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Clinton News-Record, 1967-04-13, Page 4Baja Ar—Clinton HewsrRecatd—Thura., April 13, 1967 They’ll Get .Used To It! Tv Second to the . . WE WERE particularly interested in a News-Record column last week “Rambling With Lucy”, by Lucy R. Woods, entitled “An Important Week In Bayfield’s History”. Begun with a Biblical quotation and. including refer ence to the board of Huron Comity School Area One as the modern 0Herod”, the writing'said, “According to one young Bayfield Miss, the (bus) ride is long and bumpy. And the children 'on the bus are picked up at eight o’clock in the morning. By the time they get home at night they’ll be too tired to recount the day’s happen ings, let alone join in friendly play with , the others in the village.” We urge Bayfield parents, school children and interested persons to be patient. First impressions are some times false and misleading. It is doubtful if children anywhere' have made the transition from small area schools to large central schools without some consternation at the start. Change is always somewhat frightening to children who like surroundings and friends to remain unchanged, but to counteract this natural rebellion, nature has ma<fe children easily adaptable to new situations, if they have proper en couragement from their elders. Bayfield parents, in fact, att moth ers and fathers with children in Huron County School Area One, will find their children will respond to their parents’ genuine interest and enthusiastic sup port of the new system- They will dis cover, as others before them, that the youngsters will grow to love their new school better than any other before it, if school matters are discussed' in the affirmative at home.. Then the bus ride with new friends will be no real hardship . . , and there will be renewed vim and vigor, in school and out, which teacher and mother will find challenging to supress, Let’s Look After Slum Areas First WE’VE HAD correspondence lately from the Ontario Retail Lumber Deal ers Association who has gone on record as being opposed to any action on the part of either the Ontario or Federal governments to subsidize a new public 'housing program for families earning as much as $10,000 a year. Problem seems to be that rundown slum housing in some areas of the nation is not being replaced fast enough by new dwellings more suited to today’s living. Apparently the government hopes to provide. Canadians. with addi tional work and decent accommodation all in one swoop of some politicians’ pens. Says the ORLDA, “It would drive investors away. Quite apart from that, we do not believe there is a valid philo sophic, case, to be made from providing middle-income families with subsidized housing at the public expense.- The real need is in, the $4,500 to $6,000 bracket.” We nave only this to add to the argument, Low-cost anything sponsored by the government costs somebody money. The only true solution to the problem is a return to the days when everyone earned and owned what he had • . , or he didn’t have it. Banquets and Botulism Month APRIL IS banquet month—'bowling banquets, daffodil teas, father-and-son dinners. A good rule to remember in preparing food is to keep the hot foods hot and the cold foods cold. Extreme heat kills food poisoning bacteria and cold prevents their growth. The danger ous bacteria which grow..in food prefer moderate’or room temperature. They also prefer certain foods. The parasitic worm responsible for trichinosis lives in pork. Staphylococcus and salmonella are at home in poultry, prepared meat products, dairy foods, salads with dressings, cheese, cream pies, custard desserts, or any moist, high protein food. When cooking, an internal thermo meter should register at least 165° F. Without a thermometer, all pork should be cooked until there is no trace of pink in meat or juice. A single taste of food containing botulism can be . fatal. Home canned / meats and low acid foods like beans, peas, beets, com and asparagus pre pared by the cold pack method are the most common cause of this illness. Use a pressure cooker or the high tempera ture plus method used by commercial canners. EVERY MOTORIST, in varying degrees, drives “by the seat of his pants”, according to the Canadian High way Safety Council. The average motor ist can sense variations in the normal operation of his vehicle. This is one factor iri making a drunk or impaired driver dangerous; he loses that ability to feel or sense his car as he drives. One of the things a motorist senses is distortion of the signal he i§ getting from the tires. He may think it is the wheel itself, possibly the steering, but a tire that is not properly doing its job will make itself known. When this hap pens, the driver should make an instant check, or, better, stop at the first ser vice station or garage and have the tires thoroughly checked. Motorists get increased tread life when tires are properly inflated, the Rubber Association of Canada has claimed, for.the load being carried. At lower speeds, tread life is extended and the owner .reaps bonus mileage. As v speeds rise, tread wear accelerates and the owner pays the penalty of lost mile age and higher per-mile cost. Both the Safety Council and the rubber association advise, strongly that tires must be kept properly inflated, for both safety and economy. Motorists, to lengthen tire life, must avoid “dive” or “swerve” on braking. Tires that are worn are prone to skidding. The only remedy for that is replacement of worn tires with new ones. Motorists must know and respect the tires on their cars. Pretty As Her Picture The rumor is that all the good-looking girl$ come from Winnipeg, not from Montreal, But it all • might just depend on where you’re from. In any case, Peggy Neville of Winnipeg is as pretty as a picture— in this case her own. Peggy is the star of her own show, The Peggy -Neville Show, seen on CBC television each Wednesday evening. Editor, News-Record, Clinton, Ontario. Dear Sir, . ‘ On April 3 the children of Huron County School Area No. 1 for the first time met in their new Central School near Brucefield. Before long the one room schools in this “area will only be a primary. Fifty years before (confeder ation the Public School Act gave authority for any section with twenty pupils to build a school, hire a teacher and elect three trustees. This system con tinued without change even in parts of Huron County until three years ' ago. Surely this was one of our most perman ent institutions in Canada. The present Board is con scious of the great sqivice oyer so many years of the hundreds of trustees who were PUT pre decessors. These citizens senvad without pay, and with only their sense of duty to tty? phfildrep in the section to reward them in their efforts. For those of to day who are not aware of the importance of .the section school board, it can only be said that it was one of the first develop ments of local atonomy in-our Education history. Over the years this has1 been the train ing ground of many of our local and national leaders. Let us not think that we buy progress cheaply. Our prede cessors were the builders, the repair men, the caretaker^, the board of directors and the judge of all the complaints and disputes in the section. Mapy were the sccretary-itrcasui'er, business administrator and whole administration. They re- cided what wouidx. be taught and how it should be taught and were the guardians of the religion and the morals in the qurricuhim. It would be hard to devise a more effective and less expensive manner of hand ling qduqation in a period of democracy. The elect-’ ed official was also a civil servant and the man who best represented tflie community needs and des&res. In this day of the big and the new and the slavish desire for progress, it ‘sometimes is well to stop and reflect on what we have gained, is 'toe sum total of happiness greater 'and -are we individually better equipped for life triad our ancestors? Yet we can not Stand still and watch progress pqssus by. It Js therefor^’ gratefully, that the present board takes time out to reflect on the solid: base built by so many scores of our predecessors who served so faithfully over the years to the lasting benefit of several gen erations of school children from the area. Sincerely, MORGAN SMITH. Bayfield, Ontario. 75 Years Ago ' HURON NEWS-RECORD Wednesday, April 13, 1892 The old log house on the London Road, between Clinton and Brucefield, is being pulled dbwn and cut Into Wood in order to take advantage of the high price for timber fuel. This house was about the last log house used as & residence in this township, having been va cated only about two years ago when the praprietar/Mr. Moore, moved into a new .frame house. A letter recently received from the Deputy Miinis'ter of Education, states that Good Friday and Easter Monday are the only holidays granted to rural schools at Eastertide. The Clinton Driving ' Park Association have decided to have races, on" May 24th. Geo: D. MeTaggart has pur chased the. handsomely improv ed property and residence of Mayor Doherty.# * * THE CLINTON NEW ERA Friday, April, 15, 1892 Master Wm. Jenkins, Son of Thos. Jenkins, of the Huron road, got his arm broken last. Friday, by one of the horses' crowding him in a stall. John Thompson has sold 50 acres of his farm to Jno. Mid- dleton for $3,000. W. H. Publow, of New York, Was in town this week arrang ing with Cooper and Co. for the sate of the popular Butteir- jqk Patterns. 55 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 18, 1912 J. W. Elliott has bought one of the “Clinton’’ Motor trucks and Will -have it fitted up with upholstered seats to use fin his livery. It will be used particu larly in catering to the Bayfield and lakeside trade. The White Star line, Titanic, the largest steamier in file world, upon her maiden voyage, sank after call'idfing with, an ice burg off Cape Race, south of the Grand Banks of Newfound land, on Sunday night. The ship, costing $10,000,000, had 2,200 people on board. Only 710 were saved. She is supposed to have carried a costly cargo, in- ' eluding diamonds to the value of $5,000,000, casef goods and linens to the value of about $500,000 and 3,423 mail bags of ■ unknown value fincludling sev eral hundred registered letters. * * * The CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, April 18, 1912 A. Wilken and family will move to the Newcombe house on Ontario Street. ; Fred Rumball has taken a position in the Mdisohs Bank j in town. ‘ Mrs.z Edna Pennebaker left . on Tuesday for Goderich where ‘ she intends spending a few i week's. "/ ' J Little Miss Helen Gregg, Tuesday, entertained 36 of her j girlfriends to a birthday party. Helen was 8 years old. < ‘ John Armstrong, Varna; Ken MacLennan, Lucknow; William Collins, Brucefliejld. The' winner of the step dancing was Angus Brown, Seaforth. Special prizes were awarded to Russell Hay- ter, Vairna, eleven-year-old boy and^to Mass Mary Stewart and Miss Jeanette Aikenhead, Brucefield. The oldest fiddler competing was Jahn Bailey, Clinton, aged 76 years; The youngest fiddler was Willie Murdock, Brucefield, aged 14. The Collegiate students are bidding farewell to their old school today and they will go into their new one on Pitincess East after Easter vacation. Major GgnerM -F- F. Wor- ' thington, • who retired after World War ii, -recently' wrote an article fpr the Toronto Tele gram News Service, which we thought gives some good com-, merits pn toe present unifiea-i lion of Canada’s armed forces, —EP, , - c A GENERAL LOOKS AT pNiOFlCATION . (By fflajo^Qeperai Fi F* Worthington) “In February and March the Parliamentary Defence Com- mittee sat for six week? hear* ing 23. high-level military “ex perts” on the integration and unification of Canada’s armed forces, “The testimony of most af these experts had a disturbingly familiar theme; What Was good enough for the last war Will be good enough for the next, “As one of Canada’s oldest generals it is my opinion that at the end of any large war the existing generals should be thanked, decorated and pen sioned off. “Put up statues if you like, bqt don’t let them muddle with the future organization of the services, Hand that responsi bility over to the young, fight ing colonels who had to fight the war with the existing, weapons. ‘ “Almost invariably the senior commanders plan with theiii’ heads looking over their Shoul ders back to the time when they were young and trained on equipment and tactics of that day. “Very little came out of the From The HENRY F. HEALD grass roots J April 11, 1967. ■f Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW Established 1M5 • A. ERA THE HURON NEWS-RECORD EstabllthMI 1M1 Amalgamated 1924 Published Every Thursday At The Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario. Canada Population ’ 3/475 A. LAURIE COLQUHOUN, PUBLISHER flB EB HE SlfMdl eonttlb«tfom fa H»fa pvWkanMk, ms Ms opfafaM of too wrlfafa and do sol nocwMtty mpiroii I IMG TVWW* wf vWV 9R9WWJNI^Wo CtoM Mall, Port Ofltea bopartmonf, Ottawa, and far PaymeM of Potto** la Coat SUMOlimOM OAT*: Payable Io adrMtoo - Conode aM Orea* Mteta IMS a year; < U«Hod Stotot and Farafae: MG, Raila Copfau Ml Mh, 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 14j 1927 The Spring Fair which took place oh ’tlnips^ay last was Conceded to be one of the host Over held. Some of the principal winners in horses were Broad foot: Bros., Manning Bros., p. Fotheringham Sobs, R, McLaren, G. T. Robertson, E. Snell, M. Crich and R. Staffer, On the evening of the fair ah Old time fiddlers’ and step dan- cel's’ contest was held in too town hall with over 600 in at* tendance. In the class of fid* dlers ovet* 55 toie winners were Wilson Armstrong,' Vatna; Thomas Rands, Seaforth; J'am.es Covyan, Seaforth} under 55 were *» 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 16, 1942 Ivan Turner of Stratford Normal fils practise teaching at Holmesville school this week, and Ross Merrill is at SS No. 11, Goderich Township. Pte. Roy F. Leppington of the 4th Armoured Division at Sus sex, New Brunswick, is home pp. furlough. * j^tu’dents C. Whiiltenore of Stratford Normal, Misses Helen Turner, Halen Crich, Edliith and Eleanor Pepper and Kathleen Sfiilery of Collegiate are holi daying at their respective homes. Miss Dorothy Marquis has returned to Sioux Lookout where she Is superintendent of the hospital, after spending several weeks at her home on the Base Line. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton DiXon of Harriston spent last weekend •with J. H. Brunsdlan and Miss Tyene of town. 15 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 17, 1952 < Mrs. H. A. Stevens, Toronto, is spending the Easter vacation with her sister. Miss Annice Bartliff. David Beattie is spending the Easter holiday with, his uncle and aunt, Mr. .and Mrs. O. B. Mbfatt, Bluevale, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Shob- brpok and Miss Barbara, and Mi.^ Joyce Balcbck, Toronto, were the guests during Easter weekend with Mr. and1 Mrs. J. W. Shobbrook. Mrs. Maynard Corrie and baby, Martha Ann, came home from Clinton Public Hospital Tuesday. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 18. 1957 Fire destroyed the T-shaped bam at the farm of Ray Wise, RR 3. Clinton, yesterday after noon. It measured 100 x 72 feet; the other section 46 x 66 feet' and a sheep shed about 70 x 30 feet. The barn was built 78 years ago by the grandfather of Charles E. Wise, Clinton (whose son now operates the farm) ,. The column “Sugar and Spice’’ will be featured weekly at the first of tire month and Will appear on page two. Misses Barbara and Marilyn Hayman, Belleville, spent their Easter vacation with their aurit, Miss Ruth Hayman, Bay- field. Marjorie Goldsworthy was chosen* “Queen’’ of CDCI by the principal and staff on the basis of general al ground ability in cluding both scholastic and sports abilities. She- is a first class honour student fin Grade 13, and winner of junior, inter* mediate and senior track and field championships. Hugh Colquhoun, 18-year-okl Grade J.3 student is Clinton Dis trict Collegiate Institute’s nom inee for the UWO — Free Press Leaders’ Club. He Was an all round student and a, good aitfli* lete. , OTTAWA — Politics makes strange bedfellows, but Ralph Cowan, the Liberal MP fotr York-Humber in Toronto and Auguste Choquette, the Liberal MP for Lptbiniere in must be strangest. It was when Mr. as the chief speaker at an Ottawa meeting of the Bull dog Party, an organization that advocates a unilingual (Eng lish) Canada. Cowfan’s cam paign - to stop his party’s race to bilingualism has spanned many years. But there were chuckles a- round Parliament Hill when Mr. Choquette turned up as the one advocating Mr. Cowan's re moval from the Liberal Party. It wasn’t so very long ago that many Liberals were advocating that course far Mr. Choquette. The Conservatives went so far as to. pall for Mr. Choquette's removal from the House of Commons. For Mir. Choquette is a republican- He wants a comirietely bilingual Canada and a total break with the monarchy. Mr. Cowan and Mr. Choquette are ’ both outspoken tin their views, divergent as they are, and rhe House would be a dul ler place ' without them. The fact that they are both Liberals may say something for the ■ broadmindedness of the Liberal Party, but it is a sad commen tary on the state of political philosophy in general. Another item that caused a few chuckles on the Hill was the confusion surrounding the announcement of the new gov ernor-general. It lis hard to im agine that an announcement that bad been a month in the planning mill could be botched so badly. To top it off, the an nouncement from London, sup posedly simultaneous with the Prime Minister's announce ment in the Commons, was re leased an hour early. It had been on radio newscasts and was in the papers’ headlines before Mr. Pearson ever took his seat 'in the House. Roland Michener had been the expected choice for gover nor-general as far back as 1965 when General Vaniier’s official term of office ended. It was unlikely Mr. Pearson would change hisl mind now. Why he didn't announce it a day or two after the week of mourning, only he knows. The choice of Mr. Michener is eminently suitable, but the handling' of the announcement gets added to the long list of Pearson blunders. The cabinet resignations and new appointments were also surrounded by rumor and speculation, but that tis custo mary. However, when Mri^srs. Favreau and Cardin Were hotn- dredguests at a farewell party ■in a fellow MP's office while the Prime Minister was still airborne returning from Santa Barbara, the cat was out of the bag. The Ottawa Citizen was sb sure of Its sources that ft was out an the street with pictures of Pierre-Elliot Trudeau, Jeiari Chretien arid John Turner with their new cabinet posts before the < announcement of the changes had been made. about two Quebec of the surpriseno great Cowan was found testirnopy at toe Defence Com mittee that ,ena?brq,gqs jne to think ptheiwisie. Ip fact my views were reinforced jf any thing. •*It js toy opinion that retain ing these senior commanders is the reason why thinking ip toe armed forces of the West-< ern world tends to be reaction-: ary. In the past thfe: has meant needless waste and sacrifice, But today, with rapid advances in technology and weaponry, it can mean disaster and possibly annihilation. “Long after' steam was provr en and in general use, the navy Was adamantly clinging to sail. “The allied arxnjfes in 1914-18 used cavalry to fight machine guns, and in 1939 thei Canadian army still had' horses on toe payroll—even after the World War according cartoonists I “In 1939 an elderly, Canadian general declared that tanks and airplanes were un tried weapons and proclaimed his fqiith that ±h(e man with the bayonet would win toe war. “Today there are many senator aiirmen who are proponents of mass bombing as a means of winning a war. “When I was a Civil Defence Co-ordinator fin the 1950s apd attending the American nuclear tests in Nevada, Canadian senior military men declined the opportunity to attend toe^e tests — teats which would have direct application in any major war of the future. , “Although I, too, am an old general, I believe the present reorganization of our armed forces is long overdue, It indi cates up-to-date planning sand foresight as apposed- to pre judice, obsolescence and Nqstal- Sia. ‘ , “Critics of the plan claim that no other country fils doing anything similar, so therefore it can’t be any good. This too, has a familiar ring. “Can’t we get rid of this • sheep-lfike mentality that holds that Britain is right because “Mother knows best?” Or that anything we can do the Ameri cans can do better? Canada’s problems bear little resemblance to those of other countries because first, ours is a volunteer force with mien in it from choice, and second, our total military might is, by com parison, very small indeed. “Canada’s military could be wiped out in a single1 battle. "Any suggestion that alone it active provides defence for Canada is a ludicrous myth. Oiir defence hinges pn the United states,, therefore the toadltional forpes ,qf the' pqst wbilld be drops in the bucket, to be dispersed throughout the .allied forces. “Bqt Canada can produce a pew, compact, efficient and hh tegreted force to meet toe challenges qf the future. This: force would be a highly skilled fighting machine, mobile, and flexible, with an understanding of land, sea arid air combat. “This cannot be achieved Without close Integration arid1 a complete departure from tra ditional separate 'isolationism. “Fpr its size no country has an armed force of greater potential, or men of finer quality than Canada, But how do you train men without equipment? “One thing I thought our military “experts*’ had learned in the Second World War was that you couldn’t 'buy modern military hardware “off toe peg" in an emergency — as was sug gested to Defence Committee. “In an emergency your allies won’t sell equipment: They .need it for themselves. In 1940 Canadabought 265 Renault tanks of 1917 vintage and used them for elementary training. » “Integration at/ command level into on© general'staff en sures collective planning and inter-dependence and avoids toe interminable struggle by each, service to get a larger part of the defence d°®ar. It also does away with costly overlaps. “Unification of certain trade structures and professions can not help but be beneficial in achieving efficiency and econ omy in such branches as medi cal, pay, communications, trans port, police, .mechanfc?d engin eering and so an. “It is my understanding that the combat elements of the three services will remain func tional in their own environ ment. “During this whole unifica tion debate We have heard, over and over again, the views of many retired and respected senior officers. I wondeir what the young serving officers think, as well as toe rank-and- file, whose job it will ibe to make the new system work? “From the many serving soldiers and reservists across Canada that. I have talked with, I suspect the Defence Commit tee members, not to mention the retired senior officers, would be surprised1.” Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY INSURANCE J J. E. 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