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Clinton News-Record, 1974-12-05, Page 4PAGE 4—CLINTON NEWS RECORD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1974 Edaorial Comment An excellent showing For the most part, the turnout at the polls in Clinton and area on Monday was very encouraging, Judging by tile responses, near 60 per cent of the voters in Clinton and close to 70 per cent in Hullett Township - the voters in this area at least seem to have found new determination to have a say in how their municipalities are run. In Clinton, the voters voted more than two to one in favour of saving the old Town Hall, a measure of how much the old structure means to' Clintonians, Town Council should take that as an expression of the people's wishes and without further delay, look into restoring the building as soon as possible, and look again at a proposal given to the Town by Gordon Duern, earlier this year. Let's get moving now that council has a mandate to do so. liberty or liberties? With the current increases in the num- ber of strikes in transportation, both . national and local, and involving planes and trains as well as bus and subway facilities, the United Church asks - is it wise to keep emphasizing that "we're not doing too badly", in these near- emergency situations? Rather shouldn't press, TV and radio be emphasizing that the "liberties" which are being taken with the much-boasted principle of liberty, not only by striking employees, but by many minority groups which,take the law into their own hands, represent a definite threat to the very freedom which the word liberty proclaims? Today in practise our so-called liberty is begin- ning to border upon license, with little regard to the fact that there can be no liberty unless it is accompanied by a necessary sense of responsibility. With the increasing complete' disregard for the rights and welfare of others, there will come a time when the majority of persons will rebel against such license, and stricter legal prohibitions will be initiated which could lead to actual curtailments of our hard- won freedom. Unless we learn to accept respon- sibility for the welfare of others, and place limitations on the exercise of our liberties, more drastic ones may be for- ced upon us. So let's not talk of how well we did, or could do again under strike conditions, but concentrate instead upon what more we can do to prevent such emergencies recurring. Both employers and employees need to realize and accept the responsibility for the inconvenience, discomfort and actual hardship they are causing to others. Not "my rights" but freedom to act within the limits of the rights of the general public should be the accepted criterion. Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley The fun of botching it One of my real pleasures in life is "hatching it I've just been through ten days of it, and 'have' another stretch coming up: I look back on the one with nostalgia, and forward to the other with anticipation. There are a lot of men who go around with a long face when their wife is going to be away for a spell, and they'll have to look after themselves. Some of them would literally starve to death if there were no restaurants. Others actually "miss" their wives constant babble. And there are a lot of women who are convin- ced that their poor weaklings of husbands will be hard done by if they leave them to fend for them- selves for a few days. There are also a lot of women who are convinced that their husbands are going to miss their presence dreadfully. Both convictions are erroneous, in my case. I love my wife, but oh, you happy, carefree days of hatching it. I feel the way I used to, about nine years old, when school is letting out in June. For one thing, there's no teacher at me all the time, trying to make me behave, clean up after me, and learn something new, all at once. This is hard work, and I'm lazy. Nope, when I put the old battleaxe on the bus, or see the car drive off, I try to look mournful, and wave a fervent goodbye, then I give a great sigh of relief, and feel like a fellow who has just walked out of the jailhouse gates. I'm not saying that marriage is synonymous with prison, though it is a life sentence. I'm just saying that it's nice to get a weekend pass once in a while, for good behaviour. First thing I do when the old girl disappears over the horizon is kick my shoes off, settle down in a comfortable chair with a beer and the evening papers. I read it through with quiet en- joyment, no interruptions. Nobody relating how she changed the beds, did two washings, called the plumber. Nobody wan- ting to talk about decorating the spare room. Nobody telling me I had to go over the bills with her. No, just me and the paper. I read front page, editorials, columns, sports and entertainment. Normally, I never get past the front page. Nobody saying, "Dinner's nearly ready don't open another beer which would hit you like can- ned peas or frozen spinach." I have my dinner when I jolly well feel like it. Maybe nine p.m., or ten. And when I do, it's a gourmet spread. Unlike some .of those; snivelling , wretches who,•can't boil a cup .of, water without spoiling the flavour, I was brought up in a large family, and was a pretty good, rough cook when I married. A far better cook than the bride, I might add, sotto voce. And since then, I've filed off a number of the rough edges, and can turn out a good meal. Chops and sausage, bacon and eggs are child's play, along with steak. I can turn out a creditable turkey, ham, roast of beef. I can make stuffing, bake a fish. So, when I'm alone, I don't go hungry. Oh, not that I roast a beef, or turn out a golden brown turkey. That's a bit much for one average ap- petite. But I don't settle for the baked potato, fried pork chop and canned corn routine, either. That's for workaday cooks and workaday ap- petites and workaday marriages. Nor am I one of those fancy-dans who fool around covering the essential blandness of their cooking with a lot of spices and sauces. I'm more apt to turn out a nice mixed grill: bacon, a small fresh lamb chop, a saucage or two, a bit of liver, and a gram or two of kidney. If they're not on hand, I get the latter two items out of a can of cat food. It has a distinct, unique flavour. When all is sizzling a la perfection, as we say, I carefully put the meat on a paper towel, and fry two large slices of golden-brown bread tin the drippings. I top these with tomatoes and melting cheese. By this time my stomach can scarcely stand the aromas mingling. Then I put the whole works into the cat's dish, • open the refrigerator, take out a frozen chicken pie, heat it, and eat it, garnished with a sprig of cabbage. The cat and I are both happy. By this time, it's 11:30 p.m. so I watch a late movie or two, with no one saying "Isn't it time for bed?" I climb into bed at 3:30, read for an hour, and sleep until 7 a.m. Every time my wife comes home and I've been hatching it, she is appalled by my appearance. "Your eyes look like two burned holes in a blanket." They do, but I've enjoyed' every burn. Then the inevitable question: "Did you miss me?" Hah! Miss her my foot. I didn't miss her any more than I would my teeth, or my right arm. THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgamated 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 Moorage, Ontario Weekly agor Megoolation Member, Collodion Community Pargipopse Amaciallon Clinton News-IZecord 4t* Published every Thursday at Clinton. Ontario Editor Jamie E. Filogersid General Manager, J. Howard Aitken Second Class Mali HUB OF HURON COUNtY Nitration no. 0517 SUOICNIPTION MATED: CANADA $1O. U.S.A. $11.50 SOMA COPY .250 SOPA or 3 tAOA* IN tAt ADA', From our early files ! • • • • • IN IN MI The Jack Scott Column - L 51-11.1, gEr MONE/ 1N THE. SUGAR t)011.— THE 5OGRR, I KEEP IN THE 5FIVE. Suicide hill I know how it will be next Sunday. There'll be a small, gentle slope referred to (but not by me) as "the beginner's hill." I will stand upon the summit of this modest mound, my skis together very professionally, one slightly ahead of the other, I will be leaning easily on my poles, flexing the steel tendons in my legs, absorbing the fresh winter beauty of the landscape. Looking down the slope I ,will plot my run and, indeed, will see the whole lovely performance in my imagination. Having worked all this out I will shove off from the top of the slope. Almost instantly my legs will begin to part. A look of ut- ter terror will come upon my face and I will emit a wild cry of despair. Then, once more, they will be digging my remains out of the snow. It has been this way for more than 30 years or ever since I jumped 39 feet on skis. That was when the illusions of grandeur caught me in their death grip. Nowadays people won't believe that I once leaped 39 feet, especially if they have seen me clawing at the air and screaming girlishly on the beginner's hill. I did, though, and it was all because of a man named "Nip" Stone, my first and most en- during hero. Oh, what a god that man.4ras `on skis! When he'd soar off the' big jump, silhouetted against the cold sky, leaning far out over the points of his heavy jumping planks, his arms outstretched and behind him like an eagle in flight, I wanted nothing more in life than to be in his ski boots. Each week-end, over and over, I'd practice leaping from ski jumps of my own making. Sometimes, after a competition, I would be accorded the honor of giving "Nip" Stone a rub down with Sloan's Linament. The sharp aroma of that preparation still reminds me of him. And. I would listen to him describe the techniques of jumping. It was this that inspired me to enter my name one year in the junior jumping competition. The juniors jumped on a slope known as "the B hill" right alongside the big jump. From below it looked like a childish affair, not much bigger than my home-made hills. It did, at any rate, until the 'day I found myself at the top of it, waiting for a signal flag from the chasm below to launch me into glory. The spectators down there, sadists all, were tiny figures. The take-off trestle was a glassy chute to nowhere. I looked down with my heart beating a samba in my throat and then, for a glorious moment, I was "Nip" Stone.. . Well, they measured it carefully, from the take-off to the great, yawning pit where they found my body. It was the last time I jumped, but I never forgot it and I never let anybody else forget it. This has been my approach to skiing every year since that distant day. Here is the death struggle between dream and reality, living proof that there is no such thing as mind over matter in this most joyful of sports. Year after year, standing there on that first day of the season at the head of some baby slope, I feel the surging of idiot con- fidence, the deep, belief that what churns through my iniagination will happen in fact when the slide begins. Gone, for the moment, is the knowledge that I frequently lose my balance on escalators, that my coordination runs amok the instant it scents ski wax. Year after year I become more inept, one moment the poised athelete, the next moment (and for the remainder of the winter) a flailing, floundering figure gazed upon with open scorn by small children and little old ladies who glide serenely by my horizontal, broken body. Little do they know, or care, that there lies a man who once jumped 39 feet---not only jumped it, but had his eyes closed every awful second of the way. Meaning 10 YEARS AGO •Dec. 3, 1964 Don Symons, a five-term councillor has qualified for the mayorality race and is challenging incumbent W.J. "Bill" Miller who has served eight terms as mayor, Cameron Proctor was nominated as a candidate for Clinton Council last Friday, Though he is technically ineligible to run for the office, he is unable to withdraw from the race. He was an employee of the P.U.C. for many years and cannot run nor can he withdraw his name having signed a qualification sheet. The Fall meeting of the Huron County Trappers Association was held last Friday night in the Department of Agriculture office at Clinton with a large crowd in atten- dence. Mr. and Mrs. H. Penhale of Bronson Line celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on Sunday Nov. 8. Thirty guests from Breslau, London, Goderich, Holmesville and Kip- pen enjoyed a turkey dinner. Sgt. Edward Cooper was presented with the Canadian Forces Decoration denoting 12 years' meritorious service with the RCAF at a recent parade held at RCAF Station Clinton, 25 YEARS AGO Dec. 1, 1949. • "I don't know what hap- pened; I guess they must. have slugged me and thrown me from the truck" Fred Howard, 462 Grey Street, London, said Saturday. Howard was slugged and robbed of his panel truck early Friday evening and dum- ped in a ditch north of Clinton, During the early hours of Tuesday morning, two local places of business were entered and robbed of small amounts of money from the cash registers, t niev II lthers Modern Meat Market lost about $10 from the cash register, including $7 in wrapped one-cent pieces. Mur- phy Brothers Garage, Huron and Orange Streets, was en- tered during the night. The sum of about $17 was taken from the cash• register and a drawer in the desk. A few feeder cattle are still being purchased and there ap- pears to be adequate feed with the possible exception of hay in all areas to do until spring. A former Goderich Collegiate Institute student, James N.P. Hume, has been successful in his examinations for the degree of philosophy at the University of Toronto. "Pat" Hume, as he is known to his friends in Goderich, graduated from the GCI in 1941. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 4, 1924 Mr. J. M. Moore, who lives in Goderich, but who is an em- ployee of the Doherty people, was taken with a little seizure just after his arrival at the fac- tory on Saturday morning, and, after a doctor was called; was driven home. He was all right in a few hours and has been driving back and forth every day since. Mrs. Warrener of Mary Street will celebrate her 87th birthday on Tuesday next. Dec. 9th. The lady keeps house for herself and her son and enjoys excellent health, A good attendance gathered in the council chamber on Thursday evening at the ad- journed meeting to consider the holding of a reunion next sum- met, 75vrAFIS 01.k00 Dec, T1 1899 The fine residence of Mr, 4,0, Gilroy, which is at, present oc- cupied by Mr, W. Doherty, has been bought. by Mr, John Ilona -ton, prioeipal of the Collegiate Institute, , It is )ro resod int art. A mon. thly horse market in Clinton, and, if arrangements can be made, Thursday, December 21st, will be the first day. Once established the town would benefit from the gathering of buyers and sellers. The Rose family moved up to Mildmay last week and Mr. Moore, the new agent, has his family settled in their new quarters. . Brucefield. Mr. Moore comes well recommen- ded and we have no doubt but that he will give satisfaction to the Company's patrons here. Mrs. David Cantelon Sr. has been visiting for a few days with her sons in town, William, David and Peter, but returns this week to the homestead on the 9th concession of Goderich Township where she lives with her youngest son, Adam. Mrs. Cantelon is eighty-four years of age, but bright, cheerful and ac- tive for one of her years, Mr. William Perdue, Goderich Township, is setting his saw mill to work on the fifty acre lot on the 4th concession which he bought from Mr. Thos. Naftel. Hp intends get- ting out wood and lumber and will do custom works as well, It looks now as though our fine weather has come to a close and it is setting in for winter in earnest. 100 YEARS AGO Dec. 3, 1874 Clinton Town - By authority of the Lieut, Governor, this place has been incorporated as a town, and will henceforth bel known as the Town of Clinton, Mr, Hugh Mustard has sold his farm of 145 acres, adjoining flrucefield, to his brother, Mr. W, Mustard, Mr. Geo. Ward has .rented the premises of Mr. P. Grant, where he will in future carry on the business of blacksinithing in all its branches, Mr, J. Anderson has opened a barber shop on the 4orner of Huron and Albert streets. Mr. W. Thornton hag secured the drill shed, near the tannery, for a skating rink this winter, and has made all the necessary arrangements so it will be ready for use as soon as there has been a frost severe enough to form good ice. Winter appears now to have gairly set in, while all the streams are very low, many wells dry, and cisterns con- taining a poor supply The scar- city of water exists in both town and country alike, and the rural population will be put to a great amount of trouble in properly caring for stock, unless we are favoured with some open weather. THINK BEFORE YOU BLEACH lilea0 can be useful for removing problem stains, eliminating yellowing or graying of' fabrics and restoring whiteness, advises Consumers' Association of Canada. There are two t,-pes of household bleach: chlorine and oxygen. Chlorine bleach is safe to use only on white cottons and linens. It should not he used on wool, silk, permanent, press or synthetics as it may affect colour. Oxygen bleach, although less effective, can 1w used safely on all washable fabrics and finishes. CAC National Office is. located at 251 Laurier Ave. West, Room 801, Ottawa, °mark) K113 5Z7 SEASON'S GREETINGS BE A + BLOOD DONOR Dear Editor: After reading the article "Army head says think of real Christmas meaning" and noting the statement: "Ac- tually, he feels, the whole meaning of Christmas needs to be restated." I could not resist sending along the following quotations. "Of all holy people in the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners who make great rejoicings over the day on which they were born into the world below." (The Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1911) Vol. X, p. 709) ' "Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. Irenaeus and Ter- tullian omit it from their lists of feasts. . . The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt." (The Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1908) Vol. III, p. 724) "The celebration was not ob- served in the first centuries of the Christian church, since the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth. . . a feast was established in memory (of Jesus' birth) in the 4th century. In the 5th century, the Western church ordered the feast to be celebrated on the day of the Mithraic rites of the birth of the sun and at the close of the Saturnalia. . Most of the customs now associated with Christmas were not originally Christmas customs but rather were pre-Christian and non- Christian customs taken up by the Christian church. Satur- nalia, a Roman feast celebrated in mid-December, provided the model for many of the merry- making customs of Christmas. From this celebration, for example, were derived the elaborate feasting, the giving of gifts, And the burning of can- dles,"(The Encyclopedia Americana (New ,York 1956) Vol. VI, p. 622),., "The well-known solar feast, however, of Natalis Invicti, celebrated on the 25th of December, has a strong claim on the responsibility for our December date." (The Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1908) Vol. III. p, 727). I agree with the writer of the article, when he says: "With FAITH (which is a knowledge of God's Word and a confident reliance upon it) comes stability, confidence, and the knowledge that one is on God's side, and that He is the final victor." "Faith in Christ puts "Christmas" in its proper per- spective". C.F. Barney, Clinton. Safety Dear Editor: Once again the Canad Safety Council has initiated Safe Driving Week, in a co tinuing campaign to save live We in the Government of 0 tario wish to support the wo thy efforts of the Council i every way possible. In this Province, like a Canadians we are drivi greater distances every year. .four times as many miles the average of 20 years ag There are three times as ma drivers on the roads, and t vehicle population has jum proportionately, Therefore, t task of alerting the drivi public to the seriousness of alarming traffic accid problems is one that escalating in importance evety passing season. I should like to take this portunity to 'join the Cana Safety Council in person urging all users of the high to follow the rules of the and safe driving practices, only during Safe Driving but every time you use your ..for your own safety's s William G. Premier of On Lbe Nowellsoard readers couresped to empress opinions hi Iodise to the however, amok opinions necessarily represent opinions al the Peaudonwas marl be MON writers, bid no 1st published unless it verified by phone.