HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1974-08-29, Page 4From our early files . • • • • •
Not so easy
The pixie at the office who
looks after my interests down
there phoned yesterday to con-
firm the commencement date of
my three weeks with pay.
"We thought you might have
forgotten it," the saucy girl
quipped, "because it must be'
hard for you to tell when you're
working or when you're
holidaying."
I smothered her titters with a
snappy rejoinder (which arrived
in a flash 12 hours later), but the
lass had nicked me in an old
wound and it stung like crazy.
Indeed, my delight in the con-
templation of a vacation was
spoiled for at least two minutes.
Every ink-stained wretch
would agree, I think, that the
widely-held opinion that
columning is a lead-pipe' cinch,
that id terms of energy and effort
no men ever had it so good, is the
weightiest cross we bear.
One can put up with the certain
knowledge that the penalty of
columning is to be viewed with
boredom or contempt, that
10 YEARS AGO
August 27, 1964
The changing leaves around
Clinton making it appear as if
fall is here, although it is still
summer, could have been
caused by last year's drought.
Erik Jorgensen, who is also an
associated professor of botany,
says the leaves of shade trees
often turn colour following a
drought.
Mr. Grant L. Hayter, Clin-
ton, has been appointed
assistant superintendent of the
Dearness Home for the aged in
London. Until recently, Mr.
Hayter has held the post of
special assistant to the business
administrator at the Ontario
Hospital in London.
Miss Bonnie Homuth, of
Clinton, received word recently
she has been awarded a
General Admission Scholarship
from the University of Western
Ontario at London. The
scholarship, valued at $200 is
given to students who attain an
average of at least 75 percent
on nine grade 13 examinations.
Mr. Robert MacVean retur-
ned early last Wednesday mor-
ning from a trip to Scotland to
attend his parents' Golden
Wedding celebrations, Mr.
MacVean enjoyed perfect
weather during the entire trip
and reports having seen several
large icebergs on the outward
journey.
Mr. and Mrs, Fred Fraser of
Hayfield were entertained by
about 30 friends and neigh
hours on Wednesday evening
on the occasion of their Golden
Wedding Anniversary,
25 YEARS AGO
Sept, 1, 1949
Goderich is having a building
booth as 35 permits for new
houses or repairs amounting to
a total of $22,760 were sp.
proved by Town Council,
Mr. and Mrs, Frederick
Yungblut and family, Ingersoll,
visited recently with Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Yunghltit, Lon.
desboro.
While digging hi n field
belonging to Gordon Cudmore
the other day, three small boys
Billy and Gordon\ Murray,
And Donald Denointhe eartie
Across tonne well.preserved
eventually, by trumpeting your
opinions week after week, month
after month, year after year, you
will alienate the entire human
race or, at any rate, that part of it
reads you.
But the popular notion that it is
easy is intolerable and causes
almost any columnist to snarl
like a savage beast.
Even in the newspaper trade,
itself, I regret to say, there seems
a kind of conspiracy to consider
the columnist as having ' the
softest touch with the possible
exception of the publisher.
This attitude has driven most
columnists from their offices to
sanctuaries removed from the
taunts and jobes of their fellows.
Columnists' wives know only
too well that it is a task with a
high content of agony and they
are more comforting to have
around •than 'the professiona
scribes.
Often I hear my own wife ex-
plaining on the phone or over the
back fence that I am at work
"He's on the rack" ... and her
tides which are teeth from
some animal. They resemble
horses' teeth but are too big for
horses' teeth.
The new sign on the front of
the plant of Par-Knit Hosiery
Limited, Albert St. (formerly
the Richmond Hosiery Mill) is
attracting considerable atten-
tion.
The title itself is „in modern
script (Kaufmann) letters
painted in white, with the
words "Manufacturers of
Finest Full-Fashioned
Hosiery" in yellow lettering.
"Harvesting of white beans
has commenced in the southern
part of the county," Fred 0.
Wilson, of Clinton, assistant
agricultural representative for
Huron County, stated today.
"As yet none have been
threshed; so the yield cannot be
determined, but it is expected it
will be fairly good."
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 4, 1924
A.H. Johns took his Sunday
School class of boys on a cam-
ping expedition last Week.
Miss Vera Dodds has accep-
ted a position in Miss
McDonald's millinery store,
replacing Miss Rogerson who
resigned.
Clinton Collegiate has an
enrolment of 170, the first form
being overcrowded.
Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Chowen
and family, Mr, and Mrs. R,H,
Rorke and family and Mr, and
Mrs, J.A. Ford and family have
all returned after camping at
Hayfield.
N.W, Trewartha treated his
Sunday School class to a day at
the lakeside on Monday,
Robin G. Hunter has been
awarded the third FodWard
Rieke Seholarship at the
University of Toronto.
Ilaines Snell and sons made a
Clean sweep et the Canadian
Na den& txhibitien with their
flock of Leicester sheep, Mr,
Snell has been booked to act as
One of the judges at the Ottawa
fair next week,
The piano factory is having
to work OVettirelO in Oder to
catch up with the rush of orders
which have boon placed recen.
1,1y,
Mrs, 0, Wondort has foto•
understanding of my suffering is
just what I need to keep going.
What the more orthodox
newspaperman does not ap-
preciate ... and I can say this,
having been in both camps ,.. is
that the writing of news, as op-
posed to the writing of an opinion,
is relatively painless.
The experienced newsman
lowers himself to the typewriter
with everything working for him.
He has the raw materials, the
event that is to be described. He
has both the form and style into
which to fit the pieces. His work
is a matter of arrangement,
difficult in itself and certainly
calling for virtuosity, but well
defined.
The columnist, on the other
hand, starts most often with
, nothing but an idea. The idea will
dictate the form and style. His
moment of truth at the typewriter
is the knowledge of never
knowing exactly where he's
going. He moves, of course, in
shallow waters, but they are
uncharted.
ned to town and her duties as
organist of Ontario St.. Church
after holidaying at her home in
Chesley.
75 YEARS AGO
August 31, 1899
W. Doherty and Co. and
MacPherson & Hovey are both
exhibiting at the Toronto In-
dustrial. The latter have sent
down one of their famous
Monarch threshers which will
as the firm's machinery do, run
easy and wear long. W.
Doherty & Co.'s display is a
pretty one and is bound to
draw attention to the Clinton
organ factory.
Mr. John Whiddon has star-
ted his evaporator with a full
set of hands, and from now till
the apple season is over, this
industry will. run day and
night, so that several young
men will find employment for
the fall term.
Mr. Harry Cantelon was in
Durham this week having a
look over the Meddaugh House,
one of the best known hotels
north of Guelph, the leasehold
of which is offered for sale.
Mrs. Doherty and Miss
Doherty arrived from Claude
Tuesday and will take up their
abode in Clinton. Mrs. Doherty
was 90 years of age last March
and is yet hale and hearty.
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Established 1865
ANA
'Wombs", Canadian
Community Newspaper
Aslocialion
#111,111
For myself, I've never begun a
worthwhile news story without a
feeling of confidence and an-
ticipation or ever begun a wor-
thwhile column idea without a
feeling of torment and
trepidation. That's the dif-
ference.
There is, too, simpler fact that
writing is damned hard work. A
crummy writer doing his un-
satisfactory best or a great
writer doing his immortal best
both share the need for grinding
drudgery.
Not even inspiration can
eliminate the simple fact that
placing one word after another is
just as fatiguing as placing one
brick on another.
The reader seldom realizes
this, Indeed, he nourishes the
notion that if something is simple
,or delightful to read it must have
been simple or delightful to write.
Yet one of the brethren of
columnists will attest that the
pieces he can bear re-reading are
those in which he left a little of his
life's blood.
The harvest is nearly over for
, this year. Some are through
and others nearly so. Fall
wheat is not very good around
Auburn, but peas, oats and
barley are a fair crop.
Bush fires are raging in the
area around S. Leadbury, Some
boys set fire to a pea stack of
Mr. J. Kenney's and although
it was threshed, it was not a
nice joke, the weather being so
dry the fire might spread and
cause quite a bit of trouble in
the neighbourhood. ,
100 YEARS AGO
August 27, 1874
Checker players will be
pleased to learn that the
celebrated Herd Laddie, the
champion checker player, will
be in Seaforth to-morrow and
Saturday,
On Monday last, we
measured a stalk of corn grown
by Mr. Wm. Rattenbury, Clin-
ton, which measured nearly
twelve feet high.
The Goderich Signal has
been purchased by Messrs.
Allen and Dickson and is wow
conducted by them and will
continue in the Reform ranks.
Being practical printers, there
is every reason to believe tha
they will give it a good stan-
ding among the journals of the
County.
Amolgomaied
1924
Meetings
Dear Editor:
As promised in my phone
conversation earlier this week
here is list of meetings to be
held with owners on the tran-
smission line corridor from
Bruce to Bradley to Wingham
and Seaforth.
The purpose of the meeting is
to explain the various optiens
open to the property owners un-
der the new property policies
announced by Hydro earlier
this year and answer any
questions owners may have.
Only individuals who own
property along the route have
been officially notified of the
meeting; however the meetings
are open to anyone who wishes
to attend.
You will recall that in July
the Minister of the Environ-
ment, William Newman,
promised owners would be
given one more chance to meet
with Hydro before he gave his
final approval to the ex-
propriation. The meetings next
week are a result of this com-
mitment.
All meetings begin .at 8 p.m.:
August 29, Brussels Legion
Hall, Brussels; Sept. 3,
McKillop Municipal Offices;
Winthrop.
Best regards,
Edward Johnston
Public Relations Officer
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opinions In letters to the editor,
however, such opinions do not
necessarily represent the
opinions of the News-Rsoord.
Pseudonyms may be used by
letter writers, but no letter MN
be published unless it can be
verified by phone.
BY RENA CALDWELL
The U.C.W. of St. Andrew's
Church, Kippen, had a very
successful booth at the Zurich
lipaa..Festival.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. F. Bell
have returned from a holiday
at Moosonee.
Mrs. Hugh Alderdice and
Miss Shirley Alderdice,
Clarksburg, visited with
relatives at Kippen.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Love,
Caro, Mich., visited with Mr.
and Mrs. Ed McBride and
other relatives.
Mr. Elzar Mousseau, who
has been a patient in Seaforth
hospital, has returned home.
Mrs. Margaret Hutchison, St.
Thomas, is the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Mellis.
Mrs. Hazel Blake and Roxy
of London spent a few days
with Mr. and Mrs. Vivan
Cooper.
Brucefield
Ronnie and Donnie Taylor
enjoyed a week's camping at
Camp Menestung, the United
Church Camp, north of
Gbderich.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Taylor
and family returned home from
camping in Algonquin Park
along the Ottawa River and at
North Bay.
* * *
Floating toys can be blown
away by the wind or spurt from
tiny damp hands. In an attempt
to recover his toy, a child can
be lured into deep water. Keep
beach balls on the beach and
rubber ducks in the bathtub.
Protect your child and keep in
the swim with Red Cross Water
Safety all summer long.
THE HURON NEWS-RECORD
Established 1881
MAW, °Mark) Weekly
Ntivalpspor Awreelation
Published every Thursday
at Clinton, Ontario
Editor Jame. E, ititigerildl
Gonortal Manager,
Al, Howard Aitken
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"Morn's been up there all day muttering 'Just one more week . . . Just one more week . . > T'"
Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley
Footnotes for a summer bummer
Commencement, last June. One
of the teachers had a party.
Teachers, after Commen-
cement, are somewhat similar
to Magellan's sailors, who, af-
ter battling six months to
round Cape Horn, find them-
selves a Pacific Ocean and a
tropical island.
It was a good party, as par-
ties go, and they go too long.
However, as we say in the game
when we don't quite know what
else to say, we accepted a ride
home with our resident artist,
who came in for some hot
chocolate and burned a hole in
one of the end-tables as big as
your eye, when no one was
looking, in the process of put-
ting out a cigarette.
I think that started the sum-
mer on the wrong foot. I seem
to have a fetish about foots and
feet today but don't let it
bother you,
Well, to get back to our
swinging summer social life,
it's been something. We've
been to a funeral and a wed-
ding. I've never had so much
kissing in my life.
While the funeral was Sad, in
a sense, it was also a family
reunion, in another, Nephews
and nieces I haven't seen in
years, And four of the five
Smileys all together at once, for
the first time in a couple of
decades. The wee Colonel was
in Germany. And the 'Wake had
a good touch of Irish in it, if
you follow line.
And the wedding was a
pretty good shot, too, even
though we discovered the
happy couple had been married
several hours before, duo to
some stupid, ridiculous statute.
I got to kiss not only the bride,
but her four older gist" all of
' them former students of' mine.
And their mother.
Also, as it was a Ba-hai wed-
ding, quite a few of the guests,
ranging from suckling babes to
grandmothers, were former
students.
I like to see them and talk ta..
them. John H. is an artist who
gave me, I think a lucid ex-
planation of how he is trying to
combine the purely visual, the
abstract, and his own con-
sciousness. John M., on the
other hand, was about to head
for the west coast, but someone
was trying to talk him into
going to Germany instead.
Margaret sang some songs
that make the ripples go up and
down your spine. She had
granny glasses and a great grin.
Len is a grave-digger. Gets
twenty-five bucks a day
whether he has to dig a grave
or not. He offered the a special
deal, on some wasteland
behind the' cemetery. In Sep-
tember he's off to England to
study how to teach in a special
school whose theme is
Awakenese, We should call our
schools Assleepnesia.
Ah! Great to be young,
Nonetheless, somebody must
carry the blasted torch. I've
been swimming twice. I have
driven past the golf dub once.
I've been fishing once' and
caught three crappies, My wife
just broke three ribs. We've
been waiting for the roofer for
three weeks.
And tersiorrowo we have our
third big social occasion of the
summer. My daughter and her
husband are arriving with
twenty retarded adults who'll
they've been retraining, for a
picnic in the backyard,
4—CLINTON NEWS-RECORD, THUPSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1974
'ditorial Comment
Community spirit is alive
One of the most difficult things to
define, and even to raise is community
spirit.
Well, what ever it is, and however you
nurture it escapes us, but it is evident
that it is alive and well artd still living In
Clinton.
Despite what anyone says, Clinton has
a great deal of community spirit and one
doesn't have to look far to find it.
Evidence of that spirit and co-
operation can be found in several
places, to mention just a few. One was in
the monster bingos, where dozens of
volunteers each week showed up at the
Clinton arena to help run the bingos.
The result: nearly $900 raised for the use
of the community in both material and
hockey programs.
Another example was the potpourri
show on the weekend. It was made
possible and successful only because
many volunteers poured vast amounts of
their time and energy into it. The com-
munity benefits by another $1,000.
Right across Asia, thousands of men
are working day and night seeking oil,
The Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
estimates that in the. 15 years between
1970 and 1985, the oil industry will spend
about $55 billion in Asia.
Specialists from the United States,
Britain, France, Japan, China, West Ger-
many, Australia, Indonesia and other
countries are looking for more oil. And
nobody can deny that today oil is in-
dustry's most precious commodity.
But in time we will have to become
less dependent on oil, for our own good:
There are many ways to generate
energy. Some may be very costly by
today's standards. But they will have to
be explored.
So far very little is known, for in-
stance, about how one can heat and
cool buildings with solar energy. Experts
still must learn a great deal about har-
nessing the tides. Some believe limitless
I don't know about you, but
we've had a real whizzer of a
summer. Just a mad, gay, The
Great Gatsby sort of thing.
You know what I mean.
You've been through it.
Loitering by the pool with an
extra-dry martini and the
golden girls undulating past
with so little on that your
eyeballs pop out and splinter
your sunglasses.
Enchanting evenings on the
beach, waves lapping, the fire
glowing embers, and just the
twenty-four of you. Night, and
mystery, and romance. (By the
way, did you ever try to glow
an ember?) It's quite a feat.
And speaking of feat, the
only lapping I've heard this
summer is our abysmally
stupid cat lapping the sweat off
my feet, He seems to like it -
probably has a salt deficiency
problem - and I must admit it
gives me a strange, perverse
thrill.
Perhaps by now you realize
that in my own far from subtle
way, I am suggesting that we've
had a bummer of a summer.
Arid you are absolutely,
without qualification, one hun-
dred and twenty-four per cent
right.
Oh, don't think it's been a
complete waste of time.. We've
aged two years in two months,
which is quite a feat, There's
that word again. Feet?
We haven't just been lying
around, watching the grass
grow. ,This would, in any case,
be difficult, Since it does not
grow after about the 20th of
Julie, 'But the dandelions are
pretty, though short-lived, and
the Wild clover has a certain
charm.
No, We've been quite active
socially. It all started After
The Kinsmen Races each Sunday are,
for the most pert, a volunteer effort, and
they too bring thousands of dollars eaoh
week into town, giving us a major in,
dustry.
Community spirit and co.operation
also help to make the Clinton Flower
Show a success, mostly because of
volunteer efforts,
Sure, there is always some
disagreement and a' little back biting,
but in the end the results always shine
through, and that's what counts.
Community spirit is a very intangible
item. It can neither be bought nor sold.
Any one who comes from a large city
can see this, and most of our large ur-
ban dwellers envy us, because of it.
Just remember this the next time you
take in a hockey game, or go to a dance,
or visit the Fair, or any one of a hundred
happenings that occur here. Without
community spirit, they wouldn't be
possible.
energy can be supplied in time by the
restless tides.
Eventually, humanity will have to
generate more nuclear energy; coal
(made clean by scientific methods) will
have to give us more power.
And there is an equally important fac-
tor: Men must learn to be less wasteful.
Europe has had gasless Sundays. The
United States did not suffer unduly when
thousands of gas stations closed on the
weekends. Millions felt less gasoline •
was a boon.
The automobile, while extremely
useful, also happens to be wasteful in
some regards. Perhaps with gasoline
less plentiful and more 'expensive,
people again will learn to walk more,
talk more, spend more time with their
families, in their homes and in their gar-
dens. There could come, in time, a less
rushed, more relaxed world. (con-
tributed)
Oil alone is not the answer