HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-06-28, Page 4Jon Lowrie Ginn, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G.G. Ginn of R 2
Clinton, received his B.A. in
Geography et the Spring Con-
vocation of Waterloo Lutheran
University May 20. Mr. Ginn Is
a graduate of the Goderich
and District Collegiate in-
stitute.
Boat Safety
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Beating can be lots of fun, %chattier
Yokere under power or Sail, Ongoing or
rowing; whether you're water-skiing,
fishing or Just cruising. Don't forget,
however, that when you are out in any
kind of watercraft 'there is potential
danger. Having fun doesn't mean that
YOU G an neglect the rules and
regulations of boating safety. Failure to
observe these common sense rules can
lead to a terrifying experience at best
and at worst a fatal accident,
As a reminder to all who use and en-
joy boats of the need for constant
vigilance and care, the Canada Safety
Council sponsors Safe Boating Week
each year from July 1st to 7th.
There are more than two million
pleasure boat operators in Canada. Most
operate their craft with due regard for
the rules of water safety, Unfortunately,
a few do not and the result is too often a
tragic accident.
Each year there are more than 200
people drowned in boating •adcidents. By
far the greatest number of these victims
were drowned when the boats in which
they were riding capsized. Capsizing
can be caused by overloading, over-
powering, venturing into dangerous
unknown waters, sailing in poor
weather, the sudden movement of
passengers and the lack of necessary
operating skills.
If a boat looks overloaded, it generally
is overloaded and it is especially
vulnerable to capsizing in choppy water.
Overpowering a boat can make the craft
extremely unstable, especially on turns.
The law says that every pleasure boat
16 feet or under, powered with an out-
board motor or motors totalling 10 hor-
sepower or more, shall carry a plate
issued by the Ministry of Transport
stating the maximum load and hor-
sepower recommended for it. it is
foolhardy, as well as being illegal, to
ignore these recommendations.
Every boating enthusiast has heard
that excursions into unknown waters
can subject the boat and its passengers
to dangerous currentS, rag*, shoals,
rocks and deadheads. The real boater
takes heed of these warnings and never
ventures into waters without first
Inquiring about the local hazards and
conditions.
Of course, no real skipper takes his
craft out in bad Weather. Small boats
should keep reasonably close to shore
so they can makelt to safety if a squall
comes up.
Good skippers know and follow the
"rules of the road". It makes sense to be
courteous, to slow down when near
canoes, rowboats and sailboats, and to
give way according to the rules.
Some of the other rules that good
skippers follow are: they make suretheir
passengers remain seated; they carry
proper running lights at night; they
follow proper procedures when
refuelling; and they carry the required
life-saving devices.
The law requires that there must be a
lifejacket or cushion of the type ap-
proved by the Ministry of Transport for
every person in a boat. These life-saving
devices are of little use in the bottom of
the boat to a non-swimmer thrown into
the water. Children and non-swimmers
should wear life-jackets at all times
when in boats or near the water and
boat operators should insist that all oc-
cupants wear them when water con-
ditions warrant. More than 80 percent of
victims drowned in boating accidents
were not wearing lifejackets!
'Canada is blessed with many lakes
and waterways making it a boater's
paradise. It is up to all of us to volun-
tarily comply with the boating'
regulations and common sense
operating rules, not only during Safe
Boating Week but throughout the
boating season. Don't let our boating
paradise be marred by senseless ac-
cidents on or near the water.
By the time the last day of
school came around, she was
almost in tears as she realized
she'd probably never see any of
them again, or only as corn-
parative strangers.
This is something that hap-
pens to most teachers who
really like youngsters,
especially when it's a
graduating class. There is
generally a mutual warmth on
the last day of school, The
students suddenly realize that
it's their last day in high
school, surely one of the hap-
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Population 3,475
THE HOME
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IN CANADA
1.1INTON N&WS-RNCORP, THURSDAY, JUN& 28, 1973
piest times of their life. The
teacher suddenly realizes that
this is the last day, that he's
made it once again without
going around the bend, and
that this is a pretty good lot of
kids.
Some of the youngsters are
actually scared when it comes
upon them that another um-
bilical cord has been cut and
the great big hard world is
waiting to swallow them. Oc-
casionally there are tears.
One' young lady wanted to
know, as she wept, "How did
you feel when you left high
school?" She obviously meant
that she was almost heart-
broken. But she received the
realistic answer, "Great. It was
the happiest day of my life."
At any rate, the last day of
school usually produces a
feeling of fondness and ex-
changes of, "Have a good sum-
mer, sir." .And the response,
"Will do. You too. See you in
the fall". Or, if they're
graduating, "Come and see us
when you're home from
college." They usually do,
Once.
Of course, the longer you
teach, the tougher you get. In
my first couple of years, over a
decade ago, I was almost stun-
ned by the good will on closing
day. The class president would
advance to the front, watched
by 35 hawklike pairs of eyes,
each pair of which had kicked
in a quarter, and, after a shy,
unintelligible mumble, present
me with a handsomely-wrapped
gift.
Now, when the kids are
choosing their .class president,
at the beginning of the year, I
assure the reluctant 'nominees
that, "There's nothing much to
the job, except to collect the
money for my Christmas and
end-of-year-gifts." It shakes
them a bit, but it pays off,
Over the years, I've been the
recipient of dozens of golf halls,
a bottle of good wine, a smart
desk set, a lawn chair, and
shelves full of fancy shaving
lotion and exotic talc and stuff
I never use.
This year, I didn't have a
home form. No present. But
got a pleasant surprise. Last
class I had with my four-year
Grade 11, a group I would have
considered least likely to do it,
they kicked through.
Marlene came up and said,
"Mr. Smiley, this is for you, for
being such a nice teacher." Not
a good teacher, mind. Just a
nice one. And speaking of nice
it Was one of"the simplest and
nicest speeches I have ever
heard.
Half suspecting a practical
joke, for this was a group I'd
tangled with in the fall.. I
opened it, standing well back.
N. joke, There was a hand-
some little book of in-
spirational poems and prayers.
I thought this might be a poin-
ted suggestion that I needed
both, and was still slightly
wary.
Then I opened the other
package. It contained an eter-
nal match. This is a fancy type
of cigarette lighter. You pull a
sort of stick out of a little
round barrel, it strikes a flint,
and you have a long match-like
light. It would be great for a
pipe-smoker.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't
work when I tried it. Typically,
Marlene had tried it
thoroughly before wrapping it,
so thoroughly that she'd used
all the fuel. She tried to get it
going for me and was greeted
with hoots of derision when she
couldn't,
However, the thought was
there, and they yelled at me
that I could take it back to the
store.
A small thing, in their busy
lives and mine. But it's war-
ming to know that somebody
out there loves you a little bit,
even thoughsyou are a teacher,
and is willing to ante up a dime
or even a quarter to prove it.
I'd rather have that, once a
year, than a gold watch and a
stupid scroll at the end of
twenty-five years.
GIVE THE
UNITED WAY
There is a time just before
sleep arrives when many men
do their most penetrating
thinking. Henry Pludge was
such a Man.
Lying there on the very lip of
slumber, his mind purged of the
trivia of the day and concen-
trating wholly on one subject,
Henry sometimes soared to the
thin blue heights of
imagination. Now, once more
on this magic isle between the
mainlands of consciousness and
unconsciousness, his brain tur-
ning over like a delicate and
well-oiled machine, Henry
realized he had reached a tur-
ning point in his life.
In the week gone by poor
Pludge had been exposed to
one irritation after another. His
garage had repaired his car
sent hini
the car had promptlY 'carne',
down with its old familiar-
trouble. His boss had selected
him to handle an account
famed and dreaded in his
office. A large and hearty in
surance salesman had hounded
him to the point where he was
prepared to sign a policy far
above his ability to pay. He had
given an old and trusted friend
three strokes a nine in a golf
match and had lost eight
dollars. One by one Henry
ticked them off in his mind, as
a ,general might list his defeats
in battle.
10 YEARS AGO
JUNE 27, 1983
Bill Hocking, Harriston,
reported work would start this
week on a large $150,000 fer-
tilizer plant to be erected on
the farm of W. Crich, two and a
half miles east of Clinton, just
off highway eight.
A native of Cromarty and a
former salesman for Canada
Packers in this area. Hocking is
co-owner of Harriston Fer-
tilizers, the firm erecting the
large manufacturing plant. The
other owner is Norm Young,
Harriston.
With a snip of the scissors,
Professor Harry Shaw, Dart-
mouth College, Hanover, New:
Hampshire, officially opened
the $327,000 wing of Clinton
Public Hospital, yesterday,
Professor Shaw is a son of the
late Dr, J.W. Shaw, one of the
charter members of the hospital
back in 1908.
Clinton's oldest businessmen
retire this weekend. They are
William E. Perdue who is in his
80th year, and John A. Sutter,
who is 75 and has been in
business longer than anyone in
town.
Effective on Tuesday, July 2,
the Sutter-Perdue Ltd.
hardware business will be
owned by Eugene McAdam.
15 YEARS AGO
JUNE 26, 1958
Two men in Clinton Post Of
have brought honour to
themselves and to the office by
winning the W.M. MacLean
Postal Distribution Trophy.
This trophy is presented for
efficiency in sorting mails in
the Province of Ontario and
this is the third year it has been
completed for Mr, McLean was
formerly regional director of
Ontario,
There had been the wheel
part for his' daughter's new
bicycle. Twice it had broken.
Twice he hac taken it back to
the store. On the third occasion
the clerk had called the
manager and he, in turn, had
virtually accused Henry of
sabotage.
"Sir, we've sold more than
four thousand of this make of
bicycle and never had this hap-
pen ,before," as if, in some sly
way, it had been Henry's doing.
And, indeed, Henry felt a tug of
guilt and at the manager's
suggestion had paid for a whole
new unit.
Now, with sleep an inch away
and his brain soaring and
gliding at his slightest com-
mand, Henry Pludge thought
over ,,his troubled , week:mid
Met iPt-tio401S1 ac, fine
cident: " ,
My trouble. is really quite
simple, he told himself. I am
simply too nice to people. If I
were being uncharitable to
myself I would say that I am a
Caspar Milquetoast, that I am
motivated by fear. But I am riot
a fearful man. Mild, perhaps.
Yes, mild. But not afraid. I am
nice to people because I want to
be liked and because I, in turn,
like people and have never
been able, or wanted, to put
fear into them. Henry smiled
slightly to himself, admiring his
own easy flow of logic.
4abladbeek
Now, what do I get for being
nice, Pludge asked himself. I
get abused. People do not
respond to the nice man. The
meek do not inherit the earth.
All that happens is that people
take advantage of me, play me
for a sucker, ignore me because
I appear the kind of man who
will accept being ignored. Now,
if I were like Phillips
Henry thought of his friend,
Phillips, a man in command of
every situation. There was an
air of truculence about Phillips,
the attitude of a man who ex-
pects to get his money's worth
or know the reason why. Henry
recalled, with a shudder, how
Phillips had once sent back to
the kitchen an over-done steak.
The meat was, in fact, over-
cone„,,,hut, Henry 'would ,haye,
1.0 tc°4°,r4F.vslOo POW,.
than ,
Now Henry had one foot over
the threshold of sleep and this
was his finest moment. For now
he had reached the turning
point in his life. He would, in
fact, become the kind of man he
detested. No longer would
Pludge simply stand and wait
for the attention that was right-
fully his. The first clerk, the
first waitress, who looked
through him, as through glass,
would get the surprise of a
lifetime. For Henry would sum-
mons the help in a voice of
terrible authority.
Huron County Council held
its concluding settings of the
June Session at the Court
House Goderich on Friday.
After considerable discussion
over providing more adequate
space at the registry office, as
recommended in the property
committee's report, the
following motion sponsored by
Reeve B.W. Tuckey, Exeter and
Deputy-Reeve Clayton Edward
Goderich was endorsed, "That
the property committee draft
tentative plans for the addition
or extension to the registry of-
fice, and present them to the
Department of Municipal Af-
fairs by a delegation from this
Council and ask the depart-
ment to approve of such an ex-
tension."
40 YEARS AGO
JUNE 29, 1933
Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Lawson
were the guests on Sunday of
Mrs. J.A. Wilson, Stratford, for
the unveiling and de:.!;cation of
a window in memory of Mrs,
Lawson's great-grandfather,
the late Samuel Lobb, who was
one of the first elders of St. An-
He had decided that in the
morning he virould return the
wheel part of little Matilda's
bicycle and, indeed, he already
knew the language he would
use. You caught me napping
the other day, son, he would
tell the manager. I 'want my
money back or there's going to
be the biggest stink this. little
old store ever did have.
And that account his boss
had given him, which
threatened to ruin his entire
summer. Chief, Henry would
say, you gave me this because I
am one of the few agreeable
men on your staff. I am tired of
paying the penalty of being
pleasant. You and I know I'm
needed here because I'm the
best man you have. I suggest
you give this account to
Phillips. `,4,
: The picture of the imurance
salesman, florid and' q'fidlitool'i.
hearty, came into Henry's
mind. He picutred himself
saying, Mr. Finnerty, I didn't
have the heart to say go away
to you at first, and you are
really just taking advantage of
a sensitivity 1 have ,had, to this
date, for the human race, Mr.
Finnerty, go away!
As for the garage and that
heavy bill they'd sent
But now Henry Pludge was
asleep, a slight smile on his
mild and pleasant face, the
very smile he would wear the
following day when trying to
catch a waiter's eye.
drew's Presbyterian Church,
Stratford. The window was
given and unveiled by the Hon.
Dr. 'John Robb, Ontario
Minister of Health, a grandson.
Several hundred people,
some estimated it at five hun-
dred, attended the garden party
and strawberry festival,, given
by the Ladies Guild of St,
Paul's Church, Clinton, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J.
Thompson on Wednesday
evening of last week. The Clin-
ton Junior Band furnished
music during the evening.
Ideal weather, blue skies and
balmy breezes smiled on the
Huron Old Boys Association at
their big annual Picnic in the
Exhibition grounds on Satur-
day.
Huronites' came flocking in
all afternoon, not only from the
city but from outside points.
The various games and races
were all keenly contested and
the entries were exceptionally
large.
The greatest interest centred
in the Broom Football,. and the
ftontinued oh Dane E
Nancy Jayne Ginn, daughter
of Mr. .and Mrs. G.G. Ginn of R
R 2 Clinton received her
diploma as a graduate nurse
on June 22 at Alumni Hall of
the University of Western On-
tario. Miss Ginn is a graduate
of St, Joseph's Regional
School of Nursing at London
and the Goderich and District
Collegiate institute.
Elizabeth Thompson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
Thompson 13 R 2 Clinton,
graduated this spring , from
the University of Guelph.
Elizabeth graduated with
honors in English and plans to
attend the College o
Education beginning this fall
1
Morris J. Hoggart, son of 61
and Mrs. Ivan Hoggart, Wint
Court, Clinton, graduate
June 6 from the University
Western Ontario with a
Honors Bachelor of Art
Degree In Business Ad
ministration. A graduate
Central Huron Seconder
School in Clinton Mr. Hogga
has taken a position with t
John Deere Company I
Hamilton.
This year, as I mentioned
previously, my wife taught
English in a private school. It
was her first crack at teaching,
aside from kindergarten and
music, and she taught a Grade
13 class, so it was no cinch. She
worked hard at it.
But the strain on me was
something else. Every, day
when I got home from teaching
150 students, I had to endure a
two-hour monologue about her
"kids" and what they'd said
and done today. Once in a
while I'd try to get in a word or
phrase about what my "kids"
had said and done, but it was
like trying to stop Secretariat,
in full gallop, with a piece of
thread.
At the first of the year, she
was worried about a few of
them, who gave promise of
becoming recalcitrant. But by
sheer charm and her innate
interest in other people, she
was able to establish a close
and friendly relationship with
every single one of her huge
class 'of ten.
In competition John Hartley
and Gordon Sutcliffe had to be
able to sort correctly, cards
bearing the addresses of 1000
different postal offices. These
thousand were selected from
2,400 in the province.
Between them they scored
99.9 percent.
Among the personnel leaving
RCAF Station Clinton this
week are F/SN.H. "Slim"
Lacroix and FISL.J. "Foggy"
Palmer, who are both tran-
sferred to No. 6 Repair Depot,
Trenton, Ontario.
With only 13 of the modern
fluorescent type bulbs yet to be
installed on the street light
standards of the main
thoroughfares of Clinton, the
town has taken on a clean-cut,
bright look. All down Albert
Street and at the main intersec-
tion new lights gleam,
25 YEARS AGO
JUNE 24, 1948
Picking fruit in the Vineland
area of the Niagara Peninsula
is the remunerative and we
hope pleasant - occupation of
four girls from this district who
are students at Clinton
Collegiate Institute. They are
Joan Fines and Isobel Chowen,
Clinton, Ruth Scott and June
, Taylor Brumfield and Mary
Beatty, Varna,
Two surprise showers took
place last week honouring Miss
Florence Aiken, a bride-elect of
this Month. The members of
her Sunday School class and
'Young People's Union gathered
Monday evening at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Wilthe.
A' group of girls gathered
Saturday evening at the home
of Miss Maxine Miller where
the second surprise shower was
held. The hostess was assisted
by Misses Helen Herman and
Lois Connell,