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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1974-01-24, Page 164,-CLINTON NEWS-RECORD, THLIFIsmy, JAM-TAW 31, 1974 Editorial Comment week for the blind Loss of sight should not stop anyone from being handy around the house, Most of the newly blinded adults who take Instruction on hoMe management through their CNIB office have operated homes before. "It's a matter of getting their confidence back," said CNIB ,District Administrator, Wally Kentiedy„ at a White Cane Week discussion about teaching blind people day to day skills required in the home. Many who have just lost their sight easily recognize by touch -ipipes, plum- bing fixtures and wires.' Locating circuit breakers, changing fuses, repairing kitT chen utensils and doing general home maintenance are taught when requested. "Women as well as men should know how to repair a kettle or tighten loose screws," Mr. Kennedy saia. At CNIB centres, newly blind persons learn how to manage a kitchen; use a stove and plan and cook meals. They are taught methods to make things simpler. For example, an easy way for a blind person to poach an egg is to crack the egg into a saucer and slide it into a metal ring which has been placed in a pan of water, That way the egg stays in one spot and is easily removed. Apartment living, which involves Making beds, cleaning and doing the laundry as well, is for men too. Home management is only one part. of a piPgram in the skills of daily living. Braille, typing and white cane mobility are also taught. Last year 7,300 newly blind people in Canada took training to adjust to their families, homes and com- munity. This is White Cane Week, from Feb. 3 -'9, sponsored by The Canadian Council of the Blind and The Canadian National Institute for the Blind. While they are stressing what training means to blind Canadians, they remind us that volun- teer assistance will always be welcome. On the street, offer your arm and a frien- dly greeting. The windmills of mankind Around the world, the energy crisis is having a varied impact,. In the small Arab state of Abu Dhabi, for instance, people must be wondering what to do with all the millions that will be coming their way. Economists have estimated that if present energy trends continue, Abu Dhabi will enjoy a per capita income of as much as $200,000 annually by the year 1980. In many poorer lands, the oil shortage will create hardship, and perhaps even food shortages and starvation. In the af- fluent nations, there will be more unem- ployment than before, more problems, more cases of frayed tempers. But in the long term, humanity will, overcome the energy :crunch, Austas4t has past criteth There'ere rnatiii4ayilek generate energy, some of whiCh Seerried -''-""- 'uneconomical because Of low oil prices - but which today are more attractive. Poor as well as richer lands could build more power plants using water to turn the turbines. The • potential of nuclear energy; of power created by ocean .tides, of wind-propelled generators is being studied by scientists in many countries. Fermentation of animal waste has been found to be an excellent source of methane gas' in some developing nations. Taiwan has in- stalled thousands of simple power -plants costing only $100 per family. The windmills of the human mind are forever turning, far more rapidly than did the old windmills that provided energy in the past, Mankind need look only up at the sun to see the vast reserves of energy that exist. If to some, 1974 will to ` thers it will tea 'tifi4Ofii'OV6f*44tr4iih4-:WtWiritdif --iTelkiiiiiithods, new -itieehinet that will ." help us produce energy for the world's four billion inhabitants:. • Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley We should have filmed it for TV The Jack Scott Column - IN MO aG• • • and this is our latest and most ex pensive line—it smells like gasoline." Looking backward - we get letters From our early files . 0 • 0 • Editor Jamas E. trItagatald 464 Ganaral Manager, J. Howard Alta, 1140441d Ci100 MaO fitiab'F'..14UitoN• tOaltit " MOW" 00,111117. TIM HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1*81 Amalgamated 1924 THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1065 ter i4001 Of iA0Ait CANO0A" Clinton News- Reeon PubNstwd ovary Tharaday at Clinton, Ontario Mails Wesley Member, Canadian CC emenanity Newspriest Austeistien Mr. Ormiston, my old age pensioner friend who has a yellowed, crumbling clipping from a Cobh newspaper of more than 60 years ago to prove that he was once the fourth-best amateur lightweight boxer in' County'Cork, was my guest for last night's late movie. The picture was Stanley Kramer's Champion, starring Kirk Douglas, a more durable film, than most. When it was over I made us some cocoa and Mr. Ormiston discoursed briefly on Douglas' ring style which, he said, was of such a nature that Kirk might have , ' !been put han- dily on his backside by any small. boy having a. rudimen- t I' must confess, hoWever,,, he said, "that my mind was not entirely on the manly science. Old movies on television affect me in a very odd way. I often feel that even the worst of them offer us lessons of great historical and philosophical significance. Do you remember that verse about the King in Persia who had a reminder engraved on his signet ring to give him 'counsel at a glance'?" "Can't say I do," I said. "How'd it go?" Mr. Or- miston. "Fit for every change 10 YEARS AGO January 30, 1964 Mr. and Mrs. J. E. "Cap" Cook celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Only a few of their many friends ,were notified due to the fact that Mrs. Cook is confined to the hospital with a broken hip. The hospital staff and members of the Rebekah Lodge arranged a tea. The Huron County, Pioneer Museum is overcrowded with no space remaining for articles available throughout the • county. Mr. J. H. Neill has recommended that an addition be built. There was a total of 22,088 visitors in 1963. Of the exhibits, 5,888 were donated, are on loan and 741 were bought, made or otherwise acquired. - Mrs. Harold Simpson, San- , dra, Cathie and Jack, London " accompanied Miss Jacqueline • Cluff, Toronto, to Bayfield on Saturday evening and visited her sister, Mis. Alf Scotchrner arid family until Sunday. They returned to' London with Bob Cluff who was here over Satur- day, The Clinton squirts made it to the finals of the annual Kin- smen tOurnatneht with a 3-0 win over Exeter. Tom Murch, Clinton's goalie recorded his first shut-out with an excep- tionally fine game as Exeter outshot Clinton 2.1 .• In the game against Goderich, the final game, Clinton lost by a 5- 1 verdict to the defending charripions. This loss was due mainly to "harcl-lucli" shots as Goderich only had one more shot on net. 25 YEARS AGO February 3, 1949, The bridge over the hayfield River south of Clinton was rebuilt on Saturday and Sinn- day of last Week 'by CINIR con- You'd think the Smileys could have one tiny grandchild with no more than the usual, anxiety and expectancy. Not a chance. They had to turn it into a three-ring circus, Just about the time the wee lad was due to arrive, I provided the first ring. I racked up my car. Not seriously. Just enough so it couldn't be driven. It was during the holidays, and bet.' ween these and► relentless storms, day after day, the repairs took twice as long as they would have normally. No transport. But we had to be there when his nibs arrived. It's a hundred miles away. Result was a nightmare of taxis and buses. , There's nothing more dismal than riding a bus in mid- winter.' It's either a, super- modern one, with the heat tur- ned up so that you are gasping for breath and sweating like a wrestler, or it's an old-tither, .vith no heat and a draft that would freeze the brains of a brass monkey coming in around the window. There's ,nothing more frustrating than waiting for a cab. It's no problem down- town in the city. You can flag one down on the street. But when you are in a remote suburb, you'd be better off with a dog team, We waited 55 minutes for a cab one night, of- ter five phone calls, on each of which / was assured "He's on the way," a pure and downright lie. My daughter, true to family form, provided a ring two Of the eircus. I'm only glad Y wasn't there, or you'd be reading my obituary instead of a ;column this week. • She began getting signs that the little stranger Was developing claustrophobia and Wanted to see the light of day. Nothing violent, but enough to Send My wife into action, with 0,11 guns, ";slang on, We'll be right it.," lip meant, up to the university apartment where she and her husband are living. It's right out in the country and a brute to get at, unless you have a car. My wife commandeered my 'bother-in-law, and he droVe her there. Naturally, the young couple doesn't have a car. Potential Granny dashed into the building, and was just starting up on the elevator, 4, when she heard a disembodied voice asking, "Is there anyone there?" She was ,more than a little startled. It was the voice of her son-in-law, and it seemed to' be coming out of the walls. It was. He and my daughter, the pregnant kid, were stuck in the adjoining elevator, between floors. They weren't ;trick because she was pregnant, ; butt because the eleOator had r ceased to descend. They'd been on their way down. Well, hovi does that grab you, as melodrama? It's like something you'd see on one of those medical series on TV. If I'd been there, I'd have fainted dead away and been carted off. My wife is made of Sterner stuff. She can get hysterical about a cat crapping on a carpet. But when it , comes down to real trouble, she's right on. And thy brother-in-law is a great man in a crisis. He posted my wife where she could talk to the two kids trapped in the elevator. Then he rounded up the troops: security guards, superintendents, and elec- trician, They tried 'everything, A half hour, passed, Nothing, An hour, Nothing Worked, They called the elevator corn- party, It watt New Year's Day, A recorded message. Tension grew, It was like a Wake. Pregnant wbinan trapped in stalled elevator. After nearly an hour and a half, my son‘in,law, one 'of the 01000, hscl an idea. There was a small riPece 'at the hot- tom of their elevator car, but Kim, with her bulging belly, couldn't get through it. There was a little more room at the top, If they could get through, from one elevator car to the other, maybe... The rescuers found a panel between the elevator cars. It was removed. The electrician was skinny. He was hoisted up and crawled through the hole. A ladder was hoisted and `passed to him. Silence. After a few minutes of this, the rescuers started pounding the wall and shouting, No an- swer. Panic. They were just about to call the fire depart- ment when the kids and the electrician walked down the stairs, into the lobby, Using the ladder, they had climbed out of the elevator and crawled through that just,big- enough hole, onto the second floor. Needless to say,, joy reigned supreme. • Laughing and hugging and kissing. Nobody had gone haywire in a nasty situation. The kids had not panicked. In fact, Kim sat on the floor and almost went to sleep. My wife kept her head, through' an hour and a half of mental anguish, My brother-in-la* came out feeling like Horitius at the bridge. Well, all turned out fine. But the third ring of the circus was supplied to my Wife. First day the baby was home, she was going up to see him, and her own child, A young woman had thrown herself in front of a subway train, and it took my wife three hours to get there. Why can't we have a grand.. child without all this fooferaw? Oh, well. At least, the first time he crosses the border into the States, when he's about six- teen, and one or those snarly U,S, immigration officers says, "Where were you born1", he won't have to answer, "Dtih, in an elevator'," struction gangs from Stratford and Montreal. Two 52-foot gir- ders were lifted from the ends of the bridge and placed in the middle. Timber roadway was put in place at the ends to replace the steel. The new Steel piling will do the work previously done by six sets of timber trestles and the timber trestle work can •now be removed, thus eliminating an annual spring "headache" for :the C.N.R, C. Bruce Symonds, Brant- ford, has been appointed manager for the Bell Telephone ,Company at Goderich, with supervision over the surroun- 'ding area including Clinton, Seaforth, Hensel', Exeter and Crediton. He is succeeding J. Murray Goodwin , manager since September 1945, who has been transferred .,.to Owen Sound as manager, The livestock branches of the Ontario Department of Agriculture have tabulated 'some interesting comparisons about hog raising costs. So far, net returns have indicated all the way from a' total loss to a total gain of $2,500 for the year. Farm operators were producing 100 pounds of pork with anywhere from 314 porinds of grain plus concen- trates to 621. They are plan- ning on making a further study to introduce modern methods to reduce the amount of feed to a minimum. 50 YEARS AGO' .JAnyary 31, 1924 Mr, James Snell, Hullett'S 'veteran stockman, was invited to the Lieut.-Governor's Lun, cheon on Tuesday, when leading breeders of the 'Province were entertained at the Government House, Mr, -Snell did hot avail himself of the opportunity, but many did .4 aiid it Was considered a most successful affair, ' "Sure," I said. "The con- tinuing -crisis in the Middle East is another good example, We've come to learn to live with it, just as those people who live in the villages under Mount Vesuvius live with its eruptions. There's a kind of fatalism about the familiar, even when it may erupt all over you. Yes, I think that slows evolution, if that's what you mean." "It dignifies the status quo," Mr. Ormiston elaborated. "Politically or economically or sociologically we're inclined to be unquestioning about the most preposterous conditions that prevail. It dOesn't matter - how Jowly we gap if ,a thing is Douglas or with old movies on television is beyond my com- prehension at the moment." Mr. Ormiston finished his cocoa, marshalling his Mr. Athol McQuarrie who has been the editor of the Goderich Signal Star, is retiring and Mr. W.H. Robert- son, who has formerly held that position for a good many years is returning. Mr. McQuarrie has decided to try new fields,„ Mr. Robertson retired mainly because of indifferent health but the freedom from the grind during the past couple of years has done much for him so feels he can take up his old job again. A year ago last Friday, Clin- ton opened an up-to-date Hydro shop which has been pronounced by those who travel as one of the best in Western Ontario. The venture has been very successful since there is a surplus on merchandise ac- count of seven hundred dollars. A few years ago the monthly account for power was only about $250, but last month it amounted to over $1,400 and the demand is still increasing. ago. Those suits that Douglas wore, the length of the women's dresses and their hairstyles, the automobiles, everything was comically old-fashioned and, so, open to our ridicule and derision. Why, even the moral values were so out-of-date they seem to us now to be foolish and pathetic, though at one time we accepted them as gospel." begin to see the light," I 75 YEARS AGO February 2, 1899 Dr. Giinn has a horse which has beaten all records. While he was calling upon a patient at the south end of town Tuesday forenoon it ran away, ran to Seaforth, from there to Brucefield and when seen at Bayfield was still galloping hard. It left the cutter at Bayfield but continued run- ning. The horse was located in Goderich township yesterday. Mr. Oliver Johnstone is ac- ting mayor in place of Dr. Shaw who resigned both from the pbsition of mayor and medical health officer. Dr. Shaw resigned after Mr. W.0 Searle stated that the electionowas not legal because Dr. Shaw was medical health officer and also a trustee of the Collegiate In- stitute at the time of his nominations. Mr. Johnstone was chosen on a motion of Councillors Plummer and Ford. Religion Dear. Editor;' From a newscast on C.K.N.X., I understand the Huron County Board of Education is planning to in- troduce to the Central Huron Secondary School a course on the five major religions of the world, I for one am extremely in- terested in the thinking behind this dedision. When- probably 75 percent of the students of C.H.S.S. have a very limited knowledge of the Bible and the fundamental beliefs of Christianity, it is beyond me why they should be confused by four other religions. I can hear someone say: "He is very narrow in his thinking." Shouldn't students have a broad knowledge of world religions? Let me use an illustration as to how I see it. If a student is weak .in the English language would it be a good idea if this student was taught four foreign languages along with English? This is only an illustration as I believe knowing Christ is far more important than languages. I would like to suggest that a course on Christianity be taught, then once the students have a sound understanding on this subject and feel a need to compare religions they will at least have a good foundation from which to start. It would be very interesting and worthwhile to hear from members of 'the Huron County board, parents and students concerning this plan of religious instruction in Central Secondary School Yours sincerely Hank Gelling Pioneers Dear Editor: Jonas Gibbings and wife, Bond, ere the first set- arah 'at "The' Corners", now Clinton; we read, "their eldest child was born there in 1833 being the first white child born at the Corners - namely, William Gibbings who married Mary Ann Phillips of Hullett Twsp., and married at Clinton, Ontario, 1859—February 17," The 1879 Belden Atlas records that these folk lived on a farm at "Alma" east of Clin- ton—It is said that William was instrumental in helping to build the little white church at Alma, built across the road from his home and that the Sunday School was conducted by this very earnest and en- thusiastic gentleman, William Gibbings„ Is it possible that any of the readers of the Clinton News Record could provide me with the following information con- cerning above? Did Mr. and Mrs. Gibbings have a family? Where were they buried, and the deathdates of these people? I would appreciate your co- operation very much. Most sincerely, Mrs, W.F. Strangway 338 London Road Sarnia, Ont. . . . News-Record readers are 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. More than 2,600,000 Canadians now suffer from some type of heart disease. and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: Even this shall pass away.. Do you remember it now?" "At this time of night," I said, "I've trouble remem- bering my-own name. But if you'll spell it out for me in words of. one syllable I'll try not to interrupt more than every 30 seconds." Mr. Ormiston took a reflec- tive sip of his cocoa, accepted a cigarette and settled back in what I've come to recognize as the pre-ruminative position. "It is my belief," he said, "that a great- deal of the trouble in the world comes from our easy acceptance of the tatus quo. Almost everyone, ,,.becauseof this.alone. because things are the way they are we, assume that they must somehow be right or logical. 'Situations may amuse us or alarm us, but because they exist we feel that they're natural." "Interesting point," I said. "Take the so-called energy . crisis," l'Ar. Ormiston went on. "It offends every sensibility of man. But the great mass of people are able to live with it. It has happened. . It is the way things are. Do you follow this?" "I said. "I hoped you would," Mr. Qrmiston said. "They're reminders, you see. Just as those styles and fashions and outlooks of 30 years ago are merely laughable so, in another „ $0 years time, our inconstant ti.'.-Sitoeti on s and ,iiiitittides,v. All agreed, I said, but today will seem what this has to do with Kirk hurnerous—perhaps even tragically humorous, That's the lesson I get from these old movies, the reminder that the status quo is quite probably ridiculous and that what we thoughts, and began very cherish or just put up with in carefully to spread them before its name is', going to make us me. seem dam'd silly if we're lucky "We'Ve seen here a movie of enough ever to look back." more than 30 years of age and one that's stood up pretty "Even this shall pass away," well," he said. "But all I quoted back at him. "I'll through this picture you and I never see a late night movie have been laughing at our- again without remembering selves as we were 30-odd years that." . .st. Apt