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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-07-19, Page 4Bigger they are harder they fall second class mail registration number r— 0817 SUBSCRIPtION RATES.: (in advance) Canute, $8.00 per year: U.S.A., $9.50 JAMES E, fiTZGeFlAtb—Eeitoe J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published Avery ThUrsday at the hurt of Huron County' Clinton, Ontario Poputation 3,73 PRE HOME; OF RADAR W CANADA 4—CLINTON NEWS-RECORD, ThURSDAY, JULY 19, 1973 ,Editoriat comment; A $20,000 housewife Montreal economist Dian Cohen figures Canadian housewives work an average 99.6-hour week putting them into the $20,000-a-year bracket. In these days of rampant women's fib It's comforting for women to know their own worth--even if they aren't paid! Using a U. $. study, but current . Canadian• wage rates, Ms. Cohen Calculates the basic weekly housewife's income at $204.25 for such diverse ser- vices as nursemaid, dietitian, food buyer, cook, dishwasher, housekeeper, etc. Add to this such intangibles as sexual activities, executive talent juggling a dozen jobs simultaneously, community involvement, entertaining her husband's business pals--and her salary soars into the $20,000 sphere. . Housewives' labours have not yet been dignified by Statistics Canada, Nobody bothers to measure it or add It into our gross national product. • But stay-at-home women, waging the unceasing battle on the family front, are getting definitely defensive when asked- -"do you work?" Darn right she works! Next beleaguered housewife asked this fatuous question should take a deep breath and hit back with this: "I'm a short order cook, same-day- laundry, purchasing agent, child care worker, continuous cleaning service, maintenance and home management centre, 24-hour counselling centre, child bearer, garderner, chauffeur, gourmet cook--and cost accountant!"(con- tributed) The Minor Soccer mixup "i'm sorry lady, you've already used up the time trying to park." During the community of Exeter's recent centennial celebrations one of the sports events laid on for the gala week was a soccer tournament. The tournament was a big success in many ways and the Goderich team taking part emerged the winner. This competition was however, marred in several respects by dissent and disagreement between tournament organizers, Goderich coaching staff and the Huron Minor Soccer Association. The upshot of the whole matter was that the eight to 10 year old yongsters, who played in 90 degree temperatures to win the top award, were deprived of their trophy. It was presented to them, along with individual medals, but the Medals were all they took home. Tournament organizers announced during the presentation that due to "illegal coaching" and "unsportsmanlike con- duct" the trophy would stay in Exeter. We do not presume here to become Involved in the soccer organizer's dispute. There are two sides to every story and, even after collaboration with the Exeter Times Advocate to get both sides of this one, the truth seems burled somewhere between both versions, as is so often the case. We do however criticize the conduct of those officials who made eight to 10 year old youngsters "pawns in their game" of disagreement over coaching and other technical rules. Dispute of procedures should have been resolved long before the youngsters went on the field and if they were not, they should have been resolved afterward in private consultation - not in front of the players. The basic theory of minor sport, soc- cer included, is to provide a means through which youngsters can learn to be competitive but to become so in- volved in a sportsmanlike manner. We wonder how much sportsmanship they learned watching and hearing their elders, their supposed counsellors in acceptable social and adult behavior, squabble over each others conduct. Perhaps their instructors should grow up emotionally before they undertake the responsibilities of minor sport. Such dissent, as demonstrated in Exeter, can only be read as symptoms of intercommunity animosity. Such animosities always lead to the collapse of organizations like the Huron Minor Soccer Association which in this case would be most unfortunate, It is never too late to make an honest 'attempt at -'repilifin4 ditittage and the disputing partie's should make such an effort. More important, confrontations like the one in Exeter should be avoided in the future, at least where involving the players is concerned. Minor Soccer coaches, organizers and supporters should remember their job is to provide recreational activities that provide a social learning experience for their young-charges. Those charges are not tools to be,deployed in any attempts toward personal or community ego satisfaction. GODgRICli SIGNAL—STAR This is going to be a tough column to write. I'm on my holidays, it's a beautiful sum- mer day, hot but not muggy, and I'm as lazy as the cat, who ' is coded up in "her" -chair, dreaming. In winter, she eats like a hog and becomes repulsively fat. In summer, she subsists prim cipalty on bees, ants and but- terflies, arid slims out into a tigress, stalking her 'domain, the back yard. Her domain underwent a big change this week. Two old friends died, You might say they were cut down in their prime. 'They were twin elms, lofty and graceful. I've spent many an hour slumped in a lawn chair watching the birds and the squirrels in the elms, listening to the whispering of the two lovers as they leaned toward each other and caressed each other with their limbs. Hey, this is getting pretty sexy. Last spring they came out in leaf, but by mid-summer they were dead of the Dutch elm plague Which has blighted my part of the country. I was going to have them taken down this summer, anyway, but my plans were spurred a bit when a small limb fell 'off and conked my neighbour on the head, and then a large limb came down and fell_ on _peihterpr's They're good neigh- bowie but that's carrying things a bit far, I'd heard all sorts of horror stories about the fantastic prices people charged to .move treee. I was assured that it would cost me a couple of hundred dollars per tree. This was nonsense, as horror stories so often are.I located a tree surgeon who Works for the hydro. His estimate was $65. "Each?", my wife queried, and I kicked her sharply on the ankle. She is always worried about any deals I make. She thinks have no business sense and will be diddled atevery turn. She is right about the first premise, but I have never yet been did- dled,because I trust people. She doesn't, and has been diddled several times. Anyway, that was a firm price for both trees, and I didn't shop arouhd because I thought it was reasonable, and there's nothing I detest more than trying to beat somebody down on a price. Well, it was pretty exciting, George arrived with ropes, chain saws and four husky assistahs. Instead of taking the trees down in pieces, he was going to fell them in the back yard, toward the house. It's a pleasure to see an ex- pert at work. He sized up the trees by eye and reckoned they wouldn't hit the house. I had to take his word for it. If he'd misjudged, one tree would have slammed through the French doors and right into our 'living- rdorA, He went up the tree like a monkey and fastened ropes around it. The Other ends of the ropes were snubbed around trees near the house and the boys stood by, ready to pull, Snarl Wept, the cha.itt„„eave. ileaVe wen the bore, WHAM!. Down cattle •number one, right where he'd lined 'er up. A few minutes later, down came num- bar two, almost missing the peony bed. Thee they went to work like so many beavers, some wielding chain saws, the others piling brush. In three hours from go, the trees were down, sawed into fireplace length, and everything cleaned up. I have ceased worrying about the energy crisis in this country. I have enough elm blocks stacked in wood piles all over the yard to see us through until at least the year 2,000, and of• ter that somebody else can Worry about it, 'There's something snug and homely about a wood pile, Now, instead of looking out and seeing flower beds that need weeding, I can sit and look at my wood piles. I didn't left a finger Thyself, but I feel as smug and satisfied when I look at all that wood as any pioneer ever did when he'd just finished cutting and stacking hie wood for the win- ter. There's only one cloud on the horizon. It's too good to be true. I'll bet that right now, some beady-eyed bureaucrat in the Departmnet of National Revenue is trying to figure out some way of collecting tax on that wood, Fled better not succeed or there'll be trouble. He can sales tax me, income tax me, property tax me, but if he tries to tax my Wood pile it Will be .the final straw and there'll be Murder done, The weapon Will be a two-foot elm block, drop- ped from the bathroom win- dow. Victim's story I could see the sign a hun- dred yards ahead by the side of the highway. Instantly I put my foot heavily on the accelerator. PUPPIES FOR SALE, it said. "Look over there at the magnificent coloring in those trees!" I cried, gesturing wildly in the other direction. But my wife had already seen the sign. "Puppies!" she said in a voice that would have had the proprietor of the place rubbing his palms and dancing with glee. "Oh, we must stop and see them." "We're late already," I protested. She's no good with puppies, I was reminding myself. This will cost me at least twenty-five dollars if , I stop. A great woman, but,no good with puppies. "Pull in," my wife said in a commanding voice. I pulled in. The man was already walking toward us, forming the smile upon his face. We looked at collie puppies, spaniel puppies and uniden- tified puppies. , I looked 10 YEARS AGO JULY 18, 1963 Principal D. J. Cochrane told • the CHSS board on Wednesday that the results of examinations and promotions at the school this year had been "quite respectable", A steady rain throughout the area on Sunday brought relief for parched crops and averted what was turning into a costly drought in many parts of Ontario. Members of the Clinton Public Hospital Board learned Monday that they had managed to stay within their estimated budget for the first, six months of the year and that they were close to half way in their building compaign. Given fair weather, area residents will be able to join others across Canada in obser- ving the eclipse of the sun this Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carter, 386 James Street, Clinton, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary at a surprise sup- per at the home of their son, Kenneth, Kitchener, 'The 20 guests were from Clinton, Lon- don, Stratford, Kitchener and Detroit. 15 YEARS AGO JULY 17,1956 Crowds estimated as high as 9,000 thronged Clinton's streets last Saturday as the notes of the fife and drum bands of Southwestern Ontario Orange Lodges called the Mem- bers to take part in their famed "walk". The occasion was also the centennial anniversary of Clinton's Murphy Lodge LOL NO, 710. Fifty-nine Lodgeitook part in the walk. Murphy Bros., well-known garage operators in Clinton, have purchased a fleet of 18 school buses serving the East Middlesex High School Area, The fleet will be centred at Arve, and Tom Murphy expects to move to that village on Highway 4, to 'manage this end of the business, which trap- obliquely at my wife's eyes. They'd gone all to chocolate. She looked very pretty. Don't be a fool, now, I was reminding myself. You know all about the perils of puppies. You know the incidence of distemper. You know the incredible mortality rate of the puppies in your life. Be strong, man, be strong. "Well," I said loudly, "we were just looking. Must be run- ning along. Lovely pups you have." The man's eyes narrowed. "There's one more I'd par- ticularly like you to see," he said. "A grand little dog if you live in the city." How in the world he knew that, I'll never know. ' He loped around the kennels and came back with the pup in his' arms. I realized instantly what the fellow was up to. He had cunningly saved the most forlorn-looking beast for the last, knowing that no woman alive could resist this pitiful creature. sports pupils to Medway High School. Work has been continuing on the bath-house at the Com- munity Park. Those in charge of sales of tickets in the "buy a block" campaign, report that 50 percent of the objective has been reached. 25 YEARS AGO JULY 15, 1946 In these stifling hot days, with the now dog-banning bylaw in effect, it is to be hoped that the cooped-up dogs are provided with plenty of water and food...Norm Counter, well- known jeweller, makes this suggestion and also adds that this also should go for the birds. For the first time in a decade, Clinton was the scene on Mon- day of the 258th anniversary celebration of the Battle of the, Boyne for all Huron County Orange and LOBA lodges and several from adjoining coun- ties. The 30-lodge parade of about 1,000 people was headed by the two marshals, Thomas Deeves and Mervyn Falconer, both of Murphy Lodge, Clinton, mounted on white horses. The congregation of Ontario St. United Church gathered on Friday evening, -July 9, to honor Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Gib- bings, Mr. Gibbings having resigned as choir leader of the church. Mr. Gibbings has ser- ved M this church in this capacity for 63 years, a record which is believed to be unsur- passed. 40 YEARS AGO JULY 10,1923 R. Sharp, H. T. Rance, Harry Shaw, William 'Tamblyn and William Carter were in an accident neat Centralia when their car overturned, For- tunately 'no One was seriously injured. Clinton Kiltie Band provided musical entertainment at the Garden Party_ at, St, James Mirth, Middlet-Oh, on Tuesday evening, Willis Chtirch and Wesley It was a short-haired terrier of some type. It looked like a tiny goat. But there was wisdom in its eyes. It looked like the kind of a pup who would work any trick to get a home-of its own. This pup, I thought, is the kind that will cock its head to one side quiz- zically if I make a strange noise. If it does that I'm lost. I made a squeak sound just out of curiosity. The pup cocked its head quizzically. "We have to have him," my wife said. I knew she would. She took the puppy from the man and held it in her arms. The pup played it smart as I knew he would. He struggled up to augOe her,,neck,,I won- dered if he had been trained or if he .was self-taught, The pup is outwitting you, chump, I reminded myself. You know how it will be. After everyone has gone to bed it will be you that will be up all night trying to stop this animal from howling its heart out. You know the incredible lung power Church are holding union ser- vices during the summer mon- ths. C. G. Middleton has received a telegram from Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, that the Department of Highways would look after the widening of the Huron Road as soon as possible. 55 YEARS AGO JULY 16, 1906 The Fife and Drum Band un- der the leadership of Fred Mutch won first prize in Goderich on Monday. The leader's son, Willie, delighted his hundreds of listeners with his expert drumming, Ray Ford has sold his prize- winning Black Orpingtons to Mr. Hamilton, London. A horse belonging to Isaac Bezzo dropped dead on the Main Street on Monday. Those of the 33rd Battalion who have gone to Quebec are James W. Manning, Mills Shipley, Louis Manning, Nor- man Sly, William Manning, Charles Macpherson, Victor Goodwin, Melville Graham, D. Forrester, Walter Holmes and Capt. McTaggart, 75 YEARS AGO JULY 15, MO and endurance of these mighty mites, Get out of it quick or you and insomnia will be like that. "It certainly is a nice little dog," I lied expansively. "Too bad we already have a big Labrador. Well, we must " "A dog needs a companion," the man said. He was speaking directly to my wife. The puppy whined piteously, as I knew he would. "How much?" my wife asked. "I'll make it twenty-five," the man said gently. "I like my dogs to have good homes." We drove in silence for ten or 12 miles. "Would you hold him in your lap for awhile?" my wife asked. "All right," I said. She put the puppy in my lap. "I suppose you want me to learn to love him," I snarled, "Well, it isn't exactly that," my wife tittered, "but I think he's going to be car sick." And he was. There was a noticeable frost on Sunday night which nipped corn, peas, and such like tender plants; it is also said to have affected fall wheat. John Stephenson, pump- maker, turned out a tub last week, for use on the Ransford farm that was 6 x 10 feet, and calculated to hold one hundred barrels. The partnership between A. C. Mowat and Angus Johnson, as coal and wood dealers, has been dissolved by mutual con- sent; the business will be con- tinued on in the future by Mr. Johnson, under the old firm name of Mowat and Johnson; Mr, Johson is an old Clin- tonian. Last Week W. W. Farran pur- chased a pair of pretty drivers from a dealer in St. Thomas; they are not matched in color, but both have a fast record. John Oovett has bought a new driver. H. J. Cluff is investing in a horse and buggy for his personal pleasure. The Auburn Brass Band L.O,L. No, 932, also a large crowd of people took in the celebration at Blyth on the 12th. It is estimated that 6,000 persons were present, there being 17 Orange lodges represented and three 'true Blue lodges, one from Wingham, one from Walton and one from Colborne Town- ship. Dear Editor: We still haven't located al our C.W.A.C. friends of thole great service days of VVORLI WAR II The news media have helpet a great deal in other years, sc once again we call al, Canadian Women's Arrn3 Corps Veterans to Annual Reunion through the medium of this release. This event is sponsored by the Canadian • Corp Association C.W.A.C. Unit No. 47, the last weekend in Septem• ber, 1973, in Toronto, Canada, This is the 32nd Anniversary for our Canadian Women's Army Corps - 1941 - 1973. Here is our schedule in brief:- Friday evening from 7 p.m. September 28th -- Photo viewing, Wreath-layin Ceremony, Social Time, Dan cing and Fun; Saturday, 1 noon to closing, Septembe 29th -- Reunion. Luncheon Banquet, Dancing and Fun fo all. For complete Reunio brochure, write to C.W.A.0 Veterans Reunion Chairman (Mrs.) Shirley Wood Heesaker 201 Niaraga Street, Toront M5V 1C9, Ontario, Canada. Dear Editor: When August rolls aroun this year, one of Agricultur Canada's best known per sonalities will retire from th department. A. R. "Art Buckle will be leaving the Pla Research Institute in Ottaw after three and a half decad of service. As you know, Art ha authored Garden Notes to th enjoyment of 4nany reader across the country. The latest word from ou Plant Research Institute is tha they are looking far a suitabl replacement to carry on wit Garden Notes; however, it ma be some time before one found. In the meantime, w will be forced to discontinu the cdlimm, Thlit means `tli August 6 edition will be th final one until the Plan Research Institute is in position to start the colurn again. We are pleased that you found Art's contribution t Canadian gardening useful "Gleanings from Garde Notes" are available from th Information Division o request. "Gleanings" is a corn pilation of Art's writings ove the years. Don F. Kirkland Head English Press Unit Dear Editor: Sports in Clinton have become quite developed and are becoming better and better all the time. Many people are to b thanked but I believe th coaches who spend many lon hours with the players are th main ones since many team would be unavailable if it wer not for them, Parents mug also play a important part as spectator and be willing to drive th players to out-of-town games The athletes Must also be On couraged NOT criticized a most players are giving 100 per cent to help his or her tea come but on the winning side Criticizing only makes thing Worse since it Makes the playe nervous, therefore making ram. errors. I encourage the parents t come out but please, thin before you make some playe feel so terrible that he or .sh makes another error and if the do, you can feel that you wer the cause of it. A concerned athlete A Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Amociation, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit 'Bureau of Circulation (ABC) THE CLINTON 'NEW ERA Arnalgarnated Establithed 1865 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1861 Clinton News-Record