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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1974-02-14, Page 4+,-rotoprroN NEWS-RECORD, .THUBSPAY FEHRUARY 14, 1974 Editorial Comment Equipment improvements iqeded There are many lessons to be learned- from the • tragic death in Clinton on January 17 of a Goderich hockey player, Phillip Charles Evans. Although his sudden death after being struck by a hockey puck in the chest can be classed as accidental, it does point out that the ,game of hockey has many serious shortcomings. The coroner's jury last week pointed at the most obvious shortcomings when they made recommendations after bringing a verdict on the late Mr. Evans' demise: hoc-key equipment is inadequate. There are no standards set for any equipment other than the hockey helmet and many of those leave something to be desired. " As Professor Donald Hays, a doctor of sports medicine at the University of Waterloo worded it, "people will spend $25 protecting a boy's behind and only $6 on his head," and obvious reference to expensive hockey pants which protect little as opposed to cheap protective head gear, which protects -a lot. Thejury recommended that until more money is poured into researching and producing) better hockey equipment, body contact and the slapshot should be banned in recreational hockey. Much of the media have misinterpreted this statement to mean that body contact and the deadly shot should be banned without qualifying it with the statement, "until better hockey equipment is developed," Teitimony at the inquest revealed that few players playing in, recreational leagues have little control over the direction of a slapshot, which can reach deadly speeds of 80 miles per hour. Prof, Hays also stated 45 percent of in- . juries in hockey occur to the fade, with four boys this year alone losing eyes in hockey games. And yet, little if nothing is being done to rectify this situation. Another motive brought out at the inquest worth looking at is the purpose of playing hockey. Is it for exercises and teaching co-operation and gamesman- ship or is it only to win at any coat, whether you bash in the other team's heads or not? Hookey was meant to be a swift game, meant to built bodies and expand minds. Lately it seems, it has become gladiator contest, more indicative of a bull fighting ring than a hockey arena. Hockey, it seems, has ceased to become fun, in many instances, and has become an animal show. The number of injuries would be cut dramatically if fun were put back in the, game and the "go kill 'em" attitude was eliminated. It's too bad that a young man must die in order to open our eyes. Give for sour heart today It is important for everyone to realize that the Heart Fund, conducted here and throughout Canada during February is something more than 'just another health drive'. The Heart Fund is uniquely important. Essentially, it is a combined appeal sup- ' porting the nationwide fight against a great complex of diseases and disorders - heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, rheumatic fever and inborn heart defects, to mention only a few. Diseases of the heart and, circulation, which your Heart Fund dollars help to fight, are responsible for more than 78,000 deaths in Canada each year. That is more than the combined total, resulting from all other diseases and causes of death. In fact these cardiovascular diseases ac- count for over 51.4 percent of all deaths. The heart problem is no distant ab- straction. Although national and inter- national in scope, it exists as a painful and costly reality right here in this city. If you have doubts, examine the obituaries which appear in our daily newspapers. You will find that our local mortality ex- perience closely parallels national figures; that, on the average, about half our death notice will mention 'heart at- tack'; 'stroke' or , 'heart disease'. All too often these terms are applied to family breadwinners in the prime of life - men in the 45 to 66 year age bracket. There is only one practical way to fight heart disease, namely by suppor- ting your Heart Foundation's balanced programs of research, education and in- formation. You can do this by con- tributing Heart Fund dollars.. Truly, the Hearts Fund deserves a place at the very top of your 'giving for health' list. Send your contribution to the Canadian Heart Fund, 310 Davenport Road, Toronto, M5R 3K2, or your local Chapter. Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley Keeping house isn't all that hard The Jack Scott Column - MIN INN "Does it say anything about how to avoid wife attacks?" From our early files . • • • • • • Clinton News4 €1(_4( (1 Published every. Thursday at Clinton, Ontario Editor - James t, Fitsgeraid General Manager, J. Howard Mikan Second Claes Mail HUB 6F HURON .COUNTY mekdratkon I"' !In? "tie Nome or ,A6A, IN CAP:mw, we get tenets Women, as any man can tell you, are a mixed blessing. And every woman is a different mix. Some are like beer. They slake your thirst, but make you feel a bit logey, and you wind up with a headache. Others are like an 8 to 1 martini: cold, very dry,, and they hit you right between the eyes. This is an interesting metaphor, but I think pur- sue it some other day. Like when Women's Lib has crum- bled back into a cringing sown ding-board for male egos. Don't hold your breath waiting for that column. Anyway, there I was, living the happy, blissfully peadeful, sordid life of a guy who is bat- ching it. Newspapers all over the floor, ash-trays looking like Mount Vesuvius, dishes in the sink piled so high I couldn't see the taps. Cosy, like. My wife seemed to be so fascinated by her grandson that I thought this idyllic existence might go on for months. I'd make a duty call every second night or so, and as a matter of course, ask her if she missed me. "No", she'd reply cheer- fully. One night I got carried away, and told her that I missed her. Ah, fatal error. "you do?", she chirruped, "Yeah. Well, you know. It's not the same without you" thinking of the facts: a pile of soiled socks; down to my last shirt, the one with the peekaboo look where the seams are ripped; nothing but TV (ec. ccch!) dinners for the last four *tvs, She took another, romantic meaning, and it didn't help when I added, in jest, "Yep, and I'm sick of that big, strap- ping blonde I had to hire to do the housework. Maybe she's only. 28, but I think that bosom of hers is practically obscene. She should be in burlesque." My wife was home on , the next bus. It didn't seem to help her normally furious disposition that I was out curling when she arrived. She was completely unsym- pathetic when I got home at midnight and explained the' hour by telling her that I'd had to go through the usual ex- change of chewing gum, inanities and recipes for cheap wine that we male curlers have to put up with after each game. She was reading a book when I came in. Dangerous sign. "Hello, Bill", without looking up. Icicles. Proffered kiss was offered a forehead. Then the dam broke. The deluge began as a low, penetrating monotone, and built up into something closely akin to a fire siren. "How can you be so filthy?" This was the theme of the en- suing monologue, during which your faithful servant stood around with rosebud mouth and baby blue eyes agape, an innocent and a broad, Now look, There wasn't a dirty dish in sight (though she did find some in the cellar. way.) I'd run the carpet sweeper over a couple of dirty. grey spots on the rug. I have no sense of smell, so how could I know that the whole joint Smelled like a cat-house? I hadn't made the bed for three weeks, but, hell, we changed our sheets only once a month in prison camp. So, O.K., her plants were dead, but who can think of watering plants when his mind is filled with the anguish of the human race and whether or not the Leafs are going to make the playoffs? What am I supposed to do, just because her feet go "Squish, squish", when .she walks around the kitchen floor? It never bothered me. I wore my toe-rubbers. Dust? What dust? As she writes her name on the coffee table. Beer bottles? What beer bot- tles? They're all down the cellar except those three on the counter. I was pretty hurt and disap- pointed, I can tell you. I had sweated and slaved and torn my gut out for at least twenty minutes, sprucing up the place so she wouldn't have a mess to come home to, I didn't make that mess behind the downstairs toilet and then pull the toilet-lid cover down to hide it. The cat did. I didn't break that saucer in her favorite coffee set. The cat did. I didn't put that burnhole in the rug. It was the cat. He was smoking a cigarbutt he'd picked up on the street. My wife is the type who has the kitchen floor so clean you Can eat off it. So, who wahts to eat off the kitchen floor? The Antagonists The Boy had just turned six- teen. It was the fourth time he had been permitted to use the family car alone. He swung into the driveway ' with a flourish and braked by The Girl's house with a satisfying crunch of gravel. He reached for the handle of the door then, changing his mind, pressed the rim of the horn. I ought to go in, he thought, but if I do I'll have to make with the small talk with her old man. Sheesh! What a sour- ball! What's he got against me? Or does he hate all kids? They're all 'the same, You pick up a girl to take her to a show and maybe a Coke after and their fathers act as if you had,a back seat full of heroin. just sit her and wait for her. Inside, the house The Father heard the sound of the horn. His face darkened with an- noyance. He put down his newspaper. Now why in the Devil doesn't he come to the door, he thought, or is it expecting too much to think these modern 10 YEARS AGO February 13, 1964 Mrs. Thompson is once more a councillor for the Town of Clinton. She is accepting the council seat vacated by Allan Elliott, who has been hired for a public relations job with On- tario Hydro Electric Power Commission in Toronto. Mrs. Thompson, who became the first woman councillor, will get the seat as the defeated party in the council election. Along with Elliott's committee positions on council, Mrs. Thompson will be chairman of the health and welfare commit- tee. Alf Warner, R. R. 1 Bayfield, a Provincial director on the Hog Marketing Board, in- dicated Tuesday that either im- provements will be made on the new assembly yard at Clinton, or a new one will be erected. Lance Dickinson, Guelph, told the Huron Hog Producers that the new setup for paying for dead hogs and eliminating the rough handling was working out quite well. Transporters now have to sign a bill of lading stating the condition of the hogs when they pick them up at yards and when they are delivered. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ander- son and family, Science Hill, and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Bisback, Clinton, visited with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sturgeon, Bayfield, last week. 25 years ago. February 17, 1949. The ice harvest has been in full swing at Bayfield, The fishermen and others began to cut on February 7, and if the weather is favourable, it will be completed this week, It is good quality ice although only about eight inches thick. In honour of her tenth birth. day, Margaret Howard enter- tained the pupils of grades five and Aix to a birthday party. Twenty-two ,games of bingo kids will come in here and. say , politely, "Good evening, sir, I've come to call for your daughter." I'd fall over dead. What are they afraid of, I won- der? You see 'em together, they're as loud and bold as you please. But get in a room alone with one and he's so shy and awkward you can't talk to him. They act as if anyone over 20 was beyond understanding. The Boy reached into his jacket pocket for a cigarette but changed his mind, Better not, he thought. He might/come out here and think he's run into the latest evidence of juvenile delinquency. Sheesh! They make it hard for you to grow up. Sometimes I wonder if any Id them were ever really sixteen `themselves. Old Sourball in there, for instance. I wonder when he had his first smoke or when he took out a girl for the first time. I think I'll go in and ask him, "When did you first become a criminal, Dad?" They act like you ought to be in some sort of cage. Can't talk to them, can't get through to were played with many in- dividual prizes. During lunch other prizes were given for those having lucky spoons, cups, plates, and sitting in a lucky chair. Miss Shiela Rogers, a young Clinton lass, will be in the Kiwanis Musical Festival held annually in Toronto. There are classes for choirs, orchestra soloists, and a host of single in- struments, People from one end of Canada to the other are making plans for the trip to On- tario's capital. This is the sixth year for the festival and there are more than 16,000 entrants, or more than 2,800 indiVidual entries.' Sheila Rogers, whose grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Hall will play a clarinet solo in an open class. Huron County ranked sixth in butter production in 1948 among fifty-four counties and districts in Ontario, according to statistics prepared by On- tario Department of Agriculture, 50 YEARS AGO. February. 14, 1924 Mr. Wm. Symonds,' of Salt ford, the "Apple Barrel King" of Huron Co., was in town on Monday afternoon discussing his apple crop for next year. The sudden-death hockey match between Goderich and Seaforth, drew a big crowd to Clinton on Monday evening. Both towns ran special trains and other outside points were well represented. Both teams played well but the Seaforth goalie had an off-night. Seaforth finally won 8.6 with two last minute goals. On Thursday evening of last week, about one hundred of the friends and neighbours of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gilmour gathered at their home and gave them a complete surprise. During the evening they were presented with two oak leather. seated rockers. The evening was spent in dancing and social them, They're all suspicious of you, always watching you. The Father sat with the newspaper in his lap, won- dering if he should go out and speak to The Boy to remind him to drive carefully, He rejected the idea, It's all a lack of training, he thought. They've no sense of responsibility, no feeling of par- ticipating. Big cars, plenty of spending money, no chores to do. I may be an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy, but I honestly don't know how these kids are going to make out when they have to face up to life. What they need is some Army-type discipline or six months in a logging camp. The Boy gave another signal with the horn. The Girl ap- peared in an upstairs window and gestured that she'd be right down. It's no darn wonder the world is in such a mess, The Boy thought. They're really all like Old Sourball, all worrying about their own crazy problems. No sense of humor. chat, and. the ladies provided lunch. Mr. James Scott, McKillop Township, expeccts his wife home in about a week's time. Mrs. Scott went to England in December to see her parents. Mrs. Scott still feels 'Canada 'is for her.' 75 YEARS AGO. February 16, 1899 Mr. and Mrs. George Crich, old residents of West Tucker- smith, moved to Clinton -this week. They will be missed by their old friends here as they have always been good and generous neighbours, The cold snap has been here in earnest. The mercury went below zero on Sunday night and remained thus all week. It was 34 below zero on Saturday morning and has averaged about 15 below all week. Much damage has been done in the cellars to potatoes and other vegetables, but owing to the great amount of sunshine it did not seem so cold. Harold Blackstone, Goderich, is now preparing to tilsonbor. Canadian Community Nowopopst Amoolotion Maybe that's it. They can't seem to enjoy themselves, even when they're together, unless they're drinking like fish. They all talk about how the world is going to pieces and they expect us to be absolutely perfect. Gosh, even my old man is always talking about discipline and responsibility--for me!--and he says himself that he ought to see a psychiatrist. There's sure something wrong somewhere. The Father raised his eyes as The Girl entered the living room. I don't know her any more, he thought dismally. I think of her as a baby and here she is all dressed up and going out in an automobile with a boy I don't know. There's sure something wrong somewhere. "Be home early," he said aloud, "and tell that kid to drive carefully." The Girl went out to the car. "Hi, Jimmy," she said. "My dad says to drive carefully." They both raised their eyes heavenward, laughed mir- thlessly, and The Boy put the car in gear and pulled away. play solos on the serpent. This instrument is of the bass horn variety in sound and there is only one other instrument like it in America. It is a perfectly coiled instrument of wood with a silver mouthpiece, which is large at the base. The serpent has a powerful soft-toned bass sound. Heart Fund target set Col. O.M. Fuller, 1974 Chair- man of the London District Heart Fund has set an objec- tive of $95,000 for the cam- paign in London, Middlesex, Elgin and Huron. February is Heart Month and February 17 has been set as Heart Sunday in this area when the hundreds of volun- teers will carry out the bulk of their canvass. Col. Fuller emphasized that the Heart Fund is a National effort to raise money for research and reduce deaths from heart disease amongst all Canadians. Help War :Amps Dear Editor: Millions of the familiar War Ampbtations of Canada key tags are in the mail in their, distribution to households across the country. Each of these tags, which for many years were in the form of miniature license plates, now carries a coded number which is known only to the key owner and to the War Amps Key Tag Service, If keys with the War Amps key tag are found, they may simply be dropped . into a mailbox, The Post Office sends them to the War Amps Key Tag Office, which returns them free to their owners. It is expected that some 20,000 lost sets of keys will be returned in 1974. The revenues froM donations to this service are of great value not only to war veterans but civilian amputees. Every year more and more non- veterans are being assisted by the War Amps program. The newspapers' have been of great help in publicizing this annual campaign, and we do hope that you will find use for the en- closed material over the next couple of weeks or so. With best wishes, I am Yours sincerely, A.J. Parsons Managing Director. Watch out At a meeting of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture in Howick public school, Wm. (Bill) Crawford, the fieldman, reported that an American based life, sickness, and accident insurance com- pany is flooding Huron County with salesmen, concentrating on farmers. While the policy appears to be good, Mr. Crawford, himself a former in- surance man, urged farmers to investigate the cost of a similar policy with their own co- operative CIAG before commit- ting themselves. The difference in premium cost is staggering, he stated. Maurice Bean of Auburn reported from OKA that feed test services are available from OMAF at a nominal cost for home grown feed and that federal services are available for the testing of bought feed. If the cause of• disease is suspec- ted to be the feed, the veterinarian is requested to meet with the federal inspector to give direction as to what testing should be done. Testing services. are in London, Guelph and Toronto. The Bruce-Huron Hydro Negotiating Committee has presented a brief to Ontario's agriculture minister Wm. Stewart, said Dave McCallum of RR3 Wingham, In the brief, they asked the minister to make study of what hydro tran- smission lines are doing to Huron County's farmland, especiallysy since it is rumored that a site south of Goderich is being considered for another nuclear power generating station. Mr. McCallum said that Ontario now has 22 million acres of farmland of which 10 million acres is class 1 and 2 land and it is going out of production at a rate of over 228,000 acres per year. If this rate continues, he said, we will have no farm land left in 40 years time. A resolution was passed asking government help in keeping young people on the farm instead of trying to get unskilled urban people. Some farmers misuse of today's com- plicated machinery by un- skilled people could result in deaths, wreck machinery or both. It makes much more sense to keep people there who grew up on the farm says . Mason Bailey of Blyth. 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