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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1967-04-20, Page 4■ H *" Page 4—-Clinton News-lteeord<--rT|iiir$f/ April 20/ Editorials STRANGE JJQW 4deas are borh pf ideas, isn’t it. Someone thinks of ^pme«„ thing, takes . the time artd the effort to voice his opinion and before long, a single thought has sparked a host of new thoughts which often surpass the wildest dreams of the original idea man. / That’s the way it has been with the Clinton Retail Merchants Committee’s Centennial celebrations which are shap­ ing up for Clinton right now,. All it takes is for one person to mention the affair and others pick up the thread and knit the total conversation into a bag full of good suggestions. Monday, May. 15 is less than one month' away, While ideas are welcome, action is ’better and there is no time like right no,w to make individual contribn- 'tions of articles and assistance to the proper committee, . Clintonians and their friends from the district will benefit from an all out Merchants Promoting a Centennial Week effort tq make the town the hub of all Centennial action in the county during this one week in May, Homeowners will want to fix up and dress up their properties to. give the town that festive air; school teachers will want to plan special educational outings with the youngsters fpr one or more of those days; church groups will want th cap­ italize on the occasion to serve the public; citizens will want to take part for fun and profit. . • * Canada’s 100th birthday is reason enough to get excited,. we think, but when it offers a' chance to combine everyday business with once-in-a-life- tirne pleasure, that’s really something to crow about. Clinton merchants have started out- on a first-rate Centennial celebration. Let’s all set our minds to making it a • success , . . and planning sortiething . else before the moment passes and js forgotten. 1 SUGAR ] AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Roland Michener (Rrom The Montreal Star) WHEN IT was decided that a Cana­ dian should be the Queen’s representa­ tive in this country, there were the usual gloomy growls that we simply. didn’t have men who would measure up. Mr. Vincent Massey was appointed and everybody agreed ' on how good the choice had been. But how to replace him? Prime Minister Diefenbaker found General Georges Vanier, whose1 success equalled Mr. Massey’s. Now has come the third choice, and, once again, the right man has been found available. Rideau Hall will lose no lustre in, the hands of Mr. D. R. Michener. * He differs, naturally enough, from his predecessors. Mr. Massey, some 40 years ago, made a brief entry into fed­ eral politics. General Vanier made none. Mr. Michener, on the other hand, • has had a long-sustained political career, ■ first as a member of the Ontario Legi­ slature, then as a federal MP for Tor­ onto-St. Paul’s from 1953 uritil he was beaten by only 27 votes in 1962. When Mr. Diefenbaker became Prime Minister in 1957, it was generally expected , that Mr. Michener would be . invited to join the cabinet. Instead he . was elected speaker of the House of A Fine Choice Commons where he made a shining mark, although it was credibly reported that Mr. Diefenbaker thought he lean­ ed backwards too far in trying to be fair, Mr. Michener never was the gloves-off,' rough-and-tumble politician his chief was. There-was always a civil­ ized quality about him which set him apart, and which he showed with dis­ tinction during his term as High Com­ missioner in New Delhi, India, He differs from his predecessors in other respects. Mr, Massey was <a Tor­ onto boy. General Vanier was a Mont­ real boy. Mr. Michener was born in the town of Lacombe, Alberta, where his father was, 50 years ago, the leader of the Alberta Conservative party,. who ended his days in the Senate. Mr. Michener has a good' mind, sharpened by legal training, a good, clear head, an enlightened set of basic ideas, His interests outside politics were many and varied, notably in the' Insti­ tute of International Affairs, the As-, sooiation for Adult Education and- the Rhodes Trust of which he was Canadian secretary for many years. He also has ■ charm which will delight the many guests who, particularly this year, will visit Rideau Hall. Bienvenue! WITH EXPO 67 all set to open its nations; Montreal in 1967 will have doors to Canada and the world on the hearty twice as jnany J ” . - . • it was-rnevitable that, as Expo drew closer, accommodation difficulties would confront would-be visitors. But it is hard to believe that many will toe deter­ red on this account. Hotel and motel space may be hard to come by, but pri­ vate homes by the thousands are willing to receive guests at reasonable rates; and in many ways this kind of accom­ modation is by far the best, offering as it does, a unique opportunity to Cana­ dians from 'the various provinces to get to know each other better, make new friends, and cement national unity. Cynics may scoff, but Expo 67, its success assured beyond all doubt, will go into the history books as a milestone in our .national development, an unfor­ gettable symbol' of our nationhood and the greatest educational, cultural and fun experience of our time. To be in ing the provinc.es and industries of this Canada in this Centennial year and not to visit Expo will be to lose much.—Re­ printed from “Industry”, a publication of The Canadian Manufacturers’ Accoci- atibn. s • . 28th of'the month, it’s not too early to reflect for a moment on the magnifi­ cence of what ihas been achieved on these man-made islands- in the St. Law­ rence. • a. Despite the many sceptics -and pes­ simists who doubted if so vast an enter­ prise would ever come off as planned, the greatest World Exhibition .ever to be held anywhere on earth has been created, on schedule and in* a matter of five years. The story of "Man and his World” will be seen and told as never before in these next six months. Canada’s own Katimavik and the national pavilions of nearly 70 other countries, completed and glittering like something out of the Arabian Nights, are there, as are dozens more represent- .nation?'- • ‘ Habitat is there, a spectacular new dimension in housing; the computer-run rapid transit system is there, all set to transport up to 30,000 passengers an hour, free of charge, from one end .of Expo to the other. La.Ronde —'Montreal’s new and dazzling amusement-park-with-a-differ- ence — is there; the sports stadiums, theatres and concert halls are there; and the gardens, fountains, and other mar­ vels are all there, on time and ready for this historic never-to-be-forgotten cele­ bration of Canada’s Year by the peoples of the earth. It is by -any test a remarkable accomplishment and an enormous debt of gratitude is owed all who made it possible. There have been other world exhibitions, but there has never been anything like this. (The last compar­ able one, at Brussels in 1958, was not­ able for the, record participation of 38 DEFENDING her use of ready- miXes and similar prepared foods, one of the ladies appearing ibetore the Seri- ‘ ate-Commons Committee on Consumer Credit and Prices commented that she had a large family and couldn’t spend all day in the kitchen because she wants to be "glamorous” for her husband. Hmmmn. So now we know the real culprit behind those higher food costs ” — it’s the husband who expects to come home to a glamorous wife. Wouldn’t you believe, it? , t SOMETIME Within the next few decades North American towns and ci­ ties will do away with the thousands of • lighting columns that now clutter down­ town areas, thinks Frank Morgan, edi­ tor of Civic Administration, and in their place will be powerful luminaires sus­ pended high over the city. "One of these luminaires will Supply enough light to adequately blanket the down­ town area in a large Canadian munici­ pality,” says Morgan. Sound a bit far­ fetched? There’s a lamp in use in Russia right now that is capable of illuminat­ ing an area of 250 acres, and this is greater than the area Occupied, by the business core of most Canadian cities. The Russians use the 300-kw lamp for . the lighting of large public work sites. Clinton News-Record ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Published Every Thursday At The Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario, Canada Population 3/475 . A, LAURIE COLQUHOUN, PUBLISHER ffl ffi BB SI*fMd contrlbuttoM to ttih pubHcatlefl, Sr* tbs oiHfttoM ■' irf th* Writer* <W»i», end 8* ml tototurny 'Mpr'in th* rl*w» *f MS A«rthorh5l’*« S*cW Claw M*H, W Offlc* U***rtrmH, btt*w», Snd for F*ym*M «f hnt*** M CMS suMournoH iatM: M«M* > sdwste » ctodifo', *m <kwt Mtei*: s wUsNed H«i*» add for*l#ii W, «(•*•• C*H*M ■ n Cteh. THE CLINTON NEW Established 1865 k<t«» Established 1881 run Ahoy! Skipper Bill McNeil and his crew, Al Maitland, now out in search of the light and offbeat side of Canada’s birthday t celebrations fpr their bright, brisk Centennial Diary show on the CBC radio network. Centennial Diary will he heard. three times a week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:03 p.m, beginning May 1st. Producer McNeil ■and host Maitland concentrate on fun things, the backhouse burnings and bathtub races rather than the speeches and ribbon cuttings. 75 HURON NEWS-RECORD Wednesday, April 20,1892 Master Dz Cantelon is now engaged, with Mr. Cunningham in the Express office. J.* B. Kennedy, son of deputy reeve D, B. Kennedy bought the Reynold’s livery outfit. After this week the egg buy­ ers visiting Clinton will adopt the system of buying tihtat fruit by weight. Six cents a pound is what they will cost. Eggs will weigh from 1% to 2 lbs. per dozen. , Clinton Driving Bark Associ­ ation will hold a' meeting or the 24th of May. The program will be 2.35 class for trotters and pacers $100; 3 minute trot or pace, purse $80; bicycle race, purse $20 and 200 yard From The HENRY F. HEALD OTTAWA — Canada has1 a guest house. Very few will ever get past the front door to see what it looks like, tat they can be proud of it just th^ same. It wiiU give thieftr special visit­ ors a gracious land comfortable welcome to the capital city -and put them in 'an amiable frame of mind to face whatever par­ ticular 'chore has brought them to our shores. The shining black dbor of 7 Rideau Gate lis set in a solid wall of,, grey .limestone', the same kind that Colonel By •quarried to build the Rideau Canal. It looks out across the corner,* of the Govemmlent House ’ estate and across Sus­ sex Drive to the Ottawa River and over to the misty green Gatineau Hills in the distance. Visitors invited to stay in the 17 room mansion will be in good hands. Their hostess will be Mrs. Gwendolyn felair, a cheerful, gracious widow who has survived several' years as assistant to Judy LaMarsh, both while she was minister of health and secretary of state. . The housekeeper is Miss Catherine Gouriey, ,a shrewd Scot with plenty of experience in managing the households of the elite. Steward is Jean Villeneauve, on loan from Prime Minister Pearson’s resi­ dence which is hot far away. Chauf feuring, when necessary, will be done by the army and) additional help and catering will be hired as required. It is perhaps fiittiing that the first guests in the house wetre Govemor-General and Mrs. Michener who Spent the week­ end there before moving into their official residence after the swearing in ceremony. They will know from fiirst hand use the kind of' hospitality their guests are receiving. Taxpayers will be forgiven if they swallow a little hard when • they hear that this-, venture in good neighborliness is testing them about $300,000. It was built in 1862 for Henry Burritt. There is no re­ cord of the cost of construction, but When'it first changed hands in 1873 the selling price was $10,000. The jump to the $152.- 00Q the government paid for it ldst year does not entirely rep- reitent the rising real estate Values. The house has grown from nine roams to seventeen over the years. . The publie works department' has spent $80,000 on remodel­ ling the building and the Robert SlitopsOn Co. of Toronto will be paid a similar amount for furn­ ishing it. And a beautiful job of decorating and furnishing it is, too, The women’s columnists who visited the lihuse oh press (Continued on' phga 9) Thank God It’s Over K? ’ • ■ We have just gone through the most relentless winter I can rgniember., Deep snow and deep cold, day after .day, ,month - after month, I don’t know about you, but lit took more‘out of me than four- yeays of World War II did. .But there are signs that the annual twQ-'jjay phenome­ non known in this country as Spring, • is .almost upon, us, and it is with considerable satisfaction. that I look back and. sneer at the 'blizzard, on March 21sf, laughingly known Cis' the "First Day of Spring, and. foose 15-below temperatures' " just before Easter. I’ve made 'it again. Like many Canadians, I am in, a state of .suicidal depres­ sion by the middle of March. But those good old signs of spring catch, me just, before I plummet into the pit, and there T am, forced to give •it another whirl. The signs of Spring in 'these parts are not quite what' they are in some parts of the THE CLINTON NEW ERA .Friday, April 22, 1892 world, tat they’i"e just as wel­ come, No larks sang, 'l>u.t thane anything sweeter than tine first raucous call of a crow? The flowers don’t ex­ actly come popping put but those hardy annuals, the pic­ nic tables, ' rear their bpaive heads through the snow in the yard.- And there’s color eyepy- - where, brown mud, yellow grass, green wine bottlies-.oin your front lawn, tossed, there .by some poor soul fighting mid-winter madness. And. the lovely off-white of about three tons of sand and Wt thrown onto said lawn by fop snow­ plow. But you’ll hear no pom-’ plaints from me. In fact, I feel so good when I kick off the old galoshes and hang up the pverepat for the last time that I might just burst into* song. Here are thp words. It might go to the - tune of “There’s a Tear in My Eye”, There’s a hole-in my boot, In my best rubber boot, But I don’t give a hoot 'Cause it’s spring. Th^ Old Lady that wild spring decorat/ng gleam fo her eye. And piy flunked brt Physics <?xam. But when X drive past a blavl<, burblihg ti’out slytvw, and Jong far Opening Day, pr "'■wben! see the flags go up ait the golf course, I nephz® that '■ there’s still a little 'Steam tin the old boiler and that spring has done jt again.. Qlassifjed Ad& Bring Quick., Results V'” |21YEARS0LD?l When you turn 21 1 I you are no longer I covered by your I parents’ Hospital Insurance. You must-. K take out individual [ membership within 30 days. Get your ap- 1 plication form at a i bank, a hospital, or I the Commission. J foot race, purse $8^ ■ . ■ ,?£ ... The. welLknown firm of Thomlirison and Smith, who did good work in the thresh­ ing line last season in Bruee- field area have dissolved part­ nership. Harry Smith, who bought out Thomlinson’s share, has bought a McClusky Separ­ ator. .Robt. Fitzsimons has rented Miss Jennie Robinsen’s house on Huron Street. , The Home Circle here noiw have between 75 to 80 mem­ bers, initiating 8 at the last meeting. In, some ...papers one read's about the weight of stout men. We ' have three chaps near Varna, on- the Parr Line, that can down anything we have yet heard of. Thomas Wiley. Mr. Marrow’s boy, heads the list, he tips the beam at 335 lb's.;, Jas. H. Johnston, 245, and Arthur Stephenson 224;- their united weights are 804 lbs. Surely this is a healthy country. rich Township is as follows: Oontmiration — Olive Thomp­son, *72%;/Annie Williams 69; Sr. 4th t— Willie • Rueger, ab­ sent; Sr, 3rd — Ruth Thomp­ son, 80; Harry Williams 73, Joe Murphy 72, Mary Qa’kes 69, Margaret Biggin 67, Ben Ohurchill 60, Harold" Lobb 55, Mabel Churchill 45; Jr, 3rd' — Jack Snyder 71, Earl Williams 65; Sr. 2nd — Harry Thomp­ son 69, Alvin Lobb 54; Jr. 2nd -— Robin Thompson 78, Tom Murphy 61; Sr. Primer, Joy Lobb, Irene Williams; Jr. Primer, Isabelle' Oakes, Billie Williams, The, teacher Muriel E. Potter. There’s a smell in the air Like an old sihe-wotlf’s lair, But -I don’t really care 'Cause it's spring. ' There’s a squealing of tires, - And the smell of grass fires, And the poets are liars, But it’s spring. There are masses of mud, And my cellar’s in flood, But I know in my blood, That it’s spring. HEW JOB? 1 r To keep insured fol- ! low the instructions on the Hospital in- i surance "Certificate | ' of Payment—Form l .104” that your] present employer 4s 1 • required to give you J i. on leaving. 1 was 55 Years Ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, April 25, 1912 Mr, W. S. R. Holmes^ attend­ ed the. Rexall convention of dealers in the Company’s medi­ cines, last week in Toronto. E. Zeller has purchased the- interests of his partner E. ’ J. Wickware in the Zurich HeraM, Creditor Star and' Dashwood Pioneer. The young ladies of town are holding a leap, year d'ance in thp Pastime Club room, on Wednesday evening; music sup­ plied by Phalen’s Orchestra. The McEwan Bros., intend moving their small plant from R. Trick’s to the river on R. Cole's farm.* * CLINTON NEWS-RECORD ' Thursday, April 25, 1912 Gunn, Langlois Co., Montreal, having decided to establish a branch in Clinton, have bought the Standard elevator from L. Sutter Co.. In’ addition to poul­ try the company buys various kinds of produce. They ,have had a feedling and fattening station at Holmesville for sev- era'l years. N. W. Trewartha, who is manager at Holmesville Will take Charge at Clinton. Ed.. Memer, who bought the Hewson store property some time ago, has had it refitted into two stores, one for dry goods and groceries and the I other for boots and shoes. Mt', and Mrs. C. Dale and] family of the Huron Road spent Sunday at George Johnston's hoahe/ Summerhill. \ ‘ John Muilholl'and is opening a bicycle cleaning and (repair shop in the shop west fol the Express Office. ' 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 23, 1942 Jas. Murphy, Varna, is at Kitchener attending military school. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rath- well and daughter Marilyn spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Welsh. Mrs. E. Kendall and small daughter Amy Grace of Elmira, are visiting'i her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jowett, Bay- field. Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Tyn- --dall spent Sunday with Mr, and. Mrs. Raymond Townsend of Tuckersmith. Miss Helen Herman return­ ed to Toronto Normal after spending the holidays With her parents and practise teaching at SS T Stanley Township. There’s romance in the air; Al! the boys have long hair, x And the girls have a flair In the’ spring. There are gamboling lambs And fat Easter hanY And beautiful gams ■ - In the spring. It’s no wonder a guy, Eyen an oldie like I, Gets a look in his eye In the spring. • A riemarkable thing That you feel like a king When you get in, the swing Of the spring. R71 NEWLT WED? St The "family" Hospital ^Insurance premium H must now be paid to S cover husband and U wife. Notify your B -"group" .without de- lqy or ‘f you both pay ■ premiums direct, no­ ft tify the Commission. CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 24, 1952 A total of $44,000 in pledges has been raised to' date by the members of Ontario Street United Church for the erection of a two-storey recreation centre addition to the church’s property. J. E. Hugill* is erecting a silo for Edgar Rathwell. •Mr. and Mrs. John A. Sutter, Mr.. and Mrs, Benson Sutter, also Miss Shirley G. Sutter, Guelph, visited the formers’ son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs? R. P. Robbins and family, Richmond Hill. Robert N. Irwin was tin Tor­ onto this week, driving his mother-in-law,. Mrs. Hesketh, that far on her return trip to her home in Taber, Alta. Mrs. Hesketh had spent the winter with her daughter Mrs. Irwin and other relatives. Mr. and1 Mrs. Don Colquhoun spent Sunday .in Toronto. They were accompanied to the city by Mrs. G. Hepburn and two children, and Miss Margaret Colquhoun, Miss Colquhoun went oh to Bowmanvtille, where she will teach at Itowmanville Collegiate as a relief teacher. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 25, 1957 The Kennedy house was lift­ ed from its foundation on Mary Street, ahd moved by workman of W. ,R. Parsons, to Welling­ ton Street to its new location. Jack Elliott, Who purchased the house,- had it placed on the lot. next to Tom Deievfis’ home. Russel E. Holmes has pur­ chased the Clinton Dairy elffedt- ive May 1, 1957. The new name of the establishment will be Fairholme Daily. Mis® Marilyn Shaddick, nurse-in-training sin Stratford General -Hospital, Spent Easter With her parents, MK and Mr& Albert Shaddick. , Frank Fingland, Jfo Ottawa and Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Mc­ knight and family,- Hamilton, spent the Easter season with their parents, Judge and Mrs. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, April 21, 1927 The first public gradhation exercises in connection wiiith the dlinton Public Hospital whre held in town hall bn Tuesday evening. The three -nurses to re­ ceive their diplopias were MrS. Aikenhead, MisS Menary and Miss Ross. Dr. Shaw presented diplomas to thb graduating nurses.- Douglas Thorndike of Manilla, has been the guest of Mt. and Mrs, T« H. >Har<ly during the past week. Misses Lottie. Sloman of Tor­ onto and Alice Sloman bf Strat­ ford spent the Eastertide at thefo home iii town Misses Elva and Ann Dewar and David Dewar of Toronto are homo in Bayfield for the holidays. . - - * ___, - Easter repbft fbT feS 4, Gode- [Frank Fingland. And that will be quite enough of that doggerel, thank you, But it’s all true, and I hope the longer days,' warmer sun 'and softer winds have cheered you up. Even though that old, cold Receiv­ er-General is ""lurking just around the corner. One can’t help feeling that- the natives’ sanity fe saved by the signs of 'spring, such as they are. Three people smiled at me this week for no reason. Today,, a fellow mo­ torist, who would have driven straight at me, snarling, a month ago, stopped and wav­ ed me through an intersec­ tion, when he had the right of way. It’s not all roses. There’s a lot of hard hacking ahead to clean up the estate, which. I didn’t quite manage last fall. [ Your I ONTARIO HOSPITAL INSURANCE Plan r? Ontario Hospital Services.Commission, I Toronto 7, Ontario. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY , ■ INSURANCE " J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays ‘ 20 ISAAC STREET j 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 ‘ K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE A REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 JOHN WISE, Salesman Phone 482-7285 G. B. CLANCY, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST For Appointment Phon* 524-7251 GODERICH fl R. W. 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