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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-10-04, Page 44---MINTON NEWS-RECORD. 1171DRSP4Y, OCTOBER a, 1970 Editorial comment, Old dogs and new tricks The old adage, "You can't teach an Old dog new Woks," is full of fallacy if One looks at the ever increasing enrollment offered by area community courses and night schools. Both Conestoga College, Clinton Cen- tre and Central Huron Secondary School are offering a wider range of night cour- ses, this year and judging by the com- ments of the local educators, enrolment in courses this winter will be the highest ever. More and more people are learning that education doesn't necessarily stop when you are finished your so-called for- mal education. In the fast changing and complex society in which we are living, constant upgrading of our knowledge is required to stay in the mainstream of ad- vancement. Many of us older folk will go to night school to increase , and update our . knowledge, while others will go to open up new horizons to them, Some will even go just for entertainment or to socialize. But the most important reason for taking extra curricular education is thel motivation behind it. It's done strictly on a voluntary basis and that's what makes the older students so willing to learn. They usually go to school more alert than regular day students and thus make ideal students. Teachers at night school have little trouble, they say with inatten- tive students. Judging too, but the wide variety of courses offered this year, interest spans a broad spectrum of subjects from the traditional subjects to ones such as' fixing your own car or growing your own geraniums, We recommend our readers to these night courses. Old dogs can learn new tricks, and sometimes better than young dogs. Crosswalks mean caution Clinton, Council's decision to install crosswalks for use by public school aged children in the town represents a giant step in the right direction and a recognition of their part that the safety of the children is a responsibility of everyone, including parents, teachers, and the town. The new crosswalks to be installed at a four crossing points in Clinton, while giving the children an extra safety margin, does not mean that motorists are to stop and let the children cross. They serve only as a warning to motorists that children could be crossing there during school hours. The French fact It looks as if the usually haughty English community in Montreal has finally , gotten the message about the French fact in Quebec - bilingualism in particular. The Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, which runs most of the city's English schools, has enjoyed so much success with its French immer- sion kindeigarten program - that it's in trouble! French immersion classes, begun five years ago on the English education scene, simply means that English- speaking kids are taught in French right from kindergarten up - with a daily period of English to keep their hand in their native culture. . The big headache faced by the school board now, is that so few parents want their children to attend purely English- They do not take the responsibility from the children or parents of ensuring that they are to be used carefully. Children using them should be cautioned just as before on the proper procedure when crossing a busy high- way. Motorists, naturally, will be better war- ned that children are crossing to school, but they too should use extra caution when children are near the crosswalks. All it takes for an accident free year is a little common sense and training, and the crosswalks will serve their purpose. Misuse of them however, could spell tragedy. language kindergartens in west-end Montreal's predominantly English sec- tions that they can hardly make up one class of 28 pupils from four neigh- bouring schools - with one of these schools being in that bastion of ail things British - Westmounti The board is franticaily casting around ' for solutions. Should they put the one or- phan English kindergarten in one school and bus the tots in from surrounding neighbourhoods? If so, who pays for the bussing? Neither parents nor the board want to pay the shot. Who would have thought such a problem would ever arise, even three or four years ago? It seems that both English and French Canadians in Quebet;: have come a long, long way! (contributed) Sugar and Spice/1y Bill Smiley The' Jack Scott Column 1111 In NI News _ tern: TOOACCQINDPSTKY !AOKI% 1.,:51),Fr C lOWITE TOffia@ga) GaMTNIE?! *WfliktilaGe 11011-5110KINGi MAY se DETRIMENTAL TO OA MUM lee tike- • • "Voila! We've finally come up with a completely safe cigarette it's fireproof!" Death in the sun we get letters 'rug C. NION NEW ERA Established 1865 AmoIgurinth-ii 1924 COmmi, THE #113RCN NEWS-RECORD Es/ebbs/led Itist CD WO E3 +CNA cm:. " APt alletrthilor* Oikaadtatt Comintinlly NeWspapirr Aultoclation Maniber, Onion* Wimary tionnisaapar Asaacianan Clinton News-Record *ON PublliftWd every thurtritay at Clinton, Ontario Jantee E. Oltzgerald General Manager, Howard Aitken Second floss Mall reoletratIon no, de1/ Yt4t 14004 Itf.Dfdf 'CAtidht..0 -VP 14Ua 0 iI.UO014 Here's to pubs I promised there'd be no more tolumns about England. This one won't be, but it wilt be about people we met there. Half the fun of travelling le the people you meet. That's why I wouldn't be too keen on taking one of those tours, where you go everywhere with the Smile forty or so people, and are stuck with them for three or four weeks, and don't meet anyone fresh. For example, while we were in London, I found it pleasant to etroll down to the bat for a pre-luncheon pint while my wife was muddling around in the Morn, worrying about washing her halt or something. For several days, we formed a congenial group theme. A far- flung group. There was old Jack from South Africa, with one aluminum aft and one ditto leg. I-ie'd whack his ar- tificial leg with his cane to ern- phasize a point, There was Ron, an Australian dealer in stamps. There was a Highland Scot. There was an Irish bar- tender, And there was your blue-eyed boy from Canada. English, Yanks and Canadians were excluded. Other Canadians, that is. We got along first-rate, end there Was an easy tolerance that I noticed during the ever when there might be bodies of ten different nations on one Squadron, I didn't go after Jack 'about apartheid or Ron about Australian treatinent of aborigines and nobody 'Went af- ter trie about but Eskimos. The itiabtaau and the Scot were a bit hostile, but only about the English. Rather, we talked about the itrtportant things in life; heating bills (about $50 a year in S.A. atui less in Sydney); housing casts (about the same everywhere); wives (about the same everywhere); rotten kids (ditto); income tax (ditto). Not very enlightening, you'll say, but comfortable, easy con- versation, With rte strain or stridency. Than our wives would arrive and the common- wealth confetence would break up until next day et norm. We met dozens of interesting people like this, easily and amiably, The pub is the great In Canada, people in a bar Sit in their owe tight little groups at a table, a waiter ser- ves them, and they are like an island, no contact with anybody else. Or if they are alone, they ait at the bar and glower into the mirror or into their drink, gloomily. In Britain, it's just the op- posite. If you're at a table, you fetch your own drinks and anyone is liable to sit down with you. 'Very casual. Plitt thing you know, you're chat- ting. Next thing you know, you're bosom chums. Example. One night after show, we Went into a pub for a drink and a steak-and-kidney pie. Three people sat down at our table, chattering in what Sounded like Oerman. It Was botch, A girl, newly married and living in London, arid her parents, first time in England. Father Spoke a tittle English, mother bad, a big smile. In five Minutes we were chat- ting away like old Mende. Father fetched his wife a gin. Came back looking reiefulty into his three-tmarters of an ounce. Said, Here de' "oat vet de bottom of de glass. In Witld.," arid he held up thumb and forefinger'about four inches apart, We parted in half an home but only after the girl in- sisted we come and see her in London, and gave us address and phone number. It couldn't happen here. Our watering establishments ate built for masochists or people Who have good night vision and tan see in the dark. They're not for companionship and frien- dliness. Example. We were having lunch in a pub hi North Wales, at the bar. Four brawny, dirty Welshmen came in and started hooting and hollering at it tremendous volume, teasing the barmaid, downing pints and drowning out any " attempt at conversation. My old lady, who is not noted for her prurience, modesty or reserve, turned around and snapped, "Shut upi" Their jaws fell, The bar- maid silently applauded. I thought one of them was going to wipe her off the stool with a backhander. Ile was only a little guy, about six-two and 220 pounde. That cog me four fast pints while I babbled that she was only kidding arid was -really a delightful, charming girl at heart. Twenty minutes later, they were eorriplainieg that we'd missed the great Eistedd- fod in Llangollen, an annual competition of choirs from all over the world, held right there. Betause the bus service was slow, one- of them peeked usinto his van, and drove us twenty miles to Wrexham, a forty-mile round trip for him. It may sound like a glorified pub,craWl, It wasn't. There are 800 nubs in Greater London, and We Missed most of them. But, if you warit meet people, no better way. I came away from my first (and last) bullfight in Mexico City with mixed emotions. The lasting impression I carry is one of evil. I felt a shame at being there. I would not go again. But there were many moments when, in spite of myself, I thrilled to it. This confusion seems the common experience of most Anglo- Saxons who find themselves for the first time in the Plaza, The apologists try to minimize the sadism that's so much a part of this death in the afternoon. They talk mystically of the esoteric aspects of the struggle between man and bdast in which the bull is said to represent power, ferocity, and ignorance, while the matador epitomizes in- telligence, grace and courage. One authority writes: "The bull spends the first four years of its life literally living on the fat of the land and the last 15 minutes of it in mortal combat. Do many other animals which come into contact with human beings have such good luck?" But that is a weak point. The 10 YEARS AGO October 10, 1963 A team consisting of Robert Hickey, Auburn, and Kenneth Grindley, Goderich, took top honours in the junior high school division _of the annual Huron County Plowing Match for Central Huron Secondary School. Over half the core testants who were entered were Under .21 years of age so the future for further competitions looks bright. Boron Warden, Waltet For- bes, reeve of Goderich Town- ship, Placed second in the an- nual competition for wardens at the 50th International Plowing Match. Cone Sneythe'e, fertile land proved to be just what Western Ontario county wardens are accustomed to as they walked off with the top five prizes in this special event. Clinton's Fish and Gaine Midgets were eliminated from the OBA semi-finals by a strong team from Ajax. Many of the same youths were mem- bers of the Bantam squad lag season. They wore eliminated from the finale by the same Ajax squad. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R. ,Taylor were honored with a surprise patty on the occasion of their 110th wedding anniver- sary last Friday everting. Robert Phillips played a tune an an nld handorgan which was over 100 years old while Mr. and Mts. Taylor were escorted into the hall by Mr. arid Mrs, Thomas Johnston. 25- YEARS AGO October 14, 1948 Mrs. Wesley Vartderbutgh, Clinton, has some nice red raspberries in the middle of Oc- tober. They are a Mile out of season but are delicious never- theleas, Mrs. Herb Megiddo, Auburn, has also picked some lovely 'ones lag week because of the warm weather fled lots of rain, bull is tormented and degraded. He perishes in a bath .of blood. Once in a great while he is saved for breeding pur- poses, But the six bulls who en- tered the ring on the day I was there were doomed and to me that was the evil of it. I won't soon forget that moment when the darling of the day, a young Spaniard, plunged the sword deep into the aorta of the bull in "the moment of truth." The bull sank to its knees, bewildered, as if drowsy, and then collap- sed with the dark blood heavy on its back. A great moan of ap- preciation came from the throats of 50,000 people. It seemed to me pure savagery. The Mexicans deny this. They tell you earnestly that there is beauty and poetry in it. In the English-language newspaper I saw how it looked through the eyes of an ate ficionado-critic. "It was a fight you have to see," the review went, "and you have to feel and you have to remember and kindle over and over again when the critics Charles V. Cook has just returned from a fishing trip to Northern Ontario. Both he arid his son Kenneth C. Cooke, Stratford, flew in by plane and discovered a lake where no white man is believed to have fished before. The fish were really biting, judging by the wonderful catches of pickerel and pike they made, Clinton Colts lost the first OBA final game to Caledonia 15.10, They have only one more chance to stay in the run- ning for the °Math) Baseball Association Intermediate "C" championship, arid they must win that game. Both managers have agreed to reducing the series to the best two,out-of- three due to the lateness of the season arid the change in the weather. It has dropped frotn weather typical of Florida to that which is worthy of the north pole. Huron County is well represented at the Inter- national Plowing Match, which opened Tuesday and continues until tomorrow, just west of Lindsay, Victoria County J.C. Bennie, assistant agricultural representative, coached a "Junior Farmer team which has done well in the competition. Many 'others have gone to com- pete in the contests which make up the Plowing Match. SO YEARS AGO October 11, 101 Mr. Guy Hicks has received a legacy from an uncle from England. The legacy will be divided between three relatives but is Still a nice windfall to have thrown in your lap without expecting its exigence. This is the second old-country estates which has been divided up among residents of 'Clinton and vicinity. Despite the inclement weather good crowds thronged the basement of Ontario Street Church on Friday when the W.M.A. britiar was held. Every start saying that 'fiesta brava' is finished. It is not finished, It will never be finished, and it is good to say it and feel the words strong inside you." This is meaningless to the man who has just seen his first fight. For one thing, the hull is not a free instrument of destruction, It must be maimed, by the sharp-pointed pit in the hump on its neck, so that it will keep its head down. It must be tortured by the gaily-colored banderillas that draw blood in the shoulders. It must be tantalized by the bright cape of the matador which it sees dimly as its real enemy. And so the whole dance of death is contrived and false. Nothing in the name of sport or spectacle would justify in my eyes the cruelty of all this, but I could not help speculating cynically that the bull fights only once. If he had a return engagement, a knowledge of the conditions of the contest and thus same working odds, things might be different. I said I was thrilled, There's no denying it. The cry of "Ole!" booth was very attractive especially the Japanese booth run by Miss Sybil Courtice and her helpers in traditional costumes. Tea also in the traditional style was served to anyone wishing a cup. Tim booth was the centre of interest for the afternoon. "Cherry" last year's catcher with the Zurich baseball team and later with the London Mint League has been drafted to the Chicago National League team. Cherry is the best catcher this area has seen for a long time. Mr. It. Smyth, who pur- chased the Reece orchard last fall will have over 8,000 barrels this year. The season is good for apples and is rising quickly. 75 YEARS AGO tepteinber 14, 1898 Fred l'ebbutt of Goderich "Township has some very large apples in his crop this year. Ile has at least a half-doten of the Northern Spy variety which measure over eleven inches in circumference, They were an excellent specimen except for from 50,000 voices, rising in volume and intensity as the matador draws the bull into repeated passes, is a sound that's bound to have, an effect on your nerve-ends. There is probably no other example of mob psychology so terribly compelling. More than that, the perfor- mance of the Spaniard WAS pure theatre. It was arrogant and it was vicious and it was as cold as a diamond and I realized for the first time how a writer with the intelligence of Hemingway could be fascinated and absorbed by such men as these. When the great, lifeless bulk of the black bull had beam :)ragged out of the axertilitY'et, horse team, and the little men had come out to cover the bloodstains where it fell, the matador circled the ring, accep- ting the plaudits, whipping the hysteria ever higher. In his hand he tarried the gory ears and tail of the vanquished bull, who is "rewarded" by this final degradation if he has perfor- med to the fancy of the crowd. I was glad to get out of there. their unusual size. Last week, Doherty and Co. received an order from a Liver- pool company for 25 each of their different styles of organs, This is the second large order from this firm since the factory went back to work. Mrs. J.F. Parke returned on Saturday last from London where she has been pursuing her studies on china painting for the last month. She is well known through her paintings in oil but it would seem, judging by the fine work she has done this year, that it is in ceramic art she excels. Mr. T.J. Moorhouse, though not a permanent resident of Bayfield all the time, can claim to be a pioneer of Huron County having eaten his first meal at the River Howe in 1854. At this time the only method of conveyance was the stage line from London to Goderich via Clinton every Thursday morning and via Bayfield every Monday. So he came up on a Monday he came through Bayfield and liked the town so he stayed. Unwanted Dear Editor: I wonder if you could pleas print the following letter in till News-Record. To whom it may concern: I picked up a half-starved 12 14 week-old puppy Monday. Hi "was curled up sleepng in t ditch a mile and a quarter fron Vanastra. You know I'd keep hin myself except I already have t dog that was dropped off a l sorneoneit home the same way few months ago. But I will tr3 to find him a home. If dropping an unwanted defenceless animal off in e ditch on a lonely road relieve your conscience, "then I would consider you to be a very ignorant, unfeeling unwantec, member of our community! Sincerel Mickey Not Tragedy Dear Editor: Early Saturday mire ning, Bonnie Gates, 17, of Stra ford, died after she was strut by a west-bound vehicle Another young life was take; We read so many of these an nouncements in the paper, bu this one, to me and my senio ballet students, was unforget tably sad. If you remember our Centen nial Ballet Recital in Clintot in 1967, you will envision Bon nee like a figurine in her whit{ tutu, full of grace and charm Her big, dark eyes, full of ex pression, added special value tc her classical dance. She was my favourite student, because of her en thusiasm and pure feelings it her form of dancing. In her last Christmas card tc me from Stratford, Bonnie; wrote "I wish you were here teaching me." Now, I any wishing that Bonnie could have theen me,ckelopoeeebue -the ma of death iS beyond us and we can only remember her like a personification of a young, full of values, 17 year old girl, whom we will never forget. I wish to render my sincere thanks to the Editor for letting us express our feelings in this way. Yours very truly, Mrs. M. Zablocki, Clinton. Prime time U.S. Secretary of Transpor- tation, Claude S. Brinegar, recently said he suspects that before long a few cities "will be looking at the possibility of licensing the use of freeways, with fees higher -- like movie theatres or long distance telephone calls -- during prime time." Quoted by the Ontario Safety League. From our early files • Op in t t11 s n Order that News—Record readers 'might express their opinions on Shy topic of public interest, Letters TO The t altar 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 ate not necessarily the opinions held by The News--Record.