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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
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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
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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.
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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
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