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Clinton News-Record, 1974-05-09, Page 44--CLINTON NE WS-IIFC0,121), THURSDAY, MAY 9, 974 Ed.4erial .Comatent A new idea A proposal for ,a new Town Hall that is presented on this week's front page has all the Ingredients to stimulate any Olin- tonian. Ifs a fresh and novel idea and we think it's worth looking into. The proposal by Gordon. Quern of Clinton, a trained architect and interior designer, would give Clinton a new Town Hall at the same price as a new building, but, and this is the important difference, it would complement the other buildings on main Street and would give a distinctive architectural flavor to Clinton. Basically,, the building would be con- structed like any new building and in- side would be as modern as any other new office building and be completely functional. Outside however, the building would resemble the historic architecture of the rest of the business section, most of which is built by our ancestors, who were of British heritage. Along side the new Town Hall would be the LibrarY Park which, with the help of a local service club, could be land- scaped properly and become the focal point of town during the warm months. Although on this, Page last week we said that everything possible Should be done to preserve the old Town Hall, it has been left in such a bad case of disrepair for so many years, that it now would take much more money to repair it than to build a new one, The new building, too, would incor- porate some of the materials of the old building, such as the distinctive brick and the building would set a precedent for other businessmen in town to repair the fronts of their buildings to give the whole main street a distinction of its own. This humble editor believes that Clin- ton badly needs a major Centennial project that will be looked upon 'for decades to come as monument to the forethought of a Wise council, In 1967, most of the people in Town and even in the surrounding area backed the Clinton Community Centre, and now we have a practical, useful cen- tre that has been well used the last seven years and nobody now would deny that, even if they,objected at the time of its construction. Such should be the case with a new Town Hail, let's at least turn the sod next year. Keep Canada a leader May 8try is a very special day for Canadians this year. It is World Red Cross Day in 121 countries and it honours the birth of Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross movement. Why is it special for Canadians? Because the international theme "Give blood--save life" has been a vital forge in this country since 1947. That is when the Canadian Red Cross Society established its blood transfusion service. The Canadian Red Cross Society is one of 16 national societies in the world which carries full responsibility, at the , request of the Government, for the national blood program. Canada can be justifiably proud of its' blood transfusion service; it is second to none. Indeed, it is often used as the model by other' national societies establishing their own Red Cross blood program. Red Cross recruits voluntary blood donors, processes the blood donations and distributes blood and blood products to hospitals so that patients may receive these at no charge. The system works because almost one million Canadian arms reach out at blood donor clinics every year; it works because thousands of Red Cross volun- teers supply manpower to check coats, register donors, help in the rest area and serve refreshments. Yes, we can be proud of our national blood program. But to stay on top takes effort. A voluntary system works so long as there are volunteers in sufficient number to meet needs. The needs are increasing. Population rises each year; new surgical procedures, such as open heart surgery, place immense demands on available blood; new technicological advances bring new uses for' blood products to help people who once had little or no hope of leading normal lives. Human blood comes only from humans. There is no substitute. To in- crease the supply, there must be an in- crease in the number of Canadian arms which reach out. In terms of inconvenience to the -donor, it is such a little thing to do - to give half an hour of time. Perhaps because it is such a small effort to Make, we forget how big the result. "Give blood -- save life" -- four little words. Think about them. Believe them. Be glad you are a Canadian, and that our Red Cross blood transfusion service is a model for the world. Keep it that way. Give blood -- save life. Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley The Man who came to dinner The Jack Scott Column MI as Ns ma us "Here's a little illegal strike of my own to even things ups" From our early files • • • • • M.mbir, Canadian Community 14amaimPsy Amutoistion Minh r, Ohtani° WusW spar Ammolatkin Amalgamated 1924 'THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 gh. Ammorw TuE CLINTON NEW ERA Estoblishod 1865 Published revery Thoriaday at Clinton, Oohed° Editor - JOON E. lelliiitraid J. Howard Aitken Sooriod Claes Mali letratIOn no. 0017 HUB Or HURON COUNtY "DO 04004 CO NAOMI tW eAP.AbA" Well, here's your Innocent Abroad again. This week me and me brudder are blasting up the autobahn to Bernstein, Blasting is the word. As I mentioned, Germany is probably the only country in the world with no speed limit on , its autobahns, the superhighways. During the fuel shortage, the government applied a limit. The death toll on the roads dropped drastically. But the government caved in to an angry lobby from auto-makers and racing clubs and lifted the speed limit, The result is somewhat like a combination of the In- dianapolis speedway and low flying over mountains, that is guaranteed to stand your hair on end, if not turn it white. My brother is a good driver, and he was only idling along about 90, But I was slightly un- nerved by his habit of pointing out scenery with one hand and whistling past a 20-ton truck with the other, Even more hair-raising was the traffic from behind. Those mad Teutons zoom up to within inches of your rear bumper, hang there, then, as soon as there's a chance, flash past you as though you were standing still. Personally, I wouldn't drive on a German autobahn in anything but a fifty-ton tank, Arrived at the halfway mark so weak and shaky I couldn't even get a beer down, in the of- ficers mess. And that's pretty Shaky. This was Baden-Soellingen, home or the Fourth Canadian Mobile Brigade Group, There are three squadrons of OF 104's, a token force, but a highly efficient one. This is down from 12 squadrons in 1954. Those remaining are 426, Red Indian, 439, Tiger, and 441, Silver Fox. They received their colours last June from Prince Philip, in an impressive ceremony. My brother claims, seriously, that the Canadian squadrons have the best pilots in Europe. Zoom. Off again to Bornstein where I was plunged into a gay round of parties that would make a debutante green with envy. But not before I crashed out for a few hours at the kid brother's apartment. I had to gird my loins for the big dinner and party that night. Like a number of officers, he lives off the base, in a small village. He pays a little over $200 for a two-bedroom unfur- nished apartment. This is sub- sidized to some extent by the service. But rents have soared in Germany. On the base, a Canadian, Major George Taylor, told me he pays only $120 for a two- bedroom job. My brother had to install everything: stove, fridge, even cupboards in his flat, Parks? Yes, there are some. Liquor is $4.00 for 40 ounces of the best. Cigarettes, for those afflicted, are $2.00 a carton. Food and drink at the mess are relatively cheap, But nothing much else is. The halcyon days when our troops on the eon. tinent Were living high as lords are gone, thanks to German in- Maim and the devaluing of the dollar. Change the shirt, shave the whiskers, and off to the mess. It was a special occasion, and he didn't want me to miss it. A farewell dinner for a German Colonel, moving to another post. German? Yep. It felt rather odd to be drinking a toast to a chap who might have been shooting at me some years age. But this is NATO, remem- ber? There were three other colonels of the German Air Force at the dinner. Most of the others at the party were Americans, and I was welcomed with all the war- mth and hospitality for which Americans are well known. Mrs. Martha Heaton said, "The Canadians here are the funnest and nicest Canadians we've ever met." Brig,Gen. Dick Merkling, USAF, our host, stuck me at the head table and introduced me after the food. I graciously murmurmed that the food was better than last time I was in Germany. And wasn't it just. A steak so big and tender it made one to drool. Wine flowing freely. Choice dessert. Arid a lot of beautiful women, for eye- feasting, Lowest ranking officer there was a major, And there was only one of these. It's a good thing I look so distinguished or they'd have turned livid at the thought of a little old miserable Flight Loot sitting at the head table, Then it was back to his shack with the brother, and a long evening of reminiscing about such things as how I used to diddle him out of his paper= route inoney, and the girls we had tried to steal from each other, and old days in the REAL, air force, and exhausted to bed. One mote column on my trip, if you can stand it, Garden fun My neighbor leaned across the back fence the other day and, wordlessly, handed me a small, well-thumbed booklet written by one Thomas Clingan and titled simply, "Gardening Can Be Fun". I have read the book without understanding much of it .. there are a lot of references to mulching and compost and transplanting and stuff that's simply beyond my comprehen- sion but one paragraph remains in my memory. "Plants are sometimes as temperamental as their owners," it says. "They need love and understanding. The happy gardener will always be rewarded ,for his patience."- Lbelieve it. I am surrounded by happy, patient gardeners who rush home from their of- fices and, instead of collapsing with a good book or a good drink, get down on their knob- bly old knees in their gardens . and very often will remain there until night falls. I envy them, of course. There's a kind of serenity about them with the praying 10 YEARS AGO May 14, 1964 Mr. Alex Ostron purchased the farm owned by Russell Colclough. This returns the farm to a descendant of its original owner. Alex's mother is the former Dorothy Rath- well. The farm was owned by her great grand-parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bothwell. The large fishing boats which operate from Bayfield are unable to berth in the harbour and those remaining have to enter close to the north pier then cross to the south side and so follow the deepest channel. The water has dropped 3 feet from its normal level. Bab Carbert, well-known in this area as farm commentator over CKNX radio and television from 1949 to 1958 has now joined the staff of the CBC farm department and will work out of Toronto. Spring grains and forage crops are making good growing time. Approximately 25 per- cent of the corn crop has been planted. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bonds celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on May 10 with a turkey dinner held at the home of their daughter and son-in- law Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Woodcocic, London, H.D. Scotchmer, Winnipeg is spending a few days with Mrs, Robert Scotchmer and other relatives and renewing old' acquantances. F/L and Mrs. R.A. Simons visited with their eldest daughter Phyllis and het husband WO Michael Barber at the cottage. 25 YEARS AGO May 12, 1949 Cameron Proctor was; working in his garden and 444 up an old United States Bronftt Penny bearing the date 184$. position adding a religious note. Although I make it a point of never, never asking, they frequently volunteer the information that their hobby is rich in the joys of contem- plation and communing with nature .. or Mother Nature, as they often call her, and I've no doubt they're right. My own approach to gar- dening is one of quiet desperation. I don't keen a gar- den, I wage a war against it. This, of course, is why my neighbor gave me the book. I've known for a long time that he's been looking at me critically, standing there with his green thumbs hooked in his red suspenders, and trying rather nobly to hide the contempt in his face. He' has made the prospect of a summer in a ham- mock unthinkable, I can almost count on it that if I settle down comfortably he'll be there with his remarks. "It's a caution the way this grass grows," he'll say or, "Takes a heap of rakin' to get rid of these leaves,' and I get the idea, It's some fundamental Seeding is completed and W.R. Dougall, Hensall, County Weed Inspector said that now is the time to spray against the mustard. Spray in fields not seeded in clover. Fred 0. Wilson has been ap- pointed Assistant Agricultural Representative for this county. He is succeeding J.C. Rennie who resigned on March 31 to work for the National Dairy Council at Guelph prior to going to Iowa State College in September. AN: McLean, publisher' of the Huron Expositor, Seaforth, was nominated Liberal can- didate for Huron - Perth riding at a largely attended conven- tion in Seaforth last Friday evening. Ald Melvin Crick, Clinton was re-elected a member of the executive of Ontario Barber's Association, in London at the closing session of their annual convention. Mr. and Mrs. W.S,R, Holmes left by motor Sunday for Valois, Que., where they will spend a fortnights vacation with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Dawson, 50 YEARS AGO May 15, 1924 Eddie Dale and Colenso Salter visited Blythe Anderson, Forest. L. Curren has purchased the building on Victoria St., owned by J. Smyth and occupied by Morley Jordan. W.M. Aiken has bought the house in which Mr, Curren has been living. J,A. Ford, J.H. Paxman, H.T, Rance, Bert Murphy, Morrish, Lockhart Cree and Robert Welsh have been ern- panelled as a ,jury to inquire into the death of the late Thomas Churchill. Norman Geddes is the secretary.treasttrer of the Huron Baseball League and N.W. Trewartha has been an- weakness in me, I guess. I can't bring myself to understand grass. I don't love fallen leaves. I am not patient with my plants whose temperament, like mine, seems to cause them to lie down a great deal. I can't iden- tify a daisy, a pansy or a rose with absolute certainty, but everything else I refer to, as "those red ones" or "the tall, blue things." In a neigh- borhood as horticultural as this I'm naturally a social outcast, a threat to property values and a conversational nitwit. "Early-blooming nostalgias coming along all right?" a man from down the street will ask and I can only mumble some incoherent evasion and bolt for my room. I've a great urge to write the author of Gardening Can Be Fun about the kind of gar- dening that really is fun, namely at a summer cottage. When you rely on a well for your summer water supply you aren't too careless about wasting it on a lawn or on flowers. This, at any rate, is my first-rate excuse for leaving pointed an honorary president. Gordon Cunninghame has completed his first year as C.N.R. express agent. His father had served in the same capacity for 41 years. Miss Kate and Charles Lovett have received word of their brother-in-law George Stewart, Vancouver B.C. Mr. Stewart was a former grocer here. Rev. C.L. Bilkey and C.G. Middleton are attending the sessions of the Church of England Synod in London. Miss Ethel• Doherty has left on an extended trip to the old country. Mrs. James Livermore and Miss Kathleen are visiting in London, D. Cantelon has bought the Rumball carriage factory and .intends pulling down the frame and making driving sheds. /5 YEARS AGO MAY 11, 1899 Mr. W. Mitchell Exeter, has been in town this week making Mother Nature to her own devices. She does _pretty well when left alone, at that. Out there, of course, we have a lot of things that city gardeners are always chasing from their yards. We have a whole field of dandelions, a beautiful burst of yellow. We have sword fern that grows in the shaded places and purple-topped thistles that grow in the sun. Out there, away from the suburbs, I enjoy a constant, thrusting chaos of growth. Gar- dening means only that you swing a scythe to keep the paths clear. Stanley couldn't find Livingstone in there. There are hundreds of secret places to sling a hammock. There is absolutely nothing required in the Way of mulch, compost or transplanting. It's spoiled me, I guess, for the city life. I crave to let everything go as it seems to me it ought to go and one of these days, mark my words, you're going to see the highest fence in suburbia with nothing visible above it except the tops of the beautiful, natural weeds. this the centre for the delivery of a number of fanning mills he recently received orders for. On his rounds he finds many old mills yet in use, par- ticularly those of the McTaggart make which were apparently built to last for all time to come. Rev. Alex Stewart and Mrs. Stewart are in Toronto this week, having gone down to at- tend the golden anniversary of the wedding of Mrs. Stewart's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Gregg. Miss May Bentley took charge of the organ in St. Paul's church on Sunday last and her playing was a pleasure. Rev. Dr. MacDonald of Seaforth occupied the pulpit for Rev, A. Stewart on Sunday. He mentioned how he started his career forty years before in the Willes Church. This was the Rev's last speech he was to give. Mrs. Mary A. Warrington of Stratford returned to her home on Thursday after a pleasant visit with Mrs. Sharman. we get letters Eggs Dear Editor: I would like to enlist your co- operation again this year in assisting us to carry out a research program on ruffed grouse supported by the ministry of natural resources. If you could bring the following information to the attention of your readers, we would be most appreciative. As part of a continuing research program on ruffed grouse at the University of Guelph, we are attempting to collect a sample of eggs from the wild. The eggs are required to provide grouse for use in the research projects. Because of the great dif- ficulty in locating nests, it is necessary to have the co- operation of as many people as possible. Anyone locating a nest within 125 miles of Guelph is asked to mark the location, but not to disturb the nest. They_ should contact us by phoning collect to: Betty Cam- pbell (519) 824-4120 Ext. 2756 during office hours or at other times, call collect to: A.L.A. Middleton (519) 822-3832, Craig Greenwood (519) 823- 1976, Don Price (519) 824-2276. We will come and pick up the eggs as soon as possible and will pay the locator one dollar per egg for -his trouble. The number of eggs collected in an area will not be sufficient to harm the local grouse population. All captive birds are, of course, given the best possible care. Your co-operation last year was most appreciated. The birds raised from eggs we collected have allowed us to make a number of significant findings. Thank you for your co- operation. Yours sincerely,' A.L.A. Middleton Associate Professor, University of Guelph Mortal Dear Editor: Many sincere people today believe that they have an im- mortal soul and that such is taught in the Bible. Is this true? The Bible, at Genesis 2:7 tells that "man BECAME a living soul" Nowhere does it say the soul is immortal. In the Douay version Ec- clesiasticus 17:29 says: "the son of man is not immortal." At First Timothy God is spoken of as being immortal. (1:17) In First Corinthians (15:53,54) immortality is spoken of as something to which the Christian must attain, and at First Timothy 6:16 the resurrected Christ is spoken of as having immortality. These are the only places in the entire Bible mentioning "immor- tality", (Douay) Therefore, the question arises: "Where did this idea of an 'immortal soul' come from? I think I have the answer. I have before me a "Bible History" published by Benziger Brothers "for the use of the Catholic schools in the United States" and used in Catholic schools in London, Ontario. It has the 'Apostolic Benediction (continued on page 5) Nauss-Record reed** ant en- couraged to express their opinions in letters to the editor, however, such opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the News-listford. Pseudonyms may be used by letter writers, but no letter will be published unless it can be verified by phone.