunters.
Mr. Monk completely side-steps the
A very wise move
After considerable consternation for
Planning Director Gary Davidson and his
staff, TEOTjo mention several days of hot
debateff*ouiity B.loutii90,Huron's Of-
ficial Prffrnas been approved by the
councillors and needs only the final
signature of the Minister.
While all people in the County of
Huron have had an opportunity to view
the plan and to comment upon it, it is
probably true that most citizens are
unaware of its contents and hardly con-
cerned about the legislation it proposes.
The true metal of the plan will be tested
once it is enforced.
Not all members of Huron County
Council are convinced that every part of
the plan is in the best interests of each
of the municipalities in Huron, but ap-
parently the councillors realize that the
bugs will rear their ugly heads and can
be corrected when the effects of the
plan are felt throughout Huron. It may
not be the best system but it is certainly
the only way that a totally satisfactory
issue which is to ensure that our wildlife
be given as humane a death as possible
and to eliminate the agony presently in-
flicted.
There is not and never has been any
effort to do away with the fur industry
which is a way of living for many and the
only way for many more.With a govern-
ment receiving large profits from it,
small chance of success there, But that
same government should be willing to
subsidize the trapper to obtain humane
traps.
Once and for all let me set forth
clearly the aims of C.A.H.T.
One - find a trap on the "instant kill"
principle and for this they have a fund to
help trapper inventors.
Two - force the government to outlaw
the leg-hold trap. Many countries have
done so but not Canada, yet.
Three - supply trappers with a
conibear trap free in exchange for their
leg-hold trap.
Four - to increase public awareness of
the cruel methods still in use in a so-
called enlightened country.
There are many concerned and com-
passionate trappers anxious to find a
humane trap. Many have turned in their
leg-hold traps. If Mr. Monk doesn't know
this he doesn't know his job.
It may interest readers to know Simp-
son-Sears and Eatons will no longer sell
the leg-hold trap. Eatons have gone a
step further at considerable loss to
themselves and refuse to sell furs from
animals in danger of extinction. Among
these is the leopard skin formerly a
high-priced commodity. Bravo Simpsons
and Eatons!
I have headed many organizations in
Huron County but none as satisfactorily
as one where one "speaks for those who
cannot speak for themselves"
Mrs. Frank Fingland
Clinton
document will ever become reality
where there are so many varied opinions
about so many subjects.
Therefore, it is not the plan itself
which must be commended but the
people in the county who pushed and
prodded until Huron had an Official Plan
by which order could grow out of disor-
der. Many of the farsighed men who
planted the seeds for this plan have left
the Huron County Council Chambers.
Undoubtedly many more only gave their
direction and support from outside the
rail. To be fair though, the present
council has had something to do with
approving the plan and becoming the
first rural municipality in the province to
have actually put down on paper the
direction it hopes to take.
Huron's Official Plan is needed, with
all the problems it is bound to create in
the coming months. There is just no
other route to take and Huron's citizens
should be pleased that county council
accepted the challenge.
GODERICH SIGNAL-STAR
The blood heats
"And to think we moved out to the outskirts of town for some peace and quiet:"
Women stilt losers
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Population 3,475
THE HOME.
OF RADAR
IN CANADA
Most of the major disasters
of life I can accept with a cer-
tain equanimity.
It's the little things in life,
the almost daily irritants, that
keep me in such a flaming rage
that I can almost hear my
great-uncle, Mountain Jack
Thomson, the wildest-tempered
man in the entire Ottawa
Valley about ninety years ago,
whisper, "That's my boy. One
of the old stock. Give 'em hell,
William."
I have ridden, or flown into
the valley of death, and come
out with nothing twitching ex-
cept my sphincter muscles.
I have landed an aircraft
with a fused bomb dangling
from one wing, climbed out to
face the fire truck and the am-
bulance, and managed a quiet,
"You're making a lot of noise
with those sirens, chaps. Hard
on the nerves you know."
before fainting,
When I was shot down and,
crashed in a plowed field in
Holland, my first thought was,
"Dammit, I won't be able to
keep that date with Tita
tonight," Tita was in Antwerp,
several hundred miles away. A
logical and calm conclusion.
When I was beaten up for an
attempted escape, I didn't rail
against anyone, including the
beaters. I lay there quietly in
the boxcar, hands and feet
wired together, licked my
wounds and said to myself,
"Serves you right, you nit, for
trying to be a hero. You weren't
cut out."
When our train rode through
the German night and right
into a major bombing raid on
Leipzig, I looked down on my
grovelling, screaming, praying,
calling-formother fellow
prisoners, and thought coolly,
"There, but for the grace of
God and the fact that I can't
get out of this luggage rack
(where I was resting) would be
I." Sedate, poised. Paralyzed.
That was in war-time, of
course, and a man had to keep
a stiff upper, not to mention
nether lip.
But life since has brought the
same sort of thing. Hell hath no
fury like a woman scorned, ,
somebody said. Oh, yes, it hath,
Try this.
Tell your wife you'll be home
for dinner at six, Arrive home
at 3 a.m. with a couple of
cronies you've invited for a late
snack, "Nah, she won't mind.
Come on, what're you, scared
of your wife?"
A woman scorned, compared
to a woman waiting, is like a
Boy Scout troop compared to a
panzer division.
We'll all agree then, that I've
faced the worst without flin-
ching, without becoming
hysterical with fear or rage.
What I can't cope with is the
daily degradations. The insults
to intelligence. The utter
stupidity of bureaucrats and
the malicious heckling of
inanimate objects. I'm afraid I
lose every vestige of coolth,
sang-fiioid, poise, reason.
Item. As though it knew
exactly what I was writing
about, my typewriter just broke
a ribbon. And I just broke my
typewriter. After using the
name of the Lord, the
typewriter company, and
various other deities in vain, I
beat the thing with my bare
hands. All I got was ink up to
my wrists, and a laconic, snide
remark from my wife in the
next room that she'd already
had her hair curled, thank you.
Item. They're cutting down
the trees. The stupid
bureaucrats. May they roast in
eternal flames. And why are
they cutting down the trees? So
they ran widen the roads for
more stinking, rotten cars.
Item. They (meaning the
mindless bureaucracy) are re-
numbering all the addresses in
town. We were 303 and now
we're 613 or 631 or something.
I don't even know where I live
any more.
Of all the flaming ridiculous,
useless, idiotic, moronic, expen-
sive Steady, old Man.
Remember the blood pressure.
I swore on a secret oath that
I'd ease off writing about the
battle of the sexes. It's
dangerous work to be that kind
of war correspondent. But this
little complaint from Madge
Castle, of Toronto , seems to
require some masculine com-
ment, risky though it may be.
Madge is one of those brittle
gal columnists who major in
the problems of the ladies,
which often involve a male or
two. In this particular case the
problem involves the entire
species.
Men, says Madge, always
come off best in the cold, cruel
world outside the nest. In
restaurants, in' Store's',
theatre line-ups they invariably
get preferential treatment.
They are waited on, deferred to
and considered as Milady
rarely is. They get the best
places, the bargains, the cour-
tesy, the service.
A case in point: "If a man
tells a waitress he's pressed for
time she flits to and fro doing
her level best to speed him
through his meal. But a
woman can sit until she grows
roots."
10 YEARS AGO
MARCH 14, 1963
Council was informed Mon-
day that negotiations are being
carried on by the department of
public works for the Ball
Macaulay Ltd. property on
King Street for the site of a new
post office for Clinton, but as
yet no plans have been
finalized.
Gordon Hill, Varna, has been
appointed federal represen-
tative in the newly-formed
Canadian dairy advisory com-
mittee, the agriculture depart-
ment announced in Ottawa last
week.
Clinton fire brigade was
called to a fire at the town
dump, Friday, and the blaze
was described as one of the
worst ever battled at the dump
by Fire Chief, Grant "Red"
Rath.
Clinton council approved
salary hikes for several town
employees at their meeting,
Monday, giving clerk-treasurer,
John Livermore, a substantial
$900 raise.
15 YEARS AGO
MARCH 13, 1958
The Clinton Spring Show is
finding things a little more dif-
ficult than usual this year—The
directors are attempting to lift
the Fair from a deficit which
was incurred through a couple
of bad years...and. also present
a Fair which will be acceptable
in the light of fine standards in
the past.
Clinton hockey fans are
assured more good hockey this
season, now that the Colts meet
Forest in a best three out of
five series for the WOAA Inter-
mediate "B" Group 2 cham-
pionship,
Councillors at their regular
meeting Tuesday evening, post-
poned decision on continuing
the annual contribution of $170
Another: "At a railway
station, more than anywhere
else, a man comes into his own.
Straight as a dart a porter will
make for some hefty male with
uncomplicated luggage while a
woman traveller, surrounded
by suitcases and 'carry-ails
suitable for safari in darkest
Africa, remains defeated and
helpless."
Obviously, Madge has a
point. Men notice it par-
ticularly where the encounter is
woman-to-woman. There
seems to be a kind of mutual
lack of trust, a thinly-veiled
hostility, that makes the
masculine onlooker wonder if
the girls have really progressed
fig' far 'fricm the jungle as hd.
A waitress taking an order
from ,a woman, or a salesgirl
showing some goods to a
woman, very often has a man-
ner that suggests just a little bit
of hate. This chill may be
rooted in a false feeling of class
consciousness. Restaurant men
will tell you that it's hard to
find waitresses Who can shake
the idea that the job carries a
social stigma. The male waiter,
on the other hand, is more in-
clined to see it as a challenging
toward the operation of Mid-
Western Ontario Development
Association. Councillor H.
Bridle felt that the town could
use the money to better advan-
tage in advertising the town.
Mr. Bridle was chairman of the
town's industrial promotion
committee last year.
Upon the request of the Clin-
ton Public School Board, the
council of the Town of Clinton
on Tuesday night gave their ap-
proval to the erection of a two-
room addition to the town's
$350,000 public school
building. Estimated cost of the
addition is $40.000
25 YEARS AGO
MARCH 11, 1948
Pickett and Campbell are
just completing extensive
renovations to their store...ad-
ditional shelving has been
placed along the walls and the
counters have been placed in
"island" positions...The change
adds much to the efficiency
potential.
A colorful pageant was
presented in the Clinton Lions
Arena Saturday evening under
the auspices of the Clinton
Lions when members of the
Kitchener-Waterloo Figure
Skating Club, augmented by
several members of Stratford
Figure Skating Club, staged
"Ice Follies of 1948".
40 YEARS AGO
MARCH 16, 1933
Clinton people were not
without personal interest in the
earthquake in California last
Friday and Saturday, as many
have relatives there, Miss
Madeline Van Horne, daughter
of Mr, and Mrs. G. Van Horne
at Huntingdon Park, was right
in the quake area, Before the
news of the disaster came,
however, Miss Van Horne had
wired home assuring her
parents of her safety and tnat
and satisfying vocation in
which he can take pride.
Naturally, this works both
ways. The woman who treats a
waitress or a salesgirl as a ser-
vant and who is excessively
demanding is not at all uncom-
mon.
Women are often thoughtless
and tactless for this reason. A
covey of matrons, lunching
together, chattering away while
the waitress waits, fuming, is a
familiar sight. So if the gal
gives the next male diner a lit-
tle better service it could well
be revenge.
Madge suggests that tipping
may have something to do
with it. The girls, it is true,
have something of a reputation
for miserliness in that depart-
ment. Yet I suggest there are
deeper and darker reasons for
antagonism.
Certainly women can be inor-
dinately infuriating by the
curse of indecision. The most
practical, the kindest, the most
intelligent of them, is apt to go
slightly to pieces when faced
with the necessity of a final
choice.
I am thinking of one very
of her relatives.
A short play was .presented
by First Form pupils at the CCI
literary Society meeting. Ben-
son Sutter, Evelyn Lever,
Norma Cook and Claire Ken-
nedy had the principal parts.
55 YEARS AGO
MARCH 14, 1918
Owing to a break in the
hydro lines somewhere between
here and Mitchell, no power
was available from before nine
this morning until after three.
As the newspaper depends
upon hydro for both power and
heat for the linotype we have
been held up all day and much
copy is held over until next
week.
Fred Mutch is attending to
his work in Harland Bros.,
these days but he's wearing a
straight jacket, and like Agag,
"walking delicately". The
reason is that he took a tumble
the other day and as a result
has a couple of broken ribs. A
good many people have fallen
on the streets of Clinton in the
past six weeks and it's a won-
der more bones have not been
smashed.
close to me who can handle a
household budget with the best
of them and brought up a
family very nicely, indeed, but
has a terrible time settling on a
hat or a pair of shoes.
How often I've sat and wat-
ched this performance and
marvelled at the magnificent
patience of the clerks who seem
to take it for granted that two-
thirds of their stock will be
shown before there's to be a
culmination to the deal.
A man, selecting a hat or a
pair of shoes, will seldom take
more than 10 minutes at the
outside. He is conditioned, by
the nature of his role in society,
to think positively and quickly.
He is seldom vague, whether it
is ordeiing a meal or a book in
a library or a suit of clothing.
He is thus easy to deal with,
too proud to admit a mistake
and so, to use Madge's phrase,
he comes off best in the market
place and in those transactions
which require the cooperation
of strangers.
It may be, indeed, the
solitary aspect of the struggle
between the sexes in which he
continually triumphs.
75 YEARS AGO
MARCH 11, 1898
Alex, McKay, of Egmond-
ville, completed a few days ago,
quite a wonderful invention. It
is a hand power dredge, so con-
structed that it will take up
from 12 to 15 tons of dirt per
day at a depth of from 18 to 25
feet of water. The machine is
very cheaply constructed and
would not cost more than about
$10. Any ordinary man could
build it, where timber could be
had.
Mrs. James Snell, Wingham,
has moved with her family to
Londesboro, where she will
take up her permanent
residence in a house on her
father's farm.
We are having most
magnificent weather and the
sleighing could not be better
than it has been. The nights
and mornings have been cool,
but beautiful warm sunshine in
the middle of the day. The
winter, on the whole, has been'
delightful, although it has been
pretty cold at times. The roads
have not been pitchy to any ap-
preciable extent, and from
present appearances it will not
be long before wheels are rup:
Dear Editor:
I enjoy getting the horn
news, and am glad to see
arrive on Fridays,
I am sending another tw
year's subscription and than
you.
Yours trul
Mrs. May Hanle
Hamilton, Ontari
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ning again.
The new Scribner Pipe
Organ, manufactured expressly
for the Ontario St. Church,
Clinton, is being put into
position this week, and an
Organ Recital and Concert will
take place in the church this
evening,
The voting places on Monday
will be Town Hall, Stewart's
basket shop, Rumball's shop
and Leslie's shop. All persons
who are owners of and assessed
for real estate to the value of
$200 can vote, unmarried
ladies and widows as well as
men.