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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 k 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- Opinions to Order that 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 necetsatilY the opinions held by The News—Record, Ui 14: ••1446.„ 4?* THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgarhated 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associition and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class trail registration number — 0817 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) 'Canada, $8„00 per year; U.S,A., 1.9,50 JAMES E. FITZGERALD—Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN - General Manager Published the heart *wiry Thursday at of Huron County' Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR 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,