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Clinton News-Record, 1974-02-28, Page 44,-cLiwroN NEWS-ABC0111D, FRBRUARY 2$, 1974. ,Fditorial Commient It seems that studded snow tires will never ..return to. Ontario, in a recent report published by the engineering, research and development .branch of the ministry Of transportation and com- munications, there is evidence showing that "the proportion of winter accidents POPUrring on icy or snow packed and on. snowy or slushy roads declined in On- tario 'following the ban of studded tires," **ever, there was an increase inWet and.dry road adoidents. An increase of 17,7 per cent in .collisions and an in- crease in personal injuries, of 12.1 per oent. Contrasted to this, there was a marked decrease in collisions and personal in,. juries during snow and icy road con, ditions, ranging from. 13.3 per cent to 28,9 per cent. This reduction occurred throughout the whole province. Studded snow tires appear to' have created a feeling of seburity among drivers, the added traction allowed people to go faster. But as we all know there are times when the only way to survive in poor road conditions is to slow down, The ban• on studded snow tires was probably the best thing that could,have • happened to the people of Ontario. The pavement on the roads is in much bet- ter condition and the traffic fatalities have decreased. People can no longer hang onto the studded snow tire as an excuse for accidents in the Winter, They either slow down or suffer the con- sequences, Another surprising revelation that came ,out of the report was the in- Ban the slap shot A coroner's jury in Clinton recently recommended that the slap shot be for- bidden in hockey leagues organized for recreational hockey. The inquest inquired into the death of Philip Charles Evans, an 18-year-old Goderich hockey player who died after being struck on the chest by a slap shot. A player is said to be using a slap shot when he takes a golf like swing at the puck. The slap shot can make the puck travel faster than the ha ve wrist shot but few players have -any control over its accuracy. This is why the slap shot pis such a dangerous one and why the jury recommended the shot be ban- ned from recreational hockey. However, many hockey fans can no doubt see another reason for having the shot banned. In today's game, the slap shot has become a cover-up for a lack of hockey skills. The next time you watch a professional hockey game on the television, count how many times the Players blast wild shots from the blueline dication that in wet or dry, read On, ditions the. accident percentage has gone Pp, This can only reflect another sense of false security. Nice sunny days are conducive to driving fast it seems, - One of the ways we could eliminate traffic fatalities is to ban the use of cars. Unfortunately in our automated .society this method is impossible. Maybe if people used the same better dudgment they do in the winter time, car .accidents would not be an everyday pc, currence, • Ann Durrell, Ruffled We are sure that a lot of feathers will be ruffled when the feature story in this paper on the condition of the Clinton Town Hall is read, The whole point of the story is to give the people of Clinton a look at what their town hall looks like and to give them a chance to express an opinion on its future. After all, the citizens of Clinton will foot the bill, no matter what the final decision is. It is obvious that the building is in poor shape. It has become over-crowded and run down and the town's municipal offices need more space. There are many questions and an- swers that will be forthcoming, so we hope you fill in the coupon and mail it to the News-Record as soon as possible. We will turn all the answers over to the Clinton Town council after we have tabulated the, results. with the result being that the opposition gains. contra) of the puck. Hockey is a game of skill that is sup- posed to feature sharp passing and good stick handling. It isn't some monkey winding up at the blueline and firing a slap shot. The professionals should ban the-shot themselves to improve their fast deteriorating game. However, it is unlikely that they will and the. youngsters ,In minor hockey..leagueg' across the country will continue to think it glorious to blast a slap-shot 18 feet wide of the net. The minor hockey association 'across the country should forget the pros and go ahead and ban the slap shot. It would mean fewer injuries and deaths to Canadian youngsters and they would learn that there is more to hockey than the slap shot. What's more,, we might even be able to beat the Russians again in a few years. (From The Kincardine News) An illusion of safeto Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley Confessions of an aging jock fi "Arehie's shovelling snow off the roof, but he's just on his way down now." The Jack Scott Column °I No more broth the trees. Mr. N. McLeod of Goderich and Mr. Plaskit of Clinton were in Seaforth and on Thursday, when no definite assurance could be obtained as to when a train would come through, they decided to make the nine-mile trip between here and there on foot. It wasn't exactly an en- joyable trip, climbing over or ploughing through drifts over a road which had barely been scratched since the big blow. They arrived here just a little ahead of the train. Mr. Bert Fitzsimmons will celebrate his birthday tomorrow. He celebrates once every four years and this is his year. Mr. Smith of Mitchell, pur- chased the Clinton arena and took possession on Monday. Mr, Smith also controls the Mitchell rink. Mr. Chapman who has been manager here for the past two seasons and has given excellent services to both hockey teams and skaters, returned to Mitchell on Tuesday. 75 `IfEARS AGO March 2, 1899 Miss Orpha Miller leaves tomorrow for Victoria B.C., having accepted a year's situation in a large millinery establishment in that city at a much higher salary than she is now receiving. Mr. Thos. Grigg of Taunton, Somersetshire, England, was the guest of his nephew, Mr. A.J. Grigg, Clinton, last week while on his way north to visit his brother near Londeiboro. There are several members of Mr. Grigg's family on this side of 'the Atlantic with whom he will spend a few months as ac- cording to present arrangements, summer will be well in advance before he returns home. The grippe has served a useful turn for Thomas Keys, Wolfe Island. Several years ago he received an injury and his voice failed him. In December last he was seized with the grippe and after a severe siege, recovered and with 'it his voice returned, clear and strong. we get letters. to,i on s • NUS OF. HURON COUNTY S46 From our early files . • • • • • Published weary Thursday at Clinton, Ontarie !Niter = James E. 'Fitypertild General Manager, J. HOWard Aitken pride and speed, I managed to finish third in the 100 yards, fourth in the 220. In the days when you didn't have to be a big, slavering brute with haunches like hams, I was a pretty fair football quarterback. And I have a broken nose and two rickety knees to, prove it. In the airforce, I enjoyed, and was good at, formation flying. Only trouble was that I sometimes formated with the wrong people. One day I took off in a cloud of dust, spotted another Typhoon, my leader, and joined him in close for- mation. Rather to my surprise,-- he circled the air-strip and lan- ded. I did too. I climbed out and walked over to ask him what was wrong. I'd never seen him before in my life. ,y squadron was off in the wild, blue yonder somewhere, one man short. I can't help envying the kids of today, They can learn golf and curling, sports they can use until they're decrepit, while they are young. When I was 'a kid, golf was for the rich—people earning away up around $3,000 a year. My only acquaintance with golf was diving for balls into the river water hazard into which the lady golfers pumped ball af- ter ball. We sold them back for a dime. As for curling, that was a game played by eccentric old gentlemen on an outdoor rink. But, by golly, the rich and the eccentric old gentlemen didn't gO to the pool-roomy and we did, Maybe I started too late to amount to anything WI the irk or the links', but take any of these other old fogies on, on the green felt cloth, One of these days I'm going to have to sit down and have a little talk with myself. It will go something like this: "Look, Bill, It's time you acknowledged that you'll never be in the British Consols com- petition for the curling cham- pionship of Canada. 'Let's face the fact that a great competitive spirit, tremendous desire, and the heart of a lion are not enough. You also need some skill and some muscles. "You curled in a local bon- spiel last weekend. Won two, lost two. Not bad. You're a fifty-percenter in sport. But on Monday morning, when you bent over to tie your shoe laces, you couldn't straighten up again. Somebody had shoved a knife in your back, just above the tail-bone. If your wife wasn't pretty handy at straightening things out, you'd still be going around on all fours. "Why don't you forget that silly business of running up and down a sheet of ice like-a rabbit, galloping sideways', pounding s' the surface with a broom while some idiot yells, "Sweep!" as though you were washing the dishes instead of sweeping your guts out? "Why don't yott stop blaming the ice for being too keen or too heavy, when you know perfectly Well it is you who is too heavy and not keen enough? "Why don't you stop blaming the skip for not giving you the right ice, when you know full Well you couldn't hit his broom with a front-end loader/ "Why don't you give up the garne t except for the Safe .position of critic behind the glass, where all the really good shots are made? "Why don't you just go down to the recreation room at the curling club, and fight it out with Capt, Dalt Hudson for the undisputed Russian Billiard Championship of the club? Af- ter all, you beat him once, five years ago, when he was only 72, "And while 'we're having this agonizing appraisal, why don't you do the same about your golf? A few years ago, when you were shooting in the nineties, it is true that Jack Nicklaus and Arnie Palmer were trembling in their boots. They knew a comer when they saw one. "But, as often happens to a dark horse charging for the big money, something happened. It was bad enough having a trick shoulder and a trick knee. But it was when you started pulling those trick shots that you should have quit: like the booming drives that used to go 100 yards straight up and 100 yards straight down, landing twenty feet behind the tee. „ "Why don't you just play golf with your wife, whom you can beat handily if you remember to.say, "Whops! Don't lift your head!",- just as she's starting her swing," Yep, it's pretty sad when you have to get down to the con- crete, and discover it's fresh- pbured cement. But that's the way it goes with us aging athletes, We have only our shining memories to fall back • on. I was a pretty good' track and field athlete, in the sprints and jumps. One year I was a cinch for the junior championship. Everybody told me, So the night before •the track meet, I Went Out With some other guys, stealing grapes. An over- zealous gardener chased us four Miles, Next day, however, with a tremendous burst of Not everything in youth is more enjoyable or more easily borne than it is in maturity, but certainly that may be said of a short and not-too-serious illness. I will now get up weakly on one elbow and try to explain this. For the past three days I have been confined to my pad with the ailment known familiarly as "strep throat." If you've never had this sort of trouble I congratulate you. It is a most unsatisfactory con- dition. The patient suffers a good deal of discomfort—a word the medical men now use softly in place of "pain." He has difficulty in swallpwing ,which; because of the perVerse psychological make-up of,,the human, causes him to think of almost nothing hot swallowing. The little thingamajigs which are so localized in their evil work upon him have an un- believably far-reaching effect,: causing their victim to undergo ' a great lassitude and ennui , from head to toe. The will to live exists, but faintly, faintly.' The patient becomes ill- 10 YEARS AGO February 27, 1964 Mr. and Mrs. Bert Garrett who purchased the shoe business of the late Clinton. Staniforth six weeks ago, of- ficially open on Friday with practically all new stock. They have run a series of clearance sales of the old stock. .Mr. Stanley Jackson, Kippen, left Tuesday morning from London. He was heading to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend the Hereford show and sale held at Covington, Georgia this week. Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Feathor- ston celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with an at home Saturday afternoon and evening. More than 100 persons called to offer their felicitations to the couple. These included relatives from B.C., London, St. Thomas, Wallaceburg, Goderich, Toronto and Clinton, The Hon, John P. Roberts, Premier of Ontario sent them a framed scroll and the Hon. John G. Diefenbaker, Leader of the Opposition sent a note to them. Beverly Sparks, Bayfield, was the junior winner in the Legion sponsored public speaking contest at Clinton last week. Wayne Sprung, R.R. 1 Londesboro was the senior win- ner. Prank Cook has begun to remodel the Hotel Clinton. He is putting televisions in every room. All the rooms are done , in a different decor with modern windows and built in radiators. 25 YEARS AGO Match 3, 1940 Dudley Legg, chairman of the new 'town Planning Com- mittee of Clinton Chamber of Commerce, was away attending the Southwestern Ontario Town Planning Conference hi London yesterday and today as a delegate from the local Chamber. This is the first time there has been any organized effort toward community town- tempered and views the world through meant, contrary eyes. Unhappily for him, these symptoms are exclusively inter- nal and mental. Though the lining of his throat may feel like burning Harris tweed, the outside displays not the slightest deviation from the norm. Though the drain on his vitality fills him with the gloomiest of vapors, he looks about as healthy as he ever looked. He is, in short, an in- valid undergoing something which, only a generation ago, was frequently fatal. But he hasn't a hope in heaven of en- joying the invalid's status. I mention the"rethenlibered illnesses of youth because almost anybody "in this'' situation is apt to wistfully recall the various old-fashioned kinds of treatment for similar transient sicknesses. There was always a whole lot of apparatus around, for one thing: croup kettles and bottles of evil tasting syrups and chocolate as a reward 'for taking them and laxatives in every conceivable form (my dear mother was an advocate planning. R. Gordon Bennett, Clinton, agricultural representative for Huron County, stated today that the show and sale of beef bulls to be held in the Sheep and Swine Arena, Royal Win- ter Fair Building, Toronto on March 15 is arousing a great deal of interest among the beef producers in Huron County. The Ontario Department of Agriculture is sponsoring the show and sale. The department is offering a premium of up to' 1/3 of the purchase price to any Ontario resident making a pur- chase. Wayne Welsh, Murray Har- burn and George Smith, while in the bush adjoining the Com- munity Park, Hensel!, Satur- day, came across and killed a garter snake measuring about a foot-and4a-half long. • This is very unusual for the time of year with the snow still on the ground. The third wolf to be seen in the Hensall vicinity in the last month was spotted Tuesday, by Mrs. Glen Bell in a field next to her house one mile east of Hensel'. School children of S.S. No. 1 Tuckersmith were driven home instead of being allowed to walk as usual. 50 YEARS AGO February 28, 1924 The Royal Bank has beeri preparing itself against burglars by installing a new vault door. The door is larger than the old one and the opening had to be enlarged somewhat. The new door weighs over two Ions, With its frame. It is made of battleship steel, supposed to be the har- dest in the world. Peter Regan, on the eighth concession of Logan has a drift on the farm that covers his win- dmill, which is 40 feet high. In fact the snow is five feet higher than the windmill, and it is blocked so that it will not pump , *atm% In many orchards the snow is right up to the tos Splendid Dear Editor; Would you discontinue se ding my PaPer to Florida, as w are leaving fru. home, Have th paper of Feb, 28 sent to RR. Bayfield, We would like to thank y all for the splendid service w received, We got the papa anywhere from Monday t Wednesday following printin nearly always Tuesday. Thanking you again. Alfred H. Warne RR 1, Bayfiel riswe-Reaersi 'seders are en. courased to express their op Oen* in litters to the Whir, heweverieush 0Plekre de nee necessarily represent the opinions et the News-Record. Peeellswelns may be used W hater writers, but no MI* ne be published anises it can be W phone. Milk farmeri want increase on gate price Demands' by the dairy fa mers of Canada for an increa in the 'farm-gate price of i dustrial milk and cream we backed last week by t Canadian Federation Agriculture. The resolution unanimous support of farme delegates from across Cana attending the Canadia Federation of Agriculture's a nual meeting in Saskatoon. "Farmers shipping industri milk and cream need a roc bottom net increase of at lea $2 per hundredweight," clai Brockville dairyman Kei Matthie. Matthie sits on t provincial executive of the 0 tario. Federation of Agricultur "It's no good having stomp and yell to get a price crease every time aroun When farm costs go up, retur Afarmers shoul automatically follow," sa OFA executive member Deim Bennett. A Foresters Falls mil producer, Bennett endorsed t meeting's call for formul pricing on all industrial milk. "Without formula pricing we'll see a repeat of last sum mer. We needed a $1-s- hundredweight increase in April. Before we got the in- crease it was August, and we didn't get the full $1 then. That cost us a lot of producers." Matthie adds, "It was too little, too late. The evidence is the sharp drop in milk production during the last year, The Canadian Federation sent telegrams to the ap- pr opriate federal cabinet ministers urging immediate ac- tion. The telegrams also stress the need for an annually up- dated five-year plan for the dairy industry. This would in- volve dairy organizations and the federal government jointly probing the future market for dairy products. The CFA also seeks consolidating subsidy eligibility quota and market sharing ,quota into one quota. "The future of industrial milk producers hinges on get- ting all of these changes, and getting them now," notes Ben- nett. Old Wives' Tales Most of us have tried them at one time or another - black cof- fee, cold showers, taking a jog around the block. But we must recognize them for what they are - old wives' tales. There is only one thing that can sober a • person, says the Ontario Safety Leagne: TIME. THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 siesesser, deis . wow "90 10,40 SA•Ai CACIP•10 of laxatives for any medical problem, including nose-bleeds, sprained ankles and wasp- bites) and, of course, there were always special goodies f6r the small sufferer. Chicken broth was the traumatic specialty in our home. As soon as a member of the family was prone and groaning, the insipid canned soups, would be put away and the splendid aroma of the home-made broth would emanate from the kitchen, a guarantee of swift recovery. Sympathy oozed from everyone. Your pillows were „ forever being punched, the quilts straightened, the hot- water bottles refilled and, your weakened condition, you could get all choked up with love and gratitude. There was, to put it another way, a kind of dignity about being ill, a matter of special consideration which brought with it not merely a cure, but a delightful reminder of how, terribly important you were in the scheme of things, All this has now gone because of the so-called "miracle drugs." They take away all the essential drama, the self-pity and glorification of the patient. Gone is all that• bedside hardware which remin- ded your loved ones you, were in peril. All I had, or needed, for my infliction'this week was a small tube of antibiotic pills. No fragrance of broth came &Om the kitchen. I was in the tender care of science and it was cold comfort, pal. I blame the modern doctor, too. When I recall those hairy old general practitioners of my boyhood I could weep. How kindly they were! They never gave you a hint of what was wrong with you; abut when they left you felt• wonderfully soothed, Consider, then, the ' new medicine man. He is startlingly youthful. He is as brisk as brisk can be. He tells you flatly what's your trouble—"'These are bacterial organisms in which. cocci are arranged in wreath-like chains," my healer said, causing an instant relapse—and they, leave you with a wonder pill and a guilt- feeling about being sick at all. 'FILE MANTON NEW EllA kstoblishod 1865 Amalgamated 1924 Setond Mae. Mell Iregettitirlen no. '017 Wombat*, Canadian COmmunit! NeWsPaPer AlsOclatIon