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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1973-11-29, Page 44,-CLINTOH NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1973 Editorial Comment The furnace goes out Recent actions by both the Canadian and the American governments on the growing shortage of energy must and should be taken seriously. Even though many people still believe that the current talk of the shortage of fuel is either an Arab bargaining tool to win their recent war with Israel, or a plot by the oil companies to jack up fuel prices, or a lot of loud mouthing by a bunch of idealists, there is much merit in taking a closer look at our energy uses. The facts are too important to ignore. Most of our energy, once used, is gone for all intents and purposes, forever. Oil especially is a non-renewable resource. Once burned, itcan't be put back in the ground. What took microbes millions of years to form can be completely used up in a century. An incredible tragedy. Guest opinion Bus safety Jack Riddell, Liberal M.P.P. for Huron is pushing for passage of a bill in the' Ontario Legislature that would hopefully improve the safety factor in school bus operations. The recent "rash" of ac- cidents in which school buses have been involved has no doubt prompted such action by Mr. Riddell. Attacking the problem on two fronts, the Huron member contends there should be improvements 'in school bus design, incorporating padded armrests and padded seat backs to keep the students more firmly in place and end the injuries caused by facial impact with the present steel bar design on the back top of each seat. Regarding drivers, Mr. Riddell contends that drivers should be tested each year, have clean driving and police records plus taking compulsory „courses, in defensiye driving, highway. ,satety,•and emergenCY first, aid.— The general public will applaud any moves which will improve the safety of students riding our school buses. However, one must first discover how many of the accidents are caused by the drivers and how many are caused by other vehicles running into their buses. By cutting back our oil products con- sumption, we will be buying time until another source of energy can be found, In as little as 20 years, many of the Uses of oil with which most of us are familiar will become extinct. Inter- nal combustion engines will disappear as will oil plastics, which number so many that some products would cease should oil sudden ly vanish. The handwriting has been on the wall for some time now. Sooner or later, the extravagant waste of the very foundation of our civilization could lay waste to that civilization. Without energy, we are nothing, no better than the peasants of the third world who struggle every day with their hands just to raise enough food to feed themselves. Obviously, if the record of drivers in this regard is as good as that of drivers in this area, the "education" should be directed more toward the other drivers on the road than toward the bus drivers. No matter how capable, a school bus driver cannot be expected to "duck" his or her large vehicle in time to escape every impact. Along this vein, it should be realized that finding drivers for these buses is not the easiest of tasks. The driving takes place at hours of the day which are awk- ward for most eligible drivers and the pay is certainly not high enough for the average would-be driver to make it a full-time career. Another angle to the problem which could be explored is the possibility that the "body count" on each school day, reflecting on grants, may have a bearing on the decision as to the kind of weather in which the buses should operate, in any given area, If indeed this has a bearing, such a condition regarding finances should be altered in a hurry and Mr. Riddell is sitting in the right place to pursue the matter.—(St. Marys Journal Argus) Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley Think you're sick? Here's a few cures The Jack Scott Column MN al IIII NM News item: Man firers charge, fired at 'intruders' Over a shoulder Ilipp \ bet friterg From ' our early files . • • • • * • A First, we'll do a book review this week. A fascinating volume has come into my hands. It is called "Drink Your Troubles Away." The title alone would sell a lot of copies. I can just hear the boozers say, "Hey. That's for Me. It's time soniebody wrote a sensible book." And then there's the name of the author. It is John Lust. What an intriguing com- bination. Drink and Lust. All for 95c. It's not quite as exciting in- side as it is on the cover, because it's a natural foods tract, Unless you can get ex- cited over the thought of a brimming glass of carrot juice, or start to drool at the image of a cabbage pie, it may not be your meat, if the author will pardon the expression. I was a bit cynical at first, but I read on with growing in- terest, and by the time I had gone through a few chapters, was engrossed. I'm a meat and taties man, Myself. You know what will get me? I quote: "Wrong diet brings with it constipated •bowels, hemmorhoids, anemia, defective secretions, acidity, ulcers, bloating, arthritis, headaehel nervousness, liver and kidney ailments, heart disease, feeble-mindedness and a thousand other ailments ..." Well, I think that's a pretty sweeping statement. I have never been constipated in my life. Lots of the people I know who follow the same diet as I are constipated do have hemmorhoids and arthritis occasionally, and I am definitely becoming feeble- minded, but I've had none of those other things, though I try not to think of my liver. Defec- tive secretions indeed, What kind are you supposed to have? Effective Secretions? Don't think I'm knocking this book. I think tliolot Lust is ,,ori the right track, even though it has many tistnings. I haven't seen any signs of feeble-mindedness among natural food fiends. Let us say, charitably, that there is a cer- tain feebleness of will. My son comes home .with his little bag of unpolished rice. He cooks some for breakfast, taken, at 12 noon. He gives us a lec- ture on what harm we are doing our bodies, putting poisons in them. During the afternoon, he smokes eight of my cigarettes, though, theoretically, he doesn't smoke. That evening, at dinner, he decides, just to keep peace in the family, to break his habit for once, and eat meat. He eats about a pound and a quarter of the roast beef we can afford only because my wife rushed out and put a second mortgage on the car. How would you like to have to kill a fatted calf? That story would never have made the Bible at today's meat prices. My daughter, who is also a natural foods freak, has even less will power. After a few weeks on rice and beans and macaroni, she comes home with her husband, a sensible young chap who would eat stewed rats if he were hungry enough, She goes straight to the refrigerator, whips open the frozen meat departtnent, and starts muttering, "Meat! Glorious meat!", the saliva running down her chin. But this is a good book, no doubt. The title refers to the fact that we can think all our health problems away with vegetable juice. What a way to go! it is based on vitamins. Take iron, for example. If you are short of iron its yotir blood, you can have one of 40 different symptoms of debility, Space forbids the listing of them, but a feW are: "face alternately flushed and pale; murky, yellowish gray face; crying in. Voluntarily; fearful of losing reason; Wise genital organ's; swollen ankles; bed matting; film before eyes; desire to carry arms over head; partial deaf- ness." How would you like to crawl into bed with somebody who had no iron at all? Bit of a nightmare, what? Apparently the best cure for this is wild blackberries. So, remember. If you are suf- fering from an iron deficiency, and at the same time want a fulfilled sex life, keep a bushel of wild blackberries handy by the bed. Lay in a good store. They're a little scarce in February. If you're short on calcium, it's just as bad. Here are a few of the 48 symptoms: "laborious thinking; looking into distance; incoherent speech; afternoon headache; dizziness in open air; staggering upon arising; early sleepiness ,.." Does that sound more like Uncle George, who has developed a fondness for the grape, than someone suffering a lack of calcium? It does to me. Anyway, the best cure is turnip leaves. Moral: carry around some turnip leaves and lay off the hooch. I wish I had space to tell you what ghastly things can happen to you if you are short of the other vitamins. P11 give one example of each, With its cure. Potassium: feeling of sand in ayes - dandelion leaves. Magnesium cholera Oranges. Silicon; fingertips burn - Calirnyrna figs. Chlorine - purple extremities - asparagus. That's just A sample. If I Meet someone with cholera, burning fingertips, sand in his eyes, and purple extremities, imagine I'll give him a wide berth. tut don't say I didn't warn you. You'regoing to look pretty funny, though, going around with a pocketful of dandelion leaves and another of asparagus. A disc jockey I admire, one of the few who doesn't sound as if he worshipped his own voice, was reminiscing about some old tunes the other night and about life in general in the faded days. "Those were the days of cent candy," he recalled, throbbing with nostalgia. "I wonder how many of you remember cent candy?" Well, sir, I put up my hand right away. I was remembering those licorice whips that used to last you a whole Saturday, the cent candy that looked like fried eggs, and the round, black jaw- breakers that you used to keep taking from your mouth because they changed colors in such a highly satisfactory way while you sucked them, It was a pleasant line of thought to explore and I let my mind wander back to the lovely, cluttered days of what was, I guess, a pretty ordinary boyhood. It would be a toss-up if I had to name the early possession 10 YEARS AGO November 28, 1963 An election at Clinton Legion regular meeting on Tuesday night filled all offices for the 1964 term. K.W. Colquhoun is the incoming president, R.D. Fremlin is vice-president Ed Porter for second vice-president and J.D. Thorndike is color sergeant. The eight man executive committee consists of 'Harold Black, Robert Hicks, Carman McPherson, Howard Tait,, Hec Kingswell, Doug An- drews, William Chambers and Reg Cudmore. The local Clinton Cub Pack recently completed their an- nual sale of boxed Christmas cards and ended up with a profit of $215 according to Mrs. Allan Elliot, who supervised the project. They sold six hun- dred boxes of cards. The proceeds will be used for im- provernefits at the Camp in Goderich Tovinship. Mr. William Nediger, a nativt of Clinton, has returned to his home town to teach again after an absence of ten years. He was born in Clinton and also attended public and secon- dary school here. He has taught for several years and has just finished writing a textbook for Grade 10. On the evening of November 21 in the Londesboro Com- munity Hall, an interesting event took place when one of the former young men was honoured by the members of the Hullett Lodge in a presen- tation for Rt. War. pro. Harold J. Snell who was elected Grand Chaplain of Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of On- tario. About 150 guests from London, South Huron and North Huron Distrie,ts were present for the ceremonies. 25 YEARS AGO December 2, 1940 Dave Elliott, day constable for the Clinton Police Force, tnat stays greener in my memory--the Chums Annual or the crystal set. The Chums, I think, must have come right at the time I was finding my reading ap- petite insatiable, largely due to the discovery of Frank and Dick Merriwell. I remember touching the giant book reverently, feeling its fine, hard covers and thinking that here, surely, was enough reading to last forever. Parts of the book that dealt with English school life were always a sweet mystery to me. I never knew what Derek meant when he cried, "Let's off to the. tuck shop, Eric!" A very long time later in England when I went down to visit Eton it was like stepping between the covers of that dearly-remembered volume. The crystal set was one of my father's transient hobbies. It was a tiny little thing, not half as large as Chums, but my father had rigged up an aerial that would have dwarfed the rigging of the Queen Elizabeth. When I had finally inherited it, made a peculiar find at the main business intersection on Monday when he found a homer pigeon which may have been struck by an automobile or something. There was a band on its leg, indicating that the bird was a member of a racing flock. Two Wingham High School students have been awarded Huron County Carter scholar- ships. Awards were given James A. Hall and Miss Leslie Mae Wall, who placed second with Miss Jean Mills, Seaforth. Scholarships were given to students with the highest aggregate marks ml ten senior papers. Miss Velma Ferguson, Hen- sail, member of the Exeter Club won first place in the Junior Farmers Association Public Speaking Competition which was conducted in the Auditorium of Clinton Collegiate Institute last Wed- nesday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, J. Ferguson. Hens Are laying at a much higher rate than a year ago ac- cording to R. Gordon Bennett, Clinton, the agricultural representative for Huron County. However, grading stations say that receipts are about 30% below last year. SO YEARS AGO November 29, 1923 Jos. 'Underwood has pur- chased Mr. L.W. Ruttah's residence in the village of Bluevale and will move in the near future. His son Earl will now have charge of the farm. Huron County captured second prize for the neatest and best kept exhibit at the Guelph Winter Fair. Robt. McNally of this town, a pioneer of grant Township, dropped in this office ohe day to say that it Made him tired to heat farmers talking about hard times when they had to sell their wheat at $.1.00 as I did all his hobbies, I set up a radio room in the woodshed and sat night after night scraping the "feeler", as we chose to call it, across the rough face of the crystal and sometimes hearing a distant voice through the crackles of static that filled the earphones. There were collections, too. I remember an immense ball of silver paper and a stack of small cards showing the pic- tures of steamships, which came with Eskimo pies, a magnificent stamp album, and a wall covered with pictures of every make of automobile in the world. It's curious that most of the memories of those younger days centre around some object--a skull cap with a load of badges, a pea-shooter, a kite, and so on. It's much more difficult to recall the emotional experien- ces. I have only the haziest recollection now of the first time I was in love although it was painful enough at the time. I remember only that it was at a summer camp at North bushel. Mr. McNally can recall the time when he drove a team to Guelph with a load of wheat. This was a distance of forty miles receiving eighty cents a bushel. The round trip took five days. He can also remember taking a load into Walkerton and exchanging two bushels for a pound of tea and nine bushels for a barrel of salt. 75 YEARS AGO December- 2, 1898 Most of the telephone poles have been drawn to their places and quite a few have been put up. Work has stopped just now owing to the recent storm. It has not been decided yet where to locate the central office. The two places mentioned are J. Whiddon's and Miss Martin's both in Bayfield. The Hohnesville Orchestra is coming to the front fast; they are practising for their numerous engagements of which although it started only recently there are many. They are billed for several entertain- ments in this vicinity as well as •CNA canadnin Community No+Nliparnit Association o , ,R* grO $40 HUA OP HUMN COUNtY Woodlands and the girl's name was Betty, visiting from Boston. Or was it Barbara? Anyway, it all swirls around the song "Lover Come Back To Me" that we'd played over and over on the camp Victrola. I of- ten wonder what happened to Betty. Or was it Beatrice? I remember, too, the first funeral I ever attended, that of a school friend who had died from some now-forgotten;; illness and the experience of walking by the open casket. Later, we boys had all talked in hushed, sad whispers about the boy's hair. He had been a boy with wild, unruly hair and it 'was so"strange' td lying there with his hair now so neatly combed. And I recalled, too, the night I ran away from home over some imagined injustice. It was a long and lonely night of wan- dering until in the grey dawn I made my way back to my room and found the sandwiches and glass of milk beside my bed. I wonder whatever happened to cent candy? the distant. Town and Griswold shipped " two carloads of evaporated ap- ples to Hamburg, Germany, this week. One of the biggest snow storms ever witnessed in this area took place last Sunday night when about twenty inches of snow fell, and had it been light snow it surely would have surpassed the greater depth which fell here previously. Mr. Will Jenkens wears a broad smile because he is the proud possessor of a bouncing baby boy. Mr. Will Powell of Petrolia is spending a few days as guest of his father Mr. John Powell who IS recovering from an illness. Mr. Thos. E. Hays of Seaforth spent Tuesday after- noon in Clinton. He had not in- tended doing so, but getting off the train to give a friend a pointer, missed the train and had no choice. However, he went up by the 7 o'clock train in time for the evening session of the council. o w° 40 ,1,s Asto CNA ~~h'SOAPI R5 „ Policies Pear Editor: A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to the Clinton News- Record hoping for some an- swers' mainly from some Men1-4 bers of the Town Council and their method of 'doing business behind closed doors. I am sorry to say, I received' no answers to my questions, but I was called a few choice names by some councillors. I was even called stupid for asking for honest answers, the other words were not in the dic- tionary I have, but being so stupid perhaps mine is not the latest edition. Now, may I again ask a few questions, and perhaps this time I may get some facts. As you can meal', the council advertised for a man to work at the Public Works. The man they wanted to hire behind closed doors, did not get the position at that time. An out of town man was hired. Now a few weeks later, the man some members of the council tried to hire behind closed doors is also given a position with the Public Works Dept. Does this town need two foremen, and two workers? No, apparently not, I have been informed by good authority that an uptown worker for the town, and a veteran is to be released from his duties, to make room for one of the men presently at the Public Works. This in turn would make room for the man some coun- cillors tried to hire behind closed doors. To what lengths will these men go to have their own way, and to h... with the taxpayer? And are these facts true? Any replies would be greatly appreciated. Yours James Edward Clinton Late Nov. 26th, 1973 Dear Editor: Is there some reason why we don't get our Clinton paper un- til almost a week after it is printed? As a matter of fact, we still have not received our paper which would be dated Nov. 8th. It's very maddening when one pays for something and then have to fight to get it. Hoping for some improvement.' Yours truly Stan Shobbrook . Toronto News-Record readers aie en- .couraged to express their opinions in letters to the editor, however, such opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the News-Record. Pseudonyms may be used by letter writers, but no letter will be published unless It can be verified by phone. TREVOn "rgE °Pc ' -1-2P4FF/C SAYS: 1' kfik MAHE ..tiIOF tiCt. DOWA1 ZIFORite Mokthuf AdrakiNo. ilk tilt) AfIntbor, Ontario W. Niwispoper AssoOlation -IHR HOW 00 RADA* 11.1 CAP:ADA" Published every Thursday at Clinton, Ontario Editor - James E, Fitzgerald Glinfirlii Manager, 4. Howard Aitken • Second Class Malt rhdNitration no. 0011 THE CLINTON NEW ERA A malgomoird THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Estalilishud 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record