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From our early files.... • • • i •
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 5, 1964
Fine weather is allowing the
completion of fall work at a
rapid rate although there seems
to be endless work that can be
done.
Lynda Youngblut of Toronto
last week graeuated from the
Institute of Chartered Accoun-
tants of Ontario. Her mother,
Mrs. Major Youngblut, Clin-
ton, attended the ceremrny
held in the Ontario room of the
Royal York Hotel.
The first trailer was com-
pleted. last Wednesday at the
recently completed Cuktom
'Trailers Limited plant in
Exeter:
Sharon Gray, daughter of
Public School principal Bert
Gray and Mrs. Gray was awar-
ded two W.D. Fair Scholarships
at the annual commencement
of Central Huron Secondary
School.
The weather has taken a turn
for the better this week with
many people digging out their
summer clothes and others
hauling their lawn mowers out
of the back of the garage, The
July-like weather will continue
for the next few days but then
watch out.
A trust fund for Clieton's
proposed new arena estimated
at $1,300 will be set up early in
t965 by, the Clinton Kinsmen
Club. The club has already
realized a like amount from a
ticket sale held last year,
25 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1949
"Clinton Day", Saturday
next, Nov. 12, is opportunity
day in Clinton for thousands of
Huron County residents who
feel that a dollar saved is a
dollar earned. On Saturday,
the merchants of Clinton are
staging one of the greatest row
operative sales events in the
history of the town.
The majority of cattle are sill
out on grass although farmers
,are now preparing to stable
them, as recurrent frosts are
taking the food value out of the,
pastures. This exceptionally
fine open fall has been a great
asset to tivestock'owners in the
conservation of a rather.limited
supply of hay.
After considerable effort has
been expended by Clinton
R.C,A.F. Station, Clinton and
District Chamber of Commerce,
and Clinton Town Council, a
new "flasher-and-bell" signal
system has been installed at the
Victoria St. C,N.R. level
crossing, King's Highway 4,
near the southern limits of
Clinton.
Boy Scout Apple Day grossed
$180, with a net profit of $126.
In charge were Scoutmaster
Walter Little and Cubmaster
John Sounson, with Scouts and
Cubs active as taggers.
A. Hipel of the Hipel Con-
struction Co., with whom the
contract for the building con-
struction of the new Goderich
arena feels that the construc-
tion is progressing sufficiently
rapidly that the arena should
be ready for skating at Christ-
mas.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov, 13, 1924,
Robert. Hunter, a graduate of
Clinton Collegiate In'stitute,
and a student at the University
of Toronto, has been awarded
two scholarships - the third Ed-
ward Blake Scholarship in
Science Proficiency and the
Moses Henry Aiken Scholar.
ship.
Clinton Public Utilities has
purchased the building at the
corner of Rattenbuty and
Albert Sts. part of which it now
occupies. Other parts of the
building are at present rented
by the Massoyaarris Co, and
John Seely.
Rev. J.E. Hogg, Rev. A.A.
,Holmes, and Miss Annie
Stewart were some of the
people who assisted at the
special Thanksgiving service
held in Willis Presbyterian
Church. A substantial offering
was taken for the hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mason
celebrated their golden wed-
ding yesterday and present
with them for the celebration
were their three children: Mrs.
Ed Cotton, Mrs. I-1, Josling,
and Thomas Mason. James
Snell presented two handsome
mortis chairs on behalf of the
neighbours.
A. Seeley has purchased the
Bouck house on High St; Ed-
ward Welsh has sold his farm
to R. Blake and has moved to
the Farquhar place at the edge'
of town. John Stewart has ren-
ted the Johnson residence on
Victoria St; P.A. Plaskett who
has, been living in Miss Rath-
well's house on Princess St. has
rented B. Cole's house on
Joseph St; Mr. and Mrs. Flet-
cher Townsend have moved
from London to Miss Bertha
Cantelon's cottage on Huron
St. They expect to move out to
their farm in the spring.
75 YEARS AGO
Nov. 9, 1899
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Mr, W.D. Fair, Clinton, has
been highly complimented by
Charles Austin Bates, the
noted ad expert, upon the fine
ads he writes. "Their greatest
merit is their explicitness and
your catch-line", says Mr.
Bates.
It may surprise many of the
inhabitants of the Hub to know
that English filberts are grown
to perfection in our midst. Mr.
Wm, Grigg has a number of
trees bearing fruit each season,
and besides a limited supply of
smaller trees for sale.
About two inches of snow fell
in Colborne Twp. on Friday
night last. Some of the farmers
had a.grim face as they hadn't
all their roots up.
I would like a few words in
your paper regarding the
dismissal of Constable
McDonell.
Although Mr. McDonell says
no reasons were given for his
dismissal the reasons are
sticking out like a sore thumb.
It is certainly obvious that
some members of the Police
Force did not like the former
constable. Some of these police
were afraid of losing their
position, with a constable such
as Mr. McDonell and his
training on the police force, He
could handle situations with
integrity.
I assume a few of the con-
stables were carrying false tales
to the Chief to undermine Mr.
McDonell. The Chief, (like a
good police chief) was in turn
tattling these go-called tales to'
the Mayor and some members
of council,
There is no doubt that now
the Council will recommend a
few members of the police force
be presented with a medal for
valour for their great fanny
kissing.
One member of Council said
the reasons for Mr. McDortell's
dismissal would be made
known if Mr. McDonell took
action against the Council.
This sounds •Iike blackmail,
Most of the council do not
know the reasons for this
dismissal. They are taking the
word of certain parties, which
may or may not be true facts.
Did the Police Chief of
Goderich not say, just a week
ago, that it seems Clinton was
the only vicinity having
problems with the police etc.
He also mentioned one should
look closely at our police depar-
tment for the, reasons.
This statement came from an
outsider, was it possible he
could see what our council
can't?
James Edward,
Clinton.
(ONTARIO
SAFETY LEAGUE)
"Dear Driver: A few weeks
ago, I saw a little girl struck by
a car as she tried to cross the
street. I saw a father race
toward her and hold her to him
as she struggled in the agony of
death, I saw all the plans that
had been made for her dashed
and I saw the look of despair
that came over his face, I could
only offer a prayer that such a
thing might never happen
again.
"Today, my'daughter, who is
six years old, started off to
school. Her cocker spaniel,
whose name is Scott, watched
her leave and whined his belief
in the folly of education.
"Tonight we talked about
school, She told me about the
girl who sits in front of her, a
girl with yellow curls; and
about the boy across the aisle
who makes faces; about the
teacher who has eyes in the
back of her head; about the
trees in the school yard and the
big girl who does not believe in
Santa Claus.
"We talked about a lot of
things — tremendously vital
and unimportant things,
"Now, as this 'is written, she
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hear they're gaittg ta reduce the speed fimit."
The Jack Scott Column
More than beds
Hospital rooms should be done in knotty pine with picture
windows. There should be bright prints upon the walls anda
cherry fireplace ablaze in one corner. There should be a buzzer
beside the patient's bed' to summon room service and a menu
including Lobster Thermidore. There should be,.,
What's that, yoU say? Oh, I know that the crying need of the
day is for more hospital beds. I know that many of them have a
waiting list, that many a sick man or woman ends up these days
in a 'corridor.
But yesterday I found myself looking beyond the immediate
future, In a day when men walk upon the moon I see no reason
why we shouldn't dream ,of hospital rooms that will give
humanity a fighting chance for survival.
A nurse was coming out of the room of a friend I'll call Harry
Windsor, surgically parted from an ulcer or two, when I arrived
to visit him. "He shows every sign of complete recovery," she
observed wryly, "He's complaining about everything,"
Inside I found Harry astonishingly robust and accused him of
ingratitude.
"The trouble with hospitals," he replied, "is that you could
put a well man in this bed and he'd instantly feel sick.
Everything — but everything! — is a reminder that you're ill.
These high, hare, antit(hectic wa'llr'thiS'darrow, uncomfortable
bed, the very echoes of the place, the cockeyed routine, seem
contrived to murder morale. Why, the very smell of the place is
an invitation to hypochondria."
"You're sleeping though?"
"It's worse than the army. They awaken you at the crack of
dawn for breakfast," Harry said, "They wait out in the hall un-
til you're just about' to sneak a nap. Then they dart in and stick
a thermometer in your mouth. Then they go out and you try to
sleep again. Just when you think there's a chance they dart in
again and rip all the bed clothes from under you." He looked
about furtively. °I wonder how many people die in hospitals
from enforced insomnia. And the meals!"
"Not good?''
"Wholesome oh, very wholesome," Harry said bitterly.'
"But any fool knows that a man wants a little something
special when he's sick. Ask any mother. Ask my wife. But here
— why, it's still before noon when they bring you a great
heaping plate of roast beef and mashed potatoes and gravy —
grey gravy," he added. '
So what, I asked Harry, would he his idea of a hospital,
presuming, of course, that there were none of the shortages of
space and staff.
"First of all," said Harry, "rooms that would be pleasant and
cheerful to live in. A patient who's going to spend more than 12
hours on his back should have a big, deep, comfortable double
'bed instead of this patented padded slab. And if he wants to
sleep he should sleep and not have one eye on the door waiting
for those oh-so punctual visits,
"He should be pampered in his appetite. Why not? You
aren't sick every day in your life. Why, there's an old guy down
the hall here, practically on his last legs. He just looks at those
mashed potatoes and that gravy and turns away. That's
"nourishment? What' that fellow needs is the choice of a first,
class menu. As it is, he's perishing from malnutrition."
"Still," I pointed out, "you never looked better,"
"I shouldn't kick," Harry agreed grudginlgly. "They do a
marvellous job when you consider their problems, The nurses,
particularly, are wonderful. But there's going to come a day
when the medicine men will realize that they need a whole new
concept of treating the sick and particularly in the long seige of
convalescence. I'm feeling just ornery enough to do a little
pioneering."
When I left him he was smiling.
we get
letters,
Dear Editor: Thurxiciy, October 31, 1974
View of people
A, man was murdered on a crowded'
train station platform in Chicago recen-
tly, in full view of some thirty other
people, yet, when the police arrived,
they found that there was not one wit-
ness who would come forward to say
that they actually 'Saw the killing. Ap-
parently the people who were standing
on the Station platform all took the train
and left the victim either dead or dying.
The apparent motive for the killing
was an attempt to wrench and steal a
portable radio, which was found at the
scene of the crime, out of the victim's
hands.
Some years ago, a young girl in New
York by the name of Kitty Genovese was
raped, stabbed and murdered, while
onlookers in a residential street paid not
one bit of attention to her screams, nor
attempted to come to her assistance,
Nor dO we have to look far afield to
cite such examples,
In Yorkdale Shopping Plaza in
Toronto, not too long ago, a paSserby
saw a young girl being beaten up by a
youth in, the crowded parking lot. He..
came to her assistance, and in attemp-
ting to stop the youth from harming the
girl further, he found himself engaged in
SAYFIELD COUNCIL DISCUSSES
DANGEROUS ROAD cuRvg
BY MILVENA' ERICKSON
Doug Cook a cottage owner at the south
end of Tuyll St. approached Council at its
regular meeting Monday evening with a
request for permission to put a garage on
his property. Since this would require, a
minor variance, council referred Mr, Cook
to the Committee of Adjustment.
Also present were C. Ruffel, E. Beck and
D. Hart who outlined the plans for 1,975 for
the South Shore Development.
Council received correspondence from
Huron sCounty in respect, to its contem-
plating uniform building permits for urban
and rural municipalities and asked for
suggestions from each council; supported a
resolution from the Association of
Municipalities of Ontario regarding a curb
on Bell Telephone rate increases; and
received an invitation to attend the Yacht
Club Annual Awards Night Banquet,
Saturday evening in the Community Cen-
tre.
DANGEROUS ROAD CURVE
, Reeve Oddleifson reported a meeting
with a representative of the Ministry of
Oh, what a beautiful day
It's a fine, nay, a beautiful October day, and I
have a fine, nay, a beautiful feeling inside me.
I've just spent a weekend with my grandbabby.
The experience was enough to make me feel that
the daily grind, which seems to get grindier and
grindier, might be worthwhile after all.
The Jews have a saying, in one of their books,
that killing a man is a terrible thing, because you
re not only killing him, but the sons he might
aye and the sons they might have and so on and
n. I think this is a fine thought, •
This would apply equally to killing a w,oman,
hough the Old TUtament Jews were riot exactly
old on Women's Lib.
If I had been killed in the war, and there was a
ood chance I would be, that grandbab would
of exist, and the whole world would be poorer.
'm not kidding.
The existence of so much delight and charm
nd laughter and love, all wrapped up in one
erfectly formed nine-month old creation,
stores my faith, which at times becomes a little
ttered around the edges, its God.
Man alone, with all his gifts, could never
evise the shine in that child's eyes, the
ichievous two-tooth grin, the sinuosity of
uscle, the incredible endurance.
The urchin is living proof to me that humans
ave a soul, a will, a spirit. Technology can put
gether a computer, but it can't begin to create,
even imitate, the glory that is a baby.
I can imagine man devising a machine which
suld reproduce the sonorous lines of Milton, the
ntastic fancy of Shakespeare, but there would
ways be something missing,
Computers are clean things. They don't have
go to the bathroom. They don't have under-
In problems, No corns or constipation, arthritis
acne, piles or pimples. But something is
lasing, Soul? Maybe.
I'm not trying to foist upon you the idea that
y grandson is perfect, or .a genius, even though
is. I'm merely trying to remind you, if you
ye grandchildren, of what a joy they are, and if
u now have only rotten kida, you have a
ecious experience in "store for your nether
ant,
grandbab is not the Most beautiful C'hild in
e world. He'd probably come in second, or even
ird, an international Beautil Baby contest,
Mid he's riot the stnatteit.
If
discovered this
St summer, tie the beach. He'd Sit there, stark
Iced, pick up, a handful of sand, and pour it
et his left ear, Never his right. It was a lot of
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a fight' with this person.
In broad view of hundreds of people,
he was,knocked down by the youth and
repeatedly kicked about 'the head and
face until he lost consciousness.
Nobody came to his help, ,
The callous disregard and lack of con-
cern of human beings in such Circum-
stances is, so incredible that one won-
ders what kind of mentality pulses
through these individuals, if any,
We are not suggesting that any
civilian should have stepped out of the
crowd to be a hero under the circum-
stances. We are sure that any police of-
ficer would advise the average in-
dividual to stay away from someone that
was wielding a knife and not get in-
volved in a life and death struggle with
him. Nevertheless, surely people could.
have put themselves but to help in some
way, if' only by calling the police and
remaining as witnesses. In none of the
above cases did any witnesses make
themselves available. The few examples
cited are from a long list of similar
examples, which makes a rather sad
commentary of our society,
Leonard Noble
Transportation and Communications and
reviewed with hint the. accidents on the
curve in the Village onl Highway 21 on
Clan Gregor Square. Since the last report
in the hands of the MTC representative
was 1970, the Reeve asked for a further
review and is expecting a report very soon.
It was suggested that the representative
interview the residents around this -very
dangerous curve, but he declined.
Council several times has asked for a
flashing signal, but to date nothing has
been done. Hopefully the MTC will
seriously review this situation and find
that a signal is very necessary to avoid fur-
thersaccidents. •
HIRE DOG CATCHER?
In other business, following so many
complaints of a great many dogs running at
large in the Village, Council is giving very
serious consideration to the' hiring of a dog
catcher.
WHO'S RUNNING?
The Clerk now is in possession of
Nomination Papers but the present Reeve
and Councillors gave no indication as to
their intention of running for office in the
forthcoming Municipal election.
trouble, getting that sand out of his ear. And he
liked to eat sand, was delighted if he got a hand-
ful with a stone in it, for chewing.
But he's got his grandfather's genes, which
make him intelligent, charming, lovable, and
pretty well 'all-round perfect, as I point out to my
wife.
Unfortunately, he has his mother's jeans, as
well. Which make him bad-tempered when
crossed, make him knock over anything that's
over-knockable. But also give him eyes like two
huge dark grapes, a sense of humor, and a smile
like' a Christmas tree when the lights have just
been plugged in. •
I have no trouble coping with him, when he
spends a visit, All I do is make sure I've had
twelve hours sleep for the three nights before he
arrives, do extensive calisthenics and some
jogging for three days before- he arrives, Then
I'm ready for Super-Babe.
His parents are no problem. His mother is
satisfied with a hug, a kiss, and a cheque, His
father is satisfied with a full refrigerator, which
he opens and starts rubbing his stomach one
minute after we've shaken hands.
Then they disappear, and I have the kid on my
lap, For about eight seconds. Then he gives a
loch, a twist, and he's down, crawling at about
forty miles an hour straight into the fireplace.
Luckily, I'm prepared. The andirons are all
lbcked away, except the broom, which he uses to
comb his hair and bang 'his forehead. Everything
breakable, reachable or fragile is locked in the
vestibule.
I toss a chess set on the floor, Terrific. He picks
up a rook, crawls to the coffee table, so carefully
waxed and polished, and proceeds to scrawl graf-
fiti on its shining aurface. My wife looks on in
horror, "What . the hell, You ciai't take it with
you," I offer.
I do a lot of other wrong things. I take off his
wet diaper and let him crawl around on the In-
dian rug, bare bum, I sing ta hint barrack-room
Songs that would curdle the blood, I let him chew
my fingers, I let him pull the cat's tail.
And finally, after three hours of straight ac-
tion, I pull him up on my knee, hum an original
lullaby which goes "Doo.tlee-doo-dee-doo.dee.
doo," and he goes to sleep,
Asleep, he's the. utter innocent. Garden of
Eden. Soft, and Warm, l‘To hypocrisy, no lying, no
violence, no evil. It's beautiful, liven though I'm
so stiff I can't get out of my chair three hours
later whoa his parents get home from the movies,
Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley