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IT 1$ UNLIKELY that anyone is
entirely certain just what an industrial
park and educational centra in the sou
thern part of the county at former CFB
Centralia will mean in actual dollars
and cents to the entire area,' but one
thing has been established beyond a.
shadow of o. doubt
A venture of this type — with the
Provincial Government at the helm —
has a promising ring which stirs the im
agination of most thinking people.
Cynics are saying the plans will
pever evolve. Skeptics are waiting to
see how things pan out. Optimists are
throwing aside all precautions in wild
exuberance and anxious anticipation of
what is to come.
The average citizen is neither pre
maturely elated or totally disinterested.
His attitude seems to he like that of the
wise man who takes his rubber boots
in case of rain but leaves his umbrella
at home because the forecast is for sun
shine.
Officials who travelled into the
United States to see projects similar to
the qne proposed for Centralia were im
pressed- They found the basic idea of
several industries - located on one site
and sharing costs worked well and con’
tributed a great deal to the economy of
the vicinity in which it was situated.
Unlike many other' schemes, industrial
park planning is feasible and entirely
workable as proven in other areas, With
these facts in mind, we have little choice
but to be intrigued by the proposals for
Centralin.
Still, with an election looming some
where in th'e immediate future and the
possibility of government red tape which,
always slows down even reasonable,
normal progress, fears of stalls and long,
long-term development aren’t unfound
ed. For these reasons, Huron citizens
are cautioned'to be patient though alert.
It is to be hoped that if and when
development does begin, the Ontario
Government will give special considera
tion to solid industries which will form
the backbone of the park, and those
which may make use in some way of
the accessibility of Huron County’s agri
cultural producer
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FEW PERSONS may have realized
, the significance of it, but Clinton Public
Hospital continued to function normally
through last week’s blackout which last-,
ed for about 16-hours. The auxiliary
power unit kicked in a mere four sec
onds after the regular hydro source,
failed and staff at the hospital- could
have handled most emergencies as ef
ficiently as ever.
Dependence on hydro electric pow
er has become so great that officials of
Ontario Hydro have worked — and are
still working — to make their product
as certain as anything that is man-made
can be. Barring any weather oddities,
such as the tornado last Monday, hydro*
power flows steadily through a criss
cross'of Ontario cables, and hydro of
ficials and customers may grow a little
smug and self-satisfied with their
accomplishments.
Like all animal life, hoWever, we
things and wreck the best laid plans of
men. Then it is wise to have an ace in
the hole — an alternate supply of light,
heat and energy —. to assure a mini
mum of inconvenience.
For homeowners this might consti
tute a fireplace, a camp stove and a
candle.
For a hospital, it entails much
more.
The Board of Clinton Public Hospi
tal may have had reservations about the
major expenditure for an auxiliary
source of power which could very well
sit idle for months, even years at a time
. . . but we are certain that last Monday
night and again last Tuesday morning,
board members felt a‘twinge of pride
when it became apparent that their
foresight could have been credited with
saving a life or avoiding some other
catastrophe.
Hospitals arq in the business of'pro--
longing the life and health of those in
are at the mercy of our Maker. Winds, . the community. IJt is good to know they
many natural are prepared for qiost'emergencies, even
the course of those which are Heaven sent.
,■ 75 Years Aga "
Wednesday, April. 1892 !.
Thero is a niovemexit oq -toqt.;
among the congregations of the
Ontai’io Street and Rqttewbw
Sti'eet Methodist congi-egaticins
to amalgamate and build a
chui'ph large enough to 'accom
modate all, • ■
Samuel Grigg, the febmer
proprietor of Grigg House, Lon
don, and a Clintonian by birth,
will take pant (in both services
■of the Itattenbury Street'
Church on Sunday next.
The Clinton .Ci'icket Club is
organized for the season. Of-
ii'cers are Hon, Pres. D. A-
Forrester, Hon. Vice Pres. G, D.
McTaggart, Pres, N, Me. L.
Fair, Vice Pires. Mr. Rim/ington, ■
Sec.-treas, J, W- Chidley Jr,,
Captain L, Kennedy; Executive
Committee, J, H, Howsop, W.;
H. BaliJ, J, McMarchie, Dr.
Shaw, T, L. Fortune. Match
Committee, L. Kennedy, M. D,
McTaggart, Jas McMurehiie.
This is one of the best Cricket
Clubs in Western
was not beaten
match last year,
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THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Friday, April 29, 1892
J, Millar recently erected one
of bis famous wind mills for
Hansford Bros., of the Stapleton
Salt Works,
Mayor Doherty is heating his
new house with steam from the
factory boilers, and is putting
in a steam oven, this as some
thing netw, and is the only house
in Clinton that has such con
veniences. t
The assessor’s returns give
the population of the town as
about 2400.
Hayward’s Carriage Factory
located opposite Fair’s Mill are
new able to supply their cus
tomers with road carts, demo
crats, lumber wagons, open or
covered buggy or a double car
riage.
Ontario, and
in a single
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From The
HENRY F. HEALD
rain, sleet, snow — so
phenomena can dictate
Are You a “Cadillac” or a 9?
CANADIANS with middle-class in
comes who don’t own their own house
now probably never will, says an article
. in the May issue of Maclean’s Maga
zine. Because of a startling change in
•our style of life, home ownership will
soon be for the very rich only.
The article says the housing crisis
is not*just;a temporary trend caused by
tight money. What is happening to the
individual house in an irreversible is
long-term development. The convention
al house is simply out of date, old-fash
ioned and unsuited to our contemporary
way.of life.
Toronto real estate men estimate a
man must earn between $11,000 and
$14,000 a year in order to be able to af-
ford an average three-bedroom bunga-'
•low. However, few people.even in this
income bracket are able to save enough
to make a down-payment on avhouse.
And for thousands earning less, public
housing is the only hope.
“The average man today should no
more aspire to owning a house than he
should aspire to earning a Cadillac/’
says Toronto real estate economist
Donald Kirkup. , “Besides, for most
- people, Volkswagens are perfectly ade
quate.”
What, then, will the “Volkswagen”
housing of the future be like? The ex
perts say it will be a combination of
mass-produced factory housing and,
more massive apartment blocks or high-
density row housing. J 1
We s
THE EFFECTS that Sunday work
in factories is having on families and
communities are currently under re
search by graduate students of The
University of Toronto.
According to its annual report, just
released, the Lord’s Day Alliance has
engaged the interest of government and
of university in this study. It is en
couraging free, unhindered, objective
study of the problem by people who can
not ibe charged With any bias.
Disregard for the traditional Sun
day which, according to the Alliance,
prevails too widely is being reflected
in now legislation and regulations of
several provinces. These go beyond
Sunday sport and entertainment Which
have been introduced in recent years.
Elections have been held on Sunday,
and increasing industrial activity on
that day, generally claimed to be neces
sary, is tolerated.
The report, published under the
title “The New Look of Sunday” states
that “The restless spirits the unsettled
manners, and the confused thinking of
the present times have been making it
diff icult to keep Sunday as a distinctive
day,”
After referring to Sunday as a day
of rest, instruction in religion, a day to
strengthen family ties and friendships,
the report claims that the Lord*s Day
Alliance is concerned to see these hu
manitarian values of the Lord’s Day
“established as widely aS may be pos
sible in the iriodern situation?’ The
Alliance is giving careful thought to
future policy.
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OTTAWA — Canada's Cen
tennial Parliament, the show
piece of democratic practice
that was to highlight Centen
nial Year, becomes less and less
significant .as the days and
weeks slip by with MPs wran
gling over armed forces uni
fication as 'though the country’s
100th birthday had never ar
rived.
Thia hope was that the pre
sent session which has already
passed the infamous 1964 flag
session in length and long since
far ahead of it in bitter and
vindictive argument, would end
early this year.
Then a special Centennial
Parliament would open 'in which
a new Speech from the Throne
would concentrate on the cen
tenary of confederation, in
which several major but not too
controversial pieces of legisla
tion would be dealt with, a
happy budget introduced and
wiind up with the visit of. the
Queen.
I-Ier Majesty would address a
joint - session1 of Commons, and
Senate on July 1 and then the
MPs would go home for a long
recess to take part in their
favorite centennial celebration
and take their families, to Expo
67.
It now seems that the bulk
of Hansards of 1967 will record
the wrangling® over unification,
ctairy’ policy, seal hunting and
the Bank Act. By the time‘the’
Centennial Parliament gets un
derway the public interest in
things centennial will be wear
ing thin and they will be. too
busy .planning their own holi
days to pay much attention to
the proceedings of a Parlia
ment designed to send Canada
into its second century in har
mony, unity and understanding.
Furthermore, as the year ad
vances, the plans for the 'Con
servative party leadership con
vention take more and niore
space in the press and are cer
tain to dominate the national
news picture in the late summer
and fall. Add to this the inter
est aroused by some 60 visiting
heads of state and the little
sideshow on Parliament ijili
is likely to be 'given only limit
ed attention by both .the news
media atid the public.
All it needs now is for Hanoi
and the U.S to agree to deal
With the Vietnam conflict at the
conference table instead of in
the jungle and the Centennial
Parliament
eclipsed.
The government has shown
i’dmarkable restraint in whiting
as long as it has before pro
ceeding with Hie guillotine Mie
to ehd the fruitless unification
debate. No matter how much
head Waggihg and finger point
ing the opposition indulges in
and no matter how often they
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will * be .totally
55 Years Ago
’ CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, May 2, 1912
On Tuesday of jlhis week,, N.
W. Trewartha visited Prof.. F,
C, Elford of Buffalo and while
there purchased fee poultry
plant ait Holmesville, the price
paid being a little better than
$J?,OOQ for the' propery and
equipment .including colony
hopsias,, brooders, incubators,
fattening crates, etc.
• Messrs. John Snider and Wm.
Berry of Brucefield Were in
Clinton on-Tuesday.
A great big load of supplies
< from Mr,. t Mackenzie’s planing
mill, • to. be used in the con
struction1 of the new post office
'.at. Seatorth was taken to its
destination • in one of ‘‘Clintori”
two-ton trucks on Monday
morning. When the supplies had
been delivered 4,70Q lbs, of
gingerale from . the Dodd’s
works was1 put aboard, It was
delivered to Winthrop, Lead-
bury, Walton, Jiameston, Brus
sels, •Blueivale, Wingham, Bel*
grave, Blyth, Hurlock and Con
stance, a distance of 102 miles,
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THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, May 2, 1912
’ The annual spring horse fair
at Bruceifield was a great suc
cess ch Thursday last.
Bartliffs .restaurant has re
cently been \ re-decorated and
Mr. Bartliff has installed a new
Ice-cream and soda fountain
counter with cabinet ait rear
and big mirror, all soft drinks
In bottles to be put on -ice.
Miss Rudd has. returned from
her visit and is once more at
her accustomed1 place at the
Library.
Get your lawn-mowers sharp
ened before the rush starts at—
Jabez Rands.
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40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, April 28, 1927
Amongst those who were
home for the holidays and have
returned to their duties as tea
chers are: Miss Izetta Memer,
New Dundee; Miss Ethel Jew
ett, Brechin; Miss Jean Woodls,
Orton; Miss , Nina E. Heard,
Kitchener, Milsses Elva and
Anna Dewiar and Anna Elliott,
Toronto; Clitford Clark, Cam
eron.
Miss Ruth Shobbrook is visit
ing with her sister, ‘Mrs. W. A.
Willard of Detroit.
New CCI
The exterior design of
new CCI, which is the, best
school building in Huron Coun
ty, is of tudor style, much ’em
ployed in manor houses in Eng
land. The floor construction in
all classrooms Ife of wooden
joists resting on masonry walls,
and steel beams, covered' with
a %” rough floor laid diagon
ally and finished with a %”
maple floor laid on strapping
and hair felt for sound deaden
ing purposes. The corridors have
■finished floors of marble terraz
zo. The whole building is what
is known as semi-fireproof con
struction.
The ventilation is ob
tained without the" necessity of
fans or motors. Large galvan-
■ized iron exhaust ‘flues, with,
steam aspirating icoiis in each,
carry 'the foul" air from above
.the base board in the various
rooms to accumulation' cham
bers on the roof which -are fit
ted with1 exhaust ventilator
rods. The fresh air is carried to
each classroom by means of
hopper shaped ventilators in the
steel casements, and the fresh
air is heated directly as it en
ters the rooms, by. means of
50% excess direct steam radi
ation.
The woodwork in the audi-
' torium, principal Fines’ room,
teachers’ room, library and cor
ridors is all of birch, finished
■in mahogany. The gymnasium
has a wooden ceiling and edge
grain Douglas Fir dado five feet
high, with an angle iron base to
protect it from moving appar
atus. This building as construct
ed in such a way that four- or
five generations of Huron coun
ty students Will have the bene
fit of its use,
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday* April 30, 1942
Hockey fens in Clinton had a
Specfel interest' in the outcome
Of tile Ottawa Fliers, 1941
Senior Champions- of Canada,
Winners odf tile-Allan Cup series.
Pilot Officer Ellwood. Camp
bell, eldest son of Mri and Mrs.
George Campbell of town was
tone of their most valued play
ers. Gunners George and Rob
ert Campbell with the Royal
Canadian Artillery at Camp
Borden 'his two younger
brothel's. Bob joined the High
land Light Infantry but got
transferred to the Artillery
afeo? George joined. This is the
second family ^rom Clinton, to
have three of its members in
the Service of the Empire; the
other is Mr. and Mts. W. T.
HaWkins family,
Kenneth Cooko who is oh the
staiff pf -JthQ Royal Rank, SWM’-
foxxl is in General Hospital
there wife scarlet few,.
Among the recent enlistments
at Military District No, l for’ the
Canadian Active Army are
Grant R. Turner , and Borden
Clark, Bayfield and James. R,
Murray, Varna.
t Edward W. Elliott, local auc?
tioneer left Sunday for Ottawa
where he has joined1 the Can
adian Civilian Fire Fighters, for
service [in the United Kingdom.
Miss NormaHabkivk of Sea
forth iand Grade HI teacher in
the Clinton Public School has
received her call to report to
the RCAF Women’s division on
May 30th.
15 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, May L 1952
Miss Marie Dale and her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Dale provided the mus’ic for the
Firemen’s Ball at Delhi, on
Friday night,
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Shear
down, Goderich, visited Mr. and
Mrs. David Dew^ar for a couple
of days last week.
George Clifton has purchased
20 acres north of, the Mill Road,
'in Tuckersmith Township. The
property formerly belonged to
Robert P. Watson.
At the official opening of the
new A/V/JM Hugh Campbell
Public School, Adastral ^Park,
on Monday afternoon, Air Vice
Marshal Campbell unveiled the
beautiful oak plaque, A/V/M
Campbell is a liaison staff
chairman at Washington, D.C.
and representative of the Can
adian Chiefs pf' Staff to NATO.
10 Years. Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, May 2, 1957
Rev. A. G. Eagle has accepted<■ Hev. A. G. Eagle nas acceptea
a call to Grace United Church
in Sarnia.
Mr. and: Mrs. Ross Trewartha,
Fred and Marie, spent the holi
day weekend with the former’s
brother, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Trewartha, Cardinal,
Cadet Flight Leader W. J.
Shearing and Miss Ruth Bab
cock, Kingston and Miss Gail
Shearing, St. Thomas, spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mi’s.
Mitchell Shearing,
Londesboro hockey players
attending the Young Canada
week at Goderich were Kenneth
Pollard, David Duncan, Keith
McLean, Murray Lowe, Morris
Hoggart, Robert Shaddick, Ri
chard Shaddick, John S'aunder-
cock, Trevor Moon, Bob Brom
ley, Bert Bromley, Tom Mc
Lean, Frank Taras, John Tanas,
Wayne Cameron, John Currie,
Gordon Hoggart (captain), Bill
Cowan (coach), George Cowan
(manager).
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Pension At 67;
Must Apply Now
To Be Eligible
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An extra 40,000 persons in
Ontario will become 'eligible for
Old Age Security pension in
January, 1968, and so should be
making application at this time.
These are the people who- Will
reach 67 by the end of this cal
endar year, Canadian citizen
ship is not required for eligibil
ity.
J, G. Parsons, Regional Di
rector of Old Age Security for
Ontario, stated that applications
from persons .born in the year
1900 have been very slow com
ing in to'the Ontario Regional
Office. Less than 3,000 or 7.7
percent were received by the
end of March.
Old Age Security applica
tions, along With an explanatory
booklet, may be obtained from
any Post-Office, and should be
sent to the Regional Director of
Old Age Security, 25 St. Clair
'Avenue East, Toronto 7, Ont
ario. Since an applicant must
prove age, birth or baptismal
certificates Should be sent in
with the application. 'I£ such
documents cannot 'be submitted,
the application should be com
pleted and sent to the Regional
Office with a note explaining
why the required certificates
cannot be obtained. The Region
al Office will then assist tire ap
plicant to find other evidence
of ag e.
The age at which Old Age
Security pension becomes pay
able is being reduced each year
Until by January, 1970, payment
may be made to persons who
are aS young as 65 as long as
they fulfil the residence re-
quirerhents,
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HELP YOUR
RED CROSS
SUGAR
AND SPICE tJ
by Bill Smiley
Sometimes envy
yoqng. But very pfeep,
heqrt aches for tihieirn. They
haven't much (in the way of
armor, you know, in an
dominated world., And that’s
why they so often rebel and
run away from home or get
married, or do something
Which even they know is
stupid.
Today’s young people are
confused and 'battered by an
assault of sights, sounds and
ideas they simply can’t cope
With. , x
Nothing is easier than to
criticise them; They’re'spoiled
rotten. They have too much
money, They’re bone lazy.
They’re utterly selfish.
They’re immoral, They're
materialistic. They have po
sense Of responsibility . , .
and so on.
There is nothing ■'that rasps
me rrtore than that kind of
talk. And I’m afraid far too
many adults are far too glib
with it. Perhaps the worst of
fenders are old maids of both
sexes, but we’re all guilty,
sooner or later.
Adults’ generally are envi
ous of young people. From
that envy springs a general
1 rancor which comes out as a
petulant blanket-disapproval
of youth in general.
What causes the envy?
Mostly, a hast of misconcep
tions. Today's „ :
teenagers has more money,
more freedom, more luxury
than any in
pretty hard1 for a man Who
grew up during the depres
sion —• and has worked like
a dog all his life — .to be
anything but sore when he-
sees a young punk just out of
school riding around in a red
convertible, with a doll lolling
on his shoulder. 1
But what he doesn’t re-
mieimber is that while the kids
have all the ■“mores” men
tioned above, they have some
others, They have more'work,
more decisions', more pres^
sures, more problems, more
temptations.
Certainly, some teenagers
are bums. And so are many
adults. But when you look be
hind the facade of fun-and-
gameis the average high
school kid seems to foe having,
you .see a different picture.
First of all, tiiey ’spend six
and a half hours a day in
school, Where they are sup-
generation of
'history. It’s
posed to be polite, uttantive
Industrious and obedient to a
welter pf rales. That’s the
meat-and-potatoes. For des
sert they .anp handed between
two and three hours of home*
work. That's a nineMhour day,
Mac. ,
Many of them have after
school
$ome
chores
Others
extra-curricular
which gobble the time. Very,
very few have any hours to
dream or read or just goof
•around, the hours that are so
essential to any human’s hap
piness, and particularly so at
thifc sensitive age.
I know whereof I speak.
My daughter came to us al
most in tears, the other day.
She had just 'drawn up a list
of things she had to do in the
next two months, and she had
that horrible feeling we’ve all
experienced when things pile
up to the point where we
want to resign from the race,
Here’s the list. ^And remem
ber this is on top of a nine-
hour school day.. Play rehear
sals; night practices; three
night’s performance. Band
Concert: night practices for
string orchestra, concert band
and symphonic band; one
’ night’s. performance. Music
Festival: practice piece, play
at festival, play at festival
concert. Practise with Bev
and Hugh for Hi-Y concert;
play at concert. Study for
music exams, History and
Harmony, Prepare for piano
scholarship audition. Practise
With New Christian Minstrels
for folk mass at church. Com
plete math and history pro
jects for school. Study for
. final exams in June.
And my daughter is no ex
ception. Other kids are just
as busy, and just as much is
expected of them. They
haven’t even time to experi
ment with LSD or. sex. They
haven’t time to go for a walk,
or listen to the birds, or rea
lize it’s spring.
Next time you feel like
knocking kids, stop and ask
yourself how you’d tike to
finish a day’s work and then
(tackle about five more hours
of demanding physical and
mental activity. Personally, I
wouldn’t trade with them,
even if they did give me back
all those years between.
and Saturday jobs,
are expected, to do
or help at home,
become involved in
activities
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