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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-08-23, Page 4sseseelieeeeeeisil ony A MAU ON SAVE . Him NOW THE CLINTON N EW ERA Established lees Amalgamated l624 THE HURON NEWS-FIECOAD Established leaf Published every 'Thu** at Clinton, Ontailo Editor - Janie, t Ottrgiorekt General Manager, J. Howard Aitken Second Class Mall neglitration Oftli et) RUB Of -HURON 'tOuNtv "1i4t Wihik OF 100 tAKAIA" tionadiati Community faiivialuiper Member, °Made itialitly Newspaper Aisocistion Crossing guards Dear Editor: Of interest to parents of all school-aged children, I am sure, was your front page ar- ticle of August 16th headed, "Clinton Council rejects school crossing guards," In addition to the immediate reaction of disgust at this con- tinued apathy towards positive safety measures, several questions arise.".,.after con- siderable debate and a recor- ded vote," says your article. If the vote was recorded, how did those present vote? I think con- cerned parents deserve to know. The program to use senior students as guards, you say later on, "was turned down by the department of education in Toronto." Why? Such a program has been successful in other Ontario communities-why not here? Having shied away from spending money for crossing guards, council shunted the problem back to the police com- mittee. Surely the past has shown that the Clinton Police cannot always be at the school crossing at the appropriate times--they do have POLICE duties to perform, too--and that guards are needed at all three of the highway crossings named in the defeated motion. Is council unable to consider other alternatives that could possibly solve the problem? Yours very truly, Helen R. Tench Clinton Help wanted Dear Editor: Vanastra is a growing town # with pleetysof opporeertitiee. As the pastbrete Calvatyaleinple, I appreciate the cooperation of the people. I have a Sunday Service for everyone at 3 p.m. Thursday, choir practice at 7 p.m. and on Friday nights for children from seven to 12 years, under the leadership of Rose Bakker there wilt be crafts and Bible stories to train them to be better children, There are sports on Monday and Tuesday evenings, football for boys 15 to 19 years, soccer for boys under 15 and softball for girls. I wish to tha;ik Mr. Fred Ginn for building 83, used for these services. With fall coming, we will need a heating system which will cost $3,080. I would appreciate if anyone could help with the cost as I feel this is a worthy cause helping the children and youth `..ecorne good citizens. Pastor Leslie Hoy. 524.8823. Opinion S in order that News—Record readers might express tlieir opiniOns On any tattle of public interest, Letters To The Editor are always welcome for publication, But the writers of such , letters, as well at all readers, are reminded that the opinions expressed in letters published are not necessarily the opinions held by The News—Record. 4—CLINTON •WW. $:-RECORD, 'THt"FtSPAY., AUGUST 23, .1973 Pow' we get letters The crossing guard question vision and the police should do that while others counter that eelice also have their regular police duties to per- form, What Is the answer? We don't know and can offer no opinions on the Matter. The question of whether to have crossing guards or not, rests with the taxpayers of Clinton. They should make their opinions known either by writing this newspaper or contacting one of the members of couneil, It would appear to be that sim- pie. Once the council knows where their electors stand, then they can re-examine the $3,000 expenditure to see if it is warranted or not, Multiply by two if you're as couple, Then there are the ever- present extras; new clothes, expenses to get to city to get passports, and the inevitable sundries, too numerous to mention, as the auction stile ads put it. That's before you get on the plane. You still have to eat and sleep for three weeks after you get there. However, I've cut the whole thing down quite a bit by can- ceiling our two daily paper deliveries for three weeks, Saved about $6.50 right there. Our firitrail pess allows us to go anywhere in the U.K. It may come in handy. We may be riding treins all night, every night, to save hotel bills. And we're taking along an eight-pound salami and six loaves of bread, so we might come through. I have a vague idea that this column Will net go down es one of the greatest pieces of exotic travel literature ever written. tut it is a little hectic around here, Six hours to takeoff, my wife is just start- ing to pack, I have to go down and sell my soul to the bank manager, get up to the school and look sifter some items for September, see young Wilson next door ;about feeding the cat, tall the boy about mowing the lawn, pick up the dry-cleanin,g, get the book-back to'the library, end, 'somehow in there, try to have a shower and shave. We might make it, but I wouldn't bet higher than even money. I'll try to do better next week, when you'll have a despatch from The Nag's Head, Middle Wallop, Eng- -held. It's because of the readers Clinton Council's decision last week not to hire school crossing guards for the highway crossings in town seems to have sparked a minor debate in town. With legitimate arguments coming from both sides of the questions. Some say we are endangering the lives of hundreds of children by not providing them with a supervised means of crossing highways on their way to and from school. Others point to the record at the high- way crossing points which shows no ad- cidents have occurred at them in the past three involving schoolLaged children on their way to or from school. Others say that only the crossing at Ontario and gast Streets needs super- It was with great pleasure last week that the News-Record learned that this paper has been chosen among the best of the weekly newspapers in Canada in its circulation class, Not that we're bragging, but it's hard to know if the paper that hits the streets and mailboxes of Clinton and area every week is a good product or a poor one, One can't always tell if the readers are satisfied or unhappy with this newspaper. Winning a newspaper competition doesn't really prove if the readers are happy or not, but it does tell us that in our circulation bracket, compared with other newspapers of similar size, the paper is, in the judges' eyes anyway, one of the better ones. But the real reason that the News- Record is one of the top newspapers is because of its readers. No paper can ever hope to continue unless the readers On censorship Recently a large daily newspaper ran a feature article which was frightening. It showed the extent to which young children are bombarded through their senses by pop songs, pop singers and TV movies into juvenile delinquency. The pop songs featured sex and drugs in lurid and lustful,. detail urging par- ticipatiorr We" inctuded inter- views with police officers and others who had to deal with increasing juvenile delinquency. The advertising fraternity has been exploiting sex for 25 years to sell con- sumer products. In more recent years however, sex and violence have become the, main themes of movies, TV films and plays to the almost complete exclusion of ail other aspects of human experience. Pornographic literature in- - creases and is readily available to all ages. We are bombarded with the lurid, the sick, the depraved, the degenerate case history or tale, And, as the colum- The high cost of My wife cannot tiederstand et'en'y anyone wants to travel, when he can sit in his own backyard and commune with the gods, Pm beginning to agree with her, "Getting ready is kind of a tern in the arm, especially if you must have a vaccination, Obtaining a passport sounds easy. Heck., it's more trouble than getting married or dying. All you have to do is till in a form, The form is slightly more complicated than your income tax form. Then, you must find someone who will swear that you are who you say you are. This person is called a guarantor and can be practi- cally anyone except your neighbour. Then you must obtain a birth certificate. This is fairly simple if you know where you were born. If you don't, or you happened to be born in Zilch, Yugoslavia, it can be complex. You must have passport pheitoe taken. You can't just use an old snapshot in which you look your beet. Passport photos are an old joke. They usually make you look like a zombie. Strangely, ours turned out well. We didn't pose for them, because we knew they'd be gruesotne, so they taint out relaxed, Besides passports and both certificates, there is o myriad of other pother to look after, and you could use a full-time clerk for e week or two. Air tickets, money arrangements, hotel teserva- tionse -and who'e going to teed the tat. A travel Agent is almost a must in these days, when half the world seems to be on the Move, He or .the can Who Iunit? Would one of you please drop me a line and tell me if Claude Rains got his divorce from Ann Todd and , if so, did she marry Trevor Howard and, if so, what in the world happened to Trevor's wife? When I left them things were in a frightful mess. Claude had just flown in unexpectedly and found that his wife, Ann, had a suite adjoining Trevor's (though, mind you, it was purely accidental) and, naturally, he couldn't help but think they'd resumed their old, mad affair. Oh, I know that Trevor was protesting that he was happily married. But, after all, he'd told Ann in the begin- ning that he'd Love her the rest of her life and what with Claude being; a cold-blooded business tycoon and Trevor being a warm-hearted biologist it looked to me as U.—. But there I go again. Another late night movie has come and gone on my television screen and I'm left floundering in a morass of questions, questions, questions, 10 YEARS AGO August 29, 1983 Despite the weather, the Clinton Cavalcade of Bands '63 was a very impressive show as far as talent- went. The early evening rain followed by cool temperatures limited the crowd to less than 200. Due to last minute circumstances three bands could not appear but the other five more than made up for their absence. The enrollment in CHSS is mounting steadily and is already up to 1,235 with prospective students still lining up at the door to register, The technical and commercial cour- ses are filled to overflowing with last minute arrivals. The enrollment still has another :week to run and many more students are expected to register. The flower show was the set- tees it was expected to be with close to 400 exhibits. The show was judged by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warren, Goderich, as.Mrs. Moorhead was unable to at- tend due to illness. The couple seemed to favour darker shades of flowers as all three winners were either a deep red or pur- ple. Plait and Game Midgets beat New Hamburg 13.6 to 'win the series in two straight games. They will now Meet Meaford for the crown. For the last two years IVIeaford and Clinton have ;net in the WOAA chem. pionehip and Clinton has won both times so are now trying for three times in a tow. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Edwards, Totento, have purchased the P,B. Petmeltaltet 1.13.A, Drug Store on Albert St, Mr, Ed- wards intends to gradually retire but will continue business for a while. IS YEARS AGO -August 26, 1048 l;llwood ;:ppa and Walter C. Was Ann secretly hoping that Trevor would renounce his lit- tle family? Did she rue the day, as they say, when she married Claude for his money? Was Claude so ruthless that he'd kick Ann out forever because of this chance meeting with Trevor? I may never know. Once more the sandman had emerged triumphant over the nocturnal cinema and I'd ad- ded another half-movie to my collection. Ordinarily I can take television or leave it alone, but the late-night movie, which comes on at an hour when I'm thinking seriously about beddy- by-lows, holds a fatal attrac- tion. Well, I think, yawning, I'll just have a glance at it. Who knows? Might be a good one fot a change. There then ensues a truly epic struggle between trying to remain awake and abreast of the twists and turns of the plot and the natural im- pulse to sail oft on a slow boat to dreamland. Smith distinguished themselves by getting a piece on the 10 man .22 calibre pistol team representing Canada in a match involving United States, England, and Mexico. Canada came second to United States. Ellwood Epps is the new ,22 calibre pistol champion of Canada. He shot a 287 diat of a possible 300 to capture the title. He had never shot in a pistol competition previously, uttex" a beautiful St, Ber, eard dog arrived in town Saturday, bone the worse for his trip by Canadian Express halfway across the contieent. He was met by his master Joe St. Anises, Albert St. /-lis brother tent the dog from New 13ruitswick for $9. Rex is one of the kindest atid most loved dogs in Clinton for all of his 90 pounds. He delights in giving sled rides to ehildten in winter, A farmer in Clinton shipped 90 head of cattle this week and received a cheque for $38,411, The steers brought an average or 30 cents, a pound on the hoof. A Goderich taxi answering a call from a girl in Gederieh was surprised when he was told to catch a certain car heading for Bayfield. After a while his curiosity got the better of him. She told him that she had gone to a picture show with her boyfriend and her new upper plate had become uneornfor- table. She had slipped it into his pocket and forgot to reclaim it. The driver soon caught'up with the ear tied the teeth were returned. SO YEARS AGO August 23, 1923 Mr. T.N. Leppington had a floral freak. It is a Siamese twin dahlia composed of two faiissited blooms, fastened together at the base of the blossom. The two sterile were joined all the way down. The rain of Saturday, Mon- day, and Tuesday will greatly As you know, if you've stayed up for these things, the late- night movie is almost always a soporific with the swift effect of a triple nembutal. This is everybody's cure for insomnia. Trouble is that having dozed off after 30 minutes of action, which is about my mean average, you're going to be haunted by the agony of never knowing the denouement. Only the other night, by way of example, I went into a coma about midway through an an- cient item called, if I'm not mistaken, "Always in My Heart." I awoke with the playing of the national anthem and staggered off to bed. There I stared into the darkness for I don't know how long won- dering if Walter Huston had become reunited with Kay Francis. You see, Walter was serving a life sentence, but when his pardon came he didn't let Kay know because she was thinking of marrying this rich man and so on. Then there was that night when Melvyn Douglas was benefit late root crops and renew pastures. It came too late to fill in the grain crops which have mostly been harvested. Farmers will now be able to stop feeding their cattle and let them forage on their own, Huron County was much better off than many areas whose soil is lighter and dries out much easier. A despatch from the Ministry of Agriculture says that while there is yet time for more damage to crops the worst is over, The result seems to be that ten percent of all the crops were lOst. The new post office was for- mally opened on Friday evening by Dr, N. Wood, Dr. Wood, the postmaster, is to be honorably commended for the handsome concrete structure of two and a half stories which adorns the Main St. The September Departmen- tal Examinations will be held at the Inspectorate of East Huron at Clinton begineing Sept. 6. going to be sued and would surely lose his business, but his lawyer told him he could save it ail by transferring his holdings to his wife. Trouble was that he didn't have a wife and so, purely for convenience, he married Claudette Colbert, his secretary, and that's when I left. When I woke up it was all over. At the office next day people thought I was out of my mind. "You don't happen to know how Melvyn and Claudette made out," I asked the office beauty, herself an inveterate late-night movie fan. "I was on the other station," she replied," and I'm dying to know if Faye Emerson ding Ped' from prison:. You seeeFaete wke this girl who'd gone wrong and she was planning to break out of jail, but one of the other in- mates was deaf and could read lips, you see, and when I fell asleep...." I walked rapidly away from her, I've got enough lives to straighten out as it is. • 15 YEARS AGO August 25, 1898 A light or two are to be put in the Harbor Park to prevent people at night from stumbling over the little knolls. On Monday Mr. J. Taylor handed Mrs. W. Cooper a cheek for $1,000 being the amount owed to her husband by the in- surance company, This is prompt payment as her husband died last Tuesday. The W. Doherty Co. are pushing their business. With a staff of 140 they ate putting out front sixteen to eighteen per day. Until presently all orders have been for the European market but are now taking up general orders, There was a big shipment of cheese from the Clinton station when the Holtnesville, Summethill and Brucefield fat-, tories consigned to Thos. Ballantyne and Setts of Strat- ford. travelling smooth a lot of wrinkles and give valuable tips on how to win at least the occasional round in the game, Many people go to big agencies in the city, My travel nein, e personable young local ehttp, couldn't have been more helpful and efficient. ;Aside to Rill Mandly: everything, by golly, had better be right, after that,) He iced me something about air tares that is almost unbelievable, A return ticket to the U.K. tan run all the way from a Christmas char- ter at $187 to a regular flight at $626 tender two weeks). I shudder to thir( what a first-class ticket would cost in the latter category. Of course, a business man can write off the $626 as expenses, and to the little old lady going back for a visit after fifty years, that $187 special might represent months of scrimping. Even so, something smells, lo the ' discrepancy. , Travelling is tot cheap, unless you went to swim across, which I've contem- plated e couple of times as the bills mount, Only reason I haven't developed the idea is that my wife is e good swimmer, but only for about thirty yards. rd hate to see her go Clown thirty yards off the Halifax docks, and have lotto all the rest on my own, with nobody to tell me I was steering the wrong course. - Not 'eheapl Good gravy. .1uSI 'looked over the items before we even left ,the house, Mr ticket e— $332; passport photo * $3; pass- port p $10; birth certificate $3;:liteousine to airport $8; '13 ritrail pass — $70, Those are 'feet the basics. are behind it 100 percent, Should the paper cease to be read, then everything else falls down and the paper, a voice and mirror of the community! would cease too. Luckily, readers in Clinton and area take their small town weekly paper seriously .. most of the time ,.. and con- tinue to buy it, read it, and contribute to it. Advertisers continue to advertise in it and the paper prospers. This year's Canadian Community Newspaper Awards serve only to remind the paper that it was doing an adequate job last year and hard work and per- severance need to continue in order to keep up the high quality of journalistic standards that the judges say it has. The two third place awards and the second place award will only act as a Stimulus to bring the paper to new heights in serving the community. nist said, somebody is making a pile of money in this bombardment, For those of us in society who are adults with a sense of responsibility, it is surely time we sought action from gover- nment to establish standards and set laws covering literature, music, films and other forms of entertainment to which juveniles have easy access. We Should urge our governments, in- dividually and collectively, to consider asking representatives from social agen- cies, churches, the medical profession, philosophical and other groups, to draw up a set of standards on which a few tough laws could be legislated, This would phase out the rip-off artists and their garbage now flooding the markets and demoralizing children. Future generations would thank us for our concern in taking positive action on censorship which makes sense. (The United Church)