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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)
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